So, you beautiful bastards, you're watching the Philippe Franco show, and we got a lot of news to talk about today.

We need to talk about the death of next Benedict, the fallout from the bombshell that an FBI informant was working with Russian intelligence.

We've got Mr. B. and Bobby Altov controversies.

We now know what happened at the Kansas City Parade shooting.

We need to talk about the mainstream bias we've seen with Israel and Gaza.

And then there's even more. So buckle up, hit that like button to let

YouTube know you like these big daily dives into the news, and let's just jump into it.

Starting with us needing to talk about the death of next Benedict. And I'll say right at the top,

there are a lot of unknowns, and this is still a developing situation. Let's break down the

information we do have to go off of it. Because over the last 24 hours or so, there's been a lot of news and social media attention around this non-binary 16-year-old who died on February 8th, notably just one day after

being injured during a fight in a girl's bathroom in Owasso High School in Oklahoma. Now, initially,

there were conflicting reports about the student's name and pronouns. With this due in part to the

fact that the obituary and a go-fund me for funeral expenses referred to the teen by their birth name and gender assigned at birth.

But Sue Benedict, the student's biological grandmother who raised them and adopted them a few years ago has since cleared that up.

Telling the independent that she provided Nex's birth name by accident and saying,

when you're going through something like this and you lose a child, you're not thinking right.

We're getting a headstone done and Nex will be on there. Also adding that while she sometimes struggled to understand the nuances of Nex's identity,

the teen was teaching her and was always understanding. Also explaining that the family who traced some of their roots to the Chakta Nation promoted openness and discussions about gender and identity. reading video games in their cat saying I was so proud of Nex they were going someplace

they were so free necks had a light in them that was so big they had so many dreams I wanted

their light to keep shining for everyone so also echoed those sentiments and an update on GoFundMe

where she apologized for dead naming next and adding that all the money left over from the funeral

fundraiser will go to other children dealing with the right to be who they feel they are in next Benedict's name. And yesterday, as the news began to spread and gain national attention, we saw

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