Ken Paxton's hot mic and a CNN run-in: Adam Mockler joins Joanna Coles

The Daily Beast Podcast episode passed 100,000 views in about a day, close to twenty times a usual first day for the channel, while a Putin video posted the same day drew a crowd of its own.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 128,893 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (6,530).

Why MAGA Candidate Dropped the Dime on Trump | The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast Podcast's newest episode went past 100,000 views in about a day, and the comment section is mostly about the guest. Adam Mockler, the young progressive commentator with a large political audience of his own, sat down with Joanna Coles, the former Cosmopolitan editor who now hosts the channel's podcasts. The first day came in close to twenty times what a regular video here usually draws.

The title borrows old slang: to drop the dime is to tip someone off. Here it points at Ken Paxton, who, the description says, blamed Trump for wrecking his Senate campaign, and the episode opens on what the chapters call his hot mic blunder. From there the pair move to the Jack Smith hearing and whether Smith came out ahead, Trump telling tech leaders to stop calling it AI, and why the "defund the police" slogan cost Democrats. The last stretch is Mockler's own story: what happened before and after his on-air argument with Scott Jennings on CNN.

In the comments, viewers who follow both hosts call it a crossover, and many ask for Mockler to come back as a regular. Jack Smith's turn at the hearing gets its share of the talk too.

It was not the channel's only strong start. A video posted the same day, in which Hugh Dougherty and Allison Quinn unpack a leak about Vladimir Putin's family, ran nearly as far ahead of the usual pace. A short teaser announcing the Mockler conversation went up as well. For Coles, who usually shares the microphone with Michael Wolff on Inside Trump's Head, this was a younger voice at the table.

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The numbers

The episode's first day ran far beyond a usual start for The Daily Beast's regular videos, though the channel's overall daily views stayed below their usual level.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,530

this video

128,893

subscribers

731,000

total views

254,786,560

views per day

353,953

typical day: 476,552

the video

views

146,494

likes

5,032

comments

754

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Face the Nation

821,000

The Daily Beast

731,000

TMZ Clips

697,000

Washington Post Universe

683,000

SBS News

651,000

WSJ News

645,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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