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fantastic Friday
Welcome back to the philip defranco show and if you are new here on Friday as we do things a little bit differently on Friday
As I try to knock out more viewer requested stories from this week also includes stories that I wanted to get to but we ended
Up either having to cut for time
We're never filming because of times with that said let's just jump into and the first thing we're gonna talk about today
Let's start with a viewer requested story from this week. We had Katy Perry in the news for two reasons first
I really won't get into but it involves a dead nun also after hearing the way the words came out of my mouth like that
It feels like I should add to that story, but for me
it's just gonna be fun to not but the second reason the Katy Perry was in the news this week had to do with a
Stolen kiss earlier this week there was an episode of American Idol where there was an audition for Benjamin glaze
He's a 19 year old cashier from Oklahoma, and of course because it's a reality show about singing
You can't just be good at singing you have to have a random or interesting thing to get any airtime and his was that he
Has never kissed a girl. He says. I can't kiss a girl without being a relationship
They they they get him to come over
It seems to kind of protest it, but then they get him to kiss Katy Perry on the cheek
She then kind of eggs Amane the way you did it you didn't even get a smooch sound and leans in to kiss her cheek
Again and Katy Perry turns her head kisses him right on the lips glaze falls down
She throws up her arms and triumphs you then sings a song it gets three noes and it gets kicked off the show
But then on Wednesday a New York Times article comes out about the kiss they do an interview with glaze
And he says I was a tad bit uncomfortable. I wanted to save it for my relationship
I wanted it to be special would I have done it if she said would you kiss me no?
I would have said no I know a lot of guys would be like heck. Yeah, but for me
I was raised in a conservative family, and I was uncomfortable immediately
I wanted my first kiss to be special, but also then adding after talking with friends
He doesn't think it really counts saying they agreed with me that it doesn't really count
It was lip contact versus a romantic situation with someone you care about that's what a real first kiss is then also adding that he?
Doesn't feel like what happened with sexual harass that said there were others that had a massive
Problem with it some examples of the outrage it was a forced sexual act imagine if this was from a male jut as Katy Perry
Not taken anything from the me2 movement
What if he didn't want that kiss for religious reasons what if Luke Bryan forced kissed a 19 year old girl would that be okay?
Creepy for Perry to do that American Idol shame on you for your take on this
He was there to sing not to get a kiss from someone who has kissed how many lips his first kiss was supposed to be
Special now it has been destroyed Katy Perry needs to keep her body parts to herself in fact it got
So much attention glaze went to his Instagram
To respond saying the way certain articles are worded is not done by me and my true intentions are not accurately
Represented in every article you read about the situation. I am not complaining about the kiss
I am very honored and thankful to have been a part of American Idol
I do not think I was sexually harassed by Katy Perry, and I am thankful for the judges comments and critiques
I was uncomfortable in a sense of how I have never been kissed before and was not expected all that said I do think that
It brings up an interesting question of if certain things in this story had changed would the public reaction be different?
And I'll give you some modifiers some things can stay the same. Let's say the age is 33 and 19
Those are the same so would there have been a different reaction if there was someone that was less
Attractive than Katy Perry and flip it what if it was a 33 year old male artist who was attractive and then a not
So attractive 33 year old male art or then we just flipped genders you have an attractive male 33 year old
Artist and a 19 year old girl and then an unattractive
33 year old male artist in a 19 year old girl would the public reaction be different?
Also, you can throw in should the public reaction be different. I know there's there. There's some debate there
I love know your thoughts on this then really quick
I wanted to do an update and
Correction from this Monday show and the Monday show we covered a story about Twitter accounts being suspended
And I want to take a second to address two issues with that story for one some reason this girl's photo is showed in relation
To a Twitter account that I was talking about common white girl it turns out
She's an imagery user who has had or has an account of that same name and too this girl's photo is also used by mistake
For being linked to the Twitter account so damn true
And I found out about these mistakes last night after both these girls reached out to our community and so the first thing I want
To do is I want to apologize and then also give an explanation
How this mistake happened so that people can also understand with that I do want to say one?
Upfront this mistake ultimately falls on me anything that happens on the PDS anything that happens at the company it falls on me
I understand that me trying to give an explanation is not me trying to make an excuse and and just push it off
I am personally a line of defense to stop a mistake
I have put all the people that work on the show in their positions
I hope create the workflow the situation around the Monday show was a mixture of uncommon
Situation my fantastic main editor was out sick the backup editor on staff that I normally use his hand and armor injured we then made
a workflow where
He and the newest editor would would just would split between cutting and graphic that newer editor working on graphics did not get assets from
The researcher that was working on that story then did a blonde
Not specific enough google search without knowing the background of that story
Then getting the wrong graphic because these editors weren't used to our regular workflow
They didn't send me an earlier review copy of the cut so that I and the research team could review afterwards there was a second
and final review
But I wasn't there because I hopped out early to be on the h3
Podcast something I would never do but I was surprised in Chris
Betancourt who you possibly know from one list one life if you don't know his story he was diagnosed with leukemia
His buddy Dylan decided to drop everything. He was doing and help him fulfill his bucket list meaning
He was number 41 on that list so I went to surprise him. It's Philip DeFranco
Billy Dee once again, please understand, I'm not saying this as an excuse
I'm trying to explain why this weird situation happened
I also did feel comfortable doing this because I figured worst case scenario the researcher who work specifically on just that story would help catch
Any mistakes he unfortunately did not which also for me personally raises some questions
That said I do not go into the specifics of when it deals with employees and and their job
But understand that it is being taken care of right now
Don't only where I want to end this little section is hopefully by me explaining this you understand the current fail-safes
How it failed and also know that I'm going to be adding other layers just in case and - as
I've said in the past. I will always aim for perfection
Knowing that at times we will fall short, but always understand and trust that I will call myself out on it
It'd be a lot easier to just not address this a few thousand people talking about it, but then it goes away
Then to address it to the full million-plus audience
And I'm not saying that because I want some fucking pat on the back for not being a disgusting stupid person
I'm saying that because that's the way more places should be and how I run my show that said let's get back into the news
Then for some reason with all this stuff happening in the world people want me to talk about Donald Trump jr.
Reportedly getting divorced Inessa Trump who married jr. Back in 2005 reportedly filed for divorce. It's not really much to add
They're literally the only reason
I'm giving it any time whatsoever is it is part of my favorite headline this week Business Insider
Reporting Donald Trump juniors wife Vanessa once called Trump retarded, and then I guess they were worried
There was still offending someone so the title on their site reads Donald Trump Jr's
once called the president the r-word after he introduced them twice in one night the thing is this is about 12 year old news the
quote is from a
2006 New York Times article vanessa tells a story about how donald trump introduced her to Donald Trump jr.
Twice and saying nothing happened later. She and jr
Meet separately and they talked for an hour
And then suddenly something clicked wait you were at that Fashion Show
wait you're the one with the
Retarded dad Vanessa blurted out because there's really nothing meaningful to me in this story the question
I have for it Business Insider making a title change made me wonder
What is your opinion on the R word and give me the range are you on the never say it ever no
It's completely fine. Also. We're on the list is as a news publication. You can't even put it in quotes
I'd love know your opinion
then let's talk about Mona Lisa Perez and the reason Mona Lisa's name might sound familiar to you as we've talked about her in the
Past she is the youtuber who killed her boyfriend trying to make a youtube video her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz the third held him
Encyclopedia in front of him and Perez who is reportedly just one foot away
Held a 50 caliber Desert Eagle and fired it at the book and unsurprisingly to pretty much everyone else
But surprisingly to Mona Lisa
She ended up actually shooting her boyfriend and then killing him reportedly telling 9-1-1 we were doing a YouTube video and it went wrong
It's all on recording and it was on recording in fact there were there were two cameras
also
Reportedly there was their very young child and the big update to this story after all of this time is that Mona Lisa has now
Been sentenced back in December she pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter and as part of the plea
You will have to serve 180 day jail term
The first six months alternating between 10 days in jail 10 days out of jail so that'll equate to 90 days
And then the other 90 days will be limited to home confinement
Additionally she'll be on supervised probation for 10 years
He's banned for life from owning firearms and make no financial gain from the case
I personally don't know how to feel about it obviously it was an accident
Wondering is did she get ten days in ten days at a jail because they wanted her to still be the primary caretaker of her
Children it seems like that was taken into
Consideration with her sentencing is that why this was done because personally that makes me worry about the children no
No, I'll pass the question off to you
I mean do you think that this is the the right kind of punishment there should have been no punishment
Or should have been harsher
Let me know in those comments down below
And then let's talk about the update around Brianne
Brochu her name and face might seem familiar because we talked about her a while back in the jazzy Rose story a story that came
From the University of Hartford Rose said she and her roommate didn't get along Oh found herself getting sick should chronic throat pain
She couldn't go to sleep
She was having trouble with a roommate and eventually she just decided to move was just a really bad situation
And then she finds out that Briana her roommate was
bragging about
This saying finally did it your girl got rid of her roommate after one and a half month of spinning in her coconut oil hitting
Moldy clam dip in her lotions rubbing used tampons on her backpack putting her toothbrush places where the Sun don't shine and so much more
I can finally say goodbye Jamaican Barbie
so this story blew up there was an outpouring of support for ro a
Massive amount of hate for both the school and for breanna
University ends up handing the case over to local authorities an airbrush ooh admit it - licking rose silverware and smearing her bodily fluids on
The backpack but denied tampering with lotions and cosmetics saying it was a lie to quote appear funny
Where we left off as as a result of this she was charged with second degree breach of peace and third degree criminal
mischief both of those crimes Class B
Misdemeanors that carry a maximum of six months in prison and a fine and during all this
But she also got expelled she lost a four year
$20,000 scholarship, she also lost her job
and if you wanted the law to come down on her you were gonna be angry Brianna was granted a special type of
Probation that allows her to avoid a criminal record this includes 200 hours of community service
50 of which will be at a Literacy
organization in the Greater Hartford area another 50 will be out of social services group
And if wear shoes stays out of trouble she completes the community service the charges will be dismissed
After two years also thing of note here is the state declined to file a hate crime charge against Brochu
Please had sought to include a charge of intimidation based on bigotry or bias reportedly after looking at eyewitness
statements interview searching through shoes online history
They couldn't find anything racist and so it seems like the general idea there is if they couldn't find
Evidence elsewhere Rihanna calling Road, Jamaican Barbie might not be enough, but that is where this story ends
And I want to pass a question off to you. What are your thoughts on this punishment or rather lack personally?
I think the punishment is underwhelming and and yes part of me goes well
She's going to have to pay in a lot of different ways right she lost the scholarship
She lost the job the Internet is forever
We even be considering these social punishments someone's going to receive based on their action
Win lose or draw when we're talking about a legal punishment. I don't know even Roe the victim of this story
She didn't even oppose accelerated rehabilitation saying by giving her this second chance
I hope she will change her ways and finds love for all mankind no matter
What race so also into your question with how the victim of this situation?
Feels does that change your mind at all
Then we had Hillary Clinton in the news seemingly because there are Democrats who don't want Hillary Clinton in the news anymore
He missed it on March 3rd Hillary Clinton made news because she made these comments while in India what the map doesn't show you is
That I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product
So I won the places that our
Optimistic diverse
Dynamic moving forward and his whole campaign make America great again
Was looking backwards, you know you didn't like black people getting rights. You don't like women. You know getting jobs
You don't want it. You know see that Indian Americans succeeding more than you are whatever your problem is
I'm gonna solve it and kind of like we've seen with some candidates
Who are trying to distance themselves in their own ways from Donald Trump?
They're Democrats trying to distance themselves from Clinton Democrat and North Dakota
senator Heidi Heitkamp saying Hillary Clinton can't go away soon enough while speaking with a local radio station
Host who's her brother says Clinton needs to ride off into the sunset. I camp responds not soon enough
Democratic senator sherrod Brown telling the Huffington Post I don't really care what she said
I just think that's not helpful Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri saying oh come on. You're killing me here
How do you SOLAS doyald Clinton's 2008 campaign manager saying look this was bad. I can't sugarcoat it
She was wrong and clearly it's not helpful to Democrats going into the midterms and certainly not going into 2020 adding
She's put herself in a position where Democrats are going to have to distance themselves from these remarks and distance themselves from her
Particularly those Democrats that are running in the states that Donald Trump won, and very unsurprisingly now
We're seeing
Republicans taking the video from this incident and getting it out to people she's not even running and she's giving Republicans a deplorable --zz
2.0 the question becomes how fucking stupid are you that you do not realize that that shit-talking?
Voters isn't how you got people to vote your way. I just don't understand how anyone could be that stupid
I figured that Hillary Clinton would have learned after deplorable is common
you don't get people to not vote for the other guy and vote for you or people that agree with you by
Shit-talking then I won the places that are optimistic the first dynamic moving forward
I won the places that provide value to this country and so by making those statements
It sounds like everything else is a shithole you talk about Donald Trump backwards policies shit talk Donald Trump all you want but do not
Generalize everyone who voted for him unless you want to just solidify all those people voting for him and if Hillary Clinton
Actually wants a future where Donald Trump is not the president
She wants a future where Democrats they rise and it's not about being self-serving or her ego. She will walk away
That's where I'll personally leave it. That's the story
That's my opinion, and that said I'd still have to know what you're thinking whether you agree or disagree with me here
And then let's talk about that horrifying bridge collapse in Florida if you didn't see it it happened yesterday afternoon at, Florida International
University he's a newly installed pedestrian bridge reportedly one that was meant to be all about students safety as a filming this video
We know that multiple cars were crushed under the bridge six people have died with more deaths
Possible officials saying that ten people were transported to the hospital two of which were
Extricated from under the bridge soon after all this happened the construction company of the bridge manila
Construction management said in a Facebook post our family's thoughts and prayers go to everyone affected by this terrible tragedy a new
university city bridge which was under construction
Experienced a catastrophic collapse causing injuries and loss of life MCM is a family business
and we are all devastated and doing everything we can to assist we will conduct a full investigation to determine exactly what went wrong and
Will cooperate with investigators on scene in every way there have also been reports that Manila construction management and F
Igg another company involved in the construction of this bridge have had safety issues with other
construction projects in the past in addition to that we also saw the National Transportation Safety Board
Announcing that they were dispatching a team to investigate the collapse and this of course also raises questions about the bridge itself portal II it
caused fourteen point two
Million dollars to build and was funded as part of a nineteen point four million dollar grant from the US Department of Transportation
The span was approximately 174 feet long nine hundred fifty tons at the time of the collapse
It was not yet open to the public and parts were still under construction the bridges span was also reportedly just installed on March 10th
Over the course of six hours according to an FIU press release on March 10th the span was lifted from its temporary support rotated 90
degrees across an eight
in thoroughfare and lowered into its permanent position the installation of the bridge was also unique in that I used a machine called a
self-propelled modular
transporter or
SpMT and SpMT is a combination of different platforms on axles that are operated by a computer system to lift and carry heavy load that
Also means this bridge was the largest pedestrian bridge installed by
SpMT in US history as to why the bridge collapse there have been some reports that the construction crew is actually conducting a stress test
Before it collapse and according to the University the bridge was designed to withstand
Category 5 hurricanes his durability was supposed to exceed 100 years also
We saw a Senator Marco Rubio
Tweeting out yesterday the cables that suspend the Miami bridge had loosened and the engineering firm ordered that they be tightened they were being tightened
when it collapsed today.
But still I think it is important that as of recording this video the exact cause of the collapse has not yet been confirmed
But as of right now
That's all we know and hopefully the investigation can shed some light on the situation
And I know it's just words with money my thoughts and well wishes to those affected by this and that's where I'm going to end
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