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b"In the first of a two-part series, Jad and Kevin discuss the many ways in which terrorism like that of the Boston Marathon Bombings could prevail if only people were really inclined to kill indiscriminately.\\n\\nIn other words, there's an almost unlimited source of crowds to be found across the United States and yet they manage to go on without being killed. Why is that?\\n\\nTragically the marathon was an anomaly and our hearts go out to the victims, but we consider how the state frequently uses these moments to promote wars abroad and trample civil liberties domestically.\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscript of Podcast\\n\\n [Recorded Audio]\\n\\n Speaker 1: Does the NSA collect any type of data at\\n all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?\\n\\n Speaker 2: No, sir.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hello, and welcome to the JK podcast,\\n an anti-authoritarian philosophical endeavor recorded in Austin, Texas.\\xa0 We draw\\n our topics from the entire scope of the human experience with central connecting themes\\n focused on the grand ideas of liberty, humanity, and equality.\\xa0\\n\\n Kevin: The JK Podcast is hosted by Jad Davis and Kevin\\n Ludlow.\\xa0 Welcome back to another episode.\\xa0 In the first of a two-part series,\\n Jad and I discuss the many ways in which terrorism - like that of the Boston Marathon\\n bombings - could prevail if only people were really inclined to kill\\n indiscriminately.\\xa0 In other words, there\\u2019s an almost unlimited source of\\n crowds to be found across the United States and yet, they manage to go on without being\\n killed \\u2013 why is that?\\xa0 Tragically, the marathon was an anomaly and our\\n hearts go out to the victims, but we consider how the state frequently uses these\\n moments to promote wars abroad, and trample civil liberties domestically.\\n\\n So the more obvious one to the world right now, I don't really know exactly what to\\n say about it but I\\u2019m sure there\\u2019s some thoughts that we could say.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well, I\\u2019ve got some if you wanna\\n go first.\\n\\n Kevin: Well, sure.\\xa0 It\\u2019s a sad affair, not particularly\\n out of the ordinary for me I don\\u2019t think - I think about these things all the\\n time.\\xa0 Actually \\u2013 completely tangent to this \\u2013 but I\\u2019ve had this\\n idea for a while, almost like this art project, and it\\u2019s like totally in my head\\n and I just need to do it \\u2013 oddly enough, speaking about poetry and stuff.\\xa0\\n I\\u2019ve got like this poem that I\\u2019ve been working on in my head and it\\u2019s\\n basically about terrorism and the way I envision my trying to create it is kind of like\\n a Dr. Seuss book almost where it\\u2019s like really colorful and the words are kinda\\n like a little zany and what have you, but it just kinda tells the story of how\\n ridiculous the notion of \\u2013 probably wouldn\\u2019t necessarily name them \\u2013\\n but basically like making fun of the TSA and things like that, the idea that people\\n think they can be kept safe and the whole thing is just kind of like this long Dr.\\n Seuss-esque poem about how a terrorist could easily kill people.\\xa0 Now I\\n don\\u2019t think that I would\\u2019ve included a marathon in there, but voila.\\xa0\\n I mean, that\\u2019s an easy enough one.\\xa0\\n\\n Anyway, just kind of the point about how stupid it is when you go to the airport and\\n what have you and every time if the guy indulges me \\u2013 if he\\u2019ll ask me the\\n question I won\\u2019t every present it to him \\u2013 but he\\u2019s like, \\u201cwhy\\n are you doing this, why are you opting out?\\xa0 Why do you have to go through this\\n whole mess\\u201d, and eventually you know, I get the opportunity to tell him.\\xa0\\n I\\u2019m like, \\u201cwell this is just fucking retarded, you know?\\xa0\\n Wouldn\\u2019t you agree?\\u201d\\xa0 I mean, even if you did destroy a plane, what\\n are you really going to accomplish?\\xa0 Mainly 200 people are gonna die \\u2013 they\\n fixed the problem; it\\u2019s a reinforced steel door.\\xa0 You\\u2019re not getting\\n in the cockpit, you\\u2019re not gonna take it over anymore \\u2013 that\\u2019s\\n done.\\xa0 So a couple hundred people die, I mean you could walk into a fucking\\n elementary school pep rally and bam, 2,000 kids gone in an instant and nobody could"