Comedy in a Police State: ICE, SESTA-FOSTA, Stand-Up, & U.S. Culture
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jake Flores is a stand-up comedian and the host of Pod Damn America. Jake joins Brett to talk about his house visit from Department of Homeland Security agents because of a joke about ICE that he posted on twitter the day before. They also talk about comedy as a vehicle for radical politics, how SESTA-FOSTA hurts sex workers, Millennial culture, why reactionaries suck at comedy, and much more!
Visit Jake Flores’ Website here: http://www.feraljokes.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up y'all? |
| 0:01.5 | I'm from Texas too. |
| 0:03.8 | Originally originally I'm a Texas New Yorker. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm also a Texan and check this out. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm woke. Are you guys fucking woke? |
| 0:12.3 | Yeah, Texan woke. |
| 0:15.0 | That means you called me by my preferred pronoun. |
| 0:18.1 | Y'all, alright? |
| 0:21.0 | The Locust pronoun there is. |
| 0:23.7 | It includes everyone. |
| 0:26.2 | What's up y'all? |
| 0:28.5 | Gentrification. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:31.5 | It's happening everywhere. |
| 0:33.5 | Everyone hates it. |
| 0:34.5 | All these tattooed hipster ding-dongs |
| 0:37.5 | are rooted into your neighborhood. |
| 0:39.5 | Opening up these muffin shops. |
| 0:43.5 | It looks like me, I am them kind of. |
| 0:47.5 | It's a problem. |
| 0:49.5 | It's wacky results. |
| 0:50.5 | It's kind of fun sometimes, you know. |
| 0:52.5 | I live in one of these neighborhoods. |
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