Rob Flaherty
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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It's not that Trump took over the Internet.
It's that Trump defined the the contours of the conversation on the Internet.
The discussion was all on his turf and the mainstream discussion was all on his turf.
I think that we were dominating a pocket.
He was dominating a pocket and then sort of like everywhere else was reacting to him.
You know, what's funny is like there was a poll that came out.
I think I mentioned it in the piece, but polling came out just for the election that showed that more voters actually saw Kyle Harris on podcast clips than or on podcasts generally than Trump.
And
I don't know if I fully buy the poll, but like the theory that I have behind it is Trump was doing a frequency play at one audience and we were doing a low frequency play at a bunch of different audiences.
So we were trying to talk to young women with Alex Cooper and we were trying to talk with young black men with all the smoke and we were trying to talk, you know, yeah.
And those were persuasion audiences.
So audiences that like didn't necessarily, like we had to get back.
So we weren't we were in enemy territory.
It was not enemy territory, but they were it was not just like, oh, I love this guy or this gal.
And, you know, Trump was like doing a home turf game and he had built up this ecosystem over the course of a couple of years.
To me, it's true of fandoms.
It's true of political campaigns.
Like the thing you want is like a.
a core that sort of pulls people in or pushes messages out.
His was, he, he, he super focused on his and yeah, it was, it was, um, it's just true that like, again, where the questions were, uh,
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