The Philip DeFranco Show - The Dark Truth Behind The Fake Livestream Murder Case & The Pathetic Reason He's Appealing

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

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This killer YouTuber story that everyone missed, it's back in the news for a shocking reason. You've got Democratic Socialism and explosive diarrhea parasite outbreak spreading across the country, while you have a pastor now defending live mock firing squads in front of kids. We're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news starting with this. This is just crazy, horrifying, heartbreaking news today. But then diving right back into the news, we've got something that's just crazy, horrifying, and heartbreaking. Because at the center of this story, you have a man who has become the, quote,

most hated man in prison and he's trying to get out because he is scared for his life. Though I do not think that pretty much anyone is going to feel sympathy for him. Because I'd like you to meet Stephen McCullough. He's a YouTuber from Northern Ireland who amassed some 40,000 subscribers. And seemingly the reason he's the most hated man in prison. And the reason he is serving life in prison right now, it's because four years ago, he brutally murdered his pregnant girlfriend Natalie McNally. Right, he's now appealing his conviction with sources saying he lives in terror every day with a giant target on his back. But to understand that and where it goes from here, we have to go back to the beginning.

which is in December of 2022. Because less than a week before Christmas, Stephen goes over to Natalie's house and he finds something out of a nightmare. Natalie has been brutally beaten, stabbed in the neck. There are signs of strangulation. Just everything is awful. He says he frantically calls emergency services

telling the operator that there's just so much blood that Natalie is 15 weeks pregnant, but she feels cold. And while the police, they bring him in for questioning, he says it couldn't have been him that killed her because he was streaming on YouTube for six hours during the murder. When he was playing GTA and what he titled,

The Violent Night Christmas Live Gaming Stream. Though we apparently had some, technical issues, so he couldn't see the live chat or use his phone, but he spends a night drinking and gaming and shouting and having just a good overall time. Towards the end, he even gets sentimental about the real meaning of Christmas season. I think the message rings true that Christmas, it's not about the shopping, it's not about the lights and the tints and all that crap. It's literally just about having some time off to enjoy spending time with the people that you love. But then Natalie's case starts getting more and more attention. People start asking questions thinking, there's something

just fishy about Stephen's story. And by the end of January 2020, police bring Stephen right back in, saying that their cyber team, they went through his devices and found that there was no user-generated content the night of December 18th when Natalie was murdered. So meaning that there was no way he was actually live

when he said he was. And it turns out you had Steven pre-recording his stream a few days earlier, which explains his so-called technical issues with the live chat. And he just set the whole thing up to look like he was live that night when he wasn't. Which then also, it gives a few of the clips from that stream a whole new vibe.

I thought you were supposed to like run him off the road and kill him. Much like your woman. I need to kill this. I need to take her down. That's what would happen in the real world? Abs of. Notley.

Absolutely. Natalie. And so naturally, he gets charged with murder, and during his trial, you have prosecutors swooping in with even more damning evidence. Right, the night Natalie was killed, CCTV footage, it catches a man that the prosecution says was Stephen,

leaving his neighborhood with a bag and taking the bus to Natalie's house. He then gets there around 8.50 p.m. And that is the last time anyone saw Natalie. Natalie alive. But then a little more than half an hour after he showed up, Stephen leaves Natalie's house, goes into a taxi, he goes home, and once again, he gets caught on camera, except this time he started on a couple of things over the hedge. Right, and then you had him the next day texting Natalie's phone a few times before then showing up at her house that night to stage his discovery of her body. And he then spent just the next several weeks

playing the role of grieving partner, going to Natalie's wake at her family's house on Christmas Day, creating a video montage of pictures in Natalie to be played at a rally held in her memory. But then it wasn't until earlier this year that the case finally went to trial and it took nearly five weeks. So then, after just over two hours of deliberations, you're the jury finding him guilty. And he sentenced him to life in prison with a requirement that he served 31 years before he even has a chance at parole. With a judge saying, Stephen McCullough, you have committed a brutal and senseless murder. You planned this murder in remorseless detail. You attack someone you profess to love and a frenzied assault, which was characterized by

its excessive and gratuitous violence. And adding, despite that frenzy, the killing was cold-blooded and calculated as evidenced by the extensive planning leading up to the murder and your actions afterwards. And as for Natalie's family, you know, the parents were happy as much as you can of Stephen facing justice, but more than that. They were just at a loss at the lengths that he went to trick them and cover his tracks. We felt so sorry for him and we thought he was a grieving partner and we left him. Everyone moved out of the wake room and left him in Zoon, Manali. And we were thinking, oh, he's down there on his own and we've got each other, we've got the whole family here. I feel so guilty sometimes, you know, been letting him doing it, you know. How did we fall for it?

You know, how did we fall for his, how he could have done with us, you know. And he also had Natalie's brother speaking more directly, Natalie herself, that's out of the courtroom the day that the verdict came down. Natalie, you were an inspirational person. Having you in our lives was the greatest joy we'll ever have. You would have been an amazing mother to be a dean. We would love you forever and we hope you can now rest easy. Thank you all nine months.

And since that, the start of Stephen's life sentence, I mean, it has been far from comfortable. In fact, you have sources inside of the high security prison where he's been held saying that this guy has a giant target on his back from his fellow inmates, saying he's even earned himself the title of the most hated man in prison, though not necessarily for killing Natalie, but rather for killing their unborn child with one source saying, that's one thing the prisoners don't like harming innocent children. Some of the worst attacks there have been in here have been on child killers and child abusers. And you have to understand that the human side means staff

aren't going to put their own safety at risk to intervene for the likes of them. Because McCullough murdered a pregnant woman, he falls into that category. And so reportedly, they see him as a massive security risk. He's being held in a separate wing, away from the other residential units. And And with that you had another unnamed source saying, the other prisoners joke that it's for the squealers and feelers, which is a reference to, you know, pouts and pedophiles and they aren't far wrong. In reality, it's segregation without any punishment.

But it now does seem like he's trying to use that situation as a way to get out. Because the public prosecution service in Northern Ireland has been notified that he's lodged an appeal against his sentence. A move that then obviously has taken a toll on Natalie's family and you had her brother, Declan saying, that he would do it just speaks to his hideous nature. Then his behavior since that, he'd put us all

through a horrific trial despite all the overwhelming evidence. And at the end, he now expects to have an appeal and get the sentence reduced. And adding, if they're going to look at the sentence again, the only way the sentence should be going is up. It's just completely re-traumatizing for the whole family. And so for now, we'll have to wait to see what happens, if he has any success, though,

me personally, just my opinion, I wish him nothing but the worst. But then next up in the news, let's talk about MAGA and Trump's new focus, and that is birth tourism. Because as you saw or heard on yesterday's show because you tune in every day, the Supreme Court shot down Trump's effort to get rid of birthright citizenship,

with a majority ruling under the 14th Amendment, that children who are born in the U.S., to parents who are here unlawfully or temporarily, they're still in fact U.S. citizens at birth. And while this just affirmed that a constitutional amendment still counts, where it's the way things are, we'll just keep continuing, a lot of MAGA started acting like just things were about to get crazy. Or with much of MAGA, arguing that the Supreme Court just greenlit birth tourism.

It's a pregnant women from other countries traveling to the U.S. or that their baby is born a U.S. citizen. Well, you've got policies in place to try to prevent that from happening. You had MAGA really honing in on this, really stoking up the fear-mongering about it immediately after the decision came down. So, for example, you had people like Matt Walsh, saying it's indefensible that a pregnant woman from Guatemala can sprint across the U.S. border have the baby 30 minutes after arriving here, and the baby is magically a

citizen of the U.S. Which honestly, I will say if you can find a woman who is 30 minutes away from labor that is able to sprint across an international border, maybe we want that baby. It sounds like maybe a World Cup striker baby. But also, I'll say, you know, Walsh was far, far from alone. Even many, taking it further, saying that foreign pregnant women shouldn't be allowed in the country at all. And so you saw things like Sean Davis, the founder of the Federalist, writing a sort of manifesto and how to respond to the court's ruling with steps like deny entry to all pregnant foreigners, deny entry to all female foreigners require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry. You also had people like

Jack Posobics saying, quote, the court never said we can't mandate spot pregnancy tests for foreigners. And you had a Daily Wire reporter adding, Congress must start acting now to remove all foreign women from the country immediately and begin attaching pregnancy tests to visa requirements. And hell, you even had Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles saying that he's introducing the Anchors Away Act to ban pregnant aliens from entering the USA. If you are a pregnant woman, you can't come into this country. You've got to be a citizen be here, you have to have a green card holder. Then also had Senator Rick Scott using the ruling to push for the Safe Kids Act, which would quote,

prevent adversarial nations, including communist China, from using American surrogates to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children. You also had a certain rat from the White House going on Fox News to say, if a person comes here nine months pregnant to go look around of some things in a couple of weeks, that is the mother of a lifetime American citizen and a direct line into American cash and welfare for the rest of that child's life. So you have to completely rethink. Are we banning pregnant women from America?

Are we banning foreign pregnant women? Well, what I'm saying, Jesse, is that you have to now think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis. There's a lot of things we're gonna have to take a hard look at, Jesse. And then this morning you had DHS Secretary Mark Wayne

Mullen going on Fox News, and he tried to spin a restriction like this as something to benefit the pregnant travelers. And one thing you're doing is looking at the territories, where China especially is abusing in Guam or other places and saying, okay, you're eight and a half months pregnant. Maybe you shouldn't get on that plane. Well, because where they go to and they show up late,

it can cause a health issue for the mother. Yeah, we're concerned about the mother. And especially traveling that late. And then while you have all of this playing out, you then also have some kind of just shocked that there is this sort of massive reaction from the right, that there's this massive meltdown that's happening. With, for example, one New York Times columnist writing,

it is absolutely bizarre that these people believe that the continued application of a rule that has existed for generation after generation, as we've grown to the most powerful and prosperous free nation in world history, is somehow the root of our national demise and so clearly wrong that we need to end the union. Here's the thing. Well, birth tourism, it is a real thing. It's hard to actually tell how widespread it is. As you've had the New York Times previously explaining, there is no official tally of babies born to tourists on American soil. But in 2020, you did have the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports immigration crackdowns, estimating that it's between 20,000 to 26,000 babies per year. And so if that's true, you'd be looking at less than 1% of babies born in the country that year.

And again, those are just estimates. You have some, even higher, some, I mean, some are as low as 2,000. And then you've got more that we've got to dive into in just a minute, but first, let me thank a sponsor and say, you know, I've reached the point where my calendar affects my drink order. I've got stuff to do tomorrow is now part of the decision-making process. And with my crashing out tour that's about to kick off, which by the way, go get tickets, tomorrow definitely matters. Or which is why today's sponsor, Zbiotics, pre-alcohol, probiotic, is already packed. It just makes sense. It's gonna make my life easier.

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And then the second is seemingly democratic socialism, because following Zoran Sweep in New York with his primary back candidates, including two DSA members, right? Everyone was asking the question, can this work in other parts of the country? And while the answer for everywhere right now is no, last night in Colorado, the answer there was yes. With Malak Kira, is a 29-year-old Democratic socialist, Ethiopian immigrant, former barista, lawyer, and doctoral student in public policy who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, taking the nomination for the district covering most to Denver. We will not wait to take the fight to Donald Trump. And Kiros, she's now all but certain to cruise through the general, enter the house next year, and it'll make her the first Genzi woman elected to Congress.

And also who she took down, who she's replacing, is kind of stand out here. Her opponent was Diana to get. She's a 68 year old, 15-year incumbent. Actually, when she won her first election in 1996, Kiros hadn't even been born yet. Well, to get it was technically the establishment pick. She wasn't a centrist. Where she's actually progressive. She even got endorsed by Primal Ajayapa.

And just like Kiroos, she's in favor of Medicare for all. There, you had to get arguing that unlike Keros, she could actually get it passed because assuming Democrats take back the House, she would share the health subcommittee, whereas if Kiros replaced her, and she said both the committee posts and all her accumulated seniority, it would just be gone, arguably, for very little game. But you had Kiros countering that saying that seniority doesn't count for much if you're bought and paid for by the very industries that you're supposed to rein in.

Well, looking into it, yeah, it's true. Again, not only had taken PAC money from defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies, those types of donations accounted for most of her campaign funding during this race. And Kiro's really honed in on that. Frankly, sometimes the thing that corporations and special interests get out of donating to a campaign isn't proactive legislation on their front. Sometimes it's just that they sit there and keep a seat more. She is the least effective member of the Colorado Democratic delegation. Measured how? By the center of effective lawmaking.

Yeah, the center for effective lawmaking ready to get below average for eight of her terms, average for five, and above average for only one, her very first term. And while to get, she tried to defend her record in Congress. It wasn't just health care and campaign finance that were really the issues that were cutting up this race. Another big one that we saw here and we've also seen elsewhere was Israel. And not so much because it gets a staunch defender of the Jewish state, but rather because Keros made it such a central part of her campaign. But a story that she kept highlighting was that she got fired from an elite law firm after she refused to recant a letter that she posted one month after October 7, 2023. With Keros in that calling Israel an apartheid state,

criticizing her law firm's response to activist law students and accusing it of conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Though also on the note of anti-Semitism, Keros herself was accused of it after this particular moment from an interview that she did recently. Where we had an interviewer asking her about the deadly firebombing of protesters in Colorado who were demanding the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and some felt that her answer was wishy-washy. Was that firebombing attack on them an act of anti-Semitism? I don't know what was in the heart of the perpetrator.

All I know is that he went and attacked innocent people because of what they might have believed. And I don't even know what the people that were at, that protest believed too. In fact, most of them were probably just there to ask that the people who were kidnapped during October 7th be returned home to their families. That's not a political statement in and of itself. I think the fact that we're having a conversation about whether it was anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism is a political debate that, you know, I think everyone has the freedom to have,

but to me it was a loss of innocent life regardless of what the perpetrator had in mind when he took those lives. But also after the blow up from that, Kiroz took the Wall Street Journal that she's committed to combating anti-Semitism and her comments had been misunderstood. Saying, I did call it a hate crime would happen in Boulder was a horrific attack on a group of Jewish people that were peacefully protesting. And overall, what we found was the controversy the debate around that was not a problem for Denver voters. Right, because not only did Keros beat the get, she won by a roughly 10 point margin. So right now, you're looking at four new likely DSA members in Congress. You've got Malak Kiros, Claire Valdez, Daryliza, Avila, Chevalier, and Chris Rabb from Philly.

Which triples the number of self-declared Democratic Socialists in the House, joining Rashida, leave and AOC. And then one of the things you've had a lot of people reporting out are the voices that are really trying to lift these people up. And there, you've had people reporting to Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, and now Hassan Piker. Because not only was he reportedly in New York getting out the vote for the candidates last week, he did the same in Denver, even personally knocking on doors. All right, listen, found to get this represented this district for 30 years in Congress, is saying nothing about the data centers because she's in the pocket of big corporations. Maylock Kuros, on the other hand, is going to fight back on the data center more term. She got

endorsed by Bernie Sanders too. They want to put a stop to these data centers, getting propped up left and right. You guys are stuck between a factory, purina factory and a data center in between. And that's not good for these little guys back there. It's literally poor. This district's poison.

But you only have until 7 o'clock to vote. Do you have a ballot in your house currently? Yes. Yeah. I have three. Did you guys see that? When we brought up the data center, she'd say, hell no.

Straight up. And I think that's a voter right there. And then actually just really hitting on the power of the internet, on top of, you know, putting his name behind Kiro's encouraging people to vote, his community reportedly phone banked over 110,000 calls for her in just three days. For far too long, you all plugged your nose and you went out and you voted against the Republicans. But now you have an opportunity to do something amazing.

You have the opportunity to vote for something. No more, no more expenditures from corporations that don't millions of dollars into these races that tried to defend Diana to get after 30 years of incompetence. We say no more. But then putting that aside, in Colorado, it's also important to know that Keros wasn't the only win for the progressive left. Because in another district, you had Manny Rutnell, beating the moderate Democrat, Shannon Bird, by some 25 points.

The son of a single mom who grew up filling out food stamp and Medicaid forms and working at McDonald's can go on to become an economist in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, serve in the State House, and now become your nominee for Congress in the most... Very importantly there, it's not a... It's not a sure thing there. He's gonna be vying for Colorado's most competitive congressional seat in the general. And he'll be going up against a sitting Republican,

Gabe Evans. And that's definitely one that's gonna be important to watch. Because while it's definitely not a one to one type of situation, one of the interesting things that's come from the primaries are the push for people that are further left and further right than kind of the more moderate candidates these days. Whether it be the push for more leftist, DSA candidates, or Trump pushing for more Trump-Lican

rather than moderate Republican candidates. What happens when you take those people and you put them in a general election, do they still do as much? Is there any sort of alienation? Or do people generally stick to their teams? So this whole conversation and thinking is probably not gonna extend to the Colorado governor's race. Because they haven't elected a Republican governor in more than two decades.

And so the primary here was kind of seen as the main show and what you saw was the state's attorney general, Phil Weiser, beating Senator Michael Bennett for the Democratic nomination. A nomination that was definitely seen as an upset because Bennett, he was the clear favorite to win when the race first began, but Wiser steadily rose past him with anti-establishment messaging. And since they were largely on the same page when it comes to policy, one of their biggest clashes was over who would be better at fighting Donald Trump. And so you had Wiser, pointing out that Bennett voted to confirm a to Trump's cabinet nominees, and Bennett pointed out that Wiser didn't join some lawsuits against the first Trump administration as AG. And well, at least with the people that voted, Wiser won that argument, and so he's likely going to be the next governor. Though then with all of this, I should know that

moderate Dems did score at least one win yesterday. Where was Senator John Hickenlooper fending off a primary challenge from Julie Gonzalez, a former DSA member who was backed by Hassan Piker as well. But even there, that race ended up tighter than expected, especially given that the incumbent Hickenlooper outraged her by more than 7 to 1. And so that's why you have people out there saying, you know, even when they're losing, there are signs that Democratic Socialists and progressives, they're beginning to present a real threat to the full Democratic Party establishment, or at least the leadership. And apparently, if the reporting is accurate, Kamala Harris has even realized that. Right, because you have Axios now reporting this,

she privately called Mamdani last week and has been holding lengthy closed-door meetings with other prominent progressives, including pro-Palestinian activists. As you had Axios interpreting this as an attempt to mend the relationship with their left flank ahead of a potential 2028 run for the White House. And then there's even more that we're going to dive into in just a minute, but let me thank a sponsor and say, you know, Brain.fm. It helps me skip the 20-minute argument that I usually have to have with my own brain before I actually start working. Because apparently, my attention span likes to negotiate with me. And Brain.fm, it's not just background music.

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to build up a literal death chamber at a maximum security prison with $24,000 worth of AR-style rifles. And now three shooters whose identities have been kept under reps, they're set to fire on their eight death row inmates. Right, because they had their governor signing this into law last year, and now that you've got the death chamber done

just in time for the law to go into effect, you're seeing people out there, calling it state barbarity and labeling the firing squads archaic. But then also on the other side, you have supporters claiming it's a foolproof way to avoid the drawn-out executions that we've seen from prisons, you know, not be able to get the drugs for lethal injections or botching the process. Arguing firing squads are certain. They're quick and it brings justice for the victims and their families in a more expeditious manner than other types. The idea being that a firing squad is that they hit a specific part of the heart that just kills you in seconds. But that also,

it can just be a mess if they miss their target and that could leave the prisoner suffering for who knows how long until they actually die. And actually with that, you have people pointing to last year, Michael Mottie facing death by firing squad after killing a white officer back in 2004. And when his day came, the firing squad missed their target, leaving him in, quote, excruciating conscious pain and suffering for up to a minute. And then on top of that, there were three shooters,

but Mottie was only hit by two bullets. Something that a forensic pathologist said was extraordinarily uncommon. And so he'd some, claiming at the firing squad, intentionally botched the job out of revenge for the cop that he killed. And you've got folks like an expert who studied execution practices, raising questions about it being a quasi-lynching, asking,

with corrections officers in a southern state intentionally torture a black man who murdered a police officer. The historical record suggests this is far from out of the question. And then also you have execution protocol experts saying, we tend to forget that human beings are conducting this and human beings have emotions and feelings, such as wanting to set things right and eye for an eye and revenge. And then also in the newest,

you had people who did a mock firing squad in front of toddlers at a church. So not something on my 2026 bingo card, but you now have this viral video coming out of Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. And in it, you see, simulated heavily armed commandos lining up in front of a room full of kids pointing weapons at a figure and staging a full-on mock firing squad execution.

And to make it crazier, you hear the pastor leading the kids in a chant of take him out, blow him up as the weapons fire, and the kids cheer. With them people online immediately slamming this, calling it incredibly traumatizing, wildly inappropriate, and completely over the line for a children's event. But then following the massive backlash, you had Pastor Dwayne Walker hitting back with a seven-minute video to defend the skin. You have them saying that this is actually a part of a 30-year-old theme called commandos for Christ and or Scouts for Jesus. He called it both things at various times. That person that's being executed, it's actually not a human being.

It's a representation of the devil, he says. Walker literally says the clip you saw was simply killing the devil. And while Walker did end up apologizing to anyone who was genuinely offended and invited critics to actually come visit the church to see what they're really about, he then also claimed that a lot of the internet outrage, it's just fueled by misinformation and missing context. Though even there, you have plenty of people saying, no, we understand the context, it's still crazy.

And then also in the news, you got Donald Trump's massive new federal financial disclosure just dropping, and it's insane. He is now officially a billion dollar crypto man. But also, the details of how he made that money have a lot of people screaming, conflict of interests and just scam. So you have him trying to claim that he made the money off of the stock market, but the massive 927-page federal disclosure form, it makes it clear that crypto is a driving force. Right, he took in $1.2 billion from his new crypto businesses last year and is probably worth around $6 billion now up from $2.3 billion just before taking office. And these new digital startups, they completely eclips the revenue of his vast real estate portfolio that took him decades to build. Right, over $500 million came from his World Liberty Financial business, selling governance tokens, and another $600 million came from selling souvenir.

are meme coins stamped with his own face. And that's why you're seeing a lot of the backlash because you have people pointing out that Trump locked in these massive profits while everyday investors got completely destroyed and what many people have been calling rug pulls or pump and dump schemes. It's something we've covered in detail in the past,

but it's been so blatant that you had people like crypto investigator Coffeezilla declaring crime is legal now. And the price of the world liberty tokens, it has plummeted 80% and those Trump meme coins, they peaked at $74, they're currently trading for under two bucks. And then you've got the connections that many have called suspicious.

We take Chinese crypto billionaire just in some, who had a federal fraud lawsuit dropped around the same time that he happened to buy $275 million worth of Trump's tokens. And son, he's hardly the only person who spent a lot of money with Trump or his allies and then had lawsuits dropped or pardons handed out. And for many, it looks like Trump's just seemingly fine with crypto scams because right when he came back into office, he rolled back regulations and continued to quash a federal crackdown on the industry. And while you have the White House strongly denying any wrongdoing, saying that Trump's businesses are in a trust run by his sons and that there is zero conflict of interest. At the end of the day, his administration's policies are directly boosting the exact industry, making his family billions of dollars. And if that's not a conflict of interest, then nothing is. But that, my friend, you beautiful bastard, is the end of your Wednesday show.

Of course, I'd love to be to crash out with me. Because it is Wednesday, which means a brand new episode of my podcast crashing out with myself and Alex Perlman is out. You can check it out using the top link in the description, or if you're on YouTube, you can click or tap the screen. Thank you for watching. I love yo faces, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow. Birthright citizenship is here to stay. To me, it should be a 9-0 because it's literally a constitutional amendment. It should be 9-0.

We now have Mike Johnson's reaction to learning that birthright citizenship is here to stay. Can I tell you, I've never been. After hearing that list. Homie, we've all seen the video of you running. You're not running for anything. I'm huffing that Zolrombak. They acted like he was a war criminal for fucking jumping in a public pool with a suit on. On behalf of Benjamin Franklin, fuck the Postmaster General.

He is genuinely trying to kill mail-in ballots. Go ahead and clip me. Clip the shit out of me.