God, I'm really just realizing this is one of those that could be obsolete by the time the episode drops in a few hours.

Now!

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

You're with Jane Kostin, Darryl Lind. Really excited to talk about a fun white paper that, well, it's fun.

But first, we use Norwegian administrative data.

Yeah, it's a game changer.

But you wanted to talk about some of the latest news out of the border.

I have seen two things happening. I have been traveling a lot. I have been working on some big

explainers about airplanes and Joe Biden and things that are not totally connected to stuff Donald

Trump tweets. But it appears to me as a Donald Trump Twitter follower that he has said that we are

cutting off all aid to Central America, or at least to the northern triangle countries that asylum

seekers tend to come from, and also that he is strongly considering or once again threatening to

completely shut down the border with Mexico. These are clearly thematically linked concepts.

I don't really see what they have to do with each other, or in particular what shutting the

border down is supposed to accomplish in this context. But like, what is happening? I mean, I guess

sometimes Trump says he is building the wall and declares victory on that. But other times,

more of the time, he appears to be saying that there is a continued elevated threat level.

Right. And we need to do something. So what does that make sense? Because even noted builder,

Donald Trump knows that you cannot build wall in a day. Sure. Well, what is it? What is

just hesitated? This like, did something happen? Yeah, look, we are and we don't have the final

numbers for March yet. But over the last year plus, like really going back to February 20th,

sorry, to fall 2017, even though Donald Trump at the beginning of that time was still bragging about

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