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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show.
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And let's just jump into it!
Now, the first thing we're gonna talk
about today is we have the Catholic church in the news
which if you're a Catholic
you're probably always like, oh God, what now?
But despite your valid reaction
this is more of an oopsy rather than a "oh God..."
So the center of this story of a Catholic priest
by the name of Reverend Andres Arango,
he's in Phoenix, Arizona.
And after an investigation
the diocese of Phoenix determined
that Arango has been using the wrong wording
and baptisms performed for over the last twenty years
until June 17th, 2021.
And the first thing of note here is he was so, so close.
Apparently, instead of saying,
"I baptize you in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.".
He used, 'we baptize you' which yes is only one word off.
However, according to the church's decision,
it is not the community that baptizes a person
and incorporates them into church of Christ.
Rather, it is Christ, and Christ alone, who presides
at all sacraments. Therefore, it is Christ who baptizes you.
And adding if you were baptized using the wrong words
that means your baptism is invalid and you are not baptized.
Which depending on your level of faith
could be a massive deal.
Because you have the diocese clarifying that
because Arango used the wrong words for baptisms
which acts as the foundation of other sacraments.
It means that those other sacraments are also
likely invalid as well and need to be redone.
So you're talking about confirmations,
marriages, and holy orders.
And for me as a former Catholic, I got baptized
I didn't get my confirmation or anything like that.
I just knew it wasn't for me.
The first thought that pops into my head is what
if someone got baptized, but then they died, right?
Would they get into heaven if you believe all of this?
Because immediately the thing that pops
into my head is someone dies
and just Peter's at the gates of heaven.
And he's like, oh my goodness, my boss, damn it.
You're not gonna believe this.
I'm so sorry, Gary.
Hi, Karen. I didn't know you died in the same car.
Yeah, no, it's the same issue with you.
No, you can't. You can't talk to my manager.
Rules are rules!
But, joking aside as someone that went to Catholic school
and got a lot of this crammed in my head against my will.
I would say to those that do have the faith
the church doesn't necessarily believe
that unbaptized people go to hell.
As the church allows baptism by desire
which accommodates for this sort of thing
where a person has a genuine wish to join the church
and live by its tends but died
before getting hit by the water.
And as far as what this means
for Arango he's since resigned also
he is working with the church to find everyone affected
which is thought to be thousands and thousands of people.
And the craziest part is this isn't even
the first time this has happened.
Similar issues occurred in Detroit
and Oklahoma city back in 2020.
Which actually led
to Rome issuing that clarification that baptisms
need to be said with I baptized
but ultimately the way I'll close
out this story is if you're someone that's affected
in the Phoenix area, you're nervous.
You can check in with the diocese to see
if you're affected what I would say to those affected
but also to people maybe struggling with their faith
or they have no faith and a higher power.
I welcome you to join the church of DeFranco.
Our belief is we don't know what happens when you die.
And our only tenant is
the key one treat others as you wish to be treated.
Because isn't that what everything should boil down to
like don't be a fuckhead
and treat the other as if it was yourself.
We love everyone here unless they hurt others,
It's simple.
And then in some entertainment news
we saw some Valentine's day news trickle into the day after.
And it was something we didn't cover yesterday.
Or we briefly talked
about how big companies target couples as well
as even single people, but also Valentine's day is also
become an interesting day, as far as personal promotion
whether it be a creator that's
on a kind of the more adult themed OnlyFans angle
or even more mainstream folk, that don't go that route.
One of the things that garnered the most attention
yesterday got a lot of people talking was this shoot
between the massive creators Bella Porch and Valkyrae.
Among the photos release
we see the two mercilessly destroy a seemingly
innocent Teddy bear with Bella posting.
Some of the photos asking if anyone wants to be stepped on.
There's also one where Valkyrae is licking a bloody knife.
Well, the general public reaction was this mix
of support and thirst.
The internet is also still the internet.
We end up seeing a number of people attacking these two
for putting out this kind of content.
So I'm accusing them of being female content creators
that just ride off their looks.
Some going really derogatory saying slut
and that it looks like a horror commercial.
And ultimately with this kind of quick story
I just wanna end it on two notes.
One, I really wish more people realize
like you do not need to share every shitty thought
in your head on social media, because also
understand there is a real person that's reading that.
I know that a lot of people think there's a separation.
They do, especially if it's like a homegrown
organic online talent and not like a
mainstream person that usually has like a PR person.
But also too, one of the most interesting things when,
whenever a story like this comes up and it's not
universal right there, there are differing reasons.
One of the more common
and constant things I see is like a lot of the guys or
people that are consuming this sort
of content end up shaming, the women that make it.
Like some of the same guys that are out there slut shaming
women for like, having an OnlyFans or doing something
or like actively subscribing to OnlyFans.
Like an instance that pops into my head.
You had a creator Anthony Padilla interviewing
Amouranth who has an OnlyFans but also is a Twitch streamer.
And in that she reveals
- I make about 1.3 to 1.4 million a month currently.
- And my reaction to that is good for you.
Get that bag.
The market decides what the market decides
and the market has decided to give you 1.3 million a month.
Well, I'll feel a little bit
of jealousy when I hear those things.
It's not anything that makes me go like, oh
I dislike or hate that person.
If anything I'm like I do do I
does me launching an OnlyFans for my feet
Just not need to be a joke anymore.
Do we finally launch OnlyPhils?
And I don't know if for me
a lot of it feels like the negativity comes from this
thing that just doesn't add up.
Like the things that stand from like the, douche bro
alpha male podcast, like, I wanna have sex
with tons of women, but women that don't have sex regularly.
Like what kind of fucking idiotic
double standard hypocritical bullshit is that.
And so to kind of try to bring it back around
on the less around
I don't understand why people have such an issue
with women kind of just like owning their own body.
They're comfortable, they're sharing it
and makes them feel empowered.
Then also on the other end
like why villanize women because they wanna have sex.
Don't you want them to want to have sex?
Because guess what, Greg, you ain't special.
Your mama lied to you, Greg.
And then the Academy of Motion Picture is making
a desperate attempt to make you please please care
about the Oscars, which it seems like year after year,
fewer and fewer people do.
Or because one of the many criticisms
around the Oscars is often they don't celebrate a ton
of movies that were incredibly successful at the box office.
Or just last week, There was that massive debate
in The Big Reaction about Spider-Man: No Way Home
not getting a Best Picture nomination.
And so seemingly in an attempt to put a Band-Aid
on the situation and get some sort
of engagement whatsoever for the Oscars.
They're now introducing the fan-favorite film.
Now, notably, this is not a formal category, but
with this fans convoke for their favorite movie of the year
either by tweeting using the #OscarsFanFavorite hashtag
or going to a website with the same name.
And oh do they want your attention and engagement?
You can vote for your favorite movie 20 times a day
between now and March 3rd, and to really get them
on their knees begging you, please, please
please care about the Oscars voters will also be entered
into a contest to attend next year's Oscars.
So that's the story, but really at the end of the day
this is just kind of a recycled idea from 2019.
If you don't remember ahead of the 2019 Oscars
they announced a new category called best popular movie
but it got tons of backlash.
Well that was the year of Black Panther.
And people were concerned that
if there was this popular movie category movies
like black Panther would only get nominated there
and lose their chance of Best Picture.
Essentially demoting the movie, limiting it
to this like lower class of trophy.
And that criticism quickly led
to the idea of being scrapped.
And of course, Black Panther getting a Best Picture nom.
But now we just have to wait to see
if this fan favorite idea works out
or if there's enough resistance
for it to eventually be scraped or if just no one will care.
But personally I kind of just don't care about it all.
And that's also probably the reason why they're doing it.
Yeah, ultimately that is where we are.
And we kind of just have to wait to see
do they do just like what they did back in 2019
they ended up scrapping the idea after public reaction
or, you know, does this move forward and does it
actually get them more eyes and more attention?
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out of town or in jail to cast mail-in balance.
But now the state's recent
extremely controversial election law known as SV1
had new provisions go into effect that are already
affecting mail-in voters in the upcoming March 1st
primary elections. The county election officials
across the state reporting an unusually high amount
of rejected balance.
And you might wonder, okay, when you say unusually high
are we talking about like 5%, 10%, God forbid
15%. Well, according to officials in Harris county
the state's largest county as of this weekend
they have received around 6500 Mail-in ballots.
And of those nearly 38% have been sent back to voters 38%.
And that's just so far with the county expecting tens
of thousands of Mail-in ballots.
And that rejection rate is similar across the state
with some counties reporting, even higher rejection rates.
And a sudden surge of rejected ballots almost exclusively
because there's a new requirement that ballots
and the return envelopes both need to have
the same ID number on them as what the voter used
when they registered to vote.
Notably a Social Security number can also be used
but the same problem applies.
Many voters just don't know about this new requirement
and they're not putting their ID information on
both the ballot and the envelope, especially because a spot
on the envelope where they're supposed to put their info is
under the flap that seals its shut.
Which I will say that placement does make sense.
Otherwise the info would be available to the public
but it does feel
like it's being used for nefarious reasons.
And what's been found is that the earlier a person
voted the less of an issue all of this is.
Election officials can choose to
send the ballot back with an envelope to be fixed
if they determine there's enough time to do that.
But as election day gets closer
things get more complicated and difficult for voters
and officials will need to resort to other solutions.
And here's how James Slattery a senior attorney
with the Texas Civil Rights Project described though,
saying the county may but is not required to
contact the voter and say you can either
cancel your mail ballot and vote in person
or come to the clerk's office in person within six
days of the election to fix the problem.
That is a very convoluted process that obviously
is not helpful for people who are not in Texas.
Also another issue that some voters face
even if they put their ID
in the correct spots is just mismatching information.
Many voters registered years
if not decades ago and sometimes IDs change.
And so to help with that, you have state officials
urging voters to include both their ID number
and Social Security number on the ballots
an envelope saying that it will help reduce the chance
of a ballot being rejected.
But ultimately where we're at is, you know
we have a few weeks to see how bad this issue
is truly going to become.
And it's gonna be an important one.
But also with this at the same time, there is a question of
you know, which party will this affect the most
because while it is true
if you look to the last election Democrat, by far vote more
than Republicans by mail because Texas already
has very strict mail-in policies, right?
You can only vote like this if it's 65 and older
and a few other things because statistically more often
than not older voters vote conservative.
Which yes you could argue would be an amazing self own,
but also it's still not a thing that makes sense.
Even if I disagree with someone, whether it be on one issue
or ideologically, their vote should still count.
And then I couldn't faulty if he
didn't know what was happening in the Honduran
political system right now, but it is very dramatic.
It is very interesting.
And it does involve the United States because,
of course it does.
So less than three weeks after he left office
ex-president of Honduras
Juan Orlando Hernandez is now fighting
the possibility of being imprisoned in the United States.
America has asked the current government for his extradition
although the exact charges are not known.
However Hernandez has long been suspected
of having ties to drug trafficking.
First off, his brother was actually sentenced
to life in prison in the US last March
for drug trafficking and weapon charges.
During that, federal prosecutors
in New York named ex-president Hernandez
as a co-conspirator and, claim that he accepted bribes
from traffickers in return for protecting them as president.
So the extradition request not coming out of nowhere.
However, it has now led to a bit of a standoff
at his residence with police surrounding the building.
His lawyer is saying that until
a judge is selected to deal with the extradition request
it is understood that no arrest order exists.
Also arguing that Hernandez has legal immunity
because he's a representative
of The Central American Parliament, a role
that he just so happened to get the same day
that he left the Honduran presidency.
And so as far as what happens from here
you have the vice president
of the newly elected national Congress pleading
with Hernandez to just turn himself in.
And actually that's exactly what happened
after I finished recording the first version of this story
with Hernandez telling support is that quote
I am ready and prepared to cooperate
and go voluntarily to face this situation and defend myself.
In the country's 15 Supreme court justices have
already scheduled a meeting
for today to select a judge to handle this extradition case.
But a key thing here is
that even though Hernandez is turning himself in,
the decision to actually extradite him still
needs to be made.
In Honduras unlike in United States where the Supreme court
is a lifetime appointment justices are only appointed
there for 70 or terms.
And with all of them having been selected
by Congress in 2016, during Hernandez's first term
many are known to be very close with the ex-president.
So that's gonna be a key thing to watch.
However, if Hernandez is eventually extradited
it kind of would be an ironic twist.
Since he's actually the guy that pushed
for a law that would allow Honduran citizens
to be extradited while he was president of Congress.
And then in settlement news, there were two massive ones.
You had Remington Arms and Prince Andrew.
For Remington Arms Axios explains.
Families of five adults and four children
killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
sued the gunmaker nearly eight years ago
for its marketing practices, claiming the Remington
recklessly marketed a military-grade gun to civilians.
With a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle being used
in the December, 2012 shooting, which killed
20 children and six adults.
And the big news today is that Remington Arms has now agreed
to a 73 million dollars settlement.
With Francine Wheeler who lost her six year old
son Benjamin saying today is not about honoring our son
Benjamin today is about how and why Ben died.
It is about what is right and what is wrong.
And adding our legal system has given us some justice today.
But also adding that she and her husband will
never have true justice.
True justice would be our 15 year old
healthy and standing next to us right now.
But Benny will never be 15.
He will be six forever because he is gone forever.
And then in addition to that, like I said
you had Prince Andrew in the news
because he just settled a lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre.
Virginia of course said the Prince Andrew sexually abused
and raped her, Prince Andrew said I've never met
that woman, even though there was a photo of him
meeting that woman.
While police in the UK decided last year that they
would not take action against Prince Andrew following a
review of the sexual abuse accusations.
Giuffre Sued Prince Andrew in the US district court
in Manhattan back in August.
Where Andrew tried to get the lawsuit dismissed,
that failed setting him up to face a civil trial
in the United States.
But ultimately that is really all we know.
We know that it was settled.
It was for an undisclosed amount.
We don't know.
And Prince Andrew like pretty much every fucking
giant company whenever they settle does not have to
admit any wrongdoing.
And as far as my opinion here
I really just hope Giuffre feels some sort of closure
or just some sort of peace or happiness.
Because personally I would've liked to see what
would come out from a trial and it probably wouldn't
be something great if he's willing to throw money
at the situation.
And this part of the story is like just it just
feels disgusting to me.
With AP News reporting that according to the statement,
Prince Andrew regrets his association with Epstein
and commends, the bravery of Miss Giuffre and the
other survivors in standing up for themselves and others.
In the situation that apparently he was not a part of
but was willing to throw money at to just kill
with the woman he denied ever meeting even though
there's photographic evidence of it.
And personally having tracked this story
and really how the Royal family and my opinion
just did everything possible to try to shield him from it.
I hope this stink never leaves any of them.
But ultimately that is the end of that story
And today's show.
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