Jody Avirgan: The Ghosts of the 2016 Elections
Servant of Pod with Nick Quah
English - July 29, 2020 09:30 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The 2016 presidential election cycle left a deep mark on the podcast world. Few know this better than Jody Avirgan, who produced the popular FiveThirtyEight podcast through that cycle. Though he’s sitting the 2020 cycle out, opting instead to make This Day In Esoteric Political History with the Radiotopia network, Avirgan still has a lot to say about the way podcasts cover the elections. In this episode, Nick and Jody look back on the 2016 politics podcast explosion.