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12-11-24 Afternoon Rush - Joe Rogan Comments About Healthcare CEO Shooter & Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner Announces Cancer Diagnosis & Travis Kelce Discusses Taylor Swift's FInal Tour Date

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 Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon, everybody on this hump day. It's Wednesday, December 11th, 2024, two weeks till Christmas, but we got all your news here in one place.

I've got an update on the missing kayaker who police say faked his own death. He's back in the U S he's in Wisconsin. He's in jail. All of that story. Plus Elton John named times icon of the year and Travis Kelsey dishes about going to Taylor Swift's final show on her arrows tour on his new heights podcast, I'll share a clip of that and breaking news, sadly, bachelor golden bachelor, Gary Turner has cancer.

We'll discuss all he had to say in why they may have sped up the divorce. Plus, of course, more updates on suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, partial fingerprints place him at the crime scene. So says, uh, detectives. Meanwhile, his attorney still says we have not seen any evidence that he is guilty. Not to mention hypocrisy will be shared of Joe Rogan.

Based on his thoughts, uh, on the shooting, what he has to say about the American health care system. And while it doesn't really line up with some other things he endorses, plus a wild Clayton Eckerd case update, uh, his, uh, accuser's attorney doubling down, causing more issues for his client. I've got that story and so much more, and it's all coming up next on The Rush.

So we covered this story a few weeks back, a kayaker was thought to be dead. What, uh, ended up turning up in a like Eastern European country. And then a video evidence showed him being interviewed by a YouTuber, uh, claiming that he was prepared to fake his own death and leave his family to go pursue a new life.

So anyhow, they found him. And I guess he's back in the United States. Here's the update from CBS. Good morning, America. A missing kayaker who police say faked his own death is now in custody in Wisconsin. The online records show that 44 year old Ryan Borgwart is in jail outside Milwaukee now. Now you may remember that crews searched for him for nearly four months after he failed to come home from a kayaking trip back in August.

But last month, officials say they believe he wasn't dead. And he was, in fact, alive, living somewhere in Eastern Europe. Last month, a father of three came clean in a video message describing how he did, in fact, fake his own death. So he could leave his family and start a new life. Listen, all I'm saying is this, a lot of guys buy a Corvette during their midlife crisis, you know, how dramatic, isn't this funny?

A lot of men accuse women of being overly dramatic, but it's like, Oh, you faked your own death to go pursue what a chick you met on hinge. Get out of here. Get out. So now he's got to pay the price. You should have just bought the car in the first place. All right. Elton John was named icon of the year. All right.

First of all, God bless time magazine and God bless Elton John. As you guys know, our podcast was featured in time magazine. You know, we got a little blurb. It was in the digital version. It really meant nothing. But it's still kind of fun to say, uh, but what are they doing? Participation trophies. It used to be that they had person of the year.

Now they've got athlete of the year icon of the year. I'm sure they're going to have podcaster of the year. Maybe they'll have niche podcaster, a podcaster who does two episodes a day with a niche entertainment news following of the year. Dave Neil. Well, thank you so much for that time magazine. I really appreciate it.

Uh, time magazine is a vestige of the past. I don't mean to, to, to like diss them, but it was so interesting when we were featured in time magazine, it didn't lead to one new person. Like literally nobody ever has said, Dave, you know what? I found your channel by reading time magazine. Like it just doesn't exist.

And yet somehow of all of the. You know, relatively bankrupt magazines. It's holding on. So congrats to time magazine. I'm sure in the next couple of days, we'll, we'll find out who is their person of the year. But as far as icon goes, Elton John, you deserve it. You are, uh, you're, I mean, who doesn't love Elton John really?

Um, well, here's a good story. Uh, a fifth person was confirmed to be cured of HIV. The Dusseldorf patient is latest to be rid of HIV with no signs of return. Uh, they're calling it the Dusseldorf patient, uh, to protect his privacy. Researchers say he is the fifth confirmed case. Details of his successful treatment first announced at a conference in 2019.

Researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time. Well, I guess five years later, they're like, no, this is it. So again, uh, What that is that led to the curing. I'm not sure, but Hey, this is why you got to invest money into science and medicine, right? Because, you know, it's like, what, what was so devastating for a generation, you know, what was, you know, not even a generation, but for several years, the epidemic, you know, It's like now, and again, it should still be taken seriously, but now it's like, what a difference in time.

All right, well, let's do this. Let's head over to Travis Kelsey. He of course has his hit podcast, new Heights, one of the biggest podcasts out there with his brother, Jason Kelsey. And he gave a nice shout out to Taylor Swift about the ending of her tour. I guess he went to her final show in Canada. Here's what Travis Kelsey had to say.

Oh, Jason, we were spotted in Vancouver for the last stop on the heiress tour. Vancouver. I wasn't in Vancouver. Yeah, you were. Look at that belly and that beard, dude. Oh, what the fuck? You got the stat. I'm not fat. I'm not, that's not what I look like. So it's actually, it's actually what appears to be a lady dressed up as Jason Kelsey there.

Again, this is how iconic Taylor Swift is, is that people don't just dress up as her, they dress up as her boyfriend's older brother. That's it. That's what I look like right now.

Well, shout out to Tay and, uh, the unbelievable heiress tour has finally come to an end. How do, so how, hold on, how long was the heiress tour? It was over two years, almost two years. The heiress tour was so long. This is her third known boyfriend she's had during that tour. March, March, Of the year that we played with many shows.

How many do you know off the top of your head? Uh, 149 or 152. I forget which one it was. Somewhere in there. A fuck time. That's so many shows is kind of how I sum it up. 149 shows in 21 Country. Wow. It's insane. Absolutely insane. Over 10 million people in the stands over the course of it, like cumulatively.

It's pretty crazy. Shout out to Tay. Shout out to everybody that was a part of that show. Obviously it's, it's her, it's her music, her tour and everything, but that, that was a full production, man. That thing. Yeah. Fair enough. It was the best tour in the world because of a lot of people and uh, but mostly because of Taylor.

You know, we shared a clip earlier on the episode this morning about how to be popular and the, the reasoning of how to be popular is that people like you when you like them. And Taylor Swift is a good example of that. She's got that energy where she always makes every single person feel like they are the most important person in the room.

I actually remember seeing a video where she surprised someone at their um, at their, at I don't know if it was their gender reveal party. It might've been their engagement party. It was at this little hole in the wall called Sycamore tavern. It's a place I used to do standup in Los Angeles and there couldn't have been 10 people there.

And she took her time out to kind of like show support for them. And those little things add up over the course of a 10, 20 year career, those little moments where you take care of people. She takes care of her drivers. She tipped what like close to 200 million in tips to her employees and every town she goes to.

She. Crushes their gross domestic products. Uh, hotel chains see a boost when the Taylor Swift is in town. I mean, it is the biggest, uh, it's, it's incredible. So good on her. Well, to go from Travis Kelsey to other football news, kind of sad story. Randy Moss, uh, admitted. The other day that he's going to be stepping down from his broadcast job because he's got health concerns.

Well, I guess Larry Fitzgerald senior claimed that he had liver cancer. Well, now Randy Moss's son refutes the cancer report and calls it disgusting. So Larry Fitzgerald senior said 66, uh, national football hall of fame ceremony here in Las Vegas, just heard that Vikings hall of fame. Randy Moss has liver cancer.

Let's show the power of prayer and pull Moss through. Now, by the way. He means well, but if someone has a medical issue, uh, outing them is kind of like not your place to be like, let them, uh, take ownership of whatever their issue is, if they want to share it. Great. If they don't fine, it's so personal. Well, either way, uh, Randy Moss's son said, no, this is disgusting.

The 26 year old Moss wrote to Fitzgerald senior. You have no right to try to make private matters public for the sake of engagement. I do not believe my father talks to you. So check your effing sources. Uh, and by the way, you know. I don't think the guy meant harm. I just think that like there's a generation where people didn't understand the etiquette of social media.

I think that's what it comes down to. Well, this is a scary story. Mitch McConnell, 82 years old, falls at the U S Capitol more than a year after public freezing episodes. No, I'm no fan of Mitch. You can make your own decisions. He is set to retire, but boy, just a wild out here. You know, if I was one of his grandkids, I'd be like, why the heck does this guy still go to work?

Like, what does he, I understand, you know, you want to do something that provides value out there. But I think it would be of value to Americans if we had a little bit of a younger people making decisions for us out there, just my thoughts. Well, uh, we've got a sad update from Gary Turner, golden bachelor.

He has revealed in people magazine today that he's been diagnosed with cancer. He was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. It's not curable. Uh, and I don't know how aggressive it is. Uh, but he mentioned that that diagnosis came actually early on in his marriage. And. probably led to, of course, their, the divorce.

He got married to Teresa after meeting on the first season of the golden bachelor. And, uh, then they did not last too long. And my thought on that was, well, he's in Indiana, she's in New Jersey. They plan to move to the Carolinas. And maybe after finding out he had cancer, he realized he just wanted to be closer to family.

And I don't think you can blame the guy. And, you know, you, You can't blame her for not wanting to uproot her family to go to Indiana. So, uh, sad, sad that the relationship didn't work out, but also more sad that Gary's now battling a bone marrow, a bone marrow cancer, but we wish him very well. All right.

Speaking of bachelor and other bachelor news, Clayton Eckert update. I made a video about this, but how fascinating is this in a comment section of his video? Uh, Laura Owens, attorney Jingy. Uh, which is Clayton Eckert's accuser, uh, has said some statements that I guess, I don't know if he's going to regret these or not, but he basically said that Laura never intended in keeping the pregnancy, that being the pregnancy that she claimed to have with Clayton, well, we provided a boatload of information that actually refutes those claims.

It was another example of a major massive slip up by David Gingras, uh, in his attempt to do PR work for his client. The other slip up was admitting that her ultrasound. sound was actually her sister's, which again, she had never publicly admitted in the, and in this case, admitting she never wanted to have the baby, which if you look at any of the evidence, she sued me for an injunction against harassment, uh, saying that, um, my coverage of her was harming her babies.

Why would she care if the babies are being harmed, if she doesn't care about them? You know what I mean? So just wild stuff out there. Um, but again, we, we don't miss any chance to, uh, go public. Cut to, you know, to come out and to really, uh, put him in his place with what we call truth. And, um, he actually responded to someone saying, you need to get your brain out of Dave Neal's rear end, which is like, listen, uh, how, how trivial of him to think that everyone who disagrees with them must have their head up my ass, uh, which again, maybe some of my audience has their head up my ass, but that's fine.

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Case, you know, people are wondering, uh, go fund me's have been shut down that have been trying to support Luigi Mangione, which I think is ridiculous. I mean, even if someone seems guilty, they are sort of allowed a fair trial. And if, if, if audience, if, if. The public wants to raise money, uh, for a fair trial.

I don't see why that's a bad thing. Well, his fan base is only growing online. It's a real, you know, we talk about this before, like the Arab spring, a grassroots movement, a movement of the people for cultural change in different ways. It comes in different communities. And right now in the United States, there is a movement of people that are left leaning.

And right leaning and center leaning that are all coming together saying enough is enough. The system is so flawed and it seems as though mainstream media is not really covering that story. Everyone's quick to say that Luigi is this horrible guy and you know, cold blooded murders. Yeah, that is, that is a horrible thing to do.

What comes of that, the conversations that come from this will be, uh, some that will make careers. Of political leaders or ruin them. Same thing with content creators. I mean, you had Josh Shapiro, excuse me, Ben Shapiro, uh, different Shapiro, Ben Shapiro, trying to claim this was a big left wing movement. And then a lot of his audience, right wingers said, no, it's not.

We also have insane healthcare bills. Why can't, as a country, as a middle class, why can't we all come together, use our money to try to have socialized health care? More people agree with that than don't. I feel like a lot of people that don't agree with it is from misinformation. They say, well, I don't want to wait in line for three years to get my knee replaced.

It's like, oh, yeah. Okay. Well, but also do you want to spend a quarter million dollars? Cause you broke an ankle, you know, like not everything is about getting your knee replaced. Sometimes you get sick and you just want to go to the hospital and not wonder if you need a mortgage taken out. You know what I mean?

Either way, here is Luigi Mangione's, uh, new lawyer, uh, talking about fans possibly offering to foot the legal bill. One big question that everyone has is are you being paid by his family to represent him? Yeah, I'm not, I'm not going to comment on that. Well, can you say that it's not his family who is, who is asking you to retain him or to retaining you to represent him?

I'm not going to comment on. By the way, this lawyer, it was a local lawyer. It was it called Latuna, Pennsylvania, is that what it's called? He was a local lawyer there and I think he's practiced for a very long time. It could be that he's doing this for free. I mean, look, it's already getting him on all of the news, and by the way, a little publicity not always a bad thing if he does this case for free and helps out.

You know, he'll get something out of it, which is notoriety in one way or another, uh, depending on, you know, it's, you know, there, there are cases where you look at lawyers and go, Oh, geez, you know, is this an ambulance chaser? Is this somebody who's out for a quick buck? I don't see that here. I see, I see what could be a very, very long trial.

It could also be very quick to be quite honest, depending on the types of evidence that they have. I'm not going to comment on that. Um, that's, uh, I've been retained. I was not court appointed. I've been retained. And that's all I can tell you. We had seen reports earlier that that there was, you know, people were inundating you with, with offers to help pay for his, his legal bills.

Is that accurate? Um, I, uh, I have received some emails. I have not seen them personally, but my understanding from my staff is people are, uh, are doing that. And by the way, who cares, right? Is it, I don't know, is it illegal to take money from strangers? Uh, you know, you guys can give me money. I'll give you my Venmo, it's DNeals, D N E A L Z, just like my Instagram.

No, if you don't have the money, don't send money. My point is, what I'm trying to say is, it ain't illegal to send money. The people are reaching out to you and offering to help pay for his legal bills. That's correct. Do you, would you accept those offers? I mean, I imagine you maybe have, I don't know. Have you ever gotten that before?

Who cares? Nah. Nah, to be honest with you, I probably wouldn't. Why do you think you would not accept them? Oh, geez! I mean, come on. This is a terrible interview. Why are they harping so much on whether the lawyer will take some donations? I don't know. I just, uh, don't. I don't know. I just don't feel comfortable about that.

Um, so I don't know. I haven't given that much thought, but I'm not looking, you know, I mean, I, you know, obviously my client appreciates the support that he has, but I don't know. I just, it, it, I'd have to look in, but it just doesn't sit right with me really. So, so very interesting stuff. Uh, you know, everyone obviously is, is really looking into every angle of, of what will become a very, very big trial.

And by the way, I think on my YouTube, I'm going to start covering some other trials outside of the one I've been covering. One of which is what the hell's, uh, uh, bookmark Friday at. 10 a. m. Central standard time. I think we're going to do a public live stream where we catch up on the, what the hell is coverage.

If you aren't familiar with it, it is a YouTuber who's been in a lawsuit and it's kind of got a lot to do with what I do. So I find it kind of interesting. Um, I don't plan on being like a, you know, you know, a true crime podcaster or whatever, but you know, it's just, it's very interesting how the court system works.

And there's a lot of, uh, good nature to sort of. People discussing it and that we have that right to do that. And we absolutely will be discussing this trial as it happens. Now, there is some evidence that apparently came out. Uh, we'll share that for you next. You know, it's so funny. Some of the information coming out.

Luigi Mangione apparently had a book on his book list called adult children of emotionally immature parents, how to heal from distant rejecting or self involved parents. I think anyone in our generation would love to read that book. Not to say our parents were emotionally immature, but you know, I don't know.

I feel, I, you know, I feel like that's a common struggle to think that the previous generation didn't quite understand you. You know what I mean? So anyway, yeah, they're, they're looking into every aspect of this trial, but what's interesting here is a clip I'm going to share of, I guess this is a law enforcement official confirming that they have found a partial fingerprint match of Luigi Mangione at or near the crime scene.

Have a listen. First positive forensic match that we know of. Walk us through what you've learned. So fingerprints collected at the scene of the Thompson murder, uh, from a plastic water bottle from a discarded cell phone, the so called burner phone. Um, have now been compared. against the arrest fingerprints taken by police in Altoona.

By the way, this guy's voice is just beautiful. And I'll tell you what, um, as far as the conspiracy theories go currently, I think he did it. I don't think the manifesto was planted, although he does say that the cash was planted on him. So again, we'll have, this is going to be very interesting. And will a jury convict.

Of the suspect and. Yesterday they were able to make a match to the prints that they collected at the scene. Not a surprise in some regard, in that they had an individual allegedly with a gun and a silencer and a mask and those things, but it is the first scientific forensic match. Um, that, that joins the growing pile of circumstantial evidence that they can say, well, how else would it be someone if that fingerprint is here and he's there with that gun and so on.

Now, there's more, which is DNA evidence, still pending. Ballistic tests still pending. Um, part of that is because the gun was recovered in Pennsylvania, um, to match that to be the same gun. They would have to, so they're doing all the forensic work, but Hey, listen, uh, the boomers were right. They always said you young generations buying your 6 Starbucks, you shouldn't be doing it.

And it looks like that 6 Starbucks cup may be the thing that pins him to the crime scene. Again, we'll have to see. Well, Supporters of Kim Kardashian are asking her to save Luigi Mangione, get him a pardon. Of course, she has helped a lot of innocent people get off of death row or get their convictions, you know, uh, overturned.

Um, I don't think she'll get involved here, but one user said, uh, that she should represent Luigi Mantone. Luigi X Skims is on the way. So Skims is her lingerie brand and of course, People make funny jokes online, but it just goes to show where the world is and where the country is right now with how fed up people are.

Alright, so let's listen to this clip before we completely dismantle his take. I don't think this guy was a professional. I think this guy If I had to guess some guy got fucked over. Apparently that company is really bad. Mm-hmm . On denying claims. Uh, the 30, 34% denial rate. Something like that. Almost like 16.

Yeah. Yeah. So those guys, I don't think anybody's gonna like be crying too hard over that guy. . Yeah. Maybe it's family, but that's about it. Yeah. It it's a dirty, dirty business. The business of insurance is fucking gross. It's gross. And especially healthcare insurance. Just so. He says healthcare insurance in the business of is effing gross.

Now this might sound political, but it really doesn't mean to me, but Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. Donald Trump said he had concepts of a healthcare plan dating back to 2016 and he recently at the debate said he had concepts of a healthcare plan. We can't forget. The honest truth of what happened, which was that Donald Trump tried to get rid of Obamacare.

Do you remember when John McCain did that big thumbs down after Donald Trump tried to get rid of it? Now what's happened is people realize Obamacare is. Pretty good. It's actually got high approval rating. It could be better, of course, uh, but there's a lot of restrictions to it, which is why a lot of people want Medicare for all, but we can't have this conversation about Joe Rogan saying healthcare, health insurance companies are effing gross, but he's not using his platform to help, uh, you know, pursue, uh, better options, you know, and again, he doesn't have to do that, but I'd be remiss if I didn't discuss the fact that the left and the right, And everyone in between all agree that these healthcare companies stiff us.

They're insurance companies. They are just a middleman, a mob, uh, the mafia run, you know, in the sense that they're making billions and billions in profit, they're designing artificial intelligence to reject everybody's claims. So your grandmother doesn't get the insurance she needs for her chemo so that your son doesn't, you know, gets rejected for whatever it is.

And it's wild. And sadly, someone like Joe Rogan worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He doesn't need health insurance. He can pay cash, whatever the price is. He'll never have to worry about health insurance. Again, you do. I do. I pay 1, 300 a month for my wife, myself, and my baby. Uh, and I don't even go to the doctor.

I haven't been to the doctor once because I paid that 1, 300 a month. And then you got to pay on top of that. And I go, you know what? I'm feeling kind of good. My version of health insurance. If I have a cough is drinking a Celsius energy drink. That's it. So if this sounds political, it doesn't have to be.

You can be part of the revolution. And I can be a part of the revolution, regardless of where we are on our political ideologies, we can come together and say, we want a system that works for us, not makes insurance companies, billions and billions of dollars. What if that's the, uh, sort of revolution in solution that comes from this senseless crime?

I don't know. Just a thought. All right. Well, we'll be back in the morning as we are always. I'll see you then. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast. podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal. Live's too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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12-11-24 Morning Rush - Kylie Kelce Takes Joe Rogan's Spot Atop Podcast Charts & Reading Alleged Assassin's Manifesto & Lawyer Says He Will Plead Innocent

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Hump Day to you. It's Wednesday, December 11th. 2024. And these are the news stories of the morning. We've got a bizarre conversations continuing to happen around the UFOs floating through the New Jersey sky.

They got no idea what these things are. Plus the manifesto has been revealed from the accused assassin in the healthcare CEO's, uh, death that happened in New York city last week. He's lawyered up and we'll hear what his lawyer has to say about all of this, whether he'll plead guilty, innocent. And, uh, and again, I'll read his manifesto for you.

It's short plus like husband, like wife, Jason Kelsey's wife, Kylie Kelsey's a new podcast leaps Joe Rogan experience as the top show on Spotify and Apple. And also bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay fuels romance rumors with a country musician. I'll share who that is. And I'll have that story. And so much more, and it's coming up next on The Rush.

Well, we do have a lot to cover regarding the accused assassin and the CEO death, but I'm going to save that for the second half of the episode. It's a little heavy. We got to warm up to it, right? Well, let's do a bachelorette story. Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay fuels romance rumors with country music singer, as says TMZ, uh, she was seen spending a lot of time this weekend with what may be a new male companion.

Who has ties to a major A list artist TMZ has learned. Witnesses say the former Bachelorette star and Willie Jones, who collaborated on Beyonce's Cowboy Carter album, were spotted together on Friday at iHeart's Jingle Ball in Los Angeles. The two enjoyed each other's company in the Patron Lounge suite.

Oh, they're in the tequila suite. Uh, that, you know what happens with tequila? It makes your clothes fall off. That's what they tell me. Witnesses say when T Pain hit the stage, the pair got up to dance, which again, Means nothing. We all get up to dance when T Pain hits the stage. So either way, the article continues to say that they spend time together over the weekend.

Spotted sharpening at the Melrose trading post. Okay. Well, it's essentially official if they're shopping together, you know, that's how, you know, relationships are taking off when you're at the farmer's market together. You don't go to farmer's markets with friends. You go with your partner, you pick out some kale, you go over what you're going to cook for the weekend.

Uh, either way, uh, if there's any updates on that relationship, we'll give it to you. And speaking. of the relationship between Kylie Kelsey and Jason Kelsey. It appears as though the wife of Jason Kelsey is, uh, wanting to get in on some of that sweet, sweet podcast money. Our new podcast leaps Joe Rogan experiences the top show on Spotify and Apple says the rap.

com Kelsey's not going to lie. Podcast becomes the biggest show on both major platforms after just one episode. Now let me, I don't mean, I don't mean to be a downer here, but. Okay. Bye. The way that charts are usually ranked is by new subscribers. So clearly Joe Rogan's not going to have tons of new subscribers.

Cause he's had a podcast for God knows how long, a decade. So not exactly the best metric, but a great start nonetheless. I mean, look, I always say this with my podcast. It's, it's so hard to find new audiences. And the podcast app, that is partially why we're going to be going to video as well on YouTube, because YouTube is becoming the biggest database for podcasts.

Even if you like to listen, just audio only, you gotta, you gotta be on YouTube and you gotta put a quality video product together. So we're getting the neon lights. We got the 4k video. I'm going to have to get my eyebrows waxed or threaded or whatever the heck the kids want me to do. It's going to be, it's going to change the game, but here, here on the podcast app, you're going to get the same experience.

Uh, but either way, I mean, look, this is huge. I mean, Kylie, Kelsey, Jason, Kelsey, Travis, Kelsey, Taylor Swift. They really have quite the, uh, you know, quite the setup happening there in the middle of the country. I mean, this is a force to be reckoned with and not to be outdone. We actually have another football story happening here.

Uh, we covered this yesterday. Jerb, Joe Burrows, burglary, the Cincinnati Bengals stud quarterback was burgled. Is that the right term? He was away in Texas for a, for a football game where he won by the skin of his teeth, not a great season, but, uh, a, I got the nine one one call here from his model girlfriend, Olivia Ponton.

So she called nine one one, I guess in a three way call, uh, with. Her mom, and it seems as though, I don't know if she was there when the, when the burgle went down, uh, but she was arriving at his house, you know, probably to check on it. Uh, and, uh, you know, I don't know if she was living there. I don't really know what their deal was.

I think he's been keeping his relationship, uh, on the DL. Uh, but here's, uh, here's a piece of that 911 call. One is trying to break into the house right now. My daughter is there. This is Joe Burrow's house. She is staying there. He's at the football game. She's wondering what she should do, if she should be hiding, or if she should be going outside.

I wonder if the dispatcher knows who Joe Burrow is, you know, I mean, he's famous, I guess, but he's not like, it's not Tom Brady. Someone's trying to break in? Yes, she says someone was in the house. So then, you know, they take a minute there, and then, uh, the cops start talking. Okay, I'm, uh, it's, this is not X Ray 15, can I advise?

Nine x-ray 15, we do have a, uh, shattered window into the bedroom. The bedroom hast ransacked, so there it is. The bedroom was ransacked. And I'm guessing that wasn't from his girlfriend. That wasn't from a, a sort of pre-game, you know, sexual ritual. Uh, I'm, I'm just assuming. I mean, who knows? Uh, but, uh, wild stuff and yeah.

Uh, I guess, I mean, this is, uh, the, the who knew? I mean, did you guys know they were together? I'm not really caught up on my Cincinnati influence. Sir, uh, dating worlds, but Hey, this is your standard, uh, NFL quarterback dates, sports illustrated model. What a life, what a life. So yeah, there has been no public commenting on their situation or relationship or whatnot.

Who knows how serious they were. I certainly don't, uh, but we're going to move it on, uh, a couple more light stories. Warm me up. Here's, uh, uh, here's Wilford. to a British reporter talking about Elf being considered one of the best Christmas movies of all time. It's 19 years since the film Elf was released.

It's still one of our best loved Christmas comedies. It's actually in a big Christmas ad over here in the UK. Why do people still love it so much almost 20 years on? I think because it's, it's beautifully uncynical. You know, it's, it's a character who's, Excited by everything that's kind of mundane to us in our normal life.

It's a fish out of water story it's it's just very sweet and hopeful and and Turns out it was funny at the time as I was running around New York City In my yellow tights, I was thinking this could be my last movie. Because that was all shot on the fly kind of people, you know, people didn't really know what was happening and the extras are regular people.

And, but you know, little did we know we were making a, a movie that would stand the test of time. There it was. Yeah. 19 years ago. So Olivia, Joe Burrow's girlfriend was only Three years old when that movie came out, how old does that make you guys feel? It makes me feel pretty old. All right. Uh, you know what?

I like to share, I like to share tips every once in a while on the podcast. We're heading to work. We're trying to better ourself. Here is a behavioral expert named Vanessa van Edwards, and she's giving you a tip on how to be the most liked person in the room. If you set out to like more people, you become more likable.

Dr. Van Sloan, he wanted to know what makes popular kids popular. Why is it that some kids across these grades and ages are really popular? He had all the kids ranked across all these schools. He had them looked at traits, and then he guessed what made the popular kids popular. Were they more athletic?

Were they more attractive? Were they funnier? Were they smarter? What was it? The most popular kids had the longest list of people they liked. So when he asked, one of the questions of the survey was, Who do you like? They had the longest list. And when he looked at their day to day, they had micro moments of liking.

They would go down the hallway and be like, Hey, Chan. Hey, Chelsea. Hey, Sarah. They liked so many people and that in turn made them more likable. This showed me that being likable is in our control. Being likable means you have to be first liker. If you set out to like more people, you become more likable.

And that was a really big shift for me because for so long I thought it was all about me. It's a very selfish way to be, right? I was like, I better be impressive. I better be funny. But actually what makes us likable is just liking as many people as possible. Now I love, I love this conversation because you could look at it in two different ways.

You could look at that as very self serving. Like I'm just going to go out there and, and do this and, and, you know, give to people because they're going to give. To me in return, but regardless of the way you look at it, I can understand the chemistry there will lead to you being a better person because you stop getting in your own head and you just start, like, I always tell people this, if you're having a bad day, find a way to do something for somebody else, find a way to help somebody else, just be of service to the world that we live in and.

It'll make you feel a little bit better. And if that's selfish, then so be it. Right? Um, so that's my way of telling all of you guys, you're my favorite audience member ever. Um, so let's get us some more audience members. Why not? Let's, uh, we double it. Can you tell all your friends? Um, but either way, this is interesting stuff.

And by the way, if. If you do want to have a good day and do want to give, we have our, uh, single mom, Christmas wishlist. Uh, we'll be posting a few more voicemails with that. As we wrap things up this week, uh, we're going to basically try to make sure people have got, uh, the presents they need ready under the Christmas tree wrapped and good to go.

So that's our goal. But yeah, I, I find it interesting. This, this idea of, you know, it's like, I kind of feel like some smart people get in their own way. And by that, I mean, people that they overanalyze every situation, perfections, the enemy, a good, but a lot of perfectionist, or even, I mean, a lot of people with ADHD, they, a lot of, you know, people with whatever, whatever your ticker is.

We have this idea, this main character, uh, star of the show syndrome, which Where we think everything else matters. And I tell you, I tell you what, I'm, I'm approaching 40 years old. And my hope, my whole goal in life is just to dance. Like nobody's watching, get that subconscious thought out of your head.

You look stupid. You know what I mean? That's what it comes down to it. I feel like to truly be popular, not on some surface level is to be authentic. And when you can be authentic. Vibe with that. I've always loved the friends that make my wife's guard come down because I know that, that, you know, my wife, she loves a lot of my comedy friends.

Cause they'll say crazy things and they'll just, they're just being yourself, but she comes from a world where she's had, you know, some friends that maybe people are, you know, Quaint, or they don't tell you what they're really thinking. And then that's why people love comedy. It's like you get on stage, you tell people what you think and people trust that they trust you in that process.

And in return, uh, they give you a, a sort of higher value version of themselves. Does that make sense? I think so. We'll be back with more content right after this. Uh, okay. I don't want to be redundant with all of this UFO drone talk here, but I think it's insane that they don't know what this is.

Apparently, President Biden was briefed on it and there's going to be dozens of mayors getting together to discuss what the heck's going on. Well, here is from a, this was posted on Fox news, but this is from some congressional hearing. I don't even know what this is from, but it was someone talking about having drones following a Coast Guard boat yesterday.

I Last night I was on the beach in Island State Park, uh, in Ocean County with the, with the sheriff. Um, he's, he has been working it every single night. He's got his own, uh, tethered drones chronicling. One of his officers two nights ago saw 50 drones come in off the ocean. So we thought maybe they'll replicate it.

They didn't, but we thought it was a possibility. I then last night, we had a number of other people there, including a commanding officer from the, from the coast guard who said that one of their 47 foot, um, motor lifeboats was followed by between 12 and 30 of these drones as they went, um, through the water.

Through the water. Now, do they mean the drones went through the water? Now, now I'm confused. You know, there's a lot of theories that these drones are part of some underwater alien base. Some people said, are they coming? Are they going? I have no idea. I don't know what's going on here, but either way, I just think it's fascinating.

All we have are bad camera videos of this. Can we crowdsource some money to get a helicopter in the sky? Uh, here we have the New Jersey mayor, a New Jersey mayor speaking out about the drone invasion. What do you think is going on, mayor? What do you think this is? Well, to be intentionally a little inflammatory, the state of New Jersey has been invaded by drones.

The question and the problem and the nervousness is by who? Because they are everywhere. There are hundreds of these things. I have, I have friends up and down the state, they're reporting down the Jersey shore and southern counties, Cape May, all the way up into Sussex County, the length of the state, they're reporting that there are drones everywhere.

Now. I, wouldn't this be horrible if this was all some sort of publicity stunt for a movie coming out. It doesn't seem to be the case. I mean, the drones are loud, um, uh, but they're, they're kind of moving slowly. They're the size of SUVs. Now, the question a lot of people have is, well, why would these drones be, uh, you know, why would they have the same colored lights that you have on airplanes, even if they're not airplanes, who knows?

Who knows, but I mean, when we get answers, I'm going to bring them to you. All right, let's go to the accused assassin of the healthcare CEO, Luigi Mangione. He's got an attorney. Here's a clip of the attorney speaking out for the first time about what's going down. Did you meet with, uh, the defendant earlier?

Uh, yes I did. And, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm pleased with our relationship. I, I think we've, uh, made a strong bond and I'm looking forward to, uh, moving forward, helping him out. Is he saying he's innocent at this point? Uh, he has in, in indicated, uh, pleas of not guilty. The only charges that we've seen thus far have been the ones here in Pennsylvania, have been Pennsylvania, and we have pled not guilty to those charges.

I haven't seen any evidence. that says that he's the shooter. So, uh, that's, uh, you know, like I, like I said earlier, and I wasn't kidding around, a couple of things. If you're going to report something, report accurately and remember, and this is not just a small thing, the fundamental, uh, uh, concept of American justice is a presumption of innocent.

And until you're proven guilty, be on reasonable doubt. And I've seen zero evidence at this point. I was also at the, at the hearing last night. I don't remember any plea being asked for or anything. As long as he hasn't pled guilty, that's all I care about. Yeah, in the Blair County case, it's just the Well, I'm telling you as his lawyer, he didn't have any lawyer of record, and as little, he didn't have any representation until I got involved this afternoon, and I'm telling you he's pleading not guilty to each and every, I'm sorry, a person.

So he says, the lawyer says that he hasn't seen any evidence that this guy's guilty. Now what's interesting, and again, I'm not here to peddle conspiracies, I'm At all. What's interesting is yesterday, the reporter on, on CNN said they were there in that pretrial hearing and, uh, Luigi, uh, responded saying there was money found in his backpack that wasn't his.

So now you, now it leads to the question, what was the manifesto? His here's what a, and I'll, I'll, I'll share the manifesto in a second, but here's what a classmate had to say about his character. I can tell you that this is one of the last people you'd think would do something like this, you know. Um, he was one of the nicest kids, most friendly kids that I had known at Gilman.

He was down to earth, he was smart, well adjusted socially. He was at least a two sport athlete. Uh, from what I can remember, and he really had everything going for him. Now, look, he had an accident, an injury. He could be on drugs. Some people said psychedelics he's he, I mean, from what we've seen, the cold blooding, blooded killing, the planning of it all, uh, wouldn't lead to be, uh, you know, some sort of crime of passion or anything like that.

It was premeditated, of course. Now it doesn't mean he doesn't have some level of mental health issues, but what's interesting is the way. That the internet is not saying that what he did was right, but understanding the frustration. There's almost two different types of people, those that say publicly, Oh, this is a horrible thing, but then the comment section, it's like, it's like two different conversations happening.

And I think it's a, just a tough needle to thread. Here's an interesting moment that was captured, uh, during his walk to his, uh, I guess arraignment. Um, he shouted out, I'm going to play, I'm going to play the 10 second clip of what he said, and then I'm going to share, uh, what, uh, what they're, they're assuming it is that he said, cause he kind of shouted it out as he, as he was being, uh, walked inside.

So he was being pushed away by the police as he was yelling. What they think he said was this is completely unjust in an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience. Um, so with all of that, let's go to his manifesto. Here's, uh, I guess the note that they're claiming they found in his backpack.

And I'll share this with you next. All right, here it is. This is the supposed manifesto. It was shared by Ken Klippenstein, uh, and, um, it's not too long. I'm going to read it to you. To the feds, I'll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone.

This was fairly trivial. Some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes in to do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering, so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas, but it had to be done.

Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder, the U. S. has the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly number 42 in life expectancy. United is the largest company in the U. S. by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life, but has our life expectancy.

No, the reality is these have simply gotten too powerful and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space. And frankly, I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument.

But many have illuminated the corruption and greed decades ago. And the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty. So listen, this is going super viral online, super, super viral. And while, like I said, I don't think anyone in their right mind would condone.

Killing. I think most people understand what's going on here and why, uh, this world we live in, which I call late stage capitalism, it's this idea that private equity groups are buying all of the homes, you know, a large percentage of people can't even afford a 400 medical emergency. It's a dire, dire time out there for people and to make matters worse.

People aren't taking care of their health because frankly, who can afford to go to a doctor? And what's so interesting about the commentary regarding this, uh, you know, suspected assassin is that it's not a left versus right issue. It's really an issue of, uh, the corporate class. You know, in the wealthy, the elite versus middle class people who actually understand what it means to try to, you know, provide healthcare for your family in today's day and age.

So here's representative Ro Khanna, who some are saying might run for president one day, making the case for how we could really solve all of this and save money if we just got medical insurance out of the picture. We need Medicare for all. The reality is, the average American is paying more than 6, 000 a year on health care costs.

And those premiums are up 7 percent from last year. We're not going to get those premiums down, we're not going to get those health care costs down unless we have Medicare for all. When we have Medicare for all, we will have 2 percent administrative fees. Medicare will be able to negotiate with the hospitals, negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to lower costs for all Americans and provide care.

And guess what? If we have Medicare for all, every doctor and every hospital will be in network. No more of these denied claims that are bankrupting Americans and taking people's lives. So look, I have a family member who owns a company where they are forced to pay health insurance for their employees and And they, they, and for whatever reason, they still vote against the idea of Medicare for all.

And I sadly that family member just had a procedure done, which costs well into the six figures and their insurance is denying it. So it's like how many shots, how many, like, Examples do we need of the system? Just not working out. I remember when Tasha had Lyme disease and, uh, one of the, uh, one of the medications she needed to get wasn't covered by her insurance and it was 800 a pill guys, I'm not making this up.

It was 800 a pill. She ended up, we ended up in, again, this is not even legal. We ended up finding that pill, that company in India, and we're able to order a dozen of them for like 50 total. So it just goes to show. It's like. The system's not working for us. And while it's a tragedy that happened, I don't think it will be ingest.

I think this conversation we're having could actually be the type of thing that unites us all in a sort of populist way. And by that, I mean, it unites the left and the right to realize, Hey, these Executives, these corporations, these insurance companies, they don't have our best interest. They're not fighting for us.

And guys, this is a fight I've said loud and clear for a long time now, but I'm okay if people are late to the party. We welcome you. Now, here's a crazy story to end on. President elect Trump featured first lady Jill Biden in an advertisement for his new cologne he just dropped. Have a listen to this.

President elect Donald Trump posted a photo with First Lady Jill Biden on his social media platform, Truth Social, to promote his new fragrance line called Fight, Fight, Fight. The photo shows Trump and the First Lady sitting together at the reopening of Notre Dame over the weekend. The caption reads, A fragrance your enemies can't resist.

Uh, the president elect says the fragrance is a rally cry in a bottle. And quote, smells like victory. Uh, this is just the latest in a series of Trump products, uh, things he's promoted this last year, including Trump watches, uh, Trump branded Bibles, NFT cards, and more. Yeah. The Trump, uh, watches are interesting.

Cause they're going to cost a hundred thousand dollars. They haven't been manufactured yet. You know, they've got videos of them, but I guess in the fine print, it's not a video of the actual watch you're going to get. And a lot of people are wondering if this is going to be a way to sort of launder foreign money.

Who the hell knows? But what does that cologne smell like? My guess is tanning salons. I just love the idea. I love the smell of tanning salon, just like coconut. It smells like coconut and butt sweat. That's what that smells like. Uh, but either way, that's the wild world we live in. Appreciate all of you guys.

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12-11-24 Afternoon Rush - Piers Morgan Grills People For Celebrating CEO Death & Is Laura Owens Attorney Beginning 'Client Breakup'?

Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon, everybody. Tuesday, December 10th, 2024. I've got all of your news in one place. And on today's afternoon rush, we have Megan Fox and machine gun Kelly breaking up.

Just weeks after the pregnancy reveal. Also another NFL burglary happened during Monday night football. I'll share why the heck this keeps on going down. And Caitlin Clark named times athlete of the year. Plus more updates on Luigi the assassin. Merch is flying off the shelf on Pinterest and he's being compared to bachelor nation stars.

It's a wild and unjust world we live in. Also, I'm going to have, uh, a, uh, An eyewitness who was at the McDonald's when he was caught, uh, what they had to say. Plus Jamie Foxx discusses his medical emergency in his new Netflix special. I'll play a clip of that. And the hundredth woman to venture into outer space shares what she saw, all those stories, and so much more coming up next on the rush.

Well, let's start off with some smutty news, things that just really don't matter in the world. Megan Kelly and Machine Gun Kelly, excuse me, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. Oh, wouldn't that be crazy? Machine Gun Kelly leaves Megan Fox for Megan Kelly. No, that's not the story. Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly ended things over Thanksgiving weekend while they were together in Vail, Colorado.

Now this might be one of those on again, off again types of things. Who knows? TMZ is told the reason for their split is that Megan found Material on his phone that was upsetting. And it made her want him to leave the trip early. Uh, he dipped out of the trip early. And since then, the former couple hasn't seen each other and they are not together at this time.

Yeah, maybe it was a case of, uh, you know, they were redoing things after, after maybe a previous cheating scandal, who knows, but, uh, fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice. Uh, TMZ is going to report on that story. And Jason Kelsey is under hot water. Not really, but, uh, he was in Dallas. Dallas, uh, again for a Monday night football game and his rivalry with the Cowboys is going strong even in retirement.

He threw a dis at Dallas, uh, during this clip, it was an aerial shot of, uh, Texas and here's what he had to say.

He says, also the butthole and armpit of America as well. So give it, leave it up for Dallas butthole and armpit. Now again, uh, it's, it's good to see friendly ribbing and bringing humor into the color commentary there of the Monday night football games, but all is not well in football. There is a heist. Oh, there's just a continued.

Okay. So here's what's happening. Here's the story report. Joe Burrow's home burglarized during Monday night football. So this is not the first time this happens to Kansas city chiefs players. Um, and it looks like players are getting targeted during their game. I mean, think about it. Everyone they love is with them at the suite.

Right? Hanging out and you're a star, you're worth millions and uh, someone can come in, do a smash and grab and leave with a couple of Rolexes and Ohio home belonging to Joe Burrow was reportedly burglarized on Monday night while he was helping the Bengals beat the Cowboys several states away.

According to WLWT is Karen Johnson. Police were called to Burroughs Cincinnati area pad after receiving calls of a break in. Uh, there was a 9 1 1 audio revealing one woman telling dispatch, someone is trying to break into the house right now. My daughter is there. This is Joe Burrow's house. She's staying there.

He's at the football game. She's wondering what she should do. If she should be hiding or if she should go outside. This is crazy. And by the way, I don't know who. Who's it was, was it Joe Burrow's girlfriend or was it, was there a house sitter? So, um, I guess they have a, they have a photo of one of the windows that was broken into.

If we do get the nine one, one, uh, audio, we'll, we'll share it with you. But again, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey have also had break ins during their football games. I guess it's like what in the, in this world we live in, if you're a star, then you're You probably need some sort of security when it's known that you're not going to be there, just wild stuff.

All right. Uh, here it is. Jamie Foxx, his mystery illness has been revealed on his upcoming Netflix special. He, uh, he's, I guess, going to be opening up about that and other things, maybe weighing in on some of this JZP Diddy nonsense. Either way, here's what he had to say in the one minute clip on his. My sister took me into the hospital, and this cool white boy, Dr.

Schuette, cool white boy, they say he had on a Laker jersey, just cool as shit, you know. But, he told my sister some horrible news about her big brother.

He said, He's having a brain bleed.

By the way, first of all, I mean, I'm, I'm very excited to watch this standup special, but I'm always shocked when people can hold a silence for as long as he is now. He's trying to catch his, he's trying not to cry. He's trying not to get emotional as he sits there on stage talking to his audience, but the amount of tension and power that can be built up from not speaking at all.

I mean, uh, it's a good, it's a good sort of. I don't know, tip to share if you're doing public speaking, using silence as a way to draw people in. This led to a stroke.

Me.

Here's the thing, when you dream about what you want to be in life, you don't dream tragedy. You dream everything is good, I got the life, I got the cars, I got all that. You don't dream that something must go wrong. But when something does go wrong, you need a sister. Four foot 11, full of nothing but love.

I'll tell you what, it's an interesting clip to share because it's not funny. There's no laughs there, but hey, that's comedy for you, right? It's not always about how many laughs you can get per minute, but it's about how you can affect your audience. I'm sure there will be stories that he shares that are.

Funnier than that excerpt, but Hey, interesting stuff. Nonetheless, I think he's such an A list celebrity. What people don't know about Jamie Foxx is that's not his real name. And, um, he actually named himself Jamie Foxx because he wanted to, he wanted a name that people didn't know if it was a woman or a man, uh, a sort of gender neutral name, uh, because he was signing up for the open mics at the comedy store in Los Angeles.

And I got to tell you, it's pretty smart because, you know, Uh, you know, they, they like to have an, you know, mix of performers there. And when there's 50 dudes in a row trying to do comedy and they have someone that might be a woman, they might put them up and that's exactly why he went with Jamie, which is an interesting sort of story, uh, years later, because he's such like a five tool star when it comes to comedy, music.

Acting drama, he's really got it all. So good on him for the recovery and for sharing his story. Well, speaking of having it all, Caitlin Clark, uh, has it all in the world of women's basketball. That is she's times athlete of the year. Yeah. 2024 is a good year for her name. Time's athlete of the year. And it's also the year.

She became friends with Taylor Swift. Uh, the WNBA superstar revealed her budding friendship with Tay Tay in a recent interview with time after the outlet proclaimed she was its top sportsman of 2024. Uh, she did not make the Olympic team though, which was ridiculous. Uh, uh, you know, but that was a different story.

Uh, she said she met Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's mom at, uh, Taylor's. Taylor's show and has yet to take Taylor up on the offer of, uh, I guess, um, inviting her to tag along to a chief's game. Go to a chief's game. What are you doing? Hanging out, playing basketball, become, you know, go sit in the VIP section and get free chicken wings.

Come on. All right. Well, uh, we are just, uh, busting through all these stories. Speaking of police investigations, one has come to come to the close for Jason Kelsey. And I'll have that story for you next. All right. The Jason Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, there's burglaries, there's police reports. I mean, this is the world of being associated with Taylor Swift.

You're always in the news. And here's our update. Jason Kelsey. Remember the police investigation where he spiked someone's cell phone? They were calling him a gay slur and he took the phone and spiked it. Well, it turns out the police have officially moved on from the phone smashing incident at Penn state last month.

It's university police officers tell TMZ sports. They've closed the investigation into the incident. A spokeswoman for the department says the case has been closed as the individual in the video footage circulating on social media has not been identified and no one has come forward to university police with a related complaint about damage to personal property.

Oh, my guess is, is that they know who it is, but the person clearly doesn't want to come forward knowing they might get kicked out of school or something like that. Interesting stuff. All right. Well, Jeremy Renner gives an update from his recovery. Remember his snowplow accident from last year? He says I'm 25 percent titanium.

So F Ironman. Yeah. I mean, he's the real Ironman. That was a wild story. He says it'll be two years in January. And I'm very, very proud to overcome a great adversity in my life. I'm forever grateful for all the love and support I've gotten from people all around the world. Even those I never knew existed that helped propel me to get better.

And it's the only thing that really kind of defines me in my life at this point. You know, that's, what's great about overcoming adversity. We've all had challenges in life. And even if you see a celebrity actor who you think has it all, I mean, he was fighting for his life. He was crushed by a gigantic snowplow, unbelievable story.

And for him to make it out of that, just incredible. All right, here's some news in what's coming up in 2025. As far as movies are concerned, Adam Sandler reveals the happy Gilmore to release time period. It's going to be coming out. In July, here's what he had to say on the Dan Patrick show. Thought it might've been a blockbuster 4th of July weekend, but I'm wondering if you're trying to have it align with.

Master's week where you have happy Gilmore to come out. I, it's not coming out then I, I don't know a hundred percent, but I think around July, July, July 4th, but, uh, but, um, I, I, we're trying to get it done in time for July. Yeah. I, I just. You never know what's going to happen. We're just, just finishing today.

It's the last day. You were phenomenal yesterday, Danny. Seriously. We all talked about you. Just, you, you were just so smooth and everything you said was funny. It's funny as hell. We're going to use it all over the place and, uh, and thank you. And you look handsome as hell in the mustache. You look like a strong, you look like you're hitting the weights hard, buddy.

So anyway, there's Adam Sandler. Flattering the Dan Patrick show, Dan's Patrick. And yeah, I mean, there's going to be so many cameos and happy Gilmore too. Will it live up to the original? That's a tough question. Comedy, you know, is so culturally relevant in its moment, but not all comedies can last generations.

And it's been, oh, it's been a while since the first one. So we'll have to see if that humor translates. And speaking of, um, speaking of movies. Uh, withstanding the test of time. How about Star Wars? Jeremy Allen White. Remember him from the bear? He joins Star Wars film, the Mandalorian in Grogu as Jabba the Hutt's son.

Uh, that's an interesting role playing Jabba the Hutt's son. Um, I'm, you know, I'm not a fan. I don't know. And, you know, are Star Wars movies good since Disney bought them? Remember when there were just three Star Wars? Oh, this is going to be my boomer moment. This is going to, when I was a kid, there was only three Star Wars.

Now you got, I mean, they really merchandise the hell out of it, didn't they? And speaking of merchandise. Speaking of merchandising the hell out of things, this is insane that, uh, we're going to, we're going to get into some news, uh, involving the United Healthcare CEO, a murder suspect. I tell you what, before we get into all of that story, cause I'm going to share the GoFundMes, I'm going to share the Pinterest reports, uh, what he was eating and all of the, all of the things we know in modern day world, I mean, 30 years ago, you wouldn't know that it was, uh, you know, hash browns he was munching on when he was arrested, but we got photos because why not?

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A lot of people are wondering why the hell they're posting so many photos. Like, are they allowed to be doing this? They posted photos from his jail cell. And I don't know if they're trying to make it seem like there's so many theories out there. You know, people saying, well, they're making it, you know, they're trying to make, People know that you need to like that, you know, law and order must exist.

Uh, and a lot of people are trashing the McDonald's employees for saying, geez, you guys barely make minimum wage. And here you are ratting out the guy who was like, sort of, um, you know, like a joker, like a, you know, a guy that was, and by joker, I mean the character joker, not an actual joker, but a guy that, you know, was doing vigilante justice.

Look, I'm torn on the matter. I am torn on it because on one hand, you can't just go around shooting people, but on the other, you know, actions do have consequences. Even if those consequences are illegal, they exist because of a for profit healthcare system, uh, raking in billions of dollars in profits. Um, I actually retweeted something that said basically like, This is what you need to do in the world or in our country, at least convince people that rather than paying 8, 000 a year in medical expenses, they could spend 2, 000 a year in taxes, convince people that two is less than eight.

And by the way, Bernie Sanders tried to do this and you know what they did. Bernie Sanders said, look, you will pay less in taxes to get unlimited healthcare. But. No, he said, you'll pay more in taxes, but you'll pay less overall. And in what, you know, what the opposition did, they clipped that and say, Bernie Sanders wants to raise your taxes.

So we just, it's an, it's almost like an educational issue. We need to educate people so that they know the solution is to take money away from the mob run middleman, which is. Health insurance, Luigi Mangione accused killer of United healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson arrested at McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Monday and the photos released.

He's eating a hash brown prior to his arrest. Oh, you know, don't you love the hash brown, how greasy it is. And then it comes in that like wax paper thing that you kind of try to wipe your face with after you ever take a hash brown and slide it into a breakfast sandwich. I'm telling you folks, it's delicious.

Don't sleep on that. So yeah, these photos came out. He had a mask on a can 95 mask or a surgical mask, but he would took it off to eat his food. Look, I mean, I guess, I think he was trying to last the long time on the road. And, um, yeah, I guess you can't, you can't just be going into, into any McDonald's and expect that you're not going to be noticed.

So I've got a clip of what. People were saying, uh, when they found him in the shock that they had, that he was actually there. Here's that clip. Our team spoke this morning with somebody who was at the McDonald's when this all went down. Here's what he had to say. A guy came in the door and I didn't really look at him.

I thought it was, everyone was kidding around. The one guy said, that looks like the shooter from New York. And oh my God, they arrested this guy at McDonald's. So then I came back and I said to the one worker, I said, said, was that here? And she's, they said, yeah. And I said, was I here? They said, yeah, you were sitting over there.

All right. So these are your eyewitnesses out of McDonald's folks. Was I here? What day is it either way? Uh, you know, there are people out there that want to support him. Uh, but GoFundMes are being shut down. All pro Luigi Mangione campaigns on GoFundMe have been shut down. I think his Twitter was also shut down.

Um, so I look, I don't. You know, I don't, to be honest, know why, other than maybe they were shut down because, you know, they don't have his explicit approval, but he is entitled to a defense. And a lot of people are wondering, will a jury in New York City convict him? Uh, even, even if it's obvious that it was him, will they can, I mean, cause in the end they can say, Hey, I don't, I don't believe it.

And then he walks free. Now. I don't think that will happen, but I, to be quite honest, we're in uncharted territory. I don't know what will happen. So man made or excuse me, fan made merchandise is flooding Etsy. Oh, did I say Pinterest earlier Etsy of Luigi Mangione, they have a hashtag free Luigi shirt.

Mama, I'm in love with a criminal. Look, I mean. This is a, you want capitalism? This is it. This is unfettered capitalism here. I am neither endorsing nor defending it. And one person says, Hey, in any other world, this guy could have been the bachelor. I don't know how I'm supposed to grapple with the fact that in another universe, this is next season's bachelor.

Like, Ivy educated, former frat boy, super hot, wealthy family. Tell me he doesn't have the same exact vibe as Joey. Like, you look at these two and you're like, yeah, they seem like they're friends. They also both are east coasters. One, he's from Maryland, Joey was from Philadelphia, that moved to Hawaii. So they do have that in common too.

Seem like they went on a Hawaiian surfing trip together and went backpacking and zip lining. You see either of them and you're like, Yeah, I want to date them. That's who I want my friends to date. Except this is a mirror ball champion and this is not. You know, the, it actually brings into discussion, um, radicalization and.

And then by the way, in no way am I defending terrorists who commit senseless violence, but it does make you wonder how does someone get radicalized and that question about that, was he radicalized or was he just willing to put in sacrifice his own freedom because essentially that's what he's doing by committing this crime.

He's sacrificing his freedom in the pursuit of a bigger cause. Some people are saying this, this violence isn't the way it won't make a difference. And to that. Well, maybe it's not the way, but to say it won't make a difference. I mean, for how long have people tried to fight the system and money still exist?

Like we, here's what we need as a country. At the very least, we need to know who's bought and paid for by big insurance and other lobbying groups. We need to know which politicians receive money from the NRA, which receive it from big health insurance companies, which receive it from different lobbying groups, and every single time that politician is interviewed across the board on any, Media platform.

There should be a ticker that shows who paid for them to be there. Uh, we need to redo these campaign finance laws so that money comes out of these types of, uh, you know, of, uh, out of politics so that we can understand the absurdity over these gatekeepers that exist. All right. That's my thought more content coming your way right after this.

Our final thought in the Luigi the Assassin story is Piers Morgan had on Taylor Lorenz yesterday, former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz. She said she felt joy at the murder. Here's a piece of that discussion. Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being?

Aren't you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life? I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately. You know, because it feels like Joy? Seriously? Joy of the man's execution?

Maybe not joy, but certainly not, no, certainly not empathy. So, it's interesting because she's getting bashed, uh, you know, across the board for this, but look, I'm I'll tell you, I'll tell you what I feel. I feel like I'm not gonna judge Other people for how they feel. Does that make sense? That's, that's where I stand on it.

Do, do, do I feel joy watching someone get gunned down? Absolutely not. Absolutely. I mean, it's horrifying, but we also like turn a blind eye to all the other horrifying things that exist out there. People not taking their insulin shots, dying. We lost millions of people during the pandemic because they wouldn't even go get checked out or people that might have a lump or need to get a cancer screening, or just the simple reasons why people might.

Like again, I've seen this firsthand as an Uber driver. I mean, you know, I've seen people that needed an ambulance that called me instead because they couldn't afford it. Listen, the system's messed up and we have to at least acknowledge that people are at their wits end. I got a crazy clip I'm going to share with you guys.

Uh, an angry customer crashed into Utah car dealership over a refund. Dispute. Uh, this is the audio of it. It's literally a, I guess a Subaru, a Subaru. Is that what it is? It's literally a Subaru driving straight through a wall. Have a listen to this guy gets out of his car.

Whoa, call the cops. He said, I told you mother effers. Look, I mean, the guy wanted his refund. Again, I'm not saying it's legal or fair or just, but we live in a society right now where people are on the fritz. Here we have, listen, let's take a quick turn for the end of the day. Let's, uh, end on some positivity.

Here is Emily Calandrelli, uh, becoming the hundredth woman Uh, to enter space. Here's what she had to say. Oh my gosh. So I'm an aerospace engineer. I studied this stuff for nearly a decade, and it has been a dream of mine to see that view for the longest time. And I don't, I think for a while I didn't think it was going to happen for me.

And so that moment, there's a little bit of fear. I just launched on a rocket. There's a little bit of pride of like, oh my God, I did it. And then you're just overwhelmed with the view. pure magic. Is it the ove what they call that? Yea affects everybody a littl me, I think it's gonna ta understand how it impacts a ride feels different.

I looking at the Grand Cany Ocean for the first time. It's like the biggest possible thing that your eyes have ever seen. I love it. I just love the energy and the awe that exists there. Uh, if we can really look at the world for what it is meant to be, which is regardless of whichever God you believe or don't believe in, it is a magical, magical place.

If we could just get out of our own way, expose the greed and go back to, uh, you know, the vicarious, uh, feeling of joy and love and spread that, especially during this Christmas. season. We would be all the richer. Here's a clip we'll end with on the justice for Clayton official page, which shares Laura Owens and Laura Owens attorney, David Gingras having a conversation.

I'm guessing on his YouTube channel, you can go to his channel to check out the full conversation. We always promote the source material, but it sounds as though he's kind of over this case. Have a listen. Um, I really don't care about that side of the story. I'm not trying to be indifferent. It's just, I'm, I'm not charging you for this stuff, Laura.

Right. I mean, other, other YouTubers are making money. Every time they put out a video, they make money. What he needs to understand is just because he's gung ho about rule 26. We are, we are involved in the whole story, the whole fraud from beginning to end. And yes, money is being made by covering that, but that's journalism.

That's the reward for doing the research and doing the digging. I got people that want to pay me to do their cases. I got to focus on them. I'm doing this purely as like a, you know, I don't want to say customer service thing, but like public relations, I want people to know the truth about your case. I want to know the truth about your case.

I think I do. Yeah, we know the truth about the case, which is why we've been covering it so, uh, you know, so strongly is because the truth is she lied to everyone's face. She created fake medical documents. She stole ultrasounds. This all is provable. She created a black journalist, Chase J. Jones. We found it was attached to her cell phone number.

How the hell are we still having this conversation? So he sounds like he's done with her, but I also cannot spend the rest of my life. I'm 52 years old, Laura. I only got like, you know, this much time left. Anyway, I got, I got to focus on life. No, well, yeah, I, I am fascinated by your case. I'm fascinated by.

The other sides, I mean, the psychology of what has happened here is like, you could write books about it. I don't have time. I just don't have time to deal with this. I'm like an airline pilot. I flew from Phoenix to Denver. Passengers get off my effing plane and I now, now I have to fly to New York. He's like an airline pilot who is fighting with people online for free.

Yeah, I get it. You shouldn't be doing that. You know, you just attached yourself to a client who now expects you to be her PR person because no one else will be because we're all adults and big boys and big girls. And we know what the truth looks like. We came to that decision, uh, based on our resources that we had.

And we learned that she lied about. Uh, pretty much as everything we could unearth, which is, I don't know what the truth is anymore. You know what I mean? All right. Well, there's your update. We'll have more on that tomorrow. Uh, you guys have a fantastic blessed evening. We'll see you in the morning. As always, I'm Dave Neal.

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12-10-24 Morning Rush - Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder - Full Updates & US Businessman May Buy Tiktok

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, good morning, everybody. It's Tuesday, December 10th, 2024. And we've got all of your news here in one place. On this episode, we'll discuss Luigi Mangione, the man who has now been charged with murder in the healthcare CEO's death.

There is a lot to cover in this wild case, which inevitably will lead to an absolute circus in New York city. I think we'll be covering this for a long time. Plus the Aussie comedian whose Rayon musical, that's the break dancer, was next by lawyers. Speaks out, I'll share what she has to say and let's meet the U S businessmen trying to buy and essentially save tick tock and we'll also break down baseball's biggest payday.

Juan Soto agrees to a 765 million contract with the New York Mets. I got all those stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, let's start this morning episode out with some of the, uh, I should say less heavy material because we are going to be covering this assassin in this wild story. But first, here's an update to a story we first caught yesterday.

Comedian in Australia, Steph Broadbridge, uh, had a musical, uh, dedicated to Ray Gunn, the, uh, break dancer. I guess that went viral because she was a really bad break dancer at the Olympics. Here's what, uh, the comedian Steph had to say. This was supposed to be me, um, trying to make you feel like the icon that I believe that you can be in Australia.

Do you have a message for her if she's watching? Yeah, if you're watching, I just want to say I'm really sorry for all the, any negatives. Any negativity that you might have received as a result of this, I can promise you that was not my intention. This was supposed to be me, um, trying to make you feel like the icon that I believe that you can be in Australia.

And I just wanted to support you through it. So if there's been any negativity, it. Now listen, if you're Ray Gunn here, yeah, you don't want to nix the project. You know, just have her do a dress rehearsal for ya. If it's a good project, maybe license your image out, show up for a meet and greet, sell some merch, you know what I mean?

Like, make something out of yourself, Ray Gunn. And by the way, I'm telling you right now, you guys know this about me, I love Australian. I just love the city. Sound of Australians. So if the news is a little too heavy for you, uh, just start watching the Australian news. You know, no, does anything going on over there matter to us?

Probably not, but I'm telling you, it just, it just hits better. All right. Into our next story. Tick tock. Talk was, I guess it was decided this week by, was it the Supreme court that they have to go, uh, that, um, that they, that, well, and again, I don't know if, you know, don't trust me. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not, I'm no legal expert here, folks.

I don't know if you knew that about me. Uh, but, uh, the, you know, there's been these threats that tick tocks going to get removed for years now, um, as in a security risk and whatnot, unless it is sold to an American company. So now we have Frank McCourt, a business executive who's seeking to buy TikTok.

We're working very, very hard to be in a position to buy the U. S. Portion of tick tock. So it's not shut down. So what is, by the way, I love his subtle Boston accent, the U. S. Version of tick tock. So it's not shut down. If we buy it, we're going to stream all the games, all the Fenway park Red Sox games. Uh, you can get a Sam summer.

You're not going to be able to park your car anywhere, but you can take the TN. You can watch tick tock as you take the TN. Is that worth to you? There are estimates. It could be as high as It's 200 billion and worth 200 billion would be more, more, um, in the range of what the entirety of the platform is worth.

Not just the US piece. And let's be clear. The Chinese government has said they're not selling the algorithm. They view that as. IP of the country. So U. S. TikTok is a piece of ByteDance. If it's sold, it will be sold without an algorithm. So the value will be far, far less than 200, uh, 200 billion. We have circled over 20 billion to be in a position, and we're very serious about raising whatever capital is required to buy the platform.

And, and to be clear, We're looking to move the 170 million users over to a new protocol where the individuals will own and control their identity and their data. We're not looking to replicate the existing version. Well, look. You know, I could have been listening to what he was saying, but instead I Googled him and on Wikipedia, it says he's from Boston mass.

So look, I mean, I guess I was right there. I'm just, uh, I got a good ear for this type of stuff. I know a muscle when I hear one. Uh, so yeah, we'll have to see. I mean, what's the going rate for Tik TOK? You know what I mean? Who knows? Who knows? But, uh, I, you know, uh, people have said, Hey, Mark Cuban should buy a Tik TOK since, uh, Elon Musk wanted to buy, uh, uh, Twitter and did of course.

And by the way, did you see this? I'm not even, I'm just so dumb. I'm so exhausted by these stories, but you see that Elon Musk spent 250 million on the election. Isn't that crazy? Uh, president Musk. I mean, he's the first president that's not from the United States. I'm kidding, kind of, but you know, what does that money get you?

What's the access? You know, what kind of meal plan do you get at the white house? All right. Our next story, uh, it's a lot of money, but it ain't a billion bucks. Baseball outfielder Juan Soto is, uh, I guess he's going to be picking up the tab for a little bit. Baseball superstar Juan Soto has agreed to terms with the New York Mets on a 15 year contract worth 765 million.

That is the largest contract in professional sports history. Soto spent last season with the Yankees, hitting 41 home runs, helping lead the Yanks to the World Series. He's 26 years old, from the Dominican Republic, considered the number one player. Target and the free agent market. I mean, Hey, there it is.

That's a lot of money that breaks down to 50 million a year. And if he plays every regular season baseball game, that's about 300, 000 a game. And if he plays every inning, that's about 35, 000 per inning. Not bad. But I got to tell you after the first couple of years, you know, you see your bank account, it's got 30 million in it.

50, 80, a hundred million. You probably get bored right now. I know that's hard for us. Uh, plebeians to understand, but at some point you probably, I mean, the money's just, you know, monopoly money. Right. And speaking of monopoly money, we'll get into that in a second. We'll cover the, uh, assassin who's being charged with murder.

That'll be our kind of featured longer story, but we have a couple more, uh, I guess, smaller stories to cover. This is an interesting one. The days of the green bubble users disrupting the iMessage group chats are limited. What does that mean? Well, let's listen to the Elvis Duran show. Break it down guys.

The discrimination is ending Apple's latest iOS update out this week. We'll end the green bubbles on iPhones. We know that the green bubbles indicate messages sent via SMS, which lacks the end to end encryption of Apple's iMessage service. Those messages are shown in blue bubbles. There's been a war between the green and the blue people for quite some time.

Now you're not going to see which color the green people are. It'll all show up the same. More secure message options are taking hold in the update after an FBI warning about the vulnerabilities of SMS. Look, I don't want to throw any green message people out there under the bus. I don't want you to lose me, but you know, it is kind of funny how, how dug it dug in the sand we are.

You know, I considered getting a, an Android phone just to, just to see what the, uh, the thing was all about. But it's like, you know, it's like, okay, I'm 39. I've made my decision. I do iPhone. Oh, but the Android cameras are better at this point. It doesn't matter. They got me by the balls. I'm not going to, you know, they got my iCloud password.

They got me up charged. For the warranties. I just, I'm done. I'm moving on. You know what I mean? Uh, anyway, speaking of moving on, uh, let's do this. Let's reset, take a quick break and we'll be back with all of the updates on Louie, Luigi Mangione coming up next. Well, one of the things that I think makes this podcast successful, if I may, is you got to talk about the important news, the stuff that everyone's talking about.

This is, this, this podcast is really here to equip you for the water cooler. Get all your news. We're going to put it all in one place, but the news cycle right now is absolutely driven by this insane weather. Murder last week of the healthcare CEO. And again, there was a manhunt going on, uh, scuba divers in central park ponds, wondering, you know, what kind of, you know, was this a paid assassin?

So many questions were answered and we still have a very little knowledge, but there's more today than there was yesterday. And, uh, they found who they believe is the. The killer, uh, United healthcare CEO murderer, uh, again, allegedly who they believe it could be Luigi Mangione charged with murder in Thompson's death.

He's officially been charged with the murder. Um, TMZ confirmed according to court documents obtained by TMZ, Mangione was hit with the charges late Monday for allegedly gunning down the healthcare CEO last week in midtown Manhattan. Mangione now faces a slew of charges in New York, including murder, two counts of possession of a loaded firearm.

Possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of a weapon. Charges come hours after Mangione appeared in a Pennsylvania court for weapons and forgery offenses. So we'll get into and kind of break this all down on how the heck they found him. There are so many conspiracy theories happening right now regarding him.

One of which has made it to the mainstream news, which we'll get to in a second, but let's first go to the law enforcement officials speaking at a press conference regarding the matter. Say they do ex. Luigi Mancione will be charged for the murder of Brian Thompson in New York. He was tracked here, thanks to a heads up employee at a local McDonald's.

And when he was there and police approached, He initially, according to the charging documents, presented a fake New Jersey ID. We actually have a picture of it that we obtained here at ABC News. And that ID was given to the police officers who really reminded him, according to the charging document, that lying about your identity could be grounds for arrest.

And when the officer probed further Asking, have you ever been to New York City? That's when they said Mangione had a physical reaction. He started shaking, the charging document said. And that's when police here became confident they had the person that New York City police had been looking for for the last six days, Lindsay.

And Aaron, as you well know, this case certainly got a lot of public interest and many controversial comments on social media. Governor Shapiro felt that it was important to address that multiple times tonight. I thought that was one of the more striking, uh, things that, that the governor said, where, where he, he fully recognized the frustration that many Americans have.

All right. So I'm actually going to share what the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro had to say, we'll get to that story in a minute. But first, one of the more bizarre aspects of the case in which will lead conspiracy theorists to run rampant is what a court reporter had to say for CNN. They were there at the initial arraignment of, um, uh, Luigi.

And, you know, I guess he claims that there were was cash planted on him. This is very interesting. Have a listen. An hour ago, I was there inside that courthouse watching as Luigi Mangione walked right past myself and a number of other reporters. He was wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans. He was, of course, handcuffed.

And he looked even in this court appearance visibly distressed, but he kept his brow furrowed through the duration of this, uh, arraignment hearing. He also said that he's worked for 30 years. three years as a data engineer up until about a year ago. And he also told the judge that he has no drug or mental health problems that the court needs to know about.

But Aaron, one of the most interesting parts of that particular hearing was actually his statements after the conversation about bail, the prosecutors basically stepped up there and made the case why they believe that this man should be held without bail. They mentioned that he is. Uh, awaiting potentially an arrest warrant coming from New York City is one of the major reasons.

But they also said that prosecutors, uh, noted that they found him with 8, 000 in U. S. cash, 2, 000 in foreign currency, his passport, and also a Faraday bag, which is basically a bag designed to stop, uh, transmission of cell, uh, service or other sort of, uh, things like that. At the end of his speech, the prosecutor's speech, uh, Luigi Mangione said, I actually want to address two of the things that you said.

He said, I don't know where that money came from. I'm not sure if it was planted. And then he also said that that bag was waterproof. And the term that the prosecutors used when discussing the Faraday bag, the ghost guns, the 3d printed silencer was the prosecutors used a phrase saying this is criminal sophistication.

Luigi Mangione said, I don't know about any of this criminal sophistication when addressing that. You know, what's interesting is he doesn't have a lawyer yet. I guess he'll either get a court appointed one or he'll get his own attorney, but this is going to be fascinating. I mean, if he does go to, I mean, he will go to trial in New York city and will a jury turn a blind eye to what he did now, because, and I, and I say that because as crazy as this is, if this is the killer, you know, I think what is shocking, uh, is that, uh, political analysts, whether on the left or the right are surprised at the response by Americans.

And I think this just goes to show that we have more in common than we have, uh, the, uh, the, the, the, we have, uh, you know, disagreements about, and one of which is the state of the healthcare in our country is bat shit crazy. Crazy. I mean, we pay the most and get the least for any first world country.

That's just a fact. Anyone who's had to deal with the six figure, um, debt to this, I mean, or, you know, even crazy medical debt that you have just because you broke your ankle or you had some, some hard fortune fall on you, it is absolutely rich. Finding out that some people. Uh, you know, I guess are saying, Hey, there's no place in society for this.

It's like, no, I understand. There's no place in society for someone to just murder somebody else, you know, out in public like that. Absolutely. But the fact that it happened goes to show that there is a bigger issue at play here, which is people are fed up. Here's what Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro had to say about Louis, uh, Luigi Mangione, not being a hero.

But some attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbed, as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer. Brian Thompson was a father to two. He was a husband, and he was a friend to many. And yes, he was the CEO of the company. of a health insurance company in America.

We do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint. I understand people have real frustration with our health care system, and I have worked to address that throughout my career. So you can understand why people aren't accepting of what the governor saying here.

You have the governor, you have senators, congressmen, they get health insurance provided to them by the people in this elected, uh, capacity, you know, but so many people with their private insurance or lack thereof, uh, watch, watch family members suffer. And they, and they watch, you know, they watch the system not work for them.

And to be quite honest with knowing how Close we are to our family and how, how, you know, the bond that we all have. If you take away our health, what do we have left is the question. So when you look at someone who Josh Shapiro says, Hey, he's a father, he's a husband. Sure. Aren't all the people that died because they didn't get medical treatment.

Aren't they all worth something? Aren't they all a dad, a mom, someone's grandmother, someone's, you know, someone's baby. I mean, these, the, you know, the, the. It's an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I understand that, but which political leaders will say the right thing that rallies people together?

You might, I know it's going to be a long time before the next presidential race, but finding someone who can speak for the populace, uh, these, these are the times when I think. Somebody will rise up, but I don't see it being Josh Shapiro right here saying this guy's no hero. Look, look, I get it. Yeah, we have laws, uh, but it's, you know, the system's not working.

It hasn't worked. It's gridlocked, and it's been a long time, and it's a long way from working. They can't even vote on health care. So we know who to vote out. You know what I mean? You know, they did this thing a few years ago, forced to vote where they try to get everyone to vote. To try to get some form of universal healthcare and they wouldn't even vote on it.

They're not even voting. They're not even doing their damn job. Uh, and again, you could, you could place blame on whatever side you want, but this is an issue that has rallied people on the left and the right. It is literally a, such a shock that in the end of 2024, after the most divisive election of our lifetimes, we have something uniting people, which is across the board.

People are saying enough is enough on this crazy system we've put up with for way too long. Is this a vigilante? Uh, we've got under the desk news explaining what a possible motive might be. Police are alleging that this fella here, Luigi Mangione, is the man who shot and killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City.

And Luigi comes from a family who made their riches in the healthcare industry. Yes, while you were thirsting over his Instagram photos, I was here in his LinkedIn trying to see if he had ever worked in healthcare. And he did. He volunteered for this group called Lorian Health Services. Lorian was founded by his grandpa, Nicholas Mangione, and very recently, his cousin, John Mangione Jr.

was named the vice president. Lorian Health Systems seem to run what are very highly rated nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health services. So what does that have to do with UnitedHealthcare? Over the last several years, UnitedHealth has been buying up all the family owned, end of life care facilities they can possibly get their hands on.

And we know when a big company buys out a family owned business, the quality does not improve. And by creating a monopoly for end of life care, they continue to out price their competitors, putting family owned businesses out of business. In fact, in the state of Maryland, where Laurian Health was, the Department of Justice was suing UnitedHealthcare for antitrust violations, claiming that they were already too close to buying up all of the end of life care in that state, and that their actions were having a negative impact on vulnerable patients and staff.

Now, we are going to find out more from this person as to what their motive was. This is just the fact finding I have done so far to build this story. And again, that was under the desk news on Tic Tac. They do fantastic work here. So, you know, what's, what is the motivation behind the crimes yet to be seen?

Um, and again, be careful times like these when you're sharing, uh, you know, news, uh, just know, you know, know to do your critical thinking. And there's going to be a lot of fake news. There's going to be a lot of. Uh, people, you know, there was a YouTube channel claiming to be his and you know, it's a wild time out there, but, um, it's going to be a, it's probably gonna be a long process gaining all of this information.

I just hope that, uh, a proper discussion is had with regard to how dire the situation is and you know, changes are made. We'll be back with more content right after this. An ex FBI profiler was on TMZ explaining the loads of sloppy mistakes that would have been made by Luigi if this is, in fact, the guy.

Here's what he had to say. Um, still had, in addition to them having the manifesto, but still had the gun with him. Um, honestly, as I was listening to all the details over the weekend, I assumed that gun had been stashed, thrown somewhere in Central Park. Right. In the water. Little needle in the haystack or in one of the lakes there.

And that but what do you make of the fact that he still had it with him? Yeah, and I said early on this killer was mission oriented. He wanted to accomplish this task Now being mission oriented at the same time doesn't mean you're necessarily criminally sophisticated and um, this guy was more lucky than anything in terms of his egress from From midtown manhattan and eventually out of uh out of the city To Altona, Altoona.

I heard he may have been to Atlanta and back. I'm not sure where that part fits in. But, uh, yeah, he may be a bright guy. Apparently he's Ivy League educated, but when it came to committing a crime like this, he made some sloppy mistakes. We're still waiting to see if the DNA come back from the bottle or the phone, anything else they found were the shell casings.

But, uh, but, uh, obviously with the, with showing his face like that, and quite frankly, the McDonald's today. You can't eat through a mask, even the best of the COVID mask. You still had to pull them down and, uh, and to put the food in your mouth. Someone sitting across from him saw his full face and said, Hey, I recognize him from somewhere.

And sure enough, they called the police. Mike, my big question was why was he. Adam McDonald's. But then you go to think he probably took a bus out of the city. So is he, is he literally in the cold? You know, I don't know. There's so many questions we don't have answered, but as far as people that are actually having a, uh, a real conversation about this, uh, look no further than comedian Bill Burr.

He, uh, had his guy Paul Verzi on, I guess, one of their podcasts. And he discussed like, Hey, you know, These people like this is the game, you know, it's, it's, this is the game that's played the amount of money that's exchanged the power in these companies, uh, bill burr. Again, this is reported goes there with jokes about gangster healthcare CEOs, uh, pardon this swearing, but here's a full clip for you.

Oh, what's going on in New York? We were just talking about it. That CEO got fucking whacked. Oh my God, dude. You know, it's funny. I was sitting there reading an article guy like, Oh my God, he's such a great guy. He had a, you know, wife and kids and he's such a great guy. And then you find out he and the other guys he's working for are getting sued for 121 million for dumping a stock.

And not letting the other people know. In the lawsuit, he and multiple other United Health executives are accused of offloading something like 15 million shares of stock. It's like, there's your motive. Nancy Pelosi just made 9 million bucks on some shit. Nancy Pelosi's stock trades saw a 65 percent return last year.

This comes as Congress has stalled talks on banning lawmakers from trading stocks. They're gangsters, dude. Fucking gangsters and then one of them gets whacked or something like, Oh, good. He was such a good guy. It's a dirty game, Paul, healthcare, healthcare, dirty game, dirty game. Indeed. And look, I mean, you know, uh, this is what, this is why Bill Barr is successful.

Okay. Because he, he, he can just state, state the obvious right there, you know, and, and, and, you know, you got Josh Shapiro saying, Hey, he's no hero. Sure. Whatever. But can we talk about the symptom here? Can we talk about the symptom of why this is happening? Um, I don't know if it'll get better before it gets worse.

Uh, but we'll be here to continue to share these stories. They're complicated, they're complex and feelings are complex. I mean, you won't catch me dancing on this guy's grave. I can walk and chew gum at the same time, right? I can feel bad for this guy's family. And I can also understand, boy, what a massive target you put on yourself when you're the head of a company that, uh, plays God.

That's really what it is playing God. All right. Well, anyway, Duff, you know, I understand some, this type of story isn't going to be for everybody, but it's, it's, it's, it's a big, it's a big day and there's gonna be a lot of data coming in regarding this, uh, you know, sort of end to this manhunt here. I'll tell you what though, it doesn't make me want to McDonald's anymore.

I mean, geez, McDonald's it's where people go to hang out when they're You know, in between needing to be somewhere else, uh, not a good advertisement for McDonald's. All right. Well, we'll have a couple of videos to get to in the bachelor world today. We'll be covering those on YouTube and also I'll be on Patreon, patreon.

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12-9-24 Afternoon Rush - Assassin Suspect FOUND at McDonalds! & Taylor Swift Tips Employees $200Mil & Podcast Studio Comes After Laura Owens For Defamation!

 Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon everybody on this Monday afternoon. Rush, December 9th, 2024. Let's get into all of your news. I got it all in one place on today's episode.

We've got Taylor Swift wrapping up her 2 billion tour. Find out how much money she, she tipped her staff along with what she had to say on stage, her final night performing. And also this is the biggest story of the day. It looks like the suspected assassin in the New York city shooting has been detained in Pennsylvania.

I guess they're still calling him a person of interest and not a suspect, But now they're also saying they might have found his, uh, gun on him. I'll have all of the updates there along with the new law, possibly banning TikTok. What does this mean for all of us? And Shailene Woodley is set to star as Janice Joplin in the musical biopic.

It says it took her seven years to prepare for that role. All right. I got all those stories and so much more coming up next on The Rush. Well, let's start with the biggest story of the day. United healthcare CEO murder suspect. They call it a person of interest, but it's pretty much the suspect is detained.

This is new information that's come out in the last hour. Uh, apparently news organizations were in central park of reporting live where the dive teams were sifting through the ponds looking for the weapon, which by the way, I can't imagine what they're finding, how many weapons are thrown in. Central Park.

You know what I mean? Who knows? Either way, here's the reporting live breaking news update. Hey, Harrisville, we never know exactly how quickly these things are going to move. All morning I've been in Central Park as these dive teams have been doing everything they can to find what I was told was the weapon because they couldn't track it down.

Now investigating. Investigators and NYPD police sources here is telling Fox News that they believe they found a man who matches that same description of the gunman who killed that CEO in Midtown Manhattan. They found him at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Okay. That's like a five hour drive from where we are right now.

So if he was found at a McDonald's, could he argue that he has suffered enough? Does that count as time served? We knew that the person of interest had possibly hopped on a bus and fled town. Now we're being told they believe. They have that person of interest in Altoona, Pennsylvania. So we kind of talked about this earlier when I checked in with you, person of interest suspect, they're keeping it at person of interest right now.

And they're just saying he matches the description, but not only does he match the description for people watching at home, he also, according to. We're going to talk a little bit more about this in just a moment. But first, let's take a look at this. This is a picture of a man in the photo. We have a lot of investigative sources who are telling Fox News he had the weapon they believe was used in this murder in his pocket.

So this is what happens. I'm told from police, and it's still developing. But this person's at this McDonald's in Altoona. We've been putting these pictures out all across the country because it's been a nationwide manhunts. They've been asking people. Do you recognize this man in the photo? We want to talk to him.

We think he was linked to this ongoing investigation. Well, somebody Harris said that McDonald's in Pennsylvania recognized him, called it into local police. And here we are right now. So if this ends up panning out and they are going to question this guy in Pennsylvania, we could have a huge break in this case.

This comes as that CEO is having a private funeral right now in Minneapolis. All right. So this is interesting because like, first of all, why was he at a McDonald's? And again, I'm not trying to like give him advice or anything, but you would think if you were really trying to, I don't know, maybe you would go to the drive thru.

Did he have a, you know, would you wear fake facial hair, put on a KN95 mask? It seems to me that there'd be a million ways to disguise yourself. Uh, so I wonder what it was that tips people off. It's not like he's been on the loose for six months and got lazy. It's like, was the dude trying to get caught? I mean, very interesting stuff.

Well, now the, uh, The UnitedHealth, CEO is warned that he'll be next. Um, that is the CEO, that's the boss of the last CCEO, Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. The parent company of UnitedHealthcare was trying to reassure employees with a message about their business only for that to provoke immediate backlash.

Here's what he had to say. I'm sure everybody has been disturbed by the amount of negative, and in many cases, vitriolic media and commentary that has been produced over the last few days, particularly in the social media environment. And I want to reassure you of a few things. Firstly, we are going to continue.

To make sure that we put patients, consumers, and members first. And of course he goes on and on. And I think, I think, well, would you call this tone deaf? I'm not sure. I'm not sure if they understand the bigger issue here. You know, the reason why people are upset, it's not because a guy was gunned down and we have in the audience is soulless.

No, it's because he represented a company that, you know, puts profits. Billions of profits ahead of people. And it's really the whole industry. That's the problem that being private insurance companies get to decide if you qualify for the healthcare that you've paid in for, I mean, doesn't it make sense you pay for something, you should receive it, but now they use artificial intelligence to sort of, I guess, dispute claims, and then you have to run it up the ladder.

I mean, So multiple things can be true. And I've said this all the time. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. But also if you're not receiving, seeing the results you want in, in through, you know, done through the proper channels, people burn things down and we've seen cities get burnt because of stuff like this.

Uh, you know, where big, big systemic changes happen from people taking things into their own, own hands, whether it's. whether it's valid or not. All right. People took this into their own hands. Ray gun, the musical remember Ray gun. She was the break dancer from Australia. Well, they are pulling the musical after controversial break dancer calls in her lawyers, boo, let the musical play out a musical inspired by viral Olympic break dancer.

Ray gun shut down hours before it was due to open on Saturday. After lawyers representing the athlete threatened legal action. Oh, come on, do the musical. Steph Broadbridge, an Australian comedian who wrote and intended to star in Ray Gunn, the musical said in a video post on Instagram that the break dancers lawyers got in touch with the venue and threatened legal action.

Oh boy. I'm going to have to get a clip of that video. I don't have it right here, but I say, let it play. You know, if, if you can't do Ray Gunn, the musical, you know, uh, call it stray gun, the musical, you know, you've got to change it. You've got to change it up or something. New law. Banning TikTok in the U. S.

if it's not sold to an American company is now one step closer to reality. A federal appeals court upholding the law designed to force the Chinese owned company to sell TikTok to an American company or be blocked. The ban set to take effect on January 19th, the U. S. says it is concerned China could steal personal information from the 170 million users.

TikTok is now expected to take this all the way to the Supreme Court. So, so here's the deal on this TikTok ban. It's, you know, the news is going around the way, where I stand on it is we need better transparency about what information we're giving people. Uh, and, and by that, I mean, if, if they're going to be making, if all these social media companies are gonna be making billions of dollars, not off of the product, but using us as the product, shouldn't we all get a cut of that?

And, uh, I don't think the problem is just TikTok. I think it's Facebook. Which, you know, Instagram's owned by Facebook and it's, and it's a lot, it's, it's a lot of social media companies, probably Snapchat too. I don't know what their biometrics are, uh, but you got to start somewhere. And what, what would you rather, uh, would you rather ban the, the giant, giant social media platform that's essentially run by, uh, one of your four, uh, a foe.

Uh, I think that's a good place to start now. I don't think it should be banned, but I think they do need to get somebody in leadership. That's, you know, an American that can look out for what's best. Here for us. And again, that's not, you know, me trying to sound like, um, I don't know, in any sort of way, like I think there's giant sinister motivations by the people that work in Tik TOK, but we can't just trust that.

If we're going to be giving all of that information to a foreign country, I don't think you can just trust that. All right. Well, we'll see what happens there. I got your Taylor Swift story. It's the end of an era, the era's tour. That is. She crushed it at her final concert. I'm going to share what she had to say coming up next.

All right. Taylor Swift, boy, has she made a couple billion ends. The era's tour crushes it at her final concert. The commonly used phrase, all good things come to an end applies not only to us mere mortals, but also to Taylor Swift. After almost two years, 149 shows, spanning five continents and record smashing ticket sales, Taylor Swift.

The pop superstar has finally come to the end of her tour. Turns out it was the most profitable concert tour ever grossing 2 billion and was virtually sold out from start to finish with their Swifties relishing every moment. Here's what she had to say, thanking her fans. I thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date, my beloved heiress tour.

Thank you for being with us tonight. Would you give us one more song? And then she does her last song.

I mean, look. I'm not a huge Swifty, but I do love, I love, I'll definitely watch the documentaries that are made from this. Uh, absolutely. It's just incredible. She literally changes the GDP of countries, states, cities, towns when she performs there. So it was her last gig in Vancouver and I mean, what a long tour.

She went through three different boyfriends during that tour. Uh, here's another clip. We have toured the entire world with this tour. We have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I've ever done in my entire life. We've gotten to perform for over 10 million people on this tour.

Tonight,

we get to play one last show for you here tonight in beautiful She's like, what? Country man again, I think that's going to be incredible. And by the way, I feel bad for Travis Kelsey. How is he supposed to entertain her as a boyfriend? You know what I mean? It's tough enough being out there, uh, dating somebody, you have to come up with stories that are fun and you gotta be, you know, jovial she's performing in front of 10, 000 adoring fans.

I mean, imagine if he's got any gripe, he's like, honey, you know, your breath kind of stinks. She's like, I, I travel the world. People love me. Don't forget my breath. Uh, so either way, but look, I've said this time and time again. I think Taylor Swift is a great person. I think she does with her platform as much as she can for good.

And she seems like a good person. Well, people. com is now reporting Taylor Swift gave away a whopping 197 million in bonuses to ERA's tour performers crew on top of their salaries. And let me tell you something. I'm sure they were getting pretty good salaries. Over the past two years, she gave out 200, I mean, 197 million.

She should have rounded that up to 200, but either way, including to truck drivers, caterers, dancers, and musicians. Um, yeah, so this is just incredible. And I mean, look, did she make a fortune? Yeah, but we all know people that make a lot of money that are Scrooge McDuck about it. Uh, but good on her just in the North American leg of the tour.

Last year, she gave out 55 million in bonuses. We're told she was handing out a hundred thousand dollar checks to her drivers. Um, Uh, just incredible stuff. So she sold 2, 077, 000, 000 in ticket sales, but what did she make in merchandise? What did she make in all the other things that go along with that?

Not to mention, what is she making by streaming her music? My guess is she had a several hundred million. I mean, She's a billionaire that, you know, she, she can do no wrong. Um, and you know, we are not exactly, uh, at the size of Taylor Swift, but hey, you know, I got advertisers too. I got to do my job too, Taylor.

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Thank you guys. Thank you guys. All right. Well, what else do we have in the wild world of going on out there? Oh boy, here we have, uh, Kelly Ripa, is that her name? And Mark Consuelo, Consuela, they of course host a daytime TV show together. And it looks like you could hear the crowd groveling at this guy when he calls out his wife for not apologizing.

Empathy, empathizing and apologizing. I do that. I don't think I think I can name on one hand the amount of times I've heard I'm sorry But I know it's not rare to husbands Like, husbands just don't hear, I'm sorry, from their spouses, it just, that never works. When we do something wrong, we will apologize.

She said it as a future sense. When we do something wrong, we will apologize. Not, I did something wrong. Physically speaking, after almost 30 years of marriage, you're probably gonna do something wrong, like, maybe 12 times a year. Once a month, I would say maybe 12 times in total. So, uh, you know, all true, you know, whatever, fun, fun, ha ha morning stuff.

But Hey, I kind of tend to agree with him here. I mean, look, uh, squeaky wheel gets the grease. Here's my advice to my gentlemen out there. If you're in a fight with your lady, the best thing to do is find out what you did wrong. Even if it was only 1 percent of the issue, uh, find out what you did wrong.

Apologize. Be specific and get the hell out of that fight. No point in being right. Single men like to be right. Men in relationships know how to apologize. That's just how I feel about that. Now you might say, Oh, ladies got to apologize all the time. Sure. Maybe. I mean, every relationship is different. I'm one of those.

It's like never expect an apology because sometimes the apologies are sometimes the apologies are given in a nonverbal way. You know, you can tell if someone's sorry, or if they were hungry, you ever have someone hangry. They just, they're just mean to you because they're angry. I don't need a written apology.

Like I can move on. You know what I mean? I'm all about coexisting. Uh, that's, that's how we make a relationship work. All right. Well, here's an update to a story. We actually haven't been covering, but it's in the big mainstream news. Daniel Penney acquitted in New York city subway choke chokehold case jury decided on lesser charge.

So this was a man who. Um, killed somebody in a New York City subway. He, I guess, had them in a chokehold and he was, I think, ex military. I could be wrong, uh, if I'm, you know, if I could be mistaken. But there was a jury of seven women and five men. They deliberated since Tuesday, last week in the case, deadlocked twice on Friday, telling the judge they could not reach a unanimous verdict.

He was facing charges of second degree manslaughter and the negligence count. Prosecutors moved to drop the manslaughter charge and the judge allowed it instructing the jury to consider only that count. So, uh, yeah, I mean, it's a really sad story. Uh, but the reason why he was subduing the man in a fatal choke hold was because he was threatening passengers on a subway.

He, Oh yeah, he was a Marine veteran, 26 years old and was charged a whole full year ago. And again, look, it was an interesting story. And I think at the very least it should lead to conversations about mental health in our country and how we need to do a better job. of a country passing laws to protect people that have mental health issues, drug issues and mental health issues make up a, uh, you know, and addiction issues make up, you know, such a high percentage of homeless, uh, in violent encounters with unhoused people and also people that, you know, are on the streets, uh, literally living on the edge.

And it shouldn't be pedestrians that are forced to deal with, uh, you know, what can be very violent situations. We should, as a country be providing for those out there that are lost as if they were our own family. If we had a family member that was off their meds and needed help, you know, we would try to help them.

Right. Wouldn't we do that? Um, so just kind of a sad story. Well, I've got some updates from Hollywood, uh, including, uh, an update from Shailene Woodley and how she'll be starring as Janice Joplin. We'll have that story for you next. Okay. Before I get to the Janice Joplin stuff, um, I had a pretty interesting day on YouTube today.

I interviewed, uh, a, I interviewed the lady, Layla, who runs the podcast studio that has been defamed by. Bachelor Clayton Eckerd's accuser, Laura Owens attorney. I know it's a lot. Uh, but, uh, if you haven't go check that out, uh, it was interesting. Yeah. They're filing a bar complaint against the attorney. It took them six days to take down his tweet, which included false information about the uh, quality of the sound in their podcast studio.

And they're raising money, um, uh, online for their legal funds. So another interesting twist of events going on. over there. And you know, I've been covering, this is what's really tough. Okay. So my niche on YouTube is bachelor nation news, but also like there's only so much news in bachelor nation you can cover.

And right now it's a very quiet season. Uh, so I've been covering obviously the Clayton Eckerd trial along with here on the podcast. So many other stories, we've covered 10 different stories already. Well, I got a comment from someone saying, Dave, I love your channel, but I've stopped watching because all you talk about is this Clayton thing.

Now this Clayton thing is a. Pretty big investigation going on into fraudulent behavior. It's wildly interesting. And it's like, what do people want me to do? You know? So it's been very tough on YouTube, uh, to those that only want bachelor content. And I have to remind people, I have a North star. I have to follow that is what is interesting to me.

And sometimes what is interesting to me might not be what's interesting to some of my audience and that's okay. But what we have to learn as you learn on stage as a comedian is don't be a hack. A hack. Tells the audience what they want to hear. A comedian tells the audience what they have to say. And, you know, I think you guys get that because we have a, you know, more eclectic, uh, sort of, uh, you know, uh, con you have more eclectic content here, where we'll cover a whole bunch of wide stories, but yeah, this.

Bachelor crowd. And again, I know it's only a small percentage, but they have to understand like sometimes in life, there's bigger things to talk about than, you know, someone's eyelid surgery and bachelor nation, which God bless the eyelid surgery. So I'll actually be addressing that on tomorrow's YouTube.

As I continue to remind people in January, we'll be moving the podcast to YouTube, which means I'll have all of the content I'm giving to you right now, also available in video format. I'm very much looking forward to that. I think it's going to help grow the channel, but I also think it's going to lead to people going.

We want more bachelor content. So you're going to get it folks. Don't, uh, you know, just let, let your boy do his thing. And speaking of which, Olivia Wilde was in the news here. The Hollywood reporter talks about choosing art over audience approval. I don't make movies. So people love them. The Hollywood actor turned Helmer told the Red Sea Film Festival directors have to choose between being a celebrity or an artist, and there's truth to that.

It's like, are you going to choose to do what might make you the most amount of money? What might be a good in the short term? Or are you going to build a career that has a lot of integrity to it? And that doesn't just exist with actors or podcasters. Like what's the integrity that you have in your life?

If you choose that, you'll be rewarded long term. There may be friction in the short term as people go, I didn't sign up for this. And it's like, okay, That's fine. My boat is going to be chugging along in the direction of my dreams, and I'm going to try my best to bring along as many people as possible, but if it ain't for you, there's more boats in the Harbor, right folks.

All right. Shailene Woodley, let's end on her. She is going to sing as Janis Joplin in the musical Biopic. She said, I had to find my own voice across seven years of prep. My wife is going to love this. My wife loves Janis Joplin. Step aside, Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan. There's a new iconic singer biopic in the works.

Some people call it biopic. Biopic, I go biopic in the works with its lead star transforming on stage into a rocker. Uh, Oh, this has to be one of the coolest movies. You know, I feel like if you're an actor and you get the chance to play a rock star, who wouldn't want to do it? Who wouldn't want to play a rock star?

You just, uh, geez, it sounds like such a lifestyle. The project was announced earlier this year and received a 2. 5 million tax credit from the California film commission. Woodley is leading the feature and also producing with production set to take place across the country. 30 days. All right. Well, um, yeah, we'll have to hear what the voice sounds like.

Very interested there. I mean, she's a fantastic actress. Everything I've watched her in is good. So whether it's the highest box office, who knows, but I tell you, she knows how to make a good product. News, I think it's out, but you're going to be playing Janice Joplin in a biopic. Yeah. I couldn't think of a more perfect.

I'm so excited. I couldn't think of a more perfect person to do this. Wait, why? Because I feel like you can rock this out and be like a full on, a party rock star. Like Janice Joplin would, I think that you would nail this. I'm, I'm really excited. We've been working on it for seven years now and it's just, she's so, she's such a groovy chick, man.

Yes, she is. She really brought the light to this planet, you know, in a really singular way. And it's been so much fun to dive into her story, but also work alongside Linda Perry, who's our music producer on this. No. Is a legend. All right, so I'm excited. I'm in. I can't wait to see it. Uh, there it is. Um, I guess it's not going to be, I don't think they have a release date, right?

They've just started working on it. Uh, but I wonder what seven years looks like for her. Like, Did you like, what does she mean? She's been working on it for seven years. Has she been just like singing Janice Joplin songs in her car for seven years? Or is it more to that story? I really don't know. So anyway, I don't have any updates on the, uh, on the arrest of the, of the, uh, uh, assassin, but.

But I guess they're calling it, uh, saying it's Altoona police handwritten document recovered and arrest shows ill will towards corporate America. So there was an update from eight minutes ago. We don't think there's any specific threats to other people that mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some ill will towards corporate America.

Maybe more good can come from all of this. Maybe we can, as populists, like the majority of our country can come together and realize corporate greed. Well, yes, that's capitalism. Uh, it needs to stop, you know, and we need to go back to taking care of ourselves and taking care of our country and everyday Americans.

Maybe that'll be some good that can come from it. So they say this seven minutes ago, by the way, I'm just getting these last updates, so this is going to go a few minutes long, seven minutes ago, man arrested in Pennsylvania, had a ghost gun that may have been 3d printed. He was in possession of a ghost gun capability of firing a nine millimeter round in a suppressor.

Oh my gosh. Could you imagine that? It had to be done, says document found on the person of interest. So he had a note that said it had to be done. These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done. Wow. All right. Well, tomorrow morning, we'll have more on the story.

It's all breaking right now. A man says he was just sitting there eating when McDonald's employees called police. Oh, we had a snitch. All right. Well, I guess you can stop digging through the ponds in Central Park. Uh, more on this in the morning. This, uh, That's it for me now. I'm Dave Neal. This is a rush.

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12-6-24 Morning Rush - Assassin On The Loose Updates & Haliey Welch & Hawk Tuah Co May Be Sued?

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday. Friday to you, December 6th, 2024. And we've got all your pop culture and entertainment news in one place. Uh, but, uh, we've also got, uh, the crazy assassin on the loose story updates there, where he came from, uh, how he possibly blew his cover and, uh, basically all the rumors that are out there.

He's still on the loose though. We'll give you that story. Plus a super hostile exchange at a congressional hearing. Sounds like something you'd hear in a Hollywood movie. I'll play that clip for you. And more hock to a heat as the crypto scam goes super viral online. A response from Haley Welch's.

Entertainment lawyer provides insight into the busted Bitcoin project. Also Vanderpump alum Lala Kent discusses the closing of shorts and Sandys. That's the bar owned by Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval. Plus there was a giant. Earthquake 7. 0 magnitude that hit Northern California. There were tsunami warnings across the West coast, and we're going to give you all of the updates, uh, on that, uh, environmental fallout.

So a lot of, it's a strange time out there, folks. I mean, geez, this is what they talk about in the Bible. We got, uh, you know, uh, we got, uh, assassins on the loose. We got tsunami warnings. I mean, what, what's next? You know what I mean? Come on. Don't they know it's December? We're supposed to mail it in the rest of the year.

All right. It's a Friday. Come on, let's relax. I get all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, let's start by covering this 7. 0 magnitude earthquake in NorCal. Here's the report. Following the state of emergency in California at this hour, after a major earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California, this is the moment, the magnitude seven earthquake struck, shaking this home in Fortuna near the epicenter.

The most powerful quake in that region in more than 30 years. Wine bottles knocked off shelves at a nearby in a rare tsunami warning for a time from Santa Cruz all the way up to Oregon. Mass evacuations on Highway one people moving away from the coast. The quake centered off the coast of Ferndale, California near the Oregon border.

But felt in San Francisco, 270 miles away. And tonight here, the obvious concerns, whether there could be more coming ABCs, Melissa, a Don in Cali. Oh, geez. Could there be more coming? It's like, that's the problem with earthquakes, right? You're like, is this, is this the, is this the precursor? Is this the prequel?

Is this the main course? Well, you know, uh, having, you know, moved from Los Angeles, I got to say, uh, It's, it's a weird feeling being in an earthquake there. It's strange. I hate to make a, make light of it because I haven't been in any big ones, but it's a, it's, it bonds everybody. You know, it's something to talk about.

We had an earthquake on 4th of July, several years back, and it was so, it was so wild because the earthquake hit when I was in Los Angeles, then the following day I was in Palm Springs and I was at a restaurant with my wife or we were, we were not married yet. And, uh, we had our dog with us, uh, rest in peace, beautiful Boone.

And we were out getting margaritas. Now, Palm Springs is a gay friendly town. And by gay friendly, I mean, it is, it is a hotspot for the gays. They love Palm Springs and I get it. It's, it's, it's a fun place to be. So the earthquake hits us again, an aftershock, which was a very, it was, it, we, it, we felt it, it was a jolt and the whole place just goes quiet.

And then all of a sudden, uh, you know, at the restaurant, some guy yells earthquake, free margaritas, and then everyone cheers. And I was like, the gays know how to do an earthquake, you know what I mean? But either way, seriously, uh, we, we hope that, uh, we hope that there is no more, uh, aftershocks because, uh, you know, I mean, we, we really can't stand anymore.

Issues with 2024. It's like, can we be done with this year already? I know we say that every year, literally every year since the pandemic, we're like, can it get worse? And now there's an assassin on the loose. You know, there's always one thing after another. Well, let's dive into that conversation about the assassin on the loose.

It turns out I've actually frequented the place he was staying. I'll say, I'll share my story in a second. They searched this hostel behind me where they say the suspect checked in here with a fake New Jersey ID. The hostel says it's fully cooperating with the investigation. Today, the NYPD released two new photos of the man wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.

One of the photos shows him smiling. So here's the deal. So he was staying at this hostel. I actually used to do stand up comedy at this hostel. Hey, you know, hostels can be a pretty. Good place to work at your material because there's people that are visiting from all over the world. Sometimes they don't even speak English.

So they're looking at you like, I thought this was a magician. You know what I mean? And you're like, I wish I could disappear. Uh, but either way it's, uh, you know, I, I, I know this place when I saw it on videos, like, Oh dang, I've been there. Um, but. Is this the guy? That's the big question. They have several photos of him, both masked and unmasked, but it, they're different jackets, different backpacks.

Some people are saying, no, this is a Patsy. This guy didn't do it. Uh, you would think now that there's a man hunt for this guy, that if they see his face, you would think in today's world of 2024, they would be able to figure out his identity pretty quickly, but I guess not, I mean, I guess not. And, um, you know, If he's a real hired killer and good at his job, you know, he would probably cover his tracks better.

I mean, they found this guy at a Starbucks. What are you talking about now? I know, I know getting a good Starbucks is important before going to work, but not maybe, you know, maybe, you know, hold off on that. If you're, uh, you know, uh, you don't go about to go kill somebody, which I do not recommend. And I do not mean to make light of this.

It's a, you know, Tragic story on one hand, it's a guy that was martyred and that should never happen. And I watched the video and it's just makes you bummed out. But on the other hand, it's like, well, what world do we live in? I mean, a lot of systemic change doesn't happen until something crazy happens.

You know what I mean? And. If you're a CEO of a country company, you really do need to start taking inventory of like, am I being ethical? Like, do I have enemies? And of course, with this healthcare company, boy, do they ever have enemies. I mean, there are people that, you know, their partners have been denied treatments for reasons that shouldn't exist.

And it's just like, it's insane out there. So. You can understand why someone would have enemies. And of course the internet's running wild with conspiracies. So it appears as though the suspect traveled using a fake ID by bus from Georgia to New York, that's the update on a Greyhound, which by the way, That's probably a good way to travel if you're trying to be incognito.

I don't know how they even know that information. You know, it's like who knows how far they backtracked this suspect. The internet's actually saying he's looking really cute. Like, he's got a nice smile, I guess. Well, there was a flirtatious moment captured on camera which offered police clues to the possible CEO shooting suspect's identity.

Uh, NYPD released photos of surveillance footage on Thursday showing a man smiling Police believe is the suspect in the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, providing a significant clue to investigators. According to John Miller, CNN's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, the man lowers his mask and gives a big smile, a flirtatious moment between the man and a female employee at a hostel on New York's Upper West Side.

This just goes to show that. Pretty women get guys in trouble. I mean, his cover was blown because he was trying to get some strange. Uh, someone said that little flirtation between the two of them in some good humored way actually yielded what is far more of the most significant clue to identify him.

And again, I don't even know if this is for sure the guy. So, uh, you know, we'll just have to see, uh, you know, when there was that Boston bombing, there was so many people that were, you know, uh, kind of doxxed online that they thought were the suspects and they really weren't. Who the hell knows? I mean, it's a fascinating story.

It's one of the most layered and complicated stories ever where you've got a cold blooded killing that happens in one of the greatest cities in the world in broad daylight, and yet. One thing that has brought us all together in a world where, you know, other wars abroad haven't UFOs haven't, I mean, nothing has brought our country together.

And yet we can all agree that these healthcare companies are not operating in good faith for the American public. And, and this is what I talk about when we, and again, this, this shouldn't even be political. It's our health is it should be our rights as humans that we. You know, don't, uh, you know, go into medical debt in, in this modern world we live in, it should be all right that you can receive health care and not be denied coverage and not have to worry about someone else, just dangling control of your life with their fingertips.

You know what I mean? So it's very fascinating. And the shell casings of the bullets that were found actually may, uh, hold some some symbology, uh, to a movement that's going on, uh, which is to try to expose the corruption, try to expose, uh, blatant, uh, unfettered profiteering. By private companies in a world where people are struggling to buy their groceries.

Again, it's not necessarily what's right or wrong here. It's this is what is happening in our country. And people are kind of resorting in some ways to like that caged rat mindset where they're going, you know what? Fuck the rule of law. We want change. And I kind of think what's so interesting is if the American population could find a political candidate who could run on that change, you know, in the most ethical way, you know, like, like I've said before, like a Bernie Sanders, someone who's marched the march, walked the walk, fought the fight, someone like him.

If, if we didn't have that time earlier, now is the time to start talking about a populist movement to, uh, get healthcare out of the hands of greedy corporations and start demanding the systems work for us when we realize as a middle class and, you know, the, the sort of like bulk of the public, when we realize we have more control over the rich.

I think that's going to be a powerful place when we're stopped being divided by the left versus the right and whatnot. There's literally four billionaires in our country that are now worth a trillion dollars. And just a decade ago, they were only worth 70 billion. Do you know the difference between 70 billion and a trillion?

A trillion is a thousand billions. It's amazing out there how much money some of these top 0. 01 percent people are worth. And yet What does it do for the rest of us? It ain't trickling down. We'll be back with more content right after this. All right, as promised, we'll do some more light stuff. That was a very dramatic way to start our Friday morning.

I apologize, but when there's an assassin on the loose, what do you want me to do? Well, here's Lala Kent from Vanderpump Rules reacting to Schwartz and Sandy's closing. Here's what she had to say. I am, I'm really close with Tom Schwartz. So he, uh, had let me know if that, if we don't close by the end of the month, we'll for sure be closing by the end of the year.

And it's just really sad to me because I think it really had a lot of potential, but that entire scandal, you know, it, it changed people's lives. So it's sad that he had to, um, deal with the repercussions of someone else's actions. Hannah from Philadelphia. She says, Lala, in the beginning of EPR, were you guys actually working at the restaurant or were you cast on the show?

No, we were absolutely working at the restaurant. I started working at the restaurant well before the offer came in to be a part of Vanderpump Rules. And I, there was a manager who rolled up on me and was, she was upset that I didn't seat this table who was obviously a somebody and I didn't like the way I was spoken to.

So I left on a Saturday night, you guys. I looked at the other hostess and I said, I don't know about you, but I won't be spoken to that way. So I'm going to go ahead and clock out. And I just, and never returned. And then the offer comes for, then I would just go get drunk at Surfer Free. LVP saw me kind of mingling and you know, I was in the mix and I knew a lot of the people working there and she said, are you looking for a job?

And I was like, well, I did work here at one point in time. She was like, well then you'll have no problem. We're looking for a hostess. But with that new offer came the show. I don't know that I ever would have gone back. I mean, Vander pumps are really a crazy star. You got, you got Los Angeles, Hollywood, a city where everyone's trying to make it and people work jobs just to get by.

And then to tack a reality show onto that, it does seem that. It was, I'm very interested as someone who caught Vanderpump late in life. You know, I caught it during the scandal of all a decade after it began, but it's supposed to be a show about the debauchery behind the scenes of people that work at restaurants, young adults.

And to be quite honest, uh, in my later years here as an elder millennial, I would like to watch the new version of the show with a new cast and just kind of see that lifestyle of like that young, dumb, full of. Energy type of people that go to Hollywood and, you know, I don't know. It's like, it's, it's kind of good, harmless fun if they cast it, right.

We'll have to see how that goes. Oh, we have a good story in the Christmas world. You guys know, I love a good Christmas movie, but in real life, Joey Lawrence, whoa, uh, reckons I remember from blossom. Whoa. How funny is that? Joey Lawrence was in blossom with Mayim Bialik. Is that her name? Who ends up becoming like a doctor and host Jeopardy.

What a weird world. So Blossom's hosting Jeopardy. She's a doctor. Joey Lawrence, not exactly a doctor quality, uh, but maybe he plays one on TV, reconciles with his estranged wife months after divorce filing. So what's so interesting about this? I'm glad they're back together. I mean, what do I care? You know, I guess they have a kid or whatever.

So good for them, but. It was pretty ugly, this divorce that was going down, but it looks like they've figured it all out. The reconciliation's pretty shocking, given that his, I guess, wife, Samantha, filed for divorce less than four months ago and asked for 100 percent physical custody of their daughter, with Joey only getting to visit their kid with her sign off.

Lawrence was accused of cheating on her with Melina Alves. Elvis, the writer of a movie he's starring in, socked in for Christmas, with her husband claiming in divorce docs Joey and Melina started a sexual relationship in March. So, Joey Lawrence, whoa, his wife files for divorce. The writer of the movie's husband claims Joey was banging her.

Uh, he denied the cheating allegations in the aftermath of the divorce filings, saying his bond with her was based on shared experiences and mutual understanding. And it's like, yeah, I mean, I mean, if I told my wife, Oh no, no, me and that other lady just have shared experiences and mutual understanding, uh, it'll be mutually understood.

I'm sleeping on the couch, but either way, uh, it looks like, uh, they're letting bygones be bygones. I have yet to see the Christmas movie. Uh, but, uh, boy, if it delivers like this story does, I'm sure it'll be pretty good. All right. I got a crazy story here. It was screaming that broke out at a secret service.

Hearing the final hearing of the house task force that investigated the assassination attempt against Donald Trump devolved into an explosive moment as the acting U S secret service director, Ronald Rowe engaged in a screaming match with a crime or Congressman Pat Fallon. So Pat Fallon, a Republican from Texas was trying to establish that the secret service director was at a nine 11 memorial.

Specifically for a photo opportunity. When the line of questioning begins, he does not take it kindly. Have a listen to this. Can I just photo? Yes, sir. I do. Is that a remembrance of September 11th? It was, was it in New York? It was at ground zero. Who's usually at an event like this closest to the president of the United States, security wise, the sack of the detail, special agent in charge of the detail.

Were you the special agent in charge of the detail that day? Actually, let me address this. Could you please staff leave the, Oh, no, leave that one up with the circle around me. Thank you. So they show a photo of the acting secret service agent, uh, several rows behind Joe Biden at the nine 11 memorial. This is where Joe Biden and Donald Trump were kind of both, uh, there together on nine 11.

It was kind of a nice moment for them to get together after all of the heated, uh, you know, sort of, uh, you know, rhetoric going on. So actually. Congressman, what you're not seeing is the sack of the detail off, out of the picture's view. And that is the day where we remember the more than 3, 000 people that have died on 9 11.

I actually responded to Ground Zero. I was there going through the ashes of the World Trade Center. I was there at Fresh Kills. I'm not asking you that! I'm asking you! Congressman! I was there to show respect for a Secret Service member that died on 9 11! Do not invoke 9 11 for political purposes! Um, I'm not!

I'm invoking this! You are, sir! No, I'm not! You are out of line! Gentlemen, I would like to ask him a question. Please. You are out of line, Congressman! I mean, clearly, clearly there was beef going on before this. These are just like two dogs just going from zero to a thousand here. Do not invoke nine 11 now.

Uh, yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a heavy accusation to make saying that you're playing a political game on nine 11 trying to be seen maybe, you know, whatever the case may be. And he's saying, no, not today, not on my watch. I'm an elected member of Congress, and I'm asking you a serious question, and you public servant who has served this nation, and you won't answer the question!

On our day, on our country's darkest day! Mr. Kennedy, we will not politicize it. The committee will come to order. I'm asking you serious questions for the American people, and they're very simple. They're not trick questions. Were you the special agent in charge that day? No, I wasn't. I was there representing the United States Secret Service, sir.

And it did not affect protective operations. You know why you were there? Because you wanted to be visible because you were auditioning for this job. I was there to pay respect for a foreign member of this agency. You are out of line, Congressman. You are out of line. Because you put those agents out of position.

Because you have a radio with you. And you wear a vest. You have a weapon. Sir. And you are out of line. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman. Wild stuff. So the Republican congressman is accusing him of only going to the nine 11 Memorial to, I guess, audition to become the next acting secret service, uh, uh, director. And he's saying I was there, you know, on nine 11 on our darkest day, because I was part of the nine 11.

Uh, clean up crew and I was there, you know, whatever. So while a wild stuff, a lot to unpack, but just a crazy moment there in, in this congressional hearing. Uh, all right. Well look, boy, geez, we have a lot, I'm sorry, this is a pretty wild, wild Friday morning of content. You know, I look, I don't choose the news.

It kind of just comes to me and I sift through what's the big story and what's not. Uh, let's do this. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back with a Starbucks update right after this. Now I'm not exactly boycotting Starbucks, but their prices are insane these days. I can't order a drink that's under 7.

I mean, that's pretty, I remember when 4 was considered insane to get a drink, especially since I just ordered cold brew. Here is the new Starbucks CEO saying, don't worry, no more price hikes this fiscal year. Is Starbucks going to hike prices or is inflation as far as Starbucks is concerned, done? We're going to hit the pause button on any pricing, um, for this fiscal year.

I still think there's an opportunity for us to simplify the pricing architecture. I don't love the fact that in our app right now. While you're doing this customization, it doesn't inform you what has happened to the price. So I want to get more transparent with the pricing. So what he's saying is, you know, All those little sugars and syrups that you that you tack on there.

I mean, yeah, I tried to get a pump I mean a pump Of pumpkin spice thrown into my cold brew, I wasn't making some crazy cold foam latte, just a pump, just one wrist jerk of, uh, you know, whatever, one squeeze of the old pumpkin spice, uh, and they, they charged me an extra dollar 25. What are we doing folks?

Come on. Now, look, this CEO. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta be careful. You're not going to be ripping people off here. You know what I mean? Uh, not in this current world we live in, uh, anything's on the table. All right. Well, we have an update on Haley Welch. So yesterday we had a late breaking story covering the sort of meme coin that she created.

Well, she was immediately called out by CoffeeZilla. Uh, he of course is the, um, you know, a guy on YouTube who, Kind of, kind of finds grifters and scammers and calls them out. Well, as it turns out, uh, Haley Welch's entertainment lawyer ended up contacting coffee Zilla and he has an update. I kind of feel like he, like me and others feel as though Haley Welch has been taken advantage of.

I don't mean to infantilize her, uh, and treat her as if she's a child. Is that the right word? Uh, because she's an adult, but you know, she's kind of risen to fame from nowhere. And I'm sure she received a lot of, um, bad guidance from people saying, Oh yeah, do this Bitcoin scheme. It'll be great for your fans.

But of course it's ripped off a lot of people. I appreciate them actually responding though. She is actually making a lot of money off of this. And I do actually think that's a problem. So, um, I don't know. I think this whole situation is terrible and she should feel bad. I hope she does really, because She got in bed with these people, who clearly saw dollar signs.

She saw dollar signs, and they did this, and people have been hurt. So, uh, yeah, that's basically it. Oh, one more message from Hawk's lawyer. This guy keeps messaging me. He says, This was not a speculative opportunity for her. She truly didn't intend to fleece fans. She genuinely wanted to make this a community token of fans and onboard Web 2 to Web 3 and be a long term face.

All right. Well, there's your, there you have it. So look, I'm sure Haley Welch is like, Oh my gosh, you know, she's had to get thick skin, but she's kind of, she's under the guidance of the like of, uh, not Logan Paul. What's the other one? Jake Paul, he's his company is kind of like representing her now. And they've had their own, uh, I think Logan Paul is actually suing this guy coffee Zilla for, uh, for defamation because of his reporting of scams that go on.

And whenever you're like, if, whenever you're going to do one of these E coin things. It's, it always comes off scammy. I mean, they're operating this Haley Welch, uh, uh, Hawk to a coin is operating out of the Cayman islands. That's sketchy as hell. So, uh, but, but again, and again, this is no knock on her. This is actually like.

Uh, my, my belief is that she's just not that smart, you know, she's new to this whole world of being famous and rather than some people who kind of slowly came up in the world and kind of learned how to protect themselves, I think Haley's been surrounded by some people that have been like, yes, man. And they've been a part of this pump and dump scheme.

Uh, we'll, we'll have any updates as they come. I mean, there is a law firm that's. Seeking, uh, contact information from people that lost money on it, uh, and possibly as a way to come, you know, Sue Haley Welch, uh, what a year for her from a minimum wage, I'm assuming minimum wage job at a spring factory in rural Tennessee to becoming a millionaire.

Because she said, hawk to a spit on that thing. And now could end with some, uh, lawsuits wild times indeed. Well, We will have, uh, some videos for you today, possibly a public live stream. So make sure to stick around on my YouTube channel. Uh, I'll definitely be live on Patreon, patreon. com, Dave Neal, and then we'll round it out this afternoon.

So, uh, a lot more to get to today. Uh, appreciate you guys, uh, appreciate all of your support. We'll see this afternoon. I'm Dave. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal. Lives. Too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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12-5-24 Afternoon Rush - Haliey Welch from Tawk Tuah Podcast UNDER FIRE After 'Meme Coin' Launch & Alex Cooper From Call Her Daddy Shares Decision To Interview Kamala Harris

Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, standup comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. It's thirsty Thursday for you. December 5th, 2024. I got all your news in one place. So get out your hot chocolates and peppermint schnapps.

And let's, uh, let's, let's discuss some crazy stories to end 2024. We have facial images, or at least partial of the healthcare CEO shooter plus possible motives and other assassination speculation. We'll dive into that story. That's really gripping the nation and Haley Welch, AKA Hawk. To a girl under massive fire, as she's been accused of insider trading and pumping and possibly dumping her new Hawk to a meme coin.

How's that for the ending of her 2024 story? Uh, some, some are saying it's career ending. We'll have to see, uh, what, what had to be said. She was exposed by coffee Zilla live on, uh, one of her, uh, I guess, uh, uh, online audio hangs. And she abruptly ended the, uh, the hang. So it could be pretty ugly out there for her.

Plus pro dancer, Sasha discusses working with his partner, Jen Tran and caller daddy's Alex Cooper discusses her success, uh, uh, during a Forbes 30 under 30 event and Taylor Swift. Prepares for a long break from touring as she finishes up her massive multi year tour schedule, all of those stories and more.

It's all coming up next on The Rush. Well, Taylor Swift dominated the streams this year for music. Here is her. I just wanted to say thank you so much for being one of my top listeners on Spotify. That's so nice of you. Um, I look back on this year and I think about how special you guys made it for us being on the Aeros tour.

Went all over the world. We went to Europe, Australia, Asia, back through America, then to Canada. And so, um, thank you if you came to see the show. Thank you for streaming the music. Um, it's just been such a wild ride and I really appreciate everything you guys have done, including Listening to my music so much.

All right. So there she is. So is she going to hang things up? Is this like her young retirement? What's happening? Well, Toronto sun. com reported end of an era, exhausted Taylor Swift plans to take a year off after record breaking errors tour ends. I mean, here's the truth. A lot of times this happens, right?

You, uh, spend a couple of years writing music. Then you tour that music. Then you write new music album, rinse and repeat. Well, her. Tour has been so successful that she keeps selling out stadiums. I mean, what is she supposed to do? They can't make venues big enough for her. She says she's excited for some relaxation and downtime.

Now, whether that actually happens is yet to be seen, but here is what Nikki Glazer, big time Taylor Swift, Swifty, and also standup comedian had to say about hoping that maybe this isn't the end. Who knows what's going to happen. I have, I just, I have a swifty suspicion there's going to be more something, but I am going to night three in Vancouver and I'm very, um, sad that it's ending because it's been such a huge part of my life.

I've gone to 22 shows. And so, um, but it's, um, I'm so excited. Like I, I haven't felt this kind of excitement since the first one, you know, like it's, it's, so who knows what's going to happen. I think it's going to be probably a six hour show with all the applauding and crying and like just Us wanting to thank her for all the work she's put in Wild the takeaway there was 22 shows and of course, we have Bachelorette Jen Tran trying to go to the finale show in Toronto I guess she's having her passport FedEx to her cause she can't get there without the passport.

Uh, but it's delayed. So we'll have updates on that whole story. Again, this is really all meaningless stuff, but isn't most, uh, you know, entertainment news meaningless. I'll tell you what though. We have got some of the biggest female artists out there from Taylor Swift to Nikki Glaser. She's an artist to Alex Cooper to podcasters count as artists.

She's an artist in the form of conversation, and here's what she had to say regarding both presidential candidates, because listen, this is how you know you're a big podcaster. When both presidential candidates are trying to get on your show, you would try to avoid politics. I did, or at least you said you were trying to avoid politics.

And then what happened? Did they reach out to you? Do you reach out to them? Yeah, they reached out. Both sides reached out and, um, you say both. So Trump reached out to, Oh yeah. We had a zoom call with Trump's team. Tell us about that. I wasn't on it. I was like, let me know how that goes. Um, I wasn't, I wasn't, I wasn't on it, but they reached out.

And I think the interesting thing. Thought for me was what I have built. I'm the very competitive person back to my athlete nature days. I'm like, how do we keep ramping this up? And although I didn't want to technically get into politics, I did recognize there was a larger conversation that was directly impacting my audience, right?

Joe Rogan has a conversation. He knows his audience. I know my audience. And it's a bunch of women looking for someone to advocate for them every single day. And I understand people are like, Oh God, like, you're going to focus the whole time on abortion? Yeah, I am. Because it's not about abortion. It's about women's right to their bodies.

So, I thought, Why not have on someone that could potentially have a huge impact? And so there it is. So I mean, look, just to, I always say this, you know, don't get mad at content creators for using their platform in the direction they think is the right direction. You should actually, you should actually give them like street cred for, for taking a stance on anything, right?

I hate this idea that people shame others. It's like, look, you're, you're. You can unsubscribe from me or from her or wherever you want, but at least give credit to those that are willing to put their name on the line for something that they believe in. Even if it might be different than something you or I believe in.

There was another question asked about comparing her to, uh, Howard Stern. Have a listen to that. Say, uh, that one Sirius XM wanted to get you is because that you could become the successor at some point to Howard Stern. What do you think of that? I just, I'm like. I, oh my god, I was going to say something saying like, I have a vagina, but that was going to be inappropriate, so pretend, let's rewind.

I am a woman, like, I don't need to keep being compared to these men, I'm like, I'm Alex Cooper, I'm going to be Alex Cooper all day, and if I happen to sit next to Joe Rogan or Howard Stern, put me in the middle, but I'm, I'm not trying to be the next Joe Rogan. Howard Stern. I think Howard Stern is so talented.

What he has built is incredible. And I think what I have built is also incredible. I think what I've built is a lifestyle and a community of people, right? Like at first it started as an IP that had a catalog and it was many episodes of me talking about my life. And then I started interviewing people and now I have a catalog that is obviously worth a lot of money.

But aside from a catalog of just content, what the content has built is a community. Of primarily women who show up every week and want to be seen and heard and wanna engage with the content. And I think it's great. I just, I can't believe she doesn't talk about Sophie Franklin, Sophia Franklin, her partner, who of course was cut outta the deal.

Um, but, but which by the way. It wasn't, uh, it wasn't Alex Cooper's fault. Her partner overshot her, her, uh, overshot what she thought she was worth and went out on her own. And now Alex Cooper is worth, I guess, hundreds of millions of dollars more than her wild stuff. Wild stuff indeed. But Hey, yeah, good on her for sharing her voice.

All right. Well, before we get to the heavy stuff, cause we will be covering the, uh, assassin on the loose. What a wild end to 2024. It didn't have that on my bingo card, but what did you have on? You know what I mean? It's just a wild world we live in, but here's a professional dancer, Sasha speaking, um, on a podcast called the Joe about, uh, his possible, uh, tango he's doing with Jen Tran.

She's still trying to learn dance moves now with you? Yes. She's still like, she's definitely trying to learn dance moves. And you know, I feel like with Jen, I've only known her for three months. Which is so crazy to think about. Crazy. Crazy. And that's her calling me. Let's have a look. Jen, you know? Pick it up.

Should I pick it up? Yeah.

Oh, she hung up. Um, she is just amazing. You know, I feel like I've known her for three months and, uh, and I've known her my whole life. And that's, and I've been like that with all my partners. Like, Alison, there is not a day that goes by that we don't talk for at least 30 minutes. You know, I would get texts from Mary Lou Redden, pictures of her daughter having babies, pictures of our other dancers, and how much she misses it.

Tonya Harding messages me and is like, I'm fit and ready to go, put me in coach. She's still trying to learn. That's just crazy. I mean, it's crazy. The experience that these dancers get to have by coaching celebrities, it really has become such a slice of Americana. And you know, what's so interesting about that show is it sounded so stupid when it first premiered dancing with the stars.

What is this? But you know, it really just, it shows, uh, how beautiful dance is and how we can all connect to it. All right. I got the Haley Welch hock to a crypto scam story coming up next. Okay. I actually feel bad for Haley Welch. And I know, I know what you're going to say, Dave, how could you feel bad for her?

She's probably made millions over the hawk to a viral fame, you know, but I feel like she might be being taken advantage of with maybe some shoddy business advice. Maybe not, you know, she's an adult. She's a, but some are saying she may go to jail over what's going on. Who knows what may come of this, but she created a meme coin and Uh, while it went up to a value of 500 million and then quickly within 20 minutes, crashed down to 60 million and lost a lot of people, a lot of money.

Um, I don't know of the legal aspects of this. And I know, uh, if you guys are like me, you have no idea about this, uh, Bitcoin eCoin meme coin world is absolutely ridiculous, but here's a couple summaries of what's actually going down. Kevin Clancy from Barstool KFC, uh, discussed it. Haley Hawk Tua Welch invented her own meme coin and stop me if you heard this one before, a bunch of people bought it and they're upset they're losing money.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, has capitalized on their 15 minutes of fame more than Hawk Tua. At first I loved it. It's like, this girl seems very sweet, she's very nice, and the people that she's working with are very smart. They rolled out a podcast, they rolled out the socials, they're linking up with the Mets, they're doing all sorts of viral stuff, they were seizing the moment.

And then, just like everybody else in the goddamn world who goes viral, they took it too far, and they got involved in the crypto world. And surprise, surprise, the people who own 97 percent of the Hoctua coins were the Hoctua team. And immediately started selling and made like 2 million dollars in 20 seconds and left the bag with all these fucking morons who purchased this.

So they call it a pump and dump scheme, and again, whether or not there's evidence that this took place is yet to be seen. But folks are on it, and when the internet is on things, they tend to find the truth. Now on the one hand, this is probably illegal. Crypto is still the wild west. But I'm pretty sure this is theft and you probably can get pinched for this.

On the other hand, if you put a dime of your money Into a hock to a meme coin and you're upset when it's gone. You are the dumbest motherfucker alive. Yeah Yeah, not today, but you're still a victim, but you're a dumb victim anyway So Haley Welch was on one of those, you know Town Hall audio only spaces and she got pressed very hard by investigator Coffeezilla for allegedly scamming millions of dollars through her newly released meme coin.

Now Coffeezilla Doesn't mess around. This guy's really smart. He's really good. You like, you do not want to be investigated by coffee Zilla. Here's what he had to say. And, uh, when, then I'm going to share for you how she abruptly ended the conversation. From the community. Happy to answer any questions. I have questions.

I, I have questions. I'm raising my hand. That's coffee. What? Coffee Zilla. Hey, this is one of the most miserable, horrible launches I've ever seen in my life. Okay, then why the fuck are you on? I've been tracing it on chain for a while. You guys generated. Over a million dollars in fees while y'all's fans got rug pulled.

There was snipers, but there was also insider trading directly linked to y'all's creator account. What are you guys doing? No, no, no. That's, that's not true. That's not true. That's a fact. It's not, it's a fact and you can see it on chain. So yeah, we, we know we, we trust me. We were there. Um, we can, we can answer that.

Uh, you know, about the insider trading. No, there's no insider trading. That's why we can answer it. Okay. So there's tokens going directly from the main account. Coffee Zilla. Just, just chill for a second. And then it's getting sold for 50 K. Who is that? So anyway, it goes back and forth for like five minutes and then eventually this happens.

Hey guys, I hate to interrupt you Nick, uh, hello there, but anywho, I'm gonna go to bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow. Now I feel ba I feel bad for her in the essence where she may be a part of something that's a little above her IQ level and not understanding that she is exploiting her audience. Again, maybe she's complicit.

Either way, you just, when someone goes viral like this and doesn't, uh, go through the chains of, uh, traditional success where you learn to trust people and learn about your brand, when you go this viral, this fast, people are going to be out there taking advantage of you. I don't know if that's the case here, uh, but whether or not, uh, I mean, whether or not anything comes of this legally speaking yet to be seen.

We will be covering it though. Okay. Let's go to a lighter story. I'm kidding. United healthcare CEO slaying a journalist posted a blue cross executives photo advocating for peaceful letter writing campaign. That journalist is Taylor Lorenz, who has been, you know, there's been a lot of, uh, you know, problematic issues with this journalist as she was formerly with Washington post.

And anyway, people are saying, what the hell is she doing? She shared a photo. Of the executive, the CEO, Kim Keck, uh, you know, in some, I guess some people are saying she's implying that that's who may be next in this, um, uh, sort of, uh, vigilante justice, which again, I say this, uh, right off the bat, I don't Condone any physical violence, but at the same time, I'm also not surprised by it.

When it came to the assassination of the CEO of United healthcare, I mean, people are just going out and showing how predatory this company is. You know, they have double the amount of rejections from people that are trying to get their health insurance. It's no wonder that someone would have a target on their back.

So, uh, Thompson was killed a couple of days ago in broad daylight. Oh, well, it was early in the morning, but still, um, there are, there are now, uh, I guess images coming out of the suspect. They have a image of his face, I think at a Starbucks and, um, they don't, they haven't identified him yet, but it's getting, it's getting pretty wild out there as most of the audience, uh, is not.

I'm not angry at this guy, they're saying, hey, F around and find out. Police are closing in on the identity of the suspect who gunned down United Healthcare CEO outside New York City Hotel. Investigators released new video of the suspect riding a bike out of Central Park moments after the shooting.

Police say Brian Thompson was in town for an investors conference when the gunman approached from behind and fired several rounds. Now authorities say the shooter left clues at the scene that suggest he may have been angry with the insurance industry. They did find a lot at the scene, including some wrappers and a water bottle.

They hope to extract some DNA. They also hope to find video of the suspect. Without his mask, but they are closing in. It seems having a good idea of who this guy is. And they're hoping that some of those clues will lead right to him. So there has been reporting that he was staying at a hostel. There's really a lot going on with what's being said.

And again, when we get all the facts, we can share them. Uh, but there were inscriptions on the, uh, bullet casings. You probably have heard about this by now, uh, saying like, Defend I'll, I'll share exactly what was said on the bullet casings, but here's another clip of a former FBI special agent analyzing the shooting on the today show this morning, different scenarios that can play out one.

It's a targeted killing, maybe sponsored, uh, by an entity versus a personal grievance and maybe this individual had against the, uh, the victim or the United health itself. Looking at the two, the reconnaissance obviously was done and was quite remarkable. The shooting, uh, the shooter is very good with clearing that jam with a weapon would show a weapon experience, the escape route and the pre planning all of that is in place, which would seem to suggest there's some professional, you know, sort of capability there at the same point, uh, the engravings, you know, that are being reported on the shell casing.

Using actual, uh, purchases at a Starbucks right across the street, those are things that you just wouldn't see from something that was a more professional sort of assassination attempt. Those shell casings that we were just talking about, it said defend, deny, and depose somehow inscribed on the bullet casings.

What does that tell you? Yeah, that would seem to suggest that there's some sort of a personal or ideological motive around this specific target. This is not a spree shooting that we might be talking about. This is somebody who was specifically targeted. You see those words there, it's probably attached to some sort of a motive, some sort of a grievance for going after that specific target.

So this is obviously wild, and I think they're going to find out who the guy is. Now what happens from there is yet to be seen. But this is another example of why Taylor Lorenz is under fire for sharing Kim Keck's photo. But it's like look, this is all public information. The reason she was sharing Kim Keck's photo, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield, is that it's being reported that Blue Cross Blue Shield will no longer cover anesthesia.

For the full length of certain surgeries in Connecticut, New York, and Missouri. If a surgery exceeds a specific duration, anesthesia costs for the additional time will not be covered. So again, just more examples being exposed in this world we live in of how predatory the insurance industry is. Will things change?

Will, I mean, look. No, I mean, even Elon Musk on Twitter is sharing the administrative costs that exist within our healthcare system. We've been saying this for years, that we pay more to receive less and enough is enough. The privatization of healthcare systems, it just needs to go away. I'm not saying it needs to happen violently.

But again, I'm also not surprised. Um, so anyway, when we get the identity of that man, we will share it with you. Uh, but yeah, there's, there's a lot of cameras in New York city. So you'd think that they would find that out. Okay. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with today's, uh, single mom appreciation.

Well, uh, other news of screen of single moms, Amber Heard is having a baby expecting kid number two at 38 years old. Uh, so congratulations to her. I know no other comments from me. I don't know the father, uh, whether it's, um, I don't know, you know, I think the last father, it was speculated that it could have been Elon Musk, right?

I don't know if they ever announced who it was. Maybe it was. Yeah. Artificial insemination. Uh, who knows, but either way, I think she lives in Spain now. Right? So, uh, good luck. Uh, I don't know when it's due, but there's your update on your Amber Heard that nobody asked for. All right, well, let's go to our single mom appreciation Christmas wishlist.

Today's day four, and we are going to play the voicemail of Maria. Hey Dave, my name is Maria and I'm calling from the East coast. Um, I just first want to say thank you so much for every single year advocating for single moms. Um, You know, as a single mom that works and is trying to better herself in school and be everly present for my daughter and all of her wonderful activities, we rarely stop to think about, you know, this enormous task of doing it all.

And being the number one fan and provider for our Children. Um, so for you to take time during, especially during the holidays, it can be, you know, really struggling, challenging time, you know, to provide for presence and also kind of lonely if, you know, you don't have that family support or, um, the other parent support.

As is my case, um, so I just, I really feel seen and, um, understood when you speak up for, um, for us during this time. So I just, I want to thank you for that. Um, a little bit about my daughter. Her name's Essie and she's in middle school and just a wonderful, wonderful kid. She loves math. theater, uh, singing, and, you know, just being a happy go lucky kid.

So thank you very much. You know, even a present or two. It goes so far, um, to help me during this time. And, yeah, thank you so much, Dave, or as my daughter calls you, Mr. Neal. Have a great, um, Christmas with your family and Augie. Oh, how kind. Well, hello to you and your daughter. Mr. Neal here. Sounds so professional.

But I'll have a link to Maria's Instagram. Amazon wishlist in the description of this podcast. And you can donate to her wishlist. She's got a lot of great toys, some very affordable stuff. If you buy any of the presents, they will go directly to our mom of the day. So very, very, uh, you know, just very honored that people would trust us to share these stories.

We have a bizarre update on the missing woman from Hawaii, Hannah Kobayashi. Uh, it sounds like the family thinks there is. Uh, another layer to this very odd story. We're also getting new details on a potentially stunning twist on a woman from Maui who was reported missing here in Los Angeles, but is now believed to have willfully traveled to Mexico.

Tonight, her family is responding to reports that Hannah Kobayashi may have been involved in a secret marriage. In a lengthy statement, Kobayashi's family says, in part, the family has not publicly announced any information regarding an alleged marriage because we did not have the facts or the necessary documents to verify the legitimacy of this information.

All of this comes after the LAPD announced on Monday that Kobayashi was seen safely crossing the border into Mexico. Now we shared this, uh, that the sister was worried that there's something more nefarious to it. So just because she crossed alone and didn't look like there was any distress, you gotta think that there's some other aspect to this story.

So, very bizarre, but there's your update. Uh, again, if more information comes out, we will be here to share it. Here's a story that literally nobody asked for. Reveal the secret, the snack wrap will be back in 2025. So this is the McDonald's CEO saying McDonald's snap, a snack wrap will be back in 2025. Well, so will my diarrhea.

This is, it has a cult following. Uh, I get so many emails into my inbox about this product. It will be back in 2025 following for the snack wrap. It does. It really does. I don't believe it. I've never heard one person who says, I want a McDonald's snack wrap. That seems to be one of those things you get when there's nothing else on the menu and nowhere else to go.

Okay. And it's coming back when I'm not going to tell you exactly when in 2025 for competitive reasons. So he's looking jolly, but McDonald's really seems to be under fire. Their prices are high. No one's going to eat there anymore. And he's saying, we've got the solution. The snack wrap. No, bring back the McRib.

That's what people want. Okay. Well, that's going to do it for us. Uh, there's many stories we did not get to yet. So we will have to cover them first thing tomorrow morning. The beat goes on so much happening this week in the news and we'll be back to cover it Uh, then, so thanks so much for continuing to share all the love and positivity and sharing us with your friends, giving us five star reviews.

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12-5-24 Morning Rush - Bachelor Podcaster Nick Viall (Viall Files) Shares Hilariously Embarrassing 'Hot Mic' Moment & Updates On CEO Assassin On The Loose!

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride, buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Thursday to you, December 5th, 2024. We got all the pop culture and entertainment news. In one place. And let me tell you, we are chock full.

2024 is not going quietly into the night. We have an update from the sister of the missing Hawaiian woman, Hannah Kobayashi. Plus new details from the assassin on the loose in New York city, following the murder of United healthcare CEO. Also Ariana Maddox, formerly of Vanderpump rules, discusses if she would allow.

Any cameos at her sandwich shop in a Senator grills, airline CEOs from spirit and frontier on their extra junk fees. You're going to love hearing that if we can get rid of anything in life, it is the junk fees that airlines charge. Uh, they got a lot of baggage and I'm not paying for it. Plus the vile files.

Podcasts, Nick vial shared a hilarious clip of a guest from the real housewives dissing them while accidentally on a hot mic. I'm going to play that clip. And so much more for you. And it's all coming up next on the rush. I want to first start off by thanking everybody who is sharing with me that I've made it as one of your top podcasts.

Spotify has a end of year thing. It does where it tells you your top five albums and stream, you know, what songs you streamed. And it also has your top podcast. And so many of you guys, I am literally humbled to say this have shown that I am your number one podcast. I don't care if you tell me I'm your number one, it, the numbers don't lie when you show the screen grabs.

Uh, personally want to thank Christina Finley on Twitter. She. We were number one trading secrets by Jason Tartick. Number five. Uh, you know, it's just great to see that we are sort of in such professional company. So thanks again to everybody who keeps, I mean, keep tagging me on Instagram. I'll keep sharing it.

And, uh, I really appreciate all the love that you guys have been pouring my way. Oh, right. And you know, and I'll say, and I say that because this is my second year doing the podcast. And last year we were literally on nobody's top list. I mean, nobody, and this year to be your number one choice, I know.

There's a lot of competition out there. It's a very saturated market. And I just, I really thank all of you for continuing to support the show. Truly. Well, let's go into the manhunt underway. After the CEO was gunned down in New York city yesterday, we got this information and a lot more has been coming out as far as speculation goes and, and all of that.

So let's, uh, let's play a few clips for you. And behind what New York city police are calling a targeted attack. Caught on camera this morning in the heart of Manhattan as the morning rush hour was getting underway. The victim is 50 year old Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, part of the largest private health insurance company in the country.

The gunman's face was covered by a mask and hood. He fled to Central Park on an electric bike. And this new video obtained by CBS News shows him leaving the park at 6 a. m. 59 a. m. That was 15 minutes after the shooting and it was captured by a surveillance camera on the Upper West Side. Now, the shocking attack took place early in the morning and there are reports that the victim's widow said her husband had previously received threats.

So, We don't know any, it's all speculation out there right now as to what the hell is going on. This of course was, this happened yesterday. The clip I played was from last night's evening news at CBS. Uh, but a lot of people, I mean, the comment sections of all the videos sharing it are really atrocious and that's because people are fed up with privatized health insurance.

You know, companies like this are making 20 billion in profits. Meanwhile, their job is to essentially decline people's insurance claims. I mean. And here's what's crazy. I've got family members that are still against universal health care, and they are six figures in debt. I actually know someone who's a million dollars in debt, uh, because of medical debt.

It's the number one cause of debt in our country, and it sucks to talk about. It's not a fun thing to talk about, but we spend more to get so much less. I've shared this forever. So, you know what? Is this why the CEO was gunned down? I'm not sure. And while I would not wish that on my worst enemies, this is what happens when society demands changes.

I mean, again, pure speculation, but imagine if you know, you lost the love of your life because she was denied the treatment that she needed to afford to, you know, you know, battle a disease or whatever. And this is the head of the company that is responsible. I mean, imagine what you would do. I, I, I personally can't, I would ever wanna be in that position.

Uh, but I think it's an eyeopener that most people in the United States, regardless of if you're Democrat or Republican or where you stand, most people in the United States agree that the system is terribly, terribly flawed. So here is what New York City is saying about the shooter and, uh, what they know.

What we know is that the shooter arrived at the location on foot about five minutes prior to the victim's arrival. He stands alongside the building line as numerous other people and pedestrians pass him by from video. We see at 6 44 AM, the victim is walking alone towards the Hilton at the exiting his hotel across the street.

We believe the victim was headed to the Hilton hotel to attend the United health group investors conference that was scheduled to start. Now, here's what's crazy. The conference still went on after the CEO was shot and killed out front. That's, that's how little people care about you. Just so you guys know for everyone says, Oh, my boss loves me.

The company culture is great. No, nobody, everyone's out to take care of themselves. Let that be a reminder. When you think you're taking a discount to stay with a company. Oh, Oh, my, my boss is my family. It's not. They're not everyone's in it for themselves. So no one knows, uh, exactly again, what the deal is here, but uh, People are saying look if you don't want to see a look at where humanity is stay out of the comment section His family will never be the same and all of that is true concurrently This country is so fed up with wealth That we have no compassion anymore.

We are really saying, eat the rich. That's like the nicest way I can put that. Now, I mean, when you look at it, when health insurance is privatized, the CEO and the shareholders, they, they have sort of an obligation to maximize profits, and they do that by minimizing the amount of work, uh, or the amount of coverage they actually give their shareholders.

They're, they're, they're the people that pay into it, uh, us Americans. So we think we're buying this health, this great insurance. It's like when we, when, uh, when we had the baby, uh, you know, we, we went to the stupid seminar and we said, are you sure the anesthesia is covered by our health insurance? And they go, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The, the anesthesiologist, uh, is covered under the same network and blah, blah, blah. And then certain, and sure enough, we get the bill and it wasn't covered. True. And why do we, why do we have 19 different bills, uh, for the delivery? Well, you know, what the hell is going on now? I'm in a lucky enough position where we can afford to pay it and not ask too many questions.

But when I was an Uber driver making barely minimum wage, I can't tell you how many people I drove to the hospital as an Uber driver, uh, because they didn't, or could not afford an ambulance. I mean, this is not the way. We should be living in what is supposed to be the richest country in the world. All right, again, we're going to have some, um, we'll have a little bit of levity in a second.

We'll, we'll have some more fun stories, but this is just another crazy one. Millions of Americans might be impacted by a massive China hack of us citizens. Phones says an official, this was from ABC world news. Federal authorities acknowledging for the first time, Chinese hackers successfully stole data from hundreds of thousands of Americans hacking at least eight telecommunication companies.

And now suggesting Americans who don't want their text messages and conversations stolen by China to use apps for encrypted messaging. Here's Pierre Thomas. Tonight, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee telling ABC News millions of Americans could potentially be impacted by a massive Chinese hacking and espionage campaign.

You know, and this is just one of those things, uh, at this point it's like, well, we all have tech talks on our phone. What did we expect? It's like, what did we expect? What happened? I don't know. And I don't have any answers. I, you know, if they go on my phone, they're just going to see me passive aggressively fighting with my sister via text message.

I mean, that's what we have going on. All right. The next story I have coming up is the Nick Vial, hot Mike story. You're going to, it's just funny. It's just a funny story. Uh, and then after that, we'll have senators grilling the airline CEOs. So why don't we do this? Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with Nick right after this.

All right. You're going to have to forgive me for not knowing all of the characters here in the Bravo universe, but Vicki Gunvalson, she was what? A real housewife of Orange County. Well, she was convinced by her assistant to go on Nick Vial's podcast and she went on it, but she said she wanted to cancel and either way, it was very, very bizarre, I guess, I guess they, uh, they scheduled it and she was closing on a condo, it's a very bizarre, like FaceTime call she did from a beach in Cabo.

Either way. As soon as she hangs up, uh, you can actually hear in the background, she's still talking, and talks mad trash at Nick and the crew. Uh, it's a very funny story. Apparently she gave permission for them to use the clip afterwards, uh, cause she didn't really remember what she had to say. Uh, not everything I'm gonna share here is Like clear to hear, but just listen in.

I know we love a good voyeuristic moment. Okay. All right. So at that moment, she says goodbye to Nick and his whole podcast team. And this is where it gets interesting. Okay. Bye. That was a favor to her dad because he's got seven million So good. Yes, it helps You've made him a major Um, so I don't know He'd be at the hurt idea So this guy don't network I was a guest on his show.

Oh, I know but he doesn't prefer that No, he has his own network his own show Don't think So, so just to summarize, she's like, yeah, I was told to be a guest on this guy's show. He has a big following. I've never heard of him.

Now I I'm not going to lie. I've done this so many times. You ever, do you ever do that? Where you sign off the phone with someone and you're just like not convinced you've signed off because you're about to talk mad trash about them. I mean, I do this on half the podcasts I go on. No offense. If you're out there listening.

Uh, but yeah, you know, uh, good on her for having a sense of humor and good on Nick's show for deciding to share it. I'll play that full clip with the YouTube on today's YouTube. So you can see their reaction. Uh, you know, and some people in the comment section were saying, Oh my gosh, they shouldn't have aired this, whatever.

This makes them look bad. You know, sometimes it's okay to look bad. It's like, yeah, she didn't know who you guys were. That's the beauty of podcasting. You can be a big, successful podcast and nobody knows who you are. All right. Well. We are going to share the clip from Senator Hawley, Senator Hawley, uh, uh, cross examining the CEOs of both spirit airlines and the CEO of frontier airline.

Now I've been on the record here saying, I think airlines should standardize their business practices. So, because it's like, look, if you, if we all have to get on a flying bus in the sky, we should all know what the price of, uh, the, if the flight's going to be, and in capitalism works better with. When you know what the price of, of the transaction will be.

The problem is, is so many people that use spirit, they get lured in with these low prices and don't realize there's all these fees that are attached to it. So, uh, I think we should, I think every ticket you buy, regardless of where you're flying, should come with at least one free checked bag, one free carry on.

The fact that we now charge for the check. Bag means everyone in their mother is trying to jam too many carry ons onto the flight. It's a terrible experience. Tell me what the price is with a check bag and a carry on period done. Get rid of discount airlines. If you can't afford to function in that capacity, you don't get to be an airline.

Here's what Josh Howley had to say as he grilled everybody. You're going to enjoy this one. Have a listen. Why is it that you charge different people, different fees for carry on bags? Why is that, Mr. Klein? Why, why isn't, why isn't it just a flat fee? Why is it that, that I might get charged one fee, but uh, my wife might get charged a different fee.

Why is that? So, overall, our job is to generate, uh, the most revenue we can so we can be profitable as an airline. If we're not, if we're not profitable as an, well, actually we have, we have costs and there's costs out there and we have to make sure that we're above the cost line in order to make sure that we can run a profitable entity.

Yeah, I got it. No, I got it. Here's the problem with Spirit Airlines is, and by the way, when I search for airlines, I make sure to click the button that doesn't include spirit because they don't care about the customer at all, right? That they want, they want to be the most bottom of the barrel, cheapest flight you could get, because when you look in search flights online, you're like, Oh my gosh, a flight for 42.

But that's just, that's just not the true price. Tell people the true price. Like that's the price of you just walk through the airport willy nilly. Uh, but so many people, especially like the elderly and old and people that don't know how to book flights online, they get robbed in hoodwinked. When they show up to the airport because they don't know how to play the system.

I got it. It's, I got it. Money's the answer. So you're, you're, you're in last year, you're carry on bag fees range between 15 and 99. That's extraordinary. One person might pay 15, somebody else might pay 99. How do you determine it? Is it based on personal characteristics? It's never women more. It's never based on personal characteristics, charge up minors more.

We do not, sir. What, just people who are suckers? I mean, how do you, how do you, how do you do it? Well, there, there, there is a cost to carry any, any kind of bag. Yeah, but why do you charge some people more? I understand the cost and you made clear money's your bottom line. I get that. But, but why is it that you're charging some people?

What triple quadruple the amount? Well, the length of the flight should matter in this in this as well. So yeah Yeah, but that's not this is that's not the data The data shows is we're talking about the same people on the same flight might get charged radically different prices For a one carry on bag you do the same thing for check bags Why is that right?

So just just for the record the 99 dollar charge has been reduced to 79 dollars And Uh, what ends up happening here is we want to make sure that we can get the best price to the best people at the right time. The best people? Who would they be? The, sorry, let me rephrase. The right price Are those the people who, what, I mean, no, explain it to me, I'm interested.

Who are the best people without that was the misstatement, sir. What we're trying to do is get, is get the right price at the right time. And what that also means is making sure that if someone is, if someone's on a flight that's now full it filling up and we have a lot of, as we talked about unbundled pricing and they get screwed.

So like if you, if you have the misfortune of. of having to book your flight at the end because maybe something's been canceled and you're going to get screwed. Is that what you're telling me? Are you referring? You're not one of the best people. Are you referencing just fair? I'm just, I'm just responding to your testimony.

I'm listening to you and you just said as a flight's filling up, you're going to get charged more. Not always. Sometimes you'll get charged less. Right. Sometimes. Right. But you'll never know. Right. That's the beauty of it. It's like Russian roulette. Flying on the airline is I would disagree, sir. You Idea in the world.

I would disagree. No, I You just said it's very said it. It's very transmission. We'll have it. Listen, there'll be a transfer generated and I'll send it to you with a bow on it. You can read your own testimony just now. You have no idea what the fee's gonna be ever. I mean, look, you know, no. This is the type of accountability.

We need from our government to, uh, not, not from the government, but by the government to make sure that, you know, late stage capitalism, isn't just, you know, you know, ripping people off. I mean, I don't know how else to say it. Here's a fun clip of how airlines incentivize gate agents, uh, I guess, and this stuff's going viral all over tick tock airlines chart, give a bounty to the gate agents.

To make you have to check a bag. So if the, if the bag has like one strap that, that doesn't fit into the little box thing, they get a bounty for that. Have a listen. It's just, can we just clear this up once and for all, we're all here. We're all under oath. So Mr. Schroeder, let's start with you. Do you charge a bounty?

Do you pay employees? Bounties on carry on bags to identify them. That's a that's a it's a simple. That's a real that's a yes or no I wouldn't characterize it as a bounty. Do you charge them? Do you pay your employees a fee? Do you incentivize them to go pick out bags from people getting on planes? And kick them off the flight just yes or no.

We charge them an incentive. Okay, that's a yes. Mr Klein, uh, we do not senator holly. We you don't you don't wait. You don't pay your employees We have previously, uh, sir, but we, we actually suspended that on September 30th of this year. And now what we, in order to be able to treat. All of our guests fairly and equitably.

We've actually just put more staff and supervisors out of the gate area. And they're the ones that are still making sure that everyone's treated fairly and equitably, which is the point behind these kinds of programs. But we have removed that program as a system. By the way, if I was being paid extra. To as a gate agent to take bags, if they were too big, I would be the bag czar.

I would literally be making so much money. I'd be like, ma'am, that tags too big. You got to go like, this is not a good way to incentivize your employees here. Like this, this is like the opposite of, uh, taking care of the customer. Interesting. So let's, let's come back to you though, uh, Mr. Schroeder. So how much have you paid your gate agents?

To enforce your carry on bag policy to pick people out of the line, like the chairman's video show. I mean, you guys do appreciate that flying on your airlines is a, is a disaster, don't you? I'm slightly amazed by the general attitude of all of you here. Flying on your airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience.

It's terrible. It's absolutely terrible. And your, your attitude here today seems to be, well, devil may care. There's nothing we can do about it. You know, I mean, I, I tend to agree. I think there for like human rights, there should be a certain size. Like, like no, no airline should go below whatever it is, 34 inches for your leg room.

You know, we need to set a standard and say, look, if you can't operate within this standard, you just don't, you just don't deserve to be a company working. You know what I mean? I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy, but here I am fighting for the, uh, for the rights of those that fly. All right. Well, anyhow, no wonder people are getting so enraged on flights and you fist fighting each other.

You know, we're dealing with chaos out there in the baggage world. All right. I got a couple more stories to get to. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this. All right. As we covered earlier this week, Vanderpump rules is going to have a new cast for season 12. Uh, but what does that mean for Ariana Maddox?

I mean, she was. Really the center of the scandal controversy. Well, she spoke to extra TV about her plans, even though she won't be on the show. Well, no one's returning. Nobody's returning. No little cameos, no pop pop in, but you know, we do Katie Maloney and I do own something about her sandwich shop, two doors down from sir.

If they start filming and they need to have an argument and they want to have it over a sandwich. They are welcome to argue over our sandwiches. By the way, what a great saleswoman. I mean, I've never argued while eating a panini, you know, it's got to be very tough. Uh, you know, you argue at like a waffle house, you know what I mean?

There's just certain places where you argue, but I've never seen anyone argue at a Jersey Mike's. The food's too good. It's like, no one needs to be yelling at each other while you've got, uh, you know, drizzled olive oil on your, uh, multi Genoa salami subway, not happening now. As far as her sandwich shop goes, I would love to know if it's profitable or not.

I mean, for, for her, I hope it is, but it's like, ah, geez, who, who wants to get into the restaurant world? I don't know. I, I certainly don't. They're going to come and argue at your place. Yes. Are you disappointed to not be going back? Like, Oh no, I'm, I'm, I'm feeling great. Yeah. She's like, no, no, honey, I've made a lot of money after being cheated on.

She's made more money Uh, by being cheated on, then she probably did her whole career leading up to that. So it still sucks that she had to go through that. But I mean, how many of us have been cheated on and didn't make any money off of it? I mean, she's got a sandwich shop to show for it. I mean, being cheated on sucks, but you know, if you can get a nice chicken parm out of the deal, why not?

Alright, uh, News Nation had, uh, Hannah Kobayashi's sister on to discuss, and again, she was the missing Hawaiian woman. She was seen, I guess, uh, or reported to have, uh, walked on foot to Mexico across the, uh, border, uh, but the sister's saying not enough is being done, uh, to sort of locate her. Do you have any idea why Hannah is staying silent so long?

I've said this from day one, I, I feel like she She's in danger. I feel like this is completely out of character for her. I've known her my entire life. She's been one of my best friends, especially after, you know, if she had seen what happened with my my father and his passing, she would have definitely reached out right now.

Sydney, we all learned yesterday with the news conference that Hannah had crossed on foot, um, seemingly by herself of her own volition into Mexico. When did you and the family learn about that detail? We learned the same day that the public did. LAPD also has not released any footage to the family at all to, they're basically just determining that this is my sister.

I just, I want her to know that, that she is loved and she is supported in every way she performs and no matter what she's going through right now. She needs to know that she has a place to come home to. I really hope that if she does see this, like, just Just let us know, give us a message or something to let us know that you are safe and that you are okay.

Yeah, really a wild story. A lot of people are just confused by it all. Uh, she's, I guess, considered voluntarily missing, you know, they don't think, uh, it's, there's anything nefarious going on or at least have no. Proof that that is going on. Well, we'll continue to cover that story. I've already got so many stories lined up for the afternoon rush.

I've got an update on Taylor Swift's touring schedule. I've got an update on Alex Cooper and, um, what she's got going on. I think she was interviewed by Forbes 30 under 30. So a lot to get into this afternoon. I'll have several videos for you along with a Patrion live stream. So stick around for those. I appreciate you guys again, one more time.

Thanks for. Sharing and tagging me and Instagram with all of the different, um, you know, screenshots of, of, of us being in your top five. I want to, for 2025, I really want to do a better job of bragging about you guys as an audience. And I think the best way to do that is to continue to share on social media, what a loyal audience we do have.

It's going to get, it's going to get us on higher value shows. It's going to get us higher value guests. Not that we don't value our guests and it's going to continue to help everyone grow so, uh, much appreciated. And again, stick around this afternoon, we'll have so much more because the stories, uh, the year might be ending, but the drama and gossip certainly isn't.

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12-4-24 Afternoon Rush - Taylor Swift Is Most Streamed Artist Of The Year & Assassin On The Loose In NYC & Bachelorette Jenn Thanks 'Partner' Sasha

Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hello, everybody. Good afternoon on this hump day, Wednesday, December 4th, 2024. We have all of your pop culture news in one place. On today's episode, I've got Sly Stallone sharing a free Funny story about breaking up with someone via FedEx.

I didn't know that was an option. Uh, old school indeed. Also updates on the showmance between Dancing with the Stars partners and hotties, Gleb and Brooks plus Texas general manager. Oh, excuse me. The general manager of the Texans gets heated as he responds to the late hit penalty from Sunday's game plus single mom, Christmas wishlist featuring Sarah and her 18 month old baby Ella.

It's day three. We will have. That heartwarming story. We're going to help her out. And Beyonce is named greatest pop star of the 21st century while Taylor Swift gets most streams of the year. Plus bachelorette Jen Tran gives a public thanks to her dance partner, furthering speculation that they are dating.

Some say they might not be. Did he put her in the friend zone? Maybe he's going to break up via UPS. We don't know. We can only speculate. I'll have all of these stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, it's that time of year in December where everyone wraps up the year and Spotify always has their end of the year list, uh, which shares which podcasts are popular and which aren't.

And every year I get so annoyed when I'm not on somebody's top podcast list. Well, this year, the podcast has certainly blown up thanks to you guys. And I want to shout out Christina Finley. She wrote, she wrote this on Twitter. Dave Neal wasn't even a podcast I listened to last year. And now he is number one.

Thank you for the great content. That's right. She listed me as the rush hour podcast as her top podcast. And again, you can't make this up. It's probably based on hours watched. Well, guess what? Trading secrets was her fifth boom shakalaka. Take that Jason Tartick. We're the top dog. Now, uh, if you want to hit Jason Tartick, if you want to rise the ranks with Christina Finley, you got to put in the work because we got her locked down at number one.

All right. Well, uh, it sucks to be ghosted in modern society, but I think I'd rather be ghosted than receive a divorce and via. Here's Sylvester Stallone, aka Rocky, uh, calling himself a coward for the way he broke up with his wife. This is him on the Fox News, uh, host Sean Hannity's podcast. Have a listen.

Okay. There was one really bad story I read about you. And you don't have to answer if you don't want. No, I won't. Don't even ask the question. I'll save you the air. No, but I mean, for a small period you broke up with her, you FedExed her a letter? Who FedExed a breakup an hour and a half? I mean, look, it's probably better than standard mail.

Right? It wasn't a postcard. That's the most insincere breakup you can get. It's like, You can't even say, you can't even, you, you put it down in words because you don't have the guts to do it face to face because I think the department didn't want to. You see what I mean? You didn't want to break up. No, I didn't.

But I felt, listen, in my profession or my life, I should say, the way I've been structured is, My history with relationships is an abomination. Uh, from my male friends. Can we say was an abomination? Oh yeah, I mean, I, I, I couldn't live without her. I mean, she is my So he's got his, I guess, wife now, uh, by his side, but this is talking about the note sent to his other wife in 1994.

Uh, they were dating for six years. My son, my moon, everything. But I was raised in a incredibly dysfunctional family. Um, no love, no Pat, no handshake. No, I've never had, you got the ship beat out of you. It should be a lot big time. Today, it, uh, people would've been arrested. Listen, I I've, I've grown up, you know, we've all had struggles in life, but how many of us break up with our wife via FedEx?

I don't know. I mean, this sounds like a, like a, like a, a scene from a, a deleted scene from Castaway or something, right? Didn't he work for FedEx or UPS? Who cares? Anyway, still a fun story to share. Hey, it was the nineties. What are you gonna do? Wasn't. Texting didn't exist. He wasn't going to pick up the phone call.

You know what I mean? That's a, that's, that's a even more, I mean, do you guys remember what it was like to make a phone call in the nineties? You never knew who was going to pick up on the other end. Oh, the uncertainty, you know, you know, actually in the early two thousands, I found out there was a website service you could use that would send your phone.

Phone call straight to someone else's voicemail. That was amazing. I used it all the time. A voicemail. I have control over. I can get my statement out and it's over a phone call. I mean, do you remember my old millennials, what it was like to call somebody and not know if one of their parents were going to pick up?

Oh boy. It was crazy times indeed. Alright, well, we've got, uh, a lot of people debating, uh, who's a better pop star, Beyonce or Taylor Swift, which is ridiculous. They're very different. You know, Taylor's, uh, you know, you know, completely different from Beyonce. There's a lot of respect for both of them. Well, Beyonce was ranked Top pop star, greatest pop star of the 21st century.

And it's like, sure, whatever, this is a list by billboard, whatever their metrics are, who knows? Uh, whereas Taylor Swift was the top 2024 Spotify artist with 26. 6 billion streams worldwide. That was also because she was re releasing her albums, which, you know, she's in like the steroid era of releasing music because she's got her Taylor version.

She's got her. Tortured poets department. She's got it all. Vinyls, cassette decks, uh, eight tracks. She'll she'll, you know, she's the queen of merch. She'll sell you anything. She doesn't care. So they're completely different, but you know, people still like to debate like the Michael Jordan, LeBron debate.

Who's the greatest of all time. The only sport we know who the greatest is, is Tom Brady. And I don't, I don't let anyone argue that when he's the greatest football player of all time. All right. I don't want to hear your arguments. A lot of Patriot, uh, have his moment. Well, here's Diane Warren. She was asked by TMZ.

Here's what she had to say. What do you think about Beyonce being labeled the greatest pop star of the 21st century? I don't know, she's great though. Yeah, Billboard just listed her as the greatest pop star. A lot of people are saying it should have been Taylor Swift. I don't know, everybody's awesome.

I've done songs for both of them, so I'm good. Okay. You said you worked with both of them, so you're good. And they're both amazing. She says they're both great. She's playing that mom role. No, I love all of my kids, but it's like, okay, which one do you listen to more? And again, they're different, but, uh, they're great.

Like who would you rather see at Coachella? Maybe Beyonce? I think Beyonce puts on more of a show as far as like, she's a better dancer. Vocals. I mean, look, I'm not, who am I? I'm not an expert to break it down. I don't know. They're just different. Uh, uh, anyway, okay, let's go to our dancing with the stars updates.

We have a couple. Gleb Savchenko and Brooks Nader say we are together, not a showmance. Of course they got together during the show. They broke up via FedEx. No, I'm sorry. That wasn't that story. They broke up via tech. I believe he. He texted her to dump her and she never responded. And of course now they, I guess, are back together, rekindled their relationship.

Uh, that, that's how, you know, life moves fast. You know, look, when you're in your mid to late thirties, you can break up, get back together. It all just, it, it's a, it's a real blur. She just got, you know, out of, uh, I think a marriage or whatever she got out of. So I'm sure she doesn't want to jump into new things, but the, uh, Power of the tango has brought their hips gyrating back together.

Here's what they had to say when TMZ caught up with them, uh, and asked them, uh, you know, what are they? How are you guys? Good. You guys have been spending a lot of time together. Everybody wants to know, are you guys getting back together? Or are you back together? We are together. Brooks. We saw you were wearing a ring on your ring finger last week.

What, what did that mean? Nothing. Making a statement, fashion statement. No, it's a divorce ring. I turned a little old ring into a new ring. So what do you guys say to the people who still thinks this was a showman's, you know, is it real? Of course it's true. Everything's real. Yeah. We're not playing. They always look stoned when they talk.

He says, of course it's real. Everything's real. We're not playing. It's like, okay. Okay. They're stoned, dad. Just are you dating or not? Make out, show us. Prove it to us. Uh, you know, anyway, uh, so there's your update at the end, you know, TMZ gets, they get called for a lot of these interviews. I don't know if this was a random, you know, interview where they just found them in a parking lot.

They always, the, the, these celebrities make it seem like they don't want to be bothered, but they're there doing the interview. You know, you're a real celebrity when you're like. Taylor Swift. And you just want to be ushered to where you want to go. It's like, look, no offense to Brooks and glubs have Chanko.

Uh, but you know, they need this, this is good press for them. And if they can find love and share and whatever chemistry they have while getting some free publicity, Why not? I would take it even though I am ranked as the number one podcast, according to one of my listeners, uh, by the way, keep tagging me on your Instagram or Twitter's or whatever you use tag me and tag the podcast, the rush hour with Dave Neal on Instagram.

If we are in your top five ranking on Spotify, I'm going to shout all of you guys out. Uh, we're not taking no for an answer. We're going out there. We're promoting hard into the holidays. All right. More content coming your way. We'll be back right after this. Well, we discussed Taylor Swift being the most streamed, uh, artist of the year.

Well, a lot of trickle down effect for her beau. Uh, he's got a podcast, the new heights with his brother. It's Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey. Well, Travis Kelsey seems to be, uh, excited for the tae voodoo. I guess that's, we're calling the mojo that Taylor brings to the Kansas city chiefs. Here's what he had to say in his podcast.

As a kid, I just loved Major League, man. That's not a kid's movie. It is in my book. Um, All right, fine. What is it? Does it? Is that Maze Haze? Rookie of the Year. There's so many good ones. Angels in the Outfield. I'd love to fucking feel what it's like to, I kind of feel like you guys are the Angels in the Outfield this year.

We're the Angels in the Outfield. There's some unknown, like,

Here you go with this fucking tae voodoo shit, dude. This dude's such a dickhead.

Who you going with? Kicking and screaming? God damn, these are all fucking golden. I'm gonna say the fucking, uh, the little giants, man. Alright, so they're just talking about their favorite kids movies, but they call it Tae Voodoo. Uh, and the, and he relates, uh, uh, Tae Voodoo. Travis Kelsey's season to that of the Angels in the outfields where they had divine intervention helping them win.

Is Taylor Swift an angel sent from above to lift the team up? I don't know. I mean, it's not like the team sucked before Taylor got involved. Taylor only dates winners. Uh, she, I mean, could you imagine it? Could you imagine if you're a pop star and you fall in love with like someone not like Hunter Henry on the Patriots?

No offense to my Patriots, but we suck. My team blows this year. You can't be seen with a loser when you're someone like Taylor Swift. She's attached. yourself to Super Bowl winning team. What else do you want now? No offense to my friends and family here in Kansas city, Missouri, but you'd think a pop star would date a guy who played in New York or LA, one of the major metropolises, but Hey, she's queen of the Midwest and she ain't apologizing.

Well, uh, why don't we go to this interesting story? Did you know this, that, uh, Mickey mouse is, I guess, not registered property anymore. Uh, Disney fans have nothing to worry about because the upcoming horror flick based on steamboat Willie is now. Not going to undo any of Mickey's magic, says a star of scream boat.

The ultra bloody indie horror movie takes the original Mickey mouse character and drops him in a slasher film all because the character is now in the public domain. I think that's what happens, right? When a character has been around for so long, it no longer has, you can't like license it, right? So now there's a movie coming out where you have, it's a slasher movie starring Mickey mouse.

Um, okay, look, hey, not my cup of tea, but I'll, I'll check it out. Here's what the main actor, Tyler Posey, had to say. I wanted to ask you, I mean, you're in this new crazy movie called Screamboat. I mean, were you still looking at Mickey and like, you know, as cute and stuff like that? Are we going to start looking at him kind of different now that he's like murderous?

Well, uh, it's not, I don't, I don't know if it's technically Mickey, um Mm-Hmm. . But it's like Willie, his other . Yeah. Steam. It's, it's, it's like a play on Steamboat Willie. Um, but no, he'll always be the, the, the, the lovable mouse that we own now. It's gotta be funny when you're an actor coming up because your family doesn't really know what you do.

So during the Christmas holidays, he's got to explain, so what's Tyler doing? Well, he's playing this, uh, Mickey Mouse character who murders other people. Really? Yeah. You know, it's not, uh, you know, it's going to be good. It'll be on the streamers. I don't know. Well. I've got an update for you on my, uh, my next, uh, uh, I wouldn't call it favorite Christmas movie, but I have another hit here.

Lindsay Lohan, uh, has, uh, I guess a couple of years in a row now, uh, released some Christmas movies and it is dominating the new Netflix top 10 chart. I'll be honest with you. It wasn't a great movie, but it actually had a lot come together in the end that I thought made it really fun. Uh, it reminded me of crazy, stupid love.

It was a kind of a family focused movie where there was a lot of breakups. Uh, you know, it's like, I'll tell you, I'll tell you this because I don't want to give it away. It's Lindsay Lohan. Her character has to spend the holiday season with her ex, but nobody knows that they had dated before. Boom. Done.

And it's a lot of fun. You have Kristen Chenoweth in it. There's a lot of, uh, actors and characters from Saturday night live, a little bit of a slow start, but it's like, look, what are we supposed to do? We can't be complaining when Lindsay Lohan is starring in a Christmas movie. I mean, it used to be only rejects would star in Christmas movies.

Lindsay Lohan is an icon. She is my generation's Marilyn Monroe, and I won't have it any other way. Uh, I think she's such a good physical actress, the way she plays in the sort of, uh, I dunno, you'll just have to watch it to see. Um, you know, I have a green light, yellow light, red light system. And when Lindsay Lohan's in a movie, I immediately give it the benefit of the doubt with a yellow light.

I've upgraded this to a red light. Uh, that's what it is, uh, a green light from Lindsay Lohan's new Christmas movie. Again, it's called Our Little Secret on Netflix. Hey, 38 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but hey, don't, uh, when it comes to Christmas movies, ratings don't matter. I think it's a good one. It's a win for me.

All right, well, it's time for day three of our single mom appreciation Christmas wish list. Uh, every day for the next couple of weeks, we are sharing a single mom who can use our help. We have an Amazon wishlist. All you got to do is buy an item. It'll go directly to her address. And this is Sarah from Phoenix, Arizona calling in on behalf of her 18 month old daughter, Ella.

Have a listen. Hi, Dave and bachelor family. My name is. Sarah, and I'm from the Phoenix, Arizona area this holiday season. I'm reaching out to the little vulnerability as a newly single mom, my daughter, Ella, who's now 18 months old is my whole world. And we recently moved into a cozy little one bedroom apartment.

And as we work to get back on track, and she's just been my constant friend. Source of joy and strength through all of this, Ella is full of life. She loves music, dancing, playing with her baby doll and insist on bringing her little unicorn purse everywhere we go, um, seeing her light up. At the smallest things reminds me just how special these early years are any help with her Christmas wish list this year would mean just so much to our little family your support with help me give Ella a magical holiday and make her smile even brighter.

Thank you for thinking of us during this special time of year. We love you all and I hope everybody here has a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. Well, that is Sarah there on behalf of Ella and Sarah, I'm here to tell you, we got you covered. We're taking care of you link in this description here, or you can also go to my Instagram.

There'll be a link there to help out Sarah. Uh, she's in a new position in life as it sounds with, uh, living in a one bedroom. Let's fill that place up. Let's, let's make it annoying. How many boxes are going to show up and, uh, help Ella really feel a good Christmas spirit. I mean, 18 months, I feel like she, like, you know, my son is seven months this week and he doesn't know a thing about Christmas.

He's excited for the lights or whatever, but he doesn't know what a gift is, but the magic of Christmas when you're 18 months, uh, I think, I think we can help you out here. So, uh, I, I'm just, I'm just humbled by these stories that are pouring in and the voicemails we're receiving. Thank you guys so much for trusting me and our audience with your story as we continue to try to help each other out.

All right, well, I've got a couple more stories to get to, so why don't we take a quick break and we'll be back with more right after this. Well, we have bad news. If you're my son, August, he just started eating veggies. He was on a breast milk diet for six and a half months. And now that he's eating carrots and veggies, we find out the FDA is announcing a nationwide recall of broccoli, carrots, and more veggies due to E.

coli contamination. Check your fridges and freezers. You should look online to see which brands are part of the recall. I'm not going to read them all here. Just be careful what you eat out there. You know, if you're like a kid who doesn't like to eat veggies. Mom, I'm not eating my broccoli. There's a nationwide recall.

It's like, all right, son, go have some ice cream, go eat something safe, like the ice cream. All right. Anyhow, there's your update there. How about this for a crazy story? Did you hear about this? Uh, assassination that happens today. Former New York police detective discusses the United healthcare CEO killing one of the most detailed assassinations ever seen.

This is going on in New York city. Today. Have a listen. This was on CBS news getting in and out of Manhattan. I mean, you got a bunch of bridges there, but you, that's kind of the only way you can get on the Island, right? Or you can obviously take a ferry. So when it comes to searching for a suspect in the entire Highland of Manhattan, is it possible that police may have to close the bridges or how are they surveilling those areas?

At this point, you know what's going to end up the CCTV footage, but I'm telling you the way he planned this out. I can see him having a change of clothes, everything hidden somewhere in Central Park, because he's aware of the cameras. That's why you know what he did have that mask on. That's why he's trying to, you know, hide his identity, trying to make sure that we don't have any facial recognition in place.

So once again, this is one of the biggest Most detailed assassin, you know, assassinations I've ever seen. Oh boy. It's like minority report, but it's true. Have you ever been in New York city? I lived there. I felt very safe in New York. There are cameras everywhere. There's a prison, a jail cell underneath central park.

There's plain clothes, police everywhere. For the most part, they do a really good job for the size and scope of the city, but a detailed assassination, I'm sure, you know, change of clothes, switch car. You can go underground into the subway system, get on a train heading South. Next thing you know. I mean, who knows?

I'll be very surprised if they catch this killer or find out the motivations, but, um, yeah, and again, it's like, uh, what's, uh, why was he going after the United healthcare CEO? Now, look, I hate the healthcare system as much as anybody else, but, um, you know, we got to reform the proper way, which is by voting out the politicians that don't have our best interests that take money from big insurance lobbies, not by cold blooded assassinations.

What a wild story. I'll give those updates. If and when they come in. All right. Well, I promised you I'd go to Jen Tran. Bachelorette Jen Tran, uh, released a statement on her Instagram to my dance partner, I can't believe that three months ago we didn't know each other and that we almost didn't even meet.

I've always believed in fate, but meeting you at the airport in one of my darkest hours and rushing to good morning America to start. What would become the most unforgettable and surreal dance journey together was truly meant to be. Yeah. What's interesting is, uh, Jen Tran wasn't supposed to be on Dancing with the Stars, right?

She finds out after her season ends catastrophically, her, uh, engagement failed with Devon. And after that live show, they hop around a plane and announce her. So, uh, really, it really has been a serendipitous season for her, uh, all of 2024, to be quite frank, she continues. This experience has been one of the, uh, one of a lifetime and truly something I'll cherish.

So she goes on and on. I'll share this tomorrow on the YouTube sharing, uh, her nice long sentiment that she shared about her partner, Sasha Farber. His response. Very funny is, Oh, thank you. You blossomed into a beautiful dancer. Hope we can remain friends and stay in contact. Now the question is, Obviously, I'm believing this is a joke.

Oh yeah. Hoping to see you sometime. She's literally living at his house. Now the question is, does she upend everything in her life for this guy? I don't, I mean, I don't see that as a problem. Uh, some people are arguing, oh, he should be pursuing her. She's the young, hot one. He's whatever, you know, but the case is he's a professional dancer.

I'm sure he's lived in LA for a while. He owns a million dollar home there. Not that that says much in LA. You can get a shanty would be a million bucks, but a nice place there. Um, he. And it has not really been public, um, emotionally speaking with her, he had a public breakup from a dance partner. It was Emma Slater.

Is that who it was? One of those dancers, you know, those beautiful dancers, they really tango horizontally, don't they? Uh, but now he's got his, uh, now he's got Jen here and, uh, you know, people will project what they see on camera. She's Tik Toks and you can look at it. Oh, it's cringeworthy or oh, it's 2024.

This is the world you have to live in. I don't blame Jen for wanting to grow her social media. Gen Z style, Jen Tran. No, Jen Z. Uh, I don't blame her one bit now, whether or not Sasha in his forties has time for that. Now, listen, you know, I'm 39. My wife's 37. I know we don't look a day over 28, uh, whatever. Uh, unless you see me in the dark.

Uh, but. Point being, uh, you know, he's in his forties. Does he want to be making Tik TOKs with a 26 year old? I don't know. He should ask Nick Vial. You know what I mean? Like maybe, maybe he loves it. Maybe he loves the youthful, feminine energy and maybe they're perfect for each other. Uh, if I put this way, if they are perfect for each other, I got to tell you.

There's no better romantic comedy out there. I mean, they meet during her breakup. He's the savior. She's the damsel in distress. They go on to compete on dancing with the stars. I think it's great. I say good for them if that's what it is. All right. Well, as I mentioned earlier, uh, thank you in advance to everyone donating to our single mom wishlist.

I'm looking forward to. Getting the messages from the moms. I'll share them with you when I get messages. Oh, I got a box load of things today. Santa's going to be wrapping up presents. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I'll share those with all of you guys that are donating. I know some of you donate to every single, uh, uh, you know, every single single mom, since we've started this, it's, it's just, it's so kind of you to even, to, you know, you won't be there on Christmas morning when those presents are opened, but I hope you pat yourself on the back and realize you helped restore a little faith in humanity, we'll be back in the morning.

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Uh, we've got so much to get into on this hump day, December 4th, 2024. Uh, all of your pop culture news in one place. An asteroid has just been spotted heading for Earth.

No worries. It's a million miles off, but I'll share that story anyway. And UFOs are dancing in the sky above Trump's golf course with mainstream media reporting on it and an update on the South Korean Marshall law fiasco, whatever you want to call that. And if you didn't think the Clayton. Eckerd Laura Owen scandal could get any crazier.

We've got new updates surrounding the bizarre attempt to smear a small female owned podcast studio. They've actually commented, shared my content and are now promoting free services to any of Laura's victims. Wild turn of events. I'm going to get into that story and all of this plus so much more. It's coming up next on The Rush.

Well, there's some stories we can save for the end of the podcast, but I feel like asteroids barreling to earth needs to be covered at the top of the podcast. Have a listen. Astronomers tracking two asteroids tonight, one on a collision course with earth. The first asteroid about the size of the empire state building, it'll come within 1.

3 million miles of earth overnight and a much smaller asteroid burning up in the atmosphere over Siberia today, just about 27 inches wide. Discover just hours before it lit up the sky right there. All right. So yeah, no worries. 1. 3 million miles away. I don't start worrying about asteroids until they're within the 1 million mile range, you know?

Uh, but still, I mean, what are we going to have to get Armageddon, uh, the cast of Armageddon together to blow up a big rock. We'll do whatever we need to do. You know what I mean? We're here for it. All right. Well, from asteroids to UFOs, uh, you know, me, it's. This isn't just me. They're reporting these UFOs are everywhere.

They don't know what the hell they are. Uh, they're called UAP drones. Well, now they're being reported in New Jersey of all places. Have a listen. Hey, Ernie and Candace. The FAA has placed a temporary restriction on drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal and over Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster.

When these drones were first spotted two weeks ago, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said that they posed no known threat to public safety. But people want to know. What the heck are they? And what are they doing? It's normal to see red and green lights in December, unless they're coming from mysterious drones in the night sky.

It's kind of unsettling. They're not up for 15 minutes, they're up for hours. Some are very big, probably. Mike Walsh says he's seen hundreds of them over the past two weeks from his Randolph backyard. Alright, so they don't know what these things are, but I have to say, if I'm a, if I'm like a nefarious drone, maybe I would turn the red blinking lights off.

You know what I mean? Like, maybe it's not that big of a deal. What do I know? When I'm flying my drone, it's You know, within FAA guidelines, uh, sometimes I like to spy on the neighbors, see how that pool construction's going on, nothing too creepy. Uh, but, uh, but yeah, we'll, uh, well, are we going to find any green aliens or, I don't know, I don't know.

Well, uh. Pretty interesting story coming from South Korea yesterday, as there was political uncertainty surrounding the president declaring martial law in a surprise late night address on Tuesday. Here's an update from a reporter on the scene. If you're confused about what's going on in South Korea, you are not alone.

All we know is the president was under huge political pressure and all of a sudden he declared martial law, which meant that all political activities were banned. The military tried to force their way into parliament. to stop operating, but before they could get into the chamber, Parliament voted to lift martial law.

No one quite knows whether or not martial law is in place or not right now, but protests are kicking off outside. Yeah, I guess that's the problem. Martial law, it's like, is it valid? And again, this is, this is what was so scary. About like an election denialism, which is, you know, if you're the military, what do you do a coup?

Who do you trust? What do you, what's going on? When there's this type of uncertainty, this is when governments get toppled. And the idea that you could just declare martial law because you're under some political issues, not a good look, not a good look. All right. Uh, well, let's go over to football. Let's move off of the heavy stuff and go down to football here.

So I've been talking about this Trevor Lawrence hit from Sunday, the player that hit him, got a three game suspension. Now he has had some pretty like brutal hits before. So that was what led to a heavier suspension with no pay. But the deal is when you're the quarterback, the new rules are you can't like tackle them like a normal player, especially if they slide feet.

First, that's their way of giving themselves up. The only problem is quarterbacks are learning to slide feet first at like the last possible second. So I'm sorry, I'd not to take a victory lap on this, but my intuition was that he slid feet first kind of late and it was more of a bang, bang play. Well, as it turns out the greatest quarterback of all time, Tom Brady actually agrees with me.

The only aspect that I think is very challenging, and certainly for Trevor Lawrence, nobody wants to see anybody get hurt, but it is also the reality of a very physical sport that we play. Defensive players have to be aggressive. That's their nature. I always try to be aggressive on offense, we try to block aggressively, and at the same time, the defense tries to tackle aggressively.

So, there's more designed runs for quarterbacks ever! Now, then in the history of the NFL, so are we really trying to protect quarterbacks? Because if you are trying to do it through the rules, then why are the offensive coordinators not protecting their quarterbacks by keeping them in the pocket and not designing as many quarterback runs?

So, you know, maybe they find or penalize a quarterback for sliding late. You know, and say, look, we, if we don't want these hits to take place, we've got to penalize the offense and the defense rather than just penalize a defensive player for every single play that happens when there's a hit on a quarterback.

You know, it's very interesting because it's like. On one end, is it kind of victim blaming to say, Oh, it's the quarterback's fault. But, you know, it's like, you know, F around and find out if you slide really late, you've got a defensive player running at full speed to come knock you out. Uh, we actually have other people agreeing with that.

Take former professionals. Okay. Then let's stop letting quarterbacks run with the football because that's a designed run call on a second down at seven. You get him outside the pocket. He is a runner at that point. He is a runner who is unprotected. And all of a sudden there's a, yeah, there's a late slide.

I mean, if you look at it, like what is Al Shire supposed to do? Like you're sitting there, you're going, okay, here it is. I'm defending the first down. He's going at the top of the numbers right here. He's still a runner. He's still a runner. What do you want me to do now? Just let him get the first down. Is that what I'm supposed to do as a defender?

No. And so all of a sudden you're saying, okay, I'm committed. Then he starts to slide late. Like to me, the quarterback brings that on himself and then you see right there. Yeah, it is pretty funny that we give quarterbacks different rules. And I understand the reasoning why, but whenever you put a rule out, people will exploit it.

All right. Maybe you care about that. Maybe you don't. I just found it interesting that a lot of former players are saying, no, I mean, look, what do you want? What do you want the guy to do? They're playing. They're playing an adult game. All right. I'm going to share with you the bizarre updates to the Clayton Eckerd.

Story in the podcast studio that I guess is fans of our program. Maybe they love our crystal clear audio. I'm going to have that story come in for you next. Well, I have some pretty bizarre updates in the bachelor Clayton Eckerd v. Laura Owens, paternity scandal. While Clayton essentially won in court, it is now in the court of appeals.

Uh, there is the court of public opinion, which I actually. I actually almost feel bad for Laura Owens because it is abysmal. She, she is just being guided down so many wrong paths here. Her lawyer tweeted out how bad the audio was on their podcast. They've recorded several weeks ago. They paid for studio time in a professional studio.

They used professional microphones and a full setup. And as it turns out. Uh, she didn't like the quality of the work. So said she wasn't going to release the episode. Now we know the episode wasn't being released probably because she probably didn't even believe her own takes that she was giving there.

She probably regretted it and, uh, and bailed on it because, uh, how quickly, you know, uh, Time moves on and anything they were sharing was probably not even relevant anymore. Well, what, what, what happened, which we've already shared was that she reached out to the attorney general and better business bureau to sort of punish, uh, this podcast studio, uh, and in doing so claimed that the studios.

Audio was unusable. Her attorney said this, Laura asked me to share this short clip from our recent unreleased interview gone wrong. The audio was so bad. It was unusable as if the mics were off. So the second was echoey and captured the whole room. Oh, excuse me. The sound was echoey, which would have been painful to listen to, uh, for over two plus hours.

And I don't disagree based on this seven seconds. Have a listen. Oh, okay. Okay. So it's picking up from all angles. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. And you guys sound good. So that's the bad audio. Now generally how it works is audio devices are attached to the cameras and then you have professional sound quality. I'll share this all on YouTube.

Because I want to show you guys what I'm talking about, but the way you get crystal clear audio here and take the audio from the camera is that you will end up syncing it by matching the sound files and then only using the professional audio, not the bad. Audio from the camera. This is like editing one Oh one.

It's really simple stuff. Well, after they called out the podcast studio, who's by the way, their Instagram is PS creatives studios. Uh, I gotta tell you, they're not going down quietly. They posted a photo of them watching my video, Laura targets, female loan studio, and wrote this talk about craziness, our side from us.

Coming soon enough is enough. No business deserves to be attacked by a customer through digital warfare. And I don't disagree literally a podcast studio. It's like going into a hotel and saying they have bedbugs or a restaurant and saying there's hair in the food. It's like a podcast studio lives or dies by their good audio.

That's all they've got. Well, now they're saying this, if any victims of Laura Owens would like to use. Creative studios for a podcast of your own, consider it paid for, including the editing services, Laura was too cheap to pay for. So here, so if there's anyone from Greg to Clayton or Mike, or maybe Sean, or even myself want to get over there now, I would.

Be happy to support a small studio and pay them for their time. But I appreciate what they're trying to do. If anyone's in the Scottsdale area, or if you just want to follow for a good time, PS creative studios on Instagram. So they ended up posting the audio files on their Instagram sharing that it was actually good quality.

Uh, they said we record audio files separate from video. You have to layer them together. That's what we do when we edit. And of course, Laura didn't pay for the editing and they, and then they posted these two clips. This, they have two different audio clips. They have the female and the male, which is Laura Owens and her attorney.

Here's a clip one. Super. So we're all, we're all good to go. Check one, two. Hello. Definitely be closer. Welcome. So that's her audio. It sounds pretty good to me. And here's his, yeah. Okay. Check one, two, check, check noise. I mean, look, that's good audio. That's a professional microphone. I don't know what else you can say there.

So yeah, that's where they stand. One of their members said it's okay to say you don't know how to sync audio. I found a video for you here. You can use the microphone audio files with the video files that we provided on your hard drive and on Dropbox. It's gonna work. So anyway, uh, nothing like. Getting a great response from the podcast studio.

You might, you might think this is very tit for tat, but what you have to understand is like I said before, uh, Laura, by filing and sharing sort of negative commentary about the podcast studio here, she, no, she could say, oh, they were a holes to me. Okay. Whatever. Was the audio good or not? And it sounds to me like the audio was perfectly good.

Exactly what you would expect from professional microphones in a sound treated podcast studio. So anyhow, uh, just another case of professionals. Getting stuck in the tornado path of Laura Owens. That's what it comes down to. Now you could say, well, maybe Laura didn't understand how it all worked. Well, wouldn't you think she would reach out to the company she was getting services from to let them help her troubleshoot it before maybe filing something with the attorneys general or with the better business bureau.

How crazy of a story. So we'll be covering a little bit more of that, but, um, uh, the, uh, I guess creator of PS studios actually spoke briefly to Lauren on YouTube. Uh, here's what she had to say. But here's the thing with the attorney general, we've got all the receipts. We've got the screenshots. We put all of that into one document.

That links back to Dropbox links. Hey, why don't you decide if these files are unusable, A. G.? Here they are. Go ahead, listen to them, watch them. You make the determination. You don't have to believe us. But you got what you paid for. You paid for studio time. You got your files. We owe you nothing. Right. Right.

We owe you nothing. So again, that's on Lauren 90s YouTube channel where she had PS studios there. I think we're going to get PS studios to come chat with us and just give us a rundown of this bizarre set of claims against their sound quality. Listen, as a podcaster, as a YouTuber, you come for me, you tell me I have a shrill voice.

You tell me I ramble about nothing or you hate my political takes, but how dare you ever come for my audio. And speaking of podcasts, uh, I wanted to play a clip of Bobby Althoff. Maybe you are considering starting a podcast in 2025 or other content creation. I got to tell you, leap and the net will appear.

Bobby Althoff, uh, decided to graduate from her Tik TOK and social media preference, start a podcast. She wanted to get some of that money, that cheddar. Well now, I mean, look, she went from broke. to having a net worth of 4 million all in the last year. Here's how she described the process to Forbes. April. I saw a video of this girl talking about how she makes a lot of money on her podcast.

I was like, I should make a podcast. I can make a lot of money because I was tired of making TikToks every day and doing brand deals. And it wasn't making. It wasn't climbing. I was making a steady paycheck, but it wasn't climbing and I wanted to do something that could make me more money. What was your idea for the podcast?

So my favorite podcast is How I Built This with Guy Raz. Yeah, that's one of my favorites too. I love that. So I would listen to every episode. Because I've always wanted to do something and I just love listening to founder stories So I knew I could never be an interviewer like him, but I was since I loved that podcast It was inspired by it, but it was supposed to be a parody of it So it was just I knew I could never do it as well as he does it So it was gonna be called so you're rich And I was going to interview rich people and just figure out how they got rich so I could become rich too.

But really early on, I was like, I know I wanted to interview celebrities and I was like, what celebrities are going to do? So you're rich. And, um, my very first interview got sent to my, my team at the time and they accidentally sent me an email thread that was not meant to be seen by me where they were just talking about how horrible my podcast was and how I would never go anywhere and I should just be myself and not be.

And this character was a character like it's obviously you're, you're obviously famous for your sarcasm, deadpan. Was it that sort of thing? Yeah. They thought that was so stupid. Was that a character? Kind of. It was just an exaggerated version of me, I guess. Okay. So yeah, but it was a character. I would, as soon as the cameras go off, it's just a normal conversation between me and the person, but then cameras go on and I would like.

I have this idea that sometimes people hide the reason why they want to do a podcast. Like she says it's just for money, but no one does anything just for money. You must still want to get your voice out and enter a new creative space and whatnot. I would argue no one should ever start a podcast because they want to make money.

In this case, Bobby Althoff had already racked up. Probably millions of followers on Tik TOK. If you're someone like me with no social media presence at the time and want to get into something, I always say, do what you love. Like really enjoy the process. Cause I don't know if you guys know how this works for me, but I'm hustling like mad to make this happen.

And sometimes it's like we go cool hand Luke and all, but just so you guys know, I got a seven month old baby. It's 1208. AM as I'm recording this right now, and I ain't going to be done for a long time. Uh, you know, not to, not to ruin the allure that I'm here with you at 7 AM or whatever, when you're listening to this, but we work dang hard for our money over here at the, uh, the Dave Neal empire here, but no, Hey, look, everyone's got a different path than if you come from having a big social media following that doesn't entitle you to a podcast audience.

Plenty of people from the bachelor world start a podcast or start a YouTube channel. And you know what they, they crash and don't do it more than three months. We saw that just happen. And I don't want to call out anyone, but we saw a former lead literally just launched her podcast. If she's. Gigantic former lead finalist on dancing with the stars podcast.

Doesn't even last like three weeks. So we see it all the time. You got to have grit, perseverance, and determination, uh, to get through it all because the downloads aren't always going to be there. You got to find your voice. All right. Hey, that's, that's my, you know, up that's my sort of, uh, I don't know. Uh, advice to anyone listening.

Cause you know, I get a family all the time. Dude, I want to start a pocket. Okay, good. Join the, join the lineup of hundreds of thousands of people that start a podcast. What do you have to say? That's going to keep people listening. And, and, uh, and what are you going to do to make that happen? And most podcasts fail before they hit seven episodes.

That's just how it works. Uh, we've made it past that we do 11 episodes. A week. And, uh, starting in 2025, we will be providing a video element with the podcast. Uh, I'm going to be getting a neon lights. I'm going to be getting, uh, that's my advice. You want a successful podcast. You need neon lights. That's all you need.

You don't have to be good at podcasting. Just get yourself a good neon light and the rest is history. All right. More content coming your way right after this. Well, speaking of gigantic content creator personalities, there's no one in the world bigger than Mr. Beast. I follow this guy for a long time. I've actually used a lot of his techniques to help with my YouTube channel.

While I was working a minimum wage job at my lunch break, I'd be in an El Pollo Loco, uh, warming up from the cold air and, uh, watching Mr. Beast videos. Uh, the guy knows how to get. Clicks. He also has had a lot of allegations about his company recently. He hired a firm to do an audit of their practices.

And there's been a lot of people trying to take him down. He went on Theo Vance podcast, and this is what he had to say. Been, um, recently, like in the news and stuff, I'm not as abreast on it, but there was like, uh, they were trying, it seemed like they were trying to like guys's company and stuff. But a lot of it, um.

Like there were, I don't know if there was like, uh, different allegations and stuff again, I don't know if it was against you or your company, but none of it, from what I've seen, there was never, there was never any like, uh, validity to it, right? Do you believe that there was actually something going on at your company that was bad?

Thing is, again, I have hundreds of employees that I employ full time, but I've also hired hundreds of people in the past. And sometimes. Like, uh, you know, sometimes we have hundreds of contractors just working on singular videos because the sets are so big. So we work with lots of people. It's impossible for there never to be anything negative.

You know, that's why you have HR and things like that. So, um, no, I mean, it would, it'd be, uh, crazy to say there's never been any issues where no one that's ever worked for me has ever been unhappier or, you know, one employees never said anything, you know, dumb to some other employee that made them want to complain or things like that.

So. Um, but I think the thing is, it's just obviously completely blown out of proportion. Like, that's not a thing that's just particular to us. Any company with hundreds of employees, obviously there's going to occasionally be something someone says is something that's inappropriate or something that's not ideal.

But that's where, when we're made aware of it. We obviously have HR look into it, or if it's something serious, we'll bring in an outside third party, have them look into it and just tell us what to do. Now, my thoughts, they might be very generous here of Mr. Beast, uh, is that he's a guy in his early twenties, like I said, with hundreds of employees and he didn't even have an HR company until recently.

Maybe that's a product of getting. Famous too fast or growing your business too fast. But there seems to be a little bit of, um, of a, sort of an adjustment curve there towards him learning that it's not just about you working with your boys. Now, apparently a YouTuber that's got a bone to pick with him says, Oh, they've got.

All these DMS from their discord. Yeah. I mean, it's like, you gotta be careful when you own a company, how you speak, uh, even in private with your employees. Right. So it's not just you making, uh, videos with your boys anymore. There's, there's something bigger going on out there, but I don't want to say he's Teflon, but he's really big and.

Uh, my thought is this, uh, with, you know, what we said before about cancel culture, which is if he's pledging to do better and be better and get HR and make sure they follow the policies and have audits with the company, I think that's a good thing, but the bigger you get, you're just going to become a target the way Joe Rogan is the way Logan Paul is.

I mean, this is just the world they live in. If my channel were bigger, people would try to come at me for different things, you know? I'm just at a, yeah, I mean, I don't employ anybody, but boy, wouldn't it be nice to have the payroll of a hundred people? I would love to have that on my taxes. But instead, it's just me over here doing my thing.

And yet we still get crystal clear audio. No, but look, it's, uh, we'll be, we'll be continuing to follow MrBeast. It's a, Pretty good case study over. I mean, I don't know if you guys watch his videos. Uh, I would, I used to watch them in Los Angeles when I would be charging my car because you'd have to go to a charging station and usually it would take about 25 minutes at the charging station.

And that's the perfect time to watch a Mr. Beast video. But the guy makes good things. The guy, you know, I just wish, um, you know, I wish I had a, does that, does anyone out there have a. A way I could contact Mr. Beast. I have an idea for a movie for him, which I think he should produce. He spends all these money, all this money on these 20 minute videos.

It's like, dude, you could be making feature films. So if anyone, I mean, I'm, and by the way, I'm not kidding. It's a great movie idea that I think he could produce and actually have a small role in it. If anyone knows Mr. Beast, Jimmy, let me know and hook me up with them. I know that's probably, I'm sure it's harder to get in touch with him than it is the president, but, uh, a boy can dream nonetheless.

And look, I love to share. Inspiring stories with you, whether it's Bobby Althoff making 4 million on podcast or Mr. Beast becoming a hundred millionaire, uh, just because he was making fun videos with his friends. I love the idea that if you have a fun idea, if you love what you do, your world can change, you know, uh, Last night I was putting my Christmas tree together and I couldn't help but think when, when my wife and I were just dating and we lived in a 550 square foot studio apartment, we couldn't afford a full tree.

We had no space for it. It had to go sit on the table in the corner, you know, with, and now, and now we just bought, you know, we have a 10 and a half foot tree and we're so. Proud of the growth and the abundance and all of the love we've received in this short four years, since things have taken off. And I just have to tell you guys, I'm all about not gatekeeping.

I'm all about sharing the process and telling people, Hey, if you have a fun idea or you want to work hard and build some equity in your own company and use content. Uh, you'd be a content creator in the process. It's a, it's a great world out there full of kind people. So as I always say, I've said it before and I'll say it again, leap and the net will appear.

If anyone has any questions, DM me, I'd love to share them on the podcast. If there's ways I can help anyone grow or share some thoughts about the process, you know, there's, there's so many great tips out there. There is no reason. In today's world that you cannot be ready to, uh, to take that leap unless the podcast studio you hire has bad audio, which is not the case in Scottsdale PS studios.

We know that's not the case. All right. Uh, that's going to do it for me. I'm done. We'll have some great videos today. Buckle up, stick around for those. There'll be very interesting. And then we'll be back this afternoon as always. I'm Dave Neal. This. The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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 Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey everybody, good afternoon to you out there. Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024. And I got all your pop culture entertainment news in one place. On today's episode, we've got a breaking news engagement.

Bachelorette Michelle Young says yes to her partner. I'll have those details for you. Plus a suspension has been made for the. Texan player who drilled Trevor Lawrence and also the director of Wicked explains why he cast Ariana Grande When they were looking for an unknown and also wild story coming out of South Korea We're gonna break down this martial law situation They've got going over there plus it's day two of our single mom Appreciation wish list will feature our new mom today.

All those stories and more are coming up next on The Rush Well, it's the wee hours in the morning in Seoul, South Korea, and BBC reporter joined shocked protesters after South Korea's president declared an emergency martial law. The country's parliament has since voted to block the president's move, but the military have said it will maintain martial law until lifted by the president.

All right, this is a pretty wild story going on on the other side of the world. Here's the update. It's almost 2 a. m. in Seoul, and people are not going home. They want the National Assembly door open. They want the martial law lifted. And they want to know what's going to happen. Because the overwhelming mood here is one of incredulity.

I see some people also giggling because they cannot seem to believe that a martial law was declared. In this democracy. Yeah. And again, you know, in martial laws declared when control is centralized, oftentimes it doesn't go back. So we'll have to see as one of our big allies, what goes down there. And, you know, we are approaching the winter solstice, which means shortest days of the year, not much sunlight here is Huberman lab explaining on the Sean Ryan show, why it's important to get light in the morning.

We'll need to get their relationship. to light and darkness. Correct. This might sound silly, but getting enough sunlight early in the day, and yes, even when it's cloudy out, there's sunlight, and then keeping it dark at night, it doesn't have to be pitch black, has been shown additively to offset many of the negative effects of things like depression, OCD, ADHD.

Bipolar disorder. You're setting your physiology, right? This circadian, this 24 hour schedule that we're on is dictated by light through the eyes at particular times of day and darkness other times of day. The use of phones and screens, while fantastic, right, is disrupting our circadian schedules. Wait, you mean to tell me I shouldn't be on TikTok in my bed for two hours right before trying to go to sleep?

And health, in particular mental health. It's not just the content people are receiving on these devices, it's also the light itself. So get that right. It requires no cost, and it sets things in the right direction. People need to Well, I guess, look, hey, you could listen to the podcast! There's no light involved there, just put the podcast on.

You know, when I can't sleep, you know what I listen to? I listen to, uh, Bigfoot podcasts. I'm not kidding. I listen to Bigfoot podcasts where people share their Bigfoot stories, and they're always the most ridiculous stories. That's what gets me through the night. I don't know about you, but if you need to listen to my scratch I'll help you count sheep.

All right. Oh boy. Today is the day. Did you know this? There's a guy who developed an AI device that predicts, uh, different events in the world. It said that he predicted the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. And now he says, hold on that. There'll be an alien invasion on December 3rd, 2024. That's today folks. Well.

I don't know. Will those aliens want to subscribe to the podcast? I mean, what the hell is going to go on? So here's the controversial prediction. Cliff High forecasted that following an appearance by Donald Trump on the Joe Rogan experience, humanity would experience a major extraterrestrial event with the invasion expected to occur precisely 39 days after the podcast episode.

This prediction adds to high's reputation for combining unusual linguistic patterns with futuristic events. All right. Well, stay tuned for tomorrow's episode where we find out if the aliens did in fact invade, or maybe, maybe we'll just never know. Maybe they're going to invade in secrecy. Either way, uh, wild times we live in.

I don't even know what's real and what's fake anymore, to be quite honest. Well, sadly, this story seems real. James Van Der Beek, uh, discussing his cancer battle here. He was on good morning, America. How are you physically and emotionally right now? Uh, physically I'm great. I'm feeling really good. Um, emotionally, you know, it's a lot.

It's really, uh, it's really a ride. How, when you first, no one wants to hear those words, you have cancer. Yeah. What went through your mind when you, when you first heard those words? Um, I was honestly in shock. I was doing what I thought I needed to do by getting the colonoscopy, which, you know, obviously I did need to do.

Um, I was in amazing cardiovascular shape. I was eating what I thought was healthy. And I had a whole agenda for what I thought my year would be. And, uh, And what I thought my priorities would be in the next couple of weeks and months. And it's just the reality that all of that was going to change and take a different trajectory.

Uh, was, it felt like a nightmare, honestly, at first. Um, that I, that I couldn't quite wake up from. And, you know, yeah, it's a lot. And you said your optimism, your optimism is helping you a great deal. How so? Yeah, I mean, I, there are a couple things that I knew. As soon as I got diagnosed, I, I knew. All right, this is going to add many happy years to my life.

I'm going to make changes that I never would have made otherwise, that I'm going to look back on in 30 years and say, thank God this happened. So what can I do right now? In order to make that the case. Um, Yeah, look, I mean, I think this is all great. I think it's great he's going to share his story, which is going to lead to more men and women getting checked at the right time and screened.

This is what it all comes down to, right? Is if you have the proper healthcare, which this is why I'm such an advocate for universal healthcare in our country, because so many people don't do preventative screenings. They only go when the shit hits the fan. a fan and when it comes to cancers and things like that, sometimes it's too little, too late.

So, uh, you know, uh, just very good for him to share the story and also to have the optimism to say like, look, I'm going to beat this and I'm going to be healthier because of it. Uh, you know, um, we were, we'll continue covering his story and his message he's sharing. Well, Michelle Young shared a message today.

That being that she is now, uh, engaged, engaged. She's a, an engaged woman, bachelorette, Michelle Young engaged to Jack. Leah's. And, uh, there was a people article that came out. He proposed, I guess, back in October, but the article just came out and, uh, he did basically like a surprise commercial. He faked a commercial with her, uh, management team.

And she thought she was going to be on set for some commercial. And when she got to the set, it was actually Jack ready to propose. So we're very happy for a bachelor at Michelle. Good story. Indeed. Well, from Michelle Young story to another former bachelor at Rachel Lindsay, we actually have, this is breaking.

This came out minutes ago. It was just sent to me. This is Rachel Lindsay on The View discussing her breakup from Brian Abasolo. Here's what she had to say. I met my ex on The Bachelor. We're currently going through a divorce right now. And it's, it's really interesting. So we, we met, we dated for two and a half years.

We went, we got married. Um, and we were looked at as one of the more successful relationships that came from the show. Yeah. Anywhere I went, people would ask me about my relationship and how are you doing? And, um, you know, when are you having kids? All the things that were wrapped up in that. And you feel the public pressure.

to always let people know that everything's great, even though behind closed doors, that might not be the case or that you're working on it or that you're having a bad day or whatever it may be. And a lot of that is wrapped up in, you know, shame. You don't want to say that it failed. You're scared for people to see you in a different way.

How long did you know it was going south before you admitted it? One to yourself, the day after you got married, it's even, it's even hard to admit it. Publicly now, I would probably say maybe I saw signs before but before the marriage before the marriage But it's women were fixers and we think we can we can figure it out challenge to us.

They're a challenge to us But eventually I saw it more I would say Within two years identity becomes wrapped up in the relationship and you're afraid that that's the only way people see you But I'm here to tell you It's not. Like, you can take your power back, you can find your power within, and you can't, no one has to dim your light.

But you also can't control what your partner's doing on social media. Which is a challenge, right? Well, that's been true. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. She says, that's been true, and uh, what she didn't say, I, I'm gonna try to cover this on YouTube tomorrow so you can Actually see this or maybe, you know what, maybe we'll post this on the rush hour podcast, Instagram page, uh, because her facial expressions are hilarious.

Go to the rush hour with Dave Neal on Instagram and we'll have that clip for you. Oh, interesting stuff. Well, you know, not every relationship works out, but I agree. I mean, it must be very tough for Rachel to admit when something fails, like a relationship, because your whole public. Persona is built around that being happy.

And then, you know, like most things, it, uh, you know, it doesn't work out. It doesn't work out. What are you going to do? All right. Well, uh, we're cruising. We got some more stories to get to let's do wicked next. All right, here's a clip from Wicked director John Chu sharing how Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande redefined their roles, uh, They were looking, I guess, to cast a bunch of unknowns, but they settled on a couple of celebrities.

I read that originally you wanted to cast a bunch of unknowns. Yeah. But I look at this cast and it is so perfect. What was your thinking? Well, it was, you know, you're like, Wicked is a star making roles, let's go find fresh faces. But when those two walk in, I mean, you saw from that scene, the moment you look in their eyes, there's no doubt.

denying it. They just took those roles. Um, and Cynthia, of course, of course they can sing, but I think it's those little nuances, the details that make the movie. Um, so, but I read this was your largest casting call ever. You went all around the world and you ended up on these two. Yes. And I didn't believe like when Ari came in, like no way Ariana.

Grande could like commit herself to a role like this. You know, what's interesting is like a lot of times when you're like a pop star or celebrity, it's not by accident. Right. I remember when I lived in Boston, uh, working as an actor, the movie the town was coming through and, uh, Ben Affleck looked for literally months to find his lead female role.

They wanted to cast a local Boston chick. They wanted the accent. They wanted the grittiness. They, I mean, they looked. Everywhere. They auditioned everybody for this role. Who got it? But Blake Lively, right? Blake Lively got it. She, she rode a train up to Boston and she really committed to the part. And Ben Affleck was like, damn.

All right, that's it. You know? And it's like, she didn't get it because it was, she was randomly plucked from obscurity. She got it because. She worked really hard for the role and knew the nuances and just nailed it. Well, now we've actually got, uh, Cynthia Erivo. Uh, she says she's excited for sing along screenings, even though some people are pleading, please don't sing.

Here's what she had to say. Miss Erivo. So when it comes to all the sing along, right. Are you excited for the actual sing along where people can actually sing along? Oh, you're going to actually attend one? Is that going to be like a pop up? Alright, so she's signing autographs. It's terrible audio. But she said she might attend a sing along.

Oh, wouldn't that be fun? Was I pronouncing her name wrong? Is it Erevo? Arevo? Uh, either way, uh, yeah. I mean, gosh, if you're a fan of, uh, that that'd be like going to a Taylor Swift documentary screening and Taylor Swift pops out, uh, which does happen, you know, every once in a while. Uh, all right. Well, we have some update to the Trevor Lawrence hit from Sunday.

The Texans, Ajir Al Shair was suspended for three games over the hit. The NFL threw the book at him, uh, for the hit suspending him without pay for three games. The league made its ruling official on Tuesday morning saying his past offenses for personal fouls and sportsmanship related rules violations factored into the decision.

Well, there you go. I mean, yeah, he's, you know, you gotta be careful out there and play by the rules. I thought it was a very bang, bang play, but again, I guess I'm in the minority. When you look at it, people say, no, he should have known better. And you got to lay off. I think it's got to be very challenging with these mobile quarterbacks though, because sometimes they'll like faux slide and then juke you.

But Hey, what can you do? All right. I tell you what we are on to our single mom wish list. You guys loved yesterday. We had Alison and now we have Jana. I'm going to share Jana's voicemail for why she could use our help. In the community that we have, there's a link in the description to Jana's Amazon wishlist.

If there's anything on the list you want to purchase, there's items literally ranging from 5 to 300. You can, you can buy a basketball hoop, or you can just buy a tennis ball. I mean, literally anything. Uh, Jana's got a son named Owen. He's 12 and her story is absolutely, uh, heart wrenching. Uh, an emotional, have a listen.

Hi, Dave. This is Janet from North Carolina. I'm going to do this over trying to get through without crying and taking too much time. I'm a single mom to a beautiful 12 year old boy who is the light of my life. He is my ray of sunshine. I adopted him from foster care and he's had a really hard time since our divorce.

And this is the hardest year. We have ever had, and he still believes in Santa, and I don't want to let him down. Thank you to your community. Thank you to everybody. And I just wish blessings on everybody, especially single parents, because it's hard. It's hard being a mom, and a dad, and to work full time.

And Dave, I love watching you with Augie. Keep it up. Because he will always remember these times, even infant times, he will remember. Thank you again. You know, it's so sweet to receive these voicemails. We're going to have them for the next 13 days, every afternoon rush. And it's a quite a responsibility to try to get these things promoted and share with our audience, because I want everyone's wishlist to receive five or 10 items.

I mean, wouldn't that be amazing to get 10 items or more who knows. So when you click on the link in the description, it's going to have. Everyone's wishlist, all 13 or however many, uh, single moms that we have here. We opened it to single dads too, but I don't think we received any single dad submissions.

We're just trying to help people, you know, it's a season of giving and it's a season to feel, uh, alive. And to feel like we can help out not just our friends and family, but strangers as well. And there's a lot of strangers that may have only one thing in common, and that's that they're a part of our community.

So the one thing I can try to control is to bring them forward and say, Hey, we got some people we can help. We can't solve the budget deficit, the wars abroad, we can't. Kind of, you know, affect change in those greater ways. But on an individual level, we have people here. We have teens, toddlers, uh, kids of all ages that we're going to support.

And who knows what a little bit of inspiration and guidance and love might do to their journey as they continue to grow and try to be good people. All right. Well, let's take a turn to home alone. One of my favorite, if not the best Christmas movie of all time. Well, you know, it starred Macaulay Culkin, but did you know that the younger, uh, kid in the show, uh, the kid who was drinking the diet Pepsi and peeing himself is Kieran Culkin.

You know, I think that's the same actor from the, uh, from the, uh, show, um, uh, succession, right? Well, he explains how, when he shot the movie. He had no idea what Home Alone was about when he made the movie with his brother Macaulay. Um, drink this Coke, wear the glasses, say the thing that you memorize, look cute and go home.

Kieran Culkin recalled of filming Home Alone. Uh, he says, I have no idea what the movie was about when I saw it and I was in it. Uh, he's now 42. Does that make you guys feel old or what? The kid who peed his pants and home alone is now 42. Uh, in this article, he says, I was at the premiere and I was dying laughing.

It was the funniest. thing I had ever seen. He added of watching the family comedy for the first time. I had no idea what the movie was about. His brother Macaulay shot to fame as the star of Home Alone, Kevin McAllister. As a young kid, Kieran portrayed Kevin's cousin Fuller. When Jesse Eisenberg asked Kieran how he would have made it through Home Alone's shoot without anybody explaining the movie's storyline, the succession actor answered, drink this Coke, wear the glasses.

So yeah, how fun is that? Uh, it's always good to see a, uh, you know, a movie that's literally decades old and you learn something new about it. All right. Well, John Bonnet Ramsey, the father of murdered six year old John Bonnet Ramsey joined Cuomo on News Nation to discuss what he believes can still be done with regards to trying to solve the cold case.

And here is a Geraldo Rivera actually apologizing to John Bonnet Ramsey. Have a listen. What is your perspective now, uh, as we have John Ramsey here about where your head was when you did that mock trial and where you are today? Let me just say to John Ramsey that I deeply apologize to you for what you and your family have suffered.

And of course what happened to JonBenet, 6 years old, who would now be 34 years old, which is Uh, an incredible fact how long this case has been, uh, center, front row center in the American consciousness. So when I say I am sorry, I don't apologize for my reporting, but I don't know what happened. I just want you to know that I lament.

Contributing to the hurt that you have endured. Let me first say, Raul, I accept your apology and thank you. What we want done two things we want done. Um, we want the evidence that has been previously tested and never tested. We think there's something that has never been tested. We don't know that for, for sure, but it appears that's the case.

We want that. Resampled by one of the cutting edge labs that's out there. The reason we need to retest is in order. It plays into the 2nd thing we want done. And that is to use this familial genealogy research approach.

To find the killer, you know, so this is what's interesting is it's been 30, almost 30 years. There is a lot of new technology that can be used, uh, but it's still a fascinating and devastating story. And yeah, I mean, how, how painful when entertainment news. And pop culture gets a hold of such a tragic story like this.

I'm sure the wounds are just reopened, but, um, it would be fantastic if they were able to make any, uh, you know, moves to use new technology there. Okay. Well, I got a couple more stories to get to, but we got to take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this. How about this for a crazy story to report, CBS Mornings is sharing the dash cam footage that deputies had in Southern Illinois when a pregnant mom's brakes, I guess, failed.

A dramatic early morning rescue in Southern Illinois after a pregnant woman dialed 911 to say Her car would not stop. Sheriff's deputies responded, raced to help her as the runaway vehicle headed toward a freezing lake. I need help. Start working a panics 911 call. I'm 20 weeks from you. I cannot die today.

On the other end, a dispatcher trying to direct the woman to safety. Turn right at the next road. Okay, if you don't turn, you're gonna go into a lake. Deputies jumped into action. Catching up to the runaway car, they say, was traveling at about 30 miles per hour on a dark rural road southeast of St. Louis.

Their brake lights were illuminating, and she was not slowing down. Deputy Tyler Coffey was driving right behind her. He conducted a maneuver called a rolling roadblock. Once I got in front of her vehicle Slow down. I'm gonna hit car. I'm gonna hit him. And then her bumpers, uh, met mine and slowly we came to a stop.

It all happened so quickly. The driver who is not being identified did not realize deputies were trying to help her stop. I didn't mean to. I swear. No, they know. Hey, ma'am, it's okay. They know the driver and her dog who was in the car were both Unharmed and deputies say there was very little damage to either car.

Wild stuff. Well, glad we have a happy ending there. I mean, what a, what a wild ride that is. The brakes went out. I mean, geez, what a nightmare. Uh, but yeah, good, good to hear that there was a happy ending to that story. And let's go to a happy ending to this podcast episode by sharing, uh, the one and the only Jon Stewart as he perfectly uses humor to break down the absurdity of politics.

You know what, ladies and gentlemen, hypocrisy isn't illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It's not like he's ever going to run again, so why not take care of your kid? Even if you said you weren't gonna, I respect it, I don't have a problem with it. The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter, the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment.

One political party remains committed to the rule of law and the other doesn't. It's that simple. Hunter Biden's not above the law. No one is above the law. Democrats stand for the rule of law. We accept the outcome because that's how the rule of law works. Because the justice system that convicted his only surviving son is the same justice system he's vowed to protect.

And if that doesn't tell you who Joe Biden is. I don't really know what does. I think I know what does.

And now look at the dance Democrats have to do. Be honest, the only reason why they went after Hunter the way they did, and I've talked to many federal prosecutors about this, is because he's the president's son. People have to remember, the president has lost two children already, and he does not need to lose another one to more political witch hunts.

The, you know, crowing from Republicans, but we're talking about, you know, Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Who literally pardoned his daughter's father in law and just made him ambassador to France. So for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now, because he decided that he was going to pardon his son, I would say take a look in the mirror.

Uh, ma'am, we will take a look in that mirror, but we are taking off, so Alright, so you can just see, I mean, look, the hypocrisy exists, and this is why you can't have these conversations with your family, because there'll always be that whataboutism. Well, what about this? Well, what about that? It's like, yeah.

Yeah, it's a dirty, crazy world out there. Maybe the South Koreans got it right with their martial law. Maybe this democracy thing really should fail. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It'll all work out. I think it has in the past. Well, you know, it always works out until it doesn't right. Ask Rachel Lindsay. All right.

That's going to do it for us. We are done here. If you want, I got a couple of good YouTube videos out today, covering some of the news in the world. And I've also got that teacher, excuse me, that single mom appreciation wishlist in the description. Don't forget donate. If you can, all of the moms, all 13 of them are in that description.

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12-3-24 Morning Rush - A Million Dollar Treasure Hunt & Missing Hawaiin Woman In Mexico? & Bachelor Clayton Drama Continues As Laura Owens Files BBB Complaint!

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 Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you. December 3rd, 2024. Let's get into it. I've got all your pop culture and entertainment news in one place.

On today's episode, we have a good old fashioned treasure hunt. As a millionaire hides $2 million worth of treasure across the United States. I love that story in what we can do, our community specifically to find that treasure. You know, I'm a big, uh, fan of treasure hides and we're about to have a full out race for this gold.

I'll also give the details, uh, of, uh. Why Jenna Bush was told not to say y'all while working at the Today Show. Uh, plus I'll be addressing my shoulder injury suffered while buying my wife a very large, and might I say very heavy, Christmas tree. A Fraser Fir, nonetheless. I'll tell you that full story, pray for me.

And an update on the missing Hawaiian woman, Hannah Kobayashi. Uh, very interesting, uh, turn of events as she, I guess, was Spotted, uh, crossing the border into Mexico. I'm also going to share multiple different opinions on the pardoning of Hunter Biden by president Joe Biden. Uh, so no, no matter what side of the story you're on, I got you covered all of that, and plus I've got some tea.

I've got some tea from the bachelor Clayton Eckerd trial that'll never end. I'll get that, that to you and so much more. And it's all coming up next on the rush. All right, let's start off with this treasure hunt. And I got to tell you, my tick tock algorithm is only showing me news stories from Australians.

This is from 10 news first, Australia. I don't know what it is about the Australian accent, but it is sanitizing enough to listen to here is. Uh, they're reporting of how we can gear up for the biggest treasure hunt we've ever had. Old rubies and a Michael Jordan baseball card. These are just some of the items up for grabs in the biggest treasure hunt America has ever seen.

Bitcoin billionaire John Collins Black has spent five years curating a bounty worth millions of dollars, and he's now hidden it in five treasure chests scattered across the U. S. He was inspired by the Fenn treasure, a millionaire's. personal collection of gold which was hidden in the Rocky Mountains in 2010.

That search lasted more than ten years and resulted in at least five deaths. Collins Black has filled his treasure chest with rare items including a diamond brooch that belonged to Jackie Kennedy, an Olympic gold medal, a piece of moon rock and a Greek gold wreath that dates back to the fourth century B.

C. He's written a book that contains clues about their locations, which amateur sleuths are already deciphering in online forums. It's thought, or perhaps hoped, it will take around seven years for all of the boxes to be uncovered, and Collins Black hasn't ruled out dropping more hints along the way.

Alright, here's the deal. We have, we have a, we have a treasure hunt on our hands, folks, okay? Listen, I will I will decide on how to split the money, but I think we need a subcommittee within our audience of people that want to work on reading this book and deciphering its means to find the treasure.

Because if I know anything, it is that our audience is full of truth seekers and treasure hunters. You guys single handedly. Blew the case wide open in the Clayton Eckerd v. Laura Owens, uh, paternity, uh, you know, trial or whatever the heck you want to call it. You guys are good. You guys are experts. You know how to look into things.

You're, you're an audience of detectives. What do we need to do to find this treasure? I'll, I can promise you this. I will go hunt for the treasure with you guys. If we can get some credible locations secured as to where it might be. You, there are caves, there's mountaintops, valleys. I know how to run a metal detector folks.

Let's get those dang rubies in that, um, you know, Greek, uh, gold crown or whatever. Uh, my life is, uh, has never, I've never look, okay. I, you know, you might be saying, wondering, Hey, Dave. Are you kidding right now? Or are you serious? I'm being serious. Let's find this dang treasure. And by the way, how genius of it is for this Bitcoin guy to, uh, you know, hide all the secrets in his book.

Now we've got to buy this guy's dang book. All right, fine. Whatever it takes. That treasure is ours now. Also. You know me, I like to say, why don't we tax the billionaires a fair amount? The second option is to let them just do treasure hunts all across the country for us. I'll take it. All right, let's move on to a story with less, uh, sort of happiness.

This is a yet another Salmonella outbreak, Costco recalling. 10, 000 units of Kirkland brand organic pasture raised cucumbers. Tonight, two food recalls due to possible salmonella concerns. Costco recalling more than 10, 000 packages of Kirkland brand organic pasture raised 24 count eggs. Oh, sorry. Did I say cucumbers?

Eggs. My bad. The eggs sold across the South with a use by date of January 5th. And cucumbers, SunFed recalling whole American cucumbers sold between October 12th and November 26th. At least 68 people sickened in 19 state. Now, let me tell you something about Costco. I like Costco for certain things, but not for perishable items.

I get anxiety when I buy things from Costco. I'm, I'm just a family. I've got a, I've got a wife and a six month old baby. The baby just began eating foods this week. Okay. So unless Costco wants to sell me tablespoons of squash, I can't, I can't eat enough. The idea of buying a 24 pack. of eggs at Costco.

Like who's got the time? What are we running a, a diner here? You know what I mean? What? Uh, uh, scramble me timbers. I don't have the only one. The only time I'm going to have a desire to cook 24 eggs for people is when I get together my treasure hunting team. When we find that gold. Okay. Let's move it on here.

We're off. Look for Costco. Pray for Kirkland. All right, let's move to some other news. Are we, by the way, Uh, not to, not to get in the way of my perfect game here, but are we pitching a perfect game on these news stories so far? If you haven't already, please give the podcast a five star review. Share it with a friend.

Let's find the treasure and let's get back to, uh, you know, I'll be honest. We, uh, we dipped into the 4. 5. Six out of five star range on Apple podcasts, uh, where we, we were at 4. 8 until a bunch of, uh, haters got involved for different reasons, uh, unbeknownst to me and decided our podcast was so terrible that we did it twice a day.

Either way, I'm here to tell you. This thing is, we're spitting hot fire. Let's get that rating up. All right. Andy Cohen agrees with the Vanderpump rules reboot decision. Of course, uh, Vanderpump, uh, they decided for season 12, they're doing a whole new cast. This is like when your dad tells you, if you don't behave, he's going to turn the car around.

The producers for Vanderpump metaphorically turned the car around after it was, uh, you know, too hard to handle all of the diva like stars of Vanderpump. Here's what Andy Cohen had to say. Big Vanderpump rules news Bravo announced or word got out that they are revamping the show and I have to say I This is first of all the absolute right thing to do.

Um, I am so impressed with how production kept the show going over the last, I'm going to say four years when slowly but surely none of them were working at Sir. The entire point of the show Morphed and changed as it went on and it wound up that James Kennedy was the only one with any kind of footprint at sir Because he was DJing there occasionally and now he's gone on and he's got a residency in Vegas And he's having great success and they're all having good success outside of sir several have Very, very organically moved on to the valley, which makes very perfect sense.

And then you have others who don't want to be in the same room, much less on the same show with each other. And that makes sense too. All right. So listen. God bless Andy Cohen. I don't know how, I mean, this guy is the mob boss of Bravo. He can, he can just the snap of a finger decide it's a whole new cast.

I don't think he's a producer. I don't really know how he works in the Bravo universe, like what his actual job is other than of course, hosting watch what happens live in the recaps. But man, is he good at exploiting a bunch of random people. If there's anybody that could take a new season of a show, Completely revamp the whole cast of the show and continue to shit out drama and scandal.

It's gonna be Andy Cohen and it's gonna be Vanderpump Rules. It's just gonna happen, no doubt about it. Alright, well, why don't I dribble you some tea with the Clayton Eckerd case. I'll have that for you next. One of my favorite content creators, dare I say a cousin metaphorically in the community that's covering Bachelor Clayton Eckert and the paternity scandal, uh, with Laura Owens is Lauren Knighty.

Lauren Knighty is a psych evaluator and she had a story yesterday on her YouTube channel, uh, discussing some of the Antics may we call them shenanigans going on between Laura Owens and the podcast studio. She recorded a podcast at, so if you want, and by the way, she does a fantastic job. Lauren does in covering this, uh, in covering this, uh, Uh, you know, new, new sort of twist in the drama regarding Laura Owens.

She made a video. It's only a 10 minutes long, real great work. I mean, no fat on the bone here. The video is called Laura Owens harasses local studio with complaints to attorney general and BBB complaints. I'm going to have so much more to say about this. So right now you need to sort of listen to what I'm not saying, because I have.

A good amount of the story, but I can't share it all. Uh, what Lauren nighty, uh, uh, revealed is that Laura Owens, uh, you know, recorded a podcast where she was going to not do a tell all, but cover this rule 26, you know, nonsense with her paternity case against Clayton Eckerd, uh, with her attorney, she recorded this podcast and then things went sideways.

Now. Why things went sideways were basically because members or people that are looking for justice for Clayton Eckerd saw the name of the podcast studio. And probably I'm assuming reached out to them and said, how could you work with somebody like X, Y, and Z? I don't know exactly what was said. That was private information, but a statement was released.

By the podcast studio. Uh, this, again, this was what, two weeks ago. And the statement said, you know, we, we, we just learned what was going on. We want nothing to do with her. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, as it turns out, a complaint was issued by Laura Owens to the podcast studio. Now we've known about this, or at least we've known that there, there was like legal threats for several weeks.

Now we just haven't seen the actual copies of those legal threats, but now we know Laura Owens. Filed some sort of complaint with the attorney's general and better business bureau. Now, what tea do I have to dribble? Well, if I saw some of the documents that were involved, I'm not saying that I have, but if I did, I would tell you to buckle up because it's.

Wild, wild stuff. And for those that have been following this case long term, you know, I don't just throw that out if, unless there's something very interesting there. Now the podcast studio in question is a small business, you know, female owned business in Scottsdale. I can tell you this next time I'm in Scottsdale.

Which will probably be sooner than later when I have a podcast, I need to record, I'll be going to this podcast studio to support them because it looks as if they've done nothing wrong. I can only imagine that in the BBB, a better business Bureau, a complaint, which essentially it's just like a Yelp. You know what I mean?

It's like, who cares? But again, I mean, who cares for the aspect where obviously if you're the podcast studio, you care, you don't want future people to not understand that you are unjustly targeted here. But, um, I, I, I believe Laura Owens is going to be making a claim about the quality of the work and why it wasn't up to par.

Uh, her attorney, uh, is the henchman that is doing her dirty work for her sending threatening letters. You know, will they call them threatening? No, I wasn't threatening at all. It's always threatening. Uh, again, another example where I'm sure. Once we find out what happened, Laura Owens will make claims.

Like there was defamatory comments made about her. She loves that D word. Let me tell you something defamatory. Well, either way, we're going to get the full story. I'm sure the podcast studio is going to want to set the record straight. Uh, we're just going to kind of wait for that time to come. So what I'm trying to say is buckle up.

Don't expect it necessarily today, but sooner rather than later, your boy's going to get down to the bottom of this. In the meantime, go check out Lauren Knighty on YouTube and go listen to her. A YouTube video is a fantastic job. I wish it was longer to be quite honest. So often YouTubers are accused of making content that's too long.

And I was like, Laura, Lauren, you leave some meat left for the rest of us. There was nothing. She, she nibbled on that rib until it was bone dry. Alright, uh, what does that even mean? What am I trying to say? Okay, let's get into a sad but more serious story. Or maybe not more serious. How are we supposed to rate which one's more serious?

But a sad story nonetheless. Missing Hawaiian woman, Hannah Kobayashi. I guess cops are now saying she crossed into the Mexican border. Let's play a clip of the press conference that police gave out. I believe this was yesterday. 30 year old Hannah Kobayashi. Who was reported missing last month. As the family is aware late yesterday, after traveling to the U S Mexico border, we reviewed video surveillance from us customs and border protection, which clearly shows Kobayashi crossing the United States border on foot into Mexico.

Wow. And you know, it's easy to cross the border. Uh, you know, legally whatnot, uh, you know, there's actually people that will drive to San Diego, park their car, walk across the border into Tijuana and take the, and take an air flight out of Tijuana because sometimes it can be a lot cheaper that I don't know.

I've never done that before, but I know, I know friends that do that. Apparently it's a lot cheaper to do it that way. Either way, that's not what happened here. So Hina Kobayashi was supposed to go from Hawaii to New York. She missed her connecting flight to LAX. And then for weeks, people said they couldn't see her.

And then there was. Video of her, you know, uh, you know, on the metro. It really got weird when her father, I guess, flew to L. A. to look for her. And then they found him dead in a parking garage near LAX. Assuming that he actually took his own life. She was alone with her luggage and appeared unarmed. At this time, Kobayashi's case has been classified as a voluntary missing person.

Well, what are they supposed to do? So, they don't think she was You know, traveling through some sort of coercion. Now, this case is bizarre. This is strange, odd case. Um, but what, I mean, what are they supposed to do? You know, they, they tracked her down. Her family wants more answers, but clearly. I mean, if she was traveling alone, wouldn't she have access to a phone?

Would you make a phone call? Uh, is there any mental health issues? So many questions, obviously, you know, this has been a huge story nationally. So you think she would have been alerted to that again? I don't know. We'll have to see. I'll give it any updates, but, um, it looks like, uh, you know, they're saying, Hey, you know, it's, it's out of our hands.

I mean, she's voluntary, voluntarily missing and left the country. Uh, all right. So here's an odd story here. This was. Uh, uh, this was how Jenna Bush Hager said, uh, that she was treated when she joined the today show. Apparently she wasn't allowed to say y'all have a listen to this. If you don't fit, they want you to wear something a certain way, cut your hair a certain way, speak a certain way, which I know when you came to the network too, it's like, Oh yeah, but you have to change.

Yeah. Hey y'all isn't for the whole country. And I was like, Well, but it's who I am. It's so weird. And this happens in life too. Like if you have friends and all of a sudden you're acting not who you are and you're like, wait, something in your gut feels wrong. I'm not being myself. I'm trying to fit here.

I'm trying to speak their language. All right, look, Hey, this is just a reminder to everyone out there to be who you're meant to be again. This is why I love the movie Nutcrackers on Hulu. They didn't pay me to say this. I watched it for a second time. I cried a second time. Seems to be a movie where Ben Stiller is forced to address the serious side of his adult life.

And in one way or another, uh, resort back to his inner child and so much of corporate culture. Tries to take us away from what makes us unique. You're not there to be unique. You're not there. You're not getting paid to be you. You're getting there to service someone else's needs and someone else's vision.

I say, be unique, be dare I say weird, be strange, uh, you know, be different. And be rewarded for that. Maybe as we head into 2025, we can think, What can I do to be myself and march to the beat of my own drum and not the drum that someone else has told me to march to? Does that make sense? Okay, anyway, I don't know.

Maybe this is good motivation, maybe not. All I'm saying is, I grew up kind of trying to blend in and I'm not saying I have some itch to be super unique. Just be me. I just want to be me. My whole adult life, just trying to figure out who the hell I am. Not who someone else wanted. I had an aunt once, I remember.

I was being goofy. I'm not, I'm not kidding. I was like 10 years old. I remember this. I think it was on Christmas morning and I had an aunt and she was like, and I have a cousin named Casey, a good, good cousin. Nice, nice, nice man named Casey's my cousin. And I had an aunt who said, Dave, you're acting like Casey right now.

And they were judging me and, you know, Casey was always goofy. And I w I was always like envious of his ability to be goofy and be kind of playful. And I was kind of like a stick, like a stiff stoic, you know, kid, it was kind of quiet. And I know you might not believe that it was kind of quiet. And I just remember how sad.

That someone was telling me I was being goofy and that was a problem and I was being more like someone else. Maybe I was trying to be more like me, you know? And anyway, that's just a side story here, but hey, do whatever it is, look yourself in the mirror and find that inner kid and try to return to that form.

You might, you might be a little happier if you do. That's my thought. Uh, okay, well, I just went on a rant I didn't know I was gonna go on, but we got a lot of content coming up, so let's just take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this. All right. Yes, I am dealing with a light shoulder injury.

My wife wanted a tall Christmas tree. And after living the last 10 years in a studio apartment, you know, 550 square feet, and then later on a tiny 700 square foot, two bedroom apartment, we now have tall ceilings in our living room, 12 feet high ceilings. And apparently. The price difference when you want an eight foot tree compared to a 10 and a half foot tree is quite drastic.

That 10 and a half foot tree doubles in price. I mean, they're, they are very exclusive and hard to find. And I said, honey, uh, rest assured, I'm going to get you that Fraser for, uh, the needles last long, they're super fragrant and it's standing at attention. It is a perfect 360. And believe it or not, we found it at a Home Depot.

I was told Home Depot had very, uh, competitive prices. And sure enough, it was about half the price as other places. Well, we got it home, no squirrels in the nest. But I gotta tell you, it started snowing in Nashville. It was beautiful. My son saw snow for the first time. He thought dad was so silly. Like, why, why is dad carrying a tree into the, into the house?

I don't know, son, because we have this tradition where we buy trees, cut them down and You know, and I understand, I'm not a big fan of, of cutting trees down, but there is a business, they do replant them. You know what I mean? And then we'll burn them and it'll smell nice, whatever, who knows? Like what, like what's more green, uh, cutting down a tree every year or buying one of those fake plastic ones.

I honestly have no idea. I'm sure one of you, you know, environmentalists will let me know. And I'm sure I'm on the wrong side of this history, but either way, it was extra heavy. You know, you think those eight footers there, I could sling those over my shoulder. No big deal. Your boy's not getting any younger to be a hit, you know, handling 10 and a half foot trees.

The trunk of it is, dare I say girthy. It was, I mean, but I wasn't going to let my wife watch me. Drag a tree into the house. No, I paraded that tree. I carried it above my head. I have a video of it. I'll be releasing. I, I, I brought that tree in like a man walks his wife into their house after consummating their marriage.

I don't know either way that tree it's going to, it's going to tell a story. We have yet to dress the tree. We're letting it settle in. I'm going to read it poetry. It's going to watch nutcrackers with me. I mean, we're going to give this tree a good life for the next three and a half weeks. All right, well, let's go to a different story here.

Let's go to the Joe Biden. Uh, pardoning Hunter Biden. It's receiving a lot of backlash. Here's what some members of the view had to say regarding this decision. I take issue with lying about it. I wanted to ask him here when he came on the view, but the thought was, he said so many times he wasn't going to pardon him.

That to me is lying to the public. I felt bad for Corrine Jean Pierre that she. Repeatedly had to say that he wasn't going to pardon him. Just this is why people don't trust Washington. That's why they don't trust politicians. And I know a lot of us like Joe Biden, but I find it disappointing and bad for our institutions.

All right. And look, and then the other point of view was that, Hey, what are you going to do? Like You know, the people that are going into office are saying they're going to come after journalists and weaponize the government. I mean, look, you know, it, you could say it goes both ways. Here's representative Crockett perfectly responding to pearl clutching from the GOP and pundits after Hunter, Hunter Biden's pardon.

This is again, representative Jasmine Crockett, I believe a Democrat. I'm not sure what state she's from. Have a listen. Well, I won't pretend to speak for the entire caucus, but I will say way to go, Joe. Um, let me be the first one to congratulate the president for deciding to do this because at the end of the day, we know that we have a 34 count convicted felon that is about to walk into the White House.

So for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now because he decided that he was going to pardon his I would say take a look in the mirror, um, because we also know that when it comes to this cabinet, this cabinet has more people accused of sexual assault than any incoming cabinet probably ever in the history of America.

I do. I do have to say, as far as cabinets go, when they say they want to drain the swamp, this cabinet is full of billionaires. Uh, but Hey, I mean like, what are you going to do? This is the world we live in. You can look at either side and, and be like, Oh, well, this side did this. And, and I'm, and by the way, I'm not saying both sides are equal.

I'm just saying, what arguments do we have at this point? Should he, or should he not have pardoned his son? Here is an actual measured response by Dan Abrams on ABC news. President's words. They're called it a miscarriage of justice that Hunter was selectively. and unfairly prosecuted from a legal perspective.

Is that a good argument? He has an argument. He certainly has an argument with regard to the gun charge, right? There has never been another federal charge of someone charged under this set of facts, meaning the gun wasn't used in more than one crime. Uh, the person had no criminal record. The gun wasn't used in a crime.

I mean, that's the definition of selective prosecution. Correct. You can definitely argue with regard to the gun charge now. And by the way, Dan Abrams is their legal analyst, a lawyer, he's saying, look, yeah, they were selectively prosecuting Hunter Biden on this gun charge. No one gets prosecuted for this.

They initially were going to do a plea deal and then the public had an outcry and then they ended up charging him. The issue is that the gun charge got tacked on in connection with the plea agreement that initially happened and fell through. The tax cases is a little tougher. Uh, yes, it's true that in a lot of cases, when someone doesn't pay their taxes, they're allowed to pay them back.

And at worst, they just get a fine. It's also true that in certain cases people get prosecuted for not paying their taxes. So, it's a little squishier, uh, with regard to the tax charge as to whether this was clearly selective prosecution. How about the idea that this was a blanket pardon, protecting his son for anything that might have happened since 2014?

Well look, that is certainly as sweeping as you can make it. Uh, and there is an argument that he could have done something much more limited. Meaning called, called granium clemency. That would have meant the conviction stand. But with regard to a sentence He doesn't get any jail time. There is no sentence.

That's what clemency could have done. Alright, so look, I mean, I think I'm being pretty fair here to share this. It's like, look, could, could, you know, could the pardon have been, uh, you know, cleaned up in a way that it wasn't, you know, of the optics that he's giving his son a get out of jail free card? It's like, sorry, that's what a pardon is.

Now, will Trump then use this as a way to say, I'm going to pardon everyone who participated in January 6th, a violent insurrection? Maybe! I don't know we'll have to see how it goes. We'll be here to cover it. All right I know that was a lot to swallow here. Uh, but anyhow, um, we've got a lot of stuff to get into today We'll see you guys on the patreon around 10 a.

m Patreon. com slash dave neal and then i'll be back this afternoon as I always am if I can you know, uh, You know fix my shoulder injury. I need my body to be as strong as possible to prepare for this big treasure hunt We're about to go on. All right. We'll see you this afternoon as always. I'm dave neal This is Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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12-2-24 Afternoon Rush - Why Lawyer Thinks Bachelor Clayton Will Win Appeal & Nikki Bella Speaks About Divorce & Scheana Shay (Scheananigans Podcast) Discusses Getting Booted From Vanderpump!

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Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon, everybody. It's Monday, December 2nd, 2024. We have all of your pop culture and entertainment news in one place. Nikki Bella returns to her podcast to discuss her divorce from Artem Chigvintsev.

For the first time, we'll be sharing that in this episode. And Britney Spears turns 43 today. It's also a good day for her as her divorce is finalized. She's a single lady watch out. And then we commence our single mom Christmas wishlist today featuring Alison from North Carolina. So stick around for that nice story and winter is coming.

And outdoor dining officially has closed in New York city, uh, the end of a pandemic era, I'll discuss what that means for New York and for people who enjoy the outdoor dining moving forward. Plus Sheena Shea gives her thoughts on Vanderpump recasting for season 12. And then we also have an update from the guy.

Who hit Trevor Lawrence in the, uh, big game, uh, yesterday, the Texans, uh, Aziz Al Shire, he's sorry for the hit, but calls out racist fans. I'll have that story and so much more. And it's all coming up next on the rush. Well, I actually promised to have the story this morning, but we ran out of time. Justin Timberlake cancels third tour show due to health reasons says y'all know I hate doing this.

And then he, I guess he canceled his gig in Oklahoma city because he hurt his back in New Orleans. Look, I don't know if this is just the product of being old, but he's 43 years young. And he says, I hate canceling shows, uh, but he's got to reschedule it. I'm so sorry, I have to cancel the show on December 2nd.

That's. This tonight, I hurt my back in new Orleans and my doctors have instructed me to rest a little bit longer. Thank you for the support. Y'all know, I hate doing this. I think it's a little odd that he's canceling yet another time, but I don't know if there's anything more to the story. Uh, but yeah, interesting stuff.

And you know, like being a 43 year old pop star is not easy. Take it from Britney Spears. She turns 43 today and is also single again, two milestones on one day. It's not only her 43rd birthday, but she's officially single as new legal documents obtained by TMZ show her divorce from Sam Asghari became a done deal on Monday.

So good on her. She's single during the Christmas season. She doesn't have to get anyone a Christmas present. Isn't that nice? Um, well, uh, Gary Vee, uh, the motivational speaker has answered the question is cancel culture officially dead. Here's what he had to say. That's why cancel culture didn't work. You know that, right?

The reason it lost was because it didn't factor in intent. If you didn't mean to hurt someone's feelings, it's not great that you did, but it's very different than if you did. Do you think it worked in the beginning, though? Of course. Yeah, it was wild in the beginning. Of course it did. Do you think it's dead?

Oh, I think it's on its back back foot. Look, I think the concept of holding people accountable to bad deeds is a wonderful trait. But the branding of it, like what we did for a couple years there, which is at any moment's notice being like, I don't like the way you looked at that person. You should be fine.

Like that was fucking ridiculousness. Because intent was taken out. I say, I kind of say the same. I use this reason for why the bachelor series has kind of lost all of its drama. Contestants are so aware that if they say or do the wrong thing, that there'll be mass unfollowing and that people will come for their jug jugular, and then you get shamed if you even talk about cancel culture.

Now, there are instances where cancel culture, like he was saying, can have its intent, like if there was gross. Misjudgment or misjustice done where, you know, say someone like a, like a horrible person, like a Bill Cosby got off for his crimes, then you go, okay, well, then we need to boycott every one of his shows because he shouldn't, you know, those cases, it's obvious.

But then there's cases of nuance where you go, are you trying to punish somebody or? Uh, or you open for someone's redemption. So the irony, when like Chris Harrison was canceled was that a people don't really call it cancel culture because they go, well, he was paid. So it's not really canceling. And I say, I, my definition of cancel culture is when people come together to uh, vote with their dollar or to vote with a boycott and, um, they, they get someone, they, they change the trajectory of someone's career, usually for the worse, uh, financially speaking, you know, you could take, um, you know, a Regardless of any moral thoughts on whether what he did was right or wrong.

That's not that, you know, it's still, he was still quote unquote canceled. He had a movie that was taken out of distribution, which I think he self funded like a 30 million movie. So cancel culture doesn't mean you have to make somebody broke. It just means financially speaking or opportunity speaking, you took something or were part of a community's effort to take something away from somebody else.

So. Can still be used for good in the right reasons. I just think when the internet gets ahold of a case, sometimes the pitch forks, you know, it's true what they say when the, you know, when you get into a larger group, your IQ lowers, like, you know, when you, when you, you stop being able to think sort of, um, uh, objectively.

So what Gary Vee says here is absolutely right. Save room for. Compassion and empathy. The biggest mistake we've made as society is the inability to try to figure out intent. Intent is important. And you know, the intent of somebody who's making a joke might not be to harm somebody else, but that might be the effect.

And you have to go, well, are we judging people just on the effect? Because if we're judging people just on effect, then anybody could be offended by anything, you know? And I think we have to go back to having that grace to let people, you know, Try to navigate the world and learn and grow because, you know, we're all kind of in different places, uh, of progress, you know, and I say this almost hesitant, um, you know, I've seen this hesitating because you could miss, uh, you could miss clip what I'm talking about.

Telling you guys and say, Oh, Dave went on a rant being pro, you know, say whatever you want and have no consequences. No consequences should exist. But I also think, you know, we need to save room and realize that, you know, not everyone's perfect and there are consequences for the, you like how I transition.

There are consequences for the Vanderpump rules. Uh, cast that being, they all hate each other and don't want to work together. So the producers are bringing in a whole new batch of people. Here's what Sheena Shea had to say about the inevitable decision. She posted on Tik TOK. We always knew this day would come.

We say everyone's heard the news by now, but Vanderpump rules is being rebooted for season 12 with an all new cast at Sir, like the real housewives of New York. It's not Vanderpump rules. The new cast. Are they starting it on 12, or will they do what Reboot did? Reboot Roni starts at Season 1, doesn't. Same show, same IP, new cast.

Alright. How do you guys feel? I mean, I just have to thank everyone, you guys included, who have been checking in on me. Thanks so much! I always check in on Sheena. I feel like this wasn't a shock to us. I think we knew it was coming, but getting They should have known when the season, when the next season was delayed.

the call. This has been a moment that I've been waiting for in not like a positive way, but like knowing one day we're going to get the call that Vanderpump Rules is over. It's not going to go on for a hundred seasons. No show does. So I'm like, how am I going to feel the day that I get that call? And I felt at peace with it.

I feel like if it was last year, the year before, year before that, like, I think maybe I wouldn't have been in the same place in my life. I don't know. It's, it's mixed feelings. No, look, you could argue that now that the show is getting canceled, people who are fans of these cast members will now follow them more on podcasts because they won't be able to follow their lives through the show.

You could make that argument. But look, I think, I think what's interesting is this, whether you like it or not, Once you start on a show for a decade, you kind of start to become a diva. You probably, you probably become difficult to deal with. And then the show says, you know what? We could bring in 10 fresh faces.

We say jump, they say how high, and we can have a whole new experience with people willing to go the extra mile, say the extra thing for high drama. My guess is season 12 will have a little bit of, uh, Issue finding its footing, but I also think it's going to be sloppy as hell. That's what I think is going to be.

And I think that'll be good because I think it still has the same brand. Um, I also think it would be good if they, if they shot the new season, but sort of as a parallel still had alumni episodes, have you ever seen Jersey Shore? They'll have like special, um, like. Weekend of Jersey Shore episodes where they'll go on a family trip together and they'll catch up with them.

I think it would be very smart for Vanderpump to still do that. Still get the former cast in a room every once in a while to do a weekend at Tahoe or something like that. But hey, nobody, and I mean nobody asked me for my opinion, but that's where it is. Alright, we'll be back with our single mom Christmas wish list.

That's coming up next. We pride ourself here at the Rush Hour podcast of trying to give back to our community. And this year we're doing our single parent appreciation Christmas wish list. And by that, we've got a dozen or so people that we've chosen that we're going to try to help give a couple of gifts to this holiday season.

If you have any abundance in your life. Or if you love giving to strangers in the community, this is the way to do it. Every wishlist I'm sharing with you is an Amazon wishlist that will go directly to the people we're speaking of. And I'm going to share that list. I think we have 14, maybe 15 names on it.

And every day we're going to highlight somebody different today. It's Amazon. Carolina. Uh, we've got her Amazon wishlist. She's got a couple teenage kids and on the wishlist, uh, one of her son loves, uh, fishing. So they've got some fishing items and a bass pro shop, gift cards, things like that. Super simple, but boy, will it go a long way.

To see a single mom get a little bit of help during the Christmas season, here's the voicemail we received from Allison in North Carolina. Hey Dave, it's Allison again for the single mom's Christmas list. Um, I got my list together and emailed that off this morning through the form. Uh, like I said, last year I was on the list.

Um, My kids were not chosen for anything, which is okay, um, we did, uh, um, send a gift to one family ourselves. Um, I understand, you know, my kids are older, so sometimes it's not as fun to shop for them. Colin is 19. He hunts, he fishes, um, And he is a college student. Um, my daughter Piper is 16 and she loves makeup, anything fashion.

My Amazon list consisted of some gift cards for different places I know they would like to buy things from or could use things from. And also, I added some clothes on there that I know they could use this time of year, and Colin works outside, um, so I got some hand warmers and simple things like that, nothing extravagant.

If I'm chosen, wonderful. If I'm not, um, whoever's chosen, I know is extremely thankful. So, um, anyway, I just wanted to leave my message and, uh, hopefully we'll get added. If not, I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas. Thank you. Well, Alison, you are not just added, you are our first mom of the season.

So let's go show Alison. Some of that gratitude and abundance that we have. And let's go help her and her kids, Colin and Piper, uh, get a little love. I'm sure they're like, mom, you listen to that weird podcast, but they sent us some gifts. You know, we're here for it, folks. Uh, we are here for it. So link in the description, which will share the wishlist for Allison.

I'm also going to include the wishlist that has. Everybody on it, because maybe you just want to knock off all the presence right now. We won't stop you there. The earlier that people do buy presents for our wishlist will be helpful. It'll be helpful for the, for, for them to know that their, what their wishes are being answered and covered and you know, all good stuff.

All good stuff. So Alison, we got you. We appreciate you being in the community and there's your update there. All right. Let's just move it right along to our next story of the day. We have a lot to cover outdoor dining in New York city streets ended over the weekend. Here is what CBS, New York had to say.

Outdoor dining in city streets ends today. From now on, it will be a seasonal affair running from April 1st to November 29th. And that means that restaurants have until the end of today to remove these structures or they could face fines of up to 1, 000 per violation. All right, so A lot of people that have never been to New York pre pandemic are like, Oh my gosh, we love the outdoor structures.

They're amazing. But you have to remember they only showed up because they were for, you know, restaurants were forced to make the outdoor structures because they couldn't have indoor dining. I think, I think what we learned about. All of these outdoor structures in New York City is that we don't need the parking spaces like nobody who lives in New York has cars downtown anyway, so these parking spaces just kind of get littered with people that don't really use their cars.

It's just a waste of space to be quite frank. Most of these parking spaces are a waste of space. I think. The city should come up with like a design team that has like five or 10 different approved structures that all fit the right code. They're not going to burn. They're easy to clean. And they should just try to like set these up year round for people.

But I understand like why they don't want them because a lot of these structures are now several years old. Maybe they're rotting their home to mice and things like that. A home, like I understand the issue. Uh, it's just, it's just going to be really tough for restaurants because they spent the money to create these dining areas because of the pandemic.

And now they're kind of forced to, to, to get rid of them. And how many of these restaurants will have a place to store them in the winter. And then, you know, I think. I think it would be nice if the city helped subsidize restaurants to give them a place to store them in the winter and also provide the transportation.

I don't know if that's possible. It seems like a lot of effort. Uh, but I think, I think the outdoor dining was a real value added to New York. That's my thought. I'd love to know what you guys think about that. All right, let's get down to it. Nikki Bella. Uh, had a divorce from Artem Chigvintsev. Of course, she accused him of domestic violence.

Uh, the county prosecutor ended up not pressing charges on him. He accused her of initiating the fight. He said it was in self defense. So, it's really just a he said, she said. Uh, but here's what she had to say on her podcast, The Nikki and Brie Show. She has finally returned and she's, uh, kind of sharing, I guess, a little bit about how, uh, how, you know, things have been.

I'm gonna try my best not to get too emotional on this episode. But, um, I first want to just thank everyone, the listeners, you, family, friends, coworkers, people I haven't talked to in a long time, just for all the love and support for the respect of privacy and space. The past few months I disconnected from social media from the world and I just knew that I needed to disconnect because first things first, I'm a mom and my son's protection and privacy is the most important.

So I was going to do whatever it took for that most importantly, and then just needing space for healing, for facing trauma head on, all of that. So, um, it's. Been tough. It's been really tough. I've been heartbroken, sad. Yeah, you know, you dream of having this family and you have this incredible love and it just goes the other way.

And you go from having a great love story to having a terrible one. And, um, never saw any of it coming, you know, as far as like what the ending would be. So it's, it's just been, it's been a struggle. I just, just so shocked. I was just, I've been so shocked, like beyond words and it's been. Heartbreaking, and I just, you know, it just, you lose your appetite, you cry a lot, and then I also, you know, stepped up and made sure everything was okay for Mateo, and so, it's just been, I don't even know what other words to use.

When you love someone so deeply, which, You know, I walked down the aisle and said I do because I love to this person so deeply. I would have done anything for them. I wanted to give them the world till my last breath and I would have taken a bullet for them. And when something like this happens and then you feel so betrayed, it's, you're just trying to figure it out.

You're, you're, you're feeling so many different emotions. And the whole day was just shocking. I handled things with a lot of love and grace because I love to this person so much. I, I still wanted great things for them or I wanted them to heal. I wanted them to get help. I wanted them to be the best version of themselves because also that's what my son deserves.

All right. And again, that's gotta be tough when you have a kid involved, because here's Nikki's side and then Artem's side is. Pretty much the exact opposite and here as audience. We don't know either one of them Uh, but uh glad for the very least that relationship is over, um, and they can move on from it All right.

Let's move on to another story here Uh, we've got mona2, uh, actually passed wicked at the box office over the weekend shattering thanksgiving weekend, uh records now, of course, we already covered that wicked is now the biggest I guess domestic, uh movie You That stems from a musical play. And now Disney's Mona to a debut to a whopping 221 million domestically over the five day weekend, smashing previous Thanksgiving weekend box office records.

Movie govers overseas. I've been flocking to the theater to see what the Mona sequel has in store at landing at a projected total of 165 million. In the international market. Dang, they are printing money. I have not seen Mona one nor Mona two, but now that I have a child, I'm sure I'll be catching up very soon on all of these movies I've got.

I haven't seen toy story two or three. I know what you're saying, Dave. Oh my gosh. It's amazing. I know. Listen. I'm already crying watching normal movies. I'm crying just getting through the single mom, uh, uh, appreciation list. I'm a very emotional person. I don't think I need one of these Pixar movies to make me cry even more.

You know what I mean? All right. Anyhow, I've got a couple more stories to get to. Uh, we are cruising through our Monday. I'll be back with more right after this. Uh, we covered the crazy hit yesterday that Trevor Lawrence received that knocked him out of the game. Uh, it would, it would, it received immediate penalties and started a brawl.

Well, the Texans player is now issuing a statement. He wrote a Houston Texans linebacker, Aziz Alshair. Here's what's next! Issuing a mea culpa to Trevor Lawrence over his controversial hit on Tuesday. He said he didn't intend to injure him. Here's his, here's what he had to say. My goal is to hit you as hard as I can.

Then I pray you're still able to get up and play the next play. And when the game is over, go home to your family unharmed. Because it's not personal, it's just competition. Uh, to Trevor, I genuinely apologize to you for what happened, for what ended up happening. Um, so again, he sounds very much like he's not taking fault.

He says, to the rest of the people who I've been called every single name in the book from, reporters with their hands, ready for a story to find their villain, to racist and Islamophobic fans and people, you don't know my heart nor my character, which I don't need to prove to any of you. Look, I might be ignorant here, but when I watched the play, when you watch it live, it's a bad hit, it deserves a penalty, it probably deserves a fine, but quarterbacks that are running quarterbacks, sometimes they go down like they're going to slide and then they don't, and it's like, what are you supposed to do if you're a defensive player and you've got to run full speed at them, trying to tackle them?

I understand at the very last second you tried to like lay off, but at the same time, it seems, it seems as though it was very bang bang. I know most people are on the side, like it was the. I don't know. I think, I think it's easy to say as we watch that in a little different when you're, you know, playing the game live, but again, maybe he's got a track record of doing this type of hit.

I don't know. Uh, but that's my thought on that. Now let's have a clip of, actually, you know what I wanted to talk about? I made a long video today on YouTube. I received an email from an attorney that explained to me why they think Clayton Eckerd's accuser, Laura Owens is going to lose her appeal. This.

Lawyer who remained anonymous, uh, is retired from Arizona. I think they said they, they started practicing law in the seventies and then they know Arizona law in and out. And they actually surgically described all of the reasons why they think Laura Owens attorney is what they call bootstrapping, you know, sticking to points that are, aren't really points.

And, and he, they, you know, which red herrings he's using to, um, kind of, uh, miss. Communicate why the trial needs an appeal, essentially looking for loopholes where there may not be any, I thought it was very fascinating to hear this all from a lawyer. I read the full letter with this lawyer's approval anonymously on my YouTube channel, but if you're looking to get more Clayton Eckerd info, this lawyer seems to believe that the, uh, that the case will not be, uh, Granted an appeal based on what they know as far as how the Arizona court system works.

So if you're keeping track, that's another lawyer saying, Hey, well, you know, a snowball's chance in hell. Could a snowball exist in hell? Well, a snowball's chance in hell would say Maybe very unlikely, and it seems as though, um, uh, Laura Owens snowballs chance in hell is already starting to melt. We'll have to see.

Uh, Clayton Eckerside hasn't even offered a response yet. So we're really not too sure what's going to happen with the appeal. We'll have to wait for his response before it goes anywhere. And speaking of not going anywhere, here's a tic tac for you that didn't need to be shared, but I found it pretty funny from bachelorette, Jen Tran saying that her partner, Sasha smelled like, uh, one of her exes from the show, have a listen.

Oh, what's crazy today, Sasha and I went to Sephora. And he went to his own cologne aisle and to my perfume aisle and then we were dancing earlier in the living room and suddenly I was just getting all these flashbacks of The Bachelorette like, what is going on? And then I realized I was like, the set that he was wearing was so familiar and I was Did you try a new cologne?

And he was like, yeah, it's whatever. What was it? What was it? Well, he said something and I was like, okay. Um, but then I kept sniffing it and I was like, Oh my God, I'm sniffing Sam M right now. So, the audience of, you know, Bachelor Nation, we're looking at this going like, why are you sharing this? So, she's, and again, I think it's harmless, I think it's fun, but uh, it's also funny that her, you know, Partner, at least the guy who we assume she's dating Sasha.

She's sleeping at his place or they're hanging out on the couch together. And she's mentioning how, Oh, you smell like the guy I dated on TV again. I don't know. I don't think it's a big deal, but there it is folks. All right. So anyhow, we've made it to the end. There's actually a couple of stories. We didn't get to just so much going on here.

We can barely fit it all in. Uh, but Hey, can you believe it? The, uh, Christmas season is rolling right along. Uh, my wife and. Baby and myself will be hunting for a Christmas tree today. Our first Tennessee Christmas tree. We'll have to see if we go find one. I'll give you all those updates on Instagram at D Neils.

And Hey, if you're behind on content, we had that great episode over the weekend and our special Thanksgiving episode, which is a little bit more evergreen. As we discussed kind of a lot of the bigger ticket items going on in our community, and if you really want to know the behind the scenes of what we're planning to do for Thanksgiving.

Uh, for the, uh, for 2025 with the podcast. I have some of those updates on today's Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. All right, folks. Well, we'll be back in the morning as we are every day, twice a day. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride, buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy December 2nd to you. It's Monday, 2024, and we have all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place on today's episode of the rush Australia bands, social media for kids under the age of 16.

It's a first of its kind. It's kind. We'll break that story down. Plus, this was big news over the weekend. President Biden pardons his son Hunter, uh, and we'll get a comment from him and also a comment from his son. And then singer Megan Trainor reveals she's had too much Botox to smile. And I have found my favorite comment.

Christmas movie of the year. Cannot wait to tell you about that. And another canceled show by Justin Timberlake. Is this an old millennial trying to dance injury or something more? Did he hit the flow for the wrong reason? Uh, plus I've got a quarterback proposal over the weekend. We'll break down that and a huge box office weekend for wicked becoming the Biggest movie ever made based on a musical.

I've got all those stories and so much more coming up next on the rush. All right. We are full blown Christmas season now only three and a half weeks till Christmas. It's actually feels a little quicker this year because Thanksgiving was kind of late. Did everyone have a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend?

Did you guys do any black Friday shopping? Did anyone fist fight somebody in a Best Buy parking light for a discounted ring camera? Oh, a time to be alive. Well, I'll tell you what it was. Uh, it was on a Saturday. I was heading back from Kentucky with my wife and baby, uh, where my wife's parents live, and that's when I realized, uh, how insulted I was over the lack of love that my cranberry sauce received.

Now, as you guys know, I'm a. I'm a big proponent of a traditional Thanksgiving, you know, just the basics, turkey, you know, smashed standard mashed potatoes, you know, buns, whatever, you know, you can throw in a couple of curve balls, but you know, squash and cranberry sauce. That's what you do. Well, I made my cranberry sauce for probably the fifth year in a row, uh, for my wife's family and.

On Saturday, when it came time to return, after all the leftovers had been eaten, what I realized was nobody ate my cranberry sauce and nobody ate it during leftovers, even with cold Turkey as a leftover people opted to not eat my cranberry sauce. So here's what I want to know from you folks in the Midwest and the South is cranberry sauce.

Just one of those elitist new England things. Uh, or, or is it just, do I have a bone to pick with my specific family here? Because I made it, uh, from scratch with a fantastic recipe. I mean, it really is cranberry crack and yet, uh, not to be bogged down by the insult of not, uh, you know, eating my food, but. I kind of feel like I'm, I'm taking it personally.

So I'd love to know any Kentuckians or Ohians or any, uh, any Southerners out there, maybe Alabama is cranberry sauce. A big thing. I have a gallon of it now. I can't get rid of this stuff. All right. Well, anyhow, let's go into the news of the day. We've got a wicked defying the box office, highest grossing movie based on a musical ever.

And I'm sure Joker is like, well, We were kind of going for that. But of course, Joker was a musical that no one asked for. Wicked is the one that people wanted. So it is very popular. And again, becoming the highest grossing movie. Uh, based on a musical ever, according to Deadline, the movie's running domestic gross hit 214 million through Friday, eclipsing the lifetime gross of Grease, which came out almost 50 years ago.

Yeah. I mean, look, it isn't too often people are clamoring to go to a musical. You know what I mean? I mean, personally, I love musicals and I love Tom Cruise. If we could get a Top Gun. Musical I'll bring cranberry sauce. We'll all eat it at the theater. How about that? So either way, I've yet to see the movie.

Uh, now that Al Roker spoiled it for me, um, live at the, uh, well, he didn't spoil it, he just spoiled the cameo, but you know, you ever, you ever get a spoiler and you're like, well, I can't watch that movie for years until I forget the spoiler. Um, but I think it'll be good. I just am not much of a movie goer these days when it comes out on streaming me and the old millennials will watch it.

So the worldwide tally when it comes to musical flicks, wicked is trailing La Miserable, which had 442 million in Greece, 396 million in the great white whale of international musicals. Mamma Mia at 611 million. Well, I guess so that's what that's internationally. Yeah. Mamma Mia is a big one. I mean, that's a big one.

I'm surprised. Uh, I don't know if wicked will be able to, uh, be in the running for Mamma Mia, but we'll have to see. All right, let's go to some NFL news. Uh, Josh Allen and Haley. Get engaged. Uh, she said, yes, she said, yes, that's right. They got engaged during their buyer week. They, uh, had a romantic Instagram post on Friday, the actress and Buffalo Bills quarterback posted a photo of Allen down on one knee, asking Steinfeld to marry him with a beautiful sunset coloring the scene.

Framed by a gorgeous flower arch. She leans down and plants a kiss on Josh's mouth in the snap that tons of candles surrounded the couple in the shot. I mean, it was quite a, it was quite a romantic look. Whenever you see something like that, it makes, as a guy, it makes you go, okay, well, you just raised the bar for the rest of us.

So anyhow, they've been dating 2023, uh, or at least that's when it went public, but of course, uh, stay, uh, Haley, a musician, a, an artist. Actress kind of does it all. I mean, it was a pretty good power couple. Well, another NFL news, Trevor Lawrence took a massive hit over the weekend. Have a listen to the call.

Oh, there's no doubt that Trevor represents that. Well, that'll be Al Shire who's flagged for the big hit on the slide. And that's going to start a little bit of a scrum afterwards as the Jaguars come in to protect their QB. All right. So everyone starts fighting. I mean, look. I, to be quite honest, I'm sympathetic with the defender here because it's such a bang, bang play.

It seems so obvious when you watch it play out in real time. Uh, no, of course he got flagged with the penalty and apparently, and I could be wrong, there's a new rule here where if you get injured on an illegal play, in this case, uh, Trevor Lawrence got hit, uh, like illegal was, uh, you know, uh, hit to the helmet or whatever, helmet to helmet contact, whatever they call it.

If you get injured, there's a new rule where you get, you know, hit, A part of the voting process to decide what the penalty should be for the defender, which is kind of interesting. Um, but again, I don't know, I mean, it was, it was a bloody bad hit, but you know, I think, I think it's easy for us to watch that back in slow motion and go, Oh yeah, it was completely horrible.

I, and I think it was, but you know, you're running full speed out of each at each other. And then the quarterback at the last second can kind of like take a knee and slide down. So it's kind of like, you have to do your best to get out of the way. And they did not do that. All right. Well, we're going to keep it on the NFL.

Cause going back to the proposal, this is kind of how it works, right? When one of your friends gets engaged, the pressure is then put on you to get engaged. Same thing happens when you have, when one friend has a baby, it's like, well, when are you going to be next? And it's like, shut up, Trisha. Let me live my life.

Well, now fans are pressuring NFL star, Travis Kelsey to pop the question to Taylor Swift. You're next says people online. Now that, uh, now that we've got Haley Steinfeld saying yes to Josh Allen. Yeah, look, I'm, I'm, I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest with you, Travis, Kelsey, you better hire some choreographers because I'm guessing if you're going to be proposing to Taylor Swift, it better be something pretty massive.

Maybe at one of her sold out shows, but that's, that's where it gets to the issue where is anyone ever truly surprised with a proposal? I mean, look, you don't want to surprise somebody so much that they might say no. You know what I mean? You have to have a, you know, Pretty good feeling. They're going to say, yes, you got to float the idea by, you know, by them, by the mom, a best friend, you know, you can't, you can't just go in blind because you know, confirmation bias online will show us all of the proposals where she said yes, but there's a lot of videos that never got uploaded where she said, no, thank you.

Uh, you know, you know, I mean, maybe if you're the jumbotron probably gets that pretty often, you know, a lot of the Canadian football games where, you know, some guys drink a little too much beer. And next thing you know, He's proposing and she's like, no, you're not going to do it to me this way. Uh, but either way, uh, the clock's ticking.

You officially have six months, uh, Travis Kelsey. No, I mean, interesting. I mean, they've only been together for like one solid year, even though the relationship has run a little quickly. In the public eye, will they take more time? I mean, who knows? No one's getting younger out there. And speaking of not getting younger, we have Megan Trainor.

She says she cannot turn her frown upside down because of Botox. I got too much Botox and I need help. I messed up. Listen, I've had Botox like a handful of times, just a few times, just up here, just my forehead. You know, um, and someone convinced me with my little lips that if you did a lip flip, you put filler right above your upper lip, that you could have a beautiful flip on your upper lip.

And I could have one for the first time in my whole 30 years of living. It was not true. Uh, and also I cannot smile anymore. So here it is. Uh, oh boy, this podcast sounds, I don't want to say it sucks, but, uh, I'm having a tough time getting through this clip. Uh, so there's Megan Drainer explaining how. Uh, and again, I don't know if anyone's going to feel bad for her.

The story itself is not really funny. I don't mean to be salty towards Meghan Trainor. It's like, all right. I mean, you get a little too much Botox, but it does wear off. And can't you, or I guess you could dissolve fillers, but I don't know about if you can dissolve Botox. I've made the choice and I don't judge anybody else, but I've made the choice in my life To lay off any Botox or fillers.

It's just not for me. You know what I mean? If, if I have any wrinkles or lines, I want people to know that I'm wearing it well, but again, I won't judge anybody else. Just, you know, make sure you don't get too much. We wanna see your nice smile, right? Or, you know what? Get so much that we can't see your smile.

I don't really, you know what? Do whatever the hell you want. What you know. What am I supposed to say? I feel like when it comes to, it's very interesting when it comes to offering your opinion on other people's bodies, right? Because people do whatever the hell you want. And I'm like, sure. No, I get that.

But can't we also say it's pretty crazy if you do have to, or want to alter who you are to fit in? I don't know. I don't know, folks. Like I said, get your, get your body. Boobs done and your calves, uh, implanted and just live your good life. Do whatever the hell you want. Uh, if you ask me, okay, well, you see how I backpedaled out of that one.

Sometimes I'm like, am I going to delete this clip? No, I'm keeping it in. It's Monday morning. We can only go up from here. We'll be back with more content right after this. Well, this is going to be a bummer of a story. James Vanderbeek from Dawson's Creek. He's being treated for colorectal cancer, and he's pitching something to his Instagram followers can help pay his medical expenses in the expenses of others in a similar situation by ordering one of his varsity blues, uh, high school.

Uh, jerseys from the, you know, the, The movie varsity blues, and I guess he's going to autograph it, which by all means, that's a good cause. It's good. It's good to help out with people with medical expenses. It's just sad that we live in a world where we, we live in a country with the greatest medical expenses and we get the least from it.

I mean, why it's, it's, why do we do this? What are we doing? Why is this a thing? You know what I mean? You shouldn't get wiped out. Medical debt should not be a thing that exists in 2024, uh, in the, what is supposed to be the richest country in the world. I wish, I wish more of us realize that like we, we deserve better.

You know, some people get sick and, and, and, and the care is expensive and we spend more than any other first world countries. I'll die on this hill. I will literally die on this hill with bad medical insurance. Uh, and then, you know, whatever. Okay. You get the point. Um, so let's move it on. Cause it's a bummer of a story.

Alfonso Ribeiro is the host of dancing with the stars. He also. Played Carlton on Fresh Prince of Bel Air. My generation has loved them since the mid nineties, right? Well, here's what Mark Ballas, a pro dancer had to say, or former pro dancer about how good Alfonso Ribeiro is going from a, uh, dancer, from a celebrity to the host.

Is it crazy to see Alfonso go from contestant now to host for you? Um, not crazy at all. Like, um, when they announced him as host, I was like, He's great. I love I have so much love for Alfonso. He's just a good guy. And he cares. And he's so talented at everything he does. Everything that he does is awesome.

Incredible, incredible, incredible host. Um, and he goes the extra mile like he's at the dress rehearsals. He's at the camera blocks so that he has Insight on to what you're going through that week. So he has great questions for you. He really cares for the competitors. He's just You know top notch. I love Alfonso.

Is there anything specific about the show that you love the way that they operate now? Yeah Like in what sense like for me? I thought it was so impressive that when they do the entire blocking day, the judges are not there so they don't see yeah The test run, which makes sense, but I feel like on a lot of other shows, they might have to be there.

No, yeah, yeah. They, um, that's always been the way they've never been in the dress rehearsal. You know, that's what makes it so cool to me as a fan that it's authentically real. I need to get myself like a press pass for the next season of dancing with the stars. I feel like I should be there hanging out with these folks, right?

I don't know. Are we becoming a dancing with the stars podcast? I guess so. Uh, well, we also love the bachelor and we love bachelorette. contestant star of the show, Jason Tartick, his podcast, uh, trading secrets, uh, talks about trying to cut your expenses down in a world of inflation and so much going on there.

Here's what he had to say this year. I want everyone to really, really focus on stop spending like an asshole. Just stop. The price of everything has gotten out of control. Companies are clearly taking advantage of that. Obviously there are supply and demand issues. There's inflation issues. I think we'll keep seeing inflation because you have unemployment that's not moving when the cost of capital is growing exponentially.

And at the end of the day, when you go to a restaurant, when you go to the grocery store, it's going to continue to go up. And if you are not a smart consumer right now, you're going to get buried. If you thought credit card debt was bad before at like 19, 20%, when interest was at zero, you have 30 year mortgages.

They're at like 7%. So now credit card debt percentage is going to be like, 30, 40%. You get yourself stuck in credit card debt right now. That's rolling because of these costs, it's going to be impossible to get out. Now he posted this in January of 2023, just to be fair, he reposted it saying it's still heads true.

I would say the only thing that doesn't hold true here is that inflation has kind of been put under control. Now, hold on a second. I'm not saying the cost of goods aren't high. I'm just saying the percentage at which it is Growing has, has, has slowed down. And now we, now we need to do a better job of getting those prices down.

That's probably more because of corporate greed, uh, than it is because of inflation itself. Uh, but yeah, it's wild out there. And yet they're saying that this black Friday was one of the busiest, or if not the busiest black Friday ever. So which one is it? Is the economy terrible or are people doing okay?

Or is it just like some people are doing okay. And some people are struggling. You know, they say most of the country can't afford a 400, um, an emergency, which is just. It's just terror. It's just terrible out there. We should not be in this situation that we're in. And we shouldn't be okay with these corporations just, you know, raking it in billions in profits where we barely scrape by.

All right. I got a good one for you. I've been looking forward to hearing this story. Australia's banning social media for kids under the age of 16. Are we cool with this? Would we want this here in the good old U S of a, have a listen. The world's first law to ever ban social media for children in Australia, platforms like Tik TOK, X and Instagram now have a year to figure out how to impose this.

After that, they could face fines of up to 33 million if they fail to keep kids under 16 from having accounts. Australia's Prime Minister says the law supports parents concerned by online harms to their children, but Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta says the legislation was rushed. An Australian lobbying group says the ban was passed in just a week and that no one can explain how it'll work.

And some mental health advocates have also warned of potential unintended consequences, including isolating children who use the platforms to find support. Now, the ban doesn't apply to educational services, including YouTube, WhatsApp, and Google Classroom. The big question is how now they will verify a user's age, because the law states These platforms can't just require a government ID.

And of course the big question, will other countries follow suit? All right. You know, here's what I love and hate about this. What I hate is this is like when Bloomberg tried to ban large beverages in New York and people were like, no, you can't ban our beverages. And he was like, I'm just trying to do a good thing and battle childhood obesity.

And they're like, yeah, we'll go F off, you know? And I, I love, I love this rule, even if people don't know how they're going to be able to enforce it. Right. I just love this. We don't. You know, the second you get on your phone, you know, the second you give your phone to a kid is the second that they are being robbed of the rest of their childhood.

Like you don't, you'll never put that cat back in the bag. Now you can have air tags tracking your kid. You can have a flip phone, you can have a GPS system, you can have a smart, you could literally have a smartphone. Just take the social media off of it, right? Like if your kid had an iPhone so they could get around so that they can make phone calls so that they could Google things, that's like, that would be okay.

Because I mean, that's not the addiction that's keeping people on their phone. It's the doom scrolling. I'm, I'm very, I'm very adamant about this. Obviously I, I, um, You know, had, had a thing go quasi viral talking about how we're not going to introduce screens to our child. Uh, and it's like, look, you know, it doesn't mean your kid's not going to watch TV here or there.

It means you're going to get it out of their hands. You're going to get it out of their hands because that's where like the Gosh, I mean it's it's it bums me out It bums me out when I see kids with the phone three inches off of their eyes. It feels like um, it feels like It's like, it's like handing a kid a pack of cigarettes.

I'm not mad at the kid. I'm mad at the people that thought this was a good idea. And I know you might get upset about that. You might say, Dave, you have no idea what it's like when all your other friends have it. I get it. So it looks like Australia is solving that problem. No one gets it. No one gets it.

Go talk to people in real life. Be a human. You know what I mean? Gosh, I sound like such an old fogey when I say that, but just be a human. All right. Well, um, uh, we have the big story of the day. President Joe Biden, pardoning son Hunter. And we'll get to that right after the break. So this afternoon on the afternoon rush hour, we will start our single mom or single parent appreciation list.

We've got 12 or more. We might have up to 15 actually, uh, people with Amazon wishlist, which we will be featuring. And for the next few weeks, that list will be shared this afternoon on that the afternoon rush. So stick around for that. You're going to hear everyone's story and it's going to be, it's going to be good.

It's going to be nice to sort of share in the abundance that some of us have. And helping out those that could use a helping hand. All right. Well, speaking of a helping hand, Hunter Biden is getting one from his old man. President Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter. This was big news. They came out yesterday and I'll play a few news clips and then I'll tell you my thoughts on it.

Here we go. News President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, ahead of the end of his presidential term. That's according to a senior White House official with direct knowledge of the decision. Remember, Hunter Biden was convicted back in June on three separate felony charges related to his purchase of a gun in 2018, a time during which prosecutors say he was battling a drug addiction and lied about it on paperwork to get that gun.

It was the first time a sitting president's child was convicted of a crime. Hunter Biden also pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in September. In that case, he was charged with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanors, including tax evasion and filing a false return. NBC News has learned that this pardon is expected to cover both Hunter Biden's conviction and guilty plea.

This marks a reversal for President Biden. Both he and White House officials have said, Republicans will win.

So the reason why Joe Biden flipped on this decision is he essentially said he felt as though the system was being weaponized against him, uh, because this isn't sort of, uh, you know, most people that commit this crime don't actually get charged, uh, you know, or they get brought lesser charges.

Essentially Hunter. Said he wasn't using drugs on a gun application when he was, and that's, and that's the crime. Initially, he had a plea deal, which I believe the judge then rejected, uh, and then it was sent to trial. So here is a little bit of the statement of what Hunter Biden had to say. So go Hunter Biden issued a statement from of his own stating, I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction, mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport.

Despite all of this, I have maintained my sobriety for more than five years because of my deep faith and the unwavering love and support of my family and friends. Hunter Biden continued in the throes of addiction. I squandered many opportunities and advantages in recovery. We can be given the opportunity to make amends where possible and rebuild our lives.

If we never take for granted the mercy that we have been afforded, I will never take the clemency I have been given today for granted and will devote the life I have. Uh, rebuild to helping those who are still sick and suffering. You know, this is what's so interesting. I'm going to put my, I'm going to put a little Dave Neal spin on this little polish here is I, I find it courageous.

And again, say what you want about Joe Biden as a president, but his story's insane, right? He, he had family that died in a car crash, which just, Sounds so horrifying that that would happen, right? And then he has a son who dies, what, brain cancer from, from, uh, being, uh, serving in the military and, and, you know, you know, it was exposed to burn pits and, and dangerous chemicals.

And then another son battling addiction. It sounds like he's been through hell and back with his family. And yet here in the very human moment, he says. My son's been targeted. I believe in the justice system, but I also feel like he was targeted because of me. Um, and I think he did what any father would do, which is, which is, um, you know, which is throwing that pardon.

I don't know. I don't know. Let me, let me, uh, sort of try to end this episode on a high note. And that being, you know, I've been reviewing Christmas movies, Red Light, Green Light, Yellow Light. If a movie even makes me teary eyed, I give it a yellow light. I don't know if I've given any hard red lights. I'm very kind with my rating system.

Well, I found my first flawless Christmas movie of the year. It's called the Nutcrackers or Nutcrackers and it's on Hulu and it stars Ben Stiller and it actually stars four brothers. They're actually all brothers in real life. Uh, they're like between the ages of like six and 13. They're, they're young, they're kids.

And this movie. Hit me so hard. I was watching it and I think I cried Consistently the last 40 minutes of the movie. I'm not kidding and I'm okay saying I'm like is this do I need therapy? Is this on me? I looked the movie up on Rotten Tomatoes. It only had like a 60 percent audience score I was like, what the hell is wrong with people?

people. And so I actually looked up, I actually looked up a lot of people's reviews and I think people gave it a bad review because they wanted, they wanted it to be like a meet the Fockers type of movie. Like they wanted it to be what was like a Ben Stiller kind of comedy. And that it's not that here's what I wrote as my review for nutcrackers.

I wrote this on rotten tomatoes. The movie was a slow build and felt like a home cooked meal. The characters took time to open up and felt like a bold choice in a world of cookie cutter formula. Those wishing it were funnier should see a therapist. This ain't meet the Fockers. It's uncle Buck meets little miss sunshine.

By the second act, I was rooting Ben Stiller on. I could see the ending from a mile away and yet I still wept. It's stuck the landing. I'm telling you right now, I need you guys to watch this movie and let me know if it hit you or it didn't hit you. Uh, like I said, again, I watched in, you know, you'll know after you watch the movie.

I'm watching it with, you know, my son sleeping on my chest and I don't know if it's like dad. I don't know if I have like new parent. Like I've always been a crier, right? I've always been one to like really feel my feelings. But as I'm watching this movie, my wife passed out. She was, she falls asleep. She wakes up and she goes, are you crying?

And I go, honey, I've been crying for the last hour. This movie was so good. It hit me to its core. Nutcrackers. On Hulu again, it didn't have a great rotten tomato score. I couldn't believe it. I think it'll change. I think over time people are going to talk about this movie as a real hit. Um, it's going to, and again, it's, it's a clean family movie.

It just has to deal with some death. I'm not giving anything away when I say Ben Stiller, um, uh, you know, has to, uh, look over some kids that aren't his. That's really the premise of the movie. And, um, it reveals itself very early on. And maybe it, maybe, maybe it was so obvious how it was going to go. And yet I was still rooting for everybody in this movie.

I was like, this is this, it was, there were so many bold choices. I thought, and I thought it was shot so beautifully that it was so unlike most Christmas movies. It's like, I went into it expecting some dumb, stupid Hulu Christmas movie. In, in a, I ended up getting poetry. That's how I felt. I'd love to know your thoughts, nutcrackers on Netflix.

I've, excuse me, nutcrackers on Hulu. All right, folks. Well, a lot of content to get to today. I'll have YouTube videos up, uh, one on Clayton Eckerd trial. Um, nothing big, but I'll be sharing some very interesting thoughts. Have a good Monday. We'll see this afternoon. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hello, everybody. Good afternoon to you on this Black Friday. It's the laziest day Day of the year, November 29th, 2024. But I'm here for you and I'm going to mail it in with you.

Maybe you're at work, you know, you smell like bourbon or whatever you have. Maybe you're not at work. Maybe you're in line at an old Navy and, uh, you're shopping for things. You just don't need like 5 pajamas. That can't be an ethical thing that was made. How do you make pajamas for 5? Either way I'm here for you.

I got all of your entertainment news in one place. If that's not reason enough to give me a five star review, I don't know what it is. What else do I need to do to prove to you guys that we have the grit and determination to see it through the end of this week. On this episode, we have multiple bachelor engagements from contestants that were on bachelor, bachelorette and bachelor in paradise.

We have it all. We have a, uh, one heterosexual, one non. All right. We're here. It's 2024. Do what you want to do, move it all around. I don't care. We got those announcements for you. Plus we've got Ben Affleck possibly rekindling with his ex Jennifer Gardner. They spent Thanksgiving together. And we've also got a good story.

A hiker found after a, what week and a half in the woods. And we'll have that heroic story. So some feel good stuff. That'll get us into the weekend. I'm here for you. We got it all and more coming up next on The Rush. As you guys know, I've been in Northern Kentucky, AKA Cincinnati, Ohio. It's, you know, in the same, it's the same thing.

Uh, and I've been here at the in laws, uh, recording from my mobile studio setup in the basement. They've got one of those renovated basements as they do. You can check it out. If you join me on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal, but I took the time this morning to go try some black Friday shopping, not a big black Friday shopper.

In fact, I don't remember ever going before this might've been my first and quite possibly my last time. Uh, but it looks like it's going to be a crazy shopping season as Thanksgiving fell a little late this year. So there's actually five less days of chances to, I don't know, battle it out with strangers at the store.

The holiday shopping season, which is shorter this year. And so far all signs are pointing to shoppers spending more money, even though many are still carrying debt. From last year. More now from ABC's Melissa Adan. Tonight, the holiday shopping season is heating up. And despite widespread economic anxiety, consumer spending is off to a strong start.

All right, this story's a bummer. And by the way, can you even, can you even listen to these people? Tonight, Holiday shopping is off to. It's like, what language are they even talking? Speak like a human. That's why the failed media is not doing well. All right. But either way. Yeah. I mean, look, you know, people are in debt.

Yeah. Times are tough, but you still got to buy a present for your kid. That's what you got to do. If there's anybody out there. Uh, who is a single mom, single dad, or struggling during the holiday season and wants to be part of our single parent wishlist. We have eight submissions, so we're looking for four more.

We're going to have at least a dozen or so that we're going to celebrate this Christmas season. We're going to share your wishlist. We're going to share your story and we're going to get some help for you. So don't rack up the credit card debt, uh, join our single parent Christmas wishlist. And if you would like to do that, uh, I, uh, have a submission link.

It's super easy. It takes literally. Minutes long. And it's in the description of this video. Uh, so you can, uh, or this description of this podcast, I should say, and you can go click on that and, uh, join us. All right. Well, anyway, on Thanksgiving, we talked about this pug who won the national dog show. I didn't get it.

I don't understand the rating system. You know, it's very objective kind of, or subjective, kind of like dancing with the stars. It's like, what's the rating even mean? And the today's show asking the good questions spoke to the owner of the small Doug, Doug. dog, who they call the perfect pug mug. And they asked why was Vito crowned the winner?

What has he got that the other dogs don't? What was it about Vito that really stood out? Well, they always have to be a great specimen of their breed, but he's got this whole personality to him. He owns the ground. He stands over, he's got the perfect pug mug. He's got the great attitude too. And, and a pug is supposed to be in Malta and Parvo means a lot of dog in a small space.

And he's got all those things going for him in addition to being a great showman as well. Could you tell him right away he was the leader of the pack? Oh yeah, he stood out right away, but I mean, it's seven great dogs in there at the end and, and, uh, we all had a great time watching and picking our winners and we all picked different winners.

Listen, I don't know what they're talking about. He just looks like a normal dog. Sometimes I feel like I'm being gaslighted. Oh, no, he's the best pug the way his wrinkles are. No, I don't get it. They all look the same to me. Sure. Is the pug cute? Yeah, but I wouldn't look twice at this pug if it was humping my leg on the street, you know what I mean?

All right. So Thanksgiving is all about here. Here's a new tradition, a relatively new tradition on Thanksgiving on black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I like my, I like my tick tock feed. To be people blowing up their turkeys. That's what I like. I like I, my Tik TOK feed is all people deep frying their turkeys.

Have you seen this? Well, Robert F. Kennedy jr, uh, who ran as an independent after leaving the democratic party and is now part of, uh, you know, one of the henchmen in the upcoming president elect Trump, uh, I don't know. He's going to be head of the FDA or something. Who knows either way, he went viral for not putting shoes on while he was handling the grease from the deep fried Turkey.

Look, this is what men. We, we do things above our pay grade. We try to deep fry a Turkey because we watched one TikTok video of it. And we think we can do it all by herself. 99 percent of the time, the deep fried Turkey comes out fine. 1 percent of the time. You burn your house down. Guess which video goes viral.

The house burning down one. Now, Robert F. Kennedy ended up being perfectly fine. He didn't burn his house down, but it was viral. Cause people are going, Oh my gosh, how is he not going to, let me tell you something, if you have sandals on and you spill the grease on your toe, it's not going to make a difference.

So he's showing people he's brave enough. He's he he's not, he, he doesn't just not believe in vaccines. He also doesn't believe in socks and shoes. All right. But I'll tell you who believes in rekindling with their exes. Ben Affleck. He's the king of the. And what better time to join forces with an ex than over the Thanksgiving break.

You know, you get a little quiet during the holidays. You want to spend time with someone like, why did it ever go wrong? Well, here he is with Jennifer Gardner doling out food to homeless on Thanksgiving. The former couple and their three kids, Violet, Finn, and Samuel, showed up to L. A. 's Midnight Mission on Thursday and distributed food for the homeless.

Also, sadly, Jennifer recently lost her dog. Which, you know, of course, having lost our dog this year, uh, it is a very sad time. To lose an animal that, you know, is part of your family. And in some ways, obviously not more sad or less sad than losing a family member, just a different type of sad, right. And a pal that loves you unconditionally.

And, um, you know, of course dogs lifespan, 10, 14 years, eight years, you know, not long and, um, Jen, I guess, lost her dog, posted about that on social media. And, uh, Ben wanted to be there for her. So say the sources. And I think that's a good thing. Is that enough to rekindle things? I mean, look, at this point, it's like he tried to rekindle with his other Gen X, uh, not, not Gen X, Jennifer X, uh, that being Lopez.

And now of course he's hanging out with. The mother of his kids, Jennifer Gardner, at the very least, if they can maintain friendships, I think that's very powerful of them, you know, for, you know, for the sake of the kids, right? Well, someone who's got a boyfriend, not yet engaged is Taylor Swift. Uh, if there's ever a time to get down on a knee, it'll be this holiday season.

They've been together now for a good while. Maybe they'll give it another year. Who knows? I'm not putting pressure on them, but if Taylor and Travis do get engaged, it will make it. The news, everything Taylor does makes the news. Heck, her Black Friday sale is making the news. Massive crowds line up to buy all things Taylor Swift at Target.

You thought Target was already an insufferable place. Imagine it with a bunch of Swifties running around. Taylor Swift is on Target to clean up this Christmas because her merch is flying off the shelves. Yeah. By the time you're listening to this, you're probably not going to get any of it. But, um, she has a Black Friday eras spectacular, uh, eras tour, I guess what They're buying CDs, vinyl, whatever else the hell she has.

Who knows? Either way, they were lining up outside the target in Queens in the wee hours of Friday, uh, and in the frigid weather. I mean, who wants something bad enough to do this? No, I will not raise a child who will go out doing midnight shopping Thursday night. In fact, it appears that most places aren't even doing the midnight shopping thing anymore.

The way people shop. Is changing drastically. Gary Vaynerchuk actually explains this on CNBC. It's a, it's an interesting story, especially on black Friday, because today is the day of, you know, late stage capitalism. This is the day where people trade all of the nice things they said on Thanksgiving to stampede and literally kill people to save 10 bucks on a TV.

I mean, sadly that's the world we live in. Uh, but either way, times are a changing and I'll have that story for you next. All right. Yeah. When it comes down to Gary V a. k. a. Gary Vaynerchuk, look, this guy is on the forefront of what's happening in the world of media. He's, he really is like a Nostradamus. He knows all of the upcoming apps and where to invest your time and strategies.

Uh, a lot of people, I think, balk at him because of his style. You know, he swears a lot. He's really loud, but like the dude knows how to motivate people and tell them exactly what they need to do to get success online. And he also knows most people aren't going to take his advice because it's hard, but here he's talking about the boom of social media influencers selling products.

The reason I'm so excited to be here is every retail, every CPG. This is, this is going to be over the next decade, a consumer packaged good. So if you're Procter, if you're PepsiCo, I mean, this is going to be a major deal. Because don't forget, we have major channel conflict wars between the packaged good companies and the retailers.

And the Amazons and the Walmarts are taking media dollars now away from social. It's going to affect the overall impact to consumable products and to retail of this dynamic and social shopping. And now the social networks taking an 8 percent rake on every transaction. I heard 6 in some cases. Some, but 8 percent and then a 3 percent process fee.

But again, this is also going to hit Main Street. If you're a normal store in a small town in Jersey or California, on Wednesday at 3pm, there is nothing going on. To your point, the retail traffic is changing. The fact that you can turn your little boutique into a studio now and go live shopping.

Entrepreneurials, entrepreneurs can do this too. If you're a small business owner, you can get right out there. Ten years ago, I used to go on this program and others and talk about influencers are going to make money. And I got a little, huh. And now it's a multi billion dollar economy shopping retailers.

Does it undermine that? Yeah, this is, I would argue that live social shopping is the only potential thing that Amazon should be working, worrying about in their domination. So look, he's, he's absolutely right. Um, if you've ever watched something on Tik TOK and you see somebody using a product that's way more valuable.

Especially because it's sort of grassroots in a way, you know, you know, sometimes it's paid sponsorship, but it's way more believable than seeing an ad. Uh, I've been telling this to my wife, you know, we have, we have, we have such strong opinions about some of the toys and things we have for the baby that we love.

You know, there's certain things we love or hate depending on our own experience. Like I'm surprised how perfectly happy I am with the, you know, Heated, uh, a baby, um, uh, what's it called? The wipes warmer, not because of the wipes, not because I want the wipes to be warm, but because when you wave your hand over it, it automatically opens up.

And when you're changing a baby's diaper in the middle of the night, that 20 purchase is actually amazing. You know, like, so those little things that make life a little bit easier. The suction cups that our friend Stephanie just bought us. Thank you from Stephanie and the Patreon that hold the baby's toys to the tray so that he can play with them and not throw everything out of the ground.

These little things make such a difference. We just found, um, a, a heated, uh, it's a weighted toy. It's like a weighted, a plush teddy bear, uh, that you can throw in the microwave and there's like sandbags in it. That'll warm it up. So your baby has a little bit of something warm to hug. Are you kidding me?

Now, these things, you know, like there's obviously a lot of junk out there, but when you find a product you need on social media, it's like, where can I buy this thing? So I told Tasha, she needs to be going live once a week and sharing all of the items that she's loved as a new mom. Uh, but, uh, but anyway, that's the way the world's going to be going for me.

I don't know what items I would share. I mean, I'm a, I'm a geek with some of this, uh, technology, but I don't really feel like the itch to get into this world, but Hey, it might, this might be the new world we live in, you know? Um, so anyhow. Okay, let's go to a happy story. All this like consumerism is kind of bleak.

I personally, you know, to be quite honest, like this year, I haven't bought anything really new for the podcast as far as cameras or sound equipment. Everything just works fine. My laptop's two years old, but it's been a beast. I don't really buy much new. For those watching me on Patreon, I've been wearing the same blue jumpsuit from Costco.

It's got baby throw up all over it. I smell like I work at the dairy, uh, you know, dairy cream. Uh, but anyhow, uh, dairy cream, dairy queen, whatever the dairy queen. cream. I am the dairy cream just covered in, uh, breast milk. Uh, what a life, what a life either way. You know, everyone has a different itch and people, you know, have a different demand for different things.

But we, what we have to remember is like, you know, we're going to try to introduce this to our son for Christmas. It's like, let's not buy much. Let's not set the bar high that Santa has to buy you 50 things. You know what I mean? Like a couple great. And let's spend that time doing art and singing and having fun.

You know, I just don't want, you know, I don't want to have one of those kids that's like, Oh my gosh, Christmas, and they rip through all their toys and there's no like appreciation for it. You know what I mean? I don't know. Maybe that's just the poor kid in me that was raised lower middle income. All right.

Well, let's go to a happy story here in the Canadian wilderness. Oh, a missing hiker found after six weeks. Have a listen. appears to be an extraordinary tale of survival. 20 year old Sam Benistick went camping in the Canadian Rockies in early October. His family then reported him missing when he did not return home after what was supposed to be just a 10 day trip.

On Tuesday, authorities say two men were walking through the backcountry when they spotted Benistick more than five weeks after he had last been seen. He's recovering in a local hospital. Recent temperatures in that area had dipped to below minus four degrees. Fahrenheit. Ah, officials say they want to know exactly what happened.

We don't have any details ourselves about exactly what happened. The good news is he's expected to be okay. Alright, so yeah, no details. When the story comes out, I'll share it. What a good ending to an otherwise horrifying story. Great for the holidays to get reunited. Well, Tom Brady, he's a announcer now, uh, but he's very critical of quarterbacks as he, of course is the greatest of all time here.

He gives his thoughts on Daniel Jones requesting a release from. Yeah, I, I don't know how the whole situation went down, but to think that you would ask for a release from a team that committed a lot to you is maybe different than I would have handled that. I always felt I wanted to get the trust and respect of my teammates, regardless situation, knowing that I was trying to do the best I could for the team, because that was the most important thing.

There's just some different things that happen in the NFL and everyone makes mistakes. individual choices. And I think we're all at points in our career, face different challenges and I faced them in college and some things didn't go the way I wanted, but the people that mattered the most to me were the guys in the locker room.

I showed up every day. I don't care if they asked me to be scout team safety, be scout team quarterback. I was going to do whatever I could to help the team win. All right. Look, I love Tom Brady, but chill out, man. You're the greatest of all time. I would have done it a different way. He feels like the guy on Friday in class.

Who's like a teacher. You didn't assign the homework for the week. Well, from my favorite sport of football to my other favorite sport of dance, we've got the reaction from Jenna Johnson, Joey's dance partner, to the rough criticism they received from Carrie Ann Inaba. Here's what they had to say after winning the Mirrorball trophy.

How was it teaching her a little bit of tennis? And I, and how was it getting the judges reaction too? Because, you know, The reason why we wanted to do this freestyle, um, and do a tennis themed is because Joey is exquisite at it. And he looks so athletic and fast and sharp when he plays. So I wanted to incorporate that.

Um, and you know what? To each their own with the comments. I was grateful that Derek mentioned the creativity, um, So, so that means a lot. I'll hold on to that. Yeah, look, I thought there was creativity with their dance, but I also, when I watched that dance with Tasha, we were both like, eh. I mean, look, Stephen Nadorozik had this amazing pommel horse routine.

They incorporated the pommel horse with the gymnastics and the sheer athleticism. I don't really think Uh, tennis athleticism translates into the ballroom. Now the footwork does, but like showcasing a serve. I don't know. It just, it just didn't do it for me. When I said that I saw comments from people going, Oh, Dave, you're just parroting what Carrie Ann Anaba said.

It's like, no, chill out. I give my own opinions here. And it was just underwhelming. I mean, look, he was the best dancer that wasn't, uh, you know, Chandler Kinney. Chandler Kinney was a better dancer. She should have won for a number of reasons. She didn't. Those which we discussed, but I think she should have won.

So good on Joey for winning. Uh, he did his best, but you know, look, the judges are there not so that they can just give everyone tens. They're going to give their opinion and whether people like it or not. And plenty of people don't, I'm glad she does give her opinion. Well, we've got some bachelor engagements to get to.

Brooklyn said yes. She said yes to her partner. Brooklyn was on bachelor in paradise and I believe Zach shall cross this season. Oh, I could be wrong. I'm getting live fact checked from the Patriot. I apparently earlier I pronounced Ben Affleck's ex wife as Jennifer Gardner. It's Gardner. I'm so sorry. I got that wrong.

Okay. Let's move on. I don't take criticism well. Gardener, not Gardener. Well, anyway, this is Brooklyn. She's the one who is like the rodeo girl. I don't know, rides horses. Uh, but unlike other people that ride horses, as far as we know, Brooklyn has not faked multiple pregnancies, but here she is, her partner, a cowboy with a cowboy hat, got down on a knee, proposed.

She said, yes, the rock is huge. I mean, can you even get engaged with a, Uh, ring smaller than five carats at this point. No, you should listen. Don't, don't make it an arms race, or I should say a fingers race. Uh, get married with whatever size engagement or non engagement ring that you want, but either way, everyone's commenting charity loss and said, congrats, brookie.

So happy you found your person and endless happiness. She's going to be a wifey. So all the ladies of her season are congratulating her and good on her. She wasn't the only lady to get engaged. Jasmine from Nick's season and bachelor in paradise is engaged. engaged to her long term girlfriend. That's right.

Jasmine is engaged. I don't know if I have her girlfriend's name on this. Her girlfriend's not from bachelor, the bachelor world, but either way. So good to see that they have found love, uh, lots of love in the air on this weekend. Of course, we already reported Cassie Randolph and Brighton got engaged. So again, it's the holidays.

This is the time you want to batch up your, I mean, by the way, genius, if you can get your engagement to be in the Christmas season, because then you can sort of package together your, uh, anniversary presents along with your Christmas presents. You know, my wife, she speckled them across. Like we had a baby in may, we got engaged in whatever, you know, whatever.

When are we going to get October? We're all over the place. Every month. There's a reason to buy a gift. It's like, can we just afford to pay the utility bill place? Isn't that a gift? Can I package up a utility bill? I don't think it works that way. All right. More content coming your way. We'll wrap this thing up with a bow.

We'll be back with that right after this. And by the way, I'm not trying to say I'm financially manipulating my wife, but now that she's a stay at home mom, which is a full time job, you know, she's at home taking care of the baby breastfeeding, I'm changing diaper. I mean, it's a full time job. Absolutely.

But I'm, you know, uh, I'm, I'm paying the bills now. And, uh, with that, That like today we went black Friday shopping at Burlington coat factory, a place you just don't need to go into. And as a joke, I told my wife, I go, look at this stupid green jacket. You should wear this. Well, she tried it on, turns out she looks great in the jacket and I bought it for her.

And I was like, do I get to wrap this up as a Christmas present? Does this count as Christmas season? You know? And, um, anyway, I don't know. Maybe it does. Uh, but I do remember, I mean, I am wounded from having a single mom one year. This is the saddest story I'm going to tell you. My mom, my mom claims it was a joke, but I was only like 10 years old one year.

My mom wrapped up a small present and I opened it up and it was the bill. It was the receipt for a bill for the dentist. Yes. I know. Did that hurt you guys to hear that about old poor Dave over here? You're all like, now we understand why Dave works so hard because when he was being raised as a child, his mom tried to pass off a dentist bill.

I mean, it really is sad now, but, uh, we've come so far since then. It's like, I'm sorry, I had cavities. You fed me fish sticks and sugar, and now you got to take me to the dentist. That's on you, mom. You know what I mean? Anyhow, uh, move on to some other stories. I clearly have some. Uh, therapy I need. Okay. So we've got Lala speaking of therapy, how about Vanderpump rules?

Here's what Lala had to say about what she would have done differently in this last season. Of course, the new season of Vanderpump is going to have none of the past members. They've all essentially gotten fired and replaced. And now they're thinking, boy, what could I have done differently? Here's what she had to say.

There's one thing that I would have changed and it wasn't on camera. I wish that after the finale, after I lost my mind. That I would have called Ariana and said I want to let you know that I said some really really hurtful things It'll probably be friendship ending. It was not my style I can't even believe that I didn't do that because i'm i'm so adamant about when I say things behind your back I'm gonna say it to your face.

I still went to her show. I still supported her All the while knowing that I said what I said because I think in my mind I compartmentalized I was like But that had to do with the show I was angry at her for the show and I wasn't even angry at her. I don't regret saying what I said, I regret not giving her the heads up and saying, I said this because of X, Y, and Z.

I probably should have told you sooner on camera, but just giving you the heads up, this is going to come out. Damn. I mean, look, interesting, uh, way to think about it. If you didn't watch that season, it was wild. Essentially. Ariana got. So famous from her breakup that everyone else was like, Hey, man up and be a part of this.

You know, and it, and um, you know, when you go to these private confessionals, it's like, that's where you hear what really people really have to say. And look, Lala, say what you want about her. I mean, she, she makes for great TV. You know what I mean? She makes for great TV. And, uh, Ariana is just at the point in her life where she's like, I don't need this stupid TV.

You know, like you're hurting me. And she felt hurt. So she didn't want to work with anyone else. And she, you know, didn't want to work with her ex Tom Sandoval, all reasonable things. And because of that, they're like, how do we even make this show? We can't even get these people in the same room together.

So the show, and Hey, you know what? Maybe they come back in a couple of years and have a spinoff. I mean, there's so much drama. That when the dust settles on other things going on in their world, if they do want to come back on the show, I think people would watch it. All right. Well, speaking of crazy drama, here is a host from real America's voice, uh, explaining why they found the movie wicked to be racist and offensive to white people.

Now, hold on. As it turns out, they're completely wrong. Have a listen. The idea of seeing, uh, the interpretation of this, but I should have known it's Holly weird. I should have known they'd try to make it woke in the ways that they could think of. Um, let's just start with the fact that they have Ariana Grande, who is obviously a Hispanic woman, playing the part of a ditzy, blonde, white, really villain when it comes right down to it, for this particular movie.

The racism and the racial appropriation I just thought was offensive, frankly. Uh, all white people aren't dumb and evil. And I just get kind of sick of that storyline, and I feel like that's where it starts. Yikes. This is like when people didn't like Barbie for whatever. It's like, it was a great movie.

You know, it wasn't meant for you if you didn't like it. But here's this white, blonde, female host saying it was, uh, I guess reverse racist to white people since Ariana Grande is obviously Hispanic and of course we already covered this story, but we didn't have the audio to share now But we find out that Ariana Grande is actually Italian American So that's the dumbest take is look if you're gonna go strong on a take about racism have your fucking facts You know what I mean?

What a what an idiot and look this is the world We live in where people are almost mining for victimhood. They're looking how can I be offended look? All this goes away if you practice the four agreements and don't take offense to things, you know what I mean? Ariana Grande is Italian American, and she played a role in Wicked.

Not everything's about race. Get over it. So these fake culture wars just need to go. Alright, well, you know, I imagine most people have the day off today and aren't working like your boy Dave is. But if you're out there doing your thing, I don't care if you're in line at a Target, getting Taylor Swift's items, or stuck at a Best Buy, or hanging out at an Old Navy, wherever you are on this Black Friday, just know I'm here for ya, and uh, the thing you're about to purchase probably isn't worth it, so go ahead and put it down and walk out of there, but tell everybody Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, or whatever, whatever, Culturally relevant holiday.

You want to share with them? I don't really care and have a good weekend. And Oh, don't forget if you are stuck at work, get out of there. Middle fingers raised to the sky and tell them to go fuck themselves. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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11-27-24 Morning Rush - Dancing WIth The Stars Finale RECAP & The Valley Absorbs Some VPR Stars & How To Get Along With Family This Thanksgiving & Tips For SIngle People To 'Get Lucky'

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 Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. It's hump day, day before Thanksgiving, November 27th, 2024. And I got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

You might be mailing it in. I appreciate that. Take your time to a victory lap at work today, but I am not, I got a lot to get into on this morning's episode. We are going to talk about why tonight is your best. Chance to get lucky. I'm going to explain why. So listen to that. If you are single out there, I got you covered.

Plus I'll have my thoughts on the dancing with the stars finale. Wild episode last night, my favorite got robbed, although we're happy for the winner. We'll get into all of that. Plus Canadian officials are not happy with the proposed tariffs. On goods and imports coming from Canada to the U S I'll explain kind of what this all means, what everyone's saying about this, how this is going to affect your wallet and whatnot.

And now that Vanderpump has cleaned house, which cast members will move to the new spinoff show, the Valley season two, I got all those stories and so much more. It's all coming up next on the rush. Well, we learned yesterday that Vanderpump rules will have a season 12, but it'll have a full new cast except for Lisa Vanderpump.

Well, what's going to happen with all of the people you've grown to love and or hate? Well, as it turns out, deadline has reported that the valley season two, which is a spinoff from Vanderpump, which is a spinoff from real housewives, which is a spinoff from real world. Really, when you think about it, uh, someone corrected me yesterday and said, Oh, a Jersey shore is not the original reality show.

It's real world. I knew that. I messed up my apologies. Either way, the Valley Season 2 cast will feature Vanderpump Rules alum Sheena Shea, Tom Schwartz, and Lala Kent following Reboot. What's going on with Tom Sandoval? Tough week for him, right? He loses his, uh, bar and, uh, he loses his TV show. So, uh, I guess he's got the music career to fall back on.

He's got that going for him. Just fine. All right, here's the news. Everyone wants to know if you can, if you can, uh, teach somebody how to get laid, that's the only, that's the oldest business in the book, right? Six pack abs, lose weight, whatever. It's all about just trying to get laid. That's what it comes down to.

Well, I mean, look, don't take me, don't take my word for it. Just look at everything that's marketed out there. It's all about sex. Even, even me, I'm in it. Happy marriage and every, uh, old spice, uh, body wash I find is just like locations. They want you to hook up. It's like the Serengeti, you know, I, my new body wash is called the Harbard.

It smells like, you know, uh, French fries and seagulls. All right, here we are. Uh, tonight is Thanksgiving Eve. And the New York post made an article from 2016. So it was almost a decade ago, but it's still, it's, it holds up. And the article is titled Thanksgiving Eve is the best night to get lucky. Now you might think, cause here's the deal, right?

Valentine's day. If you're a single person and you go out to a bar on Valentine's day, you might have a good shot at getting lucky, but you know, there might be a lot of single people that are still on dates that night, but who is out on Thanksgiving Eve, but People that are back in their parents, back in their hometown.

They're dodging time to be out with their family. The bar is perfectly curated for people that will settle for you. Uh, so says this article, uh, in, in, in, actually for my millennial friends out there, they say this is prime time for millennials. Thanksgiving Eve falls in the middle of cuffing season. When Jen wires, uh, Jen wires, find a special someone to cuddle with as the temperature drops.

Now, will I be partying on Thanksgiving Eve tonight? No, of course not. You know what I'll be doing? Preparing my Thanksgiving episode where I read the Thanksgiving proclamation. That's right. I'll be here for you on Thanksgiving. A lot of people are still driving to and fro. So, uh, I won't have double episodes, but I will have a good episode for you where I share with you all that I'm grateful for.

Actually, I actually really enjoy doing that. A lot of people say, Dave, don't work on holidays. I really enjoy my Thanksgiving episode because I get to make a list and tell So, uh, I'm thankful for, but I'll also talk about some other things that are going on in life. It'll kind of be like a state of the day of state of the rush hour.

So definitely stick around for that. I know it's one of those weeks where people aren't really working as much. So the downloads might be lower, but like I said, I'm here for you guys. I'll I'm sticking around. Uh, well, I'll actually be driving. Uh, later today, I'll be driving to, uh, Northern Kentucky, AKA the Cincinnati area, uh, for, uh, my in laws I'll be with them.

So, you know, I'll be carbo loading up on Thanksgiving. I'm bringing the cranberry sauce. So if the Thanksgiving turkey sucks, at least it'll be smothered in the sugary goodness of a good old cranberry. Uh, anyhow, let's move on to some other content here. Speaking of cuffing season, Josie, uh, Josie, is her name?

Josie Canseco, Jose Canseco's daughter is named Josie Canseco. She gives a cryptic response when asked about Jonny Manziel relationship says focusing on family right now. Uh, she responded cryptically when she was asked whether she'd be spending the upcoming holidays with a special someone focusing on family.

Family for sure is just a priority. The model who went Instagram official with boyfriend Jonny Manziel in the spring told page six at the groves annual tree lighting celebration in LA. Holidays get tough for some people. That's the one time I like to bring my family together and make sure everyone is focused on love, family, friends, relationships, everything.

I just want to keep it as close as possible. All right. No mention of Johnny. So who knows? Uh, of course he was the former NFL star. We say star lightly kind of fizzled out there, had his addictions, but, uh, has seemed to be on the up and up and she's the daughter of a baseball legend, Jose Canseco. So will they last a time?

We'll tell, but not a, not a good look when. The response to that is focusing on family. Yeah, not a good look indeed. All right. I'm going to be focusing on sharing all the news with you. How about this story? We've got Rob Gronkowski, just obviously, obviously an NFL legend, but he's really kind of like the Forrest Gump of the NFL.

Like he just kind of stumbles upon success here. He explains how he got lucky investing in Apple stock. I would go with, I bought my first stock ever was the Apple stock. The guy actually who built my house in Foxboro, uh, he told me, Hey, buy Apple stock. I'm telling you, that's where it's at. You know, I never been involved in stocks and really didn't know how stocks work.

So I was like, all right, let me, let me do this, man. And, uh, I was like, I I'm going to go big. I'm going to do obviously this just fits. Along the lines of just me being myself, I'm going to put 69, 000 in the apple stock, and this was like 2014. So I call it my financial advisor. My put 69, 000 in an apple, you know, of my own money with no advice.

Like this is just from the guy who built my house. Uh, you know, here, here in the New England area. So then all of a sudden I forgot about it. It's like two and a half years later and the stock is worth like 250, 000. So I sell off the portion of, uh, the 69, 000 I bought in. And I have now to this date, I have over 600, 000 in Apple stock, all because.

Of the investment I made in 2014, having no idea what I was doing, but just listening to the, to the guy that, to the, um, to the, to the man that built my house here. There it is. Gronkowski, you know, he's giving you stock advice here. He just prints money, 69, 000. And he just, Turns into a lot of money. And for those of us that did not invest in Apple, when we should have fun story, what else can you say about that?

Well, I want you guys to invest in our audience and I'm going to tell you how to do just that. We have our single parent wishlist, which we're going to be doing. I need more single parents out there that we can help. I know our community is big. It's vast. It's generous, but I was raised by a single mom and we want to give back to single moms, maybe single dads that are out there during this Christmas season.

I've got a link. To the submission list, there's a very brief and easy way to submit, to get on our list, to be featured as one of our 12 or more, uh, Christmas wishlists. And what we'll do is we'll tell your story, you know, you don't have to give us any personal details and, um, hopefully we'll be able to raise some money and buy some presents for your kids.

So they have a fun Christmas ahead because that's, what's important in the Christmas season is that the kids have that Christmas spirit and, uh, we have a lot of, uh, community here that's willing. link to, uh, donate their hard earned money to help others kind of have that joy in life. Again, there'll be a link in the description of this podcast where you can submit to the single parent wishlist.

We want to send a shout out to Denise. She's the philanthropy chair that puts all this together. so much for all the. Time you put in, because obviously like she'll tell you working with me, my head's all over the place. I got a million different things going on. So it's so nice to have the community come together during a very special time.

And again, looking forward to hearing the stories of those of you out there that can use our help. We are here. Don't be afraid to submit link in the description. All right. We got a lot of content coming your way, so stick around. We'll be back right after this. Well, last night was the finale of dancing with the stars.

Bachelor Joey, one first bachelor to win. We've seen bachelorettes win. Uh, who's one Gabby, uh, charity, charity, when, uh, I mean, Caitlin Bristowe, Hannah Brown, a lot of either they win or they're finalists, but the bachelors, we've never seen this before. Grocery store, Joe, I mean, he was voted out as quickly as could be right.

So anyway, congratulations to him. But I got to say, I thought Chandler got robbed. I'm surprised Chandler was fantastic if you watch Dancing with the Stars. Maybe she didn't get the vote in part because she was kind of a dancer and like in her younger days. I don't really know. I mean, Joey was fantastic.

Stephen Nedorazik was unbelievable in his freestyle. He did a pommel horse freestyle. It was full of tricks, just incredible stuff. Joey actually had an underwhelming freestyle. He did like a tennis thing. It just didn't really have much heart to it versus Ilona, the rugby player. She had a. Fantastic freestyle where she tackled somebody.

She had a sequin rugby ball. I mean, just absolutely great stuff. Uh, you know, it was, it was a blast. I mean, it was three hours long. It was too long, but I thought it was fantastic. Fantastic finale. The talent is so great to see them progress from some of these contestants having never danced before. And in Joey's case, I mean, he did a great job.

He had a great coach. She had great choreography for him. So they'll be on tour. Steven Nadorozik is going to be. Uh, hosting or the dancing with the stars tour. And then there'll be some of the contestants on the show. Uh, Jen Tran, uh, uh, she, uh, performed a quick dance, uh, with her partner, Sasha, uh, are they together?

Are they going to hard launch their relationship? They're making it seem like they're actually together. So that's quite the showmance. Will it last now that the season's over? Uh, only time will tell, but there's your dancing with the stars update. I'll have more on this on today's YouTube. Are you guys okay?

If we get weird for a second. Is that all right? Do I have your consent to get weird? I like to include a little UFO talk every once in a while. And we've got Steve O from Jackass interviewing Tom DeLonge from Blink182 regarding UFOs. Are they inter dimensional? Have a listen. What's the significance of UFOs?

Number one, it's not what you think it is. It's not coming from other planets. The evidence doesn't suggest that. Inter dimensional. Yes. And the reason is because time is parallel, which means everything in the past and the future is existing in this moment, but within different frequencies, a civilization that's at the end of their technological cycle could build a submarine that changes its voltage and materializes in that same location, just into our timeline.

And so there's a consciousness aspect to this. Everything you see is one band of frequencies. The highest frequency is light unified mind. The lowest frequency would be blackness and physical matter somewhere right in the middle. So you have the ability to tune up higher, tune down lower. What it means also is that your brain.

Is what's called a transducer. You're an antenna. So you create matter. And when you think something, it creates it. It's, and you are not, you're not reactionary to your environment. You're actually proactive and you just don't know it. All right. So there was a lot there. Does anyone feel high after listening to that?

Now, look, I don't know exactly what I believe, but. He could, first of all, he could be wrong about the UFO thing for all I know, but I think he's right about energy. I think energy exists. You know, when we die, our soul kind of goes away and then we sort of decompose back into this earth. What the hell does that mean?

You know what I mean? So as far as energy is concerned, how do we use our energy to be the best version of ourselves? That's the question. That's the age old question and I don't have the answers to it. All I can say is we, if we try to be kind and share love, I believe that love is one of the highest energies out there, if not the highest energy.

So if there's any hate or drama in your life, just avoid it by sharing love. Now, how does that, how does that deal? Like how does that deal in Thanksgiving Eve? Well, we're about to be handy hanging out with a lot of family. Family that you might've been fighting with on Facebook. And boy, when I hear of families that can't get along and they have like these deep wounds and they bring up the same things, they antagonize each other.

That's heartbreaking. Well, you don't have to take the bait for any situation when you hang it with family. Here is a tip or two about the power of silence. How do you respond to disrespect? A lot of silence. So often if you just wait 10 seconds, you're going to add distance between what they said and how you're going to respond.

They're saying this to get something out of you because in that moment, they're feeling something, whether it's a fear and insecurity, whatever it is, you're not going to deliver on that same plane that they are. So if somebody says something disrespectful, you give enough silence to make sure that it's a little awkward, and then you're going to say something to the effect of it.

That's below my standard for a response. All of a sudden, you're now making it clear that what you just said was beneath me. And I don't respond to things that are beneath me in that way. Damn! Use that at Thanksgiving Day dinner! That, uh, that is, that, that is beneath me. Uh, now please pass the biscuits. If you don't, pass the cranberry sauce.

That is not, but the cranberry sauce is not beneath me. Uh, the pillow's gonna be beneath me once I eat and get this tryptophan effect. By the way, I heard that the tryptophan in In, in a turkey doesn't actually make you sleepy. What makes you sleepy is eating all that pie, you lard. Uh, but either way, uh, what do I know?

Uh, I am excited for the pie. Oh, some good pecan pie. It's going to be a great Thanksgiving, but yeah, how we react is up to us. We can't give someone else the keys to our emotions. So enjoy Thanksgiving. And I, I, uh, I want to hear back from you guys. Try something a little different this Thanksgiving. Try to give, try to give yourself and your present self to the conversations you end up in.

You might have an aunt or an uncle or someone you disagree with that you don't see normally during the year. You might be stuck with them. You might be sitting next to a relative. You don't normally like ask them questions. How's your year going? What's what's going on. What's what's what's some, what's some things that you're grateful for.

That's what I love about Thanksgiving. It's about gratitude. It's about giving thanks for what we have. It's about. It's about enjoying the crop, the fruits of our labor. And we don't live in a time where all of us have to go harvest the corn. And, you know, our jobs are diversified. We're all over the place, but we get together before winter comes.

We get together for one last meaningful way to break bread with the people that we love, and I think we lose sight of that. I think social media divides us. It says, are you on this side or you're on that side? It's a, it's a like this. Don't like that. It's, it's, it's very, um, binary in that way, social media.

And, um, and that's not real life. Real life is understanding that you don't choose your family. They're the ones that you're given. And sometimes even the ones you don't like are there to help you expose the nasty inside of you. So I see life as a video game. If you don't solve the issues that you have in front of you, you'll just get them over and over, maybe in a different way.

So I, I really, I really do hope you guys take the, take, you know, get the most out of this, this, uh, dinner this weekend. And I really hope it goes well for you. Um, I'm going to be away from my, my family. I'll be with my wife's family, but I really hope I can take some of my own advice. Uh, all right, well, here we have Rudy Giuliani, uh, lashing out.

in court about the fact that he owes somebody 146 million in a defamation judgment. Here's what he had to say. The reality is I have no cash. It's all tied up. So right now, if I wanted to call a taxi cab, I can't do it. I don't have a credit card. I don't have a checking account. I have no place I can go take cash out except the little bit that I saved.

And it's getting down to almost nothing. This is a pure application of the persecution of Trump, me. Bannon, Navarro, Professor Eastman, on and on and on. 100 people. Now look, I don't know if that's true. I mean, Rudy Giuliani really doubled down on a lot of his lies. He was a response to allegations from attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shea Moss, the former Georgia election workers Giuliani defamed.

While challenging the 2020 election result in the state, the lawyers for Freeman and Moss have said that Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor has not complied with court orders to turn over his assets to the payer. Yeah. I mean, he's got watches and cars and like, they're going to get it all. So I don't know, tough one for Rudy, but, uh, by the way, this is the perfect line.

Isn't this the perfect line to tell somebody, you know, you're like, you want to buy drinks for someone tonight, right before cuffing season, there's cute girls at the bar and then you just throw them this line. The reality is, I have no cash. It's like, sorry, ladies. I don't know. Buy me a slice of pizza. All right.

Well, that's a sad story for Giuliani, but also at the same time, it's like, you know, uh, the, you know, the results of your actions catching up to you. All right. Mark Cuban was on talk to a podcast and he talks about his most expensive purchase. So from being broke to being a billionaire, here it is. How really hit a billion dollars?

39. 39. 39. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, it was right. What's the craziest thing you've bought? Um, two jets. I knew it. I knew it. I was telling y'all, one of you, I think it was Johnny. I was like, he's gonna say a jet or something. Yeah. I just know that. Yeah. Because like, time is like the one thing you can't get back.

Yeah. You know, there's no amount of money I can pay to be 21 years old again. That's true. And just every, every day, even though People think I act that way sometimes, but, um, just every day I can save myself time. Mm-Hmm, and pick up time, you know, and work on my own time. By the way, the environmentalists are not happy, right?

You know, here he is punching a hole in the ozone, but he makes it to brunch in time. Like when I sold that first company, I, I didn't wear a watch again until I got an iWatch for workouts, you know, because. I always felt like if I wore a watch, I had to be on somebody else's time. You're onto something here.

You are. What was the first purchase you made when you made money? I got granny a new vacuum cleaner. So, uh, the Hawke Tua girl, Haley Welch says the first big purchase she made was she got her granny a new vacuum cleaner with a light on it. So there it is. The difference when billionaires to viral, uh, Tennesseans.

I look, I love, I love the Haley Welch podcast. Talk to her. I think it's garbage though. I think they're really not good at what they do, but I think they're getting better. And I think that's what matters. You know, they're just, uh, you know, they're, they're doing the thing, right? You know, perfection is the enemy of good.

So we're happy that they're doing the thing. All right. We got more content coming on, uh, coming your way. I'm doing my thing. We'll be back with more next. All right. Speaking of Thanksgiving, we're sharing advice on how to handle your relatives and how they can handle you. Hey, don't think that you're not a large pill to swallow looking at you, Nicole.

I know you're out there being a big diva when you go home to your family, you know, coming back from the big city, trying to tell everybody about yoga and breath work. I see what you're doing out there. Either way. Here we have Lewis house. Uh, talking to the holistic psychologist on how to deal with emotionally immature parents.

That's right. We got him. Here is his thought and tip for you guys this holiday. A child who is now an adult still has emotionally immature parents. How does that child, as an adult, navigate their emotionally immature parents? Again, I think having the awareness of, right, your parent, whatever developmental stage they're in, in terms of their relationship with their emotions.

Can be very healing for a lot of us because what we once personalized for me, my mom's inability to be emotionally attuned to me or for someone else, their dad's explosive or mom's explosive behaviors. There was a developmental time where our brain couldn't zoom out and understand that, right? This was just a byproduct of a dysregulated, emotionally immature individual.

It has nothing to do with you having that awareness. I think for a lot of us, because there was a time where we couldn't. Zoom out and we personalized all of it. We were the cause of our parents absence or explosivity or whatever it was. So in adulthood, there's still that wounded part of us that feels unworthy of having needs, unworthy of being connected to, or of having a loving, attuned parent.

And that, that part still lives. When, you know, look, we're all wounded, right? I mean, maybe this is why you find me bearable to listen to because I talk about my own wounds, but when it comes down to it, you know, our parents tried the best that they could. Their parents tried the best that they could. And, you know, we're just a few generations away from world wars where, you know, and our parents grew up and parented us before the internet really came out.

So, you know, everyone tried their best, but boy, you know, parents always find a way to mess you up in one way or another. So again, just a reminder, we'll give grace this holiday season. Now that you don't live in the house, you realize, Oh, maybe I'm not the root of all of the issues my parents had. Maybe this is on them.

And the truth is, do you guys feel the same way? I feel like as my mom gets older, my parents get older, that their ADHD is getting worse. Maybe it's the lead poisoning. I don't know. But just a reminder, be calm, be patient out there. All right. Well. We have a few stories that involve the tariffs coming up, and I wanted to cover this just because I try to save the politically driven stuff for the end of the podcast.

But it's interesting because a lot of people are saying these tariffs could boost, you know, really, really inflate the cost of goods out there. Here is what they're saying in England, across the, uh, the big pond. The United States of America was founded off the back of a protest on imports taxes. The British parliament wanted to put a 3 percent tariff in effect, an import tax on tea, and in Boston they were so, so irate about this import tariff being placed on them, they threw the tea into the sea in the harbour and started a revolution.

And now we're at the state where the president of the United States wants to impose taxes not just on tea, but on everything else. Yep. Yep. Well, Hey, leave us alone. This is our country. We'll do what we want. Now the Canadians aren't happy. The Canadians are not happy. I've got two different Canadian officials.

I'm going to share their thoughts on a possible 25 percent tariff coming in from Canada to the U S. And again, these tariffs, these taxes will be paid for in one way or another by the consumer, which is us Americans. So this isn't necessarily. Penalizing the other countries, although it could start a tariff war where they then put tariffs on our goods and it just could get nasty, but tariff really is the new word of the year.

Here's deputy prime minister, uh, saying why Trump needs Canada. The fact is we need them and they also need us. Canada is the largest market for the U S in the world. Larger than China, Japan, the UK, and France combined. Canada's got a lot of oil. They got a lot of energy. And when global warming hits, they're going to have a lot of nice property.

It's going to be the Bahamas up there. It is also the case that the things we sell to the United States are the things they really need. We sell them oil. We sell them electricity. We sell them critical minerals and metals. The energy the United States imports from Canada is more important today than ever.

This is a moment when Canada needs to be united, we need to be strong, and we need to be smart. There are significant challenges, we know that. We also know that there are real opportunities, and we know that. That by working together. Canada can be successful. All right. Well, it looks like we've got to build some windmills cause they're going to be not giving us, I mean, this is true, right?

If you're in the Midwest or, you know, in some of the, some of those states there, you're getting your energy from the North, of course, when you live, uh, you know, and we get, we're getting, you know, most of our imports, as far as agriculture goes, comes from Mexico. So what's this going to mean? Well, I guess all the Canadians are uniting Ontario prime minister, Doug Ford, Says a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods proposed, uh, by President elect Trump is akin to a family member stabbing you right in the heart.

Say it ain't so, Bruteau. Have a listen. I found his comments unfair. I found them insulting. It's like a family member stabbing you right in the heart. I spent a lot of time in the U. S. And I have yet to talk to one American that has any issue with this. Oh boy, we've lost the friendly Canadians of the North.

Oh, you know, it's, you ever have that friend that you disappointed? There's nothing worse than disappointing a friend. You're like, Oh man, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. Take us back Canada. We want to be friends on Thanksgiving. I know you celebrate Thanksgiving on a different day. That's okay. Sorry that we, uh, we're doing the whole tariff thing.

Uh, well look, we're going to have to see how it all works out. You know, could there be a scenario where the tariffs are a good thing? I have no idea, not holding my breath on it, but all I know is I just started feeding my baby avocados and now the prices of avocados are going to go up. Guacamole was already expensive enough.

You know what I mean, folks? Okay. Look, I got an afternoon episode coming up. I've got some other content for you. I'll have a YouTube video today regarding, uh, the dancing with the stars finale and all that. So. Stick around for that and then I'll be back this afternoon. As always, I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush.

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Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon, everybody. It's Tuesday, November 26th, 2024, and we've got your pop culture news all in one place. And on today's episode of The Rush, we have Vanderpump Rules returning for a Season, but with a brand new cast, I'll give my thoughts both good and bad.

Plus we've got some travel tips ahead of the big holiday weekend. You're going to want to hear those. And Jason Kelsey sets some rules for friends asking for Taylor swift tickets. In short, he says. Don't plus Kristin Cavallari calls out Scott Disick for sliding into her DMS. And will Joe Rogan be invited to the white house to podcast?

What a time to be alive, folks. This is the world we live in, whether we chose it or not. I'm going to have all these stories and so much more, and it's all coming up next on the rush. All right. You might be traveling via airplane this holiday season. Maybe not, but if you are, it is kind of like the biggest travel time of the year.

We've got CBS mornings. Uh, good morning, America offering their thoughts on what you can and can't travel with through TSA. You can and cannot bring on an airplane. Our friends at Gothamist have looked it up. Some surprising answers. Okay. What do you got? Handcuffs. You can't? You can. You can do it. Oh, you can.

Okay. All right. I like that. Bowling. By the way, that's specifically for people who want bondage and the mile high club at once. That's a whole different segment. Pins. Tony, do you want to bring handcuffs? Bowling pins. No questions asked. TSA will not ask you any questions. Handcuffs are a yes. Bowling pins are a no.

They could be used to bludgeon. Yeah, you don't want to bludgeon people. You know, my wife got a tripod taken away, um, while traveling through TSA. I think you can bring tripods, but I had a monopod, which is like one stick of a tripod. And I guess they kind of look like a baton, and even though they wouldn't do much damage, I guess they count as a tool.

Basically, anything you can use in a bar fight, you can't bring onto an airplane. Antlers! Dear antlers. Dear antlers. Not allowed. Aloud. Aloud. Believe it or not. Because hunters, they Live lobsters also, yeah, you can bring them on as a kind of a trophy. But the antlers are so pointy. Wait, live lobsters what?

Live lobsters are a yes, okay from TSA. The airline sometimes has a different policy. They don't want you there, you know, without them. I'm surprised at the antlers because they're so pointy. I'm surprised also. It could be very dangerous. You can also bring cowboy spurs on, even though they're pointy, and could be a weapon.

Okay. Uh, magic eight ball. Is a no. Why? Apparently the magic inside is dangerous. This is stupid. Don't listen to anything they say. Uh, yeah, we've all made those mistakes. My wife accidentally one time traveled through an air, two different airports with a switchblade on her and they didn't catch it. You know what I mean?

Like she, it wasn't even a switchblade, it was like a legit pocket knife. Uh, you know, try not to do that, but hey. It happens, you know, it happens. All right. It's yes. So we have Vanderpump news. Vanderpump rules will be having a season 12, but it's going to have a complete new cast. Cover this on today's YouTube channel.

Uh, I think it's interesting, uh, on one end, it's a big move. Um, safety is something you always see work out when it comes to TV shows until it doesn't, you know, TV shows want to recreate the same thing over and over and over milk that golden cow. Uh, but our cash cow, I should say, but you know, sometimes it just stops working, you know, it's almost like that jump that by the way, jump the shark.

You guys know that term, jump the shark. It refers to a scene where the fawns. Fonzie, uh, Winkler, Henry Winkler. Yeah. Uh, was skiing on what? Happy days. Do I have this right? I could be butchering, butchering the story and he actually rode his skis over a ski jump, you know, water skis and jumped over a shark.

And that was the moment where people said, you know what, I think this show had its jump, the shark moment. And Vanderpump kind of had that with Scandal, it was like the biggest scandal of all time. And it just took away from the theme of the show, which is people that work in a restaurant banging each other.

And, uh, it became sort of like way more, I don't know, a celebrity driven as they kind of gained success. So I think it'll be good to get a young cast. Find me a couple hot. 24 year olds willing to say dumb things on camera and have their, you know, testosterone and, uh, endorphins raging. And, um, you know, see what mistakes they make with a couple of shots of Celsius and tequila.

You know what I mean? I'm just saying maybe, maybe it's a good thing. And I said this on the YouTube video, but if Vanderpump does. put together a good cast. I mean, that's, that's all that matters. Take Jersey Shore, right? They, they, they struck gold when they cast that show. This situation, Pauly D. Are you kid Snooki?

Are you Bump It? Are you kidding me? That cast was so good. Jersey Shore was supposed to have a new cast every year and they said, no, no, no, no. We're going to stick with this gold that we have. By the way, did I tell you this? Speaking of Jersey Shore, I, when I was in New York last week, I don't think I told you guys this.

Um, I actually did it. My, my standup show was the show after. So Vinny from Jersey Shore is doing stand up now. I'll be honest, uh, I don't think he had a great set, but he's probably right where he should be in his career. He has some performance, I mean, by all means, he's got a lot going on. He was, um, sort of like, what are the, like the MC for Chippendales or whatever?

Uh, or Magic Mike, one of those shows. So I think, I think it's great that he's getting into live stand up comedy, because what's better than getting on stage and making people laugh? Honestly, I think it's the best job in the world. Uh, and last night, actually, speaking of, I had a show at Zanie's. He's in Nashville and, um, uh, Nate Bargatze was on the show.

He, uh, has his CBS, uh, Christmas special coming out. He's been on SNL multiple times. And then in the other room was Theo Vaughn who just interviewed Donald Trump. So it's just crazy. It's just crazy when you mix with people like that, that are kind of part of a global conversation. You know, you, whether, if you're not in the standup world, you might not know those names, but they are mega, mega huge in the comedy world.

All right. So. Anyway, I'm digressing here, but back to Vanderpump, I'll be very interested to see how the new show does. My guess is, people will go, Oh, this character suck. And then one of the characters is going to do something so ridiculous, it's going to be talked about, and we're going to love it. I mean, that's my guess.

If they cast the right people. Now, if they cast people that are just looking to grow their it's here's, here's the irony, right? If they cast somebody who doesn't care about their social media following and just says whatever they're thinking, that person will probably take off in today's world, um, You know, new people getting into social media, getting into reality TV.

They're kind of curated in a way, a little worried about their image. So they have to do a good job in really finding the diamond in the rough. We'll have to see how that goes. Well, Jason Kelsey has advice for his friends and family when it comes to Taylor Swift tickets. Here's what he had to say on the rich eyes and show.

Phones ringing off the hook. I'm sure it's ringing. Uh, have you said no as these many times your entire life or what? You must be no. Yeah, it's definitely it's a lot of no's. It's a lot of I mean i'm trying to just return people Uh reaching out whether it's calls or texts, right? Luckily. I have emily over there who helps me out majorly, right?

Um, but it's um, yeah, it's been a whirlwind. It's been it's been a very You know Over the past two years between the podcast, the Super Bowl with Travis, Travis Dayton Taylor. It has been a, a very whirlwind of events. I mean, you never think of this, right. And I love to think about it, but Taylor Swift deciding to respond to Jason, uh, to Travis Kelsey.

on the Kansas City Chiefs. He, you know, he shot his shot. I mean, it really, if, if their relationship does work out and stand the test of time, it is going to go down as one of the most romantic pop star NFL storylines of all time. I mean, it's Nicholas Sparks worthy, right? This is the notebook on steroids.

Uh, no pun intended here. Not that these guys are, uh, they're hunky. I don't think they're on the roids. Uh, but, uh, it's, it's just wild. He shoots his shot with the biggest pop star in the world. And all of a sudden they're dating and it's, and now everyone's surrounding them is like benefiting from the abundance of Taylor Swift.

So here we have Jason Kelsey, essentially a no name offensive lineman. And by that, I mean, If you weren't following the Eagles, you just didn't know this guy. Now he retires and he's more successful now because it was sort of the lore of him. He's kind of like, he's just that every man with the beard. And he, he'll, he'll walk by your, uh, you know, your pregame at the, you know, in the parking lot and we'll shoot a beer pong shot and chug a beer with you.

I mean, this guy, everyone wants to be with him. So, so what do you say more? No. To people asking you to do something for them professionally or asking for tickets to a Taylor Swift concert? What's what's the number of no more for you the um, You know, thankfully I don't get a lot of people reaching out.

Okay for Taylor Swift tickets. Okay It is an immediate no. I don't get a lot of that. Um, as much as Taylor has said she will take care of anybody that I ask for. Are you serious? She does say that. She's very, she's great, but I still say no to everybody. Yeah, can you imagine that? Taylor's like, yeah, anybody you want.

And then he's got like friends from high school being like, my daughter would love it. And it's like, all right, buddy. You know, it's like Jason Kelsey needs to make sure he doesn't burn the, like everyone wants to make sure they don't overdo and exploit the Taylor Swift connection. And that's. It's just so special.

That's what I love about this family and this community is that they know to protect this because it's bigger than Taylor. Like she doesn't control how big her audience is. She just has to live in this ecosystem. So they did a good job of keeping the relationship under wraps for as long as they could.

And now they're kind of like comfortable, not exploiting it, but just talking about it and of course just trying to live their life. Yeah, because I'm not going to be the one to impose on that. I'm not, I don't want to put that position out there. She's been nothing but lovely to our family. She's a wonderful person and I don't want that to kind of be a dynamic.

So, so she's giving you the clear path to the tickets and you're just shutting it down. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah, because after a while, I mean, you know, Once, twice, three times. Where's the line? Exactly. So I'm not even broaching the line. I'm staying away from the line. You stay away from the line. There you go.

Uh, Jason goes, you know what? You get your own pop star, uh, connection and then you come talk to me about it. All right. Well, I got some more news stories, a lot of things to get into. Stick around. We'll be back with those right after this. All right, let's do a couple headlines before we get to our featured story, which is Kristin Cavallari Calamari, uh, calling out Scott Disick for sliding into her DMS.

Here we have a different story at 17 years young. Sophia just broke her brother's record for youngest to pass the California bar. Could you imagine passing the California bar at the age of 17 years old? Hey, want to go buy some cigarettes and be my lawyer? I can be your lawyer. I can't buy cigarettes. She can't serve the military, but she can serve subpoenas.

Uh, I don't know if those even line up, but yeah, I'm just going for the joke here. Uh, this is interesting. Sophia Park, the prodigious young law student who just became the youngest person to pass the California state bar. She's passing the state bar at 17 years old, and I can't even pronounce prodigious.

Right. A prod, prod, prod, prodigious, whatever. Uh, she, so anyhow, she's, uh, but here, this is the, does anyone want a 17 year old representing the in court. I like my lawyers like I like my bartenders grizzly old. That's what I want. I want somebody who knows the law front and back and who can make me an old fashioned.

That's what I want. Uh, but Hey, I mean, she's gotten, gotten off to a great start. I'm sure she'll, uh, mate, you know, maybe she should prosecute like Gen Z crimes. You know, any tick tock related legal matters are handled by Sophia Park. Uh, she, she knows tick tock law, like the front, like the back of her hand.

Okay. In other news, Kaley Cuoco jokes that being a mom to her daughter Matilda is like taking care of your drunk best friend every day. Boy, that's the best way to put it. You know what I mean? Taking care of a child is like taking care of a drunk friend. You gotta support the neck. There might be poop on them.

You just, like, you don't know what's gonna happen. Get your burp cloth ready. It's a, it's a, we've all been there. And finally, Will Ferrell says the secret to 24 years of marriage with wife Vivica Paulin is making each other laugh. Well, that might be true, but also the millions of dollars they have also helps.

You know, the biggest indicator of a divorce is kind of whether or not, you know, well, don't get me wrong. Rich people get divorced too, but I think fighting over things like what you spend your money on and, uh, you know, are we going to take a vacation or am I going to work overtime? You know, maxing yourself, redlining it, those aren't good for relationships.

So I think for anyone out there, the best, the best thing for a relationship, obviously communicating with each other and laughter is a great form of communication, but But also making sure, you know, you're not, uh, you know, uh, I don't know, having, having petty arguments. All right. We covered this story a few months ago.

Tyreek Hill was arrested and roughed up, uh, or I shouldn't say he wasn't arrested, but he was cuffed and roughed up by traffic cops on the way to his Miami dolphins football game. While the traffic citations that he was hit with, uh, following the run in with cops have been dismissed again. I mean, he should sue these cops.

They literally. Put him face down on the ground all because they said he was going a hundred miles an hour. As it turns out, he was going like 50 in a 35 or something like that. It caused a big, uh, sort of a internet. It was an internet sensation because we look at the body cam footage. People look at this.

Some people side with the cops. Some people side with, and it's like, what side are you on? Sometimes what side you're on can kind of be like, Do you blindly follow the police or do you follow like humanity? And I think we could tell there was no reason for him being roughed up the way that he was regardless of what he's done in his life or his personal, it's like, like looking in as a human situation.

I think I would make a great judge. I look at the body cam footage. I go, you went too far. All right. You're suspended without pay for a month. You know what I mean? I don't know. What do I know? Uh, do I have that jurisdiction to be a judge? Wendy Williams is permanently incapacitated from dementia, says her guardian, which is so sad in court documents.

They say, yeah, she's afflicted by early onset dementia. And as a result has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated. What a nightmare scenario to be going through. Um, you know, to have. I guess celebrity and money and, and fame and all those things. And then you, you kind of like your, your, your brain and your body don't, you know, shut down early.

It's just a really, real scary stuff out there. Uh, but we wish her well, um, hope she's, um, pain free and all that. Kristen Cavallari, uh, is ranting on our podcast. We shared yesterday, Jeff Dye was ranting about her exposing him. Well, now she's exposing Scott Disick. Uh, here's what she has to say about, uh, the.

Keeping up with the Kardashians star sliding into the DMs. Years later now, here we are. Okay. So if you guys listen to the podcast, the last month or so, I've been ripping on the fucking Kardashians. Okay. Haven't held back. Well, what interesting timing. Your audio sucks. I'm on Instagram from Scott fucking Disick, and I'm going to read it to you guys.

And I'm going to read it to you guys because I don't give a flying fuck. I wish she gave a flying fuck about how bad her audio is. I mean, I wish I had a house as nice as hers. She's, she records in this giant palatial house, but it's like, can you put down a Persian rug so we don't have much echo? Sound treat your house.

Get crystal clear. a rug. Uh, maybe ruggable could sponsor her. And by the way, I mean, even a placemat would, would kind of help with some of this echo. I, uh, I want to get Kristen on my podcast, but she's enormous. So if anyone has any connections to Kristen Cavallari, let her know. Dave Neal lives in Nashville now and he wants to have her on the rush hour.

They fucked with me for these many years and you don't get to just do this. And if this is not the most manipulative text I've ever gotten, well then I don't know what is. Is she, sounds like she's recording in a racquetball court. Guys, this is classic. Cavallari's podcast. We're at a Swedish bathhouse.

Textbook manipulation control bullshit. Okay. This is what it says. Hey! Three exclamation points. It's been such a long time, it's crazy. Kind of crazy that our lives also ended up being kind of similar. I feel like it would be so good to see you and catch up and just talk about the stress and all the different things you gotta go through with kids and changing your life around over and over.

Really miss you though, and wish I would have reached out earlier. Just been so busy trying to be the best. best dad I can be. I don't have time for much, but trying to think about myself a little bit again or trying anyway, he's raising kids. She's dating kids. Now I'm just making fun. She had a young boyfriend.

He was of overage. He was older than the lawyer. Hope to hear from you. Just text me so it's easier to chat. I said to Justin, how funny would it be if he left me Chris Jenner's phone number? I call, she's all, Hey, Evan, I want to talk to you. Um, this is, I don't know the behind the scenes with Kris Jenner. I don't know what, I don't know what's relevant.

I don't, does anyone, I don't understand the Kristen Cavallari beef with the Kardashians, but Hey, I mean, I think I love a good, I love a good reality TV beef, like classic. Manipulation. I miss you. Oh, Scott, you miss me after 17 years? No, that timing is not lost on me that as I'm ripping on the Kardashians, calling them out for shit.

Now they want to send in Scott. This kind of goes back to the Britney Spears thing that I was talking about. You guys, this is Hollywood. This is Hollywood. When you're out there talking and they don't like that, this is what they do. Could it be now, now, hold on, let me just float this Kristen. Could it be he wants to reconnect with you so that he could sit you down and tell you that your audio sucks?

Your audio sucks. I mean, I don't know either way. Look, I love it. I'm just ripping on her. Cause she has a 10 million home and doesn't have one sound treated panel. Uh, you know what I mean? It's like, what do you, like, what are you recording from the halls of the Capitol? Like, where are you right now in a long hallway at the airport?

It sounds atrocious. It's one. One more time. Your audio sucks. All right. We're going to move it on. I've got, uh, people asking Donald Trump jr. If he's going to have Joe Rogan at the white house. What world do we live in folks? I'll have that story for you next. Here it is. Don jr. Son of president elect Don Trump, uh, talking about opening up the press briefing room to podcasters.

But we had the conversation about opening up. the press room to a lot of these independent journalists. Like, you know, why should, if the New York times has lied, they've been adverse to everything. They're functioning as the marketing arm of the Democrat party. Like why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships?

Uh, stronger followings. Like, it's not like the New York. I mean, how much money are they losing a year? The Washington Post, what? Lost 70 to 45 to $70 million. You know, by the way, the Washington Post failed to endorse, uh, who the editors wanted to, uh, partially because they were owned and operated by a billionaire.

Uh, but I don't hate the idea. I just think you have to make sure you have dissenting opinions. Whether you're a Democrat or Republican or independent, you need dissenting opinions and. dissenting journalists that are there to ask tough questions, get a David Pacman, get, um, get, uh, crystal ball from breaking points, get, uh, Chank Ugar, Ugar from, uh, uh, the young Turks get on, get on progressive voices so that you can have that conversation.

If they, if we truly want the country to be as best as it can be, we need to get, uh, journalists and people that represent voices from all over the country. Doesn't seem like they're a great success. So just because they've been there longer, it's like the way Congress functions. Like you get a committee, not because you know anything about banking, but because you've been there longer and it's like, right.

Doesn't seem like a great way to do things. So we, we've had that conversation like, that's a great idea, Don. I was like, I think we should do this. And so that may be in the works. Let's see, that's gonna blow up some heads, so, you know, we'll, well look, I mean, I don't think, I don't think Joe Rogan. Knows even the right questions to ask.

He's just a very agreeable host. And this is the problem with podcasting is like you do need journalism. You do need people there to ask tough questions. We just need to make sure that the people asking the tough questions are doing it in good faith. All right. Here's a very interesting story about tariffs.

You might not want to hear about politics, but this could affect. Uh, the world we live in. Uh, Trump did a post on truth that he's going to be doing large tariffs, which is a tax to the Mec to Mexico goods imported and Canada, Canadian goods imported. I've also got, uh, what Justin Trudeau has to say about this.

Have a listen. If you voted for Trump because you thought he was going to bring grocery prices down, I have some very bad news for you. Donald Trump wants to hit Canada and China and Mexico in their wallets. which means tariffs. The president elect on truth social, of course, promising to penalize both neighbors to the north and to the south with a 25 percent tariff on all products entering the U.

S. A lot of our produce comes from Mexico. That's why I decided to stock up on avocados today. I bought a whole shipment of avocados. They'll all be stale by tomorrow. Uh, no, but seriously, and my son just started, uh, today's his first day trying an avocado, you know, six months old, that fresh avocado energy.

Oh, he's going to love it. We love a good Avi. Uh, but yeah, I mean, look, the tariff is a tax on the, on the, on the person consuming it. So this is gonna, this could raise prices by a lot. Um, you know, it, it, maybe it won't, you know what I mean? We'll have to see what happens. This is what they call fuck around and find out.

So, two thirds of the tomatoes that Americans purchase are from Mexico. 90 percent of the avocados that they purchase are from Mexico, just to mention two examples. So, that guac is definitely going to cost extra. Oh, funny. Geez, they're already upcharging us on the guac. So anyway, here's what Justin Trudeau had to say about the 25 percent tariff threat.

I had a good call with Donald Trump last night again. We obviously talked about, um, Laying out the facts, talking about how, uh, how the intense and, uh, effective connections between our two countries, uh, flow back and forth. We talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together. Um, it was a good call.

It's, it's, uh, this is, uh, something that, uh, we can do. Uh, laying out the facts. Moving forward in constructive ways. Um, this is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on, and that's what we'll do. Now. I like the idea of certain tariffs to encourage more, uh, production within the U S I do think we need to ramp up our production for a lot of things, but you know, there's, there's things that you just buy that you import that there's no way we can make them at that cost here.

So it'll be interesting, but, uh, I apparently the Mexican leadership said that in retaliation, they're going to be putting a tariff on American. So, it looks like this could get pretty ugly, but hey, we signed up for it, right? Alright, in our final story, Dancing with the Stars finale is tonight. I will be wearing my sequined thong as I like to do when I do the basso doble.

Uh, that's just for me. I shouldn't have shared it. Too much info. Uh, well, here we have Gleb coming back. Gleb Savchenko coming back with his partner Brooks Nader. Um, she said they were getting their tattoos removed since they broke up, but are they back together? Here's what he had to say. The world is still confused about you and Brooks.

Were they? Weren't they? What can you say? Listen, everything's on TikTok. Literally, you should just go from her page to my page. Everything is in there. There was some confusion because sometimes she would be saying like, Oh, I didn't even know we were together. And then you would respond. We were a little confused.

What can you say about that? All confused. I'm also confused. Oh, yeah. He's like, I'm confused. I'm dating a lady who was, you know, uh, you know, a sports illustrated model. You think I'm going to get a straight answer out of her? You know what I mean? She's like, I'm single till you put a ring on it. And he's like, well, I'm going to have to do some more Paso Doble's to afford that lifestyle.

Either way, they'll be there tonight. I'm rooting for Steven Neterozic. Although I think Chandler, I'd be happy if Joey wins from The Bachelor. That would be great if he wins. Um, I don't think Alona's gonna win. I don't think she has a shot. Uh, who else? Who am I missing? I'm definitely missing somebody right now.

I thought there was five in the finale. Uh, either way, uh, no, we have Joey. We have Alona, Steven, who the heck am I missing? I'm missing somebody. Of course, Danny Amendola. Okay, that rounds it up. Uh, good luck to all of them tonight. May the best dancer win. I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush. Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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11-26-24 Morning Rush - Did Bachelor Star Victoria Fuller & NFL QB Will Levis Breakup & Where's The Laura Owens Podcast Episode?!

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Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you, November 26th, 2024. I got all of your pop culture news in one place. And with A few days before Thanksgiving, I've got some great tips on how to handle your family members over the holidays.

No, trust me, you're going to like this. And maybe this is some therapy for myself, but we can't choose our family, but we can learn how to set boundaries. Plus a Dancing with the Stars preview of tonight's finale episode. We may have a former couple back together, canoodling. We'll go over that. And an update on the strange story of missing Hawaii woman, Hannah Kobayashi.

And also another Kelsey family member has a podcast. Now the gravy train is rolling, get the money while you can. It's Jason Kelsey's wife. I'll share that trailer. Plus I've got kind of like a roundup update of what's going on in the Clayton Eckerd trial. A lot of little things, nothing huge, but maybe we'll dribble some tea in there.

All that and more coming up next on the rush. Well, let's start with some bachelor news. It looks like the romance might be over between a Tennessee Titans quarterback, Will Levis and the former bachelor contestant in bachelor in paradise contestant, Victoria Fuller. They've deleted Photos of each other from Instagram, which is too bad.

I mean, it's a gravy train being able to date somebody who was a professional athlete. You see, you see the Taylor Swift. I mean, sure. She gets to be a pop star. That's fun. But what's more fun than being a popstar? How about being the wife of a football player? You get to go to the games. They serve you a whole bunch of food and then you get to watch football.

I mean, it sounds great to me. Although you could argue that Travis Kelsey gets to go to pop concerts and gets treated like royalty. You know what? They both have it made. But who doesn't have a maid? Victoria Fuller and Will Levis. I guess this is their, uh, like, breakup announcement. Uh, there is no announcement.

It's just the fact that they've de tagged each other. That must be so sad. I don't know. I've never had a real breakup in this, like, social media age. But it must be very sad to, like, un tag and relive those things. Do you get a friend? Maybe you get a f friend who like does all that for you, that would be a good service.

I could create like, um, how to remove your ex or, you know, de smudge your ex from social media. Maybe that, maybe, maybe we could have pitch shark tank for that. I will have more on shark tank in a second, but first. Here it is. Kylie Kelsey. This is, uh, Travis, uh, Jason Kelsey's wife. Uh, I guess she's expecting her fourth baby now, and she's got a podcast coming out as we know, Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey got a hundred million dollar deal for their podcast.

So, Hey, why not start printing more money? Guys, I'm Kylie Kelsey and I am so excited to introduce my new show, Not Gonna Lie. Believe it or not, it took me a while to land on that name. Some of the others we almost went with, The Kylie Kelsey Show, Yet Another Kelsey Show, Can I Be Honest, To Be Fair, TBH, TBFH, TBQFH, too many f ing letters.

But if you really want to know what the show is about, just know, I was this close to calling it F Around and Find Out, and I still might do it. Try me. Sorry. All right. So I still have no idea what the podcast is about, but either way, I like, I like this whole family, you know, as a new England Patriots fan, I have to tell you, I've, uh, it, it takes a lot to like a family of the enemy.

That being you got Jason Kelsey, right? He played for the Eagles. Uh, you know, they cost the Patriots the Super Bowl and then you got Travis Kelsey on the Kansas City Chiefs. They're the enemy, but you know, you put them together. What a likable family. I love these people. Will somebody invite me to the Kelsey family Thanksgiving?

And by the way, what, what, what do you think Taylor Swift? Brings to the Thanksgiving table. I bet you she can make any dish. I hear she's a great cook. Uh, if, if, uh, Taylor Swift's listening, I got a great cranberry sauce recipe. Should I share my cranberry sauce recipe with you? I think I've shared it before.

Uh, it's going to, it's going to involve a lot of sugar. I'll tell you that much. Uh, you cannot make a good cranberry sauce without cups and cups of sugar. Well, speaking of sweet things, uh, or maybe sour, I don't know. We've got a. Public display of affection PDA at the Dancing with the Stars finale rehearsals.

That's right. Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko have been seen smooching. Look, I don't like when, when celebrities pull one over on me, it's like either you're dating or you're not, you know, people ask her, she says, no, I'm getting the tattoo removed and then they start smooching again. Now, maybe they're just two good looking people with commitment issues.

Maybe they're dead on the inside. Who really knows what's going on either way. I got to tell you. It's crazy. She was a really good dancer this season, but audiences just didn't like them. And what is that? What is that thing that is kind of undefined? That thing that either is we, we root for someone cause they're authentic or they're too pretty for their own good.

It's almost as though people didn't like her and Gleb because they were too pretty for their own good. Either way, they were kind of like. Shockingly kicked off. What about a month ago now? And now they're seeing, uh, there's a tick tock video, uh, making its rounds by Emma Slater, official again, professional dancer, and the pair of locked lips and hugged at the dancing with the stars finale rehearsal Monday.

Their PDA captured on video. So again, did they dupe us? Were they never? Uh, or did they never break up? Uh, I mean, they would make beautiful children. We know that. Uh, but who knows if they're just having fun? Well, I'll tell you who's not having fun. Conor McGregor. He was found guilty, right? Uh, he was found guilty in the court.

He's going to be appealing a decision where a court in, I believe, Ireland in a civil case, uh, said he, uh, it was guilty of rape. UFC star released another statement of the results of the month long case, admitting he's far from perfect and never should have entertained Nikita's outreaches following a 2018 Christmas party.

Oh, so she, so he's blaming it on her. So here's what he had to say. He actually tweeted this out. People want to hear from me. I needed time. I know I made mistakes. Six years ago, I should have never responded to her outreaches. I should have shut the party down. I should never have stepped out on the woman I love the most in the world.

And that's all on me, by the way, does anyone think this was the only one he cheated with? I mean, this is shocking. She stuck around. Um, he said as much as I regretted everything that happened that night was consensual and all the witnesses present swore to that under oath. I have instructed my legal team to appeal the decision.

I can't go back and I will move forward. I am beyond grateful to my family, friends, and supporters all over the world who have stayed by my side. That's it. No more. Yeah. Getting back to the gym. The fight game awaits and you know, look, it's going to cost him like 260, 000. And I mean, the guy, he, the guy's rich, you know, but at the same time, uh, I don't know the court system there, but he was found guilty.

We'll see what the appeals court has to say. Well, we have a crazy, crazy story. I want to catch you guys up on. I haven't been covering this too closely. Have you heard about this? And it's kind of sad, this Hawaiian woman that was last seen at LAX. She flew to LAX and I guess she missed her, uh, her, uh, flight.

And then her name's Hannah Kobayashi. Well, her father, again, forgive me if I have this wrong, her father heads to Los Angeles to help look for her and then police find his body in a parking lot. Here's the story. Begin tonight with breaking news in the case of a missing woman from Maui who vanished at LAX in a tragic development tonight, even as that woman remains missing.

I'm Joey Rand. I'm Michelle Fisher. There is still no sign of that young lady. But the search has taken a heartbreaking turn for her family. Police say that Hannah Kobayashi's father, Ryan, was found dead early this morning in a parking lot near the airport. He had traveled to L. A. To help search for his missing daughter, the 30 year old woman.

Was on her way from Hawaii to New York City earlier this month when she failed to board her connecting flight. Initially, friends received some strange text messages and Hannah was spotted on LA Metro surveillance video. But her trail has gone cold for the last two weeks. The coroner's office has not released her father's cause of death.

A group aligned with her family says that Ryan may have taken his own life. Family members asking the public to remain focused on finding Hannah. So, okay. I don't want to spread any misinformation. So take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, because there's so much information out there about this. Uh, and there are people that said there's sightings of her at the Grove.

Um, apparently their family released a statement saying that her father did take his own life. Uh, but people are commenting that there's no way he would have killed himself. I mean, Why would he fly across the country looking for his daughter? And then, and then do that. I mean, it doesn't, and again, I don't mean to, you know, I don't mean to make light of this situation or speculate.

Uh, it's just playing out as we speak. Uh, it's taken the internet by storm. Again, the more I looked into it, the less information I could find. I really don't have any updates for you, but it is a story we will be keeping on our radar. So. Hopefully it has some sort of a good ending. Although how the hell did her father die?

Like what the, what's that all about? You know? Uh, so of course the internet's going wild with speculation. Uh, we'll, we'll have to see how it all plays out. Okay. Well, I got some more stories to get to. We've got Mark Cuban explaining how much he, uh, appreciates his time on a shark tank, and I've also got a gender reveal, um, on the Monday night football game.

We'll have those stories for you next. Well, we've got Shark tank's. Mark Cuban on Hailey Welch's PO Podcast Talk Tua, of course. Hailey Welch, the Hawk Tua girl. She got her new podcast and uh, why not have a billionaire on. Here's uh, here's the delightful, uh, uh, the delightful Tennessean. Hailey isn't not get on your nerves.

People like pitching you all the time. You know, it did for a little bit, but I figure it's just like a good problem to have. 'cause I've been on both sides. Mm-Hmm. , you know, I've been where. I've come home and the lights are turned off and my credit cards are cut up and the bill collectors are calling and that sucks just being on this side now.

It's nice. Yeah, it's nice. You know, and I figured, you know, since I've been on both sides, if I can help somebody and give them some feedback, but now, now sometimes they're like, you know, I'm in the john somewhere at a game or whatever. True Mark Cuban. Hey, I got this idea. Like. Wash your hands. Oh my gosh.

You must get pitched so many ideas. Uh, here's an idea for your Mark Cuban, an app that helps you scrub your exes from your social media. It's facial recognition. You don't have to do anything. It just, it just, uh, deletes them. We'll call it the ghost. I don't know. Just a thought. Okay. Billion dollar ideas just coming out of nowhere.

Uh, but yeah, you know, Mark Cuban, he is one of those kind of ethical billionaires, if there is such a thing. I always say there isn't, but at least he's, uh, you know, Taking on big pharma, negotiating prices, you know, if, if anyone's got like issues with the prices they're paying for certain pharmaceuticals, I mean, he's got a company that's literally getting like, Oh, as close to at cost as possible.

So I think he's trying to do some good things and, uh, well, you know, This is a great gender reveal party. I can't believe this hasn't been done before a Baltimore Ravens couple did their gender reveal before the Monday night football game. They handed an envelope to the commentators to have them read live.

Have a listen to this. This is a week about family, by the way, congrats to the growing family. Very exciting news. And this just, this just happened, uh, or organically. There are, there are some Raven fans who are here, uh, it's Texi and Jake rare is their name. They have given us the, the reveal. They don't know what they're having.

They don't know. I've never been this nervous. So he's holding the reveal paper and he shows it to everybody so that they can do the reveal at the same time. Are you guys ready to listen? This is a fun, this is a fun way to do it, right folks? It is. Okay. You ready? He needs a girl. All right. Three markets.

You count us down. One, two, three. IT'S A BOY! Alright, so then they got, you gotta, you guys gotta watch this. So then they got the couple, the Ravens couple, hugging. They got a camera on them, it's a boy, they're, they're cheering. I mean, what a fun way to do it, you know? That's a fun, innovative way. But now that they've done it, everyone's gonna wanna do it that way.

I don't know, if, if anyone wants to, let's do this. If anyone wants To do their gender reveal on the rush hour podcast. Let me know, please let me know. I'll do it on here. We'll do a breaking news segment. We'll get it for you. Uh, I'm here for you folks, whatever you need, let me know. Uh, I don't know if you'll trust me with that info, but that'd be a fun way to do it.

Yeah. Here's what you gotta do. If you're having a baby and you don't know the gender, Reach out to one of your friends or your mom or somebody, have them get in touch with me and, and tell me the gender. So you guys don't know. And I'll do, I'll do a nice reveal and I'll surprise you guys. And then when you're driving down, you know, in your car, you can play that you can play the review, whatever, maybe, maybe no one, maybe no one wants to bless me with that, uh, responsibility.

I can understand if that's not as cool for you. Well, here's a weird story. Somebody at Macy's has been stealing a lot of money. This is reported by Bloomberg business. Macy's is delaying its third quarter earnings due to an investigation. The company saying a single employee responsible for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous entries to hide about 132 to $154 million of expenses.

Macy's saying the employee no longer works for the company. What on earth happen? Okay, so look. I don't think anyone should steal, you know, but every once in a while you steal from your employer, right? You steal a stapler. Maybe there's an old laptop no one's using. You get some sticky fingers, a hundred plus million dollars.

At what point were you like, you know what, maybe I should just stop now. Like that's absolutely ridiculous. Unbelievable. I mean, you almost, it's like the, the, I mean, the, the, the aggressive nature I know shoot for the stars. You know me, I'm a big motivational speaker over here, but maybe, maybe that's a little too much.

Uh, well, Thanksgiving right around the corner and boy, is it a time to celebrate. Remember what the holiday is all about. No, not arguing with your QAnon uncle or whoever you're going to have to see at Thanksgiving. It's about getting along. It's being grateful, having gratitude, and thanks for all the great things in our life.

Sadly, the election season's been pretty, pretty ugly, right? And it's divided a lot of people and it's not your job to, uh, Change the way other people think no amount of fighting at the Thanksgiving dinner table is going to, uh, make the world any different, right? You got to get out and vote. There's okay.

You understand. Well, either way, here's Mel Robbins. Uh, she's got a great podcast and she talks about managing your own emotions. We can't control other people. We can only control the way we react to things. Have a listen. When you're an adult, you're not responsible for managing other people's emotions.

You gotta let your mom be disappointed. You gotta let your stepbrother be an instigator on politics. You're not responsible for parenting them. You are responsible for your emotions. You and I have spent years trying to change our family. Managing them, feeling like it's your responsibility for your mom to be happy, for everything to go okay, for the right plates to be put out, for the centerpiece to look this way.

It's not your job. To try to control, fix, or manage someone else's emotions, it's their job. You're going to use the let them theory to stop yourself from managing other people, fixing other people, engaging in the old dynamics. You're then going to say, let me, and you're going to focus on your part in it.

How do I want to show up? What is it that I want to lean into and what am I going to opt out of? And when you start to get very clear about that, you now have a roadmap for what's in your control, which is how you show up, how you engage, what energy you bring, what conversations you initiate, which ones you participate in, which ones you don't.

That is all in your control. And if you just stay laser focused on that, I promise you, no matter how challenging the dynamic is or anxious, you may feel you have the power to influence everything. Wow. Absolutely. Love it. Absolutely. Love it. Look, maybe we can treat this Thanksgiving season the way the way like about giving, right?

It's, so it's a holiday of giving it's giving thanks. Well, let's give. In these interactions with their family by asking a lot of questions, you know, I do this when I'm on stage as a comedian, when I'm doing crowd work, I want to know about the audience. I want to relate to them. I want to, I want to find out what makes them tick.

And yet sometimes when we hang it with family, we resort to the laziest sort of lowest energy version of ourself. I am so guilty of this with my mom. You know, my mom's always been someone where I can sort of complain to. She doesn't need that in her life. You know, I should inspire my family the way I try to inspire strangers.

And yet, like I said, it's just like old habits. They fail hard or they're hard to fail. How does that work? Either way you get what I'm trying to say. Uh, and again, I, not to be too preachy here, but again, here's one, here's another little, another little nudge for you. On how to start the day off. This is from a psychiatrist.

It's his recommendation and how to start the day in what negativity does to the brain. I thought this was whenever I find a nice little, uh, sort of, um, you know, uh, treat for you guys. I'd like to share it. You start the day with today is going to be a great day. I want you to say it out loud, say it to someone.

But when you do that, your subconscious mind Begins to look for what are you looking forward to today? Today is going to be a great day. This is very important because we have a new study coming out on negativity bias. People who are negative have lower activity, especially in the prefrontal cortex. You want to start, Every day today is going to be a great day.

And how do you feel about that? I know not everybody here likes the hokey tokey stuff, but it is going to be a good day. I'll tell you what it's going to be a good day, or it's going to be a bad day in whichever one you choose. You're going to be right. How about that? I got a UFO update, but should we do some Clayton Eckerd stuff?

So this trial, okay, this Clayton Eckerd appeal trial, it's going to go slow. Uh, but what's happening here is, uh, Clayton Eckerd's accuser's lawyer. He's kind of trying to become the star of the show. Now I did a couple hour long live stream over the weekend, but not everyone watches my YouTube channel. So specifically for my podcast audience, if you haven't caught up, he's threatened to to sue Lauren, uh, our friend over there from Florida, the content creator, YouTuber, psych evaluators trying to sue her for what, 125, 000 to 150, 000.

Now sadly, she's just waiting to find out if she's going to get sued or not. I had the same issue with Laura Owens where she did. Tried to sue me. She sent me a receipt of her paying the process server to show up to my house. She had the address. I mean, if that's not, you know, threatening, I don't know what is, but as it turns out, the process server never served me because the judge shut down the restraining order because you can't just sue people like that, or you can't get restraining orders on people you've never met.

Uh, finally, the justice system seems to be onto something either way. What's crazy about this is Lauren's a good person, right? She's a member of our community. Um, she's, she's, uh, just, you know, providing fair commentary on the court case. She's bringing light to a wild situation and as she has put it in her tweets here, uh, she's got a, her Twitter is Lethal Lauren 9 0 4.

She basically has explained, uh, she, she tweeted this not knowing if the knock at my door for the next co couple of weeks is gonna be the pizza guy or a process server. It's insane. And you, to be honest, I. Understand that feeling. I had the same issue when I was being served. And I hate to admit it because some people might think, well, it worked.

The idea in the threat of suing someone is often a damage enough. And people are wondering like, well, what did she do that was wrong? Well, as she's described it, she's essentially being, uh, uh, threatened with lawsuits for disobeying. Laura Owens attorney because her attorney said if anyone decides to share my content, I'm going to see you even though on YouTube It's very very fair game.

So now here's what's gonna happen now. And again, I know this is so Immaterial. I don't know. Is it immaterial to to the case between Clayton Eckert and Laura Owens? But it just shows the collateral damage the wake and then no wake zone Created by Laura and you know what? This isn't it. There's another one.

I'm gonna Give you guys some tea here. But the point is, as far as Lauren's Lauren is concerned, I know not to be complicated. Laura Owens is not Lauren Lawrence, the content creator, lethal Lauren 904 on Twitter. Well, as far as Lauren's concerns, like she's done nothing wrong, but, uh, what an abuse of power for a lawyer to threaten these lawsuits.

Now he's denied threatening me, but anyone who's seen the emails I've, uh, I've unearthed him. He threatened me with a 80 plus million dollar. Lawsuit telling me, you know, I'm going to be broke by this time next year. Cause I'll, he'll have sued me and, uh, Lauren, you know, Laura will be, you know, uh, horsing around on my property with her horses.

I mean, just insane stuff. Well, the, I guess the bar is finalizing whether or not they're going to do anything after judge Julie Mata had a bar complaint against him. I don't think this will be something we figure out before Thanksgiving, but I'm telling you right now, 2024. Will not be going quietly ain't going to happen.

There's going to be something big that comes out, whether it be, uh, the response of the appeal from Clayton Eckerside, I'll have that information when it comes, whether it be possibly a suspension of David Gingras, his law license, or does he decide in the next week to Sue Lauren, a YouTuber, could you imagine a lawyer for Laura Owens suing a YouTuber, you know, it wouldn't be the only time they come after women in this community.

Uh, there was a cryptic post, you know, it actually, okay, I'm going to tell you about this cryptic post, but we're, we're late for a break. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with the cryptic post right after this. If I've learned anything in the world of Clayton Eckerd v. Laura Owens, it's that anybody who gets involved will possibly get threatened with a lawsuit.

And it appears as though that might be the case. I'm careful with my words here. That might be the case with the studio that. Laura Owens and David Gingras went to, to record their podcast last week. Uh, they were set to release a two hour episode. They took a selfie there. They posted online, all these things.

Well, nobody knows what happened to that episode. It has yet to be aired. They've since made other YouTube videos, but, uh, what could possibly have happened? My guests, can I offer my guests here? And maybe there's some information pushing in this direction. My guess is that Gingras threatened some form of a lawsuit with the podcast studio, and there's more going on.

We don't have all of the information yet, but we, uh, we did see a cryptic post from the podcast company saying like gloves are off or something like that. Well, I think as a podcast community, they have every right as a studio to defend themselves. And, you know, I can understand early on, they might've been afraid that Laura Owens was going to be some big, bad bully, but we've been able to show the podcast studio that it's nothing but a man behind the curtain.

That's who Wizard of Oz is just pulling the levers, threatening people with different lawsuits, trying to, you know, and again, this podcast company, it's female owned, it's another example of Laura Owens. What seems to be coming after, uh, coming after any company that they think wrongs them. Could you imagine a world where you are that much of a victim?

So there's your update on that. Take it as you may. We'll talk more about that on Patreon today, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. But I'm telling you right now. I guarantee there's more to that story knowing that allegedly, I guess Laura was paid what 300, 400 to use that podcast studio. There's a reason why that hasn't been released yet, that video and probably never will be.

And we'll cover that story when it comes. All right, let's go to something light. Uh, if you're an old millennial, like me, you're going to love this story. The Oregon trail. One of the most successful computer games of all time may become a movie. If you need something else to look forward to on the big screen, a nostalgic game from many of our childhoods is being developed into a movie.

Apple is looking to make the Oregon Trail computer game into an action comedy film 50 years after the game's first program was developed. I mean, I love this. Is someone going to get dysentery while they try to forward the river? The Oregon Trail eventually became a computer game staple for children in the 80s and 90s.

Since its creation in 1971, the game has sold tens of millions of copies and is featured in the World Video Game Hall of Fame. I wonder if there's going to be a lot of death in it because I feel like my characters always died fording the river or like of dysentery. She said the same thing I said. You always die fording the river.

Let me tell you, can you, do you understand the stress of being in fourth grade? And my mom's like, what's wrong? And it's like, Oh, my ox died fording a river. And she's like, what? Yeah. Yeah. I got dysentery, but I survived. They were always dying of something. No word yet on a possible release date. Yeah, it was tough.

It was tough back in the day. You know, these video games, we had this one, and then I used to play this ghost video game where you would shine a flashlight on the ghost. I don't remember what, what that one's called, but if you were, if you, if you existed in the early nineties, uh, maybe, uh, maybe you also, uh, partook in the fantastic 32 bit activities of early video games.

Well, uh, what do we want to end this on to be, should we end on that note? You know what? Yeah, I think that's a good note to end on Oregon trail. We'll end on that. Listen, we'll have a lot of content to get to today. Uh, and, uh, I'll be tying up some of the loose ends to these stories. Be kind out there. It's your choice.

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you, November 25th, 2024. Here's what we're going to get into today. The Kelsey's are expecting a third daughter and we'll have that story.

Plus Matt Gates joins Cameo after pulling out from the attorney general gig. Plus, I've got more Christmas movie reviews and more celebrities supporting Chapel Roan as she pushes back against toxic culture. And Box Office was wicked good for, well, wicked. Could this be the biggest movie of the Christmas season?

And why they're saying you shouldn't sing along. Also, Taylor Swift wraps up the ERA's tour in Toronto with a tearful message. And another Bachelor lead re proposes to his already fiancée. Happy for them regardless. I love that story. And also another big name in bachelor nation, hard launches their relationship.

And we've got the submissions opening up for our single parent Christmas wishlist. All those stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, Christmas season is inching up here at the rush hour podcast empire. And if you're new, we do a single mom's Christmas wishlist. It's single parent. If you're a single dad out there and you need a hand, we can help you too.

We try to pick 12 members of our community, share your Amazon wishlist, and we get to those that have abundance to donate and try to help your kids have. Presence to open this Christmas season. We're doing things a little differently this year for 12 days of Christmas. Uh, or should we call it 12 Daves of Christmas?

We're going to have a voicemail line wide open for those that are submitting. I want to hear your story. Uh, and I want our audience to hear it too, so we can know who we're donating to. So to get the link for submitting to be on the. Single parent Christmas wishlist. I always confuse it with the teacher wishlist.

We do that in the fall, the single parent Christmas wishlist wishlist. I'll have that link in the description below, and I'll also be posting it on this morning's, uh, on my Instagram story. So, uh, we're only going to have submissions open for like a day or two. So don't, you know, have resistance. Don't think about the perfect thing to say, just get on the voicemail line.

Uh, again, all the details will be in that link and leave me a heartfelt message about how we can help you out. We're looking forward to it. And in other Christmas news, boy, I'm all about these Christmas movies. I'm watching them. I got a vintage Christmas. It's on Hulu. Uh, it's called the vintage Christmas.

And it's about, you know, there's always a, it's always the same story, right? A developer versus a town historian. Oh, what's this? The developer is going to have to knock down the town historian's favorite post office. Well, I tell you what, I give it a green light. We have a green light, yellow light, red light situation.

I give a yellow light. If I, if I get tearful at all, if the, if the movie's able to make me even get watery eyes, I give it a yellow light. If it sucks a red light. Well, this is a green light. It was good. You know why? Because the leads were sexy. And I tell you what, I can't, I can't sink my teeth into a Christmas movie.

If I'm not attracted to the leads. Regardless of sexual identity. You know what I mean? I don't care. I don't care who they're going after. I got to be into you. You know what I mean? And, uh, they, they were pretty good. It's a pretty good looking bunch. Again, that's called a vintage Christmas and I give it a full green light.

You'll enjoy it. It's on Hulu. And speaking of Christmas movies over the weekend, we had, we had Susie on. Did you, uh, did you listen to it? Susie Abramite. She is a. Uh, she's an actress amongst other things. She was a top rated tennis player as well. And she had a four picture deal, uh, and she's made plenty of Christmas movies.

And we talked about what it was like to make those Christmas movies and all the other projects she's got going on. If you want to hear the behind the scenes, not everybody. Probably listens to the weekend episodes, you know, a little bit longer form, different sort of than what we do here on the weekday.

But I'm telling you right now, go give that a listen. You're going to really pick up some gems from Susie as she talked about, you know, taking a lot of the painful aspects of life in alchemizing it, turning it into positivity. And, um, I think she's got the right idea. I think her and I are now best friends.

I'm gonna actually be doing her podcast today. Uh, she's got a new podcast called great ones. So, um, do I feel great? No, I don't. I've got, uh, I've got, uh, what, what's that called? Uh, that belief, not lack of belief in myself, whatever, you know, but Hey, I think that's, I think that's a driving force, right? So just not believing yourself as long as you keep going after things, right?

All right. I'm going after a lot of, uh, stories we have to get into. Let's do it. Let's start with this one. Matt Gates. He's got to make some money. He's no longer got a job. He's not going back to the house of reps in Florida. And he was, uh, he pulled out. No, no pun intended. there from, uh, being the attorney general.

Uh, so he's joining cameo. Uh, that's right. He's got a pretty busy week here. And, uh, now without a job, I guess you can hire him, I think for what? 500 bucks. Um, he's served in Congress and Trump nominated to be attorney general. That didn't work out once I fired the house speaker, he said, and they joined cameo on November 22nd.

So yeah, 525. He'll make a personal video for you. That's how it works, folks. I guess he actually posted, um, Like an intro, I guess you have to make an intro videos just so people know what they're going to get. Here's, uh, here's I guess what he had to say. Let's have a listen. Hey Fritz, this is Matt Gaetz. I hear you're doing well after a triple bypass surgery.

I just wanted to extend well wishes, a happy Thanksgiving. And you know, some people say maybe I had to step aside just to not trigger a heart attack for you. Uh, but thanks for being a fan of the president of mine. I guess that was a personal cameo. I guess, I guess when you join Cameo, you can see some sort of personal, I'm not on Cameo.

Here's my pledge to you. If anyone out there is a fan of mine, I will. Give you a video for free. That's what I like to do. I've had people reach out to me. I've even roast people on their wedding day. I'll, I'll help you out as, as you know, if you're, if you're here and supporting my channel, I don't want your money.

Um, Jason Kelsey is having another baby, uh, with Kylie, his wife. Um, so I guess this'll be, yeah. Could Taylor Swift become the, the, uh, uh, what's it called? Uh, God, godmother. I don't know how it works. Taylor Swift and mama Donna Kelsey both reacted to the news on social media that the retired. NFL player turned ESPN broadcaster has another baby on the way.

Yeah. Could you imagine that you having a kid and you're like, Oh boy, Taylor Swift liked it. You know what I mean? It's like, can you just, can anyone even contextualize what it must be like to be Taylor Swift on her own Instagram? It just must be crazy. She can literally change the sort of trajectory of a brand by just liking their photo while we're happy for Jason.

I mean, it's so funny though. Right. You know, Jason's this macho man and he's got three girls. I guess I've, no, excuse me, a fourth on the way. He's got a fourth girl on the way. So unbelievable stuff. And it looks like most of his children are happy. Uh, but, uh, there's one girl that's a little upset. The, the young one, you know, it's, it's gotta be tough being the youngest child and then they have a new one.

And you're like, come on, this was my time. Well, it's been Taylor Swift's time. She's been on tour for gosh, how many years now? It's just been amazing. Uh, the heiress tour winds down after more than a year pop star shedding some tears during her Saturday night show in Canada. She's only got a few of these left, so she's getting sentimental.

Here's what she had to say. So she

starts breaking down and everyone's cheering. She's got, who knows, 70, 80, a hundred thousand people watching her. Is she Jesus? Is Taylor Swift are Jesus. People are coming from all over Zach. I was as the key S is in the tree. Do I have my biblical references, right? The key is, I don't know. He was a wee little man.

Okay. Anyhow, folks who cares? Uh, no blasphemy here. Uh, Taylor Swift, she can be whoever the hell she wants. Even Jesus can't get tickets to her show. So she polished off over 150 concerts over five continents with just three gigs left. Our final three performances will be in Vancouver now. Look, I'm not a huge, I'm a, I'm like a Taylor fan, but I'm not a Swifty.

Like I would go, but I'm not going to go to the lengths to, you know, to, to what has to be done to get tickets. You know what I mean? If one of you guys was like, Dave, I want to give a Taylor Swift tickets to you and your wife. I mean, that'd be fantastic. I'll get the bejeweled denim out and all that. But like, I'm not, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not going to blow in five grand and waiting in line and stuff like that.

Not on my watch folks. But if anyone has a suite for me, uh, we'll skim me up to a Vancouver and check that out. All right. I got a couple of bachelor stories. We'll get to, uh, there's new love in the air. We'll have that for you next. As you know, it's my first year in Nashville, Tennessee, and first year owning a home for Christmas season.

I'm, I'm trying to do things right. I ordered the, uh, wifi smart outlets. Again, this sounds like a sponsorship. It's not, but how it works is whatever you plug into that outlet. You can set a time that it'll go on and off and you can control it from your phone. Uh, they have these for bulbs too. They're surprisingly not expensive.

I think it costs like seven bucks an outlet. So when I bought a pack of 40 or maybe eight bucks, there were like 28, 30, whatever it was, but I'm going to have all of the Christmas lights at every window hooked up to these wifi connections. So at the exact same time, every day, the lights will turn on. I don't know.

I don't know. No, I don't think anybody in my neighborhood is going to care that I'm doing this, And I wish I could give out my address to you guys, but I'm telling you at 5 PM at the Neil household, my lights are going to be lit. Okay. It's going to be quite the show. Uh, for anybody who cares that whoever's walking their dog by my house at 5 PM, uh, put your sunglasses on.

Cause, uh, we're going to be racking up the electric bill. I'd love to know what your plans are for the Christmas season. Are you guys, has anyone ever. Any advice out there on buying a, uh, and I hate to say this, an artificial Christmas tree. It just seems like the right thing to do. You know, every year we, we schlep a tree home and it's got a squirrel in it and it's a whole thing.

And, you know, I'm thinking, you know, maybe just buy one and we use that same one every year, but we tried to go to Costco and they were sold out. And my wife's very upset. She's very upset when, when she misses the window on a Costco deal. And I, you know, cause here's what will happen. We'll go to Costco.

She'll be like, Oh, we got to buy that tree. Oh my gosh. It's perfect. And I'm like, honey, chill out. It's October. You know what I mean? Like relax. And then we go back a few weeks later and the tree sold out. And she's like, you see Dave, you see, we should've got the tree. Now it's sold to any, I'm like, Oh my gosh, it's a whole thing.

So anyway, help me save Christmas. What do I do? Um, anyhow, let's get into the bachelor stories. We have a new engagement by Zach shell cross. I know what you're thinking. Isn't he engaged to Katie bigger? Yes, but he did a re engagement, which by the way, this is the right way to do it. You know why? Because an engagement.

In the proposal, in the ring, it's all about showing somebody, somebody, how much you love them. It's, it's a scam. Diamond rings, the DeBeer industry, they created a scam, you know, make it, make it two decades of your income goes into the ring. You know, they used to say like two months and then it became like two quarters, whatever, either way.

The point is though, it's true. You can't just. Get some free ring from, uh, you know, what's a leather, leather bag over there. And Neil Lane, you can't just get some free ring and then think that that's all you got to do. No, that's, that's like the placeholder and I'm, I'm told, and I don't know, maybe, maybe I don't want to get sued by Neil Lane.

Maybe the Neil Lane rings are good, but I'm told the rings from, uh, love is Blind are actually terrible. They have a lot of flaws in them. You know, when you buy a ring, you can't tell from the naked eye what the color is. My wife's ring is, I got her a rock. I mean, it's a good size diamond, but it's not like, um, the, the color is slightly like champagne color, like to the naked eye.

You can't tell the difference, but when someone explains to you the difference between an X amount of rain versus a 50, 000 ring, you can kind of see it's like, uh, you know, it's, but again, it's all, it's all. Bye. I think they're ripping us off guys. I know, I don't know. I have more women in the audience than men.

So I don't want anyone to boycott me. They're ripping us off these ring companies. But once I found out that you could get the ring insured, I was like, look, I don't even care if I got ripped off. It's insured for X amount of money. So if this thing goes missing in the lake or your hand gets cut off in a You know, weird, I don't know, uh, bowling accident, whatever.

We're going to be okay. Uh, that was, that got really dark. Okay. So either way, congratulations. Oh, I'm digressing. Congratulations to Katie and Zach on the second engagement. She said, yes, she said yes. In another bachelor news, B Mack Jones is hard launching his relationship. He's got a non bachelor lady.

That's always good. When you can get out of the bachelor world, of course. Course he was engaged to serene, but does it even count? And again, she accused him of cheating and the information he posted in the last few months kind of refuted that. So, you know, basically waited a long time to share his side of the story.

Uh, it was a, but it was a wild, it was a wild story nonetheless, but happy he's moving on. He said, she's truly something to let the world know about since the show dating has been tough. Finding, you know, what's tough is finding punctuation in this post, but I digress. Finding someone who genuinely cared for me and who cared to know me rather than details displayed on the TV screen.

She's been there for me through thick and thin through ups and downs, through rumors and through each and every battle, we focused on privacy, keeping our relationship away from social media and growing with each other without a camera lens. But I've realized F that this woman is truly something to let the world know about.

I love you, miss Anna Rapetto. So congratulations to them. I mean, regardless of how, you know, someone's edit was on the TV screen or what happened, I, I, I would wish love on my worst enemies. I want everyone to feel a little love in their world. All right. Well, uh, we have our updates here for the, for the, uh, the wicked movie.

That's right. It's, uh, it's taking over the world. And now on Variety, they say Wicked opens to record setting 114 million box office. Gladiator 2 starts strong with 55 million. If you care to find Wicked, look to the top of box office charts. Universal's adaptation of Act 1, with some padding, of the popular Broadway musical was No.

1 in North America with 114 million. Those dazzling ticket sales rank as the third biggest domestic debut of the year behind Deadpool and Wolverine in Inside Out 2. Can you believe that? I can't believe these Pixar movies are that good. Uh, they are, Hey, you know, I got a kid now. I'm, I'm sure I'll be going to them.

Uh, when you, when you want a kid to shut up, you take them to a Pixar movie, I guess. So either way, huge opening weekend and I'm, my TikTok is littered with wicked stories. I mean, everything about it. I don't know much about it. Um, but I hear it's dazzling. Wicked collected an additional 50 million at the international box office, bringing its global tally to 164 million.

You know, the, uh, I mean, uh, the, the, the original Wizard of Oz didn't have the book, I guess, didn't have, um, the Ruby red slippers, right? They were some sort of like diamond or whatever. They were different, but, uh, boy, uh, you know, Judy Garland, her, her, uh, you know, filming, what was that film in the late thirties?

I'm sorry if I'm getting this wrong, that was cursed. So some people are wondering if the wicked film would be cursed because the last one of course was cursed so bad. I mean, the tin man got aluminum poisoning. Uh, I think the, uh, scarecrow got a scar on his face from the mask. She was, they, they would feed her like she, you know, she was like a young, you know, woman or a child.

I don't know. They'd feed her like something like dozens of cigarettes a day to keep her from gaining weight. I mean, just crazy stuff out there. Crazy stuff. Indeed. That's why we have the screen actors guild because, uh, you know, they were, they weren't taking care of, uh, their own back in the day. Well, now they're telling you this.

When you come to wicked shut the hell up and enjoy the movie, but ANC theaters, fans to let the stars do the singing. I'm sure your voice is lovely, but we all know how hard it is to. Hit those high notes, that's a particularly tough song. The Theatre Chain is going to play a 30 second clip before the movie, reminding people that silence is golden.

But if you really want to belt out your favorite tunes, and I always encourage that, Well, you have just a month to wait because a singalong showing will start on Christmas day, about a thousand theaters across the country will bring you that privilege. Oh, you theater nerds. I love a theater nerd. You know, I wasn't big into theater, uh, but I did live in the theater.

I live where all the theater people lived in New York city, which was, I was in Hamilton Heights, 140th and Broadway. But then if you go farther North. The, the, the residence gets cheaper up until Washington Heights. And that's where all the theater brats live. I'm looking at you, you am the dancers. I know who you guys all are.

Um, you know, Oh, I went to Juilliard. It's like, listen, just serve me my lunch. You know what I mean? They're singing theater at the, uh, the diner in times square. And everybody's talented in the theater world. And I'm not kidding. Just the, the amazing people that are out there. The problem. Is not everyone's talented who goes to the theater.

Okay. Those that are on stage, leave it to them. You know what I mean? But of course, yeah, no, this is a, this is very smart that they're telling you not to sing in that way that you can buy a second ticket to go sing on Christmas day. Uh, you won't catch me singing publicly as much as I wish. Uh, I would love, you know, one of my new year's resolutions is to sing more.

I would love to get vocal lessons. I mean, I am not known to have a good voice every once in a while. I'll accidentally stumble on the right note. So I know, I know it's in there. Right. I know I got it in there. I just don't know if I'm always listening to the note I'm saying. And I think part of it is I'll sing a song.

Are you guys like this? I'll sing a song without knowing the lyrics to that song. And then my brain will kind of make them up. And I think what's happening, I could be wrong. I think what's happening is when I'm singing a song that I don't know the lyrics to, rather than. Think about the quality of the note.

I should be hitting. I'm thinking about how does sweet Caroline end. Do you know what I mean? Does any of that make sense? Well, anyhow, uh, the dudes from pod save America, uh, were wanting to make sure, you know, people understood not to sing. I know we got the PSA already, but this is a love it from love it or leave it.

Some fans at early screenings of the Wicked movie have been singing along in the theater to the frustration of other theatergoers. This is what one person told the New York Times, a self described theater kid, who said, People who are judgmental in that way, please wait to stream it. Don't go the first day and yell at people for singing, for sharing that kind of joy, when we've been waiting so long in anticipation for this movie.

I want everyone here to know this, and I mean this. I am seeing this movie on Saturday. The last couple of weeks have been so stressful and sad. I have a reservoir of frustration and rage in my soul, and if people start singing in my theater, I promise you, they will stop, or I will make an extraordinary scene that will take them to the moon.

All the way the fuck out of the experience. I'm not kidding. I'll ruin it for them, I'll ruin it for everybody. Because if you think I'm gonna sit there in silence and watch Cynthia Erivo sing Defying Gravity in concert with you, because we have collectively abandoned all manners and common courtesy, think again.

So if you care to find me, look to the AMC Burbank. As someone told me lately, everyone deserves the chance to watch a movie in a theater without listening to rude, Self centered internet addled freaks forgetting that they are not the center of the universe. How does Trump happen? We let the little thing slide and then we let the big thing slide.

I will go to jail. There it is. I mean, tell us how you really feel. You know, I feel like this might be our best morning episode ever. I'm just feeling loose. I'm feeling limber. I don't know if it was the hot cocoa I just drank to get me going. Either way, still more stories to come. Stick around. We'll have those next.

Well, I love a good pop star beef. Katy Perry wins a trademark appeal against an Australian fashion designer named Katy Perry. Uh, both women put blood, sweat and tears in developing their businesses. The November 22nd ruling read. What's interesting is this has been going on for a long time. I think since 2009, in 2009, Katy Perry's attorney sent.

Taylor, who's Katy Perry Taylor, a cease and desist letter before suggesting they come to a coexistence agreement. Their response was, unfortunately, it's no longer possible to return to the time of peaceful coexistence. Alright, so I guess there's bad blood out there between the two. Uh, but because Katy Perry's been around for so long, they ruled that she's got an international brand name.

I mean, they don't even spell it the same way. So what are we even talking about? I don't know. Well, Daniel Craig, uh, AKA James Bond praising Chapel Rones. Pushback against toxic fans says, I really admire the guts. I'm the same way. You know, I feel like a lot of fans go, no, we built her, we can do this. We can do that.

But like, she's doing what she needs to do to stay within her own boundaries. And I have to say, I haven't heard much news about chapel run lately. So maybe she just realized that she just shouldn't even talk to her fans, which is so sad, but I think that's how it gets. She was able to, for a certain amount of time, deal with her audience.

And negotiate those conversations. And now I was realizing she can't, I'm seeing that with Jason Kelsey, as he's getting more famous and more famous that he's trying to sign autographs and people are yelling at him and people are calling him, you know, slurs and he's spiking iPhones. And I think what you realize is you, you, you kind of need like a bodyguard with you.

I think, I think that's the only solution is to like have a handler there to deal with things because any amount of you being provoked gives them what they want, whether it's good or whether it's bad. Well, Well, I tell you what, speaking of bad, there is a crisis happening, a manufactured crisis. And this is why I'm so against so many of the culture wars.

And I've said this on the left and I've said this on the right. So don't, this isn't even political. This might sound political, but it's not, it's apolitical. It's about manufacturing crisis and it's happening out there. Uh, we've covered the story of the trans McBride. She's a Democrat in Delaware. And she's.

Uh, claiming a manufactured crisis with all the new restrictions going on in the bathrooms in Capitol Hill. She says, I wasn't even going to use those bathrooms rather than talk to me. Uh, Nancy Grace and all these other people are, you know, are making this whole trans debate. She just wanted to show up this trans woman and do her job.

Here's what she had to say. I would like my grace to contrast with the grandstanding that we're seeing right now. I would like my approach of respecting everyone to contrast with the disrespect that we are seeing right now. I'd like to see, I'd like people to see my competence in governing contrast with their chaos.

Do you follow this rule? Do you adhere to it? I have, I have already said that, I, I will not use multi stall women's restrooms in the Capitol. So, so as we find out every person, every, every representative has their own bathroom already. It's a fake crisis that involves nobody. And this past election, there was a lot of conversation about issues that are that really Don't exist out there.

Like the president doesn't decide what a sport does as far as the inclusivity for biological female versus trans females or things like that. That's, that's something that like the NCAA will take up. That's something that like, whatever leagues will take up this specific issue is. Uh, is, is all being talked about because one trans person won an election.

So it's not a big deal. And I really love that she, uh, here, uh, Sarah McBride is coming at this with Grace saying, I'm not going to fight whatever fight they want me to fight. I'm just going to go there and Delawareans. Um, but again, that is my choice here. I always knew that there would be an effort. to politicize my use of a restroom.

And if anyone had thought to ask me about what I was planning on doing, I would have been happy to tell them. But again, this is not an issue and this has never been an issue in this complex. Everything was fine until some members of the small Republican conference majority Decided to and to manufacture a crisis.

Well, we took the bait because it became one. So there's your update to that. I just love a good story where someone fights back and says, I'm not, I'm not entering the mud pit. I'm not fighting the fight you're fighting. And that's how I feel about so many of these. Quote unquote, culture war issues. It's like, let's just worry about making, you know, food and housing affordable to everyday Americans.

And let's stop leading with such fear, right? That's what we're going to do on my podcast. No fear here, nothing but love. So, uh, don't forget if you're a single mom or single dad out there, or Hey, maybe you're not even. A single mom or dad, maybe you are married, but you guys have struggled and had tough times.

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That's what we're trying to do. All right, folks. Well, we got a good one today. So, uh, stick around, uh, have fun at work. We'll have some live streaming on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal, and then we'll be back this afternoon. We'll see you then for another episode of the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal live.

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