Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Monday.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing I want to talk about today one of the
most requested stories today, is we got a massive update around the James Gunn situation. If you don't remember there were a bunch of old
James Gunn tweets that were resurfaced, shared around. And in those tweets among other things, He joked about things like child molestation.
There was a lot of backlash online and it ultimately resulted in him being fired and this whole situation spawned many debate points
but one at the center of it was "should something you said seven to ten years ago
be used against you today?"
Especially if you apologize for it. You don't stand by those words and you say you've evolved since then.
And I mentioned that specific debate because there hasn't been a ton of people defending those jokes,
but there has been a lot of people that defended James Gunn as he has become a better person, a person that realized he doesn't
need to try and you know shock jock
people into caring about what he's saying. And some going even farther to say that this specific instance is the weaponization
of outraged culture to try and hurt someone like James Gunn who has been outspoken about President Trump.
But main point - the reason we're talking about this today
Is there have been a lot of people wondering 'What does the cast think?' Right, the cast of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
We've heard more direct statements from people like Dave Bautista
We've seen less direct statements from people like Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana saying, 'you know
I'm trying to take this time.' And today, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista,
Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Pom Klementieff, and Michael Rooker, put out an open letter. Saying "to our fans and friends we fully support
James Gunn. We were all shocked by his abrupt firing last week
and have intentionally waited these ten days to respond in order to think pray listen and discuss. In that time
we've been encouraged by the outpouring of support from fans and members of the media who wish to see James
reinstated as director of [Guardians of the Galaxy] Volume 3 as well as discouraged by those so easily duped into believing the many outlandish conspiracy theories surrounding him."
Going on to express their love, support, and gratitude for James. Saying "The character he has shown in the wake of his firing is consistent
with the man he was every day on set." Saying they believe his apology now and from years ago when first addressing these remarks
were from the heart. A heart they all know trust and love.
Later adding, "There is little due process in the court of public opinion.
James is likely not the last good person to be put on trial. Given the growing political divide in this country
It's safe to say instances like this will continue, although we hope Americans from across the political spectrum can ease up on the character
assassinations and stop weaponizing mob mentality." And closing
"It is our hope that what has transpired can serve as an example for all of us to realize the enormous responsibility we have to
ourselves and to each other regarding the use of our written words when we etch them in digital stone;
that we as a society may learn from this experience and in the future
will think twice before we decide what we want to express; and in so learning perhaps can harness this capability to help and heal instead
of hurting each other.
Thank you for taking the time to read our words." And while people have pointed out that the statement doesn't say, you know 'We want
James Gunn back to this movie.' Statements saying we look forward to working with our friend James in the future. But, with this statement people like
Chris Pratt specifically tweeted, "Although I don't support James Gunn's inappropriate jokes from years ago, he is a good man.
I'd personally love to see him reinstated as director of Volume 3." Now, as far as what ends up actually
happening, that will be very interesting. Because Disney removed James Gunn seemingly because they say, 'you know what he said
we can't stand by that. 'But now you have the Guardians of the Galaxy cast supporting him, not supporting his past tweets,
But supporting him saying they look forward to working with him again.
Chris Pratt specifically stating that he would love to see his director come back. That in part seems to hurt Disney's hope that that whole situation
is no longer connected to the movie.
So what does Disney do here? Do they reinstate James Gunn?
Potentially alienating all of the people that they aim to defuse?
Although at this point because the cast is aligned themselves with James Gunn,
potentially connected to this movie, potentially in other works in the future.
Is that a situation that can even be diffused at this point? Or do they keep him disconnected from the movie.
Hypothetically not helping too much since the cast is now aligned themselves.
Potentially there's also an upside with people that are angry about James Gunn's removal. And then of course,
there's just the question 'what percentage of the audience actually cares about all of this when they're purchasing a ticket?'
I mean will a large majority of the audience just purchase a ticket for Volume 3 regardless of whoever's politics or whatever controversy?
I don't know, but I am fascinated to see what will happen next here.
And then let's talk about the reported eight major wildfires burning across
California right now. And while looking at different maps that may look like there's more than a dozen
but the reason for this is some are joined together and they're called fire complexes.
And a big thing to understand here is even before these major fires,
it was reported that this year is the worst California wildfire season since 2008, and we're only halfway through the year.
And now, as of today, about
12,000 firefighters are fighting active wildfires around the State of California. And of the fires,
you have the car fire which is the largest of those burning in California. With this fire, as of this morning,
nearly 100 thousand acres have been burned and it's only 20 percent contained.
And to kind of give you a scale of this level of burn
I mentioned a hundred thousand acres. For reference,
San Francisco itself is around only thirty thousand acres. And according to reports around 1,000 structures have been destroyed, this including
723 homes. Tens of thousands of people under evacuation orders have been displaced. You have 3,000 fire personnel fighting the fire with
334 engines, 17 helicopters mobilized. As of recording this video,
2 Firefighters and 4 residents have died from the car fire. As often happens with situations like this,
there are also reports of people missing. And really hitting on the note of how extreme this fire has been, we have Cal Fire Chief
Ken Pimlott saying this: "We are seeing fire whirls. Literally what can be described as a tornado.
This fire was whipped up into a whirlwind of activity:
uprooting trees, moving vehicles, moving parts of roadways. These are extreme conditions
we need to take heed and evacuate, evacuate, evacuate."
And as far as what the government is doing, last week on the 26, we saw Governor Jerry Brown issue a state of emergency for
the car fire and the Cranston Fire in Riverside County. Also just this past Saturday, Trump issued a federal emergency declaration for
California that allows additional federal assistance for the communities affected by the fire. And a tiny bit of good news here is in the last
48 hours officials have been more optimistic about the fires in Northern California. Also regarding those other fires
you had the Ferguson Fire, which is pushing up against Yosemite National Park and has taken the lives of two
firefighters. There, as of last night, 56,000 acres have burned with 30 percent containment. There's also the Ranch Fire at around
35,000 acres with a handful of buildings destroyed and five percent containment.
But here's the thing, even though the focal point of this story
now a lot of the coverage is
California, there have also been a number of fires across the United States. In fact, as of today,
there are 98 large fires in 14 states that have an acreage of more than
1.2 million. In addition to California we've got 15 fires in Alaska, 10 in Arizona, 13 in Colorado,
16 in Oregon, among others. And as far as total acreage burned year to date that's 4.4 million acres with
37,000 fires reported. But as of right now, that is where we are. We're gonna have to wait to see what happens next
but where I do want to end this story,
I just want to send out a massive massive thank-you and send my well wishes to all of these brave
firefighters putting their lives on the line for us.
Just thank you and good luck out there. But from that I want to share some stuff I love today and Today In Awesome
brought to you by SeatGeek. And SeatGeek is of course a fantastic ticket app that takes
Confusion out of buying tickets for live events, whether it be a concert, a comedy show, a sporting event.
They put all the tickets in one place.
They give them 0 to 100 scores, so you know if you're getting a good deal or not.
I've got the app on my phone,
it is by far the easiest way to purchase tickets. Whether it be something
I'm looking forward to down the road or something kind of last-minute. It's a great time to try it out!
You've got baseball season now, football season coming up.
There's a ton of summer concerts whether it be Drake, Childish Gambino, Taylor Swift,
Whatever. And best of all for you beautiful bastards, if you go to SeatGeekPhil.com, you download the app,
Make sure you enter in OFFER CODE: PHIL because when you do that, you'll save
$20 off your first ticket purchase. And the first bit of awesome today is we got a trailer for season two of Ozark.
We have the final trailer for Mile 22. We got a trailer for Slender Man.
Then we had Life Noggin asking 'what would humans look like if we never evolved?'. Then Bon Appetit gave us 12 types of buffalo
wings in 12 hours. You know, since yesterday was National Chicken Wing Day, the most BLESSED of holidays.
And if you want to see the full versions of everything
I just shared, the secret link of the day, anything at all,
links as always are in the description down below. And then actually kind of on the same note of of someone's past being used
against them now. We had a heavily requested update on the Logan Paul / KSI situation that we covered previously last week. And if you're not familiar,
arguably two of the largest Youtubers on the platform, in just less than four weeks,
will be fighting one another in a pay-per-view. And now after some recent chaotic press conferences
KSI: "Fuck you Logan" - Crowd Repeats & KSI Repeats
Crowd "Yo yo yo yo!" *screams*
More Crowds Yelling & Cars Honking
In that recent Logan Paul / Casey Neistat
interview, where Logan really tries to hit on the note that he's
changing but a lot of the stuff that he's talking about doesn't seem to reflect that, Logan then came out with a video that
targeted 2 people, though the first being True Geordie and then the second being KSI. Regarding True Geordie, He moderated the last event.
He was supposed to be a commentator during the actual fight. Logan in this video identified Geordie as a Logan Paul and Jake Paul hater.
Logan: "This dude f*cking hates me." Geordie: "Logan Paul. This kid's a big f*cking YouTuber in America."
"I just don't think the
moderator of the press conference, the person who should be neutral, the person who should be the one driving the conversation,
should be a Logan and Jake Paul hater." True Geordie then ended up releasing a response video
to Logan. Long story short, Geordie has gained nearly
130,000 new subscribers and that video, as of recording
this video, has over 2.7 million views. But here are two things I would want to throw out.
One, I obviously am NOT True Geordie. I can't speak to his intent, his mindset, but the "evidence" that he hates Logan
Paul was a video from when the suicide forest video happened and of course during that time many people had very negative
reactions and negative things to say about you. Even in the Casey Neistat interview, Logan Paul seems to acknowledge that what he did is
unforgivable, but then decides to use a reaction to what he did, which was the
unforgivable thing, as evidence that he's dealing with a hater, which is just a complete misrepresentation of the situation.
So as an example of using something from the past in the now as a way to try and hit someone. Also if we then
look into the past,
although recent past, a lot of what Logan says here is either ignorant or just
hypocritical due to his relationship with Shannon Briggs. Shannon Briggs moderated the first press conference and then at the second press conference was actually part
of Logan Paul's team. Although, last second update to this part of the story.
It has now been announced that Geordie is back on to commentate.
So I guess really no matter who wins this fight that Geordie is one of the true winners here.
We can talk more about this part
but I want to move to the next part which is where Logan Paul brings up KSI's past.
Seemingly as a way not only to argue against KSI, but also potentially as a way to get him to lose sponsorships and
relationships. "How do you have a brand deal with EA or any big brands for that matter? And Post Malone,
I'm just wondering, this is the guy you want to walk out with?" And the ammunition that Logan
Paul uses here our old videos that KSI put out. KSI: "Hey, I'm with uh
massive tits." KSI: "Where have your tits gone?" Woman: "Where have they gone?" KSI: "Yeah" Woman: ~unintelligible~
KSI: "Because I can't see them"
KSI: "Not big enough. What are you doing not fingering yourself? You have a sister Casper? What's her name?"
Casper: "Theodora." KSI: "Like Dora the Explorer. Because I'm going to explore her p*ssy." Logan then goes on to show video from Caspar Lee's sister
right after that footage.
and I don't know if the intent from Logan and his team was to kind of pair the footage in a sense of was she talking
about KSI or just the fact that he would say something about someone who had gone through something so horrible.
And while Logan even acknowledges that you know, he's objectified women in the past
he makes kind of this big deal about deleting a video where he actually used women as a
bicycle. "This type of content no longer accurately represents my brand and the person that I am becoming. Okay, so this is No Handlebars
I'm going over and I am deleting it from YouTube and...
bam. It's gone." Since then, people have pointed out that it's not like it was just one video
It's that was just a video that fit into a Logan Paul trend.
We also have some saying it's disgusting that he's trying to use a situation with Caspar Lee's sister as a way to promote his
argument, since he himself was allegedly horrible to another woman that was accusing another guy of rape. And specifically yesterday
we saw a former Viner Jessie smiles tweet "If Logan Paul ever makes a comment about respecting women
he's full of shit, end of story. Lol. He publicly shamed me whenever I spoke out about how I was raped.
He made me feel so small and one of the most vulnerable times of my life. Trash." And while she's tweeting about this now,
she's actually talked about this in a video before. "But a few years back
I pressed charges against a famous Viner that I had dated because he sexually assaulted. This became public
okay? TMZ, of all f*cking places, published an article and on the day that that article came out,
I mean that was the worst day of my life. Famous Viners and a bunch of other people who have a substantial amount of followers
decided to go on the internet. Logan Paul being one of the biggest people that did this to me.
He tries to come across in his blogs as a nice guy that cares and all that stuff,
no, he's a frat douchebag. But he goes on Twitter and I'm talking, he wa nasty. He called me a liar
I don't know how many times. Not just that day, throughout any time that I would talk about this situation.
He would call me a liar. I'm pretty sure I called me a lying b*tch, but you know what?
I can't be sure." And while in her video
She alleges that he deleted those tweets, upon looking into what we were able to find one
It was still up as of this morning
So if he deletes it, Hello Logan, it's good to know that you watch these videos. And it's Logan Paul tweeting
"Yeah that story is twisted beyond all belief that girl is a terrible
representative of the vine community." This in response to an article titled 'Vine Star Curtis Lepore on Trial for Allegedly Raping Vine Star Girlfriend' and
looking online, there's also been a lot of confusion as to what actually happened with that case. Online
It looks like there's a lot of people that thought he was found guilty of rape.
There are a lot of people have thought like he got nothing. As far as what ended up actually happening,
the rape charge itself was dropped. Curtis Lepore who was accused of sexually assaulting Jessie Smiles while she was sleeping,
he pled no contest to a federal sexual assault charge. As part of that
he received 24 days of community service, a year of counseling, and that charge because he did not break
his plea deal, ended up going down to misdemeanor sexual assault. And so it appears that a lot of the confusion around Curtis Lepore is
due to people not fully understanding a no-contest plea. It's not technically a guilty plea because you can say I
wasn't found guilty BUT that person unlike if they had been found not guilty is then
sentenced, it's often part of a plea deal.
Which means that that person gets a lesser charge. But long story short, because of everything that happened here, because of Logan's
reaction here,
you have a lot of people saying of Logan Paul's being a hypocrite. And also thanks to his actions of bringing up KSI's past,
more stuff from his past has now emerged. So it'll be interesting to see if Logan Paul's attempt to hurt someone else's
sponsorship, their relationships, if it ends up just haunting him.
Although I'm not sure if anyone at this point is
incentivized for everything to be less of a shit show. Since this specific fight is not a free event,
it's a pay-per-view,
it is a product, the more people that are interested, more people to buy, the more incentive there is, and there's no doubt in my
mind that this is going to be a successful event. So do you think that this is this is just the precursor for even further
escalation? Or do you feel like we're gonna hit this moment of it's gone too far, and we're going to see some pullback?
I mean that's weird to say in a situation where someone has already gotten punched
outside of the press conference. Or from a business side of things people are mentioning the other person's sponsorships.
I don't know, I'd love to know your thoughts here. Then we got more news stemming from the show
'Who is America'. This of course, Sacha Baron Cohen's show. It's been making news pretty much every week. Last week
the big focus was on Jason Spencer. Now former Georgia state lawmaker after all of this aired. There was a big reaction
he has now resigned. Cohen posed as an Israeli
Anti-terrorism expert and he was able to get Spencer to uh, well do this. Cohen: "Okay convince him
that you are Chinese, go."
Spencer: -- Acting inappropriately and portraying several negative stereotypes --
And like I said following this airing he submitted his resignation
that will go into effect though tomorrow. And some people have said the resignation is a massive deal
It shows the impact of being exposed in this manner
but also at the same time people have pointed out that Spencer had already lost his primary
he was going to be serving out the next five months. So some saying it's not the largest of impacts
It's kind of just pushing forward the timetable. And this week
the big stand out was Roy Moore and it was less of what Roy
said and more of what Cohen said to Moore. And during the interview
It appears that Cowan has convinced Moore that Israelis have developed technology that can identify
a, an enzyme that is secreted by sex offenders most notably
pedophiles and he then showcases it for Moore. "Because
neither of us are sex offenders, then it make absolutely nothing. You just put it on, you put it nearby.
*beeping noise*
"Wait, this is obviously a problem." He then is like, oh must be malfunctioning. He tries it on another guy
He then asks is this your jacket, and the entire uncomfortable situation leads to this moment.
Moore: "I've been married for 33. I never had an accusation of such things." Cohen: "I am not accusing you at all."
Cohen:"This is not..." Moore: "Well then if this is an instrument, I did certainly I'm not a pedophile, okay?"
Cohen: "No, but the machine is..." Moore: "Well, I don't know they may be Israeli technology hasn't developed properly."
Cohen: "This is the 99.8% accurate. It is not saying that you are a pedophile of course not." Moore: "I am simply cutting this
conversation right now." Cohen: "No" Moore: "Thank you." Cohen: "Have you..." Moore: "It's been nice, I support Israel
I don't support this kind of stuff." And following that clip. There were a lot of people saying, Why is he lying?
Why is he saying he's never even been accused of that? Technically speaking
once again
I think it's all disgusting. Technically speaking since one of the women who said she was
14 at the time with more that would be described as Hebaphilia, which is an attraction to 11 to 14 year olds.
But of course
the big thing to note here is that we are talking about a fictional
object that does not actually work the way that it was described. And the intent of the duping was to make a
man who has been accused of sexual misconduct by three women feel incredibly uncomfortable.
Oh, and by the way right now in politics, this isn't even the weirdest story out. In Virginia's fifth congressional district
We are seeing the Battle of Riggleman versus Cockburn also
No, those are not made-up names. You have Leslie Cockburn and Denver Riggleman. And the big controversy here
is that Leslie Cockburn posted a screenshot of what appears to be Denver Riggleman Instagram.
and she captions it "My opponent Denver Riggleman running mate of Corey Stewart, was caught on camera
campaigning with a white supremacist. Now he has been exposed as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica
this is not what we need on Capitol Hill." And I'm not gonna even jump into whether or not
Riggleman was actually going to self publish a book titled 'Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him' and two I question Leslie's
prioritization. You don't come right out the gate with he campaigned with the white supremacist and
he likes Bigfoot porn. One of those one of those is far more important than the other. Also, thanks to that being a story
I have learned that Bigfoot erotica is actually a thing but that that also shouldn't be surprising. Whatever Riggleman or whoever else
like in their bedroom and / or whatever setting anyway
that is not abusing another individual, great. Oh insert politician likes Bigfoot porn. I don't care. What about my taxes?
I say embrace it, make some Bigfoot erotica
We use the funds to patch up all the potholes that I'm hitting on the way to work. Boom.
I may not understand it, but it's all of a sudden seeming like a positive.
Anyway, I don't know what the point of this story is. The world and politics are weird. That's not news to anyone.
That's where I'm going to end today's show. And of course remember, this is the PDS.
This is not just a show, it is a conversation. So whether it be the last story, the first one, anything in between,
let me know what you're thinking in those comments down below.
but with that said
I just want to end today's show on the note of thank you for allowing the Philip DeFranco Show into your life on a daily
or semi daily basis. But with that said of course as always, my name is Philip Defranco.
You've just been phill'd in. I LOVE YO FACES and i'll see you tomorrow.