3628 - Community Fights ICE; Starbucks Strike & Boycott w/ Hunter Demster, Sabina Aguerre

Summary

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Episode 3628 – Community Fights ICE; Starbucks Strike & Boycott

Date: November 19, 2025
Guests: Hunter Dempster (Cindarios 901, Memphis), Sabina Aguirre (Starbucks Workers United, Columbus, OH)

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Overview

This episode brings a sharp focus to grassroots resistance against intensified federal immigration enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee, and the escalating Starbucks barista strike and consumer boycott. Sam Seder hosts in his signature irreverent, analytical style, providing context for the aggressive ICE operations under the Trump administration and exploring the national labor struggle faced by Starbucks workers. The first half features a field report from activist Hunter Dempster, while the second half highlights the ongoing Starbucks strike with organizer/barista Sabina Aguirre.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Political Headlines and Context (06:59–19:12)

• Trump Administration Developments

  • Trump’s agitation over multiple issues: a bill to release Epstein files (with expectations of heavy redactions), CIA covert actions in Venezuela, and the announcement of dismantling the Department of Education.
  • Federal judge blocks Texas’s racist gerrymander; judicial rulings shift the midterms landscape.
  • ICE activity increases in Charlotte, NC, with student walkouts as job sites grind to a halt.
  • New low for Trump’s approval ratings; Democrats “over-performing” in generic polling.
  • Federal judge rules in favor of Meta in antitrust suit.
  • Texas Gov. Abbott’s declaration of a Muslim civil rights group as a terrorist org.

• Memorable Quote:

  "If I walked into the ring with Mike Tyson at the peak of his powers, my face would be just empty of teeth. We're gonna see that type of redaction [on the Epstein files]."
  — Sam Seder (11:12)

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2. Trump/Saudi Press Conference, Epstein Files, and Media Attacks (12:39–19:12)

• Press exchange: Trump deflects on family business with Saudis and on MBS/Khashoggi murder, calls ABC News “fake news,” and launches into attack on Epstein coverage.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "[Khashoggi] was killed and chopped into small pieces and then put into... a tandoori. Well, with goat. So that the body wouldn't smell that much..."
    — Sam Seder (14:00)
  • "ABC Fake News. One of the worst in the business. But I'll answer your question. I have nothing to do with the family business..."
    — Donald Trump (13:03)
  • "I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake news and it's so wrong..."
    — Donald Trump (18:11)

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3. Community Response to ICE – Interview with Hunter Dempster

[29:30–54:58]

Background & Organization: Cindarios 901

• Who they are:
  Grassroots, rapid-response network founded in Memphis and modeled after Colorado's network, conducting 24/7 ICE activity monitoring, rights training, and community defense.
  • "We’re just concerned citizens who lead with love, for lack of a better word."
    — Hunter Dempster (34:02)

What's Happening in Memphis

• Federal escalation:

  • The “Memphis SAFE Task Force” created by Trump, consisting of 1,500 federal agents from 20+ agencies, plus 300 state troopers.
  • Racial profiling and intense ICE targeting of Hispanic neighborhoods.
  • Routine collaboration between local police, state troopers, and ICE for traffic stops, often for minor reasons used as pretext (broken taillights, etc.).
  • "The stops are always instigated by a Memphis police officer, Shelby county sheriff, or a state trooper. And they are being followed by between one and 10 unmarked cars with two to four federal agents inside each car."
    — Hunter Dempster (35:11)

• Scope and duration:

  • Agents have prepaid for hotel rooms for a year; Border Patrol told locals they plan to remain in Memphis until at least November 2026.

• Drastic Community Impact:

  • Community terrorized, families hiding at home, 23,000 traffic tickets written in one month, scaled up from 3–5 daily calls for help to 140 per day.
  • Surge in jail deaths, poverty forces people to risk fines or jail just to work or access basic services.
  • Blackhawks and helicopters patrol poor neighborhoods nightly.

Resistance & Support Work

• Tactics and Mutual Aid:

  • Filming law enforcement during stops: “You can see a physical change when you have that camera on them.”
  • Car repair clinics to address the pretexts for traffic stops.
  • Dissemination of “whistles” for alerting neighbors when law enforcement arrives.
  • Childcare, legal aid, and other wraparound support for families targeted or separated.

• Scalability and Solidarity:

  • Coordination with groups in LA, DC, and beyond.
  • Open to sharing resources and playbooks; local organizations are overwhelmed but remain connected.
  • Not a 501(c)(3); donations go straight to the front lines.

• Hunter on the Operation’s Underlying Motive:

  • "It does feel like a testing ground in all these different cities...I do think the heart of it is just based in racism and the historical relevance of Memphis and the civil rights and being the blackest city in the country." — Hunter Dempster (52:34)

Key Timestamps

• 29:30 – Interview intro
• 32:37 – How Cindarios 901 started
• 35:11 – Scale of ICE operation and racial profiling
• 39:17 – Evidence that agents plan to stay through 2026
• 42:52 – Mutual aid, car repairs, income/security strategies
• 51:33 – Theorizing the administration’s intent

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4. Starbucks Workers United: Strike and Boycott – Interview with Sabina Aguirre

[56:00–64:23]

Background

• Columbus, OH, barista; part of the continuing nationwide Starbucks union drive.
• Strike escalates due to broad employer intransigence after Trump admin cuts NLRB funding and weakens enforcement.

Workers' Demands and Company Evasion

• Three Major Demands:

  1. Fair Hours
  2. Fair Wages
  3. Resolution of unfair labor practice (ULP) cases (Starbucks faces over 650, with 400+ formally charged)

  "They are one of the biggest violators of labor law in modern history."
  — Sabina Aguirre (58:52)

• Economic Disparity Highlighted:
  CEO Brian Nichols made $96 million in ‘24 (over 600,000x the average barista).

  "Cartoonishly evil."
  — Sam Seder (59:47)

Community/Consumer Action

• Consumer Boycott:

  • “No contract, no coffee” campaign, including joining strike lines and pledges on nocontractnocoffee.org.
  • Social media organizing and local actions.

• On Organizing Amid Hostile Administration:

  • Despite federal rollbacks, “the campaign is more passionate than ever…they just kind of galvanized our base for us.”
    — Sabina Aguirre (57:22)

Key Timestamps

• 56:00 – Interview intro
• 58:05 – Core union demands
• 59:14 – Unfair labor practices at Starbucks
• 61:41 – Consumer solidarity and action steps

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Memphis ICE Surge:

  "Since this occupation began...prior to this, we were getting three-to-five calls a day. Lately, we've been getting 140 calls a day."
  — Hunter Dempster (43:45)

• On Starbucks CEO pay:

  "Brian Nichols specifically making $96 million in 2024 alone...for 666,000 times the average barista."
  — Sabina Aguirre (59:14)

• On the Wealth Divide:

  "It's really a testament to the disparity between the classes here in the United States..."
  — Sabina Aguirre (60:38)

• On Resistance and Solidarity:

  "We're just concerned citizens who lead with love, for lack of a better word."
  — Hunter Dempster (34:04)

• On the Broader Impact:

  "It's a stage for the average consumer and every barista...to actually try to make tangible change with this wealth disparity."
  — Sabina Aguirre (61:07)

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Resources, Links, and Ways to Support

• Cindarios 901 (Memphis ICE Watch/Mutual Aid):

  • Facebook: Scenarios901
  • Donate via Venmo or CashApp (links on their social pages)
  • Volunteers/trainings: Message them directly for resources

• Starbucks Worker Solidarity:

  • nocontractnocoffee.org – Sign the pledge, find picket lines, get updates

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Overall Tone and Takeaways

The episode offers a mix of dark political comedy, sharp critique, and resolute optimism about community resistance. The Trump administration’s draconian policies drive real suffering and fear at the local level, received with a combination of analytical rigor and moral clarity by Sam and his guests. While the labor struggles at Starbucks demonstrate both corporate impunity and the power of organized, worker-led pushback, the Memphis community’s mutual aid feels both desperate and heroic—a real-time laboratory for resistance in authoritarian times.

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(End of Summary)

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[Donald Trump]

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[Sam Cedar]

Report with Sam Cedar. It is Wednesday, November 19, 2025. My name is Sam Ceder. This is the five time award winning Majority Report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, usa. On the program today, Hunter Dempster, co founder of the Cendarios 901, a rapid response community organization in Memphis, Tennessee that monitors ICE operations and trains immigrants about their rights to protect their community. And then Sabina Aguirre, a Starbucks barista from Columbus, Ohio, on to discuss the ongoing strike against Starbucks and the consumer boycott and of course consumer negotiation contract negotiations to the extent that there are any. Epstein filed disclosure bill headed to Trump's desk after voted on quickly in the Senate. Who knows what he's up to. Meanwhile, Trump authorizes the CIA to engage in covert actions in Venezuela. That same Trump regime. Yeah, I know. Tell anybody, don't tell anybody. Trump regime announces that they are beginning the dismantling of the Department of Education. A Trump appointed federal judge blocks Texas's redistricting as a racist gerrymander. Midterms are looking a little more bleak for Donald Trump right now. Ice wrapping up in Charlotte, North Carolina supposedly as job sites grind to a halt and 20% of students skip school. On Monday, federal judge rules in favor of Meta finds it was not engaging in anti competitive practices. Crappy ruling Republican Texas Governor Abbott declares a Muslim civil rights group as a terror organization. New polls are out. Trump's approval at lowest ever of this term according to Reuters. And according to Marist, Dems are over performing in generic head to head polling. They're now around 2017 numbers. Government publishes partial jobs numbers but it shows a sharp increase in the unemployment rules. All this more on today's Majority Report. Welcome ladies and Gentlemen, it is a Wednesday. It is hump day. Emma Viglen out today. However, I have paid her a license fee to use that coinage of hump day. I don't know if you knew this, Brian, but she came up with that, that, that saying. Yeah, I've heard that for a long time. Yeah, she said it. She said it. She came up with it a long time ago.

[Brian Nichols]

Her. Yep.

[Sam Cedar]

Why is she still working? I know she didn't do a job in actually getting it trademarked or whatever it is. We got a lot to get to. Donald Trump is becoming increasingly agitated. I, you know, I listen, I've been down this road too many times to get to, you know, out in front of my skis, you know, with this stuff. Trump apparently is going to sign the, the law that will supposedly force the administration to release the Epstein files. I am sure we're going to get a version of it that is going to be so redacted it's going to look like, you know, I don't know, if I walked into the ring with Mike Tyson at the peak of his powers, my face would be just empty of teeth. We're going to see that type of redaction on this. The only names that are going to be there are going to be Democrats would be my guess. Nevertheless, he's clearly irritated by this and he also, I would imagine, is even more irritated today after that Texas ruling because his chances of holding the House regardless of, I mean, if the Texas ruling holds and California continues with their gerrymander because this one was struck down, not because it's a gerrymander, you can gerrymander to the full hilt according to the Supreme Court, but you cannot do it based with a racial intent. And the judge made it absolutely clear, the Trump appointed judge, that it was. We'll get into that in a bit. So many rules. But Donald Trump is so agitated these days and he has welcomed, really the guy who has put hundreds of millions, if not billions into his pocket and is going to be putting billions more to the White House. He's got him surrounded in gold lame. And then someone has the indignity to, of asking a question that of course, the most obvious question to ask at that point. What number is this is. Yeah, Trump is asking the question. It is. ABC's Mary Bruce. We got two questions she asked. And watch this. Fit to all of need in Saudi Arabia and fit to all investment strategy.

[ABC Reporter]

Mr. President, Mr. President. Is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president is That a conflict of interest and. Your Royal Highness, the US Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist.

[Sam Cedar]

9.

[ABC Reporter]

Eleven families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office. Why should Americans trust.

[Sam Cedar]

Who are you with?

[ABC Reporter]

And the same to you, Mr. President.

[Donald Trump]

Now, who are you with?

[ABC Reporter]

I'm with ABC News, sir.

[Brian Nichols]

You're with who?

[ABC Reporter]

ABC News, sir.

[Donald Trump]

Fake News. ABC Fake News. One of the worst. One of the worst in the business. But I'll answer your question. I have nothing to do with the family business. I have left. And when I. I've devoted 100% of my energy, what my family does is foster. They do business all over. They've done very little with Saudi Arabia, actually. I'm sure they could do a lot. And anything they've done has been very good. That's what we've done. We've built a tremendous business for a long time. I've been very successful. I decided to leave that success be behind and make America very successful. And I've made America more successful by far than it ever was. And that it ever could have been. No matter who was president, there would be Nobody bringing in $21 trillion. That I can tell you right now. As far as this gentleman is concerned, he's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happened, but he knew nothing about it.

[Sam Cedar]

And I can leave. Pause it for a second. Just for those of you who are younger perhaps, or weren't paying attention to the news, the thing that happened to Khashoggi, who was a writer for the Washington Post and a green card holder, I believe, was that he was tricked into going to the embassy. He was met there, the Saudi embassy in Turkey, if I'm not mistaken, and was then met with a cadre of thugs sent by mbs. Now, this is not my assessment of this. This is the US Intelligence assessment of this. And then was killed and chopped into small pieces and then put into. What was it? A vat? A ten dory? Well, a tandoori. Well, with goat. So that the body wouldn't smell that much. Literally chopped up into pieces and then burnt.

[Brian Nichols]

Stuff happens.

[Sam Cedar]

And that's the stuff that happens. And it might be the case that. Yeah. And sometimes he wrote some controversial things.

[Hunter Dempster]

So.

[Sam Cedar]

The journalist. Yeah, there you go. We can move on to part two. Let's move on to part two. So here's Donald Trump. He's very, very Upset? You don't speak to my patron slash guest in the White House. That way you don't embarrass my guest. I said this when the Bahrain guy was there too. But do you think the MBS is like this is a little gaudy? Exactly.

[Hunter Dempster]

A little.

[Sam Cedar]

Turn it back a little too much. And he's probably also thinking like wow, this guy really is kissing my ass. Yeah, I mean I've had my ass kissed, but this is really like unbelievable. I mean I've had people killed by just simply nodding my head and have them chopped up into pieces. But this guy over here, he is kissing my ass for a couple billion dollars. Six months.

[Donald Trump]

I mean, I don't do these reports. They say zero people have been able to come in. Is that pretty good?

[ABC Reporter]

Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?

[Donald Trump]

It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him a horrible insubordinate and just a terrible question. And you could even ask that same exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psychs you over at abc, they're going to psych it. You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein files is. I have nothing to do with the Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I turned out to be right. But you know who does have Bill Clinton? Larry Summers, who ran Harvard was with him every single night, every single weekend. They lived together. They went to his island many times. I never did. Andrew Weissman here. All these guys were friends of his. You don't even talk about those people. You just keep going on the Epstein files. And what the Epstein is, is a Democrat hoax to try and get me not to be able to talk about the $21 trillion that I talked about today.

[Sam Cedar]

He's. He seems a little irritated. You know what they should have done is if he had all this information on the Epstein's and the Democrats, he should have released that.

[Brian Nichols]

I know it's a hoax, but it also implicates them more than me.

[Sam Cedar]

It's totally fake by the Democrats, but it's all. They're all going to Bo Meringue and, and how could you ask this this poor man, not literally poor and also not poor in any way now dare you. Insubordination. I think we should let this roll a little bit longer because the FCC stuff, I think. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Hunter Dempster]

You keep going.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, it's a hoax. Now, I just got a little report and I put it in my pocket. Of all the money that he's given to Democrats, he gave me none, zero, no money to me, but he gave money to Democrats. And people are wise to your hoax. And abc, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. And I'll tell you something, I'll tell you something. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake news and it's so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that because I think when you come in and when you're 97% negative to Trump and then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means obviously your news is not credible and you're not credible as a reporter. So I've answered your question. You should go and look at the Democrats who received money from Epstein, who spent their time. Larry Summers was, was with him all the time.

[Sam Cedar]

Okay. I mean, yeah, I don't want to. You know, it's important. He's right about Larry Summers. Just about everything else was incorrect, however, but nevertheless, let it all. Let the chips fall where they may. I'm very happy to hear all that. But it is quite clear this is a very, very agitated man. Very, very agitated. And we can't know exactly what's agitating him. But certainly, you know, we get a hint. We get a hint. And his polling is not helping him. And I can only imagine how he's reacting in the White House now because those last two years of his presidency are going to be a lot less fun, it seems to me if Congress is hauling in his family members to find out exactly how much money they are making in Saudi Arabia and it's really going to screw up his real estate plans in Gaza would be my guess. 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[Hunter Dempster]

Sam. It.

[Sam Cedar]

We are back. Sam Cedar on the Majority report. Emma Viglin out today. Joining me now, Hunter Dempster, co founder of the Cindiaros. Did I say that right? I'm sorry, say again. The Cindarios 901A, which is a rapid response community organization. It's in Memphis, Tennessee. You guys monitor ice. You train immigrants about their rights to help protect your community. Hunter, welcome to the program. I want to just show a couple of clips of. I think you are shooting most of these things, but I think we'll play a couple of them. It gives you a sense of what you're doing and I have to say, like, I was really, really impressed. Like you're all over the place and I want to ask you about this. But here, let's play these clips.

[Hunter Dempster]

Right?

[Sam Cedar]

So if you heard them all These.

[Hunter Dempster]

Agents roll up for some folks playing chords.

[Sam Cedar]

We got tb, FBI, irs. Okay, I'm just keeping. All right, let's play another one. Those. Those are people playing cards. We'll get another one up here. Here we go.

[Hunter Dempster]

So we got a call from a family terrorized, hiding in the closet because a hundred plus agents showed up at their house. They asked for one warrant. They didn't provide it. The agents busted in the door, and all the ICE agents stole their children. These are ICE agents right here holding the babies. All hsi, which are the main culprits doing, and the state troopers. Those are the two main ICE operatives in the Memphis task force. All federal agents are asking for paper. So they're all ICE agents, but these are explicitly ice ages and they stole this baby job. It's time to stand up, fight back. No.

[Sam Cedar]

All right, let's play one. One or two more. I mean, you can almost pick them from that list. And. And random. No. Go. Go to one more. Yeah.

[Hunter Dempster]

What are you saying?

[Sam Cedar]

Back.

[Hunter Dempster]

Lawful order.

[Sam Cedar]

How do I know you? Who are you?

[Hunter Dempster]

Are you law enforcement? There you go.

[Sam Cedar]

Lawful order. Yeah. He's putting his finger over his. His badge number, it looks like to me. But. So, Hunter, just give us a little backstory. How did you start this organization? Why did you start this organization?

[Hunter Dempster]

Well, I'm a co founder. There was a group of us involved. I've been organizing for over 14 years now. And a good friend of mine, Maria, had been living in Colorado and moved back. And so the visceral 901 is modeled after the Colorado Rapid Race Response Network. So we have a dispatcher who's on duty 247 and we train what we call confirmers across Shelby county in the city of Memphis. So if you think you see I somewhere, you call the number or bilingual dispatcher, we'll send a mass text blast to hundreds of people we've trained throughout the county. But yeah, and so we started this during the front first Trump presidency when they were separating children and uptick in ICE was going on and it was. Something had to be done. I mean, these are my friends and family and neighbors that they're kidnapping. And so this. This new iteration of what's going on with the Memphis SAFE Task force, I don't think anybody was prepared for the level and the amount of federal officers and local officers involved in this, but we're just concerned citizens who lead with love, for lack of a better word.

[Sam Cedar]

Well, you know, I will say we've been talking about this in the office. We've seen A lot of, like, coverage of Charlotte, obviously, saw a lot of coverage of Chicago, a lot of coverage of la, but for whatever reason, and I don't know if, I mean, you know, like, I can. I can Google the Memphis and see what's going on there, but it's not getting a lot of coverage. Tell us, like, what's going on there, because I'm a little bit confused with, like, they sent in the National Guard. They ostensibly did it as a crime. Like, tell us what's what, how you understand what's happening and how long it's been going on for.

[Hunter Dempster]

So one of the biggest difference here in Memphis is they sent in. They created the Trump, created the Memphis SAFE Task Force. And what that looks like in practice is they sent 1500 federal agents, 20 different agencies.

[Sam Cedar]

This is sort of more like what they did in D.C. in a way.

[Hunter Dempster]

Yeah. I mean, I see more similar similarities with that than I do Portland or any of the cities. But one of the biggest differences, our Republican governor, Bill Lee, also sent in 300 troopers, our local sheriff's department, who are part of the 287G program. So what they're doing is mass pullovers more than anything else. And so the realities is the two biggest Hispanic neighborhoods, one of them, I live in the heart of all those agents are just surrounding these neighborhoods and staying on the biggest streets. And so they are racially profiling. They are driving around looking for anybody that has brown skin. And so the stops are always instigated by a Memphis police officer, Shelby county sheriff, or a state trooper. And they are being followed by between one and 10 unmarked cars with two to four federal agents inside of each car. Geez. The state trooper pulls you over, you're surrounded by 10, 15 federal agents demanding your papers or just yanking you out of the car to begin with.

[Sam Cedar]

So why do they need the. I mean, it sounds like there's some type of, I don't want to say fig leaf, but is it that the state cops or the. The county sheriffs have authority to pull over? They have the authority to do these sort of like rolling, I don't know, stops. I mean, why do they need the cops to be doing that part of it?

[Hunter Dempster]

Well, I think it, from my understanding, it boils down to federal law. If you're a federal agent, you have to enforce federal law. And I'm not sure having a broken tail light Right. Falls federal purview. And it's also a way that they're skirting the responsibility. Like we have a Democratic mayor and a police chief. Who says, we're not working with ice. And so when they do the pullover and then they go, well, it's out of our hands. The federal government can do whatever they want.

[Sam Cedar]

Are the local police doing the pullover or is it the state cops?

[Hunter Dempster]

All three.

[Sam Cedar]

Oh, geez. Okay. So they pull over and they say like we were just checking your registration or your taillight or something like that. The person speaks in Spanish or says their name and the ICE guys come in. That's probable cause because you sound like you have Mexican accent or that you have a lad, a Latin last name or something like that.

[Hunter Dempster]

Absolutely. And the state troopers explicitly have that 287 contract. So most of them have been trained in the immigration enforcement. And when you get. There's different percentages where if you have this many officers doing immigration work, the work of ICE agents, they pay that state trooper's entire yearly salary and there's bonuses and up to 25% overtime. And I think it's very relevant that Corecivic, the largest for profit prison industrial complex, is based here in Nashville. You know, so I have, that's why I'm not surprised to see the state trooper picking up the bulk of the racial profiling going on.

[Sam Cedar]

So give me a sense of like, do you guys have, you know, in Charlotte, the word is supposedly that they're the surge of ICE people who's going to be pulling out of there in the next couple of weeks or next couple of days, I'm sorry, and then moving down to New Orleans within a couple of weeks. Do you have any sense of a timeline for Memphis or. That just seems like they've camped out there because they have such a, they have this integration that it doesn't feel like we've seen in other places.

[Hunter Dempster]

Right. So two things. One of them is I have a video recording of a woman who was pulled over speaking to a border patrol agent. And he said that they would be here until November of 2026. So we got a whole nother and then, you know, there's 1500 agents filling up the hotels around the city. And a lot of the migrants who work there have messaged me and told me that they paid for their rooms for an entire year. So this is going to be a long game strategy for us.

[Sam Cedar]

All right. Wow. I get, I get a lot of, a lot more questions here.

[Donald Trump]

Before we.

[Sam Cedar]

Get to like, you know, how, how these type of things can be started in other communities. Like how are you guys planning? And I would imagine on some level, like there's some Stuff that you don't want to necessarily talk about. And I, you know, obviously, if there's something that you don't want to talk about, just don't talk about it. Because the idea that somebody in one of these offices would watch this video and get, you know, some tips as to what you guys are planning, obviously they can go after themselves. But what, like, what are you looking to do? That is quite clear to the public at this point in terms of like scaling up and how. And what do you need other people to do to help you to do that?

[Hunter Dempster]

Right. I mean, to some degree, we're watching the watchers, we're watching the police. Like you can see a physical change when you have that camera on them, for one thing. We're also adapting other, other strategies from across, you know, the different cities that had this going on. Like, we just purchased over, you know, thousands of whistles. We're doing monthly trainings and We've had over 100 people each training coming out and I'd say volunteers. And it's not just going out, filming the police and confronting the police. Like the one video that you showed where the ICE agents were holding the two toddlers, they literally launched tear gas into this house and they did not know why. Like, I looked in one of those videos, there's an FBI agent who said, we didn't know what was going on, you should have told us. And we're like, they demanded a search warrant. You didn't get it. But anyways, what comes with that is helping these families after people are taken and deported. There is, we get like, we got a call last week where a mom and a dad got pulled over for a broken tail light, sent to an ICE facility. That evening we get a call from a babysitter who was getting paid to watch their 4 year old who could not keep the child. So we're not only plugging them in with attorneys, there's sometimes child care involved. There are graphics, there is dissecting all the data that we have. You know, there's eight helicopters, including a Blackhawk that is circling the whole city overnight, correlating that to the calls. We're, you know, like there's an endless amount of, of help that we need, you know, so you can follow us on this Scenarios901 on Facebook or Instagram or message us and are you guys.

[Sam Cedar]

Doing anything like, you know, car repair? You know, I would imagine, like if people are getting pulled over for, you know, a cracked headlight or a headlight that's out or something like that. Fixing people's cars is a great way at least to, you know, provide some level of protection.

[Hunter Dempster]

Since this occupation began, a coalition has formed called free the 901, you know, trying to end the occupation. And one of the groups is called Decarcerate Memphis. And I was also a co founder of that group. But we actually have a break, like clinic coming up this Sunday, you know, so it's, it's once again the surge in the amount. Prior to this, we were getting three to five calls a day. Lately, we've been getting 140 calls a day.

[Sam Cedar]

Oh, geez.

[Hunter Dempster]

So it's like, it's been real hard to scale up as quickly as we have needed to, you know, but, but we're managing.

[Sam Cedar]

Where can people give donations? Again.

[Hunter Dempster]

If you can find us on Facebook, this scenario, 901, we have a Venmo link and a cash app link, but we're a complete grassroots organization. We're not a 501C3. At the end of the day, we don't want to be beholden to that right now.

[Sam Cedar]

Right.

[Hunter Dempster]

Especially with Trump coming after groups like this and getting.

[Sam Cedar]

I. You don't have to explain that to me. We'll put a link to your Facebook page so that if people want to send money via Venmo or however they can do so. What would you suggest? We know that ICE is heading down to New Orleans. I imagine they're going to come to New York. I imagine they're going to come, I don't know, the other cities, but, you know, we can imagine they're going to be going to other urban centers around the country in a concerted effort, which is not to say they're not heading to rural areas, but it's just not the same. They don't have the same return on investment, I guess, for them. What, what would you suggest? Because I imagine your hands are full right now in terms of like, dealing with your own crisis in your city. So you don't necessarily have the time that you would have had six months ago to help people set up their own versions of this. But a. Is there, like, what are the. I don't know, three or four basic things that people need to do. Is there any type of document out there that somebody has that everybody, anybody ever put together, like for a playbook for this? If somebody want. Go ahead.

[Hunter Dempster]

I mean, yeah, and there's several groups. Like, before that, before all these feds came into town, I was on calls with LA and dc so, you know, if you're an organizer, these resources are out there. And in light of. Even though we're dealing with all this and we're all overwhelmed in that capacity, this is what we do, and we are happy to pass on information. So once again, just DM the Facebook post or this andarios901protonmail, email us. We're happy to share these resources and plug you into these other groups that help build us up and that are helping build us up so well.

[Sam Cedar]

And do you guys have like a Blue sky or a Twitter profile? Are you guys posting the videos in any. Like, how do you use the videos? Like, what is the value of them to you? Aside from obviously like the changes that you described in the ICE thugs response when they see a camera there? But what, what. What's the utility of the videos after the fact that.

[Hunter Dempster]

All right, so when Visnoros was first founded, it was. We were getting a lot of calls that suspected ICE activity, but it was really just the Memphis police doing an operation, and ICE wasn't involved at that point. So we would do a social media post with pictures or a video saying, this is not. This is a Memphis police operation, not ice. So it's warning the public about where, you know, they. These officers currently are. The difference nowadays is all 1500 federal agents are acting as ICE officers. Right. So we've had the shift. And so if the feds are doing their pullovers, it's confirmed ICE activity with hsi Homeland Security investigations leading the charge. And that just makes me think about like, one of the differences that Memphis may be falling under the radar again is, you know, when you're sitting, what's his name? Bovino, whatever, and he's sending his thugs and he comes in like a damn hand hammer. That's not necessarily what's happening here.

[Sam Cedar]

Right?

[Hunter Dempster]

There is Border patrol agents, there is ICE agents, but you're just as likely to run across an IRS agent holding an assault rifle at a traffic stop, right. Demanding papers. So.

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah, that's nuts. Well, and, and do you guys. Do you guys post the videos?

[Hunter Dempster]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

On Facebook. Is that it in Instagram?

[Hunter Dempster]

Yeah, Instagram and Facebook primarily were. You know, eventually work will expand, but we just had more pressing issues right now. And most of the Hispanic community tends to be Instagram and Facebook here more than some of the other social media apps. But once again, nobody's off limits in Memphis. And I think it's very relevant to point out that these predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods are some of the most mixed neighborhoods in the city. And in one month, they wrote 23,000 traffic tickets. They are throwing Charges on anybody. They can't trumped up charges for any reason that they think that they can get away with it. And it is a daily occurrence that I go up and I'm out of scene, I'm filming the police, I go up and talk to the person, they say that I got pulled over for expired tags. I go look at the tags, they're not expired. They say I got pulled over. Broken tail light. Their tail lights are working fine. It is racial profiling and Memphis is the poorest metropolitan city in the country. How in the hell do you think coming in and writing 20,000 tickets in one month is helping people that have the money to fix their cars, do fix their cars. The level of poverty in this city is, I think, foreign to a lot of people across the city. I run a soup kitchen day in, day out. And today actually I took off for this. But we'll serve upward of 350 meals today. And I'm having guests tell me that they're scared to come get lunch because they don't have the money to fix their tail lights. We're at the past couple of weeks, we're averaging two deaths a week in our jail, you know, like. And my friend Brad Watkins made a great analogy. He said, if your restaurant's having problems, you can't just bring in 20 new servers. You gotta have cooks, you gotta source your meat, you gotta have all these other things in place, you know. And so once again, it's just, the whole operation just feels like a setup. We have a progressive district attorney that they're already trying to sabotage, even though they know that the initial traffic stops in themselves illegal. So everything after that is going to get thrown out. They're already talking about putting systems in place to oversee our district attorney, dismissing cases, you know, no investment into our jails and people are suffering and dying. And an 8 to 12 hour process booking process has now taken 3 to 6 days, you know.

[Sam Cedar]

All right, let me ask you just one more question. No, I mean, what do you think? What's the. Is there some type of like, sort of like second order agenda or is it just like, why Memphis? What is the value to. Do you think the administration outside of like in. The answer could just simply be Stephen Miller's psychopath, he's a racist bigot, and this is where they can come in and they can roll up a bunch of Latino people and that's it. Like, do you think there's some other agenda behind this? Like, because I can't figure out the electoral angle on this, you know, people are saying they're staying till November 2026. They're going to end up being poll watchers.

[Donald Trump]

Okay?

[Sam Cedar]

It's possible. Like, that's a huge investment by the federal government to win some local elections. I mean, it's not like, you know, you guys are sending a bunch of Democrats to Washington. What else could it be, do you think?

[Hunter Dempster]

I mean, to me, it just feels. It does feel like a testing ground in all these different cities. Like, can we even deploy the National Guard? Will these federal agents fall in line and do whatever we tell them to do? And like you said, I do think the heart of it is just based in racism and the historical relevance of Memphis and the civil rights and be in the blackest city in the country. You know, it's like, let's. Let's go in there and put our foot on their neck and. And get these folks under control, you know, but at the end of the day, you know, people are scared to leave, leave their houses. Children are going hungry because they're not going to the grocery store because there's 700 feds in their neighborhood right now. More licenses are getting suspended because people don't have a way to get to court or the money to pay these fines. You know, and once again, my biggest concern is when they already. The Hispanic community is not leaving the house unless they have to. Right. So when these numbers start dwindling down and their press releases aren't as glamorous as they were, then what happens?

[Sam Cedar]

Yeah, well, we're going to link to all of your. To your Instagram, your Facebook page. We'll grab the Venmo, too, and put that in our podcast and YouTube description. Try and send you as much help as we can. If you got videos that you want us to play, obviously, you know, we're going to be following you on Instagram, so we'll probably pull a bunch of those. But if there's ones that you need to get out there, obviously, really just have great admiration for the work you're doing and really appreciate you taking the time. I know you're incredibly busy to come and tell us about it and can't ask folks enough to, you know, make the effort to go send some help your way because it sounds like you guys are going to need it for a while. I really appreciate you coming on and talking to us about it, and I really do appreciate. Admire the work you're doing.

[Hunter Dempster]

Thank you. And shout out to Christopher for setting us up. He's your biggest fan.

[Sam Cedar]

Well, really appreciate it.

[Hunter Dempster]

All Right.

[Sam Cedar]

Thanks very much, Hunter.

[Hunter Dempster]

Appreciate it.

[Sam Cedar]

Bye bye. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, Sabina Aguirre. She is a Starbucks barista from Columbus, Ohio. She's going to talk about the strike and the consumer boycott of Starbucks. We'll be right back after this.

[Hunter Dempster]

Sam.

[Sam Cedar]

We are back. Sam Cedar on the Majority Report. Emma Viglin out today. Pleasure to welcome to the program Sabina Agari, Starbucks barista from Columbus, Ohio. And Sabina, I have spoken to many folks who started the Starbucks union three or four years ago now. I guess back at the time they were doing that. And then as we start to see hundreds of unions form across the country and then ultimately Howard Schultz takes a walk and the Starbucks during the Biden administration anyways said, hey, we, we, we have respect for the union. We're, we're going to recognize the union and we're going to move forward. And then Trump comes into office and all of a sudden I think they think, oh, wait a second.

[Donald Trump]

Maybe we.

[Sam Cedar]

Can get away without actually giving you a contract. And I think, who is it that we spoke to three or four months ago? Michelle Eisen. Yeah, we spoke to Michelle Eisen. I think it was maybe seven months ago now. No, I think it's been about four months. Okay, four months. Sometime in, you know, I've lost my mind here. But, and she was talking, they were hoping that they would get a contract. Well, it appears that it hasn't. Tell us what's been going on.

[Hunter Dempster]

Yeah.

[Sabina Aguirre]

First, I'm a huge fan of the show. Guys, this is so crazy. I've been, I've been a big fan for a long time. Love you on Bob's Burgers. That's my goat. Let me go back to Michelle. First of all, I was talking to Michelle today. She remembers talking with you guys. She was very happy. And I would say, yeah, obviously the Trump administration taking control caused major cuts to the NLRB and put a lot of people in the position where CEOs specifically in a position where they think they can take more advantage of their workers. But right now, I would say the campaign's more passionate than ever. If anything, they've just kind of galvanized our base for us. And we're still here, still with the same demands, and we're really excited.

[Sam Cedar]

Okay, so walk us through what the demands are and have you guys all, I mean, are all of you on strike or how many are on strike? And then we'll also talk about the consumer boycott that my, that I think is underway. Too. But start with the demands.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Let's start with that. So first we got three major demands. It's going to start with our fair hours, fair wages, and then going into an end to the ULP strike or the ULP outstanding cases. Starbucks has around 650 outstanding cases right now and have been officially given like the charges for 400, actually more cases. So they are one of the biggest violators of labor law in modern history. And I think that's something we should say.

[Sam Cedar]

Those ulps, I think you called them, are unfair labor practices that Starbucks is engaged in. That means either they have punished people for organizing or there's a whole host of things that could be considered unfair labor practices. And these guys are, I mean, I guess there's value in being a superlative. They seem to be number one.

[Sabina Aguirre]

They are really good at violating the law, which isn't surprising when the company is run by super wealthy people. I don't think that's super surprising to anyone. Brian Nichols specifically making $96 million in 2024 alone for 666,000 times the average barista, I believe it was around there, which. Come on, come on, come on, guys.

[Sam Cedar]

Satanic amount of that seems like, that seems like a wide gap. And cartoonishly evil.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Cartoonishly evil.

[Sam Cedar]

I mean, you know, we should just remind people that this basically just comes down to like, your, your company has a certain productivity. And the question is like, there's, there's a handful of people who are board of directors, the CEO, and they're basically just saying, like, we're going to take any extra productivity that is squeezed out of this company because the amount of work they're doing. You know, if 100 customers comes into the shop, as opposed to 50, you're working twice as hard as a barista. But if 100 customers come into that shop, as opposed to 50, the CEO is doing the exact same job, but he will take 99.9% of every profit that comes in with those other 50 people. I mean, that's basically the bottom line, right? That's the dynamic.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Yeah, I think it's really a testament to the disparity between the classes here in the United States. And I think right now, our movement, specifically our unions movement this season is really a, it's a stage for the average consumer and every barista obviously, within our union to take part in this modern labor fight and to actually try to make tangible change with this wealth disparity.

[Sam Cedar]

It's also an interesting time in that respect because the government is so hostile to labor rights under the Biden administration, it was probably the best, the most pro labor we've seen in administration, at least probably since the 1960s, I would imagine, off the top of my head. And to build this type of labor solidarity and also solidarity with the community here because people can participate in this talk about that aspect of it.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Yeah. I think obviously right now we're calling for all consumers to stand with the baristas on strike, to not buy Starbucks and stand with their workers. And aside from that, we also have our no contract, no coffee.org which is a pledge people can sign. And it also gives them some options to, like, stay informed on their local campaigns. Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have some social media for our local campaigns, and obviously we encourage people to come out to pickets, which is always great. But I think the most viable thing for most consumers will be to not buy Starbucks, to not cross that picket line. Right. And I think that's our job as people in this fight is to stand with other workers.

[Sam Cedar]

How is there a way that people can really, outside of not buying a Starbucks, is there a way that they can communicate that they're not buying Starbucks even more? I mean, I don't know how you, like, double down on my not buying Starbucks, but is there a way that that gets communicated?

[Sabina Aguirre]

I think the pledge is honestly the best way for a lot of people to get involved. And every. We're all over the place.

[Hunter Dempster]

Right.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Our campaign's everywhere. So there is at least probably one shop near you that's union that you can go out to. I know especially in New York, there's a bunch of shops. I'm sure you guys saw Zorhan at one of the practice pickets there earlier on. So there are plenty of things going on for people to get involved in, and a lot of that goes back to following our union social media and following your local social media and getting involved in that local environment.

[Sam Cedar]

All right, great. And we can find all those links at. What is it? No contract no coffee.org.

[Sabina Aguirre]

That'Ll be it.

[Sam Cedar]

Okay, great. Well, Sabina Aguirre. Did I pronounce the name right? If you listen to the show, you know, I can't pronounce anything right, so I don't feel. I don't feel the same pressure.

[Sabina Aguirre]

I knew it.

[Sam Cedar]

I don't feel the same pressure. Since you watch the show that, you know, I can't, I can't pronounce any name.

[Sabina Aguirre]

No, it's. It's a Garri. It's Mexican.

[Sam Cedar]

Gary. Yes.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Yeah, no, that's definitely what I'm saying.

[Sam Cedar]

Is the same thing a Gary. Okay. Okay, good. But I really nailed Sabina, so.

[Sabina Aguirre]

You did, fully.

[Sam Cedar]

All right, well, thanks so much. We'll of course link to no contract, no copy coffee.org people can go there, sign the pledge, you know, extra don't buy Starbucks these days and good luck to you guys and you know, we'll check in with you soon. Really appreciate it.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Keep your eyes out, guys. We're only growing. We're getting more passionate.

[Sam Cedar]

Terrific. All right, thanks so much to be. I really appreciate it.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Thank you, guys.

[Sam Cedar]

All right, folks, that does it for the first half of the program. I am going now to sign my no Starbucks pledge. And then I'm going to Venmo, the Vicindiaros 901, some cash in the meantime. I saw this the other day and we had a partnership with Current affairs for a while. I mean, we love the magazine. Just went. We did sort of a cross promotion. I don't know if we're doing that anymore, but this is pretty awesome. In the wake of the New York Times with an op ed by Bret Stephens, the Case for Overthrowing Maduro.

[Hunter Dempster]

They.

[Sam Cedar]

Just contemplate this, that it's okay for us to be advocating it. Might as well say the case for doing something completely illegal and illicit.

[Brian Nichols]

Well, yeah, you got to hear both sides.

[Sam Cedar]

I mean, do you, do you think the New York Times would ever have anybody, any op ed with the title the Case for Stealing from Walmart or the case for Putting a Brick through Citibank's window? The Case for Palestine to Assume control of all of his. I'm trying to think of something illegal, right? Like patently illegal. But instead they write the case for Overthrowing Maduro. Incidentally, Donald Trump, I don't know if he took their, their advice, but okay. CIA covert operations in Venezuela, which. Yes, no, don't tell anybody. So Current affairs posted this, which is fantastic. If you email us proof of cancellation of your New York Times subscription sent to help@current affairs.org we will give you a free year long digital subscription to Current Affairs. So you could, you could cancel your New York Times subscription. Subscribe, I guess to the Washington Post, although it's not necessarily a huge upgrade.

[Brian Nichols]

No, subscribe to the Financial Times instead.

[Sam Cedar]

Subscribe to the Financial Times and then for the price of your New York Times subscription, you'll have a subscription. The Financial Times and Current affairs. People are putting in there. The case for firebombing. AI data centers. The case for carjacking.

[Brian Nichols]

Well, I mean, speaking of New York Times Headlines. Who do you think this headline from 1938 was about? A new chapter. I'll just read it. A new chapter written in an amazing career.

[Sam Cedar]

So, yeah, are you everything serious?

[Brian Nichols]

Adolf Hitler has risen from obscurity to a dominant position in the European scene.

[Sam Cedar]

I feel like we see those all the time now. But that one seems to have missed the mark by this much. Yeah.

[Brian Nichols]

Remember when they had. Was it Tom Cotton or was it Josh Holly? I get them confused about sending the troops and stuff like that. And people were like, well, it's a sitting, you know, senators saying that shouldn't they publish?

[Sam Cedar]

It's like, yeah.

[Brian Nichols]

And then the entire op ed section should be, look at this fascist freak who wanted us to submit that and wanted that in our paper. Instead it's like, well, it's both sides.

[Sam Cedar]

I think Tom Cotton. I'm sure, I'm sure they would. I'm sure, I'm sure Bernie, Bernie Sanders said the case for hanging. You know, the CEOs, the top five CEOs in Central Square. Defense of Luigi.

[Hunter Dempster]

Right.

[Sam Cedar]

Unbelievable. Well, I don't know. I was very, I was very inspired by a Hunter Dempster. The work they're doing there is just awesome. And they're, you know, just the onslaught going from three or four calls a day to 140 calls a day. Yeah. Rather than join the program today, go contribute to Vesindarios901. We'll put a link in the podcast and YouTube description or send them some coffee from Just Coffee at Just Coffee Co Op. That's actually a twofer because I am quite sure they must be drinking a lot of coffee, going through a lot of coffee. We're going to try and get some whistles for the majority part. We're going to try and get them at cost. We're going to try and find some. I don't know, the ones we found are pricey. Which, you know, again, we're going to sell them at cost, but I want to be able to get them to a lot of people. And someone just had an idea of, I saw of 3D printing these things and you can do so for relatively inexpensively. And so if somebody has a 3D printer, like one that's got some durability, it wants to make some of these whistles, we will pay for all the cost associated with it. The, the spool of plastic and shipping them to us and we'll do all that. But I don't know. You can send us an email@mainvancereporters gmail.com Matt left reckoning. Jacobin. Who knows what other shows.

[Brian Nichols]

Yeah, Left Reckoning. Yesterday we talked a little bit about Andrew Schultz, his position on justice and due process with Charlemagne. The funniest thing about that is they set their show in a library.

[Donald Trump]

And.

[Sam Cedar]

It'S called Brilliant Idiots.

[Brian Nichols]

Yeah.

[Sam Cedar]

So they're like, look at these books we didn't read.

[Brian Nichols]

Yeah. Like two guys that never opened up a single book. And then we also talked to Daniel Boguslaw about the Epstein files, particularly the Larry Summers and Reid Hoffman angles of that. So check that out. Patreon.com left reckoning.

[Sam Cedar]

I think we should leave. Where should we reach out for 3D printing them? Send us an email at majorityreportersmail.com put into the subject line whistles and we'll take a look at it.

[Hunter Dempster]

We'll see.

[Sam Cedar]

We got somebody saying you can get a bunch on. On ebay, but we're looking to do these whistles that people use. You know, they got to be loud. They gotta be loud. All right, quick break. Fun Half, three months from now, six months from now, nine months from now. And I don't think it's gonna be the same as it looks like in six months from now. And I don't know if it's necessarily gonna be better six months from now than it is three months from now, but I think around 18 months out, we're gonna look back and go like, wow. But what is that going on? It's nuts. Wait a second. Hold on. Hold on for a second. Emma. Welcome to the program.

[Hunter Dempster]

Matt.

[Sam Cedar]

What is up, everyone? Fun hat. Nomi Key. You did it. Fun hack.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Let's go, Brandon.

[Sam Cedar]

Let's go, Brandon. Fun hack. Bradley, you want to say hello?

[Hunter Dempster]

Sorry to disappoint everyone.

[Brian Nichols]

I'm just a random guy.

[Sam Cedar]

It's all the boys today.

[Sabina Aguirre]

Fundamentally false.

[Brian Nichols]

No.

[Sam Cedar]

I'm sorry.

[Hunter Dempster]

Women.

[Sam Cedar]

Stop talking for a second. Let me finish.

[ABC Reporter]

Where is this coming from?

[Hunter Dempster]

Dude?

[Donald Trump]

But.

[Sam Cedar]

Dude, you want to smoke this? 7A.

[Hunter Dempster]

Yes.

[Donald Trump]

Hi.

[Sam Cedar]

Me.

[Donald Trump]

You think?

[Sam Cedar]

Yes.

[Donald Trump]

Is this me?

[Sabina Aguirre]

Is it me?

[Sam Cedar]

It is you.

[Donald Trump]

It's me.

[Hunter Dempster]

Oh, it's me.

[Sam Cedar]

I think it is you. Who is you? No sound. Every single freaking day. What's on your mind? We can discuss free markets and we can discuss capitalism.

[Sabina Aguirre]

I'm gonna go.

[Sam Cedar]

Skyline Libertarians.

[Brian Nichols]

They're so stupid.

[Sam Cedar]

Though common sense says, of course.

[Hunter Dempster]

Gobbledygook.

[Sam Cedar]

We nailed him. So what's 79 plus 21? Challenge. Matt. I'm positively quivering. I believe 96. I want to say 857-210-352011. Half 3, 8, 9.

[Hunter Dempster]

11.

[Brian Nichols]

Prison.

[ABC Reporter]

$3,400. $1900. 5, 4.

[Sam Cedar]

$3 trillion. Sold. It's a zero sum game, actually.

[Sabina Aguirre]

You're making me think, glasses.

[Sam Cedar]

But. But let me say this. You can call satire. Sam goes satire. On top of it all.

[ABC Reporter]

My favorite part about you is just.

[Hunter Dempster]

Like every day, all day, like everything you do.

[Sam Cedar]

Without a doubt. Hey, buddy. We seen you. All right, folks, folks, folks.

[ABC Reporter]

It's just the week being weeded out.

[Sam Cedar]

Obviously. Yeah. Sun's out, guns out. I. I don't know.

[Sabina Aguirre]

But you should know.

[Sam Cedar]

People just don't.

[Brian Nichols]

Like to entertain ideas anymore.

[Sam Cedar]

I have a question. Who cares?

[Brian Nichols]

Our chat is enabled, folks.

[Sam Cedar]

I love it. I do love that. Gotta jump. Gotta be quick. I gotta jump.

[Hunter Dempster]

I'm losing it, bro.

[Sam Cedar]

Two o', clock, we're already late and the guy's being a dick. So screw him. Sent to a gulag.

[Hunter Dempster]

Outrageous.

[Sam Cedar]

Like, what is wrong with you?

[Hunter Dempster]

Love you. Bye.

[Sam Cedar]

Love you. Bye. Bye.