Pod Save America

Pod Save America is an American progressive political podcast produced and distributed by Crooked Media.[1][2][3] The podcast debuted in January 2017 and airs twice weekly, with the Monday edition hosted by former Barack Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Jon Lovett, and the Thursday edition by Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer.[4][5][6][7]

Pod Save America
Presentation
Hosted by
GenrePolitical
LanguageEnglish
UpdatesTwice weekly
Publication
Original releaseJanuary 2017 (2017-01) – present
ProviderCadence13
Related showsPod Save the World
Websitecrooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-america/

It is the flagship podcast of Crooked Media, a media company founded by Favreau, Vietor, and Lovett.[8] The show averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode, and has been downloaded more than 120 million times as of November 2017.[9]

Four Pod Save America one-hour HBO TV specials aired in fall 2018 to cover the U.S. midterm elections.[10][11] Crooked Media also films the podcasts and releases them on their YouTube channel.[12]

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.[13]

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 progressive media company with a network of podcasts. Their goal is to inform their millions of fans and viewers that trust them as a reliable source.

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.[14] An international tour, Pod Tours the World, was announced for 2018, with live shows in Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, and London.[15]

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 progressive grassroots activism.[16]

The show typically features interviews with politicians, activists and journalists, including Obama's last interview as president.[17] Other guests have included president Joe Biden, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton[18] and senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Chris Murphy. They have interviewed several former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including Sanders, Booker, Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, Marianne Williamson, and Amy Klobuchar.[19] Guests are often referred to as "friends of the pod".[20]

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.[9]

The New York Times described the podcast as "one of the big breakout hits of the nascent resistance movement",[5] 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".[9]

The San Francisco Chronicle called it "one of the nation's most popular podcasts".[21] GQ called it one of the "most popular strategies for coping with the looming death of the republic".[22]

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."[23]

See also

References
  1. Stuart, Gwynedd (August 14, 2019). "Pod Save America Has Moved Political Discourse to the Left...Coast". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  2. "Obama-inspired 'Pod Save America' hosts can't wait to visit deep-red Utah". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  3. Politics, Ernest Luning, Colorado. "Tommy Vietor talks 'Pod Save America,' 2020 political landscape ahead of podcast's Denver show". Colorado Politics. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  4. Gillies, Craille Maguire (January 18, 2017). "Pod save America: 12 podcasts to get you through the Trump presidency". The Guardian.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. "Crooked Media Fights Trump with "Pod Save America"". Newsweek. March 26, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  8. Wilstein, Matt (January 9, 2017). "The 'Keepin' It 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  9. Zengerle, Jason. "The Voices in Blue America's Head". Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  10. "- HBO Announces Pod Save America Podcast Specials". HBO.
  11. "'Pod Save America' Getting HBO Treatment With Election Specials". hollywoodreporter.com.
  12. "Crooked Media". YouTube. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  13. "'Keeping It 1600' Podcast's Obama Alums Launch New Show and 'Crooked Media' Company". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  14. "Pod Save America announces nationwide tour". Consequence of Sound. August 16, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  15. "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.
  16. Sawyer, Miranda (March 19, 2017). "The week in radio: Pod Save America; The Long View". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  17. 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.
  18. "Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump 'is a clear and present danger to America'". The Independent. September 12, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  19. "Pod Save America Archives". Crooked Media. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  20. "Podcasts are becoming the left's right-wing talk radio". VICE News. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  21. "'Pod Save America' about to take its next step". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  22. Willis, Jay (April 6, 2017). "The 'Pod Save America' Guys Gave Donald Trump His Best, Weirdest Nickname Yet". GQ. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  23. "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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