After months of sharply criticizing President Donald Trump’s actions, decisions and rhetoric, the left-leaning MeidasTouch Podcast overtook the Joe Rogan Experience for the first time last week, according to YouTube’s weekly ranking of top podcast shows.
While Rogan’s 20.1 million YouTube followers dwarf MeidasTouch’s 5.2 million, the podcasting giant’s show finished in second place. Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen and conservative-leaning Sean Ryan’s shows also made the top ten.
The MeidasTouch Podcast saw its rankings climb in July as Trump attempted to appease Congress, the media, and voters over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, with episodes zeroing in on the president’s past ties to and comments about the disgraced financier.
I don’t listen regularly at all, but I think that’s the entire point. He’s not well versed or brilliant, and he brings on people that are or have a great story to tell, and he is supposed to bring it out of them. That’s all it is, it’s a conversation.
One of my friends that listens regularly once told me that he likes the format, there’s a guy with a topic & it’s explored but they meander off into side conversations. It feels very natural & isn’t forced.