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And the first thing we're gonna talk about today
is uh, weird anti-vaxers.
And I mean, weirder than normal.
Okay so, in California last Monday
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a couple of bills.
Bills aimed at making it harder for parents to get
medical exemptions for their children's vaccinations.
Something that we've talked about being exploited.
And those bills came after growing concerns
about the number of unvaccinated children
in the united states.
And as you probably seen in the news,
we've seen bouts of measle outbreaks
where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reporting over 1200 cases this year,
which is a massive spike in cases from previous years.
In California, the immunization rate for kindergartners
has fallen below 95% with 16% of California counties
reporting their immunizations rates were actually under 90%.
And all of this is important because
95% is the standard threshold
for herd immunity to be effective.
And all of that coming in spite of messages
from doctors that vaccines are safe and effective
for the overwhelming majority of people.
And so one of the big concerns here was,
are doctors in California handing out
too many medical exemptions?
Which, one of those bills signed by Newsom addresses.
And so with that new law,
the California Department of Public Heath
will investigate any doctor who grants more than 5
medical exemptions in a year.
It will also allow the state to revoke
any medical exemptions it deems inappropriate.
But notably here, before signing that bill,
Newsom actually demanded a companion bill be introduced.
Which will work a little something like this:
So right now children must submit vaccinations
at certain checkpoints in their education.
Those being kindergarten, 7th grade,
or if they change schools.
However, this new law will allow any child who received
a medical exemption before 2020 to keep that exemption
until the next checkpoint.
Right, so basically, if you have a first grader right now
that can keep their exemption until
they start the 7th grade.
Or if you have a child who's in the 7th grade this year,
they can go through the end of high school
without vaccinations.
Also, a few other aspects of the legislation:
It limits temporary exemptions to one year,
it allows the Department of Health to review
medical exemptions at schools
where the vaccination rate is under 95%.
And at schools that do not report their vaccination rates.
All right, so big change and seemingly a way to target.
Right, but one of the big reasons
we're talking about this today
is because of the reaction we've seen.
While those bills were being debated in the legislature,
you have a number of people outside the capitol
in Sacramento protesting the bills.
But one of the main arguments being that
the bills could damage doctor-patient relationships
and make doctors too hesitant to give out exemptions.
And on that note, there was an example of a doctor
echoing those concerns with one pediatrician
who reportedly specializes in holistic medicine saying,
"I do not believe I will be writing any more exemptions,
"even when I feel like they would be appropriate."
"I do not believe anyone else will either.
"I have had to put a complete moratorium
"on medical exemptions due to the nature
"of this legislation."
However, it is incredibly important to note here,
especially after giving that quote,
that this bill was co-sponsored
by The American Academy of Pediatrics
and the California Medical Association.
I mean this is the situation that's created
when you see the vaccination rates that we have
and you see the stories about these private Facebook groups
where people were like,
hey if you want that medical exemption, wink wink,
here's this doctor, you'll be set.
Right but main point here, people protesting.
A huge number of those people protesting
were with anti-vax groups.
Before the bills were passed
reportedly you had a number of protestors blocking entrances
which temporarily shutdown the chamber floor.
You also had a number of people being arrested.
Even after the bills were passed, you had protestors
again shutting down the floor while reportedly chanting
things like protect our children and from there
things just took a swan dive into weird.
For example, Friday you had a woman hurling
what appeared to be blood onto senators from her seat
in the chamber's visitor gallery, reportedly yelling
that's for the babies.
Investigators later determined that she threw
a menstrual cup but we do not know if the red liquid
was real blood which even just the fact
that that is a sentence is horrifying.
The main point, that woman now faces assault charges.
But also, even before Friday, I wanna backtrack
to an event on Wednesday night.
There was a vigil held by an ant-vaxer
and I'm talking about that vigil because they used a series
of photos depicting children that they claimed
had either been killed or harmed by vaccines.
And there was a notable name included.
Ethan Lindenberger, who you might remember
who we actually covered back in March.
Back then we told you about how when Lindenberger turned 18,
he turned to Reddit and asked for help
on how to get vaccinated.
His parents were anti-vax but he ended up
getting himself vaccinated.
When Lindenberger then went on to speak in front
of the US Senate, talking about his personal experience
and the misinformation about vaccines
on social media, like Facebook.
But yeah, then on Friday, Lindenberger noticed
that his picture had actually been used in this vigil.
Writing in a Twitter post,
"It would seem that an anti-vax rally on 9/11
"had a candlelight vigil for dead children
"and my picture was included."
Then, because we're talking about the internet
and the anti-vax movement, here a bunch of backlash
directed at Lindenberger.
I mean people accusing him of photoshopping the image
and selling out to big pharma, notably though
in that example, it appears that they've just
literally cropped the photo.
And so because of all this, we actually reached out
to Lindenberger who turns out was at
The Global Vaccination Summit in Belguim
when he first heard about this.
And regarding his photo being included here,
he told us,
- I was just really confused cause I'm looking
through this photo that this anti-vaxer's sharing
and they're totally like, look at all these dead people.
And I'm there (laughs).
And so part of me was like this is wild.
So I went through their history to see if they are a troll.
Nope, totally legitimate person.
And then I shared it to some of my Facebook groups
asking where this was.
They were like, this was an actual event,
like this is not, this is actually a thing.
And so my whole mindset was like, this is just so wild
and proves how half these kids might not actually be dead.
And then it was so frustrating but also so,
this was like a comedy show.
Like this is not real life, this can't be real life.
- Which actually on the note of the other children,
just a couple of rows above Lindenburger was a stock photo
of a baby getting a vaccination.
But the thing that I'll end on here is something
that Lindenberger said.
He stressed that he believes most anti-vaxers mean well
but are the unfortunate targets of misinformation campaigns.
- These people aren't bad people, they're just misinformed.
And even though this vigil was hosted by some people
that obviously had no idea what they're doing,
and just trying to convince people
that all these children are dying,
a lot of people are just asking questions.
And that's why it's important to engage with them
and just be kind and try and answer questions
even if it's frustrating.
- Now I will say I personally think that is him
taking the high road, being as positive as one can be.
To repeat something that I saw someone Tweet
regarding this incident is, I don't know
if these people are recruit able to reality.
And obviously I think intent behind actions, it does matter.
But when you're talking about a situation
where the net result is more damage, a further spread.
And it's something that's not limited
to the people or the children of those people.
A final result and a greater threat,
greatly overshadow any positive intent.
But yeah, for now, that is where the story ends
and of course I pass the question off to you.
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And then we had two pieces of online entertainment
business news, the first being an update
on the very anticipated KSI versus Logan Paul rematch.
Of course the last time these two
mega-popular creators fought,
it was just massively successful.
There was a ton of attention, a ton of Pay-Per-View buys,
there's also been a good amount of excitement
for this rematch because this time
they're not wearing head guards,
they're wearing smaller gloves,
I'd say lot of people craving and excited for that knockout
and or both guys hurting each other because
there's also people that kind of just don't like
both of them and the update for this story
is that over the weekend they had a press conference
and I have to say, and I say this as an,
and I feel like if you watch me
for the last kind of year or two, you'll know
that I don't shit talk for the sake of shit talking.
I don't know if I've experienced this before
but after watching that press conference,
I'm actually less excited about the fight.
It was weird and awkward and clunky
and to kind of like over-simplify it,
Shannon Briggs, who I guess is coaching Logan Paul,
saying, "Let's go, Champ!" enough times to make you
wanna slam you head against the wall until the noises stop.
And Logan Paul mentioning KSI's family drama
you have KSI mentioning Logan Paul's dog
being eaten by a coyote?
And to fully summarize the event,
to use Logan Paul's own words during that event,
- [Logan] This was weak!
- Yeah. Yeah.
Basically, you had that and then you added the fact
that the rest of the fight, right, the undercard,
is nothing but professional fighters.
And so to me, at least, it feels like as time goes on,
it's becoming more and more apparent that this is gonna be
maybe one of the worst compromises as far as an event.
I think you're gonna still have boxing purists
feeling like their sport is being disrespected
and made a mockery of because you have
YouTube personalities being the main card.
When there's a legitimate title fight on the undercard.
And as far as the YouTube community is concerned,
I feel like a lot of people feel like Eddie Hearn
putting on this event, only having professionals
on the undercard, it feels like the heart
has been kinda taken out of the event.
Which I will say as someone that did very much enjoy
the entirety of the last event,
I mean a lot of it was kinda the story,
that you didn't know what to expect sort of nature of it.
And I mean that of almost all of the fights from that night.
Right, I don't just mention this because it's like,
let's talk about people's feelings.
But you know I really do wonder how is this
going to effect the Pay-Per-View buyers?
This obviously anger and frustration we're seeing more of
as time goes on, will this lead to an increase
in the number of stolen streams?
Because in the pro-boxing side, you might have people
that don't want to support something
they think is making their sport a mockery.
And on the YouTube side, you might have
a number of people going,
"Do I really want to buy a whole event
"if I just want to see one fight?"
And so it's gonna be kinda interesting to see what happens
from this grand experiment, this merging of genres.
And really love to know your thoughts
and predictions regarding this event.
And the other bit of online entertainment news
is actually an update to a story we previously covered.
And it is a massive change that's going to effect
the likes of BTS, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift,
and that is that YouTube has now said
that it will no longer count views from paid advertising
in its calculations for YouTube music charts
in 24 hour debut records.
And as you might remember, this move comes
after YouTube did not congratulate Indian rapper Badshah
for seemingly breaking the single day viewing record.
And the Indian rapper did admit to paying
for promotional ads but several media reports
also found that the practice was actually common.
Although according to a Bloomberg report,
we have not previously seen such a heavy campaign.
YouTube in a blog post saying they're doing this
to provide more transparency.
Now according to YouTube, these changes will not
effect the existing 24 hour record holders.
So what that means, one, is if we're kinda seeing
buying paid as cheating, if you cheated before this,
then you got in, everyone else though, was kinda screwed.
And also two, that means that the number one spot
remains in the hands of BTS.
The group with the best fandom in the world.
And I'm not just saying that and pandering
because they say really nice things
about me on Twitter afterwards.
The title does remain with the K-pop group
because according to a YouTube spokesperson
regarding Badshah, "Based on our long-time criteria,
"Badshah did not qualify for our 24 hour
"debut records list."
And so you know, in general this can be seen
as a meaningful or a less than meaningful change.
And I say less than meaningful because I mean,
honestly, even if you were in the top 100, that you're huge.
You probably don't care but also,
you know, anytime you become number one on any sort
of popularity list, that results in free advertising
because all these people talk about,
hey guess who's number one now?
Yeah, army, you can rejoice.
Everyone else, let's just move along.
And then let's talk about massive news
regarding Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Now the last time we talked about Iran was back in June
where their government announced that they had significantly
ramped up their enrichment of uranium.
Which, notably here would soon pass the amount
they could stockpile under the 2015 nuclear deal.
That nuclear deal which put limits on Iran's
nuclear program was originally signed by the United States
and five other countries but as you might remember,
President Trump pulled the United States
out of that agreement last year because
he believed it was a bad deal.
And so instead we saw Trump slapping
devastating sanctions on Iran.
Now after a year of sanctions, it really tore into
Iran's economy with their government
announcing that they would start pulling back
on other parts of the deal unless European countries
did more to counter the sanctions.
But those nations have been relatively deadlocked on Iran.
And so we've seen since is kind of what we expected.
Iran slowly lifting more limits on nuclear development,
functionally dismantling the deal piece by piece.
All the while tensions between the United States and Iran
have continued to escalate notably.
Back in June we saw things like Iran shooting
down a US surveillance drone
They say it's flown into their air space.
The United States later confirming that that drone
had been shot down but arguing that
it was international air space.
A few days after that we saw President Trump
saying on Twitter that the Unites States was quote,
cocked and loaded to retaliate with air strikes
against Iran, but then he decided to stop the attacks
10 minutes before the strike was set to launch
because the casualties, he said, would not be proportionate
to shooting down an unmanned drone.
Right so in part you kinda go,
that's like an almost story, right?
Nothing actually happened, but of course notably
you're talking about lives and you're talking about
a huge deal in general because launching a first strike
at Iran could be considered an act of war
under international norms.
But you know it didn't happen and while a lot has happened
over the last few months, many experts have said
that the war like rhetoric between the United States
and Iran has settled down, but because we're talking
about it today, you know it has not remained that way.
On Saturday, reportedly a group of drones set off a
massive attack on oil plants in Saudi Arabia.
In what some have argued as one of the
most significant military operations
against Saudi Arabia's critical infrastructure ever.
According to reports, the attack wiped out
nearly half of Saudi Arabia's oil production.
Which is huge because Saudi Arabia
produces about 10% of the world's oil.
So that means as reported, the attack single-handedly
knocked out 5% of global oil supplies.
Shortly after this, Houthi rebels in Yemen
issued a statement claiming that thy were behind
the attacks which the war in Yemen is a whole other story.
Although I do recommend you go back and check out
our deep dive on it, I'll link to it down below.
But, for some quick key context here,
since 2015, Yemen has been engaged in an incredibly violent
civil war between Houthi rebels backed by Iran
and the Yemeni government, backed by Saudi Arabia
and the United States.
As you may have seen, Saudi Arabia has received
a lot of international backlash for launching airstrikes
in Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians,
also prompting many to question the US's relationship
with Saudi Arabia.
And no now Houthi leaders are describing
the Saudi Strike on Saudi oil plants as their right
to retaliate the air strikes that have targeted
their civilians but despite the fact that the Houthi's
claimed responsibility for the attacks,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to Twitter
on Saturday to blame Iran.
"So Iran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia
"while Rouhani and Zariff, the President
"and Foreign Secretary of Iran,
"pretend to engage in diplomacy.
"Amid all the calls for deescalation, Iran has now
"launched an unprecedented attack
"on the world's energy supply.
"There is no evidence that attacks came from Yemen."
And then adding, "We call on all nations
"to publicly and unequivocally condemn Iran's attacks.
"The United States will work with our partners and allies
"to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied
"and Iran is held accountable for its aggression."
And then the next day we also saw President Trump
respond to the incident though at that time
he did not directly blame Iran like Pompeo did.
"Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked.
"There is reason to believe that we know the culprit,
"Are locked and loaded depending on verification
"but are willing to hear from the Kingdom
"as to who they believe was the cause of this attack
"and under what terms we would proceed."
But then just this morning we saw President Trump
reference the drone incident from June writing in a Tweet,
"Remember when Iran shot down a drone, saying knowingly
"that it was in the airspace when in fact
"it was nowhere close.
"They stuck strongly to that story knowing
"that it was a very big lie.
"Now the say that they had nothing to do
"with the attack on Saudi Arabia.
"We'll see."
Now with all that said, Iran have denied
any involvement in the attacks with Iran's foreign minister
seemingly responding to Pompeo's claims
in a Tweet on Sunday, writing,
"Having failed at "mass pressure" Secretary Pompeo's
"turning to max deceit.
"US and it's clients are stuck in Yemen
"because of illusion that weapon superiority
"will lead to military victory.
"Blaming Iran won't end disaster.
"Accepting our April '15 proposal to end war
"and begin talks may."
Then just this morning, it was reported
that a Saudi military spokesperson had said
that Iranian weapons had been used
in the strike zone oil facilities.
US Officials have also confirmed to the media
that they are operating on the assumption
that the strikes did not come from inside Yemen
with a number of officials and experts also claiming
that Houthis do not have the capabilities
to initial a strike of this scale on their own.
With some other officials also telling reporters
that they do not believe the strikes originated
in Iraq, debunk an earlier theory.
Whilst Iran's president responded to Saudi claims,
that Iranian weapons were used in the strike, saying,
"Yemeni people are exercising their legitimate
"right of defense."
"The attacks were a reciprocal response
"to aggression against Yemen for years."
Now notably, as of right now, recoding this video,
at least publicly, neither the Unites States
nor Saudi officials have provided evidence
that Iran did launch the strike
or that Iranian weapons were used.
But also notably, on the other side of this,
Houthi leaders have also not provided any evidence
that they carried out the attack.
And so as far as what happens now,
it's just a lot of speculation.
Reportedly, senior US officials are deliberating
on how to respond.
You also have a number of foreign leaders
warning the United States not to get drawn into a war.
Your leaders in both Britain and Germany
condemning the attacks on Monday
but not directly blaming Iran.
With a British Foreign Secretary saying in a statement,
"In terms of who is responsible,
"the picture is not entirely clear.
"I want to ae a very clear picture,
"which we will be having shortly."
Germany's Foreign Minister saying in a news conference,
that his country was working out to find out
who carried out the attacks.
China's Foreign Ministry also warning world leaders
against naming a culprit without conclusive facts.
A Russian Foreign Ministry saying that the United States
was jumping to conclusions, but no matter
the specific details that what we're seeing
from many experts here, is that the attack
appears to be successfully undermining any kinds
of hopes for diplomacy between Iran and the United States,
though to be fair there, those chances were fairly slim
before this even happened.
And actually while we were recording,
the Wall Street Journal reported that sources
familiar with the matter had told them
that US intelligence quote "indicates Iran
was the staging ground for the attack.
But notably, the Journal also reported
that Saudi officials said that the US didn't provide
enough proof to conclude that Iran
was the staging ground and didn't blame Iran.
But yeah, for now we're gonna have to wait
and see what happens next and of course,
with everything we talk about,
I'd love to know your thoughts here.
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