What's up, you beautiful bastards? You're watching the Wednesday evening, Thursday morning, Philip DeFranco show, and we got a lot of news to talk about today.

We've got the wild Harrison-Butker-Taylor-Swift homemaker's scandal. There's a massive manhunt underway for a drug dealer known as the fly after a deadly escape.

We break down the divisive Karen Reed murder trial, as well as the impending fallout from the assassination attempt of Slovakia's prime minister.

And then there's even more we got to break down today, so just buckle up, hit that like button to

train YouTube, and let's jump into it.

Starting with, Harrison Butker is in the news today, and for a lot of people, you're like,

Harrison Who?

Though for me and many others, we know him as the annoyingly accurate kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. But over the last

24 hours, a lot more people have become familiar with Butker because of his recent commencement

speech at Benedictine College. When I first saw the amount of backlash, I was like, what did this

guy say? And this was the first viral clip that I saw. Part of what plagues our society is this

lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our

communities. As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction,

and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence

we see all around the nation. Other countries do not have nearly the same

absentee father rates as we find here in the U.S. and a correlation could be made in their drastically

lower violence rates as well. Be unapologetic in your masculinity, fighting against the cultural

emasculation of men. Do hard things. Never settle for what is easy. You might have a talent that you don't

necessarily enjoy, but if it glorifies God, maybe you should lean into that over something that you

might think suits you better. I saw that and I was like, okay, there's, you know, there's nothing

crazy about that. I don't necessarily agree with doing something that you're talented in that you don't

enjoy, especially when it's coming from a guy that gets to kick a football for a living. You know, there's an obvious

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