Posted on 07/04/2025 12:37:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The secret formula the podcasters have figured out is that audiences want to be talked to, not talked at.
In the 2024 election, candidate appearances on podcasts were huge, yuge even. Donald Trump showed up on an array of them, from Theo Von to Joe Rogan to Barstool Sports’ Bussin’ With The Boys. Kamala Harris did fewer, with Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy being the most notable. After Trump’s resounding win, some Democrats blamed Rogan for the victory, though even John Oliver cautioned against that notion. (Also, Rogan gave Harris an “open invitation” to come on his podcast, but she declined his terms.)
More recently, Democrats announced they’re prepared to spend $20 million to figure out why they lost men in the election, with podcasts being listed as part of the solution to bringing them back. The thing is, though, while almost anyone with a pulse could explain why Democrats are losing men, they’re still missing the forest for the trees when it comes to why podcasts have taken an outsize role in American life, particularly for men. Fortunately, as they’re unlikely to listen to him since he voted for Trump, comedian Andrew Schulz recently offered a case study in why the medium is taking off in an interview, which you can watch here, with The New York Times’ David Marchese.
The entire thing is worth your time, but Schulz gets to the gist of the matter fairly early in the interview when Marchese presses him on whether he felt he did the “necessary work of asking [Trump] difficult questions.” To this, Schulz replied:
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Being talked at is degrading and dehumanizing.
It’s generally that being talked at = being lectured or preached at.
No thanks.
That's the lie. They didn't lose men, they lost women, but can't admit to that.
I remember a little brunette girl.
Her name was Darla. She could stay.
True enough.
K. Harris is fun to watch. Lol. She is SUCH a loser.
I shouldn't enjoy it so much, Mea culpa!
I find that IRL at my Masonic Lodge.
Masonic membership has dropped approximately 50% in the last 20 years. At the current rates, North American Freemasonry will cease to exist by around 2040-2050.
Harris won women by +8 but Trump was able to do the same with men by +12.
No blue haired, slave era nose ring wearing and tattooed beeyatch is ever gonna lecture me;-)
I would guess the same could be said about the Kiwanis, Elks, Lions, etc.
Too many other distractions ... online porn, phone scrolling, Tinder, etc.
I hope I am wrong.
As I said, the Democrats are pretending men are leaving the Democrats in a desperate attempt to convince women not to continue leaving by saying it's only men and women shouldn't follow them.
I listed just a few notable ones below. These women wouldn't be leaving the Democrat Party if their female supporters had not already departed.
'The Democrats Have a Woman Problem' by Christine Rosen in the National Review
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/1008721848/
"Women under 30 supported Biden by 32 points in 2020 but supported Harris by just 18 points in this election, a 14-point shift toward Trump" - Ruy Teixeira of the American Enterprise Institute
Tulsi Gabbard
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tulsi-gabbard-announces-leaving-democratic-party/story?id=91326164
Kyrsten Sinema
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democratic-party-registers-independent-rcna60911
Symone Sanders Townsend
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/msnbc-host-announces-shes-leaving-democratic-party/ar-AA1B6XwW
Karine Jean Pierre
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/karine-jean-pierre-leaving-democratic-party-00385060
Texas State Rep. Shawn Thierry
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/30/shawn-thierry-texas-house-party-switch/
Kentucky state Senator Robin Webb
https://www.newsweek.com/robin-webb-democrat-switches-party-becomes-republican-2079083
Florida state Reps. Hillary Cassel and Susan Valdes, as well as California state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil
https://www.theblaze.com/news/the-growing-list-of-lawmakers-ditching-the-democratic-party
Former Democrat majority leader in the California state Senate Gloria Romero
https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-lawmaker-switches-republican-voting-trump-1949117
Four state Democratic lawmakers in West Virginia, Louisiana, and North Carolina switched parties.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/11/23679162/louisiana-north-carolina-cotham-thompson-lacombe
Progressive journalist Ana Kasparian
https://nypost.com/2024/10/10/media/progressive-journalist-unleashes-on-liberal-intolerance-that-drove-her-away-from-dem-party/
Democrat fundraiser Lindy Li
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-gave-ex-harris-booster-no-choice-leave-she-says-dems-cry-turncoat
Democrat campaign fundraiser Evan Barker
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/longtime-democratic-campaign-operative-quits-the-party-after-what-she-saw-at-the-dnc/ar-AA1qQzoY
Harris was a lousy candidate.
It's likely that a Democrat will do better in the next election (someone like Gavin Newsom).
Similarly, the traditional (i.e., non-woke, liturgical, non-happy-clappy) Anglican church I attend has received several young men and young couples over the past year.
We named our 2 Aussies after the little rascals girls. One Darla and the other Daisy. Not sure about Daisy being one during the series.
Darla was my first first love. Don’t tell anybody.
Fortunately for us, the left always confuses symptoms with causes.
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