LanguaTalk

Explain It to Me

Should I buy a house? Why do I say “like” so much? Should Gen Z bother to save for retirement?Explain It to Me is the hotline for the issues that matter to your life. Send us your questions about health, personal finance, relationships, and anything else that matters to you. Host Jonquilyn Hill will take you on a journey to find the answers, whether it's to the halls of Congress or the local bar. You’ll get the answers you were looking for, and sometimes ones you didn't expect — and always with a dose of humor. New episodes every Sunday...

Trump Family (Tax) Values

57 mins; April 16, 2019

How Canada got Medicare-for-all done

56 mins; April 12, 2019

The Purge: DHS

55 mins; April 09, 2019

Attack of the clone bills

52 mins; April 05, 2019

Learning from Norway's lesbian mothers

49 mins; April 02, 2019

Infrastructure Week (and Farm Week and Teacher Week)

42 mins; March 29, 2019

Mueller's investigation is over. Obamacare repeal isn't.

55 mins; March 26, 2019

Should presidential candidates get into the weeds?

51 mins; March 22, 2019

The reparations primary

55 mins; March 19, 2019

Live Weeds with Julián Castro

64 hours 10 mins; March 15, 2019

Introducing Switched on Pop

13 mins; March 13, 2019

Live Weeds with Pete Buttigieg

62 hours 33 mins; March 12, 2019

The long con

45 mins; March 08, 2019

But seriously, how are you going to pay for it?

55 mins; March 05, 2019

The Weeds fixes racism

56 mins; March 01, 2019

Amy Klobuchar and the Jill Robinson effect

53 mins; February 26, 2019

Day care for all!

58 mins; February 22, 2019

Collusion and the Mueller endgame

69 hours 48 mins; February 19, 2019

Emergency Weeds

61 hours 37 mins; February 15, 2019

What’s the best way to help the poor?

58 mins; February 12, 2019

WTF, VA?

45 mins; February 08, 2019

Do we need private insurance?

50 mins; February 05, 2019

House Democrats’ plan to save democracy

58 mins; February 01, 2019

Elizabeth Warren and the Two-Income Trap

58 mins; January 29, 2019

The end of the shutdown

63 hours 35 mins; January 25, 2019

Investigating ER bills and SNAP fraud

54 mins; January 22, 2019

You can't eat you principles for dinner

56 mins; January 18, 2019

Taxing the rich

59 mins; January 15, 2019

Tucker Carlson vs the free market

59 mins; January 11, 2019

Ask Weeds Anything

58 mins; January 08, 2019

New year, no government

64 hours 54 mins; January 04, 2019

Classic Weeds: The great white panic

69 hours 53 mins; January 01, 2019

The Weeds Year-End Spectacular

56 mins; December 28, 2018

Congress actually did something important

61 hours 31 mins; December 21, 2018

Bernie and Biden and Beto, oh my!

49 mins; December 18, 2018

A big, beautiful podcast about the border wall

57 mins; December 14, 2018

A Weeds farewell to Paul Ryan

55 mins; December 11, 2018

Pod Save the US-Saudi alliance?

46 mins; December 07, 2018

Midwest Republicans lost in 2018 — but they’re not giving up power

52 mins; December 04, 2018

Mexico was the wall all along

58 mins; November 30, 2018

The many flavors of Medicare-for-all

57 mins; November 27, 2018

The Impact: How do you make education funding fair?

34 mins; November 23, 2018

The future of conservatism is being forged in California

59 mins; November 20, 2018

Facebook is bad, please join our Facebook group

60 hours 12 mins; November 16, 2018

Jeff Sessions is gone but not forgotten

54 mins; November 09, 2018

About last night

56 mins; November 07, 2018

Seattle’s plan to save democracy

54 mins; November 06, 2018

Bad for the Jews

58 mins; November 02, 2018

Operation Win the Midterms

62 hours 29 mins; October 31, 2018

Republicans’ health care message: Lie a lot

64 hours 21 mins; October 30, 2018

Our elections are being hacked

48 mins; October 26, 2018

What's next for House Democrats?

47 mins; October 24, 2018

Cory Booker’s plan to close the racial wealth gap

54 mins; October 23, 2018

Trump versus the Caravan

59 mins; October 19, 2018

Republicans run everything, and they’re mad as hell

45 mins; October 17, 2018

America’s moral failure on climate

59 mins; October 16, 2018

I’mma let you finish

61 hours 21 mins; October 12, 2018

As tough as Texas

39 mins; October 10, 2018

The craziest Obamacare lawsuit yet

63 hours 38 mins; October 09, 2018

Alexa, raise the minimum wage

53 mins; October 05, 2018

When women run

44 mins; October 03, 2018

Death to NAFTA! Long live USMCA!

55 mins; October 02, 2018

Do Republicans even care if Kavanaugh is guilty?

48 mins; September 28, 2018

What Sarah learned on parental leave

56 mins; September 25, 2018

What could stop the next Botham Jean?

56 mins; September 21, 2018

#MeToo goes to the Supreme Court

68 hours 35 mins; September 18, 2018

Can Elon Musk save Tesla from himself?

53 mins; September 14, 2018

I am the Resistance inside The Weeds podcast

77 hours 26 mins; September 11, 2018

Colin Kaepernick, the most important election issue in the world

48 mins; September 07, 2018

What’s at stake in the midterms

55 mins; September 04, 2018

America picked a lousy time to turn its back on refugees

51 mins; August 31, 2018

John McCain vs. the idea of John McCain

64 hours 18 mins; August 28, 2018

The art of the squeal

57 mins; August 24, 2018

Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save/destroy capitalism

68 hours 26 mins; August 21, 2018

We’re not gonna pay rent

55 mins; August 17, 2018

Lordy, Omarosa has tapes

59 mins; August 14, 2018

#FakeScience

46 mins; August 10, 2018

The Great Twitter Wars of 2018

72 hours 11 mins; August 07, 2018

Paul Manafort, alleged ostrich-collar criminal

63 hours 4 mins; August 03, 2018

The great white panic

70 hours 20 mins; July 31, 2018

“Mission Accomplished,” trade war edition

47 mins; July 27, 2018

What Republicans can do on Trump and Russia

61 hours 27 mins; July 24, 2018

It’s surprisingly easy to get away with murder in America

49 mins; July 20, 2018

There’s collusion, and then there’s collusion

59 mins; July 17, 2018

Republicans' plan for health care: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

48 mins; July 13, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh and the future of the Supreme Court

56 mins; July 10, 2018

1,2,3,4 Trump declares a trade war

49 mins; July 06, 2018

Family detention is the new family separation

59 mins; July 03, 2018

America’s Next Top Supreme Court Justice

48 mins; June 29, 2018

With borders wide open

46 mins; June 26, 2018

The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court

55 mins; June 22, 2018

Which children matter?

48 mins; June 19, 2018

Ask Weeds Anything...Again!

82 hours 11 mins; June 15, 2018

Why 12-step programs work — and family separation doesn’t

52 mins; June 12, 2018

Can we get tough on rapists without being “tough on crime”?

42 mins; June 08, 2018

Cake Wars, Supreme Court edition

43 mins; June 05, 2018

Trump isn’t losing immigrant kids, but he is taking them from their parents

52 mins; June 01, 2018

The debate over “no excuses” charter schools, explained

57 mins; May 29, 2018

Nobody has babies anymore (except Sarah)

51 mins; May 22, 2018

Caught in the Intellectual Dark Web

61 hours 53 mins; May 18, 2018

Click here to see more

Explain It to Me

Useful pages

Find a tutor

Languages