Pod Save America

Pod Save America is a politics podcast published by Crooked Media. Its own feed describes it as “a no-b******t conversation about politics hosted by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor,” and states that it “cuts through the noise to break down the week’s news and helps people figure out what matters and how they can help.”

Format and Schedule

New episodes are released on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, in audio and on YouTube. The feed states that the hosts are “regularly joined by journalists, activists, politicians, entertainers, and world leaders.”

Business Model

Crooked Media sells a paid membership, Friends of the Pod, which the show’s feed describes as providing ad-free episodes of Pod Save America and Pod Save the World, exclusive content, and access to a Discord community. The show also publishes episode transcripts on request.

Sourcing Note

Several claims previously on this page are removed as unsourceable: a figure of “1.5+ million listeners per episode”; assertions that the podcast “mobilized progressive activism,” ran “sold-out live shows across the country,” and “played [a] significant role in 2018 and 2020 Democratic victories”; and an unattributed statement that the hosts drew “criticism about establishment connections and access journalism.” None named a source, and the last two are influence and criticism claims of the kind this project does not assert in its own voice.

The show’s first-episode date is not stated here. The publicly served feed is capped at 1,200 items and its oldest retained episode is dated 23 March 2017, which establishes only that the show was running by then.