1012: Your Obedient Servants | Secret Podcast
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It’s a super-sized Secret pod.
In the comments, we want you to talk about whether or not the double-standard is real—is it true, as JVL proposes—that voters obsess over Democratic mistakes while waiving away Republican insanity?
And if it is true, why is it? Remember: We’re not just talking about partisans, but about the generalized broader public. We want to hear your theories.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new sum up terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the sumup point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com. To more. Hey, guys, it's JVL here with Sarah. |
| 0:22.4 | I know you all love the next level. |
| 0:24.7 | And it's a great show. |
| 0:26.1 | It's a very nice show. |
| 0:27.0 | I like that show too. |
| 0:28.3 | But Sarah and I, every Friday, do a little secret show. |
| 0:32.5 | We call it the secret show. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, we started the secret show back in the earliest of early days. |
| 0:42.6 | We used to delete the episodes after we wrote. |
| 0:45.5 | They would only be available for a day. |
| 0:47.4 | But it is one of the, it is maybe the longest running conversation on the bulwark. |
| 0:53.2 | We do it behind the paywall every Friday. |
| 0:56.7 | And you guys should come back here and join us. |
| 0:59.8 | It's where you get all the inside scoop. |
| 1:01.6 | It's where you get the real dope. |
| 1:03.8 | And we laugh a lot. |
| 1:04.5 | That's not true. |
| 1:05.4 | Like we just we just talk more informally and we think things through. |
| 1:10.1 | I'd say next level is more polished like takes secret |
| 1:13.8 | is a lot of, huh, what do we think about this? That's what comes to mind when I think of the next level, |
| 1:18.1 | polished. Yeah, polished. Anyway, we wanted to share some with you like we always do. And this week, |
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