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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds, Fox's policy podcast on a Panoply Network.

I'm Matthew Iglesias and I'm really excited to be joined today by both of our regular

back, baby. Posts as recline and serclip, two wonderful, wonderful podcasters. It had seemed for

a little while like Sarah might be exiled to New Jersey this week. Luckily they let me stay in New

New Jersey. Yeah, so we are we are glad to have our escape from the clutches of the garden

states. I've been going through podcasting with Droll. Oh yeah. It's been two weeks. What does that

like? A lot of shakes. Talking to microphones whenever you talk to your microphones, like worrying

a lot about my vocal fry. Like I email myself about my vocal fry now. Yeah, it's weird. We've got to

work on it. Some day we'll do a we'll do a whole vocal fry episode, but you know right now it's

sort of it's the end of the year. I think a lot of people certainly at our company, but I think

around the country are looking at their benefit and romance and stuff for for the new year and

there's a lot of stories in the press lately about a topic. New year and dear to Sarah's heart,

health insurance premium. And as far as hard. And my heart, Quake, can I preview our two other

segments? Oh yeah, they are good. We're going to talk about the sort of escalating Islamophobia

in America in particular, obviously, as embodied by Donald Trump right now, but in a broader sense

too. And then we have a white paper in this case in academic paper the week that I'm really excited

about, which is about these really fascinating laboratory experiments showing that when you give

Republicans and Democrats a chance, they will discriminate against each other more often than

people of other race as well. So we will talk about that. And it is crazy fucking research. Wow,

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