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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

This is the Media’s Fault (with Dan McQuade)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dan McQuade joins Drew and Roth to talk about “immunized” quarterbacks, Vegas residencies, and baseball superstitions. Plus, Guy of the Week and questions from the Funbag! Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0

We're back! We're back! It's a distraction! I'm Drew! That's Rob! How you doing?

0:05.9

Rob? Feeling good, man. Feeling extremely good. Did you have a fun time to be out here

0:11.2

doing the things that I do? Did you have a happy Halloween? Did you dress up?

0:15.3

Yeah, of course. You know me. I mean, like, you've met me enough times. Of course, I dress up.

0:20.2

We put a lot of work into it every year. When does the last time you drew? Come on, man.

0:25.3

I'm old and boring and sad. When's the last time you put on a costume for Halloween?

0:30.4

Like, I'm saying this because I don't have a good memory of the last time I put on...

0:36.2

Like, I think it might have been 20 years ago. Like, I don't have a good memory of it.

0:39.9

Oh, yeah. I have not done it as an adult or even come close. I think there were people...

0:45.0

When I was in my 20s, I had friends that were in to come me up with just like the dumbest possible costumes that they could.

0:50.0

And so they'd be like, like, Mr. Potato Head, but he's in a taco shell.

0:54.9

Or like, you know, like, I'm on Eminem, but I'm also a Viking.

0:58.4

And like, I never really did that. It seemed like a lot of work.

1:01.2

So it wasn't like...

1:02.0

It wasn't like, concentrating on lying down for 16 hours a day at that point.

1:02.0

So it wasn't like the clever pun costume or anything like that?

1:05.2

Like, I'm a dotted eye and there's like a...

1:08.9

Like, you're like an eyeball with a dot on top of it.

1:11.6

Yeah, thankfully, I mean, whatever. Not to say that my friends at that age were not unbearable people.

1:13.8

I want to underline that we were all super unbearable people, but not in that way.

1:18.5

Like, we're not visual pun manifestations.

1:22.8

My wife, she was like, hey, this is your mullet wig.

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