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This is my favorite story today.
Right, so yesterday we talked about four LAPD officers.
I called them heroes.
They saved that man from a crashed plane,
right before it got hit by a train.
But today we have talked about some of their lying
douche bag colleagues, right?
The other side of the coin.
So this story starts back in 2017, with two officers
by the name of Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell,
who were working on patrol in Los Angeles.
And on the day in question, captain Darnell Davenport,
the patrol commanding officer for their division responded
to a radio call about a robbery at a Macy's
and he called for backup.
While he was responding to the call thanks to new documents,
we know that he said that he saw something odd,
a police car tucked away back in an alley, just feet away.
To remove any question that it was some other car,
you had patrol supervisor, Sergeant Jose Gomez,
seeing from the commander's board,
that Lozano and Mitchell's car was in fact
located near the scene, but when he requested
that they respond twice, he received no response from them.
When later as why, Mitchell says, "I didn't hear it,"
Lozano was saying, "I couldn't hear anything
"over the loud music."
And that is when the problems for Lozano and Mitchell
really started because here's a tip.
When you lie about something that happened,
you should try to remember, was I being filmed
by a or multiple cameras at that time?
Because the units dash cam video was recording
the whole thing and exposed them.
Not only had they received the radio call,
they discussed the call on whether they should assist
captain Davenport, but both deciding not to respond.
And if you're like, "Okay, it's completely weird,
"but maybe they were doing something more important."
Do you know what they were doing?
They were trying to catch a Snorlax in Pokemon GO.
And as someone that's played Pokemon Go, I mean,
this thing consumed my life for a while.
Just going through the documents on this was amazing.
And we just have to go through at least some.
With one part of the document reading,
for approximately the next 20 minutes, the dash-cam
caught them discussing Pokemon as they drove
to different locations where the virtual creatures
apparently appeared on their mobile phones
and on their way to the Snorlax location,
officer Mitchell alerted, officer Lozano that a quote
a Togetit just popped up, noting that it was on Crenshaw,
just South of 50th.
And after Mitchell apparently caught the Snorlax,
he exclaimed, "Got 'em," with him agreeing
to go get the Togetit, and they drove off.
When their car stopped again, Mitchell was recorded saying,
"Don't run away, don't run away."
While Lozano described how he quote, buried it
and ultra balled the Togetit
before announcing, "Got 'em."
Mitchell saying, "I'm still trying to catch it,
"holy crap, man, this thing is fighting the crap out of me."
And apparently after finally capturing it,
he said, "The guys are going to be so jealous."
All right so all of that one seems pretty straightforward,
what they were doing and two kind of the nerdiest ever.
I say that as even like a nerd myself.
But for me as someone that is familiar with this game,
them trying to explain why, what they were actually doing
instead of playing Pokemon, it's so fucking stupid.
With the newly released documents explaining,
despite the video evidence, the cops denied
playing Pokemon GO while on duty.
Claiming they weren't playing the game itself.
They were just monitoring a Pokemon tracker.
And as far as capturing Pokemon,
officer Lozano insisted that what he was referring
to was capturing an image of the Pokemon on the tracking
application to share with friends.
With officer Mitchell, saying that his statements
about fighting the Togetit referred to quote,
relaying that information to the groups on my app
and adding that in order to take the picture
occasionally the creature will fight.
Lozano was saying they weren't engaged in a game,
rather it was a social media event with Mitchell saying
he didn't consider the application a game
because it was not advertised as a game.
But okay, at the very least admitting that they did leave
their beat area in search of a Snorlax.
But insisting that they both did it
as part of an extra patrol
and to chase this mythical creature.
But with all that said, as far as what happened
to the officers, they were terminated though.
They did appeal their termination, fantastically,
arguing that somehow all of this was wrong
because the dash cam recording was used against them
as evidence, saying the city had violated the law
and it denied them specific protections.
But now all this on appeals court responded,
"Don't be stupid," stupid, and they upheld the termination.
But then even with that, this whole situation
may not be over because the lawyer for the two officers
told the Washington Post, they are considering what options
they might take in the future, including appealing
to the state Supreme Courts.
'Cause yeah, that's what the California Supreme Court
should be focusing on.
Whether or not police officers should be okay
with capturing Snorlax rather than a robber
who is in the act.
There was a robbery in progress y'all.
Anyway, if you have any thoughts share them down below.
And then we need to talk about Trevor Jacob,
so Trevor Jacob is a former Olympic snowboarder
and he was recently involved in a plane crash.
It was a flight that happened back in November,
Trevor actually posting the video to YouTube
back on December 23rd.
So what we know is that he took off from Lompoc Airport,
near Santa Barbara, California.
He was headed to Mammoth Lakes,
the video showing the takeoff and not long after,
while he's above the Los Padres National Forest,
he starts to seem concerned about the engine,
but not explicitly saying why.
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- But all of that leads to him jumping out of the plane
while it's in the air using a parachute
so he can land while the plane crashes into the mountain.
Where an absolutely insane moment,
he ends up landing at a bunch of sharp bushes
and brush cutting himself, trying to get out of it.
In the video explaining why he abandoned the plane.
- Well where the hell am I gonna land a freaking plane?
I'm going to die, that's why I always freaking
fly with a parachute.
- Trevor then spends hours going through the mountains,
looking for water for anyone to help
because he has no phone service.
But luckily it ends with him finally finding someone to help
and thanking them for saving his life.
But yesterday's plane story was a fluke.
This is on the Phillip DeFranco show.
You know why we're talking about this.
Since the release of that video, and more people seeing it,
a ton of people don't buy his story.
With the FAA also telling Aviation Webb
that it is investigating this incident
though declining to give further details.
According to the Santa Barbara Independent,
there are some questions that remain unanswered,
including when and how he got the plane.
The sources also reportedly telling that outlet
that he never intended to fly it all the way to Mammoth
and that the aircraft was in need of major maintenance.
Which is also why you had the likes of flight instructor,
Robert Perry telling the Santa Barbara Independent,
"It's all very suspect, if a plane is out of maintenance,
"that's the most dangerous time to fly."
Perry also finding other elements of the video to be off
saying that Trevor could have actually landed the plane
explaining from the looks of it,
he could have guided the plane 15 or 20 more miles
and landed it on more level ground.
Also saying that it was odd that Trevor wore a parachute
because it can be very difficult to do so
in such a small plane.
The Independent also noting that despite Trevor's claim
that he always wears one when flying,
he's actually posted several videos
where he flies without one.
You also had Trent Palmer, a YouTuber and private pilot
reacting to this situation saying that he found
a number of red flags throughout the video,
including the fact that Trevor used a selfie stick
to record himself jumping out
of this life or death situation.
- If he's really in an emergency situation right now,
this is life or death,
why would he be, well one, why would you have a camera
in your hand and selfie,
but why are you tracking out and looking back
and posing for something like this.
- Palmer also echoing the fact that he thinks
that there was space for him to land the plane
instead of jumping out.
Also saying that he understands why people think
that this crash was stage and that he thinks
it's a dangerous and reckless thing to do.
- When someone pulls a stunt like this
and creates what I would definitely call hazard
to persons and property on the surface,
by jumping out of their airplane when it wasn't necessary
and letting it fly down and crash.
And sure it was in a sparsely populated area,
no one was hurt, it didn't cause a fire,
but that's not to say that it couldn't happen.
It's just all of this is just so grossly irresponsible.
- And for now, it's gonna be interesting
to see if Trevor Jacob says anything publicly,
according to the Santa Barbara Independent,
they reached out to him, but he didn't respond
nor has he addressed speculation on social media.
But on the video in question, he did take off comments.
Yes, so take that and everything all combined, as you will,
personally, I know nothing about being a pilot
or flying a plane, I'm gonna be one of the normies
that just waits for the FAA investigation.
Man, if he staged as video for views,
I'm so interested to see what the crack down on him
is going to be.
That said, I do want to pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this?
Do you think he faked it, yes, no?
Why, why not?
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And then, how much do your favorite creators get paid?
You ever watch someone's video
or like go through their Instagram and you're like,
"How much money are you bringing in?"
And for those that say their answer is no,
congratulations on being a better human than I am.
I'm nosy, interested, looking for a reason to be jealous.
And for me personally, one of the most interesting sets
of creators that I'm interested in are people
that blew up on Tik TOK.
With direct monetization on Tik TOK, notoriously horrible,
but the ability to go from zero to some insane
meteoric rise, getting in front of just a mind numbing,
a number of people, it's through the roof.
And attention and audience equals big dollars.
Well, I can't verify these figures myself,
unless one of these creators wants to go out of their way
to contact me, I don't know why you would,
but you're free to.
Forbes just released the highest paid Tik Toker list,
and some of the names you'd expect.
Charlie D'Aelio coming in at number one
with them saying that she made $17.5 million last year.
And as far as how, I mean she's worked with pretty much
every brand under the sun.
She has a family reality show on Hulu,
as well as a whole clothing line, lot of different avenues.
Then number two on the list,
keeping it in the family of Dixie D'Amelio,
$10 million and Addison Rae 8.5,
Bella Poarch and Josh Richards coming in at fourth and fifth
at 5 million a piece,
which I will say to me is a little bit surprising
but with Bella Poarch,
she's crushing it in a way that very few other creators,
especially creators that are trying to jump
into the music industry are.
But just on YouTube, her last two music video
has got 90 million and 352 million views.
And then you have Josh Richards who seems to be kind of
crushing it right now, both from a content
and a business perspective.
Spanning his audience, reach and income,
working with Barstool Sports, as well as, I mean,
gosh like an increasing number of creators in this space,
especially with the younger people that realize
like this is a business from day one.
Having equity in what you might find to be a shocking number
of companies in the space.
But also the way I'll close this is by saying
who really knows without seeing someone's balance sheet?
Like this morning, I was absolutely blown away.
I was looking online, and I saw that Amouranth, right,
she's big on Twitch as well as OnlyFans,
but just reading the story, I was like,
I thought I was doing well and maybe I need
new money managers because she just bought
a pool floaty company,
Like a multi multi-million dollar deal.
Well, there are probably a number of ways
to close out this story.
And of course I'd love to know your thoughts
about any aspect of it.
Personally, my main takeaway is that these last
two generations of creators online,
I think they're gonna have a lot more staying power
than when I first started coming up.
Like you're still gonna have the,
I burned through all my money because I thought the money
that was coming in was infinite people,
but I don't know all these years in it's still amazing to me
that we've gotten to this point.
And then this is game changing medical news right here,
so right now, as I'm making this video,
I believe just in the United States,
there are around 106,000 people
in the national transplant waiting list.
And unfortunately, even with the donations
that people are making, there just isn't
enough to go around.
17 people that are waiting for a transplant dying each day.
But after what just happened over the weekend,
there is more hope than ever for the future.
That's because on Friday, 57 year old David Bennett Senior
became the first person to have a pig's heart
successfully transplanted into him.
The procedure was absolutely groundbreaking
and offers hope to many patients
who are waiting for those organs.
But doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center,
where the operation took place are still saying
one step at a time.
Saying, of the heart, it creates the pulse,
it creates the pressure,
it is his heart, it's working and it looks normal.
We are thrilled, but we don't know
what tomorrow will bring us.
This has never been done before.
With Dr. David Klassen and the Chief Medical Officer
of the United Network for Organ Sharing,
also warning us to not get ahead of ourselves.
Saying doors are starting to open,
that will lead I believe to major changes
in how we treat organ failure.
But also noting events like these can be dramatized
in the press and it's important to maintain perspective.
It takes a long time to mature a therapy like this,
but depending on the longer-term success of this transplant,
I mean, we could have maybe advanced a lot here.
Like this transplant was initially described by the person
getting it as a shot in the dark.
In fact, the stars had to align in a morbid way
for this to even happen.
Simply put, Bennett needed a heart, or he was going to die.
He had exhausted all other treatment options
and he was too sick to qualify for a regular organ.
So because all of those other doors were closed for him
that made him eligible to partake
in this experimental procedure.
But still, even with this being experimental,
I think it's important to look at this
as a potential day one.
And yes, it is likely gonna be years before we see
whether this is viable or not for the longterm
and on that note, for how long.
But still, this is an exciting reason to hope,
it is a step one, but a reason to hope
especially when you look at how this is different
to other stuff like pig heart valves
have been used in patients for years, how?
Pigskin, even being used in skin graft support.
But attempts at using other animal organs
within a person have failed.
But the biggest issue there being rejection of the organ,
but with recent advancement in cloning and gene editing,
there are now ways to make organs that are less likely
to be rejected by human patients.
And in total for this specific situation,
10 genes for this pig were modified.
Some are pig genes that are known to cause a severe
rejection response in humans.
Others were human genes that were inserted to further reduce
the immune system's response.
And so not just out of the kind of accidental
upon the good of my heart,
I hope Mr. Bennett gets many, many years out of his.
This could save hundreds and thousands of people a year,
including selfishly enough myself,
cause I'm gonna need a kidney transplant at some point.
And honestly, in 2022, if you can give me a reason to hope
I'ma grab it by the horns.
And then will we ever get rid of the filibuster
in the Senate?
It's been a big question for about a year now,
since Democrats really haven't been able to pass everything
they wanna pass because of it.
And in a speech this afternoon, President Biden
for the first time officially endorsed,
changing the filibuster in order
to pass voting rights bills.
So with the filibuster in place,
it's a role that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation.
Though there are some narrow exceptions
where legislation can be passed with a simple majority
of 50 senators and a tie breaking vote
from the vice vice-president,
such as the budget reconciliation process
or in order to change certain rules.
And since Biden took office and has faced
broad obstruction from Republicans,
there's been this major push,
especially among progressives to get rid
of the filibuster or at least change the rules
so they can actually pass the Democratic agenda.
This especially if the Republicans have blocked
multiple bills from the Democrats aimed at expanding
voting rights to counter the unprecedented
voting restrictions, being imposed by GOP,
held state legislatures all over the country.
And if you're unfamiliar with the state legislature issue,
going into the elections in 2022 and 2024,
I'll upload a clip to the clip channel.
I talked about it at the end of last year.
It's a massive horrifying problem that very transparently
takes away democracy from the representative democracy
that we're supposed to have.
And that's something that Biden hit on in his speech today
saying, "I believe that the threat to our democracy
"is so grave that we must find a way to pass
"these voting rights bills to bait them.
"Vote, let the majority prevail,
"and if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option,
"but to change the Senate rules,
"including getting rid of the filibuster for this."
And while that would be huge, the big question here
is where does the Senate stand?
Though really the question is where do Kyrsten Sinema
and Joe Manchin stand?
They're the two Democratic senators who have most
gotten in the way of trying to pass a Democratic agenda
or trying to do anything in the Senate.
They've also both previously said they're opposed
to getting rid of the filibuster.
So there is this question of even if this change
is a limited carve out that will only be used
for voting rights legislation, does it do enough for that?
As well to be fair as this debate has heated up
in recent weeks, does this do enough for more moderate
Democratic senators who have expressed hesitancy
about whether they would support the changes.
And right now, as far as the Republican response
to the situation and the potential change of the filibuster,
you had Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell speaking,
saying Republicans would immediately retaliate
if Democrats change the filibuster rules.
With places like Axios, supporting that McConnell,
argues that Senate Democrats will silence
millions of Americans if they get rid of the rules.
Saying if my colleagues try to break the Senate
to silence those millions of Americans,
we will make their voices heard in this chamber
in ways that are more inconvenient for the majority
in this White House than what anybody
has seen in living memory.
Which given what happened last January 6th
is an interesting fun thing to say.
With all that, here's what I'll say,
and I'll keep saying this until our democracy dies
in the next three years.
The transparent nature of this coup from key Republicans,
whether it be voting rights restrictions,
or just straight up allowing state legislatures to go,
"I don't care about the will of the people
"or what the vote was, here's who I wanna be president."
It's horrifying and it has the support
of a shocking number of Republicans
because the big lie from Trump and all his cronies
at the last election was stolen, which once again, wasn't,
that they are effectively going to be able to do
what they accuse the other side of doing.
And finally to Mitch McConnell that said that this
will silence millions of Americans that you should
expect retaliation, especially, you know,
if and when the Republicans take over Congress.
You're already going to do that, you're Mitch McConnell,
precedent doesn't mean to you nor maybe should it.
Your whole emo short of an actual violent coup
is gaining power by any means necessary
and using that power most effectively when you have it.
And if you wanna talk about silencing millions of Americans,
that's the whole point of the Senate.
No offense to you Rhode Island,
You're probably great people, but Rhode Island
and California get the same representation.
Fuck, you wanna talk about silencing millions of Americans,
Let's look at the electoral college.
Right in 2020, 7 million more Americans voted for Biden
than Trump, but really Biden only won by like 80,000
or so votes because of the electoral college.
But finally, to bring it back to the point
of trying to carve out something with the filibuster rule,
passing, voting rights bills,
if Democrats do not pass this and pass it fast,
this is not gonna be the same country in a few years.
We're talking about democracy falling,
even with all the imperfections that we just talked about.
What we're looking at is so much worse.
I mean, between the heavily gerrymandered maps,
the voting restrictions definitely meant
to suppress Democratic votes and of course,
state legislatures that can overturn election results,
like we're staring down the barrel of losing our democracy,
having one party rule for the foreseeable future,
regardless of what the people want.
Look it's very possible given Biden's favorable
now like if those don't move going into the 2024 election,
and he, or whoever is running like they're around the same,
the Republicans could straight out beat them no matter what.
But the way that they are trying to set the table
is not taking that chance, not risking it.
They're not coming up with better policies,
but rather rigging the game.
But ultimately that is where that story
and today's show ends.
With that, I wanna say thank you for watching today's show
being back on the first week back.
And remember my 2022 is very much about putting out
more content, giving you guys more news.
So if you missed yesterday's Philip DeFranco show,
the first show back, you can click or tap right there,
or I put out a morning bonus news video,
that's gonna be kind of where I put
the more not safe or content that YouTube is likely
going to suppress.
And tomorrow you have two more videos to look forward to,
but to close today's show out, my name's Philip DeFranco.
You've just been filled in.
I love your faces and I'll see you tomorrow.