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Michael and Us

#321 - Akira, the Wrath of God

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Superdelegate patron tier has voted for us to discuss AKIRA (1988), the groundbreaking anime classic. We hash over the film's vision of a future-dystopia, finding elements both unique to 1988 and applicable to all times. PLUS: the new Amazon union in Staten Island, and checking the pulse of right-wing politics on Canada.

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0:00.0

Well, we know that the union work rules are what everything is about.

0:03.8

It's the same case with Starbucks, too.

0:05.7

If you can't tell your employees when they work,

0:08.3

then you're really not able to have much of an ability to be able to move product or move coffee.

0:14.2

And I think the unions will be in charge of time that you need to work.

0:20.7

And that would be dreadful for very very dreadful for Annie Jassie.

0:26.6

And that's just a US picture, right?

0:28.6

Yeah.

0:29.6

They got Europe to think about as well.

0:31.6

You know, look, one of the problems was, you know, Starbucks does indeed have unionized places in the ones they franchise.

0:36.6

But if you can't control the work rules, no one wants to work certain shifts.

0:41.3

So you can say, listen, I'm not going to work that shift.

0:44.3

And Amazon would not be able to say, yes, you must work it.

0:47.6

So that's what at stake with union is.

0:49.6

It's time that you have to work.

0:51.3

So what did we just hear, Luke?

0:53.2

That was Jim Kramer on, uh, he's, he's the cash man.

0:58.0

That's right.

0:59.0

He's the host of mad money.

1:01.0

He's known among other things for the so-called rant heard around the world, which was at least

1:06.0

the moment that the phrase tea party was popularized.

1:10.0

He'll buy your gold. He'll buy your jewelry

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