It's all good.

I found out we're serious desks, maybe.

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Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds

and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias.

Joining me today is Sarah Cliff.

Ezra is on vacation.

And we have a great show.

We got a good, good white paper about education

for you guys.

I'm going to talk a little bit about single-payer health care

and some of the sort of policy work on that side.

But obviously, I think the big news story of the past week

has been Hurricane Harvey and the incredible flooding

in Houston and in Virens.

And it's not a political story, obviously, whether happens.

But there are a lot of policy issues in play here

whenever you see not just disaster response,

but how we got here.

And with Houston, it's particularly telling

because the federal flood insurance program was actually

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