If you're reading this Hi! You're Early...

Sup, Beautiful Bastards!!

If you’re reading this, you are here before we really make anything public to the Philip DeFranco Show audience. You got here from a text or maybe message/email. But I wanted to take a second to actually say the thing out loud: welcome to my/your/our new home base!

I’ve been making videos for almost 20 years. In that time I’ve been on every platform, tried every model, made promises I kept and some I failed to, and learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t. This Substack is the result of all of that.

So here’s what it is and what you’re getting.

WHAT’S FREE (AND STAYING FREE)

The Daily Dip — Our morning-after breakdown of the news, in your inbox every day. If you were on the mailing list before, this is the evolution of that. )We’ll be migrating everything over soon so we don’t double dip into your inbox.) Short, sourced, no fluff except you know...fun fluff. What happened, why it matters, what to watch for next and maybe a poll or cartoon here and there.

Story Breakdowns — Every major story I cover on the show gets its own written piece here. Not a transcript. An actual article with full sourcing and context that you can read on your own time, share with someone, or come back to when the news cycle moves on and you want to remember what actually happened.

Update Notes — Breaking news info & reactions

All of these are free. They will always be free. The core of what we do doesn’t go behind a wall.

WHAT’S PAID

For $8/month (or $80/year, which works out to $6.67/month):

• Ad-free versions of every PDS

• Paid-only content and posts

• A direct voice in what this tier becomes

That last one is the part I care about most. I’m not going to hand you a list of 15 deliverables and cross my fingers. I’ve done that before. I know how it goes. Instead, I’m starting with what I know I can deliver every day, the ad-free episodes, and building everything else with the people who show up.

What do you actually want for your money? Nothing you just want to support the show? Cool! Or you want a say in the public content and you vote for us to do more deep dives like our special piece on why the hell economy looks one way but feels another? Early access to things? Weekly Opinion Newsletter? Subscriber-only threads where we hash things out? Monthly live Q&As? Tell me. We’ll figure it out together and I’ll be transparent about what’s working and what’s not. But again I’m starting with the core pieces, not making promises yet, and we’ll figure out what works together, because I cant ever do anything that messes with the 4-5 eps a week PDS.

WHY SUBSTACK, WHY NOW

I’ll keep this part short.

The media landscape is getting worse. The platforms we all use are getting less reliable, algos change daily, and they are often a nightmare when trying to cover certain topics.

Substack gives us a direct line to you that doesn’t depend on an algorithm deciding whether you see it. When you subscribe here, free or paid, the content comes to you. That’s it. No feed ranking. No suppression. No wondering if a video got buried because YouTube didn’t like the thumbnail or one of Trump’s friends bought another fucking social network.

I’ve spent 20 years building an audience on platforms I don’t own. This is me building on ground I control and bringing you with me.

So whether you’re here for the free Daily Dip, the story breakdowns, the paid tier, or you just want to see what happens next welcome! We’ll survive this dumpster fire together!

Love yo faces,

— Phil

P.S. If you’re a paid subscriber on Fourthwall, we’re running both platforms for a few more weeks so you won’t lose access to anything. I’ll be posting a full walkthrough on how to switch over soon if needed. Keep an eye out.