Denial Makes You a Target For Terror: Cautionary Tale of Lauren & Jay
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🗓️ 25 August 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
a chilling bit of reality for us all: Were they idealists? naive? in denial? Maybe all three. One thing is
certain, they are now tragically dead - murdered by ISIS terrorists in Tajikistan.
But who were Lauren and Jay, and how did they end up being rammed by terrorists, who then set
upon them with knives and firearms, when all the couple wanted to do was take a cycling trip to
exotic places? Lauren and Jay, were a Washington D.C. couple, who quit their jobs in 2017 to
cycle the world and blog about it. They were living the dream until it came to a nightmare ending
this summer, one year after they began.
They wanted to prove “humans are kind” and “evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to
deal with the complexities of fellow humans.” Unfortunately, they found out that not all humans
are kind and evil is real. Hear their last blog post, 18 days before they were killed. Were clues
to the cause of their ultimate demise hidden in plain sight?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Renegade Talk Radio. |
| 0:05.0 | Renegate Talk Radio. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Terrorist Therapist Show on Renegade Talk Radio with your host, Dr. Carroll. |
| 0:20.0 | Though you may not realize |
| 0:21.6 | that the ongoing threat of terrorism is affecting your life and that of your loved ones. |
| 0:25.6 | Each week, Dr. Carroll analyzes the hottest topics in terror and helps you and your family reach your dreams despite living in a time of terror. |
| 0:32.6 | Denial makes you a target for terror. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome to the Terrorist Therapist Show. I'm Dr. Carol, a psychiatrist, and your terrorist therapist. |
| 0:48.3 | Well, today I'm going to be telling you about the cautionary tale of Lauren Gagin and Jay Austin, |
| 0:56.8 | two 29-year-old, a couple in love. And they learned that the world isn't quite as simple as |
| 1:10.1 | they had hoped. |
| 1:11.6 | And they are, I'm going to be reading you some of their entries from their blog, simply cycling. |
| 1:19.6 | But why am I telling you this story? |
| 1:21.6 | You know, this is, get another example of a story that should be, should have made headlines for a lot longer, but got buried in the news |
| 1:29.6 | pretty soon after the tragedy happened. Now, I say denial makes you a target for terror. We'd all |
| 1:36.9 | love to pretend that the world is as safe as it was before 9-11. But unfortunately, we have to be realistic, and yes, we can be nostalgic for |
| 1:48.3 | those days, as we all are, really, the days before 9-11. But we also have to keep our wits about |
| 1:56.6 | us and recognize as much as we don't want it to have been changed that it is. |
| 2:02.4 | So Lauren and Jay, were they idealists? |
| 2:07.3 | Were they naive? |
| 2:08.6 | Were they in denial? |
| 2:10.0 | Were they a combination of all three? |
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