Episode 149: This Podcast Will Not Serve as a Notification to Anyone About Anything

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Not surprisingly, this weeks episode focuses entirely on the set of legal and policy questions raised by the airstrike that killed, among other, the Iranian general Qassim Soleimani in Iraq. But of course there is still frivolity, too, as the show finishes with discussion of ... Frozen II.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin.
0:12.1	Welcome to episode 149 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:15.6	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.6	It's Monday morning, January 6, 2020. I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:23.6	I'm Steve Lodick. Um, quiet times, man. Yeah, it's been a while. We took, we took a heck of a
0:28.6	window of history to take a two-week break between shows. Yes, these, these media posts will serve
0:34.6	as notification to our listeners that should we go on vacation ever again, no one's allowed to make any news.
0:41.5	That's right.
0:42.6	Such notice is not required, but is given nevertheless.
0:45.7	Apparently our holiday vacation schedules are irrelevant to world affairs because it's been a busy time.
0:52.1	There's stuff from like 10 days ago that I've lost track of completely.
0:56.5	We're going to focus today, I think, Steve, on Iran. Is that right? Iran and Iraq?
1:00.9	Oh, we're not just doing an all-for-valdi episode?
1:03.3	Yes. I think in, in- That ship has sailed?
1:06.3	Perhaps the maxima of combining deadly serious things with frivolity, we are going to talk about the
1:13.7	Iran situation in Iraq. And then I think when we do get to our little frivolity in the end,
1:19.0	I do believe we're going to talk about Frozen 2 and the final Star Wars film. So how's that for some,
1:25.0	it's not really cognitive dissonance, but how's that for a whipsaw?
1:28.2	It's something.
1:28.9	It's a characteristic of the show.
1:30.5	So if you're new to the show, don't be too surprised.
1:33.8	This is actually how pretty much all 148 prior episodes went.
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