# The Distraction: A Defector Podcast Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759.md RSS feed: https://rss.art19.com/the-distraction Official site: https://art19.com/shows/the-distraction Author: Defector Media Episodes: 302 ## Resource 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 voice mails, 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759.md ## Episodes - [The Boorish Manners of a Yale-y with Paul Tremblay](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-boorish-manners-of-a-yale-y-with-paul-tremblay) — 2026-07-23T05:00:00+00:00 - [What If We Tried To Win? with Justin Halpern](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/what-if-we-tried-to-win-with-justin-halpern) — 2026-07-16T05:00:00+00:00 - [We Americans Know Better with Diana Moskovitz & Dave McKenna](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/we-americans-know-better-with-diana-moskovitz-dave-mckenna) — 2026-07-09T05:00:00+00:00 - [Give the Lobster a Knife](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/give-the-lobster-a-knife) — 2026-07-02T05:00:00+00:00 - [The Last Refuge of Scoundrels with Kelsey McKinney & Alex Sujong Laughlin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-last-refuge-of-scoundrels-with-kelsey-mckinney-alex-sujong-laughlin) — 2026-06-25T05:00:00+00:00 - [Sports! (The Human Spirit) with Ray Ratto](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/sports-the-human-spirit-with-ray-ratto) — 2026-06-18T05:00:00+00:00 - [The Provenance of the Lobster with Giri Nathan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-provenance-of-the-lobster-with-giri-nathan) — 2026-06-11T05:00:00+00:00 - [Don’t Tell Anyone How I Live with Leander Schaerlaeckens](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/don-t-tell-anyone-how-i-live-with-leander-schaerlaeckens) — 2026-06-04T05:00:00+00:00 - [A Larry David Look-a-like with David Grann](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/a-larry-david-look-a-like-with-david-grann) — 2026-05-28T05:00:00+00:00 - [You Can’t Zarf Someone in Pips with Ian Livengood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/you-can-t-zarf-someone-in-pips-with-ian-livengood) — 2026-05-21T05:00:00+00:00 - [Look at What They Done Been Through with Patrick Redford](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/look-at-what-they-done-been-through-with-patrick-redford) — 2026-05-14T05:00:00+00:00 - [Introducing: No Such Thing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/introducing-no-such-thing) — 2026-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 - [Shodders For The Cup with Lauren Theisen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/shodders-for-the-cup-with-lauren-theisen) — 2026-05-07T05:00:00+00:00 - [Eating a Super Soaker with a Knife & Fork](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/eating-a-super-soaker-with-a-knife-fork) — 2026-04-30T05:00:00+00:00 - [My Car Died In Worcester with Aaron Schatz](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/my-car-died-in-worcester-with-aaron-schatz) — 2026-04-23T05:00:00+00:00 - [Blame It On Pazuzu with Mike Schur](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/blame-it-on-pazuzu-with-mike-schur) — 2026-04-16T05:00:00+00:00 - [The Largest Man On The Beach with Ed Zitron](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-largest-man-on-the-beach-with-ed-zitron) — 2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00 - [Bad Baseball Grannies with Kelsey McKinney](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/bad-baseball-grannies-with-kelsey-mckinney) — 2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00 - [My Best Reply Guys with Emma Baccellieri](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/my-best-reply-guys-with-emma-baccellieri) — 2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00 - [A Never-Ending Math Orgy with Ken Pomeroy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/a-never-ending-math-orgy-with-ken-pomeroy) — 2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00 - [A Hot Sauce Faceprint on the Hotel Door with Rohan Nadkarni](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/a-hot-sauce-faceprint-on-the-hotel-door-with-rohan-nadkarni) — 2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 - [I Was Born in the Cutty Sark with Spencer Hall](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/i-was-born-in-the-cutty-sark-with-spencer-hall) — 2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 - [Digest It As It Comes In with Tom Ley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/digest-it-as-it-comes-in-with-tom-ley) — 2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00 - [A Good Set of Stones with John Cullen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/a-good-set-of-stones-with-john-cullen) — 2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 - [A Well-Rounded Apple Dome with Kathryn Xu](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/a-well-rounded-apple-dome-with-kathryn-xu) — 2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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