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Explain It to Me

CHIPping away at gerrymandering

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about CHIP reauthorization, the Supreme Court's big gerrymandering case, and a seminal Richard Thaler paper (Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's sometimes the like, playing a little dumb to improve the show and there's the like,

0:05.2

genuine light on understand.

0:21.2

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias,

0:25.6

joined by Ezra Klein and Sarah Cliff. We've got a great show coming up for you,

0:30.4

featuring Nobel Prize-winning white papers, children's health insurance program. But

0:35.6

the first week we want to start off with a very special message from Sarah Cliff.

0:40.4

I do have a special message. How special? It is so special. I have a new podcast.

0:45.5

Wait, what? You knew about this, Azra. You're going to be on the Weeds. I'm still going to be on the Weeds.

0:50.9

But next week we are launching a new show called The Impact. It is a reported podcast. It's a little

0:56.8

different from anything we've done at Vox before. Longtime listeners of the Weeds may remember Weeds

1:02.7

in the wild. They kind of pop up show where we go off somewhere interesting and talk to actual people.

1:07.6

And that is what we do on the impact. You have to subscribe. You won't automatically get it in this

1:12.6

feed. And we actually have a small little trailer here for you. So we're going to we're going to play

1:17.6

that. And hopefully you'll love it. On October 16th, Vox is launching a new podcast. The Impact

1:26.6

is show about real people. I got pregnant two months after I graduated high school. It was not

1:34.0

We are going to look at the policies that affect people's lives. Policies that work.

1:39.2

I just do what I'm supposed to do. What I was trained to do. And policies that need some more.

1:44.6

Please, this is a massive hit of violation. I am your host Sarah Cliff. And I love policy because

1:50.9

it affects people. I think too often here in DC we stop covering laws when they pass. But on the

1:56.7

impact, we are going to follow those policies out into the real world where all of us live. It's

2:01.9

just fantastic. It's just great. Subscribe on Stitcher, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

2:09.3

I'm just going to say I know a lot about this podcast. I was playing Tom earlier. This podcast is

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