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b"Although we don't usually get into specific local government discussions, that's exactly what we have in store this week.\\n\\nAfter decades of having an at-large council, the public finally voted to allow single-member-districts in the Austin area. In November of 2014, instead of a single at-large voting area, there will be 10 districts in Austin with a council member representing each one.\\n\\nJad explains a bit about the Texans for Accountable Government and Kevin discusses the possibility of running for City Council. This is a super-short episode so sit back and enjoy.\\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 Although we don\\u2019t usually\\n get into specific local government discussions, that\\u2019s exactly what we have in\\n store this week.\\xa0 After decades of having an at large city council, the public\\n finally voted to allow single member districts in the Austin area.\\xa0 In November of\\n 2014, instead of a single at large voting area, there will be ten districts in Austin\\n with a councilmember representing each one of those districts.\\xa0 Jad explains a bit\\n about the Texans for Accountable Government, and Kevin discusses the possibility of\\n running for city council.\\xa0 This is a super short episode, so sit back and\\n enjoy.\\n\\n The big thing that I really think is gonna happen to all of these points that\\n we\\u2019re talking about \\u2013 and maybe I\\u2019ll be dead wrong, I really\\n don\\u2019t know how the whole districting thing is gonna turn out \\u2013 but I think\\n the 10/1 council is going to have a huge effect on all of these issues that we\\u2019re\\n talking about because when you see a $900 million dollar bond for example, I think all\\n of a sudden \\u2013 well first of all, I don't know that some of those bonds would make\\n it to the table in the first place because I think that if you have a bunch of fringed\\n councilmembers who actually come from Westlake, and out in Oakhill, and you know one up\\n on the area kinda more where I live up north, I think you\\u2019re gonna see a lot of\\n those people who sit on the council say, \\u201csorry, it\\u2019s an economic downturn\\n right now, this doesn\\u2019t make economic sense, we\\u2019re not voting in favor of\\n putting in $900 million dollar bonds on a ballot for the citizens and at very least, I\\n think you\\u2019ll hear a lot more public political outcry against bond measures like\\n that, and even against development code standards.\\xa0\\n\\n I mean, it\\u2019s one of the conspiracy theories I\\u2019ve had recently is to\\n consider that maybe the reason that they wanna get rid of the whole timeline[?] thing\\n is because the city council recognizes that when the 10/1 comes in, they\\u2019re gonna\\n start undoing shit like that anyway so at least they figure if they have an opportunity\\n to undo it right now, they can immediately kind of reregulate it in a slightly better\\n way that people might be more willing to keep to kind of preserve the goodness of the\\n city if you will.\\xa0 That\\u2019s kinda like my far left and green part conspiracy\\n theory at the moment that that\\u2019s one of the things that they may be trying to\\n do.\\xa0 I\\u2019m sure it\\u2019s totally incorrect, but \\u2013\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 That\\u2019s a good theory.\\n\\n Kevin: - just because that\\u2019s the level that I think the 10/1\\n is actually gonna be able to affect.\\xa0 I think they\\u2019re gonna have\\n tremendously more impact on the city than any law that\\u2019s been passed in years and\\n years.\\n\\n Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Interesting.\\xa0 And that starts\\n 2015?\\n\\n Kevin: 2014 I think, I\\u2019m not \\u2013 I think 2014 is when it"