1 Year Of Laughs w/ David Dayen
Pod Damn America
Pod Damn America
4.1 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. |
| 0:10.0 | The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, |
| 0:16.0 | and then wants us to sing God bless America. |
| 0:19.0 | No, no, no, not God bless America god damn america that's in the bible for killing innocent people god damn america for treating us citizens as less than human |
| 0:31.7 | okay okay italian voice um i'm not gonna do the Barrett voice because it is racist. |
| 0:40.1 | But remember the beginning of Final Fantasy 7 when he says, |
| 0:44.2 | there's no getting off of this train. |
| 0:47.3 | The train, it's a great metaphor about the climate change thing that the game is a metaphor for and all that crap. |
| 0:56.4 | There's no getting off of this train. |
| 1:00.2 | It's Amtrak. |
| 1:01.2 | Here's my Barrett impression. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Barrett. |
| 1:04.6 | Shit. |
| 1:05.9 | So this is, |
| 1:07.5 | I know we talked about him on the final fantasy episode. |
| 1:10.3 | This is a African-American character. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes. |
| 1:13.6 | He's a large man with a machine gun for a hand. |
| 1:18.6 | And he just loves his daughter so much. |
| 1:22.8 | And his name is Barrett. |
| 1:25.0 | Making passionate speeches about how we have to save the planet, |
| 1:29.7 | which is like a train that you can't get off of once it starts moving. |
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