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The Philip DeFranco Show

PDS 1.10 What MatPat's Goodbye Internet Video Really Exposed & Hunter Biden Shocked Capitol Hill Today | PDS

The Philip DeFranco Show

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Click my CoPilot link https://go.mycopilot.com/PhilipDeFranco or scan the QR code to get a 14-day FREE trial AND 20% off your first month of personalized fitness if you sign up before February 1st!  –✩ TODAY’S STORIES ✩ – 00:00 - MatPat Announces Retirement  6:06 - Ecuador Gangs Promise a War Following President’s Crackdown Promise  8:25 - Sponsored by CoPilot  9:33 - 15 Republican Governors Reject Federal Funding for Summer Meals for Poor Kids 12:39 - Hunter Biden Makes a Surprise Appearance on Capitol Hill ——————————   Produced by: Cory Ray Edited by: James Girardier, Maxx Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks Art Department: William Crespo Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Brian Espinoza, Lili Stenn, Maddie Crichton, Star Pralle, Chris Tolve  ———————————— #DeFranco #MatPat #HunterBiden ———————————— Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some, you beautiful bastards.

0:02.0

Welcome back to the Philip Franco show.

0:03.4

This is the third show of the year.

0:05.0

We've got a lot of news to talk about today.

0:07.1

We've got YouTube staple Matt Pat retiring, which some are calling a troubling trend.

0:10.7

We've got the Hunter Biden chaos on Capitol Hill.

0:13.0

Ecuadorian gangs are going buck wild, taking over live TV stations, gang leaders escaping.

0:17.6

And there's even more.

0:18.2

So buckle up, hit that like button, and let's just jump into it.

0:21.1

And the first thing that we're going to talk about today is the retirement of YouTube staple

0:24.4

Matt Pat. And even if you're not personally familiar with him, this is an important story because

0:28.3

it does feel like it's becoming part of a growing trend. He's behind the 18.5 million

0:32.3

subscriber, the game theorist channel. That's in addition to three other massively successful channels in

0:37.9

different verticals. Film theorists, food theorists, and the style theorist. And if you randomly hear

0:42.1

an iPad kid over the next few days crying, it's probably connected to the video that got released

0:46.0

yesterday. With Matt, uploading a video titled Goodbye Internet. Announcing that his last day hosting

0:49.8

game theorist will be in March. And in it, you know, saying that he's gonna miss doing this, but also adding that he and his wife, Steph, who runs things with him, always knew this time would come.

0:56.6

We knew that we couldn't do this forever.

0:58.5

We knew that honestly, we didn't want to do this forever.

1:01.2

For as much as I love you and I love overthinking things and I love theorizing, I don't

1:07.0

love late nights. I don't love the fact that Steph and I have been work first for over a

1:14.3

decade. With Matt also going on to say, you know, he wants to be able to turn off the business side of

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