How To Win the Podcast Election
The 2024 Election may hinge on podcasts - one candidate is dominating the airwaves, while the other one hides and has set herself for failure in tonight's debate
Comrades: 2016 was the social media meme election, 2020 was the censorship election, and 2024 is the podcast election.
Podcasts have emerged as the best media for long form conversations. They fill the mindless periods when we are driving, exercising, and doing chores with intellectual stimulation. We are spoiled for choices listening to the most interesting people on the planet banter about any topic at any time. MSM gatekeepers are livid that they can no longer control the narrative. Anyone with a microphone and internet connection can broadcast to audiences that have grown much larger than theirs. The reach of podcasts has likely expanded 100x compared to 2016 and 10x compared to 2020.
Trump has appeared on a third of the Top 9 podcasts: Tucker, Theo Von, and Shawn Ryan. The Theo Von episode in particular revealed his humor and human side as he talked about his brother Fred’s struggles with alcohol. In a rare moment of vulnerability, he said that it was worth reopening a deep wound if it saves one person. I wouldn’t bet against him visiting Joe Rogan’s man cave before Election Day. He has also been interviewed by Lex Fridman and All-In Podcast, which are in the Top 40. All of these hour-long episodes have racked up millions of views each. His Twitter space with Elon broke the internet and his Kick stream with Adin Ross also set records with the streamers.
The Barron is The Donald’s Zoomer whisperer, guiding his father into subversive territory.
Podcasts are scalable rallies. They allow Trump to reach a much larger and diverse audience that includes independent, undecided, and low propensity voters all over the country - not just swing states. Every time he speaks to the American people directly, the MSM TDS spell breaks a little more. It may well move the needle enough to win the 2024 election beyond the margin of 3AM vote dump fraud. In another throwback to the FDR fireside chats, the greatest fear is fear itself. Savvy politicians should focus on podcasts instead of the increasingly irrelevant cable news shows, which shoot for gotcha moments on short segments.
In stark contrast, Harris and Walz have not appeared on any podcasts. The only interview they have managed was with CNN’s Dana Bash lobbing softballs for an awkward, cringey, low-energy 20 minutes. Even though they aren’t senile like Biden, they are somehow both unable to handle any extended unscripted conversations. Hundreds of regime court eunuchs from Pod Save America to Stephen Colbert are salivating at the opportunity to lick Kamala’s Converses, but thus far all have been denied access. Her handlers know that she can only function in highly controlled environments, coordinated with friendly plants like the Pittsburgh spice shop and MSM propaganda that would make North Koreans blush. Their charisma and “joy” are manufactured through an army of paid influencer shills.
Kamala has set herself up for failure for tonight’s debate. All the pressure is on her because she only has downside Trump has made his case in every possible forum and will continue to do so, even if he falters. The last time many Americans saw him, he was pumping his fist defiantly after being shot through the ear. In the two months after she became the presumptive nominee, she has hidden in a protective cocoon like Biden’s 2020 basement campaign. Comrade Kameleon has stuck to the teleprompter with different accents and flip-fops to pander.
Extemporaneous off the cuff bantering is a muscle that requires exercise. No amount of controlled practice can prepare Kamala for the real thing. The last time she was on a debate stage, she was obliterated by Tulsi Gabbard and dropped out of the 2020 DNC primary soon after. As VP, she had to rehearse a state dinner because she was too nervous. With no primary this cycle, she has had no verbal sparring. She is too busy pretending to listen to podcasts on her headphones to answer questions from the pesky peasant press.
Tonight, Kamala will walk into an MMA cage fight with no training against a heavyweight champion. Trump has not only withstood a decade long siege, he has emerged stronger and sharper. In his last debate he delivered a TKO to Biden, who was then deposed in a DNC coup to install Harris. The propaganda machine and teleprompter cannot shield her on the stage, where she won’t have notes. The joyful brat coconut sugar high will come crashing down.
What are your favorite podcasts? Tim Dillon is mine. If you’d like to hear from new voices, check out my Struggle Session podcast. I have interviewed 40+ fascinating people from all walks of life like an imprisoned dissident, Navy SEAL, and my own father.
PS: Trump or Kamala visiting #5 Call Her Daddy would break the internet. Can you imagine Trump’s party stories from 1980s NYC? Or Kamala talking about her gluck gluck 9000 technique? I am amazed that Founding Father Alex Cooper signed a $100 million deal with SiriusXM. This is one of the most influential women in America.
PPS: Here are other debates I would pay to see:
Pure gold Yuri......pure gold.
I consider the American Democrat Party as the modern extension of the 1970s Cult Movement in America. Same type of people running the show, using the same mind-bending tactics, for the same end game.
Did I mention that Cults and Communism have a great deal in common? Two sides of the same coin.