News and politics podcasts have become a vital part of our of daily existence. These are the ones that shaped the genre
Photo: Vulture Talking about the news with your friends in 2019 can be embarrassing, tedious, and alienating. Discussing political news in particular — whether we’re “weighing in” on the latest Trump scandal or offering some warmed-over, vague analysis of the Democratic race — makes most of us sound like basic jerks, playing at pundits because we want to feel less passive in the face of chaos.
It’s a good, accurate cliché! But then again, the news isn’t supposed to be personal, is it? In some ways it’s supposed to be the opposite — a reminder to suppress one’s solipsism and myopia, as well as an invitation to care about what’s happening to people we don’t know.
The Gist Mike Pesca, host of The Gist since 2014, invented the daily news podcast as we think of it now. But if you’ve heard Pesca’s jagged yet breezy virtuosity on the mic, you know it’s hard to give him influencer credit for the simple reason that no one sounds like him and no other podcast moves like his. The Gist follows a consistent formula: funny intro from Mike, followed by a zippy interview with a guest, and a searching, intellectually transparent monologue known as the daily “spiel.
Pod Save America Pod Save America has the kind of fanbase you might expect of a K-pop group or an actual presidential candidate. Launched as the spiritual successor to Keepin’ It 1600 by a group of young Obama alums, Pod Save America found a huge audience of revved-up liberals in the wake of Trump’s election and broke through to the mainstream in a way that no other podcast talk show has ever done.
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