You beautiful bastards, hope even a fantastic Wednesday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it
The first thing we're gonna talk about today is we had the video game
Fortnite in the news for a number of reasons and one of them was actually one of the most requested
stories today the first piece being the worldwide takeover is very real Tuesday Epic Games announced that there are
125 million players, which is just insane
Considering this game was launched July of 2017. Also among the big moves. They announced the 2019
Fortnite World Cup is including details on official qualifiers all over the globe yesterday
We also saw epic games having their fortnite pro-am tournament
You have 50 celebrities teaming up with 50 fortnite players or celebrities in their own right. They all played dous
fighting one another for three million dollars in charity the champions that emerge from the event were ninja and
Marshmallow who got 1 million dollars for their charity
Just seeing the quality of event that was put on the number of people that were tuning in
Also, it definitely does not hurt
It was for a good cause
It was just a really great thing to see but despite all of that good all of that positivity
Fortnite was in the news for another reason a clip from an Australian TV show called the Today Show has gone viral
They also promoted this clip on Twitter with the caption
It's proven that violent games like fortnite increase aggressive behavior and lack of empathy and players
Will you let your kids continue to play? But here's the thing while their caption for that clip is very definitive when you go into
The actual video itself, even though the woman is very much speaking against fortnite. She then pulls back and minimizes. It's very weird
Okay, here watch. I'm equivocal research about the impact of these sorts of games is over
130
Evidence-based pieces of research tell us that violent games like this
increase
aggressiveness increase angry thoughts
increase aggressive behavior so we can either choose to dismiss this sort of research or take it on board as parents and say
this is what the
scientific community is telling us
And in a response to that part is no the scientific community at large is not saying that you do here and there have
some examples like a review of scientific literature by an American Psychological
Association Task Force saying they identified a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behavior
many many many
Academics have pushed against that in fact hundreds of them signed an open letter criticizing what they considered bias and poor methodology
By the APA task force. It's also something our Supreme Court has chimed in 2011 in a 7-2 vote
They said that California could not ban the sale of violent video games to kids Justice Antonin Scalia writing at that time
Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children
do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively any demonstrated effects are both small and
Indistinguishable from effects produced by other media we could take up an entire show or multiple shows talking about study after study after study
that go against what this woman on this this BS click Beatty video is saying but unfortunately,
I believe there are a number of people that are locked into thinking there is a connection and that's incredibly
Disappointing in a 2015 Pew Research survey they found forty percent of the people
They survey they believed that there was a connection between video game violence and real-life violence
But than you have these mouth-breathers like this woman popping on any television show that is excited to fear monger and they actively do it
but like I said
If you then watch the clip she then minimizes it by saying it's not bad for them. Is it?
It's not bad for them. As long as it's monitored. It will be my advice. No one's saying for one second don't play
What do you mean nobody saying don't play? Her argument which once again is inaccurate that the scientific community at large is like
This makes people aggressive it strips people of their empathy, but I'm not saying don't play it
It's just you know, you know play it a little bit of a parent monitor
The thing that I said is devastating to your child what I would say to this woman and other fear mongers out
There is I believe that you are a ridiculous human being unfortunately
I am aware that it is very likely that you were the kind of person that when you get any pushback you see that as
validation that you are right all I can really hope to do here is shine a light on what I see as pure idiocy and
Use my hopefully bigger bullhorn to get the actual reality out there if I seem a little bit frustrated here
I'm just tired of hearing this I was a kid in the 90s and they said the exact same thing and no amount of research
Is going to apparently stop people from saying this disproven bullshit
I'm just tired of it especially as a kid
That grew up with lots of anger issues and video games were always an outlet for me not a motivator or something
That made me more aggressive
But hey that last part is based off of my personal experience my opinion and of course as always on this show
I'd love to know what you think about this, but from that I want to share some stuff
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let's talk about do you remember this guy this of course the video of the off-duty FBI agent who decided to do a
Backflip during which he accidentally dropped his gun and when he went to pick it up accidentally shot a man and then somehow despite it
Happening with a ton of witnesses and there being video evidence. So that guy did not automatically get arrested
Well, thanks for an interview with ABC's Good Morning America
we learned that the man who was shot in the leg is a man by the name of Thomas Reddington according to his attorney the
Bullet hit an artery in reddington's lake despite many of the initial reports seemingly try to minimize the situation reportedly, the injury was serious
But luckily running tonie's now expected to recover also as far as the FBI agent at the center of this he has since been identified
As 29 year old Chase Bishop. Bishop handed himself into police yesterday after a warrant was issued for his arrest
He's now been charged with assault and he is scheduled to appear in court today for a second advisement hearing in addition to this
Initial charge, he could face additional charges Denver District Attorney and both mechanics
We are filing this charge now rather than waiting until the blood-alcohol content report is received which we understand could take another week because sufficient
Evidence has been presented to file if an additional charge needs to be filed after further evidence is received
We can file those charges then. As far as an official response from the FBI
They have remained somewhat silent after the arrest became public. They said in order to preserve the integrity of the ongoing investigation
We are unable to comment regarding this matter then adding they will continue to fully
Cooperate since that statement is pretty limited in an unofficial capacity
I would like to kind of add on to it something I believe as well as
99.9 percent of gun owners I've seen online have said is don't do that! As far as what that specifically means
I mean all of it, a backflip with your weapon like that the way he reaches for it
Additionally his reaction after firing a weapon in a crowded room and hitting someone all of it into some degree
I can respect not throwing one of your own under the bus
But when one of your own does this it seems like a much more simple situation
But that that is my personal takeaway
And of course, I'd love to know your thoughts on this. Then we had interesting news regarding news consumption
It feels like every platform right now
If they haven't already are now pushing towards news consumption
Whether it be the prioritized sections and shows that we see on snapchat
Facebook signing deals with news networks for news shows just for Facebook YouTube of course has their news carousel
They've they've done deals like with the Young Turks for YouTube TV and Twitter is unsurprisingly
No different and reportedly they are now changing their explore page reportedly
This is just a small part a step in a much larger plan for the explore section
They're now going to have tabs for Trending, You, News, Sports, Fun importantly for as many news events as possible
They want to assemble news stories reactions and videos
Moments like we've seen also in the past few months while using Twitter on your phone
You may have seen one of these experiments when there's like a relevant news story that's automatically at the top of your feed
But one of the biggest things and I think this is gonna be where there is the most vocal
push back is that to do all of this you are going to need human curators and Joanna Geary, who is the director of curation, says that
Twitter is not a newsroom, but it's employee is responsible for news curation
Do write headline summaries and make decisions about content just like news organization a very much feels like they're setting themselves up for a massive
Controversy the likes of what we saw with Facebook back in 2016
There's a whole controversy and scandal that Facebook had an unfair bias against conservative news
I think with Twitter it would not be surprising if the controversy and scandal was even larger
I think part of that is based on Twitter's track record as far as who they have suspended who have they ban also with a
CEO like Jack Dorsey
It's not gonna take much to convince
People that are in the middle or on the fence that there is going to be an unfair bias
Jack Dorsey was in the news recently because he apologized for eating at chick-fil-a and have you saw in that story?
He was kind of promoting the cash app. There was a screenshot that said your 10% booster chick-fil-a was applied. Oh cool
I saved like around $3 then he got called out by Soledad O'Brien who tweeted this is an interesting company to boost during Pride Month @Jack and he responded
You're right completely forgot about their background. And that is one of the lightest examples I could use
It's just one of the the more recent and kind of more funny to actually a question
I do want to pass off to you regarding this story
What place is what platforms do you trust for your news consumption or for you?
Is it more specific people rather than networks or platforms? Why why not all the good stuff? Let me know down below
Let's talk about the possibility of California being split up the interesting thing about, California
Is that since it became a state there have been at least?
220 attempts to break it up. And in fact, the furthest one of these attempts ever got was back in 1859
It was nine years after California became a state the voter said yes
We want to split it up then Congress never moved forward with the proposal and then to move more recently
We've talked about some of these proposals since 2012
One of the main figures at the center of these proposals is venture capitalist Tim Draper between 2012 and 2016
He ran the six Cal campaign, which as you could guess from the name was a proposal to split, California into six different states
He was very serious about that proposal in 2014. It was reported
He spent 4.9 million dollars of his own money on the initiative
but ultimately the reason we are talking about Tim Draper and the potential of
California being split up is it is one step closer today after the CAL six campaign Tim Draper
Started the CAL 3 campaign an initiative and proposal to divide, California into Northern, California
Southern California and California and that initiative managed to get over 400 2000 signatures far surpassing the
365,000 required to get on the ballot and while it's technically not on the ballot yet as of June 28th
It will be certified by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla
And one of the main reasons Draper says he wants to make California into three states is that it would allow people to make regional
Based decisions saying that the needs of Northern California are going to be different from Southern California and a spokeswoman for Cal three
Say the California state government isn't too big to fail because it is already failing at citizens in so many crucial ways
Reality, is that for an overmatched overstretch an overwrought state government structure?
It's too big to succeed Californians deserve a better future saying this change would simply divide it into a more manageable
Population like you had with the Carolinas Dakotas Virginia's also arguing that this would allow Californians to be better
Represented on a federal level that of course the situation we've talked about in the past whether it be someone voting for President or state
Representative since when you're voting for president, it's not the popular vote
If you live in a state like California and you're voting the other way, you can feel like well
What's even the point but on the other side you have critics claiming that this is
ridiculous that breaking up the states would waste billions in tax dollars and additionally even if the voters passed the initiative in
November experts believe that there is still zero chance of it happening
One of the biggest reasons for that is the California Congress would have to approve those plans
And essentially you'd be asking California lawmakers to fire themselves
And then on top of that the United States Congress would also have to approve the split and they're it's not really an ideal situation
For anyone Republicans during a presidential election
There is the likelihood that you would gain electoral votes that you would not have otherwise
But also the way the state would be split currently it would completely change the center right now in, California
We have two senators
Which of course is the situation in the Senate regardless of population of a state you get two. Right now the two senators are Democrats two of 100
and if you have three states all of a sudden you go from 2 to
6 while the sudden there would be 104 representatives in the Senate and based off of the current state split
It looks like it would go Dems for Republicans, too
And then of course on top of that passed the Senate you might get new districts for each of these
Individual states and based on how those lines are drawn specifically in California and North California that could even push further blue
so once again, it does appear to be
Incredibly unlikely that this becomes our new reality
But I think if anything the last few years have shown us that anything is possible
unprecedented in
2018 is our new normal and we should always be prepared for the reality of every possibility. And with that said I do want to pass
The question off to you whether you live in California or a
Heavily contested state or a state where it's where it's really just all one way
What are your thoughts on proposals to split up states like this?
I'd love to know what you think as far as the positives and negatives. Whatever you have in your brain
Throw it out in that comment section and that's where we're going to end today's show
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