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Who owns the oceans? · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot com? Are and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh. That's Chuck, Chuck, and we are
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  Speaker 1: happy to be here. Agreed. That was a terrible Chuck
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  Speaker 1: with a terrible point. You're the one that started. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. This is stuff you should know a
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  Speaker 1: k a. The Happy Pirate Hour, right right, um, although
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  Speaker 1: we're not pirates and they's never run an hour, but Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: the reason I said argue is because I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: know if you knew about these, uh, these pirates in Somalia.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard about this? I read a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about that was the summer or was it in the fall?
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's still going on, but yeah, this passing this
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  Speaker 1: past summer and fall, they were at their peak. They
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  Speaker 1: got they captured a hundred million dollars with the Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Oil Um. They captured a cargo vessel with thirty Russian
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  Speaker 1: tank on it. They've been making millions of dollars holding
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  Speaker 1: these things for ransom. They're getting increasingly sophisticated. The British
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  Speaker 1: Navy went head to head with um, like a small
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  Speaker 1: fishing boat of ten of them. UM. And after they
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  Speaker 1: finally captured these guys, they went on board. They were
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  Speaker 1: assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers. Like these guys are
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  Speaker 1: there like modern day pirates. It's in a weird but
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of cool. But at the same time, pirates,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they should they should send Bill Murray. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see The Life Aquatic? Yes, pirates, modern modern pirates
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  Speaker 1: in that movie, and they had forgotten about that aspect.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I picture actually really, yeah, but that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what they're like. You know. It's not the days
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  Speaker 1: of the skull and crossbones and well no, not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: There's very few peg legs aboard these ships, I imagine.
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  Speaker 1: But actually Africa has long been a place for piracy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this goes back centuries. Actually red Beards. They
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  Speaker 1: were actually two brothers, the brothers Barbarossa. They established piracy
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  Speaker 1: and other in Africa. Um. They were Turks and they
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  Speaker 1: were battling the Spanish Christians across the way, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of really evil deeds done to one
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  Speaker 1: another from both sides. Actually, I'm a black Beard guy,
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  Speaker 1: are you? He was didn't he various his his booty.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in the outer banks? Uh, maybe not too far away.
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  Speaker 1: I know that that Discovery Channel showed Treasure quest like
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  Speaker 1: all these modern day treasure hunters they can it's gotten
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  Speaker 1: much more sophisticated, and they're starting to find a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these shipwrecks with tons of lute. So finding uh
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  Speaker 1: old pirates is becoming as as sophisticated as modern pirates are.
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  Speaker 1: You know the correlations, Yeah, although correlation is not causation, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I that's what I've learned. Okay, So these
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  Speaker 1: pirates were really having it free and easy, um, and
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  Speaker 1: they were being they were very successful. Um. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why is because nobody wanted to capture
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  Speaker 1: him because they didn't who would prosecute them? Well, right,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're acting like they own the oceans. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: number one, their country doesn't have a functioning central government
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  Speaker 1: right now, it hasn't since the nineties, right, But number two,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, and I'm so sorry to step all
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  Speaker 1: over your segue because it's so good. Do you want
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  Speaker 1: to say it again, Josh, they're acting as if they
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  Speaker 1: own the oceans. You know what, Chuck? They do in
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  Speaker 1: a sense, and so do you, So do you, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: and so do all of you out there in podcast land.
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  Speaker 1: We all own the oceans. It is the heritage of
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  Speaker 1: all mankind, as the UN puts it. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that a little later. But yeah, So these Somali pirates
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  Speaker 1: are being shuffled around from nation to nation. Kenya's prosecuting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them, but really it's not clear whether
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  Speaker 1: that anybody has jurisdiction over them, right, um, But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we all own the oceans, right and the waters
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  Speaker 1: off of Somalia have been declared the High Seas, which
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  Speaker 1: makes them international waters, which means everybody owns them. There
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  Speaker 1: are portions of the ocean that bowl that not everyone owns,
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  Speaker 1: right the right, So you want to talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about the history. All of this is just so cryptic.
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  Speaker 1: Let's really get down to the nuts and bolts here.
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  Speaker 1: Sure they they figured this out over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the past, what a couple of hundred years? Well, there
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  Speaker 1: there have been treaties dating back to the ancient Romans.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, but they were very localized in regional This
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  Speaker 1: is like the oceans. But yeah, that's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: hundred years. Yes, I guess the first one was the
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of the Seas Doctrine a k a. The Law
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  Speaker 1: of the sea right. Not to be confused with the
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  Speaker 1: custom of the sea, which was basically protocol for cannibalism
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  Speaker 1: during a shipwright and not to be confused with chicken
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  Speaker 1: of the sea, which is which and not Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: not chicken. Uh. Yeah. So the Freedom of the Seas
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  Speaker 1: doctrine was kind of the first one, and basically that
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  Speaker 1: granted exclusive rights, uh for a three mile buffer of
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  Speaker 1: ocean that abutted your coastline. Right, And we still have those.
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  Speaker 1: It's called territorial seas right, but it's expanded quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit since it has UM. And but the the territorial
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  Speaker 1: see whether it's a three miles or um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: however many miles it is now, which will get too
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  Speaker 1: later we don't want to ruin the surprise and how
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  Speaker 1: how far off shore a territorial sea goes now, But
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  Speaker 1: basically it's um. It's an extension of the sovereign soil
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  Speaker 1: of a nation, a coastal nation. UM. So if a
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  Speaker 1: ship sails into that and they're acting a little belligerent,
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  Speaker 1: they want to shoot their cannons off or whatever, that's
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  Speaker 1: an active war. It's it's tantamount to invading that nation soil, right,
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  Speaker 1: And that actually got us into a couple of wars, right,
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  Speaker 1: it did. We we took not the big one, that's
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  Speaker 1: World War two, No, World War one, World War one.
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  Speaker 1: War of eighteen twelve. World War one was the sinking
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  Speaker 1: of the Lusitania UM. And one of the reasons that
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  Speaker 1: drewis in is because an attack on another country's vessels
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  Speaker 1: in international waters, which is everything outside of the um
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  Speaker 1: the territorial waters, which is most of the ocean, right um,
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  Speaker 1: that is an active war as well. So British the
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  Speaker 1: British vessels capturing American sailors provoked the War of eighteen twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lusitania being sunk by the Germans is Germans um.
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  Speaker 1: That was that was what caused World War one in
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  Speaker 1: large part. After that, the United States, I love that
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  Speaker 1: we were the ones that said, you know what, three
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  Speaker 1: miles isn't gonna cut it. We want two hundred miles.
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  Speaker 1: And in ninety five we just kind of declared that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Great Sea Grab of forty five I like to
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  Speaker 1: call it, basically what happened um for three hundred years
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  Speaker 1: the law of the sea. It was in uh unofficial agreement,
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  Speaker 1: an unofficial treat So the fact that it lasted three
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  Speaker 1: years is pretty significant. But by one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: that lasted so long is because we didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: capabilities to draw things like oh, I don't know, oil,
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  Speaker 1: natural gas, huge commercial fishing operations were up yet. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But by the mid twentieth century we started to develop
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  Speaker 1: these capabilities, and so under pressure from oil company these UM,
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  Speaker 1: Truman actually just said, you know what, UM, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to unilaterally extend the US's territorial waters two hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: from three miles to two d miles. I got a
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  Speaker 1: stat for you, I want to hear it. Speaking of oil, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, we were only pulling out less than
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  Speaker 1: one million tons of oil per year from the ocean, right,
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  Speaker 1: from all the oceans combined. Right, that's right. And by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the nineteen sixties, which you know nine
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  Speaker 1: that that much further along, almost four hundred million tons
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  Speaker 1: per year. Right, So these things had had increased in value.
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  Speaker 1: Our sophistication and removing them from the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: sea had increased, right, Um, And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: instead of just some ships passing, you know, loaded with
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  Speaker 1: cigarettes for going from one country to another. That this
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  Speaker 1: was the sea became a really much a much busier
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  Speaker 1: place because by that ton Yeah, that's because there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money to be had, agreed. I have another
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  Speaker 1: stat I want to hear. Uh. In two thousand four,
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  Speaker 1: which was a short time ago, the United States alone
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  Speaker 1: UH generated sixty three billion dollars worth of wages paid
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  Speaker 1: out for oceanic activities. So in just one year in
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  Speaker 1: just the United States. Absolutely wow. So let's say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so it is it's big business, right, big time. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine that's probably worth even more now with with
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine how much oil we're drawing out now
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  Speaker 1: four years later, it's probably yeah, a lot more so. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So clearly everybody kind of wants as much of these
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  Speaker 1: resources as they can get. Which was the two hundred
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  Speaker 1: mile sea grab that the US kicked off, A whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of other countries followed suit immediately. It was just
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  Speaker 1: a mess. Right, well they're doing it, I want yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so um and a lot of these overlapped you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, think of Cuba, because not two
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles from the US. So there's all there's just
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  Speaker 1: a big mess, lots of ramification. And because it was
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  Speaker 1: an informal treaty, the Law of the Sea, UM, nobody
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  Speaker 1: could say anything really right. Even worse now that we're
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  Speaker 1: drawing all these resources out the in over fishing, in
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  Speaker 1: commercial fisheries, UM, nobody wants. Everybody wants the resources, but
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants the responsibility of taking care of the oceans,
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  Speaker 1: right and over fishing is a huge problem right now.
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  Speaker 1: So right sure, And and one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: is because of that there weren't any um any you know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess treaties with teeth in place until yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: the Maltese ambassador of the U n one Arvid Pardo,
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  Speaker 1: finally stood up and said, wait, we must do something
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  Speaker 1: about this is out of hand. Everybody's going nuts. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at you United States, UM. And he suggested that
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  Speaker 1: they have a convention, and what came out of that
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  Speaker 1: was the Convention of the Law of the Sea right
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  Speaker 1: and makes a lot of you know, I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: it took a that long to officially do this. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: that he he said it in sixty seven. In the
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  Speaker 1: convention UH was finally ratified in eighty two and then
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  Speaker 1: didn't come into force until ninety four, So it took
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  Speaker 1: that long just to get this thing. Well that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the u n for you. They're not a fast
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  Speaker 1: moving body, you know, is what they are kind of.
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  Speaker 1: So at least they did this, thank you to Mr Pardo.
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  Speaker 1: By the way. Yes, and one of one of the
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  Speaker 1: it had several um provisions to it. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that did was it it um codified the law
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  Speaker 1: of the sea, the territorial sea, well, the law of
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  Speaker 1: the see the original treaty, the original agreement that number one,
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  Speaker 1: the oceans really belonged to everybody. Um. It it um
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  Speaker 1: set up an international maritime tribunal for complaints and you know,
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  Speaker 1: um doling out revenge that kind of thing. Um. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: it also is that well also we finally get to
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  Speaker 1: that that mystery fact. You ready. It extended territorial waters
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  Speaker 1: from three miles to twelve nautical miles, which is thirteen
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  Speaker 1: point eight regular land miles, right, which are my favorite
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  Speaker 1: kind of miles. Don't even ask me how many kilometers
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  Speaker 1: that is because I'm an American. Um, So we don't
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  Speaker 1: we don't play that way. No, we don't we're the
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  Speaker 1: only people in the world who don't too. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember when I remember when I was in elementary school
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  Speaker 1: the metric system. You know, we had to study it
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  Speaker 1: because we're gonna go to the metric system very very soon.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I remember that I was in the womb. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what a joke, So nice chuck by American. UM. One
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  Speaker 1: of the other things that it did was established exclusive
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  Speaker 1: economic zones. Right, you want to talk about these, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: eas s Basically, UM, if territory of waters extend our
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  Speaker 1: states laws to rights of defense, eases basically are our
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  Speaker 1: right to resources. Right, we're talking what we were just saying,
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  Speaker 1: fisheries oilll that kind of thing. And how far do
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  Speaker 1: they go? They go two hundred miles, so that's really substantial,
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  Speaker 1: right and and uh so basically it said, okay, you
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  Speaker 1: can have you can attack somebody if they come within
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  Speaker 1: twelve nautical miles of your shore. You can't attack anybody
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  Speaker 1: out there, but if there's somebody mining in your easy,
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  Speaker 1: you can come to the International Tribune and we'll doll
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  Speaker 1: out some revenge for you. Right. Um. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people already had basically what amounted to an easy
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  Speaker 1: and after the after the sea grab of n And
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  Speaker 1: basically they were using the continental slope as the as
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  Speaker 1: the boundary, right, because that's where there's a continental shelf
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  Speaker 1: that goes from shore to the continental slope. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a relatively shallow like six fifty feet or something,
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  Speaker 1: which doesn't sound shallow to me. But once it hits
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  Speaker 1: the slope, you're talking about it going miles down right.
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  Speaker 1: That's frightening to me, right, And I also I want
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  Speaker 1: to make a prediction here, Chuck. Once our technology to
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  Speaker 1: remove natural resources advances enough that we can get it
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  Speaker 1: out of the you know, areas in the continental slope,
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  Speaker 1: there will be yet another sea grab. They'll push it
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  Speaker 1: out even for there agreed at some point they may
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  Speaker 1: just push it out so far that they all connect. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know that this is good? This is going on
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  Speaker 1: right now, is it? There is another sea grab going
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  Speaker 1: on around the Arctic circle thanks to our friend climate change,
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  Speaker 1: which I think we used to call it global warming,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't pan out, right, Okay, So climate change
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  Speaker 1: is actually starting to melt the polar ice caps, and
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  Speaker 1: there's an estimated of what remains of the world's natural
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  Speaker 1: gas and oil reserves locked under that ice. The ice
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  Speaker 1: is starting to unlock, so all of a sudden, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: the US, Russia, Norway, I think, Sweden, Denmark, Denmark, they're
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  Speaker 1: all trying to claim um exclusive economic rights to those
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  Speaker 1: and there's basically a race going on, and we're everyone's
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  Speaker 1: using geology now they're they're kind of following the UN's convention.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, the polar Bear, Yeah, no, I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: not true. People do care, but they're disappearing because of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the ice caps melt. It's sad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're not gonna have too many places to go very soon,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine. No, And it affects there. I was just
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  Speaker 1: writing about. This is why I brought it up. But
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  Speaker 1: it affects their migrating patterns and their ability to hunt
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  Speaker 1: because they hunt from you know, perched on the ice caps.
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  Speaker 1: They get the seals. Oh yeah, no ice, no hunting.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing to Josh we wanted to mention, or
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention, was straights. I love straights. They're
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  Speaker 1: my favorite body of water right, And it's tricky area
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  Speaker 1: because straits are usually um more narrow than the twelve
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  Speaker 1: mile territorial sea rule. So if you have straits that
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  Speaker 1: go between you know, like a five mile straight going
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  Speaker 1: between two countries. What do you do? Uh, you claim
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  Speaker 1: it as international water. That's the only fair thing to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And that was actually part of the custom and no sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the original right, Yeah, that was that the Convention on
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  Speaker 1: the Law of the Sea from the UN said, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna stick with that through Yeah, pretty cool, agreed, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: So Chuck, you know you might be thinking at this point, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is all well and good for coastal nations, what
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  Speaker 1: about landlocked nations? What about Luxembourg? You know what, Luxembourg
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  Speaker 1: has every right to the international waters as you and
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  Speaker 1: I do. Yes, but how does that help them with oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, things like shipping their landlocked right. Shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: they have some sort of access through their coastal neighbors
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  Speaker 1: territorial waters, unfettered, unmolested. I think so. And I bet
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  Speaker 1: you're about to tell me that they do. They do?
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  Speaker 1: They do? Um, that's uh. I believe that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Um
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  Speaker 1: that you have to gain you have to allow them
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  Speaker 1: access through your territorial waters to the coast. Um if
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  Speaker 1: your coastal nation, uh, and you can't tax them, you
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  Speaker 1: can't levy tariffs. Basically, it's trying to make it fair. Right.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is is if you are a landlocked country,
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  Speaker 1: it sucks for you. There's all sorts of figures and
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  Speaker 1: statistics that basically show that, especially developing countries they're called UM,
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  Speaker 1: they're called l l d c's landlocked developing countries. They
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  Speaker 1: can't get a leg up because that's there's so many
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  Speaker 1: resources in the ocean that they can't get access to. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just that you remember you said that that
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  Speaker 1: the U s has sixty three billion dollars made from
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  Speaker 1: uh just just aquatic maritime activities. Yeah, right, okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: just wages, right, not not not including economic stimulus of
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  Speaker 1: any kind. UM. But it's not just that people in
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  Speaker 1: landlock developing countries have a life expectancy of about three
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  Speaker 1: and a half years less on average than their coastal
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  Speaker 1: neighbors who are of the same developmental progress yep UM
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  Speaker 1: they have, they make about three times less salary on average,
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  Speaker 1: and UM their volume of trade is about sixty less
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  Speaker 1: than their their coastal neighbors. UM. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: examples I read about was UM the Central African Republic,
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  Speaker 1: which is a landlocked Western African nation. It costs thirteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars to then a shipping container to that country,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the standard ones that go from like train
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  Speaker 1: to ship to whatever. To send it to the Ivory coast,
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  Speaker 1: which is their coastal neighbor. Right there, cost three thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So as a result, landlocked Western African nations are making
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  Speaker 1: about twelve percent of what their coastal neighbors are and
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  Speaker 1: importing exporting revenues. Right. It's a shame, Josh, that these
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  Speaker 1: landlocked countries can't partner up with the coastal nations and
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  Speaker 1: you know, work out some kind of a trade deal,
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  Speaker 1: like maybe they have better land for growing acrop inland.
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  Speaker 1: And in the spirit of you know, global economy, you
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  Speaker 1: should be president of the world, Chuck. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a fine idea. Um. I have another question, Josh. I
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  Speaker 1: was looking at you know, they've got some underwater hotels
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  Speaker 1: and now I'll be heard of these. Ah it rings
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  Speaker 1: a bell, but I think that maybe from a Simpsons episode.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's actually real. They have one in Dubai that's uh.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I believe it's opening very soon called hydropolis. You know,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Dubai does it all this crazy? I know they're They've
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: got really great imagining. And there's another one off the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: coast of Fiji to set open next year called the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Poseidon Undersea Resort. And these are big, big money. We're
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: talking like fift hundred bucks a night for a room
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and think about the insurance. Uh. These are off the coast,
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  Speaker 1: so they're within the territorial area. But my question, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I don't have an answer, but my question is, these
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: are private companies opening these things up, so technically they're
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: on the land below the sea that belongs to that country.
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder if they had to work out a deal,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: like whoever opened up hydropolists had to work out a
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: deal with the Dubai government. We want this little parcel
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  Speaker 1: of land under the water to build something to create
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of revenue, and what kind of rent do
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: we need to pay? Yeah, they probably have a lease, Um,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: like I guess an oil company would have for offshore drilling. Okay,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I guess it makes sense. You know, it's probably very
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: long and expensive. Interesting stuff. Yeah, Okay, one last thing
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I don't I think we would be remiss in getting
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  Speaker 1: out of this podcast. If we didn't name the five oceans,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: can you name a Chuck, it's not in the article. Well, Josh,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: technically it's all one big ocean because it's all connected. Yes, nice,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: try Chuck, you want to try naming the five os
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I probably can't do. This is embarrassing. I let's say, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: How many other five? And there's one more you've got?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You got one more to go Arctic in um. Oh,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: like it's southern. Yes, it is the Southern Ocean. That's
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: what's called. Yeah, who knew? Yeah, I had no idea.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I thought there were only four. Oh wow, there's three
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: continents though, right, well, well we all just soak in
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: chuck shame. Um, we're going to uh it's a deep pool,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: my friends. I think we should go to listen to.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Mail gets you out of this one next. So it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a great time for listening. So, Josh, this week, we
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: have a couple of things. We have one I'm just
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: gonna call correction coup. This is a correction with the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: high coup, which is oh nice that we love these.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have an exceptional listener, Mail Lee Santel
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  Speaker 1: or Santelli I'm not sure rot us in with the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: correction coup about just the one re released the other
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  Speaker 1: day about Niagara Falls, and you likend a rebreather or
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to scuba equipment. You probably knew you were wrong as
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: soon as it came out of your mouth. No, I thought,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that's the piece that goes in your mouth, No, Josh. Apparently,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a scuba buoyancy control device or b c D exhales
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the same carbon dioxy dioxide that the user exhales, which
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: bubbles to the surface. A rebreather recycles a portion that
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the user exhales, and the usable ox reusable oxygen is
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: rebreathe So basically, um, with a rebreather, you have no bubbles,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: which is why the Navy seals exactly. And I think
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that's what I was referencing, was Navy seal scuba equipment,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: not you know, Joe schmob scuba. Of course in that case,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you were right. And Lee, thanks for nothing, No, just kidding.
• 20:50
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