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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Drew has activated vacation mode so it is a no-guest streak on The Distraction. They start with ski talk and injury talk, and I promise these are unrelated stories. But Nike and Fanatics doing such a terrible job with baseball jerseys leads to a discussion the flattening, joylessless, and enshittification of so much of modern products. Then they give advice to 7th graders about how to make good podcasts and dive into the Funbag, with real questions from real listeners.
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Stuff We Talked About
- What Happened to Baseball Jerseys?
- The tweet about the Vegas NBA team
- How Bob Moore, of Bob’s Red Mill, Got Grocery-Store Famous
- It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way
- Drew talking about sports gambling in the Funbag
- Google Image: "Breakfast Pizza"
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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 Drew. That's Roth. How you doing Roth? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm good. I'm so happy that we no longer have guests on the program and it's just you and me every week. |
| 0:10.0 | This is exciting. |
| 0:11.0 | So people know we had to... I had to push it back a day because I had to go to a Dune 2 screening |
| 0:16.4 | for SF gate and also I'm going on vacation on Thursday. |
| 0:20.7 | So I'm like, you know me, I'm in pre-Vacation mode so like the idea of getting a guest |
| 0:25.4 | Much much too difficult much too difficult actually recording this podcast while wearing ski boots it looks really uncomfortable his ankles are in terrible pain. There's nothing better than going skiing. There's nothing better than like gearing up to go on the slopes because you feel like you're like going to war like here we go |
| 0:44.8 | like getting the fucking boots on and they're like |
| 0:47.4 | they're so tight they cut off your circulation and you're like walking around |
| 0:50.9 | like like your fucking robocop because you can't move your ankles at all it's great |
| 0:55.0 | Do you wear are you like a big I know everybody that skis |
| 0:59.0 | Now it's different than it it used to be in the 70s where everybody would just like get |
| 1:03.6 | zipped into some Maggie Simpson suit that was like extremely outrageous and had |
| 1:08.1 | epaulets and all that. What is a what is a cool fellow like yourself a cool |
| 1:12.3 | young guy like you like me? What would you |
| 1:14.7 | wear when you're skiing these days? Is it like light performance gear or are you still |
| 1:19.4 | going out there looking like a like I don't know, Cobra Commander. |
| 1:23.6 | No, so at the bottom half, I do the bottom half like a pro. |
| 1:26.6 | I bought Burton Snow Pants at the REI and I brought him home and my wife was like, |
| 1:31.2 | you paid how much for those snow pants you're ever going to use them and I was like |
| 1:35.2 | They're my pants it just seems to be comfortable. Yeah I was like don't you tell me as my wife my life woman and then I and they actually they're really great because they have like |
| 1:43.9 | 5,000 pockets and when you ski you need 5,000 pockets and then up top I am layered in |
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