- Sup you beautiful bastards?
- Hope you're having a fantastic Thursday.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show
and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing we're gonna
talk about today is Bagel Boss.
Which no, is not a new show on TLC or TruTV
or a destination of high-quality content.
But rather, Bagel Boss is the location and store
that is at the center of one of the most
viral things I've seen in the past month.
And it just blew up yesterday.
I mean the original video's
getting 10s of millions of views.
But if you have not seen this video and actually videos,
the second one hasn't got as much traction,
prepare yourself for the cringe.
So the caption to this video comes from oliviabradley88.
And she says, "So in Bagel Boss this morning,
"the misogynistic douche bag seen in the video
"was degrading almost all of the female staff
"as well as other patrons.
"(beep) this guy."
Also, yes that's right.
You just heard a bleep because the last seven
Philip DeFranco Shows have at one point
at least been demonetized.
Sometimes, after a lot of the views have come in,
maybe they'll reverse it.
But yeah, we're testing this out.
I'm not enjoying it either.
But as I said, prepare for the cringe
because this is how the video starts.
- [Woman] You degrade women, why's that okay?
- Degrade, why is it okay for women to say,
"Oh, you're five feet on dating sites?
"You should be dead."
That's okay?
- Now if you're wondering where
the hell that statement came from,
I mean it's probably 30 plus years of just taking L after L.
But everyone was equally confused.
- [Woman] Who said that to you here?
Nobody.
- Women in general have said it on dating sites!
You think I'm making that (beep) up?
- Dude. - Everywhere I go
I get the same (beep) smirk
with the biting lip!
- Okay, so right there unless it turns out
that something else was happening,
that looks like textbook projection.
Right, here's the thing you should know
and I have learned over the past 30 plus years of my life.
Most other people don't give a damn about you.
You're just there.
Not everything's about you.
But based on human beings being insecure about something,
we often attribute intent or an action towards us.
Well it's probably not about you and or
why should you care what another person thinks about you?
Okay, but it goes on.
- [Man] Dude, calm down.
- Shut your mouth!
You're not God or my father or my boss!
- Oh, the longer this goes on, the more it makes sense.
- [Man] Dude.
- Dude, you wanna step outside?
You wanna step outside?
Huh?
I'm not scared of you, pal.
- Okay, so at this point he goes full chihuahua.
And, you know, the thing is sometimes that can work.
A lot of people in this world
are non-confrontational, right?
If you get into their space,
you raise your voice, they're gonna back down.
Right, blue shirt over here was prepared
to go to a bagel place, get a bagel.
Not fight a man that appears to possibly have mommy issues.
But the problem, and this is something
my mother used to say.
If you're gonna step out in a Bagel Boss,
you gotta prepare to take a bagel loss.
She didn't say that and that's very stupid.
Here's the next clip though.
- [Chris] I'm not scared of you, pal!
- [Man] Hey, enough, enough!
- You shut up too!
- [Man] You should shut the (beep) up!
- No, you're going to have to tackle me!
- [Woman] Oh my god.
Oh my god!
- Shut the (beep) up! - I just wanted bagels.
- I just wanted bagels is the best
way this clip could have ended.
Also this part of the video confuses me
because I can't tell if the man
that tackled him is like six foot seven
or the other man is just so small.
And that's not a bash.
It's just this man appears to be so short
it has this weird fun house mirror effect
where I can't tell who's what size.
That's the video that blew up,
but it turns out there's actually more
and it's a video that it appears that only like 10%
of the people that saw the first video have also seen.
- [Woman] Get your food and leave!
- [Chris] What happened?
What, I'm sorry?
- [Worker] Have a great day!
- [Chris] You know what?
(beep) your (beep) breakfast.
(worker laughs)
- Ah god, she hit him with a have a great day
and what was that laugh?
(worker laughs)
I feel like that laugh probably
hurt him more than the tackle.
- [Chris] You think that's funny?
All you women treat short guys like (beep)!
All of you!
- Sir-- - Yeah, all of you!
- [Worker] You need to go.
- [Chris] No, you women need to stop being so (beep) up!
- [Worker] Let's go.
- Shouting all you women is a bad look.
And so that is essentially the full situation
and the reason for the past around 24 hours
the entire internet has kind of
just been clowning on this guy.
Right, people posting Lollipop Guild memes,
really any and all things short person.
Also I will say I end up getting a little concerned
about making fun of the guy
because the way that he acted,
and in no way am I saying that anything he did is excusable,
but it does genuinely feel like a guy
that has been shit on for most of his life snapping.
But I still think that it's important
to look at this and go like, this is not a good look.
This is not okay.
You can't hold on to the bad stuff that's happened to you
and then just release it on other people.
The only thing we actually get to control in this life
is how we act, how we react to situations.
And if you're this guy and you feel like
you've been disrespected by other people in the past
because you're shorter and maybe they're one of these like,
I only date guys that are six foot plus,
you get to decide if you wanna hold on to that energy
and you're like, all these women!
Or you can choose to react by going,
well there's certain women that I'm not going to approach.
I'm still confident in myself.
I know I'm a good person,
I still offer things to a relationship.
But I don't know,
I feel like that guy needs to talk to somebody.
Also he should probably stay away
from the internet for a little bit
because in this video where he makes it apparent
that his height is a sensitive subject,
the internet has and will continue to see that
and continue to clown on him for it.
Hell, even Bagel Boss,
which has gotten so much free press from this story.
Yeah, the owner of Bagel Boss tweeted,
"After today's incident, everyone is okay.
"Use caution on dating sites
"and anyone who comes into our locations
"and mention this video can get a free mini bagel."
But now, with all of that said,
I pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this story?
It was a ride, wasn't it?
And actually last second update to this story
because it turns out it's not over.
It has been discovered that this guy has a YouTube channel
and a lot of it is just him screaming at people.
Oh man, let's look at some of the hits
like Ghetto Hoodrat Cuts In Front of Me to Use Bathroom.
- [Chris] Look at this woman here
cursing in front of her kids just now.
- [Woman] Don't put your hands on me!
- [Chris] Don't you (beep) smack my phone
you (beep) (beep) up! - Don't put your hands on me!
- [Chris] Let's go.
I want a manager to throw this (beep)
the (beep) out of this store.
Yeah, (beep) you (beep).
You're getting thrown out of here.
(beep) you, you ghetto skank!
You're a loser ghetto skank!
- And who could forget his classic,
Harassed by a 7-Eleven Worker.
- [Chris] The first thing out of your mouth
is what's my height?
Where are you from?
What country you from?
- Okay, boss--
- [Chris] What country are you from?
- Okay, I am sorry.
- [Chris] What country are you from?
- Pakistan.
- [Chris] Pakistan, really?
You know how much money our country gives you?
(beep) third-word, toilet countries, huh?
- Oh Chris, it turns out that's your name.
Yeah, I think a lot of the sympathy going Chris' way
just feels like it's being revealed
that Chris is coming up short of deserving the sympathy
that he was kind of only barely getting in the first place.
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And then in a quickie non-story,
let's talk about Jason Momoa, Aquaman.
Also that might sound like a dig, but it is not.
The reason I'm calling this a non-story
is perhaps you've seen one of these headlines.
Jason Momoa's dad bod highlights
the issue of male body shaming.
Jason Momoa gets grief for dad bod.
Jason Momoa's being trolled over his dad bod
and losing his abs by crazy, crazy internet people.
Although I will say that last headline
is probably the closest to reality.
And this quote unquote story stems
from a photo of Jason Momoa from Us Weekly.
And yes, you're looking at the right photo.
It is this photo.
And if you're like, who's calling that a dad bod?
Literally almost nobody.
Went through the comments.
This is like a faux outrage story.
There are maybe 45 people worldwide
that would call this a dad bod.
You know why?
Because it's obviously not.
And kind of funny enough, 2/3 of those 45 people
are probably people that look like me,
where I have to suck in to like
I'm only 30 pounds overweight.
Main point, this is dumb.
Nobody really thinks this and if you're one
of the 45 people worldwide that does see this as a dad bod,
oh I hate to think what you think about yourself
and or what you do to yourself.
Moving on.
And the last thing we're gonna talk about today
is actually our douche bag of the day
which I know some of you are like,
I thought that was the first story.
Nope, and in a second you're going to understand why.
So today's award winner is former
Jackson County deputy, Zach Wester.
And yesterday Zach was arrested for pulling over drivers
from minor traffic infractions
and then planting drugs on them
and then arresting them for having those drugs.
According to a statement
from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,
he was arrested on felony charges of racketeering,
official misconduct, fabricating evidence,
possession of a controlled substance,
and false imprisonment.
And actually he was also charged with misdemeanor perjury,
possession of a controlled substance,
and possession of drug paraphernalia.
And in total, according to reports,
Zach was charged with a whopping 52 counts.
And as of right now, it's unclear
exactly how much prison time he could get.
And the reason I say that is that the Washington Post
reported that state attorney William Eddins
who oversaw the case told reporters
that he could face up to 30 years.
But at the same time, the Tallahassee Democrat
says that the racketeering charge alone
has a maximum penalty of 30 years
and that the other felonies
have max sentences of five years each.
But they then also reported that Eddins said
that under Florida's sentencing guidelines,
Wester would actually only face
13 and a half years if found guilty on all the charges.
But still noting that a judge could give him more,
so it's just confusing.
Now, even though Wester was only arrested yesterday,
the charges against him came as part
of a nearly yearlong investigation.
Wester was reportedly hired by the Jackson County
Sheriff's Office back in 2016
and then in August of 2018
the sheriff's office reportedly asked the FDLE
to launch an internal investigation into his conduct.
This after a prosecutor found inconsistencies
between Wester's reports
and what was captured on his body cam.
Specifically that he turned
his body camera off most of the time
and only turned it back on after he had already found
the drugs in the vehicles that he was searching,
as well as the fact that in most cases
Wester would pull someone over
for a minor traffic infraction
and then ask them if he smelled marijuana.
That would then give him probable cause to search their car.
And then even though Wester would write into his reports
that he smelled or thought he saw marijuana,
he would usually then turn his camera
back on to show that he found meth.
And according to the affidavit,
even in cases where the people he pulled over
actually were suspected of crimes
or admitted to having marijuana in the car,
Wester still planted meth.
And actually as a result of the investigation,
Wester was suspended in August of 2018
and then fired a month later.
But notably, the prosecutor said
that they wouldn't be filing charges
until the FDLE investigation was complete.
And that investigation took a while
because there was a ton of evidence to review.
According to the FDLE statement,
during the investigation their agents
analyzed over 1,300 minutes of recorded video
and logged over 1,400 working hours on the case.
And in that just incredible amount of footage,
the investigators found one of the few instances
where he actually kept his body camera on during the search.
In that specific incident,
Wester had pulled over a woman named Teresa Odom,
claiming that her brake lights weren't working properly.
And in the body cam footage,
we can see Wester is holding something
that looks like a small plastic bag in his hand.
He then puts his hand out of view under the driver's seat.
It then returns without the baggie.
And Wester later booked Odom on possessing meth.
Also, according to the Tallahassee Democrat,
deputies who searched Wester's patrol car
during the investigation found, quote,
"42 pieces of drug paraphernalia,
"10 baggies of methamphetamine,
"and five baggies of marijuana concealed in an unmarked
"and unsecured evidence bag in the trunk."
Also a massive note here is that
it was reported that prosecutors reviewed
nearly 300 cases that involved Wester.
Of those, they had to drop the charges in nearly 120 cases,
this including Odom's.
Now Eddins has said that there wasn't evidence
that Wester planted drugs
or fabricated arrests in all of the cases,
also noting that the charges are based on
his arrest of 11 known victims named in the affidavit,
though there might be more.
Saying, quote, "Our investigation is ongoing.
"There's a substantial amount of work to be done,
"but I have no belief that
"there's anywhere near 100 victims."
But then adding, "We may have identified
"most of the victims, we may have not."
And with all of that said, even though it seems
like some of Wester's victims are getting justice,
there are still so many lives that have
been ruined and disrupted by his actions.
Right, you had Chris Williams,
the assistant special agent in charge of the case,
saying in a statement, "There is no question
"that Wester's crimes were deliberate
"and that his actions put innocent people in jail."
Right, even though so many
of these cases have been dismissed,
for a lot of people it is too little too late.
In 2017, a man named Benjamin Bowling
lost custody of his daughter after he was convicted
on felony charges for possessing meth
that Wester said that he found in his car.
At that time, Bowling had been released from prison
a few months earlier and was being drug tested.
Bowling also reportedly requested
that the sheriff's office turn over the body cam footage,
test the drugs for DNA and fingerprints,
but reportedly they never did.
Also that same year, there was a man named Jeffrey Helms
and his girlfriend April Middleton
who were pulled over and arrested for possessing meth.
Middleton reportedly was in jail
a few weeks before being released,
but Helms, who had prior charges,
was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
And that's also not even where the damage
Wester did to the Helms family stops.
Jeffrey Helms' sister-in-law, Erika Helms,
said that her own brother was actually
arrested by Wester for possessing meth.
And although his charges were dropped after Wester's arrest,
it wasn't until after he already was forced
to spend a year in a residential rehab.
And that's why you had Erika Helms speaking about Wester,
saying, "He's ruined lives.
"People are losing their lives, their freedom,
"their children, their marriages.
"All because of this one man.
"It's not just innocent men.
"It's innocent children.
"It goes a lot deeper than everyone realizes."
But ultimately, you know, that's where we are.
We have cases dismissed, a number of people
who have been released from correctional facilities,
and I can't even imagine just the stress
and damage that this one person inflicted upon so many.
And I think also what's concerning is how long it took.
And like why did it take so long for people to be like,
isn't it weird that Zach's body cam seems to be off
most of time until he finds the drugs?
Nah, you're right.
He's probably just a forgetful fella.
And, you know, it just feels like another example
of the truly horrifying ramifications
of someone that is not fit for power getting it.
And on that completely unpleasant note,
that's where we're actually gonna end today's show.
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