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Hope you're having a fantastic
Thursday welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it and the first thing we're gonna talk about today was by
Far one of the most requested stories of the day today and that is Cam Newton back in the news
although
This time it wasn't because he wore something fantastic
And/or ridiculous at a press conference Cam Newton if you don't know is a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers
He's a mobile QB
But also has a deep ball some say he throws the football even better than how he throws laptops out of windows
That's an inside joke that only some of you know. The main point is he was in the news for something he did during a press conference
Here's what happened Jordan Rodrigue, a beat writer for the Charlotte Observer asked this question and got this response
I know you take a lot of pride in seeing your receivers play well Devin Funchess seemed to really embrace the physicality of
His routes and getting those extra
Yards does that give you a little bit of enjoyment to see him kind of truck sticking people out there
It's funny to hear a female talk about routes like
It's funny and as you might imagine there was some outrage to this moment people saying that was incredibly rude, dismissive,
Sexist of Cam Newton Jordan Rodrigue also later went to Twitter tweeting
I don't think it's funny to be a female and talk about routes
I think it's my job and later when speaking with someone from the NFL Network. She issued the statement "This afternoon
I did my job as an NFL beat writer and asked Cam Newton a question about one of his receivers
I was dismayed by his response, which not only belittled me
But countless other women before me and beside me who work in similar jobs I sought Mr.
Newton out as he left the locker room a few minutes later, he did not apologize for his comments
But then the situation gets a little more cringy. The Charlotte Observer talked to Jordan about the interaction
She had with Cam Newton after the press conference and according to George he asked the quarterback if he really didn't think a female could
Understand routes Newton then said she wasn't really seeing specific routes when watching the game
She was just seeing if somebody was open
She argued that he didn't know what she saw nor how hard she had studied football
And that maybe the two of them needed to have a deeper conversation Newton said that maybe he should have said that it was funny to hear
Reporters talk about routes and that if she actually did know about them
Then she knew more than most reporters then he gestured toward the locker room still filled with her colleagues
So essentially it was like maybe I shouldn't have said you know women are too stupid to understand routes
I meant reporters you know not an entire gender
~females~
I should have just talked about the profession. And if that's true that statement just feels a little weird and half-ass
I mean let's put this shoe on the other foot here
It feels a little bit like if someone had said it's really funny
Just hearing a black guy talk about, then insert blank anything. Then afterwards when you're apologizing, but not apologizing you say
Maybe I should have said you know Financial Planners
You know Financial Planner is not the specific
Characteristic of who you are that I isolated and in response to all of this a Panthers
Spokesperson said, I've spoken with Jordan and Cam and I know they had a conversation where he expressed regret for using those words
We strive as a department to make the environment for media comfortable for everyone covering the team and a fellow
spokesperson Brian McCarthy saying, the comments are just plain wrong and
Disrespectful to the exceptional female reporters and all journalists
They do not reflect the thinking of the league, but of course all of this right now. We're talking about it's
Just words was there any real world impact here well
Actually yes as of this morning the yogurt company Dannon announced
They're cutting ties with them Dannon issuing the statement
We are shocked and disheartened by the behavior and comments of Cam Newton towards Jordan Rodrigue
Which we perceive as sexist and disparaging to all women it is entirely inconsistent with our commitment to fostering
Equality and inclusion in every workplace. It's simply not okay to belittle anyone based on gender
We have shared our concerns with Cam and will no longer work with him
There was also some back-and-forth
Following this Cam Newton's marketing agents said that Dannon had actually not cut ties that they actually can't legally to which Dannon responded correct the deal
Hasn't been terminated, however. They will no longer work with him, and they are removing him from advertisement so from all of that
It doesn't sound like Cam Newton's losing any money. It's just a brand distancing themselves and as of right now
It doesn't look like this has affected any of his other
endorsement deals those being with Under Armor Gatorade Microsoft Beats by Dre and of course
There was the question of what were the fans reactions
There are a lot of people saying this is bad that he needs to apologize also a lot of people
Defending Cam Newton saying there's no reason you should apologize and one of the common themes I saw in the people defending Cam is you
Know women don't watch football. They often don't know anything about the sport turns out that might be your personal life experience overall
That's just a misconception. According to reports we've seen from the past few years the NFL audience is actually
45% women and that's even just talking about women in general not what we're dealing with with this specific situation which is a woman who went
Into this career path and to survive she would need to know what she's talking about also one of the latest updates of this story
Is Jordan Rodrique is now under fire as well this of course because when you get thrust into the national spotlight
Everyone starts going through your past people found tweets from her in 2012-2013
She tweeted: my dad is being super racist as we pass through Navajo land another reading
He's the best. Racist jokes the whole drive home Jordan has since responded tweeting I apologize for the offensive tweets from my Twitter account from four
Or five years ago. There is no excuse for these tweets in the sentiment behind them
I am deeply sorry and apologize, but that said I want to pass the question off to you
Do you think that Cam is in the wrong here yes or no do you think it's a big deal is it being blown out?
Of proportion, let me know what you think on this one. But from that I want to share some stuff
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Glee remember Glee? Glee was such a big deal for a while
I had so many friends that loved that show I watched the first season and then I just kind of stopped
But the reason I talk about it today is Mark Salling you remember him one of the stars of Glee was a heartthrob well today
I have the unfortunate
Job of ruining part of your childhood because Mark Salling is about to be a registered sex offender if you don't know the story
reportedly police were tipped off by one of Salling's exes and in 2015 the
LAPD executed a warrant to search his house and there they reportedly found
25,000 still images six hundred videos of child pornography
additionally they found around 29 thousand images of child
Erotica according to the prosecutor some of the victims in the images were three to five years old Salling was originally charged with two counts
Of receiving and possessing child pornography and as of Wednesday as part of a plea deal
He has pled guilty to one count of receiving and possessing child pornography and so because of this plea deal Salling is going to have
To serve between four and seven years in jail and also as part of this plea deal
He's only have to register as a sex offender
Participate in counseling spend 20 years under supervised release during which his internet use will be monitored and controlled
Additionally Salling will also have to pay fifty thousand dollars to each victim who submits a restitution request on top of that prosecutors are seeking
additional funds against him the question
I want to ask around this story is do you think this punishment is enough? or on the opposite
end and I've seen this argument from some people is it too much this of course coming from people debating that this person was just
Consuming content online they weren't actually doing anything to children but of course the argument against that is no you're still dealing with a victim here
And this person is participating they're part of the reason and for this video
I'll save the two minutes of rage of what I think about people like this
I'll just ask you what you think about then in Netflix news if you are a subscriber to
Netflix your prices may be going up Netflix announced today that if you're a member of their premium tier
You get ultra HD up to four screens that is going from $11.99 to $13.99
Or if you were a member of their standard tier
That's going from nine ninety nine to ten ninety nine finally if you're a member of their basic tier. You're actually staying at
$7.99 and so what this means for you is if you're an existing subscriber as of November this will be your new rate
Or if you currently don't have an account as of today this will be your new price now will Netflix lose some subscribers from this
Yes, and I mean just look back to 2016 they announced a price increase. They lost some subscribers their growth slowed down. But overall
It's a win for them. Netflix has over 100 million subscribers worldwide
So where we're seeing today is a change of zero for basic $1 for standard and $2.00 for premium
So if you just do some dumb top-level math we don't we don't know the exact numbers and the splits between each tier of how
Many subscribers they have for each one
Let's say after you consolidate all the numbers you're getting the equivalent of $1 extra per customer per month the number of people unsubscribing will be minimal
And all of a sudden you're looking at an extra 100 million dollars a month of revenue and honestly if
They're just putting that money into more originals like Stranger Things. They're paying comedians to bring their comedy specials to Netflix
Yes, you gonna
See more and more companies like the Disney's of the world pulling their things off of Netflix like we're seeing now and so a lot
Of the worth for a lot of these places is going to come from originals
And I think that Netflix has a pretty damn good track record there
But also that's my personal take away from this a question to you
do you think that if you're a member of the premium to you is an extra $2.00 a month twenty four dollars a
Year enough to make you pull your subscription
I'd love to hear from and then let's talk about a story that has just blown up over the past 24 hours
There's been so much controversy around this and you may have seen a headline like this one from out.com reading US votes against UN
Ban on death penalty for homosexuality it put people up in arms saying how is this the United States? How is the u.s.
not
Condemning the death penalty for people just being gay the
Resolution specifically blocking "the imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct such as apostasy
blasphemy adultery and consensual same-sex relations" some of the other countries that joined the United States with this nuovo included the UAE, Saudi Arabia,
which of course currently maintains a death penalty for the crime of sodomy ,Iraq, India, Qatar ,Bangladesh
And the list continues ultimately though the motion did pass in a vote of 27 to 13
But of course that brings us back to the question of why? Why would the United States do this well it turns out the situation wasn't
As simple as many of the outlets made you believe despite
What all the headlines said this resolution wasn't just about the death penalty for homosexuality
This resolution was about the death penalty in general
It was literally titled the question of the death penalty
Resolution among other things urged States to end the death penalty abolish it get rid of it it also goes into those
specifics like no death penalty for homosexuality another way sites could have misled people, they could have said America voted no on
Condemning the death penalty against pregnant women thats in there as well
There's also language in the document that read death penalty is a form of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading
Treatment or punishment and of course there are places in the United States where the death penalty is legal
And so the United States voted no and in fact the United States has a history outside of the Trump administration
Of voting no or abstaining when it comes to the death penalty and in response to the outrage US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
Tweeted the vote that took place in Geneva is the same U.S. Vote that took place under the Obama admin
It was not a vote against LGBT the press secretary of the State Department also tried to clarify
Why the United States voted no the United States is disappointed to have voted against that resolution
We voted against that resolution because of broader concerns with the resolutions approach in condemning the death penalty in
All circumstances and it called for the abolition of the death penalty altogether
We had hoped for a balanced and inclusive
Resolution that would better reflect the positions of states that continue to apply the death penalty lawfully as the United States does
the United States
unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for conduct such as homosexuality
Blasphemy adultery and apostasy we do not consider such conduct appropriate for criminalization
It should also be noted that the United States also tried to avoid this situation
The U.S. backed two amendments to this resolution
They were put forward by Russia and those amendments meant to clarify that the death penalty is not necessarily a human rights violation
And so that would have provided a change that would allow the United States to say death penalty for for homosexuality. No, that's ridiculous
We condemn it at the same time not throw certain US states under the bus and ultimately where I land on this is I'm a bit
disappointed with how this was covered I truly understand why places like the
Independent have headline that read U.S. votes against UN resolution condemning gay sex death penalty joining Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Over two hundred sixty four thousand shares damn, and it's technically true
But also incredibly misleading like if there was a document that condemned the Westboro Baptist Church those hateful hateful assholes
But then also there's a part of that document. That said if you sign this you have to fuck your own mother
You'd probably hopefully
Not sign that thing and then technically places could report that you refused to sign you voted no when you were given the option to
condemn the Westboro Baptist Church obviously
We're talking about different extremes in this situation one is incest the other is you don't want to go against state death penalty laws
But hopefully that stupid analogy can help you understand how a headline can technically be accurate, but also incredibly misleading also
I want to give some props to outright action international unlike other
LGBT positive organizations like HRC Global the ILGA who ran with this simplistic
Narrative Outright Action International released a statement saying there's been some misreporting and misconception the u.s.
always opposes this death penalty
resolution because it makes reference to a global moratorium on the death penalty for both Obama and
Trump so long as the death penalty is legal in the u.s.
It takes this position outright will call out the Trump administration on its many rights violations its many abuses of power from LGBTI
violations to
Xenophobia but this particular instance is not an example of a contraction of support on LGBTI rights and personally
I think that's a fantastic example of how you handle the situation and how you get people to respect what you're saying that said there
was kind of a silver lining to this story with so many people that were misled to believe the situation was a lot more black and
white than it actually was it was nice to see people kind of come up as an ally granted the mindset of you shouldn't be
Killed because you were born the way you are is a pretty low bar for an ally, but it's a start
I saw people on my Facebook Timeline back from high school that were so homophobic
They wouldn't even like rainbows even they were like this can't stand yeah, that's how we're gonna end today's show of course
I'd love to know your thoughts on this last story the first one anything in between so let me know your opinions where you're coming from
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