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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.
I got a fantastic Wednesday one for you today,
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and let's just jump into it.
You know, first up, because so much of the news just
drags us down, I wanna start off with the,
maybe the world's not completely horrible,
palette cleansing, today an awesome story of the day,
and at the center of that, you have Hayley Strong
because Haley is our BAMF of the day,
and the woman in this video.
- Your guys' garage is on fire.
- We're not talkin', like, some small, minor fire,
you can literally see smoke billowing out
from the corner of the garage in this ring video.
And so what you have in this situation is this woman,
Hayley Strong, she's drivin' through an Ohio suburb
at around 1 AM, when she's spots the flames.
Haley then stopping,
standing on the front porch,
knocking on the door for minutes on end.
Meanwhile, as it turns, out the family's inside
you got the parents casually watching Stranger Things,
which I get it, it's a great season,
but it's not I don't care that my house is on fire good.
Though, as it turns out,
they weren't aware of the fire,
even though it ended up just completely
decimating their garage.
And, at the time,
it was raging on the other side of the parent's bedroom.
And if you're wondering why this family was so oblivious,
did Vecna have a hold on them?
Did they not have smoke detectors?
Or, did they destroy theirs like I did that one time
when I was really high and couldn't reach it,
so I hit it with a broom?
Well, no, it turns out they had them,
it just happened to be that the wind was blowing
in such a direction that it kept everyone inside
from smelling the smoke with the smoke detectors
not picking the blaze up either,
and so luckily they finally hear Hayley,
and she actually stays,
and helps the parents get all nine of their kids
outta the house, saving everyone in the process.
With the dad then later calling her an angel,
and the mom telling local news.
- All the other outcomes that could have happened
if she wouldn't have stopped and knocked on the door.
I don't know if me and him would be here today
for them kids.
- So that is why, without a doubt, Hayley,
you are our BAMF of the day.
And then, we've got this online gambling
and promotion controversy in the news,
and, unsurprisingly, at the center of it you have Drake.
And I say unsurprisingly
because Drake dropped a whole ass album this year,
and he's been makin' more headlines for gambling than that.
And, if you don't know, he's been streaming
his gambling on Twitch, he's actually an official partner
with stake.com, an online crypto gambling platform.
Or he's got the Stake Drake Twitch channel.
And even if you're not on Twitch, you've possibly seen one
of these clips that has gone viral
with one of the most recent ones being Drake winning nearly
$12 million in a roulette spin.
- Yes! - Yes!
Let's go!
Sorry (indistinct).
- [Drake] Yes! Yes!
- The Stakes Instagram promoting that bit,
as well as other wins from the stream.
But also, I do wanna point out,
even though he won big there and at various points,
he actually ended the night with a big loss,
but of course a platform that's trying to get you
to spend your money with the hopes of winning big,
like Drake, they're, they're not gonna promote that.
It's also part of the reason so many gambling platforms
are like, look at this insane parley,
someone bet a dollar and won a 100,000
because they want you to take insane bets
that will almost never hit,
where they just essentially get to print money.
Right, the question in my head,
when I see that is the guy that won the thousand to one
parlay, how much money has he lost before he finally hit?
But, I'm gettin' sidetracked here,
the reason we're talking about this is that a lot
of people are starting to express their issues
with Drake and the streaming partnership,
with people concerned that it promotes gambling
in an unhealthy way, especially to young people, or
because while both videos were labeled 18 plus in the title
you have places like Dexerto pointing out
that there's no real way to prevent younger people
from watching it.
And of course, this isn't a new debate,
this is kind of just the evolution of the situation.
We've had names like Asmongold, Pokimane, and Ludwig
all either speaking out against it,
or, at the very least, advising serious caution when
it comes to gambling content.
And now that you have massive stars like Drake
getting very, very involved and publicly so,
it's generated some conversation like,
"Drake's Twitch stream today is horrifying.
More than 100,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch -
home to a young impressionable audience -
exposed to luck-based gambling.
His influence on them should not be understated."
Another saying, it's just so flawed and dangerous
to allow a global star, being paid by an online casino,
to stream gambling on their own slots
because people can be so susceptible to addiction.
With many also specifically pointing to the partnership
here between Drake and Stake.
People wondering how much is he getting paid?
Does he actually have equity in the company?
So he's essentially gambling against himself.
Or, for those of you that remember people wondering is this,
like, CSGO lotto again?
With people saying, he's gettin' paid to fake it
while folks about to lose their life savings,
but ultimately that's where we are with this right now,
and of course I wanna pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts here?
Or, do you think people are blowing this outta proportion?
Or, you think it is a massive issue?
What are your thoughts on Drake being so heavily involved?
Anything and everything you're thinking on this
I'd love to see in those comments down below.
And then, we had Donald Trump in the news for two reasons.
The first is kind of more of a, a school yard,
let them fight, reason.
And the other is for, you know, a very genuinely scary
and important reason.
The first being that World War Tea has officially begun.
Where you had Elon Musk backing out of buying Twitter.
Trump calling him a bullshit artist.
Elon responds the next day by saying that Trump should hang
up his hat and sail off into the sunset,
saying Trump was just too much drama.
With Trump, responding by saying,
(throat clearing)
when Elon Musk came to the white house
asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects,
whether it's electric cars that don't drive long enough,
driverless cars that crash,
or rocket ships to nowhere,
without which subsidies he'd be worthless,
and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican.
I coulda said drop to your knees and beg,
and he woulda done it, folks.
Elon responds with "lmao",
and a gif of The Simpsons grandpa yelling at a cloud.
As we're recording, Trump has not responded yet.
And as far as who is gonna win this fight,
I think it's all of us.
Two messy ego maniacs with legions of fanatics
takin' and swings at one another,
I'm hopin' for a double knockout.
It's like a messy bitch from Queens
who loves drama and trying to end democracy
versus a Redditer.
But then, of course, the second reason that Trump is
in the news is because of the 2020 election
and January 6th.
And the first thing here is this newly leaked audio
from October 31st, 2020.
Where just a week before the election,
and it's of Trump's former aid, Steve Bannon,
just kinda layin' out the game plan.
- [Steve] The Democrats,
more of our people vote early that count,
theirs vote in mail,
and so they're gonna have a natural disadvantage
and Trump's gonna take advantage of it,
that's our strategy.
He's gonna declare himself winner.
So when you wake up Wednesday morning,
it's gonna be a firestorm.
You're gonna have Antifa crazy,
the media crazy,
the courts are crazy,
and Trump's gonna be sittin' there mocking (beep)
you lose.
(group laughing)
I'm the winner.
I'm the king.
And he'll be all over.
He'll be, he'll be goin',
where's Hunter?
Is Hunter on a crack pipe?
I mean, no, he'll be,
because then it doesn't matter.
Remember, here's the thing,
after that Trump never has to go to a voter again.
He's gonna fire Wray, the FBI director,
he's gonna fire the (indistinct),
he's gonna say, "(beep) you!"
How about that?
'Cause he's never gonna,
he's, he's done his last election.
Oh, he's gonna be off the chain.
He's gonna be crazy.
Also, also, if Trump is, if Trump is losing
by 10 or 11 o'clock at night,
it's gonna be even crazier.
(group chatter)
No, 'cause he's gonna sit right there and say they stole it.
- Yeah, agreed. - I'm (indistinct),
I'm directing the attorney general
to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states.
It's gonna be no,
he's not going out easy.
If Trump, if Biden's winnin',
Trump is gonna do some crazy (beep).
- And all that audio reportedly comes from a meeting
that Bannon had with Guo Wengui,
an exiled far right Chinese businessmen
and other Chinese exiles.
Now, notably, at that time, Bannon was not officially part
of Trump's administration or election team.
So you could argue that he was just guessing,
but you have people saying the counterpoint to that,
or at least it's just interesting to note,
that what he said is almost exactly how it played out,
and he helped Trump echo those claims after the election.
And the key thing here,
even though he knew that they were bogus
and part of a strategy to steal the election.
So at the very least, not gonna be helpful audio
for Steve Bannon, who's currently facing two counts
of contempt of Congress charges,
even though now he says that he wants to testify.
But, regarding that, prosecutors don't seem to care
and say that he's already broken the law
and he's scheduled for trial next week.
And then, secondly, on January 6th, you have the committee's
hearing yesterday about Trump's actions closer
to January 6th itself.
Right because a big defense that Trump
and his defenders have argued is that he never intended
for things to escalate how they did,
but according to emails revealed by the January 6th
committee yesterday, Trump's campaign spokesperson
told white house chief of staff, Mark Meadows,
on January 2nd, that Trump's expectations are to
have something intimate at The Ellipse and call on everyone
to march to the Capitol.
And yesterday, the committee revealed a series
of draft tweets marked as seen by Trump,
detailing what he knew would happen.
They're saying things like, "march to the Capitol after.
Stop the steal!"
And it wasn't just those in the administration
who knew, rally organizers, such as Kylie Kremer,
leader of Women for America First,
writing in a text on January 4th,
"POTUS is going to call for it just unexpectedly."
Another pro Trump organizer texted on January 5th,
"Trump is supposed to order us to the capital at the end
of his speech but we will see."
With the committee continuing to close in on Trump himself
by increasingly showing he knew and planned
for the insurrection to stop the peaceful transfer of power,
with Liz Cheney saying-
- The strategy is to blame people his advisors called
quote, the crazies, for what Donald Trump did.
This of course is nonsense.
President Trump is a 76 year old man.
He is not an impressionable child.
Just like everyone else in our country,
he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices.
- And Trump doesn't appear to be helping himself
with Cheney yesterday revealing quote,
"President Trump tried to call a witness
in our investigation - a witness you have not yet seen
in these hearings."
That person declined to answer or respond
to President Trump's call, and instead alerted their lawyer
to the call."
With the incident now having been referred
to the justice department,
which kind of just as a general pro tip,
it's usually frowned upon when you try
to tamper with witnesses
because even if they can't get you on anything else,
they could still hit you on that specifically.
Plus, at the very least,
it just makes you look super guilty because while a portion
of this country has been told not to look
at this situation, by their Fox News propaganda overlords,
since the start of these hearings,
I think more and more people are seeing it.
Hell, I mean, Brad Parscale,
Trump's former campaign manager,
put it in a text to Trump's spokesperson.
This is "a sitting president asking for a civil war."
However, unlike big boy Brad,
I won't be selling out that stance
by accepting a job on Trump's leadership pack,
and getting $150,000 after those texts were sent.
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And then, for two different reasons, we need to talk
about this new video that's finally been released
from inside Robb Elementary in Uvalde,
which the Austin American-Statesman has now released.
Now, before I dive into this, I do wanna say,
even though I'm not gonna show any graphic
or violent content,
if for whatever reason you want to skip this,
this is part of the reason I include time codes.
The timestamps are both in the description,
as well as if you hover over the timeline,
with that said, you know this starts with the shooter
crashing his truck near the school,
as you can see, with two men approaching
then running away.
Next, you can hear an unidentified teacher
on the phone with 911 screaming that the kids are running
and then yelling at them to get in their classrooms.
After that, you have the cell phone video
showing the shooter entering the school
and walking off frame with a child leaving a bathroom
to return to class, turning the corner,
and quickly retreating as the shooter fires.
And that's when he enters the first classroom
and the massacre begins.
We also now know that he fired more than 100 rounds
in about two and a half minutes,
and with this, about three minutes into the shooting,
you see the first officers arrive on the scene
with some rushing toward the gunman,
others peering around the corner,
and gunshots continue to boom throughout the hall
with the officers who ran toward the shooter
now retreating back to the entrance,
and there they waited for almost the next 74 minutes
in that hallway, even as they heard at least
four more gunshots inside the classroom,
45 minutes after arriving.
At which point,
around a dozen officers move toward the classroom
with one heard saying they're making entry,
but nobody actually goes inside.
You also have many people angry about how casual some
of them appear to be.
Nine minutes later,
you see one officer in a ballistic vest pausing
to squirt hand sanitizer on his hands.
At one point, you can see an officer on his phone.
Then you can see two officers in camouflage
fist bump each other.
Meanwhile, this whole time they're waiting for keys
to the classrooms, which we now know they didn't even need
because the doors were unlocked.
Plus, an officer soon arrives with a sledgehammer.
And of course, as we know,
they eventually do engage the shooter and kill him.
Though currently we are still waiting on an analysis
by a medical expert to determine how many victims died
after police arrived.
And as for who is at fault for this response,
a lot of the blame has been directed towards school
district police chief, Pete Arredondo.
We also have others knowing that there were numerous
agencies on the scene there, this including the
Uvalde Police Department,
Uvalde County Sheriff's Department,
Texas Department of Public Safety,
Texas Rangers, US Border Patrol, and US Marshall Service.
So we have all of that,
but, of course, there's the second news story,
which is around the statemen's actual release of this video
because in the wake of all this,
you have some victims family members outraged
that this was made public,
especially before they could view it themselves.
- It got leaked.
It got shown all over the world,
and we are pissed.
- These were our babies,
our babies that were taken from us.
So, to the person that leaked it,
screw you.
- It's like reliving that day all over again.
- With then the Uvalde mayor and town council members
saying during a hearing yesterday.
- The way that video was release today
is one of the most chicken things I've ever seen.
Two thirds of the family, or part of their families, are in
Washington DC right now. - Yes, sir.
- And they're gonna have to turn on the TV
and see that tonight.
Not even with the rest of their family.
This was wrong to do it this way.
The video needed to be released,
but the families shoulda got to see it first.
- [Male] Appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
- The mayor said "chicken."
It was chicken (beep).
- Yeah. - To release that video
the way you did it.
They did that for ratings and they did that for money.
- But at the same time, you do have some victims relatives
expressing support for the release,
like one telling a CBS affiliate,
I'm happy it's released, but I wish they would've waited
until the family members got to see it beforehand.
Right, and regarding that a state Senate panel had actually
originally planned to show the video to families on Sunday.
And as far as what the statesman has to say for itself,
they said, "our goal is to continue to bring to light
what happened at Robb Elementary, which the families
and friends of the Uvalde victims
have long been asking for.
We have to bear witness to history, and transparency
and unrelenting reporting is a way to bring change."
But, one thing many people on both sides
of this issue do seem to have in common
is outrage towards the police response.
Where you got the likes of podcaster Ethan Klein
criticizing the officer who appears to check his phone
saying he did that while the gunfire went off
to the cries of children.
Very badass.
Another person saying, "a fist bump?
A fuckin' fist bump.
I can only pray they still hear those babies screams
and see the carnage they ignored,
every single time they blink."
And Senator Chris Murphy adding,
"the Uvalde video puts to bed, forever, the question of
whether the way to deal with bad guys with guns is to
make sure there are more good guys with guns.
We've always known it was a gun industry created lie,
designed to sell more guns.
Now we just have the gut wrenching proof."
And that is where this story ends,
at least for now,
because it seems like every couple of weeks we just find
out even more unbelievable details about this shooting.
It's just been absolutely crazy to watch a narrative move
from hero cops take down shooter after tragic massacre,
to now, cops with more than enough firepower
and protection refused to save kids from shooter
spend over an hour waiting for keys
they don't even need, and fist bump,
and check their phone in the hallway.
Oh yeah,
and then lied about what happened afterwards.
But yeah, that is ultimately where we are,
and of course, with this story, I have two questions.
One,
what are your thoughts regarding the authorities here,
now that we have this video?
And two,
what are your thoughts regarding the statesman
releasing this video the way they did?
But ultimately, that is where that story
and today's show ends.
Thanks for watching,
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my name's Philip DeFranco,
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I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.