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The Focus Group Podcast

Our Sizzling Summer of Focus Groups

The Focus Group Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Focus Group Podcast is on hiatus for a few more weeks, but we've been doing focus groups this whole time. We've got a preview of what you're going to hear when we come back, and we're re-upping our conversation from March with Jane Coaston of The New York Times about our never-ending culture wars. Enjoy, and we'll see you soon!

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Sarah Longwell here, publisher of the Bullwork and host of the Focus Group podcast.

0:06.5

The Focus Group pod has been on hiatus as you may have noticed, but rest assured we have been

0:12.4

fielding focus groups at a breakneck pace for the past few months. We've been capturing how

0:18.2

all kinds of voters feel about the state of the country and their choices in the upcoming presidential

0:24.2

race. We've got a bunch of focus group sound demonstrating how Republicans have rallied around

0:29.7

Trump since he was indicted, so lots of good stuff to share, and we'll be back soon. But in the

0:36.6

meantime, we're going to re-up my conversation with Jane Coastan of the New York Times from this

0:41.7

past spring about our never-ending culture war. It's one of my favorite episodes that we've done,

0:47.6

and if you missed it the first time around, be sure to check it out. It will tide you over

0:52.9

until the new Focus Group pod comes out. Just to give you a little taste of what we've been hearing

0:57.5

that we play some sound from some of our recent focus groups about Trump. So I hope you enjoy

1:03.2

some of these bites. And if they can do it to Trump where he can defend himself, I can only imagine

1:12.0

how he would be if it would just a normal person. So I feel like he stands for the small people,

1:21.5

even though he's a big personality. If they have a picture of him dropping a piece of litter in

1:26.5

the street, they're going to want to have him executed. So I just feel this is just a bunch of

1:31.8

bull just to bring him down, but you know, they get the wrong person this time because he's not

1:35.8

going to give in. That's what we like about him. You want to know what is new to women is letting

1:40.0

men wear woman face. That's what's new to women. That's fun. Letting them wear what?

1:45.6

Woman face. You know, everyone made such a big deal about wearing black face. Well, I maintain what

1:50.4

Dylan Mulvaney is doing is wearing woman face. I love to see the flood light sales have plummeted

1:57.0

as a result. I love to hear that they have to return the product back to the manufacturers

2:04.3

because nobody's buying it. We need to see more of that. There's obviously a lot more where that

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