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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.
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The first thing that we're gonna talk about today,
is a story and news that has people very very divided,
like everyone is angry or disappointed,
but seemingly for two very different reasons.
Right so at the center of this story,
we have a leaked video from Southwest High School
in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Reportedly, this is from earlier this month.
It was recorded by a student in the classroom
and you have a teacher just losing it on the students.
- [Teacher] Does anyone else wanna try my authority?
Because I am (beep) done playing with you idiots.
You need something from me,
I need nothing from you.
You can go through life and live on the (beep) system,
draw your paycheck on the 1st and 15th from my taxes,
and live just an absolute horrible life, I don't care.
You can be another statistic
I don't care.
That's on you.
And if you don't like my language,
I don't give a (beep).
- [Philip] Notably, at one point,
the teacher appears to catch that student,
Samaya Josey recording this tirade,
leading him to tell her to "Get your shit and get out."
The video then goes black,
but you can still hear him yelling.
There's also lots of noises in the background.
At one point, you hear Josey telling the teacher
to get out of her face before she beats his ass.
The rest of the video is just kind of the screaming match
until Josey leaves the room and things start to dissipate
with Josey later telling outlets that during this,
the teacher also hit golf club repeatedly on the floor
next to her, grabbed her textbook
and threw it on the floor along with a desk
and adding, "I don't wanna go back to school,
all I do is hear the cracking of the golf club.
I'm having nightmares about it."
And as far as what set him off,
Josey said that he asked the class to put their devices away
when a student said,
"I'm going to put my computer away
before you start whining and whining."
Though Josey claimed that the two
had a joking relationship before this,
so she didn't see it as abnormal.
But whatever it was that set him off,
he is now outta the school,
reportedly putting in his resignation letter
the following day,
with the school announcing his outburst as intolerable.
However, the story has also opened up a bigger conversation
and you could even argue two separate conversations.
The first involving Josey telling reporters
during her interview.
- He was saying it was wrong.
I felt like it was racially motivated.
It was disrespectful.
Your job is to encourage me
and to push me to be the best that I could be.
Even though it wasn't said directly to me,
it just felt like,
"Dang! That's how you really think of us."
- [Philip] But they're specifically recalling
the teacher's comments about being a statistic
and living paycheck to paycheck
and adding, "It stuck out to me
because some people assume that African-American people
are on the state assistance or government assistance,
so I feel like he said that
because that's a normal stereotype
that goes around about us as a community
and it was unnecessary and uncalled for, it hurt."
Right and with that, we saw people responding on Twitter
echoing that his actions were racist.
But separately, especially with public reactions
on Reddit threads,
you had many here saying,
"This isn't about race,
this is a teacher just losing it on disrespectful students."
With the conversation being focused on
teachers not being paid enough
or having enough support from administrators
to deal with disrespect and harassment,
with people who claim to have been in the profession
writing things like, "I quit teaching after seven years
because of horrible behavior,
aggressive and reactive parents
and no support from administrators,
combine that with low pay
and I'm surprised we have enough teachers
to conduct classes."
And another writing,
"I quit after 14 years.
Haven't needed therapy or antidepressants since I left.
Every time I see one of these teacher caught on video
doing, saying X, Y, Z posts,
I feel only sympathy.
Teachers are human beings with emotions
who are getting pushed beyond their limits of coping."
As well as comments like,
"I went to school in the inner city
and we treated teachers like shit.
Sometimes they'd react like this.
Some teachers were there just to collect a paycheck,
but most genuinely cared
and wanted us to be better students.
We didn't realize it then
and sadly, kids don't realize today."
Like I said, there's conversation, debate,
pushback on both of these points of view
and so I wanna ask you we talk about this story,
when you hear that clip,
when you get a little more information,
where do you stand on this?
And then in entertainment,
let's talk about this conversation happening right now
over overworking health in the lanes
people might go for their followers.
With this connected to massive online creator
and streamer Pokimane's recent comments about subathon,
which if you don't know,
it's less of a YouTube thing and more of a Twitch thing,
Subathon is where a creator extends the length
of their stream every time they get a new subscriber
with it leading to the sort of non-stop streaming
for long periods of time
with people like Ludwig going for 31 days.
And while his was massive,
it wasn't even the longest
because according to Dexerto,
Emilycc holds the record with her ongoing stream,
which she says has gone on for over 130 days now.
And while many fans seem to love Subathons,
there are a number of creators
that are starting to speak out about them,
including Saikuno kind of slamming the content of Subathons
saying he hate so many end up being someone
leaving a stream and saying they're sleeping
and showing up to just kind of do business as usual.
With Pokimane responding to this
partially agreeing with the take,
but also taking more issue with how a Subathon
can harm streamers themselves.
- But the other reason is like,
there is no way Subathons are healthy
for a human being to do.
And the fact that we are incentivizing it
with hundreds of thousands of dollars,
major clout, followers, attention,
we're like, "Oh my God,
this person has been streaming three weeks
progress! Progress!"
It's like, "No, they need to like, go see a doctor."
That's the point suffer for my pleasure.
I think a little bit of that is okay,
but the line kinda needs to be drawn at some point.
And I don't really think we draw it at a good point.
Like if you watch someone on stream,
I don't know, choking themselves out for your entertainment,
would you be like, "Haha, suffer for my pleasure."
Like, no, right?
Some things are okay and some things aren't really.
- [Philip] With her going on to say,
this is something the creator community stays silent on
and it might just take a while
until it's something popular to bring up.
And with some agreeing,
you had tons of people specifically bringing up Ludwig
saying he still managed to eat his three meals a day
while on a subathon,
he worked out arguing
that you can still stay healthy throughout it.
Though we saw Pokimane respond to this.
- I do think like Ludwig was probably one of the people
who did it the best,
but he had a massive support system
and he had very, very specific daily habits
that he upkept,
which likely every single streamer
who did it after him did not have.
- Phillip] And personally,
I think that sound bite kind of hits on
why I don't think this is that big of a deal.
Like I've talked about many times in the past,
I think creators mental health and burnout,
it's a serious thing to consider.
And I think audiences understanding and compassion
for creators is at an all time high regarding that,
but when you're talking about subathons
I think that's a completely different thing
because creator burnout is usually tied to,
just trying to keep up with your regular output
and understanding, what makes sense.
Not a creator deciding to do
the most extreme version of what they do.
Every day, almost every person on this planet
makes a decision to decide how much of my time
and my mental health and my health in general,
am I going to exchange for money?
And with these subathons you have adults
making a decision to do
the most extreme version of that transaction.
But that said, I'm not gonna shame anyone
for having this debate or conversation
because I think any conversation we can have
around mental health is a positive one.
And for other creators that
are thinking about engaging in a subathon,
I think hearing concerns
from other creators can be beneficial.
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And then like a relentless strain of horn herpes on America,
Donald Trump is back in the news today.
Though unlike 90% of the time,
not for something he said,
but this time it's about
the Manhattan District Attorney's criminal investigation
into him and his business.
Right so the LDR is that since 2018
prosecutors have been investigating allegations
that the Trump Organization misled its accountants
to inflate and deflate the value of its assets on paper,
thereby getting Trump favorable deals from lenders,
insurance companies, and tax collectors,
and they made some progress.
The DA Cyrus Vance took his case to the Supreme Court twice,
then indicted both the Trump organization
and Trump's former CFO on tax charges,
making an indictment of Trump himself
look like a possibility.
But, all of that came to a halt
after Vance's term ended in January
and he was replaced by Alvin Bragg
who promptly signaled his lack of support for the case
leading to two of his top prosecutors,
Mark F. Pomerantz and Kerry R. Dunne
to resign in protest.
And the big news is that the New York Times
has now obtained the full resignation letter of Pomerantz.
And in it, he says,
he believes that Trump is guilty
of numerous felony violations
saying, "His financial statements were false
and he has a long history of fabricating information
relating to his personal finances
and lying about his assets to banks,
the national media, counterparties,
and many others including the American people."
And adding, "The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump
harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes, he did.
And then going on to say that the previous DA Vance
had directed them to seek an indictment of Mr. Trump
and other defendants as soon as reasonably possible."
And closing by saying,
"I have worked too hard as a lawyer and for too long
now, to become a passive participant
in what I believe to be a grave failure of justice."
And so you have people wondering
why then is Bragg so hesitant to prosecute Trump?
But according to a Times investigation of the days
leading to the resignations,
it was said that Bragg didn't believe
he could prove Trump had intent to commit fraud.
Though obviously Pomerantz makes it clear in his letter
that he believes the evidence is more than enough
to move forward with.
So it's resulted in numerous theories of why?
Is he being blackmailed?
Is he scared?
Does he have no spine?
And also leading to people like Tristan Snell,
a lawyer who successfully prosecuted Trump University
tweeting, "Alvin Bragg kiboshed the Trump investigation
for one of two reasons,
one, political spinelessness
or two, a call from the feds telling him to stand down
because they don't want anything getting in the way
of prosecuting Trump for January 6th.
I hope for number two,
but I fear the answer is number one."
And adding in a series of tweets,
things like, "Pomerantz is not some lightweight
or an overzealous junior prosecutor.
He's been a Supreme Court clerk,
SDNY federal prosecutor
including running its criminal division
and a partner at one of New York city's top firms.
If he thinks there's a case against Trump,
everyone should listen."
And going on to say in a series of tweets,
"I got a lot of support.
I voted for Alvin Bragg
believing he'd be the veteran prosecutor
we need in Manhattan.
I now regret that vote.
Bragg owes us either an explanation
for why he shut down the Trump investigation
or a resignation.
Who else wants to see New York Governor Kathy Hochul
reassign the Manhattan DA's criminal investigation
of Trump to a different DA?
I nominate Mimi Rocah."
But for now, that is where we are.
And we'll have to wait to see
if Bragg issues some sort of response
of what happens from here.
Then we should talk about the important news coming up
before this year's midterms with the U.S Supreme Court,
just giving Wisconsin Republicans a win
in the state's battle to draw
a new state congressional districts.
Whereas the state Republicans have been clashing
with Democratic governor, Tony Evers,
about how the new voting district should look,
and the state Supreme Court had initially
cited with Evers' version,
which remained largely unchanged from previous maps,
but shifted things slightly around
to include a new majority black district near Milwaukee.
But to be clear even with this change,
Republicans would still have a slight advantage
in the state legislature,
and a five to three advantage in Congress.
However, Republicans were not happy with that plan,
obviously preferring their own map in place.
And so what we saw is that the U.S.
Supreme Court's decision was unsigned,
but, the court disagreed with Evers' map
saying that it blatantly made a majority minority map
for black residents despite past president
that rejected this unless there was clear evidence
that black residents
would be unfairly represented without it.
With only Justice Sotomayor and Kagan dissenting
pointing out that the court's decision to step in
on this matter was largely unprecedented
as there was still other avenues for Republicans
to oppose the maps and state courts.
But the big question, what does this mean?
Well, the small victory for Republicans
and lawmakers are back to the drawing board,
but it's not all Ws for the GOP
because in a unanimous order,
the U.S. Supreme Court rejected their opposition
to federal congressional maps drawn up by Evers.
So we'll see another round of battles over districts
in the upcoming days and weeks.
Wisconsin is hardly the only place where this is an issue.
Ohio voters are still unsure
about what districts they'll be in
after Republican lawmakers had their redrawn maps
rejected multiple times by the state Supreme Court
with the big key issue here being the primary elections,
there are just six weeks away.
So with an election around the corner,
voters don't know who's actually on the ballot
and candidates are unsure
who's going to be voting for them.
As one Republican incumbent put it,
"I do a lot of doors and I do a lot of yard signs
to get our message out.
But right now, we're kind of in a holding pattern
to see where we shouldn't be putting these signs.
Obviously we don't wanna create
further confusion to the voters.
And it's gotten so bad,
the Republican and Democratic lawmakers
finally agreed to work together
to get something out there before the election
with them not wanting to end up
like North Carolina or Maryland,
both of which have postponed their primaries
as they try to work out their own districts.
And then let's talk about abortion back in the news
because on Wednesday,
Idaho decided to be known
for more than just growing potatoes
and became the first state to sign a bill into law,
copying Texas' abortion ban from last year.
Like Texas, it prohibits abortions after six weeks,
drawing the line there because they claim
that's where the first heartbeat happens.
Since at that point,
the embryo's been implanted in the blood vessel
that will become the heart begins pulsing.
But the counter expert opinion is that is not a heartbeat
the way that you would imagine,
saying the pulse is just a light flutter
of electrical signals that it's miles
and miles away from being a heart
that functions how you would think it does.
And others like Michelle Rodriguez at Scientific American
arguing the practical math
behind the six weeks number is absurd.
Pointing out that even with
a predictable 28-day menstrual cycle,
which one study found only about 13% of women have,
they would be left with maybe one or two weeks
after finding out they're pregnant to get an abortion.
And as planned parenthood put it,
that's two weeks to make a decision, find childcare,
take off work, find the money to pay for the procedure.
Though on the other side, if you're opposed to abortion,
that's kind of the point,
minimize access in the number of abortions.
Which is why you had Idaho's Republican governor Brad Little
saying in a letter to the president of the state Senate,
"I stand in solidarity with all Idahoans
who seek to protect the lives of preborn babies."
So similar to taxes in Oklahoma,
Idaho's new law let's the father, grandparents, siblings,
uncle, or aunt of the fetus to sue a medical provider
who performs the procedure for $20,000
within four years,
which actually gave Little some reason to doubt
whether the courts will uphold the law saying,
"While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation,
I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will,
in short order be proven unconstitutional and unwise.
But fuck it, I'm still gonna sign this thing."
Though of note in Texas,
where private individuals can sue people
who assist women getting abortions after six weeks,
the Supreme Court did uphold that law.
So I guess we'll see about Idaho.
Though notably in Idaho, there are a couple of differences.
Idaho's law does allow for exceptions
in the case of rape or incest.
So women will have to file a police report
and show it to the medical provider
and unlike Texas and Oklahoma,
which permit pretty much any private individual to sue,
in Idaho, it's limited to certain family.
And then today marks one month of the war in Ukraine.
And while Russia has devastated much of the country,
taken some territory and many lives,
it has failed to take over any of Ukraine's biggest cities.
In fact, U.S. military officials have said
that the Ukrainian counter offensive has gained
some successes with forces actually pushing back
Russian soldiers outside the capital Kyiv
with the defense officials saying
that Ukrainians appear to be digging in
and establishing defensive positions.
And today the Ukrainian Navy claimed that it destroyed
a Russian landing ship that was docked
in the Russian occupied Southern port city of Berdyansk
with officials releasing photos and videos
that appear to show a large ship at the port on fire,
secondary explosions and massive plumes of smoke,
which is significant because that port has been key
for Russian officials to provide supplies to their troops.
It also comes as Russian forces are already grappling
with logistical and resupply issues
and Western assessment show Russia's forces stalling.
You also yesterday had a senior NATO official
telling the Washington Post
of the Alliance believes 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops
have been killed in the first month of the war
and NATO estimating all in all 30,000 to 40,000
Russian troops have been killed or wounded
or taken prisoner.
And these losses in long gems also come as sanctions
continue to wreak havoc on Russia's economy.
Just today, we saw the US along with G7 nations
and the European Union announcing even more sanctions
that target over 400 Russian individuals and entities,
including all 328 members of Russia's parliament
and multiple defense companies.
The allies also announcing they would launch new efforts
to crack down on sanction evasions
this in part driven by worries
that Russia's been finding ways to stabilize the ruble
and build its currency reserves back up,
with them specifically moving to limit Russia's ability
to activate national reserves, including gold.
US officials also say Biden will announce
more actions tomorrow when he meets
with the European Commission president.
This including an effort to send liquified natural gas
to Europe in order to reduce Russian energy dependence.
And in addition to all the initiatives
to undermine Russia's economy,
we also saw Biden announcing that the US
will be doing more to assist Ukraine.
With that consisting of plans for America
to take in 100,000 refugees
with sources also saying the administration will donate
$1 billion to aid European nations,
helping to shelter those fleeing Russia.
And that coming as the UN now says that 3.6 million refugees
have left Ukraine and more than half the children
in the country around 4.3 million
of the estimated 7.5 million have been displaced
creating one of the largest displacement of children
since World War II.
And with the multi-day summit still going on,
we can expect to see more announcement
as president Zelensky continues to call on allies
for further assistance,
this including asking NATO today
for unlimited military help.
But, where I wanna wrap this up today,
I wanna talk about a very, very concerning trend
that we've been seeing in Russia.
The growing number of top military leaders
seemingly missing from public view
with many raising alarm bells over reports
that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu
literally the face of the war
has not been seen for nearly two weeks.
Though notably the Kremlin responded to inquiries
about his whereabouts today,
but basically saying he's just busy
and declining to comment on reports
that he was experiencing heart problems
and saying he was at
a Russian security council meeting today.
With a Russian state owned news agency
also airing an 11th, second clip of Putin
talking to officials on a video call
and zooming in to show Shoigu on screen.
But notably the news agency literally doesn't say
when the video is from,
and there's no sound which would help you figure out
if this was an old meeting or not.
Beyond that, we've all seen reports
that the chief of the general staff
of the armed forces has not been seen
since March 11th the same day Shoigu was also last seen.
With there also being similar allegations
that the head of Russia's national guard is missing as well.
And so with this, we've seen many saying
these disappearances represent a scary trend
with one expert noting in a tweet,
"Curiously, there is no military commander
but Putin for Russia's war against Ukraine.
And none of the surviving Russian generals in Ukraine
seems to command the others.
Remember that Hitler became commander in chief in 1935"
And so with this,
we're seeing an increasing number of people saying,
"What we're witnessing is possibly
Putin consolidating power even more."
But ultimately that is where that story
and today's show ends.
Thanks for watching.
I love your faces and I'll see you next time.