- [Phil] The banking situation just got a whole lot scarier
for way more people.
Politicians in Oklahoma want teachers
to beat kids with disabilities.
The MoistCr1TiKaL/Sneako drama
is getting super scary.
People are freaking out
about this Russia, US drone situation.
We're gonna talk about all that
and so much more on this brand new Philip DeFranco Show.
So buckle up, hit that like button,
make sure you're subscribed, and let's just jump into it.
(air whooshing) Now, I wish I was making
this up, but Republicans in Oklahoma want teachers
to be able to hit children with disabilities.
The sentence just sounds like an evil Mad Lib.
Yesterday, we saw the House there fail to pass a bill
that would've banned schools from using corporal punishment,
like hitting, spanking and paddling
on students with disabilities.
Also, I have to apologize.
I'm not, like, giddy, I just, I can't believe this,
but the legislation, which by the way
was literally introduced by a Republican,
ultimately got 45 votes in favor and 43 against,
which a key thing here.
That was six votes short of the 51 vote minimum needed
to pass and according to reports,
all of the no-votes were cast by Republicans.
Now, a key detail here is that Oklahoma,
which is one of 19 states
that still allow corporal punishment in public school,
they do have a law that bans the use of corporal punishment
for quote, "the most significant cognitive disabilities,"
but they can legally disregard that law if the parent
or guardian signs a waiver, (laughs) which by the way,
any parent signing that waiver,
you better hope hell's not real.
Also note, the State Department of Education
has technically prohibited public schools
from physically punishing students with special needs
since the 2020-21 school year but very importantly,
that is not a legal law passed by the legislature,
and it's a rule that apparently has been broken.
With the bill's sponsor,
Republican State Representative, John Talley saying,
"The data shows that 63 school districts
in Oklahoma used corporal punishment
on children with disabilities 455 times
during the 2021-2022 school year,"
and the timing there is important
because that is after the Education Department's rule
was implemented, which is why to address the two loopholes
Talley's proposal would explicitly ban public schools
from using corporal punishment on any student identified
with a disability in accordance
with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
with no exceptions or waivers.
The measure wouldn't even end corporal punishment
for all students.
This is a bottom of the barrel bill, y'all.
It's like, hey, I don't think teachers
should be able to hit kids with disabilities.
So with this, Talley also sharing his personal experience
of being physically punished as a child and arguing,
"The students I'm trying to protect with this bill
are those who probably don't understand
why they're receiving corporal punishment,
and having a school spanking them
for doing something they don't know
any better to do seems absolutely wrong,"
and that was something that was also echoed
by other lawmakers on both sides of the aisle,
with many also noting that experts have widely said
that physical discipline can be very detrimental
and traumatic to children in the long-run,
and not just anecdotally.
I'm talking about medical organizations
like the American Academy of Pediatrics
and the American Psychological Association,
both of which have warned that physical punishment
can create academic, emotional and behavioral problems.
I mean, y'all, the UN literally
considers corporal punishment
a fucking human rights violation.
While I never expected this legislature to see eye to eye
on corporal punishment in general,
to see that there was this massive level
of Republican opposition to you can't hit kids
with disabilities is fucking unimaginable.
Like, the people who voted against this
are comic book villains, but no one sets out
to be a comic book villain.
So it begs the question, well, how are they justifying this?
And if you grew up with it,
you probably already know the answer, God and religion,
with Republican Representative, Jim Olsen saying,
"All of these expert opinions, they don't matter
because the Bible,"
with him literally saying, "God's word is higher
than all the so-called experts,"
and adding...
- You know, several scriptures could be read here.
Let me just read just one.
Proverbs 29, "The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
So that would seem to endorse
the use of corporal punishment.
So how would you reconcile this bill
with scriptures, counsel, on this matter?
- Hey, Olsen, the only one bringing shame
to their mother is you, fuckface.
Your absolute stupidity is mind-boggling,
and this was actually something hit on
by Representative Talley, who by the way,
is literally a minister (laughs) and who argued
that Olsen's religious interpretation is bogus, saying,
"Why don't we follow all the other Old Testament laws?
There's about 4,000 of them,
and one of them is not to allow wives to wear jewelry,
or stone your child if they're disobedient.
Why don't we do that?
Because we pick and choose what we want to follow"
but unfortunately, this is the world we live in,
and Olsen and so many others refuse to take
the advice of don't be stupid, stupid,
and then we need to talk about Rasheem Carter.
Carter was a 25-year-old black man who was reported missing
in Southeast Mississippi back on October 2nd
and a month later, on November 2nd,
the Smith County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post
that his remains had been found in a wooded area near
the town of Taylorsville, around 20 miles away
from the city of Laurel, where he had lived.
With the sheriff's office explicitly writing,
"At this time,
we have no reason to believe foul play was involved,
but the case is still under investigation,"
and well, the reason that we're talking about this
all these months later is because Carter's family
and their attorneys are now saying they believe
that he was murdered in a brutal hate crime,
accusing the police of stonewalling for months,
saying they failed to properly investigate the matter
and calling for a federal inquiry.
With prominent civil rights attorney, Ben Crump,
who's representing the family,
saying in a press conference earlier this week
that, "An independent autopsy showed
that Carter had been decapitated."
Crump saying that literally, "his vertebrae and spinal cord
were found in a different location from his head,"
and authorities have also recently found other body parts
that they believed to be Carter's.
- This was a nefarious act.
This was a evil act.
Somebody murdered Rasheem Carter.
There is nothing natural about this.
It screams out for justice.
What we have is a Mississippi lynching.
- Also, during that press conference,
Rasheem's mother, Tiffany Carter,
described some very concerning things
that happened before her son went missing.
They're saying that on October 1st,
one day before Carter went missing, he texted her saying
that he and a business owner she did not identify
were not seeing eye to eye and then allegedly writing,
"If anything happened to me, he's responsible for it.
I'm too smart, mama.
He got these guys wanting to kill me,"
and what's more is that Carter's mom said
she also had a very alarming phone conversation
with him the same day.
- My son told me that it was three truckloads
of white guys trying to kill him and at the time
that he told me, as a mother, you know,
I had to think fast.
So I told him, you know, to go to the police station
because I felt in my heart that they would serve
and protect like they're obligated to do.
They did not help him.
He asked for help, but they didn't help him.
- [Phil] Tiffany Carter also telling local reporters
that specifically her son had gone
to Taylorsville Police for help and asked
for a ride back to Laurel, but the officers refused,
and actually Taylorsville Police Chief, Gabe Horn,
confirmed to reporters that Rasheem had indeed gone
to the department, but saying that
the officers just couldn't give him a ride
because of staffing and liability issues,
and claiming, "He told the officer that night
that he and his roommates had a verbal disagreement,
and he felt threatened, and that was it.
Rasheem did tell the officer that night that was up here
that he had a ride coming, and the officer advised him,
'You're more than welcome to stay at the police department'
but claiming Rasheem said, 'No, sir I dropped a pin
where I wanted to be picked up,'"
but the key thing there is that seems to contradict
what other law enforcement agents have said,
with Smith County Sheriff, Joel Houston,
telling a local outlet back in November
that when Carter spoke to the police, he quote,
"Never seemed to be in any distress or anything,
and he never mentioned anything
about being in immediate danger,"
and in statements to the Washington Post yesterday,
Houston argued that, "There's no evidence to substantiate
any of the claims that Rasheem Carter was murdered,"
and adding, "There's no indication that someone killed him.
The evidence we do have coincide
with what animals would do to a body."
Houston also pushed back on the claim
that police mishandled the case in any way,
saying that he welcomed a federal investigation
and continuing, "There's nothing to be swept
under the rug or hidden in that nature."
So that's where we are right now with this one.
We're gonna obviously keep a close eye for more information,
but in the meantime, let me know your thoughts,
and of course make sure you subscribe to stay in the loop,
and then also remember that MoistCr1TiKaL/Sneako drama
that we talked about earlier this week?
Well, that has escalated in a way I did not expect,
because apparently Charlie and a chunk
of the internet dunked on Sneako so hard that
on one of his next streams, he whipped out a gun,
and I'll let Moist explain it.
- It got really under his skin in a big way.
So he started dancing around with the gun
and threatening to come shoot me.
So he kept saying, "Oh, you're in Tampa, right?
I'll come see you,"
waving his gun around and dancing.
- [Phil] Sneako ultimately saying,
"Oh, you wanna watch my clips?
Watch my clips,"
with Charlie then responding like gun instructor Jesus.
- And I'm sorry to be that guy.
This is like the grammar police of guns,
but he's a (beep) imbecile.
You absolute buffoon.
What you have there is not clips.
(metal rubbing)
These are mags.
They're mags, not clips,
you absolute (beep) dummy.
The same way that this is also a mag.
(Phil laughing)
They're all mags.
Stop saying clips.
You look (beep) stupid here.
Anyway, sorry for the gun anatomy lesson.
- So yeah, everything on the internet is super chill
and okay right now, and then if you leak something
from Marvel, know that they're gonna come after you.
(metal whooshing)
With Variety reporting right now
that Marvel is trying to track down people
who allegedly leaked a 63-page transcript of dialogue
from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,
but the movie wasn't released until mid-February,
but around January 20th, dialogue was leaked
on the Marvel Studio's spoiler subreddit,
and so Marvel has actually filed a request
in a federal district court in California,
asking to issue a subpoena for Reddit
to reveal who's responsible,
and specifically seeking all identifying information
for the user MSSmods and any other user's responsible
for posting, editing and or maintaining the content,
with them also filing a similar request to Google
as someone shared the transcript on a Google Doc as well.
Now, currently it's unclear
if either company plans to comply.
Without a doubt, they want to make an example
of this person or these people, but the good news for Marvel
is it doesn't look like it actually hurt the movie,
with "Quantumania" already domestically out-grossing
the original 2015 Ant-Man film,
though it might have hurt it
'cause it's still behind its 2018 sequel,
but that could also be just from superhero movie fatigue,
with it seeming, at least from people
that are being vocal about it,
there being a bigger and bigger disconnect
as the franchise kind of moves forward
and then, but also not the end of legal news
in the entertainment sphere,
this one deals with Netflix
and the series Making a Murderer,
because a judge just ruled that a retired detective featured
in the series was not defamed by Netflix,
but that documentary, I can't Believe it's been so long.
It came out in 2015, and it was lotted at the time
as one of the most significant shows on the platform,
and even credited with prompting a new wave
of fascination with true crime.
I mean, you had nearly 20 million people watching it
in the first 35 days that it was available,
but then in April of 2019,
Detective Andrew Colborn filed a lawsuit
accusing Netflix of defamation,
saying that the series misquoted his testimony
by editing snippets and including reactions
of others to make him look nervous,
and Rolling Stone reporting that at one point he claimed
that the show "omitted, distorted and falsified material
and significant facts in an effort to portray Colborn
as a corrupt police officer who planted evidence
to frame an innocent man,"
and further alleging that the filmmakers did so
with actual malice and in order to make
the film more profitable and more successful,
sacrificing and defining Colborn's character
and reputation in the process,
but as the Associated Press reported,
a US district judge in Wisconsin sided
with Netflix over the matter, saying that
the filmmakers did not act with any malice,
and also adding that the edits in the film retain
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(air whooshing) and then, for the first time
since the Ukraine War began a year ago,
Russia and the United States
had a direct military confrontation.
Oh, good, great.
So strap on your gas masks, boys and girls.
Let's talk about it,
because at the center of this
is an American M-Q9 Reaper drone,
an utterly massive unmanned aircraft boasting
a 66-foot wingspan and costing $32 million,
and according to Washington,
it was conducting a routine surveillance operation
over the Black Sea and international airspace,
west of Crimea, but supposedly well clear
of any Ukrainian territory, but that
is when two Russian SU-27 fighter jets swooped in
to intercept, allegedly flying around and in front
of the drone for 30 to 40 minutes, also dumping fuel on it,
and then one of the jets allegedly struck
the drone's propeller, and when I say struck,
I don't mean they shot a missile or bullets at it.
I mean, this motherfucker physically collided with the drone
in mid-air, likely damaging itself and definitely forcing
the drone to crash-land in the water,
but Moscow, big surprise, has a different story,
saying the American drone was flying close
to the Russian border and intruded
on an area declared off limits,
admitting that his fighter jets did move into intercept,
but then claiming, "As a result of sharp maneuver,
the US drone went into uncontrollable flight
with a loss of altitude and collided with water surface."
Right, essentially saying
they didn't make physical contact with it.
I don't know if they're claiming like they did one
of these, and America flinched,
but whatever the case may be, right?
Whatever happened, it's still unclear
whether this was all intentional,
but some say it's more likely an accident
because it would be extremely hard
for a pilot to deliberately strike another aircraft
without jeopardizing him or herself but in the meantime,
we're seeing both sides seeking to deescalate,
with the State Department summiting the Russian ambassador
for a meeting on Tuesday and as for the leftover drone,
the White House says that it crashed into very deep water
and that recovery may not be possible,
but then you have the Russians saying
they're going to attempt it anyway, and if they succeed,
they could get their hands on some sensitive technology
but at the very least, the one maybe silver lining
to this situation, and it is a very slim silver lining,
is everyone, including Russia,
should be grateful this was an unmanned drone,
because if an American was in that aircraft,
this could have easily been seen as an act of war,
and there's really nothing that unites Americans
more than someone else fucking with us.
America has historically taken that shit very seriously
and even made some people glow
and then, remember how yesterday I said
things look maybe kind of hopeful for banks rebounding,
but we need to wait for the long-term? (chuckles)
Well, apparently we didn't have to wait that long,
because the Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse
just released an annual report disclosing
what it called "material weaknesses"
in its past financial reporting,
and adding that fixing the issue could be very expensive,
and the trouble could ultimately impact the bank's access
to capital markets and subject it
to potential regulatory investigations
and sanctions, which then prompted
the bank's biggest investors, Saudi National Bank,
to say it would not shore up Credit Suisse
by purchasing more shares, and so when that news broke,
the bank stock plummeted 30%, leading to some panic,
with regulators checking lenders' exposure
to Credit Suisse and finance ministers meeting
to prepare for what might happen, though a key thing here
is that this didn't just come outta nowhere
but for several years, this bank has struggled
with scandals, financial losses
and risk and compliance problems
but very importantly, watching Credit Suisse
tumble like this is much scarier
than what happened to a regional bank like SVB.
Right, we're now talking about a bank
with a much bigger balance sheet that is far more entangled
in the global financial system and therefore,
has more potential to cause a massive ripple effect,
which we've actually already seen happen in some ways
with the two banks that rebounded yesterday
falling back down today, though not as massively right?
First Republican Western Alliance dropping 16% and 6%.
You also saw European stocks dip,
with two French banks getting hit the worst at 12% and 9%
and a German bank sliding 8%,
and all this leading several bank stocks
to temporarily suspend training amid the instability,
and so all this chaos might be throwing a wrench
into the European Central Bank's expected decision tomorrow
to fend off inflation by raising interest rates,
and so all of this happening right now,
it appears to confirm that the banking shakiness
is not limited to Silicon Valley
but again, we're talking about short-term stuff,
and we have to have a long-term vision,
and only time can tell if these are one-off events
or we're gonna see a contagion
that infects the entire financial sector,
which, once again, is why the smartest investors,
like myself, have put all of our money
into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures,
and then vinyl is now the single most popular form
of physical media, with it is starting
to outsell CDs last year and even going up 17%
to bring in $1.2 billion in 2022.
You can thank Taylor Swift for a lot of this,
with her being the leading artist in this space
by a mile, marking nearly 1.7 million sales,
which as Billboard noted, accounts for nearly one out
of every 25 LP vinyl sales, and it's not just
a new artist selling collector pieces.
One of the biggest players in the space is Metallica,
with Billboard reporting that they sell so much vinyl,
they just bought their own pressing plant,
pressing 902,000 pieces last year,
and of their sales about half from the US.
Which is also why I told Zaid we have
to put out a vinyl of the last few months
of FREESTYLE THE NEWS, which also remember,
very big announcement coming this Sunday.
Make sure you come back for that,
and then you've got fantastic news
for those of you that need insulin
'cause it's no longer just Eli Lilly.
Novo Nordisk, one of the biggest sellers of insulin
in the United States, is now massively dropping prices,
with them cutting prices in the United States
for certain products by up to 75%,
with prices also reportedly being cut
for their unbranded insulin products,
but remember before you give them
a big old hug, they're not doing it out
(chuckles) of the kindness of their heart.
There's been so much public pressure, legal pressure
and of course, market pressure,
with Eli Lilly making this move earlier,
but don't let that stop you from being happy.
When stuff sucks less, enjoy it.
We also just saw the FDA approving a new nasal spray
for migraines, with reports noting
that this Pfizer treatment "applies an approach
that's different from some other products,
which doctors say make it safer for people
at risk of heart attacks or stroke,"
but before you celebrate too much,
this is not a one-and-done grand slam,
with reports noting that according
to the clinical trial results,
people who took the medication were more likely
to report returning to normal function 30 minutes
to two hours after taking it.
When focusing on how people felt two hours after using,
24% of the people who took the medication
said they felt free from pain,
which notably was only 9% higher
than those who took a placebo,
though I imagine for something as debilitating
as an intense migraine is, any sort of relief,
any sort of help to quality of life could be a win,
and the medication, which is gonna be sold as ZAVZPRET,
is expected to hit pharmacies in July,
and then we've got Zuckerberg
and Meta just laying off people left and right,
with Zuck saying yesterday, you know,
this is the "year of efficiency,"
that they're planning to lay off 10,000 more people,
and notably this just a few months
after they laid off 11,000 people,
and with that also closing thousands of open job listings,
but the key thing is that even after this newest round
of layoffs, they'll still have more people
than they did pre-pandemic, which, of course,
was when everyone started hiring like fucking crazy.
You know, 'cause everyone was like,
this is how things are gonna be forever.
We need to grow, and Philip DeFranco needs
to invest way too much money into Peloton.
That is also a good investment,
but obviously it didn't.
So I have to look
at my (chuckles) very sad-looking portfolio,
and other people have to look at the fact
that I think 180,000-ish people have been laid off just
in January and February alone.
ChatGPT is getting much, much smarter
with the release of ChatGPT 4,
with some of the biggest changes being,
not only does it understand text.
It can understand images now and also by comparison,
the new version's making ChatGPT 3.5 look stupid.
With examples being used, like, on a simulated bar exam.
The previous version scored in the bottom 10%.
The new version, top 10%.
With that said, there are still issues.
As places like The Verge have noted,
there are safety concerns.
With OpenAI saying on the one hand that, "In internal tests,
it was 82% less likely to respond
to requests for disallowed content
and 40% more likely to produce factual responses,"
but on the other hand, "Microsoft revealed
that its Bing chatbot has actually been powered by GPT 4,"
with the reports noting many users were still able
to break Bing's guardrails, and getting the bot
to offer dangerous advice, threaten users
and just make up information,
and there are other limitations to GPT 4,
like it not having any knowledge
about what has happened since September of 2021,
but the robots are coming, and they are coming fast.
Buffalo Wild Wings is currently facing
a class-action lawsuit over their boneless wings,
to which you may respond, do you mean chicken nuggets?
And that is actually why a class-action lawsuit
was filed against them in Chicago,
with the lawsuit reportedly stating that people believe
that Buffalo Wild Wings' boneless chicken wings
were actually de-boned wings, but saying they're not.
They are just chicken nuggets
and thus, this is false advertising,
and the lawsuit essentially is saying,
"Because I was advertised to falsely,
I ordered a product that I would not have ordered otherwise
and thus, I've been financially injured."
So I've gotta ask you, beautiful bastards,
what side of this war are you on?
And that is where today's show ends.
As always, thank you for watching,
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just trying to make the clusterfuck that is the news
a little more consumable but as always,
my name's Philip DeFranco.
You've just been filled in.
I love yo' faces, and I'll see you tomorrow.