The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 6.8 The MrBeast Scam Problem YouTube Can't Fix, Epic Jet Ski Chase Caught on Video, & Gary...Oh Gary

Starting point is 00:00:00 Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. I got a great Wednesday show for you today. So how good could it really be when every day feels like the one before and I don't really know what the point of anything is anymore. So buckle up, hit that like button and let's just jump into it.

Starting point is 00:00:13 You know, the first thing that we're gonna talk about today, I don't care if someone tries to cancel me for this. I don't care if YouTube tries to ban me or suppress me or whatever bullshit. We have a problem in America. People are scared to talk about it. We have too few Garys. In 2021, in America, only 252 babies were named Gary,

Starting point is 00:00:29 which is a far cry from when America was America back in 1950, where this was the 14th most popular name. So while Elon Musk and others in general are saying, please have more babies, this is gonna be a problem in this country, I don't say that. But if you do have a baby, maybe name it Gary, even though it's a stupid fucking name. And I feel confident in saying that because there's not a lot

Starting point is 00:00:49 of you. And if there's anything that America and social media have taught me in the last 10 years is it's okay to villainize a group of people if there's not enough people to defend themselves, which is why I want to go a step further and say Gary shouldn't be able to vote. Gary's, if I'm going to be honest with you, have been coasting in this country for a pretty long time. And I know the number one thing Gary's are gonna say, hey, we got a city in Indiana named after us. Yeah, point it out on a fucking map. I bet you can't even point out Indiana. That's less of a dig at Gary's and more dig at the US educational system. Anyway, this concludes the news segment I just made, Phil gets angry about random things rather than going to more therapy.

Starting point is 00:01:22 And then, you know, another day, another story with body cam footage, which, by the way, yesterday, sometimes people ask me things like, if you talk about something on Instagram, you do a poll there, why are you asking us here? Yesterday's story about the Arizona cops, I think, was a fantastic example. On Instagram, people were like, oh, the cops were in the wrong. If you went through the comment section yesterday, people were like, oh, no, I understand why the cops did what they did. And of course, I'm speaking just generally as far as what, like, the majority opinion

Starting point is 00:01:41 seemed to be. But today, we have a dramatic, nail-biting, stomach-clenching, butthole-puckering car chase. And it begins with 48-year-old Ronald Williams allegedly entering someone's backyard while they're not home, sneaking over to their dock, trying to steal their jet ski. But this mastermind's plan goes sideways when he realized, oh, I can't get this thing started. So does our Ronald give up, find something more simple to steal? No, Ronald ain't no quitter. Ronnie boy lives a life about perseverance, about grit, So he decides I'm just gonna drift aimlessly in the water on a jet ski. Genius. So that's when the cops arrived They responded to a neighbor's 911 call. They see him floating out there

Starting point is 00:02:14 But how are they ever going to get to Ronald? His master plan is working. Until they see a father and a son preparing to set off in a boat and they devise their own plan. But the dad then just Being like, you know, fuck it. You guys guys take it the police then engaging in a high speed It wasn't high speed pursuit. It wasn't really even a pursuit with him finally getting close to Ronnie and that's That's when we learned there is another fault in Ronald's plan And if you thought it couldn't get dumber, well. Look at here. Look, I'm tossing you this rope.

Starting point is 00:02:50 Tie it to the front of the jet ski. Okay, where's your front? Oh, Ronnie, what age were you when you realized, oh, I'm Florida man? Oh, people like this exist. But ultimately in the end, our hero, Ronald, fell from grace and is now being charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and trespassing.

Starting point is 00:03:08 And so of course the main point of this story is whether you're Ronald or anyone else, don't be stupid, stupid. And then Mr. Beast and scamming. Those are two things that you normally wouldn't put together, but it's what a lot of people are talking about right now. And that's because Elon Musk posted a meme

Starting point is 00:03:22 that he probably made himself, and it rightly makes fun of how seriously YouTube takes things like cracking down on swearing, but when it comes to scams on the platform, seemingly, eh, not so much, or at least not successfully. To which MrBeast replied, I've gotten fake ads of me giving away money at least a thousand times and feel bad for the hundreds of thousands of people that have been scammed. I've been screaming at them for forever to figure this out, with him sharing an image of those alleged ads where it says that he's giving away $750, along with a part that a user could potentially click that says claim 750. It's labeled as ad in that gold box. It says Mr. Beast next to the ad symbol. And it's potentially way more

Starting point is 00:03:52 dangerous with a Mr. Beast being in the thumbnail because he's known for giveaways. You have people going like, I could understand if YouTube maybe missed things with smaller creators, right? Maybe there was a Philip DeFranco giveaway or someone with like a hundred thousand subscribers, but it's literally fucking Mr. Beast. He is quite literally the biggest individual creator and most well-known creator in the world. And actually to the point of this opening the door for conversations about spam ads on YouTube, YouTube has said that Google has policies in place to combat bad actors and actually removed 175 million ads that violated their misrepresentation and trademark policies in 2021. But you still had a study finding that YouTube ads promoting a crypto scam using Elon Musk's likeness resulted in a theft of $9 million. And that is just

Starting point is 00:04:30 one of many, many scam examples. And actually regarding this, especially because you're using the platform right now, have you noticed that scam ads are a problem here? And secondly, there is the question of will there ever be something put in place that can actually stop this? Because it seems like the problem isn't, okay, we can't suck. It's that we can't suck at scale. When so many people use your platform, there are so many bad actors trying multiple, multiple times to get through your system and you stop 175 million,

Starting point is 00:04:54 others are still gonna get through and each one of those can be incredibly damaging. And personally, I don't think I'm smart enough to know the actual solution, especially one that wouldn't just be immediately worked around by people that are scammers as their main job. And then from that, I wanna take a second to thank the fantastic sponsor of today's show, Public.com, and more specifically, Public.com slash DeFranco. Public

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Starting point is 00:06:09 that by fall of 2024, all phones sold within the EU need to have a USB-C charging port. Now understand, this isn't iPhone specific. This extends to devices in general, including phones, tablets, e-readers, earbuds, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, et cetera. But the EU claiming not only does it reduce the hassle for users, but it also cuts down on e-waves

Starting point is 00:06:26 by allowing consumers to use chargers they already own for new devices. And actually, on that note, they may go forward with even more restrictions as later this year, they'll be looking into whether or not to block companies from including chargers with each device. But I'm also considering how to regulate wireless chargers. And of course, with all this,

Starting point is 00:06:38 the company most affected by all of this will likely be Apple, which is reportedly only just now beginning to test phones with USB-C ports. Now, some have argued that USB-C loses its grip over time compared to Lightning ports, although that claim is subjective. And you need to understand, Apple already offers them for iPads and MacBooks.

Starting point is 00:06:53 But the company has made a better argument of pointing out that, hey, such regulations could stifle innovation. But the counterpoint to that is the EU has a history of adapting its laws as new standards arise. This isn't about stifling innovation or stopping the next big product. This is about you sucking less.

Starting point is 00:07:07 And to be clear, I'm talking to Apple here, not you. Have some self-respect. Though I will say I understand why the most controversial provision in all of this is the inclusion of a laptop. Generally speaking, they require much more power than a phone or a similar device, and higher end laptops may soon outpace the amount of power USB-C can deliver.

Starting point is 00:07:21 And so with this story, if we're in the EU, of course I'd love to know your thoughts about these changes, but if you're in the US, Canada, wherever the hell you are right now, would you want to see your country adopt similar standards? Though I have to think that for Apple, the EU is a big enough market that they would just kind of change all their phones, but maybe not. And then you very likely remember when former Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and hundreds of other athletes came forward during the height of Me Too to accuse the Olympics team doctor, Larry Nassar, of sexually abusing them. With some of the survivors as young as six, and you might remember

Starting point is 00:07:48 Simone Biles giving heart-wrenching testimony to Congress. Well, now, years later, there is still justice being doled out. That's because in a huge update to this story, you have Biles and 90 other gymnasts, including former Olympians, Michaela Maroney and Ali Reisman, suing the FBI for a collective $1 billion, claiming that the agency mishandled its investigation of Nassar, allowing him to keep abusing them even after they reported him to the FBI in 2015. With former athlete Mackie Nichols saying, for 421 days they worked with USA Gymnastics and USOPC to hide this information from the public

Starting point is 00:08:18 and allowed Nassar to continue molesting young women and girls. It is time for the FBI to be held accountable. And as far as how or why this is happening right now, it partly has to do with a report last July by the Justice Department's Inspector General finding that the FBI failed to properly investigate Nassar and even gave false or misleading statements when confronted about that failure. Also noting that about 70 women and girls were victimized by Nassar between the time they were first notified and Nassar was arrested. It also led to another smaller lawsuit by 13 women against the FBI back in April seeking 130 million dollars, you know, so with these lawsuits gonna be very interesting to see what happens with them

Starting point is 00:08:50 But it's just the whole story just brings back that ridiculous heartbreak because it's always horrible when something horrible happens But it becomes so much worse when you find out people knew and could have stopped it And then finally we need to talk about how yesterday was the biggest single day for primary elections this cycle so far. And while obviously I can't hit on everything or discuss a lot of these races in depth in this video, I did want to talk about some key takeaways and overall themes that we saw, especially as we head into the midterms.

Starting point is 00:09:13 And arguably the most significant overarching thing that we saw showcased yesterday were the limits of the far ideological wings of both parties. With Democrats, this was especially clear in regards to topics like public safety and crime, which became a major voting issue, especially in California.

Starting point is 00:09:26 In San Francisco, one of the most liberal cities in America, we saw voters outright recall a progressive district attorney who had won his election in 2019 by campaigning on more left-leaning ideas like sending fewer people to prison and ending cash bail. We also saw in another liberal stronghold in Los Angeles, the mayoral race getting very interesting. There, many voters seem to be persuaded by Rick Caruso, who's a billionaire former Republican who gained prominence on LA's police commission and spent $37 million of his own fortune just plastering the city with campaign ads promising to crack down on crime and homelessness. With Caruso, who ran as a Democrat this time, now officially headed to the runoff with U.S. Representative Karen Bass, who tried to settle the line between criminal justice reform and public safety. Though, very notably here, Bass did push more towards the center on some crime-related issues, including calling for more police on the streets in a move that angered some further left voters. And in this race specifically we saw both of the more

Starting point is 00:10:10 progressive candidates falling super behind Caruso and Bass in the early returns. In fact so much so that the thing got called even though only around 35 percent of precincts were reporting. Meanwhile on the right we also saw Republican voters bucking the Trumpian wing of the party with many voting against candidates who had aligned themselves with the former president and embracing moderates who have rejected him. In general, incumbent House Republicans held off challengers from the right. South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson defeating a far-right state representative who had targeted him for voting to certify the 2020 election and had spread the big lie. In California, two moderate Republican representatives, one of whom voted to impeach Trump, were in good places

Starting point is 00:10:41 to beat challenges from Trump loyalists. In New Jersey, Representative Chris Smith, a moderate Republican, also fended off a group of challengers that included a Trump-backed conservative talk radio host, with other Trump-backed candidates also hitting road bumps. This including his former Interior Secretary Ryan Zink, who resigned in 2019 amid scandals over ethics violation investigations regarding misuse of taxpayer money in conflicts of interest. And this was definitely a standout because he was expected to easily win back his old House seat in Montana. And hey, he still may win, but right now he's locked in an incredibly close race that's too close to call with 86% of the votes in. And even if he does win, the fact that a Trump official with such major name recognition is having such a close race is very significant on its own. Right, especially because the primaries yesterday, it didn't happen in a bubble.

Starting point is 00:11:18 It comes about two weeks after Kemp and Raffensperger won in Georgia. And I will say, you know, the note of Trumpian Republicans and more moderates, like for some reason, the January 6th commission is suddenly a new voting issue. And I think all of this is interesting on its own, but it's also going to be very interesting to kind of understand where people's mindsets are as we go into the public hearings for January 6th tomorrow. Because I get the time has passed and people have kind of tried to water down the memory of January 6th. They tried to sometimes even gaslight that it was a nothing. But one, hopefully we learn even more from this hearing. And two, I think it's just important to remember that a lot of the people that are pushing this big lie, a lot of people that try to downplay

Starting point is 00:11:52 this bullshit, they are just, they're attacking democracy. It shows us that not everyone has drank the Kool-Aid yet, but also a scary amount of people have drank the Kool-Aid. And if you don't think that democracy is on the ballot, this and next, and God fucking knows how many elections we get to have from here, by now, I don't know what to say. But ultimately, that is where today's show ends. Thank you for watching, liking, being a part of the conversation down below.

Starting point is 00:12:14 If you want, I've also got you covered with more news right here. But my name's Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love your faces and I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 6.8 The MrBeast Scam Problem YouTube Can't Fix, Epic Jet Ski Chase Caught on Video, & Gary...Oh Gary

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