From “Inside the Hive”: Behind Donald Trump's “Bro Podcast” Binge

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Political Scene brings you a recent episode of Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive,” hosted by the special correspondent Brian Stelter. The Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis and the Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carman join Stelter to discuss the Trump campaign's strategy of courting so-called podcast bros, including the comedian Theo Von and the Twitch streamer Adin Ross. Both have provided Trump with some of the most viral moments of the 2024 campaign, and helped him reach a young, male audience whose support he may need in order to win in November. The strategy carries risks, however, as we’ve seen in the case of Trump’s running mate, J. D. Vance, whose past media appearances have come back to haunt him. “They do kind of lure people into this . . . confessional, chatty mode,” Lewis says of the bro podcasts. “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.”

This episode originally aired on September 12th.

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0:41.0	Hey political scene listeners, it's Tyler.
0:47.0	As you, the listeners of a political podcast, no.
0:50.0	Podcasts are hardly a new medium in the political landscape.
0:54.0	But some of the most viral moments of the 2024 election
0:57.0	have come from spaces that might have seemed unlikely or out of the box
1:00.0	just a few years ago.
1:02.0	From comedians like Theo Vaughn to twitch
1:04.3	streamers like Aidan Ross. How is it that these so-called podcast
1:08.8	bros have come to play such a crucial role in this election.
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