The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Monday, February 13, 2017 from Slate, it's the Gisdai Mike Pesca, and the Auroville

Dam is holding.

Rain is expected in a few days.

Almost 200,000 have been evacuated from the feather river region, but it seems like

the spillway will not erode, and hopefully tragedy will be averted.

Now I want you to know that 24 or 36 hours ago, I would not have recognized any of the

proper nouns in that sentence.

Did you know the Auroville Dam is the largest in America?

Really?

There's only one way for us to learn a fact like that, and it's not in a good way.

Like when we learned about the deadliest day since Antietam, and I didn't know, well,

what was the deadliest day?

Oh, it turns out it maybe it was Antietam, or you heard phrases like the deadliest disaster

since the general slocom.

Whenever you're learning about the deadliest day or worst loss of life in New York City,

the reason you're learning about it is not a good reason.

And it's the same thing with learning that the Auroville Dam was the tallest, right?

We wouldn't have learned that because, hey, and we know that because it's getting a new

coat of paint, or the Auroville Dam's the tallest, as we know, from that Furell song,

or maybe because Steph Curry and Kevin Durant were always joking about the height of the

Auroville Dam in Warriors post-game press conferences.

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