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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

My Hobby is Sleeping

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s a Drew and Roth solo joint this week! They start with the World Series and how it’s good! Really good! Then, does the NBA gambling scandal matter? And finally, Drew is NOT making any predictions about the NYC mayoral election, but he and Roth have some hopeful thoughts about it.

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

  • The magic of YT TV
  • The NY bagel of wonton skins
  • Organized crime
  • The NYC mayoral race
  • Follicular density


Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts

- Subscribe to Defector!


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. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's raw. They do. Raw. I'm good, man. How are you?

0:07.9

We have no guess this week. Just you and me, two boys are busing. We're going to bus.

0:12.4

Hey, let's keep saying bussing. I think everybody likes that. My kids say it, and that's fine because they're my kids.

0:20.0

As a 49-year-old man, I should probably not say. Yeah, nobody wants to know whether Busset makes us feel good. It's not important to our listenership. Happy Halloween, by the way. Happy Halloween to you. I don't do as much for it, but you posted in our work slack one of, it's like a tradition unlike any other but in a sort of a micro sense

0:39.1

which is one of your kids putting on the inflatable dinosaur costume and like doing the duggy

0:44.4

while you lose your shit it's well one of my it's like two or three years in a row that you've

0:48.8

had a video like this and i love them very much well the thing is that it's the same video raw that

0:53.5

that i've put in the slack is like five years old. No, because my kids don't, my kids don't dress up anymore. Only the youngest, he's 13, he's in eighth grade, and he's going to go trick-or-treating like in his friend's hood, you know, like for the candy's sake. And he's got like, he's just just go wear his costume from last year like it's not

1:11.1

like it's not like a thing and i'm not gonna dress up because i never fucking dress up like we'll

1:15.8

answer the door and we'll be like oh ho ho you you guys are so cute you kids and then get them the candy

1:21.9

and all that all that shit but like i'm not my real my the really spooky thing that I'm doing for Halloween is the following day, I'm going to attempt to get off flight.

1:33.6

Hmm.

1:34.3

So that's less, that's less spooky and more actually scary.

1:38.0

That's like elevated horror.

1:39.7

For me, the action is the juice because I could, I could arrive at the airport.

1:43.7

And then, hey, hey presto there's

1:45.2

actually no flights at all every flight's grounded and uh you know it turns out air traffic controllers

1:50.8

they don't like working for no pay and that's something that I really don't admire about them I mean

1:57.7

you get into that job especially I think a lot of people get into air traffic

2:01.5

controlling for the same reason, right? Which is, all right, so first of all, maybe they like being in charge. And then for another one, it's an easy job with great pay, you know? And so people go there and they're like, this is going to be simple. I'm going to fucking kick back. I'll be on my phone a lot of the time. And then they find out that

2:17.5

sometimes you get asked to work for no money for like a month and a half because Congress doesn't want to be Congress anymore. And, you know, then they start pouting and taking out on America's travelers who are, I'm assuming, in your case, just trying to fly to Cancun for a little while. Oh, can't do it. That would be nice.

2:35.5

Are you going someplace cool or is this like you have to fly to Cincinnati to, you know, whatever, talk to a board? It's a quick flight. My mom's birthday is on Sunday. My aunt's birthday is on Saturday. My aunt turns 80, so they're having a big party. My mom's going to be there.

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