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Pod Damn America

Rogue Elephant w/Paul Heideman

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1702 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Anders talks to historian Paul Heideman about his new book “Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos.” But first, Jake gives a rundown of the situation in Mexico and we attend to a couple very important Twitter controversies. Get Paul's book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3071-rogue-elephant?srsltid=AfmBOopEIyArIgv6KjYRQlaKrbFoi7KAxJ7tmThgKQvsF0SXiKGpmsi7 Check out our bonus feed for extra episodes: 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 America God damn America That's in the Bible for killing innocent people God damn America For treating her citizens as less than human God damn America As long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.

0:40.8

Okay, what's up?

0:42.0

Hello, welcome to Poddam America.

0:44.0

I'm Jake Flores.

0:45.2

That's Andrew Jay Lee.

0:46.4

Andrew Jay Lee here.

0:47.9

You blurted that out almost as if you couldn't help saying Andrews J. Lee here, you know?

0:54.4

I have thought about this.

0:56.3

It's, I mean, there is a level of

0:57.9

OCD in me saying it.

1:00.3

It's not involuntary,

1:02.6

but it's pretty close.

1:03.9

Like I do, it does bother me if I don't say it.

1:07.5

So I don't know if that counts as a

1:09.3

tick. Well, it's not a tick, but it's a, I mean,

1:13.0

it's a tick in the broad sense that people use for just like words that get repeated too often.

1:18.4

You're digging yourself the biggest hole. When these people with this specific disability

1:24.2

activism come after you, you're going to get buried, man.

1:28.3

I mean, listen, I do have an actual tick other than the saying my name and here.

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