The Boorish Manners of a Yale-y with Paul Tremblay

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Society & Culture, Sports

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Drew and Roth are joined by acclaimed horror novelist Paul Tremblay! Not only does Paul have a new book out, Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, but he’s also now a certified cancer survivor. He’s also sued OpenAI, used to teach BC calculus, and is a huge Boston sports fan. They talk about all of that, including how this Red Sox winning streak is treating Paul. Then, they open up the funbag to answer questions from real Defector readers and Distraction listeners, and Paul shares his worst dishwasher habit.

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Stuff We Talked About

Packies and scratchies
Brains in jars
A gas leak in the clubhouse
Dishwasher heathens
Does DJT believe in ghosts?

Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle, Multitude

- Editor: Mischa Stanton, Multitude

- 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. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. Are you doing Roth?
0:06.8	I'm good, man. How are you doing? Did you have yourself a good, a good world cup?
0:11.2	That's a good-ass World Cup, man.
0:12.7	I had a pretty solid World Cup, if I'm being honest. I think that mostly, it's not my favorite sport. I still am not always the surest that I know how to watch it properly,
0:22.1	but the fact that there's just been good-ass sports happening for like two and a half months now
0:27.0	has done a good deal for my mental health. The fact that all we've got now is regular season
0:33.6	Mets baseball is ominous, I guess, but I'm looking forward to, you know, whatever,
0:40.4	looking back on this period fondly while I watched the Mets commit two errors in every
0:44.8	inning.
0:45.2	Speak for yourself, man.
0:46.3	I knew that World Cup.
0:47.7	It's almost like it almost fucked in my circadian sports rhythms because I was not used to,
0:52.8	I was not used to paying attention to sports like I was
0:54.8	just sitting around with my thumb of my ass waiting for training camp and all that stuff and now
0:59.4	like I had to watch a lot of sports all in one compressed period and I was like is this too
1:04.1	much sports yeah how much were you how hard were you getting after it I watched all of it because
1:09.3	my my son the older son's a huge soccer pervert. So we were watching all the games and something like, I think he was less urgent about it than me. And I was like, what the fuck, man? Like, come on. We're going to watch these games. Paraguay is on. I need you to lock in right now. He also, he also, he like, he goes back. He like, he grinds the tape while the game is
1:30.2	playing. And I'm like, you can't do that. Wow. I just want to watch the fucking game. Let's go. Hey,
1:36.4	our guest this week is acclaimed horror novelist Paul Trembly, whose latest book, dead but
1:41.7	dreaming of electric sheep is on sale now. Hey, Paul. How you doing? How's it going?
1:46.6	Hey, guys. How you doing? Happy to be here.
1:48.9	You're joining us live from your home in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Did you have a nice trip to the packie before you facking came on?
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