James Wan produced the hit horror film, Megan. He made the saw movies. He made the conjuring.

And he can see horror everywhere.

At night time, if I hear something or I go somewhere and I think that they may be someone

out there, I actually go, hello, is someone there? I actually found myself to have done that.

James Wan, on why we always want to be scared. This week on Into It, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.

It was one year ago this week that much of the United States shut down. It was the beginning

of a new reality for a lot of us and the beginning of an enormous year for Amazon. The company

earned $386 billion in 2020, $100 billion more than their previous year. Net profits were up

more than 80 percent. The company's stock price soared and Jeff Bezos became the richest man

in the world. It was just good news on good news on good news for Amazon. But one year later,

there's a bit of bad news for the company's brass. Some of its employees at a warehouse

in Besamer, Alabama, want to unionize. The president of the United States has voiced support

for their unionization effort. And if they're successful, it could have enormous implications for

workers across the country. Daryl Richardson has been leading the effort to unionize his warehouse.

In Besamer, Alabama, I spoke to him on Sunday, his one year anniversary on the job at his Amazon

warehouse where he's what they call a picker. A picker is a you put an item from the pot, put it

in a tote and it go to another era called packing. So it's consistent, it's fast paced, it's

stressful and time consuming. Tell me what a day in your life's like. Okay, my schedule is

Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday. I start from 17 to 545. When I walk inside the door,

they've got a monitor telling you where station you're going to be on.

lately, I've been on the third floor. So I come in, I go to the station, I'm assigned to

when I get to my station, I log in with my badge. And on the monitor in front of me,

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