The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 10.7 Streamer Crashes McLaren While Reading Chat, Call Her Daddy “Kamala Harris Scandal“, & Today’s News

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

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OnlyFans manager, and professional fuckboy was all over the news this weekend because of this clip. Oh, oh, no, no, no! Where he crashes $200,000 McLaren while live streaming on Kik, which also makes this video from a year ago seem prophetic. Today's the day I'm picking up my brand new McLaren. I'm super excited. I have no idea what anything does.

I'm so confused right now, guys. Crash this car, mark my words. But also, like, don't be mistaken. This wasn't just some inevitable misfortune that befell him. No, rather, you've got people arguing that this was totally reckless on his part, largely due to three things that the stream appears to show. First of all, he's driving on a wet highway in the rain. Second, he's apparently speeding.

And third, he's repeatedly glancing down at his phone, possibly to read chat. And so when the video picks back up, the sports car's crashed into the guardrail and Doherty's stuck inside. Help, help, help! Break the window! But then some people pulling him out of the wreck

seemingly okay, all things considered. But his cameraman, like that is a different story as you can see him get out of the passenger seat, clutching his arm with blood running down his face. With Andoarty being criticized for seeming to care more about his totaled car and capturing footage than his injured employee. No, my car, bro.

My car! Holy, no! Bro, my whole car, bro. No way! Right, and at one point he hands the camera to his cameraman who's still bleeding, and as we'd later discover would need stitches. Michael, here.

Michael, do you have your film on that phone too? Though to be fair, he did technically also ask Michael whether he was okay at least a couple of times. But regardless, this was apparently the last straw for Kik, which permanently banned Doherty's account. Right in this, reportedly for violating its safety rules. And also notably after multiple other incidents where he was also driving recklessly on camera.

Like in March, for example, when he flipped a brand new off-road vehicle. Holy. Or in November when he crashed a golf cart with his girlfriend inside, toppling it on her side and then lifting it off of her. Oh! And right now, in addition to Doherty being roasted online for just all of this taking place,

you also have a lot of people going after him for acting like he's this hurt little baby bird that bears no responsibility. Right, posting a video on X saying, "'Crashed my McLaren, glad we're both okay.'" Them filming vlog style as he's pulled out of the vehicle, obviously not showing what led to this crash. With him also then plugging his website.

And I'm just left looking at this wondering, will this motherfucker learn a lesson? Because everything I've seen from this guy over the past year, he just seems like the fucking worst. Or one of these live streaming dickheads who go out of their way to be dickheads and feel comfortable being dickheads because they have big security with them.

I mean, do you know how much you have to suck for Kik to ban you? A lot, and unfortunately, I don't think that you're really gonna learn from this. Because unfortunately, and it's not a new thing, especially in like the creator ecosystem, there are certain kinds of people that do not care what kind of attention they are getting

as long as they are getting attention. And if they are making money, they think, oh, that means I'm right. But then we gotta talk about this 10 year old boy who took a stolen vehicle for a GTA style joy ride around a crowded playground in Minneapolis. You see him drive across the sidewalk right there. And then he keeps going back and forth in the background

as kids are just feet away. With school staff frantically ushering children off the playground and luckily none were hurt. And with all this, we've now learned that the police have arrested the boy for second degree assault and booked him in the juvenile detention center. And if you're wondering, you know, what happened, right?

Did he get bored of the monkey bars where the seesaw's just not doing it for him anymore? Well, it turns out the kid's actually a career criminal. The police saying this is at least his third arrest and he's a suspect in a dozen cases ranging from auto theft to robbery to assault with a dangerous weapon. And his rap sheet reportedly counts around 30 priors

dating as far back as May of 2023. Though also, to be fair, most of those are runaway incidents. You know, as comical or wacky as all of this may seem on the surface, there's actually a deeper issue here that does also to be fair, most of those are runaway incidents. You know, as comical or wacky as all this may seem on the surface, there's actually a deeper issue here that does need to be solved, which is also why you get the county attorney's office saying in a statement, we are facing an urgent crisis in our community

related to a small group of children who are not competent to stand trial in the juvenile justice system, but who cannot safely be at home. With them adding, we are actively engaged with law enforcement as well as county and state partners about the critical need for safe and appropriate out-of-home placements for children

with these complex needs who require specialized care. In closing, we cannot charge or prosecute our way out of this crisis. But then these Alex Cooper allegations and backlash, they're wild because you have some of her fans and others online alleging she is spreading propaganda after the normally not so political caller Daddy Hoes had Kamala Harris on her show.

With a number of people slamming Cooper on X, as well as in the comments of a teaser for the episode posted on the Caller Daddy Instagram account, writing things like Caller Propaganda. Others claiming they're gonna stop listening to Caller Daddy, condemning Cooper for veering into politics and implying that the Harris campaign paid her off. Right in this is you have people saying that Cooper

was biased because why wasn't she interviewing Trump as well? And this is you also had some critics taking aim at Harris or saying, why is she doing this rather than traditional media? But with all that said, you know, Cooper, for her part, actually addressed much of the criticism against her first thing in the introduction to the full episode, explaining why she had Harris on the show. As you guys know, I do not usually discuss politics or have politicians on the show because I want Call Her Daddy to be a place that everyone feels comfortable tuning in. Overall, my focus is women and the day-to-day issues that we face. So I will be honest. I had been going back and forth with this decision for a while to get involved or to not get involved. But at the end of the day,

I couldn't see a world in which one of the main conversations in this election is women, and I'm not a part of it. I want to be so clear, since this isn't a one-sided conversation, we reached out to former President Donald Trump to come on the show. If he also wants to have a meaningful, in-depth conversation about women's rights in this country, then he is welcome on Call Her Daddy anytime. Right, and as Cooper indicated there, much of the discussion she had with Harris centered on women's issues like reproductive rights and abortion, sexual abuse and safety, as well as how Trump will impact women's rights. Right, she has a very female audience. Women's issues are big to her, and she she even noted like, I'm not the person to ask fracking questions. And with this episode,

some of the most notable and widely shared moments came from discussions they had around abortion, like this clip where Cooper asked about a key moment from the Trump-Harris debate. I do want to clarify something. In the debate, former President Trump claimed that some states are executing babies after birth. Can you just clarify? That is not happening anywhere in the United States. It is not happening. And it's a lie. Just it's a bold faced lie that he is suggesting that. Can you can you imagine he is suggesting that women in their ninth month of pregnancy are electing to have an abortion are you kidding that is that is so outrageously inaccurate and it's so insulting as well as this connected moment from Harris. Because here's the thing that's so messed up about this.

Some of these people will say, whoa, but I do believe in exceptions. I believe that there should be an exception in terms of in the life of the mother. Okay, here, let's talk about this. This gets back to, again, practical application of policy. Okay, so you believe there's an exception that the person should receive abortion care

if the life of the mother is at risk. You know what that means in practical terms? She's almost dead before you decide to give her care. What? So we're gonna have public health policy that says, a doctor, a medical professional, waits until you're at death's door before they give you care?

That's outrageous that anybody would be saying that that is acceptable policy. Cooper also asking Harris to respond to comments Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders made last week where she criticized Harris for not having biological kids. And with that saying that Harris, quote, "'Doesn't have anything keeping her humble,'

to which Harris said. I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who one are not aspiring to be humble. And I think it's really important for women to lift each other up. We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both. And I consider it to be a real blessing. And I have two beautiful children, Cole and Ella, who call me Mamala. We have a very modern family. But with all that, while there was backlash against Cooper and Harris, there was also a ton of support. Many cheering Cooper on for using her platform to talk about important issues, especially for women. Some also saying that the interview itself

was really meaningful and impactful. And others also hitting back at those who criticize Harris for going on Call Her Daddy by noting just how massive of a reach the podcast has, right? And not just when compared to more mainstream media outlets, but especially with key voter bases that Harris absolutely needs to win, particularly young women

who aren't necessarily politically active, right? And I mean, according to Spotify last year, Call Her Daddy was the platform's second absolutely needs to win, particularly young women who aren't necessarily politically active, right? And I mean, according to Spotify last year, "'Call Her Daddy' was the platform's second most listened to podcast, not just in the US, but globally as well, with the trailing only the Joe Rogan experience in both categories. And it's also been reported that "'Call Her Daddy' was the most listened to podcast

among women last year as well, with Cooper herself previously saying, after she first signed her big Spotify deal, that she thinks around 90% of her fans now are women, and other outlets finding that her primary audience is 18 to 29 years old. Also, I just gotta throw this in here. If you had no problem with Donald Trump

going on Logan Paul's podcast, chopping it up with the NELC boys, letting Aiden Ross do tricks on it while he was lying, but you have a problem with this, you're criticizing this, you're a fucking hypocrite. Donald Trump is very smart to go where key audiences are listening, especially key audiences that are not inclined to listen to mainstream media. So why would Kamala Harris or Tim Walz not do the exact same thing?

Especially because I think in this election, the thing that is going to move the needle, it's a very highly contested race. The thing that's going to move the needle is being on all fronts, not just TV ads and the money going there, going to where people are actually talking and listening. I mean, it's part of the reason the richest fucking man in the world bought Twitter. There's always all these articles about Elon Musk and Twitter, and they're like, oh my God, the valuation, it's so low now compared to when he bought it.

It was never about him making money. It was about control. He has bolstered and rallied the right over the weekend. He was on stage jumping up like Donald Trump's most goodest boy. I woke up and opened X, and the first five things I got were Elon Musk tweets that were about politics and an ad.

All of which are also things that Musk and his crew would have crucified other people like Zuckerberg or Jack for doing in the past. But all of that is to say there are a number of reasons all this faux outrage, it's fucking silly. But also going back to Kamala, right? She's not stopping with Call Her Daddy now. She also appeared on 60 Minutes last night.

Later this week, she's set to sit down with Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern, and The View. Meanwhile, Tim Walz is set to appear on Jimmy Kimmel, as well as going on the Smart List podcast. And all of this is to be expected, right? Both campaigns right now are on a full media blitz. You're just 29 days away from the election. And so in addition to once again,

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Prize picks, run your game. Then, y'all, we gotta talk about how mysterious white vans have snatched up thousands of people across the country and taken them to Phoenix for one of the biggest Medicaid fraud schemes ever uncovered. And actually, to put this madness that we're about to dive into into context, ever since Europeans brought alcohol to the Americas,

indigenous people have struggled with higher rates of severe substance abuse. Right, I mean, to this day, they suffer more alcohol-related health issues and deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. Yet, at the same time, they have some of the lowest access to addiction treatment and healthcare in general. So in Arizona, the government offers health coverage

specifically to indigenous people through the American Indian Health Program, which very crucially is different than your typical Medicaid coverage. You see, because instead of reimbursing providers with a fixed rate, the program allows the providers themselves to set their own rates and bill the government without any oversight.

And so I know this is gonna shock you. You're gonna think, not in my America. Shady providers looked at poor indigenous populations and they saw dollar signs. And that's why all of a sudden a few years ago, white vans started prowling around tribal reservations all over the United States, with them picking out anyone who looked homeless

or intoxicated, and then promising them shelter, food, and a chance to get sober. And once the person got in, these vans carried them dozens or even hundreds of miles away to Phoenix, where a network of sober living homes awaited them. Now to be fair, some homes did actually make an effort to provide treatment, but those were few and far between.

Right, most people who talked to reporters, they described empty, unmanaged facilities with no furniture, little food, no counseling or enforcement of sobriety, with people routinely drinking, doing drugs, and fighting inside the homes, and some even overdosing and dying right there in their bedroom.

In fact, according to NPR, one place locked residents in their room while another gave them a daily allowance, which many just spent on alcohol. With one person saying about the classes they had to attend, quote, it's the same curriculum over and over again. Most of us just ended up passing out in class. And I mean, even the white vans,

they sometimes reportedly stopped at liquor stores on the way to Phoenix to ply people with alcohol. With one Navajo citizen and state senator telling the New York Times, the idea seems like let's keep them drunk, keep them using, the longer they stay, the more money. And while in reality, these were basically glorified crack houses on paper,

they looked like legit treatment centers housing thousands of patients. And thanks to the lax oversight, especially during the pandemic, nobody looked any deeper. So the facility's owners, they turned Arizona's Medicaid program into a giant slush fund. With them billing the state exorbitant amounts

for treatment services they didn't actually provide as well as for patients who had left, gone to jail or died. Between 2019 and 2022, payouts for outpatient behavioral health claims exploded from $53 million to $668 million, with one woman who's since been arrested raking in $22 million through two treatment companies that she owned. But they're then reportedly spending that on cars, homes in Las Vegas and Arizona, diamond necklaces, and a showroom's worth of Gucci, Versace, and Louis Vuitton bags.

And of course, all the while, Native American patients just lived in squalor. But over time, state officials then noticed the ballooning Medicaid costs, and slowly word started to get out about what was happening. And so the FBI, state, and tribal authorities investigated. And in May of 2023, Arizona's new governor, Katie Hobbs,

revealed the extent of the crisis, with the details really only getting worse and worse since then. Right, reportedly, since 2019, the fake providers have defrauded Arizona as much as $2.5 billion. With the state's Medicaid agency suspending reimbursements to 290 providers and capping payouts to everyone

under the American Indian Health Program. And with that, you might think, okay, that's it, right? The bad guys go to jail, the victims get the treatment they need, everybody goes home. Roll credits, happy ending. But no, as it turns out, a lot of legitimate healthcare providers, they got caught in the crackdown on all these fraudsters. Roll credits, happy ending. But no, as it turns out, a lot of legitimate healthcare providers, they got caught in the crackdown on all these fraudsters.

In fact, you have ProPublica reporting that 30 formerly suspended behavioral health providers have been cleared to start getting reimbursed again. But during those suspensions and ensuing legal battles, I mean, they lost a lot of blood, financially speaking. In fact, in a survey of providers this spring, half said they were close to shutting down, and another 20% said they had either already closed

or were filing for bankruptcy, with many others going into debt, laying off staff, and regrettably turning away Native American patients. And so as a result, people who at least had some housing, whether a legit sober living home or one of the fraudulent places, they found themselves suddenly homeless. And since many of them had been driven across the country in white vans, they were left stranded hundreds of miles from their families and reservations with no money and no cell phone. But also they weren't just stranded anywhere. They were in fucking Arizona in the middle of the summer, which if you've ever been,

does not feel like an actually habitable place on the planet. Now with all this, thankfully, the state did create a hotline to help them get treatment, housing or transportation back home. Here's the catch. That service only connected people to three hotels in the Phoenix metro area.

Plus, if you didn't have a phone or you just never heard about the hotline or you were far from the city, that didn't matter much. So according to ProPublica, the state kept no record of what happened to most of the hotline's 11,400 callers. Though it did say of the over 4,000 people who received temporary lodging, only about 150 requested referrals

to behavioral health centers. And more than 575 ended up unsheltered, increasing their chances of relapse or death. And so now in the wake of this crackdown, spending on American Indian health program services plummeted by two thirds as of July. Meaning for Arizona's taxpayers, the problem is as good as done, the crisis is over.

But for the native Americans actually suffering from substance abuse, things are worse now than before they climbed into those white vans. And really if like the last 400 years of history on this continent give any clue, that's exactly how it's likely gonna remain. A cycle of letting people be exploited, then trying to help them, then making the last 400 years of history on this continent give any clue, that's exactly how it's likely gonna remain. A cycle of letting people be exploited, then trying to help them, then making the problem worse,

and then just forgetting and moving on. And then, in really interesting medical news, there are real concerns of the FDA's latest plans to combat racial bias in the medical world, that it's not actually gonna be nearly enough to help minority patients. And actually at the center of this are pulse oximeters, which are those little clamps

that hospitals put on your fingertip to see how much oxygen's in your blood. Because as it turns out, they're not very effective for patients with darker skin and especially black folks. And Dr. Noha Abuelta documented one such case herself. She had an African-American patient with emphysema who was showing 88% blood oxygen saturation, which is one, very low, and two, actually a sign that the patient is at imminent risk of hypoxia

and possible organ failure. But considering the patient's history of lung diseases, the doctor thought he was actually worse than that. So she had blood work done and it was confirmed that the patient for sure needed supplemental oxygen all the time. And we all saw similar problems during COVID. In December of 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine

published a piece that showed pulse oximeters were three times as likely to misreport dangerous oxygen levels in black patients as white ones. Or what happened to 70-year-old Walter Wilson? You see, he had COVID and he was using a pulse oximeter at home to gauge whether his case was bad enough to go to the hospital. And while I kept reporting that he was in a safe range,

things were clearly not going well. So he goes, he checks himself into the hospital and it was confirmed he was sick as fuck. Which is also why he's joining a class action lawsuit against pulse oximeter manufacturers. Right, and it's because of reports like this alongside other well-documented cases of racial bias in the medical world that state attorneys general

and even US senators have been pushing the FDA to put new rules in place to combat that. Especially because to be clear, racial bias in the medical world is not new. I mean, it is something we have covered on this show countless times, right? Like how self-reported symptoms from black women are more commonly ignored than their white counterparts.

And this especially being true of pregnant black women and even extremely rich and famous people like Beyonce and Serena Williams. They're not immune. Now, obviously with that, you're gonna have people arguing the human element, but pulse oximeters, they're machines. So the question becomes, well, how can they be biased?

But it's entirely possible that bias can be inadvertently introduced, such as by not testing the devices on enough dark skinned people. And I mean, this issue has actually been on the FDA's radar for years now. In 2021, they even sent letters to doctors warning them how inaccurate they could be for some patients and then funded research into the problem. And then this year,

it was supposed to release new rules for manufacturers last week, which the agency said would include new requirements for manufacturers to test the devices on far more people with darker skin. However, industry experts think that pushback from manufacturers will soften the rules. Like for example, the new rules aren't expected to require oximeter makers to actually test the devices on people with perfusion, which is when a patient is dehydrated at the point that blood circulation is affected. And this is important because one, it's not uncommon, and two, it's well-documented

in people with cardiovascular diseases, which is extremely relevant here, as black people are more likely to have cardiovascular diseases. And so it's the compounding nature of these factors that make testing just one thing ineffective, which is something that people on the FDA's Medical Devices Advisory Committee

even warned about. And so one, we'll have to wait and see what happens, but also two, this is a battle over information and spreading it. But then in wild international news, you know, Haiti is no stranger to violence, but that does not make what happened there last week any less shocking because there was a massacre that left dozens dead and thousands on the run. With it all going down last Thursday, but the details have been slowly trickling out ever since. Right, so reportedly around 3 a.m., gang members equipped with automatic rifles

descended on a small town in the central part of the country, roughly 60 miles north of the capital. And according to a local spokesperson, many victims were shot in the head as gang members went house to house, with the spokesperson saying, "'They were left to shoot anybody. "'Everybody was running everywhere.

"'They were walking, shooting people, killing people, "'burning people, burning homes, burning cars. With that, when the violence ended, at least 70 people, including 10 women and three infants were dead. And in addition to that, more than 6,000 people were forced to flee. And notably, regarding the death toll,

a prominent civil rights organization in the country, they said that the death toll was likely higher, which if that's the case, that might surpass the 71 person massacre that took place in the Capitol in 2018, which is considered the worst in decades. And notably there, right, that civil rights group, it also said that rumors have been circulating

for two months about an attack like this, with them saying in a statement, "'If funds allocated to the intelligence service "'of various state institutions had been used effectively, "'the massacre could have been avoided.'" And with all this, you now have a monster by the name of Luxon Ilan taking responsibility, with him saying that it was in retaliation

for the town's people remaining passive while police and vigilante groups killed his soldiers. And as far as who he and his soldiers are, well, he's the leader of a gang in the area that's been accused of everything from mass kidnappings to rape and murder as well as forcing farmers off their lands and recruiting children. And actually with that, the US sanctioned him

along with a former Haitian politician just last month. There, it's not clear exactly what effect that's really having. And that's just one way the efforts of the international community seem to just not be enough. Like for example, Haiti has received a fraction of the resources it's been promised. And efforts to bring in a formal UN peacekeeping mission,

well, they've been underwhelming to say the least. Three months into its deployment, the force is just over 400 of the planned 2,500 officers. And notably the force has no presence in the area near where the massacre happened, which is a key agricultural region where at least 20 gangs are known to operate. So with all that,

the situation has just been getting worse and worse. Armed gangs control most of the capital and they're expanding to nearby regions. There's now more than 3,600 people being killed this year alone. Plus the number of people internally displaced by the conflict has grown to more than 700,000, nearly doubling in six months.

And this of course is others have fled abroad. And there, nearby nations have actually sometimes sent them back. With the US for example, even deporting a few dozen Haitians back in April. Also to that point, we've obviously had a lot of discussion about the Haitian community in the US recently. And with that, just last week,

Trump said he would revoke the immigration status for thousands of Haitian migrants living legally in the country. And this of course is he's also promised to deport millions of immigrants from the country. And of course a lot of it is driven by rhetoric framing immigration as a threat to security. But there, it's important to say with Haiti, for example,

we've done more to threaten their security than any Haitians are threatening our own. I mean, there's a lot of history there that's worth learning about. But even besides that, it's believed the country's gangs are armed largely by guns trafficked from the US. And actually, as a similar example, it's estimated that 70% of the weapons trafficked

into Mexico come from the US, which is why the Supreme Court is now considering a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Mexico against American gun makers. And then, I mean, as far as crime in general, I mean, there's no evidence that documented or undocumented immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than citizens.

In fact, some studies say they commit less. And again, I mean, when we're talking about Haitians, some of them have left the kind of violence many of us can't even fathom. And it's also violence that the US has played at least some role in creating. But that my friends is the end of your Monday evening, Tuesday morning dive into the news.

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