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Hope you're having a fantastic
Wednesday, welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it / The first thing we're going to talk about today by far
the most requested stories of the day today
And that is updates around the Harvey Weinstein story we talked about yesterday
It just keeps going and going / if you haven't watched that video
I highly recommend it, but to oversimplify it there have been years and years, like decades of
allegations; many many women coming out against Harvey Weinstein / allegations and stories ranging from sexual harassment,
very similar situations with many of the different women, all the way to
several of the women claiming rape. There was newly released audio
we went through, even more women came forward including the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie. One of the big things
we're going to hit on is we're hearing two different stories of: This was an open secret in
Hollywood, and others saying no, not everyone knew, this was not an open secret,
I didn't know that he did this / I knew that Harvey chased girls, but nothing like this. Before
we jump into that, one of the most interesting updates around this situation is something that is
disconnected from Harvey Weinstein. Terry Crews saw the news about the situation, and he tweeted: "This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD."
"Why? Because this kind of thing happened to me." I mean he describes in tweet after tweet, how just last year -
this is not even at the beginning of his career -
Just last year at a Hollywood function an executive came over to him, and then the guy
just gropes his privates.
Crews saying his wife was right there, saw everything. He then explains that he just wanted to beat this guy down, but then realized
that's gonna look horrible for him,
so I could just imagine a
"240-pound black man stomps out Hollywood honcho would be the headline the next day" "I would have been in jail, we just left." "I decided to
not take it further because I didn't want to be ostracized"
"Par for the course when the predator has power and influence" and really, that story is the perfect indication that
anyone can be a victim. If Terry Crews can be the victim of sexual harassment, anyone can.
I saw stories popping up and people kind of sharing jokingly, like "do the Rock Test" - the idea being if you're thinking about doing
something to a woman or around a woman, you ask yourself, "would I do that
if that was The Rock?" and to that I say: 1) hopefully to treat someone with
respect or how you would like to be treated. We don't have to imagine
They are the raw to and I'm not trying to change a story here
It's a bit dismissive that men can also be victims understand
I'm not trying to take away from the female victims of this Harvey Weinstein situation 3 as we see with the case of Terry Crews
It doesn't matter if someone's like a big strong man that people like you people in this world that are so
Scummy so high on their own
Power that they don't even see people as other people and they try and do with them as they please so thank you to Terry
Crews and all the people coming out now sharing their stories every time we see someone do this they help take away the stigma around
Announcing that you were the victim and we got an update around Harvey Weinstein's wife after the accusation came out Weinstein told the New York
Post quote she stands 100% behind me, but it turns out today Harvey
She's nuts she's not standing behind you she's walking away Gina Chapman released a statement saying she is leaving
Weinstein saying quote my heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these
Unforgivable actions i've chosen to leave my husband caring for my young children is my first priority
And I asked the media for privacy at this time, then we had Lindsay
Lohan taking to Instagram to defend Harvey Weinstein she later deleted that video, but the Internet's a thing so let's watch
I don't worry about her YT right now. I don't think it's right. What's going on
I think Georgina needs to see his dad and be there for her husband, and he's never hummed me or done anything to me
We've done several movies together, and so I think everyone needs to stop. I think it's wrong
So stand up she later issued a statement to Daily Mail writer someone who has lived their life in the public. Eye
I feel that allegation should always be made to the authorities and not played out in the media
They will say I can understand that argument to a point although there have been specific women that went to police that audio of Harvey
Weinstein admitting to having grabbed at her breasts
but nothing happened
And so now you have all these women speaking out because there is safety in numbers you think when if Paltrow and Angelina Jolie
Need the press no, but the sad fact is their safety in numbers
I mean, I often see the same people that are saying why don't they just go to police?
I mean I see so many people saying well. Why didn't they tell people when this happened?
Why did they go public then we see so many instances where one woman comes forward and people just go out?
She's a lie, and she just wants attention, but at the same time we asked
Why more victims don't come forward sooner?
And then finally let's talk about ben affleck because out of everyone that has commented on this situation. He's being hit the hardest
yesterday Affleck issued the statement
I'm saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate sexually harass and manipulate many women over
Decades the additional allegations of assault that I read this morning made me sick
This is completely unacceptable
And I find myself asking what I can do to make sure this doesn't happen to others we need to do better at protecting our
Sisters friends co-workers and daughters we must support those who come forward
Condemn this type of behavior when we see it and help ensure there are more women
positions of power to that rose mcgowan of course an actress one of the people accusing Harvey Weinstein's someone that actually made a
Settlement deal with him he tweeted Ben Affleck fuck off fan a flick quote goddamnit
I told him to stop doing that who said that to my face the press conference
I was made to go to after assault you lie you want to play let's play we ended up seeing a lot of people sending
a hate Ben Affleck's way a lot of people reminding the world of a
2004 incident that incident from an episode of TRL that Affleck was on air he grabbed Hilary Burton's breast hilarie Burton thanking people for sharing
That saying seriously, thank you for that
I was a kid this morning Ben Affleck apologized acted inappropriately towards miss Burton
And I sincerely apologize so then you had people tweeting well. What about what you did with anne-marie Lowe sick
I was another incident from 2004 is during a press junket for Jersey girl. You usually sure this was a story
Why go bring it up today like Sunday morning?
Sunday morning
Good you church usually have that on display then many including Rose McGowan
bringing Casey Affleck into the situation Rose tweeting Ben Affleck Casey Affleck
How's your morning boys assuming the reference Casey Affleck sown sexual assault allegations there were two in that story?
allegations that he grabbed a woman violently that he snuck into a
Woman's bed without her consent those incidents were settled at a quarterback to Ben Affleck
We're talking about there is our two story one his own personal contact 13 years ago the bigger story in connection to Harvey Weinstein are
The accusations from Rose McGowan that Ben Affleck knew and so around this whole situation. I passed the question off to you
What are your thoughts on this whole thing you feel like Ben Affleck and/or others knew about this that it was an open secret or
No, also specifically regarding Ben Affleck
What are your thoughts with his brother being accused of something settling we didn't really hear from him there
But we hear from him on the Weinstein stories a lot of people talking about that so I'd love to know your thoughts there
But from that I want to share some stuff
I loved today and today in awesome the first bit of awesome is some weird facts awesome secret
There's been a video titled taking the penis into a nostril a wild story of
octopus sex it is actually genuinely interesting the more I hear about
Octopuses the more I jizz I think of them as weird monsters who shouldn't exist outside of someone's day dream
Then I want to share a quick video from Nintendo
But I'm not going to actually show that video in this video is despite me liking a lot of
Gamze their systems their dicks when it comes to rights issue and rather my video not get clean by Nintendo
But they did put out a fantastic video jump up superstar
I highly recommend it then I got to share this video from Bill works
And I'm not gonna tell you what it's about you
Just have to experience it aside know don't be on drugs when you watch it
Or do and let us know how that worked out, and if you want to see the full versions everything
I just share the secret link of the day anything at all links is always there in the description down below
Then let's talk about a huge update
Around the Alex wobbles story if you don't remember we talked about this a few weeks ago Alex
You might remember was forcibly
Aggressively arrested by Utah police officer by the name of Jeff Payne this because she refused to let him draw blood from an unconscious crash
Victim and some background there police were involved in a high-speed chase
The person they were chasing ran into another car person hit by the suspect police were chasing was the one in the hospital and according
To hospital policy the police need a warrant patient consent or need to have the patient under arrest in order to draw blood
It's why it's important to point out that the victim wasn't actually the person police were chasing there was no arrest there was no reason
To suspect anything was wrong with this guy the head nurse on staff Alex wobbles and forms police of this
They get very angry they end up arresting her we later see lieutenant James Tracy
Also, get involved and all this was recorded on several body cameras. No. We're done. We're done. You're under arrest
We're done
At all and where we last left this the Salt Lake Police Department had apologized Payne was suspended from the blood draw program
Who's also fired from a separate part-time job as a paramedic Payne and Tracy were later both put on paid administrative?
Leave there was an internal investigation
And the big update is that as of yesterday Police Chief Mike Brown made a final
decision the Chiefs letter to Payne said in part although I am mindful of and have considered your service record the fact remains that your
overall employment history including your relative lack of recent discipline is outweighed by the glaring absence of sound professional judgment and extremely discourteous a
Disrespectful inappropriate unreasonable and unwarranted behavior you displayed in this incident indeed
I am deeply troubled that an officer with
27 years of experience would choose to pursue the course of action and behave in the manner that you did for any officer let alone
One with your tenure, this is simply unacceptable adding
I am
unpersuaded that you are remorseful for your actions themselves and I have lost faith and confidence in your ability to continue to serve as a
Member of the Salt Lake City Police Department or to paraphrase how are you so stupid you have so much experience you know better?
That's yes out the door
You are fired round also made similar comments about Tracy's past service and clean record being outweighed by poor judgment
But he also acknowledged that it was Payne and withheld information from Tracy that might have changed away Tracy respond
This is because during all of this pain told Logan Police
He was having trouble getting vials of blood
requested and reportedly Logan authorities told him just to not worry about it and that they would get the blood by another means at a
Later time we didn't tell lieutenant Tracy that but still Brown said he had to hold Tracy
accountable writing your actions in this matter
Which were the catalysts that led to the arrest of Miss wobbles have among other things that verse Lee affected public respect and confidence in
The department and you and brought the department and you in a significant disrepute substantial damage has been done to the department's relationship with nurses
The hospital and equally as important the public we serve because of your actions these groups have lost trust and confidence in the department's ability
To serve them with dignity and respect it will take considerable time and resources to rebuild that trust and Brown's final decision on Tracy was
To demote him to rank so you went from lieutenant to the rank of police officer
And so that's where we are as of this decision coming through the men have five days to file an appeal according to the attorneys
For the two men they are planning to appeal this decision and ultimately I leave the situation
With a few thoughts the first being thank God for body cameras had there been no body camera footage
Or it was just security camera footage
Like three frames per second potato quality most likely would have only seen part of the situation and really just not how
Aggressive and ridiculous, it was and as far as the decision coming from chief Brown
I think it makes sense
I mean, I think it's hard to say that Jeff Payne was anything
But in the wrong here the information we had in the last video
It would have been very easy to place all the blame on lieutenant Tracy
He was the person calling the shots and thus responsible for the whole thing
But now that we have the net new information that
Tracy didn't have all the information just because Payne didn't properly handle the situation or relay the information that was pertinent to the
Situation still without a doubt he could have done better
So I think that's why it makes sense to me. I do want to pass a question off to you
Do you think this is just right is it too much?
Or is it not enough you think lieutenant Tracy's got to go - I'd love to know your thoughts and let's talk about a really
big issue coming out of California last Friday Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB
239 SB 239 changes a few things for California before
239 it was a felony to knowingly infect someone with HIV without disclosing your status or to donate
Hiv-positive blood without disclosing your status that carried a sentence of up to eight years in state prison
But now that SB
239 has been signed as of January 1st of next year it will be a misdemeanor if you do those things and so with it
Being a misdemeanor it comes with just a maximum sentence of six months and count each it
Also, changes rules around spreading other deadly communicable diseases those used to carry a six month sentence now
It's just 90 days following the bill being signed the writer of the bill Scott Weiner issued a statement saying today
California took a major step forward treating HIV as a public health issue instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals HIV should be
Treated like all other serious infectious diseases, and that's what SB 239 does other supporters of the bill also saying
This is a great step towards D
Stigmatizing people with HIV adding that unlike in the 80s when these laws were passed HIV is no longer a death sentence
Thanks to modern medicine
You can live a long healthy life while also having HIV Wiener also went on to say you're going to end new HIV infections
And we will do so by not threatening people with state prison time
But rather by getting people to test and provide them with care
We also saw the ACLU and other large LGBT
Organizations supporting this bill both claiming that in addition to LGBT minorities such as African Americans were disproportionately affected by HIV
And thus the new bill was less discriminatory and of course as you might imagine there was also much opposition to this bill
Many Republicans came out against this new legislation in regards to the spreading of HIV
They believe that this lighter punishment will actually lead to an increase we had senator Joel Anderson quote
I'm of the mind that if you purposely inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life
What's the mana regimen of medications?
To maintain any kind of normal sit should be a felon
It's absolutely crazy to me that we should go light on this adding the critical word is
intentional when you intentionally put others at risk you should have
Responsibilities and personally I have to say I am of the mindset that if you are an hiv-positive
Person and you're not telling the person that you're about to have sex with of your situation
You're a huge scumbag. You are putting their life at risk, and you should be severely prosecuted and understand
I'm talking about you know you are HIV positive. You're keeping this information to yourself
You are actively showing you do not care about the well-being of this other person because essentially at that point you decided that this person
You're gonna have sex with is going to play a rush and relax
I've been this version of the game only you realize that you have a loaded gun and the other person thinks you got a water
gun you taking that person's choice about risk their life their future out of their hands and in addition to the HIV part I think
It's ridiculous that you would lower any kind of punishment for knowingly giving someone else a disease
I mean
It's just crazy to me out of all the places you could say you know maybe the punishments too much too extreme
This is where California decides we're being a little bit too harsh
It makes me think of cases where we've seen these true scumbags going out there to specifically give people HIV
We saw a story out of Canada of a Ugandan man that actually infected eleven women with HIV
And he actually ended up being charged with murder
Because one of the women died from the disease and in that situation he knew he was HIV positive
He lied to his partners, and he actively engaged in unsafe sex in California
And it looks like that guy would have only been charged with a misdemeanor you got people like Daryl Roe in the UK
Knowingly infected partners he infected four men and tried to infect six others additionally because I guess that wasn't
scumbag II enough who'd reportedly then text his victims things like maybe you have the fever I came inside you and I have HIV of
All oops I ripped the condom. You're so stupid. You didn't even know Down, California. We want to say well
That's a slap on the wrist and understand. I do agree that we need to take away the stigma around HIV
I think people should go out there and get tested and be safe
and we should also be promoting better access to
Education about the disease help people understand that Izzie's and how those who suffer from it aren't
Untouchable with that and what we're talking about with this law is a completely different situation now
Let's talk about the fires in California humane areas had wild fires break up one near Anaheim Hills
And one near the North Bay first. Let's talk about the Anaheim Hills fire
You might have also heard it called the canyon two fires one was right next major housing developments in Orange County
I personally first found out about it not because I saw pictures of the fire
But I saw pictures from Disneyland the fire was 13 miles away, but I mean Disneyland look like it was Disneyland
But in Mad Max reportedly the blaze started around 9:20 a.m.. On Monday Monday night had burned
6,000 acres 5,000 homes were evacuated
3500 of those were under direct threat from the fire and while some buildings have been destroyed
Firefighters have managed throughout the last few days to keep many buildings safe the fire has now burned through 8,000 acres
But is considered to be 45 percent contained additionally evacuation orders have been lifted and families were allowed back
And then we had the North Bay fire, which is actually a series of fires
And it's in the same general area so the major areas affected are Santa Rosa and Napa and as of this morning
It's unclear when and how the fire started on Sunday?
And this is still a developing situation or reports of only four percent containment in some small areas collectively the fires have burned
122 thousand acres how fire has had to pull
Firefighting forces from across the state to help combat the blazes a thousand people had to be evacuated
There's still an evacuation order in effect for much of Santa Rosa and Napa
Firefighters have been prioritizing lives and personal homes so the businesses in the area such as hotels are being evacuated
But then left to burn the fires are reportedly destroyed 200 buildings so far that including large hotels
vineyards and homes in the area and of course
This isn't just about land and property there have been claims of human casualties support Lee over a hundred people are being treated for injuries
caused by the fire reports coming in now saying 21 people have died and make it even harder to
Hospitals between Santa Rosa and Napa had to be evacuated and reportedly around 300 people are still missing
And that's why they say the speed of the fire comes into play according to Cal Fire the winds were gusting at around
79 miles per hour on Monday poorly the embers have moved in excess of 50 miles per hour the crazy thing is is this doesn't
Even cover all of the fires happening in California right now look
This is what we're looking at right now
And all of this is just so heartbreaking and horrifying to see it's where I want to end this story because I often find people
Saying how can I help you know the Red Cross in one of two ways one?
There's obviously the donation round also the Red Cross has asked for volunteers and evacuation centers
You can sign up online to assist the evacuees. I'll link to it down below
I know it's just words
But I do want to say I send my love your way if you're affected by this, and I'm hoping you're staying safe
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