- Y'all I'm so frustrated and angry right now.
And today's show locked.
Done.
Had it amazing.
wow.
I'm full of myself,
decent intro,
where I apparently crossed a line
and I was told right before I uploaded
today's show that if I put it out like that,
I would very likely have this video suppress,
no recommendation, no showing up on the homepage,
all the places where people click to watch me
and this feeling, it's making me feel right now,
it doesn't feel good.
So, how about this?
If you want to throw up a middle finger do with me,
hit that like button.
If we got over 75,000 likes,
I'll give you a bonus morning video.
It's not going to change your life.
I feel like I have to now put it out there on YouTube,
just for the principle of a matter.
I don't know.
Anyway, hit them with nostalgia.
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Yeah.
Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show,
you beautiful bastards.
And y'all the first thing we're to talk about today is one
of the most requested stories on the text line.
And that is one hundred thieves co-owner
and massive streamer
Valkyrae is in the news,
and this is kind of unrelated to anything gaming
or streaming,
but rather coming under fire for a new
skincare line that she launched called REFLECT.
It's aligned, she says,
she's been working on for two years,
that features, things like a facial cleanser
and moisturizer, gel eye treatment.
And so a lot of people were initially like,
cool.
Awesome.
But where a lot of people were like, okay,
that's a red flag, is that it also claims to be designed,
to protect against exposure to blue light that comes from
digital screen.
By saying that it protects your skin from that.
But the problem is that there isn't a lot of research
supporting a need for such products.
The number of just everyday people calling,
the blue light protection claims a gimmick
or an outright scam to get people to buy her stuff.
This including some fellow creators like a Hasan Piker.
- Why are you guys literally,
refusing to hear the words that are coming out
of my mouth.
I don't believe the fucking blue light is destroying
your skin
and delay that the REFLECT product presents itself.
It's just.
(word muted)
soap.
- That is our content creator
and more notably cosmetic chemist with a PhD in chemistry.
Michelle Wong speaking on this.
- I really like Rae.
I think it's great to see women of color in business,
but you don't need to protect your skin against blue light
from screens, even with a big ass monitor,
you would need days or months to get the same blue light as
15 minutes of sun.
And if you do want to protect against blue light from the
sun, which honestly isn't a big issue for most people,
these products still probably weren't doing much.
The active ingredients are antioxidants,
which could potentially mop up the free radicals that the
light causes in your skin.
But that's so much less effective than blocking
the blue light from getting into your skin
in the first place like a sunscreen.
so that you'd use foundations or tinted
sunscreens, which have iron oxides in them.
And you probably have antioxidants in your skincare already.
I'm sure the products are fine. They're reasonably priced.
They'll probably get more people into looking
after their skin.
They probably could have included a sunscreen,
but chill out on the screen thing.
- On the top of all this,
we've all seen people raising concerns about the terms
of service on the brand's website,
which says we are not responsible
if information made available on this site is not accurate,
complete or current.
where some also accusing the brand of suddenly
updating its website to change some of its claim saying that
the site used to say,
research shows that blue light emitted from digital screens
can damage your skin by shrinking yourselves,
speeding up the aging process and causing redness.
But now when he visits the site,
it's less definitive saying there is mounting evidence that
supports blue light contributes to photo aging,
including wrinkles, worsening skin laxity,
and hyperpigmentation.
With this Valkyrae really hasn't commented much
on the criticism,
but we did see in a tweet that she later deleted on her
second account.
She wrote, I was told to wait until tomorrow to speak.
I'm also very confused.
So we might see more from her today.
There might be an update to this.
We reached out on Twitter. She hasn't responded yet.
So if there is an update, her sharing a reaction,
her side of the story, we'll obviously update this later.
Then we should definitely talk about
these major allegations coming from actor, Ruby Rose.
If you aren't familiar Ruby was the star of Batwoman,
a series that she left in 2020.
And that happened reportedly, there were a lot of questions,
many people angry with Ruby Rose.
A lot of people painting her as the villain,
but now they posted a long series of Instagram stories,
explaining issues behind the scenes
that led to their decision.
And this is a lot starting by calling out show runner
Caroline Dries and producers Sarah Schechter,
and Greg Berlanti saying,
Enough is Enough.
Ruby saying that,
they never wanted this to happen again to anyone else
that they're telling this story to get their life back
then addressing former WB TV Exec Peter Roth,
accusing him of having young women steam
the crotch area of his pants
while he was still wearing them.
Ruby also claiming that he put a private investigator after.
Also sharing videos where Doctor detailed rib injury,
she received on set.
With writing that she has enough to make
an hour long documentary about on-set injuries,
going to share a clip of a surgery that she underwent,
alleging there that you then had to go to work 10 days after
quote or the whole crew and cast would be fired.
And I'd let everyone down.
Ruby also explaining other injuries that allegedly occurred
on set saying a crew member got third degree burns,
all over his whole body with the cast
and crew who witnessed it being given no therapy
after witnessing his skin fall off his face.
Also saying, they lost two stunt doubles
that she was almost blinded by a cut to the face.
And that a woman was left quadriplegic and higher ups
there tried to blame it on the fact that she was
on her phone, but saying, how is that an excuse?
She was a PA and her work was largely done via her phone.
I'll be honest.
saying the showrunner Dries only visited the set four
times a year, but main production continued during COVID.
When other sets including CW series were being shut down.
Also claiming that Dries told Ruby to comply with the PI,
but then denied it
with Ruby also saying that, yes.
They admit that they fought people on set,
but only because they were fighting for safety,
Ruby adding, they never raised their voice
Was saying, on the other hand,
we had her CoStar, Doug Ray Scott
yelling frequently hurting a female stunt
double and abusing women
Ruby also writing it,
she would never go back to the show for any amount of money,
or if a gun was put to her head writing,
I do not quit.
They ruined Kate Kane and they destroyed Batwoman.
not me.
but regarding all of this Warner bros TV has now given a
statement, a deadline saying,
despite the revisionist history that Ruby Rose is now
sharing online, aimed at the producers, the cast and crew,
the network and the studio.
The truth is that Warner bros television is decided not to
exercise its option to engage Ruby for season two of
Batwoman based on multiple complaints about workplace
behavior that were extensively reviewed and handled
privately out of respect for all concerns.
Yeah, that said,
I mean,
you look at the reactions online with about every aspect of
this story.
And in general, the response is holy shit,
but for now, because this is breaking today,
it's going to be a developing situation.
We're gonna have to wait to see what happens from here.
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Then we should probably talk about Facebook in the news for
a few reasons,
starting with the fact that they may no longer be named
Facebook soon,
as far as being reported by the verge,
where they reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg
wants to be known for building the
Metaverse.
which I mean, could look like a lot of different things,
but some have described it as a VR space where people would
use digital avatars to walk around
and interact with one another in real time.
In fact,
Facebook even said earlier this week that they're planning
to hire 10,000 people in the EU to help find all six
infinity stones for Zuckerberg to make this dream come true.
Obviously, with this news,
there are some that are skeptical and concerned that this is
definitely not a lizard alien, sorry Demi.
has your best interest at heart.
And kind of funny enough, if you look into the
where metaverse was coined,
it's a little bit funny and maybe even scarily prophetic,
if you're unfamiliar,
the word metaverse was first coined by Neil Stephenson
and the book snow crash with originally described
as a virtual world, owned by corporations,
wherein users were treated as citizens, any dystopian,
corporate dictatorship,
that user also asking what if Neil was right to which
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey responded
NARRATOR.
He was.
Dorsey, he was kind of sub tweeting a reference to the book
later, saying central intelligence corporation.
But honestly, I think this is being blown
out of proportion.
I mean, we can trust Mark Zuckerberg ?
It's like my face was allergic to those words.
Then in big money news, if you're in on Bitcoin right now,
you're probably having a great day surge this morning to a
new, all time high as a recording it's trading at just under
$67,000. I know this is big for the space,
as you might remember, way back in April,
there was a really, really hard crash.
For months, it was struggling to recover
Crypto bros and gals were crawling through glass saying,
just buy the dip.
And eventually it began steadily making its way back up.
But actually the reason that we're seeing this latest spike
appears to be specifically because of the launch of a
Bitcoin futures ETF.
And for those unfamiliar,
essentially this fund tracks buying contracts between two
parties who were speculating on what the future price of
Bitcoin will be.
And during its debut yesterday,
it actually ended up seeing 24 million shares traded.
That is the second heaviest first day trading volume for a
fund ever.
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Then Breaking news around around the Gabby Petito story.
Of course, we've been covering for a long time now.
we're now seeing reports,
the law enforcement officials said that human remains were
found in the same area that authorities located several
items, belonging to Brian laundrie
in the same park that his parents
claimed that he went to the day they last saw him.
According to NBC news,
a senior law enforcement official says what appears to be
partial human remains have been found
in Florida in Carlton reserve
and a location that was previously underwater.
Though, noting there is no confirmation,
the remains belong to Laundrie or they only didn't say
What official confirmed this,
but the Pasco county Sheriff's officer, did tell reporters,
the local medical examiner and a cadaver dog trained to find
human remains were called to the scene.
The laundrie's family attorney also issuing a statement
this afternoon saying that Brian's parents informed
law enforcement last night,
that they intended to search the park this morning and met
officers there.
And adding after a brief search off a trail there,
Brian frequented, some articles,
belonging to Brian were found as of now law enforcement is
conducting a more thorough investigation of that area,
as well as FBI Tampa confirming in a tweet that items of
interest were located at the Carlton reserve this morning in
connection with a search for Brian Laundrie and adding to
that an FBI evidence response team is processing the scene.
Actually, a last second update here,
right before I was uploading today show, we saw the FBI
enterprise conference confirming that, yes.
The belongings were Bryant's and saying that yes,
a body has been found,
but not providing further information.
Like I said, this is still a developing situation,
but this is pretty much the bulk of what we know right now.
And we're going to keep an eye on this.
And then we should probably talk about the monster that
I will not show or name that's responsible for the 2018,
mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school
in Parkland, Florida.
And that is because today the former student who carried out
this monstrous attack has now pleaded guilty to 17 counts of
premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
So with these 34 pleas,
that now sends him into the penalty phase in which a jury
will be selected, hear testimony,
and then recommend a sentence to a judge.
But we facing life in prison or the death penalty with
prosecutors vowing to push for the harsher sentence.
Those lawyers didn't discuss the reason for his
guilty pleas,
which were not part of any formal agreement
with prosecutors,
which may not be surprising, right?
This is an open and shut case,
but legal analysts say this could actually provide
advantages for it.
William Nettles, a former us attorney in South Carolina
telling the New York times in cases like that,
it's often the best course of action to decline,
to fight a losing battle and instead fight a battle that you
might win.
And that's the sentencing battle,
essentially arguing that if you try and fight an unavoidable
guilty verdict, you might lose Goodwill with the jurors.
And so, yeah,
now we'll likely see the defense present evidence that they
couldn't typically use in the guilt phase.
Things like the defendant's childhood or things that they
could try to use to humanize them and show that he's
redeemable.
Though,
regarding the idea of redemption these guilty pleas come
just days after the defendant pled guilty
to separate charges,
including battery following a 2018 fight with a jail guard,
which resulted in a judge,
sentencing him today to 25 years in Florida state prison,
along with 364 days in county jail with credit for the 1,345
days, he's already served.
And on top of all of that news,
we also learned yesterday that the families of the shooting
victims reached a $25 million settlement with Broward county
public schools over the tragedy grievance of settling 52 of
the 53 negligence lawsuits filed against the school
district.
According to reports,
the money will go to the families who lost loved ones,
as well as those who were injured and those who suffered
from PTSD or other conditions.
But ultimately that is where that story.
And today show ends. Of course, whether it be the first one,
the last one, anything in between,
I'd love to know your thoughts and those comments down
below, but that's it.
Goodbye. I love you.
I'll see you tomorrow.