The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 9.13 DISGUSTING! I’d Be Arrested in the UK For This, Abolish The Monarchy, & Leaked Docs Expose The Truth

Starting point is 00:00:00 Sup you beautiful bastards! Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. Buckle up, make sure you're subscribed because I'm splitting $10,000 across 10 lucky subscribed beautiful bastards this month. And let's just jump into it. Freedom of speech is the thing that allows me to say, Fuck Joe Biden or fuck Donald Trump and, you know, the SWAT team's not gonna bust down my door. FBI, open up! A lot of people like to talk about freedom of speech when it deals with like bands and private companies,

Starting point is 00:00:22 but at the end of the day we're talking about the government not able to crack down on you because you said some shit. But the idea of freedom of speech in other countries can look very different. And I mention that because right now people in the streets of the UK are having a very different experience. Like we talked about last week, Queen Elizabeth II died in one of the big reactions we saw online where people kind of memeing the whole thing. Hell, you even had some political commentators like Hasan Piker throwing some GG's in the chat like he just clutched a game of Valorant when she died. Woo! Let's go! Get f***ed, Queen! And while things like that have only really been a part of the court of public opinion, people loving it or hating it, we're seeing things right now like in Scotland a woman holding a sign that read abolish monarchy and fuck imperialism being arrested on Sunday

Starting point is 00:00:58 for protesting outside the cathedral where the Queen's body was at. And when you hear that you'd go, okay, this would probably get laughed out of court in the US as basic freedom of speech. But in the UK, it's different. They actually recently passed a law to heavily curb the ability to protest and actually gave the police the ability to step in on quote, unjustifiably noisy protests that may have a significant impact on others. Which led to this woman being charged with breaching the peace. With that, her arrest was decried by some locals at the time who yelled out, let her go, it's free speech, while others responded with have some respect. Organizations like the Free Speech Union outraged at her arrest, calling it intolerable. But at the same time, many disagreeing, saying, hey, her use of the

Starting point is 00:01:31 word fuck was clearly meant to incite and disturb the peace. So those people argued that it was justified that she was arrested. Now, for me, I'll say, setting aside the fact that it's ridiculous that such a broad, open-to-interpretation law even exists, it also doesn't appear to hold up to scrutiny. Many more people have recently been arrested for protests with far less offensive language. Yesterday you had a protester arrest outside Westminster Palace for holding a Not My King sign. While up in Edinburgh, a young man was charged with breaching the peace after yelling this to alleged pedo prince Andrew. For that being the most that he could get out before being dragged away from a parade barrier. In Oxford, author and activist Simon Hill

Starting point is 00:02:05 was arrested for, you guessed it, breaching the peace. In his case, Hill shouted, Who elected him? after the proclamation declared Charles King was read out, with him clarifying that asking that question wasn't meant to disrespect the late Queen, as many people felt otherwise about his outburst. But all of this has led to questions about how broad this law is, as apparently the barrier for arrest is if someone could be offended, in which case nearly any opinion would apply. While people argue about this we're likely gonna see even more protests and arrests for questioning the monarchy's legitimacy. And so with this we're seeing a group called Republic which calls for a Republican government planning to engage in protest during Charles's Coronation, although they're trying to work with local authorities to avoid arrests. And here's the thing I understand that all countries are different places with different rules. But, not as an American, but as a human being, I think we need to understand that that freedom of speech is not something that should be gifted by the government.

Starting point is 00:02:52 This is something you should just have. Your words can, will, and should have consequences when you're dealing with other citizens and private companies and such. But, as long as your words aren't inciting violence or it's like yelling fire in a crowded movie theater where all of a sudden people could actually get hurt, the government shouldn't crack down on you. So that's why regardless of what my actual opinion is, I feel inclined to say here, fuck King Charles and fuck the monarchy. We got leaked documents, people. We now know that Instagram is dying. Specifically here, I'm talking about Reels. Turns out the Instagram model of copy and pasting another social platform on your own, not working for them this time. Because according to a now leaked internal document from Meta titled Creators and Reels State of the Union 2022,

Starting point is 00:03:29 people just don't care about or use them. As far as the specifics, the leaked doc was internally published back in August and revealed that compared to the previous four weeks, Reels engagement had fallen by 13.6% and that quote, "'Most Reels users have no engagement whatsoever.'" And it appears that there are a few reasons for this. It appears that short form content is more popular with younger people and those people prefer their

Starting point is 00:03:47 competitors like TikTok. Also, it appears another big reason is that Instagram is struggling to recruit creators, with many not embracing Reels. And this could be because creators don't feel incentivized to work with Reels, which they've tried to fix, right? Meta has set aside a $1 billion creator fund last year. They paid out nearly $120 million so far. However, you have a lot of creators like music creator Landon Purefoy saying, hey, homegrown content just doesn't do well despite Meta seemingly wanting it to flourish. Even testing this out by putting the same video on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Snapchat, Spotlight, and Instagram Reels. And finding it got well over a million views on every platform except Reels where it bombed and barely broke 100k. And while that's anecdotal, I will say I've

Starting point is 00:04:19 had a very similar experience. And so with those lower numbers, you have Purefoy saying nobody's going to make original content for Instagram. It just doesn't make any sense. And as a matter of fact, some of Reels' most popular content is just recycled videos from other platforms. But technically not all bad news for Reels. The company has downplayed the leaked report, spokespeople claiming that the data was outdated and didn't look at how the platform performed globally, and claiming that creators and businesses are seeing promising results and our monetization growth is faster than we expected as more people are watching, creating, and connecting through Reels than ever before. Regarding the claim that videos do worse on Instagram Reels than TikTok, you have some pushing back, with creators like DannyLovePasta

Starting point is 00:04:50 seeming to actually do better on Instagram Reels because there's different audiences that require different videos. But either way, that report has seemingly had some negative effects for Meta as its stock had a pretty big dip this morning and erased some recent gains. But ultimately, as far as my opinion here, when it comes to shorts, there are really only two places that excite me, and that is TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Both places offer insane upside to creators new and old alike. In those two places, you can just experience explosive growth that you can't see anywhere else. I mean, on TikTok, just last week, I had videos. I got 3.3, 2.9, 2.6, 1.7, 3.1, 7.6 million. On YouTube, the views are way more scattered, but we had a video about Elon Musk that did like over 5 million views. And while monetization pretty much everywhere sucks for

Starting point is 00:05:29 shorts, I think these two places are going to figure it out the best soon. Personally, I think that YouTube is going to figure out monetization around shorts first, as far as a better situation. TikTok hopefully will then be forced to have something better than the creator fund. But all that brings me to my two final points. One, if you are a creator or you want to be a creator, get on those two platforms ASAP and just start posting. Those places are your best shot for growth. And two, I will stand by my previous claim that I said, I think it was last week, TikTok will reign supreme

Starting point is 00:05:54 as long as messy TikTok continues to exist. Which on that note, a lot of y'all love me sharing one of the latest videos from my messy TikTok group chat. So I figured we could experience the newest video in the group chat together. This video is for whoever keeps sending and showing my TikToks to my ex. Send him this one, send him this one.

Starting point is 00:06:11 Curtis, ain't you 22, living with your 16 year old baby mama in her grandma house? Curtis. Stealing your mom a food stamp card? Oh, Curtis. No car, no apartment, no nothing. You don't got shit. Let's not talk about that.

Starting point is 00:06:27 Let's talk about how you got her pregnant when she was 13 years old. Curtis. But before that, you got your sister pregnant when she was 12. Curtis. But you're not going to talk about that, huh? Huh. But I'm going to talk about it. Stressful day.

Starting point is 00:06:46 How is this app free? TikTok is the undefeated king of online messiness. I don't know who that lady is. I don't know Curtis. I don't know if anything she said is true. TikTok has allowed the messiest and most complicated people in our friend groups to now just have bigger friend groups.

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Starting point is 00:08:01 For today's show, not sponsored by Purdue Pharmaceutical. Rather, what I'm talking about is how this new study found that patients who got intravenous ketamine treatments had significant improvement in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Let's look at the specifics. The study, which was published yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, draws from evaluations of 424 people with treatment-resistant depression. They were treated with twice a week ketamine infusions at three clinics in Virginia, with researchers finding that within six weeks of beginning infusions, half of the patients responded to the treatment and 20% were symptom-free. But then the results got even better after 10 weeks, with 7 out of 10 patients seeing improvement and 2 out of 5 patients in remission. And this study is significantly

Starting point is 00:08:36 compared to others because most previous research into the matter had stopped after six infusions. So as a result, with this new study, researchers could provide a more in-depth understanding of the long-term potential ketamine can have for treating people with severe depression. With that, you need to keep in mind the key words here, severe depression and medication-resistant depression. Because even though what we're seeing is very, very positive, experts say that ketamine should not be used as a first option for people who have depression or even suicidal ideations, as there are plenty of other effective options like antidepressants and therapy. But, also as the Washington Post notes, for those at imminent risk of harming themselves, a rapid effect can be life-saving,

Starting point is 00:09:08 especially for cases where traditional treatments such as antidepressants and talk therapy have not worked or are slow to take effect. With him, for example, talking to one 52-year-old man named Jason Anthony, who has been battling depression for 15 years and took part in the ketamine study. And Anthony's saying he tried this because he felt like he ran out of other options. Like this guy had been hospitalized for a seizure that was caused by medication he was taking for depression. And while anecdotal, he said he had relief after just four ketamine treatments, and he didn't have any adverse side effects that he experienced while using other medications.

Starting point is 00:09:33 And saying, it's hard to quantify the level of relief, but I don't know that I'd be here. And I will say, while it's once again still anecdotal, the people that I know that have tested this, they've had very positive results. But, even with that, experts have noted some shortfalls. For example, with this study specifically, it was not a blind study with a control group. And the researchers themselves also noted they did not have a system to track side effects

Starting point is 00:09:52 or adverse events like drug abuse. When it comes to being confident with the science, you have to do things a certain way. With the director of the Yale Depression Research Program going even further saying, "'Hey, there are other red flags.'" Noting that it doesn't mention race or ethnicity, gives little information about patients' baselines, and only included those who were able to shell out

Starting point is 00:10:08 $500 per session out of pocket because insurance doesn't cover this type of experimental ketamine use. And that last part is very significant because the cost is a major barrier to get a full scope of data from a diverse population. Though also notably here, researchers did say that the type of ketamine infusions that they used is cheaper than the ketamine-derived nasal spray approved by the FDA for treatment resistant depression. Which means that this option could result in some savings if it is eventually covered by insurance. But there you should also kind of measure your expectations. It will likely be a while before insurers widely cover ketamine treatment.

Starting point is 00:10:34 But ultimately that is where we are with this right now, and I think, you know, there's a little bit of a road ahead. We need more studies, specifically blind studies with a control group, also make it so that people aren't fucking paying. And that's because in addition to you needing to have the accurate data, the better the study, the easier it's going to be to normalize this. The easier it'll be to push for more government approvals and better healthcare coverage. Oh, Lindsey. The point I'm trying to make is I've been consistent. I think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion. Later. I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand,

Starting point is 00:11:13 except in cases of rape, incest to save the life of the mother. It's about states rights! Just kidding. So that first clip is Senator Lindsey Graham saying abortion should be left to the states. Also, just so you're not confused, that's not like from years ago, right? People can change. That first clip was from last month. And that second clip just showing that he's full of shit came from a press briefing this afternoon. I love it. I've always been consistent in my inconsistency But as far as the details in this briefing you had Graham arguing that the bill is necessary because by 15 weeks the fetus's nerve endings are fairly developed and thus it can feel pain. With them noting that many European nations have similar limits and that with Roe overturned the US should set its own nationwide standard and very notably here under that standard states that have bans that are even more

Starting point is 00:11:52 Restrictive than 15 weeks would still get to keep those in place This is Graham trying to set an at least baseline nationally in targeting blue and purple states that still have their own laws protecting access This is massively significant for a few reasons. Firstly, it's been described as the most prominent effort by Republicans to restrict the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. And second, while 15 weeks is less severe than some of the bans that we've seen since the Supreme Court scrapped Roe, historically, it is more restrictive than abortion limits for the last 50 years. Now, with all this, here's one of the key things. While most people do get abortions earlier in pregnancy,

Starting point is 00:12:23 you have experts saying that 15-week and 20-week abortion bans disproportionately impact patients with fetal anomalies. And that's because they're usually only detected on a 20-week anatomy scan. So as a result, Graham's proposal would ban abortion access for many who need it most and before the fetus is even viable. Which also, on that note, another reason this bill is very significant is because of the title. Where you have Graham referring to abortions after 15 weeks as late-term abortions. a term that is not a medical term and historically has been used for pregnancies 20 weeks or later, which is why you have opponents saying that Graham is using this as an opportunity to move the goalposts, especially because Graham specifically has repeatedly proposed bills in the past that would ban abortion after 20 weeks. But with all that, this is largely being seen as a kind of political move,

Starting point is 00:13:01 because we even have Graham acknowledging right now that Democrats are likely to block this from even going to the floor, which in fact they've already vowed to do. But he did add, if we take back the House and the Senate, I can assure you we'll have a vote on our bill. Right, so this is a transparent push for the midterm. But also with that, it marks a massive public reversal from the party line established just a few weeks ago

Starting point is 00:13:18 when Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, indicated they would not pursue a national abortion ban. And so with that, I will say it'll be interesting to see how this plays out, right? Many Republicans have recently begun trying to distance themselves from the topic of abortion especially after seeing how much it's been a mobilizer for Democrats. For example, last month voters in deeply red Kansas overwhelmingly rejected an anti-abortion referendum that would have allowed state lawmakers to regulate abortion. And just last week South Carolina Republicans failed in their attempt to implement a near total abortion ban in the state. But ultimately that is where we are with this story right now.

Starting point is 00:13:45 It's gonna be very interesting to see what sort of reactions and fallout we see from this and I'll start with you. What are your thoughts? Let me know what you're thinking and why in those comments down below. But ultimately that is where that story and today's show ends. Thank you for watching and being subscribed to my daily dives in the news. Also for more of the news that you need to know I got you covered right here. But with that said of course as always my name is Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow. One second.

Starting point is 00:14:11 It knows when I'm coming. He stops. Please, know that you're gonna die. Know that it's over. You just don't know that you're dead yet. That fucking cricket.

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The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 9.13 DISGUSTING! I’d Be Arrested in the UK For This, Abolish The Monarchy, & Leaked Docs Expose The Truth

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