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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

I Try to Counteract the Bleakness Fetish of the Internet (with Jason Gay)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay joins Drew and Roth to discuss Michigan football, cyclocross racing, Omicron, and cast iron skillets. Plus, Guy of the Week and questions from the Funbag! Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0

We're back, we're back, it's distraction.

0:04.4

I'm true, that's raw, are you doing raw?

0:07.0

Pretty good, man, how are you?

0:08.8

We are now separated again, so when we remember guys today, the audience won't be completely

0:14.5

baffled because we're having a little video display at our live event.

0:18.2

Yeah, I'm gonna miss that crowd work.

0:19.9

I feel like that's a real strength for me, is somebody yelling a name out from the back

0:25.0

of the room and me being like, sorry, are you saying Trent Dillferser?

0:28.5

That's good.

0:29.5

I think that's a promise new bit.

0:30.8

I should have run through the guys last week before we presented them to people because

0:35.7

I should have known in advance, the Chad Hutchinson is not exactly the most recognizable fellow.

0:41.4

If you put a picture of Eric Zyre up from his current corporate job and it's just him

0:46.8

in a suit, no one's gonna be like, oh, Eric Zyre, the legendary, of course I know who

0:52.6

the fuck that is.

0:54.0

I think it's really good that you started with the guy that was like Theo Ratlitz back

0:57.8

up on the Iverson Sixers, just to let people know what they were in for.

1:02.6

Well, it was Art Long who was famous for punching a horse, so that was important.

1:06.0

Yes.

1:07.0

I mean, if we had a photo of him punching the horse, Mongo style, then that really, somebody

1:12.6

was like, that's Art Long, but that's not what happened.

1:15.5

Yeah, if you take that anecdote out of it, though, the difference between him and Kenny

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