# The Largest Man On The Beach with Ed Zitron Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-largest-man-on-the-beach-with-ed-zitron Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-largest-man-on-the-beach-with-ed-zitron.md Podcast: [The Distraction: A Defector Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759) Published: 2026-04-09T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://mgln.ai/e/282/pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/tracking.swap.fm/track/IVPmvUWSCISCVAzWNnnJ/rss.art19.com/episodes/dd66e0e3-ca09-433e-85bc-f5fc3a161592.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://mgln.ai/e/282/pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/tracking.swap.fm/track/IVPmvUWSCISCVAzWNnnJ/rss.art19.com/episodes/dd66e0e3-ca09-433e-85bc-f5fc3a161592.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/episodes/the-largest-man-on-the-beach-with-ed-zitron Duration seconds: 3830 ## Resource Ed Zitron is back on the show, because it’s been too long since he last came on to yell at us about AI. And there’s a lot to yell about! To kick it off, we get the latest on the Big AI Companies, and the seriously unethical house of cards they’ve built for all of us. Other than the ones Anthropic is providing to the Dept. of Defense, who are the actual targets for these products? Why are all of these companies dumping their vast fortunes into a product that devalues the human experience not just for their users but also everyone else, when they could be pouring that money into the kind of cool gadgets we used to have? How can all of us idiots even claim that this is Artificial Intelligence, when we don’t even know what intelligence is? Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0! Stuff We Talked About Clammy Sam Altman Vibe-code speedballs Teaching for the test The JD Vance of OpenAI Tokenmaxxing Credits - Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts - Subscribe to Defector ! 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 defecto… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/episodes/the-largest-man-on-the-beach-with-ed-zitron/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast-513759/the-largest-man-on-the-beach-with-ed-zitron.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.