It may be hyperbole to claim that podcasts determined the winner of the 2024 election, but few observers who paid attention to how aggressively both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance used the medium deny it changed votes, particularly among young men, who overwhelmingly broke for Trump.

But for as much is said on the literally millions of hours of podcasts consumed by young men, very little of it is ever written down, and even less reported on. There is a whole world of ideas being discussed all around us that very few people have the time or the inclination to explore.