Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It will be going on a national tour starting this spring, stopping at cities and states that the hosts believe will play a big role in the 2024 presidential election.
The tour of the two podcasts, from Crooked Media, will see the hosts and former Obama administration officials Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer visit cities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and more. The tours will also make stops around the Republican National Convention, the Democratic National Convention and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“We’re excited to hit the road again in 2024. We love getting to see friends of the pod at our live shows, plus you never know which presidential election will be America’s last,” said Favreau, Lovett and Vietor.
The “Pod Save America: The Democracy or Else Tour 2024” will feature the hosts dissecting the political news of...
The tour of the two podcasts, from Crooked Media, will see the hosts and former Obama administration officials Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer visit cities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and more. The tours will also make stops around the Republican National Convention, the Democratic National Convention and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“We’re excited to hit the road again in 2024. We love getting to see friends of the pod at our live shows, plus you never know which presidential election will be America’s last,” said Favreau, Lovett and Vietor.
The “Pod Save America: The Democracy or Else Tour 2024” will feature the hosts dissecting the political news of...
- 3/11/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Updated with latest attendees, livestream link: President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, will attend Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, underscoring how one of the biggest social nights of the year for Beltway media and politicos has lasted despite predictions of its demise.
The sold-out event at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night also is expected to draw celebrities and other notables, with attendees scheduled to include John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, as well as the Tennessee state lawmakers who were ousted, then reinstated, for their protest over gun violence. Roy Wood Jr., correspondent for The Daily Show, will headline the event. He will follow Biden’s stand-up material — and given the media events of the week, there will be plenty of material.
C-span will present live coverage of the event as well as the red carpet,...
The sold-out event at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night also is expected to draw celebrities and other notables, with attendees scheduled to include John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, as well as the Tennessee state lawmakers who were ousted, then reinstated, for their protest over gun violence. Roy Wood Jr., correspondent for The Daily Show, will headline the event. He will follow Biden’s stand-up material — and given the media events of the week, there will be plenty of material.
C-span will present live coverage of the event as well as the red carpet,...
- 4/29/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The hosts of Pod Save America had planned to use their Jan. 7 show to talk about the Senate wins that the Democratic Party had just pulled off in the Georgia runoff election. Instead, when host Jon Favreau turned on his mic, it was to tell his listeners that “we have been robbed of the joy from those victories by a mob of violent extremists who were encouraged to stage an insurrection against the United States government by the man who was supposed to be leading it.” Dan Pfeiffer, his co-host that day, described the Capitol Hill riot as ...
- 1/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The hosts of Pod Save America had planned to use their Jan. 7 show to talk about the Senate wins that the Democratic Party had just pulled off in the Georgia runoff election. Instead, when host Jon Favreau turned on his mic, it was to tell his listeners that “we have been robbed of the joy from those victories by a mob of violent extremists who were encouraged to stage an insurrection against the United States government by the man who was supposed to be leading it.” Dan Pfeiffer, his co-host that day, described the Capitol Hill riot as ...
- 1/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Since leaving office, former President Barack Obama has made a habit of putting out his reviews on culture and as part of a list shared to Twitter of his favorite films of 2019, Obama named Watchmen as one of three series he considers to be “as powerful as movies,” with the other two being Fleabag and Unbelievable.
Obama’s praise for the Damon Lindelof-produced HBO show furthers the acclaim it’s received this year for adapting and moving forward Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1980s graphic novel to the present And while we don’t get a more detailed review from the former President, it’s fair to say that the series had to have made a major impression on him to be considered within a movie list for the year.
The show has so far garnered widespread praise for its mixture of dynamic storytelling, powerful lead performances and storylines...
Obama’s praise for the Damon Lindelof-produced HBO show furthers the acclaim it’s received this year for adapting and moving forward Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1980s graphic novel to the present And while we don’t get a more detailed review from the former President, it’s fair to say that the series had to have made a major impression on him to be considered within a movie list for the year.
The show has so far garnered widespread praise for its mixture of dynamic storytelling, powerful lead performances and storylines...
- 12/30/2019
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
As part of my job, I occasionally appear on television and radio to talk about politics. Inherent in that invitation is the same presumption that I will not consciously lie to the audience. These shows and networks hold tell their audience that they will report and analyze the news responsibly and accurately. They often break that trust, giving climate deniers and the like free rein in the pundit octagon, all out of some misguided desire for ideological balance.
They are about to do so again tonight.
It is lunacy that ABC,...
They are about to do so again tonight.
It is lunacy that ABC,...
- 1/8/2019
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Barack Obama endorsed more than 250 candidates during the 2018 midterm elections, including 11 in the state of Texas. Beto O’Rourke was not one of them. “I don’t think we’re interested,” O’Rourke said when asked back in October about being left off the ex-president’s list.
O’Rourke was, at the time, in the midst of making an equal-opportunity pitch to Republicans, Independents and Democrats, and it’s possible that he made a calculation that Willie Nelson’s endorsement would be a lot more valuable in convincing the conservative...
O’Rourke was, at the time, in the midst of making an equal-opportunity pitch to Republicans, Independents and Democrats, and it’s possible that he made a calculation that Willie Nelson’s endorsement would be a lot more valuable in convincing the conservative...
- 12/5/2018
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
The leaves are changing colors, baseball playoffs are finally upon us, and through it all, the endless roster of new television shows continues to blow through October like a strong fall gust. As the TV world recovers from the post-Emmys haze, there are plenty of new series vying for audience attention across broadcast, cable, and streaming.
With the year-end holidays peeking out over the horizon, a number of new premieres join the fall ranks in genres as wide-ranging as family comedy, anthology horror, animated sci-fi, and surprise tattoo reality shows. Take a look at a dozen potential additions to your watch queue below.
(We do this roundup of new shows pretty much every month — if you missed any of those previous picks, here are some notable TV premieres from February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and our giant fall preview.)
“I Feel Bad”
Sarayu Blue stars in this new comedy about balancing job,...
With the year-end holidays peeking out over the horizon, a number of new premieres join the fall ranks in genres as wide-ranging as family comedy, anthology horror, animated sci-fi, and surprise tattoo reality shows. Take a look at a dozen potential additions to your watch queue below.
(We do this roundup of new shows pretty much every month — if you missed any of those previous picks, here are some notable TV premieres from February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and our giant fall preview.)
“I Feel Bad”
Sarayu Blue stars in this new comedy about balancing job,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix announces the premiere date and releases a teaser for “Daredevil’s” third season.
Dates
Netflix announced the third season of “Daredevil” will launch Oct. 19. The series, based on the comic characters created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, stars Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Joanne Whalley, Wilson Bethel and Jay Ali. Erik Oleson serves as showrunner. The streamer also released a teaser for the new season, which you can watch below.
Own announced season premiere dates for several unscripted series. “Ready to Love,” hosted by Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles of “The Steve Harvey Morning Show,” will have a two-night premiere beginning Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 10 p.m. and continuing Saturday, Oct. 27 at 10 p.m., while “Chad Loves Michelle,” which chronicles the road from engagement to marriage for former Destiny Child’s member Michelle Williams and Pastor Chad Johnson, premieres Saturday,...
Dates
Netflix announced the third season of “Daredevil” will launch Oct. 19. The series, based on the comic characters created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, stars Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Joanne Whalley, Wilson Bethel and Jay Ali. Erik Oleson serves as showrunner. The streamer also released a teaser for the new season, which you can watch below.
Own announced season premiere dates for several unscripted series. “Ready to Love,” hosted by Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles of “The Steve Harvey Morning Show,” will have a two-night premiere beginning Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 10 p.m. and continuing Saturday, Oct. 27 at 10 p.m., while “Chad Loves Michelle,” which chronicles the road from engagement to marriage for former Destiny Child’s member Michelle Williams and Pastor Chad Johnson, premieres Saturday,...
- 9/20/2018
- by Margeaux Sippell
- Variety Film + TV
Alan Tudyk has crash-landed at Syfy: The Firefly vet will star in the network’s pilot Resident Alien, based on the Dark Horse comics of the same name, our sister site Variety reports.
Tudyk will play an extraterrestrial who crashes down in a small Colorado town, where he takes over the body of the reclusive Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle after the doc’s murder.
The in-demand Tudyk — whose TV credits include The Tick, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Powerless and Suburgatory — was also recently cast as the villainous Mr. Nobody in DC Universe’s upcoming series Doom Patrol.
Ready for...
Tudyk will play an extraterrestrial who crashes down in a small Colorado town, where he takes over the body of the reclusive Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle after the doc’s murder.
The in-demand Tudyk — whose TV credits include The Tick, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Powerless and Suburgatory — was also recently cast as the villainous Mr. Nobody in DC Universe’s upcoming series Doom Patrol.
Ready for...
- 9/20/2018
- TVLine.com
Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial Who is America? is performing a valuable service in that it’s exposing how “shameless” are those members of the Gop who will “literally do anything,” the hosts and creators of Pod Save America told TV critics at TCA.
The four Dems on the HBO TCA panel said their party need not clutch its pearls over Cohen, insisting his very divisive Showtime series is not going to hurt Claire McCaskill’s chances in Missouri.
The most depressing thing about what Cohen does “is that he’s not that manipulative… He does not have to push them too hard,” Jon Lovett said.
(Late Tuesday, it was announced that Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer, who mooned the camera and yelled racist slurs on Cohen’s program, will resign from the legislature.)
Lovett got asked the inevitable question about his short-lived NBC sitcom 1600 Penn about a zany...
The four Dems on the HBO TCA panel said their party need not clutch its pearls over Cohen, insisting his very divisive Showtime series is not going to hurt Claire McCaskill’s chances in Missouri.
The most depressing thing about what Cohen does “is that he’s not that manipulative… He does not have to push them too hard,” Jon Lovett said.
(Late Tuesday, it was announced that Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer, who mooned the camera and yelled racist slurs on Cohen’s program, will resign from the legislature.)
Lovett got asked the inevitable question about his short-lived NBC sitcom 1600 Penn about a zany...
- 7/25/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
UTA is teaming with podcast and media company Cadence13 to launch Ramble, a podcast network that will feature digital stars including Rhett and Link, Hannah Hart and Flula Borg. The new network will feature a team of producers that will work alongside talent to create audio-focused content, with the plan to extend their brands beyond podcasting to social media, events and merchandise.
The Hollywood agency already has a dedicated podcast division repping networks including Wondery, Gannett, Tenderfoot and HowStuffWorks, and creators including Ira Glass, Sarah Koenig, Marc Smerling, Chris Hardwick, Aaron Mahnke, Anna Faris, Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark, Jake Brennan and Guy Raz. It also has expanded the scope of some podcast IP — 2 Dope Queens, My Favorite Murder, Lore and Comedy Bang Bang among them — into TV, touring and endorsements. The division also brokered Amy Schumer’s comedy podcast deal with Spotify.
“As we evaluated the podcast business landscape, we...
The Hollywood agency already has a dedicated podcast division repping networks including Wondery, Gannett, Tenderfoot and HowStuffWorks, and creators including Ira Glass, Sarah Koenig, Marc Smerling, Chris Hardwick, Aaron Mahnke, Anna Faris, Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark, Jake Brennan and Guy Raz. It also has expanded the scope of some podcast IP — 2 Dope Queens, My Favorite Murder, Lore and Comedy Bang Bang among them — into TV, touring and endorsements. The division also brokered Amy Schumer’s comedy podcast deal with Spotify.
“As we evaluated the podcast business landscape, we...
- 6/20/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Refresh for updates… Roseanne Barr’s noxious, racist tweet likening former Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to a Planet of the Apes character has drawn quick condemnation from Hollywood, including from her ex-husband Tom Arnold, while former Fox News host Eric Bolling tweeted — then deleted — that the Roseanne star owed no apology.
Arnold, replying to a post by CNN’s Brian Stelter, called Barr’s tweets “dangerous” (see all tweets below), while MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted: “There is no apology she can make that justifies @ABC turning a blind eye to this bigotry by airing another second of her show. Even in the Age of Trump, there are red lines that can never be crossed. This is one.”
Tweeted Don Cheadle, “You can take @RoseanneOnABC out of racism, but you can’t take the racism out of @therealroseanne …”
“No apology necessary at all @therealroseanne. And please don’t leave.
Arnold, replying to a post by CNN’s Brian Stelter, called Barr’s tweets “dangerous” (see all tweets below), while MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted: “There is no apology she can make that justifies @ABC turning a blind eye to this bigotry by airing another second of her show. Even in the Age of Trump, there are red lines that can never be crossed. This is one.”
Tweeted Don Cheadle, “You can take @RoseanneOnABC out of racism, but you can’t take the racism out of @therealroseanne …”
“No apology necessary at all @therealroseanne. And please don’t leave.
- 5/29/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Good news, friends of the pod: Your twice-weekly audio update on the state of the union is coming to TV. HBO has announced that it’s producing a series of hour-long specials alongside the political podcast hosted by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor. The four former aides to President Obama launched the podcast last year, just as Donald Trump took office.
“At a time when politics affect the lives of Americans more than ever before, ‘Pod Save America’ has brought fresh and thoughtful voices to the discussion,” said HBO head of programming Casey Bloys. “We’re excited to share the irreverent and entertaining insights of these savvy observers with the HBO audience.”
“The best part of ‘Pod Save America’ is taking the show on the road and meeting activists, candidates and people who are getting involved in politics for the first time,” said Favreau, Lovett, and Vietor.
“At a time when politics affect the lives of Americans more than ever before, ‘Pod Save America’ has brought fresh and thoughtful voices to the discussion,” said HBO head of programming Casey Bloys. “We’re excited to share the irreverent and entertaining insights of these savvy observers with the HBO audience.”
“The best part of ‘Pod Save America’ is taking the show on the road and meeting activists, candidates and people who are getting involved in politics for the first time,” said Favreau, Lovett, and Vietor.
- 2/8/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
HBO is getting political: They’re bringing the popular podcast Pod Save America to TV in a series of hour-long specials this fall, the network announced Thursday.
Pod Save America is a twice-weekly political podcast hosted by four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor — where they discuss elections, the media and the Trump administration with a series of guests. (It’s tallied more than 175 million downloads in just over a year.) The HBO specials will be taped live from the campaign trail as the hosts cover the 2018 midterms — which the hosts call...
Pod Save America is a twice-weekly political podcast hosted by four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor — where they discuss elections, the media and the Trump administration with a series of guests. (It’s tallied more than 175 million downloads in just over a year.) The HBO specials will be taped live from the campaign trail as the hosts cover the 2018 midterms — which the hosts call...
- 2/8/2018
- TVLine.com
Two former Obama staffers are defending White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson amid conspiracy theories that he gave false information about Donald Trump’s weight after the president’s routine physical exam last week.
Jackson was appointed to his role by former President Barack Obama in 2013.
Alyssa Mastromonaco, who served as Obama’s former deputy chief of staff for operations, and Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to Obama, described the White House doctor in tweets as a “saint and a patriot” who “took great care of all of us for many years.”
Their messages come as some Twitter users...
Jackson was appointed to his role by former President Barack Obama in 2013.
Alyssa Mastromonaco, who served as Obama’s former deputy chief of staff for operations, and Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to Obama, described the White House doctor in tweets as a “saint and a patriot” who “took great care of all of us for many years.”
Their messages come as some Twitter users...
- 1/17/2018
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Despite being named Time’s Person of the Year in 2016, President Donald Trump is taking himself out of the running for 2017 and everyone is talking about it.
The 71-year-old Commander in Chief tweeted that the magazine had “called to say that I was Probably going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot.”
Trump continued, writing, “I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”
The publication later responded to his tweet making it clear that Trump was mistaken, “The...
The 71-year-old Commander in Chief tweeted that the magazine had “called to say that I was Probably going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot.”
Trump continued, writing, “I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”
The publication later responded to his tweet making it clear that Trump was mistaken, “The...
- 11/25/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
In his first television interview since leaving the White House, President Donald Trump‘s former chief strategist Steve Bannon appeared on Sunday’s 60 Minutes, where he asserted that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “not very bright.”
“Everybody says she’s so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump,” Bannon said of Trump’s 2016 presidential rival. “She doesn’t really have a grasp. She doesn’t have a grasp on what’s important and what’s not. And that’s what’s essential in a leader.”
“Donald Trump has a grasp on what’s important and what’s marginalia,...
“Everybody says she’s so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump,” Bannon said of Trump’s 2016 presidential rival. “She doesn’t really have a grasp. She doesn’t have a grasp on what’s important and what’s not. And that’s what’s essential in a leader.”
“Donald Trump has a grasp on what’s important and what’s marginalia,...
- 9/11/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Steve Bannon once got top billing within Donald Trump‘s administration and served at the embattled president’s side during the early days of his leadership. Now, Bannon is saying goodbye to the White House.
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed in a statement on Friday. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”
The news came as a shock to some considering the former Breitbart News executive chairman had served as the White House Chief Strategist and Trump’s senior counselor.
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed in a statement on Friday. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”
The news came as a shock to some considering the former Breitbart News executive chairman had served as the White House Chief Strategist and Trump’s senior counselor.
- 8/18/2017
- by Stephanie Petit and Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
John Oliver calls it “Stupid Watergate.” Dan Pfeiffer refers to it as “the plot of ‘House of Cards’ with the characters from ‘Veep.'” And now Stephen Colbert is comparing Donald Trump and his family’s endless controversies to “Ocean’s Eleven,” namely the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and at least seven other people held last year that was totally about adoptions.
Read MoreStephen Colbert May Be Joking on Russian TV That He’s Running for President, But He Should Seriously Consider It
Speaking about Ike Kaveladze, the most recent person confirmed to have been present at the eight-person meeting, Colbert says he adds intrigue to what’s been described as “a varied cast of characters.” Then it dawns on him: “I just realized what this meeting is — it’s a heist movie. They’ve got the whole ragtag team! There’s the money launderer, the fixer, the master of disguise,...
Read MoreStephen Colbert May Be Joking on Russian TV That He’s Running for President, But He Should Seriously Consider It
Speaking about Ike Kaveladze, the most recent person confirmed to have been present at the eight-person meeting, Colbert says he adds intrigue to what’s been described as “a varied cast of characters.” Then it dawns on him: “I just realized what this meeting is — it’s a heist movie. They’ve got the whole ragtag team! There’s the money launderer, the fixer, the master of disguise,...
- 7/22/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Can President Trump handle the truth? Can Twitter handle President Trump’s new interview about the truth?
In its latest issue, Time published an interview with Trump with a cover that reads “Is Truth Dead?” In the story, Trump talks about his own statements that have made headlines, his ability to sell magazines, wiretapping allegations, and more.
And Twitter had a lot to say about it. Most of it wasn’t positive.
@costareports @Fahrenthold @michaelscherer The interview was like the ramblings of a bar drunk at 3 am in the morning.,
— SoCalledPresident (@POTUSTrump11) March 23, 2017
@danpfeiffer @michaelscherer Truly the most unhinged "interview" I have ever read.
In its latest issue, Time published an interview with Trump with a cover that reads “Is Truth Dead?” In the story, Trump talks about his own statements that have made headlines, his ability to sell magazines, wiretapping allegations, and more.
And Twitter had a lot to say about it. Most of it wasn’t positive.
@costareports @Fahrenthold @michaelscherer The interview was like the ramblings of a bar drunk at 3 am in the morning.,
— SoCalledPresident (@POTUSTrump11) March 23, 2017
@danpfeiffer @michaelscherer Truly the most unhinged "interview" I have ever read.
- 3/23/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
The Trump administration is set to revoke federal guidelines telling public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identities, the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing an anonymous government official with direct knowledge of the plan.
The move would roll back protections for transgender students issued by the Obama administration in May.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a press briefing Tuesday that President Donald Trump believes the issue should be left to the states to decide.
“I think that all you have to do is look at what...
The move would roll back protections for transgender students issued by the Obama administration in May.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a press briefing Tuesday that President Donald Trump believes the issue should be left to the states to decide.
“I think that all you have to do is look at what...
- 2/22/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Hillary can't lose this thing, can she? Not a chance, insists Jon Favreau. No, not that Jon Favreau. This one's the wunderkind President Obama speechwriter who since May has reinvented himself with the season's hottest political podcast, Keepin' It 1600, which he tapes twice a week with fellow ex-Obama staffers Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor. "If Election Day were today, there's no way [Donald Trump] wins," says Favreau over lunch Oct. 25 at South Beverly Grill in Beverly Hills. Of course, that was before the FBI revisited Clinton's emails, but he follows up a few days later to say he firmly stands by his prediction: "Trump is
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- 11/3/2016
- by Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Maybe you’re a podcast obsessive, filling every spare moment of your commute to catch up on your favorites. Or a single-subject listener, only keeping up with a subject or issue that means most to you. The beauty of podcasts is that they can cater to completists and dabblers alike.
Regardless of your preferred way to enjoy these stories and conversations, it can be daunting to track the latest from every show. To highlight some of the year’s best, here are 10 quality episodes we suggest adding to your listening queue.
Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People – 1. Ron Paul’s Baby
Airdate: March 15th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: In all its various broadcast homes, “The Chris Gethard Show” has been one of the most thrilling weekly experiments on TV. So it makes sense that a Gethard-hosted podcast would have the same comedic blend of empathy and honesty. The show is built on conversations between Gethard and anonymous callers, governed only by two rules: the phone line closes after an hour, but Gethard can’t hang up before then. The host has a keen sense for the unspoken questions, the topics that each caller wants to discuss but can’t quite figure out how to broach. Not afraid to let callers turn the questions onto him, these talks have a way of culminating in a common understanding between strangers, which can be as therapeutic for a listener as it is for the two parties involved. And there’s no better place to start than the premiere, which ends with a moment so cathartic, it’ll make you an instant fan of both the individuals involved.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “2. Passport, Exodus,” “4. The Most Amazing Destruction”
Embedded – The House
Airdate: March 30th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: As an NPR production, Kelly McEvers and the staff of “Embedded” demonstrate one of the essential values of great journalism: the power to use specific stories to generate empathy for groups of people often discussed in the abstract. “Embedded” is a ground-up approach to documenting various cross-sections of communities, highlighting the individuals to present an alternative to the group characterization that often befalls them. The premiere episode finds McEvers profiling the residents of a shared home in Austin, Indiana, where opioids have become an inescapable addiction for its residence. The details are stark, unsettling and unadorned. Perhaps the best proof of the value of a show like “Embedded” is that the people at the center of these stories don’t end after a half hour: an Austin resident was the subject of their first follow-up story.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “The League”
Extra Hot Great – 114: Blindly Watching Game of Thrones
Airdate: April 26th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Extra Hot Great has been offering its special brand of TV observations over multiple podcast feed and co-host roster iterations. Now well past 100 episodes into its resurrection, the television discussion show has refined its dependable format, complete with a weekly consideration of a TV episode for induction in their Canon (spoiler alert: they don’t always make it, as is the case with the “30 Rock” episode discussed here). But what sets #114 apart is the episode’s installment of the weekly Game Time feature. The gang plays an round of a listener-submitted game called TV Typos (basically, the round-robin game show version of #ChangeALetterRuinATVShow). What follows is 25 minutes of brilliant, dumb wordplay with enough built-in momentum to have each co-host sobbing by the end. It’s a testament to the co-host’s deep bench of TV minutiae that they’re able to anticipate some of these before they come. The seconds between when you can tell they have the answers and the moment they give them are some of the simplest joys you’ll find anywhere.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “75: Ew Detective,” “103: The People Vs. The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” “105: Ringing in a New Season of Better Call Saul”
I Was There Too – Raiders of the Lost Ark with Martin Casella
Airdate: February 16th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Matt Gourley’s interview show takes a biweekly look at the actors on the periphery of some of most beloved films of the past few decades. While the actor interviews give some choice fly-on-the-wall observations from set, the show’s most compelling episode this year is the talk with Martin Casella, who served as Steven Spielberg’s assistant during the production of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” From impromptu costume decisions to the director’s TV viewing and nutritional regimens, this firsthand account adds a new angle to an established classic. (And for anyone who’s ever obsessed over an Indiana Jones costume, Jeremy Carter’s post-interview discussion of the search for the perfect Indy leather jacket might do the same.)
Listen to These Episodes Next: “Field of Dreams with Dwier Brown,” “Aladdin with Gilbert Gottfried”
Keepin’ It 1600 – Ep. 7: Cruz-Kasich Alliance and Special Guest Jon Lovett
Airdate: May 6th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Amidst an election season that’s alternated between chaotic and soul-crushing in equal measure, it’s been fascinating to filter each week’s craziness through the perspective of two individuals who’ve been buried deep within the past two major presidential cycles. Former speechwriter Jon Favreau and Strategy and Communications Advisor Dan Pfeiffer (both of whom worked on President Obama’s national campaigns and in the White House) are each invested insiders and passionate outside observers of 2016’s descent into madness. A weekly look at the current state of political media, it’s also a dependable repository for great White House anecdotes. Alongside fellow former speechwriter Jon Lovett, the show’s seventh episode featured the trio recounting the choicest lines from the President’s various Correspondents Dinner appearances (particularly those delivered in the immediate wake of ordering the Bin Laden compound strike).
Listen to These Episodes Next: “Ep. 1: Drumpf and the Media and Rubio’s Missteps,” “Ep. 5: Bill Clinton’s Finger-Wagging and Special Guest Kal Penn,” “Ep. 9: ‘Meet the Press’ Host Chuck Todd, Drumpf’s ‘Pivot,’ Polling Mayhem, and More”
Modern Love – 3: Not So Simple Math
Airdate: January 28th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Sarah Paulson’s central role as Marcia Clark was one of the main reasons the “American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson” grabbed the public’s attention in the year’s early months. But Paulson also gave another 2016-best performance in a venue where no one could see her face. Wbur’s Modern Love enlists notable performers like Paulson to perform entries from the regular New York Times column that highlights love in all its forms. Paulson reads Amy Seek’s story of navigating an open adoption with a gentleness that conveys the underlying heartbreak without being manipulative. While other episodes usually succeed on the strength of the performance, this one features a conversation with Seek herself, whose recollection of the events she details in her piece and the six years since is a powerful addendum to a story beautifully told.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “7: In Darkness and In Light,” “9: Seesawing Libidos”
More Perfect – Cruel and Unusual
Airdate: June 1st
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Some of the best new podcasts of the year have focused on institutions, whether they’re more abstract (American Public Media’s The Uncertain Hour focuses on policies and practice within America’s welfare system) or more defined, as with More Perfect’s close examination of the Supreme Court. In its pilot episode, this Radiolab presentation trains its microphones on the pivotal individuals at the center of multiple states’ capital punishment programs. Layered with the trademark attention to atmospheric sound design that makes its parent podcast such a reliable listen, More Perfect should provide a healthy perspective amidst a judicial branch currently in flux.
Listen to These Episodes Next: Once you’ve listened to this and Episode 2, “The Political Thicket,” go back and listen to the Podcast Hall-of-Fame-worthy Radiolab episode “Stochasticity.”
Reply All – #64-67: On the Inside
Airdate: May 11th-June 9th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: This Gimlet show has been the best podcast in existence for the better part of a year now, so to pick just one standout episode is particularly difficult. But the edge goes to the four-episode arc centered on Paul Modrowski, whose blog written from inside prison (where he’s currently serving a life sentence) first attracted the attention of producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni last year. What begins as an investigation of the logistics behind the posting of Modrowski’s expansive online diary eventually uncovers questions surrounding his incarceration. Like the best true crime stories, it balances the details of the central murder cases with a careful consideration of the individuals who allegedly inhabited its timeline. Most popular true crime podcasts keep the perspective of a single narrator, but Pinnamaneni sprinkles in just enough input from regular hosts Alex Goldman and Pj Vogt to add a conversational, illustrative layer to Modrowski’s story. Pinnamaneni’s reporting is extensive and forthright, the kind that will make you want to do your own outside research as soon as the last chapter ends.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “#3 We Know What You Did,” “#44 Shine on You Crazy Goldman,” “#56 Zardulu”
Skillset – #3: This is Bringing Up Weird Feelings for Me
Airdate: May 12th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Amy Nicholson’s first-person podcast for MTV News is an intriguing blend of below-the-line education and critical insight. Between her forgotten film history written intros and the specificity of her interview subjects, Nicholson helps Skillset feel more like a series of audio profiles than regular taped conversations. These episodes highlight movies not just as a vital art form, but a gateway to the rest of what the world has to offer. (How many other film podcasts would have jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire as their inaugural guest?) This particular episode features a window into the practical, unenhanced feline training that let the cats of “Keanu” steal the spotlight against some comedic heavyweights. And if you’re wondering what a real punk band thought of Jeremy Saulnier’s latest genre triumph “Green Room,” Nicholson enlists The Muffs for some authentic opinions. It’s this kind of extra-layer digging that has this fresh batch of MTV shows (“The Stakes” takes a similarly fascinating route to addressing the unspoken side of politics) already off and running at full speed.
Listen to These Episodes Next: All six episodes so far all have quality hooks, but the Sharlto Copley episode from the pilot is particularly worth a listen.
Start Up – Season 3, Episode 4: Dear Music Fans…
Airdate: May 12th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Season 1 of Start Up was a rare glimpse inside the creation of its podcasting parent company Gimlet Media, right as the medium was becoming mainstream. Season 2 stayed nested inside a company’s origin story, this time as an outside observer of a dating site’s early months. For their most recent set of episodes, Start Up managed to compress the roller coaster of entrepreneurship in a more compact form. Profiling the unexpected rise and publicly unceremonious end of Grooveshark, Eric Mennel reports on the music streaming site’s early troubles, serendipitous success and eventual replacement in the entrepreneurial space. It’s a familiar arc for the biographies of these kinds of businesses, but through the Start Up lens, these triumphs and tragedies reach further toward each pole than you might expect.
Listen to These Episodes Next: Season 1 launched the entire company, but Season 2’s 10-episode arc on Dating Ring is still great.
Honorable Listens also highly worthy of your time: the aforementioned The Uncertain Hour and The Stakes; 99% Invisible’s ode to trash truck tunes; Mortified’s tale of pining after the vice principal; Lauren Lapkus helps to tackle kids’ impossible questions on The Longest Shortest Time; Candidate Confessional talks to the recipient of one of local politics’ most infamous viral booing sessions; Five Thirty Eight Politics’ audio doc on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright week of the ’08 presidential campaign; the episode of the Washington Post’s Presidential that proves James Monroe was everywhere in early American history; Making the Sausage’s in-depth conversation about music licensing; The First Annual Blank Check Awards (one of the best 2015 year-end wrap-ups you’ll hear); the ongoing You Must Remember This series chronicling the Hollywood Blacklist is a given for a list like this; The Dollop’s overview of the truly unbelievable Fed Ex Flight 705; Buzzfeed’s Internet Explorer compendium of workplace email/chat catastrophes; You’re the Expert’s hilarious panel show with a leading psychologist who studies nightmares; the Planet Money profile of an infuriating-yet-textbook Internet scamming scheme; The Memory Palace’s cryptic look at an American pariah-turned-wrestler; a careful consideration of the future of animation/CGI via Fighting in the War Room; The Gist and Chris Molanphy remember Prince.
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Regardless of your preferred way to enjoy these stories and conversations, it can be daunting to track the latest from every show. To highlight some of the year’s best, here are 10 quality episodes we suggest adding to your listening queue.
Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People – 1. Ron Paul’s Baby
Airdate: March 15th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: In all its various broadcast homes, “The Chris Gethard Show” has been one of the most thrilling weekly experiments on TV. So it makes sense that a Gethard-hosted podcast would have the same comedic blend of empathy and honesty. The show is built on conversations between Gethard and anonymous callers, governed only by two rules: the phone line closes after an hour, but Gethard can’t hang up before then. The host has a keen sense for the unspoken questions, the topics that each caller wants to discuss but can’t quite figure out how to broach. Not afraid to let callers turn the questions onto him, these talks have a way of culminating in a common understanding between strangers, which can be as therapeutic for a listener as it is for the two parties involved. And there’s no better place to start than the premiere, which ends with a moment so cathartic, it’ll make you an instant fan of both the individuals involved.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “2. Passport, Exodus,” “4. The Most Amazing Destruction”
Embedded – The House
Airdate: March 30th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: As an NPR production, Kelly McEvers and the staff of “Embedded” demonstrate one of the essential values of great journalism: the power to use specific stories to generate empathy for groups of people often discussed in the abstract. “Embedded” is a ground-up approach to documenting various cross-sections of communities, highlighting the individuals to present an alternative to the group characterization that often befalls them. The premiere episode finds McEvers profiling the residents of a shared home in Austin, Indiana, where opioids have become an inescapable addiction for its residence. The details are stark, unsettling and unadorned. Perhaps the best proof of the value of a show like “Embedded” is that the people at the center of these stories don’t end after a half hour: an Austin resident was the subject of their first follow-up story.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “The League”
Extra Hot Great – 114: Blindly Watching Game of Thrones
Airdate: April 26th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Extra Hot Great has been offering its special brand of TV observations over multiple podcast feed and co-host roster iterations. Now well past 100 episodes into its resurrection, the television discussion show has refined its dependable format, complete with a weekly consideration of a TV episode for induction in their Canon (spoiler alert: they don’t always make it, as is the case with the “30 Rock” episode discussed here). But what sets #114 apart is the episode’s installment of the weekly Game Time feature. The gang plays an round of a listener-submitted game called TV Typos (basically, the round-robin game show version of #ChangeALetterRuinATVShow). What follows is 25 minutes of brilliant, dumb wordplay with enough built-in momentum to have each co-host sobbing by the end. It’s a testament to the co-host’s deep bench of TV minutiae that they’re able to anticipate some of these before they come. The seconds between when you can tell they have the answers and the moment they give them are some of the simplest joys you’ll find anywhere.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “75: Ew Detective,” “103: The People Vs. The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” “105: Ringing in a New Season of Better Call Saul”
I Was There Too – Raiders of the Lost Ark with Martin Casella
Airdate: February 16th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Matt Gourley’s interview show takes a biweekly look at the actors on the periphery of some of most beloved films of the past few decades. While the actor interviews give some choice fly-on-the-wall observations from set, the show’s most compelling episode this year is the talk with Martin Casella, who served as Steven Spielberg’s assistant during the production of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” From impromptu costume decisions to the director’s TV viewing and nutritional regimens, this firsthand account adds a new angle to an established classic. (And for anyone who’s ever obsessed over an Indiana Jones costume, Jeremy Carter’s post-interview discussion of the search for the perfect Indy leather jacket might do the same.)
Listen to These Episodes Next: “Field of Dreams with Dwier Brown,” “Aladdin with Gilbert Gottfried”
Keepin’ It 1600 – Ep. 7: Cruz-Kasich Alliance and Special Guest Jon Lovett
Airdate: May 6th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Amidst an election season that’s alternated between chaotic and soul-crushing in equal measure, it’s been fascinating to filter each week’s craziness through the perspective of two individuals who’ve been buried deep within the past two major presidential cycles. Former speechwriter Jon Favreau and Strategy and Communications Advisor Dan Pfeiffer (both of whom worked on President Obama’s national campaigns and in the White House) are each invested insiders and passionate outside observers of 2016’s descent into madness. A weekly look at the current state of political media, it’s also a dependable repository for great White House anecdotes. Alongside fellow former speechwriter Jon Lovett, the show’s seventh episode featured the trio recounting the choicest lines from the President’s various Correspondents Dinner appearances (particularly those delivered in the immediate wake of ordering the Bin Laden compound strike).
Listen to These Episodes Next: “Ep. 1: Drumpf and the Media and Rubio’s Missteps,” “Ep. 5: Bill Clinton’s Finger-Wagging and Special Guest Kal Penn,” “Ep. 9: ‘Meet the Press’ Host Chuck Todd, Drumpf’s ‘Pivot,’ Polling Mayhem, and More”
Modern Love – 3: Not So Simple Math
Airdate: January 28th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Sarah Paulson’s central role as Marcia Clark was one of the main reasons the “American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson” grabbed the public’s attention in the year’s early months. But Paulson also gave another 2016-best performance in a venue where no one could see her face. Wbur’s Modern Love enlists notable performers like Paulson to perform entries from the regular New York Times column that highlights love in all its forms. Paulson reads Amy Seek’s story of navigating an open adoption with a gentleness that conveys the underlying heartbreak without being manipulative. While other episodes usually succeed on the strength of the performance, this one features a conversation with Seek herself, whose recollection of the events she details in her piece and the six years since is a powerful addendum to a story beautifully told.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “7: In Darkness and In Light,” “9: Seesawing Libidos”
More Perfect – Cruel and Unusual
Airdate: June 1st
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Some of the best new podcasts of the year have focused on institutions, whether they’re more abstract (American Public Media’s The Uncertain Hour focuses on policies and practice within America’s welfare system) or more defined, as with More Perfect’s close examination of the Supreme Court. In its pilot episode, this Radiolab presentation trains its microphones on the pivotal individuals at the center of multiple states’ capital punishment programs. Layered with the trademark attention to atmospheric sound design that makes its parent podcast such a reliable listen, More Perfect should provide a healthy perspective amidst a judicial branch currently in flux.
Listen to These Episodes Next: Once you’ve listened to this and Episode 2, “The Political Thicket,” go back and listen to the Podcast Hall-of-Fame-worthy Radiolab episode “Stochasticity.”
Reply All – #64-67: On the Inside
Airdate: May 11th-June 9th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: This Gimlet show has been the best podcast in existence for the better part of a year now, so to pick just one standout episode is particularly difficult. But the edge goes to the four-episode arc centered on Paul Modrowski, whose blog written from inside prison (where he’s currently serving a life sentence) first attracted the attention of producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni last year. What begins as an investigation of the logistics behind the posting of Modrowski’s expansive online diary eventually uncovers questions surrounding his incarceration. Like the best true crime stories, it balances the details of the central murder cases with a careful consideration of the individuals who allegedly inhabited its timeline. Most popular true crime podcasts keep the perspective of a single narrator, but Pinnamaneni sprinkles in just enough input from regular hosts Alex Goldman and Pj Vogt to add a conversational, illustrative layer to Modrowski’s story. Pinnamaneni’s reporting is extensive and forthright, the kind that will make you want to do your own outside research as soon as the last chapter ends.
Listen to These Episodes Next: “#3 We Know What You Did,” “#44 Shine on You Crazy Goldman,” “#56 Zardulu”
Skillset – #3: This is Bringing Up Weird Feelings for Me
Airdate: May 12th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Amy Nicholson’s first-person podcast for MTV News is an intriguing blend of below-the-line education and critical insight. Between her forgotten film history written intros and the specificity of her interview subjects, Nicholson helps Skillset feel more like a series of audio profiles than regular taped conversations. These episodes highlight movies not just as a vital art form, but a gateway to the rest of what the world has to offer. (How many other film podcasts would have jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire as their inaugural guest?) This particular episode features a window into the practical, unenhanced feline training that let the cats of “Keanu” steal the spotlight against some comedic heavyweights. And if you’re wondering what a real punk band thought of Jeremy Saulnier’s latest genre triumph “Green Room,” Nicholson enlists The Muffs for some authentic opinions. It’s this kind of extra-layer digging that has this fresh batch of MTV shows (“The Stakes” takes a similarly fascinating route to addressing the unspoken side of politics) already off and running at full speed.
Listen to These Episodes Next: All six episodes so far all have quality hooks, but the Sharlto Copley episode from the pilot is particularly worth a listen.
Start Up – Season 3, Episode 4: Dear Music Fans…
Airdate: May 12th
Why It’s Worth the Listen: Season 1 of Start Up was a rare glimpse inside the creation of its podcasting parent company Gimlet Media, right as the medium was becoming mainstream. Season 2 stayed nested inside a company’s origin story, this time as an outside observer of a dating site’s early months. For their most recent set of episodes, Start Up managed to compress the roller coaster of entrepreneurship in a more compact form. Profiling the unexpected rise and publicly unceremonious end of Grooveshark, Eric Mennel reports on the music streaming site’s early troubles, serendipitous success and eventual replacement in the entrepreneurial space. It’s a familiar arc for the biographies of these kinds of businesses, but through the Start Up lens, these triumphs and tragedies reach further toward each pole than you might expect.
Listen to These Episodes Next: Season 1 launched the entire company, but Season 2’s 10-episode arc on Dating Ring is still great.
Honorable Listens also highly worthy of your time: the aforementioned The Uncertain Hour and The Stakes; 99% Invisible’s ode to trash truck tunes; Mortified’s tale of pining after the vice principal; Lauren Lapkus helps to tackle kids’ impossible questions on The Longest Shortest Time; Candidate Confessional talks to the recipient of one of local politics’ most infamous viral booing sessions; Five Thirty Eight Politics’ audio doc on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright week of the ’08 presidential campaign; the episode of the Washington Post’s Presidential that proves James Monroe was everywhere in early American history; Making the Sausage’s in-depth conversation about music licensing; The First Annual Blank Check Awards (one of the best 2015 year-end wrap-ups you’ll hear); the ongoing You Must Remember This series chronicling the Hollywood Blacklist is a given for a list like this; The Dollop’s overview of the truly unbelievable Fed Ex Flight 705; Buzzfeed’s Internet Explorer compendium of workplace email/chat catastrophes; You’re the Expert’s hilarious panel show with a leading psychologist who studies nightmares; the Planet Money profile of an infuriating-yet-textbook Internet scamming scheme; The Memory Palace’s cryptic look at an American pariah-turned-wrestler; a careful consideration of the future of animation/CGI via Fighting in the War Room; The Gist and Chris Molanphy remember Prince.
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- 6/14/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd got worked up while discussing his lack of access to President Obama, saying he once offered him an entire episode to explain Obamacare with “f–ing charts and graphs.” Todd stopped by “Keepin’ It 1600,” the political podcast from Bill Simmons that is hosted by former Obama Administration staffers Dan Pfeiffer and Jon Favreau. “I think you guys didn’t make the effort to come to the mainstream media,” Todd said. “You could have had an impact yourself and made no effort.” Also Read: President Obama Warns Donald Trump: 'This Is Not a Reality Show' (Video) He continued,...
- 5/13/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Bernie Sanders' campaign is taking a "step back" after the Democratic hopeful lost his native New York to rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. Pundits have all but declared the Democratic race over, and the fact that Sanders returned home to Vermont to take the day off on Wednesday - after his top strategist Tad Devine announced Tuesday night, "We'll take a step back and then decide publicly what his intentions are" - doesn't bode well for the Vermont senator's presidential bid. Nevertheless, Sanders supporters are still clinging to hope that he can defeat Clinton. So does the Democratic socialist...
- 4/20/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Dan Pfeiffer will appear on CNN’s The Lead With Jake Tapper today in a new capacity: CNN contributor. Network chief Jeff Zucker announced the appointment this morning for the long-time top aide to President Barack Obama. Pfeiffer, one of Obama’s longest-tenured strategists, until March was the White House’s senior adviser for strategy and communications. His first presidential campaign role came in a communications post for then-Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 campaign. He…...
- 6/1/2015
- Deadline TV
In the past year, the web video industry has continued its growth spurt, and the President of the United States has embraced the new media landscape. Since his memorable appearance on Between Two Ferns, Barack Obama has used the Internet to reach his constituents in novel and exciting ways. He has met with YouTube stars, sat for interviews with the video site's top personalities, and taken selfies in a BuzzFeed video.
Now, the man responsible for this new media push is leaving his post, and as he prepares to depart the White House, he has discussed his important work. Dan Pfeiffer, who served as the Senior Advisor to the President in charge of White House communications, sat down with Backchannel for an interview about his novel digital efforts.
A key part of the White House's digital approach has been its plan to reach viewers who would otherwise tune out the President.
Now, the man responsible for this new media push is leaving his post, and as he prepares to depart the White House, he has discussed his important work. Dan Pfeiffer, who served as the Senior Advisor to the President in charge of White House communications, sat down with Backchannel for an interview about his novel digital efforts.
A key part of the White House's digital approach has been its plan to reach viewers who would otherwise tune out the President.
- 3/9/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
In his words, "The shadow of crisis has passed and the State of the Union is strong." President Barack Obama delivered his 2015 State of the Union address — the sixth of his presidency — on Tuesday, Jan. 20, bringing the annual #Sotu hashtag to the forefront of Twitter feeds worldwide. Before Potus took to the podium at 9 p.m. Et to address the nation, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer teased a photo of a tan suit on the White House's official Twitter account. "The President's [...]...
- 1/21/2015
- Us Weekly
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