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This episode originally aired in 2020.

A listener note, this episode contains violent imagery and may not be suitable for younger

audiences. It's a late afternoon in the summer of 1969 in a forest in Northern Canada.

The shadows have grown long and the evening animals have begun their chattering.

But everything goes quiet as a pair of boots crunched on the forest floor.

David Kaczynski hikes forward along the path, then stops and gazes across the dense forest.

It feels serene, perfectly still.

David bends down and picks up a pine cone.

Then there's a crunch of another pair of foods,

and David looks over his shoulder. His brother Ted is

approaching and as usual he's got a scowl on his face. David doesn't understand

it. For days now the two brothers have been on a road trip. They've been hiking in forests and David feels refreshed and full of life, but Ted's been full of nothing but complaints.

They took this trip so Ted could find some land which he planned to buy. He said he wanted something remote, but he keeps

finding something wrong with every parcel. First there were the power lines, which reminded him of

technology. Then he heard the drone of an airplane and got angry again. It seems like he just can't

be satisfied. David can tell that for Ted this has become a larger problem. Increasingly, he's grown

resentful toward any reminder of human society.

That's why he quit his job at Berkeley, and that's why he keeps lecturing David, telling

him how to live his life. But today, David has made a decision. He knows that he's only a college

student and far younger than Ted, but still he's going to try and change Ted's mind. He's going

to convince him somehow to give up his extreme views.

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