Pod Damn America

We talk the UK Greens recent victory, a very plausible scenario where Jean-Luc Mélenchon becomes France's next President, Olympics, scarecrows, snowballs, and more.

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Anders talks to historian Paul Heideman about his new book “Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos.” But first, Jake gives a rundown of the situation in Mexico and we attend to a couple very important Twitter controversies.

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We talk Jesse Jackson, jury duty, AOC, Z, etc.

We are joined by eviction defense lawyer Arturo Gomez to talk about the class struggle in Los Angeles.

ARTURO GOMEZ

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We discuss the 1919 Seattle General Strike and also a movie from the 90's about a magic bald man.

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Alex stops back in to help us recap the Superbowl and Bad Bunny's halftime show--the big game's most Greg Grandin coded performance to date. Then we chat about NYC politics and some upcoming must-watch races.

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We talk about the impact of the Epstein files on U.K. politics which Anders uses as an excuse to dive into "A Very British Coup", the 1982 Chris Mullin novel and 1988 BBC miniseries about the U.K. electing a Socialist Prime Minister, who the transatlantic deep state then tries to overthrow. As revelations since the 80's have proven "A Very British Coup" was even more prescient than its author thought.

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Nurses strikes, senate races, and who Epstein's guys were.

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We discuss the Vietnam War era program where they lowered the IQ floor for new recruits to 80 and how ICE has a bunch of new dumb guys.

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BONUS cross pod w/ our pals at Tender Subject

This week on Tender Subject, we are joined by comedian Jake Flores and writer J †Johnson to talk Frankenstein. We dissect the book and the 2025 film through queer and Marxist theory and get into why the film often let us down.

Media referenced:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J Halberstam

Capitalism: A Horror Story by Jon Greenaway

J †Johnson is the co-editor of Cul de Sac of Blood, a horror poetics journal and the author of two books with Punctum Books. Their forthcoming book, Janky Materiality will also be published by Punctum.

Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here.