Georgia Frat Relatives with “The Simpsons” Exec Producer Matt Selman
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Simpsons executive producer and co-showrunner Matt Selman joins Drew and Roth to talk about something only he knows: the food at SoFi Stadium. But seriously, Matt explains what it’s like making the historic cartoon in 2023, how necessary it is to have silly people together in the same room, and how to make jokes for people who’ve been watching the show for decades. In the back half, they hit the weirdness of the college football championship, the betting food chain of sports, and if Bill Belichek knows he’s tanking. And as always, we answer a question from the Funbag!
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
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The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back! It's a distraction. I'm Drew that's raw. They're doing Roth? I'm good man. How are things? |
| 0:07.6 | It is dry skin season in my household. I'm getting the chapped sides of my nostrils and that excites me more than anything in the world. |
| 0:17.0 | I should take the listeners behind the game here. |
| 0:19.4 | We've been getting so many emails. |
| 0:21.1 | People want to know, how's Drew's dermis we need |
| 0:23.4 | dermis chat and we need it early in the pod. There's that day in the winter you |
| 0:28.9 | never know where it's gonna come when or I never know what's going to come, when suddenly I'm rushing to grab all the aquifer |
| 0:36.3 | I can and just applying it on random dry spots on my fucking decaying middle-aged body, like, |
| 0:41.9 | a hush, there goes my ass crack again. It's all chapped up. |
| 0:44.8 | We got a guest. Let's stop talking about. Oh yeah yeah. Oh, yeah, oh, speaking to |
| 0:49.2 | which our guest this week is Simpson's executive producer and co showrunner Matt Selman who has |
| 0:55.0 | been with the show since 1997. Holy underwear! Let's give Matt an eye |
| 1:01.0 | Karamba, shall we Roth? |
| 1:03.2 | Hey, how's it going man? |
| 1:05.3 | It's going great guys. |
| 1:06.7 | It's going really great. |
| 1:07.8 | Sorry you hear about Drew's ass crack, so it was a good. |
| 1:10.9 | No, I remember Philadelphia face. It was not. Are you guys in Philadelphia? |
| 1:15.7 | No, we're all basically along the same corridor |
| 1:20.0 | in New York, Drew's in Metro DC, but plenty of bad weather to go around. |
| 1:25.0 | Dan, Dan is in Philadelphia. |
| 1:27.0 | Dan, yes, our own Dan McQuaue is in Philadelphia. |
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