TYFYS VI: Free Smells for All w/ Ben Yela

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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It's another addition of Thank You For Your Service, the podcast series about how restaurant workers are braver than the troops. Today we are joined by former Jimmy John's worker and current actor of the THEATER, Ben Yela, to discuss his part in the 2011 attempt to unionize Jimmy John's workers in the Twin Cities. read about it here: https://archive.iww.org/category/campaigns/current-campaigns/food-retail-workers-organizing/jimmy-johns/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-johns-union-fight_n_5707e5f4e4b0447a7dbc2d17 Go see Ben act! A Midsummer Night’s Dream By William Shakespeare September 2-12 Voices Found Repertory http://voicesfoundrep.com for tix and more info MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON (BONUS EPS + DISCORD) 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. 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 hard and she is supreme.
0:42.6	Okay, hello, welcome to the show.
0:47.0	Um, um, fuck, this is already starting off badly.
0:49.7	I'm Jake Flores.
0:50.9	Andrews Lee is here.
0:51.9	Anders-Poggers-Lee here.
0:54.3	Alex Patak is here. Anders-Poggers-Lee here. Alex Patak is here.
0:57.5	Hi.
0:59.7	And our guest, who I did not ask him how to pronounce his last name, or if I should say it.
1:06.9	I'm going to say, hello, Ben, welcome to the show, and then you can elaborate from there.
1:12.1	Thank you.
1:12.8	Thank you for having me.
1:13.9	My name is Ben.
1:15.0	I am an actor.
1:16.8	That's what I do.
1:18.4	Are we doing last name?
1:19.5	Because you've got a cool last name.
1:20.9	It's one of my friends.
1:21.7	Yeah, Beniella is my name.
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