- I am beautiful. I am loved.
I am safe. I am free.
I don't need to be like them.
I just need to be like me.
- A great thing I think that everyone should hear,
except the idiot last night,
who made the incredibly poor decision
to try to attack Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl.
And try is the key word.
- Ladies and gentlemen make some noise for hip hop history.
I'm going to kill that (beep)
- So Chappelle kind of absorbs a blow,
sheds the tackle a little bit, he still goes down,
but right at this moment,
I think the narrator hit this asshole with.
- [Narrator] It was at this moment that he knew
he fucked up.
- I don't know if Chappelle travels like this all the time,
but when he goes to the Hollywood Bowl,
he's running like 30 plus people deep minimum.
A video taken from multiple angles appears to show
some of that 30 plus just taking turns
stomping this guy down backstage.
And I just wonder like
what did this guy think was gonna happen?
Like was he gonna be able to somehow fight off the group
like that self defense guy on TikTok?
Cause I don't that he thought his night was gonna end
with Jamie Foxx's bust rhymes
and Dave Chappelle treating him
like Rick James treats a couch.
Now for legal reasons
I'll say we don't know exactly who stomped him,
but we do know what Chappelle said to the audience
during and after.
- I've been doing this 35 years,
I just stomped (beep) backstage.
(audience laughing)
I've always wanted to do that.
- Also in attendance you had Chris Rock there
hopping on stage for a second
to ask a very important question.
- Is that Will Smith?
(audience laughing)
- And as far as the guy that attacks Chappelle,
the picture of him after the beatdown is rough.
That is not the right clip but close, here we go.
He looks like an action figure
that a dad put back together backwards.
But y'all joking aside, and before you're like,
oh, I feel bad for this guy.
Reports say that the man was actually carrying
a replica handgun with a knife.
And so the man who has since been identified as Isaiah Lee
was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon
and held on $30,000 bail.
An officer also confirming that he was injured
but declining to provide details though.
We can see some of it,
but ultimately that's really all we know right now.
We don't know the motive of Isaiah.
We don't know how this person slipped weapons past security
at the Hollywood Bowl.
The main thing whether you like or dislike Dave,
this is not okay.
It was kind of concerning,
that this seems like the beginning of a trend
that Will Smith helped open the door on.
If you don't like a comedian, you don't support them,
or you say like fuck you, you don't just attack them.
Because if it already wasn't a bad idea
because it was just wrong and it's illegal,
it's now a bad idea because sometimes these comedians
have entourages that will rearrange your body parts.
Yeah whether you like or you dislike Dave Chappelle
I'd love to know your thoughts on what happened last night.
And maybe while you let me know,
I'll say supp you a beautiful bastards.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.
Hit that like button if you want me
to punch you in the throat and let's just jump into it.
And then I want you to buckle up
and get ready for this bam of the day story.
So if you don't know, this is Becca Moore
she's pretty big on TikTok, has around 800,000 followers,
she's known for her dead pan storytelling videos
about dating and other experiences,
and she recently went viral
because she was sharing this story that began at Coachella,
where she meets this hot guy who seems to be hitting on her
then as she explains.
- So as this guy was talking to me,
and I turned my back to him,
and my friend heard him say,
I'm gonna make this girl talk to me tomorrow.
I'm gonna steal her stuff. And he did. He did.
He took my phone, my credit card,
and keys to my rental car outta my purse.
- Which leaves her totally stranded in California,
away from home, unable to contact friends and family.
So she seems fucked but luckily the hotel gets her an Uber
to the sprint store so she can get a new phone,
and that's where she meets Raul.
One of the heroes of our story is not just an Uber driver,
he's the savior of the day because as Becca explains.
- And when the Uber driver picked me up,
he was like, ew what happened to you?
And I was like, nah, I just got robbed.
And he was like, not on my watch.
- So now Becca and Raul they're in this together.
They become friends. This is a buddy cop movie.
They're gonna solve this crime together.
But first caffeine.
So they go to Starbucks, they're working on this together.
They actually figure out the name of the guy
who robbed her as well as his Airbnb.
With the police then escorting them there,
so they could search the whole place,
but her stuff was nowhere to be found.
- And then the police were like, we're done.
Sorry, good luck on leaving this city.
- And Becca's words are always like, no they're idiots.
Don't worry, we are figuring this out.
But first margaritas, lots of liquids seemingly involved
with solving crime.
So Raul takes her to get drinks,
he pays for them and then realizes
there's one more trick left to try.
They drive back to the Airbnb, as she describes it,
they basically break in,
they use a tracker to locate her phone,
which turns out the guy abandoned outside,
probably realizing that it was gonna get him arrested.
- So yeah that man stole my phone, my keys, my credit cards.
You know what he gave me friendship with Raul.
- This whole ordeal, starting at 10:00 AM, ending at 6:00,
Raul there all the way. But the story doesn't end there,
because Becca learns more about Raul.
She discovers that he drove to Indio
all the way from Fresno that day,
just to earn some extra money for his 18 year old daughter
who as it turns out has cancer.
She was diagnosed back in June.
With Becca recalling him saying,
yeah she's going through chemo right now.
She's having a hard time.
She can't really stay awake and is losing a lot of weight.
And it's not just the daughter,
Raul's father is also battling cancer as well.
So after going through this
and posting the TikTok
Becca sets a GoFundMe up Raul and his family,
which has now raised over $150,000 dollars.
Though sadly his father passed away the next day.
So some of the funds are gonna be covering
his funeral expenses instead.
And of course if you wanna chip in there
we put the GoFundMe in the description down below.
But this I think is one of those important stories
to see and share because it often feels like
there's no reason to believe in other people,
in humanity and society and strangers,
and every now and then you just get this
fresh breath of air.
And that is why Becca and Raul are our bams of the day.
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And then let's talk about news that involves
expectation versus reality.
Sometimes those things line up often they don't.
The most recent example of that
is the job marketing starting salaries
for the class of 2022,
because in general things look good for these new graduates,
with a report
from the National Association of Colleges and Employers,
saying that employers plan to hire about 31% more
new degree holders from this year's graduating class
than they did for the class of 2021.
And the demand for workers has causes starting salaries
to go up.
But with recent data saying that the average salary
for these graduates is gonna be around $50,000
but reportedly their expectation is
they'll make around 103,000 dollars from their first job.
With Real Estate Witch finding that undergraduate students
on average overestimated their starting salaries by 88%.
Also noting that 10 years into their career
students anticipate making more than 200,000 dollars
which is well over the average mid-career salary
of 132,000 dollars.
Though of course all jobs and pay are not equal,
computer sciences and engineering,
the closest to that $100,000 expectation,
communications and humanities the furthest away,
which makes it all the more concerning
that reportedly seven and 10 seniors that graduate,
graduate with debt owing around 30,000 dollars per borrower.
But also some positive news,
reportedly studies show that college graduates
will earn nearly one million dollars more,
over the course of their careers.
Though I do wanna add well I'm not gonna be like
money doesn't buy happiness.
It does buy security and opportunity
which leads to happiness.
That said I will say
none of this takes into account quality of life.
So please don't choose what you're gonna do
for the rest of your life just because of dollars.
You never know how things are gonna go
but that is a guaranteed way to live a life
filled with regret.
When your time comes,
I hope you're not saying those three words,
coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Then in news it allows me to take a second to say
fuck TurboTax and Intuit.
Some good news,
if you're one of the people that were tricked by TurboTax
into paying to submit what was supposed to be
a free tax return between 2016 and 2018,
the New York Attorney General just announced
that the company has reached a 141 million dollar settlement
with all 50 states for essentially false advertising.
Talked about this in the past,
TurboTax has been under investigation
by multiple state and federal agencies,
for promising free tax returns and then charging for them.
But the Attorney General saying in a statement,
"Intuit cheated millions of low-income Americans
out of free tax filing services they were entitled to.
For years, Intuit misled the most vulnerable among us
to make a profit.
Today every state in the nation
is holding Intuit accountable
for scamming millions of taxpayers
and we're putting millions of dollars back into the pockets
of impacted Americans.
And so you may be one of the 4.4 million people
expected to now get a 30 dollar cheque
for each year that you were tricked
as part of the settlement.
And on top of that, TurboTax is going to have to stop
its free free free ad campaign.
Cause you know it's a fucking fucking fucking lie.
However, like these assholes always get to do,
Intuit TurboTax's parent company,
doesn't actually have to admit that it was a lie.
Part of the settlement
is they don't have to admit any wrongdoing.
And it in fact defended itself saying,
"Clear and fair with its customers,
including the nearly 100 million Americans
who filed their taxes free of charge with our products
over the last eight years."
Bullshit. With all that said,
this isn't the end of the saga for Intuit and TurboTax.
Because on top of this massive state led lawsuit,
it's also being sued by the FTC
for its deceptive free tax filing ads.
Meaning there's a chance that more customers will see
some kind of payout, which I will say
I know it's late for tax season,
but for next year, do not forget that the IRS website points
to a ton of actually free filing services.
Don't get tricked by these scumbags.
They're hoping that you wait till the last minute,
you're looking around, you accidentally pay them,
be careful out there.
I don't want these assholes milking you of money,
especially when in three weeks
I have a new beautiful bastard drop.
You're my cow, don't you ever forget it.
That was accidentally way more intense than I expected.
I think I may have anger issues, but also check it out.
There's a quick little sneak peek,
some Exhausted, Emotionally Exhausted,
my favorite new line, Are you taking care of yourself?
Cause y'all are you? Embrace Change. There's more.
I'll show you soon.
And then we need to talk about Russian atrocities
in a foreign country.
And this time it's not just Ukraine.
So this story centers around a network
of Russian mercenaries known as the Wagner Group.
Although Russian officials have denied links to the group,
who's true funding and ownership is unclear,
experts say that it has deep ties to the Kremlin
with the US claiming that it's financed
by a Russian businessman who's been dubbed "Putin chef"
because of his catering service,
which is staged elaborate banquets for the president.
Basically allowing Putin to downplay official casualty,
numbers and battlefields,
and this is himself for many war crimes Wagner commits.
As words of origins.
Wagner first emerged in 2014,
when it helped Russia annex Crimea.
Also appearing in Syria Libya,
the Central African Republican around 30 other countries
according to the Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
In fact right now, there are reportedly
at least a thousand Wagner mercenaries in the Donbas,
fighting alongside Russian troops.
With UN investigators and rights groups
alleging that they've looted private property,
targeted civilians and conducted mass executions,
which is in no way surprising
given that their leader's believed to be Dmitri Utkin
a retired Russian military officer
who's been photographed next to Putin.
But more importantly he appears to be a fucking neo-Nazi.
Even his alleged group's name Wagner,
supposedly takes its name from Hitler's favorite composer
of the same name.
But now one of the biggest things
is that evidence is emerged linking it to massacres
killing hundreds of civilians.
With this happening in the West African country of Mali
according to internal military documents
leaked to the guardian.
Specifically the Wagner Group arrived there last year
after striking a deal with the government
which experts say hired the mercenaries
for an estimated 10 million dollars per month
paid both in cash and through rights to extract minerals.
And the documents referred to these guys
as Russian instructors who fought alongside
Malian troops on what they referred to as mixed missions
against Islamist insurgents,
with data showing that it participated in at least
nine incidents between January and April this year,
killing 456 civilians.
With the worst by far allegedly taking place
at a village called Moura where 350 to 380 men
were just massacred.
All this confirming what has been known
by local witnesses for a long time now,
that the Wagner Group is fighting in Mali.
Now the country's military which sees power in a coup
in May of last year,
has insisted that Russians are only instructors
and not deployed in combat roles.
Also denying killing any civilians,
claiming it neutralized terrorists
and sometimes even covering up Russian deaths
by counting them as its own soldiers.
And notably all of this comes just a day
after human rights watch alleged
that forces in the Central African Republic
identified as Russian,
appeared to have killed and tortured civilians since 2019.
So Russia not just focusing their horrible in one place,
but rather spreading it around.
But ultimately that is where that story
and today's show ends.
As always thank you for watching,
being a part of that conversation down below.
My name is Philip DeFranco.
You've just been filled in.
I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.