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The first thing that we're gonna talk about today
is this news around antivaxx blogger, Jodie Meschuk,
who I was unaware of before this.
Looking into it, prior to this, she was best known
for releasing a book with the description,
"Jodie shares strategies
"that led to her son's autism reversal."
All right, so kind of just understand that's the platform
we're jumping off of and she is catching heat online
after posting a video on Instagram,
a video that had people disgusted, up in arms
and it starts off with her and her child
entering a grocery store maskless,
despite seeing a sign requiring them,
but the main thing that people were outraged about
is that she then goes on to lick items around her,
saying that the germs fortify your immune system,
even though, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that
no sane doctor is going to recommend to people, right now,
to go out and lick stuff in a grocery store.
We see her licking things it appears, you know,
she's only going to touch,
as well as things that other people
are very likely to touch,
things like the shopping cart, a refrigerator door handle
and with that, writing, "Be free, love over fear."
And kinda fantastically,
the place that I saw this video blow up
was in the subreddit, "I am a total piece of shit."
Aptly named.
And amid the outrage, we've seen a kind of
a whole range of reactions,
some saying, you know, "Just call her out, just shame her."
Others saying that, "No, she needs to actually be charged."
But regarding that, it's worth knowing
that others who have faced charges for similar behavior
in the past also damaged a ton of merchandise,
or appeared to intentionally spread COVID in the process.
So if you're one of the people that want her to be charged,
there is a chance that you're gonna be disappointed
because there might not be charges in her case
and so ultimately, you know,
we're gonna have to wait to see what happens.
Now, as far as anything else from Jodie,
her Instagram is currently private,
but screenshots have been floating around social media
that show her allegedly saying
she won't back down to the woke mob,
saying "These, quote, people
"aren't even thinking for themselves.
"One could argue that they are not even real.
"They have handed over their minds to someone else,
"to Satan, to darkness.
"How can they ever be proud of that?"
At one point, even asking,
"Why do some people latch onto a cult mentality?"
Says the woman
that seemingly disliked a store's mask policy so much,
she ran her tongue up and down a whole ass supermarket!
James, black out the screen real quick.
Jodie, if you're watching,
just take a look at yourself right now.
You're out here taste testing door handles,
meanwhile, pointing the finger and going, "You're crazy!"
Like, sweet baby Jesus!
I don't know what else to say with this one.
Also, in other COVID-19 and vaccine news,
I mean, this was one of the most requested stories
from over the weekend.
Let's talk about Joe Rogan.
So, Rogan's name is actually
in multiple different headlines today,
but the most requested is connected to Friday.
In a show with Free Range American host, Evan Hafer,
we saw Rogan say...
- Imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission
of highly virulent pathogens. - Right.
- So this is a scientific paper from 2015
that shows that...
Here's the one important quote,
"Vaccines that keep the host alive,
"but still allow transmission
"can thus allow virulent strains
"to circulate in a population."
- Right, and with that, we saw outrage over the weekend,
but scientifically, I mean, we saw experts saying
that take is beyond wrong,
with people saying that Rogan is misunderstanding,
misleading, cherry picking studies
in a field that he has no actual background in.
Right, understand, like, when I say that,
I'm not the one heading this.
I have no background in biology,
but, I mean, with this instance specifically,
you have Andrew Read,
not only a biology professor at Pennsylvania State,
but also the lead author of the 2015 paper
that Rogan was trying to use,
having to now, because of the virality of this clip,
talk to journalists and saying,
"We're talking about a very different virus
"and very different vaccines."
Right, the paper at the center of this
actually involves looking at
what's known as Marek's disease virus,
which affects chickens and as Read told Forbes,
"The details in biology really matter a lot.
"The chicken vaccines we worked with
"definitely reduced disease, severity, and death."
"However, unlike we've seen with the COVID vaccines,
"the chicken vaccine didn't stop transmission at all."
And as Read notes, that's the key difference
between this paper and COVID-19,
saying, "At the moment, the vast majority of the replication
"is happening in unvaccinated people.
"You can tell that because the majority of cases
"in the hospital are unvaccinated individuals.
"That's the majority of transmission.
"Every time a virus replicates, it can mutate.
"So the evolution is, right now, occurring in the body
"of people who are not vaccinated.
"Rogan is completely wrong trying to deduce anything else."
And remember, this is coming from the person
that wrote the 2015 paper that Joe Rogan was trying to use.
And, you know, because this clip got so much attention,
you know, there's constantly a conversation of
Joe Rogan needs to be thinking about
what he puts out there,
'cause he has such a massive audience.
I mean, he's one of the biggest entertainers
in the world right now.
There's a number of experts going further and saying
that's not the only thing that Rogan got wrong
on the podcast regarding COVID-19.
For example, you also had Rogan saying.
- We've shown, this is a fact, just a couple of months ago
the idea of a breakthrough case was unheard of.
Nobody heard of anybody catching COVID
that had a vaccine, right? - Right.
- That was the whole idea.
You get a vaccine, you don't have to worry about it.
Now we know, not only do you get it, but you can spread it.
- But, for anyone that's been paying attention,
you know that is absolutely not a fact.
We've known that some vaccinated people
would still catch COVID since day one
of vaccine development, because that is how vaccines work.
I get that almost none of us have perfect memories,
but one, no vaccine is 100% effective
and hell, in the beginning,
I don't know if you remember the reporting,
there were hopes that the first COVID vaccines
would at least have 50% effectiveness
at stopping transmission,
which is why it was so wild and amazing
when vaccines first came out and they were like,
"They're 90% effective at doing so."
Right, so as Read explains,
yes, while it is possible that a mutant variant
could spring up from a vaccinated population,
mutant variants are much more likely to emerge
and gain traction among the unvaccinated,
with Read once again even noting
that the Delta variant emerged from unvaccinated populations
and that the only way to stop transmission there
is through masking, social distancing, or vaccination,
with Read adding, "It's a bizarre line of logic
"that some hypothetical possibility down the line
"would hold back life saving medicine now.
"There are 600,000 Americans dead so far.
"The vast majority of those deaths are vaccine-preventable.
"There's not a single scenario that would argue in favor of
"not using vaccines to save the next hundred thousand.
"Not one scenario."
Right, as we talked about multiple times,
it is not like second and third generation COVID vaccines
are not expected,
especially if we're in a situation
where COVID ends up being seasonal down the line,
like the flu.
So with all of this, Read concludes,
"There's tons of things we can do in the future.
"Right now, we need to vaccinate as much as possible."
All right, and with this,
one of the final criticisms I've seen
of people making with Rogan is that in this piece,
he then just kinda wonders why overweight people
aren't doing more to get healthy and reduce transmission.
- Walk around your block!
You don't have to do something complicated.
Start drinking more water, stop eating sugar,
start taking vitamins.
You can increase the strength of your immune system,
we can fight things off better,
we can be a healthier civilization.
- And here's what I'll say to that.
I don't think there's really ever a situation
where it's a bad idea to be like,
"Hey, I think we all need to be healthier."
I think we could all benefit from being healthier.
I mean, we have an obesity problem in this country.
I'm an example of that, trying to get better,
I'm trying to be an example of that,
so I'll never have a problem with that,
but I do have an issue with you recommending that
after you've then misled people
with cherry picking misinformation
and while, hey, yeah,
Rogan has a much larger audience than me,
I still think it's incredibly important
to call things like this out
and also just spread actual information,
since misinformation often spreads much faster.
I mean, obviously, while we have no control
and the internet has trained me to be a cynic,
what I would love to see in this is,
you know, Rogan seeing this information that's new to him,
right, Read speaking about his own study,
clarifying, explaining and him going,
"Oh, okay, so let me speak on that,"
rather than maybe doubling down
and thinking that it's just haters being haters.
But yeah, ultimately, we have to wait and see
and in the meantime, just regarding any aspect of the story,
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Then our most polarizing and divisive story of the day,
I'm joking, this is more of a light palate cleanser.
Though, with this light story,
we have seen some passionate debate and I would love to know
your thoughts and what you do,
but one of the hot topics we've seen online
over the past few weeks, thanks to celebrities,
is around cleanliness.
This, in part because back in July,
we saw Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher making headlines
after appearing on the Armchair Expert podcast
with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman.
There, Shepard talked about not using soap every day,
saying that it rids the body of natural oils
and we saw Kunis and Kutcher agreeing.
- [Mila] I don't wash my body with soap every day.
- Okay, good, that's good. - Okay.
- [Mila] But I wash pits and tits and holes and soles.
- Slits. - I wash the slits.
I wash my slits and my tits.
Yes. - I wash my armpits
and my crotch daily, and nothing else ever.
- [Philip] Right, and they also got a lot of flack
for admitting that they don't bathe their kids daily either,
only when they look dirty or clearly smell,
but we also saw others coming to their defense,
like Kristen Bell on The View.
We also had Jake Gyllenhaal telling Vanity Fair
last Thursday, "More and more, I find bathing
"to be less necessary at times."
But adding, "I do also think there's a whole world
"of not bathing that is also really helpful
"for skin maintenance and we naturally clean ourselves."
Right, and while all of this prompted concern, support
and a good load of memes,
we also more recently had Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
chiming in that he's actually the opposite of a
not washing themselves celeb,
noting that ideally, he takes three a day.
Right, and I'll admit,
this is a topic that I'm pretty ignorant on.
I've seen a lot of criticism regarding the shower habits,
but I've also seen a lot of stuff saying that
what a number of these people are doing is perfectly fine,
with many dermatologists actually recommending
that people focus using soap on skin folds and soiled areas,
saying that water alone is suitable everywhere else
and that, including popular YouTube dermatologist, Dr. Dray,
who actually did a reaction video
to Kunis and Kutcher's comments,
with her also noting there that it's still important
to do more diligent cleanses
when it comes to our faces and hands.
But, with all of that said,
the reason I'm sharing this story
is I wanna know your answer.
Between a Mila Kunis and a Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson,
like, where do you land?
Or, to use some of their own words,
where do you land between tits and slits
every now and then, to three times a day?
Where do you land and what are you doing and why?
Then we definitely have to talk about
the 3,949 page assessment, backed by the United Nations,
that was released this morning that I will now read in full.
I won't, but the most important thing
is that scientists in this
warn that the planet will warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius
in the next two decades,
unless drastic changes are made in the 2020s.
With the report, which was released
by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
finding that the last four decades were likely warmer
than any other point in the last 125,000 years
and across the world, temperatures were warmer,
with no region showing cooler temps
and finding that greenhouse emissions,
deforestation and combustion have led to
the highest atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
in two million years
and on top of the warming effects of carbon dioxide,
agriculture and fossil fuels have led to the highest levels
of methane and nitrous oxide,
higher than any point in 800,000 years,
both of which are also serious greenhouse gases
and to then go back to it,
I mean, one of the big concerns
with hitting 1.5 degrees warmer over the next decade
is a permafrost in the Northern hemisphere
will be susceptible to thawing out,
which could then release catastrophic levels of methane,
making the problem even harder to control
and notably, staying below 1.5 degrees warmer
is a key provision of the Paris Agreement
and it's looking like without serious changes,
that will not be met.
And notably here, unlike past UN reports
that showed some uncertainty
as to why the temperature was rising,
this report was very clear, with the author saying,
"It is unequivocal that human influence
"has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land."
One of the reasons that experts are so concerned here
is that we've already gone 1.1 degree warmer
than we were in the 1800s,
which is when widespread industrialization happened.
So given the rate and how things can escalate,
it's believed that this is the last decade to change course
before we cross a point of no return.
Now, that said, as far as what happens
if things continue to warm, will we go extinct?
No, at least not initially,
but things will get a lot harder.
Sea levels, for example, which already rose eight inches
between 1901 and 2018, will continue to rise.
That alone will have major repercussions
for people living on the coast,
which is actually where most people around the world live.
It can also cause freshwater sources to become salinated,
putting entire ecosystems at risk.
The increased temperature will also lead to larger
and worse forest fire seasons and increased droughts,
with many of the world already experiencing record droughts.
And while the US continues, with varying success,
to cut climate emissions,
other large industrial nations refuse to do so.
With, I mean, take China for example,
they say that they'll cut the use of coal starting in 2026,
but actually, until then, the use of coal
will actually continue to rise.
And so with this, while I wanna have hope
and think, you know, we're in the movie
where the world's gonna come together
and we're all gonna do the right thing,
the cynic in me, you know, it taps my shoulder
and reminds me that without nearly everyone taking part,
it is incredibly unlikely
that we're gonna hit the emission goals when we need to
and so we maybe need to just start getting ready
for some big changes over the next decade.
Then, in big international news,
we should definitely talk about the Taliban, last week,
reclaiming the city of Zaranj,
making it the first provincial capital in the country
to fall to the group
and understand, this is a big deal,
because while the Taliban had controlled large areas
of the country, it was almost all rural land
and no major cities
and so now with the fall of this city,
it seems like it's just the first domino,
because since then,
the Taliban have captured five more provincial capitals.
The conquest also including Kunduz,
which is one of Afghanistan's major cities
and so far, it seems that the central US government
is having issues controlling their troops,
with reports indicating that many just fled
before the Taliban really started fighting,
although that was not always the case,
with at least 27 children being killed
and 136 injured over the last 72 hours.
You know, with this, it is widely believed that the Taliban
will continue to take cities and provinces
in the north of the country,
especially as the US still plans on removing all troops
from the country by the end of August,
at which point, despite pleas from Afghan generals,
the US will also stop conducting airstrikes
against the Taliban.
So there are fears that without help from the US,
the Afghan government will fall and the Taliban
will regain nominal control over most of the country,
putting the situation
essentially back to where it was in 2001.
Then we should definitely talk about the fallout
over the findings of the absolutely damning investigation
into Governor Cuomo, now in full swing.
Last week, after New York's attorney general
reported her inquiry had found the governor
had sexually harassed 11 women,
Cuomo came out, instead defended himself,
saying that he would not resign.
I said that this was going to quickly devolve
into a shit show and oh my God, how quickly it has.
In addition to the continued mass calls
for Cuomo's resignation
and the state's assembly judiciary committee
meeting this morning to expedite
the ongoing impeachment inquiry,
there has been a lot of movement in the last few days.
On Friday, the Albany County Sheriff's office
said that an executive assistant,
who told investigators Cuomo groped her breast
at the governor's mansion last year,
filed a criminal complaint,
that move marking the first known instance of a woman
making an official report to a law enforcement agency
regarding alleged misconduct by Cuomo,
which is very notable because if wrongdoing is found,
he could face arrest
and then, yesterday, we saw that woman,
whose claims against Cuomo are among the most serious,
identifying herself as Brittany Commisso
and giving an interview to CBS this morning
in the Albany Times Union.
There, recounting what she told to investigators,
that since 2019, Cuomo acted inappropriately,
kissing and hugging her in ways that made her uncomfortable,
once touching her butt while they were taking a picture,
with her also going on to address Cuomo's response
to the allegations made by her and others,
right, that he often hugs and kisses people
as a gesture of kindness.
- These were not hugs that he would give
his mother or, you know, his brother.
These were hugs with the intention
of getting some personal sexual satisfaction out of.
- [Philip] Adding, "Maybe to him,
"he thought this was normal, but to me and the other women
"that he did this to, it was not normal.
"It was not welcomed, and it was certainly not consensual."
- What he did to me was a crime.
He broke the law.
- But, very notably, Cuomo isn't the only person
facing fallout, right now,
from the State Attorney General's devastating report.
Yesterday, Cuomo's number one aide, Melissa DeRosa,
announced that she was resigning after the report found
that she not only contributed to the toxic work environment,
but also led efforts to retaliate against Lindsey Boylan,
the first woman who came out against Cuomo.
And out just this morning, Roberta Kaplan,
the chairwoman of Time's Up and co-founder
of its legal defense fund resigned from that group,
literally created to fight sexual abuse,
because the inquiry found that she had also helped
Cuomo's effort to discredit Boylan.
All right, so this is not only massive for Cuomo,
but those who have been close to him.
Yeah, ultimately, that is where we are right now.
Right, this is kinda the top-level highlights
from the past few days.
This is something that we're gonna be keeping our eyes on.
You know, with this, I would love to know your thoughts
on any aspect of the story.
Also, do you think that he will finally resign?
Is he going to be impeached?
What do you think will happen?
What do you want to happen?
And while you type that out,
the ugly, ugly shit show will continue.
And ultimately, with this story, or honestly,
anything else that stood out to you today,
I'd love to know your thoughts in those comments down below,
because yes, this is a news show,
but it's also a conversation
and as always, thanks for watching, liking, subscribing,
all the good stuff.
My name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been filled in,
I love yo' faces and I'll see you tomorrow.