Podcasts about amazon workers

in this episode, i'm talking about Starbucks and Amazon Workers who have gone on strike during the busy holiday season #fullbreakdown

12-23-24 Morning Rush - Blake Lively SUES Justin Baldoni - Breaking Down The WILD STORY & Amazon Workers Strike! A bombshell story broke over the weekend involving Blake Lively and her cohost and director Justin Baldoni where she sued him for sexual harassment. We've got a war breaking out, I'm going to share the entire timeline of events including the response from his PR team whose text messages were leaked. Party City shuts down, party over. Plus a deep dive into the NYPD Commissioner who scolded people for how they reacted to the assassination of healthcare ceo Brian Thompson. Also, an update on the massive strike happening across amazon locations. go to patreon.com/daveneal for more bonus content!

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A new L.A. County Board of Supervisors proposal aims to restrict pet rent, fees and deposits. Days before Christmas Amazon workers at four SoCal warehouses are threatening to strike over union recognition. A California Science Center program preps students for life after high school. Plus, more. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com Support the show: https://laist.com

Amazon workers at four SoCal warehouses join a nationwide strike. Gov. Newsom declare state of emergency over bird flu. The entertainment industry is now looking to broaden its audience by tapping into faith-based content. Plus, more. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com Support the show: https://laist.com

Amazon workers in 7 major cities have started a strike today which experts say could disrupt Christmas deliveries. Jamie went to get a facial at Facial Aesthetics yesterday. The world wants to know what Travis Kelce bought for Taylor Swift for her Bday.

As we enter the final days of the holiday shopping season, Amazon workers across the country are headed to the picket lines. And the CDC announces the first severe case of bird flu in a human in the United States. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione could be back in NYC later today....Amazon workers go on strike......23,000 people in New York state have come down with the flu full 553 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:51:19 +0000 FKgVKDoSazwOTnBE1AFxE4L0WiCn8Wkj news 1010 WINS ALL LOCAL news CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione could be back in NYC later today....Amazon workers go on strike......23,000 people in New York state have come down with the flu The podcast is hyper-focused on local news, issues and events in the New York City area. This podcast's purpose is to give New Yorkers New York news about their neighborhoods and shine a light on the issues happening in their backyard. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News

The All Local Afternoon for Thursday December 19 2024

Workers at several Amazon facilities are going on strike. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports.

Ken Edwards, executive director of the National Coalition of Labor and host of The Workers’ Mic heard Sunday mornings on WGN, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the Amazon workers strike and Teamsters’ pursuit of a labor contract. A former Amazon driver also joins the discussion.

Stock market update for December 19, 2024.

With just days to go before Christmas, thousands of Amazon workers across the US walked off the job. European stocks fell on the Fed's inflation outlook, while US stocks rebounded after being rattled on Wednesday. Meanwhile the US is once again facing the prospect of a government shutdown. Plus, you can now call ChatGPT on the phone.

As we enter the final days of the holiday shopping season, Amazon workers across the country are headed to the picket lines. And the CDC announces the first severe case of bird flu in a human in the United States. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

Many Americans could be in trouble this Christmas. Amazon workers across a number of facilities in New York, Illinois, and Southern California are gearing up to strike later this week. The strike would take place the week before and during Christmas and Hanukkah, the two biggest gift giving holidays in the US. US Correspondent Toni Waterman told Andrew Dickens the workers are calling for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. She says they're currently at a bit of a stalemate, as Amazon is refusing to recognise the union representing the workers. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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in this episode, i'm talking about Why no one cares about Black Friday "DEALS" in 2024+ Amazon Workers going on strike.

AP correspondent Donna Warder reports on a protest by Amazon workers in India.

Microsoft Outage Recovery, AI Job Concerns, and Amazon Black Friday Protests In this episode of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love covers three major stories: Microsoft's slow recovery from a global outage affecting Outlook, Teams, and other 365 services; the contrasting attitudes towards AI job displacement between Gen Z workers and senior executives; and the planned global protests by Amazon workers on Black Friday, pushing for better working conditions, union rights, and climate action. 00:00 Introduction and Headlines 00:20 Microsoft Teams and Outlook Outage 02:11 Gen Z's AI Job Fears 03:45 Amazon Workers' Global Protests 06:08 Conclusion and Sign-Off

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Work Week Radio reports on the push by San Francisco Amazon workers to unionize Today's labor history: Wilson signs "Labor's Magna Carta" Today's labor quote: The Clayton Antitrust Act @labormedianow @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Work Week Radio reports on the push by San Francisco Amazon workers to unionize Today's labor history: Wilson signs "Labor's Magna Carta" Today's labor quote: The Clayton Antitrust Act @labormedianow @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

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What can speculative fiction offer today's movements for collective liberation? On this panel, assembled to celebrate the launch of The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers (http://afteramazon.world), four activist writing facilitators share their perspectives: Max Haiven (editor of the collection), Lola Olufemi, Phil Crockett Thomas, Sarah E. Truman, and Jamie Woodcock. This is a recording of an event that took place on 15 September 2024 at London's Pelican House. This event is presented by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, Red Futures and Notes from Below. Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). He is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL). Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall Foundation researcher from London based in the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the uses of the political imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021) and a member of ‘bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. Phil Crockett Thomas writes fiction and poetry, and teaches sociology and criminology at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on social harm, justice, and creative and collaborative methods. Her fiction has appeared in Granta and on BBC Radio 4. She is the editor of Abolition Science Fiction (2022) a collection of creative writing by activists and scholars involved in the movement for prison abolition in the U.K, and of The Moon Spins the Dead Prison (2022) with Thomas Abercromby and Rosie Roberts. Associate Professor Sarah E. Truman is a trans-disciplinary scholar in literary education, cultural studies, and the arts, and co-director the Literary Education Lab at University of Melbourne. From 2022-2025, Dr. Truman is an ARC DECRA Fellow, their project ‘Speculative Futures' focuses on speculative fiction as an interdisciplinary method for thinking about the world and mode of literary engagement in diverse pedagogical settings (high schools, universities, and interdisciplinary scholarship). Truman is also PI on the ARC Linkage Grant ‘Reading Climate' (2024-2026) which focuses on the relationship between Indigenous climate fictions, literary education, and climate justice. Jamie Woodcock is a senior lecturer in digital economy at King's College London. He is the author of various books, including the recent Star Wars Andor collection. He is an editor of Red Futures, Notes from Below, and Historical Materialism.

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Chris Manno, an STL8 worker for Amazon joins Megan and Tom with details from a new report from a Senate committee.  Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released initial findings from its year-long investigation into Amazon's injury crisis. The Committee — whose investigation was prompted by organizing among workers at the STL8 fulfillment center since 2022, including multiple visits with Senate HELP Committee staff on Capitol Hill last spring — found evidence that Amazon knows its injury rate is much higher than it has revealed to the public and regulators. In 2019, nearly 45 percent of workers were injured during peak times like Prime Day and holidays, as a result of company management pressuring employees to work at unsafe speeds, according to internal company documents made public for the first time. 

The fight to unionize Amazon is taking place at multiple facilities in multiple states around the United States, as well as globally. Amazon is the second largest corporation in the U.S. and unionizing it is a crucial task of the working class in the U.S. and globally. The path to rebuilding a fighting labor movement must go through this trillion-dollar corporation. In the struggle to unionize Amazon, what is the role of the big, existing unions, and what is the role of independent unions? What will it take to unionize the behemoth? This week On Strike meets with independent union organizers in North Carolina who are fighting to unionize in the South, at the RDU1 facility. Their union is called CAUSE, Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment. They talk with us about Amazon's union busting, discrimination against immigrant workers, and their demands for $30 an hour, 180 hours paid time off, longer breaks, and much more. They also explain why they don't support Biden or the Democrats, and why we need a new party for working people. On Strike is 100% funded by working people. BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back now to support our work: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/membership  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OnStrikeShow  On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onstrikeshow/support

Segment 1: Americonned Eric Mann & Channing Martinez in conversation with Chris Smalls, President of the Amazon Labor Union and their long-distance struggle to bring unionism and self-respect to Amazon Workers. Sean Claffey, film-maker, on his important film, Americonned, about the disintegration of U.S. capitalism, the brutal impoverishment of the people, and the hopes for a revitalized union movement Featuring the work of Chris Smalls and the Amazon Labor Union Sean tells terrifying stories about Amazon's brutal speed up and police state, surveillance state against its employees Segment 2: Marcy Winograd Eric in Conversation with March Winograd of Code Pink Radio, on the terrifying military apparatus between the U.S., Canada, India, United Arab Emirates, and Israel to build structures of mass murder against the Palestinian people. She elaborates on her great article: How Nations Could End Israeli Genocide: Stop the Weapons; Stop the Oil; Stop the Tech

It's 2024!!!! Brand New Year! We Get Into a Little Recap of The Ending of 2023 and Discuss My Past Birthday! Amazon Workers and Possible Intruder??? The Beginning of 2024 Has Been a Bit of A Struggle, But We Are Pushing Through.

The holiday season is in full swing, and as some people head toward time off and relaxation, workers in many industries are facing their busiest time of year. We are joined live by Connor Spence, a worker-organizer at Amazon's first union distribution facility, JFK8 on Staten Island. Connor discusses his work as a co-founder of both the Amazon Labor Union and the ALU Democratic Reform Caucus, and how Amazon workers organized and won new leadership elections in their union.  Now they'll be upping the pressure on this mega corporation to bargain a first contract with workers at JFK8. We also talk about Amazon Labor Union's recent organizing around Palestine solidarity and the movement to stop the US-Israeli war machine from the bottom up. Connor was recently illegally terminated by Amazon for his organizing activity. Read more and donate to the solidarity fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/connor-spenceillegally-fired-alucaucus-organizer Learn more about Amazon Labor Union: https://sol.alu.network/ Follow the ALU Democratic Reform Caucus at @ReformALU. 

In our news wrap Friday, a wave of worker walkouts across Europe hit Amazon on Black Friday amid a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, Russia and Ukraine escalated fighting in key areas as both sides try to make gains before the worst of winter sets in and a tense calm has returned in Dublin, Ireland, after anti-immigrant rioting. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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At the STL8 Amazon warehouse in St. Peters, workers say their bodies are being broken by a management system that monitors their actions down to the second. Amazon warehouse employee Wendy Taylor is one of 14 workers who submitted a federal complaint to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) earlier this month. She describes what it's like to be injured on the job, and the pressure to package thousands of items while being monitored by Amazon.

As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Khali Jama has always had to fight for the life she, her family, and her fellow workers deserve. And earlier this year, after bringing that fight to the Minnesota state legislature, Khali and her coworkers achieved a major victory. "On May 16," Lisa Kwon reports in PRISM, "Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation's strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during the workday and have access to relevant quota and performance standards and data on how fast they're working. The bill's passage marks a significant victory for migrant workers—especially Minnesota's Somali immigrant population, of which the state has the largest in the country. For Khali Jama, a former worker in Amazon's fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, the new bill offers reprieve and protections that she worked to mobilize. As a Somali and a Muslim, Jama said the Warehouse Worker Protection Act ensures some equity in Minnesota's facilities." In this episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with Jama about moving to the midwest as a child, about her path to working in healthcare and at Amazon, and about the incredible story of how Khali, her coworkers, and the team at the Awood Center, which organizes in Minnesota's East African communities, fought to pass the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/how-immigrant-warehouse-workers-in-minnesota-took-on-amazon-and-wonAdditional links/info below...Khali's Twitter pageAwood Center website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIsabela Escalona, WorkDay Magazine, "High Injury Rates Push Minnesota's Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety"Lisa Kwon, PRISM, "Warehouse Worker Protection Act Grants Migrant Workers in Minnesota Landmark Safety Protections"Matt Furber, Sahan Journal, "Amazon's Shakopee Workers Rally for Better Pay, Criticize Company for Not Giving Muslim Employees Vacation on Eid"Abdirahman Muse, Emma Greenman, & Erin Murphy, The Nation, "Minnesota Enacts Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers"Permanent links below...Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter pageFeatured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme SongMusic / Post-Production: Jules TaylorHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

"I've never been an organizer," Khali Jama says, "but I've always fought." As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Jama has always had to fight for the life she, her family, and her fellow workers deserve. And earlier this year, after bringing that fight to the Minnesota state legislature, Khali and her coworkers achieved a major victory. "On May 16," Lisa Kwon reports in PRISM, "Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation's strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during the workday and have access to relevant quota and performance standards and data on how fast they're working. The bill's passage marks a significant victory for migrant workers — especially Minnesota's Somali immigrant population, of which the state has the largest in the country. For Khali Jama, a former worker in Amazon's fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, the new bill offers reprieve and protections that she worked to mobilize. As a Somali and a Muslim, Jama said the Warehouse Worker Protection Act ensures some equity in Minnesota's facilities." In this episode, we sit down and talk with Jama about moving to the midwest as a child, about her path to working in healthcare and at Amazon, and about the incredible story of how Khali, her coworkers, and the team at the Awood Center, which organizes in Minnesota's East African communities, fought to pass the Warehouse Worker Protection Act. Additional links/info below... Khali's Twitter page Awood Center website, Facebook page, and Twitter page Isabela Escalona, WorkDay Magazine, "High Injury Rates Push Minnesota's Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety" Lisa Kwon, PRISM, "Warehouse Worker Protection Act Grants Migrant Workers in Minnesota Landmark Safety Protections" Matt Furber, Sahan Journal, "Amazon's Shakopee Workers Rally for Better Pay, Criticize Company for Not Giving Muslim Employees Vacation on Eid" Abdirahman Muse, Emma Greenman, & Erin Murphy, The Nation, "Minnesota Enacts Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme Song  

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Nvidia CEO and AI kingmaker Jensen Huang out with a vote of confidence for Intel, saying their test chips “look good.” It could mean advanced chipmaking is coming back home. Plus, Amazon workers are planning a walkout today, citing the company's return to office policies and recent layoffs.

AP correspondent Shelley Adler reports on an Amazon protest

What's Trending: Two homeless motels in Snohomish County are going forward without established plan, a KING 5 piece vouching for Amazon remote workers and late night TV writers go on strike.Big Local: SeaTac airport is raising parking rates, Spokane police chief is being supported amid investigation and a protest of a gun show in Everett.You Pick: VICE media is set to go bankrupt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The historic union election victory at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse on Staten Island sent shockwaves throughout the US and beyond, but New York is not the only place Amazon workers are organizing. In Moreno Valley, California, workers at the ONT8 warehouse have been doing the painstaking work of organizing for years, and now they are attempting to unionize with the independent Amazon Labor Union, facing the same union-busting playbook from Amazon management that workers in Staten Island, Bessemer, Chicago, etc. have faced. We talk with Nannette Plascencia, who has worked at Amazon since 2015 and has led the unionization effort at ONT8, and Ivan Baez, a member of the union organizing committee and a former ONT8 employee who was recently fired in a suspected act of retaliation for his organizing activity.   Additional links/info below... Amazon Workers United4Change (ONT8) Instagram  GoFundMe: Amazon Workers United4Change (ONT8)  Amazon Labor Union website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram Christopher Salazar, The Frontline Observer, "Anti-Union Campaign at Amazon ONT 8 Aims to Silence and Interrogate Amazon Workers, Says United 4 Change Leader" Noam Scheiber & Karen Weise, The New York Times, "Amazon Labor Union, With Renewed Momentum, Faces Next Test" Suhauna Hussain, The Los Angeles Times, "Amazon Union Push at Moreno Valley Warehouse Stalls" Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "The NLRB Ruled in Favor of Amazon Union Organizers. What's Next?"  Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Fired Amazon Union Organizer: 'We're Not Able to Feed Ourselves" Working People, "Amazon Labor Union" Working People, "Alicia Johnson" Working People, "Amazon Keeps Firing Union Organizers (w/ Matt Littrell)" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman have a lot to talk about as former president Donald Trump hosted anti-semite Kanye West and Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes at Mar A Lago last week. What is happening in China is unprecedented as citizens there openly protest the government and back here at home, workers are telling employers that they're not going to take it anymore. To support the show and access bonus episodes each week become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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Krystal and Saagar break down the Ukraine-US meetings, French election results, Musk's deal with Twitter, Biden administration's fight for the travel mask mandate, Amazon workers rallying in NYC, DeSantis vs Disney, Obama's campaign against online speech, the collapse of CNN+, and more! For all of the information in the show' check your email with the full show for the newsletter!!! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl  Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Sara Fischer: https://www.axios.com/authors/sara https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends  Jordan Chariton: https://statuscoup.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krystal and Saagar break down the Ukraine-US meetings, French election results, Musk's deal with Twitter, Biden administration's fight for the travel mask mandate, Amazon workers rallying in NYC, DeSantis vs Disney, Obama's campaign against online speech, the collapse of CNN+, and more! For all of the information in the show' check your email with the full show for the newsletter!!!To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/Sara Fischer: https://www.axios.com/authors/sarahttps://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends Jordan Chariton: https://statuscoup.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Krystal and Saagar cover Biden's escalating rhetoric towards Putin, Ukraine war updates, Elon vs Twitter board, Elon vs Saudis, media's free speech meltdown, Biden's midterm landscape, bipartisan movement on stock ban, CNN+ numbers, Christian Smalls on Tucker, history of online speech, and Jordan Chariton reporting on Amazon worker organizing! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl  Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Jordan Chariton: https://www.youtube.com/statuscoup  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krystal and Saagar cover Biden's escalating rhetoric towards Putin, Ukraine war updates, Elon vs Twitter board, Elon vs Saudis, media's free speech meltdown, Biden's midterm landscape, bipartisan movement on stock ban, CNN+ numbers, Christian Smalls on Tucker, history of online speech, and Jordan Chariton reporting on Amazon worker organizing!To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/Jordan Chariton: https://www.youtube.com/statuscoup  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.