Thank you, ‘Pod Save America.’ Really.

‘Pod Save America’ showed how to do a political podcast well. Conservatives took notes.

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All honor to “Pod Save America!” What? A conservative columnist praising the left-wing podcast hosted by former aides to President Barack Obama? Yes, indeed. Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor — or just “the pod bros” — opened many eyes, and ears, to podcasting’s potential for significantly influencing U.S.

politics when it was launched in January 2017..