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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

My Car Died In Worcester with Aaron Schatz

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Drew and Roth are joined, for the first time ever, by Aaron Schatz, Chief Analytics Officer at FTN Fantasy, ESPN NFL writer, and founder of Football Outsiders! Football data companies are being screwed over by venture capital and aligning with gambling interests. How does Aaron feel about this shift? Then, this year’s NFL draft class is awful. How will teams deal? How does Aaron feel about AJ Brown coming to his Patriots? Finally, they open up the funbag to answer real questions from Distraction 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

  • Drew “Two Cavities” Magary & David “Sleep Injury” Roth
  • Fantasy (not the Swords & Sandals stuff)
  • Proud Worcesterites
  • Faintly remembering some guys
  • Praxis on the O-Line
  • Making noises at Jim Nantz


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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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We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Rod. How are you? Roth?

0:36.7

I'm good, man. How are you?

0:38.3

Bad.

0:39.2

Yeah.

0:39.7

Well, I'm bad, too, but I didn't say... I wasn't going to say it. I went to the dentist this morning, and I flunked. I got two cavities, which... You know, if you're like... If you're like, you know, eight and you get cavities, fine, that makes sense.

0:53.8

You ate too many fucking sour patch kids or whatever.

0:56.4

When you're like, you know, eight and you get cavities, fine, that makes sense. You ate too many fucking sour patch kids or whatever. When you're 49, you're a little old to be getting cavities. You know, you shouldn't be doing that. Are you a big, like, soda pop guy? How do you get a cavity at 49? Or is it just, you know, what happens? I have a sweet tooth. I enjoy a chocolate or six after dinner. There's no doubt about that. But I know you're brushing those teeth.

1:15.7

I've been experiencing of late is, uh, I have like, like two weeks now of shoulder pain

1:21.9

that is 100% the result of me sleeping bad. Like I like put my arms someplace. It wasn't supposed to be, and I rested my head on it for seven hours, and then I woke up the next day, and I've got problems. Yeah, that's your 40s. Like, you just, you just like, you lift a fork wrong, and suddenly you're crippled for life. It's lots of fun. So, look, I'm super, super excited for our guests because we're going to have the NFL Draft

1:45.7

Preview podcast. But I do want to, before I introduce our guest, I want to note if you are looking

1:52.5

for some good NBA playoffs coverage, because the NBA playoffs are happening right now,

1:56.7

I have to note that our own Patrick Redford, a defector, has his own weekly basketball podcast

2:01.8

called Nothing But Respect. It's not going to preclude us from talking about basketball here on

2:06.1

the distraction. But if you need that weekly fix of hot basketball takes, Patrick has you covered.

2:13.0

So make sure that you go ahead and download that. Now, let's talk about the NFL draft, because for the first

2:18.4

time ever on the distraction, or even when we had the deadcast, we are joined at last by the godfather

2:24.5

of analytics himself. Aaron Schatz of FtN is here. Wow. Hi, Aaron. Hey. Hey, I am good and it is really

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