Sup you beautiful bastards
hope you're having a fantastic Thursday. Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show and let's just jump into it and the first thing we're gonna talk about today is
The ridiculous story that is the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America having beef
Yes, really
Here's here's a little background all the Girl Scout and the Boy Scouts have seen declining membership over the past few years the Girl Scouts
Have gone from 2.8 million members in 2012 to now just one point six million members as of March and the Boy Scouts went from
2.6
Million in 2013 to 2.35 million this year and so both
Organizations have been trying to attract new members the Girl Scouts have been adding new programs to focus on more high adventure activities
Stem field but the Boy Scouts went a different route instead of changing necessarily what they do changing who they let in
Yesterday the Boy Scouts announced that younger girls will be allowed into Cub Scouts and older girls will have the opportunity to reach Eagle Scout
Issuing a statement saying the historic decision comes after years of receiving requests from families and girls the organization evaluated the results of numerous research
Efforts gaining input from current members and leaders as well as parents and girls
Who've never been?
Involved in scout adding the families today are busier and more diverse than ever most are dual earners
And there are more single-parent households than ever before making convenient programs that serve the whole family more appealing so the plan would be for
The Cub Scout packs to have the option to remain single gender or welcome both genders and by 2019 a program for older girls will
Enable them to become Eagle Scouts and as you might expect the Girl Scouts are not happy in fact
they ever since there was even a story that this might be a thing the Girl Scouts have seemed to be of the mindset of
Maybe stay in your life back in August the national president of the Girl Scouts Cathy Hannon
she sent a letter to the Boy Scouts that read are then seeking to fundamentally transform Boy Scouts of America into a co-ed program we
Believe strongly that Boy Scouts and instead take steps to ensure they are expanding the scope of their programming to all boys
including those who Boy Scouts of America has historically
underserved and underrepresented
Such as African American and Latino boys
We are confused as to why rather than working to appeal to the 90% of boys who are not involved in BSA programs you would
Choose to target girls, and this is just a personal note that is one of the most fantastic
Passive-aggressive letters, I've ever read, and I'm not judging
I'm just saying that as someone who has a problem with being passive-aggressive
So that was August and then following the Boy Scouts of America making this announcement gross Kouts released a statement the Boy Scouts house is
on fire instead of addressing systemic issues of continuing sexual assault
Financial mismanagement and deficient program boys Scout of America senior wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls
Oh shit the Girl Scouts. Just took an eraser to the passive part
Also as you might expect there been a lot of vocal reactions to this movie my mom's like a chevron kapa tweeting
I'm a Girl Scouts troop leader for my daughter's Brownie troop and the mother of a boy scout
And I love this Girl Scouts is a great organization with great goals for training girls for leadership
But it makes everything so damn hard literally hours and days of training and forms to do anything like take the girls on a field
Trip worse than working for government my son's dad is a Boy Scouts leader an Eagle Scout and they do so much go camping two
Three times a year just for a weekend also so many more hands-on activities
Competitions being outdoors as far as I know he doesn't have to spend two days in training and fill out 50 forms to do it
Either also fundraisers give more money directly the troops whereas Girl Scout cookies give the troop just a fraction of every $5 bucks
I just put it this way. I'm sorry to say that I'm going to switch my daughter
I think it'll be a better experience for her and me also get people chiming in that the Girl Scouts need to not complain and
They need to make their program. Just better it takes like this one from Charlie Kirk wrote
I'm an Eagle Scout only boys should be in Boy Scouts only girls should be in Girl Scouts
Don't change things that were Kristin for anymore writing you all ought to be ashamed using kids to push your leftist agenda
We Scouts and Girl Scouts are named so for a reason get over yourselves
I've also seen people calling for the two
Organizations to merge and just call it Scout and ultimately where I land on this is I don't care as long as the Girl Scout
Cookies keep putting out their Samoas. Also ours the Boy Scouts seems like a more interesting fun experience although
Controversies around Boy Scouts as has left me and whose to throw my kid into the mix
But also I want to pass a question off to you around gender specific program
do you think there's a benefit or is it a lesser experience or it's neutral in regards to the experience you get if it's just
Boys or just girls. I'd love to know your thoughts on this then in quickie inside of our own industry news
Let's talk about a youtuber who's being sued announced on the 10th, but fine
We'll talk about it to some outlets Jake Paul is being sued for a prank video that he did Franken question involved Jake Paul putting
An incredibly loud horn in his car then driving up to people and then honking the horn
Reportedly someone that says that Jake Paul did this to them is now suing Jake and his company this because the man says his hearing
Was damaged by the horn and also for emotional distress, and there's there's nothing I can add to that story, but hey
Also as a group we maybe get to learn something I looked into the story and outside of this lawsuit
Jake Paul may have actually committed a crime because according to California law specifically on aftermarket
Horns decibel levels existing law requires a motor vehicle when operated upon a highway to be equipped with a horn in good working order incapable
of emitting sound audible under normal
circumstances from a distance of not less than 200 feet but prohibits a horn from emitting an
Unreasonably loud or harsh sound a violation of the vehicle code is a crime it specifies a sound greater than
110 decibels and actually if there is a note that I can end this on is to the rest of the world to the world
That does not watch Jake Paul videos
Please note that he is not an accurate representation of our site as a whole YouTube is a big place
And he just has his chunk of it
Then let's talk about Google is spying on you in your homes or listen to your children normal lizard people things
I don't want to believe it, but I got the documents right here. I apologize people sometimes
I just like to do my really bad impression Alex Jones
Or am I actually Alex Jones near hallucinating because they're putting chemicals in your wallet
anyway
This actually does have to do with a google spying issue if you don't know on October 4th Google unveiled a series of new products
You have the two new pixel phones the pixel book and the home minion like other reviewers are Tim Russert offski who was a writer
For the Android police he was given a home many Android police gave glowing reviews to the home Mini
But but Artem noticed that something was weird recently while Artem was watching TV
He noticed that his home Minnie was trying to respond to questions are being asked on TV his home any kept activating and reactivated
So the guys confused he wants to see what's happening so he goes to his ghouls my activity page for his Google assistant the audience
I'm seeing is hundreds of recordings from his home min
He's literally recording him all day constantly
And here's the thing it is not uncommon for Google Amazon Apple
Whoever to keep what they record a part of the agreement is that they only record what you say after?
Activating the device you know so if you're playing this on a loud TV, and I say okay Google set alarm for 4:00 a.m.
Your Google home activated heard the command and also recorded it
But in this case with this how many it was always active so we decided to test it out
He put his mini next to the TV so could hear the TV
And I just kept activating over and over in this video you can
The TV speaker playing in the mini home trying to constantly record and activate
That's why the lights keep flickering on and off
And this is a huge violation of privacy terms by Google right under privacy
It ass is Google home recording all my conversations they write
no Google home listens in short snippets for the hot work adding that those snippets are deleted if the hot word is not detected and
None of that information leaves your device until the hot word is heard before we all start putting some tinfoil hats on grabbing our pitchforks
It doesn't seem completely evil Arnim emails Google's PR team
He doesn't expect a response for like two three they they reportedly responded within ten minutes. They exchanged details
They send someone to go get as a device what happened
Well the whole Mini has a button you can hold down to activate the vise instead of saying okay?
Google Google says the problem was that some of the home minis have a bug that caused a button to be busted so the whole
Mini was always activated and always recording and after Google confirmed this Google rolled out a new firmware that made the activation button disabled completely
Google issuing the statement we take user privacy and product quality concerns very seriously
Although we only received a few reports on this issue we want people to have complete peace of mind while using Google Home minis does
That mean everything's fine. Well. I think that everyone needs to be a little bit paranoid
I commend Google here for their quick response time the fact that they are taking privacy issues seriously
Also, of course when we talk about situations like this we just have to look to stories
We've covered in the past of TV's listening on you your phones can be used to spy on you
I mean you have to consider the whole gambit
I mean we just mentioned two there one is a
device working as
Intended and the other is a hack you have to you have to take it all into account me and understand what these devices are
Obviously everyone wants to be secure
But every day we look at the news we see
Things being hacked things being accessed and ultimately when you boil down what a lot of these devices
are you are putting a device that listens to you into your home once if you were watching me with a device it has a
camera and a sound recording device in a way
I always personally think about it is we are we are trading?
Security for convenience and ultimately where I land on this is in a world. That is not secure
That's what makes me happy to see Google moving so fast on that and this Avenue in this situation
They made privacy seem like a priority
Then we have more Harvey Weinstein update where the most recent women to share her experience was Cara, Delevingne
He talks about meeting him with a director in a hotel lobby at the end of the meeting the director goes away a Harvey Weinstein
Assertive stays is immediately when they're alone he starts bragging about all these women in Hollywood he slept with and how he made their career
He then allegedly invites her to his room. She said she quickly declined then right. I asked his assistant if my car was outside
He said it wasn't and wouldn't be for a bit, and I should go to his room at that moment
I felt very powerless and scared
But didn't want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation when I arrived
I was relieved to find another woman in his room, and I thought immediately I was safe
He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction
I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing I began to sing I thought it would make the situation
better more professional like an audition
I was so nervous after seeing I said again that I have to leave you walked me to the door and stood in front of
It and tried to kiss me on the lips
I stopped him and managed to get out of the room as far as why she never went public with this story
she says I still got the part for the film and always thought he gave it to me because of what happened since then I
Felt awful that I did the movie. I felt like I didn't deserve the part
I was so hesitant about speaking out. I didn't want to hurt his family
I felt guilty as if I did something wrong
I was also terrified that this sort of thing had happened to so many women I know but no one had said anything because of
Fear and adding in a second post I am relieved to be able to share this actually feel better
And I'm proud of the women who are brave enough to speak this isn't easy
But there are strength in our numbers as I said
This is only the beginning every industry especially in Hollywood men abused their power using fear and get away with it
This must stop the more we talk about it the less power. We give them
I heard you want to talk to the people who defend these men you are part of the problem
Then this is an update remember how I said Delevingne was the latest accuser as of today
No longer the case Kate Beckinsale has now come out and make it even more concerning her story involves her being 17
She said when I arrived reception told me to go to his room you open the door in his bathrobe
I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older
Unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in it after declining
Alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning
I left uneasy, but unscathed then going on to say his actions continued for years writing
I said no to him professionally many times over the years some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a cunt
And making threats some of which made him laughingly tell people Oh Kate lives to say no to me it speaks to the status quo
In this business that I was aware that standing up for myself and saying no to things well
It did not allow me to feel uncompromised in myself undoubtedly harmed my career and was never something
I felt supported by anyone other than my family
then references a
situation where there was a guy warning another actress about Harvey once again showing that this seems to be an open secret and she and
there are statements saying let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a
System that is sick and that we have work to do then
I want to give an update on the Ben Affleck portion of the story
I covered yesterday yesterday we showcase two of the videos going around one
that Ben Affleck actually
Apologized for apology for when he groped the breasts of a host on TRL the second video was of an interview for the movie Jersey
Girl woman in that video as amarelo sick
and she's come out since that video has been making the rounds again and said Ben Affleck did nothing wrong saying this was for the
Camera you have to understand that we have done dozens and dozens of interviews like that
It was her show I was producing so I was not at all a victim when the cameras rolled we would start to do that
As soon as it stopped rolling there was none of the who never touched me in any improper way. He was very respectful
I must say so since we talked about people sharing that video. I thought it was important
You knew the full context and the update around it also to repeat something. I said yesterday the the Ben Affleck story
It's to prompt one are his actions and the things he's now
Apologized for the other part was him saying he had no idea that Harvey Weinstein was doing this and Rose McGowan saying yes
You did is when a lot of talk about the Harvey Weinstein story is it an open secret my personal no
There is the more and more we see of all like the videos coming out of people talking about it
Referencing joking about it really does seem that a lot of people knew that it wasn't just that Harvey Weinstein was a player that he?
Was abusing his power I think when you have an industry that makes a lot of people a lot of money you find people being
Willfully ignorant about things that could take away from their paydays, but also to continue on these updates
There was an update around Rose McGowan gown and of course an actress someone who accused Harvey Weinstein reached a settlement with him reportedly been
Tweeting about this Harvey Weinstein situation was the past few days also yesterday
She went after Ben Affleck saying that he was lying about never know ingenue Ben Affleck's brother Casey
Affleck who of course reached settlements in regards to similar situations
The update is that Rose McGowan got suspended on Twitter you learned about this because Rose went to her Instagram with a screenshot there you
See she's been suspended for 12 hours, and she writes the caption twitter has suspended me
There are powerful forces at work be my voice hashtag
Why women don't report and in response to this many people came to roses defense Jessica Chastain tweeting hate Twitter?
Let us know which of these rules rose mcgowan bro asking for multiple victims of sexual violence Jimmy Lee Curtis writing
And now this you allowed Twitter freedom to our president
But you silenced a woman speaking out about sexual harassment Anthony Bourdain Twitter unblocked Rose McGowan all Feig Wow Twitter seriously
This is the account you suspend
But not Trump who threatened to wipe out another country to spend me to please and the tweets go on and on
and it was actually it was pretty interesting because
this was something that I saw a lot of liberals and also a lot of conservatives agreeing on getting angry at Twitter for how they
Moderate their service and for a while not a lot was known about why Rose was actually
Suspended that was until Twitter released a statement this morning saying you've been in touch with Miss McGowan's team
We want to explain that her account was temporarily locked because one of her tweets included a private phone number
Which violates our Terms of Service the tweet was removed in her account has been unlocked we will be clear about these policies and decisions
In the future Twitter is proud to empower and support the voices on our platform
Especially those that speak truth to power to stand with brave women and men who use Twitter to share their stories and will work hard
Every day to improve our processes to protect those voices well Twitter didn't provide a screen shot or any specificity towards
Which tweet multiple outlets have now been reporting that it was a specific tweet
That's now been deleted from October 11 with the caption anonymously sent to me
They all knew it starts here
And the image was portion of an email that offered to set up a meeting with Bob is presumably Bob
Weinstein at a hotel in the early evening and that now deleted image included the full email
signature of the person which included their phone number, but still after this Jack Dorsey Twitter CEO
He tweeted the statement we need to be a lot more
Transparent in our actions in order to build trust, but still for a lot of people
That's not enough
And he's still feeling like this was Twitter
Silencing a woman who was trying to speak out - tag women boycott Twitter has been trending many calling for a boycott on Friday it
Would be very interesting to see how many people jump on board how this affects Twitter
also
We had an update around the Terry Crews situation Terry Crews of course shared his story of being sexually assaulted by a Hollywood
Honcho james van der being joined him as another man
Sharing his story saying what weinstein is being accused of his criminal what he's admitted to is
Unacceptable in any industry. I applaud everybody's speaking out. I've had my ass. Grabbed by older powerful men
I've had them cornered me and inappropriate sexual conversations when I was much younger I understand the unwarranted shame
Powerlessness and inability to blow the whistle there's a power dynamic that feels impossible to overcome now after he shared this story people started speculating
Who it was afterwards james van der beek tweet or the record the harassment? I tweeted about was by people
99.9% of you don't know - were charged by others and punished the other has since died also on top of celebrities speaking out
We've seen a lot of people going through celebrities pasts now, and the latest celebrity being criticized is Jason Momoa Leigh
Colorado and Game of Thrones he's Aquaman clip of him that's blowing up right now is from a 2011 comic-con as this
casino though, there's so many things you can do like ribosomes and
Get weight and great beautiful women
So from this
We've seen a lot of people just outraged saying this kind of this mindset is not appropriate if you're joking it's not okay
Others saying no it was just an ill choice of words and someone trying to make a reference to how
ridiculous things are in fantasy in the final update we have around this today is reportedly Harvey Weinstein is being investigated in New York and
London London the Metropolitan Police said that they are looking into an alleged sexual assault in the London area during the
1980s and in New York
they're looking into a
2004 incident the NYPD releasing a statement based on information
Referenced in published news reports the NYPD is conducting a review to determine if there are any additional complaints relating to the Harvey Weinstein matter
So that's where we are right now
And if there is a lesson to be learned say you
Predators of the world you can get away with sexual harassment sexual assault in some instances
But guess what maybe you can do that for several decades and completely get away with it until eventually eventually you can so
That's where we are today there may still be more to come
I mean we're talking about a situation where the person at the center of it has been in that position for years and years and
years
And as we've also seen it's inspired other victims of other
Situations to speak out the question on a pass-off to you is with so many people coming out now
Do you think that this is the beginning of a real chain is this the start of something but as right now?
That's where we are and of course whether it be this story the first one anything in between I would love to know your thoughts
Today and that's actually where I'm going to end today's show and remember if you like this video
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