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You know, we try to keep it live-ish.

Hello, happy new year. Welcome to the first 2016 episode of The Weeds

Box's policy podcast on the Paneple Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias with these visuals, my colleague Sarah Cliff,

and as a special guest star substituting for Ezra Klein, who I believe is in Las Vegas

and or the Grand Canyon. We have Darlin, another colleague of ours,

covers immigration issues, criminal justice issues, lots of good stuff that we're going to talk about.

We're so excited she's here. We've been waiting for Ezra to leave for a moment to take her.

Yes, yes, this is a very exciting moment for The Weeds.

Ezra, I'm never leaving.

I'm usually too busy helicoptering around America,

courting advertisers to actually know anything about anything.

So we need to...

So if you just want to advertise on The Weeds, we could take care of that problem.

Yeah, one guy actually just emailed me, which was a lot easier than taking helicopter flights.

So that's always welcome.

So we're going to get into some stuff later on.

There's been a wacky standoff in Oregon.

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