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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Drew and Roth are snowed in together, so they’re doing they’re favorite snow day activity: podcasting. Now that football season is over, they’re getting into the weird stuff: Darren Rovell going one-on-one with Kristaps Porzingas, wrestling with the idea that Biden can be president but maybe not drive, and why can’t companies just create a good product and make money that way. And they dive into the Funbag, with real questions from real listeners.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Kristaps Porzingis Goes One-On-One Against An Absurdly Goofy Darren Rovell
- Darren Rovell's Taken-Style Blog for Catching Aaron Run’s Record-Setting Home Run Balls
- Bill Ackman’s War on Harvard, MIT, DEI, and Everyone Else
- Stephen A. Smith Is Never Satisfied
- The Hottest Beer in America Doesn’t Have Alcohol
Sponsors
- Blueland, where you can get 15% off your first order at https://blueland.com/distraction
Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- 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. It's a distraction. I'm true. How you doing? Roth? I'm good man. How are you? You got some snow? |
| 0:09.4 | No. Yeah, that's right. You know that's one of my favorite of the Drew voices is you being |
| 0:17.0 | Rudolph. That's a... Yeah, we actually got some sort of sticking to the ground for the first time in a few years. |
| 0:25.0 | Feels really, it feels, you know what it feels like is like 2017. |
| 0:29.0 | It's an amazing feeling. |
| 0:30.0 | You remember how happy you were in 2017? |
| 0:34.0 | I honestly, Ronald, I can't remember what the fuck I did yesterday. |
| 0:38.0 | It sucked, dude. This whole thing has been one uninterrupted block of more or less the same vibes. |
| 0:42.0 | It is nice when it snows though. That part is neat. I have to go to the post office later so I'm going to get the clomp around in it like a little goof ball and that'll be nice. |
| 0:51.0 | Wow, shit weather and you have to go to the post office. |
| 0:53.3 | What a great day! |
| 0:54.3 | That's good to be here. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm bragging about how cool my life is right now. |
| 0:58.8 | I apologize to any listeners who feel, I don't envious or whatever. |
| 1:03.6 | You go to the post office and everyone in line just looks so annoyed that they have to be |
| 1:06.9 | the post office. |
| 1:07.9 | It's just like, oh, fuck me. |
| 1:10.4 | I've been a, become a real advocate for the automatic postage dispensing machines I helped |
| 1:15.7 | a older man use one the last time I was there and it's like that's the last time that I'm going |
| 1:20.1 | to feel like a young person because by the standards of people that go to a |
| 1:24.8 | terrestrial post office I think I somehow still am on the younger end of the demo. |
| 1:29.2 | A thousand percent. |
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