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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Undisputed And First Take Are The Men's Version of Real Housewives (with Jemele Hill)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Atlantic's Jemele Hill joins Drew and Roth to discuss her book Uphill: A Memoir, how her childhood influenced her writing, her time at ESPN and the current landscape of sports media. 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 drooling. That's wrong. I don't know.

0:06.5

I'm good man. How are you? I am excellent. I'm even more excellent because I know that

0:10.5

I guess today is very special. It's Jamel Hill, only shit. I'm gonna be my writer for the

0:15.7

Atlantic author of the new memoir up-pull-out right now. Jamel, how are you? Welcome to my

0:20.5

cast. Thank you. I appreciate you guys having me on. It's a pleasure.

0:24.1

How much we're gonna talk about you in your book first. How much do you want to talk about

0:31.3

you or are you so sick to death of yourself that you cannot bear it a second longer?

0:36.0

Yeah, because we could do NFC North Chat. Yeah! That's more fun. 100%. We can talk about the

0:41.6

open-crowing destroyed lines if you want. Well, I appreciate you all being

0:46.8

sensitive to that. But the good news is that we're recording this where I'm not in the

0:50.6

Arctic of my book tour. I actually have had a few weeks of a break of talking about myself.

0:56.1

So I'm replenished. It's fine if we want to talk about me because I can't say I want to

1:03.5

discuss the NFC North either. No, it's fine. Yeah. I mean, just I'm not a Lions fan. I do want

1:11.8

them to do well because I'm from Detroit. My husband is a huge Lions fan. Right now, this

1:18.1

is his euphoria. Like he is, he has, he bought into the Kool-Aid before this season started.

1:24.4

All Lions fans do. Every year they have Super Bowl expectations, regardless of what the

1:29.2

50 or 55 plus year history has said. So right now, like mentally, he's in such a great

1:35.2

place. I was like, oh, you finally know what it's like to feel like your team is not a

1:38.8

total embarrassment. So I'm very happy for him. Down the world at six and seven. That's

1:45.0

right. Like just not to make you have to go back to that space. Did you have to like do

1:51.0

the real heavy like car wash junket experience for the book? Oh, yeah. You're kind of telling

1:55.3

the same story about your youth like three or four times a day. Yeah. And it was a different

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