- Do you remember when the internet gaslit
a whole movie studio
into re-releasing Morbius into theaters
because they said it was Morban time?
Well, the exact opposite just happened,
because Minions Rise of Gru
absolutely shattered box office records this weekend.
in just three days, it brought in over $202 million,
largely because of memes.
This movie now has the biggest opening
over the July 4th holiday weekend ever.
So if you're not aware, the Minions franchise
has become kind of one of the internet's biggest memes
over the past few years.
And this most recent meme was kind of a spinoff
of the tickets to joker please meme.
for the Minions though, the pictures and videos
that went along with this were like young guys in suits.
And so obviously the memeing in general,
like it generated more attention
that this movie was coming out.
There was a lot of free promotion.
But then, but then opening weekend happens,
and the internet gets flooded
with all these videos of young guys in suits,
usually in incredibly large groups, taking it very serious.
They're here for some top tier cinema.
With many of those videos getting millions
and tens of millions of views.
That promoting the movie even more.
More people then going to the theater.
with it appearing, thanks to the memes,
and these viral videos, that had actually generated dollars.
And those numbers are all the more impressive
because it's kind of just an okay movie.
Like it's not the best of the Despicable Me movies.
It's not the worst.
It's just, you know, it was fun to watch
with my kids in 4DX.
But all of that said, for some the memes have gone too far.
Because we're seeing more and more news coming out
that there are movie theaters that are banning
people from coming to the theater
if they're coming in a group wearing suits.
And that appears to be because in addition
to these guys showing up doing like little handshakes,
taking it very serious,
there are some of these gentle Minion groups
that take it to another level,
where it appears that they are messing the movie up
for other people.
Things like people whipping out their phone,
and turning on the flashlight while the movie's happening.
Others just being loud and disruptive.
Some going the extra step
and throwing bananas at the screen.
Some of these kids memeing in a little too close to the sun.
But this bullshit has converted into real dollars.
And so for me, the only question is,
do we see one of the biggest dropoffs
for week two numbers in history?
Or does the memeing stay strong for seven more days,
and we see another strong week two?
Use the comments down below to put your bets in,
and we'll look back in seven or eight days.
Also in the news regarding
how do you get someone to watch something, boobs.
And no, I'm not talking about the first seven years
of the Philip DeFranco Show.
Rather there's been this big debate happening online
after this stunt that was pulled by a streamer
by the name of Pooper Noodle.
And as she explained it on Twitter,
"I made the decision to buy a pair of boobs
and wore them on stream today."
And showing her viewer analytics,
and it appeared that most of her numbers about doubled.
1,471 average viewers up from 651,
almost 2,400 max concurrent viewers compared to 1,059.
way more subs, way more followers,
way more live views, way more everything.
With Exerto also reporting that a day after this,
she went live again,
and she broadcasted to an average viewership
over double what she was previously.
And so following this, we saw the post blow up.
A lot of people having a lot of different takes,
some of which did not sit well with Pooper Noodle.
And so she responded, "I'm seeing some really bad takes
and would just like to clear things up,
one women don't have it easier on Twitch.
They get a better initial start,
but can't break through the glass ceiling
that male creators can.
This is due to multiple reasons.
Two, everyone loves boobs, not just men or simps.
Three, watching a female streamer,
or finding their content entertaining,
does not make you a simp, you absolute buffoons.
Four, it's worth noting I didn't just put on the boobs,
I was wearing this cosplay for 13 hours
while trying to defeat the hardest content,
Vykas raid hardmode.
I also had Twitch drops activated on my channel.
Five, a lot of people are mad that I'm, "Deceiving" men.
If this is you, please go outside
and talk to a real life person.
Maybe one day you'll even get to talk to a woman.
And six, women aren't boobs."
And personally, I'll say I agree
with five outta six of those.
With my only question mark being around number four.
Because her saying that it wasn't just the boobs
seems to go against her initial post.
Right, that post really never emphasizes
any part of her cosplay outside of the boobs.
Though, I do think that it includes important context,
and can be a mixture of the two things together.
And so with this story, of course,
I'd love to know your thoughts on any and all aspects of it.
But the two final notes I wanna hit on,
one this is just a confirmation of everything we knew.
Everyone loves boobs, man, woman, whatever.
And two, Lindsay, please do not look
at our Amazon order history.
News views usually trend down in the summertime,
and I'm just doing what I gotta do.
And then, what would you do if your employer
accidentally paid you 330 times your normal paycheck?
Sounds like a weirdly specific hypothetical,
but one guy in Chile
actually had to ask himself that question recently.
Now, currently we don't know his name,
but we do know that he was a dispatch assistant
at the cold meats manufacturer consortium.
When he got paid his monthly wages for May,
he was expecting around $545.
which to put into context is not much more than
half the average take home pay of around $900.
But instead when he checks his bank account,
he doesn't see 545.
He finds $180,418.
Which fun fact is around the same
the top CEOs get compared to typical workers.
But you know, what we see is this guy go,
hey, I have a conscience.
He goes to his manager at work, he tells him what happened.
The manager then tells HR and they say,
"Hey, no worries.
We're gonna get this sorted.
Just give us back the money."
He says, "Yeah of course, tomorrow."
And like pretty much everything
that I put off 'til tomorrow, he doesn't follow through.
Maybe the little devil on his shoulder
finally broke through.
He's like, "You're makin' a lot of sense."
He just takes the cash and bolts.
With his attorney already putting that money to good use,
sending in a letter several days later saying,
"Hey, this guy is resigning."
And so the company has filed a complaint
with the authorities,
alleging that he misappropriated funds,
though there hasn't been an arrest made yet.
Though that's largely because this man
has not been found or heard from since this happened.
And so with this story, there are questions.
Is this guy in the wrong for taking the money and running?
To which I would say usually according to the law,
that is technically illegal.
Which is why my main question is what would you do?
Because I can see this from two ends.
As a former broke ass kid, I think there's definitely
a time and place I would've taken that money, run,
just started a life somewhere else.
But on the other side of this as an employer,
oh, with how insurance, benefits, and everything works,
I've accidentally overpaid employees in the past before.
I've just kind of made them whole.
I'm not gonna be that boss that's like,
"Hey, we overpaid you, so you're gonna have to pay us back."
But I've never overpaid someone by $150,000.
If one of my people took my money and ran,
oh, you betray my trust, you're dead to me.
You take my money, you're just dead.
Also my HR department and my lawyer
would like to explain that what I just said is a joke.
And I'm not currently practicing my shocked face
for when the news comes out that the person
that stole money from me
accidentally stabbed themselves 13 times.
That was also a joke.
Let's move on before I incriminate myself some more.
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And then just Jesus Christ, just watch.
- 200,000 minimum ballots were trafficked by mules.
We want an honest election.
- No, because may I finish?
Mama Mia!
- [Ted] Hold on, let her finish please Scott.
- Okay, God, they talk over me and I'm Italian,
that shouldn't happen.
- [Scott] I'm Irish.
- Okay.
Why not get high tech people
that are gonna be on the machines that are republicans,
a democrat, republican, get supervisors, equal amounts.
- [Ted] That happens, we have parties
looking over election results.
- That's right, they're doing it now.
- No, no, they've always done that.
- [Scott] Listen, I haven't been on a stage
with this many women since I've been to a baby shower.
It's been awhile.
- I don't know how that's gonna go over Scott,
but we'll let that hang.
- I am pro life, from conception to death.
And I believe-
- [Ted] No exceptions for rape or incest?
- Well, that's a gray area, I don't know.
That's a personal decision for a person.
- Well, why can't we treat human life
in the same way that we would treat alien life
that we discovered on an alien planet?
- There's a reason we don't always invite Scott,
because he's polling at 0%.
- [Scott] No 1%.
- This is what happens when you-
- [Scott] But the polls lie.
- [Ted] Scott, please.
- The only kind of drag I've ever dressed in,
is a business suit or construction work clothes.
I have never aspired to be Elvis Presley.
- That's a shame.
- [Ted] All right that's-
- [Kari] I feel like I'm on an SNL skit here.
Are we going to take control of the debate,
or do you want me to do it?
- No, Kari I don't want you to try to take-
- [Kari] I'm happy to do it.
- I know you would be happy to do it.
- So first off Kari, no the writing on SNL is not this good.
And for everyone else going,
"What the hell did I just watch?"
Those four people are running to be the governor of Arizona.
You've got 200,000 mules, Kari Lake.
I only see women on a full moon, Scott Neely.
The Italian mama herself, Paola Tulliani Zen.
And Karrin Taylor Robson,
who by the way is the only candidate who refused to say
that the 2020 election was 100% stolen.
And I mentioned that
because all four of them are Republicans.
Two of the people on that stage
very well could be the next governor of Arizona.
When you look at this debate that happened last Thursday,
with PBS moderator Ted Simons, it's scary.
Like I understand why the internet has eaten this up.
A one compilation alone, garnering over 10 million views
just in the last few days.
But like election denier Keri Lake noted, this is not SNL.
It's not a joke, it's not a skit.
These people are vying to lead the state of Arizona,
which is why you have so many people genuinely worried.
Including democratic Senator Chris Murphy
calling the clip a must watch and saying,
"It's both sad and scary what's happening to this party."
Because what we saw in that debate,
and there's much more to watch,
like that doesn't exist in a vacuum.
This is a snapshot of the real world.
And I mean, you don't even need to look outside
of the state of Arizona to see the real world effects
of this bullshit the election was a scam narrative.
On Friday, it was reported
that two Arizona election officials had decided to resign,
specifically because of threats that began
following the 2020 election.
With one of them telling Fox 10 Phoenix,
"I'm a Republican recorder living in a Republican county,
where the candidate that they wanted to win
won by two to one in this county.
And I'm still getting grief, and so is my staff.
I'm not sure what they think that we did wrong,
and they're very nasty.
The accusations and the threats are nasty."
But even saying very nasty,
that's a pretty mild way of putting it.
Like hell, the county sheriff
had to give her extra protection,
and even started doing regular patrols of her home
in response to the threats that she had received.
Threats that notably she never had gotten
until this election.
And understand, they are far from the only ones.
We've seen election officials resigning in mass
for similar reasons in other states as well.
But to bring it back to Arizona,
if all of this concerns you, and you happen to live there,
primaries will be held on August 2nd.
Though notably, the state also has universal mail-in voting,
and those should be sent out this week.
Though, of course this is just one battle.
This is not just an Arizona problem.
And I don't know, I just wish there could be an election
where I just feel like, you know,
the last vestige of democracy didn't hinge on the result.
(frustrated groan) Happy 4th of July, everyone!
And then finally with living another day in America,
we have another story involving guns.
I mean fuck, as I started recording this video,
I saw breaking news that there was a mass shooting
in Highland park, Illinois.
There are already reports that there are at least five dead.
It's a developing situation,
so we are going to talk about it tomorrow.
But for the end of today's show,
I wanna talk about why people are protesting in Akron, Ohio.
Because some are saying this is in response
to one of the most explosive instances
of police brutality since George Floyd.
With the young man at the center of this story
being 25 year old Jayland Walker.
The story actually starts last Monday
when city police attempted to stop a silver Buick
that Walker was driving
for a traffic and equipment violation.
And it's just now gaining so much attention
because police yesterday released 13 versions
of highly disturbing body cam footage
from the incident at a press conference.
And during that presser,
police said that Walker refused to stop.
Instead taking off with the cops in pursuit.
And around 40 seconds later,
body cam footage captures what the officers believed
to be a gunshot from Walker's car.
- [Officer] 21 shots fired.
That vehicle just had a shot come out of its door.
- So the chase continues for several more minutes,
until Walker eventually stops
and exits his car wearing a ski mask
and then running away on foot.
Cops attempt to tase him, but fail.
Then staying in pursuit,
with Walker finally reaching a parking lot
where he stops and turns
towards the officer for a brief moment,
which is when they unloaded their weapons on him.
And obviously I'm not gonna show you that video,
though it is readily available and easy to find.
But ultimately eight officers
reportedly ended up firing over 90 rounds at him,
with around 60 of those wounding him.
However, it is not clear
how many are entry wounds and exit wounds.
With the shooting lasting seven seconds,
even though Walker can be seen falling to the ground
in the first second with his body convulsing
from the bullets afterwards.
With one officer waving his hand in the air four seconds in,
and yelling, "Cease fire," three times
before the gunfire died down.
And at the end of all this,
we find out that Walker was actually completely unarmed.
With many pointing out that in the videos,
he doesn't even appear to be holding anything in his hands.
Though police say when they searched his car,
they did find a handgun and a loaded magazine.
As far as why the cops say why they shot him,
the police department claims that each officer
independent of each other, saw him reach toward his waist,
and begin moving into a firing position.
While the body cam footage makes it hard to see
what actions Walker did or did not take,
the lawyer for his family said that in a conversation
with the city's police chief,
chief admitted that he didn't see any movement
that put the officers in fear.
And so right now you have all the officers involved
being placed on paid administrative leave.
With reports noting that seven are reportedly white,
with one black.
So that's why right now we're seeing protests erupt
across the city, with people facing off
against riot police, the police station.
With it being described as mostly peaceful,
though some people reportedly tried to tear down barricades.
And you can see the cops deploying tear gas.
As well as reports
of some dumpster fires and broken windows.
Which has led to the mayor
declaring a state of emergency today,
issuing a curfew from 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
Also canceling the 4th of July fireworks celebration
that was originally scheduled.
But yeah, ultimately with that,
I do wanna pass the question off to you,
because depending on where you look on the internet,
people are very split.
Some seeing this and describing it as the police
just killing another unarmed black man.
The Black Lives Matter Twitter account
saying they shot him 60 times.
He was murdered by Akron police.
Say his name,
with many of the viral pose noting he was unarmed.
He was murdered.
But on the other side of this, you have people saying
it's understandable that it went down this way.
Arguing that even though he did not
have a weapon on him when police opened fire,
he had already according to reports
fired at police from his vehicle,
making it so that every officer knew that he was armed,
that he was willing to shoot at police,
and that that could happen again.
And in the middle of the night, adrenaline pumping
after already being fired upon by a suspect,
a movement could seem like a threat.
So that's why ultimately with this story,
I do wanna pass the question off to you,
what are your thoughts so far?
Because there is an ongoing investigation.
But ultimately, that is where that story,
and today's show, ends.
Y'all, thank you for watchin',
and bein' a part of the conversation.
I hope you have a great rest of your 4th,
or whenever the hell you're watchin' this.
But there's one thing for sure I can tell you,
my name is Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in.
I love your faces, and I'll see you tomorrow.