Sup you beautiful bastards
hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday.
Welcome back to the Phillip DeFranco show
and lets just jump into it.
And the first thing we're going to talk about, one of the most requested stories of the day.
A youtuber made big main stream news
and that was Jake Paul.
Jake Paul, arguably one of the biggest youtubers on the platform right now,
daily videos, that on average get 6 million plus views
eight million subscribers, almost two million of those came from the past thirty days.
And he's in the news today because there may soon be a lawsuit against him.
And reportedly,  the reason for that is that Jake Paul's neighbors are fed up with the disturbances
his being there has caused.
Reportedly, the community will gather with local authorities to talk about this whole situation and
there the neighbors will decide whether they will file a public nuisance class action lawsuit
against Paul and the homeowner. Some saying the problem comes from Paul being fairly open about
where he lives. This causing large crowds of screaming girls to just swarm this neighborhood.
While others have a bigger problem of what Jake Paul himself does.
That including him tearing up and down the street on his bike or moments like this one
where they decide to throw a bunch of furniture in the pool and the set it on fire.
And the thing that stood out the most to me about this story was when KTLA news showed up outside
of his house, Jake Paul came out, decided to climb up on the news van for some reason.
Then he comes down and this interview happens.
Newscaster: "A lot of the neighbors are complaining, they're very upset."
Jake Paul: "Nooo. Why?"
Newscaster: "They say you've created a living hell out here, that it's like a circus."
Jake Paul: "Yeah, it is."
Newscaster: "All the fans."
Jake Paul: "I mean, people like going to circuses, right?"
Newscaster: "What do you say to the neighbors though that are upset? And they're really upset."
Jake Paul: "Uh, I honestly ..." 
Friend of Paul: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Jake Paul: "No, I'm honesty, yea, it's terrible. It's a bad situation. I feel bad for them, for sure."
"Uh, there's nothing we can do though. Jake Paulers are the strongest army out there. Dab!"
Jake: "I have one question for you."
Newscaster: "Yeah?"
Jake: "What are those?!?!"
Jake and Friends: *Screaming Happily*
Just a reminder, that is the biggest guy on youtube right now. Just take that in.
And after all this happened, Jake Paul tweeted part of that video with the caption
"I'm dead, @neighbors you won't do it."
And we're talking about this today because anytime a youtuber makes mainstream news
they're seen as a representative for all of us. And I'm a little bit torn.
There's part of me that sees Jake Paul and the guys like him that are coming up and I go "Ah Jesus!".
Young, arrogant, rich guys with unchecked egos. But then there's the other side of my brain that say as of
right now, there's no reason for them to do anything different. The reason he says,
"neighbors, you won't do it" is because even if they do, what is it gonna do. It's just gonna give him
more content. Maybe he goes to and films the meeting, maybe he has to film going to court.
They maybe film them getting kicked out of their house, then they get a new house and they do a house tour.
In the past thirty days, his channel, not even including the other channels that he is helping grow,
just his main channel got half a billion views. That means even if he had just a $2 cpm
he's making minimum one million dollars a month. And if he's rocking those $10 cpms
some of the more brand-friendly channels get, he getting maybe five million dollars a month.
Obviously that's a huge range, that's speculation. It could be less, it could be more.
But what we've seen over the past few months is that there's no such thing as bad press for him.
Whether intentional or accidental, this a perfect example of outrage marketing.
When people talk about what he's doing being dangerous, stupid, arrogant, blah blah blah...
it just results in more people hearing about it and even if just one in ten people that find out about it this way
subscribe, that's an increase. And I say this while being fully aware that by even covering this story on my show
I help feed the beast, but I don't have a grudge against Jake Paul. His success doesn't take away from mine.
He is not representative of the greater of youtube and if you think he is, you don't understand the community.
That said, I would hate to live in his neighborhood because I imagine having an asshole factory in your
neighborhood lowers property values. But ultimately for me, when I look at Jake Paul I just see a fantastic test
case for outrage marketing. And on youtube, the only people who have done it remotely as well were the fake
pranksters. But a question I want to pass off to you is, what do you think here? You love 'em, you hate 'em?
You care , you don't care? I wanna know what you think. But from there, I wanna share some stuff I love today
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channels. It's hosted by Oliver Babish. He puts out a video a week. It is fantastic and I highly recommend it.
And then,  I had to share the trailer for the new movie, The Disaster Artist. It's the new Seth Rogan
and James Franco movie where James Franco plays Tommy Wiseau. If you don't know who Tommy Wiseau is
Google the movie The Room. I just can't wait to see what this movie looks like.
Then we had the Dude Perfect guys putting out a card throwing trick shot video.
And the Screen Junkies guys putting out a honest trailer for Memento. Which by the way I am horrified
at the number of people I meet that have not watched the movie Memento. You haven't yet? Fix that.
And if you wanna see the full versions of everything I just shared, the secret link of the day, anything at all
links as always are in the description down below. And then I wanna talk about a horrifying story and trend
coming out of the U.K. And that trend we're talking about today is acid attacks. Now in the past, I've heard stories
about acid attacks but it seemed more like an outlier than an increasing standard. But it's such a problem that
the U.K parliament is talking about how how to handle this. This last week, we had food delivery drivers staging
a protest over a recent acid attack. Those attacks happened last Thursday. Five people were attacked by
two men on mopeds. And the two suspects who were arrested were a 15 and 16 year old who were using acid
as their weapon for robberies. And it is just becoming more and more of an issue. In 2014, there 166 acid
attacks. In 2015, you had 261 attacks. And in 2016, we saw that jump to 454 acid attacks. So the question
becomes why are we seeing this increase. Well you have some arguing that it is just becoming more popular.
That is for a more personal attack. You want to disfigure someone for life. That's why you have people using this.
There are those cases, but there are those who are arguing that it is a more complicated problem.
The first thing that comes up is access and costs to weapons. The U.K has very strict gun laws and even if
you purchased a gun illegally, it would cost a lot of money. Whereas with acid, you can buy chemicals to
make your weapon for about a pound (£). And that incredibly cheap weapon you've just created would be
very hard to trace back to you. Also, there is currently a legal benefit for people that use acid instead of other
weapons. If you attack someone with a knife or another weapon, you can be charged with attempted murder.
But in the U.K, as of right now, acid attacks are viewed as grievous bodily harm and not attempted murder.
And that is why, right now, we have several British M.P's pushing for change. Some, like Home Secretary
Amber Rudd, arguing, "Acid attackers must share their victims life sentences." Calling for much harsher
sentencing for these acid attacks. Some M.P's arguing for products with acidic substances to have a no cash
sales policy. Also arguing to put age restrictions on those products. Some M.P's suggesting that acid be put
on a controlled substance list. So just carrying acid would be an offense, much like if you were carrying
another weapon. And ultimately, my stance on this is I 100% agree that the punishment should be far worse
then it currently is. If you've ever seen the pictures of victims of acid attacks, you know the perpetrators of
those crimes have taken away any sense of a normal life from their victims. These monsters who use acid as their
weapon of choice are doling out a life sentence to their victims and they should share it as well.
Also, to the recommendation that having acid being on you an offense, yes. But to the idea of putting age
restrictions on buying things like drain cleaner, I personally don't believe that part will have a meaningful
impact. If people want these substances, they will get them. And so I think that is why the laws around the
punishment need to be updated. And then, let's talk about the American healthcare system. And the reason
we're talking about that today is it looks like the Republican healthcare bill is dead. Late Monday night,
Republican Mike Lee from Utah and Republican Jerry Moran from of Kansas joined Rand Paul and Susan
Collins against the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. And as far as their reasoning
we have Moran saying, "it fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address healthcare's rising costs".
"There are serious problems with Obamacare, and my goal remains what it has been for a long time: to repeal and replace it."
And we have Mike Lee saying, "In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes,"
"It doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families:"
"nor does it create enough free space for the most costly Obamacare regulations."
And this resulted in Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, announcing defeat. Stating, "Regretfully, it is"
"now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful."
But it appeared Mitch and a good number of other Republicans, including Donald Trump had a back up plan.
Donald Trump tweeting, "Republicans should just REPEAL failing Obamacare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!"
And then we had Mitch on the Senate floor saying this, "We will now try a different way to bring the American
people relief from Obamacare. I think we owe them at least that much. In the coming days, the Senate will take
up and vote on a repeal of Obamacare combined with a stable two year transition period as we work towards
patient centered healthcare." So they're going to try and push through a repeal and give themselves enough time
to come up with a replacement. So that's the new plan. Not a repeal and a replace. A repeal then, we got two
years, and hopefully by then, we have a replace. I imagine the idea being, well if we repeal then the
Democrats will have to work with us because if they don't and two years passes and a lot of peoples lives are
in jeopardy, people are going to blame the Democrats. But it should be noted that as of right now, it looks kind
of like a hailmary. It doesn't like like it's is going to go through. The first reason experts have pointed out
is this is not a full repeal. Because of budget rules, it leaves in place some regulations, large portions of
Obamacare. And so for a full repeal, they would need 60 votes, which they are not going to get in the Senate.
And that's also a note President Trump complained about on Twitter, tweeting "With only a very small
majority, the Republicans in the House & Senate need more victories next year since Dems totally obstruct,
no votes!", adding, "The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of current 60 votes. Even parts of full
repeal need 60. 8 Dems control Senate. Crazy!" And here, Trump is correct but not looking at the full picture.
He is correct that Democrats do not look like they will be working with Republicans anytime soon.
In my eyes, as of right now, yes, the Democrats are obstructionists now, much like Republicans were for the
past few years. But there are also Republicans speaking out, saying they do not support just a repeal.
We have the Republican Senator of West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito saying,
"My position on this issue is driven by it's impact on West Virginians."
"With that in mind, I cannot vote to repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan that addresses my concerns
and the needs of West Virginians.", adding, "We can't just hope that we pass a replacement within the next two years."
"Repealing without a replacement would create great uncertainty for individuals who rely on the Affordable
Care Act and cause further turmoil in the insurance markets." We also had Republican Senator Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska saying, "As I've been saying, the Senate should take a step back and engage in a
bipartisan process to address the failures of the ACA and stabilize the individual markets.
I cannot vote to proceed to repeal the ACA without reform that allows people the choice they want, the
affordability they need and the quality of care they deserve."
And finally, we had the Republican Senator of Maine, Susan Collins saying
"The bill would impose fundamental, sweeping changes in the Medicaid program and those include very deep
cuts that would affect some of the most vulnerable people in our society, including disabled children, poor
seniors." and tweeting, "I will vote no on the motion to proceed to repeal the Affordable Care Act  without a
replacement. I voted against the same proposal in 2015." And so just like that, with three Republican
senators saying no, not only does it look like the Republicans aren't going to get the sixty vote
full repeal, unless everyone else is on board and one of these three senators does a complete 180,
it doesn't look like Republicans can even push through the 50 vote filibuster version. So this is
huge news for the United States and it is also going to be very interesting to see how does this affect the 2018
election. Will moments like this one push people in the 2018 election to vote for more Republicans or vote for
more democrats. At that time for Republican candidates will look better for them to look like they're arm in arm
with Donald Trump? Will it help them gain the sixty seat majority? Or will it be more damaging and will we see a
swing back to the left? This will be very interesting see how this plays out. But with this story, I want to pass the
question off to you? What is your takeaway from this? Let me know if you're a Democrat, Republican or
Independent and what you're takeaway is. Do you want a repeal? Are you okay with a repeal only with a two year
window? Do you want to repeal and replace? Or do you want to keep the Afordable Care Act and just try to fix it?
I would love to know you're thoughts here in those comments down below. And that's actually where I'm
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