- Sup, you beautiful bastards.
Welcome back to The Philip DeFranco Show,
your daily dive into the news.
And let's just jump into it
because there's so much to talk about today,
starting with our D-bag of the day.
Some have called him a crusty little barnacle
scraped off the taint of British culture,
because we're talking about
the latest viral TikTok prankster
who's been riling up the internet,
an 18-year-old by the name of Mizzy.
According to him, he's been doing the social media stuff
since he was eight years old,
but he didn't blow up until just two weeks ago.
And that's because that's when he
and two of his friends filmed themselves
in London doing a prank.
It wasn't a prank, because what they did
can only be described as a literal home invasion.
Because key context here,
as far as we know, these people are absolute strangers.
- [Homeowner] James.
- [James] Yeah.
- [Homeowner] Come to the front door right now please.
- [Mizzy] James, James.
We need to speak to James.
Is this where the study group is?
- No, no.
- [Mizzy] What door number is this?
(background chattering)
Is this not where study group is?
- I've got kids, man.
- Oh, you got kids, I'm sorry.
Oh, I thought this was the study group.
I actually thought.
- So naturally people see this
and they're fucking furious.
With many calling it criminal,
demanding that he'd be arrested.
Even some government MP's from both parties condemning this,
asking social media companies to censor him.
But also with this, turns out,
that's not the first time
he just barged into someone's home.
In another video he does the exact same thing,
but instead of talking to them, he just walks around,
kind of giggles like a little schoolgirl and then runs out.
Then in another of his famous pranks
he approaches an elderly woman just minding her own business
at a park bench and steals her dog.
- [Mizzy] You've got a nice dog.
- [Elderly Woman] She's lovely, yes, she is.
- Boonk gang, whole lot of gang shit.
We outside!
- And there's plenty of others,
just kind of a scatter shot,
whether it's him appearing to tear up a book
at a library or him just asking random women
if they wanna die.
And as more people have found out about this
we've seen bigger and bigger names speaking on it.
People like MoistCr1TiKaL.
- This guy has never once shown
any amount of humanity in any of his content.
Everything he does he does
in the most malicious way possible.
Treating people like props to either scare
or steal from or invade the privacy of.
He is the most unlikeable prankster on the internet.
- With this we've also seen people criticizing the police
for not taking this guy seriously enough.
And here I'd say I'd absolutely agree.
Because it really feels like there's no end in sight
for what he might do.
Because when looking into this,
I found that Mizzy's actually still doing this shit
even after the Brits arrested him
for a string of videos that he posted back in February
appearing to harass Orthodox Jewish people,
in one video placing his hands on a man's shoulders
and trying to leapfrog over him.
And again, that's just one of those.
Yet despite his arrest for those stunts,
which many have called anti-Semitic,
he was released without any charges.
Except now one of the big updates today
is he has been arrested again,
but this time presumably for his home invasion video
and both his TikTok and YouTube accounts
have also been taken down.
With all this we saw Mizzy defending himself
saying in an interview with The Independent,
I'm a black male doing these things.
And that's why there's such an uproar on the internet.
And look, while you have general scumbags,
like the the Matt Walsh types,
trying to use this situation as like,
oh look, another example of white people
need to be scared of minorities.
- On the other hand, black people committing crimes
against white people for sport is common.
In fact, it's so common now
that it's one of the fastest growing genres on social media.
- But the fact that he's black
should have nothing to do with it.
He's a scumbag doing scumbag things
thus he should be treated as one.
That's it. And the unfortunate thing with him
is he is just the latest example of the,
I'd call it the death to decency.
But even Mizzy himself saying he cares less
about whether he is getting love or hate
that it's all about getting engagement and quote,
it's the fact that people are talking that's important.
But I'm also adding that controversy and outrage
are the best ways to blow up on social media.
And saying again, his words,
I know exactly what I'm doing
and the consequences of my actions.
With that, also trying to defend himself
saying that he apologized to the homeowners
the day after breaking in.
But with all that said
it's gonna be interesting to see what all comes
from this arrest and what comes with police involvement.
Because honestly, outside of that,
there's no reason to expect him to stop or change.
When you have people that see any attention
as the attention they crave
and when they find that you having a reaction,
however justified and understandable, as a win for them,
they will continue until something stops.
But for now we're gonna have to wait
to see how things play out.
And of course with this,
I wanna pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts here?
And then Texas's abortion law forced a woman
to give birth to a stillborn baby and now she's suing.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Kiersten Hogan said
that she was 19 weeks pregnant when
just days after the ban went into effect,
she woke up in excruciating pain
and was rushed to the hospital.
Hogan then saying that her water had broken
but once she had gotten to the hospital
she had lost too much amniotic fluid
for the fetus to survive.
But claiming the hospital staff didn't tell her that
and explaining, they didn't tell me much
about my son's chances of survival.
But the one thing they did make clear repeatedly
was that I should not leave.
I was told that if I tried to discharge myself
or seek care elsewhere that I would be arrested
for trying to kill my child.
So of course I stayed.
And she was kept at the hospital for five days
during which she said she was repeatedly visited
by religious counselors even though she declined their care.
She also said she was so scared to even go to the bathroom
because she was worried she was gonna go
into premature labor and be arrested.
And so on the fifth day, she eventually went into labor
and gave birth to her stillborn son,
with her then being discharged,
told she could go back to work the next day
as if nothing had happened.
And the reason she's sharing,
and we're now hearing her story,
is that she and seven other women
have joined a lawsuit challenging Texas' abortion ban
as well as two other overlapping bans.
With the women in the suit alleging
that they were denied access to abortions
even though they were experiencing
serious medical complications.
Notably, all three bans specifically include exceptions
for medical emergencies,
but the language in the laws is incredibly vague.
And with the overlap between the three bans
there's been a ton of confusion.
And all this as the incredibly strict penalties
the law set out have made many medical providers
err on the side of caution rather
than putting themselves at risk legally.
And so as a result,
the lawsuit asks that a judge clarify
what constitutes a medical exception
under the abortion bans,
with this most recent filing also asking the judge
to impose a temporary injunction to block the state's bans
in cases of complications until the matter can be resolved.
And then, and guess who's apologizing in today news.
Let's talk about skincare brand Bioré.
And they're apologizing because of this TikTok campaign
they did with influencer Cecily Max-Brown
who's a recent graduate of Michigan State University
which saw a tragic school shooting
on campus earlier this year.
- Has thrown countless obstacles at me this year,
from a school shooting to having no idea
what life is going to look like after college.
In support of mental health awareness month
I'm partnering with Bioré Skincare
to strip away the stigma of anxiety.
We want you to get it all out,
not only what's in your pores,
but most importantly what's on your mind too.
- Where Cecily is seemingly making a comparison
of clearing the blackheads from your nose
to clearing your mind,
or the PTSD from a school shooting.
It was also by no means the only time
she mentioned the shooting.
- Anxiety in my life has come in waves.
I found myself recently struggling from seeing the effects
of gun violence firsthand.
Had to intentionally set aside time
for prioritizing my mental health.
I will never forget the feeling of terror that I had
walking around campus for weeks in a place I considered home
with countless anxiety attacks,
to crying alone in my room at night
- With all that meant for the company's campaign
for mental health awareness month
while also promoting a high margin consumer good.
While the video was posted last week and later removed,
the criticism has continued,
with people accusing the company
of using a school shooting to sell its products,
calling it soulless.
All this prompting Bioré to issue an apology
earlier this week, writing that,
for several years it's partnered with influencers
who have experienced anxiety and depression,
reduced mental health stigmas.
Saying, mental health is one of
their consumer's biggest priorities.
But also adding, this time, however,
we did it the wrong way.
We lacked sensitivity around an incredibly serious tragedy.
And our tonality was completely inappropriate.
We are so sorry.
Max-Brown also posting a TikTok where she apologized
with text on screen saying
she just intended to spread awareness,
not suggest a product fix the struggle she had experienced
as a result of the shooting and adding,
I did not mean to desensitize a traumatic event
that took place as I know the effects that it has had
on me and the Spartan community.
Though that's not the end of TikTok in the news today.
Because when we last talked,
Montana's governor signed a law banning the app in the state
slated to take effect right at the start of the year.
And when it was signed, as we talked about,
it was almost certainly going to face legal challenges.
And now boom, here we are.
TikTok is suing the state of Montana.
Some of the specifics here,
the law doesn't target people who use TikTok.
Rather it would find companies that would allow
the app to operate within Montana,
including TikTok itself
and app stores like Apples and Googles.
And so now TikTok has slapped Montana with a lawsuit
and saying they wanna prevent the State of Montana
from unlawfully banning TikTok,
arguing that the ban abridges freedom of speech
in violation of the First Amendment.
This is also notably not the first lawsuit
the ban has faced.
With last week, a group of TikTok creators
also filing a lawsuit with similar arguments.
But ultimately this is just the beginning
of a much longer road of legal battles.
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And then, is this just a sleazy mail fantasy
or the show of the summer?
That's the debate people are having right now
after Sam Levinson on The Weekend's new show
"The Idol" premiered at Cannes yesterday.
Stars Lily-Rose Depp as a pop star.
And there's been so much anticipation for this release
and not just because Levinson's the creator of "Euphoria"
a massively successful show,
but also because "The Idol"
has already faced tons of backlash,
with this largely over a March report
from Rolling Stone that likened it to torture porn.
Also alleging that there was chaos, turmoil,
and toxicity behind the scenes,
very notably claiming that The Weekend and Levinson
were behind those issues.
But sources saying that Levinson's vision turned into a show
about a man who gets to abuse this woman and she loves it.
But of course, as often is the case with stories like this,
no one had actually seen the product.
So there's no real way to speak on the content
and really have any idea to know
what the public might think.
That is until now since the first two episodes played
at the Cannes Film Festival last night.
And as one critic put it,
prepare yourself for quite the discourse.
- Discord makes my dick hord.
- For some.
And as far as specifics,
according to Variety, in just those two episodes,
audiences will see revenge porn,
photos of bodily fluids on Depp's face
and masturbation with ice cubes.
Additionally, the Daily Beast calling it
a lazy and horrific depiction of rape culture
and Collider saying that it's a shallow attempt
at shock value.
The Hollywood Reporter saying it makes you wonder
if in trying so hard to become transgressive
the show ultimately becomes regressive.
We've also seen tons of people discussing
how much nudity there is
and another critic calling it a PornHub homepage odyssey
which is also why it's not surprising
that on Rotten Tomatoes it has a critic score of 14%.
Though of course that can change as more people see it
and that'll be in addition
to whatever the public reaction ratings are.
But in general, we saw a lot of people going, okay,
the reactions we're seeing now,
it just really confirms the Rolling Stone report back then.
But also for their part,
while speaking to the press yesterday
the cast defended itself against the Rolling Stone report.
- It's always, you know,
a little sad and disheartening to see mean false things
said about somebody that you really care about
and that you know is not like that.
And yeah, it wasn't reflective at all
of my experience shooting the show.
- We also saw Sam Levinson kind of reveling
in this controversy.
- We know that we're making a show that is provocative.
When my wife read me the article,
I looked at her and I just said,
I think we're about to have the biggest show of the summer.
- Levinson also saying the specifics
of the Rolling Stone report were completely foreign to him.
And so with all that,
we've seen two drastically different reactions.
We have the side that are very excited to watch this
and there's a whole range of people there,
some people that are just fans of the creators,
some who want what appears to be a Cinemax show,
but also people that just wanna be able
to judge it for themselves.
But also on the other side, you have people saying,
can we, the internet, please take this as our cue
to not make "The Idol" the biggest show of the summer?
And adding, Sam Levinson is seemingly proud
that a series glorifies the exploitation of women.
And it would be, clenches fist,
so cool if we didn't validate that by hate watching it.
But for now we'll ultimately have to wait
to see how all this plays out.
I will say I do not doubt that the premiere
is probably gonna get crazy numbers.
I think especially when you have some big names attached,
people are going to at least want to check it out.
But then after that first episode or two
that's when I think the numbers get really interesting.
Does it hook people for whatever reason?
Or is is shock value, and then that's it?
And there's not much substance.
So we'll see how it plays out.
And then there's been a horrible crisis
that's been happening in plain sight
that much of the media has been too scared to talk about.
It's enough to make you go mamma mia,
because the price of pasta right now is through the roof.
In just the last two months,
it's gone up dramatically rising 17.5% in March
and 16.5% in April.
And the sudden spike has led to some groups calling
for a pasta strike of at least 15 days
to drop consumption and bring down the price.
Something that hasn't been done since 2007,
which I get it.
For a lot of people, this seems like a joke.
You know, it's a staple food in Italy
and it's like when eggs and milk skyrocketed
here in the States.
People were understandably upset.
They felt like it was a sign
that the economy was failing,
even if there were other factors
that explained the price surges.
But in Italy, this is being taken very serious right now.
With his pasta crisis even leading the government
to call a meeting two weeks ago
with industry leaders about how to address this issue.
However, little came from that after some called
for a pasta price cap to be placed.
Although there is some light at the end of the tunnel now
with reportedly the sudden price hike being
because current pasta stocks were made months ago
when the price of raw goods, like wheat,
was much higher because of things like the war in Ukraine.
And since those high supplies have normalized
and raw goods have gone down in price,
with it expected that the price for pasta
is going to follow.
And there the Ministry of Business is saying
that the survey of prices are already showing
the first, albeit weak, signs of a drop in price
as a sign that in the coming months
the cost could drop significantly.
So Italians, do not worry, this is being handled.
There's not a single stunad on this issue.
And very soon you'll be able to make
some cacio e pepe in peace.
I'm the least Italian of fucking Italians ever.
And then, new evidence just dropped
that really makes it seem like Trump obstructed justice
in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation.
Because according to a new report from The Guardian,
prosecutors have 50 pages of notes
from Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran that showed
the former president was explicitly told
he could not keep any more classified documents
after he was subpoenaed for their return.
And as far as why that matters,
because like we've talked about multiple times before,
we know for a fact that while complying with the subpoena
Corcoran, he found around 40 classified documents
in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago
and told the DOJ that no more were on the property.
But then of course the FBI raid a few months later,
discovered about a hundred more.
And now this latest report is incredibly significant
because it adds a major piece to the puzzle
prosecutors are trying to piece together.
Whether Trump obstructed justice
when he failed to comply with the subpoena
by refusing to return all the documents he had
or if he even went as far
as to intentionally try to hide them.
As The Guardian noted, prosecutors have absolutely
been fixated on Trump's valet ever since
he told them that Trump directed him
to move boxes outta the storage room,
both before and after the subpoena.
And we know from before
that his actions were captured on surveillance footage.
And according to the outlet,
three people familiar with Corcoran's notes
said that the pages revealed that both Trump
and the valet quote had unusually detailed knowledge
of the botched subpoena response,
including where Corcoran intended to search
and not search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago,
as well as when Corcoran was actually doing his search.
And at one point Corcoran allegedly noted
how he had told the valet about the subpoena
prior to his search for the documents
because the lawyer needed him to unlock the storage room,
thus showing how closely involved the valet was
from the get-go.
With the notes also reportedly saying
that the valet even offered to help go through the boxes,
but Corcoran declined.
And very notably here,
his notes also suggested to prosecutors
that there were times when the storage room
might have been left unattended
while the search for classified documents was ongoing.
So something on its own that is pretty damning
but especially when you combine it with other reports
that we've already seen on the matter,
that including Corcoran's grand jury testimony.
Just a few weeks ago the New York Times reported
that Corcoran had testified that multiple Trump employees
specifically told him the Mar-a-Lago storage room
was the only place the documents were kept.
And what's more he also allegedly testified
while under oath that while he believes Trump
did not personally convey that false information,
the former president did not tell his lawyers
of any other locations where the documents were stored
which may have effectively misled the legal team.
And beyond that the only reason that Corcoran
has handed over these notes was because
he was ordered to do so by a court
that ruled that the materials were not protected
under attorney-client privilege.
And that because there was a reason to believe
the lawyer's advice or services
were being used to further a crime,
meaning prosecutors believed they have enough evidence
to prove Trump may have acted criminal.
And so that's why with all of this,
right now you have a lot of legal analysts
saying things aren't looking too hot for the old guy.
But then the last thing that I wanna talk about today
is actually just for you,
the most dedicated of beautiful bastards
who watched the full show.
I know some people have expressed that they're confused
about the schedule of all the additional content.
In addition to the Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday Philip DeFranco Show,
we had that week where
we did four additional morning videos.
I went back last week and we did another Sunday video.
And there, I just wanted to clarify all of those right now
are tests.
We do something, we see how it plays out
over the next seven to 14 days.
We then figure out if we can replicate that
with the current stuff, current things.
Do we need to change stuff?
Because one, we wanna make sure
that our output doesn't make our heads explode.
And two, as I think a number
of the bankruptcies in the space have shown,
growing with the expectation that everything
is going to succeed is not a guarantee of success.
But I will say, based off of the early data,
I'm more and more inclined to making morning videos
a more common thing.
That is not in stone yet.
And hey, if you appreciated this insight at the end,
let me know in those comments
'cause otherwise I'm just speaking into the void.
But with that said thank you for watching
this Tuesday Philip DeFranco Show.
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I love your faces and I'll see you tomorrow.