- Sup you beautiful bastards, it's like a billion
degrees outside but I'm still wearing a hoodie
because I hate my body that much.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.
It is Tuesday June 29th 2021.
Hit that like button and let's just jump into it.
The first thing that we're gonna talk about
today involves a sentence I... I have rarely been
given the privileged of saying without sarcasm
and that is Donald Trump was right about
at least this one thing and not all the
other stuff because he's a crazy person...But yeah.
even all the way back in 2017, Donald Trump famously said,
and granted, the first part of the sentence is wrong.
Another reason that we're going to win another four years,
okay, you were wrong on that part is because newspapers,
television, all forms of media will tank.
If I'm not there because without me,
the ratings are going down the tube. And that last part,
as it turns out incredibly right. But even as I said,
back in 2020, I welcomed that. It's anecdotal.
But most of the people I know that voted for Joe Biden just
wanted off of the crazy train.
What's really interesting about this data from comScore is
that while almost everyone has been hit pretty hard,
the outlets hit the hardest had been the most extreme,
far left monthly traffic dropping 27.3%
Far right Monthly traffic, 43.8%.
There you're comparing places like mother Jones and Newsmax.
Then as we come in from the more extremes,
but still partisan,
we see left-leaning traffic dropping 16.7% right-leaning
traffic, 26.9%.
Right? You're comparing boxes to Fox news is.
Also as far as engagement on social media.
We're seeing massive drops there as well.
it's reporting the data from sensor towers showing that
downloads of fringe-right
Social networking apps like MeWe
Rumble, Parlor and CloutHub
have plummeted with data
from Newsweek showing left-leaning and right-leaning
publishers have seen social interactions on stories dropping
more than 50%.
While mainstream publishers have experienced a
slightly more modest drop of 42%.
But also once again,
none of this should really be surprising.
I mean,
think about it a big part of the reason,
especially in the last year that the ratings were so huge.
One we're all locked inside and we took to the internet and
news and that like became many people's world.
But also because too,
it felt like every time you looked at the internet,
you were like, am I... are we gonna die?
Is the country about to explode? I mean,
it's the same reason that people watch live police chases or
like the guy that goes over the grand canyon on a little
tight rope. You're like, is he going to fall to his death?
And actually, I mean, oddly enough,
but also of course he did Donald Trump actually,
while I was filming this video,
released a statement regarding the drop in rating
saying,
they say the news is boring since I left DC a wonderful
thing to see.
Yes, Donnie.
It is.
It turns out people are far less
interested in the news when
they weren't forced into that
car and the police chase or
forced onto that tight rope.
And I'll say again,
what I said before the election,
I welcome the calm.
I don't care if it hurts my views.
I don't care if it hurts my dollars.
Hell,
I'm even thinking about cutting
back on the shows just
temporarily for this summer,
doing some more fun projects,
and fully embrace my fat daddy summer. Cause people,
especially as we get closer to the
20, 22 midterms,
like people are gonna care about the news.
It's gonna heat up again.
But I think we all need a breather, man.
That's kind of why I've jokingly ended the last few shows
going like I've taken enough of your time.
Get off the internet.
I love your face.
I want to be your quick
daily dose of poison.
And then you get back to living.
Cause we haven't really gotten
a good chance to do so in the
last 15 months.
But also with this story,
it's the question I'm most interested in today,
but a question I want to
pass off to you right now,
have you noticed a change
in your viewing habits?
And obviously this might be
skewed a little bit cause you're
watching the show right now,
but a change in habits
with whether it be my show.
Other shows,
what about social media as well or no?
Is it the same for you
and whatever your answer is,
why do you think that is?
I mean,
hell I report the news and
even I'm trying to pull back.
Yeah. With that said,
let me give you some poisons.
You can get back to your day.
Yesterday, You saw the e-cigarette company,
Juul agreeing to pay $40 million
to North Carolina or this
agreement being made to
settle allegations that its
marketing efforts targeted teens.
Which actually notably as a part of this deal,
they're going to abandon
any marketing content that appeals
to young people and in stores
its products will be restricted
to behind the counter.
And for the company,
this is not where the story ends, right?
Notably Juul is currently
facing over 750 lawsuits across
just the United States
and well, you know,
kind of a big theme whenever
we talk about these fines and
settlements is, you know,
how much is this
Actually hurt business.
Juul has been hurt by all this litigation.
I mean, this is a company
that back in 2018,
when Marlboro bought 35% of them
was valued at $38 billion.
But, as recently as October of 2020,
they were worth only about 10 billion,
which still huge!
But generally speaking,
going down is something that
you want your partner to do,
not companies that you have
a stake in.
Then, in your interesting
random fact of the day today,
there are currently 56.1 million
millionaires in the world,
which is kind of an absolutely
huge number,
but also relatively small,
right?
It's like seven tenths of a percent
of the population of
earth.
And actually as it turns out
where the millionaires are,
it's pretty consolidated.
With just over 50% of the
millionaires coming from
China, Japan, and the United States
with actually the United States taking
gold. This is America.
I can't just make it a list
we won so far until China
eventually passes us with 39.1%
of the millionaires in the United States,
9.4% in China
6.5% in Japan
though, per capita the United States
is not number one.
Thus it is not an official category.
No awards will be given,
but on this unsanctioned podium,
you had Switzerland at the top 14.9%,
9.4% of Australians
and 8.8% of Americans.
Then we had fake Instagram people
in the news and I don't
mean plastic in bodies or personalities,
but rather followers.
Though to be fair,
several people on the list probably
do check all of those
boxes, starting with
Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
At the time Fasthosts did their analysis.
Kylie Jenner had 223.5 million followers
and the service said
that 40% of those are fake followed
by Kendall Jenner who is
at 37%.
Then you actually have
Blake lively and
Justin Bieber also at 37%,
then you've got Rihanna, Zane Malik,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's also not just mainstream people, right?
Addison Ray on the list.
32% fake reportedly.
Though notably to be fair just because they are
fake doesn't necessarily mean
that they were paid for right
there.
There might not be an intent there.
They could just be bots.
Notably with this story
we've seen people taking this list, right?
Fake followers and
combining that and comparing that to
hopper HQ and Instagram analytics service,
putting out an annual Instagram
rich list
for the mindset
here being, oh my God,
look at these companies
are actually getting ripped off
because these people have
fake followers, right?
Some pointing to Ariana Grange's for example,
third highest paid star making
a little over 1.5 million per
post, allegedly,
but also at the same time,
she is 25th on the
fast host list with 27% of her followers
reportedly being fake, right?
And a lot of the same names
as far as fake followers,
you know, they,
they top the list
as far as money is
and so the mindset is, oh,
you may have followers that are fake,
but the money is very, very real.
But also I kind of have that
as someone who has been in this space
for 15 years,
if you are a marketer
and you were paying someone based off
of the number of followers they have,
you are bad at your job.
You're just giving away money
and you should be fired.
Like the number of times
I've found out that someone with a
smaller follower account,
but with more engagement,
more views on individual pieces
of content that they release
gets paid less than me.
It's like it's mind boggling.
Hell. I mean,
it's part of the reason why
I don't really talk about this
publicly.
I launched a boutique management and ad agency,
which Hey, self promotion time.
If you're a brand that's
been having a hard time
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If you're a creator that
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anything at all management,
blah, blah, blah,
reach out CREATORS@WEARETRIVAL.COM.
We don't accept a ton of people.
It's like I said,
it's a boutique. And I think
once you get to a crazy scale,
you stop being able
to do good by people.
But yeah,
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Then in very big NCAA news,
we saw their powerful division one
council recommending that
the organization allow college athletes to finally make
money from their
autographs, appearances, endorsements,
and social media,
which is an absolutely massive move.
It takes these student athletes
and some people are gonna
call this hyperbole,
but it's how I see it
effectively for years helped make
billions of dollars for giant organizations.
Essentially as indentured servants,
they get some, a food,
they get a place to sleep.
They get an education,
which is already incredibly overpriced,
but with this potential
massive move.
We could see players.
I mean,
at the very least making
a living and some players making
millions of dollars.
Also do you want to say with
this story before you like
yeah NCAA good on you.
Remember that the NCAA is very much right now.
Like a dog that's had its face
shoved in its own shit
though, I don't really like that
metaphor because it makes me kind
of sympathetic towards the NCAA.
It's I guess it's more like your
douche bag boss got punched in the
Dick because he was a douche bag.
And then he was like,
maybe I'll be less of a douche bag
when the organization has faced
growing and growing pressure to end its rules,
which they
they say are aimed at protecting amateurism.
But I mean, anyone really paying
attention knows that's bullshit
right?
It's about power and money.
And I mean, if you look at the timeline,
this move comes just days before
a key deadline in July 1st,
when eight of the 21 states that have passed laws,
enabling athletes,
the name image and likeness option will have those laws go
into effect.
So, in order to prevent athletes
from playing with different
sets of rules,
depending on what state their colleges
in the division one
counsel is seeking to suspend
the rules to even the playing
field.
Though the big thing here.
The NCAA has said committees in
D two and three are expected
to vote on the subject by tomorrow,
which is also in the D one
board of directors is expected to
officially approve their policy as well.
And as far as what happens next,
if the recommendations are then approved,
the student athletes in those states can now make money from
activities that are consistent
with the lawns and athletes and athletes
in states that don't have those laws can also engage in
those activities.
But individual schools,
there will be given the power to adopt their own policies.
And as far as division one,
it is anticipated that new policy would
actually go into effect on Thursday,
but also leaders in the NCAA have painted this latest change
as a temporary fix until
Congress passes some federal law
for a national standard,
but also notably Congress so far has failed to intervene.
Then in news, that helps explain other news.
Maybe yesterday you saw the headline.
Facebook is a trillion dollar company.
Yes part of the reason for that is big company,
big money who ha and yesterday we saw a massive setback at
attempts to crack down on big tech in general and Facebook,
specifically the federal judge throwing out two antitrust
lawsuits against Facebook that have been brought by the
federal trade commission and 48 state attorneys general.
Right.
And as far as the specifics
of the lawsuits focused on the
platforms, 2012 and 2014 acquisitions
of Instagram and WhatsApp,
if they had been successful,
they would have forced Facebook to divest from the apps.
But really they got the exact opposite result that they were
looking for.
And that's because what the FTC case, I mean,
we saw the judge absolutely shredding the agency's arguments
saying it did not provide enough facts to back up its claims
that Facebook holds a monopoly and social networking. Well,
yeah,
he did give the FTC a chance
to refile the challenge in 30 days,
he suggested that it is likely to face an uphill battle.
And while that may sound like, okay,
well the other case it couldn't have gone worse.
It did with the judge completely dismissing the state case,
arguing that the lengthy delay between the acquisitions and
the suits 2020 filing was unprecedented on a state level.
And this was fantastic news for Facebook.
The shares for the company went up
hitting historic market cap.
And also this is unlikely to be the end of the story.
I mean,
we've already seen congressional lawmakers
saying the judge's decision showcases
that old antitrust laws need to
be updated for the age of the internet.
And in fact, I mean,
it's now being reported that the white house is working on a
potential executive order that would strengthen antitrust
enforcement without order reportedly calling on the justice
department and the FTC to update guidance on how they
examine a proposed mergers,
but that would also require government to actually work
properly. And so who knows,
then we should definitely talk about it as a news around
Britney Spears, her family,
and the kind of whole free Brittany reckoning that we saw
kick into high gear last week.
If you didn't see my coverage of it on Thursday, I mean,
we even brought a lawyer in to talk about the details on it,
a highly recommended it
and among the things that we went in depth on.
I mean,
we talked about Britney Spears saying that the
conservatorship that she is in is abusive,
that she was forced to work,
not allowed to marry or have children
thanks to a force IUD.
And that it was just incredibly restricting
and that she wants her life back.
We saw an immediate wave of support.
Some of that, even continuing this week,
Christina aguilera taking to Twitter saying
to be silenced, ignored, bullied, or denied
support by those close to you is the most
depleting, devastating and demeaning thing imaginable.
The harmful mental and emotional damage just can take on a
human spirit is nothing to be taken lightly
and for a lot of people.
It was that in quotes close,
that really stood out there.
Many people thinking of Britney Spears's father, Jamie,
but also a number of people
thinking about Jamie Lynn Spears,
her sister,
the number of people,
wondering things like where the hell has she been?
Why is she being so quiet on this matter with everything
blowing up,
especially because Jamie Lynn has faced criticism in the
past for not speaking out about
her sister's situation more
people think that she might be involved in some way,
but among other things in the past,
we've seen her post things saying that she's always been
there for Brittany,
that people are often commenting on things that they don't
understand saying that when
it comes to mental illness,
people need to respect people's privacy.
Also after the framing,
Brittany Spears documentary came out,
she shared an Instagram story,
asking the media not to repeat its mistakes,
that people are always fighting a secret battle.
And while some found that this was to defend her sister.
Others thought that her statements were not enough and that
they kind of acquainted and nothing.
And some even thing that she stood to gain financially from
the conservatorship and was profiting
off of her sister's abuse.
Jamie Lynn actually responded
in an Instagram story yesterday,
denying that she was financially profiting off of the
situation and saying that she just wants
her sister to be happy.
- I don't care if she wants to
run away to rainforest and have a
zillion babies in the middle of nowhere,
or if she wants to come back and dominate the world the way
she has so many times before,
because I have nothing to gain or lose either way.
This situation does not affect me either way,
because I am only her sister who was only concerned about
her happiness that I've supported my sister long before
there was a hashtag and I'll support her long after
note that.
I'm so proud of her for using her voice.
I'm so proud of her for requesting new counsel.
Like I told her to do many years ago.
Oh, not on a big public platform,
but just in a personal conversation between two sisters.
- With Jimmy Lynn closing,
by saying that if ending the conservatorship is what makes
Brittany happy.
That's what she wants for her sister.
And while there were definitely some that were like,
okay,
good,
Jamie Lynn spoke up.
It did not go over well with a lot of people,
many saying this is Jamie Lynn just kind of defending
herself from accusations instead of actually trying to be an
advocate for her sister,
essentially many people seeing Brittany Spears as someone
that was kind of locked in this tiny box.
And her sister was someone that could have spoken out more
freely,
especially because a big part of the reason why I think a
lot of people feel like there's actually movement now is
because of the,
the leaked audio and the leak transcripts
of Brittany's own words.
It was finally this confirmation for the masses that this
tiny group though,
the free Brittany movement has been shouting for years with
this story,
I would love to know your thoughts on this,
whether it be around the whole situation or Jamie Lynn
spears specifically,
then I don't know if you've been outside at all,
but the earth is trying to kill a bunch of us right now,
like a body running a fever,
trying to kill off a virus more specifically.
I mean the Pacific Northwest right now being hit by a
historical heat wave with more than a dozen cities in Oregon
and Washington smashing records in a region that it's not
really a customer temperatures well above a hundred degrees.
I mean,
for example in Portland
the city had a record high of 108 degrees on Saturday
which would have been crazy except for the fact that they
then broke that record on Sunday with 112 degrees.
And then on Monday it was 116 degrees,
as well as,
I mean Seattle,
Seattle doesn't even know what's happening right now,
Monday there,
it was 108 degrees,
which was crazy in its own,
right?
But it also marked the first time in recorded history for
that city to have three consecutive days
over 100 degrees.
Also in another part of Washington
it was 118 degrees of preliminary state record.
I know there are going to be some people,
there are always are people from Arizona that are like,
Hey,
in Arizona,
no one should live in Arizona.
Been there proposed to my wife amazing people.
It is not fit for human life.
And I understand I am well aware that in the last decade,
living in Southern California,
it has made me soft to weather right?
We have like a variation of one season year round.
But even with that said,
understand the heat in these cities are real I mean,
the highs at this time of year are normally in the
seventies, but across the region,
we're seeing things like roads,
literally buckling power cables melting
Also,
I mean a real concern here,
especially when you're talking about places like Portland
and Seattle in those cities,
a lot of people don't have proper cooling systems in their
homes and apartments.
Seattle is I didn't even realize they had this data.
They rank as the least air conditioned city compared to the
top 15 Metro areas around 91% of us homes have primary air
conditioning in Portland only 78% do.
And in Seattle only 44% do.
Which is also why it's not a surprise that as a result,
both cities have seen a large spike in heat
related illnesses with all this,
as far as why we're seeing these incredibly rare and
historic temperatures,
there are two explanations.
The first is a highly unusual weather pattern known
as a heat dome,
which is exactly what it sounds like a ridge of high
pressure that functions like a lid or a
dome on the atmosphere,
trapping in hot air that tries to escape and
warming even more as it sinks.
But also here's the thing with this specific situation.
Scientists have said that a heat dome of this size and scope
is so rare that it is normally only expected to happen once
every several thousand years.
However,
the key word there is normally because the second reason
that experts are saying we're seeing these incredibly high
temperatures I mean this is going to blow your mind,
it's a new concept.
Climate change.
And more specifically studies have shown that human caused
climate change has made these heat domes stronger,
more intense and longer lasting.
And it's important to note that it's not just these domes
widespread scientific evidence shows that heat waves will
become more frequent,
lengthy and serious in recent years as
part of an overall warming trend right?
Worldwide,
the seven warmest years in the history of accurate record
keeping have been in the last seven years and 19 of the 20
warmest years globally have taken place since 2000 right?
I mean, this is a bigger issue.
I know that I focus heavily on the Pacific Northwest in the
United States but I mean,
brothers and sisters in Canada are having a huge problem.
Also back in the United States,
the Northeast and in New England,
you have about 34 million people under heat advisories as
we're parts of Idaho, California, and Nevada.
So yeah,
I guess the main thing just be safe out there right now.
I mean the good news for the short term,
especially for people in the Pacific Northwest is that
yesterday did appear to be the peak of the heat dome.
But the bad news is it doesn't feel like this is going to be
the end of it. This is just part of the trend.
Climate change is real and we feel it more and more every
day, every month, every year.
But ultimately with this story, or honestly,
anything else that stood out to you today,
I'd love to know your thoughts and those comments down
below, because one,
this is supposed to be a conversation and two,
this is the end of today's show
as always thank you for
watching, like, and subscribe
and all the good stuff
you're going to catch up on some news.
I've got you covered right here with some more of it.
But with that said, of course,
as always my name's Philip de Franco,
you've just been filled in.
I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.
unless I got jury duty.
We'll see...