- Sup, beautiful bastards.
Welcome back to "The Philip DeFranco Show."
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Now, the first thing we're gonna talk
about today starts with a question.
For those of you in a relationship,
if you went up to a club one night
with some friends and then came back home
with a big, fat red lipstick kiss mark
on the back of your shirt, how would your partner react?
When I asked my wife, Lindsay, this what she said
- [Lindsay] I'd think I was being pranked.
(Philip laughs)
- [Philip] Wow. Oh, that hurts my feelings almost.
You know, this question was more than just a hypothetical
for the men in this TikTok that went viral, right?
It's from Sam, AKA littlewank, and in it,
you see her friend named Maddie applying lipstick
then kissing unsuspecting men on the back of their shirts,
leaving visible stains
with none of the men seeming to notice,
and Maddie giving the camera a smile at the end
like the devilish fiend she is.
Captioning it "Lipstick bandit was on the loose at PJ's."
With the video getting over 50 million views,
but now it appears that it's been taken down.
But still that's a lot of views,
and it was up long enough to stir up quite a controversy.
With some finding it funny, but others saying,
you know, what about consent?
Also worrying about the men whose wives
or girlfriends are gonna just see this,
and what's gonna happen from there.
With some leaving comments like
"Definitely broke up some relationships tonight."
Another writing, "That's not even funny!
Not only for people's relationships
but if that was a male doing that...
this would be a whole lot different!"
With others point out, even if the dudes are single,
lipstick stains are a pain in the ass to get outta clothes.
Plus after the last two years of COVID,
it's not like people need more stress
in their relationships.
Either because of finances
or they've been forced to live apart, or maybe even worse,
they've been forced to live very, very close together
way too soon in their relationship.
We all know some people who stayed in relationships
during the pandemic far longer than they probably wanted.
But also random factoid.
A Dating.com survey from earlier in the pandemic
found that 55% of people suspected
that they had been cheated on during quarantine.
So this TikTok's stunt definitely could have pushed people
over the edge. And so with this story,
the question I wanna ask is
do you think this is funny or it's fucked up? Is it both?
Because personally, the more that I think about this,
Maddie and Sam, I think you may be our douchebags
of the day, but I'll pass that question out to the audience.
What are your thoughts?
And then, in what feels both equal parts weird and awesome,
you have the YouTube creator iDubbbz
organizing the latest creator boxing match.
The event will reportedly be called Creator Clash,
being held in Tampa, Florida on May 14.
And the match-ups feel like they are out of a fever dream.
You got Ryan Magee versus Alex Ernst,
Yodeling Haley against Justaminx,
Epic Meal Time's Harley going against Egoraptor.
And easily the weirdest matchup is iDubbbz
is going to fight Dr. Mike.
With iDubbbz releasing a statement saying,
'These creators want to show respect to boxing,
while putting on an entertaining show
that reflects our personalities.
It was really important to us
that creators took this experience seriously,
And let me tell you, they absolutely have.
They have been training for months,
and we can't wait to show you
what they can bring to the table." And adding,
"Influencer boxing has previously been very money-driven
and our goal is to bring attention back to the sport,
while delivering fun and interesting personalities
for an all-around great show for some great causes."
And according to Tubefilter,
those causes include the American Heart Association.
And I've gotta say, iDubbbz is a man of his word.
If you're unfamiliar with the situation,
he initially wanted to fight RiceGum,
which would've been amazing
'cause that guy just needs to get punched in the face.
Some would say, not me. I'm saying it.
But RiceGum backed out and you had iDubbbz making it clear
that he still very much wanted a fight with whoever.
- I am so beyond down.
I don't care how (burps) big and strong they are.
I don't care how athletic they are.
I don't care how short or tall they are.
- [Philip] And that is exactly what he did.
Dr. Mike is a very big man,
who if you're not familiar with him,
actually has boxing experience.
But yeah, just from the match-ups alone,
this is an instant buy for me.
But that said, I wanna pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts regarding this?
Are you over YouTube boxing
or are you really what iDubbbz is saying here
in these specific match-ups?
And then, y'all the future is finally here.
No, we don't have flying cars.
But you can now order a beer
solely using the power of your mind.
And if you're wondering what the hell is Phil talking about?
Meet this 36 year old man in Germany,
who was diagnosed with ALS,
also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2015.
Right. It's the rare disease
that progressively shuts down voluntary muscle control,
the thing that Stephen Hawking had.
Usually the life expectancy after diagnosis
is just three to five years, but some live longer.
Like Hawking who lived with it for 55 years.
And while this guy, who was struck with ALS in 2015,
he lost control, even over his eyes in 2019,
making him totally unable to communicate.
But before it got that bad,
he consented to let Swiss researchers
give him an experimental brain implant
that would allow him to send messages through a computer.
With him given auditory feedback of his own neural activity
through a speaker, then adjusting the frequency
to generate yes and no responses.
With this also allowing him to select letters
as they were presented to him.
It then took three months of reconfigurations
before it finally worked.
Then another three weeks to actually produce sentences.
And I'm not kidding. His first words after months
of being locked inside a totally paralyzed body were,
"I want a beer."
And although we didn't find an answer in the reporting,
I'm just gonna hope
and assume this man got his fucking beer,
especially because even that simple sentence takes so long.
Apparently, on average, it takes about a minute
to type each character.
So just asking him for a drink must have taken
like 10 to 13 minutes.
Also among his first request,
it included playing the band Tool very loud,
getting ahead massage from his mother,
and ordering a curry.
And understand, this is absolutely massive
because we didn't even know this was actually possible.
With senior neuroscientist, Dr. Jonah Zimmermann saying,
"Ours is the first study to achieve communication
by someone who has no remaining voluntary movement
and hence for whom the BCI, brain-computer interface,
is now the sole means of communication."
With the scientists behind this
now seeking funding to do the same for other ALS patients.
Though, the tech will cost around half a million dollars
over the first two years of use.
But still the main point of this story
is science is amazing.
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And then let's talk about this tragic situation
we're seeing out of Florida
where a 14 year old boy fell to his death
after getting thrown off an amusement park ride.
Right, So this happened yesterday afternoon
at ICON Park in Orlando.
Reportedly, the teen had gotten on the park's FreeFall ride
which opened back in December.
Right, it's the type of ride that takes you straight up
and then drops you.
And notably, ICON Park's ride stands at 430 feet tall,
making the world's tallest free-standing drop tower.
And from video captured, that I'm not gonna show you,
the teen appears to fall off midway down.
And according to police,
this fall did not immediately kill the boy
now identified as Tyre Sampson.
Instead he later died at the hospital.
And so now, of course,
the park has indefinitely closed the ride
as it investigates what happened.
Executives saying their heart goes out to Tyre's family,
but the park has also claimed that the boy was secured
in a safety harness as the ride began.
However, footage from before the ride began
is pretty concerning because it appears
to show riders and staff discussing
whether people were actually strapped in.
- [Rider] But doesn't this have the little clicky-click?
Like the seatbelt?
- [Staff] Seatbelt? - [Rider] Yeah.
- [Staff] Have you checked you seatbelt on the left side?
Seatbelt! - [Rider] Nope!
- [Philip] Now to be clear, we need to wait
and see how this plays out,
if there's some sort of negligence involved and discovered.
Reportedly, Florida's Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services are also already looking
into whether there were issues with the ride itself.
There's also another part of this story
that I wanna talk about.
And that's because a lot of people first heard
about this story through seeing the video of Tyre falling.
It's gotten pretty viral online
which is why we've seen a lot of people now saying things
like, "To the people sharing the video
of the 14 year old dying on the drop tower
at ICON Park, you are a truly vile piece shit of human.
Fuck you, seriously. Fuck you. Have some sympathy,
the kid has a fucking family."
With many asking people to report the video
if they spot it online.
But you've also seen people having a counterargument
to that saying, "I know it's sensitive to the family
but people need to see the video.
If not for the video, big corporations get away
with saying stuff. This video proved something went wrong
with the ride and the correct lawsuits can be filed
with evidence to support."
Or I'll end this story is just to say my thoughts
and well wishes to the family and those effected.
This is horrible.
No one should have to go through this unimaginable pain.
And then let's talk about Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas.
Because you have alarm bells ringing,
questions coming up after Virginia Thomas
recently revealed that she attended a pro-Trump rally
that preceded the January 6th insurrection.
And making matters worse,
it's now being reported that she sent at least 29 texts
to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
about the 2020 election and pushing him
to help Trump overturn the election. Writing things like,
"Help this great president stand firm, Mark!
You are the leader, with him,
who is standing for America's constitutional governance
at the precipice. The majority knows Biden
and the Left is attempting the greatest heist
of our history." Also sending things like,
sounds like Sidney Powell and her team
are getting inundated with evidence of fraud.
Make a plan. Release the Kraken
and save us from the left taking America down."
Right. So it appears that she was very far
into the conspiracy theory that the election was stolen
as she was unironically saying "Release the Kraken."
Even calling the election a coup.
Now that said, the committee investigating January 6th
only has one message from January itself,
four days after the insurrection, where Thomas wrote,
"We are living through what feels like the end of America.
Most of us are disgusted with the VP
and are in a listening mode to see where to fight
with our teams. Those who attacked the Capitol
are not representative of our great teams
of patriots for DJT!! Amazing times, the end of Liberty."
However, Meadows had stopped cooperating with committee
shortly after sending over these texts,
and it's expected that there are many more possibly
from Thomas related to the event.
Now, to be clear, this isn't the only time
Thomas has been involved in political activism.
She's actually a well known conservative activist
and has been involved in a lot of other projects.
But this, on top of her past activism,
has ringed up questions about a potential conflict
of interest for her husband in certain cases,.
Right, she doesn't think there are any issues.
Recently saying in an interview that quote,
"We have our own separate careers,
and our own ideas and opinions too.
Clarence doesn't discuss his work with me,
and I don't involve him in my work."
However, it's a really fucking weird look
when the Supreme Court is looking at things
like whether or not the committee could release thousands
of documents from the Trump White House.
And Clarence Thomas is the only justice
who's sided with the president.
Right. Is it because he is the only justice that seemed
to have a partner that could be negatively affected
by the release of those documents?
And all of this has led to calls from some of the Left
for Justice Thomas to resign or be impeached.
However, understand it is very unlikely
that will ever happen. Impeachments in the US are very rare
and impeaching a justice is even rarer.
Like it's literally only happened once,
and that was back in 1805.
Right. Just like with the last presidential impeachments,
the House impeaches and the Senate acquits
because there's no way House prosecutors could convince 2/3
of the Senate to remove Thomas.
But still, you look at this situation.
For a lot of people, there's way too much smoke
for there not to be a fucking fire.
And then, even though we're six years removed
from the complete clusterfuck
that was the 2016 presidential election
between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,
we could not escape it.
With Trump on Thursday filing a massive,
108-page federal lawsuit against Clinton,
the Democratic National Committee, James Comey,
Christopher Steele, and 24 other entities and people.
With the lawsuit claiming that they all attempted
to undermine Trump's campaign
by falsely claiming he had ties to Russia.
And according to Trump's lawsuit,
all of the defendants engaged in what amounts to
a deep state conspiracy against Trump and that quote,
"Under the guise of opposition research, data analytics,
and other political stratagems,
the defendants nefariously sought
to sway the public's trust.
They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose
to vilify Donald J. Trump."
Also claiming that the defendants engaged in a litany
of federal offenses including racketeering, fraud,
and theft that all amounted to more than $24 million
in costs and damages.
Now, with all that said, it is no secret
that the Clinton campaign did conduct opposition research
which is completely normal.
It's also true they took some of that research
to the FBI after it was revealed that Trump,
or at least many of those surrounding him,
had extensive ties to Russia. But that is about the end
of where some grand pro-Clinton conspiracy ends.
Though, Trump thinks otherwise,
or at least is saying otherwise.
Right. There wasn't a giant group at the FBI
of pro-Clinton loyalists attacking Trump.
To date, only one FBI agent has really gotten in any trouble
for anything related to Trump.
But Kevin Kleinsmith, a low-level FBI lawyer,
pleading guilty to altering an email in order
to secure a surveillance warrant
against a Trump campaign aide that had verifiable
and extensive relations with Russian agents.
So that's why this is pretty widely believed
to be nothing more than a political stunt.
Right. Because proving that all these allegations are true
and then they actually heard his chances
of winning the presidency is already hard.
Not to mention, he actually ended up winning.
So you have experts saying it's pretty hard
to stand in front of a judge and argue,
"No, Your Honor, we would've won more."
But Trump wasn't the only lawsuit filed
against many of the same people.
Former Trump presidential campaign advisor
Carter Page has also been fighting against some
of the same defendants with his own lawsuit for over a year.
However, his was far more narrow, instead focusing on those
who possibly violated his privacy rights
when he was surveilled by the FBI.
But yeah. Ultimately with this story, and really week,
I feel like treat this as your reintroduction to Trump
being in the news again, because it's gonna happen more
and more and more as we get past 2022 and go into 2024.
But ultimately, that is where that story
and today's show ends.
As always thank you for watching, liking,
being a part of the Franco Nation.
I love yo faces and I'll see you next time.