The NBA Tush Push with Ray Ratto
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Defector’s own Ray Ratto joins Drew and Roth to look ahead at the NBA season after a few games. But really, they need Ray to guide them through the harrowing James Harden trade and the incredibly bold colors of these in-season tournament courts. And as always, we dive into the Funbag!
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Stuff We Talked About
- Defector's Post about the James Harden Trade
- All the In-Season Tournament Courts
- Luton Celebrate Promotion
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- Caldera Lab, where you can get 20% off with code distraction at calderalab.com
Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude
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About The Show
From Defector Media: Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports. Sure, their new indie sports podcast will break down the week in sports: the Mets grounding into quadruple plays, NBA players getting testy on the court and horny on Instagram, Bill Belichick cutting 80% of his roster just to keep himself interested, horrifying takes from sports talk radio that need to be broken down, etc. But these two men and their guests will have their fair share of off-the-field issues they’ll also have to address: stupid Funbag questions, bad tweets from bad people, pointless food arguments, and even less. Every week is a VERY long week these days. We could all use a little 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 the distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. How you doing? |
| 0:05.5 | Roth? I'm good, man. What's happening? Did you have a happy Halloween? Was it spooky? |
| 0:10.8 | It was a little too spooky. Drew, I had a pretty, it was really scary. I kept thinking that |
| 0:16.1 | I was seeing small goblins in my neighborhood, but it was just little children named Jared. |
| 0:21.2 | Maya is my first Halloween in many years with no kids in the house. None of them wanted |
| 0:26.9 | to stick around. They all went to their friend's house to trick-or-treat in better neighborhoods. |
| 0:30.6 | No. When they're like, I'm sick of knocking on these fucking doors. I want to go somewhere |
| 0:35.9 | where I'm going to get a fucking shitty three musketeers from a different colored door. |
| 0:42.4 | Are you going to do the thing? Are you going to take a full edible and put in fake vampire teeth |
| 0:47.3 | and just give out candy all night then? Yeah, that's what I... Good man. That was the plan. |
| 0:53.0 | But we don't have time to dilly-dally with holidays that have already passed. |
| 0:57.1 | We kind of owe that's right because of one. Because, yeah, that's right. Because our guest |
| 1:01.7 | this week is the immortal Ray Rado. Yeah, I read that. |
| 1:06.6 | Rado? Am I immortal? I mean, so far? Yeah, I was good to say. There's no evidence to the |
| 1:12.6 | contrary so far. You're older than both of us and you're not dead. That's pretty good. |
| 1:17.6 | Well, you'd have to check with other people on that. Well, I will. I will ask. |
| 1:22.7 | They may feel differently about the quality of the life I've been spreading around. |
| 1:27.2 | Ray stayed up a lot later and partied a lot harder than a lot of younger people |
| 1:31.0 | at the defector team retreat. I would say that so far, I'm like 70-30 on him being immortal. |
| 1:37.2 | And I do not wish to be disproven on this. Yeah, and either Ray doesn't have the 58 million |
| 1:43.9 | maladies that I have suffered or he just doesn't write about it the way that I write about. And that's |
| 1:48.5 | probably those ladders probably because I'm the TMI king. If my heart stops, you know. |
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