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Explain It to Me

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Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Education, Society & Culture, Politics

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Libby Nelson and German Lopez join Matt to discuss the politics and history of Confederate monuments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a no fun podcast.

0:01.6

Life is miserable.

0:02.8

No fun allowed.

0:03.6

MUSIC

0:17.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds

0:18.9

on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:21.0

I'm Matthew Glacias, and joining me today

0:23.4

is Hermann Lopez, a recent star of our opioids episode,

0:28.1

and Libby Nelson, who has nothing with us for a little while.

0:31.6

It's been a little bit.

0:33.0

I've been editing, and so I've had nothing

0:34.4

interesting to talk about.

0:35.3

But here I am.

0:36.2

Well, because you had a lot of classic Confederate flag

0:39.8

content that has become relevant again in a weird way.

0:44.6

And I want to say at the outset,

0:46.1

I would like to talk about the question

0:48.7

of Confederate statues, monuments, and sort of,

0:52.1

I don't know, historical memory and commemoration.

0:54.2

I think that's an intellectually interesting subject.

0:57.7

But I also do want to put a pin in the slight bait and switch

1:01.8

that's being enacted here, which is that what Donald Trump did

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