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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Italian-American Inspirational Magic with Kalyn Kahler

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Drew and Roth ring in the new year with Kalyn Kahler, and go long about the NFL post-season. First and foremost, what the hell is going on with the Raiders? Has Tom Brady been an awful shadow president for the team? And then, to the Playoffs: How is Kalyn liking the Bears’ chances? What would be the most interesting matchup? 

Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0!


Stuff We Talked About

  • €30 Plane WiFi
  • Grinding the press conference tapes
  • Nepotism at its finest
  • Waking up with Dave Portnoy
  • Turtle death pact


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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts

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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

This is what I get for emailing young people.

0:02.7

Like, young people don't check email. Like, they're like email. What's that? We're back. We're back. This is this drag. Shoot, Drew, that's Roth. Happy New Year, Roth. Happy New Year to you, man. How's it going? Good. I no longer have the, uh, the barfing flu, which is nice. Oh, nice. Yeah, our, our, our, our guest is Cael and Cailor.

0:23.8

She's back.

0:24.3

So hi, Cail. have the the barfing flu which is nice. That was cool. Yeah, our, our, our, our, our guest is Kaelin Kailor. She's bad. So you just heard her groaning. Reacting. Yeah. It's only fair because so there's too much for me to get into. Uh, too much about this. So I'll, but I'll make it as fast as I can. We decided to go to Germany for Christmas because my wife has family there, so we're going to see the family.

0:40.6

Cool.

0:41.0

We spent a few nights at a hotel next to her aunt's house, and then we spent a few nights in her cousin's house, and that's when I got the flu.

0:51.7

And, like, apparently there's a hot new variant going around the

0:55.3

United States that includes lots of lots of barfing business and so I was I had a pretty

1:01.6

standard routine barfing schedule and RFK Jr. would have been very very happy to see the

1:06.5

results of my work in the toilet but I also I was staying in relatives' daughter's room, like an eight-year-old daughter.

1:15.1

And so, like, I'm sitting there miserable, like, on this poor kid's bed with, like, a

1:20.6

miniature desk and, like, like, little Paw Patrol figurines around and stuff.

1:25.0

And I'm like, I am befouling this poor child's room with my

1:29.3

disgusting old man germs. Where was the child at this time? She went and stayed with her

1:35.7

grandmother in order to accommodate us. They were, they could not have been. Oh, that's nice.

1:41.3

And then. There's nothing worse than being sick in like someone else's else's home or just, like, not your, not your house. Like, I just need to be at my house. I felt awful. And then my wife was like, if I, like, so much as sniffled, my wife's, like, wash your hands. You know, like, just instant, like, ah, shit. And I was getting all, I got all crabby. I was like, don't bad dog me when I'm sick.

2:02.0

And she's like, you're being an asshole. And then I'm like, I'm going to throw up, you know. Yeah. And did anyone else get sick? No, I ain't get anyone else sick. I am a, they quarantined dad. I am a super unspreader. I'm just that good. All you had to do is be locked into a child's room for four days.

2:20.6

You can focus on. unspreader. I'm just that good. All you had to do is be locked into a child's room for four days.

2:20.6

You could focus on what really matters. The upside was that I could, I actually watch my team's

2:26.0

Netflix game like the next morning, like after Christmas. That was kind of fun because I couldn't

2:33.9

watch any other football.

2:35.1

Otherwise, only Netflix allowed me international access to the NFL.

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