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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chuck here on a hopefully lovely Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: wherever you are. And this week, everybody, we are going

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Speaker 1: to re release the episode on no fly zones. I

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Speaker 1: think for obvious reasons. What's going on. They're in Ukraine

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Speaker 1: with Russia's invasion and the idea of a no fly

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Speaker 1: zone being requested by Ukraine America saying we can't really

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Speaker 1: do that. Uh, the international community debating whether or not

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Speaker 1: no fly zone is a good idea in this case,

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Speaker 1: it's very complicated situation. Hopefully this episode that we recorded

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Speaker 1: and shed some light on that. Although it is from

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Speaker 1: quite a few years ago, it's basically still the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's not super complicated. Uh. And you can decide for

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Speaker 1: yourself whether or not you think we should as Americans

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Speaker 1: wade into those waters right now. So here we go

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Speaker 1: with how no fly zones work. Welcome to Stuff you

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Speaker 1: should know, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant mad as heck and he's not gonna take

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Speaker 1: it anymore. I said, heck. I revised a classic movie

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Speaker 1: quote in the heck Yeah Network man have you ever

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Speaker 1: seen that? Have you seen that recently? I've never seen it.

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Speaker 1: It was on Netflix streaming and I had hit my instinct.

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Speaker 1: Cuban passed it up, Well you should watch it again

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Speaker 1: because you'll watch it now and go. Man, when was

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Speaker 1: this made so far ahead of its time? Really as

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Speaker 1: far as like how things are in the media, like, uh,

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Speaker 1: coma yeah, but when you watch network back then, people

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Speaker 1: said things like how ridiculous, like stuff like this could

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Speaker 1: never happen. Oh, I see it's prescient right, very much.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll have to watch it then. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a good one. That's uh is it? Like? Um, what

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Speaker 1: is it? What's that Aaron Sorkin show? I don't like

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Speaker 1: a news hour that? Yeah, that just thinks? Is that

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Speaker 1: what it's called? News out? Newsroom? Yeah. I didn't care

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Speaker 1: for it other than the fact that it stars our

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Speaker 1: guest starred, Mr Paul Schneider, who's one of my one

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Speaker 1: of my boys. So uh, sometimes people accuse that show

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Speaker 1: being preachy. What do you think? I just I'm not

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Speaker 1: a sworking guy, so he's a little worthy for me.

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Speaker 1: I liked West Wing. I didn't watch it. You never

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Speaker 1: watched West Wing, not one episode guarantee you you would

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Speaker 1: like it. You think it was he I hate to

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Speaker 1: say this, but it was like his his masterpiece from beginning.

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Speaker 1: I'm not kid Chuck. I'm telling you, this is somebody

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Speaker 1: who didn't like Studio sixty, who doesn't like Newsroom West

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Speaker 1: Wing from beginning to end was just really great. I'll

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Speaker 1: try it, but I swear the way that guy writes,

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Speaker 1: I'm always just like nobody talks. I'm with you, I'm

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Speaker 1: totally with you. But this cast of characters, the characters

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Speaker 1: that he wrote, the actors, they pulled it off. I've

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Speaker 1: never seen a give a shot do Paul Schneider's not

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Speaker 1: on it. I'm come into your house this afternoon and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna watch them. Okay, okay, uh so, I guess

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Speaker 1: that's the segway for no flyes on. Not a bad

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Speaker 1: setup because this is political and presidential. I have something,

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Speaker 1: actually have a bit of an intro. Okay, well, let's

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Speaker 1: let's hear it. You've heard of the Wright brothers, Dayton's Pride,

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Speaker 1: Orville and Wilbur Wright. Oh yeah, can joined twins? Yes?

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Speaker 1: No they weren't, but they did fly. They did build

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Speaker 1: the first airplane. Yes, that flew and they flew it

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Speaker 1: out at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. And after they had

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Speaker 1: to the United States government and said, hey, War Department,

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Speaker 1: but thrice did the War Department turn the Right Brothers down,

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Speaker 1: say what good our planes in the warfare? Exactly Luckily

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Speaker 1: there was a very smart person heading the Post Office

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Speaker 1: Department who said, Okay, maybe you shouldn't drop bricks out

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Speaker 1: of air planes onto people's heads, but we could use

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Speaker 1: this to deliver the mail. Martin ben Ostrin right to

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Speaker 1: heck with the auto gyro, We're gonna start using this

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Speaker 1: Wright Brothers plane to deliver mail. And for three years

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Speaker 1: the only aircraft that were in service under the United

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Speaker 1: being used to murder people. Yeah, and this article points

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Speaker 1: very long, bloody history associated with planes and war. Um.

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Speaker 1: When the fascists in Spain used planes to take out

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a whole lot that could be done. It

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Speaker 1: actually wasn't until the very early nineteen nineties that people

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Speaker 1: from being used against civilian populations by their own government. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought no fly zones had been around long before that,

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Speaker 1: So this was very eye opening. I had no idea

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Speaker 1: been used three times. Like it just seems like there's

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a big deal to issue no flies one.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why is because what you're doing is

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Speaker 1: intervening in a sovereign nation, undermining the power of the

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Speaker 1: ruler of that nation, choosing sides in a way. You're saying,

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Speaker 1: at the very least, I'm not gonna let you just

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Speaker 1: slaughter these civilians. I'm not going to cast my lot

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Speaker 1: one way or the other. Really, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: protect these civilians. And uh, it takes a United Nations

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Speaker 1: mandate to to even get started, that's right. So, um,

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Speaker 1: that's good. Safe in Athens, Georgia. Um, so what happened

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Speaker 1: There was a guy named Saddam Hussein he Um was

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Speaker 1: not doing very nice things to the people in Kuwait

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Speaker 1: you know what, oh boy, I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: think we should invade and remove Sadam Hussein like with

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Speaker 1: do anything to interfere, we're going to bomb you. We're

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Speaker 1: is what we're going to call a no fly zone.

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Speaker 1: It was the first one, and Saddam Hussein went, no

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Speaker 1: And the UN said that's because this brand new jerk, right,

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Speaker 1: established to protect the Shiite Muslims, who also rose up

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Speaker 1: under the encouragement of the United States. If you're interested

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Speaker 1: in this kind of thing, check out Three Kings. It

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Speaker 1: was a lot to do about that. It was after

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Speaker 1: good movie. Yeah, me too. Uh So, no fly zone

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, well, what's gonna happen. Let me send

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Speaker 1: of a no fly zone to be effective is to

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Speaker 1: also bomb like radar equipment and stuff on the ground

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Speaker 1: them disabled. Their force can also find your jets. So

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Speaker 1: and kind of one of the stabilizing forces of the

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Speaker 1: So they just kind of said, yeah, protect these people,

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Speaker 1: a case by case basis. Can't be the least bit aggressive.

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Speaker 1: You have to be completely reactive. And even then maybe

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Speaker 1: after sortie after sortie after shorty. They started just by attrition,

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