Ezra and Matt debate the debaters

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt break down the last debate before the Iowa caucuses, and explore the current state of the Democratic field. Related reading: "Joe Biden will never give up on the system" by Ezra Klein, Vox "4 winners and 3 losers from the January Democratic debate" Vox Staff "The case for Elizabeth Warren" by Ezra Klein, Vox "Bernie Sanders can unify Democrats and beat Trump in 2020" by Matthew Yglesias "Joe Biden skates by again" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Elizabeth Warren’s new plan to reform bankruptcy law, explained" by Matthew Yglesias "The Third Rail of Calling ‘Sexism’ Warren tried not to talk about it." by Rebecca Traister, The Cut Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large & co-founder, Vox More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Then, let's talk about the debate that didn't happen, because that's more interesting.
0:06.2	Let's do some debate fanfic.
0:08.7	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:32.6	I'm Matthew Eglaceus here today with Ezra Klein, former occasional Weeds.
0:38.1	I'm an occasional Weeds person.
0:41.3	Don't put me totally in the corner here.
0:42.7	A Weezer.
0:43.7	We are here.
0:44.7	We are going to talk about.
0:45.7	I'm a vigorous participant in the Weeds Facebook group.
0:47.9	There you go.
0:48.9	I think I'm in there a lot more than you are.
0:50.1	Okay, fair enough.
0:51.1	Okay, Ezra Klein.
0:52.1	I'm a huge fan.
0:53.1	I'm just here for this, for the prominent stuff.
0:57.1	The big, I participate in the Weeds as a lover of the Weeds.
1:00.3	The podcast glory.
1:01.5	Okay.
1:02.5	So we're going to talk about the debate that happened last night, the state of the campaign, and
1:06.9	some of the debates that didn't really happen.
1:09.6	But first, I mean, we should talk about what did happen up there on the stage in which
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