PDS 4.30 Why People Are Freaking Out About 13 Reasons Why Again, Tana Mongeau, & Venezuela's "Final Phase"
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, you beautiful bastards. Hope you have been a fantastic Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip |
| 0:04.0 | DeFranco show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about today |
| 0:07.5 | is why Netflix and 13 reasons why are back in the news. And a big note before moving forward, |
| 0:12.2 | we are going to be talking about the topic of suicide. I know some of you appreciate a warning |
| 0:15.2 | before we jump into those topics. So if you're wanting to avoid that topic, here's the time code to skip to. Now if you're unfamiliar with the show, it's about a teen girl who leaves behind 13 tapes that explain why she chose to end her life. |
| 0:24.6 | And as you might remember, back in 2017, we covered the backlash after the first season premiered, |
| 0:28.6 | and that season included a scene where you had a teenager slitting her wrists in a bathtub. |
| 0:32.6 | And following this, some felt the way that the show portrayed suicide. It was problematic, that in some ways it glamorized the act. It also didn't discuss many of the underlying factors. |
| 0:40.3 | We saw groups warning parents about the show's possible negative impact on young people, this including the National Association of School Psychologists and the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide. |
| 0:48.3 | And in response to all of this, Netflix added more content warnings that also directed viewers to support groups. But along with this, some, including Selena Gomez, who is one of the show's producers, |
| 0:56.0 | though the show was showing what teens are really going through, saying, |
| 0:59.0 | I understood that we were going into something that is difficult. |
| 1:01.0 | But these kids today are so exposed to things that I would never even comprehend when I was eight. |
| 1:06.0 | I feel like if this is what we are going to talk about, we might as well do it in a way that's going to be honest. It's going to be real and it stays true to the book. |
| 1:12.5 | But why are we talking about that today? That happened back in 2017. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health that was published on Monday, |
| 1:19.5 | in the month after the show was released, there was a 28.9% increase in the suicide rates |
| 1:23.4 | among U.S. youths, mostly male, ages 10 to 17. And ultimately, between April and December of 2017, |
| 1:28.3 | these increased rates led to 195 more suicides |
| 1:31.3 | than were expected based on data from previous years. |
| 1:33.3 | And also of note here is they found no significant trends |
| 1:35.3 | in suicides for ages 18 to 64. |
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