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Pod Damn America

(preview) Beetle In, Beetle Out

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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We discuss the surprisingly subversive DC superhero film, Blue Beetle. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0

that conflict is within like all of us, especially because we all got fucking colonized.

0:06.9

And a lot of us, you know, then the thing becomes to assimilate into America and it becomes,

0:11.1

you know, what's the idea?

0:12.1

So there's this question of whether you want to buy into whiteness or not that is, it's,

0:17.9

you know, it's relevant to fucking all of us.

0:20.4

I think.

0:20.8

There's a really good scene in the Selena movie where Edward James

0:24.4

Olmos is like, he's playing her father and he's driving on a road trip.

0:28.6

And he sort of goes, he says something that's, you know, like fucking quote of the movie for

0:33.5

me.

0:34.1

He says, Mexican Americans.

0:35.3

We're too Mexican for the Americans.

0:36.7

We're too American for the Mexicans. Like, nobody fucking wants us, you know. Um, so I think that what's

0:45.5

going on with Carpaic Carpaxus, I'm going to get all these people's names wrong. Because I'm

0:50.1

fucking, who cares? He has these moments with Susan Sarandon where she says things to him, like, I made you.

0:57.3

You know, I made you who you are.

1:00.8

Ignacio is a quote.

1:01.9

I'm on your side.

1:03.1

I'm just trying to fix you is something she says.

1:06.7

And, you know, having like the fucking gun to your head as a people, you kind of like, that is thrown out there as a viable like option.

1:19.3

I mean, it's literally the clip where they're like, you know, America good, Che Guevar Abad.

1:23.2

A lot of people take that route.

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