Pod Save America

Pod Save America
"A no-bullshit conversation about politics."
Presentation
Hosted by Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
Genre Political commentary, interview
Format Twice weekly (Tuesday and Friday)
Language English
Length 41–82 minutes
Production
Preceded by Keepin' it 1600
Publication
Original release January 2017 – present
Provider Crooked Media
Related shows Pod Save the People, Lovett or Leave It, With Friends Like These, Pod Save the World, Crooked Conversations, Majority 54, Keep It, Hysteria, The Wilderness
Website Pod Save America

Pod Save America is an American progressive political podcast produced and distributed by Crooked Media. The podcast debuted in January 2017 and airs twice weekly, with the Tuesday edition hosted by former Barack Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett, and the Thursday edition by Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer.[1][2][3][4]

It is the flagship podcast of Crooked Media, the progressive media company founded by Favreau, Vietor and Lovett.[5] The show averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode, and had been downloaded more than 120 million times by November 2017.[6]

Four Pod Save America one-hour HBO TV specials are planned to air in fall 2018 to cover the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.[7][8]

History

The podcast debuted in January 2017 as a successor to Keepin' it 1600, a political podcast produced by Bill Simmons' The Ringer and hosted by Favreau, Vietor, Lovett and Pfeiffer which ran from March to December 2016. Pod Save America maintained the basic format of its predecessor.[9]

In an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, the hosts have stated that, rather than continue the previous podcast, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States spurred them to create a new, progressive media company with a network of podcasts. Their goal is to inform, entertain, and inspire action or activism.[10]

Tour

Crooked Media took the podcast on its first live tour, Pod Tours America, in the fall of 2017. Live shows were recorded and released as podcasts.[11] An international tour, Pod Tours the World, was announced for 2018, with live shows in Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam and London.[12]

Content

The podcast typically covers recent news items relating to politics, including the Trump administration, the US government and the Democratic Party, as well as leftwing grassroots activism.[13]

The show typically features interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, including Obama's last interview as president.[14] Other guests have included Hillary Clinton[15] and senators Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Chris Murphy. Guests are often referred to as "friends of the pod".[16]

Favreau, Vietor, and guest Seth Meyers at a live taping at Radio City Music Hall

Reception

The show averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode, and had been downloaded more than 120 million times by November 2017.[6]

The New York Times described the podcast as "one of the big breakout hits of the nascent resistance movement",[2] and "the left’s answer to conservative talk radio... with a shoestring budget and no organizational backing, its hosts seem to have created something that liberals have spent almost two decades, and hundreds of millions of dollars, futilely searching for".[6]

The San Francisco Chronicle called it "one of the nation’s most popular podcasts".[17] GQ called it one of the "most popular strategies for coping with the looming death of the republic".[18]

Newsweek wrote that the show's hosts "do something far more rare [than political analysis], which is to make politics entertaining and even fun, without ever downplaying what they see as the threat posed to American democracy by the man elected to defend it."[19]

References

  1. ↑ Gillies, Craille Maguire (January 18, 2017). "Pod save America: 12 podcasts to get you through the Trump presidency". The Guardian.
  2. 1 2 Rutenberg, Jim (March 20, 2017). "Opposition and a Shave: Former Obama Aides Counter Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Willis, Jay (April 6, 2017). "The Pod Save America Guys Have Some Ideas About What President Obama Should Do Next". GQ. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ "CROOKED MEDIA FIGHTS TRUMP WITH "POD SAVE AMERICA"". Newsweek. March 26, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ Wilstein, Matt (January 9, 2017). "The 'Keepin' It 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 Zengerle, Jason. "The Voices in Blue America's Head". Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  7. ↑ "- HBO Announces Pod Save America Podcast Specials". HBO.
  8. ↑ "'Pod Save America' Getting HBO Treatment With Election Specials". hollywoodreporter.com.
  9. ↑ "'Keeping It 1600' Podcast's Obama Alums Launch New Show and 'Crooked Media' Company". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Live @ SXSW: Crooked Media and Kara Swisher". Crooked Media. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Pod Save America announces nationwide tour". Consequence of Sound. August 16, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It are coming to London in January, here's how to get tickets". The List. December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  13. ↑ Sawyer, Miranda (March 19, 2017). "The week in radio: Pod Save America; The Long View". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  14. ↑ Verdier, Hannah (January 26, 2017). "Pod Save America – the podcast that won Obama's last interview". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump 'is a clear and present danger to America'". The Independent. September 12, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Podcasts are becoming the left's right-wing talk radio". VICE News. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  17. ↑ "'Pod Save America' about to take its next step". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  18. ↑ Willis, Jay (April 6, 2017). "The 'Pod Save America' Guys Gave Donald Trump His Best, Weirdest Nickname Yet". GQ. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  19. ↑ "How the Crooked Media trio is taking on Donald Trump with "Pod Save America"". Newsweek. March 26, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
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