Hey friends this is V. Spear and today we've got a special episode of the American

Fever Dream podcast presented by Betches News. As you know it's Thursday

morning last night one of the most catastrophic hurricanes

to ever hurricane hit the coast of Florida.

And as we're waking up, you're probably starting to look for news and answers.

We will have that for you throughout the day. This

podcast was recorded on Wednesday at 7 p.m. We were lucky to have the opportunity

to speak with the White House to just understand their method for preparing for the storm and hopefully give us a little bit of peace of mind that no matter what happens tonight

there is a plan to rebuild stronger and to help the people who are in need of help.

So now we'll chat with Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Caitlin Dirkovich,

who is one of the White House leads on the Hurricane Milton response.

She's the gal behind the scenes working on detection, prevention,

mitigation response to and recovery from natural and man-made disasters.

I'm happy that she's here with us today.

Caitlin, welcome to the show. Thanks for being here.

B, thanks for having me. So folks have a lot of questions, you know, about this work, what exactly your job is, what brought you to this work. Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got here?

Absolutely. I am the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor for Resilience and Response for President Biden.

I arrived here and I took somewhat of a windy path to get where I am today but in part it is because I believe in

helping people in their greatest time of need.

I started off after college in politics.

I did a lot of work around the internet and around cybersecurity, but that isn't what got me up out of bed every morning.

What got me out of bed was making a difference in people's lives.

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