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b"We never thought we'd get here, but alas, 52 episodes later the JKPodcast has survived an entire year!\\n\\nWe conclude this week with a tragic situation not unlike the one we started with. Only instead of New York, we switch our focus back to Boston. We continue our discussion of how the state works to exploit tragedies like this one and consider the critical mass of people required to stop lawmakers from doing what they intend to do.\\n\\nThanks so much for sticking with us for an entire year!\\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 We never thought we\\u2019d get\\n here, but alas, 52 episodes later, the JK Podcast has survived an entire year.\\xa0 We\\n conclude this week with a tragic situation \\u2013 not unlike the one we started with\\n \\u2013 only instead of New York, we switch our focus back to Boston.\\xa0 We continue\\n our discussion of how the state works to exploit tragedies like this one, and consider\\n the critical mass of people required to stop lawmakers from doing what they intend to\\n do.\\xa0 Thank you so very much for sticking with us for an entire year.\\xa0\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 That\\u2019s why, that\\u2019s one of\\n the components of why it\\u2019s so difficult to maintain any kind of productive\\n dialogue is because the story is going to be packaged and resold from now until the\\n anniversary\\u2019s run out of \\u2013 we don\\u2019t even know what the\\n narrative\\u2019s gonna be \\u2013 but whatever the state narrative is and it\\u2019s\\n not going to be one that leads to greater human freedom, it\\u2019s going to be one\\n that leads to a more centralized control apparatus, right?\\n\\n Kevin: For sure.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I\\u2019ve got sort of as an example\\n of another tactic that I think is interesting that some people are probably analyzing,\\n but I mean it just seems so clear to me like, if you wanna talk about a community that\\n has a sustained effort to prevent a particular political outcome that I\\u2019m gonna\\n say is going to eventually lose, it\\u2019s the anti-SOPA-PIPA-SIPA[?] \\u2013 sorry,\\n SIPSA -\\n\\n Kevin: SIPSA.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 - is the latest one, and they\\u2019re\\n just \\u2013 I mean just revealing of a tactic \\u2013 they\\u2019re just reintroducing\\n the same bill again, and again, and again.\\xa0 They\\u2019re reintroducing it again,\\n it\\u2019s like been defeated four or five times now.\\n\\n Kevin: Yeah.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And in the last \\u2013 what was the\\n first time, was it a year and a half maybe ago or something like that?\\xa0 So\\n it\\u2019s just like this nonstop thing and you can tell when the people are sending\\n out the emails and it\\u2019s like it\\u2019s up again and then can you give us money\\n again?\\xa0 We\\u2019re gonna like you know, it\\u2019s just going to keep coming back\\n until they you know, until like you said, until people are like, \\u201cyou know what,\\n I\\u2019ve fucking sent 20 emails to my senator about this over the last year, two\\n years, I\\u2019m just not gonna do it again\\u201d, right, and then it passes at some\\n point.\\xa0\\n\\n Or you know, there is a million other things that could happen, executive order or\\n whatever, but it\\u2019s going to pass.\\xa0 They want this thing to happen and so\\n it\\u2019s going to happen and just even the fact that it\\u2019s been held off not by\\n a lobby and not by individual congresspersons, but strictly by a popular effort to\\n maintain pressure in this direction.\\xa0 That\\u2019s held it off for this long, but\\n even that\\u2019s not going to hold it off forever so what I\\u2019m saying is [?] when\\n you look back on this \\u2013 kinda like when you look back on the millions of people\\n in the street leading up to the Iraq war \\u2013 you can say well,"