- The Guardian blocked yesterday's video.
They banned you from viewing it
and they did this at around 2:00 AM local time for me
so I didn't see it for hours.
Now luckily I've been able to handle the situation
but not before it did irreparable damage to that
and so I mentioned this because if you miss yesterday show
or you tried to watch and it was blocked,
it'll be one of the top links in the description.
Or you can go to youtube.com/defranco and click it,
but also because I wanted to take the time this morning
to address whichever gremlin
or gremlins over at the Guardian decided to do this
because it does look like it was done manually.
I wanted to say to you, Suck my dick from the back.
I am gonna get a hall pass from my wife
and fuck all your mothers.
That way both of you can call me daddy.
She, because I'm a giving lover
and you because I absolutely destroy
the fucking Guardian in every digital video platform
that matters.
At this point it doesn't even matter if you did what you did
because of ignorance or idiocy
or you were trying to hurt a competitor,
but now it brings me so much joy to find out this morning
that on YouTube you get 7 million views a month,
whereas this idiot in his guest room,
this channel we got 24 million,
on the second channel we got 37 million.
On TikTok, God, I really hope you don't
spend much money on TikTok.
You get 9,000 views a video.
We get a hundred million a month
and I try not to be someone that boasts 99% of the time
but when you do something
that fucks with me and my audience,
I will use that and hammer it on your fucking head.
Anyway, I just need to get that poison outta my head.
Welcome back to the "Philip DeFranco Show."
Buckle up.
Hit that like button as a button to say "fuck you Guardian."
Let's just jump into it.
In what the actual fuck news.
We had a woman in Pasadena, California being arrested
for attacking her neighbor's house with a pick ax.
You know, a totally supernormal story.
Reportedly the owner of the house got a security alert
while he was at work and when he looks, he sees a woman
smashing the windows of his home
and it's not like the house was empty.
In the house was his mother-in-law
with his newborn daughter.
Now, luckily, as the woman began attacking the house
the grandmother was very quick, grabbed the baby
from her bassinet by the window
and rushed her to safety and the owner of the house saying
- The glass shards from these giant windows
were literally double her size right in her bassinet
where my daughter was laying.
If she was five seconds late
my daughter would no longer be with us.
- So that absolute bamf of a grandma saving that baby
and as far as the other woman,
when she was done smashing the window,
she reportedly walked away with her pick ax
across her shoulders saying, "I'll be back."
- [Female Intruder] I'll be back. You know?
- But luckily a few hours later
she was arrested by the Police
and booked for vandalism.
With the authorities saying
this woman was having a mental health crisis.
You know, this affected family,
they just moved into this house a couple of months ago
and of course this is done serious damage
to their peace of mind.
- My wife, my kid can't even come home.
They're terrified.
They don't want to come home.
- And then y'all, we got it all wrong about Kanye.
You know, we got all offended about the antisemitic stuff.
We were laughing at Ye
for getting escorted outta the Sketcher's office yesterday.
One brave soul took the time the other day to explain
we've got it all wrong about Kanye
and rather than just explain,
what she said I'll let you hear it from the horse's mouth.
- How do I explain this?
What I'm gonna say is either
gonna go right over your head or you're gonna get it.
Kanye West is here to fulfill a divine prophecy.
Kanye West is using his vessel to channel the gospel
of Jesus Christ in his soul's mission.
When he's speaking of the Jews and Judaism,
he's speaking at it from a biblical standpoint.
Kanye has achieved Christ's consciousness.
He's had his Kundalini awakening.
He's he's connected. He's divinely connected.
Along with my belief, I believe that I am Jesus.
He believes that he is Jesus.
He believes that he is God.
He believes he's unified with all that is.
- Yeah, the rational right in front of us explanation.
She is Jesus. He is God.
Stop being so shortsighted.
(Phillip laughs)
I'm laughing 'cause I hate everything.
The world was just so much more peaceful for me
before I could see into every fucking corner of crazy.
Like y'all do you understand
how disconnected from reality and decency you need to be
for Casey Neistat to put out a video
speaking out against you.
You made the man sing song, Kanye lyrics.
- I hate that I have to make this video.
I don't wanna make this video.
I wanna make another fun goofy little video
about how much I love New York City.
It's all hate speech
and what that kind of hate speech does
when communicated by someone of his stature,
with his bully pulpit
it tells other people,
other people of compromised integrity.
Not people like your me,
people who are harboring prejudice of their own.
It gives them permission to also get out there
and spread hate.
- And then in what I expect to be the final chapter
of the this Taylor Swift drama, controversy and backlash,
it's now being reported
that the anti-hero music video has been edited
on Apple music and YouTube
to remove the moment where you see fat on the scale.
This in general seems to have been received very positively
by those that were not happy about seeing it.
The new edit, staying on a wide shot
with people pointing to that and saying,
"See, she's still got the same message across
without the the word fat,"
but now you also have a different group of people online
being more actively vocal about being pissed off
about the edit.
Fans sharing a resurface clip
where she's talking about her eating disorder.
This generating responses
that have gotten a lot of support like
"I'm really upset about the anti-hero music video
being edited.
It was clearly art that spoke to so many of us
and it feels so bad that Taylor felt bad enough
that she felt like she had to change it.
I hope she knows we appreciate her art
and accept her struggles without judgment."
As well as "Everyone experiences their EDs
in different ways
and to shame her by dictating how a word can be used
is dismissing her struggles.
It's cruel and unfair, especially considering
she spent basically her whole adult life
in an industry that places incredible pressure
on body image"
and so with this, I imagine final update
I wanna know your thoughts
about Taylor Swift editing the video.
Are you happy to see it?
Are you sad to see it?
Do you not care?
And possibly the more important question is
why do you think she did it?
Or do you think like the public responses we saw
made her go, "Oh you know what,
I'm in the wrong, I'm gonna change this."
Or do you think she saw this and she was like,
"Oh I don't even wanna deal with this backlash,
just edit it."
Or is there maybe a different mindset around it?
Any and all thoughts you have on this
let me know down below
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and then your turkey next month
is probably gonna be more expensive
and it's not for the reason that you would think, right?
You think inflation and you think,
oh is it a supply chain issue?
No. Turns out it's because of the Avian flu.
Reportedly around 44.6 million birds
have died from the virus,
and of those 6 million were turkeys.
It's believed that by the end of the year
this is gonna be the worst animal health event
in the history of the US
and it was just sad to see so many birds die
before we got the chance to murder 'em like God intended,
but yeah, the key things here,
one, you're very likely gonna be paying more
for your Thanksgiving Turkey if you buy one
and two, there is a concern
that this may be a problem moving forward.
With the Chief Veterinarian for the Agriculture department
believing the virus will continue to infect wild birds
and will bring an elevated risk to domestic birds
especially during migration seasons
and then "let that sink in" is something Elon Musk said
and meed as he entered Twitter HQ as a, you know
according to his new Twitter bio, "the chief tweet"
which I mean some could take
is just like one of his other stunts on Twitter,
but very important to note, that is not the only sign
that his Twitter deal is actually going to go through
before tomorrow's deadline
or the banks backing his deal
of reportedly begun to transfer $13 billion in cash
and on top of that, other investors like Sequoia Capital,
Binance and Qatar Investment Authority
have received the necessary paperwork
from Musk's lawyers for the deal to go through.
So it's looking like Twitter's efforts to hold Musk
to his $44 billion deal have paid off.
Now as far as the market's reaction to this news,
really not much happening.
It bumped it up about 1% to just under $54,
but if you are someone
that managed to ride the wave properly,
you bought the stock in July
you're probably a happy boy or girl right now
because the stock has surged nearly 65% since then.
Right now it's expected to be unlikely
for the price to change even more
since Musk is buying it at $54,20 cents a share.
Not to mention the fact
that the New York Stock Exchange is halting all trades
for Twitter stock tomorrow
and from there we just need to wait and see
what the fuck this looks like.
Will he follow through on a threat
to layoff 75% of the staff
although he has told Twitter
that it wouldn't actually be that many people.
Also of note there regarding layoffs
the key thing to note is that internal documents
actually showed that the company
was already planning a shocking 25% reduction in staff
and then of course, one of the biggest questions
how is the platform actually going to be run.
In a tweet this morning we saw Musk emphasizing
that he wanted to get rid of spam ads
and focus on targeted ones.
He also touched on how users would be affected saying that
"Twitter obviously cannot become a free for all hell scape
where anything can be said with no consequences."
He also added, he want people to be able to engage
in the type of content that's most relevant to them
which you know yeah, that makes sense, right?
That kind of feels like the difference
between YouTube and TikTok
versus like Meta and Instagram with those latter to it,
it really feels like not trying to engage me
with content that I actually like
but more things that they're getting paid to show me
which I mean is part of the reason
I haven't used Facebook in forever
and I use Instagram less and less these days,
but hey, as we wait to see what an Elon run Twitter
is going to look like
I'd love to know your thoughts on this
and then Meta is having a horrific week
and I mean it could die.
Like there is no shortage
of bad news for Meta and definitely real person,
not lizard person, Mark Zuckerberg.
Right, first off, we saw things
like a Judge in Washington state
slapping the company with a 24.7 million fine
after finding that it intentionally violated
the state's campaign finance disclosure laws.
With the Washington State Attorney General describing it
as the largest campaign finance penalty
anywhere in the country ever.
Which appears to be because the judge said
they violated the law 822 times
with each count carrying a maximum fine of $30,000
with a specific law that they violated
being "Washington's Fair Campaign Practices Act"
which was passed back in 1972
and under that law entities that sell political ads
are required to make certain information public
including the names and addresses of ad buyers,
the targets of the ads, how the ads were financed
and the total number of views
and while everyone else has complied
with this law since the seventies,
Meta said, "Hey this is virtually impossible
to fully comply with and very notably
this is actually the second time the company's been sued
for violating this law
with it previously agreeing to pay $238,000
as part of a settlement in 2018,
but all of that, I mean
it's kind of pocket change for Meta, right?
Where Meta really starts to bleed
is that the company reported a 50% drop
in profits for the third quarter of 2022
and the key thing here is that this follows a recent trend
in Meta's Financial Trouble.
Its earnings have continued to suffer
from Zuckerberg's massive spending on the Metaverse,
slowing ads, sales and fierce competition
from platforms like TikTok
and all this is happening relatively fast for Meta.
It wasn't until back in July
where they posted their first ever sales decline
since becoming a public company
and with being a public company
the market giveth and the market take it away
with Meta stock having absolutely nose dived
over 60% this year.
and Zuck essentially got drop kicked in the balls yesterday
with the market responding to the news
of lower profits by sending the stock down nearly 20%,
but apparently Zuckerberg is staying strong.
With him reportedly asserting on the call
with analysts yesterday
that people will look back decades from now
and talk about the importance of the work that was done here
in regards to the Metaverse and VR
and hey, time will tell.
Is Zuck right or is Zuck wrong?
In 20 years are we gonna look back to videos from this time
and it'll look like when the internet
was first starting to come out
and people were like
"The internet, why wouldn't I just mail the letter?"
Or will Zuckerberg just be a punchline in history?
And that is where that story in today's show ends.
Thank you for watching, like and subscribing.
Fuck the Guardian.
My name's Philip Franco, you've just been filled in.
I love yo faces
and I'll see you Sunday
with a brand new wrap up of the news.