'Sup you beautiful bastards? Hope you're having a
fantastic Tuesday! Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. As you may have noticed I'm not wearing a dress shirt today. I really wanted to
show something that showed off my complete lack of muscles or really any notable upper-body features
also
We're gonna start today off with a little note schedule this week is a little bit different this morning yes there was an extra morning
news deep dive which I highly recommend you getting this show you're getting the wednesday philip defranco show and then on
Thursdays I'm actually gonna be out of the studio on Thursday and Friday
Thursday's video is a little different
as closer to a solo and what I'm gonna try and do is even though I'm at a studio on Friday is I'm gonna try
And at least do a live stream from my phone so I'm giving you this heads up one so I'm not wasting your time and
You know when I'm gonna be here, when I'm not and to when people do eventually on Thursday and Friday say
where is the show you can you know speak down to them from your position of superiority you know the other reason the internet was
Invented other than porn but with that said let's just jump into it and the first thing we're to talk about today is the story that
was just blowin up this morning and that is this story around this Esquire cover and
features a young man in his bedroom it reads Ryan Morgan a high school senior in
Wisconsin at home I know what I can't do I just don't know what I can do an American boy?
what it's like to grow up white middle-class and male in the era of social media school shootings toxic masculinity
Me too and a divided country wouldn't you know it there was a massive massive
reaction to this and if you look to Twitter a lot of the top
responses not really happy to get an idea of let's roll through some finally the
Representation, we've been waiting for. Jamele Hill writing because you know what we don't discuss nearly enough the white male experience
Zara Rahim tweeting imagine this same American boy headline with someone who looked like Trayvon
talking about what it's like to have your mother sit you down to tell you how to stay alive in your own city during Black
History Month just imagine shame on you Esquire so there is that but on the other end of this you had the editor-in-chief
Of Esquire Jay Fielding explaining this choice of story and cover with his own piece titled why your ideological echo-chamber
Isn't just bad for you it's also bad for your kids and he explains one of our senior editors helpfully recalled a classic Esquire profile
Susan Orleans 1992 account of the day-to-day life of a ten-year-old boy
26 years later we decided to follow that model but to enlarge it into a series on growing up now white black
LGBTQ female that will continue to appear incoming issues and adding with the first installment written by Jennifer Percy well we asked Jen to do
and she did brilliantly was to look at her divided country through the eyes of one
kid. Ryan Morgan is his name he's white lives in the middle of the reddest County in
Wisconsin and as you will see he is an
Unusually mature intelligent and determined young man so I read this Esquire piece this morning because I don't like to love
or hate something without actually experiencing it right like I know that the Internet's gonna have a
Massive reaction to a trailer for dear white people or
insatiable as they did before people got to experience the final thing you know I really want to go through this
7,000 word piece because I felt that there were gonna be a lot of people that
Were sounding off on it without fully consuming it because it is it's kind of lengthy
when you compare it to just like how fast and quick
Photo is or just a small tweet is and I'll say my personal opinion you know reading through this
one I like this piece and - I look forward to future
Pieces from different people's point of view like when I see tweets like this one from Tyler McCall saying I get what Esquire was going?
for here but oh boy talk about failing to read the room my response to that is
no
you're just reading your room if you want to stay in your echo chamber you metaphorically look at the room that you are in and
Then just spew out whatever you think works for that room I think it's important that we look to people that
we don't necessarily
Align with or relate with and and see kind of their their thinking their every day their their where they're coming from so one you
Can maybe understand them and we?
can connect as human beings and two at the very least you can understand the flaws in
Their argument if there are flaws there it allows for there to be a greater
Conversation but the argument of this is in a story that needs to be featured
we've heard this story before
I'm
Personally interested I know some people are gonna respond to that and be like well it's because you're a white guy and I'm not gonna
Play victim there you can have that opinion but for me it's interesting because for the past decade I've lived in Los Angeles
I've lived in an
Incredibly liberal place and some of the things they rub me the wrong way some things have opened my eyes to different perspectives and so
On that note of caring about different perspectives I think it's it's important to look at, someone that I don't necessarily
Align with yes we're white guys but
we have completely different backgrounds we have different day-to-day life
Experiences that aren't connected to my job right it's been once again over a decade since I've lived in a place like North Carolina
Or Florida I understand that for everyone it's an
Easier way to view the world when it's like everyone's good guy or bad guy let's really
Think that there's a lot to be learned by listening to other people story you don't have to respect it you don't have to think
that every point is valid and especially given the
Understanding that this is part of a series it's gonna feature a lot of different point of views I get excited and also it's not
Even just an understanding other human beings on a human level standpoint let me just talk about strategy if going into the 2020 election one
of the on your mind if you're working in strategy is not hey in Wisconsin
which is a battleground state
Obama had won it then Trump won it barely beating Hillary Clinton what our young white men were gonna be a voting age next year
who view themselves as moderate think you are not thinking and if you're a Democrat you're possibly under estimating Trump and his poll again if
anything I think a lot of the the backlash and just unwillingness to even read it speaks to the
Content of the piece so you have a seventeen-year-old who feels like he's lost
He feels like everyone's you know picking a team talks about the situation where this girl
attacks him she cuts him up he hit her back it turned into this whole thing where people are calling him a woman-beater it's a
scene based off of that
Experience how it molded his opinion on society and the relationships between men and women I mean that's very interesting
Also the viewpoints around
scandals and the minimization of certain scandals for certain reasons I guess this is kind of just a lot of words to say and
I've been guilty of this in the past I feel like we need to try and pull back from being so
Reactionary and and willing to hear stories not saying that every story is a valid view of the world and everyone's life
experience just to try to understand
someone
but
With that said that's a story that's my personal opinion and of course I passed the question off to you
What are your thoughts around this then in some quick industry news we should talk about
Shane Dawson yesterday he released the second of his two promised
movie length videos diving into
Conspiracy theories and this piece was something I stood out for kind of three reasons the first being that it's really amazing to see that
This has become kind of a site-wide
event kind of as we talked about last time the front-facing views on a video and the real-time views on the back end they don't
Always match but as of recording this video it's at 7.8
Million views and it's such a big site-wide event if you're another creator out there I'd love for you if you if you're comfortable sharing
Your analytic usually see a drop in the number of people watching our video during the first two to three
hours of release of a Shane Dawson
video and then it kind of fishhooks up and essentially our numbers drop and then they go back on trend but it's really interesting to
to watch. Two: Shane Dawson seemingly ruined pizza for a lot of people so much so to the point that Chuck E. Cheese even had to release
A statement with a spokesperson reportedly saying the claims made in this video about Chuck E. Cheese's and our pizza are
Unequivocally false no conspiracies here our pizzas are made to order and we prepare our dough fresh and restaurant
Which means that they're not always perfectly uniform in shape but always delicious I don't want to ruin Shane's video it's about
Recycled pizza you can watch it on your own and finally 3 shane, dawson kind of did a feature slash
deep dive with Brittani Louise Taylor who's an old-school youtuber on this platform he has a wild story to tell I was only aware of
It before him because my wife had read her book and they dive into that and it's very interesting but you know previously we talked
About there are certain creators on this platform if they are king makers right they move mountains and yesterday we actually saw that yesterday Shane
In that video below with the read more buttons you actually had to take an action to be able to see the link linked out
to her book her book was over 21,000 on Amazon Verde 793
1870 9th and different categories looking into it the morning after from this somewhat hidden link her book on Amazon became 39th overall number 2
Number 2 and number 12 in those previously mentioned categories and the audiobook for it is number one in all its listed categories
so I guess if there was one point to the end of this story while a lot of
influencers hate being called
Influencers I think this is one of an ever-increasing number of stories where we see the influence is real with this specific
Example for YouTube and other creators I think it's either neutral and or slightly positive because it brings more people to the platform for Chuck E. Cheese
Probably at negative and for a Brittani Louise Taylor definitely positive but from that I want to share some stuff
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the first bit of Awesome is we got the honest trailer for How to Train Your Dragon
we've casually explained giving us to make a long story short then we got a trailer for Tolkien
10 things Joe G can't live without did a bad lip reading of the State of the Union in marques Brownlee pulling in another
massive interview this time with Bill Gates they got the dunk view of Kingdom Hearts 3 if you want to see the full versions of
Everything I just shared the secret link of the day really anything at all
links as always are in the description down below then and what was really not a surprising outcome we saw El Chapo was
Convicted on 10 charges today and those reportedly included engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise
conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds international distribution of cocaine
heroin
Marijuana and other drugs and the use of firearms so right now reportedly
he's looking at potentially a life in a high-security prison
The reason I say people we're not surprised is I mean the prosecution just laid into El Chapo for 11 weeks straight
when it
Was the defense's turn they called one witness and rested after 30 minutes of course the reason the high-security part of this story is incredibly
Meaningful is that El Chapo has escaped prison in the past multiple times in crazy
Fashions there is that that happened just as we
Were finishing up and then because we're gonna be gone on Friday I want to make sure that we talked about this potential government shutdown
Again as you likely remember after last month's historic 35 day government shutdown Donald Trump signed a bill that reopen the government for just three
Weeks and those three weeks come to an
End this Friday but reportedly Congress might actually have a plan to keep the government open with Republican Senator Richard Shelby telling reporters that House
And Senate negotiators reached an agreement in principle
we reached an agreement in principle
Between us on all on the Homeland Security and the other six bills
we our staffs are gonna be working feverishly to put all the particulars together
and this agreement allows for one point 375 billion dollars of new fencing and barriers along 55 miles of the US Mexican border
Specifically along the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and some things you may have noticed if you've been paying attention to this situation
This number is far less than
Trump's initial request a five point seven billion dollars to build a wall on a stretch of over 200 miles and what's interesting is it's
actually even less than the amount Democrats originally agreed to back in 2018
Which is 1.6 billion 465 miles of border barrier the same amount the Department of Homeland Security asked for in their 2019 budget
Also as far as the structure it only allows for
fencing structures not an actual wall but the fencing will resemble the quote steel slats Trump has mentioned in the past and reportedly in
exchange Democrats drop their stand to limit the number of people who can be detained for
Immigration violations within the United States instead agreeing to a cap on the amount of beds ICE can have in detention centers making it somewhat
of a theoretical cap on the amount of people ice can detain although of note here ice and Republicans say that ICE has enough funding
and facilities to keep detention levels where they are at and with this situation we saw the likes of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy
Speaking to the compromises that parties had to make here telling reporters
There's not a single one of us who's going to get every single thing we want but nobody does but we are going to get
what is best for the United States so who made the plan and what is this all about well the agreement comes from members of
the House and Senate
Appropriations Committee members reportedly reached the deal last night and will continue to work on even more detail as far as the reaction to all
of this we saw a Trump at a rally at El Paso last night say As I was walking up to the stage
they said that
Progress is being. Made with this committee
Just so you know but building the wall anyway but while Trump hadn't really seen the specifics of the deal yet we saw many
conservatives critical of the deal we had the likes of Representative Mark Meadows a leader of the house freedom caucus telling The Washington Post this does not
Represent a fraction of what the president has promised to the American people
I don't speak for the president but I can't imagine he will be applauding something so lacking in while he had the likes of Sean
Hannity simply calling the deal a garbage
compromise but still the big wait was to see what Donald Trump would say would he support it or would he threaten a veto and today
During a cabinet meeting this is what we got am I happy at first glance? I just got to say it the answer is no
I'm not I'm not happy
But am I happy with where we're going? I'm thrilled
Because we're supplementing things and moving things around and we're doing things that are fantastic and taking from far less
really from far less important areas and
The bottom line is we're building a lot of wall right now we're building a lot of wall and that last part where he's talking
About moving funds from last important areas that appears to be connected to something acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney mentioned on Sunday
Where he said the administration would secure the border either by reprogramming
Leftover government funds or by declaring a national emergency but he still didn't outright say that he would vote for or
Against it also on that note of national emergency we have seen
push back from Republican senators I'm having an issue because of the
Constitutionality of it as well as just people concerned of the precedent it sets. And this is something we've seen
People like Republican Mitch McConnell even in the past warning Democrats before they made a big move the party in power now is not always
the party in power
then and setting precedent is very powerful but with that said ultimately that is where we are with the situation right now is going to
Be very interesting to see how the situation evolves are we looking at another shutdown
Or will this get pushed through and the story will be we did get funds from somewhere else but
Well we have to wait and see I'd of course love to pass the question off to you
What are your thoughts on the situation? What what do you want to happen?
What do you think will happen and that's actually where we're going to end today's show
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