Liza Featherstone on how focus groups are ruining politics

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bonus: Liza reads for piece & talks Bernie & more! https://www.patreon.com/posts/22644724 Liza Featherstone talks to me and Gabe about focus groups and how they're ruining politics. We discuss her latest book "Divining Desire: the Culture of Consultation," her latest piece in The Baffler "Sorry to Bother You," and the midterms. Plus I report back from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's victory party. Stand by for our bonus in which we talk about Bernie Sanders' controversial comments, communist vaginas, and that time Gabe was in a focus group. Also, Liza reads part of her piece!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Katie Helper show.
0:02.0	Yes, bienido.
0:03.0	Bienmeido,
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0:02.0	I'm Gee Pacheco.
0:08.0	You guys know the drill
0:10.0	and listeners feel free to, if you know the words,
0:12.0	sing along with us. On today's episode we talk about the midterms and consultation culture with writer
0:32.4	Liza Featherstone. She's the author of the book
0:35.7	Devining Desire, focus groups, and the culture of consultation. And I gave a little report back from the Victory Party for Alexandria
0:46.2	Casio Cortez. For our bonus episode we talked to Liza about Communist Vaginas,
0:51.0	Bernie's recent comments about the midterm which landed this a focus group as a tween. We're dropping that soon and you can access it by
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1:13.6	We're really excited about our future episodes,
1:16.4	by the way, including our interview
1:18.2	with Matt Crisman of Chappo Trap House
1:22.0	about history, fascism, and Politics.
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