- I'm rich, bitch!
(crowd roaring)
- So we're gonna talk about that
and so much more of the news that matter today
on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show.
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Starting with Elon Musk being booed
for several straight minutes by a very large crowd
at a Dave Chappelle show
with him at one point responding by yelling,
"I'm rich, bitch!"
- I'm rich, bitch!
- Sounds like a weird Mad Lib
but is a real thing that happened.
So let's break it down.
Dave Chappelle was performing
at the Chase Center in San Francisco
and he brings out this special guest.
- [Dave] Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise
for the richest man in the world.
(audience cheering)
(crowd roaring)
(audience booing)
- And to be fair, from the videos, it does seem
at least in the beginning that there are varied reactions.
You can hear both cheers and boos,
though as it keeps going on,
the booing does seem to get louder and louder,
with Chappelle even commenting on the mix initially.
- [Dave] Cheers and boos, I see.
- Then as the commotion continues, the boos get louder.
Chappelle kind of tries to make a joke.
- [Elon] You weren't expecting this, were you?
(crowd roaring)
(audience members booing)
- [Dave] It sounds like some of them people you fired
are in the audience.
(audience laughing) - Then we see Chappelle take
a more defensive stance for Musk,
though the way he initially does it
is by basically calling part of his own fan base poor.
- [Dave] All those people who are booing,
and I'm just pointing out the obvious,
they have terrible seats.
(audience laughing)
And I understand that.
(audience laughing)
All coming from way up there.
- And from there, you have Chappelle
you know, cracking jokes here and there,
trying to win back the audience.
You know, the crowd at points are laughing.
Dave Chappelle's a funny dude.
Then once the laughter stops, the chaos continues.
Musk even seeming at a loss is what to do.
- [Elon] Dave, what should I say?
(audience booing)
- [Dave] Don't say nothin'.
- [Elon] Okay.
- [Dave] It'll only spoil the moment.
You hear that sound, Elon?
That's the sound of pending civil unrest.
- With Chappelle then having to address the continuing boos.
- You shut the fuck up with your boos.
There is something better that you can do.
Booing is not the best thing you can do.
- Later you had a bunch of other people hopping on stage,
eventually getting Musk to quote the "I'm rich, bitch" line
from Chappelle's sketch show.
You know, since these videos popped on social media,
there's been a big debate around the boos versus the cheers.
One person who was there said
a good 80% of the stadium booed.
"18,000 people and he withers,
like absolutely turns into a corn cob."
A number of people saying, "I heard Musk get booed
like I've never heard before,"
but then you had Elon Musk with a different take,
tweeting, "Technically it was 90% cheers and 10% boos
except during quiet periods.
But still, that's a lot of boos,
which is a first for me in real life, frequent on Twitter.
It's almost as if I've offended
San Francisco's unhinged leftists, but nah."
You also had a lot of people accusing Musk of
trying to suppress the videos of the situation,
saying that he was trying to work to prevent it
from trending on Twitter,
with reports even noting that a Twitter user who posted
one of the first uploads of the video
either got suspended or took their account down.
Though there, I do think it's worth noting that right now
on Twitter there is no shortage of videos of the incident,
with Chappelle even being the number one trending topic
in the US this morning.
And when you go through the trending topic there,
you see Chappelle himself
also facing some backlash and criticism,
with people saying things like,
"Begging the crowd not to boo is pretty fuckin' pathetic
and shows how detached from reality he must be
to expect any different."
And "Dave Chappelle whoring himself out
for these uber rich white men just to be in their presence,
literally alienating his audience
trying to force their acceptance of
this colonizing right-wing asshole is so gross.
I can't believe he's become this over the years."
And a ton of people retweeting
David Dennis Jr.'s meme of the situation.
And as far as Musk,
in addition to the 90% 10% tweet that he put out,
he said "The woke mind virus is either defeated
or nothing else matters."
But that could also be in reference to
the million other reasons he's in the news right now.
But hey, where I'll leave this story is
what are your thoughts on this mess of a situation?
Regarding Musk, Chappelle, that audience,
any and all thoughts,
I'd love to hear from you in those comments.
And then, do you have a workplace ick?
You know, something your boss, a coworker, or a client does
that just makes your skin crawl, sets your teeth on edge?
And more importantly, if you have one or several,
is it something that you'd feel comfortable sharing
with the entirety of the internet,
including the people you're talking about
and or the company that you work for?
And the reason I ask is because
there was a group of people out there that did,
and specifically it was a group of nurses from
a labor and delivery department at a hospital in Georgia
that jumped on the 'ick' trend, with them in this video
sharing their icks about patients and family members
in their department.
- My ick is when you come in for your induction
talking about, "Can I take a shower and eat?"
- My ick is when you ask me how much the baby weighs
and it's still in your hands.
- Dad comes outside and asks for a paternity test
right outside the room door.
- Saying you don't want any pain medicine, no epidural,
but you are at an 8 out of 10 pain with just a cervidil,
and you're still closed fingertip.
- When we've already told you to push a call light,
but every five minutes your family member comes up-
- Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, can I have some water?
- Asking for something else.
- [Nurse] Excuse me, can I have a blanket?
- Another ick, when you're going room to room
between one baby mama and your other baby mama.
Ick.
- It's the unlimited trips to the nurses station for me.
- So as you can imagine, the original video is deleted,
but of course the internet is forever
so it's been circulating on TikTok and other platforms
and the comments sections
have not been friendly to these nurses,
saying things like, "My ick is unethical professionals,"
and "My ick is when nurses are heartless
during the happiest time of a family's and or woman's life.
This is so disheartening."
And it appears that Emory Healthcare, who owns the hospital,
felt the same way,
because they ended up posting a statement online
calling the TikTok "disrespectful and unprofessional"
and referring to these people by their new job title,
"former employees."
Though it's currently not clear whether they were fired
or left on their own accord.
But also I do wanna note it's not just one-sided.
We saw a number of people
coming to the defense of the nurses,
saying, "I'm not a nurse, but why aren't they allowed
to complain about their job like everyone else does?"
And "These people save lives all day.
Of course they're going to have icks.
As long as they get the job done right,
it shouldn't be a problem."
So that's why I wanna leave you with two questions.
One, which camp do you land in?
What's your opinion regarding these nurses?
And two, if you're interested in
threatening your job security,
what are your biggest workplace icks?
Personally, I would advise you
not to answer that second question.
I don't think it's a good idea to shit where you eat.
But since when did any of you beautiful bastards
actually take my advice on anything?
And then, this may be the worst school district
in the United States of America.
You might think yours is bad, but hear me out first.
So for this news, we have to go to
the great state of Florida, specifically Brevard County
where the school board just had to hold a special meeting
to address an exodus of faculty and staff from the district
with more than 50 teachers and bus drivers
reportedly quitting their jobs in the past two years,
many of them recently and most because of the same problem:
student behavior.
And looking into this, you have endless complaints of
violence, theft, drug abuse, even sexual activity.
And in fact it got so bad that the county
had to expel or suspend at least 7,400 students
and arrested 94 during the 2020-21 school year.
And so at the board meeting you had the staff detailing
the horrors they had to endure every day.
- On an everyday basis, I'm deflecting being attacked,
scratched, headbutted.
- I've been spit on, spit in the face.
- A student attacked three teachers today.
Incident six, a kid bit her on Friday.
The bite mark on her arm was the size of an orange.
- At times we have to call someone to come to our room
so that we can go have a little mini breakdown.
- And these testimonies go on and on.
You got teachers saying the kids have pulled their hair,
even gone for their throat.
And so as far as what to do about this, some argued that
disruptive students should be removed from the classroom,
others even suggesting that parents should
attend class with their kids.
We also had one idea coming from
outside the meeting the week prior
when you had Sheriff Wayne Ivy saying:
- They know nothing's gonna happen to them.
They know they're not gonna be given after school detention,
they're not gonna be suspended,
they're not gonna be expelled,
or like in the old days,
they're not gonna have the cheeks of their ass torn off.
If you're a little snot
that's coming to our classes to be disruptive,
you might wanna find someplace else to go to school,
because we're gonna be your worst nightmare
starting right now.
- And so naturally you had that statement
hanging over the board meeting,
and there you saw people pushing back
against the sheriff's approach,
saying that more discipline and policing isn't the solution,
arguing instead what you really need is
better mental health support and classroom management,
with the South Brevard NAACP and some board members
pointing out that students of color
and those with disabilities are disproportionately punished.
And ultimately the meeting ended with few specific policies,
but district leaders were directed to resurrect a committee
charged with improving the school discipline plan.
And so with this absolute mess,
I wanna pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts here?
And then, we had more bad Ticketmaster news,
with his latest situation happening in Mexico on Friday
where hundreds of fans were denied entry to
one of the last shows of Bad Bunny's tour.
And as far as what, how, and why,
Ticketmaster Mexico released a statement
explaining that an unprecedented number of people
were sold fake tickets.
And saying "This caused an unusual overcrowding
in the intermittent operation of our system,
which generated confusion
and complicated entrance to the stadium
with the unfortunate consequence that
some legitimate tickets were denied entry."
And adding that fans who had legitimate tickets
will be refunded.
But that's not where the trouble ends for them
because the situation caught the attention of
officials in Mexico, this including the attention of
Ricardo Sheffield, Mexico's federal consumer attorney,
who notably tweeted that his office is requesting a report
from Ticketmaster about the ticket access to the concert.
And on top of that,
the office of the federal prosecutor for the consumer
will require Ticketmaster's reimbursement to include
extra compensation worth 20% of the ticket's cost.
As well as Sheffield saying that Ticketmaster will have to
pay a fine worth 10% of its 2021 earnings.
And Sheffield also later arguing on a radio show that
the tickets weren't falsified as the company claimed,
instead stating that Ticketmaster was the one
that actually issued those tickets.
Though as of recording, Ticketmaster has not issued
any further statement on the situation.
But also this all notably happening
after the Taylor Swift "Eras" Tour controversy.
With that dominating headlines in November,
you have the US Justice Department
now investigating its parent company Live Nation
over antitrust concerns.
Taylor Swift fans accusing the company of
fraud, price fixing, and antitrust violations,
and claiming that this intentional deception
led to resellers getting the bulk of the tickets.
So, bad news left and right for them.
But really the only way that this is gonna change
is if they get penalized to an extreme degree.
And as of recording,
it remains to be seen if that will actually happen.
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And then, what better way to show off your Christmas cheer
than a good old-fashioned fist fight?
Christmas in LA, baby.
Specifically, this starts Friday evening
at Lincoln Park in Los Angeles,
'cause that's where more than 100 parents and children
gathered for the tree lighting celebration.
You got kids dancing in pink tutus,
playing in a snow pit outside,
even a DJ playing holiday songs.
It's a fun holiday event, at least until this happens.
- Bye Kevin!
- So those are protestors calling for the resignation of
city council member Kevin de Leon.
And while he was there in a Santa hat
handing out presents to children,
if you don't remember,
he was also one of the three council members,
including the council president,
who was on a leaked recording
that sparked outrage last October for being racist.
That was when you had one of the people there saying
their Black colleague handled his son like an "accessory"
and compared the boy to a monkey,
and de Leon specifically saying
the man handles his son like a Louis Vuitton bag.
And while the other participants in that recording
have stepped down,
de Leon is the only one who's still in office,
and there have been protests outside his home
for months now.
And so on this day, after the protestors show up,
they chase him around the auditorium for several minutes,
calling him racist.
Meanwhile, you have families watching the spectacle.
And eventually the protestors corner him in a back room.
And what happens next is disputed. What we do know is that
de Leon engaged in a physical altercation
with an activist by the name of Jason Reedy,
and both sides have since claimed
that the other battered them.
But you can see the pair standing nose to nose
in this video, at which point de Leon claims that
Reedy thrusted his pelvis into him and then headbutted him.
Though it's not clear whether their heads connected
and if so, whether it was intentional.
But I mean, whoever started it,
you can see de Leon shove reedy into a table
and push him down a hallway,
with Reedy punching him at least once.
And so what we're seeing in the wake of all of this
are very polarized reactions.
You have some saying, "Hey, you can protest, but don't ruin
this community event for a low income neighborhood."
But then you've got activists arguing they have to do this
because normal channels of public comment and protests
haven't produced any results.
And as for the other city council members,
some condemn the activist,
with one even calling the incident terrorism.
But at the same time you had others taking the opportunity
to reiterate demands that de Leon step down.
Though as of recording this, he has not
and continues to refuse to do so.
Now, as far as the physical altercation,
you have the police investigating,
though nobody's been taken into custody right now,
so we're gonna have to wait to see what happens there.
But actually looking into this,
this is not the first time these two have gotten physical.
Reedy's actually been protesting de Leon for months now.
And back in March when he was filming him,
the councilman reached to block the camera,
allegedly hitting him in the face.
And then at another event, Reedy was taping him,
and again, de Leon reportedly pushed one activist
and grabbed the cell phone from another.
So that's where we are.
We'll have to see what happens next.
But for everyone else outside of LA,
I hope this has been a just introduction to
the garbage fire that is Los Angeles politics.
And then, fentanyl is the leading cause of death
for Americans 18 to 49.
It's 50 times more potent than heroin,
100 times more than morphine.
It was also reportedly responsible for two thirds of
the over 100,000 drug overdose deaths in America last year.
And the number of Americans killed by fentanyl
has increased by 94% since 2019.
And so while there are a number of questions,
one of them is "how the hell did we get here?"
And regarding that, you actually had
the Washington Post doing a seven-part investigation into
the fentanyl crisis in America.
And there they found that multiple US administrations
and the organizations beneath them
fumbled in their response to the epidemic.
With this tragedy beginning
as far back as the Bush administration,
when you had countless Americans
becoming addicted to prescription opioids like oxycodone.
And then in the Obama era, the head of
the White House office of National Drug Control Policy,
the Drug Czar was demoted
and the role was removed from cabinet,
and the government dismantled
and defunded drug monitoring programs
in the years before the fentanyl surge.
And then you had Trump take office,
and on the precipice of this epidemic,
he promised that his border wall would
stop drugs from entering the country.
But in actuality, most traffickers were and are
bringing it through checkpoints,
hiding it in passenger vehicles or commercial trucks.
With that then bringing us to the Biden administration,
which yeah, has boosted the public messaging campaign
about the dangers of fentanyl
and stepped up efforts
to scan for the drug at border crossings.
But neither he nor his top officials have said much
about the staggering amount that is
still making its way into the country.
And according to the Post investigation,
the most reliable gauge of
the supply of fentanyl entering the country
is the amount seized at the Mexican border.
And they found that since July,
officials have seized an average of 2200 pounds per month.
And the thing is, they are estimating they are only stopping
between 5 and 10% of the fentanyl entering the country.
And honestly, it could be even less than that,
even with the number of seized tablets of fentanyl
being projected to reach over 35 million.
But understand, it's not just
the presidential administrations that are dropping the ball.
The DEA was found to be slow in their response
as Mexican cartels took over the market
from Chinese producers, with that allowing them to make
a massive illicit pharmaceutical market
making more fentanyl than ever before.
And the DEA has even acknowledged that the government was
too fixated on heroin as the fentanyl crisis began.
In Homeland Security, you know, the department responsible
for finding illegal drugs coming through the borders?
They channeled their funding to a border wall
rather than technology to improve scanning at checkpoints.
And understand, all of this is on top of
the struggle to track fentanyl in real time, right?
The CDC is publishing its data a year behind
and it's still counting the death toll from last year.
As well as the Department of Health and Human Services
which has not tracked the rise of fentanyl
and doesn't know how many Americans are currently using it.
With John P. Walters, the Drug Czar under Clinton and Bush
saying, "This is like tracking the epidemic
by visiting cemeteries.
We're not measuring what's coming into the country
in real time.
We're not measuring what's happening
with the health consequences
and where to put resources
to buffer those health consequences.
Our drug control strategy is an embarrassment,
and it doesn't begin to propose
a way of reversing this problem."
One of the interesting things here is that
there is actually a system
that collects fatal and non-fatal overdose data
in parts of the country in real time,
but it's actually kept from public view.
But also with this story,
and like I do pretty much with everything we talk about,
I'm gonna link to this down below.
But with his Post investigation specifically, right?
It details some heartbreaking stories
about the victims of fentanyl and those on the ground,
narcotics agents and their experiences,
as well as some deeper dives into
the top level stuff that we're covering here.
But in the meantime, lemme know your thoughts on this topic
but also maybe if you have experiences,
whether it be lived or seen.
And then, Trump was dealt
another meaningful blow this morning.
This after a federal judge
officially dismissed his lawsuit
trying to prevent the government's access to the documents
seized from Mar-a-Lago that he improperly kept.
And this is absolutely massive because it officially marks
the end of Trump's months-long legal fight
following the FBI's raid of his home.
As we've talked about before,
Trump and his team requested a 'special master'
to review the documents seized to Mar-a-Lago,
and blocked the DOJ from accessing them during that time.
And back in September, US District Judge Aileen Cannon,
a Trump appointee, granted his request for a special master
in a highly unusual move
that was widely condemned by legal experts,
with Cannon's decision then being struck down
earlier this month by an appeals court panel of three judges
who very significantly were all appointed by Republicans
and two of which were actually appointed by Trump himself.
And those judges wrote a scathing opinion
overturning Cannon's initial decision.
And then last week,
after Trump failed to appeal to the Supreme Court,
the panel officially brought an end
to the special master's review
and lifted the injunction that had blocked
federal prosecutors from accessing the Mar-a-Lago documents.
With all that then prompting Cannon's decision
to toss a lawsuit today and saying she did so because of
"a lack of jurisdiction."
And so now, after all of that,
the Justice Department can finally continue its review
after nearly three months of legal back and forth.
And the timing is also very significant here
because it comes just a few days after
more classified documents
were reportedly found at Trump's properties,
with sources telling reporters that a team
hired by Trump's lawyers to search for classified materials
recently found at least two additional documents
at a storage unit in Florida.
Now, as far as the contents of those documents,
that remains unclear right now, but the sources say that
they were immediately turned over to the FBI.
But at the very least, those additional documents
just further highlight the concerns that
Trump and his team didn't fully comply
with the subpoena issued by a federal judge back in May
demanding that he return all classified documents
that he had taken from the White House,
and of course his added fuel to the ongoing speculations
that Trump still hasn't returned all the documents
and that he may have kept some
at other locations besides Mar-a-Lago.
In fact, according to reports shortly after that news broke,
the DOJ asked a federal judge to hold Trump's team
in contempt for failing to comply with the May subpoena.
Though you had people familiar with the matter there
telling reporters that
the judge ended a hearing on the matter this Friday
without acting on the DOJ request, allegedly saying that
it was up to the department and Trump's team
to address concerns about whether he might still have
more classified materials at his properties.
And so for now, we have to wait and see
what will come from all of this.
But that is where that story and today's show ends.
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