Mike can get what done?

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt on Michael Bloomberg’s record as mayor of New York City. Related material: "National education ratings show NYC student test scores stagnant since 2013, ranks them about average for big cities" by Michael Elsen-Rooney, New York Daily News "Boost for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan as de Blasio Supports Cuomo Plan" by Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jesse McKinley, NYT "The quiet, massive rezoning of New York" by Sarah Laskow, Politico White paper Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, 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	Is this being used for spycraft?
0:03.4	It's like listening to the wall.
0:05.0	You know, that would be a good podcast.
0:07.8	["Foreign Love"]
0:21.2	Hello, welcome to the episode of The Weeds
0:23.1	on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:24.7	I'm Matthew E. Glacias, here today with Jane Kostin,
0:27.0	ProPublica's Darryl Lind.
0:28.8	We wanted to talk today about Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
0:31.6	a late-entrant into the presidential swoopstakes,
0:35.1	one who I had not been taking seriously for the first couple
0:39.4	months of his campaign, but he is rocketed up in the polls,
0:43.3	rocketed up even faster in the discourse.
0:45.5	Yeah.
0:46.5	I admit to continued bafflement about the politics of this,
0:51.6	but The Weeds being a serious policy podcast.
0:54.2	I have been persuaded that instead of expressing bafflement
0:56.5	on this podcast, we should try to illuminate some aspects
0:59.4	of the things that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done
1:02.1	and promises to do.
1:03.2	Right.
1:04.2	Because I think that there is the theory of Michael Bloomberg,
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