The following recording may or may not include instances of words being said that the FCC would find me for if their long arm could ever reach.

It's Thursday, May 30th, 2019 from Slated to the GIST.

I'm Mike Pesca, there is flooding in Arkansas, but how much flooding?

NBC News went with the pool metaphor.

At the Keystone Dam, the Army Corps of Engineers trying to manage the water by increasing the flow to the equivalent of 180 Olympic-sized swimming pools a minute.

Ah, Olympic swimming pools. Now I can get my mind around it. I can easily visualize how much water it takes to fill an Olympic swimming pool.

I've done it myself many times with a garden hose. Thanks NBC News.

But you know, if it's 180 Olympic swimming pools per minute, well, QABC flooding from here in Oklahoma all the way down to Louisiana right now, they're pouring out enough water to fill more than three Olympic-sized swimming pools every second.

That is already flooded hundreds of homes down river.

Yes, division by 60. That is why ABC is the most trusted name in news comparing fluids to Olympic swimming pools is the volume-based size of Belgium comparison.

And as you know, I love it. But we should note that CBS did not make any reference to Olympic-sized swimming pools.

So we are technically speaking at two Olympic-sized swimming pools per minute per network, which is a unit of volume divided by time over medium.

And you thought it was going to get all exercised about some drapery over a battleship. No, that is my gift to you today.

On the show today, I should be able to have the life-affirming rescue of and the forehead-slapping thought processes of that missing Hawaiian yoga teacher.

But first, Jim Sudo has had one of those multifaceted careers that sometimes peaks out as he's anchoring an hour on CNN.

But normally, you just look at the guy and say, oh, okay, well, spoken newsman doing his newsman job.

But Sudo is actually a policy expert, a former State Department official.

And now, the author of his second book about security issues, the Shadow War inside Russia and China's secret operations to defeat America,

Jim Sudo up next.

Hey, listener, you may have heard via your earbuds' car stereo smart speaker or immersive shower sound system that podcasts are the future.

We had Slate Think So 2, which is why we are hosting Slate Day in New York City on Saturday, June 8th.

The day starts with a performance by Ms. Cracker of RuPaul's Drag Race fame.

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