- 'Sup your beautiful bastards,
welcome back to the "Philip DeFranco Show"
and let's just jump into it.
You know, the first thing that we're gonna talk about today,
I had a lot of people requesting this story.
There's been this massive debate
around Britney Spears right now,
but they're trending on Twitter this morning
because of nude photos she posted to her Instagram.
In them she covers her chest with her hands or emojis,
also putting emojis between her legs.
You had a number of people looking
at these photos and saying,
oh, this is proof that she's erratic,
you know, she's unwell,
this is why she was in a conservatorship.
Saying someone needs to step in.
You also have people defending her
and personally, I'm of the mindset of that kind of,
because I, being Philip DeFranco, have no idea
what's going on in the mind of Britney Spears.
So one, I'm not gonna tell this woman
what she can or cannot do with her body,
I'm not the majority of the Supreme Court.
And two, while I don't know what the truth is about,
you know, how she's doing, what's going on with her.
I do know that a lot of people when we look at others,
we go, you know, this is normal
or it's not based off of who we are,
based off of our life experience or experiences we've seen.
And plainly put, I have no idea what it is
to have been Britney Spears, I mean,
just look at everything she's gone through.
Where as a teenager, she was hyper-sexualized,
later abused by a ridiculous society and media
which then pushed her into a conservatorship,
she got stuck in for 13 years.
For 13 years, her life was not her own,
whether it be controlling money, her body,
what she was putting out to the public,
and to feel for how many of those 13 years
that the people that are supposed to be caring for you,
your family have been exploiting you.
So who am I to say, I know how I would be acting
if for about two decades,
I was different versions of a punching bag.
I hope she's well, if she's not hurting anybody,
it's not my business.
Leave Britney Spears alone.
Then what else do we have today?
Oh, Mike Tyson will not be facing criminal charges
for going "clobbering time" on that guy on the plane,
which I think makes sense to pretty much everyone
that saw the videos leading up to
that guy getting punched, more specifically
the San Mateo County District Attorney saying,
"Because of the conduct of the victim leading up
to the incident, the interaction between Mr. Tyson
and the victim, as well as the request
of both the victim and Mr. Tyson,
no charges are gonna be filed.
You also had Tom Brady in the news
because this guy just can't stop winning.
Because while yes, you have to deal with one
and or maybe still several more seasons
of this guy beating your favorite team,
he'll now still be connected to the sport
for another decade after he retires
because he's going to be an NFL analyst for Fox Sports.
You know what's the craziest thing about this?
He will be making more money over 10 years
as a Fox Sports analyst, than he did his entire NFL career.
Tom Brady just stays winning.
Then removing any speculation and debate about it,
Elon Musk has now publicly said
he would reverse Twitter's ban
on former president, Donald Trump,
saying he thinks Twitter made a mistake doing this,
calling it a morally bad decision, foolish in the extreme.
Well, Donald Trump has said he won't be coming back,
you know, he still cares about Truth Social.
Come on, you know, that's not true.
And then let's talk about our BAMF,
or rather BAMF's of the day
because you have Mark Rober and company.
So Rober just put out this video where he was unleashing
cockroaches, stink bombs, and so much more
on this call center in India.
While it sounds like the premise
for a Douche Bag of the Day,
he did it for very good reasons.
Because these were not just any old call centers,
they were scam call centers.
And he did all of this in an effort to either shut them down
and or bring attention to the harm that they cause.
Because as Rober notes, the scams are rampant.
For just last year, 60 million people lost money
to these scams, including the focal point of this video.
A woman by the name of Bessie, who was the subject of one
of his previous videos.
As for how these scams work, Rober explains
- [Rober] Basically starts with an email or a spam call,
then they pretend to be Amazon or Microsoft.
And they tell the victim they've been charged $200
for something, but if you call back,
you could dispute the charge.
Then after they call,
they eventually get on the victim's computer
and importantly have the victim type
the $200 refund amount into a bogus form.
- [Spammer] Please enter your refund amount.
- Only they take over
and secretly type the amount of $20,000
and then they hit enter real quick.
- [Spammer] Check everything over there, is it correct?
- [Victim] Oh, no, this is a mistake. Oh, I screwed up.
- [Spammer] Oh Jesus.
- [Victim] It was supposed to be a-
200 in there. - Oh Jesus.
- [Victim] Oh God almighty. I'm exhausted.
I can't do this. My mind is absolutely fried.
- [Spammer] Ma'am, please check your account.
Please check your account.
Did you really receive that money in your account?
- [Rober] Then they take her to a totally fake,
spoofed bank account page where it looks
like because of Bessie's mistake,
they just sent her $20,000 instead of 200.
- Well, the scammer then turning on the waterworks.
- [Spammer] Oh my God, plus 20,000
- [Bessie] Yeah
- [Spammer] Please save my job ma'am.
If I am not earn for my family,
my family will die due to hunger, due to salvation, please-
Ma'am, please don't cry - Yes, of course.
- Please don't cry ma'am. - I mean, what should I do?
I mean I can - I also feel bad for you-
You are like my grandmother
- You know, I'm an honest person-
- You're making me cry now, you're making me cry now.
I'm getting attached to you-
- So how do I fix this?
- And the scammers emotionally manipulate victims
into going to the bank, withdrawing what they believe
is the extra $20,000 but it's actually their own money.
And then they actually send the money to the scammers.
And of course there are other versions of this scam
but Mark noting that 90% of the scam victims
are over 60 years old.
And the scams are actually designed specifically
for retired people.
I imagine one, because it's easier to trick them.
And two, young people don't have money.
Someone tried to do this to me back in my college days,
I would've been like, oh, I'm sorry, you're breaking up.
I can't hear you.
But understand these scammers are wildly successful.
According to some computer work Rober and his team did,
at least one center made over 18 million dollars a year.
And so as far as this team, yeah you had Mark Rober,
he worked with Jim Browning as well as
a YouTube channel called Trilogy Media
that would act as the boots on the ground in India
and eventually teaming with Johnny
a reformed scammer who wants
to take down the industry as well.
With them turning their focus to four centers,
MET Technologies, VMR Business Solutions,
Ansh Info Solutions and a fourth that was left unnamed.
They hired private investigators to work in those centers
and while yes, they had to scam people to do that.
They made sure to save the victim's information
so they could return the lost money and double it later.
And so then, Mark went through different pranks,
saying that they wanted to do things
that would disrupt the day but not really harm anyone.
That including stink bombs disguised in a water bottle,
cockroaches described in a box lunch,
releasing rats, soap that turned your hands blue,
leaving a box of Viagra with the boss's name
and the bathroom foggers and a package that, of course,
included glitter bombs, a Mark Rober specialty.
As Trilogy Media went around collecting things
for this prank, you had Mark explaining that the people
in India were great and hate these scams
as much as everyone else.
- [Rober] This is a good time to point out
that the real people of India were just so freaking lovely.
It's true that nearly every scam call you get originates
from that country,
but everyone in India hates these scammers too.
They are a tiny, tiny fraction of the total population
and no one wants to be defined by the worst in their midst.
- You know, with all this, it wasn't completely
smooth sailing.
There were times where they almost got caught,
had to scrap the whole thing.
With them at one point, getting inside of a group text
among thousands of scam call workers,
some having recognized the Trilogy Media guys
and were concerned that they were working with the FBI.
With one person even saying that wherever you see them,
you shoot them.
Well, understandably that almost ended everything.
The Trilogy Media folks decided, hey, let's keep going
and just wouldn't leave their hotel rooms.
And in the video they have all this CCTV footage
showing the scam workers, responding to all the pranks.
With workers ultimately getting paranoid,
started checking everyone's bags and lunch boxes.
Also started making death threats.
So as Mark explains,
- So we didn't think it was safe enough
to launch our attacks on the other three centers
to try and get them shut down.
But the beautiful thing, is we didn't have to.
Big centers in Kolkata and Delhi are closed
from today, as well as Monday as per the information I got
from all my friends.
We had created enough confusion and mass panic
that not only did the other three centers get shut down
but we got all the large scam centers, all across India
shut down for a few days too.
- Them noting, that amounted to roughly $2 million
that didn't go from victims to scammers.
And after leaving India the Trilogy Media guy sent a message
to the scammer group chat saying
they have all their information
and was going to turn it over to the FBI.
And as far as the fourth unnamed center, Mark Rober notes,
- The good news is that because of some developments
we've been involved in, the fourth center here
is gonna be raided by the authorities in India
and shut down very, very soon.
- But of course like Mark added,
the bad news is that there are still more
of these guys out there.
So let the older ones in your family know this is a thing,
obviously yes.
Hope that the authorities deal with this problem
because it's become far too big.
Yeah, I guess the main thing of this story is Mark
and this group, you are our BAMFs of the Day
and hey, finally a prank video that I don't hate.
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And then remember Casey White and Vicky White?
The six foot nine Alabama inmate
and his small correction officer girlfriend who,
once again despite the last names and this being in Alabama,
are not related.
Y'all stereotypes aren't cool.
I've got extended family in Alabama
and this stereotype is not a hundred percent accurate,
Roll Tide.
But main thing, like I predicted a few days ago,
of course these two were gonna get caught
and it's now happened.
The man is six foot nine and has ears so big,
he could probably hear colors.
Also, when I talked about this, I got some pushback
because I said, you know, if you just look around
and you see a six foot nine person,
that's either gonna be Casey white or someone in the NBA.
And a lot of people were like,
I'm six foot nine and I'm not in the NBA.
Waste of height, if you're tall
and you don't do a tall person thing,
you should be legally required to donate
some of those inches to some short Kings.
Hell, even five foot eight guys out there
fighting for their life, give them four.
But we're getting sidetracked right?
Leading up to yesterday,
the couple was actually spotted last week
in Southern Indiana by a man named James,
who owned a car wash.
Well James, taking a look at the security tape saying
you know, I think this guy is Casey White
and here there's either dispute or confusion
regarding the timeline because you had James saying
he was in contact with Marshals
since Wednesday saying,
- US Marshal Service called me,
they sent me a text message, called from Alabama.
And they said, I heard you got a truck towed.
I said, I did.
I said, that's that guy from Alabama?
He said, yes, it is.
So he said, I got US Marshal coming to you even as I speak.
And they didn't show up till this morning.
So based on that, it sounds like the Marshals
took about a week to arrive
but then you have the Marshals saying
they didn't get the tip until Sunday
and we're actually watching the couple by Monday morning
But either way the White's capture started
after they noticed Vicky leaving a hotel room
with a wig on, getting into a vehicle with Casey.
They followed the car, which eventually led to a chase.
And during that call, the dispatcher noted
we could hear Vicky on the line saying she had her finger
on the trigger.
With the chase eventually ending in a crash,
with Casey giving up peacefully
and asking authorities to help his wife,
who was shot in the head.
Though to be clear, it's assumed
that the couple never married,
but authorities noted that they believed that Vicky
may have taken her own life,
but we're gonna have to wait
for the Coroner's Office to examine the body
to make confirmation.
Well for now, that's where we are
And we have to kinda wait for any more answers.
You know, it's widely speculated that Vicky
came up with this plan.
Her former coworker saying as much,
saying that Casey was behind bars
and saying he really couldn't plan too much behind bars.
But yes, I think personally,
I think she was the one to put the plan together.
Adding, she arranged, purchased the getaway car.
She sold her house, got her hands on cash.
She went shopping, bought clothes for him.
She just, she just obviously put the plan together.
And we may get answers soon because Casey has reportedly
been open and candid with investigators.
As far as Casey, he is being brought back
to Alabama where he is facing previous murder charges
on top of serving a 75 year sentence for other crimes.
And then in huge international news,
we should talk about the Philippines
because yesterday Filipinos went
to the polls to vote for a new president, right?
The big question in the air of who is going to
replace the extremely controversial Rodrigo Duterte,
best known for his misinformation and blunt
and draconian approached many issues, especially drugs.
His government essentially greenlighting vigilantism
if it meant that drug users and sellers
were the ones killed.
And as far as who is going to replace him,
many people were gunning for that spot,
including famous boxer turned politician Manny Pacquiao,
who seemed like a real possibility
until he definitely wasn't,
with the only real competition being
between Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Leni Robredo.
And this was a really interesting face off,
Roberto was Duterte's Vice President
but she was very critical of many of his policies,
which absolutely makes sense because in the Philippines
unlike in the United States
Vice Presidents run on their own ballot.
And while her campaign was considered wildly successful
and will likely transform how future Filipino campaigns
are run, right?
She got a lot of the youth vote.
As far as winners and losers,
it didn't matter because initial counts have
Marcos securing 31 million votes,
which is over double what Robredo is believed to have won.
And right now there are a lot of different opinions
about why Marcos Jr, who many in the country call
by his childhood nickname, Bongbong, won this election.
Some see it as continued support of Duterte.
This because among other things,
Bongbong said he would defend Duterte
against international investigations.
With him also being backed by Sarah Duterte,
who is Rodrigo's daughter.
Also, she ran and won the Vice Presidency
and many people associate Bongbong
with kind of the the strong man image
that yes, you got with Rodrigo Duterte
but also Marcos Jr's father.
Because his dad was once the country's dictator
before being kicked out in the '80s
following a democratic revolution.
And while many people associate his father's time in power
with just brutal repression,
it brings us to the second possible reason
he has been thrust into power
and that is mass misinformation, right?
As the New York Times notes
the Philippines was once described by a Facebook executive
as patient zero in the global disinformation epidemic.
And noting that the disinformation
in this election has been peddled on Facebook,
TikTok and YouTube, with many Filipino YouTubers going live
at the rallies while echoing
the candidate's election narrative,
spreading mass mis- and disinformation
ranging from the widely debunked rumor that the Marcos
had acquired a huge stash of gold
from a Royal family that would be shared
with the general public to painting Robredo
as a communist to accomplish nothing in office
and wildly whitewashing his father's time in power.
And his online and social campaign has been very successful,
with it being reported that he drew much
of his support from young people,
who say they enjoy watching his YouTube videos,
portraying him as a cool parent in game show segments
with his family.
In a survey showing that seven outta 10 Filipinos
aged 18 to 24 want him to be president.
But whatever the reasons, ultimately, this is where we are.
And as far as Robredo,
she has asked supporters to accept any final results.
But in the meantime her team is looking to allegations
of voter fraud.
But honestly it would have to be blatant
and overwhelming voter fraud to account for the massive lead
that Marcos has.
But ultimately that is where we are
and we're gonna have to wait to see what happens
once Marcos takes power.
Both, as far as what it means for the full country
in general, as well as if he's going to use his new power
to scrub his family name.
But ultimately that is where that story
and today's show ends.
As always, thank you for watching,
being a part of the conversation.
If you're looking for more news
I got you covered right here,
but while you think that over,
my name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been filled in.
I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.