The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 10.27 WOW! What Joe Rogan Trashing Paid Paternity Leave Exposes, Shiba Inu, Adam Levine Video Controversy

Starting point is 00:00:00 Y'all are all of these guys that are part of this weird recent charged wave of shitting on dads taking paternity leave like are they okay? I'm like, hey I understand that paid parental leave is a rather alien concept for the majority of Americans because we are the only country in the OECD That does not have a mandate for paid parental leave It's one of those things why people in other countries say America is a third world country with a Gucci belt So this recent and toxic generalized slamming of paternity leave is connected to this news around transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg. If you're not familiar, Buttigieg first went

Starting point is 00:00:30 on paternity leave back in mid August, following the birth of his twins. Notably, he's doing this at the same time as the ongoing supply chain bottlenecks across the country, which regarding that, I'm way more open to the conversation of splitting the two, right? The Pete Buttigieg story, I think, could be considered an exceptional circumstance.

Starting point is 00:00:44 You are the head of a part of the government that is dealing with a massive issue that's going to affect hundreds of millions of American lives. Very different from Joe and Jane Blow, who just had a baby and has a regular ass job. And for the sake of providing an example of someone speaking out against paternity leave,

Starting point is 00:00:58 I'm gonna use Joe Rogan for two reasons. One, he is the biggest podcaster in the world with just an immense audience. And two, of the notable people with audiences speaking out against paternity leave right now, he's kind of the least dickish. Like I've literally seen some of these guys just blanket statement saying,

Starting point is 00:01:11 "'Paternity leave is for pussies.'" So it's gonna be far easier to work with the Rogan stuff than that. So yeah, recently Bridget Phetasy was on Joe Rogan. They're talking about Pete Buttigieg, that conversation, eventually leading to paternity leave in general. People are blaming Pete Buttigieg because of the fact that he's on paternity leave that was a weird one because i never know when

Starting point is 00:01:29 those stories it's like uh is this just like a partisan thing where you just want to like yell at the guy because but it is kind of crazy with that we see phetasy pushing back against that referencing a family member but it's like here but here's the thing one of you should do that one of you should take terror of the children like this idea that both parents should get maternity and paternity leave at the same time is a little weird i don't think so you don't think so i don't only because i have a german cousin and they get the shit i mean they get like a full year for the woman and nine months for the husband. That's great. You want to live in Germany?

Starting point is 00:02:07 Because in America, you got to work. Here's the thing. If you have a small business, you're the one who loves small businesses, okay? Right? Imagine. No, you can't take maternity leave. Imagine if you have an employee

Starting point is 00:02:18 and this is your fucking CEO of your little company or whatever and the wife has a baby, and the husband's like, I'm taking four months off. You're like, what the f*** are you talking about? With Rogan then going back to Buttigieg and saying he doesn't know if his absence actually has any relation to the supply chain issues,

Starting point is 00:02:35 with that still saying and asking, should fathers really get that paid time off since they didn't give birth? Once again, I do think that there are two issues at hand here. One, you have the specific Buttigieg situation where he's defended his leave, saying that the supply chain issues have no easy fix, but that every American should be afforded the right to parental leave.

Starting point is 00:02:50 White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also echoing that sentiment, saying that he is at work, noting that she had been on a conference call with him. But I think more importantly regarding paternity leave in general, personally, I'm completely for paid parental leave, including paternity leave. I think it's just a question of how much, like in California, for example. Dads are entitled to 12 weeks of paternity leave, eight of those partially paid, the other four unpaid. And hey, like I'm not gonna outright attack people

Starting point is 00:03:11 that are skeptical of the idea. I have to talk against the caveman part of my brain that's like, you man, you go out, you provide. But also there's different kind of providing, right? Being there for your small baby that I don't know if you've had a baby, that they are so much work. Give yourself time to bond with that baby.

Starting point is 00:03:26 Support your partner, make things easier. Well, obviously not universal. It's so odd to me that a lot of the people I've seen speaking out against this, they're the same kind of people that when they see like gay people getting married or they talk about the gay agenda or really they see anything that goes against

Starting point is 00:03:40 like the traditional family unit is evil. Oftentimes they're also anti-abortion. They're like no paid parental leave. Once that baby's out, on your own. Best way to keep that family unit together, isolate them from one another. Like y'all, how can we say that we're trying to be there for our kids when we villainize people trying to be there for their new kids? I live in a country where less than one in four men have access to paternity leave, where 100 million plus people do not have a single day of paid leave, where one in four American women go back to work within 10 days of giving birth. And I would love to be able to make a joke right here, tie a bow on this opening segment, get into that monkey intro, but it's not funny. It's just

Starting point is 00:04:16 sad. This is a news show. Y'all, welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and hey, if you support paid paternity leave hit that like button And if you don't do nothing because I don't do well with criticism and or anything other than universal agreement and praise I'm kidding 10% of my life is people telling me to go fuck myself and on that happy note Let's talk about some entertainment celebrity news, though It does start off very depressingly starting Starting with, we just got updates regarding the tragic death of Mac Miller.

Starting point is 00:04:47 Miller died back in 2018 at the age of 26 as a result of an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine. And the news now is that one of the three men charged in connection to his death just agreed to enter into a guilty plea deal. That man, Steven Andrew Walter, will plead guilty to distribution of fentanyl and an exchange of second charge against Walter

Starting point is 00:05:02 for conspiring to distribute controlled substances resulting in death will be dropped. That said, he still faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, though some reports say prosecutors are suggesting a 17-year sentence. And as far as the two other men, Cameron James Pettit and Ryan Michael Revis, they've been charged over Miller's death, but the plea did not guilty and according to Pitchfork, a trial is set for March of 2022. And according to the agreement, Walter knowingly instructed Revis to distribute fentanyl that was presented as oxycodone to Pettit, who was Miller's dealer. With it adding that Mac Miller would not have died from an overdose but for the fentanyl contained in the pills. We also had Maroon

Starting point is 00:05:32 Five frontman Adam Levine in the news on the receiving end of a lot of backlash. And this because it was a TikTok that went viral showing a fan jumping on stage, touching, grabbing him, him having that reaction. With many fans saying, hey he needs to humble himself He wouldn't be where he is today. Why is he acting like ew the unwashed pores touched me? But personally and understand I can't speak to who Adam Levine is as a person I'm not sure how you or I would respond if while we were doing our jobs Someone just ran into our personal space and grabbed us no matter if you were a fan or not that does not give you consent You have no right and I also genuinely believe that the reaction to this would be far, far different

Starting point is 00:06:07 if Adam Levine was a female artist. Or some guy jumps on stage, grabs Ariana Grande. How many of you are gonna go, wow, she needs to humble herself. And as far as Adam's take on this, he ended up responding on an Instagram story. Without our fans, we don't have a job. I say that all the time to our fans.

Starting point is 00:06:27 To think that anyone would believe that I thought that our fans were beneath us or less than us makes my stomach turn. That's just not who I am. It's not who I've ever been. So I just need you guys to know I was really startled. And sometimes when you're startled, you have to shake it off and move on because I'm doing my job up there. But from that, I want to take a quick second to thank the sponsor of today's show, Juneshine. Juneshine is a hard kombucha made with real organic ingredients with just two to three grams of sugar per can. Brewed with the finest tea, fruit, and spices in San Diego, Juneshine is the better for you alcohol that's refreshing, gluten-free, and easy on the digestive system thanks to the probiotics. Not a fan of weird wine hangovers? Swap out red wine for the midnight painkiller. Trying to keep your carbs low?

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Starting point is 00:07:44 Let's talk about Shiba Inu. And if you're only vaguely familiar with crypto, you know things like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Celo, et cetera. But there is an absolute slew of altcoins. Many of them just belong in a dumpster, but every now and then a rocket shoots out of that dumpster. And so far, Shiba Inu is one of those things.

Starting point is 00:08:03 With outlets reporting that as of today, the Shiba Inu is one of those things. With outlets reporting that as of today, the Shiba Inu coin for the year is up 60 million percent. It just sounds like a made up number. The snapshot as of recording just in the past day, it's up over 77%. Last week, 203%. Last month, 1100%. You know, much like we saw with Doge,

Starting point is 00:08:21 it's made a lot of people crypto millionaires overnight. In fact, you had Morning Brew tweeting out, "'This wallet bought roughly $8,000 of SHIB last August. "'It's now worth $5.7 billion, "'from 8K to $5.7 billion in roughly 400 days. "'We may actually be looking "'at the greatest individual trade of all time.'" While I, like I said, will personally not be touching this,

Starting point is 00:08:42 it's really cool to see. I mean, it won't be cool to see if and when it implodes, but very cool now. Hey, whether it be because you wanna get in on Shiba Inu, which once again, this is not advice. You do what you wanna do, or you wanna learn more about crypto. You wanna look at and learn about the stock market,

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Starting point is 00:09:11 So yeah, let my partnership with them work for you. And then, yo, let's talk about the billionaire tax. So this morning, after a lot of waiting, a lot of buildup, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden unveiled this long awaited proposal, with it being one of the most unique tax plans in the world because it's literally just aimed at the 700 richest people in the country.

Starting point is 00:09:28 We're talking Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg. And that's because this would only apply to people making over a hundred million dollars in annual income or those holding at least $1 billion in assets for three years. And that last part right about the assets is the most notable and controversial. It's very easy for the incredibly wealthy

Starting point is 00:09:43 to avoid the income tax. I mean, Jeff Bezos, for example. How much do you think he made last year? A hundred million dollars, 10 million dollars, a million dollars, none of the above. His yearly salary from Amazon was $82,000. He's just like you, but not really. His wealth is connected to stocks,

Starting point is 00:09:57 specifically Amazon stock, which right now he has around $200 billion worth. While these billionaires would be subject to a nearly 24% tax when they take money out of the stock market or other assets, there are a whole slew of loopholes that allow them to avoid that 24% capital gains tax and essentially live income tax free.

Starting point is 00:10:12 And so with this proposal for the first time ever, they would be held liable for gains of their other assets, right, their stock growth. But before Senate Democrats can make this bill a law, there are massive hurdles to overcome. The first of which is, is this even legal? Right, even some House Democrats who support increasing taxes on the country's richest have expressed skepticism Arguing that establishing a new tax code for such a small group of people would be a difficult policy to craft let alone enforce

Starting point is 00:10:33 The law would also face major legal challenges and courts would eventually have to decide whether unrealized gains could be counted as income And I mean if the taxes on unrealized gains ever affected the everyday person I mean everyone who voted and made this possible would probably be voted out of office. But let's say this bill does eventually become a law. Despite all the skepticism, despite people going, is it even legal?

Starting point is 00:10:53 Many have noted and argued that even then, billionaires are very likely just gonna find another loophole to avoid paying taxes. For example, you have Senator Mitt Romney arguing on Fox News that it could push innovation overseas, also adding, These multi-billionaires are gonna look and say, I don't want to invest in the stock market, because as that goes up, I'm going to get taxed. So maybe I will instead invest in a ranch or in

Starting point is 00:11:13 paintings or things that don't build jobs and create a stronger economy. Elon Musk also pushing back against the bill, saying, Eventually they run out of other people's money and then they come for you. With others pushing back, saying, No, they've been coming for our money, now they're just trying to also come for yours. Though on the other side of this argument and starting with specifically on the other side of this Elon Musk situation,

Starting point is 00:11:31 you have people saying there are very few things that are more different than how much money Elon Musk makes and how much money you make. Noting that Elon Musk made $36 billion on Monday alone. But also if I was Elon Musk, I wouldn't be a fan of this. It's estimated that Musk would actually have to pay $50 billion of his $280 billion fortune within the first five years of the plan.

Starting point is 00:11:49 With Bezos estimated to have to pay $44 billion over that same time period. And as far as what this money would do from all these billionaires, you have Senate Democrats hoping to potentially use that money for Biden's $1.5 trillion Build Back Better plan. But ultimately with the makeup of Congress we have right now I think, you know, this is all kind of hypothetical.

Starting point is 00:12:05 There's no way I see this going through. In a 50-50 split Senate where Joe Manchin is a person that exists, there's no way this goes through. Even today you had Manchin saying he's not a fan of the billionaire's tax, instead saying he'd rather a minimum 15% patriotic tax and adding, there's a patriotic duty that you should be paying something to this great country.

Starting point is 00:12:22 But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Manchin uncharacteristically flips on something. Maybe they tweak this thing to a point where everyone can get on board. I don't personally see how that's gonna happen, but I'm just one idiot. And so I'll pass the question off to you. What are your thoughts regarding this idea

Starting point is 00:12:35 of a billionaire's tax? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Are you somewhere in between? Are you kind of worried about the slippery slope aspect of it? Any and all thoughts you have on this, I'd love to hear from you in those comments down below.

Starting point is 00:12:44 Then we should definitely talk about COVID vaccine and treatment news, starting with the fact that the FDA's advisory panel has now issued a recommendation to allow the Pfizer vaccine to be given to kids between the ages of five and 11. But Greg put the keys down. That doesn't mean you can go out and get the shot right now. It still needs to be approved by the FDA itself,

Starting point is 00:12:59 though that does seem very likely at this point. From there, a CDC advisory panel would make recommendations and offer guidelines on the vaccine vaccines use in the age group, possibly as early as next week. Also speaking of the CDC, we're seeing the news that some immunocompromised people are now eligible for a fourth COVID shot. The CDC is saying that people who are over 18,

Starting point is 00:13:15 who are quote, moderately to severely immunocompromised can get this fourth shot six months after their third, with it being considered a booster that will be only half a dose. And then finally you have Merck saying that it now plans to share the formula for its COVID pill with 105 countries. There's many hailing this decision saying things like, this is the first transparent public health license

Starting point is 00:13:31 for COVID medicine. And really importantly, it's for something that could be used outside of hospitals and which is potentially going to be very cheap. But ultimately that is where this story and today's show ends. Now, of course, whether it be this last story, the first one, anything in between,

Starting point is 00:13:43 I'd love to know your thoughts in those comments down below. But as always, my name's Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 10.27 WOW! What Joe Rogan Trashing Paid Paternity Leave Exposes, Shiba Inu, Adam Levine Video Controversy

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