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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

I’m a Baseball Apologist (with Michael Schur)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

TV producer Michael Schur joins Drew and Roth to talk about the future of baseball, surfing the dark web, and the challenges of making TV during a pandemic. Plus, questions from the Funbag! And a political round of Dead or Canceled. Schur’s new show, Rutherford Falls, is streaming on Peacock now. Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0

We're back, we're back.

0:03.5

This is the distraction I'm through.

0:05.0

That's raw. How you doing?

0:06.0

Raw?

0:06.8

I'm good, dude. Everything's.

0:07.8

I'm good. I feel good.

0:10.0

I feel alive and well.

0:12.1

I have-

0:12.4

That you sound alive, man.

0:13.7

You sound really alive right now.

0:15.4

Yeah, that's funny.

0:16.4

Is that like if I call my parents,

0:19.2

which I do like once a week, they'll be like,

0:21.1

how you doing it?

0:22.0

And I'm like, I'm fine.

0:22.8

Like everything here is the same as it was.

0:24.7

And like I think there are things I could tell them.

0:27.7

And I never do.

0:29.0

Like I'm just like, I'm just like, yeah,

0:30.9

yeah, it's the same shit here.

0:32.2

Like meanwhile, I could have like had cancer that week,

0:34.2

but I just don't bother.

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