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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...

Drugs! (But not the fun kind)

60 hours 48 mins; May 15, 2018

The many scandals of Michael Cohen

79 hours 50 mins; May 11, 2018

Did you read the memo about the TPS reports?

58 mins; May 08, 2018

Should psychiatrists diagnose Trump? Should journalists?

50 mins; May 04, 2018

What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?

54 mins; May 01, 2018

Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained

51 mins; April 27, 2018

Speaker Ryan had a farm bill (E-I-E-I-O)

59 mins; April 24, 2018

Boiling the frogs of war

55 mins; April 20, 2018

Honor cults in the FBI and Norwegian military

64 hours 2 mins; April 17, 2018

All 👏 payer 👏 rate 👏 setting 👏

53 mins; April 13, 2018

The imprudent Scott Pruitt

53 mins; April 10, 2018

Sinclair’s alarming takeover of local TV news

48 mins; April 06, 2018

Is Donald Trump ruining the Census?

53 mins; April 03, 2018

The optimistic take is things have always been bad (Worldly crossover)

61 hours 54 mins; March 30, 2018

Is Facebook bad?

66 hours 45 mins; March 27, 2018

Cambridge Analytica: Scandal, hype, or both?

61 hours 3 mins; March 23, 2018

The opioid debate: could reversing overdoses worsen the epidemic?

45 mins; March 20, 2018

Abolish ICE

64 hours 37 mins; March 16, 2018

Trigger warning: Discussion of White House chaos and political correctness

68 hours 5 mins; March 13, 2018

Nickname fights and wildcat strikes

54 mins; March 09, 2018

Relief at last for America’s long-suffering banks

67 hours 4 mins; March 06, 2018

Guns, Weeds, and Steel

51 mins; March 02, 2018

Medicare for Many More

52 mins; February 27, 2018

The stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard

55 mins; February 23, 2018

It's finally infrastructure week

63 hours 2 mins; February 20, 2018

DACApocalypse in the Senate

68 hours 15 mins; February 16, 2018

The gender pay gap is mostly about children

69 hours 9 mins; February 13, 2018

The six-hour shutdown, explained

54 mins; February 09, 2018

What's up with Amazon's health venture — and the stock market

65 hours 59 mins; February 06, 2018

MS-13, explained

56 mins; February 02, 2018

The state of our podcast is strong

50 mins; January 31, 2018

The white genocide episode you’ve been waiting for

61 hours 43 mins; January 26, 2018

Shutdown deal special

47 mins; January 22, 2018

The Shutdown Special

55 mins; January 19, 2018

No one wants to take responsibility for sick kids or fake news

58 mins; January 16, 2018

Shithole special

58 mins; January 12, 2018

Lie back, light up, and enjoy some executive time

43 mins; January 09, 2018

Winter, explained

50 mins; January 05, 2018

Why is US life expectancy falling?

51 mins; January 02, 2018

The most undercovered policy stories of 2017

59 mins; December 29, 2017

Ask Weeds Anything!

54 mins; December 22, 2017

Tax reforms and garbage factories

56 mins; December 19, 2017

The Great Awokening comes to Congress

57 mins; December 15, 2017

Alabama senate special

54 mins; December 13, 2017

Is the FBI good now?

56 mins; December 08, 2017

Net neutrality, explained (Also! Why CVS is buying Aetna)

66 hours 10 mins; December 05, 2017

How the GOP is weaponizing the tax code

58 mins; December 01, 2017

Five big problems with the GOP tax plan

50 mins; November 28, 2017

A very Weeds Thanksgiving

49 mins; November 21, 2017

Tax reform special

61 hours 44 mins; November 17, 2017

Republicans’ Roy Moore problem

60 hours 12 mins; November 14, 2017

Virginia is for Democrats

72 hours 58 mins; November 10, 2017

The vaunted, versatile VAT

60 hours 8 mins; November 07, 2017

The tax bill's winners and many, many losers

57 mins; November 03, 2017

Indictment special! Plus: is Paul Ryan cowardly or courageous?

61 hours 59 mins; October 31, 2017

Purge 3: The Bannoning

46 mins; October 27, 2017

Republicans: "Math" means you have to cut taxes on the rich. Weeds: Nope.

59 mins; October 24, 2017

How immigration took over Virginia’s governor race

71 hours 44 mins; October 20, 2017

The Impact: The curious case of the $629 Band Aid

8 mins; October 18, 2017

How do you solve a problem like Harvey Weinstein?

61 hours 32 mins; October 17, 2017

Trump couldn't repeal Obamacare, so he's making it worse

67 hours 8 mins; October 13, 2017

CHIPping away at gerrymandering

65 hours 22 mins; October 10, 2017

Republicans have big dreams and big problems on tax reform

62 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2017

Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?

73 hours 23 mins; October 03, 2017

The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response

54 mins; September 29, 2017

What's budget reconciliation, and how did it eat the Senate?

68 hours 9 mins; September 26, 2017

Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment

82 hours 38 mins; September 22, 2017

The worst GOP healthcare bill yet

63 hours 54 mins; September 20, 2017

White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos

52 mins; September 15, 2017

BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBI

75 hours 25 mins; September 13, 2017

Weeds Live: Atul Gawande on opioids, end of life care, and rock and roll

67 hours 50 mins; September 08, 2017

Trump's art of the sabotage

64 hours 56 mins; September 06, 2017

Deferred action podcasting

74 hours 42 mins; September 01, 2017

The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disaster

68 hours 27 mins; August 30, 2017

Donald Trump vs the congressional GOP

50 mins; August 25, 2017

How the rich ate all the growth

49 mins; August 23, 2017

Statue limitations

56 mins; August 18, 2017

A very meritorious podcast

65 hours 50 mins; August 16, 2017

Can John Kelly fix the Trump administration? Can anyone?

65 hours 25 mins; August 11, 2017

Is Google in an "ideological echo chamber"?

78 hours 9 mins; August 09, 2017

The bacon fat theory of school segregation, and some White House chaos

54 mins; August 02, 2017

ACA repeal is finally dead (maybe)

50 mins; July 28, 2017

Skinny repeal and Trump's management by tweet

61 hours 28 mins; July 26, 2017

A deep dive on basic income

55 mins; July 21, 2017

At last, a Weeds about weed (also Obamacare)

64 hours 8 mins; July 19, 2017

McConnellCare II: Cruz Control

53 mins; July 14, 2017

Minimum wage research showdown (also Russia)

64 hours 15 mins; July 12, 2017

Understanding the opioid epidemic

47 mins; July 07, 2017

Trumpism and travel bans

60 hours 51 mins; July 05, 2017

Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to write a budget

45 mins; June 30, 2017

CB--Oh no this health care bill is terrible too

69 hours 33 mins; June 28, 2017

Senate Republicans' health care idea: Make the poor pay more for less

63 hours 39 mins; June 23, 2017

Georgia (and Obamacare repeal) on our minds

66 hours 5 mins; June 21, 2017

Trump’s “buck stops somewhere else” foreign policy

51 mins; June 16, 2017

Legends of the secret health care bill

64 hours 1 min; June 14, 2017

Infrastructure week (jk it's about Comey)

52 mins; June 09, 2017

Meet Sprinklecare

67 hours 56 mins; June 08, 2017

Jared Kushner: International man of mystery

59 mins; June 02, 2017

A platinum get out of jail free card

57 mins; May 31, 2017

Weeds in the Wild: Tennessee's Healthcare Bald Spot

19 mins; May 29, 2017

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