Selects: Why Landmines Are The Deadliest Legacy Of War

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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One of the worst legacies of war are the millions of landmines left behind. They hide for decades after a conflict is over, exploding beneath unsuspecting civilians and children. To many, removing mines and banning new ones is of paramount importance. Learn all about the scope of the problem and this important work in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found off the coast of Florida.
0:08.0	And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba?
0:13.0	Mr. Gonzales wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.
0:17.0	Or stay with his relatives in Miami.
0:19.0	Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.
0:24.0	Listen to Shess Peace, the Eelian Gonzalez story on the I-Heart
0:28.4	radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.0	Stick to sports. Shut up and dribble. Despite what some people believe, sports and politics have mixed from the beginning.
0:42.0	Now you have a podcast that isn't afraid to explore. sports and politics have mixed from the beginning.
0:42.6	Now you have a podcast that isn't afraid to explore the complicated relationship
0:46.5	between sports and politics with a new podcast called Spolotix, with me, Jamel Hill. I'll be discussing political, social, and
0:54.7	economic issues through the lens of sports with some of the biggest names and
0:58.4	smartest people. So here's the assignment. Listen to spolotix on the
1:01.9	iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your
1:04.2	podcast. Let's get Spolitical.
1:06.5	Hi everybody Chuck here on Saturday with an important show to curate here on this select Saturday. It was an important
1:14.4	episode. A pretty depressing one though, because it's about the history of
1:19.5	landmines and it's from April 10th, why landmines are the deadliest legacy of war.
1:27.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:37.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry
1:45.4	Roland back together again at last just like last week.
1:50.7	Yeah I was about to say.
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