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Channel: Philip DeFranco
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S'up, you beautiful bastards?
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Hope you had a fantastic Friday.
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Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show!
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If you are new here - on Fridays, we do things a little bit different.
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On Friday, I try to include more viewer requested stories.
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Also, include stories we wanted to include earlier this week but they had to be cut for time,
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or we didn't have enough time to shoot because we wanted to be on time.
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With that said, let's just jump into it!
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And the first thing we're gonna talk about today was one of the most requested stories,
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and that was to look into the Poppy lawsuit.
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Poppy, real name: Moriah Pereira,
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and her creative partner, Titanic Sinclair, are being sued by a woman
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by the name of Brittany Sheets.
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And to fully explained this story, you need to have some background.
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We'll start with Mars Argo which was a music group that was active between 2009, and 2015.
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It was made up of Brittany Sheets, who was the main face of Mars Argo,
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and Corey Mixter AKA Titanic Sinclair.
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And, in addition to making up this group together, they were reportedly dating from 2008 to January 2014.
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They had a show called 'Computer Show', where they produced funky shorts.
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The channel 'grocerybagdottv' had about 92 videos on it. Although, now, most of them are deleted.
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And they apparently had an awful relationship, both when they were dating and afterwards.
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In the lawsuit, she details a ton of examples where she says that he was abusive in the relationship, and then after.
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Saying he broke into her apartment multiple times - doing things like
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getting on her laptop; messing with her Facebook;
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shattering wine glasses on the ground.
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They reportedly break up in January of 2014
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but at that time, Mars Argo had a cult following. It had decent success.
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So, Sheets and Mixter decide they're going to have a working relationship.
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But then, after another incident with Mixter,
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Sheets decides to put the band on an indefinite hiatus.
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Although, she would later release a single in 2015
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- one that they worked on before they had the hiatus.
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So, this is where Poppy comes in.
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The lawsuit alleges that Mixter met Poppy in mid-2014
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shortly after the breakup of Mars Argo.
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The lawsuit also makes note that, at the time, Poppy
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- who wasn't Poppy yet -
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was clearly a natural brunette but quickly
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changed her hair to platinum blonde, which was similar to Sheets's.
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And in November 2014, Poppy releases her first video titled 'Poppy Eats Cotton Candy'.
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And here, Sheets notices the similarity of the look of Poppy,
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as well as the style of the video to Mars Argo.
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And since then, Poppy and Mixter have released over 250 videos, multiple albums.
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And that has led us to this moment, where Sheets finally decided to file a lawsuit against the two
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claiming that they stole her persona, and ideas, for Poppy
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- some ideas that allegedly only Sheets and Mixter had knowledge of.
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And the lawsuit that was filed in California Court has four major complaints against Mixter and Poppy.
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1. Common law right of publicity,
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2. Violation of California's unfair business law,
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3. Damages for domestic violence and a restraining order, and
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4. Copyright infringement.
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And that appears to be the bulk of the lawsuit,
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Which is also seeking damages from Mixter and Poppy.
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The lawsuits stating:
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And according to the lawsuit, some specific similarities between Poppy and Sheets include:
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dyeing poppy's hair to a specific platinum blonde color because she was brunette before;
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Poppy altering her voice pitch to a specific high range
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- and there are examples you can find online of her speaking differently before the Poppy character;
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and using similar backgrounds and videos. And, there are numerous examples provided.
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In one case, a lawsuit alleges that Poppy wore one of Sheets's own coats.
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Another showing that Poppy uploaded a video of the same name as one of the 'grocerybagdottv' videos.
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Although the content inside of those videos are different on Poppy's video
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- it's just her saying ["delete your facebook"] over and over.
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In the Mars Argo video - there's kind of more of a back-and-forth.
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Some of the other similarities that were listed:
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performance outfits being the same;
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a video which had Poppy with blood coming out of her mouth that looks similar.
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And in fact, there are a lot of these side-by-side comparisons made.
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And there are many more similarities that are listed in the 'suit
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but I'll link down to a video that that compares and contrasts.
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It'll give you an even better idea of what the full argument is.
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We also saw Sheet's lawyers spoke with TMZ and they said:
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It also appears that Sheets went to the Mars Argo Twitter in mid-April to post her feelings on the 'suit.
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So, that's the lawsuit as we know about it right now.
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It will be very interesting to see what happens with it.
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And something people have been pointing out that's kind of interesting/potentially sketchy
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is Sinclair and Poppy's Twitter account.
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I was trying to find out if Poppy or Sinclair had posted anything about Mars Argo, and any of the accussations.
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When I was looking into it - according to socialblade.com - Poppy deleted around 2000 tweets around the 26th-27th.
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According to the site, around that time, Titanic Sinclair deleted around 170.
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So, the question becomes - why did they do this?
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What were in those specific tweets?
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With Poppy, it was essentially scorched earth.
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They're only three listed tweets now from before April 30th of this year.
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With Sinclair, it seems more targeted,
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and it doesn't seem like he was trying to remove things where he's 'being problematic'.
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He still has tweets like this one, where he quote-tweeted @NME - who wrote:
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'Halsey reveals she tried to kill herself after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 17',
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to which he wrote, "Wow, she even sucks at that".
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I mean, he even left this tweet up of him criticizing [Grimes] in the past
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that he and poppy appear to be working with now.
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So, if he's not deleting that, what was he deleting?
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And Grimes, by the way, is the reason that this story has popped back up.
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The lawsuit initially came out mid-April but this story got sparked up again
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because Poppy and Grimes posted a picture together - that picture teasing an upcoming collab.
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Many fans linking to the lawsuit - the allegations of both copying, as well as abuse.
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Also, a note I want to hit on: obviously, whenever you're dealing with a lawsuit, any story,
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both sides need to be able to get their story out.
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I reached out to Mixture to see if he had a general statement.
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Also, asking him about the tweets.
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As far as statement, he says he cannot comment now but there is an official statement coming.
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As far as the tweets, he said Poppy's were cleared for promotional reasons.
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As far as his tweets, he said 'I haven't deleted anything from my account'.
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Regarding these two things -
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1. I've reached out to socialblade.com to see if there is a possibility
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that the deleted tweets listed here could have been a bug.
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I'll be sure to include their response along with the follow-up, once an official statement is released.
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That said, I do want to pass a question off to you.
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What is your takeaway from this?
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Seeing those comparisons, does it make you think that Poppy is a copy?
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What do you think about any of the other allegations?
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I'd love to know your thoughts here.
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Then, let's talk about Kevin Hart back in the news.
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You may remember that Kevin Hart got caught cheating on his then-pregnant wife?
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There was this whole sex tape scandal.
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And then, more information about the situation came out and it turned out that the 'sex tape' -
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neither Kevin Hart, nor the woman in it, reportedly knew they were being filmed.
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It also came out whoever filmed this was trying to extort Kevin Hart; trying to get money.
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We learned this week that the man who allegedly did this is Jonathan Todd Jackson.
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He's facing two felony counts. One for attempted extortion, and the other extortion by threatening letter.
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If convicted, Jackson faces up to four years.
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One of the roughest things of all to come from this is, reportedly,
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this guy was Kevin Hart's friend for around 15 years.
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He's appeared in several films with Kevin Hart. He went to his bachelor party.
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Around the time this news came out, Kevin Hart tweeted:
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Now, obviously, there's an easy joke to be made about Kevin Hart's disbelief that his trust was betrayed
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but it is also important point out that, there is a difference.
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Kevin Hart broke someone's trust.
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This other person allegedly broke the law
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- and also, trust -
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but the main thing is the law.
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Then in apparently-I've-been-wrong-this-entire-time, news. Let's talk about IMHO.
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You may have seen online this week, but there's been a debate over what those letters mean.
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Some saying 'it's in my honest opinion'. Others saying 'in my humble opinion'.
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I have been in the 'in my honest opinion' camp
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But according to Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, 'We're on Team Humble, TBH.'
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And then linking to their site, where it says 'in my humble opinion'.
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But to that say, "It's 2018! We're living in a post-facto, alternative fact world
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"where you don't you don't admit faults, or that you're wrong.
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"No! Why learn from your mistakes when you can just double down on what you feel is right."
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And so, in conclusion - IMHO, you can go straight to hell.
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Then, quickly, let's knock out an update about this dress.
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We talked about it earlier this week.
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There have been a lot of outrage. There was hate being sent her way.
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That, of course, Keziah Daum. She, of course, stuck to her guns.
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That it wasn't offensive - it was appreciation. She loved it.
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I was personally on the side of 'I don't get the outrage'.
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It looks like she just was appreciating a culture; thought it was beautiful.
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One of the big updates coming from this story is apparently,
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in China, there's just a lot of confusion as far as why people are angry about this.
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China Daily reporting that, on Chinese social media, people were praising the outfit.
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Users writing things like:
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This made me wonder. Why did we see a completely different reaction in China than in the United States?
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[United States], obviously, was diverse but there was a lot of outrage.
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Well, according to Lee Bo Chen (who I'm probably mispronouncing your name, I apologize)
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Lee is the director of the Beijing-based Chinese Culture Rejuvenation Research Institute.
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Lee said that 'both the authorities and mainland people view the spread of Chinese culture positively'
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- adding, "For example, Chinese people are elated when foreigners speak Mandarin".
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Whereas in the United States - where there are a ton of different cultures; when you have a majority and minorities;
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when someone from the majority adopts something from the minority - some will see that as exploitive
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and, essentially, robbing a minority of their culture.
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Because this person from the majority who has adopted from other cultures is seen as trendy; as an innovator.
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And, once again, that's not an opinion I had. It's not a mindset that I subscribe to
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but I was just interested to see why are we seeing that big difference.
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And also, I want to say just from earlier this week, when I asked about stories like this,
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I want to thank: 1. The people that just leave comments but [especially,]
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2. The people to leave comments that are respectful but then, disagree.
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It helps me understand where other people are coming from.
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And in the-least-surprising-headline-of-the-day news: Man 'trying to take selfie' with bear is mauled to death.
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Yeah, it's unfortunate but that should be the expected outcome from the beginning of that sentence.
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Reportedly, it happened in India. A taxi driver was driving a group home. He had to stop to relieve himself.
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And according to reports on his way back to the Jeep, he spotted a bear and decided to take a selfie with it.
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And once again, it shouldn't be a surprise, this is a wild animal.
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The bear grabbed him, and mauled him to death.
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There's video of the attack - I'm not going to include that here.
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Reportedly, members of the group that were there tried to throw rocks and sticks
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at the bear to get the bear to stop.
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And, that's it! That's the story.
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I mean, what's the lesson here?
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Don't be stupid, stupid?
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I feel a little bit bad because it's another human being who lost their life
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but it should be pretty common sense that when when you see a dangerous wild animal
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that, if it just even wanted to, could murder the hell out of you.
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When you see it, the first thing you should do is not
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A) "Let's get a selfie!"
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You do what every other normal person would do. You try and remember what you heard that one time about,
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"Was it a black bear, or is it a brown bear?"
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And with this specific one, "Are you supposed to make yourself big,
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or are you supposed to go in the fetal position and act like you're dead?"
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And you just hope you'll remember the right one.
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You've only got this one life - do not be stupid with it!
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And then, we have the Twitter news which you most likely know about
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if you have logged onto Twitter in the past day.
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But if you have not, Twitter is advising all 330 million Twitter users to change their password right now.
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And of course, like in all situations around this, if the password you used on Twitter
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is the password you used somewhere else, change that password as well.
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The reason they're advising users to do this is - according to their official blog - is that:
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And then, adding:
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But then, adding:
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Then, it goes into even more specifics about the bug.
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I'll link to the official blog down below, if you want to read into it.
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So, be safe out there!
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And also, don't change your password to 'password' or 'password123'.
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Sounds simple. Still, every single year, on the top 10 most used passwords.
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Like no matter what, your information will be out there. Someone will get into your account.
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But just don't make it that easy.
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Then, let's talk about the situation [for teachers] in Arizona.
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You might not have heard about it but Arizona public school teachers across the state staged a walkout.
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And this was the protest low wages and lack of support for school funding.
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The strike involved tens of thousands of teachers, and closures of hundreds of schools across the state.
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The teachers initial demands included a 20% increase in pay, by next year;
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yearly raises until their salaries reach the national average; competitive wages for school staffers;
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a roughly 1 billion dollar annual increase in education spending which would match pre-Great Recession funding levels;
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driving down class sizes to a ratio of 23 students to one teacher;
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and a freeze on tax cuts until spending on each student reaches the national average.
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And according to the National Center of Education Statistics, Arizona teachers make on average
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$10,000 less than the national average.
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But, even worse, according to 2016 data from Morrison Institute for Public Policy,
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the median salary for Arizona elementary school teachers
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- when adjusted for the cost of living - is dead last in the nation.
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And if you're a high school teacher in Arizona?
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Well, congratulations, you're not last! But you're 49th.
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And keep in mind, while I'm talking about these latest walkouts,
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that this situation actually started near beginning of March.
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There's been a long road. Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona trying to come up with solutions.
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Educators push back on initial plans, saying it did not do enough.
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That then brought us to the latest walkout, which started last Thursday,
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which then led to this last Tuesday, where Governor Ducey released a letter
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detailing a proposed budget agreement that he said was very close to passing the state legislature.
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This budget largely mirroring his original proposal that he announced mid-April
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but it did also give individual school districts the power to divvy up the money how they want.
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So, for example, a school district can decide to give bigger raises to lower-earning teachers,
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and smaller raises to higher-earning teachers.
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So, the educators looking for a '20% increase'? They're getting it.
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But they're also maybe not getting it, depending on their existing pay
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and depending on what each individual school district does. It's not across the board.
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The budget also called for restoring 400 million dollars in school maintenance
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funding that was cut during the Great Recession, within the first year.
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It also restores another 100 million dollars in cuts next year, as part of a plan to
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return school funding levels to pre-recession levels within five years.
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This money will go to things like new textbooks, school buses, support staff salaries.
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And in reaction to that, organizers with Arizona [Teachers] United announced that
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- while the budget proposal does not go far enough -
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if the Legislature passed the proposed budget, then they would end the walkout and return to class.
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What ended up happening was, at the Arizona House, the Arizona Senate negotiated the bill; they passed it;
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and, Thursday morning, governor Ducey signed the bill into law.
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And the final number as we ended up seeing was 644 million dollars for schools to use
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to increase teacher pay by 20% over the next three school years,
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and it provides 371 million dollars - over five years - to restore Recession Era education cuts.
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In response to this, as promised, Arizona teachers announced that they were ending the walkout.
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That's where I'm going to end today's show!
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