You Depraved the Manner of Men with Stefan Fatsis

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis joins Drew and Roth to talk about dictionaries! For his new book, Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary (out now), Stefan embedded with Merriam Webster, and even drafted some new entries. Then, Stefan and Drew discuss the finer points of the letter V’s usage in Scrabble, and they figure out if NFL kickers are too good now. Finally, they open up the funbag to answer a question about begging the question.

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Stuff We Talked About

Sheeple
Filling your house with sand
New letters
Thou vs you
Garden variety swears
The return of K-balls

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

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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. That's Rod. They doing Roth.
0:06.6	Pretty good, man. How are you? It is. I, this was the week, I got out the big jacket. It is now officially jacket, pants, manclog season. The whole thing. We're bundling up. I got I got the fleece blanket on top of the
0:21.8	comforter, so I'm extra cozy when I go to sleep in night. I was having such a nice time
0:26.5	being Mr. Autumn man from the famous Onion headline Mr. Autumn man. And I think that's pretty
0:33.3	much over now. Now I got my gloves on. I'm going to start getting fat as I do every winter.
0:40.0	It's like I had a great time. Autumn is now 11 days long. Yeah. I mean, that's just sort of how it goes.
0:46.7	Although I don't really care for it. Like as a, I live in a place that kind of doesn't get fall.
0:52.0	Like, you know, you go the farther up the northeast corridor you go, the more sort of foliage you get. And of course, New England's famous for all of that. But down here, you get foliage usually for like a week. And then, you know, the weather is like, oh, fuck this shit. Let's just get right to winter. And then all the leaves fall. And then you're in winter park view season, right? That is prime getting fat time. Yeah. I know you're not going to do it, but I am ready to get to work. Speaking to getting to work, here's our old friend, Stefan Fatsis. He's the guest this week. Yay, Stephanie. Yay for me. You guys, can I just say before we start?
1:27.7	You guys are soft.
1:29.6	Comfort plus fleece already?
1:32.0	Yeah.
1:32.2	I didn't say I do that.
1:33.6	I sleep standing up fully nude.
1:35.3	We do a jacket already?
1:37.1	Drew, we live in Washington.
1:38.6	We had one cold afternoon this week.
1:43.0	It's going to be 60 degrees again this weekend. Come on, toughen up.
1:47.0	No, I'm such a lightweight now. Like, for a guy who grew up in Minnesota and like Chicago and
1:52.1	stuff, like now if there's like, if it's 50 and I'm in the shade and there's a stiff breeze,
1:57.0	like I'm, I'm Eddie Murphy's grandma.'s so cold in here something we I should also share
2:03.5	with the listeners and because you can't tell from the podcast it's a it's an audio medium but
2:08.4	stephen is a 24 hour like full season 12 month a year short sky like a John fetterman
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