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Explain It to Me

The stimulus standoff

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt on the deadlock in congress and the VP debate. Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Erick Gomez, Schuyler Swenson (@SchuylerSwenson), and Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producers The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds This episode was brought to you by Novartis. To learn more about Cell and Gene Therapy visit vox.com/ad/novartis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Okay. That's this week on channels, wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Iglesias. I am here with Ezra Klein. I think what we really want to talk about today is the fiscal stimulus talks that may or may not be happening and sort of what that means for the American economy, for sort of the political

1:45.8

outlook for next year. But first, we are recording on Thursday the day after the vice

1:52.9

presidential debate. And I do think we should talk some about it. I mean, it would be,

1:58.1

it would be really weird, I think, occurrence in electoral politics

2:02.9

if a vice presidential debate turned out to be important for the outcome of the election.

2:08.1

That would be a strange thought process on the part of people's minds.

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