Questions for Sal Gentile and Emily Erotas about the A Closer Look Back podcast @spocko.bsky.social

Created
Fri, 20/12/2024 - 09:30
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Fri, 20/12/2024 - 09:30
I’m a HUGE fan of A Closer Look on the Seth Meyers show. It’s written by Sal Gentile and the supervising producer is Emily Erotas. They have a limited series podcast called A Closer Look Back, talking about what they learned during Trump first term & what they can do to prepare for Trump 2.0. It’s insightful & funny and I highly recommend it. I was on the Nicole Sandler Show on 12-2-2024 singing the praises of Sal and A Closer Look. I mentioned my idea on the show, here it is cued up. Listening to their podcast and Rachel Maddow’s recent show on preparing for Trump’s next term got me thinking. Who has a media and social media strategy to mess with Trump this time around? And, because nothing seems to hurt Trump, who is focusing on busting his nominees & minions? I ask because I don’t see the Dems doing it. I wondered what I can do. Who can I help that I think is doing good work to counter the RW narrative? I looked at what was breaking thru the RW narrative IN MULTIPLE SPACES. One was comedy. So I wrote the best comedy writers & producers I knew about & asked them this question: Dear Sal & Emily: How can we on the left help you prepare for the scandals of nominees, so the COMEDY bits can be used to define them first? What struck me in your A Closer Look back podcasts was how you talked about…