I'm Justin Charity. I'm Kate Nebs. Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network,

a podcast where we unpack what upsets, excites, and divides us in popular culture.

Who is America? I'm not asking you an existential question. We're going to talk about Sasha

Baron Cohen's new showtime show. The comedian behind Borat and Allie G is back. He has

tricked a lot of politicians into saying stuff they really shouldn't say. And we're going

to discuss what works in the show, what doesn't work, and whether Sasha Baron Cohen's

brand of comedy even makes sense in 2018. But first, we're going to talk about Amazon Prime

Day of All-Fing. Amazon Prime Day, having changed from a weird online sales gimmick into a

full-blown consumer holiday and a point of labor organizing and ethical concern. We're going

to talk about it all here on this week's Damage Control.

Okay, so this Tuesday was Amazon Prime Day. Technically, it was longer than Tuesday. They extended it

for a half a day. They extended it. They said, that was bullshit. If you're going to have a day,

say it needs to be 24 hours. They should have called it prime

today.

When are you bringing a prime prescriptiveist? But let's set that aside for now. So Amazon Prime

Day is made up holiday. It's made up by Amazon to give men's people to shop on Amazon.com even more

than a lot of people already do. Amazon Prime Day is a three-year-old sales event.

I was going to say tradition, but like that's weird that I even would think of Amazon Prime

Day as a tradition as opposed to a sale that a company does.

I thought it was longer than that it had been around for longer than three years.

Yeah, people talk about it like it's a weird colonial tradition.

Actually, John Adams in the first Amazon Prime Day. It's a three-year-old tradition or three-year-old

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