WTO WTF w/ Alex Megaro

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Filmmaker Alex Megaro joins us to talk about his film WTO/99, an immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization. Also it's Christmas. WTO/99 https://www.wto99doc.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpV0V3aniDY WHITE ELEPHANT SHOW IN MINNEAPOLIS https://www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/white-elephant MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + 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,
0:15.0	and then wants us to sing God bless America.
0:18.0	No, no, no, not God bless America. America god damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people
0:26.6	God damn America for treating us citizens and less than human god damn America as long as she did try to act like she is proud and she is supreme.
0:43.4	Okay, hello, what's up?
0:45.2	Merry Christmas.
0:46.2	Happy Hanukkah.
0:46.9	Happy Kwanza.
0:49.5	Happy solstice.
0:52.0	I don't know.
0:52.5	Happy all the things.
0:53.9	This is Pod damn America. I'm Jake Flores and that's Anders J. Lee. And Jay Lee here. Thank you for wishing me a happy Kwanza. That's mine. I stuttered when I said it, but I said it. I'm saying all that because I don't think we have a Christmas episode for you. I felt it's weird when you make a thing and you're like, should we do a Christmas episode because it's Christmas? But I don't think it's necessary
1:14.8	that we're. I don't know if I have much to say about Christmas. Actually, you know what? I might have something coming later this week. But we don't need to make anti-capulous Christmas every year. We have plenty to talk about. For instance, the Patriot Games, we're all going
1:31.1	to be drafted into. If you heard about this, Anders. I have not. And you were just striving to me,
1:36.0	and I'm shocked that I'm somehow been under a rock enough to not. I've been exposed to the reenactment
1:42.3	of the 1992 film Patri Patriot Games which is
1:46.6	happening I wonder if they'll be able to get Harrison Ford this time
1:49.2	yeah it's based on a Jack Ryan novel one of those guys
1:54.0	is that the same thing as Jack Reacher or those two different guys yeah
1:57.7	different fictional Jacks. Same vibe
2:00.9	though, right? That's really
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