PDS 12.5 Hawk Tuah Girl’s “Scam” Scandal is Crazy, CEO Killer Updates, “Deny Defend Depose”, & Today's News

The Philip DeFranco Show

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news.
0:05.5	Today is Thursday, December 5th. There is a lot we need to talk about today. But let's start.
0:10.2	Let's start with you hitting that like button and talking about the Hawk to a girl controversy.
0:15.5	Real name, Haley Welch, but everyone calls her Hawk to a girl.
0:18.8	Spit on that thing. Unfortunately, in this situation,
0:21.6	the thing that she is apparently spitting on
0:24.0	is in people's faces.
0:25.4	Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly,
0:26.5	I'm stealing that from Jesus and Mero.
0:27.9	So here's the deal.
0:28.6	Hawk to a girl is the most recent,
0:29.9	influencer to launch a crypto meme coin.
0:31.8	It's called the Hawk coin.
0:32.9	It went live yesterday after a lot of promotion and she even did an interview with Fortune about it, claiming that it wasn't just a cash grab, saying, you know, she used to view crypto as just a scam and an
0:41.4	easy way for you to lose money, but then claiming that her opinion changed after attending
0:45.2	crypto conferences, saying, I don't really see it as like a gambling thing. I think it's like a fun way
0:50.0	to get my fans to interact. But their manager then also claiming the Hawk token, it'll be different from other previous celebrity crypto endeavors because they're not telling people to buy and
0:57.8	will give free tokens to her followers and people who have purchased merch. And with that, also claiming
1:01.9	that Haley will own 10% of the supply but can't sell for a year. But seemingly one of the immediate
1:06.2	responses to this coin was a lot of skepticism. Some saying, you know, it seems like she's maybe gonna be talking to a judge,
1:11.6	but also huge influencers in the space,
1:12.6	like CoffeeZilla, adding,
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