The Philip DeFranco Show - "HE LIED!" Logan Paul, Drake, Andrew Tate Hunted Down, College Application Turmoil & Today's News

Episode Date: May 13, 2024

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Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show, your daily dive into the news. And we got, we have a lot to talk about today. Some big, some small, and some stupid. This is a news show. In entertainment and drama quickie news, we got an odd number of quick stories today. First off, it's looking like Andrew Tate's not going anywhere anytime soon. No, this isn't about him diving headfirst into GameStop today, especially as a lot of people are doing that today. And this amid roaring kitty returning to X for the first time since 2021.

With it so wild, trainings had to be halted several times. But no, for Andrew Tate, the news is that a Romanian court over the weekend extended the order that prevents him and his brother from leaving the country for the next two months. And somewhat connected slash not connected, just a couple of days before that, the four women in the UK who crowdfunded to file a civil lawsuit against Tate finally served him papers at his home in Romania, with him claiming that he raped and assaulted them,

not unlike the details of the criminal trial against him in Romania. You just also throw human trafficking into the mix there for good measure. Then in other news, you have people seemingly bombarding Drake's home. Right, a lot of this scene is fallout following Kendrick Lamar releasing

his Not Like Us diss track, which featured a street view image of Drake's mansion in Toronto. We sort of talked about this last weekend when one of Drake's security guards was shot in a drive-by. Then also the next day, another person tried to actually break into Drake's home. Notably, their police have since said that this wasn't a criminal incident. Instead, using the Ontario Mental Health Act to arrest the person and send them to a hospital. That's not where things ended because after that, another guy got into a fight out front with Drake's security guards.

With police also then taking that guy to the hospital but not laying out any charges. Except on Saturday, he then came back saying he wanted to get his bike back. So police ended up arresting him again, though in the end, it looks like he just got a ticket for trespassing. Well, Drake himself hasn't really directly commented on any of this. He did call out local news in Canada on his Instagram story saying, can we discuss the chopper flight times over the house because I won't lie, I'm trying to sleep. Anytime after 3 p.m. works great for me. Then we had big updates on the big controversy

and accusations regarding George Janko and Logan Paul. George used to do the impulsive podcast with Logan and Mike Malak until there was a big falling out. Though George created his own podcast and actually on a recent episode with Mike, he explained why things fell apart with Logan, starting with compensation issues. We weren't getting paid.

I can show you my books. I was spending 10 G's a month being on the show. Well, George and Mike saying that for a period of time, they made no money on impulsive. But when Mike pressed George about the salary that he eventually made, they bleeped out exact figures. You know, the conversation kind of changed. But then George alleging that once he started his own podcast, Logan tried to pull strings regarding George's brand deals.

And Logan's making calls and directing my show. And I'm saying, hey, man, you can't tell me what to do on my own show. That's brand deals. And Logan's making calls and directing my show. And I'm saying, hey man, you can't tell me what to do on my own show. That's not okay. What was that about? He told me that I couldn't take Celsius. He's referring to having a partnership with the Celsius Energy Drink,

which is notably a competitor to Logan's Prime. With things then getting personal, right? George saying no one called him after he got fired, that people only contacted him when it came to money. And so initially, a lot of people got on the fuck Logan Paul bandwagon. But we ended up seeing Logan shooting back, posting a video yesterday,

disputing much of George's issues, saying George wasn't fired, that he chose to leave, and regarding money. As well as having his own credit card, all expenses related to the show were paid for, including all travel and lodging. Obviously, George's total reimbursement

came out to $20,000, 317 cents. I know he doesn't want to talk money. I know he believes it out, but George made $317,000 in the 15 months that he got paid for on Impulse. With Logan then adding that he only had to work like three days a month for a few hours each day, so he was really making over $2,000 hourly. That, and he had equity in the show. Also regarding claims that Logan tried to stop George from working with Celsius, Logan said, When making calls, trying to make it seem like I wanted to control his show is absolutely ridiculous.

As you can see right here, I was like, hey, we gotta get you primed because I saw him drinking our competitor. The truth is I thought it was a bad look that my best friend and co-host took a brand deal with our competitor without consulting me. Then in response, George tweeting that instead of making videos, they should handle this issue in person.

The post has since been deleted and on re-uploads, a lot of the comments seem to be reacting that George is enacting that mature about the situation. So for fans and haters of any of these people alike, I gotta ask, what are your thoughts here? But for me, it's just further confirmation that 90% of the time, I think it is a great idea to not work with friends. It just changes things, and all relationships are not equal, and all relationships are not built for it. Though notably, that's not all that's at play here. That's a little bit of an oversimplification on my part. But then the final piece of quickie news today, and it's my favorite, is that a zoo in China is being accused

of trying to trick visitors by using dogs in place of pandas by painting them black and white, these being the animals in question. Now, the zoo told Chinese state media, hey, we didn't mislead anyone because these are clearly advertised as panda dogs. But one, regardless, visitors weren't pleased with any of this. Writing things like, this is not funny at all. Chow chows have fragile skin and thick coats, which make them susceptible to skin diseases. But the zoo fired back there saying that the dogs weren't harmed and that if people can dye their hair, dogs can too, because their fur is the same as hair. But also two, Chinese people in the past have accused their zoos of having fake animals. This is just part of a bigger thing. With dogs sometimes being used as stand-ins for wolves or African cats.

Or last year, there was an accusation that a zoo put a man in a sun bear suit. And then we need to talk about how and why so many students are struggling to navigate college admissions right now. You go where? Harvard, law school. Because getting into an American college,

it can be hard, it can be expensive. The landscape is constantly changing. And specifically with that, last year we saw seismic shifts in how students needed to approach college admissions, with most recently Harvard and Caltech announcing that applicants would again be required to submit standardized test scores with applications. Right, and in the case of Harvard, that decision comes after nearly four years of doing away with the requirement. Although notably, that was a temporary pandemic-related measure, as they understood that how students were being educated during the

pandemic fundamentally changed. And as far as why this is happening, you had Harvard's Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences saying in a statement that reinstating the test requirement was due to a number of factors, and adding that standardized tests are a means for all students, regardless of their background and life experience, to provide information that is predictive of success in college and beyond. With also Caltech, which is an extremely famous science and engineering school in Pasadena, claiming that the requirements fall in line with the school's commitment as a community of scientists and engineers to use all relevant data in its decision-making processes. And these two schools are now joining Dartmouth, Yale, MIT, Brown, Georgetown, Purdue, and UTA in requiring

the SAT and ACT again. And so, you know, as expected, this requirement has led to mixed reactions, right? Not having the requirement was seen as a way to diversify the campus for students who possibly didn't test well because of external factors. Things like a poor home life for kids who would otherwise excel at school. But some approached this same concern from a different angle. For them, the test scores were an objective way

to see if a student excelled despite their environment. But regardless, this decision is often viewed as a return to more conservative admission practices. Especially in the case of Harvard, which, you know, had a reckoning this year after the head of the university was forced to resign, both over allegations of ignoring anti-Semitism from the students as well as plagiarism concerns. While the return to standardized tests alone is enough to rock how students approach college

admissions, it's just one piece of the puzzle, with the other major one being the admission essay, which can help offset a kind of meh SAT score by highlighting other ways that you'd be a good alumni for the university. Because most universities don't just care if you did well on a test. They want, or at least claim to want, to make sure that you are a well-rounded student and person who go on to do great things. So also, as a kind of a side note there, that's actually something that's baffled many foreign students or foreign parents as other countries, especially in East Asia, they only really care about your test scores. So those kind of intangibles are hard to grasp. You know, students are more confused than ever over how they're supposed to approach their essays due to the Supreme Court's decision to kill affirmative action-based

admissions last year. In the past, it was pretty clear you would write about yourself and your background, including the good, the bad, your struggles. For many minority groups, a lot of who they are is tied to their cultural and ethnic backgrounds because that's how society perceives them. So in general, there's a fear that if they talk about their race or their identity and how important it is to them, that they'll be penalized For it as schools compensate to comply with the court's new rules and actually with that you had PBS news hours speaking to high School students and counselors about this exact thing This is what some had to say when asked if this was confusing it has been confusing and for some it was a little intimidating We had students saying we hear you're not going to be able to mention race at all

We hear we're not going to be able to write about that We hear we're going to have to scrub everything. Students can still be themselves. Don't change your plans. Don't change your strategy right now. But the essay is the one place where the students do have the chance to have a discussion with the Supreme Court. Or so you have schools scrambling to give their students the best chances to get into the colleges that they want. And schools like Albuquerque Academy have been really trying to reinforce to their students that they can talk about their racial and cultural background. Saying that if it's important to them and their story, That doesn't mean that students can't talk about it.

Right? It means that there's certain limitations on what the admissions officers can use that information for in their decision-making process. The Supreme Court also addressed this when Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, At the same time, nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected the applicant's life, so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university. So, you know, pretty much, race can be considered if it's tied to something else that the applicant brings to the table, but cannot be a factor in of itself. Also, if that sounds confusing and possibly vague,

you are not alone there. Students aren't only confused over what they should write about, but also how much weight it's given. All of which leads to a sense of anxiety and uncertainty, or at least more uncertainty than normal when it comes to getting into college. And I mean, even the universities are a bit confused about how to approach the situation. With, for example, Jeff Wong, who runs collegeslike.com, telling PBS, I think almost every college admission office in America is having conversations with legal counsel about how to do this in a way that is both with respect to the law, but also with respect to the institution's interests. And honestly, it's likely that we won't know what the post-affirmative

action world actually looks like until a few admission cycles have happened. Especially as it won't even be until the class of fall of 2025 that we'll have the first wave of students who had to navigate this whole situation getting into schools en masse. And this is there will likely be years of confusion and resentment as students continue to be unsure of why they did or didn't get into a school. Which is also why you have so many people cautioning against putting such an emphasis on which school you went to. And well, of course, with this story, I'd love to know everyone's opinions. If you're a student, this is going to affect, or a parent of a student, you're going to affect, or you're a guidance counselor, or you're part of the process in any way, I would 100% love to hear from you in those comments down below. And then, you know, for any of you focused on getting your business off the

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making this one of the most deadly campaign years in modern history. In fact, according to the Washington Post, over two dozen candidates have been killed, hundreds have dropped out of their races, and more than 400 have asked the federal government to give them security details. And this comes as armed cartels

are working to ensure that they can elect leaders who are favorable to them and will turn a blind eye to their actions. And we're not just talking about drug trade. These organized crime groups have expanded a lot in recent years, becoming migrant smugglers, extorting businesses, and winning contracts for firms in their control. Hell, in some places, they have so much power, they can actually determine who enters entire towns or even what people are allowed to say. And studies have shown that the growth and the rise of these criminal markets and the desire of cartels to control them is a driving force

behind this historic violence that we're seeing now. But notably, it's not the only factor here. Cartels that used to exercise total control have fractured in recent years. So instead of one cartel pushing a candidate with little opposition, you have various armed groups putting up competing candidates. And beyond that, the general weak rule of law and the fact that so many places are having municipal elections have also contributed to this unprecedented violence. You see, the kind of power that these cartels are fighting for, it's reliant on their ability to control local elections. So most of their big targets are actually mayoral candidates. Though that said, people running for governor or congress are also at risk.

And one of the places that I've seen some of the most violence connected to the election is Chiapas, the poorest state in Mexico. You know, for years, it wasn't particularly known for cartel violence, which is one of the biggest cartels basically holding a monopoly on the region. But as we saw the bigger cartels begin to fracture and migrant smuggling become more lucrative, new groups entered the state, with local leaders blaming incompetent politicians and their poor governance for allowing this to happen. So now nearly a dozen cartels operate in the state, including the two most powerful ones. And so as a result, not only have homicides and disappearances skyrocketed, among the casualties there, you have six political candidates just in the past few months. And according to a leader of PAN, the main opposition

party, the violence has caused nearly two dozen mayoral candidates from the party to drop out of their races. And it's also not like this is happening along party lines. Candidates in all of Mexico's major parties have been targeted. Hell, at one point, the presidential frontrunner from the party of incumbent President AMLO was even threatened by mass cartel members in the state last month, with her car being stopped at their checkpoint so they could warn her to remember the poor people. And in just one municipality of Michoacan, three mayoral candidates have been killed, and this including two candidates from President AMLO's party and one from PAN. But despite everything we've talked about, AMLO has largely downplayed the violence, claiming that it's all being blown out of proportion by opposition

groups in the media. But it's also the lack of adequate action at the federal levels that's just allowed this to continue. Because so many non-cartel candidates are either getting murdered or dropping out to prevent that from happening, these groups are just able to consolidate even more power. And then, in big international news, imagine if a U.S. court ruled

that one of the major political parties in America should be considered a potential extremist threat and should be spied on. Well, that is exactly what just happened in Germany in the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AFD. They're a group that was formed in 2013 as a Euroskeptic party, but they have steadily become a radical anti-immigration force, leaning further and further to the right and facing criticism for what some take as, let's just say, Nazi-esque takes. In 2021, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BFV, classified the party as a potential extremist group and placed them under

surveillance, which marked the first time since World War II that such an action had been taken against an opposition party. But with that, we saw the AFD challenge that designation, and this latest high court decision upholds a ruling from the lower court. And while the AFD has said that it will appeal this decision as well, for now, intelligence officers will be allowed to wiretap party members and recruit informants to monitor the party for extremism. Right, and this ruling, it's absolutely massive for a few reasons. First of all, because it can pave the way for a total ban on the party if the BFV can collect evidence to designate the party as confirmed extremists. That's not totally out of the question. I mean, already the party's youth chapter and branches in three of Germany's

16 states have been classified as confirmed right-wing extremists. And beyond that, this is also a huge deal because it's not like this is some fringe movement. The AfD is currently the second most popular party in Germany. And heading into the elections this fall, the party has been polling way ahead of Germany's left-of-center ruling coalition. The AfD is set up to secure big wins in several Eastern states.

So this ruling could have a serious impact on the election, though it's really unclear right now whether it would discourage voters or in fact boost the group's popularity further, which notably is something that experts say could happen, especially if the party is ultimately banned. And finally, this ruling is also super important symbolically when it comes to crackdowns on far-right groups. Because of Germany's dark past with government surveillance, the country generally has been extremely sensitive to data privacy. But this, as experts say, the fact that

they're even allowing this surveillance in the first place is in fact in reaction to the Nazi regime and policies aimed at preventing those atrocities from happening in Germany ever again. To that point, it's been very interesting to watch how Germany has cracked down on the rise of far-right groups that we've seen in recent years, especially compared to other countries. But because of its history, Germany actually has safeguards in place. I mean, it's literally illegal to be a Nazi in Germany. But as far as what happens and how this plays out into the elections, we're going to have to wait and see. And then finally today, we have comment commentary. The part of the show where we dive into the comments on the last one, see what y'all had to say and what y'all were arguing about. You know, there's definitely a lot of conversation around

Belle Delphine's situation, though it was less to do with Belle. With Yoski Broski saying, I don't care if Belle did or did not make money from her bathwater. What do you mean you're taking $90,000 and not telling me why? And others responding, privacy reasons and because shh. As well as, I haven't lost a PayPal, but all of these Silicon Valley companies are like this. I once got my phone number banned on Tinder without ever having met anyone. I emailed asking why I couldn't log in and they sent back this snotty email saying, oh, we banned you. We're not saying why and you know what you did. Right? And people just in general think the situation was insane. Also, on the note of companies, there were a lot of people taking swings at Microsoft. They're

embroiled in controversy. There's a lot of backlash. People pissed off about the firings. With Charlie Hatch saying, Microsoft HR. So we're firing you despite your massively successful work, but would it help to know the CEO is like super bummed about it? And Obelisk Steed saying, film is one of the most maddening parts related to Tango Gameworks being shut down. Within a day of the studio being shut down,

one of Xbox's executives, Matt Booty, held a town hall where he said, We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards. It's astounding to me how someone can utter such a sentence a day after shutting down the studio that made Hi-Fi rush. I work in the games industry myself, and after the past year of shutdown after shutdown and layoff wave after layoff wave, my aspiration and passion are dead in the water. And then finally, there was just a kind of general vibe of people sending well wishes and prayers to the whistleblower over at Boeing. The Random Lou saying, I swear if this new Boeing whistleblower ends up unaliving themselves or having yet another car accident, then we will know very well that Boeing is guilty and super desperate.

And Friendly Hobo saying, someone needs to have 24-7 surveillance on that whistleblower. Being a Boeing whistleblower has a 100% death rate. With Atreides adding, allegedly. Though I do want to note, and this is not a defense of Boeing. When I mentioned a Boeing whistleblower who is currently alive, they, it should be noted, are one of several. There have been reports as recently as four days ago noting that, you know, Boeing's facing ten more whistleblowers. But that is where today's show is going to end. Thank you for being a part of this Monday evening, Tuesday morning dive into the news.

And don't worry, because remember, my name's Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love your faces, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow.