#458 Jeff “Karen” Bezos

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Milly, Alise, and Amanda are back to celebrate universal vaccine eligibility in most states, and contrast that with the “impending doom” coming as CDC heads warn of more sickness and death. They reflect on how the pandemic has altered social media, and the collective growing pains we’ll experience as normal life resumes. Then, they break down Amazon workers’ efforts to unionize in Alabama, the appalling workplace conditions that led to it, and Jeff Bezos’s batshit response. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betcha's media presents Donald Trump was a stain on our country, and someone's daughter, too.
0:07.0	That's what I'm talking about!
0:09.0	Congratulations, Mr. President!
0:11.0	The Betcha's sub-podcast.
0:13.0	Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking.
0:21.0	Hello, I'm Amanda Duperman.
0:23.0	I'm Elise Morales.
0:24.0	And I'm Millie Tumerias.
0:26.0	And this is the Betcha's sub-podcast.
0:28.0	The Betcha's fan meets the group chat to help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and politics.
0:34.0	Happy vaccine eligibility day for all of us officially.
0:39.0	Elise, I heard you're getting back today, tomorrow.
0:42.0	I'm getting back tomorrow.
0:44.0	I will be taking a casual stroll to my local Walgreens pharmacy, and I'm going to get that.
0:51.0	You found one just at your local Walgreens?
0:54.0	Yes, because they opened up eligibility yesterday, and I had saved a very important tweet that is the difference between me having a vaccine appointment and a lot of other people having difficulty getting an appointment, which is that I saved this tweet from a couple of days ago.
1:17.0	That had the, like, the pages for right-aid Walgreens and CVS and all of their appointments.
1:24.0	So as soon as I saw that, I booted up the old laptop.
1:29.0	It's like getting sneakers or like concert tickets.
1:32.0	Totally.
1:33.0	Yeah.
1:34.0	It was totally, like, getting the mic hem tickets.
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