What's Behind Donald Trump's Right-Wing Bro Podcast Binge

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Podcasts are hardly a new medium in American politics. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t disrupting the dynamics of the 2024 presidential race. Consider hotshot hosts like Theo Von, Ezra Klein, and Adin Ross; all of them have been able to give listeners an intimate glimpse at politicians from Donald Trump to Tim Walz, says Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis on the latest episode of Inside the Hive. Lewis, who is joined by Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carman, contends that podcasts can offer the pols an unique opportunity to get up close and personal with their voters. However, as we’ve seen in the case of JD Vance—whose past audio appearances have come back to haunt him—the medium can cut both ways. “They do kind of lure people into this much more kind of confessional chatty mode,” Lewis says. “And I think that's why maybe they could become quite dangerous…politicians might not realize how that might look in the cold light of day to other people.”

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0:36.4	Thank you so much for listening to Inside The Hive from Vanity Fair. Helen is Donald Trump a podcast bro now.
0:48.0	Yeah, I think he's missed his calling really like this is a man who likes to ramble for hours about sharks and Hannibal Lecter to a kind of audience of people who don't interrupt him.
0:56.7	And that's pretty much what podcast can offer you.
0:58.9	That is Helen Lewis, a staff writer for the Atlantic, who just penned a column all about
1:05.1	Trump's podcast tour.
1:07.0	And I'm Brian Stelter.
1:08.7	Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair.
1:12.6	This week on this podcast, we are getting a little meta
1:16.6	and going inside the political podcasting strategy
1:19.5	that's emerging, especially on the right. Trump is targeting young men with hits on popular pods,
1:26.0	but do these interviews hurt him more than they help?
1:29.0	I'm also joined by Ashley Carmen,
1:32.0	the superstar Bloomberg News reporter who covers all things audio.
1:36.0	Ashley set the stage for us. You've been covering all things podcasting for years.
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