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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show buckle up,
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The first thing we're gonna talk about today,
is war and I don't mean war with another country,
I don't mean the war against the invisible enemy
that is the coronavirus,
but possibly the most important war the war against meme.
And the center of this story or at least off center,
is Ariana Grande.
So in a recent Instagram story to hear
that Ariana Grande was calling out these girls on TikTok
who impersonate her.
And she did so by sharing a video from writer and filmmaker
Jordan Firstman.
- Okay, wait, wait, I have an idea.
What if we like we took like a moment like a small clip
from a movie or a TV show something that like,
like an artist like really poured their soul into,
and like it just like took them years to make
and it was like an uphill battle the entire time.
Then when they finally got the financing,
it was like they made it,
like what if we took a moment from that,
and we kind of like recontextualize it.
Like, does that make sense,
and like, we put a completely arbitrary meaning,
onto that thing that the artists love so much.
Kind of like degrading like its entire value
I just think that could be kind of like a fun
like bitchy thing to do.
And like I'm so bored I just kind of wanna,
like ruin someone's life today (chuckles)
And then like whoever can just like,
say it's there it's like I don't like you,
anyone can just steal it then.
- Now we'll touch on my personal feelings there,
in a minute or two, but Ariana Grande
if you know she posted this clip with the text
can this please also double as your impression
of the ponytail TikTok girls
who think doing the Cat Valentine voice
and wearing winged eyeliner and a sweatshirt
is doing a good impersonation of me,
cause this is really how it feels.
If you aren't familiar Cat Valentine is the character
that Ariana Grande played
on the Nickelodeon show Victorious,
and it's been off series Sam & Cat.
Now that said, looking into the story,
one I was unfamiliar that impersonating Ariana Grande
was such a big thing.
There are a ton of young girls that appear to do this,
on the regular and the most notable of them,
is 15 year old TikTok Paige Niemann.
which I will say when I was looking into the story
I thought I was being pranked because I was like, no,
those are pictures of the same person.
But no, this is Ariana Grande and this is Paige Niemann,
and again, and again.
And you know this has led to a lot of success for Niemann,
she has almost 6 million followers on TikTok.
And so when Niemann caught wind
of a now deleted Instagram post from Ariana Grande,
she addressed it in a recent live stream.
- I'm used to Ariana shaking me so,
- yeah, I mean.
- It's, I'm just here to entertain people like
it's not who I really am in real life.
Kind of why I'm not a fan of her anymore honestly,
like, I'm slowly getting rid of all my Ariana stuff.
- I also mentioned Niemann here because Ariana Grande
has actually commented on her in the past.
A situation that reportedly resulted
in a lot of the singers fans attacking her,
but also at the end with Ariana Grande
a what appeared they shared niceties.
And as far as why this appears to bother Ariana Grande
so much you know, looking through this
in the past she said things like,
"I really loved playing Cat Valentine,
"even though sometimes people think,
"I actually still speak and act like that,
"and her essence will lovingly haunt me till I die."
And ultimately as far as my opinion on this one,
if you one of these people going after Niemann,
who once again is a 15 year old girl.
Who in general is just making silly TikTok
while looking like Ariana Grande
and at times using her audio.
And that most said that she is not a fan of a celebrity
that she perceived to have said something
that was an attack about her.
You kind of probably a scumbag
especially if you're an adult acting that way,
less so of your kid because kids are stupid, no offense,
but I'm just trying to give you an outlet
for being so callous.
Two regarding Ariana Grande a specifically
while I could understand her frustrations,
because she feels like she has so much more.
You know she probably needs realize that
by addressing these situations in this way
she increases the likelihood of people continuing
if not jumping on this bandwagon.
Because now more people are aware that this is a thing
and also some people might do it just to spite her.
And finally three to come back around
to that Jordan Firstman quote.
- Kind of like degrading like its entire value.
I just kind of wanna like ruin someone life today.
- If serious and not sarcastic,
that is an aggressive attempt to make yourself out,
to be the victim all at the same time villainizing people,
just dicking around entertainment in my view.
And once again, this part is one 100% said just my opinion,
it could be however dedicated and specific
from the original creator.
But then for the audience, it becomes transformative.
And that's entertainment in general,
things are built and then broken apart
and then repurpose and then remix.
And honestly, it feels like we're in a time
where we need to drain every ounce of joy out of anything
that comes across our path.
Yeah, of course, whether you agree
or disagree with my opinion, you can let me know
in the comments down below.
And also, thank you to everyone involved
for giving me something to talk about,
that's not just utterly depressing.
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The first bit of awesome today is you might not have known,
actually uploaded two videos on Friday.
One was a very important serious thing,
we had to talk about on this channel.
Which I will say I was legitimately asked
at least nine times if that Barack Obama tweet was real,
but you will say to those nine people in your defense
I haven't been my general truly self
and you know several years but also really.
And two every recently started just throwing out
random videos of myself over on youtube.com/defrancodoes.
So far I've just been reacting to things
that people have asked me to talk about,
but I haven't wanted to include in the show for timing
or whatever reason but yeah, there's that.
Then we have "Never Have I Ever," cast,
playing "Never Have I Ever."
We have had 50 people trying to describe their state's flag
and Huey Lewis breaking down his albums.
We have Brad Pitt playing Dr. fauci on SNL cold open.
We got the news that YouTube
will be hosting a free virtual film festival
with 20 partners including Cannes, Tribeca, Sundance,
and then finally the last bit of awesome
as we've been trying to do on this show
is highlighting the people trying to do good right now,
they're going to highlight and give props to two big names
David Dobrik and Mr. Beast,
though there are also a lot of other names here,
and I'm mentioning David Dobrik
because if you have not seen his video
he teamed up with EA and just wow under the gloves, masks
disinfectants, he went out just giving people things,
just including game consoles, iPads.
He threw frisbees at people and those frisbees appeared
to have $500 attached to them.
He shared as much a T-shirt cannons at people
but also include a $10,000 checks inside of that match.
Also because of the David Dobrik, we saw cars given away
it's just an awesome way to provide positive moments
for people on an individual level.
Then we saw the likes of Mr. Beast teaming up with YouTube
and a ton of massive craters online,
to have a $250,000 rock paper scissors, charity tournament.
Right so something that provided entertainment
that $250,000 was also going to charity.
And according to Mr. Beast over $1,000,000
was raised during this event.
And if you wanna see the full versions
of everything I just shared the secret link of the day
really anything at all,
links is always there in the description down below.
And then let's talk about coronavirus contact tracing,
if you have not heard this phrase,
you will be hearing it a lot more in the future.
Right, so yesterday, the Australian Government
rolled out an app called COVIDsafe.
And this app uses Bluetooth technology
to log every time a user comes within less than five feet
of another user for more than 15 minutes.
Very notably here the app is not mandatory if you want it,
you can get it and the Australian Government
has also said that the app will not collect location data.
The information people do provide to the app include,
people's names, phone number, postal code and age range.
And according to the official government website
for the app,
this data will be encrypted and stored
on each individual user's phone
so that even the user cannot access it.
The website also saying that even if someone using the app
does test positive for COVID-19,
they still have to consent to having their data shared.
If they do that information gets quote
uploaded to a highly secure information storage system.
The government also saying that only state
and territory health authorities
as well as the apps administrator
will be able to access that information.
Adding it will be a criminal offence
to use any app data in any other way.
COVIDSafe app cannot be used to enforce quarantine
or isolation restrictions or any other law.
As far as how long this data exists,
the government says that the contact information
stored in people's mobiles is deleted
on a 21 day rolling cycle.
Saying that if a user deletes the app,
their information will be erased once the pandemic is over,
along with everyone else's.
If they wanted to erased earlier,
they have to send in a request form.
Now, notably, all of that is just an outline
in a direction given by the health minister
and not something that I set in law.
In fact, the government isn't set to vote
on formal legislation until May
the app is already incredibly popular.
Just this morning, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
said on Twitter that 2,000,000 people have downloaded it
and while that is a ton coming in at just under 10%
of the population.
The Australian Government has also said,
that about 40% of the country needs to download the app
for it to be effective.
As far as why more people might download it,
Morrison said that the more people that download the app,
the faster economic restrictions will be lifted.
Notably the Android already comes in several states
in Australia are slowly easing restrictions.
It's up to the country reported
a daily infection growth rate of less than 1%.
But with all that said,
Australia is also not the only country
using a contact tracing app
especially as more and more begin to open up.
In fact, according to reports, at least 29 countries
are currently using mobile data for contact tracing, right.
I mean, that app in Australia that rolled out
is based on software use in Singapore's TraceTogether app.
Which is one of the first Bluetooth tracing apps
and has also been modeled by countries like India.
And at the same time, other countries
have used tracing techniques that are considered
much more invasive like South Korea and Israel, for example.
Which of us contact tracing methods
that involve tracking people's locations
through phone networks without their consent,
which is in fact what we saw the news last night
that the Israeli Supreme Court ruled
that the government cannot keep
using the state security service to track the cell phones
of coronavirus patients after this month.
This unless the Israeli parliament passes legislation
that says they can do so.
Well Bluetooth tracing programs are generally considered
much more privacy friendly.
You know with any tracking mechanism
that has government oversight,
there of course, privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Need a lot of people to opt in and use it
and very notably here only about one fifth of people
in Singapore have signed on to the app,
and even less in India with reports
of about 75,000,000 people out of the 1,300,000,000
having downloaded it.
Over the numbers in Singapore are especially concerning
for the effectiveness of the app method.
Because as one expert explained,
the modest numbers in a tech-savvy country
where trust in government is high,
shows the challenges facing public health authorities
and technology experts around the world
who are looking to exit lockdowns
and believe contact tracing apps can play an important role
in restarting economies.
And that of course, highlights another important part
of this story.
Trust in govern, the app in Australia
has had a fairly strong rollout
because many people are happy
with the government's coronavirus responds.
In fact, Morrison approval rating
is higher than that of any of the country's leaders
in more than a decade.
Then you look in places where government trust is low,
like the United States, for example.
Is unclear if an app like this,
would ever even be rolled out.
And even if it was, would it be effective,
now that said we have seen a number of states
take it upon themselves to invest in tracing apps.
And that's what the CDC also announcing last Thursday
that is going to send $631,000,000 to state
and local health departments to increase their capacity
to do tracing and testing.
The CDC website also saying detailed guidance
for health departments and potential contact tracers
is forthcoming.
And so in the meantime, what we're seeing are tech companies
also jumping in to fill the void.
According to reports Apple and Google are jointly developing
a Bluetooth system that could be deployed nationally
and allow owners of smartphones including iPhones
and Android devices to know whether they have crossed paths
with someone infected with the disease.
But there is still not a coordinated federal effort,
despite the fact that many experts say that,
this kind of technology is key
for reopening the economy safely.
And this includes the likes of Dr. Fauci
who said in an interview with Snapchat,
that a tracing app makes sense
from a purely public health standpoint.
But also adding that it does create sticky, sticky issues
and continue you know, you can look at somebody's cell phone
and say you were next to these 25 people
over the last 24 hours.
Boy, I've got to tell you, the civil liberties-type pushback
on that would be considerable.
And there's also concern that even with an app like this
being technically voluntary,
that employers might make it a condition
that if you come back to work, you have to have this app.
There is also the concern
that this might not help all communities.
This is because according to the Pew Research Center,
poor people, elderly people, black Americans, and Hispanics
are all disproportionately likely to not own a smartphone.
But with all that said,
that is where we are the story right now.
I would love to know your thoughts on this,
what are your thoughts about the voluntary apps?
Do you think that is the way to go or no?
Are you of the mind of drastic times drastic measures?
So we should do something like South Korea or Israel?
Yes, no, why, why not?
I love to know your thoughts.
And then let's talk about the news that President Trump
may be pulling back on the number of press conference.
All right, so what we're seeing right
the president suggested that he will stop appearing at all
at the least limit his time
at daily coronavirus press conferences.
This interestingly enough coming after that moment
and that clip it's made its rounds,
where Trump suggested that scientists look
into disinfectant injections as a treatment
for the coronavirus.
- And then I see the disinfectant
it knocks it out in a minute, one minute
and is there a way we can do something like that,
by injection inside or almost a cleaning
cause you see it gets in the lungs
and it does a tremendous number
will also be interesting to check that,
so that you're gonna have to use medical doctors.
- Right now, but during that press conference
we also heard from William Bryan the acting under secretary
of homeland security for science and technology
saying that there was research indicating
that the virus struggles under heat, humidity and sunlight.
Oh, we also got was Trump saying that,
bringing ultraviolet light into the body through the skin
or some other way should be looked into.
That he wanted to talk to doctors about applying heat
and light as a cure with him saying to Dr. Deborah Birx.
- I say maybe it can maybe it can't I'm not a doctor,
and I'm like a person that has influenced you know what?
Deborah have you ever heard of that,
the heat and the light relative to certain viruses, yes,
but relative to this virus?
- Not as a treatment, I certainly fever is a good thing,
when you have a fever, it helps your body respond,
but not as I've not seen heat or (mumbles)
- I think that's a great thing to look at I mean.
- Now with that being said, there is actually UV technology
in development, as a potential cure for the coronavirus,
but we are not seeing anything definitive.
It is still in an experimental phase,
and it's really only being touted
by a select group of people right now.
While others in the medical industry
do not see UV treatment for COVID-19 as a possibility.
Also given Dr. Birx, response, it's not exactly clear
if anyone even was aware of this.
But understand that's coming from my research
and nothing that the president appears
to have explained there.
But that's the big thing that a lot of people focused on
with the disinfected comments.
And so with that the internet of course ran wild with that,
and just to be clear, do not under any circumstances,
ever inject yourself with disinfectants,
there we go, I'm a hero.
That would not kill the virus it would maybe kill you
or at the very least put you in serious danger.
Yeah, that's why we ended up seeing health departments
putting out statements advising against it.
You also had companies like Lysol screaming
from the mountaintops please do not put our products
into your body.
And with all of that what we saw the next day,
is Donald Trump walking back those comments
also apologizing.
I'm kidding, no, he didn't, it's been three, four years
who you think we're dealing with, no, he said.
- [Reporter] Clarify your comments about injections
of disinfectant they're quite provocative.
- No I was asking a question sarcastically
to reporters like you just to see what would happen.
Now disinfectant for doing this maybe on the hands
would work, you know, the way it was, I was looking at you.
- [Reporter] No you weren't sir I wasn't there yesterday.
- It was sarcasm you guys, you know,
like when you ask that girl out, and she's like,
oh, no, I'm sorry if I gave you and you're like no, no, no,
I was just joking.
Well, yes, this moment is comical,
because it is just absurd.
I do wanna know that this is actually very important,
right this defense that he was being sarcastic
and then he even pivoted to be like no,
I was talking about putting disinfected on your hands
right the the constant pivots.
These are just examples of President Donald Trump
gaslighting people.
And it effectively gives him free rein to say
whatever however batshit crazy and then he and his team
gets a gauge public reaction and then after the fact
they edit it through excuses.
Once again this situation is a prime example
when they give an excuse or an explanation
and that doesn't work they then pivot to another one
that may be that one will stay,
and he was this situation as an example of that.
I mean, he at first he says, you know,
I was being sarcastic.
He talks later about I was talking
about putting disinfectant on the hands.
He also said I wasn't talking to Dr. Birx,
but I mean, during the press conference,
he did not mention hands
he also didn't remotely sound sarcastic,
also didn't appear,
that he was aiming the comments at reporters.
And there is actual video evidence of him talking
to Dr. Birx and her responding.
And on top of all of that in the midst
of really defending Donald Trump yet you Dr. Birx on CNN
is saying this was amusing already.
The President speaks out loud,
which means one the president wasn't being sarcastic
and two, even if you were saying that,
he was directing other parts of what he was talking about,
to this reporter with a sarcastic question.
No, she even says.
- The first that was a dialogue he was having
between the DHS scientists and himself,
for information that he had received and he was discussing.
- Even as of recording this video,
I've seen people try and say that when he said disinfectant,
he was talking about UV light,
which once again for COVID-19, unproven,
still incredibly early stages.
And two when the president was talking about disinfectant,
he was literally wiping his hands.
So with all of that said, those clips,
those moments getting so much attention,
it wasn't the most surprising thing
to see that later that day an Axios report
suggested that he may cut
his daily coronavirus press briefings.
Importantly his advisors have been telling him
to stop doing these briefings
because they're not helping him in the public eye.
Saying Trump has insisted he continued
because of the good ratings, though the report then had,
a source said it finally seems to have dawned on Trump
after this incident that these briefings aren't helping him.
And here it is worth noting that,
on his Friday press conference, it was a quick 25 minutes
with no questions from reporters.
Meanwhile, his past conferences have gone on much longer.
So I'm hovering around two hours
and in fact, on Saturday, we saw Trump taking to Twitter
to imply himself that he might be taking steps back
from press conferences.
But of course here he sided a whole different reason,
tweeting what is the purpose of having White House
news conferences when the Lamestream Media
asks nothing but hostile questions
and then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately,
they get record ratings and the American people get nothing
but fake news not worth the time and effort.
And that's what came not too long after we learned that,
there would be no Saturday briefing.
It was actually the first time since Easter weekend
that Trump did not hold a Saturday press conference.
That was the weekend, but then today,
I think we also saw kind of something that highlights
the confusion regarding the press conferences.
Early this morning, we see reports
that today's press conferences canceled
but then Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweets
update the White House's additional testing guidance
and other announcements
about safely opening up America again,
President Donald Trump will brief the nation
during a press conference this evening.
That said part of the confusion might be connected
to some analysts saying that,
this is actually hurting his optics
for the 2020 presidential election.
We've seen reports of advisors insisting
that these briefings are only hurting him in polls
against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
According to a Business Insider Poll,
only one third of Americans found the briefings useful.
The Gallup poll saying that 68% of Americans
have faith in their governors during this crisis,
but only 47% have faith in Donald Trump.
And According to The New York Times report,
Republicans fear that Trump's overexposure
and his public comments during this pandemic
could lead to a big loss.
And noting that Republicans have more
than just the presidency to lose
when this November rolls around.
With surveys showing that Republican senators
and key states are falling behind or locked in dead heats
with Democrat.
Right so you have Republican pollster Neil Newhouse
saying, "Because of the coronavirus situation
"and the focus on Trump,
"as he does his daily news conferences,
"these numbers reflect, what we don't want this race to be,
"which is a referendum on Donald Trump."
- Yeah, ultimately, that's what we are the story right now,
and I will say something regarding the press conferences,
it will be interesting to see what happens
and I mean that both and you know,
how often will this continue to happen?
Also, will things change?
And I say that because Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
has said that they may have a different look,
also speaking to Fox News, saying, you know,
this is a big part of President Trump speaking directly
to the American people.
So the question pops up, does that mean that moving forward,
the press might not be invited?
Yeah, like I said, this is where we are,
it will be interesting to see what happens,
and of course, I pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts about all of this?
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