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Explain It to Me

The long con

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jane and Matt discuss Jacob Wohl and the intermingling of grift and conservative politics. Jane's article on Jacob Wohl Iraqi dinar on YouTube Casey Newton's newsletter - The Interface We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3X6WMNF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I gotta go to a pediatrician appointment.

0:03.6

I feel like having small children is just either you are sick

0:06.4

or they are sick or you're trying to stop them for days.

0:08.3

Nobody is sick, it's just like a thing

0:10.2

and I'm just like trying to be a good dad now.

0:12.9

But anyway.

0:14.7

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Bucks Media Podcast Network.

0:32.0

I'm Matthew Eglaceus, Hugh O'Jane Costin and a couple empty chairs

0:35.6

because life is complicated.

0:37.9

It is.

0:38.9

It continues to be a deeply complicated expression.

0:41.3

We've got a good topic for you.

0:42.7

I would not want to allow anybody else into this conversation

0:45.9

because it's so important.

0:48.1

It's critical.

0:49.1

And it's the question of scams or grift,

0:54.4

as I guess we call it,

0:55.6

flim flams.

0:56.6

But I think it's good to start with a specific case

0:59.8

that you wrote about recently.

1:01.4

And this is a young Jacob Wall who I'll say is not a person

1:06.0

who I have been super familiar with,

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