Innovation in the Dickhead Space (with Patrick Redford)
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Defector’s own Patrick Redford joins Drew and Roth to talk about two equally failing sports products: PowerSlap and the NBA. We’re kidding, but PowerSlap needs to change to UFC while the NBA needs to talk to their refs about their sleepless nights. And as always, we’re highlighting a Guy of the Week and diving into Funbag!
Articles We Talked About
- https://defector.com/dana-whites-power-slap-is-an-abomination
- https://defector.com/theres-no-sense-in-the-lakers-crying-over-the-unavoidable
- https://defector.com/why-are-so-many-nba-players-putting-up-40-this-year
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude
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About The Show
From Defector Media: Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports. Sure, their new indie sports podcast will break down the week in sports: the Mets grounding into quadruple plays, NBA players getting testy on the court and horny on Instagram, Bill Belichick cutting 80% of his roster just to keep himself interested, horrifying takes from sports talk radio that need to be broken down, etc. But these two men and their guests will have their fair share of off-the-field issues they’ll also have to address: stupid Funbag questions, bad tweets from bad people, pointless food arguments, and even less. Every week is a VERY long week these days. We could all use a little Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're back, we're back, it's the distraction. |
| 0:04.1 | Drew, that's my co-host David Roth. |
| 0:06.3 | How you doing, Roth? |
| 0:07.3 | I'm good, man, how are you? |
| 0:08.4 | Roth, you are in sunny California. |
| 0:10.8 | You going to go out to LA? |
| 0:12.1 | You're going to move the family to Beverly? |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah, we're going, I'm looking at houses in Brentwood. |
| 0:18.5 | It's been a great year for a de facto. |
| 0:21.1 | And I wanted to move in near somebody who knows |
| 0:26.0 | not like an actual Kardashian, but someone who went to high school |
| 0:28.8 | with them and is like, oh, they're actually very nice. |
| 0:31.0 | That's like who I want to be my new neighbor. |
| 0:33.0 | I watch around Brentwood with Al Michaels |
| 0:35.6 | and ask him OJ questions. |
| 0:37.1 | Like the dream of everyone who's 40 years old |
| 0:39.8 | and had to watch every second of that trial in the 1990s. |
| 0:43.2 | There. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm in Westwood, California right now, |
| 0:45.7 | which is where I'm actually on the UCLA campus. |
| 0:48.3 | My wife is here for work reasons, and I'm here |
| 0:51.0 | because I can do my stupid job from anywhere that has internet. |
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