It’s the Distraction, I’m Sheila, That’s Roth.
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for the Annual Defector Staff Meeting, so Drew and Roth are recording a guestless ep a little ahead of time. And guestless ep means a wide breadth of topics: toothpaste talk, butter talk, consideration of the future of Defector, wrestling with the goal of Defector being the #1 website, summertime body talk, wondering if Current Age Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez can get it, and sleep pods on flights talk. And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions, both written and from the voicemail box, from real listeners.
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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
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 a distraction and Drew that's Roth. How you doing Roth? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm good man. How are you? |
| 0:07.0 | Are your teeth fresh and clean for this podcast? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, I admitted before we came on. I was a few minutes late, that I have developed a Turk Wendell-style tick where I like to brush my teeth before we record the podcast, even if I ate breakfast earlier and didn't need to which in this case I just need to give |
| 0:24.1 | him a quick brush so that I could come in here fresh and clean and I mean I get it like |
| 0:29.8 | you're talking to me like you're not gonna get lucky if you got bad breath you got |
| 0:33.8 | so true if you should be stanking I'm not gonna yeah I could give you a little |
| 0:37.3 | smooch you know so we're we're not doing it this year because we had to record |
| 0:42.0 | stuff ahead there's some |
| 0:42.8 | logistic stuff we are as you listen to this doing our defector |
| 0:47.6 | planning week thing yeah recording a little ahead of time last year when we did |
| 0:51.5 | this it was actually a like, how is your |
| 0:54.8 | breath scenario because we were in the Multitude Studios. The way it was set up, it |
| 0:58.8 | was you and me Drew and then Israel and Dave McKenna. That's right. |
| 1:03.0 | And we were sitting so that we could all record properly. |
| 1:06.5 | We were sitting basically facing each other |
| 1:09.7 | in a square of four with our knees like, I don't know, |
| 1:12.4 | six, eight inches apart. apart yeah like we're in a |
| 1:14.5 | fucking rail car yes right and it was also I don't this was not really the case that like you |
| 1:20.9 | remember in like a deaf leopard videos were like two guys |
| 1:23.7 | sing into the same mic are you asking me if I remember a deaf leopard |
| 1:27.3 | I owned the VHS tape of Historia I know right every fucking deaf leopard. |
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