The Shutdown Special

Explain It to Me

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Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A few hours before a looming shutdown, DC is a very postmodern place. Referenced works: Dara on the DACA situation Dylan Matthew on past shutdowns Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences by Julian Zelizer How the National Parks Became the Biggest Battleground in the Shutdown from The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So well, just people got to listen to this on their drive home today.
0:03.2	Yeah.
0:03.7	Don't wait till Saturday.
0:05.7	Yeah.
0:20.7	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:24.2	I'm Matthew Glacias.
0:25.5	Joining me today is Darlin, of course.
0:28.3	And we do not have anyone else because the relevant people are still on Capitol Hill,
0:35.0	because the potential of chaos, the whole idea of what's going to happen between
0:43.4	when we are saying these words and when you will hear these words.
0:46.4	We do know that as of right now, we are several hours from a government shutdown.
0:51.0	And so our goal today is to explain to you how we got to several hours from a government
0:57.2	shutdown and what that means.
0:58.9	And hopefully this will be worth it to you regardless of what has happened when you hear
1:02.3	this.
1:03.3	But so just to have the full context is right now 10 o' 8 a.m. Eastern time, government
1:08.5	funding expires at 11.59 p.m. Eastern time today.
1:13.8	So we are operating with the knowledge.
1:17.5	There's a lot of known unknowns, but this is the weeds.
1:19.8	And we think that we can we can bring to light some some relevant information, help you
1:24.4	understand some known.
1:25.4	And how how we have come to this, this pretty pass.
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