The Organization w/Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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We talk with Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks who are both DSA backed candidates for Jersey City City Council. They tell us about their campaigns and give us an overview of NJ's fascinating political scene, a sometimes mobbed up, always motley band of characters including Jersey's own disgraced former Governor turned Mayoral candidate, Jim McGreevy. DONATE TO JAKE AND JOEL https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jakeandjoelforjc SIGN UP TO CANVASS https://joelforjc.com/volunteer https://www.jakeforjc.com/volunteer SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BONUS FEED 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.
0:21.6	God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
0:26.6	God damn America for treating a citizen as less than human.
0:31.6	God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is not and she is supreme.
0:43.5	Okay, hello, everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm Jake M. Flores, I guess. This is Pod damn America,
0:51.8	and that's Andrew Jay Lee with a mustache today.
0:55.1	Ander J. Lee here. What is the M for? I can't believe we've come this far. I don't know your middle name.
1:00.1	I know. I shouldn't be putting out information about myself like this. I'm going to lie. It's for Mario. My middle name is Mario.
1:06.8	Ah. After Mario Cuomo. Yeah, after Mario Cuomo.
1:12.0	Parents were huge. Father of Andrew Cuomo yeah after Mario Cuomo parents were huge father of Andrew Cuomo son of Excensio Cuomo he said the other day
1:21.3	hang on we'll get to him the second first we got to talk about this mustache
1:24.5	because I didn't realize my co-host here, Andrews J. Lee was 25 years old.
1:29.0	Wow, looking young.
1:31.1	I thought you were in your 30s, but I'm looking at a 25-year-old right now dressed like a, what?
1:40.1	25-year-old thing is.
1:41.3	I mean, yeah, I was going to say it's because the joke everyone's making right now is the 25-year-olds all look like I mean, yeah. I was going to say is because the joke everyone's making right now
1:45.1	is that 25-year-olds all look like pedophiles because of these mustaches. Oh. Oh, I thought you were I thought you were complimenting me because of my boyish appearance. That's why I stopped myself. I was like, well, this is turning into an insult. I meant to compliment people one looking like a damn young
1:42.4	zoomer hipster.
1:44.5	But then I I was like, well, this is turning into an insult. I meant to compliment people and looking like a damn young zoomer hipster.
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