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Okay. Follow the town on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, media consumers. Welcome to PressBox. You've got Brian Curtis, you've got Joel Anderson, you've got producer Kyle Crichton. Everybody out there has seen the news about the horrific flooding in Central Texas. And despite the news coverage, six days later, it is still hard to understand just how big and awful this story is. As Joel and I speak today, 120 people

are confirmed dead. That includes 27 staffers and campers from Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas.

Beyond those numbers, as we speak more than 150 additional people are still missing.

Joel, you and I are both from Texas.

We decided to put aside the media intrigues of the week and devote today's show entirely

to this story.

I'll begin with a question.

How do you process a story that's filled with this much grief?

Man, well, I mean, we've, we're almost at a week out now.

And I think the one thing about it is usually with a story like this is that, you know,

there's sort of the devastation and then there's a recovery,

right? But this, I mean, as you just mentioned, 120 people are thought to be dead. There's

at least 150 more missing. So there's still the scale and scope of the tragedy continues to grow

with each passing day. So, I So, I just think the thing is,

it's just to be, you know, very sober in the analysis to be, you know, thankful that people

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