The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 9.27 R. KELLY GUILTY! Corpse Husband's "Dream Problem", Mating Crisis, NY Mandate Face-Off, &

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

Go to  https://stamps.com/phil To get a 4-week trial plus free postage and a digital scale! Watch More News: https://youtu.be/hyacd2TXnTE TEXT ME! [phone] Get More Phil: https://linktr.ee/PhilipDeFranco -- 00:00 - NYU Prof. Goes Viral For Saying Lack of College Educated Men Will Cause Mating Crisis 02:27 - R. Kelly Found Guilty of Racketeering 03:25 - Corpse Husband Fans Call Out People Trying to Reveal His Face 05:28 - Facebook Pauses Plan to Launch Instagram for Kids 07:02 - Sponsor 08:05 - Vaccine Mandate Goes Into Effect in New York 10:23 - Germany Election: SPD Takes Lead for First Time in Nearly Two Decades 12:33 - UK Gas Stations Run Dry as Trucker Shortage Sparks Hoarding 14:21 - Binance Bans Singapore Users from Trading Crypto Following Clampdown -- ✩ TODAY’S STORIES ✩ NYU Prof. Goes Viral For Saying Lack of College Educated Men Will Cause Mating Crisis:  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mating-crisis-us-women-college-nyu-b1927704.html R. Kelly Found Guilty of Racketeering: https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1442570736875544579?s=20 Corpse Husband Fans Call Out People Trying to Reveal His Face: https://roguerocket.com/2021/09/27/corpse-husband-face-reveal/ Facebook Pauses Plan to Launch Instagram for Kids: https://roguerocket.com/2021/09/27/ig-for-kids-paused/ Vaccine Mandate Goes Into Effect in New York: https://roguerocket.com/2021/09/27/new-york-health-care-mandate/ Germany Election: SPD Takes Lead for First Time in Nearly Two Decades: https://roguerocket.com/2021/09/27/germany-election-spd-takes-lead-for-first-time-in-nearly-two-decades/ UK Gas Stations Run Dry as Trucker Shortage Sparks Hoarding: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-gas-stations-run-dry-trucker-shortage-sparks-80245247 Binance Bans Singapore Users from Trading Crypto Following Clampdown: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/binance-singapore-bans-trading-crypto-october-exchange-fiat-swap-mas-2021-9 China Decrees All Crypto-Related Transactions Illegal: https://roguerocket.com/2021/09/24/china-crypto-full-ban/ ✩ STORIES NOT IN TODAY’S SHOW ✩ Durte Dom Responds to Allegations: https://roguerocket.com/2021/09/27/durte-dom-responds/ ——————————     Executive Producer: Amanda Morones  Edited by: James Girardier, Julie Goldberg, Maxwell Enright Art Department: Brian Borst, William Crespo Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Cory Ray, Brian Espinoza, Maddie Crichton, Lili Stenn, Neena Pesqueda Production Team: Zack Taylor, Emma Leid ———————————— #DeFranco #CorpseHusband #RKelly ———————————— Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

. Sup you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. Hey, hit that like button if you wanna spread some common sense news coverage and let's just jump into it. This is a news show. The first thing that we're gonna talk about today

was easily one of the most requested stories over the weekend on the text line, where you have the situation with NYU marketing professor, Scott Galloway, absolutely making headlines right now and sparking debate after telling CNN on Saturday that fewer men going into college will result in a mating crisis.

Right, and so to set this up, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that women made up 59.5% of college students at the end of the 2021 school year, which is an all-time high. And adding that if this trend continues in the next few years, we'll see two women earn a degree for every one man. So on that, you had Galloway saying, The most dangerous person in the world is a broke and a lone male, and we are producing too many of them. The mating inequality that's going to come out of this dearth of men in college

poses an existential risk to our economy and our society. The bottom line is we on the left like to think that men and women are exactly the same. They aren't, they're different, including in their mating preferences. And the reality is college graduate women aren't interested in mating with men who don't have college degrees.

If you look at the most unstable, violent societies in the world, they all have one thing in common. They have young, depressed men who aren't attaching to work, aren't attaching to school, and aren't attaching to relationships. And our inability to provide the resources and encourage men to go to college is going to result in us producing too many of the most dangerous cohort in the world. Canale also going on to list reasons why he thinks this is happening,

saying that among other things, the rising cost of college is driving men away, that college aged men have more job options than their female peers. Well, yes, you had a number of people agreeing with him, nodding their heads. You also saw a lot of pushback, people noting that his remarks are very speculative.

Others saying that it sounds like he's almost blaming women and painting men as victims in a world where they already have so much opportunity. With others also taking issue for almost kind of the exact opposite reason, saying that he's being unfair to men, kind of labeling them as these villainous monsters that you have to kind of feed or appease,

otherwise they destroy the world. All right, so with this story, rather than tainting it with my opinion, this time, whoever you are, however you identify, I'd really love to know your thoughts on this. All right, across the board, whether it be his reasoning, the stuff he's saying, the validity or not. Yeah, let me know.

Then, in absolutely massive breaking news, after decades of accusations, R. Kelly has been convicted on all nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking that he was facing in a federal trial in New York. Right, federal prosecutors there had accused Kelly of leading a scheme to recruit women and underage girls and boys for sex.

The Kelly sentencing is scheduled for May, 2022, and he faces potentially up to life in prison. But understand, in no way does that mean his legal troubles stop here. Like there's a lot. He still has another federal trial awaiting him in Illinois, where he's accused of child pornography and obstruction of justice.

Also facing additional criminal charges in Illinois for aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims, including three minors. Then you jump over to Minnesota where he's charged with engaging in prostitution with a child. So clearly he is not going anywhere. But still this ruling alone is massive because as one report notes,

the verdict represents the first criminal consequence after decades of murmurs and accusations of sexual abuse and other misbehavior. Yeah, main point I guess is let that be a lesson to everyone out there that you can only be a monster for like a decade or three. And then maybe, just maybe bad stuff will happen to you too. Then in entertainment slash entertainer news, we had online entertainer and musician Corpse

Husband in the news for really one of the two reasons he's always in the news. One, it's because he's trending on social media because new people heard his voice and they were like, spit in my mouth. Hey, no problem, Philip DeFranco on youtube.com. It happens, but if you ever mess up a story about me again, I'm slicing off your pinky toe. Praise Bingus. And two, who is he? That's the question. Who is he? What does he look like?

Like a number of other internet creators that have absolutely blown up over the past year or two, he's never shown his face online. Right, with all of us living in a time where we have this magic little thing in our pocket that allows us to know anything that ever happened or is happening now, people go, why don't I know this thing?

And so you just take a look out there. You see it's driven a number of people absolutely loony. Others putting on their internet detective or troll hats posting pictures that they say are him. With most recently a few Twitter posts gaining a ton of traction. Now I'm not gonna be showing those posts here. That is for two reasons.

One, I don't wanna expose the guy. And two, people are being absolutely shitty about the person featured. Which I mean, if it's just some random person or it actually turns out this is Corpse Husband, still shitty. There are absolutely a ton of people responding with really nasty comments,

calling the person in the photos ugly among other things. Which also prompted other Corpse Husband fans to write things like, this alleged face reveal just showed how fucked our world is. You think Corpse is this mega hot guy, then y'all start bullying him when he didn't meet your standards. As well as saying he literally sings

about how self-conscious he is about his appearance and you guys are out here bashing him because he didn't live up to your fantasy. Disgusting. Absolutely pathetic. And this is nowhere near the first story of its kind. I think most recently we talked about this situation with Dream. But here's what I'll say, if you're one of the people out there that's writing just disgusting things or nasty things about this person who may or may not be Corpse, seriously go fuck yourself and or grow up. Or like if Corpse was out here hiding behind his avatar calling other people ugly, and then he kind of got like

exposed in some way, that would be one thing. Or hell, even if he wasn't hiding behind an avatar, right? He unprompted, he was throwing out hate about how people look. I think that then opens the door, invites people in. We've definitely mocked people who have attacked others because of their looks. But the reality of the situation appears,

this guy is just a guy trying to live his life and entertain people without having to put his face forward. You know, just letting the content be king. Yeah, that's where I land on it. And then let's talk about Instagram, but for kids. For a while now, Facebook, which owns Instagram, being very adamant about the need to continue pushing forward with a kid-friendly version of Instagram,

publicly stressing the positive effects that social media can have on teens and preteens, also at the same time trying to downplay the Wall Street Journal report that we talked about a couple of weeks ago, publishing internal Facebook documents showing just how harmful Instagram can be for teens, with Facebook even fighting back yesterday,

claiming that the Wall Street Journal had cherry picked damning bits of information without also covering the more optimistic data. But as of today, after all of that, the company is now pumping the brakes, saying this morning, while we believe building Instagram kids is the right thing to do,

Instagram and its parent company, Facebook, will reevaluate the project at a later date. And adding in the interim, Instagram will continue to focus on teen safety and expanding parental supervision features for teens. But just like a mega company making some sort of settlement with the government, they will not admit wrongdoing. With Instagram head, Adam Masseri,

stressing that this pause isn't the company admitting that Instagram for kids is a bad idea, saying that's not the case. The reality is that kids are already online and we believe that developing age appropriate experiences designed specifically for them is far better for parents than where we are today. With that, you have Facebook saying that it plans to work

with parents, experts, and policy makers to demonstrate the value and need for this product. With this story, I was wondering what you beautiful bastards were thinking. I put up a poll on the community page here on YouTube. And those polls almost all locked in. 87% saying they think Instagram for kids is a bad idea. The number of people arguing that there are predators online,

it's like taking all the fish, putting them in one easy to find barrel. Though even some who thought that it was a bad idea saying, you know, I want to see more. Maybe there is possibly a world to make a safe space. I don't know. And so, especially if you didn't take part in the poll, I'd love to know your thoughts.

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All right, so New York state's mandate requiring all healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID has officially gone into effect as of today, marking the largest test case for how similar rules will play out across the nation. Under the mandate, the state's roughly 665,000 healthcare workers at hospitals and nursing homes must receive the first dose by today

or risk losing their job. And that appears to be a risk that tens of thousands of workers are willing to take. According to the most recent numbers, as of last week, 84% of all hospital employees and 77% of nursing home facility staff were fully vaccinated. Now, notably here, unvaccinated healthcare workers can still apply for a religious exemption

until at least October 12th, which is when a federal judge is set to consider a legal challenge to the policy, which right now allows for medical exemptions, but not religious ones. And so if the judge rules in favor of that challenge, there will likely be some major leeway for healthcare workers who don't want to be vaccinated.

But still with this new rule going into effect, state officials, hospitals, and nursing homes all across the state are preparing for major healthcare disruptions and worker shortages. According to reports, some providers are cutting back on elective surgeries, limiting admissions, and retaining volunteers. With all this and a press release on Saturday,

the governor of New York outlining several options to address the expected staff shortages. This including preparing an emergency declaration that would let providers licensed in other states or countries recent graduates and retired healthcare professionals practice in the state. The governor also adding that there are other options including deploying medically trained National Guard members

and working with federal government and other state leaders to explore other ways to expedite visa requests for medical professionals. And to make matters more concerning and complicated, I mean, this is all happening as the US is already experiencing a nationwide shortage of healthcare workers and there are growing concerns that vaccine mandates could make that worse,

especially in rural areas where vaccination rates are already low and employees are hard to find. While right now it is unclear exactly how severe the staffing shortages in New York will be, experts have said that the state will set an important precedent on how similar mandates are enforced nationwide. Right so far, only Rhode Island, Maine, Oregon,

and Washington, DC have imposed vaccine mandates for healthcare workers, though none of those policies are being enforced yet. Meanwhile, in places like California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Illinois, they have policies that set up the option to get tested regularly if you don't get the shot. But as the New York Times notes,

"'Resistance to vaccine mandates' has so far stopped most states from threatening to fire unvaccinated workers "'despite the fact that employers are legally allowed "'to require workers to get vaccinated,' according to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." And so that's why all eyes are on New York to see what essentially happens from this test and could it provide a blueprint?

Yeah, that's where we are. Today is essentially day zero. We'll have to keep our eyes on it. And of course with this, I'd love to know your thoughts. And then we should definitely talk about this massive news out of Germany, huge news for the country, the EU, maybe even the world. And that's because on Sunday,

Germany held federal elections, what many people believe are the most important elections in over a decade. And that is because Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been in the position since 2005, decided that she was not going to run for office again. Right, for 16 years, her coalition of two center-right parties,

known as the Union parties, have held onto pluralities in the legislature. With many of her supporters describing that time as a golden era, although others say that only happened because of the SPD's involvement. But either way, we saw gay marriage legalized, the minimum wage raised, the economy, absolutely. Bussin'. What? Bussin'? Y'all, we talked about this in the meeting.

You can't just randomly insert Gen Z slang and things that's gonna give us younger viewers. You can't do that, and that's not who we are. What can the factor cap? Anyway, on Sunday, what we ended up seeing was the center left social democratic party managing to make the most of this opportunity. According to the preliminary results, it looks like the SPD have won 25.7%

of the legislature seats, making it the largest party in parliament. While it may not seem like a lot to us Americans, right, we're in the two party mindset, Germany has eight parties represented in the legislature. And so with the voting in this election, there are two us Americans, right? We're in the two party mindset. Germany has eight parties represented in the legislature. And so with the voting in this election, there are two big things, right? The SPD did much better last time.

They only got about over 20% of the vote, but also because they don't have a clear majority, the SPD will now need to approach other parties to try and make a government. Olaf Scholz, the SPD's leader, and possibly the next chancellor, sounding hopeful in a victory speech that the likely allies will be the Green Party and the FDP.

And those preliminary talks, according to German media, seem to indicate that the plan is moving along nicely, but there is a speech that the likely allies will be the Green Party and the FDP. And those preliminary talks, according to German media, seem to indicate that the plan is moving along nicely. But there is a chance that the Union parties could still manage to sneak in an alliance with those parties instead. And that is because most of these parties all adhere to relatively moderate politics and have a history of working together.

As a matter of fact, the SPD and Union parties have been working together for almost the last four years, which may happen again if negotiations fail. Actually, on that note, this election is notable because many are calling it a win for moderate politics. The parties that are likely to form a government here are either center left or center right. You know, that is a very big deal

because extremist politics have been on the rise, especially in Europe. And going into this, there were concerns that parties like Germany's far right, AFD, would see big wins, but they ended up actually losing seats over the weekend. But all of this news is just the first step. I mean, as far as what happens next,

it's gonna take weeks or even months for a government to form. Angela Merkel staying in office until then. So for now, this is gonna be something we keep our eyes on, but really we just have to wait and see how everything lands. Then sticking with international news, we should definitely talk about the United Kingdom facing a real problem right now.

A massive shortage of gas or petrol for the Brits that are watching. The issue as it turns out is very simple. There just weren't enough truck drivers, which actually isn't unsurprising because many drivers were foreigners working in the UK. But after that little thing called Brexit, they had to go. And now the country is short by like 100,000 truck drivers.

However, of note, most gas stations were actually still getting enough fuel for their community. But this is an issue that comes with reporting. Once the news got out that a few gas stations had closed, that led to a massive amount of panic buying throughout the UK over the weekend. Most gas stations around the UK having lines and made them look like a Costco gas station on a Saturday.

Sunday, many stations simply out of gas. BP saying that about 30% of its 1200 sites were out. The Federal Retailers Association, which represents about 5,000 independent gas stations, said that about two-third of its members they already sold their fuel, with the rest partly dry and running out soon. With Brian Madison, chairman of the association,

wanting to calm fears about there actually being a gas shortage saying, "'There is plenty of fuel in this country, "'but it is in the wrong place for the motorists. "'It is still in the terminals and the refineries.'" And saying that he wanted to make it clear that the problem wasn't just a lack of truckers, but rather the result of panic buying, pure and simple.

But critics have pushed back here saying, "'This doesn't mean that the lack of truckers "'is not an issue.'" And saying that it's more of like a situation where they build off, right? If they had enough truckers, they could probably continue to get fuel to the stations. And actually, after a ton of internal debate,

the UK has decided to bring in foreign truckers, but it's only gonna be around 10,000 temporary visas, with the president of the British Chamber of Commerce responding that it was like throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire. And adding, "'Without further action, we now face the very real prospect "'of serious damage to our economic recovery, stifled growth,

as well as another less than happy Christmas for many businesses and their customers across the country, which may be why the government reportedly said that it is considering mobilizing the military to deliver fuel. With all that said, we're gonna have to wait to see how this plays out, right? If the UK can get the situation under control

or if people keep rushing gas stations. And in big money slash crypto news, we should talk about how earlier today, the cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance told users in Singapore that starting late next month, they'll no longer be able to buy and sell crypto on its main platform. Notably, that coming as the country earlier this month

clamped down on crypto trading, telling Binance that it could be breaching local law by allowing trades. But it's also not just Singapore. Binance said over the weekend that it's no longer accepting registrations from Chinese mobile numbers. And that's because on Friday,

China's central bank made a major announcement telling the country that all cryptocurrency related transactions are illegal. With that claiming that crypto seriously endangers the safety of people's assets. Right, while China officially banned crypto trading through its domestic exchanges back in 2019, saying that this was a way to suppress money laundering,

since then they've also been working to restrict people in the country from continuing to trade using online foreign exchanges. And so really that is exactly what this new decree does. On top of that, anyone in China who participates in crypto related activities will be prosecuted. Country also now gradually facing out crypto mining operations.

And from this point forward, it will no longer allow new operations to pop up, which is pretty significant given that in April of this year, China alone accounted for 46% of the world's Bitcoin energy use. And keep in mind that had already fallen from 76% in September of 2019 because of clampdowns. And so because of all this,

we saw major digital currencies like Bitcoin and ether tumbling. Oh, they've since pretty much rebounded given that most analysts already expected China would do something like this eventually. But still within China, crypto holders in the country are aware that their investments will now be frozen forever.

With one Toronto based attorney who works in the international crypto trading sphere telling CNBC, I've already received over a dozen messages from Chinese crypto holders looking for solutions on how to access and protect their crypto holdings in foreign exchanges and cold wallets and adding that along with not being able to do anything with an extremely volatile asset My suspicion is that the Chinese government will offer them in the future to convert it to UN at a fixed market price Because China right now is testing a digital version of its currency Hey, cuz I never miss the opportunity now.

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and actually today's show ends. And hey, join the conversation, whether it be this last story or really anything that stood out to you today. I'd love to know your thoughts in those comments down below. But no matter what you do, of course, my name's Philip DeFranco.

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