#MarkCuban is right. I have two college boys and they didn't care about this election. Last time they lived under #Trump was 4 years ago. That's nearly a quarter of their life. They prefer to watch the world in 10 second clips. This is how you reach them. - ThreadSky

njg123.bsky.social • 30 days ago

#MarkCuban is right. I have two college boys and they didn't care about this election. Last time they lived under #Trump was 4 years ago. That's nearly a quarter of their life. They prefer to watch the world in 10 second clips. This is how you reach them.

Reposted from Mark Cuban

This is the SEMINAL POLITICAL PODCAST of 2025. Podcasts like this are EXACTLY how young men will consume and understand politics.

Dem strategists should study every single second of it and recognize this is their new reality for reaching young men. Guaranteed.

youtu.be/W17FWAOC8oc?...

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d0u6.bsky.social•30 days ago

Don't care too much for this podcast in particular, but you're right. And we need more people with massive reach like @mcuban.bsky.social boosting small content creators like this. Unfortunately it might take white and hispanic dudes to resonate with the average MAGA-leaner

2undo.bsky.social•30 days ago

You are right on with this
Young people watch y tube and tic toc. Social media is their thing

britta6.bsky.social•30 days ago

I have a college age son and know other boys who support many dem issues including reproductive rights. Their view during this election was “bruh I’ll lose my man card if I vote dem” most of what they talked about surrounding the election was from podcasts, or Tick Tock. Mark is right.

kodak67.bsky.social•30 days ago

My young adult children voted. Where were you to guide them to the importance of voting?

greaterthanavg.bsky.social•30 days ago

They failed their parenting duties

david-dash.bsky.social•30 days ago

You guys fucking suck. This place is almost as toxic and the other place.

shawnmorgan.bsky.social•30 days ago

Everyone acts like they were watching PBS newshour with Jim Lehrer when they were 19 and not the X-Files.

ademsspeakslikegop.bsky.social•30 days ago

Actually, i was watching both

kevindbartlett.bsky.social•30 days ago

This might be true but if it is we are in trouble. Interactive media replacing just the written word I understand but there is no depth in 10 second clips. Ronny Chieng is right you have to do the reading there is a book behind the hashtag.

julie90.bsky.social•29 days ago

Came across this and thought it would be of interest: https://www.ft.com/content/9f2be125-ba1b-4062-ab2d-4b2977db20b0?fbclid=IwY2xjawIBx69leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHScpsAjqmY6h5Yl2cu8G4X4th0uPtDm0KMWTsp97jjqrgCM-M5pU_zDagA_aem_wpLzqU3rSaidsFkFOJDYPQ

luful.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes we need a podcaster that will engage our youth!
Their attention span is short so it has to grab them to keep them engaged

mitch-sharp-1013.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is a 2 hour long podcast???

njg123.bsky.social•29 days ago

If you listen to the first 30 minutes you'll understand.

mitch-sharp-1013.bsky.social•30 days ago

Sorry @mcuban.bsky.social There is no way I could last through 3 hours of listening to that guy talk.

richwag.bsky.social•30 days ago

How do they succeed in college if their attention span is ten second?

david-dash.bsky.social•30 days ago

Maybe we can let people share without being a dick to them about their kids.

njg123.bsky.social•30 days ago

David, both have a 3.9 or above and go to excellent universities.

greaterthanavg.bsky.social•30 days ago

3.9 GPA & privileged to “not care”

njg123.bsky.social•30 days ago

Not privileged. On full scholarship because if your grades are as high as theirs Georgia pays for your tuition. Also, I wouldn't say they don't care, it comes across their radar.

gabeburgess.bsky.social•30 days ago

Let me guess, white and male, on full ride scholarships is privileged, they aren't going to be the main targets of the Trump administration, they get to live in their bubble and not care, that is the definition of privileged.

amsanchezpm.bsky.social•29 days ago

They have a unique gift to filter out the BS. If something is interesting and engaging, the pay attention.

They can smell BS before it even leaves your mouth.

njg123.bsky.social•30 days ago

That's how they get their news, sports, entertainment, etc. And both have a 3.9 grade point average or above and they go to excellent universities.

jamesdsneed.bsky.social•30 days ago

It seems most kids consume media in short bursts. It's not that they can't focus on school they simply don't consume media like us that are older. They do not want things in long form and as such do not watch the news on TV for example.

hartsigns.bsky.social•30 days ago

they don't go to college

mejicana.bsky.social•23 days ago

Autism or nazi? both?

anniebonannietn.bsky.social•30 days ago

My son is in college and agrees that the left needs much better messaging for all voters, for his peers in particular. He's been VERY invested in this election, the nuances around it, and the consequences. His active interest is why it surprised me to find out many kids his age aren't as informed.

hartsigns.bsky.social•30 days ago

tell him to follow Walter Masterson

anniebonannietn.bsky.social•30 days ago

I don't know if he's following him yet, as he has never cared for social media, but I send him clips from Walter on a regular basis 😊

trixr4kix.bsky.social•30 days ago

I await the Dems getting it together but it has to happen or we are really screwed.

samdowney.bsky.social•30 days ago

It’s kind of pathetic. I notice these shows rarely have any girls or women.

ruddiger.bsky.social•30 days ago

The guff, it hurts.

whalebone7.bsky.social•30 days ago

Reach them with what? Toxic masculinity? Half baked analysis of topics non of the people reference history about? This guys will be the Oath Keepers wet dream. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oath-keepers-back-youth-bobby-kinch-1235237342/

mikeycr.bsky.social•30 days ago

🤡🤡🤡

mikematters.bsky.social•30 days ago

TUCK FRUMP PUCK FUTIN MUCK FUSK

mikelotus.bsky.social•28 days ago

Fortunately my kids somehow keep up on most of the issues while in college. Maybe it's because I threatened to beat them when they were younger? 😉😂

amsanchezpm.bsky.social•29 days ago

Good Trouble is another option.

https://bsky.app/profile/goodtrouble42069.bsky.social

amsanchezpm.bsky.social•29 days ago

I recommend Josh Johnson. Check him out. Smart, honest and funny.

https://www.joshjohnsoncomedy.com/

fishymcgee.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is a perfect example of why we are so fucked as a species 🤣

fishymcgee.bsky.social•30 days ago

And don't think I haven't listened to Flagrant . .

And I like Marc Cuban . .

usasunder.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes. Reach the kids in the way they relate, not the way you do.

pharmchik.bsky.social•30 days ago

Sad but true. My politically aware college son told me this before the election. The bro podcasts and video clips reign supreme.

cerrisa11.bsky.social•29 days ago

20 minutes in. I've already heard the main host excuse wyt folks using the 'N' word. These dudes are disrespectful as hell of women. They also seem to know nothing about history. As an Independent, I can agree with some of the criticisms of both R's & D's, but these guys are brain rot.

janetschn.bsky.social•30 days ago

Totally agree, not having strong and popular left wing, leaning platforms for communication was our biggest disadvantage in this election. This is something we have to fix, and fast!

tresblue.bsky.social•30 days ago

OK, so I listened to the full podcast. This is so similar to what it sounds like when my Sons are all together at dinner once a month. I agree Mark, so we need a Comedian & some of his friends…..

njg123.bsky.social•29 days ago

@tresblue.bsky.social That's funny what you said about the podcast sounding like all your sons together at dinner recently. It sounds exactly like my two sons talking to each other in what I call "bro-talk." Except my kids are much more sports related and not nearly as political.

tresblue.bsky.social•29 days ago

Middle Son; Video Gaming & Reddit

tresblue.bsky.social•29 days ago

Youngest Son Still in College. Social issues, Dogs & Politics

tresblue.bsky.social•29 days ago

All 3 are 6 years apart in age

tresblue.bsky.social•29 days ago

My oldest is our sportiest, he named my new yellow Lab “Kobe because ball is life!” The other 2 keep up and converse too. I love my guys!

tresblue.bsky.social•30 days ago

We can teach the info talking points, and they can interview others. Note Flagrant says he tries to stay in the middle. The Male version of the middle that is 🤣😂

tresblue.bsky.social•30 days ago

Young Male

trymasserson.bsky.social•24 days ago

Exactly this... and the Dems should consider popular streaming platforms like Twitch, etc. It's quick thinking, oh they're just a few young gamers, but the scary thing is you have quite narrow-minded gamers such as Zack Hawt ("Asmongold") who draws a crowd of 50 - 90K on Twitch daily...

trymasserson.bsky.social•24 days ago

...and the issue with this is when they provide commentary, it's not challenged. It's a solo narrative and sometimes responding to Twitch chat, but generally Twitch chat is full of memes and bullshit so the streamer can hardly pick out any meaningful stuff there.

trymasserson.bsky.social•24 days ago

But they offer unchallenged opinions that are then taken as truths by the audience, often playing back Youtube videos or showing articles selected by themselves to support their narrative. And this is a powerful platform to reach people, and dangerous when the truth is not conveyed...

icuk.bsky.social•30 days ago

Same with me. Joe Rogan and Tik Tok.

kcchiefscooper.bsky.social•30 days ago

i'm going to say there are autistic nazis. that's all i'll add

nmlnz.bsky.social•30 days ago

My high school senior daughter turned 18 before the election and she voted. Why? Because as a parent it’s my job to teach my kids what is important-not hope they can be reached through a ten second clip.

kosenrufu.bsky.social•30 days ago

Signed up for your meds and this was an incredible podcast.

bebsmckee.bsky.social•30 days ago

I have 21 yr old twin sons.They live about 1 hour from home (college), in two different directions. I always make them come home to early vote. Thankfully, they’re pretty informed. By us, their parents, mostly. Politics discussed with them since 2016. Although they get some info from the socials.

blueknight1999.bsky.social•30 days ago

...well, if they continue to vote for Trump and Republicans, global warming will destroy them. They will also kill themselves with anti-science policy.

douglasmontgomery.bsky.social•30 days ago

Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24.
Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29.
Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39.

michaelpdhyde.bsky.social•30 days ago

Who you kidding?🤣😂 The facts don't lie! #Scamala compared to #SleepyJoe failed to improve on the #DemocRAT vote!

renwavan.bsky.social•30 days ago

So true! My Son is soaking it up, and now he thinks I’m listening to propaganda. Most of my news sources are BBC, PBS, and actually watching live video of our congressional sessions 🤦‍♀️. Are there any podcasts that are more middle driven I could recommend for him to watch?

legalgeekjb.bsky.social•29 days ago

Here you go: @strangerfive.bsky.social

barbaramichels.bsky.social•30 days ago

Ugg

hdibo.bsky.social•30 days ago

This was really instructive. The sexist tone was off putting - but these guys are not uniformed and I have a way better understanding of why Dems are perceived a certain way. Good to get out of the echo chamber.

tande432.bsky.social•30 days ago

Mark, I just saw the video.. you have a lot of great ideas on healthcare, education and business ideas.. we need people like you.

gabeburgess.bsky.social•30 days ago

In all honesty, for generations the youth vote has always been the lowest turnout, it is not about reaching people that don't give a damn because they are the most privileged class to begin with. Most reliable voting demographic is 55 and older, it's about reaching and motivating those people

gabeburgess.bsky.social•30 days ago

we didn't lose because a bunch of 20 something white males who historically have low turnouts weren't voting for Harris, it's the 8 million that stayed home from the previous election.

leegross.bsky.social•30 days ago

We're screwed if this is how young men learn. I watched 15 min and my IQ dropped 15 points.

sallyo112.bsky.social•30 days ago

So many podcasts pushing Maga
Conspiracies and the reach has
Been incredible.
Hope Dems are paying attention.

imdumfounded.bsky.social•29 days ago

Then you raised 'em wrong.

mdizzle109.bsky.social•30 days ago

this is confusing you say 10 second clips then the video i click on is 2 hours?

finn426.bsky.social•30 days ago

Curious why you weren’t able to convince your own children to vote

greaterthanavg.bsky.social•30 days ago

This little thing called “privilege “

courtneykozic.bsky.social•30 days ago

Unless you’re a bot purposely tryin to cause chaos and division.. then I guess you’re doin your job

finn426.bsky.social•30 days ago

You have no posts, no profile pic and no followers. Who are you calling a bot?

courtneykozic.bsky.social•30 days ago

I get you’re mad about the state of the country but this kind of energy is not going to bring people together. This is the exact reason why many switched parties this election. Kindness, empathy and ideas for change will get people to join the movement, not this.

bansheeceilidh.bsky.social•30 days ago

All of my nephews and nieces voted because their parents taught them values and empowered them to express themselves- my niece, eldest of 4 girls, was quite the little social justice warrior when she was a young teen, two of my nephews are biracial and the other 2 have a physician mother who has 1/

bansheeceilidh.bsky.social•30 days ago

raised them to be kind, compassionate and tolerant despite having a lowlife cheat of a dad (who almost quit his job while campaigning for Chris Christie) What sort of role model are you with sons who don’t value their right to vote?

coystrades.bsky.social•30 days ago

God this is scary as hell. The lack of attention span for people these days in shocking.

cootalu.bsky.social•30 days ago

I have #ASD and grew up in Germany 🇩🇪 89-94 and having been on school trips to holocaust museums have never even remotely in the worst of the worst case stimming from overstimulating environments and feelings made a fucking xenophobic hand gestures. Utterly ridiculous that this is somehow excusable…

mikeilikemike.bsky.social•30 days ago

The larger problem is: such methods aren’t really conducive to in depth policy discussion or gray matter nuance. We aren’t going to solve our problems one ten second clip at a time. You’ll just end up with a liberalism that looks like conservatism does currently.

logemann.org•30 days ago

some more education about Musk. A bit longer than 10secs though.

https://youtu.be/NjWl_RNDMSA?si=ATovGjtgzMKXMgyk

jacquiscrawling.bsky.social•30 days ago

Absolutely 💯

ligernull.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is a 2 hour video though?

njg123.bsky.social•29 days ago

Just watch the first 30 minutes.

ligernull.bsky.social•29 days ago

I couldn't get past 1 minute. Those guys are annoying.

zenintx.bsky.social•30 days ago

He is WRONG! Look no further than the school shooting in TN yesterday. The young man said watching podcasts like this inspired him. He was black and began to adore Nazi’s. Look it up!!!

bchanson.bsky.social•30 days ago

I also have a college age son. He voted Harris. He cares about politics very much. We have discussions. Right now he is disgusted with our country.

raadvild.bsky.social•30 days ago

I don't understand any of this. It seems like the subject is changing all the time and there is no meaningful conversation. Is this nonsense or some kind of a joke?

judedaniele.bsky.social•30 days ago

You reach by teaching social justice, equality & fairness from day 1. Mine at age 6 at supermarket with my husband and asked "can we buy lettuce yet". That is because we were boycotting for farm workers and had explained it simply so they could understand. Both now registered Dems and am damn proud.

jackbwuzhere.bsky.social•30 days ago

@mcuban.bsky.social is 100% right. And Dems are 6 years behind in that space. At least.

That needs to expand to shorts on Twitch, Insta, and Facebook.

The DNC desperately needs good influencers.

macedoine.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes!! No one hates these toxic masculine podcasts more than me. But if we continue to pretend they don’t exist and do not provide alternative content, the % of men voting right will grow. Next election, the young Gen Zs will vote and they consume more Tate, Rogan etc than older counterparts.

saturn5.bsky.social•30 days ago

For some reason Democrats and liberals in general have not communicated their ideas or defended democracy and civil rights against what they looked down upon as nonsense that fight matter and now they don't matter.

jackbwuzhere.bsky.social•30 days ago

I'm sorry, the whole second half of that sentence isn't making sense to me. Could you rephrase maybe? I think your irritation attacked your grammar and I'm just not following.

irisisblooming.bsky.social•30 days ago

While on subject of podcasts, we need one devoted to exposing Trump, Musk, Zuck, Bezos and the lower downs like MTG. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. Endless choices for content. Could fill at least 4 years consistently.

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

The host is Robert Evans @iwriteok.bsky.social and I send people his videos regularly as palatable explainers of some of the worst people in history. Well researched, enough irreverent humor to make it all palatable, yet serious enough to be informative. Plenty of other gems in the back catalog.

irisisblooming.bsky.social•30 days ago

Awesome. Thank you.

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://youtu.be/I1jXyh6Y8-g

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://youtu.be/MLizYdfQT-Y

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://youtu.be/NlSDeNkcgcM

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://youtu.be/CWX7v1I9020

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://youtu.be/mfXbyQ9KFdg

jrtfmsmithson.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://youtu.be/C5RfURTK67M

blowndiodes.bsky.social•30 days ago

Precisely describes why I roll my eyes any time there's a bunch of hype around some new strongly worded opinion piece. It's echo chamber stuff. The folks you're attempting to lob reason and logic at give sub zero fucks about any of it.

erinrenno.bsky.social•30 days ago

I agree

chiburbs.bsky.social•30 days ago

Perhaps you've failed as a parent.

njg123.bsky.social•30 days ago

Oh please! What do you want me to do, walk them into a voting booth? BTW both have at least a 3.9 grade point average.

imdumfounded.bsky.social•29 days ago

Way too late for that. You failed to teach them any social values at all. Big whoop for their 3.9 gpa. Lots of assholes have good grades. They still suck.

chiburbs.bsky.social•30 days ago

I don't give a flying fuck about their GPA. If they don't have the ability to differentiate between right from wrong and vote against a treasonous, fascist, rapist, racist bigot, you failed because they are morally bankrupt.

saturn5.bsky.social•30 days ago

I think you have a good argument. Young people at college in the sixties seemed to be aware of what politics means.

rayramone.bsky.social•30 days ago

Well at least give them facts then

richinnj.bsky.social•30 days ago

Adapt or become irrelevant.

jonianderson.bsky.social•30 days ago

Podcasts are way too long. If bros want to hang out with their bros which is what this is, go play golf together or do something else you enjoy. If someone has this kind of time to get their news, they could subscribe to a newsletter.

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