- Welcome to today's episode
of don't you have something better to do?
Starring this guy.
- Sir it's a beach.
Are we suppose to dress modest at a beach?
- God doesn't want women.
- [Lady] What if God's fake?
- Oh, I like that this guy apparently like looks at the,
you know, the preachers with the megaphones
on school campuses,
calling people like whores,
and you're going to hell and blah, blah, blah
and they're like, "That's too tame,
let me go to the actual beach to harass women
for wearing what women wear at the beach."
Greg, just because both of us
look like a bunch of Play-Doh
smushed together with our shirts off
doesn't mean other people have to keep their clothes on.
Also, be honest Greg,
you're doing this so you can just chat up
young girls in bikinis.
You creepy, weird d-bag.
Anyway, welcome back to the "Philip DeFranco Show",
it is Tuesday, June 21st, 2021.
Hit that Like button,
otherwise we'll punch you in the throat,
and let's just jump into it.
(beep) It's the 20th.
Oh my God, it's July.
(groans)
And the first thing that we're gonna talk about today,
easily one of the most requested topics,
involves gambling and youtubers,
spot-lighters, shit-stirrers.
Some haven't been known to call him a skinny legend
and that is Ethan Klein.
And that's in part because post frenemies breakup,
Ethan Klein has returned to Twitch,
announcing a new project called H3TV.
Like he often does,
he's already making waves on the platform.
Taking aim at one of the current hot button issues
about gambling and gambling streams.
And while he has previously spoken about it,
this time he went on Twitch
where these streams are happening,
called out specific creators.
Which, I mean, it makes sense for two reasons.
One, when you have a big YouTuber
calling out big Twitch streamers,
sometimes there's not a lot of audience crossover.
Which is also why two,
it makes sense from just like a marketing standpoint.
If you're gonna stir shit and blow up a story,
there's a lot of hate and love views to be gained
by actually doing it on Twitch.
Yeah, with this calling out a massive creator
by the name of Aidn Ross,
who's made headlines for a number of reasons recently.
But yeah, as it pertains to this story
headlines for the amount of money that he gets
from gambling streams and that he was recently accused
of participating in pump and dump crypto schemes.
- I mean, 'cause I kind of wanted to (beep)
that little punk.
So this kid Aidn Ross man,
really pissing me off lately.
The gambling (beep) and the crypto (beep).
He's just not a good dude.
He's willing to do anything to just make money
off the back of his fans
and then laugh about it.
- Right with that and people sharing clips event,
you also have people pointing back
to an Aidn Ross kind of laughed about
when he promoted a crypto and then was like,
"I really hope you guys didn't buy that."
- Like, I don't give a (beep).
I hope none of you guys actually bought it.
(laughing)
- Yeah, Ethan also moving on to other creators,
like Trainwrecks, who's popular for gambling,
also landing in controversy.
- I personally find this to be really,
really, really, really, really messed up to, you know.
Let's see what he's up to right now.
Let's watch Trainwrecks,
get kids hooked to gambling, it's awesome.
- Also, interestingly, Ethan then ended up hopping
on a stream with other people, including Aidn Ross,
where they quipped a bit more on the topic,
but it kind of left things on a standstill.
- Ethan, you know I've never seen you smile before,
do you have a soul?
- I don't do gambling online.
I mean, I would say more evidence of having a soul is not-
- How is gambling online
determine if you have a soul or not?
- Well, because you have no problem
pedaling gambling to children.
- Right and naturally, all of this resulted
in other big streamers talking about it,
including xQc who said that
Ethan has a lot of terrible takes.
- And a lot of them are truthful,
but there's a lot lies in there.
And I asked to disprove some of the arguments,
and nobody replies.
They just throw everybody under the bus.
(indistinct)
Bunch of bull (beep).
And don't even reply to get a counter argument.
That's just pure scrumlord.
- But also regarding xQc,
you had people pushing back
saying that he only really has that opinion
on this topic because he's been previously hit
for gambling streams
though he no longer does them. And you know, it's not new
that we've seen criticisms here and there.
It is notable that we are seeing
bigger and bigger creators calling out others.
Right, because I mean, this isn't even an isolated incident.
Coffeezilla for example,
we've been talking about a number of times
over the past two weeks,
recently calling out SteveWillDoIt of the Nelk Boys.
There's a lot of gambling content out there.
SteveWillDoIt, sometimes he's losing money.
Sometimes he wins huge.
But those two also reasonably
going at it together on Twitter.
But yeah, ultimately with this story,
I'd love to know your thoughts,
specifically on the gambling site stuff.
Right, 'cause I'd like to think
that almost all of us are on the same page
regarding the crypto aspect of this story.
Right, if you're some big influencer
that has a dedicated audience
and you're just taking a massive amount of money
or massive amount of a token
that you're immediately selling off
and then you're shilling some shit token to your audience,
you're a scumbag, and it has nothing
to do with hustle, right?
There are creators that think of their audience
as people and community.
And then even a number of those people
see their audiences as money or in some aspects as money.
And then there are people that see their audiences
as money and then fuck them,
even if they get fucked over,
'cause it's about me getting my bag.
That's not awesome aspirational hustle culture,
that's scumbag moves.
And hey, no one's perfect there,
people can make some bad decisions
or a mistake here or there.
And then there are trends, right?
Repeated behaviors that expose who you are
and what you're about.
And so that's why with this story,
I'm focused more on the gambling stream aspect of it.
But then in sports news,
it's not really sports news.
Let's talk about the policing of women's bodies.
That's because today we have
two completely different stories,
but they connect in one place
and that is a woman's body.
On one hand, you have the Norwegian women's
beach handball team making news, right?
Going against its rivals Spain on Sunday.
But as you can see here,
they chose not to wear their black bikini bottoms
that they usually pair with their sports bras,
instead, wearing matching pairs
of form fitting blue athletic shorts.
And likely, when you hear that you go, "Okay, and?"
Well, the league ended up fining them
for not wearing bikini bottoms.
All because they wanted to wear something
that was less showy and more comfortable.
And hey, like I said,
I understand that rules are rules,
but it really feels like a weird rule that's put in place
so you can see more booty.
This feels like something
that was put into place to get more men to watch,
and you know what?
If the men are able and sanctioned to play in shorts,
so should the women.
I just think it's simple, but then on the other hand,
you have Paralympian Olivia Breen.
With Breen who's a two time Paralympian champion
being told by an official during
the English championships on Sunday
that her shorts were too short and inappropriate.
With Breen questioning whether a male athlete
would have been asked the same thing and saying,
"Tonight I feel disappointed".
Noting that after she finished her long jump,
"One of the female officials felt it necessary to inform me
"that my sprint briefs were too short and inappropriate,
I was left speechless."
And a big note here saying,
"I have been wearing
the same sprint style briefs for many years
and they are specifically designed for competing in."
Once again, I just have to say again,
unless this is giving people an unfair advantage,
shut the (beep) up.
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And then, definitely got to mention this morning,
Amazon founder and the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos
getting blasted into space
in a definitely not a metal penis rocket.
The trip that peaked at 66.5 miles above the Earth.
It was rather quick at just over 10 minutes.
And you know, kind of like what we saw
with Richard Branson, what about 10 days ago?
The reaction was divided, some loving it,
some excited about this sort of advancement
and the opportunity potentially in the future.
And also you had a lot of people frustrated
that you had a lot of people cheering Bezos on.
That you have this billionaire in space,
meanwhile his employees suffer.
With them pointing to a number of the controversies
we've recently seen with Amazon.
You know, with this story and those comments,
I'd love to know your thoughts on that aspect of the story,
but I also got to say I'm still so confused
about the auction aspect of this story.
All right, as you might remember,
there was an auction to actually get a seat on this craft.
It was reportedly won by an unnamed person
who paid $28 million for an open seat.
But then last Thursday, it was reported
that that person had to drop out
due to scheduling conflicts.
What?
I need to know more.
How much money do you have
that you're like on the phone
and you're like, "Ah, I'd love to go to Topgolf,
but I'm supposed to go to space.
Ah, you know, fuck it, okay, yeah, I'll move it."
Who, why, what, when?
I need to know.
I mean, it was great news for Oliver Daemen,
he's the 18 year old recent high school graduate
they gave the ticket to.
But yeah, I just need to know.
Then in unexpected political news,
we had Tom Brady making headlines
because he and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
were at the White House.
He was speaking to the press
and then he cracked a joke with Joe Biden.
- It didn't look great there.
At one point we were seven and five,
struggling a little bit, as the president alluded to.
But we found our rhythm,
we got on a roll, not a lot of people,
you know, think that we could have won.
And in fact, I think about 40% of the people
still don't think we won.
- [Biden] I understand.
- You understand that Mr. President?
- If you look to social media,
that's been received how you would expect
it would be received.
At this point really, the only question is
if the former guy is gonna issue
some sort of statement around this.
Also, while we're talking about politics
and clips of moments that are going viral,
we should definitely talk about
Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
This because during a hearing today,
Rand Paul accused Anthony Fauci of lying.
With their heated exchange being over
whether the National Institutes of Health
funded controversial gain of function research
at a lab in Wuhan, China.
Specifically, research involving enhancing a virus
to study its potential disease-causing impact,
which is something that Paul claimed
may have contributed to COVID-19.
Right, Fauci previously told the Senate
that the NIH never funded such research,
which Paul claims is a lie.
But in response, we saw among other things Fauci said today
that it was molecularly impossible for viruses looked at
in its studies to even result in COVID-19 and added-
- Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress,
and I do not retract that statement.
This paper that you were referring to
was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain
as not being gain of function.
So what was, let me finish.
And Senator Paul,
you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly,
and I wanna say that officially.
You do not know what you are talking about.
And if anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.
I don't think I have anything further to say,
this is a pattern that Senator Paul
has been doing now at multiple hearings.
Based on no reality,
he keeps talking about gain of function.
This has been evaluated multiple times by qualified people
to not fall under the gain of function definition.
I have not lied before Congress, I have never lied,
certainly not before Congress, case closed.
- So understandably because the situation is so tense,
you have a Fauci speaking so plainly here,
this moment goes viral.
And I mean, not to, I mean,
it's a very broad statement,
it is oversimplifying, but not to do that too much.
But it does feel like another example
that nothing really moves the needle anymore.
Like, if you look online,
people that watched the same thing
had drastically different opinions of what happened.
Some saying Paul rocked Fauci,
others saying Fauci rocked Paul.
And well, I, you know,
I think back to like six years ago and I talked about like,
it feels like we have everyone
in these like hardcore camps,
like slowly eating through to the center.
It really feels like that is the reality,
that it's not really about changing minds anymore,
it's all about activation.
And I mean, there are some people
that are kind of like on the margins,
and they, and maybe you,
are moveable, thanks to new information or new moments.
But I don't know, I mean, I actually, so this is gonna be
where I end today's show, and obviously,
I want you to let me know what you think
about this last story, anything that stood out to you today,
but also to just tag on a last question.
When was the last time you had an opinion on something
and then new information changed it?
All right, that one's just for the 12 of you still here
at the end of the video. But ultimately with this story,
and honestly, anything else stood out to you today,
I'd love to know your thoughts because yes,
this is a daily news show, but also, it's a conversation.
But yeah, like at the end of every show,
thanks for watching, liking, and subscribing.
My name's Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in,
I love your faces and I'll see you tomorrow.