- [Philip] Y'all it's been a minute since I've been in
a classroom, but are teachers okay right now?
- (inaudible screams from teacher)
- Right, so that footage was posted on Instagram,
by a native American activist and businesswoman
who said in the caption that a native
American student took the video
during his math class at John W
North high school in Riverside, California.
Saying after several minutes of the teacher war hooping
and Tomahawk chopping, the student began filming.
They're going on to urge people to share the
video, saying the boy gave her
permission to post it.
And adding, we need to end abuse and discrimination
against indigenous youth in schools.
There is no excuse for this type of behavior.
We're not in the 1960s anymore. She should know better.
And so like a lot of people, I saw this video and
I was very confused, especially because in the
caption that said it happened in a math class.
Like, I thought this was maybe a history
lesson that got really off the rails.
And it appears that the teacher's, now been
identified as Candice Reed, was using an a mnemonic device.
The device being SoCahToa, which is supposed to
help people remember sine, cosine and tangent.
If you go to dummies.com, it explains,
and they're sharing the story of what they say is
the legend of an Indian chief named SoCahToa
and to over simplify it.
Essentially, a young brave keeps hurting his toe
and then he has to soak it in the water.
So SOCA TOA.
But main thing, this video goes viral.
It prompts a ton of backlash.
Many condemning the clip, calling it racist and offensive.
With some saying, they were also taught
this mnemonic device by teachers who
made similar offensive comparisons to native Americans.
But on the other side of this,
we also saw people arguing that the teacher
didn't mean to be offensive.
She just didn't know better, right?
Saying, hey let's try and turn this
into a learning opportunity.
Though, to that point, we saw people pushing
back on that, responding by pointing out
that that's the problem. Saying the
ignorance of naïveté is the hate.
She's putting the native American kids in
jeopardy, let alone embarrassing and degrading them.
Right, so with that, I would love to know
your thoughts on this story and what camp do you land?
And while you're possibly letting me know your
thoughts in the comments, I'll say two things.
One, welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show,
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And two, as promised, if you didn't see it
already this morning, I uploaded the rant
that I had to take out of yesterday's show.
I'll link to it down below.
I personally think it's silly that I had to
remove it, but you know.
Trying to ride the lines most effectively so
I can get the news out to you.
But that said, let's keep going.
Then, we should talk about this very small company and
this up and coming comedian in the news right now.
You might know them, Netflix and Dave Chappelle.
And the news and updates around
the story's still going strong, right?
If you, if you missed it, many have accused
Chappelle's latest standup special of being transphobic
And for their part, Netflix co-CEO,
Ted Sarandos, has defended Chappelle saying that
the company supports artistic freedom
suggesting that his remarks did
not translate to real-world harm.
Which ended up being a comment that
sparked a lot of backlash.
Sarandos himself then even telling
the Hollywood Reporter that he had screwed up
his initial internal response to the controversy.
Though, still standing by Dave Chappelle saying,
we're not going to remove this special.
So with that, you had a number of Netflix
employees upset that the company was
standing by this special.
Saying, hey, you should be looking out
for your own company's trans employees.
But all of that bringing us to yesterday's walkout, right?
It was organized by a trans employee
resource group at Netflix.
With the group of leasing a PDF of its demands
for the company, breaking it down
into three core parts.
The first being content investment with employees,
asking for a fund to help develop
trans and non-binary talent.
Increase investment in trans content and creators.
To revise the internal process on releasing
potentially harmful content.
And to hire trans and non-binary executives and
leadership roles.
Then, the second branch was employee relations
and safety with them asking again for
more trans people to be recruited
to the company.
And for images and references of transphobic
titles to be removed from the workplace.
And the final branch, harm reduction.
With employees asking Netflix to acknowledge
the harm that it caused from this incident.
And for a disclaimer to be added to transphobic titles,
flagging that it contains hate speech and
for the company to promote more trans
affirming titles on the platform.
And when it comes to what happened
at the walkout itself,
you had a lot of speakers like Joey Soloway,
the way the creator of the Amazon series Transparent,
saying "This is gender violence.
During his outrageous comedic humiliation
in front of thousands of people,
and then broadcasting it to hundreds
of millions of people,
is infinitely amplified, gender violence.
I want trans representation on the Netflix board,
a trans person on the "effing"
Netflix board this f**ing week".
You also had the now former Netflix
employee, who was recently fired for
allegedly leaking confidential information on the
Chappelle special to the press.
That employee, B.Pagels-Minor,
has denied ever doing that, and
during the rally said,
"As many of you know, I'm 33 weeks pregnant.
When I thought about why I was participating
it's that my son does not grow up
with content that hates me.
I want my child to grow up in a world
where they see that their parent, a
black trans person - because I exist,
contrary to what the special says,
contrary to what many people say -
that I am valued, and I am an important person as well".
But also at this walkout, you had counter
protesters showing up in support of Chappelle.
And some reports account that some
carried signs that said "Jokes Are
Funny" and "Netflix Don't Cancel Free Speech".
Netflix also releasing a statement,
kind of in support of the walkouts saying
"We value our trans colleagues and allies and
understand the deep hurt that's been caused.
We respect the decision of any employee who
chooses to walk out and recognize
we have much more work to do within
Netflix and in our content".
And with this, while not at the walkout,
we saw a lot of celebrities speaking up.
Elliot Page, Dan levy, a ton more.
But on the other side of this,
we've seen big names speaking out in support of Dave.
People like Joe Rogan actually commenting
on this, on his podcast.
- [Joe] It's just making jokes. That doesn't mean hate.
This is the problem with today.
If you don't have an enemy, you make an enemy.
And this is a real problem with people.
We look for things.
When you start equating jokes with like real feelings.
Well, they're not the same thing.
- [Philip] And then, as far as what Chappelle
himself is thinking right now,
his reps just told TMZ that he would be
interested in an open dialogue with Netflix
employees, if they extend the offer.
Though, that gets a little bit muddy because
the organizer of the walkout apparently claims
to have invited Dave to a discussion, but
his team says that's not the case.
But yeah, Dave is apparently open to talking this
out if Netflix puts it on the table.
Interestingly enough, this controversy has
actually brought back an old Netflix controversy.
And it's being used by both sides.
If you don't remember, there was a lot of
controversy, backlash, outrage when Netflix put out Cuties.
I can't go into detail on why that was a controversy.
Otherwise, this video will get suppressed.
But you have some saying, it's interesting
that you have Netflix employees walking out
for this, but they didn't do it for that.
But then, on the other side, you have people
saying, okay, wait, so you love Netflix now,
but you were angry before about this.
Though to note, the controversies are different.
But yeah, that's a story as it stands now.
And of course with this, I want to pass
the question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this?
Have they remained same since we
initially talked about the controversy?
Has it changed since you've seen more things?
Why? Why not?
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Then potentially game-changing medical and
science news, we need to talk about pigs.
So it's places like THESKIMM note, in
the United States alone, nearly 107,000
people are waiting for an organ transplant
and of those, 90,000 need a kidney.
But there's just not enough of them.
And getting off that wait list can take
an average of at least three years and
12 people die each day, just waiting for a new one.
And for decades now, scientists have been
trying to find alternatives to human
donors and boom pigs.
As it turns out, pigs have very similar organs to humans.
But, as the AP notes, the sugar in pig cells,
foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection.
So to overcome that they edited the genes of
a pig making it so that that sugar was not there.
They then took a kidney from that gene
edited animal, and for the first time in
human history, they successfully attached
a pig kidney to a human.
With the AP explaining some of the specifics
stating that the pig kidney was attached
to a pair of large blood vessels outside
the body of a deceased recipient so
they could observe it for two days.
And it did what it was supposed to do
and did not trigger rejection.
Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the surgical team,
said it had absolutely normal function.
And notably, donation is a very important thing
to Dr. Montgomery because he himself three years ago,
got a heart transplant.
Now of course with this news,
there are going to be people pushing back saying,
should we do this? Raising pigs to be organ donors?
And I'm very biased on this because I have PKD.
I'm very likely going to need a kidney in the
future, but f*** yes.
If we, as a society are completely fine with
raising and slaughtering pigs at
just absolutely insane scales so we can make
a sandwich tastes better, absolutely if you can save lives.
And if there's hope here, where there has
been none for tens and hundreds of thousands
of people, we got to take a chance.
We got to keep digging. PETA can go f*** itself.
We're in a world that feels dumber by the day.
Is that a controversial thing? To choose a human over a pig?
But yeah. Massive breakthrough, very exciting.
Something that could change so many lives
and something we're going to have to keep our eye on.
Then, in promising COVID news,
we've seen over the past two weeks, a 22% drop in new cases.
As well as COVID deaths is dropping
14% over the same period.
Though, still you're talking about
1600 people dying per day.
Very notably, a lot of places that were
getting absolutely hammered over the summer,
places like Florida and Louisiana,
actually now have some of the lowest numbers
of new cases relative to their population.
But on the opposite side of those numbers,
you have Alaska, Montana and Idaho having the
highest number of cases relative
to their populations right now.
Also aiming to further knock those numbers down
nationwide, we had the White House yesterday
announcing that the administration has procured
enough vaccines for 28 million children aged 5 to 11.
And adding with the department of health and
human services will be teaming up with over
100 children's hospital systems across
the country to set up vaccination sites.
They'll also be able to get them at
tens of thousands of pharmacies.
The administration also saying that they're going
to work to make the shots available at
hundreds of schools and community health centers.
And really all they're waiting for now is
authorization from the FDA to do so.
So yeah, if you thought those insane videos
we've seen of school board meetings were
going to be going away anytime soon, nope.
The sequel is just around the corner.
The FDA's is independent advisory committee
is expected to meet October 26th.
The CDC's independent advisory committee
is set to meet November 2nd and 3rd.
Also a note for those who already got the vaccine,
the FDA yesterday authorized boosters for
Moderna and Johnson and Johnson, as well,
as approving mixing and matching.
Some specific things to note here.
Under the Moderna authorization, people who
got both Moderna and Pfizer can get the booster
six months after completing their initial series if
they are 65 and older, at high risk of severe
COVID, or their work gives them increased exposure.
That is almost identical to those
being given the Pfizer booster.
But the main difference is that Moderna's booster
is half the dose of the initial shots,
whereas Pfizer uses a third identical dose.
And then with the J and J authorization,
it's very different.
The FDA there approving all three boosters
for any J and J recipients 18 and older, two
months after they received the one shot.
So it's kind of confusing.
And if you're wondering, well, is there a
recommendation for which booster I should get
based on my first series, the answer right now is no.
Though I will say the study that was used to
back up this authorization did find that J and J
recipients had a higher antibody boost from
mixing either Moderna or Pfizer boosters.
Now, notably here, the CDC, which determines
vaccine recommendations could issue more guidance
on when and whether people should switch
vaccine makers for their booster shots.
In fact the CDC panel has a meeting today to
discuss the new FDA authorizations and recommendations.
And then once they make their decision, the
CDC director has the final say on the guidelines.
And if the agency agrees with the FDA,
the booster shots could be rolled out
as soon as this weekend.
Then, you know how in the US there is a
job crunch and employee shortage?
Well, seemingly in an attempt to address that,
we saw yesterday the Wisconsin Senate approving
a bill that would allow 14 and 15 year olds
to work until 11:00 PM on some days of the week.
This because currently according to the law,
14 and 15 year-olds can only work until 9:00 PM
from June 1st to Labor day and until 7:00 PM
for the rest of the year.
However, if this bill goes through, they'll be
able to work until 9:30 on school nights and
11:00 PM on weekends or breaks.
But, before you put on that uniform or that apron,
there is an asterisk here.
Kids can't actually work more hours per week,
just different ones.
And this won't apply to businesses with
annual revenues of over half a million dollars.
So this is specifically aimed to help
kind of the mom and pop shops.
And actually in addition to addressing the
ongoing worker shortage, this is being framed
as a way to help small businesses stay open
during the summer tourist season, right?
Especially during those months can be hard to find staff
and sometimes the only staff you do have
legally can't work after a certain time.
And as far as where the parties stand on this,
you have Republicans in support of it.
Democrats opposing it.
One Democratic Senator saying kids should be
doing their homework being in school,
instead of working more hours.
But, both legislative chambers are pretty
overwhelmingly Republican, which would make
you think that it's an easy pass.
However, the governor, Tony Evers, is a Democrat.
So he might veto it. He might not.
We'll have to wait to see.
But, with this I do want to know your thoughts.
When you hear this news, are you in favor of it?
You think, yes, we got to do it. Or no.
Are you against it? Do you think it's a dangerous precedent?
Why or why not? Let me know.
Then, and international news, we saw tens of
thousands of South Korean workers rallying
across the country in 13 different cities to
demand a minimum wage hike and better working
conditions for irregular workers.
With the largest rally being in Seoul, where at
least 27,000 people turned out, despite a ban
on rallies under the city's strict
COVID-19 social distancing regulations.
With many of the protesters there supporting
Squid Game costumes because for many South Korean
workers, the show's premise hit too close to home.
And well, yes, the minimum wage hike is a big
part of this, one of the biggest things is hours.
South Koreans are among the most worked
people in the developed world.
To compare and contrast, the country with the
fewest hours worked a year is Germany at 1,332.
Americans on average as 1,767 hours.
And for South Korea, it is 1,908.
In fact, they are so overworked that the
government had to introduce plans for a 52 hour
workweek, down from a 68 hour workweek.
Currently it's unclear if the government there is
going to take this issue up, but if
they don't, this could have massive
implications for the upcoming election.
Irregular workers make up 36.4% of all salaried workers.
That is a meaningful voting block.
But for now, we're going to have to wait and see.
Ultimately that is where this story and today's show ends.
Of course, whether it be this one,
the first one, anything in between,
I'd love to know your thoughts
in those comments down below.
Thank you for watching and as
always, my name's Philip DeFranco.
You've just been filled in.
I love your faces and I'll see you next time.