Hartford Has It (Clinical Depression) with Megan Greenwell

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Drew is off doing important things, so Roth is joined by co-host Kelsey McKinney and guest Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream to talk about how old men with too much money destroy companies and people’s lives through private equity. Then, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners, like you!

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Stuff We Talked About

The art of dunking on David Roth
Big dumb dogs in boardrooms
Hartford, CT
Roth’s cod filet
Glop taste good

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

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About The Show

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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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're back. It's the distraction. I'm not Drew. I'm David Roth. Silly. Drew's, Drew's away. He's in San Francisco doing work. So it's just me. I'm the only person on the podcast this week, except for two other people. Kelsey McKinney, my friend and defector, a superstar podcaster, writer, is helping me host this. Hi, Kelsey. Hello, David Roth. Thank you so much for
0:24.2	having me. It's exciting to be back. Yeah, it's good to have you. I'm good. You know, I'm back to only
0:29.1	having one job, so I'm losing my mind a little bit, but that's okay. Yeah. Everything will be fine.
0:33.9	We were talking about this before we started recording that Kelsey hadn't used audacity to record
0:38.9	herself on her computer in long enough that she couldn't find the app, which I think is a beautiful
0:43.7	story that shows that all the damage of podcasting is leaving your body. Nature is healing you. I know. Nature
0:50.8	is healing. I'm becoming cured. Which is great. Yeah, there's, we're getting, this is too, maha, let's bring, I don't want to, I don't want to be talking about this.
0:58.5	We can't just the two of us talk. That's not good. We need someone else, don't you think?
1:01.8	We need a third person, but she better be mean to me.
1:06.6	Hello, how many. Hey, it's Megan Greenwell. Super. Well, well, if it isn't the author of the hit book,
1:14.5	Bad Company, Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.
1:17.1	Wow, thank you, Kelsey.
1:18.2	What a nice setup.
1:19.3	Yeah, I heard about that book.
1:20.7	I interviewed Megan about it for the website,
1:24.1	and a guy emailed me and was like,
1:25.7	hey, that episode is not on the podcast feed.
1:28.1	What happened there? And I had to tell him that that was a totally different thing that we were
1:32.4	going to do the episode later. So this is belatedly. Multiple people messaged me last week and was like,
1:38.7	why the fuck weren't you on the distraction? And I was like, listen. Listen.
1:44.4	The real reason is, well, I mean, the real reason is you...
1:47.5	Explain yourself, Megan.
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