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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Dolphin Detectors

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

They don’t actually disarm mines, but navies around the world use dolphins to find and tag sea mines so humans can disarm the mines themselves. But even if it’s safe, is it ethical?

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.5

Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

0:36.4

There's Chuck, there's Josh, that's me and there's Jerry over there.

0:40.8

No time to talk any further.

0:42.2

Let's get started.

0:43.0

We're talking about dolphins, sorry, mine.

0:45.7

Are you going to do that every time?

0:47.0

As long as I get a laugh out of you, yeah, I will laugh every time.

0:50.8

Well, then every time it is.

0:52.5

Because I'm laughing because then we do this and it takes more time than it is.

0:57.3

It does.

0:58.3

I hadn't thought about that.

0:59.6

Yeah.

1:00.6

Maybe I will stop doing that because I really do feel like pressed for time.

1:04.0

You can see a perspiring across the top of my lip.

1:07.5

Hey, let me try Josh Clark intro.

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