S'up You beautiful bastards
Hope you're having a fantastic
Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about today, one of
the most requested stories of the day today
And that is a story that revolves around Donald Dalahaye. Donald is or I guess rather was a kicker for the university of Central
Florida. Now in addition to Donald being a college football player,
he's also a Youtuber, and that's where the problem in this story starts. And the problem here is money. On Donald's YouTube channel
He makes money from advertisements. And that seems to violate
NCAA Rules. NCAA by law 12.4.4 addresses athlete self-employment
And it states an athlete may establish his or her own business, provided the student athletes name,
photograph, appearance, or athletics reputation are not used to promote the business. And essentially the ad revenue
He's making from YouTube would make him ineligible to play in the NCAA
so this story makes national headlines in June when Donald releases a video titled choosing between
College football or Youtube they talk about it as simply. I have to make a choice here. They're not gonna
Let me make these videos
he says "I feel like I'm on trial", and after this video comes out there's lot of outrage that Donald might be kicked from the
Team and it also stirs up the debate around why college football players can't make money. Many saying that's bullshit. Colleges are making
Billions and billions of dollars off of athletes they're not paying the argument there is they are being paid in education
scholarships. If I can insert my opinion here, I think that argument is bullshit. College football is a
multi-billion dollar business. Espn is paying 7.3 billion dollars over 12 years this telecast for Bowl games to
semi-final Bowl games in the National Championship games. Back in 2014 college football brought in 3.4 billion dollars in Revenue
And we've got college football coaches like Nick Saban getting 11.1~5 million
dollars this year. That makes Nick Saban, a public employee in the same classification as a worker in the DMV, the
Highest-paid public official in the country. And just for Comparison's sake the president of the United States the highest
public official of them all makes just four hundred thousand dollars a year. And meanwhile, college football players get "paid" with
Scholarships and if you look at the university of central Florida each semester that's 22 to 23 thousand dollars and that just seems crazy to me
That's my opinion
back to the story. So this video and story blow up back in june and looks like the UCF athletics association is trying to work
with the NCAA and Daylahaye UCF comes up with this waiver that they submit to the
NCAA that would allow Dalahaye to continue making money from his videos
but he couldn't quote: "reference his status as a student-athlete or depict his football skill or ability." And if he did make videos where
he reference being a student-athlete he would just have to demonetize those videos. That was submitted to the
NCAA reportedly it was granted. And then it was reportedly that day Daylahaye would not agree to the terms of the waiver
So he was then deemed ineligible for the 2017 season and because he could no longer play football he lost his scholarship
in response to all of this
Donald puts out a video called. I lost my full D1 scholarship because of my Youtube channel. He says there were terms
that he just couldn't agree with UCF released a statement saying Da La Haye chose not to accept the conditions of the waiver and has therefore been
ruled ineligible to compete in NCAA
sanctioned competition UCF athletics wishes him the best in his future endeavors. And the NCAA
Released a statement saying, "Although Donald De La Haye has chosen not to compete any longer as a UCF student-athlete he could have continued playing football
For the university and earn money from non-athletic YouTube videos based on a waiver the NCAA granted July 14th. De La Haye decided
Not to separate his athletically related videos from non-athletic ones he could monetize which was outlined in the waiver for him to maintain eligibility
Contrary to misconceptions making a youtube video, even making money off of it, is not a violation of an NCAA rule
And I do have to say I'm torn on this story the restrictions put in place on players,
I do find ridiculous. But it also appears that the NCAA and UCF offered him a good
Solution over A football career over a free ride to college
he's choosing his Youtube channel which when it's not surrounded by
Controversy can sometimes just get 20,000 views. Sometimes on his more viral videos
300,000 views they just wouldn't be able to monetize some of them
That's a win in my eyes, and it's a far bigger give than I thought the NCAa would have given. Well
You're thinking about dollars and cents the true value for you in this position is audience
well
You wouldn't able to monetize videos while you're showcasing that you were a student
Athlete and all the stuff where you're on the field and you're meeting people and you're going through the stuff
You'd post that grow an audience from that and then in a video where you say you want to inspire people you want to talk?
About just people living their lives limit eyes that you were offered a win here and once again
I say this thinking that the
NcAa rules are stupid talk to a ton of other athletes in the past about this and they have explained how how
Incredibly ridiculous the rules are and how controlling organizations all that said?
It'll be interesting to see what happens here if you feel like Donald. De Lahaye is being screwed here,
You can go to a gofundme
He started for his tuition. He said he wants to continue pursuing his marketing career
But needs help paying for college now that he lost his scholarship. He set a goal for over
$30,000. Four thousand plus has been raised as of recording this video link to that down below But I do want to pass a question off to
You around this story. What do you think it's kind of a multi-tier question do you think the NCAa rules are stupid?
Do you think that Donald should have signed the waiver or no youth support and making a stand here?
I just love to know your thoughts in general, so let me know in those comments down below from that
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Then we got a new trailer for an original series called mind hunter series of follows two FBI agents trying to understand
Serial killer, and there's this cute little animated short. I just had this share
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Shared the secret link of the day anything at all links is always are in the description down below then let's talk about Jk
rowling in the news rowling was part of a large group of people that were outraged at the president after a video came out of
him just
ignoring a little boy in a wheelchair Rylan quote tweeting this video with a quote from Maya
Angelou saying when someone shows you who they are believe abouting trump imitated a disabled reporter now
He pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair as though frightened
He might catch his condition and she proceeded to rant
unless related to him by ties of blood and therefore his
Creation are treated with contempt because they do not resemble true
My mother used a wheelchair I witnessed people uncomfortable around her disability
but if they had a shred of decency
They got over so yes that clip of trump looking deliberately over a disabled child's head ignoring
his
Outstretched hands has touched me on the raw that man occupies the most powerful office in the free world and his daily outrages against civilized
Norms are having a corrosive effect how stunning and how horrible that trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who?
Only wanted to touch the president yes. How truly horrible shouted hundreds of thousands of people if not millions
here's the thing that video that was originally tweeted by ansel herz the deputy communications director for
Democratic representative from Milledge a appalled that was a video that was edited to misrepresent the situation
And you can easily verify that it was edited that way because the white house official YouTube page on july
24th posted the full video when he first walked into the room the first person
He walks up to is the little boy in the wheelchair he leans down to his level they have a little back-And-forth
It seemed and the mother of the little boy went on her Facebook and wrote
If someone can please get a message to Jk rowling I'm didn't stub my son and month he wasn't even trying to Shake his hand
One he's three and and shaking is not his thing to he was just showing off his newly acquired secret Service patch
Shanks after more and more people realize that this is happening on sorors tweet
Deleted an earlier tweet
Because it turned out to be missing some context apologies and then it took two and a half more days before Jk
Rowling tweeted about the and she finally said guarding my tweets by the small boy in a wheelchair whose proffered hand the president appeared to
Ignore press footage hopeful sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction
I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored on to the images
I saw and if that caused any distress through that boy or his family
I apologize unreservedly these tweets will remain
But I will delete the previous ones on the subject and that response and deletion brings us to a point
I feel like we find ourselves in more and more these days riling is taking the blame here
She is admitting fault she's apologizing to the family although many people are saying why are you just?
apologizing to the family made accusations against the president that were false your
Promotion of that false video that out of context video or tweet was retweeted over
76 thousand Times Millions of people saw this false information
And you apologized but far fewer people are seeing the truth far fewer people are seeing the apology your apology thread in
Comparison has one point four thousand retweets and personally I have to say rallying looks ridiculous to me here
She apologizes but not to the victim the target of her attack
But instead just to the people she used as poems or weapon I do also feel like this is a trend with JK
Rowling she sees a headlines you see the top-level story without diving deeper, and she just perpetuates that she promotes it
She goes to war for we saw her do that with the Pewdiepie wall Street journal Story
And I say this and I feel like I have to say there's once every week or every two weeks
Donald Trump is my president, but he's not like that you want to hit down the trump
There are a ton of different ways to hit Donald trump
Have you seen what's happening in the white house when you swing wild like this you look silly trying to perpetuate a story that Donald
Trump hates handicapped kids you hurt your own argument. You make yourself look silly
You make people skeptical of what you have to say net most importantly you're giving your enemies the weapons they so crave
I feel like this could have been an open-And-shut story if she had also
Apologized through the target of her attack and not just the people she was using to perpetuate a message
And I feel like I could have actually been in rawlings Corner here
And said this is what we need more of people taking ownership of their mistakes
you just
apologizes for using that family and not for
Misleading the public not not doesn't apologize to her target this makes me realize she's playing in the mud just like all those other people
That she seems to hate and then let's talk about what can really only be described as the insane
Clusterfuck that is Venezuela Venezuela has elected a new governing body which really appears to be more of a dictatorship
opposition leaders are being pulled from their homes and the money in
Venezuela is now worth less than World of Warcraft gold, and so I'm going to try and explain how we've gotten to this point
Let's start all the way back in 1998
Venezuela Elects Hugo Chavez to be President Chavez had a strictly socialist
Interpretation of how the government should be the implemented policies over the years towards that goal in
2001 Chavez manages to Pass 48 new laws that help him redistribute land and wealth and keeps going and going in
2006 he was a third presidential election this with 67% of the vote then begins to
nationalize many industry and fueled a lot of his plans with
Venezuela's massive oil reserve the price of oil is skyrocketing at the time and that in turn allows him to spend so much money on
Social programs, and it's not like Venezuela was a utopian paradise at this time
But they had a high standard of living especially compared to their neighbors so Chavez keeps Rolling. He wins the 2012 presidential election with
53% of the vote but then in 2013 Chavez died and so in walks his successor the winner of the next election Nicolas Maduro
He barely wins the election, but he went so now it's 2014 oil prices are at an all-time low
economy is straining in our massive protests in 2015 all the sudden
Opposition leaders are arrested because quote they were planning to attempt a coup and assassinate Maduro although
they deny this then January 2016 something big happens the opposition to Maduro a coalition called democratic unity win
Two-thirds majority in their parliament the call it National assembly and because of this majority they can block legislation
But then the Venezuela Supreme court which was widely appointed by Maduro
They reportedly put pressure on three members of democratic unity in the national assembly and forced them to resign so this deprives
Democratic unity of a two-thirds majority he then jumped to 2017 where the economy is in shambles there are food shortages
There are people starving according to a 2016 living conditions study
75 percent of Venezuelans are losing a concerning amount of weight then Mass
protests began starting with several thousand then hundreds of thousands then million and in March and early april the
Opposition to Maduro claimed that the supreme court is attempting a coup this because the supreme court took away
legislative power from the National Assembly and gave it to
Themselves in a response to this there are even more massive protests
and in April Several people died in clashes with security
Forces and so Maduro starts arming socialist members with firearm claiming he's doing this to quote protect the revolution
Government is also issuing Chavista card these giving rewards and benefits
It's united socialist party of Venezuela members not
opposition some of those benefits
include food essentially saying if you're with me you can eat and june rolls around a Maduro plans to hold a vote for a
Constituent Assembly the constituent assembly would be a new parliament and this new thing would have the power to change the constitution removed elected officials
Institution this results in even more protests and from these protests many more protesters died according to some reports
140 people have died six were under the age of 18 over 1,000 injured
862 reported arrests against protesters and an additional
431 were arrested for political statements and that takes us to the insanity of the vote that happened Sunday on Sunday
Venezuela held the vote to elect the constituent assembly this election was widely seen as a way to bypass the 2017 election for Mayors a
2018 election for the Presidency is because it looks like the socialist party would lose both of these elections because the party approval right now
Is around 20% and a major problems in constituent Assembly? Is there was never a referendum?
If this should happen in the first place Maduro would simply declare that there would be a vote for members and personally I have to
Say it's hard to view that is anything other than insane. That's like
It's president Donald trump said congress doesn't exist anymore senate house of representatives never heard of it by the way
There's this new thing called trump parliament
It can change the constitution and you get you can vote for who is a part of it now
Oh, and by the way my party, and I were going to nominate essentially everyone what that would be insane
So that's why too many. It seems like this is an obvious power grab to take over the national assembly and a separate non-binding referendum
Millions of Venezuelans voted against a constitutional rewrite reportedly
7.5 million people voted in that so then the vote happens for the constituent assembly and the numbers are all over the place
Eventually the government says 8 million people voted Roughly 41 percent of the eligible population
but that number has been disputed by the opposition and international observers they claim the vote was actually closer to
2.5 million people who's also claimed the government workers were highly pressured to go vote or risk losing their benefits was also reported that
14 of the 21 audits for the automated system for voting were skipped all so nearly all other
Regulations on the vote were skip people could vote anywhere and never had to prove that they were who they said they were available ink
Is usually used to mark voters and with skip this time and additionally it seemed like the rules for the election were skewed and Maduro
Is favored as in being a representative vote you know, we're popular vote win
if in a specific vote they use
Consolidated vote cities had one delegate to be voted for state cap
Had tools a student worker and indigenous groups were given a vote as well
It was being groups that heavily favored Maduro so that also meant that places of heavy opposition
like Raqqa Caracas a capital despite having a vast chunk of the population
Only gets two votes and even with Caracas' two votes those end up getting canceled out because the student groups and the worker groups
in
Caracas also get a vote now in response to all of this foreign nations such as Canada, Spain, the United States of America, they have officially
Stated they will not recognize decisions made by this constituent assembly that is likely to
Heavily affect trade with Venezuela in addition more sanctions were enacted by the Eu in the United States and in response to that Maduro said
They don't intimidate the threats and sanctions of the Empire don't intimidate me for a moment
I don't listen to orders from the empire not now or ever anon more sanctions Donald trump and so in response to this vote
opposition forces called for more protests this week
It's also been reported that two of the opposition leaders that were already under house arrest
Shortly after the vote they were taken from those homes
And no one knows where they are and so of course this is resulting in more opposition
And it's going to be so interesting
To see what happens from here because these new sanctions are going to put Venezuela in a very odd position
I mentioned briefly that Venezuelan economy was kind of fucked, oil is 50% of Venezuela is GDP
It's 90 percent of its exports, oil prices have plummeted from
$100 a barrel to just $49 a barrel. Venezuela is reportedly nearly out of its dollar reserve and the inflation problem in Venezuela is
Insane while the official rate is still one u.s.. Dollar to ten Bolivar Venezuela's currency on the Black market
which is where the currency is actually exchanged in may one us dollar went for
279 Bolivar then in June that went from one us dollar to 408 and as of today on dollar today
Which is an online site to exchange currency between the United States and Venezuela. It is one us dollar to Twelve thousand,
197 Boulevard to give you an idea of how insane that is in world of warcraft a video game, an imaginary
World for one u.s.
dollar you can get 6,000 to
8,500 gold in a
virtual world where there is an
Infinite amount of currency and these new sanctions the protests that Chaos its most likely only going to get worse
So that's where we are today
Obviously there are other things that have happened during this course of time and honestly I have no idea
What is going to happen?
We're just going to have to wait and see but if you look at this, it does look like the recipe for something horrible
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