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Subway Shoving Jokes and Terrorism Threat Levels
from Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain · #122
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3 minA riff about crowded trains leads to jokes about shoving people onto subway cars like Tokyo, then pivots into discussing US infrastructure versus countries that got to rebuild after wars, and the surprisingly low rate of subway terror attacks in NYC.
- 18:53Ray Kump getting shoved in a subway car prompts Amazon to pull out of New York.
- 19:33Countries like Japan and Europe have better infrastructure with bullet trains and fast trains.
- 19:46Tim argues that countries the U.S. bombs get to rebuild their infrastructure while America is stuck with legacy systems.
- 20:07How insane is it that there hasn't been a successful subway attack in New York since the thwarted 2009 plot.
- 20:33Tim appreciates that the FBI has not recruited informants who actually bomb something in the last ten years.
- 20:52The whole post-9/11 terrorism threat level was massively overblown and hyped.
- 21:13People working in Homeland Security have an institutional interest in finding threats, which skews threat assessments.