Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Meghan Barr May 08, 2018 The scorchingly irreverent political podcast Pod Save America, created by three wisecracking former protegees of President Barack Obama, has rocketed to fame as the de facto voice of the liberal “resistance” since it debuted in January 2017 as President Trump was ascending to the White House. With its freewheeling, conversational format, the twice-weekly podcast makes you feel as if you’re eavesdropping on a bunch of political insiders at a bar in Washington, D.C. But two of its founders, Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor, hail from Massachusetts. They launched Crooked Media — the company behind the Pod — because they wanted “to talk about politics in a way that doesn’t make you want to throw your phone out the window,” as they explain on their website. Favreau, 36, who was Obama’s head speechwriter, grew up in North Reading and went to the College of the Holy Cross. Vietor, 37, who was Obama’s national security spokesman, is from Dedham and attended high school at Milton Academy. Their fellow host and founder, the screenwriter and former presidential speechwriter Jon Lovett, graduated from Williams College. Advertisement Crooked Media has since launched spinoff podcasts and inked a deal with HBO to produce a series of Pod specials later this year. In recent months, they’ve performed live shows across the United States and in several European cities. I chatted with Favreau and… [Read full story]
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