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Episode Date: February 6, 2026

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But do you, I ask because, do you feel like you're part of a new establishment that's being created? I don't think I'm part of a new establishment. I think it would be pretty difficult to look at these podcasts. I know it's a popular thing right now, especially in certain media circles to say that after running an incredibly unpopular candidate who is introduced very late in the race because an elderly man who could not, be the president who everyone told whose functioned is the president for four years and decided to this wind is wild, huh? Yeah.

See? But this was a very specific circumstance in which Kamala Harris ran for the president. She was somewhat unpopular and she was not a star in Democrat. She wasn't somewhat unpopular. She had a 1% fucking approval rating in the Democratic primary

in 2020, bro. She was a flop. People didn't even like her then. politics before this at all. And her communication strategy was pretty weak. I think most people have admitted that. So to hang this defeat all on a few podcasts and to say that they were the problem, I just don't buy the narrative.

So I don't think I'm a new establishment. If you weigh, again, a few comedians with podcasts versus all of the people that supported Kamala Harris You know, Democrat donors, billionaires, big people, if the idea is that me and a few comedians have more power

than multi-billionaires, huge media institutions of whole political party apparatus, I just don't think most people are going to buy that. I think it seems like a great way to excuse running an unpopular candidate

on a platform that American people weren't sold. Hold on. Yeah, it does seem a little bit like that, right? Damn. I think even beyond politics, though, even beyond the question of the election. Like, again, I know that the, like, liberal Joe Rogan conversation is so dominant, and I think not like... The reason why there isn't a liberal Joe Rogan is because there is, it's called Joe Rogan, number one.

Number two, the reason why there isn't a super lefty, progressive left wing, Joe Rogan, is because you have five of them on now. network television. You've got Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, fucking Seth Myers, who there's the other two, I forgot even their fucking names. Who cares? You've got the view. And the reason why you don't have any of them that have mainstream internet appeal. Yeah, the reason why is because the opinions aren't popular. That's the reason why Joe Rogan is popular is because, you know, the reason why Joe Rogan is because what he's saying is popular. So you're not going to achieve the same level of Joe Rogan's popularity by saying things that don't have the same level as Joe Rogan's popularity.

It's so simple. Nuanced enough. But there is power in a massive audience. There's absolutely power in a massive audience. But if you're saying that that power is equal to the CIA or all of the, So these other people that have been very critical of President Trump, right? Yeah. So the idea that, like, the power that Theo Vaughn has would be equal to, like, the intelligence agencies

or these massive legacy media institutions seems crazy. But you got way more audience than, like, when you're saying, we don't have power, we're not the CIA. Well, you know, there's some gradations between that. And also, I'm sure there's like... There's some gradations between not what do you mean by? that. Well, just you used the word establishment. Yeah. I didn't say that we didn't have any power or that audiences weren't powerful. But when you use the term establishment, I think that that's more than just having an audience. That's having an institutional component that I don't think we have.

But I think legacy media does. I think the government and the intelligence community. Legacy media does for now. I think it will die out as time goes on. And I think that really you could see Comcast looking to sell, I think it was MSNBC, after the election, if you are a big company and you own a media apparatus and your media apparatus cannot generate the political outcomes that you want it to, why do you own the media apparatus? It's like if you have a microwave and you put a bag of popcorn in the microwave and then you pull out and there's no fucking popcorn, it's still just the fucking things in there, well what the fuck do you need a microwave for

it's broken it doesn't work you get a new microwave you got to sell maybe sell it somebody else throw it away get rid of it these do i think Hollywood certainly does and i think all of those people all of those power factions have worked together for very very very long time so to say that a few comedians with podcasts equal that seems crazy to me okay i understand that's the only thing i'm saying I think that there's a bit of truth in both of the arguments.

I think that it's outrageous to say that the institutional, oh, wait, no, it gets better. Uh-oh. You know, again, I can name you very successful, left-wing or left-of-center comics who are playing in theaters and arenas and have movies out. Yeah. And then I can name you some pot, which apparently now, there's five podcasters that dominate the whole world. this is a crazy thing but this is every article that's been written since the election

the fact is that part of that is true I think that mainstream media and the amount of people that are consuming CNN content is actually a lot smaller than you might imagine and I think that their audiences

are dwindling at a rapidly increasing rate like I think that basically if you were to chart their like trajectory it would probably be going like this and the reason why is that their prime demographic is dying.

That's straight up the reason why. What old people do? They die. So new people aren't coming in and replacing them. So where are their audience going? Nowhere. They're disappearing. And then you also even have boomers that are going to the internet anyway. And CNN's just an example. Look at MSNBC, Google Analytics.

Maybe I can after this. is that five guys now are the only people in comedy who make money or have audiences. It's the craziest narrative ever. And it came off the heels of running one of the most unpopular candidates with a platform that the American people largely rejected. They largely rejected this platform. And they rejected it in 2016. And then everybody got together and said, it's actually these five guys who had podcasts. They're the most powerful people in the world.

They're the new establishment. and they're the reason for this electoral defeat, not our unpopular policies and our candidates who ran on a platform of joy. Joy. And so anyway, it's a podcast control with everything. MSM is just that horrible. I think that a lot of people also don't realize how bad MSM is doing.