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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Workers MELTDOWN After Rat-Infested McDonald's Closes in Oakland Doom Loop
Description: Oakland's last McDonald's just closed, and the employees are protesting... after they helped expose the rat infestation that made it famous. You can't make this stuff up! The same workers who leaked videos of rats running around the kitchen are now demanding their jobs back, striking against a business that's already shuttered. Meanwhile, In-N-Out, Shake Shack, and countless other businesses have fled Oakland citing safety concerns - gunshots through windows, stabbings, armed robberies. But sure, let's blame it all on the rodents. These employees worked there for up to 17 years watching the neighborhood deteriorate, filmed themselves exposing health violations...