The View from Muslim NYC w/Asad Dandia

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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We talk with lecturer, tour guide and organizer Asad Dandia about the history of Muslims in NYC and the significance of Zohran Mamdani's Mayoralty. But first, Anders recaps Katie Wilson's victory in Seattle and we simply cannot ignore the latest Epstein revelations involving "Bubba." Come to one of Asad's tours: https://www.newyorknarratives.com/our-tours Paid Protest 11/20: https://qedastoria.com/products/paid-protest?event=2025-11-20T21%3A00%3A00 Help Leslie's family cover funeral costs: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lleeiii?lang=en_US&ts=1746753610

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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.
0:43.0	Hello, everyone.
0:44.6	What's up?
0:45.2	Welcome to PDA.
0:46.5	I'm Jake Flores.
0:48.0	That's Anders J. Lee.
0:49.8	Andrews Jake.
0:50.8	Flores Lee here.
0:52.0	It's just the way you said Jake made me think of my own middle initial.
0:56.3	That's cool.
0:56.9	You stole my name.
0:57.8	That's like something a demon would do or something.
1:01.6	We should just switch names.
1:03.5	Other podcasts are getting new names.
1:06.3	We're going to keep Bodden America,
1:07.6	but you and I should legally change each other's names to each other's names. It'd be a good way to test whether anyone is still listening or if it's all just dead internet at this point. Sometimes I really, I'm like, I wonder if that's how I'm paying my bills right now is like we just caught some weird loophole in the dead internet or the CIA doesn't want us spreading these ideas so they made a fake audience and
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