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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Swimming in the Ocean of Time (with Peter Brannen)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Drew and Roth talk to Peter Brannen about Boston sports, fava beans, and the downfall of man. Plus, questions from the Funbag! And the extended Guy of the Week universe. Brannen's book, The Ends of the World, is available everywhere books are sold. Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0

We're back, we're back, it's a distraction, I'm through, that's raw, that you don't

0:06.5

raw?

0:07.5

Pretty good man, good morning, how are things?

0:09.0

Good morning to you, it's sunny here, every time I'm very, I'm very like if there's

0:16.6

one rainy day and then the sun comes out, I'm like wow the sun's back, it's been so

0:22.1

long, even though it was just a fucking day, like apparently I'd take rainy days way, way

0:27.0

harder than I ought to.

0:28.4

I've become, I've really redeveloped my childish understanding of how to be in the world

0:34.1

over the last year, so like every sunny day now I just open the window and sit by it, and

0:38.6

then I sit there and do the same shit that I do every day, which is just like make puns

0:41.9

and slack and wait for an idea to happen, but it's like I'm like you can't waste this

0:46.5

man, you only get so many days like this, no mask, that's right.

0:51.2

Partly cloudy.

0:52.2

Yeah, we had a black party and we weren't wearing masks, we didn't have to wear masks,

0:57.2

we were all vaccinated, and I think it was like 8 or 830, it was similar to when I saw

1:02.2

you the weekend before, around 8 or 830, I was like I was all talked out, I was like I

1:07.3

don't know how to continue doing this, usually, you know, over the past year usually by this

1:13.3

time at night I'm stoned and nervous, I should be able to be in bed right now.

1:17.5

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, no, instead I was like having to actively talk to people and

1:22.9

like trying to like think of things and like I want to like drag myself into podcast host

1:28.9

mode for normal people, and it was not just honking weird back at people randomly, and

1:33.8

get yourself psyched up.

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