S4 Ep11: Quarter-Life Crises (with Peter Hamby)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Peter's:
https://puck.news/biden-gen-z-and-the-illiberal-left/
https://puck.news/bidens-youth-serum-shortage/
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
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| 0:27.8 | Tees and C's apply, Samsung.com pricing shown. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of |
| 0:41.4 | the Bullwork and this week we are checking in on |
| 0:44.8 | Gen Z. The recent New York Times, Siena Poll that everyone freaked out about had |
| 0:50.3 | Joe Biden's approval rating with voters age 18 to 29 at 31 percent and |
| 0:56.3 | disapproval rating at 65 percent and Biden was only leading Trump by one point among young voters in that poll. |
| 1:07.0 | My guest today is one of my favorite people to talk to about today's youths, youths's youth people. |
| 1:14.0 | Peter Hamby, host of the Snapchat show, |
| 1:16.1 | good luck America and co-founder of Puck News, |
| 1:19.4 | which I read religiously. |
| 1:21.2 | Peter, thanks for being here. |
| 1:22.4 | Thank you for having me, Sarah. As a old millennial, I, you know, I love talking about Gen Z. I feel like an authority. What year were you born? 81. 81. Okay, so I was born in 1980 and you know for people like you and I there is a sub-genre. |
| 1:38.0 | I don't know if you know this called Zenials, which I believe is 78 to 82. |
| 1:44.0 | We're a very specific group where we were both |
| 1:48.0 | had the internet early enough |
| 1:51.0 | that it has been a big part of our lives but also not so early that we didn't sort of get |
| 1:56.1 | really used to just regular phones and had to memorize everyone's phone numbers and like didn't |
| 2:02.1 | have it in elementary school or even really high school. |
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