Subtraction by Subtraction with Ray Ratto
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Defector’s own Ray Ratto joins Drew and Roth to preview the MLB season! Which teams are good? which are bad? and which teams are anonymous enough that you and your goomar can enjoy a game together? Halfway through, they take a pit stop to discuss women’s college basketball and unpack what happens when WBB stars can make more money staying in school than going to the pros. And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.
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Stuff We Talked About
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
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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 true. That's what you're doing, Roth? I'm good man. How are you? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm good. I'm away on all the day. Now I'm good. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh yeah, how was your hip across the pond? |
| 0:15.0 | Oh rocks, it's like, it's always, like when you take your family somewhere, |
| 0:21.0 | because I know this, you know, I've talked about my dad working for |
| 0:26.3 | airlines in the fun bag and I can talk about it a bit more freely now but my dad |
| 0:31.2 | back in the 1990s he was an airline executive he was in |
| 0:35.8 | marketing and he would because he was you know because he was part of the |
| 0:40.4 | leadership team he got to fly for free right that meant also that we got to fly for free, right? That meant also that we got to fly for free. It was always |
| 0:46.2 | standby, so my mom would always have to get us to the airport four hours in advance and then |
| 0:51.2 | sit there and bend a gate agent's ear to get us onto a plane. |
| 0:55.0 | But we would get on and so I went to a lot of places when I was younger. |
| 0:59.5 | I went to London. |
| 1:00.5 | I went to Paris. |
| 1:01.5 | I went to Asia. |
| 1:02.0 | I went back to Australia where I've been born and you when you're a kid |
| 1:06.5 | you take that stuff with you you know like you you that stays with you and I always find that really valuable and educational for the kids and also like I get to eat |
| 1:17.2 | Really fucking good tickamisala so it was cool. It was a good time |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, that's a cool one. |
| 1:23.0 | The version of this that I have as somebody who traveled much less widely is that I was talking to my |
| 1:26.7 | father last night about the time that we went to the first round of the NCA |
| 1:30.6 | tournament in Providence during the 1990s. |
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