Ep01 : How America Views September 11th Year after Year
The World Trade Center buildings on September 11th, 200111 years after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the United States has amounted an unprecedented level of debt, is...
View ArticleEp02 : Could a 3rd Party Exist in the US?
In this episode we explore some of the b-sides to a third-party system political system. The pretext to this exploration was considering whether or not a third-party could exist in the United States at...
View ArticleEp03 : Salman Rushdie and the American Embassy in Libya
Salman Rushdie In this episode we’ll be looking at some of the recent turmoil in Libya. As you probably know, the country has been experiencing a number of radical changes since Muammar Gaddafi was...
View ArticleEp04 : Kevin’s “Everyone is Evil” Theory
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary” –James Madison Human beings respond to incentives. It doesn’t matter how many good people there are, if there is an opportunity for taking...
View ArticleEp05 : Blindly Obeying Authority
Oscar Romero was assassinated on 24 March 1980 In this episode we explore how human beings respond to authority. Since the philosophical ideals of libertarianism sit exactly opposite those of...
View ArticleEp06 : Empty Campaign Promises and Education
American students displaying the Bellamy Salute to pledge allegiance to the American flag. This is the same salute notoriously used by the Nazi party in Germany.We’ve got some pretty tough topics to...
View ArticleEp07 : A Tale of Two Businesspeople
Is it a life of hard work or manipulation of political monopoly privileges that allow the monopoly man to kick back and enjoy untold riches?In this segment, we talk about David Siegel’s warning to...
View ArticleEp08 : American Healthcare: A Moderate Approach
Kevin’s book cover. Despite the Gadsden snake, this really is a moderate approach. As you may know, Kevin recently completed a book, “American Healthcare: A Moderate Approach,” which is a quick but...
View ArticleEp09 : Altruism, Millionaire Patriots, the Matrix, and Hope as a Political...
Look at the adorable puppy (I think). It’s tiny, see, like this episode. Despite the length of the title, this is a tiny installment, barely lengthy enough to be considered episode 9 of the jkpod...
View ArticleEp10 : Forcing Morality on a Society
A small group of people being rescued from a ski trip (the relevance to this is in the episode) This week’s episode marks the longest recording we’ve released to date in our reasonably short catalog....
View ArticleEp11 : Game of Mercenaries
Another of our mini-episodes, this is actually a followup to a previous episode. Jad and I get into a small discussion about mercenary groups, their history, and how the United States has been...
View ArticleEp12 : Guns and Shooting Ranges
As we were gearing up for a pretty long discussion on modern slavery, we accidentally found ourselves amidst a discussion of local Austin shooting ranges. This is probably because Kevin had recently...
View ArticleEp13 : Do People Prefer Being Slaves Part I
In our very first two-part episode, Jad and Kevin discuss the idea of whether or not people prefer being slaves. The idea is pretty simple: there’s an almost endless supply of examples illustrating...
View ArticleEp14 : Do People Prefer Being Slaves Part II
In the second part of our very first two-part episode, Jad and Kevin continue their discussion of whether or not people prefer being slaves. As we noted in the previous episode, the idea is pretty...
View ArticleEp15 : Austin, Texas, y’all.
The front of Austin City Hall. In an effort to continue evolving the show, Jad proposes the idea that the show occasionally focus on local Austin politics. Kevin has spent some time working in various...
View ArticleEp16 : Chris Dorner, The Myth of Redemptive Violence
The first in a two part series examining various aspects of the Chris Dorner affair. After an brief recap of the relevant events, Kevin expresses his disbelief at the militarized and trigger happy LAPD...
View ArticleEp17 : Chris Dorner, Back and to the Left
Chris Dorner shown in military fatigues In this week’s episode, Jad, Kevin, and special guest Tom DeLorenzo discuss the fate of Chris Dorner. Chris was a 33-year old Naval Reservist turned LAPD police...
View ArticleEp18 : Nuclear Bombs and North Korean Cannibalism
This week we had some left over content and managed to string it together for yet another mini-episode. Our topics are as interesting as they are disturbing and include nuclear blasts, online nuclear...
View ArticleEp19 : . . . and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
No more Nazi pope jokes. *Sigh*This week, Tom, Kevin and I, have a relatively light-hearted chat about the brand new pope, the previous retired pope, the Jesuit order–with a sprinkle of Alex Jones–and...
View ArticleEp20 : Fuck Jesse Jackson Jr. and Other Tales of American Ignorance
Jesse Jackson Jr.This week we leave you with another of our shorter episodes. Our topic begins with Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of well known Reverend Jesse Jackson and also a former member of the US...
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