 Well folks, I want to jump right into the very first story. It is a somewhat new story. So for those of you who aren't aware, there is a strike going on. And I always want to make sure to broadcast any information I have about these strikes because I want to stand in solidarity with the workers. So if you're a fan of Oreo, Nabisco products, Chips Ahoy, Premium Crackers, be sure to avoid purchasing those products for the coming weeks. So this is from Willamette Week. It's a Oregon-based publication. They write Oregon makers, Oreo makers in northeast Portland, launch a national strike. The labor dispute follows years of Mondelez cutting employee pensions and having its unionized workforce by closing bakeries in New Jersey and Atlanta. Now Mondelez is actually the parent company of Nabisco, I believe. And so what's happening is they are being asked to work longer hours. They're trying to stiff them when it comes to wages. And there's a really incredible video from in these times that kind of talks about this. Now the strike is taking place in multiple states, Oregon, Colorado and Virginia. So what I want to do is I want to play a little bit of the in these times video because it gives us some insight and some personality counts from the workers here. So let's go ahead and take a look. Can be forced to working up to 60, 70 days. I personally worked 45 days in a row without a day off. We want to be treated like we're people instead of like slaves. The company has never given us anything. The corporate greed is taking everything away and we'll be out here until we can stop corporate greed. Now I'm going to jump ahead a little bit because they play some music that might get me copyright claimed, but I want to go to the stories from the workers because what they share, it's shocking, but it's not necessarily surprising. I'm not sure if anyone on the panel remembers the Frito-Lay strikes that just took place. Yeah, yeah. So that situation was resolved and I say resolved in quotes because I mean, they're still overworked and underpaid, but to a lesser extent, they get one day off per week. So I mean, it's a small victory, but hopefully, you know, we'll have a better outcome here in this situation. So let's see what they're talking about here because what we're seeing is basically complete dehumanization, common stories in a late-stage capitalist society. Came with some demands in the last negotiation that we're all takeaways. They wanted to take our overtime away. They wanted to put us on a seven-day work schedule, 12-hour days. They currently want to change our overtime pay so that if you work all that time, you will end up eventually getting paid less for working that amount of time. Your impact is going to be about a $40,000 a year loss for all the workers across the board. They've actually closed two factories recently and they don't disclose where their production's gone, but we know it's going to Mexico. It sucks. I just started 55 years old, got 37 years. With the COVID-19, I don't know who's going to hire me right now. Everything ain't going to Mexico. All of it. I grew up with Nabisco products, Oreo, premium crackers, Chippahoyes. I knew they were made here. I knew they were made around the corner for where I live to see those things go to another country where people are making less pay and the company's still making billions. It's disheartening. I've been here since 1987, so I guess it'd be 34, 35 years. This company has actually squeezed everything out of it they could. They don't even want us to step onto the grass of the property so they're putting a fence up right on the property line. They're basically kicking the employees to the curb. We want the community to support us. We want America to support us. We don't want you to buy Nabisco products, not during our strike. When we come back to work, we want you to support Nabisco products, but only Nabisco products made in America. If you read the back of the label, it will say Made in America, or Made in Mexico, or Made in Canada. And we want to keep our jobs in America. We want to keep middle class. Right now, they're trying to destroy it all. Well, that's basically the story. I usually am very skeptical of boycotts because they tend to not work. I've kind of long maintained that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, but in instances like this, I think that this is our opportunity to truly show solidarity with the workers and not cross the picket line. Did anyone want to weigh in on this situation? Because I think this is really encouraging to see more and more strikes take place across the country. Yeah, I think I agree with you that very often these sorts of boycotts don't work, but when it's coming from the workers on strike themselves, that's when you should be honoring those and not when it's some sort of like a vote for a political game. But it is sort of disappointing to not see, like this is, I mean, of course, I want the workers to get what they want, but this is an opportunity for politicians to get involved. It's a win for them too. And they could absolutely be supporting these workers, supporting American jobs, could be a bipartisan effort. As long as these workers have their demands met, everybody wins. It's sad to see that no one's sort of like even jumping on that wagon. Even if they're doing it selfishly or out of their own self-interest, it'll still benefit the workers, it'll still bring attention to their movement. So it really is a win-win. And just seeing sort of a lack of acknowledgement of it from politicians is kind of disappointing. But it's also nice, like you mentioned, the Frito-Lay protests and the Pepsi protests earlier. These strikes are getting more media attention than they have in the past, especially under Trump. The news cycle was dominated by all of that. But it is nice to see these movements and these workers' movements getting the attention that they deserve. I mean, they deserve more, but at least getting acknowledgement. Yeah, it's a good start. It's like a little bit of hope. I like what you said about politicians. Dan, why don't we see more Democrats, the president even, like, going there, standing in solidarity with these workers? I mean, their agenda is, I mean, they've been pushing for the pro-act, and they've had every excuse. There's these centrist Democrats, or I should say right-wing Democrats who pose as centrists or larpist centrists. I mean, this is a PR nightmare for people like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin if the president of the United States shows up with these workers and says, listen, this is why we need to pass the pro-act. Why aren't my Democratic Party members in the Senate standing in solidarity with these workers? Don't you think that this is a really unique moment and a political opportunity? Like, why aren't Democrats seizing on this? Yeah, obviously, it's a political opportunity. And I think, Ray, you're right to tap into this. I don't like to advocate for what other people do, but personally, what I want to be doing is making sure I'm spending time on things like this on my stream, educating myself and others on these things. But that's because I'd like to think I'm on the side of the worker and Democrats aren't. They're just another wing, I believe, of the right party, of the party on the right of the capitalist. They're not pro-proletariat. They want to support their capitalist overlords. So with that said, I don't know. I don't have a huge take on this. It just seems like, okay, hello, profit motive. You're really being a pain in the ass yet again. I'd like for you to fuck off. I'm sorry, can I swear? You have to say at least two curse words throughout the course of it. That's the requirement. All right. I'm going to save up the rest of them, then. You got at least one more that you have to do. For sure. So I'm thinking to myself, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and echo what Ray said as well. I'm thinking about, as I'm learning about Palestine and what the occupied are saying, what they're asking for, which is BDS. And I think we should BDS Mondales. We should boycott, divest, and sanction them, and all the above. And yeah, don't buy it and just listen to them. And that's pretty much who I defer to when I don't know shit about shit. I defer to people who know more than me.