John Shahidi, who manages popular podcasters like Theo Von and the Nelk Boys, is the driving force behind Donald Trump considering adding a modern twist to the White House Press Briefing room ... and he's telling us how this media landscape-altering idea came about.
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00:00We saw how it impacted the election, so people are listening.
00:06The question, how would it work?
00:08I mean, how would, say, a Theobond, who's a comedian, how you even came up with this
00:12and when, like, your conversation with Don, and just the germ of this.
00:17Well, I brought it up to a few people at the administration, and I just think it's the
00:21best way to deliver news to the audience that, you know, to the younger audience.
00:27Obviously, you know, mainstream media has its own audience and the older crowd.
00:31But, you know, when he did this podcast run with Mel Poise, Theobond, even the live streamers
00:37Aidan Ross, Patrick Bette David, you know, I mean, he tapped into a whole different audience
00:43that doesn't necessarily watch NBC or ABC or CNN.
00:46What I'm wondering is the reaction you're going to get from traditional media.
00:53They're going to feel so threatened by this because the audiences for these podcasters
00:59are so much bigger than them that they're going to have more of an impact.
01:03And I think it's just going to change everything if it happens.
01:07Harvey, we've known each other a while, so I've got to ask you, who gives a s**t what
01:11they think, right?
01:14Who cares what they think, you know what I mean?
01:17Are these podcasters going to go in there and, yes, you know, you want to get the message
01:23out to their audience, but are they also going to be willing to challenge the administration
01:27when something just doesn't seem right, when something isn't adding up, or are they just
01:33going to be there as cheerleaders?
01:35Because, you know, the press has a very serious role, plays a very serious role in our society
01:42constitutionally.
01:43I think there have been a few guys that have kind of pressed him.
01:47I do think there are going to be things.
01:48Now, there's not going to be gotcha moments.
01:50We don't do that.
01:51We wouldn't do that with anybody.
01:53In our podcast, if we were to interview someone on the other side, you know, Theo had Mark
01:56Cuban on his podcast, and, you know, there were no gotcha moments.
02:01I think the mainstream media, the ABCs and CNNs, they love the gotcha moments because
02:06they love to make them look bad because they think that's what their audience wants.
02:09There wouldn't ever be a gotcha moment.
02:10But I do think if there's some pressing stuff and there's some questions that our audiences
02:13want to hear, they're going to ask.