The Anthony Cumia Show - November 21, 2025


Fire Every Single Striker ｜ 11-16-25


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

121.9

Word count

1,179

Sentence count

78

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Toxicity

5

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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Zoran Mandani and his supporters are striking for a $15 minimum wage in protest of Starbucks not paying a living wage to their workers. I'll tell you why it's not a good idea and why you should work in a starter job.

Transcript

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
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00:01:11.040 Another 1.00
00:01:11.280 Mandami thing, but 1.00
00:01:13.320 it's not as much about him as it is
00:01:15.580 about Starbucks.
00:01:18.420 These
00:01:19.060 These Starbucks employees and their supporters, like Zora Mamdani, do they understand the structure of a starter job?
00:01:36.080 When you first enter the workforce, you don't go and become the CEO of IBM.
00:01:45.840 You are in a beginner job position.
00:01:52.440 This teaches you things like responsibility.
00:01:56.360 Maybe you learn a trade.
00:01:57.960 You learn how the necessity to get up early, to go to work, get yourself there, get dressed, go out, feed yourself.
00:02:11.740 You're training to be a human being that isn't burdensome to the rest of society.
00:02:18.760 And part of that is getting a job in a beginner job establishment.
00:02:30.000 McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, your local pizza place.
00:02:36.700 I remember those being places that you went.
00:02:42.100 I could fill out a job application.
00:02:45.300 And then, hey, you're hired.
00:02:47.220 Minimum wage.
00:02:48.200 You're washing dishes.
00:02:49.560 All right.
00:02:50.780 I'll make a couple of bucks during the week.
00:02:53.940 On the weekend, I'll spend it on cigarettes, a six of Bud, half pint of Jack Daniels,
00:03:01.520 and we start over on Monday.
00:03:07.120 Now, anyone thinking during those times that you should start a family
00:03:14.780 and maybe buy a house.
00:03:18.420 I could cut down on the Bud.
00:03:22.960 I'd get a Bud Tallboy instead of a six-pack
00:03:26.000 to cut down to pay for my house, my kids, my car, my wife.
00:03:33.960 Just cutting out a few of those beers.
00:03:39.040 Still getting the Jack Daniels and the cigarettes, though.
00:03:42.800 It's called a starter job. 1.00
00:03:47.460 Now, these idiots are under this misconception because they've been told this by people 1.00
00:03:53.180 that these jobs should pay you enough to live as an adult with a family. 1.00
00:04:02.200 A living wage, they call it.
00:04:05.340 Oh, why aren't you paying your employees a living wage? 0.54
00:04:09.340 because they're not supposed to make a family
00:04:16.120 and buy a house and a car on this salary.
00:04:21.960 Why can't I get 40 hours a week? 0.98
00:04:26.200 That's another thing that Starbucks employees are protesting.
00:04:29.740 They're very mad or striking for.
00:04:32.800 Well, because it's a starter job,
00:04:35.300 Now, Starbucks doesn't want to pay for benefits for these people.
00:04:43.700 They're in their, you know, 20s.
00:04:47.220 Obviously, there are cataclysmic accidents and sometimes a rare illness will befall a young person.
00:04:54.200 But for the most part, it's a waste of money to insure your employees at that age.
00:05:03.540 so you put them part-time so they don't get all the benefits that a full-time employee gets
00:05:09.420 what this also does is opens up this starter job to more people if you have uh 10 people
00:05:19.840 working 40 hours a week you could have 20 people working 10 or 20 hours a week if my math works
00:05:27.620 to carry the tube.
00:05:30.720 So it's totally set up to be a training ground for an adult.
00:05:37.560 Let me get through this.
00:05:40.120 Let me show people I'm responsible, and I'll work my way up.
00:05:44.920 Maybe I hate this, and I go on to something else.
00:05:48.200 All those jobs are beginner jobs,
00:05:50.540 and you should never expect to make the amount of money
00:05:54.360 to live off of from those jobs.
00:05:57.620 But again, you know, they've been told that they deserve a living wage.
00:06:04.820 So here's Zoran Mamdani supporting the Starbucks strike.
00:06:12.260 Let's listen to Zoran.
00:06:14.120 We are talking about a CEO of a company who made $96 million just last year.
00:06:21.920 Yeah.
00:06:22.920 $96 million, which is 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker's salary.
00:06:30.260 Could you pause it right there, my friend, if you could?
00:06:33.740 And what these workers are asking for is the bare minimum.
00:06:38.180 They are asking for a salary that they can actually live off of.
00:06:42.100 They are asking for hours they can actually build their life around.
00:06:45.760 They are asking for the violations of labor law to finally be resolved.
00:06:50.040 violation they deserve a city that has their back and i am here to say that that is what new york
00:06:56.000 city will be is that i stand here today to practice with these workers and if you force
00:07:07.620 these workers to go on strike then i will be there with them on that strike as well yeah
00:07:12.680 the workers man the people first of all uh yeah the ceo makes uh 92 million dollars the ceo of
00:07:25.180 starbucks again skin in the game the pressures of a c a ceo i can't even imagine one screw up
00:07:35.700 Your stock price goes down.
00:07:38.360 You're done. 0.90
00:07:40.700 You know, the people waiting in the wings to stab you in the back 0.97
00:07:44.920 and take your position.
00:07:46.460 And is it, you know, 90-some-odd million dollars worth of pressure?
00:07:51.000 Probably not.
00:07:52.720 That is a lot of money.
00:07:55.840 But trying to make the comparison that, hey, he makes all this,
00:08:00.140 and your barista only makes this.
00:08:03.180 six thousand something less dollars than than the ceo yeah you can't equate the two in any way
00:08:13.220 the dummy makes a mistake pouring out some coffee they throw throw it away and make another cup
00:08:20.360 ceo makes a mistake people lose their jobs the stock price goes down everyone's losing their
00:08:28.700 minds uh and again what what are you what are you trying to get out of working at starbucks
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