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The Philip DeFranco Show

PDS 1.18 What Olivia Rodrigo Drivers License Exposed, The NYT is Worried, An Apology, & More News

The Philip DeFranco Show

philip defranco

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4.81000 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

So during these tense times and as someone who whose job is essentially breaking down these specifics about how the world is on fire that day and someone who regularly has to talk about the worst of humanity on this MLK day, I thought it might actually be helpful to note that I am a cautious optimist. I actually have hope for our future over the long term, whether it be race relations, equality in general, progress

0:22.3

in general. Because as people smarter than me have said, many of which don't possess the same

0:27.7

privilege. I have change fucking motherfucker. I forgot. Change is not a straight line. Progress is not a

0:36.1

straight line is what I was trying to say. Well,

0:37.9

I'd rather none of the negative. One of the positives that has come from the negatives is I can't

0:42.4

remember another time in my life where people, especially young people, cared more about what

0:47.2

was going on, were engaged in trying to be the change they wanted to see in the world. But with that

0:52.3

said, welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.

0:54.5

It is Monday, January 18th, 2021,

0:57.5

and let's just jump into the news of the day

0:59.6

so you can get back to yours.

1:00.8

The first thing up today is entertainment news,

1:02.7

and here we'll start with the least controversial

1:04.6

or jarring Olivia Rodriguez.

1:06.7

If you don't know, she's a singer in high school

1:08.1

musical, the musical, the series, actress, which is a name for a series that is so ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as the wild numbers

1:16.7

we have seen from Rodrigo.

1:18.4

She released her debut single, Driver's License, on January 8th, just 10 days ago, and it is

1:22.9

absolutely destroying records left and right across multiple streaming platforms.

1:27.1

One of the first major milestones at it reach was setting the record for the most streams on Spotify and one day for a non-holiday song,

1:32.3

then beating her own record just one day later.

1:35.3

Spotify also announced on Friday that it set the record for the most streams for a song in a week,

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