Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you had a fantastic
Monday welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is why
Kevin Spacey is in the news today
And why is the key word there because depending on where else you get your news you have seen
Drastically different headlines some reading Academy award-winning actor Kevin Spacey comes out as a gay man. Right, maybe that headline makes you go
OK good for him. He's an actor
who made his way through the business at a time where the industry maybe wasn't as accepting okay?
But then the other headlines read Kevin Spacey
Apologizes for alleged sex assault with a minor. Now It's interesting and what I will say I think is ridiculous
Is that these two headlines are actually connected to the same story and so the question you would understandably have at this point is how
so let's dive into that. We're talking about this today
Thanks to an accusation from Anthony rep you may know him from Star Trek Discovery, Rent
This is his story
in 1986 Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp become acquainted because they're both working on Broadway shows. at this time Anthony is 14 years old and judging
By this picture looks even younger
One night Spacey invites rap to a party at his apartment when he got there rap said he realized he was the only non adult
There so he got bored he wandered into a bedroom start watching TV
Then well past midnight Spacey came to the door and rap realized that everyone else had left the party saying my memory was that
I thought oh, everybody's gone well
Yeah I should probably go home. rap then said Spacey quotes sort of stood in the doorway kind of swaying my impression when he came in
The room was that he was drunk
Then rap says he picked me up like a groom picks up a bride over the threshold
But I don't like squirm away initially because I'm like what's going on and then he lays down on top of me
He was trying to seduce me
I don't know if I would have used that language
But I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually. rap then says he remember spacey quote pressing into him
But then added that after some time
he was able to get out from under Spacey and go into the bathroom saying I saw on the counter next to the sink a
Picture of him having his arm around a man, so I think on some level I was like oh he's gay
I guess then I opened the door and I was like okay. I'm going to go home now
He followed me to the front door of the apartment and as I opened the door to leave he was leaning on the front door
And he was like are you sure you want to go I said yes goodnight
And then I did leave rap then saying he had not addressed the incident with Spacey and describes how difficult the rest of his life
Was as a result
Especially since soon after the incident Spacey's career began to take off and he saw him everywhere so after the allegations came out again
Spacey he released a statement on Twitter writing. I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor
I am beyond horrified to hear his story
I honestly do not remember the encounter it would have been over 30 years ago, but if I did behave
Then as he describes. I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior
I am sorry for the feelings. He describes having carried with him all these years
This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life
I know that there are stories out there about me and that some have been fuelled by the fact
I've been so protective of my privacy as those closest to me know in my life
I have had relationships with both men and women I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life
And I choose now to live as a gay man
I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior. Kevin Spacey. and so coming out of all
Of that I just have to ask how the fuck do you get the headline had Emmy award-winning actor Kevin Spacey?
Comes out as a gay, man. We're talking about two separate stories here, and one is more important than the other
I mean what we're talking about here, and I'm not sure what month this happened in 1986
But what we're talking about is a man who is 27 years old at the time inviting a 14 year old to a party, where he allegedly
Gets drunk and on top of a 14 year old boy grinding into him. and your response is ah god, I'm sorry
I was drunk, and oh by the way i'm gay.
preying on a child has no connection to being gay and the fact that you would pair this together as if that should
Change the conversation
It's ridiculous and in general the gay community has been
Outraged at Kevin Spacey's statement. Wanda Sykes tweeting no no no no you don't get to choose to hide under the rainbow kick rocks.
Dan Savage tweeting nope - Kevin Spacey's statement nope
There's no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14 year old child
Cameron Esposito tweeting just want to be really fucking clear that being gay has nothing to do with going after underage folks
And there are a few final points
I want to make here the people like Kim Richards who in response to Kevin Spacey's statement wrote things like if true acting on impulse
while inebriated speaks to overindulgence not predatory behavior good and decent
Deserving forgiveness being drunk being inebriated does not excuse your actions last time
I checked if you got drunk before committing a crime
Still a crime if you got drunk and then slept with your significant other's his best friend. You don't get a mulligan
I'm just saying you don't get to unfuck Cheryl just because you were drunk you did it alcohol didn't transform you into a different person
So you are still responsible, but that's where we are as of right now
It'll be interesting to see what happens as the situation develops. I mean one on the career
End are we going to see people starting to
Distance themselves from Kevin Spacey? We learned in the last day that the last season of house of cards will be season six
But that may not necessarily be connected with these claims because they're reportedly still in production
of the series so that might not be connected it will also be interesting to see how that series is received and I'm on the
Accusation front it'll be interesting to see if this is a lone accusation or like the other stories
We've seen in the news recently if this is the first of many. But that said, what's your personal take away on this? do you think
That his excuse is enough or no this is ridiculous. What are you thinking?
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Links as always are in the description down below and let's talk about Facebook
Back in the news for a reason that's popped up several times in the past few years
People are once again accusing Facebook of listening in on their conversations. for years
And you may be included in this people have come out saying that they noticed they were getting ads in their news feeds that seemed
somewhat connected to conversations
They had recently had and so these suspicions have led many people to believe that sites like Facebook use the microphones in
Devices to listen in on your conversations, and then they use that information to place relevant ads on your newsfeed for example
There's a video from last year a guy mentions a cat days later
He gets cat food ads and if you look back a lot of these complaints start coming forward after 2014
I was because they launched this new audio recognition
Feature a feature reportedly listened to background music or TV show so you could add what you're listening to or watching to a status update
Less than a month after a launch company had to issue a denial saying it was quote not always listening
Facebook's head of security infrastructure at the time saying the microphone doesn't turn itself on it will ask for
permission adding the raw audio never leaves the phone and the data about the match is only stored if you choose to post it and
then in
2016 more closely to what we're talking about today Facebook denied that they were listening in and posting ads based on what you were talking about
in a statement
They wrote Facebook does not use your phone's microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in news feed some recent articles have
Suggested that we must be listening to people's conversations in order to show them relevant ads this is not true
We show ads based on people's interests and other profile information
Not what you're talking out loud about we only access your microphone
If you have given our app permission
And if you are actively using a specific feature that requires
audio this might include
Recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio and your status updates then most
recently on Friday PJ Vogt host an editorial director of the podcast reply all asked his users to share their experiences about Facebook spine and
To this Facebook's vice president of ads Rob Goldman responded I run ads at Facebook
We don't and have never used your microphone for ads just not true. Then when he was asked does this include
Instagram he replied
Yes
But still what we ended up seeing in response to that original tweet were a lot of people sharing stories where they said they talked
About something and they were served an ad. He was saying they were getting served ads for washing machines
whiskey one of the most specific claims
Involved a toilet roll holder that holds your phone as well the question becomes well
how can you explain that well some experts believe the most likely explanation is that it's just all a
Coincidence many of them blaming it on what is known as the baader-meinhof
phenomenon otherwise known as the frequency illusion
it's a form of cognitive bias our tendency to assign more importance to things than they deserve it suggests that after learning some bit of
New information we start noticing it everywhere else. The idea being you probably ignore most the ads that you come across and your feet right
But every now, and then you might come across one where you have a recent conversation about it
And so it stands out to you and because it seems a little too accurate the conversation is still fresh in your mind do you
Think there has to be a bigger explanation for this and another potential explanation for this is Facebook's algorithm Facebook has employed
top-tier computer engineers and Facebook
I believe prides itself on knowing you more than you know yourself
They use things like your browsing history your facebook interest to target ads even if you don't feel that you've given Facebook enough data to target
An ad towards you it's algorithms may be sophisticated enough to suggest things that you might be interested
I mean you might remember some of those stories where Facebook started delivering gay ads to someone who was not
Publicly out so that's where we are right now
And I actually want to pass the question that was asked in the story off to you you think that Facebook is listening in on
You or no there is a better explanation, and then let's talk about the Trump, Mueller, Manafort, Gates,
Papadopoulos news so what the hell is that news? late on Friday was announced at special counsel robert muller it brought his first charges as
Part of the investigation in the 2016 election, but a federal judge had ordered the indictment sealed until monday morning
So there was just a whole weekend of speculation who is going to be arrested
What are the charges the two main frontrunners you had Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, now because it's Monday
We know that Manafort was indeed one of those indicted and the other was his longtime
Protege Richard Gates now before we get into anything it is important to note that both Manafort and gates have huge
Conspiracies revolving around them, but I do think that it is unproductive to jump into speculation
So we are only going to talk about what we know for sure also to understand the charges we quickly need to go over who
Manafort and Gates are and what they do. So Paul Manafort
He is a lawyer, lobbyist, political consultant, he was Trump's campaign chairman from March until his resignation in August of 2016
He also didn't just work in the United States Manafort had a history of lobbying consulting for foreign nations most notably for ousted ukrainian
president viktor
yanukovich in his political party the party of region and the reason that's important is if you lobby for a foreign power you need to
Register with a Justice Department as part of the foreign agents
Registration, but Manafort only did that retro actively in June of this year so this and his alleged dealings with the Russians the Ukrainians
This landed him in hot water with multiple federal agencies
It was revealed in mid 2017 that Manafort was under investigation by the CIA the FBI the NSA the Director of National Intelligence
And the financial crimes unit of the Treasury Department this since at least 2014 and on to this day
And then in August 2016 it was revealed that Manafort may have received twelve point seven million and off-the-book funds from the Party of
Regions and appears, that's what led to his resignation from the Trump campaign
But here's the thing the probe about his dealings with Ukraine in the past have melded with the FBI's
investigation into the Russian meddling in 2016 and as part of Muller's Russian meddling investigation
He has the authority to prosecute any crime
He uncovers during his investigation, so not just those connected to Russian meddling in 2016 so then on to Richard Gates
He's a protege of Manafort's every single one of the crimes alleged against Manafort is also applied against gates reportedly worked with mana
For throughout his time in Ukraine and onto the Trump campaign in fact
He actually outlasted Manafort at the Trump campaign Gates Even worked on the Trump inauguration committee and in fact now
He works at the pro Trump advocacy group America first policy additionally the Trump administration
Claims that he had limited access to trump so then let's talk about the raid on July 26 the FBI raids Manafort's home reportedly
Manafort was out of the house when the FBI arrived they searched his residence it appears the FBI was searching for tax records bank
statements
It was also revealed by multiple sources that the FBI had told Manafort they plan to indict him and the FBI is important to
Note here, because reportedly they had been investigating Manafort it before Mueller's team was even involved like I mentioned earlier
We're talking
2014 and according to CNN Manafort have been wire tapped twice by the FBI the first wiretap was by a secret FISA Court order in
2014 and lasted until 2016 it was originally being investigated for possible tax law violations money laundering failing to disclose foreign lobbying
But it seemingly was shut down for lack of evidence then in the second half of 2016 the FBI received another warrant from a secret
FISA Court to restart the wiretapping and this time it was reportedly to focus on whether Manafort worked with Russian agents to meddle in
U.S. election so that brings us to today! the charges filed on Friday are now unsealed and it's been revealed that Paul Manafort and Richard Gates of
Course were indicted and they were told that they need to surrender to the FBI and this morning what we saw is they both willingly
Surrendered themselves to the FBI and the two have been charged with twelve crimes. Conspiracy against the United States
Conspiracy to launder money, seven different counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts
unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements and false statements
Now I know that I want to make here is the conspiracy against the United States part a lot of people have been calling that
Treason. That is not what this charge is it's not connected to the election
It looks like it's connected to the intent to defraud the US government is connected to one of the heaviest charges
and that is
conspiracy to launder money that carries a sentence of up to 20 years and so once again to repeat these charges are in relation to
Manafort and Gates dealings in Ukraine and Cyprus they do not have anything to do with the election Manafort was allegedly accepting money from the
Party of Regions and siphoning it off to accounts in Cyprus according to the indictment quote Manafort used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish
lifestyle in the United States without paying taxes on that income as part of the scheme Manafort and gates repeatedly provided false information to
Financial bookkeepers tax accountants and legal counsel among others the indictment also claims Manafort laundered over 18 million
Dollars Gates is accused of transferring 3 million from offshore
Accounts all seemingly to hide the money and not pay taxes on it. So for those who they were hoping that this was a Donald Trump
Takedown that's really not what we're seeing here in fact their reports that those close to Manafort and gates say they have nothing to
Offer the FBI when it comes to collusion. This morning we also got a reaction from Trump who tweeted sorry
But this is years ago before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign
But why aren't crooked Hillary in the Dems the focus dot dot dot dot also there is no
Collusion and soon after that no collusion tweet
We got another update to the story. George Papadopolis' sealed guilty plea from October
5th was released by the Department of Justice and that guilty plea was for lying to federal
Agents now you may be wondering who is George this man with a beautifully musical last name well first up one
It's not this guy on Twitter this man is a financial planner that
Unfortunately has the same name his mentions as you'd expect today, just a garbage fire. Secondly the George papadopolis
We're talking about here joined the Trump campaign as an energy and foreign policy expert in the spring of 2016
And he was later arrested in July 2017 for lying about his connections with Russian agents
He had claimed that he spoke with a Russian professor with heavy links to the Kremlin before he worked for Trumbo what it looks like
Now is he actually tried to arrange meetings with Russian agents who claimed to have dirt on Hillary, Clinton
He told the FBI he'd met with these people for different reasons before working for Trump
But he later admitted that he actually really met with them days after being part of the Trump team so the bigger an actual story
around collusion today is the
Papadopoulos story that said it doesn't look like this proves
What many people wanted to prove following this story coming out sarah huckabee Sanders the White House press secretary?
Gave a statement saying George is part of a voluntary
Advisory Council that only met once say it was not important to the campaign at all saying George attempted to implement these meetings but was
Ignored by the Trump campaign, so essentially the statement and argument here
Is that if George was doing this he was doing it on his own although people have claimed that Sarah Huckabee Sanders her statement was
Misleading so you can say that the committee only met once
But they were in constant contact with emails and arguing that painting Papadopoulos as this this person
That's part of a volunteer committee wasn't really connected to that people argued no that the Trump campaign
Not only did they select him
But they featured him the last update before finishing this video Manafort and gates have now pled not guilty
It'll be very interesting to see what happens from here
Is this everything they have is this the first of much more? I don't know
But I'd love to know your thoughts on this story and actually whether it be this last story the first one anything in between let
Me know what you're thinkin
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