We Americans Know Better with Diana Moskovitz & Dave McKenna
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Drew has finally vanquished Roth, so fellow Defectors Diana Moskovitz and Dave McKenna are on the show! First, World Cup – who’s rooting for who? Are either of them for it coming ‘ome to England? How expensive are these tickets exactly?! Then, they open up the fun bag to answer real questions from Defector readers and Distraction listeners. Can this one easy rule change make soccer exciting for Americans?
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Stuff We Talked About
- Half price burgers on Monday nights
- Enormous badonkadonks
- Different Europe
- Korean light sticks
- Gaelic football’s superior rules
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Brandon Grugle
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts
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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 Drew. Rolf is out this week. I have vanquished him at last. |
| 0:07.8 | Ha, ha, ha. Great success. And instead, we have defectors. Oh, Dave McKenna and Diana. |
| 0:13.4 | Moskowitz with us. Woo-hoo! Hi, Diana. Hi, Dave. |
| 0:16.8 | Hey, Drew. Hey. We've got all the defector DMs in one place. |
| 0:21.6 | That is true. |
| 0:22.6 | I didn't think about it. |
| 0:23.6 | What does it mean, Dave? |
| 0:24.6 | We should DM each other. |
| 0:26.6 | We do. |
| 0:28.6 | We do DM each other. |
| 0:30.6 | I have a postcard. |
| 0:33.6 | Dave, I just saw you in scenic Rojoboth Beach, Delaware. |
| 0:38.6 | We had a meeting of the McKenna and McGarry families. |
| 0:41.7 | May I tell a quick story about you, Dave? |
| 0:44.4 | Go ahead. |
| 0:45.4 | So Dave picked this restaurant, and he said, it's a tradition we always go here. |
| 0:52.2 | And I was like, okay, that's fine. |
| 0:53.9 | And I give the menu to my wife. And my wife was like, I don't know, it looks kind tradition we always go here. And I was like, okay, that's fine. And I give the menu |
| 0:54.5 | to my wife. And my wife is like, oh, no, it looks kind of expensive, Drew. And my wife did not know |
| 1:00.0 | how, uh, how, how fond of a bargain our friend Dave McKenna is. And, uh, and so she's, |
| 1:07.8 | she's looking at the menu, but then she goes over to the restaurant's website, and she realizes, oh, wait, they have half-priced burgers on Monday. |
| 1:15.7 | And Dave was like, mm-hmm, that's right. |
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