This is a big one.
I got Julie Mason on the 24sight Pod. It is exactly as wild and excellent as you’d expect from one of the grandmasters of the craft. In case you’re not a battle-hardened “pooligan” of the highest order, Julie hosts The Julie Mason show weekdays, 3p-6p ET on SiriusXM POTUS (Channel 124.)
If you’re driving down the ocean, or heading on a vacation, highly recommend this listen, it’s about 75 minutes. It is a political reporter symphony of destruction (and enlightenment.) We’ve got Hulk Hogan, Henry Rollins and Pam Greer nods, jazz and Minor Threat, pantsuits and sharp suits and things that should never be done on LinkedIn.
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Ok, now, show notes:
Hulkamania
- Trump doesn’t like being challenged by Black women
- Trump didn’t get the message that Rs are not attacking Harris on “DEI”
- Maybe the assassination attempt is helping Trump politically in ways we can’t see — it gold-plated his image with his followers, he is martyred and he is risen
- On Ivan Raiklin and is it a status thing to be on his hitlist
- Brick Suit guy at the CNN Grill
- There’s now a hitch in the Trump giddyup. Will Trump now listen to his highly professional campaign staff … or fire them?
- Rs were high on their own supply a few weeks ago, is it the Dems now in that position?
Too online
- The rise of “Blue MAGA” online Dems lashing out at press
- Tom’s dial-tested “focus groups”
- It’s important to remember how few Americans are on social media … America watches the evening news, not Twitter
- The primal rage economy of the right just doesn’t hit the “erogenous zone” of the left like a “sober discussion on social security”
What’s happened to us?
- “We’re talking about jazz, in a favorable way. Our younger selves would come back and kill, kill us dead”
- Julie Mason is the last punk, on SiriusXM
- Henry Rollins is a fan of Julie’s, he’s on the show all the time. And Julie grew up a fan of his … and he is exactly as cool as you hoped
- On the new right’s return of kings, and Julie’s Irish-American reflexive loathing of monarchs
- How Julie ended up on the radio … a wild Tim Farley anecdote … After 45 minutes of “tapdancing” on air, “I felt like I’d given birth to a watermelon”
- What was Trump doing with his NABJ appearance? Trying to drive a wedge between Harris and Black supporters. “I think this was his gut level idea for trying to drive a wedge in there.”
- What happened to RFK Jr? (His numbers, not the brainworm)
Harris winning in the style department
- Kamala as Pam Greer in Jackie Brown — with the perfect suit after the flight attendant. “They’re sharp, they’re stylish, they’re professional”
- Where the rubber hits the road: Will Harris do interviews and press conferences? “We haven’t seen her off the cuff”
- Harris used to have staff problems, but has inherited the Biden operation — is that Biden team more loyal to him than to her?
- What should be Harris’s media strategy? Can they win back Sulzberger?
Kamala Harris Veepstakes Lightning Round
- Julie’s on the Shapiro train — and questions raised by The Daily Beast article on staffer sexual harassment allegations
- Tim Walz? Too lefty
- Never bought the Buttigieg play
- Too thirsty? Wes Moore has reached this point of self-awareness … are we at the point of Peak Moore, akin to Ramaswamy rapping Eminem at the Iowa State Fair?
- Where’s Deval Patrick? He’s a beekeper
- Double down with Whitmer? “America’s not ready for the estrogen bath”
Where can we find Julie?
- At Bluesky - at Juliemason,bsky.social, it’s a chatroom with her listeners
- But not Twitter, with the Nazis and the abuse.
- Do you social on LinkedIn?
- Julie got propositioned on LinkedIn. “That’s not what this is for! What are you doing?? No!”
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