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Welcome back to "The Philip DeFranco Show".
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You know, first up today, let's start off light.
Let's talk about your body image,
the body image of others, and social media.
I lied!
But also I didn't 'cause some of this stuff today is heavy,
but here we go.
As the body image and the conversation happening about it
on social media has recently gotten a lot of attention.
This because in the last week,
we've had a number of celebrities speaking on it.
Actor Jonah Hill on Instagram Wednesday, pleeing with fans.
Saying, "I know you mean well,
but I kindly ask that you not comment on my body,
good or bad.
I wanna politely let you know
it's not helpful and doesn't feel good.
Much respect.
This comment's coming just a few months after
he previously opened up about his childhood insecurity
saying that at that time they were exacerbated
by years of public mockery about his body,
by press and interviewers.
We've also got Rebel Wilson making headlines today like,
Rebel Wilson opened up about the frustrating
public obsession with her body, rather than her career.
Saying, "In 2019, I had like four movies come out,
two of which I produced.
And one, "Jojo Rabbit,"
which was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture.
Yet I get more press the following year
when I do nothing except lose weight.
Rebel Wilson, while yes seemingly frustrated
because she's the focus of it,
kind of also understanding why the public feels this way.
Saying, "People are so obsessed with weight.
But I get it.
Oprah is one of my heroes.
She's certainly struggled with eating issues,
and I would always watch her episodes
when she spoke about that.
Also personally, I will say as someone who,
as an adult and having my same frame,
has been 260 as well as 180, I love when she said,
I think what's been really interesting
is how other people treat you.
Sometimes being bigger,
people didn't necessarily look twice at you.
And adding, now that I'm in good shape,
people offer to carry my groceries to the car,
and hold doors open for you.
Honestly, if you're looking for a reason to hate people,
if you're a large person, lose some weight
and really see the difference in how people treat you.
It's something.
And then finally, and I think the person
that's kind of gotten the most spotlight from this issue,
I think is Adele.
She's had a massive transformation,
revealing in 2020 that she had lost a ton of weight,
which sparked a ton of conversation,
debate, and controversy.
And in a recent interview in Vogue
we saw Adele claiming that this isn't actually new.
Saying, my body's been objectified my entire career.
It's not just now.
But also adding regarding this new change,
I understand why it's a shock.
I understand why some women especially were hurt.
Visually I represented a lot of women,
but I'm still the same person.
And with that adding, the worst part of the whole thing
was that the most brutal conversations
were being had by other women about my body.
I was very (beep sound) disappointed with that.
That hurt my feelings.
And hitting it home with, you don't need to be overweight
to be body positive.
You can be any shape or size.
I personally believe that that last note that Adele hit on
is incredibly important.
But when I say no matter your weight,
you are a human being deserving of love and decency,
I think most everyone agrees with that.
But also, unfortunately, many people treat that
as a one way street.
It's usually in reference to people that are larger.
And sometimes with some people that turns into
like a glorification of living an unhealthy lifestyle.
So much so that when then larger people who are like,
hey, accept me for who I am,
no matter what my body looks like,
when they try and get healthy,
they get massive waves of backlash.
We've seen it with yes, Rebel Wilson, and Adele.
But another notable figure is probably Lizzo.
And if you wanna criticize Lizzo over something like
the video that recently came out where she's gushing over,
hugging up on, and telling famed woman abuser Chris Brown,
you're my favorite person, we gotta get a picture.
That makes sense.
But her trying to live a healthy lifestyle, why?
Yes, I understand that when we look to certain celebrities,
we might relate to them, we might see ourselves in them.
And so when there's a drastic change,
maybe it's a little jarring.
But we don't own that person.
People see celebs personal journeys
as personal attacks on them.
Yeah, for me, that's the story.
Some of my morning thoughts is the first story of the day.
And then, so I wanna pass the question off to you.
How do you feel about any aspect of the story?
Whether it be a specific celebs,
or just the conversation in general.
Also in other news, about the showcasing of bodies
to the public, we should talk about what's happening
with the restaurant chain Hooters right now.
Now the chain being no stranger to controversy,
in recent years being hit with several lawsuits,
for things like weight, racial, and gender discrimination.
Constantly getting backlash for its sexualization of women.
And so when recently headlines came out
that Hooters waitresses were getting new outfits,
people were like, okay,
what are they gonna do to change with the times?
And it's not what you maybe would be thinking.
With numerous female employees showcasing the old shorts
and then highlighting the new shorts.
Which I don't know if we can call those shorts.
It kind of looks more like a thong
that gets wide at the hips.
There've been a number of employees
basically saying they're underwear, I don't like this.
Some even saying they considered quitting
because of the change.
But also understand it's not just one thing.
There are other employees saying
they're fine with the change,
saying that they actually made more money because of it.
So what we've seen is after a number of these
TikTok's have gone viral, the spokesperson for Hooters said,
the decision was part of a collaboration
with Hooters Girls in Texas,
where they say the uniforms have received
overwhelmingly favorable reviews
from both Hooters Girls and customers.
Also claiming that the uniform changes rolled out
to select locations in Texas, before expanding
to other stores owned by Hooters of America, LLC.
But also, after growing complaints,
the company released a different statement saying that
they appreciated the feedback and added,
as we continue to listen and update the image
of the Hooters Girls, we are clarifying that
they have the option to choose from traditional uniforms
or the new ones.
With one of the employees that went viral
after speaking out,
even saying the CEO of Hooters contacted her directly
to tell her that workers could continue wearing
the old shorts and then our post about the news she wrote,
couldn't have done it without all of you.
Then in, well, that makes no fucking sense,
and let me explain why new is a private school in Florida
is now requiring that all students who get vaccinated
have to now stay at home and quarantine for 30 days.
This is 'cause according to a local Miami outlet,
the school Centner Academy wrote a letter to parents
describing the vaccines as experimental and saying,
if you're considering the vaccine for your student,
we ask you hold off until this summer,
when there will be time for the potential transmission
or shedding onto others to decrease in doubting
because of the potential impact on other students
in our school community, vaccinated students
will need to stay at home for 30 days post vaccination
for each dose and booster they received and may return
to school after 30 days, as long as the student
is healthy and symptom free.
Now to be clear, and it's incredibly unfortunate.
And I'm having to say this about a place
that is supposed to be educating children.
What they're talking about here
is based on anti-VAX misinformation, it's bogus,
it's been debunked, right?
idea to the COVID vaccine can shatter,
release any other components agencies like the CDC,
noting that the so-called vaccine shedding can only occur
when a vaccine contains a weakened version of the virus.
And they have a lot of these people that say they need to do
more research actually did it.
They would know one of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines
in the United States contain the live virus
that causes COVID-19.
It means that the COVID 19 vaccine cannot make you sick
with COVID-19.
In fact, early research has suggested that
vaccinated people are less likely to spread the virus
than unvaccinated people.
And beyond that unvaccinated people are more likely
to spread the virus in general,
because they're much more likely to get the virus
than vaccinated people.
In fact, according to the recently published CDC data,
as of August, unvaccinated people were six times more likely
to get COVID than vaccinated people,
and 11 times more likely to die from the virus.
Just on a personal note,
I think this is an incredibly important thing to remember.
I think a lot of you understand this,
you think, Hey, this is common sense.
But one of the most common things
we've seen from people peddling vaccine misinformation
to their massive audiences is, Hey, if you get the vaccine,
you can still get the virus, you can still spread it,
but it's about dampening the numbers making it.
So the big numbers aren't so big anymore, there's smaller,
Big numbers, bad, small numbers, good.
But common sense, doesn't appear to matter
to the leaders of Centner Academy.
The co-founder David Centner doubling down
and repeating even more debunked.
And issued a statement of the Washington post saying
that the policy is A precautionary measure
based on numerous anecdotal cases
that have been in circulation
and adding the school is not opining
as to whether unexplained phenomenon,
have a basis in fact, However we prefer to err,
on the side of caution,
when making decisions that impact
the health of the school community.
If any of this seems like it's ringing a bell
sound somewhat familiar
because back in April, the school made headlines
when its leadership told vaccinated school employees
that they were not allowed to be in contact
with any students until more information was known
and they encourage their employees to wait
until the summer to get the shot.
According to the New York times,
about a week after that,
a math and science teacher allegedly told students
not to hug their vaccinated parents
for more than five seconds.
Also according at the school's other co-founder
Layla Centner discouraged masking,
but when state health officials showed up,
teachers said that they were directed in a WhatsApp group
to put masks on. That is where the story is right now.
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In humanity news,
we go to Pennsylvania where authorities say the passengers
on a train near Philadelphia,
failed to intervene or even call 9 1 1 when they watch women
being raped last week.
And as far as the specifics here at spokesman for the
Southeastern Pennsylvania transportation authority said that
the assault went on for around eight minutes with no one
doing a thing until the transit employee boarded the train
and called 911 with police arriving and arresting the
man in the act with court records.
Now showing the man has been charged with rape sexual
assault and aggravated and decent assault without consent
among other crimes,
Timothy Bernhardt the superintendent of the upper Darby
township police department confirming yesterday that several
passengers were in the train car though.
Investigators were still trying to determine exactly how
many work with them going on to say that the video
surveillance from the event made it absolutely clear that
the passengers had the opportunity to stop the attack.
And didn't adding I'm appalled by those who did nothing to
help this woman. It's disturbing.
I'm shocked. I have no words for it.
I just can't imagine seeing what you were seeing through
your own eyes and seeing what this woman was going through,
that no one would step in and help her.
And if you thought that this story could not get worse,
it does because Bernhardt said that investigators had
received reports that some of the passengers who refused to
help or even just call 911 recorded the attack on their
phones while this is still developing.
Police have not yet confirmed. Those reports.
Bernhardt did know that the bystanders who failed to
intervene could be criminally charged for filming the
attack. But for now that's where we are.
We're going to have to wait to see what happens.
And I want to pass the question off to you here.
What are your thoughts regarding the bystanders here?
Whether it be morally or legally,
I'd really love to hear from you then in well,
that's mildly horrifying news. We should talk about China.
And that's because according to the financial times,
it's now been learned that back in August,
China launched a nuclear capable hypersonic missiles saying
that it went around the earth and low orbit,
and then it nearly hit a target. And if you're like Phil,
that sounds concerning. Well, it is.
But maybe not for the reason that you might think it is
because it's not the speed hypersonic missiles flying around
five times, the speed of sound.
But that is actually slower than a ballistic missile makes
this mildly horrifying is that unlike a ballistic missile,
which is kind of locked in on its flight path
these can actually be maneuver
And so there's this belief and concern that China could just
bypass the US's current defense systems and pretty much nuke
anybody. According to the financial times,
it appears that this caught us intelligence officials off
guard with one source,
reportedly telling them we have no idea how they did this.
Now, all of that said for their part,
China has denied this China's ministry of foreign affairs
saying that this was a spacecraft,
not a missile saying what separated from the spacecraft
before returning was the supporting equipment of the
spacecraft,
which was burned and disintegrated in the process of falling
into the atmosphere and landed on the high seas.
It's that is what they're saying publicly.
But as the BBC noted, people like Michael Shoebridge,
the director of defense strategy and national security at
the Australian strategic policy Institute saying if a
hypersonic missile had been tested,
it would fit a pattern of escalation in nuclear and other
strike weapons.
It's a pattern of increasing capability without
transparency.
Plus it should be noted that China is not the only one
trying to figure out hypersonic weapons,
according to reports. Yes, you have China, the us Russia,
at least five other countries. Yeah.
I guess the main point of this story is do not worry whether
it's true now or not.
Eventually we will be able to figure out a way to kill
ourselves.
If there's anything that human beings can do together.
This is it.
And then the final thing that we should talk about today are
the supply chain and inflation issues that we're seeing in
the US I know it does not sound sexy,
but it's very important, right?
If you've checked the news out over the past week,
you've probably seen something touching on this,
but what is it?
How is it actually affecting everyday people? Well,
the start right now,
US companies are having a very hard time stocking their
shelves with some products, right?
It's not just PS5s
This is largely a part of several factors.
All of which were induced by the pandemic.
The first and most basic is that last year you had a ton of
consumer spending,
grinding to a halt with lockdowns alongside that we stopped
production scaling back.
But now with more and more people coming back,
a lot of businesses haven't been able to ramp up production
to meet this increased demand.
And then in addition to production issues,
you've also got transportation issues. For example,
we've talked multiple times about how businesses are finding
themselves unable to fill open positions. Currently,
trucking is no different. In fact,
the country is so stressed for drivers to haul freight that
we're now seeing at least one high school in California,
launching a program to train seniors, to drive big rigs.
Meanwhile,
Walmart ups and FedEx have all now made 24x7 transportation
commitments. The supply chain issues.
Don't just stop with ground transportation. I mean,
one of the most headline grabbing situations that we've seen
so far involves problems at the ports of Los Angeles and
long beach in California. And for good reason,
containerships are backed up reference here, pre pandemic.
It was pretty unusual for any cargo ship to be seen waiting
off the coast to get into one of the two ports,
which process 40% of all shipping containers entering the
US however
Now you reportedly have dozens of ships waiting weeks to get
in. So this isn't a small issue.
This is a major bottlenecks since tons of ships need to pass
through a single checkpoint. And then even once they unload,
there's another major backlog involving shipping containers
at the ports. So because of that,
we've seen long beach extending its operational hours.
Also this past Wednesday,
we saw president Biden announcing that Ellie's board is now
operating around the clock 24x7 as part of a 90 day sprint
to clear a path for cargo.
All of that then in turn has led to a lot of places having
to hike up their prices.
I understand why some outlets for fear and or clicks a frame
this around Christmas headlines like Christmas at risk,
a supply chain disaster only gets worse to be clear.
The consequences of this are so much more than that.
And they're already being felt. For example,
we're seeing reports like some Colorado schools don't have
enough milk for their students because of unprecedented
supply shortages.
Those schools urging students to bring refillable water
bottles. Meanwhile,
other schools are struggling to find meats like Turkey and
chicken, orange juice meal, trays, plastic spoons,
and forks, right?
That this runs the gamut.
The issue is also extended the housing market, right?
Both labor and supply issues have led to an operational
backlog for renovations and closing with that yesterday,
you had Zillow announcing that it would stop buying up
homes, at least through December,
with that leading to panic and investors pulling out of the
company this morning, the stock plunging 11% as a recording.
I understand this.
Isn't going to be something that's figured out like next
week or the end of the month.
Analysts expect these bottlenecks to continue well past
December, some economists calling the factors,
leading to the situation,
a perfect storm transportation secretary,
Pete blue judge also echoing that on CNN yesterday. Yeah.
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