- Yesterday, a doctor put a camera in my p-hole.
This is a thing I consented to,
and I'd rate it a 1 out of 10 would not recommend,
except for the knowing I don't have bladder gremlins
or cancer stuff.
That's great. Also, to parts of the internet that said
this would be a 2.8 out of 10 on the pain scale,
and it was less pain and more discomfort.
I hate you, and I will find you.
I don't know what kinky shit you all do in your off time,
but it was like a hot poker on my insides.
My brain just short-circuited for 60 seconds,
and somehow, during this procedure, I felt bad,
like I was being rude to my urologist,
who's like trying to give me a tour of my insides
as she was inside me,
and I was like, that's,
no, I don't care what my urethra looks like.
I've seen "The Boys".
But yeah, part of getting older sucks.
That's the main point of this.
Welcome back to "The Philip DeFranco Show".
I got a great show for you today
and let's just jump into it.
The first thing that we're gonna talk about today,
this is a tone shift is we're going
from that kind of goofy intro to something it's serious,
it's sad, it's infuriating,
and it's news stemming from the recent loss of a creator
by the name of Technoblade.
As you might have seen last week,
his family posted his final video on his channel,
confirming that it had passed away
after a battle with cancer.
And with that, I will say when the news came out,
there were a lot of y'all asking
why I didn't cover this story.
And here's the thing, I don't have hard rules,
but for something this sensitive in community,
I try to be careful.
Despite how big he was,
I was only vaguely aware of who he was
and it was always good stuff,
but I wasn't really a part of the main audience.
And so just kind of being an outsider, looking in,
I didn't really know if there was anything
I could add to that story.
For me personally, I watched the video
where his dad was speaking
and it's impossible to watch that
and not just be hit directly into your heart.
And so I kind of just opted to watch and experience that
because I think there are a million ways
to do that video wrong
and maybe one or two ways to do it right.
We've seen no shortage of creators in this community
speaking on the massive loss that they're feeling with this,
but also with all these people
who are legitimately mourning,
you also have people who have hijacked a tragedy
for their own monetary gain.
As of late, we've seen a lot of talk online,
more creators speaking out about other creators
using Technoblade's passing as an opportunity
to get more views and cash,
by making insane amounts of click bait videos
that feature him.
But one creator,
ItsOwen apparently doing this so egregiously
that he got his channel banned
without its knowing that technically
it hasn't been revealed what led to the ban,
but it comes as tons of people were calling him out
for posting click baiting content regarding Technoblade,
including a video titled
"MrBeast Final Goodbye To Technoblade",
which while that video is no longer up to view,
many have said that it's not real,
and it was just outright fake click bait,
which is why in the past day,
we're seeing big names like Moistcr1tikal
calling out this behavior online,
and saying it's one thing to post one video
about Technoblade to pay tribute or discuss his legacy,
but some people are clearly crossing that line
and doing far more than that,
including one channel that's posted 25 Technoblade videos
since his passing and saying that these are just clear grabs
for click, subscribers and cash,
but also saying money isn't necessarily the worst part.
- Even if none of them were monetized,
you are still directly putting your mouth
on the tits of this and milking it
and capitalizing off of it.
There's being respectful, and then there's being shameful,
and it's very clear where most of these fall.
And with this to add to the discussion,
I don't know if there is a proper way to deal with this.
And I think that's in part because of how the algorithms
on social media sites work.
Like I said,
at the beginning of the story before his passing,
I was only vaguely aware of who Technoblade was.
His videos weren't getting recommended to me,
but literally the moment after I saw Moistcr1tikal's video
talking about this,
all of a sudden I started getting fed
all the click bait videos that he was talking about.
And so it's like this weird situation where by calling out
bad things, we accidentally promote those bad things
because of the how stupid and broken the system is,
which is why outside of this specific Technoblade situation
today, it's going to be a problem elsewhere.
So that's why with this story, yes,
I'd love to know your opinion on this story in general,
but also what do you think should happen?
Are you have the mindset?
Are you in the camp of these channels need to get banned?
And if so,
where is the place that you would like draw the line?
Because looking through the content
there's outright fake stuff
and then there's also kind of like low quality,
low turnaround stuff, things where they say like,
this creator said this about Technoblade,
and it's just kind of like a computer voice
reading their tweets.
It's technically not fake, but it is exploitive.
So like, what do you do there?
I don't know any and all thoughts you have there.
I'd love to know, but yeah, I just...
I hate this whole fucking situation.
And then you're likely familiar with the phrase,
desperate times, desperate measures,
and the desperate time for many right now
is Roe v. Wade being overturned,
and the desperate measure is people turning
to the misinformation riddled to internet
for abortion alternatives.
With one popular abortion method, making its way online,
being herbal abortions, which can be very, very dangerous.
You might have already seen people sharing videos,
promoting herbs, like pennyroyal, blue cohosh and mugwort
to terminate pregnancies.
And even though TikTok told Bloomberg,
they had deleted a ton of posts,
saying obviously we would,
this violates guidelines against promoting dangerous acts
that could result in injury or death,
a quick search for terms like herbal abortion
or abortion T,
still give you a handful of videos
that bracked up thousands of views promoting these ideas
and videos related to herbal abortion
have been viewed over 750 million times.
And luckily there's a decent number of those videos now
trying to debunk this,
but with the way especially TikTok works,
it just takes one wrong video
to come across one person's FYP
for them to potentially see this misinformation
and think it's worth trying,
which is why we're seeing doctors speaking up
and warning against these methods with many sharing,
now viral threads on Twitter to raise awareness,
including the likes of this emergency room doctor, who said,
please do not take pennyroyal as an herbal abortion,
with them explaining to RollingStone
that pennyroyal contains an agent that forms toxins
in the body and can cause liver necrosis
as well as vomiting, abdominal pain, seizures,
liver failure death,
and adding the blue cohosh is similarly dangerous.
And Dr. Ryan Marino also tweeting,
there is no safe amount of pennyroyal
that humans can consume
and adding even at low doses,
that might not send you to the hospital,
but noting there is risk of long term health complications.
There is no evidence it can induce abortion
or provide any benefit.
It can only harm.
With other doctors going directly to TikTok
where this is spreading the most
and trying to counter the misinformation,
including Dr. Jen Gunter.
- There are no safe, effective herbs or botanicals
to cause abortion.
People might be spreading this with good intention,
but they're wrong.
Okay? They're incorrect.
If there was safe, effective herbal methods,
people would be using them.
We'd be telling people.
I would have no reason to keep that information from you.
- And explaining in a subs stack piece
that some of the herbs are literally poisonous.
So if they do terminate a pregnancy,
that's merely a byproduct of you being poisoned
and should by no means be considered a safe option.
But even with doctors trying to correct this misinformation,
it's an understood that lies and misinformation
spread faster than the truth or the correction.
With Dr. Mary Jane Minkin telling RollingStone
that horrible elements of history
could start repeating.
Saying, "I'm horrified. They're going to kill people.
"It's terrifying because 49 years ago,
"that's how women died".
And even though I feel like on this channel,
I'm preaching to the choir,
let's remember to listen to doctors, listen to scientists,
to experts.
If you hear alternatives that sound too simple to be true,
it's probably because it's not.
And even though this is a time where we're seeing people's
options getting limited by the day,
where essential forms of healthcare
are no longer accessible for the women that need them,
no situation is helped by doing something
that could potentially be lethal.
And I'm just one dumb idiot trying to get this information
out there on my corner of the internet,
so please, if you see this misinformation out there,
spread the truth,
just takes a few seconds and a few keystrokes.
Then in what the fuck news,
we should talk about Colorado funeral home director,
Megan Hess,
because according to this DOJ plea agreement,
Hess and her mother ran an illegal body part selling scam
involving hundreds of corpses between 2010 and 2018.
Right, so apparently she would sometime ask families,
"Hey, can I send small tissue samples
"or tumors to schools and facilities?"
But then regardless of their answers,
she'd do it anyways, and frankly,
sometimes she wouldn't even ask.
And here's the thing, small tissue samples, not small,
turns out she would send entire heads, arms, legs,
torso, sometimes even entire bodies.
And the way she was able to pull this off, right?
She wasn't doing some like "Ocean's Eleven" heist,
all she had to do was give these families
fake cremated remains of their loved ones.
And it became so lucrative that they could lower the cost
of cremation services to just about 1,000 dollars
to get more bodies,
and beyond just ripping the families off,
Hess also lied to the researchers.
In addition to forging signatures to donate the bodies,
she would even alter lab reports from the deceased
to hide the fact that they had actually tested positive
for things like HIV or hepatitis.
And so with all this Hess can get up to 20 years.
She only had to plead guilty to a male fraud charge
and dodged eight others as part of the agreement.
Her mother has pled not guilty,
but has a change of plea hearing scheduled for next week.
So I guess the main point of this story is,
I knew funerals cost an arm and a leg,
but this is ridiculous.
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And then as pretty much anyone with eyes and ears knows,
the pandemic put a ton of stress on teachers and students.
What we're now learning is this has led
to more behavioral issues.
Things have gotten a lot worse in American schools,
especially since people have returned to the classroom,
and according to the National Center for Education
statistics,
more than 80% of schools say that the pandemic
has taken a toll on student behavior
and social emotional development.
The data was collected from 846 public schools
as the 2021, 2022 academic year was wrapping up,
and finding increased conflict among students sometimes
leading to violence,
also finding that you have over half of schools
reporting a rise in classroom disruptions
because of student misconduct,
nearly half pointing to jumps and out of classroom rowdiness
and 46% reporting more fighting
and threats of physical attacks,
and that's really teachers are affected as well.
Yes, of course, by their own stress,
but also as these teachers explain.
- Do you feel like in some ways the kids' stress and anxiety
is also something that the teachers take on?
- Absolutely, those are my babies, my babies.
- So as a result, you have nearly half of schools
reporting higher teacher absences than a year earlier.
Chronic absenteeism among students skyrocketing
as more than seven and 10 schools say they've seen arise,
and those in the more impoverished areas
are feeling this the hardest.
Now, as for the specific reasons why this is happening,
there are several lot.
One factor is just how jarring the shift back
from remote learning to in person learning
was for many students as this Oregon administrator explains.
- [Man] And all of a sudden you have kids all around you
and routines that you're not familiar with
and classes that are in 60 to 90 minutes long
when you've only done things on the same timetable as TikTok
for 18 months,
it's just hard to manage.
- [Phil] Well, also the president
of the American Federation of Teachers,
linking these increased problems
to the country's culture wars
and angry politics intensified by social media,
and saying there that the toxic discourse filters
into the classroom and emphasizing
the need for more guidance counselors, social workers,
and wraparound services.
This is happening at the same time
as the president of Maryland's largest teachers union
says that schools continue to lack sufficient staffing,
training and student supports.
There's also just the sheer amount of grief the kids
have had to grapple with
as the pandemic's death toll has climbed.
I know a lot of us have put blinders on,
we're just trying to move forward,
but it's important to remember
that around a quarter million children
have lost a caregiver,
including 200,000 losing one or both parents.
And partly because of all this stress emergency department
visits for suspected suicide attempts among adolescents
jump 31% in 2020.
And so for today, that's where I'm going to end it,
but of course, I wanna pass the question off to you,
especially if you're a teacher, a parent, a student,
a whatever,
what has it been like for you and where are you at now?
And then we need to talk about the Brits
and what's happening with their whole political situation
right now,
because we may all be witnessing Boris Johnson's political
career imploding in front of our eyes right now.
But as you probably already know,
Johnson's term is prime minister has been plagued
by scandal after scandal,
from Partygate to a slow coronavirus response,
to his asylum deportation policy to runaway inflation.
Now the latest fire he's dancing on is about sexual assault.
Mind you Johnson didn't assault anybody, but last Wednesday,
the Conservative's deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher,
allegedly did.
Groping two men at a private dinner party.
With him saying the next day that he drank far too much,
then resigning as party whip,
though, he does remain as a member of parliament,
but Johnson then coming under pressure
to suspend Pincher from the party,
and after a formal complaint was lodged on Friday,
he did just that,
but that just means that Pincher is gonna sit
as an independent. Then we saw over the weekend,
six more claims of inappropriate behavior from Pincher
stretching back several years, though,
he's denied those allegations.
And as far as where Johnson apparently fits into all this,
is what many are calling the coverup,
because he had many people asking why was this guy ever,
even in the Conservative government to begin with,
given his history of legend misconduct?
And at first Johnson's press officer's answers was,
Johnson was never aware of it,
but a lot of people called bull shit on that,
and so Johnson moved to his second excuse.
He knew about the allegations in 2019,
but they had been resolved
and then in his third move Johnson's office admitted
that he knew one of the misconduct claims
had been upheld at the time he promoted Pincher
to the whip's office.
And so he saw in response to these revelations,
two senior cabinet members resigning,
with the solicitor general
and several holders of junior government posts,
also stepping down and protests,
adding to the fury and frustration
felt by many Conservative party members.
And so all of this has amounted
to Johnson's biggest political crisis to date
and culminated today in a wild committee hearing
where lawmakers ruthlessly interrogated him.
- He knew the accused minister had previously committed
predatory behavior,
but he promoted him to a position of power anyway.
Why?
- And you had Johnson seemingly backtracking
on his earlier admissions claiming that he demoted Pincher,
as soon as he found out about the misconduct and adding..
- I wanna say to him that I abhor a bullying
and abuse of power anywhere,
in parliament, in this party or in any other party.
- At the climax of the hearing,
you had Johnson answering this key question
and just watch the utter chaos that ensues.
- Does the prime minister
think there are any circumstances in which he should resign?
(members of parliament laughing)
- I think...
Mrs. Speaker, I clearly,
if there were circumstances in which I felt
it was impossible for the government
to go on and discharge the mandate that we've been given,
or if I felt, for instance,
that we were being frustrated in our desire
to support the Ukrainian people
or over some major point, then I would,
but frankly, Mrs. Speaker,
the job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances
when he's been handed a colossal mandate is to keep going,
and that's what I'm gonna do.
- See, yeah, that's where we are.
Johnson's still clinging on power for dear life,
and what happens next is up in the air, right?
He barely survived a no confidence vote last month,
but he can't face another one until 12 months have passed,
but also it is possible
that the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers
will rewrite the rules to force Johnson out of office.
And in fact, it's executive just set the committee elections
for next week, and if enough,
anti Johnson lawmakers get elected to it,
this could be game over for Boris.
And well, of course, I'd love to know everyone's thoughts
for the Brits out there, what are you thinking?
But ultimately that is where that story
and today's show ends. I'd love to know your thoughts on any
and all stories stay in those comments down below.
My name is Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in,
I love yo' faces and I'll see you tomorrow.