S4 Ep12: Unreliable Narrators (with Jonathan V. Last)

The Focus Group Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The economy isn't the best...but it could be a lot worse. And our guest thinks voters are catastrophizing too much about the state of things. Sarah's best friend Jonathan V. Last (JVL) joins the show to argue with voters who aren't there to argue back.

show notes:
Even Most Biden Voters Don’t See a Thriving Economy

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0:27.9	Tees and sees apply, Samsung.com pricing shown. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah
0:39.7	Longwell publisher of the bulwark and this week we're talking about the economy.
0:45.1	Now if Joe Biden loses the 2024 election not saying that he will but if he
0:50.6	does one of the biggest reasons will be the way that people are feeling about the economy.
0:56.4	We're hearing complaints about it from voters across the political spectrum, and Biden gets a lot of the blame.
1:04.0	My guest today is my best friend, Jonathan V. Last,
1:08.0	editor of the Bullwork, and my co-host on two other podcasts,
1:11.0	the Next Level and the Secret podcast, which if you are not a
1:16.0	Bullwork plus subscriber, you may be missing some of the best content that we have at the Bullwork,
1:23.7	which is me and JBL doing a secret podcast together,
1:27.6	his daily newsletter, which is the best thing out there,
1:31.0	the triad, and then Mona and Charlie also have a version of the secret
1:35.0	podcast themselves called Just Between Us, so you need to go check out all that content, but
1:40.6	JBL, thanks for being here, buddy.
1:43.0	So excited to be back and I am ready to give you the best episode of this season's show.
1:49.0	I'm just going to start by setting this up.
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