- [Philip] Do we think about how obesity works
in the wrong ways?
This Netflix password sharing crackdown
is blowing up in Netflix's face.
Massive new evidence just dropped
in the Murdaugh murder case.
We got a lot to break down on today's brand new
"Philip DeFranco Show", so buckle up,
hit that like button, and let's just jump into it.
Starting with news, debate, and questions around obesity,
which, hey, it's a very sensitive topic.
It's very emotionally charged,
especially here in the United States
where even the CDC is saying that
41.9% of the population is obese
and 9.2% have severe obesity.
In fact, it's so prevalent,
the estimated cost of obesity in the United States
was nearly $173 billion in 2019.
And right now we're seeing a lot of people ask the question,
do doctors understand obesity?
And this is in part due to recent comments from Joe Rogan,
but looking further back, it actually stems
from a "60 Minutes" segment from January,
because there you had Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford,
an assistant professor at Harvard talking about obesity,
and saying that it's very misunderstood,
including by people in the medical field,
explaining that it's a brain disease
that basically tells you how much to eat
and how much to store.
- For many of us, we can go on a diet.
Something like "The Biggest Loser", right?
You go and you're strict people.
For most people, they will acutely lose weight,
but 96% of those participants in "The Biggest Loser"
regained their weight because their brain worked well.
It was supposed to bring them back
to store what they needed or what the brain thinks it needs.
- We're saying that when it comes to weight loss
for patients struggling with medical obesity,
will power and determination aren't the solutions
the way many people think they are.
And adding that you need to understand
the factors and causes of obesity, including genetics.
- But the number one cause of obesity is genetics.
That means if you are born to parents that have obesity
you have a 50 to 85% likelihood
of having the disease yourself,
even with optimal diet, exercise,
sleep management, stress management.
- And her claims, they were backed up
by other doctors on the segment as well.
- Don't you think
if people walking down the street with obesity,
stigmatized as they are, shunned,
don't you think if they could lose weight
and keep it off they would?
- So the piece, it provides an interesting,
different look at obesity and the reality of
losing weight for many patients.
And notably, the doctor featured,
Dr. Stanford, is actually part of
the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee under the
Departments of Health, and Human Services, and Agriculture.
So when that news came to light last month
we saw primarily right-leaning outlets
having kind of an outrage field day.
With Fox News, for example running with a headline,
"Biden admin expert claims obesity cannot be treated
with exercise and good diet".
And the New York Post saying,
"physician who claimed obesity can't be treated
with diet and exercise joins Biden administration".
There are a number of people saying, hey,
you're taking her point about obesity, and weight loss,
and genetics out of context.
And all that brings us to this week
where Joe Rogan discussed Dr. Stanford on his podcast
and condemned her claims that genetics can
prevent obese people from losing weight.
- The data shows that most people who are obese
have obese parents and they come from an obese family,
but they're all doing the wrong thing.
There's not like a person in that family
that's eating grass-fed steak and running marathons
and lifting weights and getting up at six in the morning
and getting a cold plunge doing all these different things,
but is still fat as (beep).
- Right, that's obviously contradicting
some of what Dr. Stanford said,
though he did say he thinks there is merit to the idea
that obesity is not fully a person's fault,
or that they're simply modeling behavior
that they saw growing up,
that they're a product of their environment.
- But to say that all obesity is just genetic is bonkers.
That's a bonkers thing to say.
And it discredits all these people that we know
that were obese, that without surgery
lost all that weight and looked great.
- But to be fair to Dr. Stanford, that's not what she said.
She didn't say all obesity is just genetics.
She said it is the number one cause, it's the leading cause,
those are drastically different things.
You could have a leading cause of something
that's, I don't know, as low as like 30%
or I'm just pulling that number out of my ass.
It could be as low as whatever, as long as there's
not a higher percentage of something else.
But the way the doctor's talking about,
it sounds like the search for a solution,
but the clip from Joe it mis-characterizes that
to make it sound like she believes
that it's the all encompassing thing
and is just trying to give people excuses.
Which, I mean I understand why
you would get angry hearing that,
but that's also not what she actually said.
Though with this specific topic,
I do want to highlight,
especially for the people that agree with me,
I am not a fucking doctor.
Even as someone who has lost a lot of weight
in a very healthy way, I don't know much.
I do find the idea of thinking this is a brain disease
as very interesting,
and not because it provides excuses for people,
but because I relate to it.
If you've been watching me for the past year,
I've been dropping this belief that I have,
that I don't think that adults can change without trauma.
Again, this is just my experience
and not the expertise of a doctor, but for me,
it felt like the trauma was necessary to rewire part of me.
So I'd, change my regular actions.
I had health troubles, and months of discomfort and pain,
and I think it shocked my brain into like, oh,
this is just a taste of the horrible quality of life
you're gonna go through if we stay on the track of
jam as much fast food into your face as possible,
while also sitting down for 10 plus hours a day,
You know, I was very much a product of my environment.
My parents just threw food at me, you know,
an Italian family, mangia, mangia,
if you don't eat, someone's offended.
Although back to the doctor,
I do think ever pointing towards like "The Biggest Loser"
is not something that makes sense.
That's an extreme show, with extreme people,
doing extreme things.
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And then, "love is sharing a password".
That's what Netflix once told us, that's what they said.
And then those Blockbuster murdering motherfuckers
in the darkness of night switched it up on us.
We started seeing headlines and discussion
about password sharing crackdowns on the platform
but also a part of what's out there is not true.
So I'm gonna try and break it down
and make it make sense for you.
All right, so it all starts with
a report from The Streamable,
which cited changes on Netflix's Help Center page,
with the report claiming
that Netflix accounts would still be shareable
but only within one household.
And adding to ensure that your devices are associated
with your primary location,
Netflix is now asking users to connect to
the Wifi at your primary location,
open the Netflix app or website
and watch something at least once every 31 days.
With that page, also saying, no,
you cannot share your password
with someone outside of your household.
But Netflix will not start
automatically charging account holders
who are sharing that information.
And we've known something like this is coming.
We've seen them testing different options
in a few countries.
The company itself even suggesting that
we could see some of those changes
in the first quarter of the year.
So people saw that report and they were like
the day has come, the party is officially over.
But, at least according to a report from The Verge,
things are still very up in the air,
with Netflix telling the outlet that it has not confirmed
what kind of setup U.S. subscribers will have.
And a spokesperson saying, as you may remember,
we rolled out extra member in
Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru back in March.
But the U.S. and other countries don't have it.
The only thing that we've confirmed so far in our earnings
on January 19th, that later in Q1,
we expect to start rolling out page sharing more broadly.
With The Verge also noting that right now,
the way a household is defined
in the extra member test countries is different
than in the U.S.
And looking further into it, you know,
some of the rules about out of household access,
it clashes with other options in other countries
where you're required to add extra members
to your subscription.
And it's also worth noting that Netflix's Help Center page
has already changed again,
with no mention of the 31 day policy.
Instead just saying that outside devices must be verified.
Explaining when a device outside of your household
signs into an account or is used persistently,
we may ask you to verify that device
before it can be used to watch Netflix
or switch your Netflix household.
And as for how you would verify device,
a code would be sent to your email or phone number
of the primary account holder,
and you'd be given about 15 minutes
to enter the code into the device.
But also saying if the device is logged into
the same internet connection as the primary account
no verification would be necessary.
So it's a very different setup than was previously reported.
And honestly, the whole thing's
just a fucking confusing mess,
especially since we got an update today
with Netflix telling IndieWire that its website
and those updates were posted in error,
providing the excuse, "for a brief time yesterday,
a help center article containing information
that is only applicable in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru
went live in other countries. We have since updated it".
Though it didn't specify which version of those updates
it was talking about.
And while you have IndieWire saying that it still
feels reasonable to consider those updates a template,
we still likely won't actually know anything
until the end of the quarter in March.
And in the meantime, we're seeing people freaking out,
planning to jump ship,
people openly talking about pirating Netflix shows.
And while personally, I won't speak to the the piracy party,
even though it's incredibly easy for people to do,
depending on what this looks like when they roll it out,
I might actually cancel my subscription
just out of principle.
I don't care how many more seasons of "Wednesday" we get.
As much as it breaks my heart.
Sorry Jenna Ortega, this has nothing to do with you
but your bosses at Netflix have gone too damn far this time.
There was a time where I could never
imagine a world without Netflix.
Over the last few years it feels like
they've gone from the king of streaming
to honestly replaceable.
There are so many better and stronger exclusives
elsewhere these days.
And it's weird, they're like,
they're a giant fucking faceless company
but they've been in my life for so long,
I feel like I'm having a dispute with a friend.
I'm like, Netflix, I've been rooting for you, baby.
People used to make fun of you and I had your back.
But all of this,
not the the end of the bad news for Netflix.
Because we're seeing reports now
that contestants participating in
the new "Squid Game" reality show
told Rolling Stone that the show is "cruel" and "rigged".
And you may have actually been seeing headlines popping up
about the controversies over the last week.
The Sun tabloid reporting that
the set was so cold people needed medical attention
and someone was carried out in a stretcher.
Netflix, they're defending themselves, saying,
"while it was very cold on set-
and participants were prepared for that-
any claims of serious injury are untrue".
But now we got even more horror stories today
from that Rolling Stone report,
with one contestant telling the outlet,
"it was the cruelest, meanest thing I've ever been through".
"We were a human horse race
and they were treating us like horses out in the cold
racing and the race was fixed".
And another claiming,
"all the torment and trauma we experienced
wasn't due to the game or the rigor of the game,
it was the incompetencies of scale-
they bit off more than they could chew".
Because this is a massive production
with 456 contestants competing for $4.56 million.
It's the largest cast and cash prize in TV history.
And in fact, some involved say
influencers and TikTokers were among the contestants.
And you have people claiming that those people
were pre-selected to advance to the next round
no matter what.
And sources also saying that
people who apparently crossed the finish line to
the next round were eliminated anyways.
But hey, time will tell,
and consider this a developing situation,
because depending on how all of this was set up,
the allegations of this being rigged
could have massive implications.
Like depending on the contestant agreements,
where the prize money is coming from, how that works.
This, I mean, it could end up being a bump in the road,
or it could be a catastrophic nightmare for the company.
And then this bombshell evidence
is not looking good for Alex Murdaugh.
If you didn't see my first segment
on the Murdaugh trial last week,
I suggest you go back and watch it all.
I linked to it down below.
But the oversimplified five second version
is that he's a big shot lawyer
with nearly 100 alleged financial crimes
hanging over his head,
who either came home in June of 2021
to find his wife and son dead,
or he brutally murdered them himself.
And this trial is meant to determine which story is true.
Now, we know that both victims were found dead
at the dog kennels on their property.
The wife, Maggie, killed by a rifle,
the son Paul, by a shotgun.
When Alex spoke to the police that night,
and three days later,
he told him he was never at the kennels that night.
Saying that his family went down there without him.
Instead saying that he took a short nap after dinner,
several hundred yards away, woke up alone,
then tried unsuccessfully to call his wife
before driving to visit his mother.
Yesterday we got evidence from the prosecution
that punches a massive, massive hole in that story.
A Snapchat video taken by Paul at 8:44 PM,
which if you believe the prosecution's timeline
would've just been five minutes before the murders,
it's at the kennels.
And you can hear what sounds like
Alex's voice in the background
indicating that he was in fact there.
- [Paul] Come here.
There's my chicken.
- [Alex] Come here, boy, come here, boy.
- [Paul] Catch.
- And then minutes later at 8:49,
data shows Paul read a friend's text
for the final time that night,
and then never read one that was sent just 36 seconds after.
And Maggie last read a text
less than half a minute after that,
though her camera activated for a second
five minutes later,
which notably can happen when an iPhone
tries to detect a face.
Meanwhile, Alex's phone was inactive
between 8:10 and 9:02,
so either he didn't have it on him
or he actually was taking a nap.
And then computer data shows his SUV started up at 9:06
and at almost exactly the same time
he made three calls to Maggie's phone,
then two more at 9:45 and 10:03,
all of which went unanswered.
But mysteriously, all five of those were missing
from Alex's call logs, though they were present on Maggie's,
which makes him look suspicious.
But the defense used that same data
to tell a different story,
pointing out that Maggie's phone,
which was later found on the side of the road
a half mile away from the property,
recorded a final orientation change
at almost the same time as Alex first few phone calls,
suggesting that maybe the real killer
saw Alex trying to call her and
tossed the phone out the window of the getaway vehicle.
The defense also arguing,
there wasn't any blood found on Alex's clothes
when police arrived,
even though the shotgun blast had struck Paul's head
from mere feet away, would've gotten blood everywhere.
But the prosecution fires right back
with another video earlier in the night
showing Alex wearing different clothes than
what he had on when the police found him,
as well as alleged evidence that
a raincoat Alex supposedly stored in his parents' house
days later had gunshot residue on the inside.
But the defense uses that video where he is
wearing different clothes to bolster their own case,
arguing that you see Alex laughing, having fun with Paul,
just further evidence they had a loving relationship.
Also, pointing out, that
two different guns were used to kill Maggie and Paul,
and arguing that it just wouldn't make sense for
Alex to switch weapons between murders,
with a theory that there were two shooters
even getting proposed.
But there is one piece of evidence
that's not so circumstantial, Alex's confession.
Or rather his alleged confession because
both sides of the court dispute exactly
what he says in this video.
It's from an interview with police,
where Alex is shown photos of his mutilated son.
And he either says, I did him so bad
or they did him so bad.
- [Alex] It was just so bad, they did him so bad.
It was just so bad, they did him so bad.
(distorted voice speaking)
- But ultimately, that's where we are right now.
And I really want to know your thoughts here.
One, what do you think you hear on that tape?
But also two, what are your thoughts on
the whole situation in general,
especially if you've been keeping up with this story?
And that's where today's show ends.
For more news, you gotta see, I got you covered here.
But my name is Philip DeFranco, you've just been filled in.
I love yo faces and I'll see you on Sunday.