Hey everyone, Sarah Longwell here, publisher of the bulwark. My schedule in March is a little bit messed up.

And so, long story short, Bill Crystal and I just pre-taped a pod that I decided I could not wait

to give you, because we talked a lot about Iran, and that situation is obviously fluid, and

news could overtake our analysis. And so I wanted to get it to you fast.

We also talked about conspiracy theories and about the bulwark.

There's a fun little surprise

where people bring up the bulwark and focus groups

that I think you guys will think is funny.

We got more coming soon, both from me and from Rachel Jen Faza on Gen Z.

So stay tuned.

I will see you guys soon.

Hello, everyone and welcome to the Focus Group podcast. I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark. And this week, we're catching up on our foreign policy because you may have heard we

recently went to war with Iran and voters are a little bit freaked out.

America's also been fighting this war alongside Israel, which, as we're going to discuss today,

has become a huge political flashpoint and a lot of, I don't know, interesting conspiracy theories

that you'd usually think of as crazy or working their way

into what should be mainstream focus groups. And during the focus groups, we've heard more and more

about Israel being linked to a couple of the biggest stories in America of the last year. We're

going to talk about what those are. We're also going to check them with voters on the Jeffrey Epstein

saga. And if you stick around through all of that, we have a fun and

uplifting surprise at the end. My guest today is the wocus neocon out there. Bill Crystal,

co-author of Morning Shots, an editor at large of the bulwark. And my friend and colleague,

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