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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

How Many Sidewalk Cracks Did I Step On? (with Kyle Buchanan)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times reporter and author, Kyle Buchanan, tells Drew and Roth why the film Mad Max: Fury Road took nearly two decades to make. Plus, Guy of the Week and the Funbag! Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, is available everywhere books are sold. Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0

We're back! We're back! This is the distraction I'm through! That's raw!

0:05.7

Are you doing raw? I'm good man. How are things? I'm fine. I'm fine. No colon cleansing stores for you this week.

0:11.4

Are you sure? I mean, maybe there's some stuff that you didn't tell last time.

0:15.2

Yeah, I mean it would be like me to be like oh and another thing about my asshole.

0:19.0

Let me tell you. I think I left out last time. Readers were obviously clamoring to know.

0:22.9

What kind of camera model I had up there. Yeah, yeah. I told Barry I was like,

0:29.4

well I'm gonna be out a couple days getting a colonoscopy and uh, but I'll definitely write about it.

0:33.1

Don't you worry! He was like great. That's wonderful. I'm glad to hear that.

0:36.5

Hey, we have to uh we have to make him ask. We have to get the chase because this is an action podcast

0:42.5

Roth. Wow. I think there's something they could be done here. I don't want to rush you through

0:46.8

this but I feel like there's a camera up your butt, filmmaking, segue that you could maybe attempt

0:52.5

here if you wanted to do it. That's true. It's true. We're talking about very very precise,

0:57.6

exciting filmmaking and what better movie to contain all of those multitudes than Mad Max Fury Road

1:04.4

and our guest this week is Kyle Buchanan, New York Times reporter, uh columnist. He does the

1:10.8

projectionist column for the New York Times too and he's the author of Blood Sweat and Crome,

1:15.6

the wild and true story of Mad Max Fury Road. So we have a Mad Max cast this week Roth. I'm Kyle.

1:23.6

Hey guys, thanks for having me. You know filmmaking is very uh up your own ass discipline so

1:30.3

it's well on camera up there. It's it's it's very on theme. Look if Drew wasn't going to do this

1:34.5

segue I'm glad you did. Thanks very much. At least somebody cares about whether this podcast comes

1:39.0

out good or not. Well you know it's funny because um we'll talk about the book uh in a second because

1:44.3

uh I read it and Roth's reading it and it's it's fucking fantastic. You can read it in the

1:49.2

delay. You can read in one sitting and the second in fact uh like we get publicist emails saying

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