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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Distraction is back, it’s back! Drew and Roth talk about NFL wildcard weekend, and yes, Drew is ready to talk about the Vikings. Also, new producer Eric hops on to share what is changing (almost nothing) and what is staying the same (almost everything) and how the business of podcasting is so similar to blogging. And as always, Guy of the Week and the Funbag!

 

 

Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Eric Silver

- Editor: Brandon Grugle

- Production Services & Ads: Multitude

- Subscribe to Defector!

 

 

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! We are truly back! It's the distraction! I'm drool! That's my

0:06.6

co-host David Roth. How you doing, Roth? I'm good, man. Great to be talking to you on

0:10.4

the podcast again. We have a new production company, so that's why I introduced you by

0:14.7

your full name, the case people who already subscribed and listed this podcast, didn't

0:19.3

know who you were. You might be Eli Roth. Who's to say? If it's the Altur behind Hostile

0:26.2

2, that's the one with the boys in it. I've never watched an Eli Roth film. I've only

0:32.7

seen him acting in Tarantino movies. I saw a death proof on the plane to Minneapolis,

0:40.5

which I did not like. I'm going to like it even if I know there are enormous platoes

0:47.3

in it and just flaws. Way too many feet shots. This movie, I was like, this is a bad movie.

0:53.8

As I recall, a death proof definitely delivers on the feet stuff. Right the gates is lacking.

0:59.4

Right from the opening credits. It's just boom! Feet. Okay. All right. We get it, Quentin.

1:06.6

We know what you're about. Yeah, I feel like that's one of those things where if that's

1:09.8

the only part of the Quentin Tarantino experience that you're able to deliver is like Rosario

1:15.7

Dawson's Arches, then somebody at the studio needs to be like, man, there needs to be characters

1:22.0

in this as well. Those characters are allowed to have feet. You're even allowed to show them.

1:26.7

You just need to do more than that. We had a long hiatus because we were switching over to the folks

1:32.7

at Multitude. I want to tell you that it was really nice and I feel refreshed after the break

1:39.5

and taking my family to Paris. I feel none of those things. I'm absolutely as fatigued as I was

1:44.4

when we left. That is fucking cool. That is pain in the ass. I absolutely know what you're talking

1:50.8

about. If Christmas was great, I didn't work for a while. That was also cool.

1:57.3

But yeah, as soon as you flip the switch and you're back on a work cadence in January with days

2:03.8

that are three hours and 17 minutes long, that sucks. I hate it. I had a really hard time keeping

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