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

Joining me today is Ezra Klein, Sarah is still in the magical land of New Zealand

So we are here, we're going to talk about the closing of the frontier and rugged individualism

Yes, we're going to talk about are you a rugged individual? Should you say I'm not I am neither rugged nor an honest

I'm like a like a soft collectivist

Fair enough

But we also want to talk about what's new in the tax bill and we want to talk sort of more broadly about

You know how to think about some of the the fiscal issues that that are posed by the

Not going with your your elite language. We want to talk about debt and deficits debt and deficits do debt do deficits matter always so much

Or maybe never we got to fix it maybe not an America, but so okay, so the tax bill it's on track to pass

I think it's going to pass the house like probably as we're recording and then the Senate the next day

But it's it's locked and loaded they they have the votes. They don't even need John McCain's vote

It's good to go you should know John McCain who's at home sick. Yes, and why don't they need John McCain's vote?

Because John Cornex who earlier objected to the bill for in Bob Corker Bob sorry because Bob Corker who earlier objected to the bill

They all have the same view the deficit too much they do

He changed his mind even though the new bill is different in quite a few ways

But it does not increase the deficit by less. I want to put a pin probably increases it by more on a put a pin in court

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