The Slingshot from Levees.Org
by Sandy Rosenthal
Community mobilizer Sandy Rosenthal––best known for exposing the culprit in a $200 billion engineering mistake––chats with an expert panel consisting of renowned satirist Rudy Vorkapic and engineer Stuart Lob about current events.
Episodes
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Episode 15: Katrina
In recognition of the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, The Slingshot from Levees.Org presents an hour-long special dedicated to the politics, consequences, and victims of the storm. Sandy. Rudy, and Stuart remember their own experiences during the disaster, and reflect on…
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Episode 14: One Month Prior
Sandy and Rudy chat about what life was like for them personally in 2005 ––one month before the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina. They also touch on the state of local and national politics during that month before the catastrophe. Created by Landry Bohn. Video version can be seen here:...
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Episode 13: Loyalists
Sandy, Stuart, and Rudy discuss the wipespread fealty that the Trump administration has enjoyed despite the controversial decisions it has made throughout 2025. Host: Sandy Rosenthal Executive producer: Landry Bohn Be sure to like, rate and subscribe on your favorite platforms. Video version can…
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Episode 12: Conservatives, Liberals, and Bob Marley
Rudy Vorkapic, Stuart Lob and Sandy Rosenthal examine labels like "Conservative" and "Liberal" and discuss what these increasingly-obscure terms have come to mean in 2025.
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Episode 11: Vanishing
Sandy and the panel discuss the detainment and deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the far-reaching consequences his deportation could have for America. Be sure to like, suscribe and rate this podcast! Video version can be seen here: https://youtu.be/2GyM3gaahxw
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Episode 10: The Floodgates
Stuart, Rudy and Sandy discuss the resignation of four board members upon the Governor's selection of its president and what this means for New Orleans' flood protection and the people who live behind them. Video version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIINC7UvkQ Be sure to like, subscribe...
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Episode 9: Foundations
Sandy, Rudy, and Stuart discuss the rapidly-changing landscape of American politics, and the necessity of hope for an uncertain future.
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Episode 8: Narrative Convenience
Regular panelists Sandy Rosenthal and Rudy Vorkapic chat with special guest Sandy Parker (New Orleans) about how the leadership at The Advocate newspaper refuses to issue a style guide change for Hurricane Katrina that includes mention of levee failure in New Orleans. Rudy Vorkapic, originally…
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Episode 7: Roads to Recovery
Sandy, Stuart and special guest Molly Horton (San Francisco) discusse the controversial passage of Proposition K in San Francisco, which has reimagined the former Great Highway as Ocean Beach Park. This measure invites conversation surrounding the necessity of reclaiming spaces for pedestrian…
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Episode 6: This Statement is False
Sandy chats with her co-hosts Stuart Lob and Rudy Vorkapic about Fact-Checking in light of Mark Zuckerberg's announcement to end meaningful fact checking on all Meta products. Be sure to rate, like and subscribe on your favorite platforms. Video version can be seen here: https://youtu.be/bKAC9e5QRU0
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Episode 5: The Bourbon Street Terrorist Attack
Sandy discusses with her co-hosts Rudy Vorkapic and Stuart Lob the somber opening to 2025; the Bourbon Street terrorist attack in New Orleans perpetrated by Shamsud-Din Jabbar in which fourteen people were killed and at least 57 others were injured. Be sure to like, rate and subscribe to this...
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Episode 4: The Gaffe
Sandy, Rudy, and Stuart examine an accounting blunder which is projected to cost the Orleans Parish public school system nearly $36M.
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Episode 3: Precedents
Sandy, Rudy, and Stuart discuss President Biden's controversial decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, and the consequences this decision may have moving forward.
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Episode 2: Commanders and Commandments
Guest star Harry Shearer returns to discuss the 2024 presidential election and House Bill 71, a new law in Louisiana which requires that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public-school classrooms.
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Episode 1: Milton, Helene, and Katrina
Sandy Rosenthal, Stuart Lob and Rudy Vorkapic discuss the consequences of Hurricane Milton in coastal Florida and Hurricane Helene in Asheville, as well as their respective similarities to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, nearly twenty years prior.
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Community mobilizer Sandy Rosenthal––best known for exposing the culprit in a $200 billion engineering mistake––chats with an expert panel consisting of renowned satirist Rudy Vorkapic and engineer Stuart Lob about current events.
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