Karl Marx: Texas Ranger w/Andrew Hartman

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Historian Andrew Hartman tells us about his fascinating new book "Marx in America" but first we talk about the Minneapolis DFL Party reneging its endorsement of Omar Fateh and Jake's ass getting frozen and continentally drifted over on "Ice Age 4" Twitter. Andrew's book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo245100866.html Come to Laff Bloc: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laff-bloc-comedy-against-ice-tickets-1583014321449?aff=oddtdtcreator Subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, bills 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
0:21.5	God damn America
0:23.5	That's in the Bible for killing innocent people
0:26.9	God damn America
0:28.6	For treating a citizen
0:30.2	As less than human
0:31.7	God damn America
0:33.3	As long as she tries to act
0:36.2	Like she is God and she is supreme.
0:41.0	All right.
0:41.9	Hello, everyone.
0:43.6	Welcome to another shiny new episode, shiny new episode of Pod.
0:50.4	Damn America.
0:51.6	The podcast by me and Anders for you. I'm Jake Flores. That's Anders J. Lee. Anders J. Striped shirtly here. We both have different striped shirts. Oh, I didn't even notice that. That's cool. Okay. We're like Skyping each other from different prisons, it looks like. I was going to say we both look like Pugsley from the Adams family. Different Pugsley's though, you know? Yeah. Different eras, one where they made him woke or whatever. Classic return Pugsley. That's you. That's me. I was him for Halloween as a kid. Were you really? Which he's like, I was. Yeah, my family was the Adam's family one year.
1:31.4	And he's the only one who didn't have to have any makeup applied, I think. I don't know if I would have
1:35.9	cooperated with that. Young boys do just kind of look like Pugsley.
1:40.2	You just have to have a thousand yard stare at a striped shirt.
1:44.6	It's true.
1:48.6	Every white little boy goes from us.
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