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Explain It to Me

Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Matt, Sarah, and Ezra lay out what is and isn't troubling about gentrification, break down congress' latest fiscal deal, and discuss a paper that explores why swing voting has become rare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.2

I found that cauliflower and mac and cheese to be offensive.

0:16.8

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds, Fox's policy podcast on the

0:20.3

Panoply Network. I'm Matthew Glacias with me as usual. It's my colleague, Sarah Cliff,

0:24.5

and as Recline, we are recording, not live, I guess we're just recording, but from a

0:29.4

new facility here, which has more lights, less uncomfortable temperature. I totally disagree

0:35.5

about the temperature. Really? I think this is a pretty uncomfortable temperature.

0:38.5

Well, I'm not saying it's comfortable, I'm saying it's better. I have a point. I don't know what

0:42.1

we go through to bring you to podcast. The thing about podcasts is that you can't have loud air

0:46.4

conditioners running in the background, but you can have host sweating, which doesn't make noise.

0:51.9

Right, exactly. So it's sort of like the hot yoga of me. Which is good because I actually really

0:57.2

like doing hot yoga. Oh, I hate hot yoga. It's a lot to be a further wonk for you.

1:02.3

Well, Dave Roberts from Vox, who got me into hot yoga, could come on the podcast and explain

1:06.0

its joys. Yeah, yoga. It's really fantastic. Yoga podcast. It's like torturing yourself with

1:10.3

exercises. Yeah, it's so great. So good. Okay, but let's torture ourselves now with content.

1:15.2

We've got some great stuff coming up, some great research. We are instead of discussing the

1:19.6

debate. We've got some much weedsier news to talk about. But you know, we like to kick things off

1:24.9

a little bit, you know, just just just more evergreen. We actually got a reader email that

1:30.4

brought up a topic that I've actually long wanted to talk to you about Matt. So I'm going to read

1:34.4

I'm going to read the email. One, the emailer says I want to say thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed

1:38.5

listening to the podcast. It completely proves you all of adage to the devils and the details.

1:42.8

So I like this email. It begins with some compliments. It says, yeah, I thought an interesting

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