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b"There's no doubt that millions of Americans have long since suspected their government was spying on them regularly. Of course these people have also long been referred to as paranoid conspiracy theorists.\\n\\nThanks to the heroic efforts of Edward Snowden, now we know if that paranoia was unfounded. Hint: it was not. A number of people had asked us to do an episode on the topic of the NSA and so we did - albeit reluctantly.\\n\\nDespite the smoking gun being hand-delivered to each and every American, Jad and Kevin discuss the likeliness of anything actually changing domestically.\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscript of Podcast\\n\\n[Recorded Audio] Speaker 1: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? Speaker 2: No, sir. Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hello and welcome to the JK Podcast, an antiauthoritarian philosophical endeavor recorded in Austin, Texas.\\xa0 We draw our topics from the entire scope of the human experience with central connecting themes focused on the grand ideas of liberty, humanity, and equality. Kevin: The JK Podcast is hosted by Jad Davis and Kevin Ludlow.\\xa0 Welcome back to another episode.\\xa0 There\\u2019s no doubt that millions of Americans have long since suspected their government was spying on them regularly.\\xa0 Of course, these people have long been referred to as paranoid conspiracy theorists, however, and thanks to the heroic efforts of Edward Snowden, now we know. A number of people had asked Jad and I to do an episode on the topic, and so we did \\u2013 albeit reluctantly.\\xa0 Despite the smoking gun being hand delivered to each and every American, we discussed the likeliness of anything actually changing domestically. While we\\u2019ve got a little bit of time here \\u2013 Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah, man. Kevin: Just to go ahead and \\u2013 Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Just to do it? Kevin: There\\u2019s people who are expecting an episode out of this.\\xa0 I actually had many of them write to me today and say, \\u201cWow, I can\\u2019t wait to hear the NSA JK Podcast because I assume it\\u2019s coming.\\u201d\\xa0 But I don\\u2019t even know what to say about it, I mean it\\u2019s just, I mean I\\u2019m just kind of beside myself.\\xa0 It was actually one of the things that was talked about \\u2013 you were basically talking about how you know, we know that the NSA is listening to all of our phone calls despite the fact that they say over and over and over that they don\\u2019t, but there\\u2019s enough information that suggests very clearly that they are, and of course that recording was before any of these stories had been fully blown, so I thought it was kind of interesting that not an hour ago I just happened to listen to you say this from a few months ago. Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Interesting. Kevin: I don\\u2019t even give a shit about the government, it\\u2019s the people.\\xa0 The story just makes me angry at people.\\xa0 I was just thinking about all the things that I\\u2019ve posted before \\u2013 in a real non-threatening and real non-aggressive manner \\u2013 the Facebook or wherever else, and I was just thinking of all those people who write back and they\\u2019re just like, \\u201cyou libertarian type of people are fucking nuts.\\xa0 You think that people are just spying on you, you\\u2019re paranoid, you\\u2019re crazy\\u201d, and I\\u2019m like, \\u201clisten, I\\u2019m not paranoid because A, I know it\\u2019s happening, and B, I don\\u2019t really give a shit about it because I\\u2019m just doing the shit that I always do anyway.\\xa0 But the fact is that it is happening, right?\\xa0 And you know people don\\u2019t wanna hear it.\\xa0 Look, this is obviously as picture perfect fucking clear as could be at this point.\\xa0 I think it\\u2019s impossible to deny at this point that the NSA and God knows how many other you know, governmental bodies are doing all sorts of horribly nefarious things with information, and my question \\u2013 or my big question \\u2013 is going to be you know, coming up in let\\u2019s just say a few months\\u2019 time but certainly the next election cycle, does anybody really give a shit about it at all, and my guess is no, but \\u2013 Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Good guess. Kevin: Yeah.\\xa0 I wish it weren\\u2019t,"