Sup' ya beautiful bastards?
Hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show,
and let's just jump into it.
Actually a quick note before
we do jump into it
In case you missed me saying it yesterday,
this is not my new set.
People were critiquing, or saying like,
"I like this," "I don't like it."
This is not an artistic choice.
Why would I,
Why would I choose a background
that would enable people to blue screen me into porn?
Also, seconds after saying that, I realize that I have now guaranteed that
that is a thing that is going to happen.
I'm at a friend's studio space in a room he rarely uses,
and the hope is by next Monday we'll be in the place
that I should have been in this week.
But if it makes you feel any better
*snap and sex moan* This is - does it feel normal?
Is your triggeredness subsiding?
But, now that we have that out of the way,
First Story.
And the first thing I want to talk about today
is an insane story.
You may of seen this video over the past three days,
but it is a roller coaster ride.
And it's this video out of Kuwait
we see this woman hanging off a balcony with one hand
she's shouting, "Hold me! Hold me!"
The woman filming her reportedly says "Oh crazy. Come back."
But then the woman falls.
Reports saying that she fell from the seventh floor, landed,
but did not die. Reportedly she somehow only broke her arm.
She also had some bleeding from her nose and ears,
but relatively minor injuries when you consider someone falling seven stories.
So the question became, "What the hell happened?!"
And so information started coming out.
The woman that fell was reportedly a maid.
The woman who was filming was reportedly her employer.
As far as why the employer was saying that she was filming her maid.
She said she didn't want people to think that she murdered her.
She wanted to have evidence,
And as far as why the woman was hanging off the balcony,
local reports say the woman was suicidal,
she was trying to kill herself.
So that was the initial report and then people asked more questions:
1. Is the employer in the wrong for choosing to film
rather than try rescue the woman that could die?
That caused the debate of is she at fault because she didn't try to help
Others arguing that, "No, why should she try to help
if this is a suicidal person who knows, she could pull her over the ledge with her."
But then also people started asking the question,
"If someone is suicidal, and they're trying to kill themselves,
why would they then say 'Hold me, Hold me!"
and not just jump off the edge
Well the newest update to the story is that the reporters have talked to the woman in the hospital
and she said she wasn't trying to kill herself.
She said she was trying to escape from her employer - the woman who was filming her
because she was trying to kill her, saying, quote,
"The lady put me in the bathroom and was about to kill me in the bathroom without anybody finding out,
she would have thrown my body out like rubbish,
so instead of staying there, I went to save myself and then I fell."
And so now reports have come in that her employer, who happens to be an Ethiopian national,
she was detained and a spokesperson for Human Rights Watch says that this in not a unique incident.
saying, "The Kuwaiti press often report such stories as 'attempted suicides,' as with this recent incident.
They don't usually question whether these were suicide attempts or, rather attempts to escape.
In 2009, Human Rights Watch spoke to eight women who were reported as having 'attempted suicide,'
but who said they had really fallen from buildings trying to escape abuse or were pushed by their employers."
Adding, "I have interviewed hundreds of domestic workers in the Gulf region,
many said their employers locked them inside, forced them to work excessive hours, and beat them.
Some scrambled down or jumped off buildings to escape."
And the reason I talk about this is specifically for two reasons.
The first being that,
I wasn't personally aware that this was such a big issue and I wanted to talk about it and share it.
And the second being that this is a fantastic example of
why it's always important that we get the other side of the story.
When I first saw this story being shared, I saw so many comments of like,
"Well who cares about her - if she gonna risk killing herself, why should anyone else risk their life
just because she's suicidal."
Whereas now, thanks to new information, we see that this was actually a woman trying to hold onto life.
But from there, I wanna share some stuff I love today, and Today In Awesome,
brought to you by the "Don't Be Stupid, Stupid" shirt.
I don't know what happened, we haven't offered this shirt in a while,
and I've seen a ton of requests to bring it back.
So, for the next five days - Boom! Shirts and tanks, links down below.
And I'm gonna do this really quick because I want to fit some of the awesome from yesterday
that I didn't get to put in the show because I didn't do a Today In Awesome segment.
But the first is that we got a brand new trailer for The Mummy,
AKA, Tom Cruise shoots a bunch of people again the movie.
Also, this time there's magic involved.
Then we got a brand new trailer for The War of the Planet of the Apes,
AKA Woody Harrelson shoots a chimpanzees with a machine gun the movie.
Then we got a trailer for the Netflix series Girlboss,
AKA, the series about building a series form the ground up - in the clothing industry!
What they most likely wont acknowledge, that the brand that this is based off of,
had a scandal with child labor.
Still looks like a good series though.
Then, I just gotta give props to the best April Fools joke ever.
Adult Swim actually deciding to stream Season Three, Episode One of Rick and Morty on their website.
A thing that I was excited about, I experienced, I tweeted out,
and 80% of people didn't believe me.
Didn't even click the link... they thought I was messing with them.
Also, if you already watched that episode,
you have a craving now for szechuan sauce,
don't worry! YouTuber Andrew Rea has you covered.
In case you want to learn how to cook it.
Also, I've heard murmurings of people trying to get McDonald's to bring it back.
Then, if you like Louis C.K. and you have a Netflix subscription, rejoice!
Louis' new special 2017 is now live on Netflix for your viewing pleasure.
And if you want to see the full versions of everything I just shared, the Secret Link of the Day,
anything at all, links as always are in the description down below.
And then I want to give an update to that story about The Slingshot Channel and those hypocrites at TheDailyMail.
If you missed yesterdays show, the mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail, they posted a headline,
"Google blood money," accusing Google of profiting off of a video that teaches terrorists,
teaches extremists, how to stab through a stab-proof vest.
Even though the review was just a review of a very flawed product.
And we exposed the Daily Mail for being hypocrites yesterday because
they themselves have done something very similar.
and not even just the organization - I mean the author of the article.
They wrote an article exposing a flaw in the system that allowed them to get knives,
that were deadlier than the ones used on the 9/11 attack they said
showed people how they could did it, and then showed those knives on an airplane.
Well the update to YouTube making a reactionary move,
and removing that video - putting a strike on The Slingshot Channel
After this has gained a lot of press, they have removed the strike form the mans channel
and they worked with him on how he needs to present those videos in the future
to avoid these kind of problems.
So all in all, just kind of a good story for YouTube, cause among all this chaos
right now with the ads, YouTube, the creators.
It's good to see that even though an established old news outlet
can overextend and cause some ridiculous faux outrage.
And after all of that, YouTube has gone out of their way to try and make things right for the creator
the only, the cynical part of my brain says though,
hopefully it doesn't take so many people talking about it in the future for a good outcome.
Then in advertisement backtrack news, lets talk about what company has come under fire today.
Today that company is...
NIVEA, and NIVEA is in the news because they posted and then very quickly deleted an ad
they put up on Facebook.
It was an ad for their invisible deodorant, where they feature a woman with dark hair
and a white robe, with the tag line:
White is Purity.
And very quickly, there were people who were legitimately angry about this ad,
and the people who were just trolling NIVEA.
And the people who were angry were saying that it's racially insensitive to say, "White is better."
It's racist, the only people I ever hear talk about white purity are white supremacists.
And to that I say, don't be stupid, stupid!
The first, is that if you do think that this ad is racially insensitive, I don't know how to help you.
The trolls, while I'm not on their side, I get at least where they're coming from.
They want to poke and prod the professional victim cry bullies.
Also, to the advertisers here, you're kinda stupid here because you're an advertiser.
You're supposed to plan for the stupid people.
And if we're really gonna debate it, depending on which system you're talking about
white is either all or nothing.
Scientifically, if we're talking about the visible spectrum, white is actually the inclusion of all colors.
Maybe NIVEA was promoting a world where we were all one people.
A world that is divided but when you really break it down, we all come together, we are one.
Or, they were just trying to describe their stupid fucking deodorant.
I'm just saying, it's not saying what you're saying it's saying.
It's like if I had a coffee company, it's one of those places, like they really care about their coffee.
They don't put stuff in it.
Freshly roasted beans, certain temperature water, we put on a poster, boom! Tagline reads,
"Black's the only way."
that tagline is talking about the coffee, it's not calling for the end of the white people.
And I know from hearing this story, some people out there go, "I love Phil. Phil just says it like it is."
"He doesn't even care if people that were offended by this unsubscribe."
And to that I say, kinda...
I also just think that if you were offended by this,
you're probably not smart enough to figure out how to unsubscribe.
But let's jump to the next story.
And then let's talk about what young people like.
There was a Google funded study that looked into what 13 to 17 year old were aware of,
and they thought were cool.
And in this Google funded reserach, they found 13 to 17 year olds, otherwise usually known as Generation Z,
think that the three coolest things are, Google owned YouTube, Netflix and Google itself.
And just because it's Google that funded it, it feels a little bit like, if I was like,
"Okay, we conducted a survey, and the - wow, the three most popular news shows
uh, the Philip DeFranco Show, the Vloggity, that's not even a news show, and number three... uh, nothing.
Weird and unexpected, but it's an honor to win."
Let's say it's a legitimate study, even though the front page of this study reads,
"It's Lit: A guide to what teens think is cool."
Just off the bat, that cover letter, is as cool as a guy I used to work with that would just not stop about how,
"woke he was," you're 38, you're actually a huge sexist,
you're a scum bag, and you ruined everything you touch Greg.
His name''s not Greg, but I know he still watches this show.
That said, what do the kids think is cool?
For video games, you have the Le- really? Really Google? You misspelled the Legend of Zelda?
Call of Duty: Black Ops, Grand Theft Auto, Pokemon, Minecraft and CS:GO.
Top three shoe brands, you got, Jordan, Converse and Vans.
Then, for favorite music, Drake, Beyonce, The Beatles, and Coldplay?
They also then compare the likes of Gen Z to Millennials, the people in the study being aged 18 to 24,
and the likes and awareness are pretty much the same,
it's just that in general, everything except it looks like TMZ,
moves over to the right for everything being a little more cool.
So a little less angst, and then some big jumps with some brands like Vice,
which is listed as a brand that's not very known, or thought of as cool,
for something that just in a few years becomes way cooler and more people are knowin' about.
So a big difference with Millennials.
And I have a lot of questions looking at this study but my biggest question is:
I don't know if I can believe it, because this breakdown of social media usage by gender,
states that more people in this age group use Google Plus, to Twitter.
And this could be one of those areas where I'm completely out of touch,
but I didn't think anybody used Google Plus.
Unless they're cheating those numbers and they're saying anyone that has like, a YouTube account,
or something like that has a Google Plus account.
And there's a lot more information you can jump into here.
Here's my final thought on this,
the best brands out there know what they are from the get go and then listen to their users.
Netflix, one of the most popular and known about services on this list, in this study,
one, some of you might not even remember this,
they almost completely screwed themselves with re-branding back in 2011.
They were going to separate their by mail and their streaming service.
They were creating a brand called, "Qwikster,"
the fans got angry, the company listened to them, they killed "Qwikster", they combined everything.
I feel like that's a great way to run a business, but also to live your life.
Do your own thing, be your own person,
but also know when to listen and don't take criticisms as attacks.
In my opinion that's always gonna give you your best shot.
And as I feel like I've kind of done with this story,
always try and learn something from everything you come across.
There really is a lesson in almost everything,
if you look hard enough.
And I think that's a note I want to end on today,
something that's universal and hopeful.
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But, that said, of course as always,
my name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been Phill'd in, I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.