Steal This Podcast, Please! w/Carl Deal and Tia Lessin

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Anders talks to filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin about their new documentary "Steal This Story, Please!" about the life and career of Amy Goodman, the longtime host of Democracy Now! Movie screening dates and locations: https://stealthisstoryplease.official.film/ Subscribe to our bonus feed for extra episodes 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 her citizens as less than human
0:31.7	As long as she tries to act like she is God and she is a priest.
0:39.2	Hello, folks.
0:40.2	J.
0:41.1	Lee here.
0:43.2	Just saw Bill Callahan.
0:45.6	Last week, if you don't know who that is, he was the guy behind a band called Smog.
0:53.1	And I say band.
0:59.3	As I understand it, it was mostly just him but musician great musician who i saw last week and uh he has such a great voice and inspired me to talk
1:09.2	in a better more sultry kind of voice,
1:11.9	which I should do more of.
1:15.6	I have a nasal.
1:16.4	My personality makes me go nasal.
1:19.4	But I'm going to try and go more Bill Callahan
1:23.7	and preserve my voice, actually,
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