PDS Published 10/06/2026

Megan Kelly is now threatening to expose the Jane Doe in the Cornell Seven case, told Olivia Rodrigo to shut up and you now have people calling her a Trump's now threatening to let Ron take out L.A.
in San Diego. why you've got people freaking out about ash dikes.
Texas is now targeting pediatricians for giving kids vaccines and McDonald's is facing some heat for using AI to rig its menu 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 Let's talk about this Cornell Megan Kelly right.
You've got a lot of people sounding off on it because Megan Kelly, she just went on this rant and flying a the Cornell Jane Doe, who claims that she was gang raped at a fraternity, was probably thrilled to be admired by multiple men because she was not attractive.
No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on.
With four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal.
She's extremely beefy in, like, her arms and her legs. This is probably a first for her.
She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up. The incredibly beautiful one. I'm not trying to be insulting.
I'm just trying to tell you the narrative that is likely to have occurred here, in my opinion.
And why can't we account for that possibility that the girl who was never the most sought after,
suddenly had four guys who wanted to have sex with her, and she counted this, yeah, in her inebriated state as a win and liked the feeling of being sexy and desired and wanted.
It happens. Sorry. It does. And that's why she kept saying yes. Why do we have to go right to she's a victim.
Even she took weeks to get there. okay. So there's a lot to unpack there. Right. But most immediately, you saw people mostly horrified.
The Kelly was bringing looks into this whole thing to suggest an alleged rape victim should essentially feel lucky.
also with that, you might wonder, you know, how does Megan Kelly even know what Jane Doe allegedly looks like?
and, well, that is because Kelly claims that she does definitely know her identity and is even debating whether or not to publicly expose it. I've been seriously considering just saying it.
And the reason I haven't is because I don't want to do anything to hurt this young woman, to get her hurt, or to add to the pain I'm sure she's feeling.
My real complaint is that she doesn't get named, and the young men do. That's what I'm pissed about. I haven't totally made my decision.
I haven't, but these are the considerations I'm weighing.
I have no wish to unleash a lynch mob on her.
seemingly as far as how she knows it, she didn't really say anything other than generally noting that people claim to have published her name online, there, it's important to note that, like some of the efforts to name Jane Doe online have actually targeted the wrong women.
then also with this, there were other remarks from Kelly that actually made news as well yesterday.
And that in part because you decided to go on this tirade against Olivia Rodrigo, who recently wrote on Instagram, shame on Cornell and every institution who protects rapists and abusers over
women saying I stand with Jane Doe and adding her bravery reverberates across the country and the crimes against her will not go unpunished, what she lived through matters, and so does the failure of those
who could have intervened but chose not to, Olivia also sharing other infographics about campus sexual assault. And then in response to that, you and Kelly kind of just losing it.
Shut up and stick to singing.
I like you better when you were in front of a microphone singing your weird, little depressing songs. Shut up.
You don't know what you're talking about. It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people suspect you.
You're an idiot than to open it and prove them right. Adults are talking. Okay, take your seat. We don't need the participation of no nothing.
Morons who have been auto tuned into fame and suddenly think they have something profound to say on the culture wars.
Sit down and be quiet. Got it?
Or I'm going to have to start pulling your music and your lyrics and take a deep dive into exactly the kind of messaging that you are pushing on young women, because I guarantee it's not going to end well for you.
Olivia. so very weird threat for Megan.
I don't know how your analysis of Olivia Rodrigo's lyrics actually poses a threat to her career. It feels like you're more like teasing a video that your audience is like, yeah.
right. But like Rodrigo, she's currently on a sold out world tour.
don't think she's concerned about a person that got just crushed by Donald Trump years ago, to the point that she had a cosplay like a decent person pull away from society and then come back just groveling at his feet.
right. And so with that, there's been no shortage of people arguing that. Kelly.
She's just trying to prod Olivia Rodrigo into some sort of attention, hoping to get a response from her or her fans.
also like a big thing with this is you've had people noting that Megan's been, you know, talking about this case on her show for a while now, noting while she claims that she is not defending the accused, she spends most of her time condemning Jane Doe and questioning why it took her several weeks to report the incident.
if you were violently gang raped repeatedly over the course of an evening, do you think it would take you three weeks to call the campus police?
writing that line specifically, might be why you've seen Megan Kelly popping up in your feeds.
Because you had many arguing that, hey, Kelly herself should know why a victim might take so long to talk about what they endured. And realize what happened. Right.
Noting that she was first harassed by her Fox News boss, Roger Ailes in the mid 2000, but didn't go public until there was a wave of allegations against him in 2016.
she also later told ABC news that when she first tried to tell a supervisor about the encounter, they bounced rails and told her that he was a good man.
and and she and Ailes ended up having, in her words, a healthy working relationship.
After that, she dismissed what happened as him pursuing some kind of affair with her because he was dealing with marital issues.
then also with that, claiming that if she took her allegation public, it would have been career suicide.
and so because all of those on the record things you had people saying, you know, she should know what a victim's dealing with, what they're wrestling with, even if there's a difference in the alleged crimes.
So there's all of that with Megan Kelly that that's playing out right now.
But we should also use this opportunity to talk about some quick updates to the whole Cornell situation. Right.
In that in part because Cornell's faculty Senate just introduced a no confidence resolution over how school leadership is handling the case.
you had a draft of that saying that the faculty Senate has no confidence in the ability of the central administration to effectively address the ongoing crisis of sexual assault at Cornell University,
and you've got their goal really being to just put pressure on the administration at the school to get them to change policies regarding assaults on campus and to just admit that they messed up in this case.
also of note, we're seeing this case being connected to other stories off campus. right.
So for example, you had police in Idaho now investigating a group of high school football players who were accused of threatening sexual violence against a female student. Indiana group chat, one allegedly wrote, think Cornell was bad.
Just wait for us, with. Another is allegedly threatening to rape and kill the female.
so then with that, there's been a ton of outrage in the local community over this, and you've had a petition demanding that those students involved be expelled or removed from the football team. But then next up from that content is king.
But is it really worth dropping yourself into the middle of the Congo basin and facing the most aggressive wildlife and the deadliest illnesses known to that is a question you have a lot of people asking about ash right.
A little background on this guy, right.
So he's a 35 year old extreme athlete, an explorer from he's actually got five Guinness World Records since Journeys across Mongolia, Madagascar, China and the
so there's no shortage of experience traveling to some of the most dangerous locations in the world with but this Congo Basin trip, it might be one of his craziest ideas because dikes, he said.
Now, to travel over 434 miles the length of the sun, go river all the way to the Congo River in an inflatable kayak the plan being to post in live stream throughout the whole
oh, while there are a number of reasons why people do not usually venture over some of the main ones crocodiles, hippos, elephants, gorillas, snakes, spiders, malaria, dengue fever and parasites.
posing these ominous previews that paint a picture of what it's going to be
With that, I was like, you don't need the scary music to understand how terrifying this also, you've got a lot of people focused on the inflatable kayak part, saying that it's kind of unserious for such a serious situation, but apparently there's a good reason.
And you had dikes explaining. inflatable kayak is important to the success of this expedition.
Believe it or not, if we come across a pod of hippos, for example, further down the way and we're like, it's suicide to continue paddling,
we can deflate it, pack it into a backpack, chuck it on our back, and then we can actually walk a huge detour around them to inflate the kayaks and continue.
and his dikes. He's going to be facing hippos and everything else. They're going to be millions of people following along. So of course, no pressure or anything. the very least even in person.
He's not going to be alone out there because he's somehow convinced a few other guys to join a local guide and a photographer.
and together, they will cover roughly 20 miles a day, finding spots to set up their tent and camp each as of right now they haven't been dropped into the basin yet, dikes has been blogging their travel
we started a few days ago with flights from London to Paris and then Paris to yawned.
dikes, revealing that the team was actually delayed due to one of their bags getting lost and it was an essential one. The bag with the pumps for the kayak as well as the tents, food and the.
Fortunately, it showed up two days later, and after that you had the team picking up a few less things for the So we've got a couple of machetes that we're getting.
We're just passing through this small town.
So we need to pick up a few machetes so that obviously we get through the jungle, and from there, with all their bags and their new machetes, they set out on an 18 hour drive to Or the point on the Sangha River.
They'll start kayaking. notably on that drive.
So far, they've already faced a few corrupt checkpoints, according to you had them saying that their driver potentially saved their but also after those few hiccups, they're getting closer to the Congo
And as this thing gets started, you have more and more people paying attention and asking as far as what the online discourse is, people are asking, does he want to die on this trip?
Saying, it seems like dikes is in a place where he's fully aware of the magnitude of the risks, but also taking every precaution that you can with something like that and with that.
You had him telling people magazine, Congo is the world's most dangerous and deadly jungle for a reason, saying it's like the diseases are rife and the animals are adding it is an adventure.
And as experienced as I am, I can anticipate what might happen and try to understand, based on experience, how I usually react to those situations.
in his videos, he's talked about the extensive planning that's gone into all this, including scouting the route, getting the proper vaccines and pills, medical kits, evacuation plans and insurance.
with this, he does seem to believe that his several near-death experiences have helped him prepare for I faced much tougher before Madagascar took me 155 days.
You know, I was held up at gunpoint. I crossed crocodile infested rivers. I contracted the deadly strain of malaria. I had to hunt and gather to stay alive.
I was pulling off leeches. I had spider bites which infected.
But also if you think that he is insane for the for the Congo Basin, it kind of just gets crazier from because the Congo Basin is actually just part one of six
expeditions that he's got planned as part of his so-called project six Right in project six is supposed to be this year long undertaking with six of the most extreme environments on the end result of all this should be a documentary Right.
So assuming that dike survives the river trip, he's not going to be just going home or going on a vacation So there are lots of different opinions on because well, many they're just excited to sit back and enjoy the content.
You've also got this other crowd shaking their heads and saying, this is typical dumb white guy some calling dikes out for posting constantly about his trip,
but neglecting to comment at all about the humanitarian crisis others, meanwhile, are expressing concerns that he might bring back diseases.
mating is who's going to ensure that he's not a biohazard upon return? Is there going to be a quarantine, a decontamination, a bleaching, a death?
We'll have to see how all of this plays out.
But also, if you are looking to get into his brain a in a TikTok last month you had dikes giving some insight into why he's doing I don't even know how to answer this other then.
When I was young, I had a passion for the world, for me and new people exploring new cultures, new traditions.
I was also highly competitive. I used to fight in boxing, in Muay Thai. I used to love playing football, rugby, athletics, you name it.
So I think my curiosity for the world and that competitive drive to push myself physically and mentally drove me to take on these expeditions.
yeah, good luck to dikes and hopefully I am not covering you on the show for any other reasons other than this being kind of a cool idea.
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And the picture for Republicans, it's getting worse and Right.
As far as specifics, let's start with the polling, because you have a few more polls that we can talk about now, and they're all pretty much pointing in one starting with this one from the New York Times and Siena University
that showed Democratic Senate candidates leading in Alaska, Ohio and Texas all states that Trump won by double digits two years you also somehow have the party's candidates neck and neck in Kansas,
where a Democrat has not been elected to the Senate in 94 even in reliably red Iowa, the Democrat is narrowly trailing his Right. And that is in the House.
You have another poll from CBS and YouGov giving Democrats a nine point lead on the generic and in fact, yesterday, the House Democrats campaign arm added six more Republican health districts to its target
Now that said, Republicans have been quick to note that historically, Democrats have been flipped red districts added to the target list this late in an and you have them arguing that because Democrats are short on cash
and so many districts have been gerrymandered, the GOP still has a chance to hold on to but you're also seeing some Republicans seeing a bloodbath for their party in the coming months, especially if they're retiring.
And feel free to speak their So a good example of that is outgoing Senator Tom Tillis, who just published his book, How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents. well in it.
According to PBS, he writes, all along we've had multiple chances to get off the path and avoid the giant bronze monster chasing us with him criticizing the tariffs, the Ice raids, the war in Iran, and numerous Trump appointees.
he even admitted that his deciding vote to confirm Pete is the biggest regret of my career, and that he also should have stopped RFK you then had them going on to write.
I know for a fact that there are others like Republicans, who agreed to go along with the early demands of the Trump team, no matter how ridiculous they were, believing that failing to do
so would mean the end of their political career, and who now see that things have gone way too far you had him adding that he can count at least 30 of his GOP colleagues who have expressed reservations, to put it mildly, about many of the president's actions in private.
But the reporters showed up with their cameras and microphones, they'd have nothing but nice things to and so really quick just to take things to opinion down, if you will.
Just a slight detour. I just have to say fuck Thom Tillis and all you other cowardly motherfuckers
who all of a sudden feel like you can speak your mind when you're leaving and or writing a book that you're trying to Like there is part of my brain that goes, oh, I should, I guess, I guess, give some credit for noting that the Emperor has no clothes, But then no.
Even what you just said, you you are part of the reason that Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr are where they are. you and so many others.
You are part of the reason why the country is being destabilized from the inside out right and not like destabilized in a good way.
I think a lot of people on the left and right, they know that the government hasn't been working for when it suited you, you were seemingly fine helping Trump enrich his buddies and himself and his but also I'll know it with Tillis.
He's not Or we've talked before about how some Republican candidates have been distancing themselves from Trump because they view him as a liability right well with that, you had a new Reuters Ipsos poll putting Trump's approval rating at just 32%.
So just absolutely miserable numbers in the worst of his career so despite that, you have Trump still insisting on attaching himself to the parties campaigns, telling voters to pretend like his name is on the
and so with that, he's been touring the battleground states, most recently in Nebraska, where he gave just this insane speech I mean, he just said so much nutty stuff.
I mean, he repeated his promise at least 3 or 4 If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give
all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000.
he also openly boasted that he distributes aid money to states based on whether or not they voted for Pete Ricketts, as I said, I don't want to talk to him.
He's always asking for money for Nebraska. It's. And I always give it. Because you know what? I love Nebraska, I want Pete's calling.
Sir, it's been horrible. We had a flood. Could you send us 25 million? He said that's a lot of money.
But you know, I wanted three times. I say, to hell with it. Give him the money.
though easily the comments that got the most attention came when he was talking about we're kicking Iran's ass. You do know that, right?
that will end very quickly one way or the other, very soon, maybe a little after the election, maybe a little before that. But it's going to end very soon. When that happens, the oil will come tumbling down.
And again, remember with the words just artificial, it's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.
They can take out a city. Let them take let it let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.
That's this is a very small price to pay, and it's going to be over with very soon. right.
Despite seemingly part of Nebraska cheering for California to what, get nuked. in addition to those people, you also had a lot of people going, wait, I'm sorry.
and so, for example, you had San Diego's mayor, Todd Gloria, saying San Diego is not collateral damage. We are not expendable. we are never a small price to pay.
Keep our city out of your reckless war You also had Governor Gavin Newsom's press office be clear, the president is advocating for an attack on ten plus million US residents in two of America's largest cities.
This is not normal.
None of this then with all this on on the right, you had a lot of people saying, oh, Trump. He's literally just joking.
He's just triggering the least one person who wasn't laughing on that side was Jim Desmond, the Republican running for Congress in San And you had him posting.
I vehemently disagree with President Trump's saying America must stand up to Iran and defend our interests, but the first responsibility of our commander in chief is to protect the American people in our saying, as a Navy veteran,
I serve to protect Americans, not write off American cities as an acceptable price of saying no American city is expendable and no American family should ever be treated as collateral
the walls though if you want to be cynical about why he's speaking out, he is in a neck and neck race right you know, he's probably worried that the president joking about the place
he wants to represent getting that might affect voter turnout in a way that is not beneficial for with this speech in particular, Trump stood up there and he just attacked the media
over and over and over again for almost an hour and a half, like from start to and a big thing is that Trump even went after Fox News, though apparently for him it was the network whose name shall not be spoken.
al Qaeda in Michigan. I mean, he's a total communist. you know, the more middle and right.
They're always putting like El CID was interviewed just a little while ago on a certain network. I won't tell you which way they let this guy talk, talk, talk.
They hardly fight him at all. Why are they putting these people on our television networks?
It appears like he's referring to this interview that Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdullah said gave to Fox's Martha MacCallum Trump is correct.
And so far as the interview was not as hostile as the one that I did with Jesse that's also because Jesse water is kind of just bounces between weirdo to fucking unhinged.
right.
But the idea that MacCallum hardly pushed back on El-Sayed in the interview, that's kind of just nonsense, she spent the entire first half of this thing just grilling him about Islamic terrorism.
they'll say, Eddie just kept responding with pretty much the same thing. Terrorists are bad and war is not the solution.
I just want to say there was no war, and then there was a war, and and more war has made us less safe. It has increased our prices. you also had a challenging him.
On his support for single payer health more than half the people who died in England in that year were on the NHS waiting list, and they couldn't get any care.
So why would that be a better system for us? Well, number one, I'm not advocating for the same system as the NHS. Number two, we are the richest, most powerful country in the world.
The idea that we're going to point to another country who does something poorly and say we can't possibly do it better is ridiculous because we're the greatest country in the world.
But then the second point I'll make here is that, do you know what the average wait time for a cardiologist in America is, Tommy.
Two and a half and then even had her fighting him on his support for taxing billionaires. understand, you know, thinking that some people have too much money.
But I guess the question is, where do you draw the line?
I mean, we're the engine of the world for all these things, and some of those people end up being billionaires as a result.
But don't we all benefit from being this incredible powerhouse in the United States from their ingenuity?
Well, the issue is not that some people have too much money.
It's that the engine that created their opportunity to make money is being underfunded. We talked about public schools. We talked about health care. We talked about child care. We talked about infrastructure.
but then also one less substantive moment of the exchange has gotten quite a bit of attention has been MacCallum bringing up Hassan right in for context, she read out this quote that he gave to New York magazine
when it asked him whether he felt abandoned by El CID, given how they kind of put some distance between each other since the you would piker they're doesn't matter because he's moving the saying he will push the boundaries on what is permissible on Israel.
And I trust him to do saying, I think he will try to do the very best to hold Israel accountable as a I don't give a fuck that he's trying to move away from this conversation because as I've said over and over again, it's a mine.
He's do you say to that? Look, this campaign was never about a streamer in California. This campaign was always about the price of gas and groceries.
Whether or not you could see a doctor when you get sick in the United States.
I know every time I have a conversation here that he's going to come up. And the question is not about a relationship I got with a streamer in California.
There's not a relationship.
The reason I have a conversation with him is the same reason I have a conversation with you, because I want to talk to the folks out here who I want to have a conversation with.
ultimately, the political drama and chaos moves forward another day.
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But then next step from that is Attorney General Ken Paxton bullying pediatricians to stay in Donald Trump's favor. you've got a lot of people asking right now.
Because also, you may remember that Paxton recently announced that he was opening an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics with him, accusing them of, quote, deceptively promoting childhood vaccines for financial
and he said that they're just part of the sprawling, for profit conspiracy between doctors, drug companies and insurers to pressure parents into vaccinating their now, obviously,
you're the academy at large pushing back against that, saying in a statement that its vaccine advice is rooted in decades of peer reviewed science, also adding that Paxton's investigation serves only to undermine public health.
So confusion and put more children at risk of preventable and you then add Doctor Katherine Edwards, a professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University,
thinks of pediatricians as these mild mannered people who have animals on their stethoscope and would not fight their way out of a and adding this is another attempt at intimidation.
But they're not being intimidated because their moral core is about the well-being of children.
despite Paxton's promise that his investigation would be directed toward the state's largest medical providers, vaccine makers and health insurers, this New York Times report revealed that it's actually the little guys that are bearing the brunt of or with the times.
Talking to a small Texas pediatrician who they called Doctor Rachel to preserve her privacy, and Doctor Rachel said that she recently received a notice from Paxton's Consumer Protection Division
demanding her vaccine purchase records over the last ten and you had that notice saying they believe her to be in possession, custody or control of material involving potential misleading or deceptive acts
regarding incentives associated with the administration of childhood vaccines, which they said could be against Texas deceptive trade practices then on top of that, they also demanded her practices,
vaccine policy, and made a point of saying that citing the childhood vaccine schedule recommended by the CDC would not be is it. Rachel.
She had to spend nearly $15,000 in legal fees in order to answer the demand of her records that, by the way, consist of receipts for $18 vaccines given a decade ago and details about a $40
batch of cookies a vaccine makers representative brought to her but then, even still, she sent in the records, only to get hit with another demand from Paxton's office, dismissing some of the initial responses as frivolous or so.
She's gone back and forth with them twice now, and is currently waiting with no idea what's coming before all this, she planned on keeping her practice open for years to come.
But now, between the stress and the legal fees, she's reconsidering that retelling the times at the very idea that she was getting something out of encouraging parents to vaccinate their kids,
or that she's motivated by greed is offensive in I took it very personally because I take pride in what I felt like it was such a slap in the face and an that's something that you've seen echoed by a lot of pediatricians. Right.
This claim that they're raking in dough from vaccines is ridiculous.
most of the time they have to pay for the vaccines upfront, store them, and then haggle with insurance to get them and then the craziest part about all of this isn't even that
Paxton is investigating pediatricians for literally doing their which includes protecting kids from potentially deadly diseases.
no, the crazy part is that Paxton might not even really care about saying this, this whole investigation, it smells like a political maneuver on Paxton's part. And he's saying, damn the consequences. Right.
And more specifically of some saying the entire investigation was just an attempt to try and get and maintain Trump's approval in the competitive primary earlier this year, and then the tight general election against James Talarico
next and with that, would doctor Heidi Russell, a pediatrician and director at the Center of Health Policy at Rice University in Houston, saying that leaning into the anti-vaxx thing, it means that Paxton aligned himself with RFK Jr.
And doing that got him the Trump but also actions have consequences.
And we could be seeing a serious ripple effect Or we just don't know yet how many small practices like Doctor Rachel's have been targeted in Paxton's investigation. And we don't know how many are considering closing their doors like she and so.
You've got advocacy groups like immunization Partnerships saying this whole thing.
It could make a lot of pediatricians think twice about opening practices in Texas altogether. And then there's even more we got to dive into in just a minute, but really quick. Another break with a sponsor.
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First up, you know, they've spent over a century committing lynchings, burning down people's homes and terrorizing black people. But now you've got the KKK looking to rebrand.
records for the last decade, you've had experts warning about how right wing politics and social media they're feeding into this revival of white supremacist, and now you're getting reports from actual Klan
leaders like Pastor Thomas Robb, claiming that it's giving their numbers a boost as well. and Rob, he's the head of what used to be called the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
But now you've got them shortening that to the Knights Party, saying that they're rebranding to focus on family and faith. you could also say that's been part of their branding this whole time. family is.
And anybody who's white and faith is in Christian nationalism.
but since Rob took over in 1989, he's trying to tweak what that's looked like to get more supporters.
But he said that people are often hesitant to become a member, which I'm sure has to come with the territory of being known for brutal racist murders.
but then also with that, one of the changes that he's made is that new members can now participate confidentially through the mail, so no one has to know what kind of shit you're supporting.
he's also working to distance the group from the violence they've been known for with that type of outreach.
He's even changed his title from Grand Wizard to national director to try and sound a little less clannish. but then with all that, one thing has stayed the same. And that is the racism, right.
He said that they're still based around their white nationalist church. So the social and political beliefs, they haven't budged.
so, for example, you've said in a recent interview that he doesn't see politicians like Zoran Mamdani and Abdul also. Yeah, as Americans. right. Claiming that only the children of white foreigners can count their so.
It seems more like the the rebrand is more of a repackaging.
genuinely seems like you're getting the same old KKK just with a different esthetic, which also makes sense because you could just start a new group. you could be like, hey guys, I started a whole new, different thing.
but according to Rob, this has been working for what they said a lot of experts, you know, they credit Trump for the rise in white nationalism. He says it actually started with Obama.
since then, people have said that they've been angered by what they see happening to the country, claiming they're seeing more interest because the night's party gives those people a voice.
though also with us, I'll note that he's refusing to provide any membership numbers to prove that the movement is growing.
it is, I will say at the very least off putting that things are like, so bad with politics right now.
at the very least, you could just look at the landscape and make claims like this and have them sound believable.
Also, you've got McDonald's in the news because they are now being accused of using AI to rig its menu prices. and they could actually be facing a class action lawsuit because of that Right.
Because last week, your report saying that McDonald's pricing engine uses machine learning algorithms to attract transactions across them was 14,000 restaurants.
and they reportedly use that data to generate what they call the optimal price for each menu item, which changes depending on the location.
apparently the pricing tool alerts franchise owner if their location showing any sensitivity to price based on things like customers willingness to pay.
while with that, McDonald's said, hey, the owners are free to set their own prices in the software as a tool, not a mandate. then had owners claiming that the company pressured them to use it.
You have reports saying that McDonald's even keeps a record of anyone who doesn't follow its pricing recommendations in their stores, and so now, this new lawsuit filed by Michael Thomas in Illinois
says that they violated U.S antitrust law by working with independent franchises to fix prices using algorithms trained on nonpublic data.
and you've got Thomas's lawyer arguing that McDonald's is leveraging its troves of data and its franchise system to nickel and dime consumers down to the last French fry.
though I will say you have McDonald's pushing back on that, saying that the reports that we got last week were speculative and uninformed.
We're claiming that I does not set the price of a Big Mac or any other menu item, and that the use of price recommendation tools is widespread across industries.
but for now, I'll say this still has to be court certified. And so we're going to see what actually happens from here. then the last step today it is official. Paramount.
They just merged with Warner Brothers, creating one of the largest entertainment companies in the world, led by David Ellison.
and if you've been following this story with me, you know, this is coming after tons of pushback with from Hollywood and Washington. right.
I wasn't at a set of lawsuits with 12 states and the Writers Guild of America before we could move forward with this, Gavin Newsom, AG, Rob Bonta, la mayor, Karen Bass, they all got a lot of heat behind that as well.
after all that chaos, you're now looking at a mega company valued at more than $110 billion. and hitting on just how big it is.
I mean, Mission Impossible, Harry Potter, the DC universe, networks like CBS, CNN, and obviously Paramount Plus and HBO Max, those are now all under the same umbrella.
and you've got Ellison calling this juggernaut company Skydance.
would you said was meant to retain the individual entity is of Paramount and Warner Brothers studio, rather than combining them under a new brand. and now with that, he's about to get to work with his new co-CEO in on cries.
right.
Apparently, the first to do is to figure out how to combine these companies while delivering on their $6 billion cost savings plan.
they're already expected to be about $80 billion in debt when the dust settles with this.
so you've got the financial pressure on and reports say that they're going to be trying to get up their streaming numbers, keep money flowing to their cable networks, and put asses in seats at theaters, then also, of course, and this is going to be one of the bigger things.
They're going to be looking to cut costs ASAP.
and really it feels less like, are they going to cut and more how much are they going to cut, Whether it be projects, people, whatever. and that.
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