Admin Post: The Pods

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Pod Save America (PodSaveAmerica)
Hosts: Jon Favreau (jonfavs), Jon Lovett (jonlovett), Tommy Vietor (TVietor08), Dan Pfeiffer (danpfeiffer)
Drops: Tuesdays (Favs, Lovett, Tommy), Thursdays (Favs, Pfeiffer)
Format: "A no-bullshit conversation about American politics." News recap since the last PSA, interviews with politicians, reporters, and analysts.


Pod Save the People (PodSaveThePpl)
Hosts: DeRay McKesson (deray)
Drops: Tuesdays
Format: Activism, social justice, culture, and politics. DeRay does a news recap with some combination of Brittany Packnett (MsPackyetti), Clint Smith III (ClintSmithIII), and Samuel Sinyangwe (samswey), and interviews a guest or two. DeRay is less focused on Trump's fuckery, and moreso building a sustainable activist culture that's in it for the long haul.


Crooked Conversations
Hosts: (Rotating)
Drops: Wednesdays
Format: One-time capsules hosted by various Crooked Media hosts & contributors, conversing with other guests about issues that deserve more attention than they're getting in Trump's America.


Keep It
Host: Ira Madison III (ira)
Drops: Wednesdays
Format: Ira Madison III, culture critic and columnist, is joined each week by Louis Vertel (louisvirtel) and Kara Brown (KaraRBrown) to discuss the intersection of pop culture and politics at a time when we're all obsessing over both.


Hysteria
Host: Erin Gloria Ryan (morninggloria)
Drops: Thursdays
Format: "Women: 51% of the population and 100% of this podcast." Rotating set of co-hosts: Alyssa Mastromonaco (AlyssaMastro44), Blair Imani (BlairImani), Grace Parra (GraceParra360), Kiran Deol (shitfromkiran), Megan Gailey (megangailey), and Ziwe Fumudoh (ziwe).


Pod Save the World
Hosts: Tommy Vietor (TVietor08), Ben Rhodes (BenRhodes) has recently become a co-host
Drops: Wednesdays or Fridays [or whenever Tommy feels like it]
Format: "A no-bullshit conversation about foreign policy." Tommy interviews diplomats, politicians, and security officials he knows from when he was Obama's National Security Council Spokesperson


With Friends Like These (crooked_friends)
Hosts: Ana Marie Cox (anamariecox)
Drops: Fridays
Format: "Ana Marie Cox, political columnist and culture critic, sits down with liberals and conservatives, pastors, writers, activists, and other people you should know for an open, funny, in-depth conversation about what divides us and what doesn't - a show about listening instead of arguing."


Lovett or Leave It
Hosts: Jon Lovett (jonlovett)
Drops: Saturdays
Format: Recorded in front of a live audience on Friday nights. Ever-changing panel of comedians & other public figures. Recap of the week's news. Spin of the rant wheel.

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Announced But Not Aired:
18 x 18
Host: Yara Shahidi (YaraShahidi)
Drops: ?!
Format: "Interviewing other young, female game-changers, who hail from the worlds of entertainment, activism and politics," per The Hollywood Reporter

On Hiatus:
Majority 54 (Majority54)
Host: Jason Kander (JasonKander)
Drops: Fridays
Format: Focus on political issues through the viewpoint of one normal person per episode. Jason Kander is an army veteran from Kansas City, Missouri and the first millennial elected to statewide office in the United States. He’s traveling the country to help the 54% of us who didn’t vote for Donald Trump talk to those of us who did about the most divisive issues in our country.

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The Wilderness
Host: Jon Favreau (jonfavs)
Drops: Mondays
Format: Special documentary-style series about the history and future of the Democratic Party. Jon's "interviewed dozens of the party’s critics and defenders, organizers and strategists, historians, data nerds, policy wonks, and politicians." Read about it in his own words here.
[Originally billed as a one-season documentary podcast, a handful of hints have been dropped about a potential second season. For now, it's treated as "over."]