Sup, 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 I'm going to talk about today is something that I hate even having to do because while I find it
Important to throw this out there and I think that from a viewer and a creator standpoint it is interesting and good to know
I know that it also comes off as
Complaining and I try to limit that sort of thing to one time a month one time every two months
So with that said I'm going to turn in my, my bitch and moan voucher
thank you and explain why the 20% of you that normally watch my shows did not see yesterday's show and
Thus the video was suppressed now if you're familiar with YouTube at all, you are familiar with this symbol the demonitization symbol
But that's not really what I'm talking about today. Although I guess it is somewhat connected and I'll repeat to you the same thing
I said to Robert Kinsel when he sat down with me I do not care if you take away my adsense
But I want to talk about real things. Please do not suppress my videos. That's it
I sell me better than you can sell me
Just let me talk about real stuff and while cutting off revenue streams can be deemed
Suppression because it takes away the future and the viability of a channel
What I'm talking about is actual views people consume YouTube videos in a variety of ways
but one of the ways that YouTube has trained people very very well is clicking videos on the homepage as well as
recommending right the little videos that pop up to the side of videos you're watching now things that show up when you just go to
Youtube.com and unfortunately when we cover heavier topics like the police
Brutality and the Catholic Church cover-up like yesterday that usually results in the video being suppressed and while YouTube is not transparent
about when they do this
If you go into the analytics on any video you can actually see where and when they do it
For example, here are the analytics on a video. I put out last week that apparently was safe according to YouTube
You see those stats and then we have the analytics for yesterday's suppressed video and you look back and forth and you may notice one
Notable thing the safe video has a meaningful percentage of views coming from suggested for that specific video. It's over 200
250,000 views the video YouTube decided to suppress yesterday
actually You have to click more and you notice that
1.3 percent of the views came from
Suggested and that's apparently because at some point it was cut off I'm talking about this for two reasons
The first is a little bit too air my grievances
to-to bring light to
Something that is happening right now that people might not be aware of. I think many people will find it annoying that essentially yesterday's video
which had a theme of
Exposing and holding people that are abusing their power accountable the powers that be at YouTube ended up kneecapping yesterday's video
Making it less likely that more people will hold those other people with power accountable
But also the second reason I mentioned this is ultimately it is YouTube's game. It is YouTube's system
I'm just trying to live and thrive here. That's why next week. We're going to try and test something out here on YouTube
You'll still be getting the philip defranco show same time every weekday, but we're also going to test posting videos in the morning
It'll be a single story video
The subject of those morning videos will most likely be along the lines of things that result in the philip defranco show usually being suppressed
That way when we end up covering a story that YouTube is going to Smackdown for some reason
It doesn't tank the entire show
If you don't catch the morning video then in the philip defranco show i'll remind you in today in awesome or somewhere that there was
also a video this morning and obviously I'm disappointed that we're having to modify our
Content strategy on a show that has historically worked very well and even doing this
I'm worried that these important stories that need to be seen by our normal sized audience are going to get less views
But it is their platform. I can just try and do the best that I can do in that system
And so just take this as an announcement that on certain days next week
You're going to be getting two videos one in the morning one in the regular afternoon
So there is that and please don't confuse my tone right now with me being defeated
I'm just kind of exhausted from having a variation of the same
Argument and conversation that I've had with YouTube for the past five, six years
But anyway moving on and then let's talk about why we had Payton Royce and the
WWE in the news and all of this starts because of a moment on August 9th on Wrestling Observer radio
We have Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez talking about the WWE and then it somehow turns into what Payton looks like
I mean, I don't think their promos are particularly good their wrestling isn't good
I mean, I think they even like I think Payton Royce's transformation to look more attractive.
I don't know. I don't want say but I don't think that. She's more attractive at NXT.
I thought so yes to me. Yes, I would say so but you know, and that's that's neither here nor there
But um, no one's saying she's unattractive by the way everybody. I know no shit
Yeah, I didn't say it at all. But I don't think like she doesn't stand out to me when she was in NXT
She did
well
You know one thing I've noticed about NXT in the main roster is... she was a lot lighter. And that clip eventually got to Paton Royce
Who posted that audio with the caption "So what would you have me do Dave, starve myself?
This is how nightmares for young women start the females in your life must be proud" and following those we saw other WWE star
Supporting her, denouncing Meltzer. Billie Kay tweeting "This is unacceptable on so many levels
How dare you say that someone is more attractive when they are lighter?
You have no idea how stupid comments like this can affect someone for life." Beth Copeland tweeting
"I'm sorry, but this makes me sick." Renee Young tweeting
"What a true piece of sweltering hot garbage." and this ended up leading to Dave Meltzer publicly apologizing tweeting to Peyton
"I'd like to apologize to you. You are an exceedingly attractive woman
I do realize the lengths and pressures on women in the entertainment world to maintain
Unnatural looks at times that I'm glad you pointed this out" to which Seth Rollins tweeted
"Negative six stars Dave" and in general many people were criticizing Meltzer's response. And on this note we saw Tyler Breeze tweet
"There's a way to genuinely
apologize to someone and then there's a way to pass the buck trying to redirect blame because you got called out own up to your
Words, you're the one who said them" Dave says "Not passing any bucks" and Breeze respond
It's not about me Dave your voice carries weight make it positive. We saw him else or respond
I would love to that's why I thanked her for the post and hope we can all learn from my mistake
But yes
It is my mistake not passing any bucks nor making any excuses for I've learned and hope others can learn from my mistake kind of
And the thing I do want to note here
Is that obviously while I've been pointing out people that have been criticizing Meltzer there have always been people defending him
Some saying that he wasn't referencing Payton's weight, but rather was talking about her breast enlargement
Although people have argued against that defense saying that doesn't really make it any better because he's essentially breaking her down to just her look
As far as what Meltzer did mean with that statement we ended up yesterday hearing from the man himself again
Wrestling Observer radio last night. He said I am completely sorry no matter what I meant
It doesn't matter because how I said it was wrong. And with this story, I want to pass the question off to you
What are your thoughts around the initial words said, the response, the apology after? Do you feel like it was sexist objectification?
And so it was wrong or no
he was completely in his right to make a claim even though he's
apologized because how you look as an entertainer that you know that comes into play and especially if you are a current fan of the
WWE I would love to know your opinion here because I haven't watched in years
I used to watch back in I think it's called the Attitude Era these days back in the the Trish S tratus
Braun pannies matches aid and so it very much seems like it is a
Completely different world as far as the state of female wrestling as well as the audience reaction to female wrestling
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youtubers being badass and rockin and news
I just have to say congratulations to Gabby Hanna aka the gabbie show
The reason we're talking about Gabby is she did something that a lot of people online do once they get an audience
She released some music but unlike a majority of those people
A lot of people really enjoyed the song and she ended up hitting number one and two
At the top of U.S. iTunes music not where someone's like. Oh, I'm at the top of European polka top of all music
So I just want to highlight an online freighter. That's absolutely crushing it and also to say to Gabby
Congratulations, just a few years ago. People knew you as the girl whose iPhone was broken by rice gum
And now you're the woman who's number one on
Iphone and also other devices that have iTunes but also on the note and in the world of music we have very sad news today
Because it Aretha Franklin at the age of 76 has died and according to an official statement
She passed away Thursday morning, August 16th and 9:50 a.m
At our home in Detroit Michigan surrounded by family and loved ones and our official cause of death was due to advanced pancreatic
Cancer of the neuroendocrine type and I'd like many others today
We would just like to express my thanks, too
and my thanks for
this
Individual a woman who through her songs has touched so many people and will continue to touch even though she passed today her work lives
Yes, we are obviously connected to our bodies
But what we give?
the world that is that is really who
We are and it's something that lives past this body and today maybe do yourself a little favor when you get a chance
Listen to a little Aretha Franklin. It could be some chain of fools. It could be son of a preacher man
I say a little prayer
I can't listen to that one without smiling will always lose people but thanks to what they give the world
They are not forgotten actually
I think that's a note where I want to end this part and then let's talk about what we have the Baker Jack Phillips the
owner of the masterpiece cake shop in Denver, Colorado back in the news today
And the reason I say back in the news is as you might remember back in 2012. He gained national attention
He was the Baker that declined to make a cake celebrating the marriage of a same-sex couple
He was citing his personal religious beliefs
If you don't remember that couple sued the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ultimately decided that Phillips violated state
anti-discrimination laws Phillips
his attorneys an appealed the case ended up going to the Supreme Court and ultimately the Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 in favor of
masterpiece cake shop
although as we pointed out when we covered that the
Supreme Court ruling didn't fully address the main issue and instead what the court did is that they ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Had not adequately taken into account the religious beliefs of the owner
So technically a win for Phillips
But the court essentially didn't decide whether a business owner can refuse services to gay individuals based on religious objections
But today it is not about that situation instead. This is about Phillips and another legal battle
Specifically, that Phillips is alleging religious discrimination in relation to another complaint against his business and this week
We saw Phillips filing a federal lawsuit against Colorado Governor
John Hickenlooper
state's attorney general Cynthia Coffman
The director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division Aubrey alanis and finally members of the Colorado Civil Rights
Commission and in it Phillips claims that the state has been on a crusade to crush him for over six years because state officials despise
What he believes and how he practices his faith and a specific issue here
Is that shortly after the June Supreme Court ruling that we just talked about the state of Colorado informed Phillps that he had violated state
Law by refusing to create a cake to celebrate a gender transition in that 2017 incident
Lawyer autumn Scardino saying that she asked for a cake with a pink interior with a blue
Exterior to celebrate both her birthday and the anniversary of transitioning from male to female
Gardena issued a complaint to the Colorado Division of Civil Rights saying woman on the phone did not object to my request for a birthday
Cake until I told her I was celebrating my transition from male to female
I believed that I was not allowed to order a birthday cake because I requested that its color and theme
Celebrate my transition from male to female the woman on the phone told me they do not make cake celebrating
Gender transition in that complaints Gardena also says that the phone was disconnected and she believed that she was hung up
Well, she then called back to ask for the employee's name and she says she was hung up on again
So then on June 28th of this year
Colorado regulators said that there was sufficient evidence to supports cárdenas discrimination claim and that the two parties were ordered to compulsory mediation
And so then that situation then led to Philips lawsuit
Which says Phillips's bakery serves all people but will not create cakes that express messages or celebrate events
Contrary to his religious belief Phillips declined to create the cake because it would have celebrated
messages contrary to his religious belief that sex the status of being male or female is given by God is
Biologically determined is not determined by perceptions or feelings and cannot be chosen or changed
it goes on to say that it is now clear that Colorado will not rest until Philips either closes masterpiece cake shop or agrees to
Violate his religious beliefs the state's continuing efforts to target Philips. Do not just violate the Constitution
They cross the line into bad faith. This Court should put a stop to Colorado's
Unconstitutional bullying and the lawsuit also suggests that scardy Anna's request may have been a targeted one
noting that the cake request was made the same day that the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Philips his case and they say
That because after refusing her original order they say that they received several other requests over the course of the next year for cakes
Celebrating Satan naturing satanic symbols depicting sexually explicit materials promoting marijuana. Use Pope's believes that scar
Dina may have been behind some of those
Disingenuous requests said he argued were designed to get him to decline the desired message in a lawsuit also says that Phillips has been harassed
He's received death threats as shop has been vandalized
so he's asking the court for permanent injunctions against the state for enforce in Colorado anti-discrimination laws against him as well as
$100,000 in punitive damages for loss work profits reputational damage and emotional distress
so as of right now that is where we are with this story and it will be very interesting to see what happens and that's
In large part to me being very interested to see what happens after that Supreme Court decision if it was a little bit like round
2 and
what the state does here is going to be put
Under a microscope because once again that Supreme Court decision we talked about earlier had a lot to do with how the state handled things
and not so much about the actual discrimination case
So this is one I'll definitely be keeping my eye on and then let's talk about this situation in Oklahoma
So there's this school in southern Oklahoma specifically the akiles school system
There's a 12 year old transgender student who start her first year at this school according to report
she had been using the staff bathroom at her old school by used the girls bathroom at this new school because she wasn't sure where
The staff bathroom was well with this specific situation
It came to light that there was a private Facebook group where parents were sounding off
It was a group called Achille ASD parents group
And we saw two parents
Complaining about what was happened and let me read you some of the screen shots that were taken before this
Facebook page was shut down. We see heads up parents of fifth or seventh grade girls
The transgender is already using the girls bathroom another replies parents and churches need to shut this down
The Bible says God created man and woman not any transgender bs. Also says any man late with another man
He be condemned to hell with new laws and new rules
This is what our future is if we don't stop it, how old is this thing?
Well, he came to our school in the 5th grade and is now in the seventh this thing
I love it. Got a name for it now. Perfect name let blank whip his ass until he quits coming to school
I got all the support on that one. I like the queer teacher get me worked up. This is even worse, lol
Laugh my ass off. Both cases are BS. Neither. One of them should be allowed near the school. This is terrible
Y'all have great kids and a little half-baked
Maggot is causing them problems
If he wants to be a female make him a female good sharp knife will do the job really quick
Just tell the kids to kick ass in the bathroom and it won't want to come back one individual going by the name of David
Williams going as far to say you know
We have open hunting seasons on them kind ain't no bank limit in them. Either according to a Kelly public school superintendent
riccobene the threats escalated in severity and number when someone made the Facebook group public and some of the Facebook threats have been traced to
other parts of Oklahoma in Texas being adding that the students mother also filed a protective order against one of the district parents who made
facebook comments about her daughter
Additionally we saw the school closed for two days this week after the threats were made this following a request from Bryan County Sheriff Johnny
Christian as far as my personal reaction to this. It's no surprise
I'm completely disgusted by the adults in that Facebook group. Like I hope and this is a really low bar here
but I hope that like 90% of the people watching this video regardless of
whatever your opinion is as far as someone that is transgender that that threatening a
A year old with violence and bullying a twelve-year-old that is disgusting and wrong
But that said I'm constantly surprised but with all that said I do want to pass the question off to you
What are your thoughts around this story? And that's where I'm going to end today's show
And of course remember whether it'd be the last story the first one anything in between, I want this to be a conversation
So let me know what you're thinking in those comments down below
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Yo faces, and i'll see you tomorrow