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Speaker 1: I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon

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Speaker 1: customer because you guys paid progress. You guys paid prods.

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Speaker 1: This is Megacorp, an investigative podcast exposing some of the

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Speaker 1: world's most unethical corporations. This series is about Amazon. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jake Hanrahan, journalists and documentary filmmaker. Mega Corp is produced

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Speaker 1: by H eleven for Cool Zone Media. Megacorps Episode zero

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Speaker 1: This is a sort of prologue if you like. Why well,

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Speaker 1: because I wanted to explain a bit about what megacorp

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Speaker 1: is and isn't before we get stuck into it. I

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Speaker 1: feel the need to do this because of the nature

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Speaker 1: of the work involved in this series, that is reporting

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Speaker 1: on the dishonorable treatment of workers and consumers by some

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Speaker 1: of the wealthiest corporations on Earth. Now, due to the

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Speaker 1: last few years of political and cultural turmoil, it feels

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Speaker 1: like everyone sees everything now only from one point of view,

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Speaker 1: their own. I find that lack of nuance very boring.

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Speaker 1: So let me just be clear that Megacorp is not

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Speaker 1: made to pander to any one specific political ideology or

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Speaker 1: cultural identity. You do you, I'll do me. That's fine. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we will be digging into the unethical acts of multimillion

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Speaker 1: dollar and sometimes billion dollar corporations. But that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: we've made this specific fically just for antique capitalists. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not for them either. What I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to say is Megacorp is for everyone. If you pay tax,

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Speaker 1: if you work, if you consume, if you spend money anywhere.

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Speaker 1: At the very least, I think you should be made

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Speaker 1: aware of the scandalous behavior of some of the most

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Speaker 1: lucrative companies out there. Then you can do with that

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Speaker 1: information what you want. That's up to you. I'm not

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Speaker 1: calling for a boycott. I'm not saying you're a bad

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Speaker 1: person for earning money, and I'm certainly not trying to

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Speaker 1: destroy anyone's business. What I am doing with Megacorp is

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Speaker 1: trying to show that there must be some sort of

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Speaker 1: accountability for corporations that get away with treating people like

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Speaker 1: dirt just because they have a stranglehold on any given industry. Now,

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Speaker 1: I guess if Megacorp had to be for anyone's specific,

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Speaker 1: it would be for the mistreated workers everywhere. But like

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Speaker 1: I said, this is for anyone who wants to hear it. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: a bit about me. My name is Jake Hanrahan. I'm

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Speaker 1: a journalist, producer and documentary filmmaker from Britain. My work

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Speaker 1: is largely focused on conflict, crime and politics. The last

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Speaker 1: seven years, I've been reporting mostly from frontlines in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Kurdistan,

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Speaker 1: palest Iroan all over the place. You might have seen

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Speaker 1: my work. I also run a grassroots conflict journalism outlet

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Speaker 1: called Popular Front. You can look that up. I think

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Speaker 1: you like it. If you want, you can find my

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Speaker 1: work at Jake Hanrahan dot com. That's h A N

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Speaker 1: A A h A M. Now enjoy a megacord