It's finally infrastructure week

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about what’s really wrong with American infrastructure, the massacre in Parkland, FL, and new research on legislators’ irrational decision-making. Whitepaper! Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Political Elites by David E. Broockman, Christopher Skovron Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm in a really annoying healthcare situation where they're building me for something
0:03.4	I don't think I should be billed for.
0:05.0	Then they're billing off as it doesn't pick up the phone or respond to my messages.
0:08.3	Well, that's a good tactic.
0:09.7	And now it's going into debt collector.
0:11.2	Like now I got the first letter being like, we're going to send this to a debt collector.
0:15.0	And it's a great tactic.
0:16.0	I'm going to, it's like a hundred bucks.
0:18.2	Just don't pay it.
0:19.3	I don't want to go into debt collection.
0:21.3	Their tactics are going to work.
0:30.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:40.2	I'm Matthew Glacias, Ezra Klein, Sarah Cliff.
0:42.7	It'll be an amazing episode.
0:44.3	We've got a really interesting white paper.
0:46.2	We want to talk, of course, about the tragedy in Parkland, Florida that's been dominating
0:51.4	the news.
0:52.4	But also, we've been planning for a while.
0:55.6	Infrastructure week.
0:56.6	It's finally here.
0:57.6	That's so many of us.
0:58.8	Infrastructure week has never truly come for America.
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