'Sup, you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a
fantastic Friday. Welcome back to the
Friday show. If you're new here, Monday
through Thursday I like to talk about the
world, the news, all the good stuff, and
then Friday I like to have a
conversation with you guys and reply to
your comments. That said, something I want
to hit on before we jump into it. This
week, a ton of people asked me to cover
as a story or just comment on the Laci
Green 'red pill' situation. One, for those
who don't know, Laci Green is a noted
feminist, social justice warrior. We've been
friendly and then not so friendly in the
past. In the past when I covered news about
her, she said I was trying to push some
sort of narrative. In the past she has said,
"Could @PhillyD be any more of a drama queen?
I'm sick of alt-right assholes using my
face to make money and direct harassment
at me. f**k off." Also back then, she said my
coverage of a story around her was to
promote the narrative that feminists are about censorship.
I don't think that this issue
is really about, you know, copyright
and fair use. I think that Philip
DeFranco and other people who made
videos about me, attacking me on this the
past few days are really seeing this as
an opportunity to go in on the narrative
that feminists are out to censor people.
I'm gonna leave that there because i could do a
whole video on toxic feminism versus
classical feminism. After all of that, she
really didn't post for a while until
recently she put out a video called
Taking the Red Pill. In it, she talks about
taking a look at herself opening herself
up to conversations with people she
would never spend time with in the past.
People with completely different
opinions, anti-feminists, having a dialogue,
and so people asked, "What do you think
about this?" To that I say if it's genuine,
whether it be Laci or anyone else, if
they open themselves up to a dialogue,
They open themselves up to what is hopefully
a healthy conversation, I say good. That
goes for the people on both sides of
every issue you have to just be open
there are some people that are so in
their bullshit they don't see any way
except theirs. Fantastic example of it:
Tariq Nasheed, on Twitter.
Everything's about race, everything is
racism. This week there was this
conversation that stemmed from an
interview with Bill Cosby and there were
a lot of people saying that this was racism.
Cosby is being accused by all these women because of racism.
To which others contested, the number of black
women that also accused Cosby, which
Tariq said, "For your information, just
because they sprinkled a couple of black
Bill Cosby accusers in with dozens of
white ones, doesn't negate the fact that
it racism." and I-, I couldn't help myself.
Guys, I love conversation, I'm not perfect
I, I asked him, "Is it exhausting being
that stupid or do you just get used to
it after a while?"
I'm not proud of it, then he hit me with a
"Que the white supremacist -" Did you spell cue wrong?
"Cue the white supremacist with multiple
troll accounts making the usual goofball
insults hashtag yawn. Okay, to Tariq and
anyone else that has this mindset, not
even just about this issue, if you
automatically think anyone making fun of
what they think is a stupid comment or
any criticism whatsoever, is a person
who is a white supremacist or the worst of
the worst, you need to take a moment look at
the criticism to see if there's
something valid. 'Haters gonna hate and
you can't sweat them,' yes, but also every
criticism against you is not hate. The moment
you cross that line and you think that's the
truth, then you've just put yourself in a
little bubble. But that's where I'm going
to end that one, and into the Monday show!
Monday, we talk about the Fyre Festival
Fiasco, WannaCry Ransomware, malware
tech and more. On the ransomware, Eileen
the Crow: "That's exactly why the
government shouldn't force Apple or
Google to give them backdoors to their
encryption because it's a given that it
will be abused at some point." Agreed. The
moment someone in power goes, "We want
this ability but we're only going to use
it in some cases, even though it could be
applied to you in the future.
Trust us," No, I've been hurt too many
times in this life! I know what you would
actually use it for because I would do
the same thing. I'm a bad person. But if
there is a silver lining to this
ransomware story, it's that a lot of tech
companies have started working together
to demand the government and intelligence
agencies stop doing stupid bullshit. Imago
wrote, "There's well over two to three
billion computers out in the world today,
probably more. 200,000 infected computers
is literally less than 0.1% of all
computers the ransomware scare is no
more dangerous than Ebola was at its
peak and well Ebola wasn't dangerous at
all either. Didn't even spread outside of
Africa. It's all about the perspective. Well one, I
don't know if any of your numbers are
true just because I'm too lazy to Google
them right now. Actually I lied. I just
googled it, and your numbers are sound.
But it's the problem that it represents
and also the people that were hit. The
fact that the National Health Service
was hit is horrifying. The fact this is
happening to people because the NSA was
holding on to this exploit and then it
was just stolen. That shines a spotlight
on a massive problem. It is the digital
equivalent (I'm gonna be a little hyperbolic).
The digital equivalent of someone walking
into the army base and going oh cool a
rocket launcher and then just using that
rocket launcher. The thing we're talking
about, at its core, is a weapon. A weapon
that should not have been there in the
first place, and then got into the wrong
hands. Also, I don't know why I have
adopted such an angry tone.
Zer0Hour17 wrote, "Ok this Fyre festival
thing was hilarious to me until I heard
the phone call. I still find it funny
that people paid 11 K to stay in tents,
but not paying people and also not
firing them so they can collect
unemployment is just scummy."
I'm kind of in the same situation with
you because when I heard about the story
was the week I wasn't doing shows, and the
first time it came up on my screen this
story was essentially like "The Rich Kids
of Instagram. They went to this thing. It
was a bust. It's hilarious. Fuck them."
Every douche bag you've ever hated on
social media, they went to an island it's
going to be Lord of the Flies, screw them.
But you also realize that there are,
there are real people involved here. Staff
both on site and the ones we heard on
that phone call. We don't know if Joe Blow
saved a bunch of money, saw Kendall
Jenner pimpin something out, and he was like
"Oh my god, I don't live enough in this
life and I just have this one life and
I'm- you know what, I saved all this money
I'm gonna spend it. That's who I feel for.
Now, I'm not going to be holier-than-thou,
I definitely-- like, the thought of stupid
Instagram douchebags scurrying around, it
was immediately funny to me. But it is
important to realize that there are real
people here. Then we have the Tuesday
show. Tuesday we talked about the
Dani Mathers lawsuit, McKayla Maroney
Instagram controversy, the 'Pirates' ransom,
the Seth Rich murder investigation and
Trump-Russia. On Dani Mathers,
michael mcknight wrote, "Who cares if she took that
photo. No one, NO ONE, would have known if
people didn't research and found out who
it was. Blame those people. People take
photos all the time of people without
permission. Old people don't give a fuck
and walk around naked in locker rooms
all the time." Are you trolling, Michael?
I'm trying to give you an out here
Michael. It is the fault of the people
who found the victim? That is next-level
ass-backwards thinking, okay. In my
experience, it has always been the
perpetrator of a crime that has been the
bad person, not the people identifying the
victim so that the perpetrator can be
prosecuted. Also to the old people don't
give a fuck and walk around naked in a
locker room, I also get naked in a locker
room, but I would fucking care if someone
took a picture of me. It was in a private
setting, it was meant to shame, and it was
taken without permission. It was illegal.
But I'll keep this in mind in case we end up
going to the same gym Michael. I can post
Michael McKnight's butt hole all over the internet.
On the pirates pirating 'Pirates' news,
Amanda Michener wrote, "Even if Disney
pays the money, who says they won't still
release the movie." Well yeah Amanda, that's the
problem I think in general with ransom.
Right off the bat, you know you're
negotiating with someone that is
breaking a law, right? That really doesn't help
the trust issue and at least when you
have like the ransom for a human being,
you know, "Okay you gave me a human being.
This is my human being. End of situation."
You're talking about a digital thing.
But with a digital thing, even if you pay
them, you have no peace of mind because
it could be anywhere else. On McKayla
Maroney, BTRA wrote, "Hey if McKayla Maroney
wants to keep posting sexy photos and
videos I'm fine with it."
Oh good! Oh good, I'll let her know.
Actually, random side note: She actually
DM'd me a "thanks," also saying she's sending
lots of blessings my way, so you guys
maybe we're going to do a giveaway!
McKayla Maroney blessings. Then let's talk about the
Wednesday show. Wednesday we talked about
the youtuber charged with a hate crime,
mom who raged over a sexist shirt,
the King of Thailand crop top controversy, and the
Turkish president's body guards
assaulting American protesters.
Ty G wrote, "Comedy has no 'line' to cross.
Nothing is off-limits and it's supposed
to be that way. I'd rather it be illegal to
be offended than to have to go to court
for joking." Okay I was--, I was with
you, and then you completely lost me. I mean I
personally believe that there is a line
in comedy, and that's actually where a
lot of the comedy comes from. Getting
close to it, kind of going over it,
pushing it. There's also styles of comedy, like
Anthony Jeselnik that are, that the whole
point is: we're over this line, it's crazy
how fucking far past this line we are,
and that's where we're going to live for
an hour. And that line has continued to
move all these years. I think the big
thing is that we don't try and ruin
someone just because they crossed it in
a way that didn't work. Comics, whether
successful or just someone trying to be
a comic in general, I think that they
have to have some some level of a safety net.
Where if they swing and miss on a joke,
they're not automatically out, and then
kicked off the team, and then ejected
from the stadium. And as far as the making it
illegal to be offended, I mean that, that's insanity.
Becca G wrote, "I'm Jewish and had family in the Holocaust.
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it. Is it
funny? I don't think so, but I don't
necessarily think those actions should
become legal issues." MrMojo says,
"When someone's calling a dog moving its paw a
hate crime, it's really downgrading the
seriousness of actual hate crimes and
racism that occur every day." What I'll
say is, in this video I said you know, for
the sake of this video, I want to keep my
opinion out of it. Now for those of you that
have watched me for a long time this
will not be shocking. Or if you just saw
my videos covering the Wall Street
Journal vs. PewDiePie and that whole
Nazi thing, obviously there are
differences because Felix was so
misrepresented in so many of the
articles. But I think the people that get
angry, and the people that want to prosecute,
they see the thing that offends them and
then they block everything else off.
They block out the first 18 seconds of the
video where he's saying, you know, "My
girlfriend loves this dog too much, so I'm
going to ruin this dog by making it the
least cute thing in the world, a Nazi."
Nazis are disgusting, they're the
worst, and so I'm going to try and make
this dog associated with the worst thing
in the world. The entire time he's
laughing because it's so wrong and
stupid. Now, do I understand why people
would be offended by it? Yes. But just like
Becca, I don't think that this legal route
is the right way to go about it. Especially--
a year of this guy's life could go away
because of a joke personally I think
thats insane. Lordfinchness wrote,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. They're trying to claim
that video of the king and a crop top is
defamation?!
HOW?! That video just accentuates how FIRE
the king looks in that crop top. He's killing it fam.
#foofoo4lyfe
Emily wrote,
"The problem with 'boys will be boys' is that
it's a lazy parenting technique that
excuses young boys being violent, messy,
or just overall badly behaved.
In contrast, the girls are told not to be
messy and to be polite and ladylike.
It's a bad precedent to set so early in a
child's life that boys are allowed to do
whatever they want, and girls have very
strict roles to fill." Emily, I will say, I think
you have the most valid argument I've
seen against this. I'm a little bit sad because I'm
not gonna be able to put my money where
my mouth is because after the second
baby, we are done. I do not want to be
outnumbered by the children, but the
second baby is going to be a boy, so ,
boy boy, I'm never going to be able to
experience what it is to raise a little
girl. But I think if we all want to change
what the future is, it starts with how we
raise our kids and how we handle our
home. If I had a little girl and someone
tried to put her in a box, I'm gonna
punch you in the throat. We made that joke
shirt, boys will be boys and then we
added all the text. It's still available
for sale! Apparently, just to spite me,
500 of you bought shirts in the
first two and a half hours. Would a better,
more accurate phrase be kids will be
kids? Yeah. But, and I will admit, this
might just be some of my own
stubbornness, I don't want to have to
give up a phrase that I think I can use
innocently, just because others have a
negative experience with it. I'd rather,
instead of just blocking things out,
changing things. Like, we've seen things
in the past like "play like a girl,"
"(do whatever) like a girl" and the whole
reference in that video was you're strong.
I think a lot more in this world can
change if you are proactive, rather than
trying to strip things down. Obviously,
that doesn't work in all situations, but
I think, hopefully you're getting the
point that I'm trying to get across.
Then let's talk about Thursday.
Thursday, we talked about that fantastic McDonald's
ad, talked updates on the Turkish
bodyguard situation, and we jumped down the
Trump-Russia rabbit hole. Max Buott wrote,
"I think McDonald's was trying to promote
the idea that they're something
generations have in common. A son can find
a connection with his lost father
through their food. Much like being able to feel
close to someone by watching their
favorite movie, or playing their favorite
sport." Okay, so I kind of get that, but I
want you to watch the full 90 second
thing. Because I didn't even really touch on the
best thing. The young boy asks about his
father and she says, "He was a big tall
burly man with big hands." And he looks to his
hands and he has tiny hands. "He used to shine
his shoes." His son's shoes are dirty. "The
girls loved your dad." The girls
walking past the little boy, they just
they just ugh, don't want. It's so sad because the
filet-o-fish is the only thing he has in
common with his dad. 400 calorie piece of
fast food that's not good for him. I'm not
angry, I just think they laid on the
emotional exploitation hard. Adam Palya said,
"Plot twist in the McDonald's
commercial. The kid's dad was
Ronald." And he was killed by that weird
McDonald's mascot thing they tried out
for a while. On the Turkish bodyguards
assaulting protesters, CG4U wrote,
"First Amendment covers you, diplomatic
immunity covers them. Laws are laws even
when something ridiculous like this
happens." Well one, that's why I think, at
the very least, these people need to be
barred from the United States, and two, the
whole story became a little bit juicier.
Yesterday, just after I finished the show,
a video went up showing a different
angle of the protest. And in it you see
one of Erdogan's personal bodyguards nod
his head, rush over to where the
protesters are. All of a sudden, that's
when you see the scuffle. And when we look at
the footage, we see that he's actually
one of the guys who started beating the
protesters. So now people are asking the
question, "Did the president of Turkey
tell him to do that?" It seems very possible,
looks like one of the bodyguards being
told something from the car, he passes that
information off to Head-Nod May-Kick-
You-in-the-Face. Bodyguard talks to
whoever's in the car, and then a minute
later, we see Erdogan get out of the car
and walk into a building. We don't have
audio, we don't know what was said, but it
looks sketchy as hell. I think that's
actually where I'm going to end today's
show. I want to thank you guys for
another fantastic week. Whether you watch,
you share, or even being a part of
DeFrancoElite.com, thank you for being a
part of and helping me do what I love.
But, with that said, of course as always, my
name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been
Phill'd in. I love yo' faces and I'll see
you Monday.