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b"With the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man accused of shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Jad and Kevin dive into the philosophical sides surrounding the case.\\n\\nWe look at gun violence in the United States, police forces, and as best two white guys can do, discuss the realities of being a black man in the United States. This is a two-part episode so be sure to tune in next week to get our full take.\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscript of Podcast\\n\\n[Recorded Audio]\\n\\n Speaker 1: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?\\n\\n Speaker 2: No, sir.\\n\\n Kevin: Hello, and welcome to the JK podcast, an anti-authoritarian 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.\\xa0 The JK Podcast is hosted by Jad Davis and Kevin Ludlow.\\xa0 Welcome back to another episode.\\n\\n With the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man accused of shooting and killing 17 year old Trayvon Martin, Jad and I dive into the philosophical sides surrounding the case.\\xa0 We look at gun violence in the United States, police forces, and as best two white guys can do, discuss the realities of being a black man living within the United States.\\xa0 This is a two-part episode, so be sure to tune in next week to get our full take.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 So man, what do we have for today?\\n\\n Kevin: Well, it\\u2019s funny, at the dinner, the guy Mike \\u2013 he knows that we do this podcast and I\\u2019m always talking how I really look forward to Wednesday night to do our recording \\u2013 and they were asking me \\u2013 and Javier, the owner of the company, he was very interested.\\xa0 He\\u2019s like, \\u201cwell, what is it that you guys talk about?\\u201d\\xa0 So I kinda went into the details of what we do and I think one of the guys we were with, he\\u2019s like, \\u201cso you might talk about the George Zimmerman trial\\u201d, or something.\\xa0 I\\u2019m like, \\u201cwell, I think we could.\\xa0 It\\u2019s not something that we wouldn\\u2019t talk about.\\u201d\\xa0 I was like, \\u201cother than the fact that it\\u2019s such an unfortunate nuanced case, I don't know that there\\u2019s necessary great political philosophy to pull from it perhaps\\u201d, but I was just saying that we typically talk about things that have this kind of over-arching philosophical side.\\xa0\\n\\n And then the more I thought about it, I don't know if the whole Zimmerman trial is something that\\u2019s worth discussing.\\xa0 I know there\\u2019s some pretty hot heads in it right now and I\\u2019ve been pissed off about the whole thing just because to me, it\\u2019s like illustrative of the problems in the United States \\u2013 not what happened, obviously that\\u2019s a travesty at every level \\u2013 but the fact that it\\u2019s CNN 24-hour headline news, people talk about it, it\\u2019s kinda like, you\\u2018ve seen the movie, The Cable Guy?\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 A long time ago, yeah.\\n\\n Kevin: The Cable Guy makes this wonderful parody.\\xa0 In fact, if you\\u2019ve ever watched the movie again now, it\\u2019s funny.\\xa0 I\\u2019ve seen it come up in libertarian circles and things like that, but it\\u2019s really interesting how predictive it was for the way that the culture of the United States would go.\\xa0 And not unlike \\u2013 what\\u2019s the movie that Gary\\u2019s always talking about \\u2013 Idiocracy.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh, right.\\n\\n Kevin: Not unlike that, but the whole thing is like it\\u2019s based upon this giant trial that\\u2019s going on and it\\u2019s some stupid thing.\\xa0 I think it\\u2019s supposed to have been modeled after O.J. because that was what was going on at the time and you know where just everybody around the world is like tuned into this one fucking thing that \\u2013 it means nothing to them.\\xa0 However many thousands of murders in the country per day \\u2013 many of them racially charged, many of them not.\\xa0 There\\u2019s so much of the exact same thing going on every single fucking day, but this is the one that gets picked up because it\\u2019s a sexy story \\u2013 I hate that word even \\u2013 but that\\u2019s what it is.\\xa0 Like, you can sell it, you know?\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Sure."