Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope ya having a fantastic Tuesday
Welcome back to the philip defranco show and let's just jump into and the first thing we're gonna talk about today
Is this story around santos al khattab? Sano's is a Kuwaiti social-media influencer
She's massive on Instagram with over 2 million followers. She's known for her makeup tutorials
She's done large brand deals with large makeup companies
and so the reason she popped up in the news is she decided to take to social media to speak about some law changes that
Are happening in Kuwait and to properly set this up right now
You should know that Filipino. Domestic workers are a hot button issue in Kuwait right now
The country is a popular destination for Filipino workers going abroad trying to make money to send back home and in fact in
2016 of the 2.2 4 million workers overseas from the Philippine
56.9% worked in the Middle East and kind of oversimplify it there. They have this sponsorship system called Kafala. It dictates the working conditions
So there are things like the person can't leave the country without permission from their employer which you might think well
They could just leave anyway, what they get fired employers would and could legally confiscate their passports
And so while this was already an existing issue became an even larger
international issue in January when the news came out that a 29 year old
Filipino worker her body was found in the freezer of her employer
it was also that story we covered back in 2017 woman in Kuwait films and
Taunted a domestic worker who was clinging to a window didn't help her despite her pleading for help
She ended up following that then resulted in the President of the Philippines duterte banning Filipino workers from traveling to Kuwait
It's a long story short we end up seeing reform around Filipino workers in Kuwait. And here's what al Katan had to say about it
If she really hits on those days off a day for her to take a day off every week
That's four days a month
those are the days that she'll be out and we don't know what she'll be doing on those days with her passport on her and
Unsurprisingly there was massive backlash online many calling her racist disgusting horrible people calling on brands to separate themselves from her immediately
We saw several beauty companies that were connected with her distancing themselves. We all saw al katana try to defend herself in another video
She says what do human rights have to do with the worker keeping her passport?
even our kids don't hold onto their passport which
surprisingly
I think she thinks helps her argument and since this backlash she is standing by what she said in a post
She captioned don't judge a person without full understanding of the situation just because you don't agree doesn't mean that you're right
He starts off by seemingly referring to the coverage of what she said as rumors
She says the passport of any expat employee should be in the possession of the employer to protect the employers interest irrelevant of the employee
employer
Nationality this seeming to address the claims that she was a racist which I will say doesn't really hit on the full issue here
But I but I'll wait till the end. She was on to say I don't impose long working hours
She says she hasn't mistreated already great at any workers in the past or the present adding
I feel that we are all equal humans
And she closes it out by saying I want to take the opportunity to thank all of those who said beautiful from the outside
But not necessarily the same from the inside
Thank you for stating that I'm beautiful from the outside
And assure you that only when you meet me up close and personal that you can make a personal judgment about me as a human
being or a person the fact about having the passport of an employee in the possession of the employer does not in any way give
An indication about a human being for that you can only ask each worker at a time
and so if I had to move to my personal take away from this situation, I believe that Sandoz al katana is a
disgusting person detached from humanity
She says I don't impose long working hours
But she is apparently beside herself at the notion that one day a week one whole day a week
This person just gets to live and not serve her that this servant has the audacity to want their own passport
She's gonna have her passport. She's gonna be out there in the world
We don't know she's gonna run away which by the way when you talk about someone running away if they are not a small child
That sounds like slavery
That sounds like you think
You own that person and your property is getting away
and as far as the belief that you seem to have that you are still a beautiful person inside that people can't judge unless they
Meet you no that's not the case what you have on the inside you put out
into the world's thanks to video and voice when you open your mouth and you let those
disgusting words fly out of it you are
Opening a window into who you are on the inside also wanna know that it's not about nationality, right?
so it's not racist so that I don't say I'll give you the benefit of the doubt even though there are like
250,000 Filipino domestic workers in a country of just around 4 million people issue is about how you are treating another human being and obviously
While I am being very critical here. I truly do hope that eventually she can realize the error of her ways here
It's very easy when confronted so just laying into your stupid and horrible, but hopefully that's that's not what we see more of here
But as far as you now the person we've seen over the past few days that person is our douchebag of the day. Congratulations
You're horrible. That's my personal opinion. But that's the question
I want to pass off to
everyone that's watching when it comes to a story like this and I ask because I've gotten pushback here and there when you see a
Story like this or you a person that subscribes to the notion of well, we can't fully criticize
It is a different culture
You know this is their culture or you have the mindset that I
Definitely lean into which is no fuck your culture if your culture is shitting on other human beings treating other people as lesser
Restricting them treating them poorly and I've let me know your thoughts on this one, but from that I want to share some stuff
I loved today and today in awesome brought to you by better help. Calm slash DeFranco
But help if you don't know is the fantastic place and service we can get affordable private online counseling
From your computer right from your phone you get access to licensed trained experienced accredited colleges Marriage and Family
Therapist clinical social workers and board licensed professional counselors and all you have to do is go to better help
Calm slash DeFranco you fill out a questionnaire. They match it with a counselor, and you can start counseling today
I said noted before they are not just a sponsor. They're a service. I personally love my life is often a hectic mess
And so being able to get this thing that I think is incredibly important when it's convenient for me. That's been huge
So if you wanna check it out you want to try it out?
Remember just go to better help calm slash DeFranco the first bit of Awesome today
We had Henry Cavill and Simon Pegg teaching you English slang to get the launch trailer for detach
At first we feast giving us how Japanese fried chicken gets for crispy
No, just in case you're in the mood for the little food porn then we got a 360 video for Mission Impossible
Fall out Will Arnett answering the web's most searched questions
Then we had to change checking out the most expensive his sex dolls. We got the honest trailer for ready player one
We also got a trailer for the new movie
Mid-90s, which was written and directed by Jonah Hill and if you want to see the full versions of everything
I just share the secret link of the day anything at all links is always on the description down below now
Let's talk about the story around Dan Harmon Dan Harmon
If you don't know is the co-creator of the show
Rick and Morty it was the creator of community and he has popped up in the news because a video he made back in
2009 has resurfaced online and that video features Harmon
Simulating the rape of a baby using a doll upon hearing that you most likely have the question what that then followed with why?
Well to provide context of why this disgusting thing was done. Reportedly the video was a sketch
It was supposed to be a satirical pilot called daryl is a parody of a serial killers show Dexter
it seems like the attempt of the joke is that audiences will forgive the
horrible
if it's being done to a bad person the joke is supposed to be in the
outrageous and the extreme and soand Daryl played by Dan Harmon
You would travel back in time to stop modern-day serial killers by sexually assaulting them when they were babies
I think it's just important to point that out
So you have the full context of the situation I think though for a lot of people that's not gonna make it any better
Following this video resurfacing Dan Harmon left Twitter. It's still Harmon ended up releasing a statement and apology saying in 2009
I made a pilot which strove to parody the series Dexter and only succeeded in offending quickly realized the content was way too distasteful and
I took the video down immediately
Nobody should ever have to see what you saw and for that I sincerely
apologize
And as far as if we're going to see a repeat of the James gun situation, of course
we talked yesterday about
Disney firing him Adult Swim which airs Rick and Morty released a statement saying an Adult Swim we seek out an encourage creative freedom and
Look to push the envelope in many ways
particularly around comedy offensive content of Dan's
2009 video the recently surfaced demonstrates poor judgment and does not reflect the type of content
We seek out dan recognized his mistake at the time and is apologized. He understands
There is no place for this type of content here at Adult Swim now following Adult Swim's responds
You have people saying well
Are we ever seeing kind of a shift here companies standing by their people which I would say
I wouldn't look into it that deep Adult Swim is a completely different kind of brain
And then he also it's important to note when when talking about the James Gunn's story from yesterday
It's not happening in a bubble right now Disney's in the middle of trying to acquire 21st Century Fox
So most likely they're just trying not to rock the boat
You've got a shareholder meeting this week to either approve or kill the Fox deal. No one wants chaos that said with this story
I do want to pass a question off to you with Adult Swim
Are you happy that they're sticking by Harmon or no? Do you think they're making a massive mistake here?
And then very quickly. Let's talk about America's 37th. Favorite Olympian, dude, bro
extraordinaire Ryan Lochte in the news
The reason people are talking about Lochte today does not have to do with what he did or did not do in a bathroom in
Another country. It doesn't have to do with him trying to make jeah a catchphrase instead
It has to do with the recent announcement from the United States anti-doping agency that Ryan Lochte will be suspended for 14 months
they handed down the suspension for what they call his use of a prohibited method and that wording is important because in their
Investigation they didn't find evidence or at least they could not prove that he was doping but they did find that he violated
policy on
intravenous infusion
The anti-doping agency has a policy that athletes are to receive no more than 100 milliliters of permitted substances through an IV
Unfortunately for Ryan Lochte, it appears someone exposed him on Instagram and even more unfortunately for Ryan Lochte. It turned out it was him
He ratted on himself on accident when he posted this photo with the caption athletic recovery with some hashtag IV drip
Hashtag vitamin now. He ended up deleting that photo. But of course people took screenshots. The Internet is forever
And so now he's being suspended this would normally be the part of the story where I kind of just make fun of Ryan Lochte
for 30 seconds
But enough I really need to add on or if it's even possible to beat a comment
I saw from a certain user by the name of Henry Lang for Mitchell who wrote he is
so goddamn dense that it is honestly a miracle that he doesn't just sink to the bottom of the pool and drown every time he
Gets the water. Yeah, that's where we're gonna end that one
I haven't got interesting industry news specifically around the competition that exists in the video space
It's no secret that YouTube Facebook Instagram wherever they're all competing for your eyeballs. According to Business Insider
One of the ways YouTube is now trying to hold on to those eyeballs is to also hold on to what those eyeballs have
In watching and so according to Business Insider YouTube is currently cutting five and six figure checks
To existing YouTube creators to not leave the platform reporting one Hollywood source
Contracts have yet to be delivered, but this is about guaranteed money for concurrent posting
It's a case-by-case basis according to the report one person said these deals could hit seven figures though
Another said this happened only in very rare cases
They also specifically named youtuber Lilly Singh
but it's it's confusing if she's actually a part of this program the Business Insider articles says that there dangling
sizeable checks to several of its top stars like the hugely popular comedian Louie Singh this according to people familiar with the matter by the
Way another outlet covered a tube filter. There are the craters receiving these type of handouts include Indian Canadian icon Lilly Singh
So because of that weird gray area, I've reached out to Lilly as of recording this video as she hasn't responded
But that side regarding YouTube's response to this report reportedly a YouTube representative responded. We have no new initiative in place
We have always invested in our creators success and will continue to do so to ensure they have a great experience
And can find continued growth and opportunity on YouTube and on YouTube specific note. I would say
Yeah, I mean it's not even like an inside secret. This is stuff that was being reported on back in 2014
I really wouldn't be surprising if YouTube was doing this now since there is more
competition than ever whether it be IG TV or Facebook watch or whatever because in the past YouTube's competition has been kind of
Oddball to his vessel which ended up being acquired by Verizon and then shut down there was actually speaking of Verizon
There was go 90 and that was actually failure of epic
Proportions because of a news has come out in the past day go 90 were poorly cause Verizon
658 million dollars but unlike those now shut down services when you look to an Instagram or a Facebook
They already have these really engaged audiences
And so if these deals with YouTube do exist, which I am NOT personally confirming it wouldn't be too shocking
But that's not a question. I do want to pass off to you in your day on a computer on your phone
Where is your time split right across Facebook Instagram YouTube reddit
Wherever what?
Would you guess the split is and also if you are willing?
How old are you that seem to be the big?
differentiator and in more Donald Trump news over the past few days
Donald Trump has continued to release statements regarding if Russia meddled or not the big press conference with Vladimir Putin it appeared that he was
Saying that Russia did not meddle
But then later he kind of corrected himself saying what he actually meant to say was wouldn't instead of would during a key
Or in a key sentence in my remarks. I said the word would instead of wouldn't
The sentence should have been I don't see any reason why I wouldn't
well, why didn't be rush although as many have pointed out that doesn't seem to make sense in the full scope of everything that he
said for those two three minutes and online pointing to other moments in the past where he said that Russia did meddle but other than
Also adding that they're just one of many and more recently on July 22nd
He tweeted to President Obama knew about Russia before the election. Why didn't he do something about it?
Why didn't he tell our campaign because it's all a big hoax
That's why any thought cricket Hillary was going to win which some of defended Trump saying
No, he's referring to collusion meddling, but that's not what that tweet appears to be addressing and then today on Twitter
He put out a news statement saying I'm very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming
election and at this point I feel like a good number of people were like
Final and then the tweet continued based on the fact that no president has been tougher on Russia than me
They will be pushing very hard for the Democrats
They definitely don't want Trump my personal takeaway from that is I think we're looking at one of two options one
The president is trolling or two
The president has finally realized because there is so much evidence that there was Medellin the best play is to use that to call into
question
upcoming elections if they do not go his way and that should actually be a very concerning thing to you because the last time we
heard from kind of call into question
The election process it was before he was elected president was when he was a candidate
But now it appears that you might have the President of the United States setting up the groundwork to be legitimize
however
the midterms go based off of this notion of they don't want Trump which makes
Absolutely, no sense even during the press conference with Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin says he did prefer Trump
Yes Donald Trump has repeatedly said that
Relations with Russia are the worst they have ever been but then he takes aim at the media as the cause of this and watching
Trump do this has been really interesting
I mean for most any other politician having had every opinion on every topic and kind of
Flip-flopping back and forth jumping from narrative to narrative in just a matter of hours sometimes days
It'd be kind of strophic but for the most part Donald Trump as far as they're the people that always
support him they will they will run with the the whatever the narrative is for the now even just yesterday you were tweeting that you
And Putin got along very well
and so I pass off the question in general to everyone of what do you think we're seeing here also specifically because I know a
Variety of people watch us to people that support Donald Trump. What do you think about this newest narrative then in international news?
We look to Greece where right now there are two fires raging reportedly at this moment 74 people have died with over
180 injured of those injured reportedly 164 adults 23 year children right now reports saying this is the worst fire season in Greece since
2007 when at least 60 people died and that's right
Now the cause of the fires is not known and they're not under control yet
And as far as the fire is not being under control
That's really not that surprising since gale-force winds have been feeding
The fires people became so desperate they start just fleeing into the sea and so far around
700 people have been rescued by the Coast Guard and passing boats as far as a material destruction, you know cars homes
They're unconfirmed estimates burying from dozens to hundreds. One of the key points officials kept hitting on here is just how
Unpredictable. This has been the mayor of the town of Rafina said we were unlucky the wind change and it came at us with such
Force that it raised the coastal area in minutes
We've all seen the prime minister of greece declare a state of emergency
Also asking for assistance from other countries and on that note we've seen European countries reaching out to offer support
Resources to help fight the fire additionally Macedonia has even offered the equivalent of one hundred thousand euro to help firefighting efforts
we've also seen the United States sending in an unmanned drone which week authorities said they're using to monitor and track suspicious activity and I
mentioned that note because there are some officials in Greece that believe the fire may have been started by
arsonists looking to loot abandoned houses
ultimately that is where we are right now and we're gonna have to wait to see what happens next and that's where I'm going to
End today's show, but of course, this is the PDS. It is not just a show. It is a conversation
so whether it be the last story the first one anything in between
Let me know what you're thinking in those comments down below
Remember if you like this video like what I try and do on this channel hit that like button if you new here hit that
Subscribe button also ring that bell to turn on notifications
and also make sure you don't have the
Occasional Bell you have it on the all Bell so you get alerts for when we do the live
Pre-show in front of these shows as well as these daily weekday videos or don't you're an adult
You know what you want that said, of course as always, my name is philip. Defranco. You've just been phill'd in
I love yo faces. I'll see you tomorrow