The Provenance of the Lobster with Giri Nathan
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Defector’s resident Knicks fan, Giri Nathan, joins Drew and Roth this week! After dropping
Game 3, how is Giri feeling about his team? The series seems to hinge on whether or not Victor Wembanyama is dialed in. Why has his play in this series been so inconsistent? And why has the reffing been so lousy? Then, Giri talks about his experience at the French Open, and reveals his favorite sandwich he had while there. Finally, they open up the funbag to answer real questions from listeners!
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Stuff We Talked About
- 200-year-old fossils
- Little Long Island Billy Joel aficionados
- Going to town on some sorbetto
- Richard Dawkins coded
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Brandon Grugle
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
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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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| 0:00.0 | We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. How you doing, Roth? |
| 0:06.5 | I'm good, man. How are you doing? I am two weeks from vacation. And so I'm not in vacation mode yet, but because, like, we were supposed to go to the beach for Memorial Day. I think I said this already, but I don't care. I like bitching about it. We're going to go to the beach for Memorial Day. The weather was shit at the beach so we didn't go. And so me and like my wife just finished her work year. And our sons are their last day of school is like a week from today. Yeah, it's like a week from today. So everyone is like, like, |
| 0:42.7 | crawling over broken glass to get to the finish line. And I'm no good. I feel like from just psychologically being able to see vacation like in the near, like over just over the horizon is |
| 0:50.4 | actually like maybe I've had more good times in that mentality than I've actually had on |
| 0:56.0 | vacation in my life. Like the last three days of school were the happiest for me always just because |
| 1:00.9 | like more so than like as soon as it was done I got fucking packed off the summer camp with a bunch |
| 1:05.1 | of little Long Island Billy Joel officinados. But when I but like it was just me and my friends doing a half day, and the teachers were all like, just fucking go play basketball or something. Like, that is what it's all about. Watch this film strip that you've already watched 12 times. Hey, our guest, it's resident Nick's fan at Defector. Giddy, Nathan. Hi, Giddy. What's up? What's up? What's up? What |
| 1:28.8 | what Roth was saying about like the anticipatory feeling possibly being better than the actual |
| 1:33.1 | thing is like I'm a little scared if like the feeling between the conference finals and the |
| 1:37.7 | finals is like the best I could possibly feel as a sports fan when they were just like waiting |
| 1:41.8 | nine days for the next opponent to uh to show up so well |
| 1:46.6 | you know before game three i would have said your game three anticipation might have been might have been up there |
| 1:52.1 | too yeah i mean it was it was up there but i think there was something so blissful about just watching |
| 1:58.4 | these like western conference titans just bloody and bruise each |
| 2:02.1 | other for another two games while we were just chilling. |
| 2:05.9 | And you did. |
| 2:06.5 | You had a nice long afterglow from that Eastern Conference title. |
| 2:09.6 | That's just sitting on the couch rubbing your hands together, being like, ooh, I hope that doesn't bruise. |
| 2:14.5 | Exactly. |
| 2:15.9 | It's kind of amazing to think like if one team got a biweek before the Super Bowl and the other team didn't, you know? Like that would be, I mean, they wouldn't do that because for obvious reasons. But it has that sort of dynamic to it. That would be fun. All right. So as of this recording, Giddy, your Knicks are up two to one in the NBA finals over the Spurs. |
| 2:35.8 | But of course, they were up to zero and won both game one and game two in San Antonio before coming back to the Garden. |
| 2:42.9 | They dropped game three at Massacre Garden on Monday night. |
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