Oprah Doesn’t Own Discovery with Susie Banikarim
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Co-host of The Kicker: The Unraveling of Ozy Media Susie Banikarim joins Drew and Roth to unravel the story of Carlos Watson and the fraud of OZY Media. Why did so many rich people invest in this media company? Was the stuff that Watson did uniquely terrible or was he the one who got punished? Why would you name your company after the poem Ozymandius? And since Susie worked with Drew and Roth, they compare and reflect on their own experiences with the ethically murky business that pervaded digital media.
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- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
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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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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. Drew, that's Roth. How are you doing Roth? |
| 0:05.9 | I'm good, man. How are we things? |
| 0:07.2 | Are you still in the Juan Soto Afterglow? We didn't talk about it last week. And at least one person was like, hey, you didn't talk about how happy Roth would be about Juan Soto. |
| 0:17.0 | So did you, like, jump up and down and do woo-hoo and like do sports fan shit? |
| 0:21.0 | I was pretty excited, although I did also tell that person that if you've been listening to this podcast for years to hear me be happy, then you just are completely. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, you got the wrong guy. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah, sorry about that. |
| 0:33.5 | They're called like ebullent Dave Roth. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm really hoping for that someday Dave will say we're back in a really loud voice at the beginning of the podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | Like you never know. |
| 0:42.5 | It's only been four years of not doing it. |
| 0:45.1 | The Soto thing makes me really happy. |
| 0:47.1 | I think it's great and I can't believe that it is real and I don't want to say anything more because yeah don't attach the met string to it don't be like but it's the |
| 0:56.9 | Mets because otherwise we have we have a guest and she's not uh I don't believe that |
| 1:01.6 | she is any longer the Mets beat reporter for newsday so there's no reason to make her talk about |
| 1:06.3 | but but she was for a long no she was this week is our dear old friend Susie |
| 1:10.7 | Benne Carrum so people who for people who don't know, |
| 1:13.2 | Susie was our executive editor back when we were working at Deadspin, |
| 1:17.6 | and when Deadspin was owned by Univision and under the auspices of Gizmodo Media Group, |
| 1:25.0 | and then Susie was with us during the sale to Geo Media, |
| 1:28.9 | which did such a fine job with the portfolio of brands. And then she was unceremoniously let |
| 1:36.1 | go by the Dredge and Spanfeller, went over to Vice. And now has spent the past, God knows how |
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