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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Jake from State Farm Invented Women’s Basketball with Maitreyi Anantharaman

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Defector’s own Maitreyi Anantharaman joins Drew and Roth to preview the WNBA season! Which team (other than the Fever) should we be excited about? Which team will be meh? What does it mean to “as soon as we can get planes in place?” But Maitreyi has other areas of expertise, including not dying at Detroit Tigers games and rooting for the Vancouver Canucks, so she’ll talk about that too. And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.

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

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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. I'm through that's raw. How you doing?

0:05.8

I'm good man. I'm good. I'm good. Thank you for asking. That was very firm in business life.

0:10.7

I just want to be I want to get on the record early in the pod

0:14.0

because sometimes I wait until the very end to say that I'm doing fine

0:17.0

My we were talking about household memes

0:20.0

in the last podcast and I had another one with my wife because she got this was when she was

0:25.8

working at a production facility a while ago and she got an evaluation from her her

0:32.0

boss and and among the among the things they said was she's

0:37.5

tough as nails and then firm yet business-like and every time every time she gets mad at anybody will say well she was being

0:45.6

firm but business like that's right I'm firm I love getting a Zagat review

0:51.3

from by supervisor.

0:53.2

Yep, yeah, that's totally.

0:55.2

Do a lot worse than David.

0:57.6

Uh, did you just say zagat?

1:00.3

Yeah, that's how we say it in my opinion.

1:01.3

Okay, so let me just correct you in the most pretentious and condescending way I possibly can.

1:09.5

Are you a zaggett or a zaggyt?

1:11.2

I went to Phillips Exeter Academy with Ted Zagat, who is the son of the Zagat family that started.

1:20.5

And he says it's pronounced Zagat's. It's Zagat David Ruth. That's the last name though. That's the life that's a different thing than the book.

1:28.4

David, I'm just telling you. Hey my three is here. What's up? How's it going? Okay, so our guest is My3 Anantharamen, who is here to of course to talk about

1:38.4

Jared Golf's contract extension. Isn't that right, My3? Absolutely. I was actually thinking I would lead the group in a Jared Gough Chance.

1:47.0

Oh!

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