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Speaker 1: you so much, Taken, sane, take and see Taken, say
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. First things first,
Speaker 1: Happy for twenty everybody. Yes, If if anybody is celebrating
Speaker 1: in the audience right now, I just want to say
Speaker 1: everyone knows and we're judging you. I hope that doesn't
Speaker 1: make you paranoid. We have an amazing show tonight. Our
Speaker 1: guest is the former Amazon employee who started the first
Speaker 1: ever Amazon union. Christmas is gonna be joining us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and later on Ronnie Chang is gonna hit the streets
Speaker 1: to see how New Yorkers are celebrating Earth Day and
Speaker 1: then he roast them for it. But first, let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. All right, let's kick things off
Speaker 1: with the big news about Netflix Today, the streaming giants
Speaker 1: saw their has dropped lower than your grandma when they
Speaker 1: play September at a wedding. And when you're a company
Speaker 1: worth a hundred and fifty billion dollars with two hundred
Speaker 1: million subscribers, your crash makes everyone panic. Chairs of streaming
Speaker 1: giant Netflix cratering after the company reported losing subscribers for
Speaker 1: the first time in more than a decade. That stock
Speaker 1: is losing about a quarter of its value in pre
Speaker 1: market trading. It was already down more than forty year Today,
Speaker 1: Netflix saying more than two hundred thousand subscribers left the
Speaker 1: service in the first three months of the year. Now
Speaker 1: observers are asking if viewers will have to binge watch
Speaker 1: their favorite Netflix show with ads in between. It's something
Speaker 1: CEO Read Hastings hasn't ruled out. Allowing consumers who would
Speaker 1: like to have a lower price and are advertising tolerant
Speaker 1: um get what they want makes a lot of sense. Damn,
Speaker 1: Netflix is in troube, which is so so prizing because
Speaker 1: me and the forty three people. I share my account.
Speaker 1: We're still watching it all the time. We watch all
Speaker 1: the time, Like I thought they were doing well. And
Speaker 1: and you know how you know Netflix is in trouble
Speaker 1: is because they even considering ads. Yeah, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: like a separate ad section from Netflix if you don't
Speaker 1: want to pay the full thing. And you realized for
Speaker 1: years Netflix has hated ads. Yeah, the idea of they've
Speaker 1: treated ads the same way French people treat everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, what are you breathing oxygen? What that loser?
Speaker 1: Where do you live on earth? You're not leaving now? Now?
Speaker 1: There are many reasons why Netflix subscriptions are down right,
Speaker 1: password sharing, inflation, reggae, Jean Page, leaving bridgets in Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You want us to play fifteen bucks a
Speaker 1: month without that? Ask? I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. At best, and now Netflix exa kissers are
Speaker 1: being forced to consider multiple options. The only problem is
Speaker 1: knowing Netflix, they're just going to scroll through those options
Speaker 1: for like forty five minutes before they give up and
Speaker 1: just put on Signfelds. You know, if you ask me,
Speaker 1: If you ask me, there's no reason to panic, right,
Speaker 1: there was people like to panic stock market list, But
Speaker 1: remember this was always bound to happen. I remember the
Speaker 1: Netflix reason. The reason Netflix became Netflix in the first
Speaker 1: place is because it was the only thing out there.
Speaker 1: But now there are tons of streaming services. People want
Speaker 1: to know, is this the one that's worth my money?
Speaker 1: You know, doesn't have the widest variety of options, like
Speaker 1: what if someone's looking for the Champions League and piccard
Speaker 1: and three plus rug rats and poor patrol for the kids.
Speaker 1: I mean, only Paramount plus has that full range and qualities,
Speaker 1: and most importantly, they keep me employed, so that seems
Speaker 1: like a pretty good deal to me. Ye. Look, the
Speaker 1: point is. The point is the king of streaming is
Speaker 1: struggling right now, and I really hope that they make
Speaker 1: it through on a lead. Do I like Netflix? Because
Speaker 1: without Netflix there's no Netflix and chill and that would
Speaker 1: be a disaster. We need the pretense of watching Netflix
Speaker 1: for six minutes before we start the sex. Yeah, otherwise,
Speaker 1: where are you gonna text people? Do you want to
Speaker 1: come over for sex? How would that even work? All right,
Speaker 1: let's make it like a retired Dennis and moved to Florida.
Speaker 1: As you know, America's flaccid penis recently passed but don't
Speaker 1: say gay, lad, you come with your face like you've
Speaker 1: never seen you've seen that. You're like, oh, that's the
Speaker 1: first time you've looked at it before, and you said
Speaker 1: it was flaccids. So they passed but don't say Gay law,
Speaker 1: which puts limits on how schools can talk about sex
Speaker 1: and gender issues. And this has upsets a lot of people,
Speaker 1: including the folks at the Walt Disney Company, because so
Speaker 1: many of their creative staff are l G, B, t Q. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're surprised, how can you be surprised? Like, what
Speaker 1: do you think? Why do you think Disney is always
Speaker 1: killing off straight parents? They hate breeders, sink about it.
Speaker 1: It's a conspiracy. So Disney denounced the bill, and then
Speaker 1: Florida Governor Rhonda Sanctus he denounced Disney, and now the
Speaker 1: feud is escalating even further. The feud between Florida Governor
Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis and Disney is growing. Yesterday, he asked the
Speaker 1: state legislators who repeal in nineteen sixty seven law allowing
Speaker 1: Disney to operate a private government for its properties in
Speaker 1: the state, including Disney World. Disney's special self governance which
Speaker 1: covers forty square miles, allows the company to provide many
Speaker 1: of its own services like fire departments, road construction, and
Speaker 1: building and zoning. The move could leave Disney on the
Speaker 1: hook for millions of dollars a year in local taxes
Speaker 1: and with less autonomy over its property. This state is
Speaker 1: governed by the interests of the people of the state
Speaker 1: of Florida. It is not based on the demands of
Speaker 1: California corporate executives. Oh yes, the santus so sassy, look
Speaker 1: at you with your one hand and huh to do
Speaker 1: like a little one hand Trump. We're not gonna be
Speaker 1: telling what to do, not at all. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: governor of Florida is using the power of the government.
Speaker 1: Listen to me. Now, he's using the power of the
Speaker 1: government to punish Disney because they don't agree with his politics.
Speaker 1: Can we can we just admit that most Republicans are
Speaker 1: not even Republicans anymore, right, because for like a hundred years,
Speaker 1: the whole thing has been that there's nothing worse than
Speaker 1: the government telling businesses what to do. And now they're
Speaker 1: going to use the law to punish corporations for their
Speaker 1: opinions or because they think that Disney has gotten to woke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and many has had a few abortions the first few years.
Speaker 1: Sorry was I ah? She told me that in confidence.
Speaker 1: I'm nicky, didn't know. I'm sorry, guys, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I thought corporations were people, or in Disney's case, rodents
Speaker 1: the size of people. And it's especially weird to hear
Speaker 1: these Republicans now saying corporations are getting too many special deals.
Speaker 1: We need to have stifferent regulations and make them pay
Speaker 1: more taxes, more taxes. That's what Run the Sectors is
Speaker 1: saying now for a corporation. So basically, conservatives are so
Speaker 1: freaked out about wokeness that is turning them into liberals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, in fact, in fact, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: if liberals, if liberals are smart, they should start harnessing
Speaker 1: this and like hyping up oil companies. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: AOC should just come out and be like Edge on
Speaker 1: Mobile is such a good ally. They support black lives matter.
Speaker 1: They always use people's preferred pronouns. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden Republics were like, what destroy as on, turn
Speaker 1: them down, cover them with solar panels. We gotta add
Speaker 1: this walkness now, I will say this, I will say
Speaker 1: this run to sanctus aside. I do think it's a
Speaker 1: little weird that Disney gets all these special perks where
Speaker 1: it's basically its own country. Do you understand how crazy
Speaker 1: that is? Like I never knew that they were allowed
Speaker 1: to run their own government basically, you know. The only
Speaker 1: thing I did know is that they have their own jail. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. And this is this is true in
Speaker 1: Disney World. If you get in trouble, they have a
Speaker 1: little jail that they hold you in until they sort
Speaker 1: out the issue. Yes, it's their own jurisdiction there on everything.
Speaker 1: I've actually been in there, but it was only because
Speaker 1: I jumped off the ride in the middle, like in
Speaker 1: the Africa part of It's a Small World, I thought
Speaker 1: I saw some of my friends. There was a misunderstanding,
Speaker 1: could have happened to anyone. The next se are like
Speaker 1: a se I'm gonna jumped and there's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: But still, man, it's pretty ballsy off this access to
Speaker 1: pick a fight with Mickey Mouse. Mickey is one of
Speaker 1: Florida's largest employers, and he never turns the other cheek.
Speaker 1: Oh boy love sad his claims to be a conservative.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's acted like a liberal bitch. He's rising
Speaker 1: taxes on a loved Florida corporation. Hello, a fifty dollar
Speaker 1: turnkey likes. He's using big government to silence our small
Speaker 1: family business. I guess it's a socialist world. After all.
Speaker 1: You didn't hear this from me When Rohn de Santis
Speaker 1: went into the Haunted Mansion, this mouser straight up shit himself.
Speaker 1: No joke. He got so scared from a children's ride
Speaker 1: he made a big old dukey right his pants. Rohn
Speaker 1: de Santis is the dunest mother trying and our friends
Speaker 1: with a guy named Dopey Rhonda Santis wrong for Florida,
Speaker 1: wrong for America, pooped his pants. I'm Mickey Mouse, and
Speaker 1: I'll cut a bit. Wow, Mickey does not clear around,
Speaker 1: all right. Our final story is about birthdays. You know,
Speaker 1: the day we celebrate the lost time we saw our
Speaker 1: mom's vagina. I mean, maybe you creeps. I was a
Speaker 1: C section baby. Now it may come as a surprise,
Speaker 1: but not everyone loves celebrating their birthday. As one company
Speaker 1: in Kentucky learned the hard way, a judge has awarded
Speaker 1: a Kentucky man food dollars after his former employer through
Speaker 1: him a surprise birthday party that caused him to have
Speaker 1: a panic attack. It happened in Gravity Diagnostics through a
Speaker 1: surprise lunch for Kevin Burling after he told his office
Speaker 1: manager he didn't want the company to celebrate his birthday
Speaker 1: because he suffers from an anxiety disorder and said that
Speaker 1: the stress would trigger a panic attack, which is exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. So Burling had to leave the party because
Speaker 1: of an attack, and according to the suit, he was
Speaker 1: then criticized by his bosses, which triggered another attack. He
Speaker 1: was fired a couple of days later. Last month, he
Speaker 1: won his lawsuit for disability discrimination and retaliation. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, honestly, good for this guy. Good for him.
Speaker 1: You know what I show people online roasting him, being like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe he's getting paid half a million dollars
Speaker 1: because he didn't want a birthday party. No, he's getting
Speaker 1: paid half a million dollars because he said he said
Speaker 1: birthday parties give me a panic attack. But then them
Speaker 1: and he ignored him, threw him a surprise birthday anyway,
Speaker 1: which gave him the panic attack, and then instead of
Speaker 1: just apologizing, they fired him for having a panic attack. People,
Speaker 1: you can't fire someone for something you gave them. Pablo
Speaker 1: Escotball was never like George hr found cocaine in your desk,
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, please hand in your ID card. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's not a thing. And also, can we talk about
Speaker 1: this from what is so important about throwing a birthday
Speaker 1: party that this company had to do it even though
Speaker 1: the employee didn't want one. Right, If you want to
Speaker 1: have a birthday party, work so bad, just throw it.
Speaker 1: You don't need a reason for it, just saws Bars Johnson.
Speaker 1: You can do it anytime you want. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. Nobody actually wants to celebrate their birthday at
Speaker 1: the office. Nobody wants to. It's not fun. What could
Speaker 1: be more special than celebrating with my mandatory friends and
Speaker 1: this photo copy machine. Happy birthday, Amy, I want to
Speaker 1: go to that birthday. Here's another thing, surprise birthdays, especially
Speaker 1: on one of the most stressful things ever. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think about it. People pop out of you out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and then they set a cake in front of you
Speaker 1: and they put it on fire. Then you have to
Speaker 1: extinguish it. You don't even get to pick the cake
Speaker 1: because of surprise. Where this carrot cake. Huh yeah, first
Speaker 1: you scare the ship out of me, then you tricked
Speaker 1: me into eating a Vegetable'll get the f out of here, man,
Speaker 1: Come on with your birthday surprise. The bigger picture here
Speaker 1: is that people need to chill out. I'm sick of
Speaker 1: people who tell you how to celebrate your own birthday.
Speaker 1: And we all know who they are, a bunch of
Speaker 1: birthday nazis. Yeah, you're like, oh, I don't want to
Speaker 1: do anything this year. No, we are going to do something.
Speaker 1: Get to guys, let's go. We're going to celebrate your birthday.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday. Oh bye, I'm asshole. I've got a party
Speaker 1: that's a kidnapping was set up for my birthday by Cost.
Speaker 1: Stop it. All right, that's it for the headlines. Before
Speaker 1: we go to break, let's check in on the stock market,
Speaker 1: which has been on a wild ride today. Give it
Speaker 1: up from Michael Cost to everybody. Michael yeah, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what on earth is going on in the stock mother?
Speaker 1: I mean, I am crushing it in the stock market. Okay,
Speaker 1: But before we get into Netflix, that that story about
Speaker 1: the birthday party. I understand how that guy feels, you know.
Speaker 1: I I've worked many birthday parties over a lot of summers.
Speaker 1: I was a male stripper and they used to they
Speaker 1: used to bake me into the cake. And there was
Speaker 1: this one party everybody got so drunk they forgot about me.
Speaker 1: Eventually I had to, you know, eat my way out
Speaker 1: of it. But I can relate to being at a
Speaker 1: party you don't want to be at, you know, and
Speaker 1: so I can feel for that guy. So it's not
Speaker 1: the same thing. But yeah, a lot about you in
Speaker 1: the story. I guess I should share with you that
Speaker 1: today actually is my birthday. So that's yeah, Oh damn
Speaker 1: well the ts Yeah, alright, Well for me to you,
Speaker 1: Michael Kosto, I will sue you right now if you
Speaker 1: I'll see all of you if you keep singing that
Speaker 1: song I was just gonna sing you the Happy Birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's triggering for me. Okay, um, let's get into
Speaker 1: this Netflix Okay. So look, this is a volatile chart,
Speaker 1: and this is part of the reason why I didn't
Speaker 1: put my stand up special about a year ago on Netflix,
Speaker 1: and instead I decided to hide it deep in the
Speaker 1: bowels of Paramount Plus, which supposedly is easy to find.
Speaker 1: According to their marketing department, but um, Trevor, you can
Speaker 1: see right here this is the beginning of COVID. Netflix
Speaker 1: just took off. Okay, what are you gonna do? Stay
Speaker 1: at home and talk to your wife. No, now, I
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking, Costa, what's this? You're an expert?
Speaker 1: What is this dip? Right here? You know? And I
Speaker 1: got to be honest with you, from the beginning of
Speaker 1: COVID around here, I was certifiably blackout drunk. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what that was. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I do know that right here that was. This
Speaker 1: was that TV show about the woman who did drugs
Speaker 1: and played chess, uh Queen's Gumbo or whatever, which which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I did a bunch of drugs one
Speaker 1: night and played chess, and I'm not very good. So
Speaker 1: that show is kind of a lie. Alright, So from
Speaker 1: around here to hear, Trevor, you know what we call
Speaker 1: that technically in the financial world Bart Simpson's hairline. It's
Speaker 1: a very technical tournament. You'll see a dip right here.
Speaker 1: That was the milk Crate Challenge. A lot of Americans
Speaker 1: hurt themselves, couldn't operate their computer. What's important here, Trevor,
Speaker 1: is how the incline in value. This is all squid game,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Okay, Americans love a Korean dystopian future
Speaker 1: TV show where you have to read in subtitles. Now,
Speaker 1: Netflix made a big mistake and they released right here
Speaker 1: Tiger King to nobody wants to see that ship. They
Speaker 1: followed up by releasing around thirties serial documentaries about white
Speaker 1: male serial killers. Uh, so many that I thought maybe
Speaker 1: if I want to be on Netflix, I'll become a
Speaker 1: serial killer. I did some night stalking. I never racked
Speaker 1: up any kills, but I got my steps in this.
Speaker 1: This is supply chain. All right, you cannot enjoy Netflix
Speaker 1: if Netflix is trapped in a shipping container in the
Speaker 1: port of Los Angeles. This dip obviously will Smith smacking
Speaker 1: Chris Rock and then lastly this final decline. Then what
Speaker 1: do you expect when your best show was called is
Speaker 1: It Cake? So that's my financial breakdown of Netflix. Wow,
Speaker 1: thank you all so much for that, Michael. That was
Speaker 1: that was surprisingly informative. Thank you very much. All Right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, Ronnie Chang celebrates not celebrating Earth Day.
Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. What's the back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. This Friday is Earth Day, the time
Speaker 1: of the year where we take a moment to think
Speaker 1: about more efficient ways to destroy the planets. Now I'm joking.
Speaker 1: I'm joking, where we think about saving the planet. And
Speaker 1: so we sent Ronnie Chang into the streets of New
Speaker 1: York to get into the Earth Day spirits. Earth Day
Speaker 1: is almost here, the day that the world comes together
Speaker 1: to celebrate this planet that we all share, unless your
Speaker 1: ideas about it are stupid, and which case I have
Speaker 1: to fight you on the street. Improve me wrong. Earth
Speaker 1: Day edition doesn't deserve to be celebrated and prove me wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're right. Wow, that was the easiest proved me
Speaker 1: wrong I've ever had to win. What has the Earth
Speaker 1: ever done for you? I mean I was born here,
Speaker 1: I got these clothes here. Yeah, but Earth didn't do
Speaker 1: any of that. We did that, we did this ship.
Speaker 1: Earth is a great place. Really, what's so? What's a
Speaker 1: great about it? I mean, you got the animals, you
Speaker 1: got the birds. When's the last time you you pet
Speaker 1: a bird? About two years? Okay, what when you mean
Speaker 1: two years ago? You pet a bird? My friend Eric,
Speaker 1: he owns a parakeet. We don't need to be thankful
Speaker 1: for everybody, thankful for the earth, we'd be dead. I'm
Speaker 1: not thankful for the earth. I'm still alive. Okay. Then
Speaker 1: when you do die, then just how do I explain it?
Speaker 1: You can't explain. You can't explain it. Though, you can't
Speaker 1: explain stupidity. Bill goes on in teams of day. Well,
Speaker 1: then Malaysia nothing alias move it goes on. Malaysia celebrates
Speaker 1: of day. Yeah, we celebrate day. Nobody knows what we
Speaker 1: just said. So inside is bad than outside? Prove me wrong?
Speaker 1: Inside you got like central air. You're breathing other people's air.
Speaker 1: You bringing other people's ship, you bring them reading other
Speaker 1: people ship and pissing that's coming through from everybody's apartment.
Speaker 1: Really outside, why, well, at least we can see people.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's the best part of the pandemic. I
Speaker 1: didn't have to see anybody. Really. Yeah, look at all
Speaker 1: these people. Now he's walking around, making noise, staring, taking
Speaker 1: photos about permission, driving around. Inside is better than outside?
Speaker 1: Prove me wrong? Well, you proved me wrong. No, that's
Speaker 1: not what the segment is called. The seven's called proved
Speaker 1: me wrong. Okay, you're a kid, don't you like being
Speaker 1: inside and playing Minecraft. That's why I playing Minecraft games
Speaker 1: on the top priority. Okay, I'll bite. What is your
Speaker 1: top priority? Um? Rock climbing is actually my favorite thinking.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we got the wrong kid for this segment.
Speaker 1: You missed the outside the plants. What about the plants
Speaker 1: relax you? Yeah? Okay, massages relaxed you too, Not like plants.
Speaker 1: I never had a great massage from a plant. Oh
Speaker 1: you know what plan I'm talking about. There's only one
Speaker 1: plant on Earth that makes the earth good, makes you
Speaker 1: forget all your problems. Oh, I see you're talking about cocaine.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there's better air. It's fresh. Have you smelled
Speaker 1: the air around here lately when New York City lady?
Speaker 1: See inside, there's couches. Yeah, it's also the fridge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be on his side or my side. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess you do belong outside. Well, it's definitely safer
Speaker 1: outside snow door frames. How tall are you? I'm a
Speaker 1: six ten? Okay, Well outside it's easier for you because
Speaker 1: I guess you're the apex predator of everything. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually a vegetarian. What it's also the best way
Speaker 1: to reduce your carbon footprint is to els meat. Shut up,
Speaker 1: you only no place to talk about combon footprints. All right,
Speaker 1: what's your common footprint? You're like a size fifteen. If
Speaker 1: something goes extinct, we didn't need it in the first place.
Speaker 1: Prove me wrong. All right, if you could eat a
Speaker 1: dodo bird, would you eat it? I feel like you're
Speaker 1: not like exploring and all. Wait, so your argument against
Speaker 1: this is we should be eating the things that went extinct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how they went extinct. So dinosaurs dinosaurs. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: if dinosaurs didn't go extinct, Um, people would be pretty
Speaker 1: broke right now. Because people dig up fossils as a
Speaker 1: living and get money from selling it to the museum.
Speaker 1: People would be broke if they didn't do that. What
Speaker 1: are you an archaeologist or something? Actually, no, I'm a kid.
Speaker 1: If something goes extinct, we didn't need it in the
Speaker 1: first place. Proved me wrong. That's a hard one. That's
Speaker 1: really hard to argue, to be honest. Okay, great, we're
Speaker 1: done here, maybe so much about want to try? All right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, the man who took on Amazon
Speaker 1: and one small just joining me on the show, So
Speaker 1: don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
Speaker 1: guest tonight is the president of the Amazon Labor Union.
Speaker 1: He led Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse to
Speaker 1: successfully form the first union in any of the company's
Speaker 1: US facilities. Please welcome Chris maul the Combo. Welcome the
Speaker 1: man who took on Amazon, and one Chris Maulls. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Daily Show. You what an insane story, Like
Speaker 1: I remember when this first started. You know, the pandemic
Speaker 1: was happening. Amazon was ramping up production, the workers were struggling,
Speaker 1: people were complaining, and then your story popped up as
Speaker 1: an idea, and everyone said the same thing and said,
Speaker 1: this guy is crazy. This is gonna fail. You cannot
Speaker 1: beat Amazon, and you did. Let's start at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Did you think you stood a chance? I know you
Speaker 1: did what you did, But did you think you stood
Speaker 1: a chance? I knew the whole time, you knew you
Speaker 1: were gonna stay. The reason I asked you that is
Speaker 1: because like Amazon, like people have tried to form unions
Speaker 1: in some of Amazon's other warehouses, they failed dismally. Like
Speaker 1: Amazon has got a really good marketing program inside. You
Speaker 1: know what they do as an Amazon worker, talk me
Speaker 1: through that process. So you were, you were inside Amazon,
Speaker 1: you're working right. Um, Well, I wasspired two years ago
Speaker 1: after I let it walk out. But I worked with
Speaker 1: a company for almost five years. I started in two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen in New Jersey. Um, so I was promoted
Speaker 1: up to a supervisor level. I was in that position
Speaker 1: for four years, um up until my termination, and I
Speaker 1: did I definitely learned ins and out of the warehouse
Speaker 1: and operations. I trained thousands of their employees, hundreds of
Speaker 1: their management that are now upper management to this day.
Speaker 1: So um for me organizing with this, I'm playing for
Speaker 1: a different team, and um, I'm with the people. I
Speaker 1: love that when you when you thought of organizing. Obviously
Speaker 1: there was a reason. You know, every one of us
Speaker 1: reads about Amazon from the outside. We hear these stories.
Speaker 1: People don't get enough breaks. Some people are peeing and bottled.
Speaker 1: Some people are you know, stressed out because they have
Speaker 1: to meet random quotas that Amazon imposes on them. Just
Speaker 1: the other day, for instance, I think it was on Easter.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a sign up that said if
Speaker 1: you thank you for working on Easter and if you
Speaker 1: meet your quotes, are you're gonna get like a bag
Speaker 1: of chips or something. It feels dystopian from the outside,
Speaker 1: But how much of that is actually true? What is
Speaker 1: it like to work in an Amazon warehouse? It is true, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, as an Amazon worker, we're disconnected from outside.
Speaker 1: You know, we we worked ten a twelve hours a day.
Speaker 1: Maybe work in New York and you're going to Staton Niland. Um,
Speaker 1: your commute is two and a half hours, three hours,
Speaker 1: depending on where borrow you live in. I lived in
Speaker 1: New Jersey something. My community is definitely a long community.
Speaker 1: Nice to tell my new HighRes. I've got a gym membership.
Speaker 1: You might want to cancel it, you know, because you're
Speaker 1: working tending twelve hours, you get it thirty minute lunch. Um,
Speaker 1: you're doing callous daggs all day when you're in the warehouse.
Speaker 1: What is the thing that you're fighting for the most?
Speaker 1: Because you know, some people hear the fight against Amazon,
Speaker 1: they think about wages, you know, they think about time off,
Speaker 1: they think about the way people are treated within within
Speaker 1: the warehouse. You know, obviously everyone wants a better workplace altogether.
Speaker 1: But when you looked at the hierarchy of needs, what
Speaker 1: was the top priority? And then as you came down
Speaker 1: that perramid what were you looking to get? Well, I
Speaker 1: noticed that Amazon is is very completely completely off the metrics.
Speaker 1: You know, there wasn't no human aspect to it. You know,
Speaker 1: you get fired by email or app eight z app. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, people didn't have an interaction, they didn't know
Speaker 1: their managers, and there was a system in place to
Speaker 1: hire and fire and um. You know, it's before COVID
Speaker 1: when I realized that there's a system that's not only
Speaker 1: in place to fire people, but it was also discriminatory.
Speaker 1: You know, I applied to be a manager, a salary
Speaker 1: manager over fifty times in five years, and I was
Speaker 1: only interviewed twice. So it wasn't it wasn't fair, It
Speaker 1: wasn't consistent with everybody in that work there. And I
Speaker 1: knew before COVID that something had to be done, And
Speaker 1: when COVID hit, it was a life or death situation.
Speaker 1: I decided to take her to action. When you when
Speaker 1: you look at how to start a union, one of
Speaker 1: the hardest things is, if I understand correct me, correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Is you you need of the
Speaker 1: signatures of the workers to begin the process. One of
Speaker 1: the hardest reasons you can't do that at Amazon is
Speaker 1: because they hire and fire so quickly. So how did
Speaker 1: you get around that obstacle of getting people on board
Speaker 1: and then having them be around long enough to be
Speaker 1: part of the beginnings of a union. Yeah, well, education
Speaker 1: is is key. You know. We had to educate them
Speaker 1: on what the union provides, um, educate educate them on
Speaker 1: laws that protect them without a union, So certain protections
Speaker 1: we do have that workers don't even know. UM. So
Speaker 1: we had to make sure that we are educating the
Speaker 1: workers to get to a point where they start organizing themselves.
Speaker 1: And once we got to that point, we said, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna go for this four facilities
Speaker 1: over there. We're not gonna go for all four. We're
Speaker 1: gonna break it down and go one by one by one.
Speaker 1: And um, I think Amazon was called off guard by that.
Speaker 1: They thought that we were going to go for all four,
Speaker 1: which we did try and we had to withdraw. But
Speaker 1: then we changed up our strategy and started doing it
Speaker 1: one by one. We were able to get to our threshold.
Speaker 1: They came for you as well, you know. I I
Speaker 1: saw one of the emails that circulated from you know,
Speaker 1: you don't in a way it comes from an inside
Speaker 1: Amazon where they came off to you. You You know, they
Speaker 1: would disparage you to the other workers. One of the
Speaker 1: worst things I saw they wrote about you as they said, Um,
Speaker 1: he's unintelligent, he's not well spoken enough to to start
Speaker 1: a union. No one should follow this guy. I mean
Speaker 1: basically they were like, he's a rap black man. Essentially.
Speaker 1: It was what they were saying about you. And so
Speaker 1: they're telling people don't trust him, and they were saying
Speaker 1: her to do this. Now, obviously you proved them wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they said it, they said, they said. And I wandered,
Speaker 1: like because because you you were a rapper before you
Speaker 1: started working, you know, in in warehouses, and I wanted,
Speaker 1: did you did you take this as a rap before
Speaker 1: you like, oh, okay, we're doing this. Was that piece
Speaker 1: of it was like, all right, Amazon were doing this,
Speaker 1: this track coming you know, you know what, I haven't wrapped.
Speaker 1: I haven't wrapped in so long. I haven't rapped since, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my college years. But I guess it just
Speaker 1: keeps resurfacing. You know, media they dig into your past.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they do definitely. So, um, you know, I
Speaker 1: haven't wrapped this so long. But you know, my my
Speaker 1: mom would tell you. You know, my voice is meant
Speaker 1: for something else. So this, this is it. I really
Speaker 1: love that. So then let's talk about the keeps. Tim,
Speaker 1: You're in an interesting situation now where so you are
Speaker 1: the AILU presidents, right, You've done something that no one
Speaker 1: thought was achievable. Um, the vice president, as I understand,
Speaker 1: still works at Amazon, which was a smart move because
Speaker 1: you wanted someone on the inside. What are you looking
Speaker 1: to do now? Because I know this is not the end.
Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the story, you know. And
Speaker 1: and when when the union was formed, you even you know,
Speaker 1: sent a message out to Jeff Bezos. It was like
Speaker 1: pretty direct where you're going, like this is this, this
Speaker 1: is the beginning. This is only the beginning. And you
Speaker 1: thanked him. That was interesting to me. You thanked him
Speaker 1: for flying in his penis shaped rocket. No, I'd I'd
Speaker 1: love to know why you think that was so significant.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that that that actually helped with
Speaker 1: the unionizing efforts? Well, you know, we while he was
Speaker 1: up there through you know, we were outside. I was
Speaker 1: outside side him, works up. So I was just telling
Speaker 1: the truth, you know, Um, and he needs to know that,
Speaker 1: you know, he thought he thinked us when he came back.
Speaker 1: You know, we paid for that trip, so you know
Speaker 1: this case, we wanted to remind him that you keep
Speaker 1: going in space and we want to continue to unionize.
Speaker 1: I love that. Damn what's what are you? What are
Speaker 1: you trying to be going forward now? So you know,
Speaker 1: many people out there, this is something I've really enjoyed
Speaker 1: about about watching how you work. You've centered the union
Speaker 1: around the workers and the workers alone. You know, politicians
Speaker 1: will always try and make it like the union is
Speaker 1: there's you know, they'll go like, oh, this is the Democrats,
Speaker 1: this is the Republicans, and you've gone like, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: this is the workers union. You know, because unions helped
Speaker 1: all the workers. Doesn't matter what your political affiliations, you're
Speaker 1: fighting for the workers. I'd love to know why or
Speaker 1: how you you thought of doing that, Where so many
Speaker 1: would have aligned themselves with politicians, You're gonna know I'm
Speaker 1: choosing not to do that. Yeah, you know, we want
Speaker 1: to represent all people. You know, your work or whether
Speaker 1: you're left right up down, middle, red, yellow, green, we
Speaker 1: don't care, and we want to make sure that it's
Speaker 1: all inclusive and putting workers in the driver's seat. That's
Speaker 1: the ultimate power, you know. Um, if you start to
Speaker 1: aline with certain groups and then Amazon uses that against
Speaker 1: you, you you know, all right, this union president, from this
Speaker 1: established union salary is half a million dollars with me,
Speaker 1: they can't do that. I'm on in Floyd. So it's different,
Speaker 1: you know, it's different, you know. And um, and having
Speaker 1: the workers in the driver's seat, um, and having them
Speaker 1: at the negotiating table putting it, putting together a contract
Speaker 1: that protects them, especially the ones that work for the
Speaker 1: company and know the ins and out of the company.
Speaker 1: That's the best thing ever. And now I want to
Speaker 1: give the power back to them by this union. And um,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what we're trying to do. What do you
Speaker 1: hope to achieve with the union? So give me, give
Speaker 1: me some of the things that you know need to
Speaker 1: change now in an Amazon way house that all of
Speaker 1: us watched because everyone we use Amazon. People love the service.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, it's it's conflicting
Speaker 1: because people go like, wait, how are they treat the
Speaker 1: other people? You know what I mean, it's a weird
Speaker 1: position for many people to be in. So what what
Speaker 1: would you say to everyone going like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: what needs to change in Amazon. This is this is
Speaker 1: why we're trying to do this right. You know, Well,
Speaker 1: customers need to know that just because you hit one
Speaker 1: click buy it doesn't it's not magic. You know, these
Speaker 1: are real people being affected. You know, we want you
Speaker 1: all understanding solidarity with these workers. They come from your community,
Speaker 1: they're your neighbors and where customers too as workers. And
Speaker 1: the first thing we're fighting for is job security. Like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, they hire and fire people all the time. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, there's people that are homeless working there
Speaker 1: and people in shelters working there that we help. Um.
Speaker 1: We're fighting for thirty thousand now were higher wages, UM,
Speaker 1: better medical leave options, making everybody a shareholder again who
Speaker 1: they stopped in two thousand and eighteen. UM bringing back
Speaker 1: the monthly bonuses Amazon workers know what I'm talking about VCP,
Speaker 1: which was for productivity and attendance. We used to get that.
Speaker 1: They stopped that in two thousand and eighteen, as well,
Speaker 1: UM bringing back hazard pay. They think the pandemic is over,
Speaker 1: people are still working, catching COVID, still being sick. Um.
Speaker 1: And also you know, providing a better quality of life,
Speaker 1: a pension free college for themselves and their children as well. Um.
Speaker 1: Everything the Union can provide we want to provide with
Speaker 1: this union. You're a legend. I send uster being here
Speaker 1: for real man. Everything you've done, Chrischmalls, everybody eversone's for
Speaker 1: journey on the show. Best of luck. We're gonna keep
Speaker 1: up with you on that of it. All right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick freak fold your right back after this.
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