It’s a Happy Occasion
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s inauguration episode, Drew and Roth discuss steampunk Bibles, Weird Al’s greatest hits, and what life was like before everyone had the internet on their phones. Plus, the Funbag! And a round of Dead or Cancelled. Visit defector.com
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| 0:00.0 | We're back, we're back, it's a distraction, I'm true. |
| 0:05.6 | That's raw, are you doing raw? |
| 0:07.6 | I'm good man, it's a new morning in America. |
| 0:10.8 | It is. |
| 0:11.8 | It kind of is. |
| 0:12.8 | I mean I have to say it in my stupid, you know, making fun of myself boys, but it's like |
| 0:18.2 | a decently new morning in America or like a, it's not the same morning that was like, |
| 0:22.8 | you know, a week ago. |
| 0:23.8 | No, well, alright, so just to give you back, everyone, background, we did the podcast |
| 0:29.2 | two weeks ago, two hours before the Capitol riot happened. |
| 0:32.3 | And, but it was, but in, but before that, Democrats had won the Senate, so you're all |
| 0:37.3 | giddy and happy, and then the Capitol got rated and everything was fucking shitty. |
| 0:41.5 | And so this week, we usually record, we almost always recorded Wednesdays at 11 a.m., but |
| 0:48.1 | the inauguration was happening at 12 and it actually happened today, like a little bit |
| 0:52.2 | earlier than that. |
| 0:53.2 | So we asked Brandon and Desi are producers, like, is it a good idea to be podcasting right |
| 0:58.1 | during this, like, if we're all sunny and happy and like, buying gets kidnapped while |
| 1:02.6 | we're saying it, like in real time. |
| 1:05.0 | And Desi was like, yeah, we should think about how to do it. |
| 1:07.6 | So we are recording after the inauguration has happened and it has happened and he took |
| 1:11.8 | the oath and Joe Biden's literally president now. |
| 1:14.8 | Joe Biden was literally kidnapped. |
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