The Stupid Teams Are Even Stupider with Ray Ratto

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Defector’s own Ray Ratto joins Drew & Roth once again! First up, the NYC mayoral race, and whether New York mayors are a special breed all their own, or if all mayors all across the country are just Like That. Will Zohran Mamdani, fresh off a trouncing of Andrew Cuomo in this week’s primary, be any different? Then, speaking of huge paradigm shifts, they talk the NBA Championship. The OKC Thunder are the 7th champion in 7 years - no one’s doing dynasties anymore, what gives? And then, with only the briefest diversion for some MLB mishegoss for Ray, they’ll dig into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.

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Stuff We Talked About

NYC mayoral primary
Will the Thunder be a dynasty?
Falling down on the moon

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

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- 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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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm true. That's what I do.
0:06.1	Roth? I'm good. Nice, solid contrast between that we're back and the much quieter one that I did last week. This is, this is a little let people know that we truly are back.
0:15.9	Oh, did you do the sort of, you know, meek Roth? We're back're back, we're back, I guess. Yeah, something along
0:21.5	those lines. Like, I was apologizing before I had even started recording. But episode came out good.
0:26.7	Megan and Kelsey yelled at me the whole time. It was amazing. Yeah, that sounds like,
0:30.9	Megan was always yelling at me. I mean, to be fair, I, uh, I had just suffered a brain hemorrhage
0:36.6	and I was trying to, like, throw her across the hospital because I was out of my mind.
0:42.3	So she was right to be a little.
0:43.8	She was like, she's like, you're kind of a dick.
0:45.6	And I was like, yeah, that sounds, that sounds actually quite diggish.
0:48.0	Hey, our guest, it's Ray Rado.
0:50.4	Rado was sick last week.
0:52.7	How are you feeling now, Ray, Ray?
0:54.9	I feel well enough to go to a book reading tonight by the very same Megan Greenwell so I can get yelled at her tit by her.
1:03.0	What an amazing honor.
1:04.5	Get out.
1:05.4	That's great.
1:06.7	I went to her book reading and she knew who I was and that was cool.
1:11.1	And I think I got a hot dog beforehand.
1:13.6	I don't know.
1:14.4	Ray, I was in San Francisco last week, but I had not see you because you were sick.
1:18.2	Yes.
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