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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: You have a migraine or something. Um, I don't get migraines.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's good. I don't either. You just knocked on

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Speaker 1: your head. Yeah, there's no wood nearby. I bet this

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Speaker 1: is woodish. Yeah. Yeah, we're good. Um do you put

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Speaker 1: us together? And you've got a little podcast called Stuff

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Speaker 1: you Should Know? That's right. Yeah, you've been doing this

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Speaker 1: for four and I we bet we're very close. So

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Speaker 1: not bad. I know it's not bad. We're I guess

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Speaker 1: you could say we're um, we're starting to get our stride.

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Speaker 1: Wait for someone to come take the keys away and

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Speaker 1: send me in my room. And I think that this

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Speaker 1: aware that we're doing this any longer. Any importance actually listen,

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Speaker 1: So that's always good. But who listens is important? That's right.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point. So, Chuck, you ever seen the

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Speaker 1: movie Scarface? Yeah? You know, like the whole beginning part

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Speaker 1: where he comes to Miami from Cuba. So that was

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Speaker 1: based um on an actual historical event called the Merriel

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Speaker 1: boat Lift. Yeah, I think I knew that. So between um, well,

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Speaker 1: then sit back and listen up to something you already know.

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Speaker 1: Between April fifteen and Halloween, a hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 1: thousand Cubans we're basically allowed to leave Cuba. That's a lot.

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Speaker 1: And they were also allowed to enter the United States

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Speaker 1: for how long was there a window like from April

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Speaker 1: to um Halloween? So yeah, there are a lot, I

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Speaker 1: mean a lot of them came um and a it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a huge deal. They basically put everybody in jail.

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Speaker 1: Remember the Fulton County Federal Penitentiary where Scarface was the

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Speaker 1: real Scarface al Capone, um, just down in Grant Park.

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Speaker 1: They put a bunch of them there and there was

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Speaker 1: actually an uprising there and Delta Force had to come

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Speaker 1: reasons why they put everybody in jails because they wanted

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Speaker 1: to make sure that Castro wasn't just sending over the

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Speaker 1: dregs of his prisons. So, which would have been pretty smart. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So they actually interviewed everybody, and twenty three thousand of

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Speaker 1: them confessed to having a criminal record back in Cuba.

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Speaker 1: And that's really saying something because you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: like Cuba was going to send over these people's records.

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Speaker 1: Like this was self confessed. And I think that right

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Speaker 1: there basically kind of tells you about that person they're

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Speaker 1: trying to fit in. Right, Well, they let me come

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Speaker 1: clean exactly. Maybe if I come clean, you I can

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Speaker 1: stay here. Right, Yeah, let's say that that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. Um. So, of these twenty three thousand, though,

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Speaker 1: they found that, um, only two percent were actually criminals

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty four. Uh, that's just off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head, Um, we're we're criminals under Cuban law.

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Speaker 1: That that didn't have some sort of analog here in

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Speaker 1: the United States. I wonder what some of those laws were.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine they would have a lot to do

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Speaker 1: uh items hoarding, Yeah, like you know, under communist rule,

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Speaker 1: if you toilet paper or you've got some smuggling operation

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Speaker 1: going for toilet paper. How swapping apparently is illegal in Cuba,

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Speaker 1: because they're like, we're gonna give you a house, but

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Speaker 1: So most of these people were allowed to go free,

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Speaker 1: and even some of them were allowed to go even

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Speaker 1: what's called immigration parole um. And then of those forty

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Speaker 1: We have people out there who were in prisons right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which means they've at least been arrested. Yes, do we

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Speaker 1: You got anything else? No, there's another one down in

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Speaker 1: our endless string of law enforcement podcast that we definitely

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Speaker 1: all that kind of thing, How stuff Works won't judge

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Speaker 1: you if you search for that. You can just type

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. Um, and I said search bar.

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Speaker 1: So it's time for Facebook questions, Josh. We have two

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Speaker 1: ahead and start here. Um. Doug Callahan if you were

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Speaker 1: what kind of fruit would you choose? Pineapple? Um, Jerry

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Speaker 1: Shelleen Chuck Chook Chook the best, best favorite theme park

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Speaker 1: We want to read that one. Let's see. Is there

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Speaker 1: anything worth not knowing? That's a going from Craig Jacquette. No,

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Speaker 1: there's well, no, I don't know. That's a really great

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Speaker 1: even beyond that, chuck like, do we really need nuclear weapons?

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Speaker 1: Do we need nuclear capabilities? What if we didn't know that?

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Speaker 1: It's a great question, Craig Jaquette, you get you get

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Speaker 1: first prize today. Uh. James Hamilton's which sport has the

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Speaker 1: I have good news for you. We've done how China

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Speaker 1: Mine would be George Harrison because you know, yeah, he's great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: watch the Killing? Yeah? Well, Taxing isn't it? I watch

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Speaker 1: and it's way pretty come on DVD. Good luck man,

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