Speaker Ryan had a farm bill (E-I-E-I-O)

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Sarah, Dara and Matt discuss a Republican farm bill that would impose work requirements on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) beneficiaries. Then they turn to a white paper on OxyContin and the heroin epidemic. References and further reading: Good Politico article summarizing the farm bill Marion Nestle's piece on the farm bill White paper on OxyContin's impact on the heroin epidemic German Lopez's piece on the OxyContin white paper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If we don't call this episode, the Farm Bill is a giant corn fritter, I quit.
0:03.4	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:21.2	I'm Matthew Glacias here with Darryl Lind and Sarah Cliff.
0:25.0	We are ready to talk about the Farm Bill.
0:28.8	I have mostly been humming to myself.
0:30.6	I've heard you have a song about the Farm Bill, Matt.
0:32.7	Yeah, but this is, well, you know, it's not, this is not the daily podcast, but you know,
0:36.5	I've just been, been humming to myself, Speaker Ryan had a Farm Bill.
0:40.7	E-I-E-I-O. And in that Farm Bill, he had some work requirements.
0:45.4	E-I-E-I-O.
0:47.0	And I just want to say this is not for show.
0:48.6	I sit next to Matt in our newsroom and he has been quietly singing this to himself for
0:52.6	about a week or so.
0:54.0	It's not cut here.
0:55.0	I'm a snap cut there.
0:56.0	Here cut, there cut.
0:58.0	Everywhere a snap cut.
0:59.0	Speaker Ryan had a Farm Bill.
1:01.3	Anyway, if I drop out of this conversation at any time during this podcast, please assume
1:04.9	that I'm working on a version of that that scans better.
1:07.1	God damn it.
1:08.1	Wow, that's some serious shame.
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