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- [Philip] That was the whitest version of me.
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She wasn't even open to growing another 12 inches
to match my frame, amateur.
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and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing we're going to talk about today,
is Edward Buck being back in the news.
And his name might be familiar to you,
one he is a prominent democratic donor,
but also two, back in January,
we talked about him.
And that was because two men had been found dead
in his apartment 18 months apart.
And notably, both of those men,
both in January of this year,
and July of 2017 both of those men
reportedly died of a methamphetamine overdose.
Regarding the 2017 death,
reportedly the admissible evidence at that time
was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
that Buck was responsible for the man's death.
But then this year, the mother of the young man
who died filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
And reportedly that lawsuit accused him of wrongful death,
sexual battery and assault,
and reportedly the complaint describes Buck
as a wealthy white man who quote,
"had a predatory and injurious system
of soliciting black men and watching them cling to life."
Then that death in January of this year was Timothy Dean.
He was a 55 year old man,
reportedly he and Buck had been friends
for a very long time.
There Dean's death was ruled accidental
by the Los Angeles County SHeriff's Department.
But obviously now that we're talking about this story today,
you know that is not where the story ends,
because it is now being reported
that Ed Buck is being charged,
among other things, with running a drug den.
This because reportedly just last week,
another 37 year old man had an overdose,
although this time it was non-fatal.
But yeah, Buck has been arrested,
at this time he is currently facing felony counts
of battery causing serious injury,
administering methamphetamine,
and maintaining a drug house.
And according to the Los Angeles County
District Attorney's Office,
if convicted he could face a maximum sentence
of five years and eight months in state prison.
And while Ed Buck's lawyer in the past has said things like,
Yes Ed does have individuals he associates with who
have problems with drugs. He tries to talk them out of it.
Sometimes they bring their problems into his apartment,
and that's where the problem is.
In this most recent event, according to court documents,
prosecutors say that this latest overdose victim
went to Buck's apartment on September 4th
where Buck personally and deliberately
administered a large dose of methamphetamine.
Concerned he was suffering an overdose,
the man left the apartment to get medical help.
Then adding he returned to Buck's apartment
on September 11th, when Buck again injected him
with two dangerously large doses of methamphetamine.
Prosecutors then go on to say Buck thwarted
the man's attempts to get help.
But the man eventually fled the apartment
and called 911 from a gas station,
where he was eventually taken to a hospital for treatment.
Also of note here, Sheriff's investigators
say they found hundreds of photographs in Buck's home
of men in compromising positions,
which appears to go along with prosecutors
saying that Buck is a violent sexual predator
who preys on men struggling with addiction
and homelessness.
From his home in a position of power,
Buck manipulates his victims into participating
in his sexual fetishes.
And adding, these fetishes include supplying
and personally administering dangerously large
doses of narcotics to this victims.
And so ultimately, that's where we are right now,
and I guess the kind of thought in my head right now is,
how the hell has it taken this long?
I mean even when we were covering this back in January,
it was baffling.
Right, maybe you have one victim,
okay there's some smoke here,
second victim within 18 months, it seems like a fire.
Then just months later, we're talking about
a third victim, all of a sudden we're hearing things
like hundreds of photos, and you're wondering,
how many victims are there?
But yeah, that's where this one ends,
one it's gonna be interesting to see what happens
related to these charges,
but also two, if we see anything else come from this.
Are there more stories, more victims,
right because for me personally it feels
like there's a very big blank to be filled in here.
But yeah to completely shift tone from that news,
let's kinda knock out two quickie pieces of news today.
First up, you had Olivia Jade in the news,
who some know as just kind of a massive online influencer.
Others, especially after all the news of the college
admissions cheating scandal,
know her as the daughter of Full House actress
Lori Loughlin, Aunt Becky.
Now notably, out of all the people accused,
Loughlin did not plead guilty, she didn't take a plea deal.
Which actually regarding that,
we are seeing the punishments come through.
Felicity Huffman for example,
just received a 14 day prison sentence.
But pulling back to Olivia Jade,
the reason she's in the news
is because according to reports,
Lori Loughlin's daughter deletes controversial photo
after report lawyers quote begged her
to stay off social media.
As far as the photo in question, if you do not remember it,
it showed Olivia Jade flipping off the camera,
with the caption having the handles of several outlets,
as well as @everyothermediaoutlinet,
hashtag close, hashtag source, hashtag says.
And here's the thing,
I imagine if you're as big of a figure as her,
in such a high profile case,
there's gotta be a lot of frustrations.
But you know there needs to be an understanding
that wildly flailing or lashing out,
especially while your parent is charged.
In a situation where we are now seeing other parents
getting jail time.
It's not helpful, especially when you're one of the people
that allegedly got into this school
because of what happened.
But also, maybe I'm wrong,
maybe the judge will take into account
how many likes and how much support you got
from other blue check marks into consideration.
Then in quickie streaming wars news.
There are reports that are a little all-over-the-place
regarding this deal,
but you have places like Cord Cutter news saying
for billions of dollars,
but also places like Variety citing industry sources
saying that for $600 million,
WarnerMedia has gained the exclusive rights
to the 12 seasons of Big Bang Theory for TBS,
and notably, HBO Max.
All right and this is a stand out moment because
one, it shows that the streaming wars are heating up,
but I think also two,
while it shows us that all these services right,
some of the biggest pulls
or hey look at our new original content,
some of the biggest potential pulls for the platform
are older, bingeable shows.
Right, I mean as Variety pointed out in their report,
this news is coming right after earlier this week,
Netflix committed an estimated $500 million
for the Seinfeld archive.
You've got HBO Max committing about $425 million
to reclaim the streaming rights to Friends from Netflix.
NBC Universal has a whole new service
that we haven't even talked about before called Peacock,
and they've reportedly committed $500 million
to relocate The Office from Netflix starting in 2021.
So I guess kind of with this story,
I wanted to ask you one,
regarding all of these different places
getting these big exclusives,
what are your thoughts in general?
Right there's been this big debate
that with all these different streaming services
already out there, launching,
everyone's getting exclusives,
things are kind of thinning out.
That by having to get multiple services,
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or that it's just going to lead to more piracy.
But then also two, and this is probably
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I don't think I personally know anyone
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but I definitely have a number of friends that they,
just go back, even though they've seen everything,
they binge watch Friends, and Seinfeld.
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And then let's talk about a story
that won't be polarizing in any way, Israel.
And specifically, we're going to be talking
about the recent election in Israel,
which I mean we've talked about the Israeli
elections a few times over the last few months,
but if you haven't seen that previous coverage,
here's a very quick TLDR.
Back in April, Bibi Netanyahu's Likud party
beat the opposition blue and white party,
and it's leader Benny Gantz by a fraction of a percent.
And in fact that election was so close,
that both parties ended up both getting 35 out of the 120
seats in Israel's parliament.
And so because neither party won an outright majority,
they had to form coalitions with smaller parties
until they could get a majority or 61 seats.
Now normally whichever party wins the most seats
gets the first chance to form a coalition government.
But due to the tie, it came down
to whoever had the best chance to build a majority,
and because a group of right-wing parties
that were expected to back Netanyahu had won
a larger block of seats, Gantz conceded the election.
So Netanyahu is given a max of 42 days to form a majority,
and those 42 days came and went,
and Netanyahu was only able to get a coalition
of 60 seats, so he was a seat short.
Meaning one, he didn't have enough seats
to become Prime Minister,
and two, it marked the first time in Israel's history
that a Prime Minister elect couldn't form a government
after an election.
And so what followed is Netanyahu proposed a bill
to dissolve parliament, and parliament voted
to dissolve its self, triggering new elections
that would be held in September.
Now for those who have not looked at a calendar
for 18, 19 days, it's September.
And that highly anticipated election,
the second in five months, it happened yesterday.
And with the results still rolling in,
at about 95% of the vote counted,
right now it's looking like Gantz's blue and white party
is just eking out a one seat lead over Netanyahu's.
Gantz currently holding 33, Netanyahu 32.
And so once again, we're not seeing an outright majority,
but we are seeing a number difference.
And so as far as what happens from here,
there are two main options.
The first option is for the Likud
and the Blue and White Parties to form what's called
a national unity government.
Under that system, the two parties would come up
with a power sharing agreement and pull their seats
to form a majority, although, there is a big catch here.
Gantz has said that he will not form a unity government
with Netanyahu as the leader of the Likud's
since he is facing indictment.
As we've talked about in previous shows,
as well as I mean we have a whole deep dive,
Netanyahu is currently facing charges of bribery,
fraud and a breech of trust that stems
from three different corruption cases.
He has though denied the charges,
and is set to have a pre-trial hearing
starting on October 2nd, so just in two weeks.
This of course after he was granted a request
to push an earlier scheduled hearing back.
And so as a result of that stance,
Netanyahu is unlikely to agree to a unity government
where he is not the leader.
Especially because many people believe
that in that position, he would try to get Parliament
to pass a last minute immunity deal for himself,
which is something that many experts say
could be his only shot at avoiding possible indictment.
So there's that, then the second option
is for Netanyahu and Gantz to try to piece together
coalitions with smaller parties to form a majority.
Right and so for that to happen,
we have to look at the blocks.
Right, the alliances that parties form,
based on their political and ideological opinions.
And there are two main blocks in Israel's parliament.
You have the center left block,
which includes the Blue and White party,
and the right wing block, which includes the Likud.
And once again, the situation gives us a big question mark,
because according to the current unofficial results,
both Gantz's center left block
and Netanyahu's right wing block are expected
to get 56 seats.
And of course keep in mind that these are not
the final official results,
and so things are subject to change.
But regardless, based on what we're seeing,
it appears that neither block has enough
for an outright majority.
Okay, so then you do a little bit of math,
and then you say okay, well what about the other 8 seats?
Well, all of those are expected to go to just 1 party,
Israel our Home, a secular ultra-nationalistic party
led by Avigdor Lieberman.
Now the party's political leanings
would normally place them in the right wing block,
and in fact Lieberman even served
in Bibi's cabinet in the past.
But Lieberman has actually been at odds with Netanyahu,
and is unlikely to throw his weight behind him.
As you might remember from the last time we covered this,
Lieberman was refusing to form a coalition with Netanyahu
after he won the election back in April,
unless Netanyahu would support a bill
that would require ultra-orthodox men to participate
in Israel's mandatory military conscription.
But if Netanyahu did that, right,
and he supported that bill, he would then lose the support
of the ultra-orthodox which held 16 seat that he needed.
And so all of that of course resulted in Netanyahu
dissolving the government, and holding new elections.
And so once again, the power to decide the next
Prime Minister is in Lieberman's hands.
Which is actually why the Israeli media
often refers to him as the king maker.
And as far as Lieberman wants,
for his part he has said that he wants a unity government,
between his party, the blue and white party, and the Likud.
But once again, Netanyahu remains adamantly opposed
to a unity government.
In fact speaking, in an announcement after meeting
with members of the right wing block he said,
we decided unanimously that we're going forward
together to negotiations that will establish
a government led by me.
And then adding, now there are only two possibilities,
a government led by me, or a dangerous government
that depends on the Arabs.
Now more than ever, with the vast security challenges
that lie ahead for the country,
a government must not be established that depends
on anti-Zionist Arab parties.
That's our commitment to the country and to our voters.
Which once again, that coming from him, is not surprising,
right, the stakes for him have never been higher.
And I mean you can see that desire,
and if you want to call it desperation reflected
in the efforts of he and his party.
All right last week he announced that he would
annex part of the West Bank if reelected.
After that statement Israel's central election committee
fined the Likud $8500 for illegal propaganda.
Last Thursday it was reported that Netanyahu's
Facebook page's chat bot was shut down
for violating hate speech rules.
This after sending a message that said,
Israel's Arab politicians want to destroy us all.
That Facebook account though was later brought back,
but then this Tuesday, his Facebook page's chat bot
was suspended after it violated regulations
that prohibit publishing of voter surveys on election day.
Also reportedly the day before the election,
Netanyahu gave two radio interviews,
breaking a law that bars candidates from promoting
themselves after 7 pm on election night eve.
Also there were allegations that the Likud
persuaded an Israeli television station
to report that surveillance cameras were being installed
at quote dozens of polling places in Arab areas.
Which, some experts have described,
as part of an effort to suppress Arab turnout.
Though we should note there,
if that was the desire, it did not work.
And I say that because reportedly the turnout
from Israel's Arab population,
which comprises of just 20% of the whole country,
it was much higher in this election
than in the last election.
But ultimately, that's where we are right now,
and once the final votes are in,
Israel's president will choose the candidate
that he thinks will have a best chance
of forming a majority government.
And I mean, we'll have to see what happens,
but it's incredibly unlikely that Gantz can get Lieberman
on his side, and you know technically Lieberman's party
is ideologically right wing,
so will they just go with Netanyahu,
even though they can't get their way on one thing.
Or if we end up in another stalemate,
there is also the third option
which I didn't mention previously.
There is also a possibility of a third election
early next year.
Yeah, ultimately, that's where we are,
and of course I'd love to know everyone's thoughts
on this, but also specifically if you live there,
or you have family there,
I'd love to know your thoughts about what's happening.
And that is where I'm going to end today's show.
Of course as I always over emphasize,
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