Pod Damn America

(preview) How The Irish Became Vampires w/ Justin & Tony Boswell

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

CROSS POD ALERT: Justin from The Preacher and the Slave and Library Punks and Tony Boswell from Minion Death Cult (R.I.P.) join Jake to talk about Rya...

Wawa UnwelcomeFest w/Freddy G

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Freddy G fills in for Jake to talk with Anders about the newsworthiness of Zohran's college applications, Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn's new UK par...

(PREVIEW) A Day Without A Mexican

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders makes us watch this weird ass movie from 2004 about what would happen if all the Mexicans* in California got raptured and it leads to a surpris...

How Mamdani Won w/Hot Girls 4 Zohran & Wilderness

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders and Jake go over some fresh Andrew Cuomo tea about his hilariously bad Mayoral campaign (and his nipples). Then we're joined by Cait and Caif, ...

(preview) Party At Ground Zero

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zohran activates the commie corridor and wins big. But first, a young man attempts to traffic hot contraband internationally. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM...

Manufacturing Consent

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We dig into Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's seminal work, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media and tackle the question: Do ...

(PREVIEW) The Little Flower

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders tells us about Fiorello La Guardia, progressive New Deal era Mayor who some are comparing Zohran Mamdani to. But first, Jake is in HOT WATER. ...

Welcome to the King's Parade

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake talks about the "No Kings" rallies across the country, then we move to the shootings in Minnesota, Trump's military parade, some fun Eric Adams u...

(preview) Coast to Coast

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders recaps the last NYC Mayoral Primary debate and then Jake provides further context on the ongoing uprising in Los Angeles! Oh yeah, and Israel j...

(BONUS) WelcomeFest w/Alex Bronzini-Vender

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders talks to journalist and Zoomer Alex Bronzini-Vender about the event being called "centrist Coachella"; essentially the opposite of what's happe...

The Battle of Los Angeles

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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(PREVIEW) Theosophy w/ Theo Chino

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk with the legendary Theo Chino. But first, the girls are fighting. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

A Masterful Gambit, Sir

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about Elon Musk's crash out, Radiohead, and other of the week's stories before getting into the McCarran Walter Act, the 1952 law that Trump h...

(PREVIEW) Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Hypercreolization

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders tells Jake about Jean-Luc Mélenchon's book Now The People: Revolution in the 21st Century. Jake tells Anders about the bathroom at Starbuck's....

The Magonistas pt II w/ Gabe Pacheco

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake and Gabe continue the continue the story of the Mexican anarchists that sparked the Mexican revolution GABE PACHECO + HALAL CARTELS @gabe_Pachec...

(PREVIEW) The Battle of Algiers

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the 1966 film The Battle of Algiers FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

The Magonistas pt I w/ Gabe Pacheco

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At long last we embark on the story of the anarchists who laid the groundwork for the Mexican Revolution and for a dumb comedian to exist 100 years la...

(preview) The Myth of Autism

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss The Myth of Autism by Tamimi, Gardner & McCabe (IGNORE PROVOCATIVE TITLE or... be PROVOKED BY IT?) but FIRST Is GenX living forever insid...

Ministry For The Future w/ Jamie Peck

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake and Jamie discuss friend of the show Kim Stanley Robinson's 2020 Climate Fiction masterpiece Ministry For The Future and engage in some COMRADELY...

(PREVIEW) The Carnation Revolution w/ Tony Correia

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We finally did it we finally let our discord mod do an episode. Strap in and learn about the Portuguese Carnation Revolution of 1974. ANTONIO CORREIA...

Three Paths w/Malcolm Harris

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders talks to author Malcolm Harris about his new book "What's Left? Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis." But first, Jake tells us about his t...

(PREVIEW) Sublating Emergence w/ Andy Gittlitz & Alex Collyard

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we put on our thinking caps and read some theory with our pals AP Andy from The Antifada and Alex Collyard from comedy. ANDY GITTLITZ @bas...

Dum Dummies w/ Video Drew

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drew Grant AKA Video Drew joins Jake to check in on the state of television in the year 2025. They discuss Black Mirror (season 7), Andor, Severance, ...

(PREVIEW) Food Damn America

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the history of the Food and Drug Administration, snout to tail. Plus, why it is now being used to lower your precious sperm count. Also Jea...

(preview) &&&: On the Concept of History 420 Special

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

&y & &ers smoke a joint and read Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History Read along: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/his...

Pax Economica w/ Marc Palen

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marc William Palen, author of Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World joins us to discuss his book! MARC PALEN https://press.princeton...

(preview) PDA/Vanquished Crossover: Cory Booker vs. the Children of Newark

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders' Vanquished co-host Freddy G joins the show to discuss resistance hero Cory Booker's past as a "reformer" of the Newark school system when he w...

Under The Influence

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Unfortunately this week we have to talk about politics and Bernie Sanders and AOC and stuff but it's the only way to get to what this episode is reall...

(preview) The Conquest of Getting That Bread

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's another theory ep! If you don't like that, too bad! This week we talk about Peter Kropotkin, his book The Conquest of Bread, and anarcho communis...

A Clean Hell w/ Eric King

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Eric King, author of A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, to talk about how he ended up in ADX,...

(preview) The Table of Abundance

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about this Abundance book that the freaking libs are hollering about. Plus Corey Booker, the millennial pause, tariffs, and other nonsense of ...

The Wretched of the Earth

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss Frantz Fanon's seminal work on decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth, as well as pikachu. CUOMO ROAST NYC https://dice.fm/partner/silo...

(preview) The Truth is Out There

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the Atlantic editor's nightmare blunt rotation group chat fiasco and also the recently declassified CIA documents that prove once and for a...

Son of a Water Dog

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake goes to Mexico City to learn the story of Mexico's anarchist past. He meets a dog and a cat. NYC CUOMO ROAST https://bit.ly/Cuomoroast MERCH po...

(Preview) The Irish Unification of ????

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We continue the St. Paddy's Week theme with some discussion of the Irish rap group/movie Kneecap, then Anders digs into the state of Sinn Fein and a r...

Up the Ra, Down with ICE w/Keegan Stephan

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We talk to civil rights attorney Keegan Stephan about the Mahmoud Khalil case and what it portends for the U.S. Palestine solidarity movement. But fir...

We Are The Union The Book Not The Band with Eric Blanc

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Labor Studies Professor and author of We Are The Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big joins us to talk about l...

(preview) Hardcore Anders Lee: Andrew Cuomo

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Cuomo has announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City and Anders Lee is mad as hell about it. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

The Top Shortage w/ Maxelle Talena (Dysphoria)

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Maxelle Talena from Dysphoria joins us to discuss the top shortage and whether political economy can be applied to people not wanting to fuck each oth...

(preview) Hyper Baja Blastification

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by our guest this week (Chill Goblin)'s excellent video on the man who is currently lying about having invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, we decid...

Acoustic Kitties w/ Chill Goblin

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Video essayist Chill Goblin joins us to talk JFK, Epstein, Clinton, pizza gate, and more! CHILL GOBLIN https://www.youtube.com/c/ChillGoblin https://...

(preview) NoFasc

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anders reads from Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction to answer the pervasive question: is fascism when government? But first, is it illegal to jack...

Homan Security

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss Trump's BORDER CZAR, Tom Homan, and the various AI programs that the surveillance inudstrial complex is contracting out to the government t...

(preview) Zizian Girls

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The anarchist vegan rationalist trans cult that (accidentally?) won the cultural appropriation murder game. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Homo Algorithmicus w/ Alex Gendler

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Gendler joins us to talk about his new piece in The Point on Luigi, tech guys, futurism, etc. Also it is yet again a podcast that we record befor...

(Preview) Canceling EDM DJs While The World Burns w/ Naomi Karavani

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Comedian Naomi Karavani joins us to discuss a very stupid thing that happened on Twitter regarding a venue we work with and then we also talk about th...

City Time w/ David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan join us to discuss their new book, City Time: On Being Sentenced To Riker's Island. DAVID CAMPBELL & JARROD SHANAH...

(preview) Hardcore Anderslee: Leonard Peltier vs. The GOON Squad

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In light of Biden's last minute commutation of political prisoner Leonard Peltier, Anders breaks down his case and the broader history of the American...

Digital Ash w/ Albert Jaragua Corado

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

LA activist and organizer Albert Jaragua Corado joins us to talk LA, cops, mutual aid, fires, and our various mid 30's health issues. ALBERT JARAGUA ...

(preview) More Like Orangeland

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We ring in the birthday of Jake Flores (who turned 30 the day Trump was inaugurated, thereby making him 30) and recap Monday's other events. Then, And...

Note-feratu

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Biden presidency is murdered by an ominous man from a distant land (Queens). MERCH https://poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com/ PATREON + DISCORD patre...

(preview) Enigma?? w/David Tveite

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Friend of the show David Tveite drops by to recap "Enigma", the 3 part Netflix documentary on NFL quarterback, ayahuasca coach and guru of pseudoscien...

Maced in the Face w/ Precious

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

LA musician Precious of Precious Child joins us to talk about getting her music banned from Youtube by Nancy Mace. But first, Los Angeles is on fire a...

(preview) Chirotown

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jake fills everyone in on the crispy current state of Los Angeles (he's safe, folks). Then Anders gives an overview of the wacky world and history of ...

Lip Service

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hot fire new track from disgraced Secretary of State AnTony Blinken. MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

(PREVIEW) 2024: Mogged or Ohio? (?) w/ Alex Collyard

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Comedian Alex Collyard joins us to take a look back on the year that gave us Moo Deng, Hawk Tuah, coconut pill shit, uhhhh Elon jumping weird, and oth...

Merry Polycrisis w/Jamie Merchant

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Jamie Merchant joins us for a barn burner on the Christmas eve Adam Tooze substack everyone's talking about. We dig into Tooze's anti-Marxism, ...

(PREVIEW) Xmas Q & A w/ Jake

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Holidays, stupid children, your present is I answered some questions from the Discord. Ho Ho Ho, and so on. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMER...

This Charming Man w/ Tony Boswell

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Boswell from Minion Death Cult joins us to talk about Luigi, the internet, Halloween, Morrissey, and a bunch of other shit. TONY BOSWELL @wordis...

(PREVIEW) Normal Episode Nothing To See Here

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why did Jimmy Carter give a 1979 speech about how "women be shopping?" Listen to find out as we discuss that and NOTHING ELSE. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM...

The Accused w/Sean Morrow

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined my More Perfect Union journalist Sean Morrow who TMZ recently reported was a suspect in the Brian Thompson's assassination. Great discuss...

(preview) Breloom, Use Bullet Seed

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk Luigi, and we talk Syria. We look forward to hearing your comments. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

The Conversation Starter

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Good things are possible. MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

(preview) &&&: Trotsky on American Communism

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anders and Andy of the Antifada discuss the recent revelation that Leon Trotsky refused to tip when he lived in the Bronx and then segue into a breakd...

The Retvvrn w/Alex Ptak

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Former PDA host Alex is P-back for an ep and, for the first 10 or so minutes, helps Anders decipher the miming of a mute Jake whose mic won't work. Th...

(preview) Birth of the Revolution w/ Frances Flores

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jake interviews his grandmother about her great grandfather Juan Jose Arredondo, who was a Magonista during the events that lead to the Mexican Revolu...

Resistance Part Deux w/ Ashik Siddique & Megan Romer

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by Democratic Socialists of America's national co-chairs Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer to talk about the state of DSA going into Trump's...

(preview) Optimus Crime

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss the Los Angeles bank robbery boom of the 1980s as well as other things including Jay Leno's mysterious busted face. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM...

The Reckoning

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about the big fight where a dangerous white idiot beat up a nihilistic POC with a questionable past... and also the Jake Paul v Mike Tyson fig...

(preview) Megalolpolis

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We answer some Discord questions before discussing Francis Ford Coppola's insane theory of everything movie Megalopolis. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDA...

Hungover Palestinian History 6: 2000-Now w/ Freddy G

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Freddy G joins us to yap about the news and finish out our series on Rashid Khalidi's 100 Years War on Palestine. FREDDY G @OrangeFreddyG MERCH podd...

(preview) Completely Broken

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

11/6/2024 FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Folker: Flores a Deux

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One man's descent into madness fueled by social media and the discography of Ramshackle Glory. CAST: NARRATOR - Maxelle Talena @maxelletalena JAKE FL...

(preview) Kill, Tony

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about Tony Hinchcliffe, comedy, immigration politics, Timothee Chalamet, and Tim Walz's vaporwave fuccboi era

It's Chinatown, JAKE w/Shanti Singh

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anders talks with SF tenant organizer and returning guest, Shanti Singh about politics in the Golden City, including the upcoming Mayoral election. Bu...

(preview) Overton Window Pain

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eminem, Obama, Kroger, IDF, Hamas, and multiple other things.

Fledgling Manor w/ Merritt K

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Merritt K joins us to talk about her upcoming video game, Fledgling Manor, which will be available on Steam later this year. Fledgling Manor is a come...

(PREVIEW) Mister Daddy

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By REQUEST, we discuss the Sean "Puffy" Combs legal situation as well as some other rich people's weird proclivities. BIG OL' CONTENT WARNING: sexua...

Joker: Folie a Damn w/ Fellatia G

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rapper/Comic/Game designer Fellatia G returns to discuss the film sensation everyone is talking about, the sequel to Todd Phillips Joker, Joker: Folie...

(PREVIEW) The Geuse

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're a gossip podcast now.Come to our election watch party NOV 5th at FKA Church in Los Angeles! (we'll send out address closer to show) OUTRO MUSIC...

Country's Over Party w/Ben Clarkson + Matt Bors

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cartoonists Ben Clarkson and Matt Bors join us to talk about their latest installation of Justice Warriors, but first, some JW esque current events: l...

(preview) VP DEBATE 2024: I Am Friends With School Shooters

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We watched Walz vs Vance and now you have to hear about it. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

It Is Your Turn To Repay

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about Ken Klippenstein getting banned from Twitter for publishing some hot doss, and also Eric Adams getting eaten alive by rats. Plus Lebanon...

(preview) Full Metal Jameson

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We take a look at the late Frederic Jameson's inventive (and possibly trolling) essay "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army." But fir...

Soaking in Gaza 2035

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We recap the week's viral news and talk about Bibi's evil, wacky plan for post-conflict Gaza. But first, Anders shares what he learned in Utah, includ...

(preview) Dreadtube: Final Fantasy 7: Rehash

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ake (me) responds to the extremely dumb question "is FF7 political now?" The episode is late because I forgot to pay my Shinra Power and Electric Comp...

Link in the Labor Chain w/Judy Gearhart

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anders talks with labor rights advocate, scholar and host of the Labor Link podcast, Judy Gearhart about trade policy, exploitation in the fishing ind...

(preview) Concept of a Podcast

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy nine eleven everyone we covered the freaking debate. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Lib Free or Die w/librarypunk

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by Jay and Justin from the librarypunk podcast to discuss the Internet Archive lawsuit, what it means for free information, as well as co...

(preview) Israephoria w/ Fellatia G

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that the hit HBO series about children having sex with each other, Euphoria, was originally an Israeli TV show? We found it on the DARK W...

The Airborne Toxic Event w/ Julia Doubleday

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and former Bernie staffer Julia Doubleday joins Jake to talk about how the Democrats all gave each other COVID at the DNC. JULIA DOUBLEDAY @ju...

(preview) Torture, A History

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Folks, EVERY CONTENT WARNING IMAGINABLE: Do not listen, Do Not Come, if you don't wanna hear about some messed up shiz. Today we're talking about the ...

Climbing the Glass Mountain of Conflict

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about Covid resurging, RFK jr endorsing Trump, Gus Walz's diagnosis discourse, DNC recap and more. Subscribe to our bonus feed for extra epis...

(preview) DNC: Do Not watCh

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's gettin hot in here... For the full ep and our episode back catalog subscribe to Patreon.com/Poddamnamerica Article referenced by Kareem Elrefai:...

Medium Cool w/ Charlotte Albrecht & Donald Borenstein

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anders talks with pals Charlotte and Donald about Haskell Wexler's legendary 1969 movie, "Medium Cool." A hybrid between documentary and narrative, "M...

(preview) Everybody in the Bar Getting Tips-y

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss how both Trump and Harris are running on the hot new issue of abolishing taxes on tipped wages. But first, Stancil campaign canceled, Elon/...

The Scoops

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Olympics: past, present, future... how does one woman's kangaroo impression tie it all together? tune in to find out! MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcar...

The DILF

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss Tim Walz, RFK, and other stuff while I do a lot of whip its. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Vanquished/PDA Crossover: Kamala's Cop Era

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anders' two podcast co-hosts join forces to discuss Kamala Harris' career as a public prosecutor in San Francisco and, later, California. But first, s...

(preview) The Other Donald J w/This is Revolution

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by Jason and Pascal from the "This is Revolution" podcast to talk about the Harris campaign, her dad: Marxist economist Donald J. Harris ...