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Crooked Media, the liberal political media company founded by former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, is primarily built around its popular talk-radio-style podcast, Pod Save America. “Most political news today is about why Donald Trump is bad, and I don’t think we talk enough about the party that needs to beat him — its strengths, its weaknesses, and how it’s changed over time,” Favreau told Vulture in an email, when asked about the purpose of the project. “What does the Democratic Party stand for in 2018? How did we lose nearly 1,000 seats over the last decade, and how do we make sure that never happens again? To that end, The Wilderness is driven by a cacophony of interviews that Favreau conducted with a wide range of people: politicians, political operatives, activists, analysts, and writers, many of whom will be familiar to those who are already followers of Crooked Media. As a whole, the podcast is structured in a manner not unlike a guidebook, with each chapter built around a different focus: How do you fix what’s wrong with the Democratic Party? How democratic should the Democratic Party be? “Historical context is so important to the political debates we’re having, and it’s especially helpful to all the people who just started paying attention to politics when Trump was elected — and that’s an audience I’m hoping to reach with this series,” he wrote. To make the jump between genres, the team struck a collaborative partnership with Two-Up Productions, the shop behind the popular fiction podcasts Limetown and 36 Questions. This February, HBO announced that the premium cable company had struck a deal with Crooked Media to produce a series of hour-long specials that will follow the trio as they host live tapings on the campaign trail in the run-up to the midterm elections.

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