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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? 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: 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: so we all own the oceans, right and the waters

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Speaker 1: right the right, So you want to talk a little

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Speaker 1: Sure they they figured this out over the course of

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Speaker 1: there have been treaties dating back to the ancient Romans.

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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: 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: large part. After that, the United States, I love that

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Speaker 1: And in ninety five we just kind of declared that. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: an unofficial treat So the fact that it lasted three

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Speaker 1: these capabilities, and so under pressure from oil company these UM,

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Speaker 1: from all the oceans combined. Right, that's right. And by

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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: I can't imagine how much oil we're drawing out now

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Speaker 1: So clearly everybody kind of wants as much of these

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