Dresses Like Kevin Federline with Ed Zitron
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Better Offline’s Ed Zitron joins Drew and Roth for a doubleheader of British accents and Trump impressions. The first half is all about what pits of despair NFL coaches would walk into if they joined the Raiders, the Cowboys, or the Jags. In the second half, Ed and Roth recap the 2025 CES Conference in Las Vegas and how everyone there is smooshing AI into their product because it’s the hot thing to do. And, as always, the show wraps up with the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.
You can find Ed Zitron at Better Offline, in his newsletter Where's Your Ed At, or on his football podcast 60 Minute Drill.
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts
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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 you doing? Roth? I'm good, man. I'm all right. How are you? |
| 0:09.6 | I'm super. I'm doing great. I'm finished with the Sam Donald experience, and it was, uh, the ending was a little bit, uh, you know, unsatisfying, not the, not the d'enume I wanted, |
| 0:22.5 | but some real thrills and chills all the way throughout the rest of the stories. |
| 0:27.0 | That was a good time. |
| 0:28.3 | But we... |
| 0:29.3 | Did you just describe, just to be clear, you're saying it wasn't the ending you wanted, but the journey was good? |
| 0:35.5 | Whoa, that's an actual english person talking instead of |
| 0:39.8 | us and roth doing an absolute dog shit uh british accent he's not he's not having a laugh |
| 0:47.0 | our guest this week is ed zetron uh host of the better offline podcast and proprietor of the |
| 0:52.8 | where's your ed at Newsletter? |
| 0:55.7 | Ed, you and Roth just partied hard in Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. |
| 1:01.0 | Were you gentlemen so money? |
| 1:02.6 | You didn't even know it? |
| 1:04.5 | We were. |
| 1:05.0 | We were well-moneyed. |
| 1:06.7 | We would every night after recording a six-hour podcast. |
| 1:09.9 | We would take off fat stacks downstairs. |
| 1:12.9 | Roth would say, money, me, money now. |
| 1:14.5 | He'd throw them down the table. |
| 1:16.5 | We won millions of dollars, but then we lost it all at the sports book betting on Sam Donald for Super Bowl MVP. |
| 1:25.3 | So we lost everything. |
| 1:26.6 | You didn't have to go. |
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