'Sup you beautiful bastards, I hope you're having a fantastic Monday!
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show and let's just jump into it!
And the first thing I want to talk about today is this constant problem that rears its head time and time again.
And this time it happened around James Charles.
James Charles, if you don't know, is just a massive creator on this platform and in general.
One of the biggest names and faces in the world of beauty.
And he popped up in big entertainment and community news because he is the latest person to have to ask his fans to stop coming to his house.
James Charles also taking to Snapchat to say this:
"If, for some reason, you know or have found out or done research
on where me and my little brother live, do not come here, because you are not invited!
In fact, if you are ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans,
I will call the police, because that is literally harassment."
And James Charles also hits on something, that it's not necesserily just the fans:
"And what I really don't fucking get, is the parents who know that their kids are doing this or even worse driving them here
because they're too young to actually drive themselves!"
And as far as my personal reaction to this story, it is that of a father.
I'm not surprised but I am disappointed.
And the reason for that is this is not a unique story, we've covered several stories like this in the past.
There are a lot of other stories out there right now that creators are scared to talk about.
And they're scared for the reason that James Charles actually mentions in his Snapchats:
"Sometimes, when you talk about an issue it can become a bigger issue"
And he's right on two fronts there - it can become a bigger situation, because by talking about this, all of the sudden you're going to have all these new people going:
"Well, I wonder where James Charles lives!"
All it takes is just a few people who don't understand human interaction and
Boundaries and then it gets really bad - there's always the possibility that a part of the audience will go well we made you you
Should be so thankful and constantly accessible in my responses that is fuck
no
Nine out of ten times if you see a creator in public you go up to them it's gonna be a great positive
Experience you don't just go to someone's house it's crazy to the parents driving their kids to these creators homes you are not a cool
parent for doing that lately put you are enabling
harassment understand that's not some abstract thinking those are some actual public responses to James Charles like your frustration is completely
but don't forget who got you to where you are it's those same people who will keep you going or ruined you have them to
thank for where you're living and what you're driving it comes with the territory
kid and another reading I totally agree with you but you shouldn't have showed your house to millions this would annoys me about youtubers
celebrities they show their house and then act surprised when people show up at their house you signed your life away when you decided to
become a celebrity in my response
once again time and time again to that kind of mindset is no idea that a James Charles can put out a video where it's
like hey look at the inside of my house look at this pool that turns into somehow
asking for it that makes it James
Charles's fault that someone then went the extra steps to find out where they lived and showed up unannounced that's
ridiculous and the idea that you just have to take it being treated not like a regular
human being
because some of those same people that are going to go to your home and harass you they made you I say screw that kind
Of thinking there is a time and a place to go up to someone the time is never when you're talking about that person's place
Of work or where they live in previous places where we did not have proper security in place I had someone to literally walk onto
my set while I was filming
I've had friends in this industry that had to move because they were very
constantly being interrupted or they were scared for their safety because people kept going to their homes I've known people in this industry that have
Had to homeschool their kids because people were calling the school going to the school it's not right it's not
okay, but unfortunately this is something that is not going to end because while I say this to
99.9% of people that will not there haven't
Oh, yeah!
Obviously there is still going to be the fan and or enabling parent that just won't get it just because this ridiculous things become
So standard that celebrities should expect it it does not make it
okay
that's what I'm gonna leave that one that's the story my personal take away and I have passed the question off to you as far
as your thoughts around this then in quicky news let's talk about an update around the
California tax tax we talked about it last week with CPUC the California Public Utilities Commission wanted to add a
surcharge to text messages which was a move that the FCC seemingly was not in favor of since last week they labeled text messages and
information service right in that classification of information service not
telecommunication service was a big distinction and it appears that move and or maybe public reaction has been successful with the CPUC
announcing on Twitter that they have now canceled the vote around the text tax and I present a response to this as I
understand that they were trying to change the system because the market has
changed or they're not getting as much money because people aren't using phone calls as much
I personally agree with the FCC I think it is an information service and even if they put this through I think it would have
just driven more people to apps like whatsapp or
iMessage and things like that and so I guess plainly but I think it would have been an annoying
insufficient band-aid as far as what happens next we had Assemblyman Jim Patterson say you can battle keep a watchful eye on the CPUC for
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links as always are in the description down below let's talk about this situation where I don't know where
again or how to consolidate it it starts with Pete Davidson ariana grande Kanye West Drake and
Several others actually we'll start on Thursday and going into weekend where we had Kanye West posting a ton of tweets
discussing a lot of things including his mental health and also him blasting fellow rapper Drake Kanye and Drake have had this ongoing feud which
involves a lot of dish tracks
rumors their feuds
it's a lot to unpack it's also now the main point of what we're talking about today but I mention it because in a series
of these tweets Kanye accuses Drake of threatening him and says that he was picking on people with mental
health issues one point Kim Kardashian even getting
Involved offending her husband's we didn't Drake never threatened my husband or our family he paved the way for there to be a drink having
My husband is the most brilliant person the most genius person that I know he's broken so many boundaries as of now we haven't seen
Drake publicly responded he did post a series of crying laughing emoji faces on his Instagram story and so that's happening in the Natalja fields
we have ariana grande tweet seemingly
commenting on this feud and tweeting guys I know there are grown men arguing online right now but Miley and I are dropping our beautiful
New songs tonight so if y'all could please just behave for just like a few hours or the girls can shine that'd be so sick
Thank you with Miley Cyrus also writing didn't they hear the news war is over thank you next and so the next thing we saw
is that on Saturday morning Wes
accuses Arianna of using this moment to promote her song writing I know Arianna said this to be cool and didn't mean no harm and
I don't like even
slightest level of slight commentary from someone I know loves and respects me people will no longer take mental health for a joke all this
Foolishness waiting on my mental health so Ariana Grande you know I got love for you and until
you're ready to really make sure
everyone's okay don't use me or this moment to promote a song no one would ever choose to end up at a mental hospital in
diagnosed with a mental disorder but God chose me to publicly go through this journey and it is beautiful grande then responding with all due
respect I don't need to use anyone to promote anything
period I was making a comment about what men were doing at the time versus women it was a joke which I understand now is
probably insensitive I apologize if I was in any way triggering and hope you feel well today then
she responded to a fan who told her to retract that apology writing regardless of how I feel about a
situation I can also care about their mental health then going on to express how much she hates the internet before asking everyone to stop
weaponizing mental health which then connects us to Pete
Davidson who of course has been very open about his mental health
Issues the the amount of bullying and harassment he's received also of course what's really important to the situation is Pete and Arianna were previously
engaged a massive amount of irassman bullying he's received has been from her
since the break-up and actually but if you look at the situation he faced a lot of backlash even when they were together a main
point regarding Pete Davidson we saw him jump into this situation
Right Bravo Kanye West we're standing up for yourself and speaking out against mental health I can't explain to you enough how difficult and scary
It is to be honest about stuff like this we need people like Connie
No one should ever point fingers at you for your bravery and speaking about mental
health I'm
seriously discussed and then things seem to escalate from there with Pete posting a pretty alarming note on Instagram reading I really don't want to
Be on this earth anymore I'm doing my best to stay here for you but I actually don't know how much longer I can last
All I've ever tried to do was help people just remember
I told you so and soon after posting that he deleted his Instagram account completely and this post was met with a ton of
responses across social media from both friends and fans someone like some Jada Pinkett Smith Kid Cudi and Megan McCain Jon Cryer Nicki Minaj all
concern saw ariana grande tweet man
I'm so sorry I told a dumb joke I really didn't mean any harm all I want is everyone to be healthy and happy
So desperately please my dog's been riding
I'm downstairs and I'm not going anywhere if you need anyone or anything I know you have everyone you need and that's not me but
I'm here to also people were asking why aren't you just texting him to which you responded no I couldn't because I don't have his
number what else how else would we like to vilify me today please keep going because I haven't had enough guilt at all
He saw Machine Gun Kelly who's a close friend of Pete saying that he's on a plane right
Now to go see him then later in the day it was reported that the NYPD
Actually sent an officer to the SNL studio to perform a wellness check on Davidson according to the reports he was at work
rehearsing for that night's episode of the show separately an NBC
representative contact at the NYPD to say that Davidson was at work and he was fine he appeared on the show in a
pre-recorded segment as well as briefly to introduce musical guest Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson with Pete also eventually spotted later that night with Machine
Gun Kelly and around all there's a lot of people have been pointing to Nicki Minaj's
Response because she was defending Pete and Kanye writing we can be so insensitive
God bless Kanye and Pete being flippant about mental illness speaks more about you than that stop saying the word love and live love is?
An action also adding y'all did the same thing to Mac Miller until
he died the fake
bandwagon hey the thing is this isn't even like the end of the chaos that was this weekend there was this whole situation with cardi
B and off set and people
mocking him her
defending him and obviously while I'd love your opinion on just all of that ultimately all of this does bring us back to the
conversation around mental health and something that
I've said over the past few years especially when talking about Kanye West that makes it hard to report on Kanye West's Kanye has created
situation after situation
where he
Says something that is really ridiculous or indefensible right every day that Connie had a phone or someone was putting a camera in his face
We were getting a different headlock and it needs to be on their soda that it's not an attack on people with mental
Health to point out that what he's talking about there doesn't make sense commenting on his words or his actions are not
automatically an attack on all
mental health and I think that's why we see these people arguing that it's being used as a shield and a weapon especially when I
think a lot of people have just resigned that this is what Kanye West is going to do from now right he's really hammered home
on the point that he's no longer taking his
medication running I cannot be on mad to make watch the throne level or dark fantasy level music you don't make run away on
medication six months off meds I can feel me again right and I think that we need to be able to go well I think
what he's saying is somewhat concern right he's beating that classic artistic drum right this idea that you can't be the
fantastic artist that you could be if you're taking medication to deal with your mental illness which if there's anyone that's reading what Kanye is
putting out there please
Please talk to your doctor before just stopping your medication so I think given the new norm pretty much anyone that's commenting on these
situations I think that it's less about
Kanye don't make it about Kanye and make it more about the
content and the actions of Connie that said I also think of the Kanye West Pete Davidson stories are somewhat different I think yes both
Are bringing awareness to mental health issues and I think that is that is admirable and fantastic appiy Davidson's is just, so
randomly vicious he got hit less and was able to manage a situation better when he mocked a
veteran that lost their eye and when he received at the hands of parts of Ariana
Grande's phantom Pete Davidson has been like oh I have mental health issues I'm trying to deal with stuff
I've been on the receiving end of a lot of bullying and then a good number of people were like yeah we'll kill yourself I
think it's ridiculous that he's having to deal with that but also at the same time I feel like another point often not brought up
or considered as you know what about Ariana Grande's mental
health what about the backlash she is also received following the public's reaction to the story right actually bring to bring it back to the
Whole of the situation around all the celebrities that were talked about today there's also a big commentary on how people act online
how both the connectivity but
disconnection from their own words make people even more horrible but with all that said once again I love them in your thoughts there's there's
A lot of different angles to this and final thing we're gonna talk about today
involves a word at the center of a lot of the stories this year and that is
migration and the reason we're talking about this today is on Sunday
thousands gathered in Brussels to protest a United Nations pact to cooperate on migration at the center of this you have the Global Compact for
safe orderly and regular migrate
laches a non-binding agreement setting out guidelines for humane migration practices and one that suggests increased cooperation between countries work on this pact began after
more than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015 and back in 2016 all 193 UN members unanimously adopted a non-binding political
declaration this is the time being the New York declaration for refugees and migrants the pledge to uphold the rights of refugees
help them resettle and ensure access to
education and jobs and that declaration was then split into two agreements the Global Compact on refugees and the Global Compact for safe orderly and
regular migration then we fast forward to July of this year we saw all 193 UN members except for the United States agreed to the
Global Compact for migration with Rex Tillerson
Saying quote while we will continue to engage on a number of fronts at the United Nations in this case we simply cannot in good
faith
support a process that could undermine the sovereign right of the United States to enforce our immigration laws and secure our borders what we ended
up seeing in a vote last week is out of
193 countries only
164 agreed to formally adopt it and at the conference in Marrakech
Morocco where the vote was held we saw UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres say it is clearer than most developed countries need migrants across a
broad spectrum of vital roles from caring for elderly people to preventing the collapse of health services just to mention two of the societies are
stronger more resilient and enriched not threatened by diversity adding migration has always been with us but in a world where it is evermore inevitable
And necessary it should be well managed and safe not irregular and dangerous and adding national policies are far more likely to succeed with
international
cooperation in many of the countries that did not attend this conference of either decide not to sign the accord or still decide any countries
that have decided not to sign include the United States
Austria Hungary Italy Poland and Slovakia
while at the same time you have countries like Bulgaria and Israel that are reportedly still deciding but with all that said in Europe this
pact actually set off a series of events
culminating in protests in Brussels on Sunday last Saturday just before the vote the largest member of Belgium's ruling coalition the right-wing new Flemish Alliance
they left the government in protest of their Prime Minister's decision to sign the pact on migration with this ultimately leaving the Prime Minister is
the head of a
minority government and following this movie saw Flemish right-wing parties calling for a march in Brussels which was initially banned by local authorities over fears
of violence however we saw Belgium's High Court overturned that banned siding with people's right to protest peacefully which that brings us to yesterday where
reportedly around
5,500 people showed up for the protests some of which carrying anti-immigrant signs reading
like our people first first our people we have had enough closed the borders reportedly while the protest was marching they began to set off
fireworks lighting flares once they reached the European Commission Building reportedly began to break windows you've also seen some reports coming out that they attack
journalists importantly police began to ask marches to disperse and in response some threw paving stones
firecrackers whatever else was around them towards the authorities so on the police side we saw them deploy tear gas begin to use water cannons
on the crowd portal II this led to
97 people being arrested but all of them have since been release in while in the city center there was a counter protest organized by
left-wing groups and charities which reportedly gathered around a thousand and attended one
Demonstrator Naomi stock are telling the BBC we want to raise the alarm to show that the organizers of the other demo are fascist groups
The advertised hate and discrimination and are violent we want to warn people and send a different message be kind of on this note of
the Opposition on Sunday during a keynote address the Secretary General of the UN said the
International Cooperation is under five this is the ultimate paradox of today's world I believe that behind this paradox there is a huge deficit of
trust our world is suffering from the bad case of trust deficit disorder is a deficit at many levels trust between people and political institutions
trust among countries trust in international organizations
namely the United Nations itself and adding we face enormous challenges
that cannot be solved by any country on its own climate change the defining challenge of our time
migration and refugees people on the move everywhere the multiplication of conflicts that are increasingly
interlinked and which itself is linked to newer threats of global terrorism and international
criminality as far as my reaction to all of this I'm not necessarily
surprised but I do find all of this interesting because once again a big thing to keep in mind is this is a big
reaction for a
non-binding
Fact it doesn't actually force these countries to take in any refugees or migrants right it maintains
each nations sovereign right to determine its own immigration policies the text in it specifically says the Global Compact
Reaffirms the sovereign right of states to determine their national migration policy and their prerogative to govern migration within their jurisdiction in conformity with
international law appears that the intent behind this is for it to be a tool to foster cooperation the growing system of
international immigration which I mean there really does need to be a plan in place according to the UN the number of international migrants
continues to increase last year there were
258 million however what's really interesting is the number of migrants going to Europe has actually decreased since its peak in
2015 in fact according to the European Commission since then it's dropped by 90
and it's also a situation that has proven deadly in fact according to the UN data more than
60,000 migrants have died on the move since
2000 which is something the secretary-general called a source of collective shame but with all of that said that is the story that is what
We've seen it will be very interesting to see what happens from here but ultimately?
I pass the question off to you what do you think about this story what do you think about the developments and what do you?
think will happen next and what do you want to happen next
I'd love to know your thoughts on this story and really anything I discuss today in those comments down below and that's what I'm going
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