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Netflix Is In Trouble | Chris Smalls

Apr 21, 202235 min
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis amps up his beef with Disney, Ronny Chieng questions New Yorkers about Earth Day, and Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls sits down with Trevor.

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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello there, You're about to watch an episode of the Daily Show. That means there's some news and some jokes on the way. So if you like laughing and news, you're in the right place. Honey, coming to you from New York City to the only city in America. It's the Daily shown Netflix and South thirsday is for losing in Prescho. This is the Daily Show with Trevor. Now you gonna get short. Thank you so much that you're an Thank you, come down, Thank

you for billing me. Everybody. Wow, s much fun. Thank you so much, Taken, sane, take and see Taken, say thank you so much for being here. First things first, Happy for twenty everybody. Yes, If if anybody is celebrating in the audience right now, I just want to say everyone knows and we're judging you. I hope that doesn't make you paranoid. We have an amazing show tonight. Our guest is the former Amazon employee who started the first

ever Amazon union. Christmas is gonna be joining us. Yeah, and later on Ronnie Chang is gonna hit the streets to see how New Yorkers are celebrating Earth Day and then he roast them for it. But first, let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right, let's kick things off with the big news about Netflix Today, the streaming giants saw their has dropped lower than your grandma when they

play September at a wedding. And when you're a company worth a hundred and fifty billion dollars with two hundred million subscribers, your crash makes everyone panic. Chairs of streaming giant Netflix cratering after the company reported losing subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. That stock is losing about a quarter of its value in pre market trading. It was already down more than forty year Today, Netflix saying more than two hundred thousand subscribers left the

service in the first three months of the year. Now observers are asking if viewers will have to binge watch their favorite Netflix show with ads in between. It's something CEO Read Hastings hasn't ruled out. Allowing consumers who would like to have a lower price and are advertising tolerant um get what they want makes a lot of sense. Damn, Netflix is in troube, which is so so prizing because me and the forty three people. I share my account. We're still watching it all the time. We watch all

the time, Like I thought they were doing well. And and you know how you know Netflix is in trouble is because they even considering ads. Yeah, they're gonna have like a separate ad section from Netflix if you don't want to pay the full thing. And you realized for years Netflix has hated ads. Yeah, the idea of they've treated ads the same way French people treat everything. Yeah, I like, what are you breathing oxygen? What that loser? Where do you live on earth? You're not leaving now? Now?

There are many reasons why Netflix subscriptions are down right, password sharing, inflation, reggae, Jean Page, leaving bridgets in Yeah, no, I'm sorry. You want us to play fifteen bucks a month without that? Ask? I don't think so. I don't think so. At best, and now Netflix exa kissers are being forced to consider multiple options. The only problem is knowing Netflix, they're just going to scroll through those options for like forty five minutes before they give up and

just put on Signfelds. You know, if you ask me, If you ask me, there's no reason to panic, right, there was people like to panic stock market list, But remember this was always bound to happen. I remember the Netflix reason. The reason Netflix became Netflix in the first place is because it was the only thing out there. But now there are tons of streaming services. People want to know, is this the one that's worth my money?

You know, doesn't have the widest variety of options, like what if someone's looking for the Champions League and piccard and three plus rug rats and poor patrol for the kids. I mean, only Paramount plus has that full range and qualities, and most importantly, they keep me employed, so that seems like a pretty good deal to me. Ye. Look, the point is. The point is the king of streaming is struggling right now, and I really hope that they make

it through on a lead. Do I like Netflix? Because without Netflix there's no Netflix and chill and that would be a disaster. We need the pretense of watching Netflix for six minutes before we start the sex. Yeah, otherwise, where are you gonna text people? Do you want to come over for sex? How would that even work? All right, let's make it like a retired Dennis and moved to Florida. As you know, America's flaccid penis recently passed but don't say gay, lad, you come with your face like you've

never seen you've seen that. You're like, oh, that's the first time you've looked at it before, and you said it was flaccids. So they passed but don't say Gay law, which puts limits on how schools can talk about sex and gender issues. And this has upsets a lot of people, including the folks at the Walt Disney Company, because so many of their creative staff are l G, B, t Q. Yeah, if you're surprised, how can you be surprised? Like, what do you think? Why do you think Disney is always

killing off straight parents? They hate breeders, sink about it. It's a conspiracy. So Disney denounced the bill, and then Florida Governor Rhonda Sanctus he denounced Disney, and now the feud is escalating even further. The feud between Florida Governor Rhonda Santis and Disney is growing. Yesterday, he asked the state legislators who repeal in nineteen sixty seven law allowing Disney to operate a private government for its properties in

the state, including Disney World. Disney's special self governance which covers forty square miles, allows the company to provide many of its own services like fire departments, road construction, and building and zoning. The move could leave Disney on the hook for millions of dollars a year in local taxes and with less autonomy over its property. This state is governed by the interests of the people of the state of Florida. It is not based on the demands of

California corporate executives. Oh yes, the santus so sassy, look at you with your one hand and huh to do like a little one hand Trump. We're not gonna be telling what to do, not at all. But yeah, the governor of Florida is using the power of the government. Listen to me. Now, he's using the power of the government to punish Disney because they don't agree with his politics.

Can we can we just admit that most Republicans are not even Republicans anymore, right, because for like a hundred years, the whole thing has been that there's nothing worse than the government telling businesses what to do. And now they're going to use the law to punish corporations for their opinions or because they think that Disney has gotten to woke. Yeah, and many has had a few abortions the first few years. Sorry was I ah? She told me that in confidence.

I'm nicky, didn't know. I'm sorry, guys, Yeah, I mean I thought corporations were people, or in Disney's case, rodents the size of people. And it's especially weird to hear these Republicans now saying corporations are getting too many special deals. We need to have stifferent regulations and make them pay more taxes, more taxes. That's what Run the Sectors is saying now for a corporation. So basically, conservatives are so

freaked out about wokeness that is turning them into liberals. Yeah, it is, in fact, in fact, if you think about it, if liberals, if liberals are smart, they should start harnessing this and like hyping up oil companies. You know. Yeah, AOC should just come out and be like Edge on Mobile is such a good ally. They support black lives matter. They always use people's preferred pronouns. And then all of a sudden Republics were like, what destroy as on, turn

them down, cover them with solar panels. We gotta add this walkness now, I will say this, I will say this run to sanctus aside. I do think it's a little weird that Disney gets all these special perks where it's basically its own country. Do you understand how crazy that is? Like I never knew that they were allowed to run their own government basically, you know. The only thing I did know is that they have their own jail. Yeah, no, I didn't know. And this is this is true in

Disney World. If you get in trouble, they have a little jail that they hold you in until they sort out the issue. Yes, it's their own jurisdiction there on everything. I've actually been in there, but it was only because I jumped off the ride in the middle, like in the Africa part of It's a Small World, I thought I saw some of my friends. There was a misunderstanding, could have happened to anyone. The next se are like a se I'm gonna jumped and there's a whole thing.

But still, man, it's pretty ballsy off this access to pick a fight with Mickey Mouse. Mickey is one of Florida's largest employers, and he never turns the other cheek. Oh boy love sad his claims to be a conservative. Right now, he's acted like a liberal bitch. He's rising taxes on a loved Florida corporation. Hello, a fifty dollar turnkey likes. He's using big government to silence our small family business. I guess it's a socialist world. After all.

You didn't hear this from me When Rohn de Santis went into the Haunted Mansion, this mouser straight up shit himself. No joke. He got so scared from a children's ride he made a big old dukey right his pants. Rohn de Santis is the dunest mother trying and our friends with a guy named Dopey Rhonda Santis wrong for Florida, wrong for America, pooped his pants. I'm Mickey Mouse, and I'll cut a bit. Wow, Mickey does not clear around,

all right. Our final story is about birthdays. You know, the day we celebrate the lost time we saw our mom's vagina. I mean, maybe you creeps. I was a C section baby. Now it may come as a surprise, but not everyone loves celebrating their birthday. As one company in Kentucky learned the hard way, a judge has awarded a Kentucky man food dollars after his former employer through him a surprise birthday party that caused him to have

a panic attack. It happened in Gravity Diagnostics through a surprise lunch for Kevin Burling after he told his office manager he didn't want the company to celebrate his birthday because he suffers from an anxiety disorder and said that the stress would trigger a panic attack, which is exactly what happened. So Burling had to leave the party because of an attack, and according to the suit, he was then criticized by his bosses, which triggered another attack. He

was fired a couple of days later. Last month, he won his lawsuit for disability discrimination and retaliation. Yeah, you know what, honestly, good for this guy. Good for him. You know what I show people online roasting him, being like, I can't believe he's getting paid half a million dollars because he didn't want a birthday party. No, he's getting paid half a million dollars because he said he said

birthday parties give me a panic attack. But then them and he ignored him, threw him a surprise birthday anyway, which gave him the panic attack, and then instead of just apologizing, they fired him for having a panic attack. People, you can't fire someone for something you gave them. Pablo Escotball was never like George hr found cocaine in your desk, So uh yeah, please hand in your ID card. Sorry,

that's not a thing. And also, can we talk about this from what is so important about throwing a birthday party that this company had to do it even though the employee didn't want one. Right, If you want to have a birthday party, work so bad, just throw it. You don't need a reason for it, just saws Bars Johnson. You can do it anytime you want. Let me tell you something. Nobody actually wants to celebrate their birthday at

the office. Nobody wants to. It's not fun. What could be more special than celebrating with my mandatory friends and this photo copy machine. Happy birthday, Amy, I want to go to that birthday. Here's another thing, surprise birthdays, especially on one of the most stressful things ever. Yeah, I think about it. People pop out of you out of nowhere, and then they set a cake in front of you and they put it on fire. Then you have to extinguish it. You don't even get to pick the cake

because of surprise. Where this carrot cake. Huh yeah, first you scare the ship out of me, then you tricked me into eating a Vegetable'll get the f out of here, man, Come on with your birthday surprise. The bigger picture here is that people need to chill out. I'm sick of people who tell you how to celebrate your own birthday. And we all know who they are, a bunch of birthday nazis. Yeah, you're like, oh, I don't want to do anything this year. No, we are going to do something.

Get to guys, let's go. We're going to celebrate your birthday. Happy birthday. Oh bye, I'm asshole. I've got a party that's a kidnapping was set up for my birthday by Cost. Stop it. All right, that's it for the headlines. Before we go to break, let's check in on the stock market, which has been on a wild ride today. Give it up from Michael Cost to everybody. Michael yeah, man, Yeah, what on earth is going on in the stock mother?

I mean, I am crushing it in the stock market. Okay, But before we get into Netflix, that that story about the birthday party. I understand how that guy feels, you know. I I've worked many birthday parties over a lot of summers. I was a male stripper and they used to they used to bake me into the cake. And there was this one party everybody got so drunk they forgot about me. Eventually I had to, you know, eat my way out

of it. But I can relate to being at a party you don't want to be at, you know, and so I can feel for that guy. So it's not the same thing. But yeah, a lot about you in the story. I guess I should share with you that today actually is my birthday. So that's yeah, Oh damn well the ts Yeah, alright, Well for me to you, Michael Kosto, I will sue you right now if you I'll see all of you if you keep singing that song I was just gonna sing you the Happy Birthday. Yeah,

and that's triggering for me. Okay, um, let's get into this Netflix Okay. So look, this is a volatile chart, and this is part of the reason why I didn't put my stand up special about a year ago on Netflix, and instead I decided to hide it deep in the bowels of Paramount Plus, which supposedly is easy to find. According to their marketing department, but um, Trevor, you can see right here this is the beginning of COVID. Netflix just took off. Okay, what are you gonna do? Stay

at home and talk to your wife. No, now, I know what you're thinking, Costa, what's this? You're an expert? What is this dip? Right here? You know? And I got to be honest with you, from the beginning of COVID around here, I was certifiably blackout drunk. Okay, So I can't tell you what that was. I don't know,

but I do know that right here that was. This was that TV show about the woman who did drugs and played chess, uh Queen's Gumbo or whatever, which which, by the way, I did a bunch of drugs one night and played chess, and I'm not very good. So that show is kind of a lie. Alright, So from around here to hear, Trevor, you know what we call that technically in the financial world Bart Simpson's hairline. It's a very technical tournament. You'll see a dip right here.

That was the milk Crate Challenge. A lot of Americans hurt themselves, couldn't operate their computer. What's important here, Trevor, is how the incline in value. This is all squid game, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, Americans love a Korean dystopian future TV show where you have to read in subtitles. Now, Netflix made a big mistake and they released right here Tiger King to nobody wants to see that ship. They followed up by releasing around thirties serial documentaries about white

male serial killers. Uh, so many that I thought maybe if I want to be on Netflix, I'll become a serial killer. I did some night stalking. I never racked up any kills, but I got my steps in this. This is supply chain. All right, you cannot enjoy Netflix if Netflix is trapped in a shipping container in the port of Los Angeles. This dip obviously will Smith smacking Chris Rock and then lastly this final decline. Then what do you expect when your best show was called is

It Cake? So that's my financial breakdown of Netflix. Wow, thank you all so much for that, Michael. That was that was surprisingly informative. Thank you very much. All Right, when we come back, Ronnie Chang celebrates not celebrating Earth Day. You don't want to miss it. What's the back to the Daily Show. This Friday is Earth Day, the time of the year where we take a moment to think about more efficient ways to destroy the planets. Now I'm joking.

I'm joking, where we think about saving the planet. And so we sent Ronnie Chang into the streets of New York to get into the Earth Day spirits. Earth Day is almost here, the day that the world comes together to celebrate this planet that we all share, unless your ideas about it are stupid, and which case I have to fight you on the street. Improve me wrong. Earth Day edition doesn't deserve to be celebrated and prove me wrong. Maybe you're right. Wow, that was the easiest proved me

wrong I've ever had to win. What has the Earth ever done for you? I mean I was born here, I got these clothes here. Yeah, but Earth didn't do any of that. We did that, we did this ship. Earth is a great place. Really, what's so? What's a great about it? I mean, you got the animals, you got the birds. When's the last time you you pet a bird? About two years? Okay, what when you mean two years ago? You pet a bird? My friend Eric, he owns a parakeet. We don't need to be thankful

for everybody, thankful for the earth, we'd be dead. I'm not thankful for the earth. I'm still alive. Okay. Then when you do die, then just how do I explain it? You can't explain. You can't explain it. Though, you can't explain stupidity. Bill goes on in teams of day. Well, then Malaysia nothing alias move it goes on. Malaysia celebrates of day. Yeah, we celebrate day. Nobody knows what we just said. So inside is bad than outside? Prove me wrong?

Inside you got like central air. You're breathing other people's air. You bringing other people's ship, you bring them reading other people ship and pissing that's coming through from everybody's apartment. Really outside, why, well, at least we can see people. Oh man, that's the best part of the pandemic. I didn't have to see anybody. Really. Yeah, look at all these people. Now he's walking around, making noise, staring, taking

photos about permission, driving around. Inside is better than outside? Prove me wrong? Well, you proved me wrong. No, that's not what the segment is called. The seven's called proved me wrong. Okay, you're a kid, don't you like being inside and playing Minecraft. That's why I playing Minecraft games on the top priority. Okay, I'll bite. What is your top priority? Um? Rock climbing is actually my favorite thinking. Oh man, we got the wrong kid for this segment.

You missed the outside the plants. What about the plants relax you? Yeah? Okay, massages relaxed you too, Not like plants. I never had a great massage from a plant. Oh you know what plan I'm talking about. There's only one plant on Earth that makes the earth good, makes you forget all your problems. Oh, I see you're talking about cocaine. Oh no, there's better air. It's fresh. Have you smelled the air around here lately when New York City lady?

See inside, there's couches. Yeah, it's also the fridge. Yeah, you're supposed to be on his side or my side. Okay, I guess you do belong outside. Well, it's definitely safer outside snow door frames. How tall are you? I'm a six ten? Okay, Well outside it's easier for you because I guess you're the apex predator of everything. You know, I'm actually a vegetarian. What it's also the best way to reduce your carbon footprint is to els meat. Shut up,

you only no place to talk about combon footprints. All right, what's your common footprint? You're like a size fifteen. If something goes extinct, we didn't need it in the first place. Prove me wrong. All right, if you could eat a dodo bird, would you eat it? I feel like you're not like exploring and all. Wait, so your argument against this is we should be eating the things that went extinct. Yeah,

that's how they went extinct. So dinosaurs dinosaurs. Yeah, well, if dinosaurs didn't go extinct, Um, people would be pretty broke right now. Because people dig up fossils as a living and get money from selling it to the museum. People would be broke if they didn't do that. What are you an archaeologist or something? Actually, no, I'm a kid. If something goes extinct, we didn't need it in the first place. Proved me wrong. That's a hard one. That's

really hard to argue, to be honest. Okay, great, we're done here, maybe so much about want to try? All right, when we come back, the man who took on Amazon and one small just joining me on the show, So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the president of the Amazon Labor Union. He led Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse to successfully form the first union in any of the company's US facilities. Please welcome Chris maul the Combo. Welcome the

man who took on Amazon, and one Chris Maulls. Welcome to the Daily Show. You what an insane story, Like I remember when this first started. You know, the pandemic was happening. Amazon was ramping up production, the workers were struggling, people were complaining, and then your story popped up as an idea, and everyone said the same thing and said, this guy is crazy. This is gonna fail. You cannot beat Amazon, and you did. Let's start at the beginning.

Did you think you stood a chance? I know you did what you did, But did you think you stood a chance? I knew the whole time, you knew you were gonna stay. The reason I asked you that is because like Amazon, like people have tried to form unions in some of Amazon's other warehouses, they failed dismally. Like Amazon has got a really good marketing program inside. You know what they do as an Amazon worker, talk me through that process. So you were, you were inside Amazon,

you're working right. Um, Well, I wasspired two years ago after I let it walk out. But I worked with a company for almost five years. I started in two thousand fifteen in New Jersey. Um, so I was promoted up to a supervisor level. I was in that position for four years, um up until my termination, and I did I definitely learned ins and out of the warehouse and operations. I trained thousands of their employees, hundreds of their management that are now upper management to this day.

So um for me organizing with this, I'm playing for a different team, and um, I'm with the people. I love that when you when you thought of organizing. Obviously there was a reason. You know, every one of us reads about Amazon from the outside. We hear these stories. People don't get enough breaks. Some people are peeing and bottled. Some people are you know, stressed out because they have

to meet random quotas that Amazon imposes on them. Just the other day, for instance, I think it was on Easter. You know, there was a sign up that said if you thank you for working on Easter and if you meet your quotes, are you're gonna get like a bag of chips or something. It feels dystopian from the outside, But how much of that is actually true? What is it like to work in an Amazon warehouse? It is true, Um, you know, as an Amazon worker, we're disconnected from outside.

You know, we we worked ten a twelve hours a day. Maybe work in New York and you're going to Staton Niland. Um, your commute is two and a half hours, three hours, depending on where borrow you live in. I lived in New Jersey something. My community is definitely a long community. Nice to tell my new HighRes. I've got a gym membership. You might want to cancel it, you know, because you're

working tending twelve hours, you get it thirty minute lunch. Um, you're doing callous daggs all day when you're in the warehouse. What is the thing that you're fighting for the most? Because you know, some people hear the fight against Amazon, they think about wages, you know, they think about time off, they think about the way people are treated within within the warehouse. You know, obviously everyone wants a better workplace altogether. But when you looked at the hierarchy of needs, what

was the top priority? And then as you came down that perramid what were you looking to get? Well, I noticed that Amazon is is very completely completely off the metrics. You know, there wasn't no human aspect to it. You know, you get fired by email or app eight z app. Yeah, you know, people didn't have an interaction, they didn't know their managers, and there was a system in place to

hire and fire and um. You know, it's before COVID when I realized that there's a system that's not only in place to fire people, but it was also discriminatory. You know, I applied to be a manager, a salary manager over fifty times in five years, and I was only interviewed twice. So it wasn't it wasn't fair, It wasn't consistent with everybody in that work there. And I knew before COVID that something had to be done, And when COVID hit, it was a life or death situation.

I decided to take her to action. When you when you look at how to start a union, one of the hardest things is, if I understand correct me, correct me if I'm wrong. Is you you need of the signatures of the workers to begin the process. One of the hardest reasons you can't do that at Amazon is because they hire and fire so quickly. So how did you get around that obstacle of getting people on board and then having them be around long enough to be

part of the beginnings of a union. Yeah, well, education is is key. You know. We had to educate them on what the union provides, um, educate educate them on laws that protect them without a union, So certain protections we do have that workers don't even know. UM. So we had to make sure that we are educating the workers to get to a point where they start organizing themselves. And once we got to that point, we said, okay, you know, we're not gonna go for this four facilities

over there. We're not gonna go for all four. We're gonna break it down and go one by one by one. And um, I think Amazon was called off guard by that. They thought that we were going to go for all four, which we did try and we had to withdraw. But then we changed up our strategy and started doing it one by one. We were able to get to our threshold. They came for you as well, you know. I I saw one of the emails that circulated from you know, you don't in a way it comes from an inside

Amazon where they came off to you. You You know, they would disparage you to the other workers. One of the worst things I saw they wrote about you as they said, Um, he's unintelligent, he's not well spoken enough to to start a union. No one should follow this guy. I mean basically they were like, he's a rap black man. Essentially. It was what they were saying about you. And so they're telling people don't trust him, and they were saying her to do this. Now, obviously you proved them wrong. Yeah,

well they said it, they said, they said. And I wandered, like because because you you were a rapper before you started working, you know, in in warehouses, and I wanted, did you did you take this as a rap before you like, oh, okay, we're doing this. Was that piece of it was like, all right, Amazon were doing this, this track coming you know, you know what, I haven't wrapped. I haven't wrapped in so long. I haven't rapped since, uh, you know, my college years. But I guess it just

keeps resurfacing. You know, media they dig into your past. Oh yeah, they do definitely. So, um, you know, I haven't wrapped this so long. But you know, my my mom would tell you. You know, my voice is meant for something else. So this, this is it. I really love that. So then let's talk about the keeps. Tim, You're in an interesting situation now where so you are the AILU presidents, right, You've done something that no one

thought was achievable. Um, the vice president, as I understand, still works at Amazon, which was a smart move because you wanted someone on the inside. What are you looking to do now? Because I know this is not the end. This is the beginning of the story, you know. And and when when the union was formed, you even you know, sent a message out to Jeff Bezos. It was like pretty direct where you're going, like this is this, this is the beginning. This is only the beginning. And you

thanked him. That was interesting to me. You thanked him for flying in his penis shaped rocket. No, I'd I'd love to know why you think that was so significant. Why do you think that that that actually helped with the unionizing efforts? Well, you know, we while he was up there through you know, we were outside. I was outside side him, works up. So I was just telling the truth, you know, Um, and he needs to know that, you know, he thought he thinked us when he came back.

You know, we paid for that trip, so you know this case, we wanted to remind him that you keep going in space and we want to continue to unionize. I love that. Damn what's what are you? What are you trying to be going forward now? So you know, many people out there, this is something I've really enjoyed about about watching how you work. You've centered the union

around the workers and the workers alone. You know, politicians will always try and make it like the union is there's you know, they'll go like, oh, this is the Democrats, this is the Republicans, and you've gone like, no, no no, no, this is the workers union. You know, because unions helped all the workers. Doesn't matter what your political affiliations, you're

fighting for the workers. I'd love to know why or how you you thought of doing that, Where so many would have aligned themselves with politicians, You're gonna know I'm choosing not to do that. Yeah, you know, we want to represent all people. You know, your work or whether you're left right up down, middle, red, yellow, green, we don't care, and we want to make sure that it's all inclusive and putting workers in the driver's seat. That's

the ultimate power, you know. Um, if you start to aline with certain groups and then Amazon uses that against you, you you know, all right, this union president, from this established union salary is half a million dollars with me, they can't do that. I'm on in Floyd. So it's different,

you know, it's different, you know. And um, and having the workers in the driver's seat, um, and having them at the negotiating table putting it, putting together a contract that protects them, especially the ones that work for the company and know the ins and out of the company. That's the best thing ever. And now I want to give the power back to them by this union. And um, that's exactly what we're trying to do. What do you

hope to achieve with the union? So give me, give me some of the things that you know need to change now in an Amazon way house that all of us watched because everyone we use Amazon. People love the service. But at the same time, you know, it's it's conflicting because people go like, wait, how are they treat the other people? You know what I mean, it's a weird position for many people to be in. So what what would you say to everyone going like, hey, this is

what needs to change in Amazon. This is this is why we're trying to do this right. You know, Well, customers need to know that just because you hit one click buy it doesn't it's not magic. You know, these are real people being affected. You know, we want you all understanding solidarity with these workers. They come from your community, they're your neighbors and where customers too as workers. And the first thing we're fighting for is job security. Like

you mentioned, they hire and fire people all the time. Um. You know, Um, there's people that are homeless working there and people in shelters working there that we help. Um. We're fighting for thirty thousand now were higher wages, UM, better medical leave options, making everybody a shareholder again who they stopped in two thousand and eighteen. UM bringing back the monthly bonuses Amazon workers know what I'm talking about VCP, which was for productivity and attendance. We used to get that.

They stopped that in two thousand and eighteen, as well, UM bringing back hazard pay. They think the pandemic is over, people are still working, catching COVID, still being sick. Um. And also you know, providing a better quality of life, a pension free college for themselves and their children as well. Um. Everything the Union can provide we want to provide with this union. You're a legend. I send uster being here for real man. Everything you've done, Chrischmalls, everybody eversone's for

journey on the show. Best of luck. We're gonna keep up with you on that of it. All right, We're gonna take a quick freak fold your right back after this. Get I'm cool. What about I'll show up for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in until tomorrow. Stay safe out there, and remember, if you're planning someone's surprise birthday party, make sure to give them a heads up first. Wat's the Daily Show weeknights at eleven tent Central on

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