Look at What They Done Been Through with Patrick Redford
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s time to get serious about the NBA playoffs, so Drew and Roth welcome fellow Defector and host of Nothing But Respect and Only If You Get Caught Patrick Reford to the show! They start in the West with the Spurs and Timberwolves, then head to the East where the Knicks swept the Sixers. Are the Knicks, at long last, legit? Then, can Patrick sell Drew on the Cavs/Pistons series? Finally, they open up the funbag to answer real questions from listeners!
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Stuff We Talked About
- College kid sleeping powers
- Comparing Trader Joe’s hauls
- Making the talent feel comfortable, but not TOO comfortable
- Putting in reps behind the desk
- Being the only normies at the Phish concert of a lifetime
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Brandon Grugle
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
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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, we're back. |
| 0:03.3 | It's a distraction. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Drew. |
| 0:05.4 | How are you doing, raw? |
| 0:06.4 | I'm good, man. |
| 0:07.1 | How are you? |
| 0:07.9 | Good. |
| 0:08.2 | My kid came home from college last week. |
| 0:11.7 | Oh, it's nice to have a kid back from college and very useful for like, you know, helping to get grocery runs. |
| 0:19.3 | She's at Trader Jogues with my wife right now and she will make |
| 0:22.4 | sure that my wife gets stuff that my wife never gets. So like good, good Trader Joe snacks her |
| 0:27.0 | in the offing as we speak. Is she sleeping like college kid type hours? I feel like I came back |
| 0:32.8 | from school and my parents would like every single day they would think I was, I had died in my sleep. |
| 0:38.1 | Because I would come out of my room at like 12.45 p.m. Yeah, yeah. She has college kids sleeping powers. But she, you know, she gets like 10 or 11. But it's the sort of thing where it's like, you know, like eating lunch at like four and shit. And I'm like. Ha, yeah, I don't do that. Yeah. For sure. That is definitely not my shit at all. |
| 0:55.1 | Hey, we have to, uh, we've put it off too long. Yeah, I don't do that. Yeah, for sure. That is definitely not my shit at all. |
| 0:55.1 | Hey, we have to, we've put it off too long. |
| 0:58.4 | We have to have some serious talk about the NBA playoffs here on the podcast. |
| 1:03.6 | And to that end, we have brought in a colleague. |
| 1:05.9 | Patrick Redford from Defector, who is the host of not just Defector's Nothing But Respect Podcasts, but also Defectors only if you get caught podcast, Patrick. |
| 1:16.2 | How do you do it? |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah. How does he do it? Is it true that you can have it all? |
| 1:21.6 | Well, first off, thank you, thank you, boys, for having me back on the show. |
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