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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Yesterday, Current Affairs published an article on the recent failure of two Michigan dams. In conjunction with this article, we thought we would release this bonus episode, originally aired in August 2019, in which Sparky and Vanessa interview the author, Varsha Venkatasubramanian (a.k.a. @varsha_venkat_). You can read the article here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/dammed-and-damned This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Welcome Bird Feed. Hello, everyone. This is Sparky Abraham, your finance editor. I am here with a
0:05.2	very exciting segment for you today. I'm really, really excited about it. I'm here with
0:09.7	Associate Editor Vanessa A.B. And we are extremely excited. We have Varsha Venkat, who, among other
0:16.0	things, is a graduate student at Berkeley studying international development, focusing on dams,
0:20.6	something close to my heart.
0:21.9	Sparky is drinking water.
0:23.4	Drinking water right now.
0:24.5	I'm getting in the mood.
0:26.0	Just getting in the zone of dams.
0:28.4	Versus also the co-host of the Hellbent podcast.
0:32.9	And I feel like we just want to talk to you about like dams and water and how much fun that is.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:38.4	First of all, let me just point out, I see that Sparky has a CFPB t-shirt.
0:42.9	That has to do with a consumer financial protection barrel, right?
0:45.6	That's what it stands for.
0:46.8	This is my former employer.
0:48.6	I stand that so hard because, okay, that is my favorite federal agency and it has been
0:54.0	a favorite federal agency since and it has been a favorite federal agency
0:54.9	since Elizabeth Warren created it, and she is my favorite person right now. So I just love that
0:59.8	t-shirt. I'm so jealous. Well, the Army Corps of Engineers isn't your federal agency? I don't
1:04.6	understand. So we'll get into this, but like, development is a double-edged sword, as it's pretty
1:10.1	fucking obvious. So, like, CFB is, like, a little bit double-edged sword, as it's pretty fucking obvious.
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