The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 4.21 The Truth About Mike Tyson's "Airplane Beatdown", Why CNN+ Failed, Casey Neistat, & Today's News

Episode Date: April 21, 2022

Go to http://www.vessi.com/defranco and use code ​DEFRANCO to get $25 off each pair of adult Vessi shoes! Free shipping to CA, US, AUS, NZ, JP, TW, KR, SGP News You Might Have Missed: https://youtu.be/jP886BpEMVk TEXT ME! [phone] Get More Phil: https://linktr.ee/PhilipDeFranco – 00:00 - Skinny Legend Stuff 01:10 - As Inflation Rises, Smaller Thefts Count as Felonies 04:35 - Video Shows Mike Tyson Punching Plane Passenger 06:57 -  Sponsor 07:51 - CNN+ Shuts Down One Month After Launch 08:38 - Ukraine Updates – ✩ TODAY’S STORIES ✩ As Inflation Rises, Smaller Thefts Count as Felonies: https://www.axios.com/inflation-prices-shoplifting-felony-misdemeanor-cc0ea68d-28d8-4618-b2b0-58cd290e64f4.html Video Shows Mike Tyson Punching Plane Passenger: ​https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-repeatedly-punches-man-face-plane-bloodies-passenger/ CNN+ Shuts Down One Month After Launch: https://deadline.com/2022/04/cnn-plus-to-shut-down-1235007346/ Ukraine Updates: https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/21/world/ukraine-russia-war-news How to Help Refugees: https://www.unrefugees.org.uk/take-action/how-to-help-ukraine/ https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/04/21/president-biden-announce-uniting-ukraine-new-streamlined-process-welcome-ukrainians https://welcome.us/ —————————— Executive Producer: Amanda Morones Produced by: Cory Ray Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg Art Department: Brian Borst, William Crespo Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Brian Espinoza, Maddie Crichton, Lili Stenn, Ben Wheeler, Chris Tolve Production Team: Zack Taylor, Emma Leid ———————————— #DeFranco #CaseyNeistat #MikeTyson ———————————— Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you so much. Have a good one. Phil? Phil? All I see is a kitchen. Hey! He's alive! Hey, good morning. How are you, sir? I'm alive. Thank you for coming in. You caught me as I was about to raw dog some blueberries. You look skinny, Phil DeFranco. Thank you. All it took was disease. Have you lost weight? 30 pounds.

3-0? Actually, wait, since you last saw me, 20 pounds, but yeah. And how much of that was on purpose and how much of that was your body revolting? All of it's on purpose. It was my body revolted because of how I was eating, so I had to change how I was eating. I had an amoeba once and I lost about 18 pounds in six or seven days. That's a parasite living inside my body that was eating all the food that I was eating.

Yeah, I got it in Africa, it was cool. Wait, so, but I have a question not about Africa. I have a question about New York. And if you know this, I'm gonna question some things. Do you know the dollar amount that you can steal in New York before it becomes a felony? Yeah, I think it's $950. Oh, close. Yeah. Well, either you're right or I'm right. It's $1,000.

Okay. Do you know when they made that law? My understanding is that it was fairly recent, like in the last couple of years as part of criminal justice reform, but I'm not 100% on that. 1986. It is a year younger than me. Did not know that. And do you know if you jump over state lines to New Jersey, I don't know if you ever would, but if you did, do you know what the limit is there? I mean, my assumption would be that it's significantly lower, but I don't know the answer. $200. And then if you got on a flight like Casey Neistat does, but not on one of those cool lay down seats and you went to Texas, what do you think the dollar amount is? Again, if I had to guess, I would say substantially lower.

No, everything bigger in Texas, $2,500. Wow, fascinating. But so here's the thing. When the New York law was set, right, 1986, for inflation, that's around $2,600 now. For New Jersey, the inflation is even crazier. It's 360%. And so the number is around $880. And the reason I say this is because of inflation, and we're seeing a lot of it now, people are getting charged with felonies for things that, for what they would not have been charged like five years ago.

Yeah, that's fascinating. The question I have for you is, do you think that the limit, right, the threshold that politicians said that is what equals a felony should rise with inflation? I would first need to better understand the correlation, if there is any, between having a lower threshold to a higher crime and a higher punishment. Does that actually reduce shoplifting? And if it doesn't, then of course the number should be higher. But if having a felony would discourage people from shoplifting, then perhaps it should stay lower. Because I know that you're a little bit of a politician and you're not quick to jump to conclusions. I'm already prepped for that because according to the National Retail Federation, they're saying that we're seeing more

crime happen because of increased thresholds that have happened in a few states. But you have the Pew Charitable Trust saying they examined crime trends in 30 states that raised their felony theft threshold between 2000 and 2012 and found that there was no increase on overall property crime or larceny rates. And I'm gonna put Casey on hold for a second because I do want to ask you, where do you think you stand on this? Because personally, I can see it both ways. Politicians said, this is what we feel is the threshold in our state,

but as the value of a dollar goes down, so does the threshold. But I could also understand not wanting to raise the threshold because then you can be seen as soft on crime, inviting more of it. And then of course, there's a debate that if you raise the threshold,

there'll be fewer felonies and people could actually focus more on violent crimes, which are actually a little bit up. And so with this story, I want to pass the question off to you. If you were in control, do you think that the threshold should raise with inflation? Yes, no, why, why not? Let me know. But wait, Casey, last thing you want to say. Last thing I want to say is stop calling me at 808 in the morning to ask me political questions, Phil DeFranco. Also, you look great. Thank you. With that said, welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. Buckle up, hit that like button,

and let's just keep this thing rolling. Is that good? Yeah. Thank you. And then, Will Smith and Ezra Miller who? Because we need to talk about the absolutely insane video the TMZ released this morning showing Mike Tyson just clobbering another guy on a plane. Reportedly, the incident happened last night at 1030

as the plane was preparing to take off from San Francisco. And I'll give you one guess which airline it was. Yep, JetBlue back in the news. Well, a witness told TMZ that Tyson was initially cool with the man, even taking a selfie with him. Things took a massive downhill turn after that man allegedly began to harass Tyson, with this eventually leading to Tyson turning around

from his seat and repeatedly punching this man in the head. From there, Tyson reportedly walks off the plane, and in a video that was recorded after, you see the man's forehead bloody, with the guy filming this whole situation saying, Boy just got beat up by Mike Tyson. Turn that way. Yeah, he got f***ed up. Just trying to ask for an autograph, man. I don't know what happened. Now, I really want to note, there are still a ton of gaps in this messy story, but according to TMZ, eventually, we're told Tyson had enough of the guy behind him talking in his ear and told him to

chill. When the guy didn't, that's when the witness says Tyson started to throw several punches at the man's face. With it also reporting that sources close to Mike claimed the man was extremely intoxicated and would not stop provoking the boxer in his seat. TMZ also giving more details later this afternoon when it quoted a rep for Tyson who referred to the passenger as aggressive, saying he harassed Tyson and adding that the man eventually threw a water bottle at Tyson while he was in his seat. It was unclear how bad the guy's injuries are, though TMZ said he got medical attention. The outlet also noting that the man went to police, but as of recording, it's unclear if he plans on or has already pressed charges. And personally, I'm left going, I kind of gotta give

Mike Tyson the benefit of the doubt here, especially if that bit about the water bottle is true. Because one, if the other guy made a physical first, game on. But also two, I feel like Mike Tyson later in life has proved to be a very calm individual. And there have been examples, instances, where the situation is crazy. And Tyson maintains a cool head, so I feel like something had to have happened. I mean, we're talking about Mike Tyson, where just a few weeks ago, Tyson kept his cool after a man at a comedy show pulled out a gun and cocked it, challenging him to a fight. While people were fleeing and ducking, and Tyson has it in him to disarm this man. Tyson just sat there in silence until the man calmed down

with Tyson then even hugging him. But you know, main thing, we've seen the video, we have some information, we kind of just have to wait to see. Because yeah, more information is gonna come out. Obviously we're gonna see more statements. Things are a little bit murky now, so I kind of want to hold off my opinion.

Yeah, I guess the piece of advice I can add to this story, whether you think Mike Tyson was in the right or in the wrong here, is it's never a good idea to drunkenly harass a stranger, but it may be the worst idea to drunkenly harass someone that has been a trained killer for most of their life. You know, rightly or wrongly, you're fucking around and you're gonna find out.

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And then in absolutely shocking news to pretty much no one except the people that came up with the idea, CNN Plus has been a failure. And we learned as of today, they did not take my offer to take it off of their hands for $13,000 in a waffle maker. And instead decided to just shut down CNN+. This lights out on April 30th. This is a massive embarrassment for the company, a massive waste of money, and I kind of think the main thing that we learn from this is even the

most dedicated watcher of CNN isn't like, I want more of that. Well, I think that this pretty much would have failed at any time. I really think the only time they could have launched this and maybe had success is right after Trump got elected. Then they're a network that's in opposition to the sitting president. I just wonder what their answer to the why question was. Whenever you make something, there needs to be the question of why does this exist? If the answer isn't good enough or there is no answer, that thing is going to die. And then, of course, we need to talk about what's going on in Ukraine. First things first, Ukrainian officials are claiming that in more and more cities they're finding mass graves and what are growing signs that Russia is engaged

in systemic war crimes. Picking up where we left last time with the Battle of the Donbass and the siege of Mariupol. With the siege, it was expected that the defenders literally had hours left to live if Russia decided to storm the factory and the bunkers surrounding it. But Putin decided, screw it. Announcing today they would starve them out instead of taking what would inevitably be heavy losses. This has led to Ukrainian President Zelensky trying to open talks to release the soldiers and civilians in the Mary Pole pocket, though Russia is likely not to respond to that request and it hasn't been especially helpful in allowing citizens to leave the city. Six thousand people were supposed to be able to board buses yesterday but only a few thousand were able to actually get out. Elsewhere, in the Battle of

the Donbass, Ukrainian forces have managed to hold on to key positions, although Russia has made serious efforts to dislodge them, claiming that it hit 1 hit 1001 Ukrainian military targets with missiles and artillery last night However, as per usual with these Russian attacks It appears that their definition of military target is a bit loose with civilians reporting being attacked as well in areas such as Harkiv With a prospect of needing to fight mass Russian tanks and artillery with a little more than infantry Although extremely well equipped infantry is no surprise that we've seen Zelensky continuing his efforts to secure heavy weapons, and that has seemingly paid off. First off, Ukraine has managed to field 20 more fighter planes after getting spare parts and repairing grounded aircraft. But also beyond that, Western nations have continued to ramp up their shipment of weapons. And according to multiple reports,

U.S. defense officials claim that Ukraine has been given whole helicopters, including helicopters from the U.S. And that's part of an $800 million aid deal Biden approved last week that also includes sending artillery and plenty of ammunition for it. Britain has also approved a $130 million arms package for Ukraine. That deal including anti-tank missiles, air defense systems, and non-lethal equipment. Norway also approving sending more weapons. And even Israel, which has been reluctant to take part in arming Ukraine in any way, has made a policy shift, sending body armor and helmets to Ukraine. However, all of that doesn't mean that Ukraine still doesn't need more. Howitzers and anti-missile defense systems are great and all, but in reality it also desperately needs tanks and jets, neither of which it seems to have received yet despite some nations signaling their willingness to send them. Though with that,

Russia has not taken that prospect lightly, and in response reportedly tested its newer nuclear missile yesterday, with Putin claiming it would quote, give thought to those who are trying to threaten Russia. But the US, at least publicly, doesn't appear to be worried with Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby saying, such testing is routine and it was not a surprise. "'It was not deemed to be a threat "'to the United States or its allies.'" And ultimately, where I wanna end on this topic is what's being done for the 5 million or so Ukrainians that have fled the country.

Right, many nations have opened up their borders for them, though the US has lagged behind a bit. But actually, that changed today with the Biden administration announcing a plan to make good on its promise to take in at least 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. With Homeland Security Secretary, Mayorkas, saying in a statement,

"'We are proud to deliver on President Biden's commitment "'to welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. With Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas saying in a statement, we are proud to deliver on President Biden's commitment to welcome 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russian aggression to the United States. And adding, DHS will continue to provide relief to the Ukrainian people while supporting our European allies who have shouldered so much as the result of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.

And apparently starting Monday, US-based individuals and entities can apply online to sponsor Ukrainian citizens. With sponsors needing to pass background checks and prove they can financially support the refugees under their care. And to qualify, Ukrainians must have been residents of Ukraine as of February 11th,

so this won't apply to many Ukrainians who are already living abroad before the war. With the Ukrainians also needing to have required vaccinations and they have to clear their own background checks to arrive. And once approved, they'll be allowed to travel to the US and apply for work authorization.

With authorities mostly expecting organizations such as Welcome.US, a refugee aid organization led by former President Barack Obama and George W. Bush, to provide aid. They're also planning for most refugees to have families in the U.S., as 1 million U.S.-born citizens are of Ukrainian descent, with a further 355,000 Ukrainian immigrants. However, the plan has some hiccups. First is that these people are arriving on parole, though Biden officials say they plan to expand it to allow for permanent pathways for vulnerable groups such as women and children. It also requires refugees to arrive from Europe

with a plan explicitly stating that those arriving at ports of entry and the border without authorization will be denied starting Monday, which is very notable for the roughly 15,000 Ukrainians sitting on the US-Mexico border, hoping for a way to get in, with them seemingly screwed as of right now. But ultimately where I'll end this is if you want

to help Ukrainians trying to come to the US, I'll leave some resources for you down below. But ultimately that is where that story and today's show ends. And as always, my name's Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love yo faces and I'll see you next time.