Hi, this is Garrett. I'm riding a recumbent bicycle around the Faroe Islands.

And to keep track of what's going on back home, I listen to the NPR Politics

podcast, which is what you're hearing now. This episode was recorded at...

210 pm on October 7th 2021.

Things may have changed since the recording of the episode, but I'll still be out here in 70 mile

an hour winds getting very weird looks from the locals. All right, here's the show.

Franco, quick off the top of your head, do you know where the Faroe Islands are?

I was worried you would ask me some kind of question like that. I do not, but it sounds beautiful

and a little bit of scary on a bike ride. Good for Garrett, man. Good for Garrett.

All right, hello. It is the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtz-Layben. I cover demographics

and culture. And I'm Franco Ordonia's I cover the White House. And also we have a special guest today,

NPR correspondent Deb Amos. Hey Deb. Hey there. And today we are talking about the process of

resettling Afghan refugees in the United States. That process has begun with tens of thousands

of Afghan refugees being housed at US military bases around the country. So today we're going to talk

about how they might be resettled in the US. And let's start with you, Franco. You have been

reporting on this. You just interviewed former Delaware governor, Jack Markelle, who is in charge of

that resettlement. Let's start with the basics. What is his role in all of this? Yeah, I mean,

there are like so many different parts to this. It is sometimes hard to keep track of. What Markelle

does is he's in charge of basically what happens next, that transition that the Afghans will take from

life on the bases into the communities across the country where they will be living. How unusual

is what the US is trying to do right now? It's a huge lift. I mean, we're talking tens of

thousands of people arriving in the United States. This is actually the biggest resettlement of war

...