This Episode Cancels Out the Manhattan Project with Justin Halpern

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Executive producer of Harley Quinn and Abbott Elementary Justin Halpern returns to Drew and Roth to talk about the Dodgers making baseball into capitalism-shaped-like-a-baseball! In the wake of even more free agent signings, they explain how the Dodgers are running their team like a company with McKinsey consultants and they’re blowing everyone else outta the water. In the second half, our group decides which two teams they want to see in the Super Bowl, regardless of how possible that scenario can be. And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.

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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. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. Are you doing Roth?
0:06.8	You know, doing all right. How are you?
0:10.3	I'm doing great. Donald Trump inaugurated an Ohio State wins a national championship all in one week. The good Lord spoils us, Roth.
0:17.8	Yeah.
0:18.0	It really does.
0:19.0	At the church that I go to where the pastor has Roger Clemens's
0:22.4	haircut and wears shorts on stage and talks about hot wife stuff, he said that this was all in the
0:27.4	Bible. Yeah. And I bet he had his son like Raiden up there too. I bet that would have been really,
0:31.9	really cool. Yes. See, all of his sons look kind of like Guy Fieti's kids, but not exactly like Guy Fiatty's kids.
0:40.1	You know, I met Guy Fiatty's kids, and one of them cooked me a pizza, and it was delightful.
0:44.1	Really?
0:44.7	Was it Rider or Hunter?
0:47.0	Do you remember?
0:47.6	I think it was Ryder.
0:49.6	One of them has kind of a Blake Snell aesthetic that I don't really care for. But I guess he's trying to,
0:54.3	he's trying to put him over on TV. And that's, uh, that's his, you know, choice as a dad,
1:00.5	if that's what he wants them to do. Yeah. I mean, that's just, that's, that's how it works.
1:05.4	You instead of royalty now, we bequeath cooking shows to one another. Yeah, rolls on Amazon Prime programming.
1:13.8	All right, let's get the small tech out of the way.
1:15.9	Our guest is Justin Halper, and he's back.
1:19.3	Justin.
1:19.9	How you doing, Justin?
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