You beautiful bastards up even a fantastic Wednesday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it
The first thing we're going to talk about today one of the most requested
Stories over the past day is the situation around Demi Lovato
I mentioned this on Twitter before yesterday's show went out but I still saw a good number of comments in the youtube comment section yesterday
Saying Phil, why didn't you talk about Demi Lovato today? And my response to that is it was breaking news
There are still a lot of unknowns about the situation
It was near the end of the Philip DeFranco Show and it just felt wrong to me to just try and throw that story in
Right, and how often is it that when a story is first reported
It turns out oh things may have actually been different
But if you didn't see the story
TMZ ended up breaking the news. TMZ saying a law enforcement source told them that Lovato suffered from what appeared to be a heroin
overdose but on that note according to reports that said they had sources close to Demi Lovato, it was not heroin. Additionally,
It was reported that Lovato had been found unconscious at her home and there law enforcement
Sources say she was treated with narcan and narcan
if you don't know as an emergency medication meant to reverse an opioid overdose and long story short Demi Lovato ends up getting taken to
The hospital and now we know that she is okay
She is a lot and a rep for Demi Lovato issued the statement
Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love prayers and support some of the information being reported
Is incorrect and they respectfully ask for privacy
now, of course Even with that said other outlets are still reporting what led up to this moment
But ultimately here is what I would like to do around this story whether it be heroin liquor
Oxycontin no matter these specifics of the drug. What we're talking about is a drug abuse situation
I think we as individuals when we reflect on our own lives or we look out into our inner circle
You know family friends co-workers whoever and as a society and try to remove the stigma around
Someone that is suffering from a substance abuse problem
That we don't view those people or if it's you in your own personal situation as as lesser as as bad
Disappointed in myself for how I covered situations like Amy Winehouse how cold and disconnected I was from another human being
Suffering because I said how why would you do this? You have everything you could want in the world?
You have the fame you have a skill
You have a skill that people love and they throw affection your way and money your way. They made it
We just don't coddle these individuals and we don't act like they are 100% a victim of a situation
They cannot control. Right? Like if you were friends with Demi Lovato in this situation and you're like, you know, what Demi is Demi?
We try to find this middle ground where we have
Understanding we make ourselves
available
As someone who here and there over the years have gone to AA meetings with family and friends for people kind of taking that
I will let you know it is so incredibly helpful but at the same time
If it's going to stick for the long term, and that's and that's one of the biggest things
This is this is a lifelong thing right like having these things whether it be in an AA, a
SMART, a LifeRing, Women for Sobriety. It's about not feeling alone, having community,
getting tools. Tools from people who have gone through the same struggle are still going through the same struggle
So that's why with this story if I was covering it like any other story
I'd talk about the outpourings of support from other celebrities, etc. Etc
But, instead how I would like to end this story is to say if you feel like you are personally
please know that you are not lesser that you are not alone and
Use any and all of the resources that I'm going to include down below. And or if you have someone in or around your life
let them know that they're not alone that they have these resources that you'll take them to a first meeting if they want or even
Just start talking
let them know that this shouldn't be a hit to their pride and don't be discouraged if the initial reaction from that person is
Incredibly negative or they say something horrible. We need to tear the stigma down
You know how not alone you are drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death in Americans under 50
And those numbers aren't going to get better unless we do something different at the end of the day the way that I view
99% of people
We're all a bunch of fucking
broken half people that are always trying on social media act like we're a lot a lot more whole than we are and unfortunately a
lot of the actions we take in our lives just further separate us from other people even though our
Brokenness, our feeling of being disconnected. Those are arguably some of the most powerful things that make us more connected and more relatable
I've been lucky enough to garner over these years just for this moment getting that out there into the world if it helps one person
If it helps you if it helps someone else in your life
That's a fucking win as far as I'm concerned actually on the note of getting a win where we can any and all money that
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We will be donating to the Center on Addiction. An organization whose purpose is to find promote and enact the necessary solutions to end America's
deadly addiction crisis.
Love to hear any and all thoughts
And if you're comfortable personal experiences with situations like this
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We got the honest game trailer from MegamanX. We have Lenny
Kravitz showing us his favorite possessions. Will Arnett trying to teach you Canadian slang
I just share the secret link of the day anything at all. Links as always are in the description down below
Then in industry news, we're seeing reports that Viacom is digging even further into online content. As you might remember, this past February Viacom
Which of course is notoriously one of the companies that essentially tried to kill YouTube back in the day
They purchased VidCon last February and there are now reports that they are trying to buy AwesomenessTV
And If you're not aware, AwesomenessTV is an online digital network that on their site they say they represent Eliza Koshi, like Mikey Murphy, Claudia
Sulewski. Now a thing to note is unlike VidCon
AwesomenessTV was already very very corporate. If you don't know the history here, and I wouldn't fault you for it
I care about this stuff more than most people. Awesomeness
was first acquired in 2013 by DreamWorks for at least 33 million dollars and then in 2014 Hertz Communications jumped in at a valuation of
650 million dollars and that 650 million figure is important
especially coming off the news that we talked about yesterday we have with how much
Verizon has lost. Because according to reports this deal could happen in the next six weeks and we're looking at a number that is below
300 million dollars now all of that said as far as the actual valuation, I don't know. I haven't seen the books for AwesomenessTV
I think it really does make sense. An important thing to note and others have is that Viacom owns both MTV and
Nickelodeon right now arguably the largest star for AwesomenessTV Liza Koshy has a show on Nickelodeon why well one she's generally
She probably just destroys it, kills it in their demo with AwesomenessTVs talent being so young having such a young audience
especially if the intent is not to just keep things digital but to go
Cross-platform as far as is that the game plan or hell will this deal actually happen?
We'll have to wait and see but that said I feel like this is just another example of something that I've been shouting for the
last eight years while a lot of my friends have said TV is dead
But for the most part you will always see an industry evolve to adapt to absorb
But then the winners and losers from that point on it really depends on what you do. Then we had Brock Turner in the news
Although I prefer to identify him as the registered sex
offender Brock Turner, but main point the reason sex offender brock Turner is back in the news is because his lawyer is trying to get
overturned and the big standout moment from all this is that Brock Turner's lawyer argued that the conviction should be overturned because there was a
Of evidence and that actually what happened was that Brock Turner was seeking outercourse and not intercourse with this
Intoxicated victim as far as what is outercourse
According to the report the attorney described it as a version of safe sex that does not involve vaginal sex
he also described it as sexual contact while fully clothed arguing that because
Turner was caught with his clothes on even though while he was on top of the victim
It shows he did not intend to rape her and I'm confused out of the lawyer things that there was a lack of evidence
We're not in a situation where there were two eyewitnesses
There's two exchange students who came across him said they found him aggressively thrusting on top of this girl
And as far as the Assistant Attorney General's response to the lawyers new version of events
She said he presented a "far-fetched version of events"
Noting that "[Bystanders] could tell from 30 feet away that the victim was unconscious]." And as far as my personal takeaway from all this
But, I can't fully hate on him. He is a lawyer and he's trying to do anything he can to get his client off
I'll take this moment to remind you that
registered sex offender Brock Turner who was found guilty of assault with intent to commit rape found guilty of
Sexual penetration of an intoxicated person with a foreign object and found guilty sexual penetration of an unconscious person with a foreign object, his father
"20 minutes of action" specifically arguing that a son shouldn't get jail time because "That is a steep price to pay for
20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life" and to Dan
Fuck you, right in your stupid fucking face. 20 minutes of action is what you would refer to making the mistake
that is Brock Turner not what took place on that night
Offender Brock Turner in case you forgot you put it in the back your mind so you didn't have to think of what a scumbag
your son is. I'll read you and everyone here just the smallest piece
Smallest piece of another letter that was submitted to the court a letter from your son's victim that read: "In public news
My breasts had been groped fingers had been jabbed inside me along with pine needles and debris my bare skin and head
Been rubbing against the ground behind a dumpster while an erect freshman was humping my half naked unconscious body."
"I thought there's no way this is going to trial there were witnesses
There was dirt in my body he ran but was caught." And that's where I'm gonna end this story with her words.
And that's where we're ending Today's show. And of course remember, this is a PDS. It is not just a show
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