What Do You Wanna Do Bro? (with Justin Halpern)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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TV Writer and Producer Justin Halpern joins Drew and Roth to discuss the San Diego Comic-Con, the first half of the 2022 MLB season, how MLB should market their stars and Abbott Elementary. Plus, Guy of the Week and the Funbag! Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0	We're back! We're back! It's a distraction! I'm true! That's raw! They do! Raw!
0:05.7	I'm good! That's thanks. I'm hot! I am fucking hot! Like I know I'm gonna say something
0:11.5	you would be probably. I know it's something like England right now where they're all like
0:15.8	hey! He's sh- OH! It H! Like I'm not like that hot, but buddy it is like it is maximum
0:23.4	scrotum stick to thigh. Yeah. Weather out there. It is fucking horrible. My buildings HVAC
0:28.4	stop working. They're working on it. That is a scheduled outage by the way as
0:32.5	I'm pointing to the next day. Only in New York baby! Yeah it feels great. So we have the
0:37.1	vents on so it's blowing air but the air is more or less room temperature and faintly wet.
0:43.4	So I would say that all it's doing is making us more unhappy at this point. Wow! Finally,
0:47.8	instead of describing politicians as wet guys, you are the wet guy. It isn't that. It is.
0:55.3	I look like- yeah you can't see it because it's a podcast but I look like Tony Gonsolin right now.
0:59.1	I am just- I look like I got pushed off a shrimp boot. That is awesome. I don't know who that is.
1:03.3	Our guest is Justin Halper. He knows who. Mastermind behind Harley Quinn and Abbott Elementary on ABC
1:09.2	and Justin, I have an email I'm gonna read from a reader right away because I- Oh wow!
1:14.2	I feel like you would appreciate this. You are the person who rips on me for having a loud voice
1:20.0	more than any other person in my life. Even my wife. My wife does shit on me for having a loud voice
1:24.3	but you are particularly persistent about it. So this is an email from Brian. Brian writes in-
1:31.1	Today, I was riding my bike on Seattle's Berk-Gillman Trail listening to a pleasant true crime
1:36.8	podcast about an FLDS Polygamist cult because white people. I have to play my ear buds at high
1:43.4	volume when I'm on my bike because of the wind. Anyway, when that episode ended, I didn't know that I
1:48.4	had this week's distraction queued up to play next and Drew's- we're back! We're so goddamn loud
1:53.8	this week and since I wasn't expecting them, I crashed my bike into a drainage ditch. I thought I
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