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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Your Kids Are Mid with Nathan Grayson

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Grayson, co-founder of Aftermath and author of the new book Stream Big: The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Screen, talks to Drew and Roth about game streaming. Is Twitch a healthy company? Do the streamers like being on it? And how does this all feel in contrast to creating their worker-owned-journalism outfit? And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.


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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Eric Silver

- Editor: Brandon Grugle

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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 Roth. How are you doing Roth?

0:06.1

I'm good, man. I'm hanging in. How are you? I'm good. My daughter visited this weekend. So she came down.

0:13.4

It was loose spirit airlines. Very fancy. And she came down from college. But to see her boyfriend, not us. So we're like, can you come see us?

0:21.9

Like, you can see the dog.

0:22.9

We had to use the dog as cheese for her.

0:24.8

And she was like, yeah, okay.

0:26.5

So she got it on Friday.

0:28.2

She finally comes and sees us with her boyfriend Sunday night for dinner, stays for like two hours, and then pisses off.

0:34.1

And then afterwards, my wife and I get a text from her that says, thanks for having us.

0:39.4

And I was like, you're our daughter. You live here. Like, this is your home. You could imagine my

0:46.6

surprise when you warmly received me at dinner in the home that I grew up in and left three months

0:52.8

ago to go to college.

0:54.8

I know who we know you are.

0:56.3

You can come and go as you please here.

0:58.6

That's kind of the deal when you are our offspring.

1:02.5

When you get older, like my parents are very like when we'll meet them for dinner or

1:07.8

even after I talk to them on the phone and stuff.

1:10.6

They're very effusive in thanking me for letting them buy me food or like talk to them on

1:17.1

the phone for 30 minutes. And it makes me feel kind of bad almost that they would expect me to be like,

1:21.9

no, I can't, you know, I got a important, they're going to stream something. We're going to open

1:26.9

a pack of baseball cards and I'm going to make sounds whenever I see a guy

1:30.4

I recognize.

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