The Shane Gillis Situation Has Divided The Internet & Trump Crowd Attacks Woman Over Epstein Shirt

But when we just got beat up at a Jake Paul Fuel Trump rally for demanding to see the Epstein file, the Shane Gillis SNL controversy has divided the internet. The 911 calls were first to fight, they just got released, and they proved that no one knew anything about what was going on. Kimberly Gillfoil is resigning the new hide house press secretary doesn't appear to have a working brain, and someone was thrown off a roller coaster at six flags, but it's even worse than it sounds. 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. So you just had a protester get beat up at a Trump rally, and Trump's response was to call them fat. Right at the Donald Trump, Jake Paul midterm rally. And yes, the world is this weird and stupid, where have you been? But specifically, this all happened as Trump was campaigning for Republicans in Ohio. And someone in the crowd, they wore a shirt saying, "Release the Epstein files." Right as she stood up during Trump's speech, the people around her began to grab her, shove her, pull her hair, and even punch her while the rest of the arena cheered on. And then, a security intervene, you had them not escorting the people who hit the protester, but they dragged the protester out. In all this chaos, it was apparently big enough and loud enough that Trump started paying attention and began to mock her and refer to her as a man as she was being carried away. Now with that, it feels like it goes without saying, but half to mention it, there's absolutely no evidence that this protester was paid to be there, which is even something that Fox News admitted in its article on the incident. They actually even reported that while the protester was made to leave, the man who struck her, got to stay and even high five the other attendees that were around him. And as far as the protester started the story, she only gave a brief statement to TMZ and she was being walked out. And while that, it was definitely the most chaotic moment from the rally, it wasn't the only time that a protester interrupted Trump while he was speaking in Ohio. Until you had Jake Paul of all people who in addition to being there was also on Air Force One with him calling this out. I get confused by the left, the protesters, do they not have jobs? That's all they do. Just carry signs around while we're doing the work. Oh, Jake, you conniving opportunistic con artist cock. It is such a shame that you getting your job broken to the cheers of millions because you're such an asshole didn't stop you from using that boot lick and mouth of yours. One, you're criticizing a protester for being there in a room full of people who are there or who had or made the time. And two, how are you going to call out people who do not work or do not contribute when you fucking fled to Puerto Rico so you don't have to pay taxes on the money that by the way you also make by convincing your audience to lose money with your gambling company. You just continue to be an ever growing net negative on society the longer that you continue to exist. And I just have to tell you that since you are surrounded by people that make money or gain position or gain fame from you who are never going to say these things to you. You're a fantastic marketer, a great social manipulator, but you just are a bad human being and no number of side projects you do to try to shield yourself or PR is ever going to actually fix what's inside your heart or what's supposed to be there. But with a story rate, it was the fight in Trump's remarks that definitely drew the most backlash. People noting that this appeared to be a group of mostly men attacking a woman protester with a crowd applauding the violence and adding. The president of the United States and MAGA are okay with physically assaulting women. Others also thought it was incredibly telling that the crowd was angered by a shirt calling for the Epstein files to be released. Saying things like demanding accountability for pedophiles gets you assaulted at a Trump event and saying you know it seems like the same people who are once begging for Trump to release the Epstein files, they're now beating people up for fighting for that cause. Though then also with that, I'll say you know this does come as lawmakers are still fighting for transparency on that front. Epstein might not be dominating the headlines like he once was but representatives like Thomas Massey and Rokana, they are constantly trying to keep this issue in the spotlight. And the discharge petition for the second part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act has 216 of the 218 signatures that it needs. So both Massey and Kanna, they're really trying to up the pressure on their colleagues to join on and force a vote on this bill. Just this week, you had Kanna campaigning with the Democratic Senate candidate in Iowa and there he called on Republican Representative Ashley Hinson, who's also trying to grab that Senate seat to take the petition to the finish line. I'm calling on Ashley Hinson to text or call Thomas Massey to get on our discharge petition. Just like Brian Fitzpatrick has Nancy Mace has and other Republicans have this is about whether you stand with the pedophiles with rich and powerful donors or whether you're going to stand with young girls so that we can give survivors the right to get the documents and we can give state attorney generals the right to prosecute these individuals. And because like we talked about last week, Democrats are in part trying to make Epstein a part of the midterms. In addition to affordability with gas, electricity, health insurance and addition to Trump's war of choice and addition to a million other things. And so it ends up not being surprising to see Kanna focusing on someone who is seeking higher office in an effort to not just get the signature but highlight how Republicans are dropping this Epstein effort. And as it stands now, only four of sign the discharge petition and the rest of the names, they're all Democrats. So Massey, he's trying to get voters to encourage the representatives to sign and last week he wrote we have 216 signatures, but we need 218. Two Democrats who are out sick have pledged to sign, but any two Republicans could sign the petition now. Will your representative sign? And so something probably less for you, but people around you to wonder about when they're casting their vote. But ultimately, we'll have to wait and see and we'll know soon if any of this moves the need because as much as people care about the situation and they should care about it and it also raises just so many red flags around Trump. A lot of elected Republicans just that are in there not doing their job. A lot of polling shows that this election is about affordability. It's about privacy. It's about Trump's war of choice with Iran. That's fucked so many things in the country. And I guess less so we can throw on to the list. Do you really want to vote the same way as Jake Paul? So those two, they do seem kind of like birds of a feather, right? People with God complexes that are more focused on trying to extract as much wealth from the people in the country while larping as someone that very much cares about it. But hey, that's also just my opinion. But then jumping from that to other news, let's talk about this whole Shane Gillis controversy and backlash. Or because while people had takes on this and that from the whole show, you had a lot of people honing in specifically on the monologues, specifically on the part where he said I haven't been to the gym and so along. I didn't know women just dressed like whores now. I'm sorry. There's no other way to describe it. Have you seen it? I've seen it. The shorts. Have you seen the shorts? So then going on to describe women's workout shorts and how they fit. And so then from that, you had people like Shits Creek star Dan Levy quick to react and call Gillis out the next day. Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. So you'd levies post going viral, other seeing that. Other is also just seeing the clip and other people sounding all. Or with that, including yesterday, former SNL cast member Ego Wodum referencing the monologue by posting a gym selfie and joking, or reporting for duty. Also later in the day, you had current SNL star Michael J, alluding to the monologue and a text only grid post. Writing got to do more press this week to promote the special under what every fucking question is going to be about. Thanks a lot, Shane. That's as you had people like country singer, Marin Morris also reacting posting a TikTok of herself giving Gillis the middle finger and adding the caption. Me being a whore at the gym with all that kind of being just a small example of a lot of people that are out there expressing their disapproval from both men and women. Then also part of the reaction ended up being people talking about people who like the monologue. And so for example, you have Travis Kelsey today facing backlash because he apparently liked the monologue clip on Instagram. And so with people saying that as a formal sample approval, they start sounding off saying things like Travis Kelsey liking that horribly misogynistic SNL vid, maybe that's just the kind of humor they have in Cleveland. And then also someone quoting the Taylor Swift song, Cleveland saying, "My baby likes what he likes." And it's disgusting misogynistic SNL skits and rape fantasies. And so then also with all these conversations and debates that have been playing out around this monologue, you had a lot of people trying to analyze what the reactions say about the zeitgeist and the state of woke culture. There was some arguing that there's an added sensitivity right now with the monologue coming amid the Cornell gang rape allegations. Also, others arguing that these kinds of jokes create an environment where women are harassed, assaulted or just treated like shit. And then also with this, you had people pointing out that Gillis's ex-girlfriend Grace Brassel, she recently posted an Instagram video with several clips of herself crying and she wrote in the caption, "Last year I was in a relationship that fully stripped me of who I am." And adding that she's been terrified to talk about what she went through. Also with this, there's now been opinion pieces being made about Gillis's joke. Here's this article in the Hollywood Reporter arguing that it was simply the wrong place, wrong time, and not built for the SNL audience in 2026, given the show's liberal cast sketches and audience. You also had things like an essay in Vogue with the headline, "I'm so over-comics who simply don't like women." You know, with the writer arguing, there's never a great time for lazy misogynist humor. I'm saying this isn't about being triggered or offended. It's about a lot of male comedians continuing to rely on this category of jokes that just are not creative or funny. Then also, of course, in addition to that, on the other side of this, you had a lot of people kind of loving what they were seeing. All right, arguing that part of the appeal of a Shane Gillis hosting something like SNL and doing that monologue is that he's not doing it for the audience. Or rather, he's not doing it for their audience, he's doing it for his audience. And that's as you've outlined something to your post, publishing a story yesterday about how the left is "desperate to bring back cancel culture." And there you have the "P" saying that comedy is meant to poke fun at our society. And yes, scantily glad Jim influencers trying to evade idiots at the gym is part of that. And there you have some people echoing that sentiment, also saying, "Right, all of this is not that deep." People like YouTuber Caleb Hammer, for example, saying it was the most tame stand-up set I've ever seen. Why do we let these people control our culture? And you also hit folks like Tim Miller from Bullwork tweeting. So you were offended because the SNL host monologue was a little crass. And you are annoyed someone might impune your chug king. I have a great idea. Maybe you guys should get together for a podcast. I can listen to while I cut myself and contemplate the sweet release of death. Right as far as Shane Gillis himself, you know, a big part of the conversation is like. None of this is going to be a big deal for Gillis anyway. Or with a lot of people noting that any sort of controversy like this actually usually benefits the committee. Or if he wasn't getting it already, it's kind of a ticket to get a Netflix special these days. And especially as you've had Shane Gillis paving his road to get to this point by being fired by SNL in 2019, he's very likely very insulated from any sort of negative impacts here. But with this whole situation, I would love to know your thoughts, opinions, and reactions in those comments down below. And then there's even more we got to talk about in just a minute, but really quick, a break with a sponsor. I think the hardest part about being responsible with money is that nobody teaches you the boring stuff that actually matters, right? And not the huge financial decisions, the small systems that make saving and managing your money easier every month. Because most of us, I think we know what we should do with our money. But are you building habits that make those things happen? And that's a question I had to ask myself. And it's also why I like today's sponsor, CHIN. They help make everyday money habits easier. And a simple change is automating your savings. 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Chime is a FinTech, not a bank, banking services, and chime card provided by Chime's bank partners, qualifying direct deposits required. Terms and limits apply. Go to chime.com/disclosures for details. And then, Devon, right back into the news, Kimberly Gilfoyle has officially resigned as the ambassador to Greece. Right, just hours after the Trump White House called for her to step down amid an absolutely wild corruption scandal, which also, you know it's bad when even the Trump administration's like, okay, this is too much. This is too corrupt. The situation was a wild one, right? I did that deep dive for you last week, but here the TLDR and it's that the Wall Street Journal, they published this totally insane report detailing Gilfoyle's just bizarre, quid pro quo relationship with Trump donor and loyalist Eric Dieters, where he essentially would pay her for access to the Trump administration. One of the biggest allegations was that she asked Dieters for $100,000 to pay her personal credit card bill days before her confirmation here. And with that, while you had Dieters bringing receipts, providing the Wall Street Journal with numerous text exchanges, Gilfoyle's attorney said that she disputed the authenticity of the message, though they also didn't provide any specifics, claiming that she was paid to speak at a series of events before her nomination and that Dieters odor a balance, a claim that he strongly denied with announcing yesterday that he's now even planning to sue her for defamation. And so that whole article, the whole situation, it caused enough for many calling for Gilfoyle to be removed from office, even possibly prosecuted for corruption. And then over the weekend, you had the Wall Street Journal publishing another article detailing leaked audio of Gilfoyle in January, where she bragged about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said that they were paying her to go on luxury trips around the world. And also specifically with this, Gilfoyle was trying to convince an American businessman to help her get into an upcoming dinner for Eric Trump that she was blocked from attending with her, telling the businessman, "You know, I can deliver the world to you which you deserve, and adding at another point, I'm going to make you a lot of fucking money." And then on top of that, in the same recording, Gilfoyle also acknowledged that she had flown on a private jet of a chief executive of a Greek construction company. And that is incredibly notable, a key thing, because according to yet another Wall Street Journal report, Gilfoyle allegedly pushed the governments of Bulgaria and Albania to do business with the CEO and buy billions of dollars of American natural gas from his company. But he also wasn't even the only businessman funding her travels. And on the recording, she also said that she was planning to fly to Paris on the jet of a Greek shipping tycoon with sources telling the Wall Street Journal that he also paid for her stay at a luxury hotel. Now with all this, so spokesman for the US Embassy in Athens denied the various allegations calling the claims unsubstantiated and arguing that Gilfoyle's career is guided by deep and abiding values. But also, when asked yesterday if he was considering firing Gilfoyle, Trump responded, "Well, we're looking at it. Yeah, we're not happy." And then this morning, this was already going to be another thing we talked about today. The new White House Press Secretary Katie Zachariah, she made this major announcement in her just disastrous first press conference. And we got to talk about that more in a second, but here's what she said. We have asked Ambassador Gilfoyle to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well. And then about an hour later, you had Gilfoyle announcing that she was resigning in this lengthy Twitter post, thanking Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for giving her the opportunity to serve as ambassador to Greece, and touting what she claims were her achievements in the role. And then also, you had her going on to address the recent allegations against her, saying, "These allegations are false and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity, saying I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional. And then adding, I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service." And then, this is honestly one of my favorite parts, when reporters asked Trump about Gilfoyle this morning, he gave her kind of the, "I don't know, did she get coffee for us? Treatment." "She was almost a member of your family. How surprised were you to learn about these allegations?" "No, she wasn't a member of my family. I guess she stated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't. Now, she was doing a good job, but we didn't like what we were reading." After a reminder, this is a woman who was engaged to your son for four years. They split up less than two years ago, but as far as what happens next, especially with Gilfoyle, we're going to have to wait to see, and also see if Democrats continue their push for accountability, now that Gilfoyle stepped down. And also, we'll see if the State Department's Office of Inspector General continues its investigation into her conduct. But also, Gilfoyle might not be the only person with her head on the chopping block. And that's because you are already seeing tons of people speculating that Zachariah, right, Trump's new press secretary? She might get the accent because her first and only press conference so far was just so fucking bad. She bombed so hard this morning. She was incredibly nervous, out of breath, shaky. She's spoken this very canned and awkward manner, like clearly reading from a script, while also regularly stumbling over her words, pausing regularly, and just generally not being good at the talking thing, or which is the whole job for the press secretary. The idea of not spending evenings with my kid is kids are completely unacceptable. So my president, excuse me, my husband, that's a good one. My husband is out here, he's out here for the week, he had a historic one day war. And now we have a booming economy and a great relationship with Venezuela. This is a president and administration that is looking out for you, the American people, and I'm thrilled to officially be part of this incredible journey together. And with that, I will take your questions. In this whole press conference, it barely went over 14 minutes, which is way shorter than Caroline Levitt's briefings, which lasted on average around 45 minutes. And in this, she literally took questions from only three reporters, all of whom were from conservative outlets. She even appeared to be reading their names off of a predetermined list. Here in our new media seat, we have Nick Gilbertson from Breitbartons. We will take Peter Ducey. But even then, like in what seemed to be this pre-orchestrated BS thing, she wasn't even able to answer all their questions. I'll have to get back to you on that. So basically, you had her for nearly 15 minutes just touting Trump's policy, saying that in her new role, her goal was to amplify all of his wins. And that is, you know, she talked about how she plans to balance her family of four kids with her new demanding job before then scuttling off the podium, claiming that she was cutting the briefing short because Trump was departing for Alaska and would take questions on the White House south lawn. But that also didn't go very well for her because Trump himself, mostly talked to the reporters there with Sakurai, just kind of lingering awkwardly in the background, though he also did praise her for his press conference. But then also the situation got weird because when Sakurai was asked a question, we saw this happen. Nightline a questioning came after journalist and lawyer Judd Legume. He reported he was unable to find any evidence that Sakurai had ever passed a bar exam or had been admitted to the bar in any state after graduating from Pepperdine University's law school in 2011. And that's despite the fact that she's repeatedly and publicly claimed that she is an attorney for years now. Recalling herself a lawyer on LinkedIn and having Fox News and other cable news channels using that as her title when she made appearances as a conservative commentator. And her answer there doesn't really clear anything up. Right, well, she reportedly lived with her husband in China from 2011 to 2013. There's no indication that she took her past any U.S. bar exam while she was there. And so that, it just added to all the people that were panning and mocking Sakurai online. And he would many speculating that she's just not going to last long. And it reportedly includes multiple advisors and officials who told reporters they don't think that she did a good job with one, even describing the first presser as brutal. But we'll see. Because if there's anything we've learned from Trump 2.0, right, this administration is that they very much prefer loyalty over the actual ability to do the job. And you really, you only ever get kicked out when you've just, you fucked up on a spectacular scale. But then also, we're nowhere near done talking about fuck-ups because we then have to talk about these 9-1-1 calls regarding Chris DePite, right? And Pite, she's that convicted murderer whose execution was botched by the state of Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, leaving her still very much alive, but injured. Well, now, you've got audio recordings appearing to show that prison officials not only botched her execution, they botched saving her life afterwards as well. And so to start from the beginning, the first 9-1-1 call came from inside the prison at 8.40 PM, about an hour after the lethal injections began. And you know, the caller are like, "Oh, hey, we got a lady here. The execution didn't work. She is still breathing. We need an ambulance." But the thing with that call is it didn't come from the central control at the Tennessee Department of Correction, like it usually was. And that caller, they didn't know the security code used to verify that they're actually calling from the prison. And so the dispatcher starts calling around like, "Is this real or not?" So we have a medical call for service at the River Bend prison, saying that they carried out the execution, the subject didn't pass away, and they need an ambulance because she's not breathing normally. We are trying to find out if that is an actual thing that is happening, and we need to and ambulance and/or if you need police assistance or if this is some that is just basically prank calling or like swatting us. Meanwhile, you get an official from the fire department being informed about the situation. And you can hear in his voice just how perplexed he is by it. We don't have a call if there have been prison, but they said they don't have a code. How do they not have a code? That's right. They should know the code. There's nobody there that knows the process at one place. You definitely need to. So you got the 911 dispatchers reaching out to the prison themselves to verify the report, but then it sounds like even central control had no idea what they were talking about. We've got a call about if failed execution at your vast facility. And we just call in to verify. Who called you? I'm being told that nobody from our facility called you. So there's not really anything to speak of at the moment. OK, so we don't need responders. They all we're trying to figure out. So no response. Oh, yeah, we didn't call anybody. I would have been the one to call you guys. And to then, someone gets on the radio and tells first responders. We have been informed that it is a false call. There is no medical assistance needed at River Bend prison. But then from that, just a few minutes later, a first responder replies, somebody is outside the gate at the prison telling us that it's not that it's real and demanding us to go in. They say there are some sort of state official, but I need somebody from that prison to get out to the gate because the paramedics, they apparently can't just barge in there. They need to be escorted in by police and specifically state police. So then you get the dispatcher going back on the phone like, where the hell are they coming? We're now getting the fire assistant who's out on scene saying, we need to send police hot because there's someone at the front gate that's telling them that this is real and they need to enter, but they can't enter without police because we never got codes. But then finally, it appears that someone at the prison rubbed two brain cells together and they got the code to dispatch. Cigarette control just called us in a bar that it is actually real, so we're going to have the inner. But a key thing is by the time those paramedics finally got inside of the prison, a half an hour had passed since the initial 911 call. 30 minutes where you had pike unconscious, breathing, and in need of immediate life-saving care. And so this whole communication breakdown out in the open, now you've got many demanding answers about what went wrong. But especially because back when the failed execution first happened, the prison claimed that it had followed quote, every step of the state's lawful established execution protocol and could not have done anything beyond what was carried out. And so one of the big questions for a lot of people is, well, OK, was that just a lie? Or is it the protocol itself that's to blame? Right, and that's in part because the New York Times reports that last year, Tennessee's manual laying out the procedure for lethal injection, that got cut in half from 104 pages to 44. And appeared to lack directions for handling botched executions. Or with some directions made vague or vanishing altogether, including the requirement that execution teams practice inserting an IV line, which is key because some speculate that Pike's IV line caused the poison to pull into her tissue instead of entering her bloodstream. Whatever the case there, she eventually woke up at the hospital with her lawyer saying that she had pneumonia and a blood clot in one arm, saying that she had an eaten, she couldn't swallow, she couldn't move her arms in her hands, and swollen to resemble inflated surgical gloves. I think she is angry and confused about everything right now. And there are so many questions that need to be answered. But one of those questions has to be how much suffering is enough. Chris, it has endured child sexual abuse, physical abuse, rapes, and more than 20 years of solitary confinement. And then September 30th happens. We have to ask how much suffering is enough. Right, and with all that, as of last week, Pike, she got discharged from the hospital, she's back in prison where she's spent the last 30 years of her life. And while your lawyer is saying that she continues to receive medical care at the prison, they are tracking her recovery. As far as what happens next, that remains to be seen. But then also, today, we've got to talk about another woman who survived being poisoned, except it wasn't the state that was trying to execute her. He's a nobody. He's a coward. I don't think he did serve as a second chance, a second chance for a lot. Right, so that's Berkeley engineer, Wrong Yuan, talking about the man who poisoned her and, by extension, her family. A man who's gotten away with it nearly Scott free. Right, and to actually get the full story here, we gotta go back to 2017 where you had Yuan being hired by Berkeley engineering and research as a metallurgist. And when she first met her coworker, David Xu, another metallurgist, things were a little tense. With Xu telling Yuan that she wasn't allowed to use the facility's material characterization lab. And she figured that he was worried that she'd misuse or break the equipment and tried reassuring him, "Hey, I know my way around a lab and even repaired similar equipment before taking the job." But the thing is, he wouldn't budge, and so Yuan wasn't allowed in the lab. And we'll definitely not a great way to start the job. Yuan decided, "Hey, she would just go about her business and Xu would go about his and everything would be fine." Except then, a few weeks later, she started getting sick. At first, it was hair loss and dry heaving, with the neighbor actually having to rush her to the ER with Yuan saying that it felt like she was dying. And she actually had to be taken to the ER two more times before the end of the year. And by late 2018, she was a frequent flyer there. Yuan was vomiting all the time. It had missed a bunch of works. A several specialists went through countless tests and even flew to China for treatment. Yuan was saying that she was worried that she had stomach cancer, but nothing was popping up on any of her tests. Her parents even came to the United States from China to stay with her, worried that she had something terminal. And then actually, it was her mom that helped point Yuan in the direction of foul play. Right, one day in January 2019, Yuan was at work and she took a sip from her water bottle and was just hit by that at that point, all too familiar feeling that she was gonna die. But then that night, at home, her mom took a sip from that same water bottle and noticed this strange sour taste. And when she washed out that bottle, it didn't make it go away with Yuan saying that she started to wonder if someone was tampering with it. And so then, you were buying a spy camera from Amazon and within weeks, she got footage of Xu dumping something from a small white container into her water bottle. When she then turned over that video to the police and they tested her bottle, they found out that it was spiked with cadmium, right, a toxic heavy metal. Yuan turns out had been drinking water with three and a half million times the federal limit for cadmium in it. And it wasn't just her. Yuan and her family used water from that bottle to cook at home as well. And so she, as well as both her parents, tested positive for cadmium poisoning. With that, then leading to March of 2019, with David Xu being charged with premeditated attempted murder and two felony counts of poison. Except, as the months went by, the court granted Xu more and more leniency. At first, he was released on house arrest and GPS monitoring. And then he was granted six hours out of the house to take his daughter to ballet and gymnastic classes. Right, and then another six hours on Sundays and then another day to spend with his kids. And then his house arrest just got lifted entirely and then he was allowed to travel in the US. With that, then, ring this December of 2023, when despite his charges carrying up to a life sentence, he ended up taking this plea deal that ended up with him serving just two years of probation. Two years of probation for poisoning a woman. Oh, getting a woman so sick that she thought she was dying for nearly two years and he got probation. And also, when Yuan asked for half a million dollars in restitution, she was instead awarded just over $7,000. But the reason that we're talking about all this now is because she was probation, that's up. And a judge just granted his request to have the felony conviction expunged from his record. Because under state law, every person on probation is entitled to expungement if they complete every condition of their probation with only a few exceptions. And poisoning, as we've now learned, is not one of those exceptions. Now, that said, dismissing the conviction, it doesn't make it go away entirely. Rishu's record will still show an arrest in conviction, the law enforcement, and if he's charged again, it could be used against him. But it's also not going to stop him from working in the field. And as Yuan says, working with other people who could be next. And so that's why Yuan speaking about her experience. To come up to my comfort zone, to be interviewed by you, to tell the public what kind of effect we have to the family and how broken this system is. - Right, and to this day, Yuan says that she has no idea why she targeted her, but there's also no doubt that he's impacted her life forever. And in fact, she recently published a research paper talking about the long-term effects that she and her family have suffered from cadmium poisoning. And you had her dedicating it to her father who passed away last year from heart failure, writing. Before poisoning, my father had only well controlled hypertension, walked six miles daily and could carry a 50-pound bag of rice to the second floor. But then adding by late last year, he was bedbound and couldn't even eat. And you know what Yuan's saying? She hopes that her report will lead to doctors understanding the signs of cadmium poisoning before it's just too late. And while also with this, she said there's technically the option of taking shoe to civil court, her attorney is actually ended up talking her out of it. It's saying that it would be this long, expensive battle that may not amount to anything. And so with this story, one, I think it's important to highlight who David shoe is. Right, there shouldn't be something that just gets swept under the rug. Two, it obviously makes me furious at the system and also the people involved that allowed this judgment, this plea judgment to go through. This is fucking insane. And three, I think the insanity of this whole situation, it lends itself to the argument that attempted murder should be prosecuted almost at the same level as murder. But you're punishing people less for what? Failing at the thing they wanted to do? That ends up feeling a little bit like, "Hey, you'll get 'em next time, buddy, don't worry, you'll get back out there." This whole case, this whole situation is pure insanity. 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He hit several other riders and then the coaster itself multiple times before he eventually landed on the roof of a haunted house attraction. And at least part of it was apparently caught on Goliath souvenir photos. So then with all this, the ride was stopped, the other riders were taken off and they took the stairway down. Then officials also evacuating the rest of the park as well. So right now, you've got this investigation going on to figure out what exactly went wrong because you had some riders reporting that the workers did check their safety harnesses. But that's as you also had others saying they had some concerns there. I looked over a higher and I told her I said something going on, I said, I keep it, keep it clicking. Yeah, it kept clicking like it was unlocking and relocking. So now with this, they've actually also closed nine other similar rollercoasters in their park system. And I'll also say one of the big things that this is coming right after they just retired their X2 rollercoaster in California, after lawyers said that it gave over 100 people brain injuries. And that's actually dealing with the lawsuits behind that as we speak. And then also today, you've got the news that the Trump administration cut down more than 400 trees in DC over the weekend after a judge explicitly told them not to and the judge is livid. Saying in what universe did anyone in your office think that was acceptable? Because you've had Trump wanting to renovate a public golf course in DC to when that he claims would be worthy of hosting professional golf tournaments. For preservationists, they sued to block the project, especially because it would involve cutting down a ton of old trees. And that led to Judge Anna Reyes warning the government to not cut down anything without notifying the court first. But then they just cut down over 400 this weekend with plans to remove another 200 third. And so you had crews rolling in, doing the work all before the court could intervene. You have the situation where the court really can't fix anything because you can't uncut down trees. But in the emergency hearing, good government lawyer arguing they did our best in providing notice. And that is when you had Reyes blowing up. They're saying they did quote, "they're worse." And that's as it's not clear how they tried to tell the court because she made it clear. They never called or emailed about it. And then to make matters worse, apparently they knew about it for a while. Where you would park service officials admitting on the stand that the plans were approved on October 5th, then they got to go ahead over the weekend. And just to add insult to injury, the trees were reportedly perfectly healthy. And so in addition to Reyes making it clear that the administration has lost all credibility in court, she ordered a halt to any further removals. So you have been wondering, is that actually going to matter when Trump and his goons have shown they don't care what the courts are going to do? Seemingly when they're told not to do something, they just do it anyway. In many cases like this, it's stuff that's irreversible and then they just push the argument what's done is done and we can't go back to the status quo. And finally today, you've got Silicon Valley becoming a cult with some AI researchers allegedly taking up smoking because they are so confident that the tech is going to cure cancer. And I'm not joking with you. This is not an onion headline. Where this claim is coming from Palantir's CTO, Shiam Sankar. He went on CBS's Face the Nation and dropped this claim. And apparently this was meant to be some sort of flex and just how confident they are in AI's future. Are we dropping some philosophy about people having a quote, "God-shaped hole" in their heart and adding. It's important to understand that many of these folks in Silicon Valley who are building this technology have filled that hole with the machine god of AGI. And clearly he doesn't know anything about the machine god because artificial intelligence is strictly heresy. But to be fair to Sankar, he wasn't praising the decision by researchers and instead called it a textbook example of buying into hype too much. And it feels like it doesn't even need to be said, but I'll say it just in case medical experts are calling this a very, very dumb idea. Right, it's a fast-track to some nasty cancers that have actually been on the decline for years now. So it's definitely setting a bad message since they have no way of actually knowing that it's curable. Though easily the biggest critique of all this is that the researchers, they just got their reasoning wrong. You don't start smoking because A.I. is going to cure cancer. You start because you're not going to have to face the long-term consequences when your A.I. robots kill us all. But then my friends, you beautiful bastards is the end of your Tuesday show. Thank you for watching, like, and subscribe, and if you haven't already seen this video, definitely check it out. You can click or tap or I got a link in the description for you. And of course no matter what you do, I'll see you right back here tomorrow for another daily dive into the news. I love you faces and I'll see you then.