Sup you beautiful bastards.

Hope even a fantastic Thursday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show.

And a quick note before we get started.

This morning, if you didn't see, we posted a brand new morning,

deep dime.

And I saw some of you saying you didn't get your notifications,

it didn't show up in subscription.

So just after today's show it's

gonna be one of the top links in the description down below be sure to check it out

it's a really good but as far as this PDF let's just jump into it and the first

thing we're gonna talk about Defy

today is it's massive news in general as might recall over the past few months we've talked about Defy media a few times right there were a massive MCN the owners of

Smosh clever all me All Me, among others.

And it was massive news when near the end of the year,

seemingly out of nowhere, they just announced it was over.

I seeing reports that on January 2nd,

they would be shutting down,

they'd be laying off 80 people on their staff.

And the reaction from many, especially those that had been involved,

is how the hell did this happen?

I mean, one of the last times something was reported about the company

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