Sports! (The Human Spirit) with Ray Ratto
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Summary
Ray Ratto joins Drew and Roth to talk about two cups, Stanley and World. But first, on a scale of Not Very to Maybe A Little, how happy is Ray for New Yorkers right now? Then, because Drew does not watch nor care about either the Vegas Golden Knights or the Carolina Hurricanes, he asks Ray – was it a good Stanley Cup? Also, the US men’s team looked genuinely good in their first group match. Should we be getting our hopes up for this team? Finally, they open up the funbag to answer real questions from Defector listeners.
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Stuff We Talked About
- A cat in a blender singing backup for Taylor Swift
- Indifference to your joy
- F**king yourself as good policy
- Bad energy stink lines
- Penile moves
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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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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's raw. How are you doing, Roth? |
| 0:06.5 | I'm good. I'm all right, Drew. I'm hanging in there. Excellent. Yeah. Glad to hear. Last day of school here from my boy. School is out for the tunnel. |
| 0:17.1 | Nice. Has he been in that like wind down mode where they've just been watching like master and commander at school every day? |
| 0:23.2 | Like I said to my son, I was like, oh, do you know Spain, tied Cape Verde? He's like, yeah, I watched it on my phone in class. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, I let us do that. And it's like, oh, all right, all right. Yeah, they don't. And like my, the 14 year old, he's got like a graduation ceremony because he's an eighth grade, right? But it's like, or they call it like a, I don't even remember. It's like the passing through, like, as if they're going to like elf heaven or whatever. |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, they don't give you a diploma at that. No, I don't know. And also, parents aren't invited. It's just a thing they do like in the cafeteria at like a lunchtime. But I don't give a shit. I'm ready for summer. And you know who else is ready for summer? Defector's resident California Beach Bunny Ray Rado. I do, Ray. Hi, boys and girls. |
| 1:11.3 | So nice to have fun, fun, fun until DeFector takes his T-Bird away. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:17.8 | One day I will write the I don't like the Beach Boys blog, but that's not going to be today. |
| 1:22.3 | I have a beach boys blog that I will never write to, which is that over the course of their long run |
| 1:28.6 | that they went from being like the definitive California band to just because of how |
| 1:33.9 | accursed and nautical Mike Love's vibes are to being like in my mind a Florida band. |
| 1:40.9 | I like that. |
| 1:42.1 | I would read that. |
| 1:43.1 | That's great. |
| 1:44.0 | You never really want to talk about Mike Love if you don't have to, right? |
| 1:47.5 | No, I don't. |
| 1:49.2 | I don't. |
| 1:49.4 | I just always sing as a Beach Boys and Ray can yell at me about this, but it was like, well, England had the stones and the Beatles. |
| 1:56.6 | And so, you know, Brian Wilson took a lot of drugs and made a, you know, a somewhat sonically adventurous album for the Beach Boys. |
| 2:05.0 | And people are like, oh, well, there are Beatles. There are Beatles too. And it's like, I don't think so. |
| 2:09.8 | I think that record is good, but I do think that there's something about, whatever, it's a rude take. |
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