Episode 219: And the Podcast Host-Designate Is …

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Some of y'all were wondering if the show was done-for now that co-host Bobby Chesney has been named the next dean of the University of Texas School of Law. But as it turns out, the main impact of that on the show probably will be no more and no less than to take the level of preparation that he and co-host Steve Vladeck put into things to new lows! All of which is a long-winded way of saying: we're back with a fresh episode, this time focused on (1) discussion of the leak(s) associated with the Supreme Court's Dobbs case and (2) a review of what a war-crimes analysis might entail as applied to operation Russia's GRU conducted to shut down Ukraine's grid during the period after the occupation of Crimea but before the outbreak of the current invasion! Ok, there's also a preposterously detailed discussion (in the form of a song-to-song competition) of the relative merits of various Indigo Girls albums. Seriously? Seriously.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 219 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.6	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.2	It's Tuesday, May 17th, 2022.
0:20.7	I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Vladek. Bobby,
0:22.6	you have a new job. I do. I got a whole new title and everything. Wow. Bobby, will you
0:29.0	remember us little people when you're big and fancy? You mean when we record like in a month?
0:35.2	I'll probably still remember then. I do. So for those of you who have been sleeping
0:39.5	under a rock or who somehow listen to this podcast but don't follow any of us in any respect
0:44.0	in any other context, the big news announced a week ago today is that Bobby Chesney is going
0:50.3	to be the 16th dean of the University of Texas School of Law. Bobby, congratulations.
0:55.2	Thank you, Steve. Thanks to everybody. I get so many nice notes from people. I will say,
0:59.9	and this is completely true, I got a lot of messages. I'm pretty sure by far the most common
1:04.7	substantive inquiry was, what does this mean for the podcast? On Twitter, I mean, when I, you know, when I tweeted the news at exactly 10 o'clock last Tuesday,
1:14.5	because that's when I was allowed to tweet the news.
1:16.1	Yes, yes.
1:17.0	Right.
1:17.7	I was, the most kind of response was, okay, but what does this mean for the podcast?
1:21.8	Hey, congratulations, Dean Chesney, but anyways, what does this mean?
1:26.2	So, Bobby, what does this mean for the podcast?
1:28.6	And here we are, right?
1:30.2	Actually, I think that we're going to end up recording more regularly.
1:33.8	Wow.
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