11-22-24 Morning Rush - Brianna Chickenfry Facetimed With Zach Bryan's Ex! & My New Favorite Netflix XMas Movie & Russia's Ominous Message

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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. Happy Friday. Friday T it's November 22nd, 2024. And I've got all of your entertainment, pop culture news in one place. And sadly we have a heavy story.

Russians sent another clear sign. They are escalating war. We'll explain what this means for us. Also the missing American. Who faked his own death has been found, all those details. And the new JonBenet documentary is on Netflix. Her father discusses wanting to finally move on after 25 years of mystery surrounding her death.

And yesterday we had AI Jesus in today. It's AI umpires. What does that mean? I'll explain if it's a strikeout or if they're going to balk on bringing in the technology to ump the game. And you look what I did there. And Brianna chicken fry reveals. She FaceTimed with Zachary. Brian's ex wife exchanging notes amongst the chaos.

Oh boy. You got to be shaking in your cowboy boots. If you're Zach, Brian, you never want the ladies to exchange notes on your bad behavior. All right. I got all those stories and so much more, and it's all coming up next on the rush. For our first story today, we've got John Stamos firing back at critics who slammed him for wearing a bald cap while shaving his buddy Dave Coulier's head.

As Dave Coulier battles an aggressive form of cancer, TMZ caught up with John. Here's what he had to say. I thought it was funny. I flew across, cross country to be with my, my brother, right? Yep. As I'm on the plane there, I get a text. My best friend, since I'm 11 years old, had died of a heart attack. Yeah, we saw that, and my condolences.

But I'm not gonna show that to Dave. I mean, I told him, but I said that's not, and I cried privately and whatever. But I made him, and we, we laughed so friggin hard, and he wanted me to come shave his head. I knew it before, so I brought it up. I brought the bald cap from the studio, and I got to work next week, I'm on a big show, so I can see it on the wire, which is great.

Oh great, yeah. But, uh, so I can't cut my hair. You can cut your hair, yeah, yeah. Regardless, I mean Aside from that. I'm, I'm so shocked. First I'll say People are nasty. I'm just, I'm just embarrassed. You're embarrassing. I, but I When I started seeing this blowback, I was like What? So anyway, yeah, he just shares his disgust.

I don't know if that audio wasn't good enough for you guys to hear, but shared his disgust at the audience that was upset that he wouldn't go the distance to shave his head. You know, it's that form of slacktivism, you know, the people online that just want to criticize others and, um, and yeah, he's like, yeah, I got a, I got a gig, I got to keep my hair.

What are you going to do? You know, he was, it was there hanging out, supporting Dave Koolyay. Well here we let's support, um, a populating Mars. How about that? And only fans model named Elsa. Thora, uh, wants Elon Musk to knock her up on Mars and wants to have the first red planet baby. I guess that would be a Martian.

I mean, would that make it, would that make her like, you know, the queen of Mars? How does that work? Here's what she had to say. Love to have the first baby ever on Mars. Um, obviously that's like a massive step in history. Like that's a massive deal. Um, I've seen that he's, he's planning on going to Mars by 2029.

Um, and then obviously it might take a few years to put some more people on there, but then ultimately have no civilization there. Um, and I would just love to be the first mother of Mars. I mean, trust me, the second she finds out there's no Sephora or Starbucks on Mars, it's just like a no for me. That's really what it comes down to for me.

Is there a good coffee shop nearby? That's literally all I care about. Now, you want to put a coffee shop on Mars? We might have an, we might have a story. Well, I'm open to both. Um, it would obviously depend on like what it looks like in Mars. Um, what would be the safest option? Um, I think it takes nine months to go to Mars.

So maybe I could get pregnant here and then by the time I land. I'll pop the baby out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't want to be pregnant on a, on a long flight. Okay? You're gonna, your feet are going to be swollen. You're going to be, no, that's not a good idea. Get pregnant in Mars and then hang out on the little space station.

You know what I mean? Anyway, uh, there's a possible movie we could watch. Elon Musk, uh, banging, uh, Or I should say, uh, procreating on Mars. All right, let's just move it on to another story. Uh, we've covered this a few times. The Wisconsin man who faked his own death, Ryan Borgward. Well, not only was he accused of faking his own death, but, uh, looks like he showed up overseas.

And in the case of that Wisconsin husband and father of three accused of faking his own death. on a lake. They searched for weeks tonight. He has now sent authorities a video confirming he is alive and investigators here at home now have a message for him. Here's abc Stephanie Ramos tonight. Authorities say the Wisconsin father who faked his death is living in eastern Europe.

45 year old Ryan Borg. Wart sending investigators this proof of life video. I'm in my apartment. I am safe. In August, Borgwart vanishing from this lake in Wisconsin, volunteers searching for weeks, but authorities later learning the father of three faked his death to convince his wife and children that he had died so he could start a new life in Europe.

Remains the same without having any more information. I'm pretty good with my intuition here. My thought is the wife was in on it. I don't know. I just, but then again, maybe he's a psychopath. I just can't imagine putting someone through the grieving process just to move on, you know, but if the wife was in on it, she gets a little bit of a old life insurance.

Although the life insurance plan was only 350, 000 bucks. You think if you're going to fake your own death, you'd boost your life insurance plan up to a million, right? With a woman he'd met online, he paddled his kayak. Any child size floating. Uh, out into the lake, he overturned the kayak and dumped his phone in the lake.

He paddled an inflatable boat to shore Boart, then riding an e-bike overnight to Madison, where he boarded a bus to Detroit, crossed the Canadian border, and hopped on an international flight. Authorities now communicating with Borgwardt daily, pleading for him to return home for the holidays. How did he, how did he ride an e bike overnight?

That's what I'm hung up on. Sure, you crossed into Canada, but how many miles do you get on an e bike? I mean, look, I'm not trying to say this guy's a hero, he's a scumbag by all measure, but this is an interesting story. Christmas is coming, and what better gift he could give his kids as to be there for Christmas with him.

David Borgwardt could face a state obstruction charge for faking his death. He may also have to pay for the time and money spent on the search. David. Stephanie Ramos with us here. I mean, look, the things you'll do for a lady online. You know what I'm talking about? Either way, if he comes back, they're going to immediately arrest him, but hey, why not go for it?

Um, all right, I'm going to save the Russian news for the end of the episode because it's kind of heavy stuff. So stick around for that. But we got. Pommel horse, Prince, Steven, and Nadorozik, uh, he spoke with the squeeze podcast, uh, with Taylor Lautner and Taylor Lautner about his experience of finding fame.

Has it quickly approached him that fateful day where he won a gold medal? And it was crazy. Like after the Olympics, I didn't even know what was really going on, like social media wise. Cause I got drug tested. I was doing this and that. And like, I didn't have my phone for like three hours. It wasn't until I finally got to dinner with Tess and she was like, dude, have you looked at your phone?

I'm like, I haven't taken it off airplane mode yet. You know, you know, she's like, you got to look at it And it's just blowing up. So crazy. Yeah. I mean look it's not very often that you become a name athlete from doing the pommel horse. When you grow up and say, what do you want to do? I want to be famous by doing the pommel horse.

It's like, Oh, that's really not an option. Unless your name is Steven. He was like, dude, you were trending on Twitter. And I was like, what is life? What is life? And then it just like, it is insane. Like I'll go outside sometimes and people are just be like, Hey, Like, dude, I loved watching you at the Olympics.

I mean, like, Childish Gambino walked up to me, like, a few weeks ago and was like, Are you the guy from the Olympics? And I was like, Holy crap, yeah? He was like, Thanks for giving my album a shout out. I was like, This is just unbelievable. Unbelievable. I can only imagine those things. I mean, imagine the moment where you're famous but you don't know it yet.

What a peaceful moment that must be. You know, because fame comes with a lot of, uh, B. S., you know? It comes with a lot of B. S. It comes with a lot of good things, but it comes with a lot of B. S. Some of the good things that it comes with is the ton of money that you can get, depending on what level of fame you have.

And while this might be obnoxious for some people to hear, I love hearing celebrities talk about their money. I don't know. It's interesting to me. Joe Rogan had Josh Brolin on the show and Josh Brolin asked him about his money. You know, cause Joe Rogan's got, you know, a hundred, 200 million. How'd you, what's your relationship like with money?

In what way? Just in what you, you made a certain amount of money for a long time. I don't think about it. You don't think about it? I just don't know. What I like about money is to not think about it. That's what I like. Do you like spending it? I like buying stuff. Me too. I have a nice car. Drove here. I drove a 69, uh, Camaro.

See, but that's, I like, that's different. Yeah. I like that. That's fucking different. That's character. I like fun stuff, but fun stuff. For the most part. I'm not. Interested in it like as a goal, you know, I just what I like about money is not having to think about it Hmm, my friend Brian Cowen said this to me once he said he goes real freedom is when you can go to a restaurant And not worry about anything costs.

He's like everything else is bullshit. Yes, and it really is. Everything else is bullshit When you just go to a restaurant get a nice steak, you know order a bottle of wine Have a good time and not think about the bill What I think happens is is and be grateful for it And to remind yourself to be that that that's exists to be grateful for yeah and not be taken advantage of and I think Yeah, look.

Hey, I mean, uh, he's got a good point about gratitude when you're grateful for things you get more of what it is that you're grateful for because Gratitude is sharing love for it. You have now, if anyone's out there and you have lack in your life, as in you don't have much, the thing is you always have something, right?

Your cup's always full. It's either full of abundance or it's full of lack. So what is important, I think to do is to try to. Remember all of the things that you do have in life because then you will be provided more of that. Does that make sense? I know that sounds so simple, but you got to get out of your own way, folks.

It's a Friday. Get out of your own way. Thanksgiving is around the corner, which is literally the holiday for gratitude. Just think of all of the amazing things that you have in your life and really cherish them. And you might find more good on its way. All right, more content coming your way right after this.

Well, it's been 28 years since Jean Benet passed away, died of homicide at the age of six. If you don't know the story, Netflix has a new documentary coming out November 25th, and there's exclusive interviews with Jean Benet's father. Here he is speaking to the Today Show. I'm doing this for the sake of my children and my grandchildren.

This cloud over our family's name needs to be lifted. They need to be able to go on and close this chapter and go on with their lives. It's hard on them. And, um, You know, we've been maligned and, and, uh, our family reputation's been tarnished, and I'm gonna do my best to clear that up for the sake of my children.

Yeah. And, um, and we, you know, today fighting the killer is not gonna change my life. Um, I've lost JonBenet. It's not gonna bring JonBenet back. I would like to close this chapter so we can. Be more rested at peace Yeah And of course he and probably anyone else connected to her if that at one time or another been accused of possibly Having done it and I hate watching documentaries where you don't know the ending and it's an unsolved mystery So I think I'm gonna pass on that one now in a feel good story Um, you know me, I like to, uh, recap for you, uh, my favorite Christmas movies.

And I'm telling you, I found the Christmas movie of the year, starring Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray. It's called the married gentleman. It's out on Netflix right now. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's pretty interesting. It's kind of like, I'm not going to give anything away, but it's kind of like a. Uh, lady who needs to save the family business and in doing so, um, hires, uh, or I should say creates a situation that is, uh, adult entertainment.

Now it's a PG 13 movie. There isn't really anything really risque other than maybe some shirtless men, but I'm telling you, it's a good movie. It's a green light. It's my first green light movie of the year. You know, we judge them green light. Yellow light, red light. We've had a couple yellow lights like that.

Um, hot frosty is a yellow light. Like you might like it. You might not it's it's yellow because it's definitely worth it. If you can't find anything else on, I'm telling you right now, the married gentleman is worth it. It's the number one movie on Netflix. I loved it. The second I found out exactly what the movie was about, you know, like.

About 10 minutes into the movie, you know, right when the movie started to take shape. And I was like, Oh, game on green light. I looked at Tasha. I said, green light. And we, and we, we, I, it was a blast. I mean, look, I don't want to oversell it. And then you go, Dave, it wasn't that great. No, it's a, it's a Christmas movie.

It's cheesy. It's like, you know, there's always some stupid trial and some stupid romance, but I thought it was fun. I thought I had some great moments. Great acting too. Believe it or not. Alright, so there's my green light. It's called the Merry Gentleman. Uh, we've got artificial intelligence and it is possibly going to be going to the baseball field.

Uh, Major League Baseball plans to test robot umpires at 13 ballparks during spring training. The league has experimented with the automated ball and strike system. System in the minor leagues, but are still working on the shape of the strike zone. Yeah. Wouldn't that be interesting? You know, you get called on a strike three and you just kick dirt into the, I mean, can you get thrown out if you yell at an automatic at a AI umpire, are they going to have the robot?

I mean, I have so many questions about it. Here's what a news nation had to say. Your thoughts and how the league plans to use these potentially. I like that they can test it out before making the rules set in stone. But at the end of the day, the players. The coaches, MLB, they want the calls to be right.

They want to see improvement throughout the umpires. I think there's about a third of the umpires that really do, um, do a good job behind home plate, calling balls and strikes and truly try to get better. But a majority of them right now have not. So MLB is trying to clean this up as much as they can.

Being a home plate umpire is a very, very hard job. And as a player, you want to be able to communicate and understand where the zone is and all that. And I think now it's gotten a little too, um, you know, the individual battles have really, really the egos have gotten in the way with some guys. So I think they need to find that happy medium to get the call, right.

But at the same time, you don't want to take the human element out of the game. And it's been out of the game for Uh, quite a few years now on the bases. You know, that's tough because it's like, what do you get? You can't automate everything, right? Like I understand they bring back instant replay for whether you're out at first.

Like that's like, that's a clear, you know, you don't want to miss those types of calls, uh, those replay calls. Uh, but when it comes to the home plate umpire, I, I like, I like having a zone that's a little different every game, but I mean, maybe that's just the old, old me who, uh, doesn't want, like, Change, you know, I don't know.

Do I not like change? Maybe I'm the old guy at the, you know, who says, Oh, back in my day, humans used to call balls and strikes. You know what I mean? Well, speaking of the sporting world, there's been a warning issued by the NFL after a string of home invasions. We showed the home invasions of Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes.

I mean, it makes sense, right? That, uh, these, uh, that you'd be subject. to a break in and entering because, uh, I mean, everyone knows you're out playing the game. All your agents and family are probably out watching the game and you're super wealthy. The new warning for its players after break ins at players homes in four states now, including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey.

The list is growing. Is this all coordinated? Here's our senior investigative correspondent, Aaron Kuturski, and what he's learned tonight. After a rash of recent burglaries targeting the homes of sports superstars like Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelsey, tonight the NFL is warning players to protect themselves.

Kelsey again! This memo obtained by ABC News says the burglars are organized and skilled and appear to exploit team schedules and target athletes homes on game days. This is going to be for all of the Super Bowl trophies. Alright, so yeah, I mean, you know, you're going to have I mean, these, these, uh, and these, uh, these are a hundred millionaire athletes.

So, uh, yeah, I mean, but you would think they would already have good security. Right. I mean, what do I know? Uh, and I'm sure they do to an extent, but, uh, you know, uh, you know, there's still probably smashing grabs and things like that. All right. So. Let's go to Brianna Chickenfry. We've covered her for the last few weeks.

Breaks up with Zach Bryan and, uh, he, of course, country musician. She claims he was emotionally abusive. And now she talks about, uh, FaceTiming his ex wife and swapping notes. FaceTimed with Rose for a couple hours, actually. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that. Right? I f ing love her. She, I've never felt more seen and validated in my life.

Same with her. Oh my gosh. Imagine Bridget hit a little, uh, screen share play to us, Dave, while that was going on. Just a little screen share play. That's between me and Rose. You know, I mean, how validating must it be to have an issue with someone and then you find out that you aren't alone and that other people had a similar issue.

I know I've had that when I've had spats with friends or things going on, you find out that they're the problem and not you. It's kind of, it's kind of validating. So I hope she feels very freeing because of that. All right. Take care, everybody. Well, I'm going to cover all of this crazy Russian stuff.

Ominous new escalations in the war in, in Ukraine. I'll have that story for you next. It's pretty crazy times out there. And I don't mean to be super heavy on a Friday, but I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the geopolitical world we live in Russia launched and launched a new experimental ballistic missile with multiple warheads.

Here's the story. escalation in the war in Ukraine. For the first time, Vladimir Putin firing an intermediate range missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons into Ukraine. Authorities say it did not have them, but it was destructive. And what the U. S. is now saying about this tonight, Ian Pannell from inside Ukraine, again tonight.

Tonight, in a defiant warning to the world, Russia carrying out an unprecedented attack with an intermediate range ballistic missile fired against Ukraine. Those ominous streaks of light falling from the night sky over the eastern city of Dnipro targeting a military industrial complex. A U. S. official confirming that new missile containing multiple warheads capable of striking several targets at the same time.

This was a new, um, type of lethal capability that was employed on the battlefield. But Vladimir Putin tonight saying the attack was a response to strikes by Ukraine using American and British long range missiles against Russia. The latest attack wounding a senior North Korean general. The U. S. says it was alerted by Russia shortly before today's launch.

Military analysts telling ABC News each one of those streaks of light could have been something even far more dangerous. Putin wanted the world to see these incoming flashes of light, these individual warheads that could have been armed with nuclear weapons. Clearly, this is a nuclear threat to the U. S.

and its European allies. Now, look. Uh, I don't, I don't know if I've got a solid opinion on this. You know, you've got people saying, Oh, Biden's leading us into world war three. I have no idea what you could have done to stop this. I mean, this war has been going on for over a year. What people need to remember is Russia invaded Ukraine.

They've defended themselves with honor. And it's like, if, if Russia invades Ukraine, then. Do you think they're going to stop there? So it's, it's been what I like to call a very large dick measuring contest between Putin and the rest of the world. Uh, here's another thought of what, I mean, other countries are actually issuing war survival guides.

In a worrying sign of the times, European nations are sending pamphlets to their citizens on how to prepare for and survive a crisis or conflict. Sweden has issued its 10 million citizens with a new survival guide that opens with this warning. We live in uncertainty. At certain times, armed conflicts are currently being waged in our corner of the world.

The focus is on how to survive during wartime, but the brochure also identifies extreme weather events, disease, and technology outages. I mean, imagine if, you know, the internet or some sort of cyber attack, you know, everything's so digital right now. It's just, uh, you know, how, how chaotic and we, and in our country, we're already divided because, um, you know, I think, I think foreign adversaries have placed their foot on the scale of disinformation, misinformation, trying to get us to all hate each other.

I mean, the one thing we should all agree on is that we don't want to live in a world that's a world war three. Absolutely not. Well, uh, I'll end on this clip here. Another clip from ABC news about, um, uh, you know, the, about this exact missile that was fired. I think is most important here is that it's not a weapon that's ever been used on a conventional battlefield, Lindsay.

So it's something that you would only use in a nuclear war. Putin was obviously trying to send a message with this nuclear capable missile, but should we still be confident that he won't use the real thing? I don't think so. Lindsay, this is, this is pretty spooky. And why I think it's particularly dangerous is he's run out of bluffs.

He had this and he demonstrated a nuclear capable missile with multiple independently targeted warheads that didn't have nukes on them, but could have. So what do you do next to bluff? Could it be you demonstrate a small nuclear weapon somewhere in Ukraine to say, I'm done bluffing and here's a nuclear weapon.

Uh, the Pentagon has to be concerned. The White House has to be concerned because again, he is out of ways to bluff. And why is the Pentagon pushing back on whether it was in fact an ICBM? Uh, I think they were trying to just be specific on what it was because if it was an ICBM, that's intercontinental, which means it could have gotten to the U S.

This was, did not have that kind of range. It was, it was either an intermediate range or a medium range. So. It was something that could range all of Europe, but it wouldn't get to the United States. And so the Pentagon perhaps wanted to assure the American people that this was not something that could reach the United States.

All right. So, I mean, I guess that's good, but look, I mean, what the, what the hell is Russia doing now? This information I'm sharing is from the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine. So I don't know if these numbers are accurate, but as of a few weeks ago, Russian combat losses amounted to 696, 000 troops.

What is this all for? I mean, we're so like fortunate to be on the other side of the world with this conflict, but with the holidays approaching, it just really makes you think like, again, there's, there's, there's other wars going on in the, in the world. And it's just like, what is this for? And I just, I just wish we could live in a world where we all realize that.

You know, we've got these boundaries that may divide us, but we're all, you know, uh, red blooded, uh, humans, you know, I don't know. I, I know, I know, I know I'm the pacifist. I, I just, I live in a friendly world. I know it's, uh, I know it's not always that way, but, um, Boy, wouldn't it be nice if, um, if we could find a way to get out of this thing without any more casualties.

All right. Well, actually, look, I can't end on that. That's just a sad story, but it's, I mean, come on, I ha I got to talk about this. You know, it's a pretty big deal. Let's give you a positive story. This is from billboards, tick tock. It's the impact Miley Cyrus had on this generation of pop stars. Have a listen.

Recently, an article in Rolling Stone talked about how you and particularly your music from Hannah Montana has influenced the next generation of huge pop stars like Sabrina Carpenter, Chapel Roan, Olivia Rodrigo. How does hearing that make you feel, knowing that these girls that are having so much success now grew up with you?

At the time, you never think about that. In the future, someone replicating what you do, you're just doing it because it's honest in the moment. And so now to see that impacting culture is something that I didn't know that I wanted, but I guess. Pretty cool. I guess I do. Yeah. I have. You know, my own artists that have created kind of who I am, like a Stevie Nicks or Dolly Parton or Tina Turner.

Even though they kind of look up to me the way that I've looked up to these other women, it's really important that they do it their own way because that's what my career has represented above all else is that, Even though I have always looked to these influences, I've always done it my own way. You know, do you remember Miley Cyrus?

People used to like, she was kind of smeared cause she was, you know, a child actor and she was kind of like a, you know, troubled, you know, youth or whatever, but she's really put together such a great career. All right. Well, before we wrap it up, I did, I did want to give one and I'm sorry, I'm sorry to bring too much.

bring this back up. But I wanted to give one note here when I said 696, 000 troops, uh, as losses, uh, that was actually 500, 000 of those or injured or missing. So 180, 000 Russian troops have been killed and 500, 000 of those injured and missing. And again, that's all because their leader decided that they wanted to take this land back.

Uh, wild stuff. All right, folks. Well, I'm going to be live this morning around the 10 a. m. hour central standard time. Check my YouTube for details. That'll be a public live stream covering all of the week's news. So if you want to come hang out with me on that, uh, you're more than welcome. Otherwise we'll catch you this afternoon.

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11-21-24 Afternoon Rush - BREAKING NEWS - Matt Gaetz Steps Down & Jussie Smollett Case Overturned! Plus The Sun Doubles Down On Bachelor Maria & Pete Davidson Story!

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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, folks. It's Thursday, uh, November 21st, 2024, and I've got all your pop culture entertainment news in one place, and it's a wild one. I know I always say that, but So much to get into huge day today.

Jesse Smollett's conviction overturned in the Supreme court in a surprising decision. Plus breaking news, Matt Gates nominated to be the U S attorney general has removed himself from consideration. This is wild. I'll get into that story. And we've got a banana duct tape to a wall selling for 6 million.

Why? I don't know. And an update on the Staten Island Bakery that Whippy Goldberg called out. They are not going quietly into the night. And also the Sun Magazine smut rag doubling down on their Bachelor Maria and Pete Davidson story. Plus I've got billionaire beef happening between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and I am primed to share that tea.

I'll have that for you now. All those stories and so much more coming up next on The Rush. All right, let's start with the Jussie Smollett story. This is crazy. In Illinois, Supreme Court overturned the conviction. If you don't remember, it was like he claimed that there was a hate crime against him, and he had a noose around his neck when he called the cops, and then it came out that the guys that, uh, perpetuated the hate crime were actually paid by him.

I don't understand how this could be overturned. He was sentenced to 30 months probation with the first 150 days to be served in Cooke County jail. He made an emotional and defiant exit as the bailiff took him out of the court following his conviction. So this Illinois Supreme Court ruling said, today we resolve a question about the state's responsibility.

To honor the agreements it makes with defendants. The court said simply the state is bound by the agreement. So it doesn't necessarily mean he was found innocent. It sounds it just kind of, because the initial, his case was initially, I don't know if it was dismissed or if it was not prosecuted, but there was some shady business going on.

So then with the public outcry, they actually investigated it. And I guess the Supreme court saying you can't do that. Um, uh, the lawyer said that. Uh, the lawyer for Jussie said the case was swayed by popular opinion, but prosecutions should be based on facts. The public wanted Jussie convicted and he was not interested in reasonable doubts.

His lawyer notes celebs and other well known people face an uphill battle in court nowadays. Well, I don't know if that's true. I mean, uh, again, the case goes all the way back to January, 2019, when Jussie initially claimed he'd been the victim of a hate crime. Two men shouted, this is maggot country, and aren't you that f word, n word from Empire, as they put a rope around his neck and threw a liquid on him, which he believed to be bleach.

Two men turned out to be brothers, Abim Bola and Ola, who were friends with Jussie. They told police Jussie had paid them to stage the whole attack. The reversal of Jussie's conviction is reminiscent of Bill Cosby's case. He was actually doing time in prison when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed his conviction, citing a deal prosecutors had struck to not prosecute him in exchange for him sitting for a deposition in the Andrea Constand case.

So here's what, uh, Jussie's lawyer had to say with the initial surprise reaction. Give us your reaction to a pretty stunning reversal of fortune for Jussie Smollett. It's it's it's you know, I I didn't see I don't see it as a surprise. Obviously. We're ecstatic. We're happy Um, but really my position is it shouldn't have gone this far This prosecution was not a prosecution.

It was a persecution and prosecutions ought to be based on fact Not on vindictiveness. And that's what this seemed like. And that's has no place in our American jurisprudence. And so I'm very happy. One thing I want to really emphasize here is this was not a divided court. This was a unanimous decision by our Supreme court.

And that speaks a lot as to what I'm saying now. No, but it seems to me as though the court wasn't ruling on whether or not Jesse was guilty. It was whether or not he already had an agreement with the prosecutors. This is what I hate. And again, correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is what I hate about lawyers and the legal system.

They'll make it seem like, Oh, Jesse won. Sure. It looks like he won on some sort of technicality, but, uh, you know, they're not prosecuting or at least talking about the actual issue at hand. Wild stuff. All right. Artificial intelligence is coming for Jesus. That's right. The Father, the Son, and the automated spirit, says TMZ.

A church swaps priest for new media messiah. One church in Switzerland is taking religion into the modern age, introducing an AI hologram of Jesus, who is doling out advice to parishioners. Theologian Marco Schmidt. Who works for the church told TMZ. The experience is similar to that of a Catholic confession with churchgoers stepping into a confessional booth at St.

Peter's Chapel in Lucerne for a private moment behind a closed door. However, rather than a priest greeting them from a screen, the face of ai, Jesus pops up looking exactly as you'd expect with a young face, long black hair, and a beard. AI Jesus has already left an impact. This is, this is so dystopian that I'm talking about AI Jesus.

Uh, I don't, you know, can you just imagine him glitching and you're like, Oh my gosh, the Holy Spirit. Uh, what happens if Jesus glitches? Well, turn him off and turn it back on. I mean, is this blasphemy? God created us in his image. So anything we create was because of God, right? I don't know. I don't know, folks.

Uh, I've got a Christmas movie update, uh, hot frosty. Have you guys seen this on Netflix? Horning up the holidays for ladies during a winter dry spell. Netflix is new holiday rom com. Hot frosty is melting the ice in the bedroom for some couples this winter. According to a renowned sex therapist, Dr. Laura Berman.

Oh boy. This is just, I mean, have you seen this? So it's a. Sexy movie, I guess it because it's, I'll tell you the premise and I'm not going to give anything away. It's a yellow light for me here at the rush hour. We have a red light, yellow light, green light system. It's not a red light, which means I do think you might like it, but it's not exactly a great movie, but, but, uh, a lady finds a snowman who's sexy.

And then he. The snowman turns into a real person, but he's like still a snowman. So he's ice cold. So he always has his shirt off. I mean, it is blatant exploitation. I'm not against it, but it is what it is. Here's what Dr. Laura Berman had to say about, um, I guess how it's horning up. The lady is on Netflix and some studies that have shown that women who read romance novels, they haven't translated that to watching romantic movies, but it's basically the same.

Um, have an increase in sexual desire. So, if you're wanting her to get more in the mood, maybe watch a movie like this with her, and it might stimulate a little action afterwards. Well, I think we mostly see women being portrayed in risqué ways, um, and objectified, so to speak. We don't see hot guys being objectified that often.

Often in service to women's arousal. Um, and it's interesting to me because I talked to so many women and it's like, mine too, we're all a sucker for Hallmark movies, but it's like this well known secret that nobody talks about, but the net, you know, the streaming services definitely know. So I think it's a great idea to combine like that Hallmark movie model that women love and slide in there a little male.

Sexy objectification. Geez. I mean, call it out. Why don't you? All right. Uh, so look, here's my thoughts on the movie. Is it good? I mean, depending on what kind of Christmas movie you want, it's definitely not meant for like your kids to watch, but it's not like super rated. Are I have to say about the male lead?

He was in Schitt's Creek. He's a good, good actor. I like him, but his body fat percentage is zero. So as I'm watching this movie, I'm all I could think about was, is How miserable he must have been because he couldn't have anything but a pistachio and a glass of water every day. I mean, I'm talking 0 percent body fat to the point where I think he was too skinny.

I think he, you know, like, I think like there's like a surfer body type that's sexy. And again, Who am I to tell you what the sexy male body type is, but this guy was so skinny. I mean, you could see his like veins pulsating during every take. I mean, I don't know. Hey, maybe you guys, maybe you ladies like that.

What do I know? Clearly not enough. All right. An update on the Staten Island case. You guys might remember that whoopie Goldberg claimed that there was a bakery that was, uh, Uh, I guess persecuting her unwilling to do business with her because of her political affiliations. Well, that bakery came out and said, you're absolutely wrong.

Our boiler was down and now rep Nicole Malia Malia Takis, very Greek. If you ask me, is standing by a Holterman's bakery a week after whoopies accusations that the Staten Island institution is snubbed, snubbed her according to our politics. And if you don't know, out of the five boroughs in New York, you got Queens.

Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, and Staten Island. Out of the five boroughs, Staten Island is like its own thing. It's like a, it's like a red borough, which again, no, no offense to it. Uh, but like they have to do business with the rest of New York, which I'm sure is very blue. Here's what the, their representative had to say.

So which is the ones that Whoopi came to, that she actually wanted? These are the ones? So we would like, we would like, you know, yesterday Whoopi Goldberg doubled down and, uh, said once again that she was denied these baked goods because of her politics. Uh, I think she should apologize. This is a small business, and somebody going on national TV like that could break a business.

And this has been an institution on Staten Island for 146 years. So all we ask is for an apology, um, and we hope everyone enjoys the snacks. And when you stop in Staten Island, make sure Did y'all Did you send any over to the view? No. No? No. We brought them here. Okay. We brought one to the speaker personally.

Of course, you can hear the, the, the police cars in the background. That's so Staten Island. Did you send any to Whoopi? No, we're here. Uh, so yeah, look, I mean. If Whoopi doesn't have proof that they did deny her because of her political idea, uh, affiliations, then she should apologize. But then again, to be quite fair, Whoopi Goldberg never said the name of the bakery.

You know what I mean? So the bakery is clearly capitalizing on this, but I don't blame them. All right. More content coming your way right after this. All right, we have some serious stories to get to, but first, let's do something stupid. And this is the duct tape banana that just sold at auction. What the heck is going on at the Sotheby's auction house, just so I can understand it because I don't get it.

An artist named Maurizio Catalan went to a fruit stand on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and bought a dull banana for 35 cents. That's wild. Duct taped it to the wall of the Sotheby's auction house, and then they started the bidding on this work of art. A half dozen people or more bid and the final price was 6.

2 million. How do they explain that, Tony? So the guy, the guy who bought it is a crypto rich guy named Justin Sun, runs a company called Tron. In a statement, he says that the artwork quote, represents the cultural phenomena that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and cryptocurrency. If I didn't know better, I would think that you're punking us.

I'm not punking you. I'm not punking you. And this is a kind of a growing phenomenon. The art was initially displayed in Miami at Art Basel a few years ago. Oh yeah, I remember that. And when the banana rots, what happens? So there's instructions for replacing it. By the way, uh, the destiny of this particular banana from the Upper East Side fruit stand for 35 cents, the buyer, Justin Sun says, in the coming days, quote, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience.

honoring its place in art history and popular culture. Some people have too much money. Yeah, this is why we need to tax the billionaires, right? This is what we talk about when we talk about a marginal tax. Uh, my thought, I have several thoughts. A, I've got a jar of peanut butter. I will sell him for a million dollars, which will go great with that banana.

Uh, and I'll give, I'll throw in the bread for free. We'll do a banana and peanut butter sandwich. I'll toast it for you. I'll drizzle some honey on for free. But the peanut butter is a million dollars. And B, I think this is some form of money laundering, right? You, it's like buying artwork. Um, you know, like if you bought a painting, the paintings worth 10 million, you can walk that painting across borders, but you can't just bring 10 million in and out of a country.

I don't, I don't exactly know what the scam is here, but there's something scammy happening, but yeah, bro, join the patron patron. com slash Dave Neal. I've got a banana tier, which is a million dollars a month. If you would like to join. Um, I will eat bananas every day in your honor. Um, all right, well, let's go to some others.

We've got a lot to stories here. Uh, speaking of, uh, people that are worth too much money, Elon Musk is throwing billionaire shade at Jeff Bezos. Um, so Elon Musk, um, I guess. Called out Jeff Bezos because he said privately, uh, Jeff Bezos said, just learn tonight at, Oh, he said, just learn tonight at Mar a Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that Donald Trump would lose for sure.

So they should sell all their Tesla and space X stock. Um, and then of course, in response to that, yeah, Jeff Bezos posted his own tweet saying, nope, 100 percent not true. Uh, okay. You know what I mean? Can we get that billionaire death match boxing match going? So, you know, already either way, look, look, do these.

Guys do a lot of good. Yes. But do we have a broken tax system that leads them to be worth that much money? Absolutely. There's someone like Jeff Bezos. I saw this clip where he was like walking through his factory and one of his guys like, like stopped him to talk for 20 seconds. And the guy was like, Hey, you know, it's so nice to, you know, work for you.

I've really enjoyed the experience. And they did the math on how much Jeff Bezos and that guy made during that interaction. The guy made like A dollar, you know, or like 40 cents, you know what I mean? He made like 40 cents and Jeff Bezos made like 8, 000. So it just goes to show the, the disparity between the sort of upper class CEO class, the ownership class, uh, in the billionaire class, that top, top 0.

1%. You know, there's like, what, what does Bernie say? There's like three guys. In our country for people in our country that are worth more than the bottom 50%. That's a crazy world we live in. That's an absolutely crazy world we live in. Well, speaking of crazy, we have several crazy stories to get to, uh, Matt Gates was nominated as attorney general, which is a huge position.

And of course there was an ethics report coming out on Friday that was supposed to reveal, uh, the Venmo payments, uh, that he made between. Uh, what appears to be dozens of women for sex, some of which he flew into New York, which is called sex trafficking, and one or two of which were underage. So, uh, he was set to, I guess, be cross examined, uh, in his nomination.

They said it was going to be like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, but on steroids. Well, now it's reporting that this just happened. He decided to step down and rescind, uh, his nomination. This is just, uh, dropped like a bomb here on Capitol Hill, the idea that he has now decided to, uh, withdraw from consideration as the next Attorney General.

In fact, every single senator, uh, that I've seen as I've walked from where I was in the Russell office building to where I am here at Will Rogers, not a single one of them, uh, seemed to be aware of the information. They were finding out, uh, about it just like the rest of us, uh, through, uh, Matt Gaife's ex feed.

So this is not something that was necessarily communicated to the rank and file senators that were. We're gonna be charged with the confirmation. Um, and, and it is just a, a complete 180 in terms of the language and the posture that we had seen from Gates and from Republican senators about the pursuit of this nomination.

We saw, uh, the president elect Donald Trump just a couple days ago when he was, uh, in Texas saying, uh, that he was still committed to his nomination and did not want to see, uh, gates, uh, removed from that position and, and gates. Even last night after he left a day's worth of meetings, he was here all day long, seemed upbeat and positive about the prospect that he had to become the next attorney general, despite the headwinds that he was facing.

And despite the real concern that many of these Republicans were expressing privately. Here's my thought. My thought is that the ethics report was leaked. He saw how damning it was and said, you know what, let's, I don't need this. That that's my thought. I'm not really sure exactly what happened. All right.

Let's, uh, let's match that with some more crazy. This in the pop culture world, uh, Pete Davidson leaves mental health facility as inner circle pressures Maria Georges to publicly deny their fling. This was reported by the U S sun. This is the same senior investigations and exclusives reporter named Jessica Finn.

The comedian has been sober for four months. Uh, multiple sources exclusively told the U. S. Sun that Pete's inner circle pleaded with bachelor alum Maria to shut down dating rumors and also insists he never went to rehab. Again, that's probably because that's true. Um, But the report continues. Pete has been sober for four months and everyone around him is really proud of him.

So when it came out that he was in treatment and dating Maria, they went into protective mode and an Instagram story earlier this week, Maria wrote, never dated Pete. She followed up in a second Instagram story saying he's been sober. Can't believe this stuff. It's very insulting to his recovery. The insider explained that asking the bachelor star to put out that statement was a well intended misstep.

They also claim that Pete is a. Dated Maria on a very limited basis. So when they were linked as a couple, Pete's loved ones were concerned and jumped in to protect him. Pete is concerned about the privacy of different people he's involved with. What the hell is this story? Um, so they're doubling down that the story's real.

Um, and what is a limited basis even mean? What do they constitute as dating? Did they go get? coffee together. I have no idea. I'm siding with the privacy of Pete and Maria and saying this is absolutely ridiculous. They would double down on this story. Um, all right, well, let's go to some Taylor Swift news.

Why don't we do that? Actually, I'd say what I got a quick, fun Taylor Swift story. We'll get to that after the break. Well, Rob Riggle, one of my favorite character actors and veteran, uh, has his first episode of his new podcast out Riggle's pick, uh, or of the season. And he interviewed Travis Kelsey, pretty big get, and of course he says, Hey, I don't care.

I get, I expect, I respect your privacy, but I need to ask about Taylor. Hey, get in line. I respect your privacy, but at the same time, I've got, I've got a stack of letters here from Swifty Nation. Uh, yeah. Oh, wow. They're all written out. Nice. That's a strong nation, too, by the way. That's one of the strongest I've ever ran into.

It's amazing. And it's, it's been so fun to watch, uh, uh, watch her attend football games and stuff because she's bringing a lot of fans to the game. But here's a, a Swifty says, you know, Swifty for life. Now that's I couldn't come up with anything different for myself. Swiftie4Live asks, uh, who do you think you are?

I'm not even kidding. Don't even answer that. Okay? There's, you know, there's actually there's just pages of that. They all say who do you think you are. A lot of that and also just things like how do you play football? What does a tight end do? Just stupid, yeah. Your dreams aren't bigger than you, then there's a problem with your dreams.

Yay! Don't get caught up in, in where you're at in life. You got to dream big out of here. I couldn't agree more. I, yes. Why dream small? That's the dumbest thing on earth. Why dream small? And I wish they dreamt of a better bit to run, but Hey, you know what I mean? You can miss a hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

Right. And speaking of taking shots, Elona on dancing with the stars, rugby Olympian, uh, of course, rumored to possibly be in the running as the next bachelorette also says she wants to go on amazing race with her partner, Alan. Have a listen. Down to do some other type of reality show or a show about rugby you and Alan just Do you know anyone at amazing racing you put Alan and I on that?

We want to do amazing We're not convinced. We'll work out well together. No put us on amazing race. We're going to win I don't even know what we're doing, but we're gonna win it. He can drive stick Um, because I can't if that's a big thing you need to be able to do that because in countries, you know, I I will Oh, my dad's a mechanic He made me hold a flashlight my whole childhood because I can't, you wouldn't let me do anything, but I held that flashlight.

I feel like I'm, how are you with heights? I'm good with heights. Okay. Listen, I'm, I'm also good with heights, so boom. I am an amazing race winner. Okay. And I haven't even done it yet. All right. So there it is. He can drive stick and he can hold a flashlight. I mean, if you just. Cut me a check for a million bucks already.

All right. You know, you, you know, me, we're a big Lindsay Lohan fan club. She's out doing the late night circuit in here. She actually talks about the first, the only, the last time she auditioned, which was for the parent trap, she played twins. She also spoke about how dumb some people she worked with were.

I mean, the first movie I auditioned for was the parent trap and I didn't, I haven't auditioned since that. Is it true that a Disney executive asked you at the premiere of that movie if your sister was there? Yes. Michael Eisner. Michael Eisner asked you that? Where's your twin? And I was like, and I was so young, I don't even know how I thought to say this, but I'll never forget what I said.

I said, well you should have paid me double because I don't have one. Actually, the truth is, as far as I know in the Screen Actors Guild, that you do get paid for every character you play. Now, again, scale when you're getting paid is like 900 bucks a day. When she was, uh, you know, in Parent Trap years ago, it was probably half that.

And so I'm sure she was getting paid more than the scale. So technically, she probably was getting paid for both characters. Um, alright, well, I mean, just wild, wild. I mean, what a day. All these breaking stars. I always say it like we got some wild stuff, but isn't this crazy? What's going on out there? And again, I don't even think this is heavily political.

It's pop culture. I mean, the Matt Gaetz story is pop culture. Jussie Smollett is pop culture. But here's a story I think we can all get on. It involves the airline industry because look, I'm pre check. I know humblebrag. You do the interview and they approve you so that you can go through the security without taking your belt off and not losing your pride.

Yeah. And every single time I go through pre check, there's someone in front of me, who's not pre check that tries to sneak in that line. And they always kick you out. And it's like, dude, why'd you feel like you could have done this? This ain't for you. And the same thing happens, uh, when you're boarding airplanes, you know, there's like, if you're, uh, uh, you know, group C, but you try to sneak into group B, they usually don't do anything about it, but now it looks like a new solution is coming for this problem, a new solution to a very old familiar problem, crowding at the gate when it's time to board a plane.

This is coming from American Airlines, and essentially it's going to call people out if they attempt to board the plane before it is their turn. American uses group numbers to board, but still sees a crowd of people that sort of rush the door when they start the boarding process. It's irks flyers. Some have dubbed it irks.

Gate lice, even though airlines hate that term. So I'm saying it. They're not. They acknowledge that gate crowding is a pain point. American thinks it's found a solution. And after about a month of testing. They're ready to take it national this week. That is the sound of someone trying to board when it's not their turn.

When I say group A, then you can come up, okay? American Airlines has been testing a new boarding system in Tucson and two other airports. Those flyers tried to board just a little early and are asked to wait until their boarding group is called. American will now add 100 airports ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

With more in the coming months. I look, I like this. I like, uh, gentle, I like gently sort of urging people to not do something they're not supposed to do. And I love, I love watching the reaction of people when they like realized they've been caught and they're like, well, I didn't, Oh, whoops. Sorry. I thought it said, Hey, but it really says D whoops, you know?

And it's like, all right, your shit stinks. Just like the rest of us get the, get in the back of the line. You're on a spirit airlines flight. There's bullets flying in the air. You know what I mean? You don't, you're no better than us. All right. Well, uh, what a weird way to end. We, we try to jam pack as much content as we can into the day.

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11-21-24 Morning Rush - Dancing With The Stars Artem & Nikki Finalize Divorce & Bachelor Lawyer Calls Me Out (Again) I Correct Him (Again)

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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 Thursday, baby, November 21st, 2024 and I got all of your pop culture news in one place. We're going to open with Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev settling their divorce at a court.

We'll I love that story for you. And in other dancing with the stars news, we've got the pommel horse, Prince Steven, the door is sick. Neterozic, whatever, explains what happened when his glasses fell off on his semi finale dance. And also a feel good story on the gridiron as a school's football team received a surprise donation.

By a famous quarterback. Plus Gronkowski weighs in on the disastrous Jets season as coach and general manager have now been fired. And speaking of getting fired, the rocks new Christmas movie bombs at the box office in Elton John's new play bombs on Broadway, a lot of bombs happening out there. And it's not even Thanksgiving yet.

We got all these stories and more coming up next on the brush. Well, it looks like the messy divorce between Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev, a former Dancing with the Stars dancer, has been finalized. Here's TMZ reporting the story. Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev have settled their divorce. Hey there, it's Charli now from TMZ.

So we've obtained legal docs which reveal Artem and Nikki went to mediation earlier this month and figured out a divorce settlement. Our sources tell us that Artem and Nikki agreed to quickly settle their divorce because they both want to move on, because it was getting very expensive to pay lawyers.

Plus the whole process was becoming emotionally draining. We're told Artem and Nikki aren't getting along these days, but they are cooperating with one another and their relationship is very much a work in progress. The terms of the settlement aren't clear, but as we first reported, a judge already ordered Artem and Nikki to share custody of their four year old son, Mateo.

We broke the story. Nicky filed for divorce from Artem in the wake of his domestic violence arrest back in August, though prosecutors ultimately decided not to file criminal charges against him. Artem and Nicky also had restraining orders against each other, but the documents show they agreed to dismiss those restraining orders as well.

The settlement comes about two weeks before. For their divorce trial was set to begin. And our sources say the exes wanted to get it over with and move on with their lives without each other for more entertainment news. Well, it looks like cooler heads have prevailed, at least to the extent that the baby's not going to go broke because they were fighting.

You know, this is the saddest part, right? Lawyers always win. We love lawyers when they're on our side, but in the world of divorces, they always win, and bachelorette would have loved to go to mediation when you're in mediation, you're not in the courtroom. So not everything's public, right? You can sit down with your ex and you can hammer things out with a mediator.

And it seems like that's exactly what went down. So I guess this is a good thing that they're both moving on. Well, we covered jelly roll yesterday. He's dropped over a hundred pounds in the last year, and he wants to be open and honest about his weight loss journey. Uh, entertainment tonight caught up with him.

Here's what he had to say. This is your moment, Jelle. You deserve this. Man, it is. Sitting here talking to you last year, coming back a year later, being 100 pounds lighter on the carpet alone, if that was the only thing I did in that year, it would be like, wow. But then think about the year I've had, man.

You've been so open about your health and wellness journey. You look incredible. You've lost, what, over 100 pounds? Yes, ma'am. I just want to feel good. I want to feel normal. I've been morbidly obese my entire life. I want to feel normal. It's just something I want to do. And I'm pretty committed to it. I can't wait to come back next year and then look back.

And I'm also glad I'm being so honest about it. Cause I want the world to see it, man. I don't want to, I'm not hiding it. I didn't go try to do it in the dark. You know what I mean? I'm, I'm just doing it right here in front of everybody. I want to continue to show what God can do if you allow him to work.

Amazing. Look, I've been a fan of Jelly Roll ever since I heard his viral song, Save Me, uh, unbelievable. So he posts this song, I get goosebumps thinking about it. He posts this song four years ago, let's play it in the background. And this song, in the comment section, he says, I know this is a little different for me, but I'm wondering if this should make the album or not.

Y'all let me know. That comment got 111,000 up votes. The song has 276 million views. Somebody save Me, me

So Long Live this song has resonated with so many people that they actually see a jelly roll. show as like going to church and being saved themselves. And why is that? Well, it's because he's been able to talk about his addictions, his time in and out of prison and all of his issues. He wears his heart on his sleeve unapologetically.

He made it out alive. And not only has he blown up in the indie circuit, he's now a full blown star. I feel like it's all that I need Something inside of me's broken I hold on to anything that sets me free I'm all scars Baby, don't waste your time So he wears his heart on his sleeve But he also uses that energy of his past and where he's been.

He uses it as motivation to drive him forward. I actually saw a reel of his recently where he shared that some advice. I think his grandfather gave him is that you should own property. It's the one thing that, uh, is finite on this earth and you should own a plot of it. And he ended up saying how proud he was in Tennessee to buy.

I don't know what it was like 200 acres or a thousand, whatever it was. It was a massive property and he's just, he's just sharing these blessings he's getting in life. And he's letting people go along for the ride. I absolutely can't state this enough. I love seeing stuff like that. So a big fan of jelly roll over here.

Well, we love underdogs. We love champions. We love hearing people's success stories. And of course, Steven, uh, Neterozic, uh, pommel horse Prince, the bronze medal winner From this past year of the Olympics in Paris, he's been competing on dancing with the stars. Let's be honest. He's not a great dancer. He's never danced before, kind of nerdy, wears glasses, can barely see, has no depth percent perception.

Uh, yet he's managed to, you know, uh, make it this far and we love him. He's got great energy and here's what he and his partner, Riley Arnold had to say about their dance. It looked as though her elbow might've knocked his glasses off mid dance. Let's have a listen. All season, we have not worn Steven has not worn his glasses all season.

And that was kind of like our plan throughout because, you know, like, when we do dance with his glasses, sometimes I bump them. And there's always that risk that they fly off during like a trick or something. Yes, which is just not ideal for our situation. So, we had taken them off. But for this tango, I was like, I want him to wear his glasses.

Like, glasses are Steven. That is who he is. End to end. It was kind of like he took them off in the cha cha and it was a whole moment of him putting on his glasses And it being like his story. Okay, so that was like my plan with the tango We have practiced all rehearsals with his glasses on and this has like literally never happened Yes, like he has never taken off his glasses and practiced the tango At all in rehearsal no issues at all and no issues so we're dancing Guys we have But obviously we are in crunch time already because you know, we did the cha cha Scores happen and we were like pressure's high.

We have to walk step it up. Yeah, we gotta step it up Okay. Halfway through the dance. All of a sudden I feel Stephen, he's very unstable. And I'm just like, what's happening? He didn't mess up, he's doing all his footwork, but something was just so unstable. And I was like, something's wrong. I was like, did he get hurt?

Like, I'm just so confused. I turn around look at his face literally like this So he's showing his glasses. They were they looked like a comedically off they were and again, he can't fix him He's in his hold and he does his thing either way. I love I love this couple. I love what he's doing Um, i've never i've never known the name of a male gymnast It's not something that you typically know if unless you follow male gymnastics But from the second I saw steven, uh, neda razik.

I I knew I was a fan of his Very unique set of pommel horse skills. All right. Well, I'm going to go into a feel good story here. We need some more feel good news out here. It's a wild time. I got a feel good football story coming for you next. Well, Baker Mayfield donated equipment to a high school football team because their season was in jeopardy.

And not only did he donate the equipment, but then he found out that they won the state title. Have a listen to this. You guys donated 17, 900 to for equipment. They went one and eight last year, and during the bye week, they went 10 and three, won the state championship. How cool was that to, to see that, to hear that news?

And they said that every week, you know, they would have these watch parties where they would, they would team bond over watching you play. They said you played a big part in their season. Um, I mean that it's, I got chills thinking about it. It's, it's just a cool story. Um, like I said, just. Got an unbelievable platform to be able to give back and, uh, obviously they were in a predicament of probably not having a season for not just for the varsity, the JV, they didn't have enough equipment.

So just being able to give back and then seeing that turnaround and it's, um, all we did was get some helmets. They did the rest, they turned it around, they believed in it. And that's, that's what football is all about. It's teaches you life lessons, how to handle adversity, how to deal with it and push forward.

So, uh, yeah, congrats to them. It's pretty special. It reminds me of a hockey team I know of up in Minnesota that, uh, was playing for a district that had little funding. And then they actually got some donations from a man named Mr. Duxworth. And with the help of Emilio Estevez, they became the mighty ducks, the flying V.

I mean, this is the football version of the mighty ducks. All it is. And you know what? It's actually a good point. Sometimes you just need good swag. To play well. You know, they always say like dress for the job you want, not the job you have, but there really is something to it. You know, you get a nice Jersey on for me with standup.

I put on new shoes. Oh, I'm feeling good out there. Well, no nice Jersey or new shoes was going to save the jets this season. Uh, after a few games, the jets coach was fired. Some think that was Aaron Rogers doing, uh, but then the general manager was fired too. Here's what Gronk had to say. There's drama, of course, going on.

He's, it's never a dull moment for Devante Adams. Uh, he gets there. He was there, he's been there for 35 days. A coach gets fired mid trade. Now we have, the GM is fired on Tuesday. They're leaving for a bye week. If you're, like, what even happens here? What are your thoughts when you heard this is happening?

I mean, it's a, it's a show going on over there with the New York Jets right now. And, uh, it's a tough situation. I mean, I feel for all the guys over there, you never want to be in an organization that's just falling every single week, weekend and week out. And there's just really no positives, uh, throughout, throughout the whole situation and especially when expectations were just so high and they just been playing at such a low standard.

It's tough. It's tough. I mean, they've tried to do everything, obviously starting off with firing coach Robert Sala, bringing in Devante Adams, bringing in all the other guys that Aaron Rodgers wanted as well. And now they're firing their GS. I mean, it just goes to show that, you know, when you don't have the right chemistry, we don't have the right team unity, you know, you, you crumble, you really crumble without all that.

Um, so we'll get into some of the bombs speaking of the jets bombing. Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, his new movie, Red One, bombs at the box office. They say it might not even make it to Christmas. It's a Christmas movie, but did they release it too early? Um, so it stars Lucy Liu, Chris Evans, and Dwayne Johnson.

And, uh, he's also the producer. And I guess the budget was 250 million. Opening weekend. It only made 3. 34 million and not good, not good at all. Uh, you know, how it'll do long term yet to be seen. Uh, I think he'll be okay. He'll be fine. I'm going to watch it. It's the rock playing, uh, Santa's bodyguard. Yeah, sure.

Or his head of his secret service. So it wasn't the only bomb in the world of entertainment. Elton John's 25 million Broadway musical announces closure just five days after opening. This is wild. It's called Tammy Faye and it's set to close next month. It quickly failed to fill audience capacity at week ending 17th of November.

It drew a gross of 374, 000 with an overall attendance of 5, 700, which is 63 percent capacity. It'll close with a final performance at New York's Palace Theater on December 8th. After just 24 previews and 29 regular performances, reviews have been scathing with the New York Post calling it a disaster of biblical proportions.

We love a good disaster though. I bet you this is the type of press that'll get people to want Alright, well Netflix is being hit with a class action lawsuit over streaming issues on the Jake Paul Mike Tyson bout. The fight emerged as the most viewed sporting event ever on the platform, with 108 million people watching worldwide.

Tens of thousands of subscribers reported trouble with their streams. A Florida resident alleges Netflix was woefully ill prepared for the nine figure global audience that tuned in to the bout, and the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages on behalf of subscribers. Who had trouble watching the fight brings claims for breach of contract and violations of Florida law surrounding deceptive trade practices and consumer protection.

Oh boy. I mean, we're a little too Sue happy, right? It's like, first of all, 99 percent of us are stealing Netflix from our moms. They're just like, whatever, you know, either way, as far as the fight's concerned, here's what, uh, David Portnoy, a CEO of Barstool had to say regarding the Paul brothers, Jake and Logan being the possible best marketers of our generation.

I say Jake Paul and Logan, maybe the two best marketers ever live of our generation and his boxing career. Jake's brilliant. Like he's built himself up enough where he can do this. People hate his guts for the most part, but he lost a Tommy fury who stinks. That's the only guys ever fought. Who's sort of a real boxer, sorta not his side.

So. I don't know where they go next. They've been so unbelievable. Every time you're like, who do they have that can draw the interest? Yeah. They come up with something. They're brilliant. You would do numbers. You and the ring would do numbers. Who me? Yeah. Yeah. I would never do that. I can't even lift my shoulder.

So anyway, I won't be fighting either. Although for now. For a paycheck, I'd pretty much do anything. Uh, well, the Logan brothers considered some of the biggest villains out there. And speaking of villains, we actually have, uh, the, the, the head villain of the Clayton Eckerd trial, uh, Laura Owens attorney.

He's, I guess, uh, taken to responding to some questions about me on his, I guess, a live stream he did. This was compiled by justice for Clayton official. Here's what he had to say. Of the OBGYN department at one of the largest hospitals in Phoenix, who has the exact opposite opinion backed by years of government research.

And Dave Neal says, HCG tests don't count for anything. I got, I got more than that. Um, I'm not going to make that argument right now. It's just, I got to walk guys. Thank you so much. I don't even know. I'm probably going to screw this up and your phone will keep running in my, in my pocket. All right. So anyway, he says, uh, and then the other questions that were being asked, when do you air your grievances of lies?

Nathan said, what specifically do you believe Dave Neal has lied about? Rex said, what are the lies? So you, you actually see so many people going to bat for us. It's actually amazing how many people have gone to bat for us in the, uh, in this sort of smear campaign going on out there where I've been accused of lying.

Now I've made content for over a year straight exposing this pregnancy fraud. Now, the truth is yes, on a, uh, Blood test or HCG test, Laura Owens did test at a level of 102. 0. Now she of course committed medical fraud when she sent me doctored images stating that her records were actually 140, 000, you know, there's a big difference there in the levels.

So the point isn't that 102 would be an indicator of pregnancy. Sure. That would be an indicator of pregnancy. The point was for what? Some five months after that, she never got an ultrasound. And the ultrasound she does have came from a Planned Parenthood that she never actually went to. And she changed the sort of information on the top of it to say it was from the Scottsdale Medical Imaging Lab.

And then the other ultrasound she has has now been admitted by her own attorney to be an ultrasound that is her sister's. And somehow, and somehow, I'm the bad guy. Listen, I don't, you know, like, like, I don't really take offense to much. It really doesn't bother me. Like, we're, we're really unbothered going on with our lives here.

Does he think I'm dumb? Does he think you guys are dumb? I don't understand. One of two things is true. Either he's so dumb, he believes what he's saying, or he believes we're so dumb, we'll believe what he's saying. But for a year straight, For a year straight, we've been unwavering in the truth. We've been bathing in the truth and in accepting all the victories that come along with that, uh, courtroom victories, the victory of public opinion, uh, all of her previous attorneys shying away and leaving this case because they realize she's lying.

The judge decided, I mean, it's just one thing after another. We found a dang Fiverr logo on the ultrasound. So, what he would rather say is, OBGYNs say if you test to this level, then you're pregnant. Well, that would be an indicator of pregnancy. Just like, you know, the check engine light goes on in your car.

That's an indicator that you might have to go to the mechanic. She never went to the mechanic. She never went to get an actual ultrasound. All she has is faked ultrasounds, and, you know, lying ultrasound. under oath and changing her story under oath about which Planned Parenthood she ever went to. Sorry, don't get mad at me because your client is a liar.

Don't get mad at me because you decided to take a case that has made you look Like a damn fool. And by the way, who really cares? We wouldn't have known his name anyway, and we won't know it after this. Right. But just because he wants to talk a lot of trash, make a whole bunch of promises doesn't mean we're playing by those rules.

No, we exist in a world of reality and truth. And I think that's okay. And it's been so great to just see so many people come out and support that with us. Will we ever find out why? Laura Owens created that fake person, Chase J. Jones, or the fake doctors that claimed she had ovarian cancer. We'll never get all these answers, I don't think, but what we know for sure is that all went down and no amount of him bitching on a walk is going to change the truth.

Not in my book and not as long as I'm alive, I'll tell you that much. Okay. We've got a couple more stories to get to politically, so if you don't want politics, don't keep listening, but it's getting pretty buck wild out there and we'll have that for you next. So Donald Trump appointed or nominated Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, right?

The biggest law enforcement position in the country, possibly the world. Well, now CNN has obtained the document assembled by federal investigators detailing the trail of payments to various women made by former Republican representative Matt Gaetz. Have a listen. New York Times obtaining a new document from federal investigators.

This document details the trail of payments from Matt Gaetz, Trump's choice for Attorney General, to numerous women, including some who testified that Gaetz was paying them for sex. Gaetz's face at the top left, barely eligible because of the high number of women and payments, and you can see him paying, um, uh, many individuals there, and also a payment down to, uh, uh, Uh, Joel Greenberg, the other man on the screen, who is so this, this, I'm just going to let you know what I'm looking at.

It is a web of payments, dozens, maybe a hundred or so payments, all in the 8, 000 range. It's currently serving time in prison for all of this. It shows tens of thousands of dollars in Venmo payments between gates, friends, associates, and women. All of this related to sex parties. It includes the two women who testified that they were paid to have sex with the former congressman.

Their attorney told me about these payments. How much did he pay them? When my clients provided testimony to the house, they put up on the screen a list of the Venmo and PayPal transactions directly from Representative Gates to my clients. For one of the clients it was a little over 6, 000. For another client it was a little over 4, 000.

That's just to, to those two women, as you can see, obviously, uh, there are many more. Yeah. And we knew this would leak because of course people want it to come out, but the house of reps voted to not let the Senate see it. And it's like, why are they trying to hide this? It's been a bipartisan investigation going on for several years.

Uh, it didn't, it wouldn't have been political, uh, if he wasn't appointed or nominated to be the attorney general, which begs the question. And again, I don't mean to be pressing, but, you know, you know, the Republicans always prided themself in being the party of value, of morality. Does any of this even matter anymore?

A lot of House Republicans, your colleagues, the people you lead, have real issues with Matt Gaetz, uh, as somebody to lead the U. S. Justice Department. I'm sure you've heard them. Because I've heard them. I want you to take a listen to now Senator, former House member, Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma talking, uh, to our Manu Raju months ago, uh, about Matt Gaetz.

He was accused of sleeping with an underage girl. And there's a reason why no one And the conference came and defended him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he would crush ED medicine and, and, and chase it with, um, with an energy drink so he could go all night.

So just to take a step back, because you and I have known each other for a long time. With some of these nominees, Gates, Hegseth, RFK Jr., I wonder, does it matter anymore? I wonder. For Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral in their personal lives, is that still important to the Republican party?

And of course there is no real right answer in it. And look, I don't think every person who gets elected to every office should be morally, you know, you should be, you know, not have a. A record. We shared jelly roll before the guy's been in prison and he still has a beautiful message to share. There's stories about redemption.

There's stories about overcoming drug overdose and things like that. The problem is, is like this guy, this little twit, right? He's a, he only gets the job because he had a political, his parent, his dad was in politics and his grandfather, we should be looking at people like that, regardless of political party and being like, take a hike, pal.

Let's get our brightest minds out there to fight for us, not argue about what gender. Has to go into the bathroom, which again, just, it's just culture war issues. Let's talk policy. Let's talk about what's going to be great for our country. What's going to bring us all together. And again, we'll have to see how it all plays out.

I'm as interested as anybody else to see how the next four years go. I truly, truly am. Uh, but even if the economy's great and even if inflation goes down, where's the morality of our country? Where's the morality of our country? How we treat people, how we treat our neighbors. We've really been divided.

We've really been split up due to fear and the stoking of these culture wars. And, uh, look, we're going to be celebrating Thanksgiving next week with family. My, my only advice to people out there. If it looks like you're about to get into a culture war argument with one of your relatives, go get a second serving of apple pie and leave that conversation alone.

You don't need to do it. All right, folks, that's going to do it for me. I got a lot of content coming today. I got a golden bachelorette story on YouTube. I'll be covering some more Clayton Eckerd content, of course, on the Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. And then we'll be back this afternoon with another episode of 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. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Happy hump day to you. It is the 20th of November, Wednesday, 2024. And I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

A lot of ongoing stories. More Mike Tyson commentary. A podcast thinks that he threw the fight. I'm also going to share why he thinks so, and he's got a good point. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, but pretty dodgy when you look at the tape. Plus, how much Jake Paul actually made. And speaking of money, Cher admits that Sonny Bono stole all of hers.

And also we've got a memorable speech at the world premiere of the movie Rust. Uh, and I've also got a pretty interesting story, uh, soundbite from Jen Tran, Bachelor at Jen Tran. She admits to sleeping, uh, not with, but on Dancing with the Stars, Sasha's couch. That's her partner, her dancing partner. There's been rumors.

Are they together? Are they not together? We'll share what she had to say. And also we've got Jelly Roll's amazing weight loss transformation. He lost over a hundred pounds. We're here. for it. I'll share those stories and so much more coming up next on the rush. I know it feels like we talk about this every other day, but Jen Tran answering the question about where she's living now that she's been voted off the, uh, the dancing with the stars and we'll return for the finale.

Do they put her up in a hotel? Is she living with her dance partner? Are they canoodling? So many questions, so many answers. Here's what she had to say. Can you clear up anything with you and Sasha? Cause everyone's like, are they, aren't they? What can you clarify for us? Uh, what? Why are you living at his house?

Uh, Oh God. I, I mean, we spend a lot of time together. So like we're such, like we know each other so well, you know? And like, it's, it's It's difficult to go from spending every second of every day with somebody to, like, not. So, like, we decided to just keep spending time together, but, you know, life is unpredictable and that's all I can say.

Are you living with him? Sleeping on his couch? I, I, um, may or may not be sleeping on his couch. So there it is. May or may not be sleeping on it. It might be sleeping on something else. Who knows? She's not telling us. And Hey, look, I love it. I think it's great. I mean, it can't hurt her to not reveal that truth.

That keeps people engaged and interested at some point, either she's going to be with him or not. Now, I mean, look, he's in his forties. She's mid twenties. So a little bit of an age difference there, but Hey, maybe she's an old soul. Who knows folks, uh, jelly roll gets candid about his battle with food as he reveals he's lost 110 pounds and.

The country star opened up to people in this week's issue about the strides he's made in his fitness journey. Yeah, this is what I love about him. He said he was committed to just going on a bunch of walks. And I think this is what's important for people to know. Just the power of walking. The power of getting out there, not just for your physical body, but for your mental.

Just getting out there and moving your limbs can help with depression, it can help with so many different issues. And uh, good on him for sharing his story. He says the battle with depression Food addiction, changing the way I've looked at food for the last 39 years. I've never had a healthy relationship with food.

So that was the hard part. But once you get into that discipline and commitment, it's like an avalanche. Once that little snowball started rolling, it was on its way. You know what, this is going to sound trivial, but. I, I talk about my food addiction issues a lot. And my biggest issue is trying to negotiate with sweets during the holidays.

You know, there's, I mean, I just went to Trader Joe's yesterday and there's so many good foods. We have cookies that we just left out. And I I've been known to like, Grab cookies right before going to bed. You know, I'll brush my teeth after, but I'll just throw things into my body that I don't even want because that's my reward system.

You know, the pandemic, I, I lived off of a loaded baked potatoes and pizzas, not even good pizzas. The amount of dopamine I would get from going to Walmart and buying a frozen pizza. And I'm not talking two slices. I can easily without question, finish a DiGiorno croissant, crust loaded, thick Chicago style, everything included extra pepperoni pizza without it.

I can do it without even blinking an eye. Now, what happens after that is I start to hate myself. Because, you know, I, then my glycemic index is all off and I'm bloated and dehydrate, I mean, all swelling, inflammation, everything happened. You know, you know, when you can't take your wedding ring off because you had too, too good of a, you know, uh, in a vacation, so it's not just the physical body, but it's how you feel emotionally and mentally.

And for me, uh, having low end inflammatory foods helps me out. And it just doesn't lead into any product sponsorship. I'm just letting people know the more I talk about my issues. And my relationship with food, the more DMS I get from people who also have similar issues. And I'm not here to offer any crash course diet or anything like that.

Just get to know the problem first so that you can try to find a solution. So right now I've been on the up and up just for the last three days. I I'll substitute rather than eating sweets. I'll eat. Pistachios. I mean, trust me, I know it's boring or I'll have, uh, you know, uh, an apple and you might say, well, there's fruit sugar in the apple shore, but it ain't as bad as a sleeve of Oreos, you know what I mean?

So little changes, moving the body and just committing to yourself and your growth, I think that's the way to go. The movie Rust, it just had its premiere. It was, of course, the movie, sadly, where cinematographer Helena Hutchins died due to a gunshot from filming. It was tragic. Of course, that gun fired by Alec Baldwin.

Uh, Rust director Joel Souza and Bianca Klein, the cinematographer who finished the film after Helena Hutchins death, addressed the audience at the premiere. Here's what they had to say. Thank you to all of you for coming. I think it's so amazing to see people supporting Halina and what we've finished, um, together, and I want to, um, I wanted to say so many things, but Rachel said most of them.

Um, I just, I think that the thing that's amazing to me about filmmaking, and particularly cinematography, is that when people make a film and they put it on the screen, they're being vulnerable and putting a piece of themselves on the screen. And so, when you watch this film today, that you'll be Experiencing the world through Halina's eyes.

How brave experiencing the world through Halina's eyes. So again, I'm very curious to see this film myself from the artistic standpoint of, you know, knowing that so many creative people worked on the project and, you know, From the standpoint of it being sadly such, I mean, you know, our generation, when you hear that movie rust, we're going to know what it entails.

It's not just a Western. It's got so much more depth to the story. Well, we shared about jelly rolls, weight loss, and I actually have a second weight loss story about Wayne night. Do you remember Wayne night from the movie Jurassic park? Maybe you know him from. Newman, Newman on Seinfeld. Well, here he mentions how weight loss actually negatively impacted his career.

And by the way, I hate that that's even a trope or if that, that that's actually true out there that, um, you know, if you're seen as a quote unquote character actor, God forbid you lose some weight and get healthy, it could hurt you, but here's what he had to say. So good. Why, thank you. I almost didn't recognize you.

Well, uh, that's not good. That's funny. How did you, how did you lose so much? Uh, it's over a period of many years. Everything that anyone could ever try. Uh, from, um, therapy, to drugs, to surgery, to radiation, to being taken by aliens. Right. Uh, every single one of them. And one of them worked. What's that? I don't know.

right? , you, are you doing it like the old fashioned way? Is that effective? What? What do you mean? Like, like not eating? Yes, that does work. that and going to the gym regularly. Oh no. I, I was, but then, uh, somebody like you caught me coming out of a place and Yeah. So I Oh, that embarrassed you. It shouldn't, I mean, if I'm working out, it's not embarrassing, but, but I had resting bitch face when I came , you know?

I wasn't like . That's funny. How much weight would you say you've lost from like max to now? 7, 000 pounds. Wow, not bad. I lose 10, I gain 50, I lose 100, I gain 12. Right, but you've lost quite a lot. Yeah, yeah. From like Jurassic Park to now, it's about 110 pounds. Wow, 110 pounds, same as Jelly Roll. Well, good for him.

Incredible. Uh, are you, is it, is it affecting the sort of like gigs you get? Yes, but you know, in a good way or bad way? Well, in a bad way, but it takes time. It takes time for people to accept you as you are. And they find out whether or not you can still do things without being fat. All right. You know, interesting.

So you're a little sad that that's the way that Hollywood works, but look, I appreciate honest conversations of, you know, you'll get, whenever you talk about weight loss, you'll have people that get, Very triggered because it's such a personal conversation and they'll say, Oh, you're not doing a rider. You can't be joking about that.

Everybody's different. Some people eat because they're happy. Some people eat because they're sad. Some people have no idea the harmful food they're putting into their body because they can't afford foods that aren't harmful. You know, so many different things going on. It's important. We continue to discuss them in a way that.

Doesn't provide shame, but provides education. So good on, good on a Wayne Knight right there in Jelly Roll for sharing their stories. All right. I got Jake Paul. We'll have what he has to say about how much money he made coming up next. Well, it's rumored that Mike Tyson made 20 million for the fight for his purse.

Uh, but what Jake Paul made, that's another question because he essentially produced the fight that was at a nearly sold out Cowboy stadium that was seen by more people than watched the Superbowl. Well, Logan Paul asked him how much money did he make? Is it true you made 90 million from this fight? Is it true that you made 120 million?

70 million from this fight. I made a lot of money, the most money I've made ever, but what are you going to buy with the money? Probably a ranch, a big piece of property. There it is. I mean, can you imagine? So he denies making 90, but it was hinted that it was more than that. So he was asked if it was 170, either way, incredible.

But at the same time, you know, he put butts into seats. It's he put butts into seats and he cashed out, uh, you know, that's pretty crazy. Now here is a podcast called the Bubba army discussing the match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson and why he thinks it's staged. Now this is audio only, so you're not going to see what he's describing, but he's providing frame by frame moments where Mike Tyson had a wide open shot at hitting and hurting Jake Paul.

Paul has set himself up to be another one of the 42 people that have been knocked out with that overhand right. He has his head out, his jab arm down, and he's wide open and Tyson goes to throw it and short arms it.

So what he's showing is a moment where Tyson takes back a what should have been a stretched out arm, and he had a wide open head to hit. Now, maybe he didn't go for the punch because he didn't want to expose himself to another jab by Jake Paul, or maybe he just lost his mojo. Who really knows? Um, Jake Paul even anticipates the hit.

I mean, that is Now, does he miss that bub at 58? No. No. No, if you miss it, you hit the guy, you just don't, you just don't have the power to knock him. But when you know that it's wide open, and that if you bring it full steam, it's over, that's not part of what you've agreed upon to get you paid. So you short arm it, it's so over the top and egregious that Jake Paul is prepared for it.

Would that have knocked him out? It may not have knocked him out, but it may have knocked him down. And at that point, you know, Tyson would have to have attacked him. So they show over and over this, this absolute wild moment. Now, early on in the fight, after rounds one and two, Mike Tyson won those rounds.

There was a moment where Mike Tyson and Jake Paul sort of clenched arms and something was said and it looked like what could have been said was, Hey, do you wanna get paid or not? Maybe just maybe, and I hate to be a conspiracy theorist. Maybe the sort of contingency on the paycheck is that you is that it was gonna be a throne fight and nobody knows that.

Other than Jake and Mike. So we won't know. Uh, but again, it could have also been that he's 58 years old. You're not seeing anyone on the professional level, uh, like, you know, sports center claim that the fight was thrown, but it is very, very interesting. All right. We have an update. Speaking of brawls, we have an update on the Brown and chicken fry.

If the Zach Bryant breakup, they broke up and then Brianna has kind of thrown him under the bus claiming he was emotionally abusing her this, that, and the other. Uh, he claims and, and, uh, Dave Portnoy, the creator of Barstool sports and podcast co host of Brianna's, uh, has been going to bat for Brianna.

Brianna attended the UFC, uh, event. And here's what, uh, here's, and the other thing important to know is that Zach offered Brianna 12 million NDA so that she wouldn't describe how bad their relationship was. She turned it down. Here's what Dave Portnoy had to say. Alright, I know I said I'm done talking about that, that small, little, pathetic man, Zach Bryan, I, you know, time move on, it sucks everything happened, but I, I gotta, just walk and talk, listen to this story, walk and talk with me here.

So, this past Saturday night, UFC New York, Brianna Chicken Fry goes to the event, her first UFC event, she's advertising, she's going, she's all over the place, everyone knows she's going. During the fights, this guy David Anamo wins a fight, gets in the middle of the ring and gives Zach Bryan a shout, he's like, you know, I'm so happy Zach Bryan, like this one's for him, can't wait to see his show in a couple weeks.

I want to come back here next month to watch, uh. What's it called? Zach, Zach Bryant, a concert. So I'll be there, I'll be here for that. It's about Peter Berg, a staple at our venue. Obviously, people are like, Oh, that's going to suck for Bri, like she's there. And they're getting a Zach Bryant shoutout. This guy, David Anamo, goes on a podcast.

It was so odd. The podcasters are like, What's up with Zach Bryant? You're a big Zach Bryant fan? The UFC guy, he's like, I don't even know who Zach Bryant is. His manager, his team reached out to my team, like begging for a shout out. You grabbed the mic bag from him and you and you said something about, I'm gonna be back here next month to come see Zach Bryan.

Zack Bryan . What's his, nobody was find that And, and, and how long have you been a Zack Bryant fan? Is that, was that real? My manager's house called me like, Hey, uh, Zach Bryant. Zach Bryan. Zach Bryant is here and he wants you to give up. Give him a shout out. To be honest, I don't. That was like a paid advertisement for him.

Yep, exactly. That's literally what it was. He doesn't even know who the fuck Zach Bryant is, but you know who he does know? Morgan fucking Wallen. Last night. All right, so anyway, interesting stuff there. Uh, the sort of contrived nature of these, like, Ego maniacal celebrities. So he wanted a shout out and free promotion.

And what a bizarre story, bizarre story, but there's your update. And speaking of updates, uh, the view had to update their audience, uh, as co host Sonny Hostin appeared unsettled in, was forced to read a legal memo on air after Blatz, after blasting Matt Gates. Have a listen. Sonny, you have a legal. No, I do have a legal note.

Thank you. Whoopee. Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims, quote, invented. And saying in a statement to ABC News that this false smear following a three year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism. That DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought.

We'll be right back. So, of course, look, I mean, when you, when you talk trash, Whether it's true or not, you still have to cover your ass like legally. So I wish I had a legal department that would tell me when I need to make an extra memo, uh, before I'm getting sued, uh, that would be nice when it. All right.

Anyway, uh, here is a fun story on the today show of Bowen Yang, of course, SNL star Bowen Yang getting permission to be in the movie wicked. There are very strict rules at SNL. You can't be shooting movies while you're doing SNL. However. You had a fairy godmother who helped you. Yes. Tell me what happened there.

She's a full three years younger than me, but she's my mother. Um, it's Ariana. Ariana called up Lorne because Lorne was like, Lorne Michaels. Lorne Michaels. And he, and within reason was like, very reason was like, you can't miss shows. I'm so sorry. And I was like, I totally get it and I like mourned that loss but then Ari picked up the phone and she called him and then he said it might be okay and he kind of was like okay well you know because because they have such a beautiful relationship with each other and so I can't believe it happened there it is I mean isn't it great Saturday Night Live is such a springboard for bigger opportunities but this movie Wicked is going to be enormous and you know SNL cast members don't get paid that much money I'm not trying to say like Eight grand a week or whatever they get paid isn't a lot, like, sure, no, absolutely, but the amount of work they have to put in, and it's only for like 20 weeks out of the year, I'm just saying, to live in New York City, it's like, yeah, take whatever gig you can get, right?

Well, here's another way to make money, you could be on Jeopardy. Here is a Jeopardy contestant revealing a bre a heartbreaking diagnosis during Tuesday night's live game. Chris, first off, I have some good news for you. Our judges have determined that when a photo is overexposed, it's also undersaturated.

So you're getting 800 back, just like that. I understand you're facing a health challenge right now that you wanted to talk about. Yeah, I've been fighting stage four colon cancer since May. Under young adult diagnoses have increased a lot in recent years. Um, definitely encourage people not to, you know, ignore any kind of symptoms, definitely push to get tested, especially if you have any family history of it.

That's a great word to get out there. Thank you. You know, the first time I sort of reckoned with death was when a family friend died of colon cancer, a brutal disease stage four, of course, very serious. So I think it's really great that in a moment, uh, one of the only moments where he's going to have this large platform, he uses it.

To warn other people about getting, uh, getting looked at. If you feel like something's wrong, uh, that we'd love to see that. Uh, and we hope that he can fight that battle strongly and overcome it. Uh, more information on that when we have it, but we've got a couple other stories to get to. So let's do this, stick around and we'll be back with those right after this break.

There's been a story going viral about Cher. Cher and her late husband, late ex husband, Sonny Bono. Uh, a lot of tea coming out. Apparently he took all the money they made as a duo and didn't give her any. So of all the money that you guys made as a duo, he took it all. He took it all? He took it all? Took it all.

And I said, I was there with you. I said, just tell me one thing. And I just, I still to this day, if he came back, that's what I'd ask him. What was the moment you thought it would be right to take all my money? I can't believe he left me with a car and clothes. But did, did he ever have an answer, like, of why he did it?

Not really. I don't think he wanted to go there. You know, you, you probably saw this a lot more in the previous generation, financial control, and which is really terrible, but a good thing. She's overcome that. Now, as far as making money, we've got, uh, very interesting reel to share with you from the trading secrets podcast, Jason Tartick's podcast.

Uh, you, you ever watch those Tik TOKs where the guy, you know, Finds a celebrity on the street and then tours their apartment. Uh, this is that story. So I got that first one with Barbara Corcoran. She actually DM'd me and was like, Hey, come over to my apartment. This was like three months in. I realized like I was onto something.

That does a hundred million views. Hundred million views. Across all platforms. Yeah. Holy shit. So I was like, okay, I got an awesome case study here. Let's take all the information. Okay. She got about 200, 000 followers from doing this video. She had 200, 000. Yeah. Across her platform. She told me like I was walking down the street and everybody up in trader Joe's, everyone's like, I love your apartment.

I love your apartment. She's like, I've been on shark tank for 20 years and you only know me from my apartment now. Like this is insane. Yeah. As a good example of finding your niche. Here's a guy who decided. To, uh, tap into the voyeuristic aspect of social media and say, you know what? I bet people want to see what people's apartments look like.

You don't just get to see that stuff. It's kind of like MTV cribs, but more authentic and Barbara Corcoran, of course, right here explains how much she got out of that exposure by reaching out to this content creator. Again, just, just a thought for content creators that are out there. You just be shocked.

At what success you can find. If you just do something slightly different than other people, whether it's home apartment tours, or the guy who goes up to people in their nice cars and ask them what they do for a living, there is something intrusive about finding out about strangers lives. That seems to be the next step for content creation.

And we kind of do that on one end. Like some of my more popular videos are the ones where we kind of dive into Uh, the DMS of the celebrities we cover. Well, here's a sad story I want to share with you is it's, there's no way to put it, but it's a sad story. Representative Nancy Mace introduced a resolution that would ban transgender women from using female bathrooms in the Capitol.

And this happened just weeks before democratic rep elect Sarah McBride of Delaware. is set to become the first out transgender member of Congress. Just a sad story. This is a biological man trying to force himself into women's spaces. And I'm not going to tolerate. A house Republican introduced a measure to ban transgender women from using the female bathroom in the Capitol.

This comes as democratic rep elect Sarah McBride of Delaware. Delaware is set to become the first out trans member of Congress. Sarah McBride doesn't get a say in this. If some guy in a skirt came by and said, no, that's my achievement. I'm going to be there and standing in the way and saying, hell no. A spokesperson for McBride told NBC news that Mace did not reach out before she introduced the measure, adding that she found out about it in the media.

Mace's office didn't respond to a request for comment. So my, my general thought is when we talk about culture or issues, we talk about issues that are not the biggest issues out there that are made kind of out of thin air. This idea of who gets to use what bathroom. I mean, look, when you're on a plane, you just go to the bathroom.

They're all unisex. I really think we need to move to a society that has mainly unisex bathrooms, not because I stand On one side or the other on this issue, but because it's so misguided and so trivial, you know, it used to be, they would say, Oh, we can't have trans people in the women's bathrooms because X, Y, and Z could happen, or there'll be minors there or whatever.

Now we're talking about. You know, taxpayers dollars being spent at, uh, at, at whatever it is, the rep, wherever the representatives, you know, are at saying, there's going to put, be a bill in the Capitol that they can't go into this one set of bathrooms. If, if, if it was up to me, I say, tear down all the bathrooms and set up porta potties.

Like if this is the world you want. Representative Nancy Mace, like this is the world you get and I hate to end on such a bummer of a story, but it really comes down to like, what world do we want to live in? Is representative Nancy Mace actually worried about a trans issue with bathrooms? Absolutely not.

It's about using a sensitive topic like transitioning. And using it for your own good. So you can campaign on that and raise money and say that you're on this side. And it's just, it's hogwash. We don't stand for it. I'm all about inclusivity. If someone, you know, feels like they've been living in the wrong body and they go through all the effort to get the surgeries or the hormones or whatever it is to change, uh, how they present themselves to the world, who the hell am I?

To stop them. You know what I mean? We're not, you know, this has nothing to do with the debate of sports or the debate of kids or puberty blockers. None of that. This is just a vile person who votes for these people. I have no idea. All right, well, that's going to do it for me. We'll be back as always 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, standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy hump day to you. It's Wednesday, November 20th, 2024. And I've got all of your pop culture news in one place on today's episode, a shocking semi finale of dancing with the stars.

I'll share who is going to the finals. Plus, Jake Paul's first podcast interview with his brother after the Mike Tyson fight, where I'll also share, uh, how there's over 100 million people tuned in to watch. Unbelievable. Plus, Bachelorette Maria claps back at the false story about her dating Pete Davidson.

More speculation about the underwater aliens. And an appeal has officially been filed. By Laura Owens attorney against bachelor Clayton Eckert. Of course, he won the June 10th lawsuit. She owes him 150 K, but their appeal may have some flaws. I'll have an expert weigh in on what that might mean. So we've got a lot of content to get to the week's flying by stick around.

We'll be back with those stories and more next. We shared on yesterday's Rush Hour, the afternoon edition, that Bachelor star Maria Georgias unequivocally denied dating Pete Davidson. Well, now she has an update to this damning story from The Sun. And again, you just have to wonder, do these journalists have any consequences for flat out lying?

Or did a source lie to them? You know, I'm not really sure, but either way, this is why you get multiple sources. Um, so she said, Never dated Pete. False rumor. I'm friends with his sister. Case closed. But what we didn't share is what she said after that. Maria Georgia said just spoke to Pete's sister. He's not in rehab and has been sober for months.

Can't believe this stuff. It's very insulting to his recovery and my mental health. He's literally home. Yeah. So let, I mean, let the guy work on himself, right? Pete Davidson. I mean, heck his father dies in nine 11 as a firefighter. Right. And he's got mental health issues. He's battling through, uh, and, uh, he's trying to do it in the public light and we don't need the sun to write fake stories.

And I get, look, I'm all about free speech and all that jazz. I absolutely, but come on, what the heck, right? We can at least shame some people for getting that story wrong. All right. Well, speaking of shaming people, uh, uh, we have the official appeal, uh, on the Clayton Eckerd v Laura Owens case. He won on June 10th, uh, the decision, uh, that she has to pay him his legal fees, 150 or so thousand dollars.

She continues to deny any wrongdoing and has filed an appeal. Now, as far as the X's and O's of the appeal, I will read it on today's YouTube channel, but a reality, Steve had his lawyer friend on the podcast to go over the comments and said, I think Gingras his argument is a loser. There were other bases for the sanctions awarded.

I don't think he knows family law. I think he's wrong about rule 26, but it really doesn't matter because there are other bases for the sanctions. All right. So there is a very highly well respected lawyer calling the appeal a loser. We'll have to see what the judges think. They bring that appeal in front of three judges, I think in Tucson, Arizona.

And I don't know, do all three judges have to agree to two out of three have to agree? I'm not really sure. But, uh, we'll see how it all goes down. Uh, very, very fascinating stuff. Um, and also there have been predictions made from people behind the scenes. Again, not a source. I don't have any insider information, but there are predictions being made from people who have seen this play out that know a thing or two.

They are saying they now believe. She may get jail time. Now, of course she's being investigated by County prosecutors, but no indictment has been made. We'll have to see what goes down. Speaking of a knockout or lack thereof, we have information from the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight. It made history with 108 million live global viewers.

Have a listen to uncrowned podcast. Netflix announcing that Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson was seen by over, as they put it, 108 million viewers around the world. It's the most streamed global sporting event ever, and Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 2 is the most watched professional women's sports event in U. S.

history. I mean, look, there was zero barrier to entry because everyone already has Netflix. They had a fighters in the undercard from Brazil, from India. They had the, the female championship fight from a Puerto Rican versus an Irish lady. So you got people from all over the world in this fight, not to mention Mike Tyson, who doesn't want to see him.

So no surprises there that have caught everybody's attention like this. They just need to figure out their buffering issue. Would we say that's a success? I'm sure someone will say, Ah, but hey, oh, ah, eh, it was a black eye. It was a black eye on the sport. Netflix is ABC in the 1970s. The wide world of sports, they would put on these one off events.

And, um, that was a huge deal. Millions upon millions of people, when there were just four channels, would watch these events. Whether it was, um, you know, races between people, Celebrities and athletes, Evil Knievel type stuff, and that's the lane that they're occupying now. And it's a pretty damn good lane because of the the most successful streaming platform on the planet, but also because You know, they they do a a chestnut Kobayashi one off on Labor Day.

They'll do this, the WWE deal will open the door to many more things. That's obviously not a one off, but it's a whole new era When Netflix, which historically has always been in the, you know, VOD business, is now in the live sporting event business. Oh, by the way, Christmas Day NFL, huge, huge. I mean, that's gigantic.

That's gigantic. Yeah, so as we reported, the NFL will have their Christmas Day games on Netflix, and folks are wondering, will they have buffering issues? I'm sure they can handle the NFL. What will it be? 15, 20 million viewers. Uh, it'll be nowhere near 108 million for the live event of the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight, which is wild.

It's wild that that many it's wild that a YouTuber turn boxer can command the attention. By by mainstream. I mean, this is a huge deal, not just for Netflix, but for content creators, because that's what Jake Paul started out as right. Just a content creator here. He is being interviewed by his older brother, Logan Paul, regarding his performance against Mike Tyson.

Are you happy with your performance in the fight? Are you, are you happy with the way the night went down? I wish she would have. Yeah, like put up a better fight so that I could have like risen more and done more and like he was surviving. He was. So that was, that was the only thing I didn't like. So annoying when they don't bring the fight to you.

Yeah. But he got you with a couple of punches. How did they feel? Nothing. Didn't feel a thing to be honest. I, I, I'm literally being honest, bro. Nothing, nothing. So there it is. He felt nothing. Now I've read all the comments on this from all aspects. I've read people saying they think the fight was staged and Mike Tyson had plenty of chances to knock him out and pulled back.

I also read people saying that the contract stipulated no uppercuts from Mike Tyson. I don't know if any of that's true. Uh, Mike Tyson would only get paid if Jake Paul won again. No clue if any of that is true, but you know, it could very well be that Mike Tyson just got gassed after the first two rounds, he had a knee injury.

He almost died several months earlier. And oh yeah, by the way, he's 58 years old. Here's what Denzel Washington, I mean, come on, this is a cultural event. If anyone's going to say, Oh Dave, why are you covering this? This is the biggest story in the world in as far as entertainment and sports goes. Uh, but here is Denzel Washington commenting on late night TV about the fight.

I know you, you're a big boxing fan, right? Would you consider what happened this weekend to be boxing? Mike is one of the all time greats and I'm glad he got paid. He told me he was here like a few weeks ago and he said that there was a good chance he was going to smoke pot before the fight. Maybe even do mushrooms before the fight.

Did you sense any of that in the ring? Uh,

no, I didn't. So anyway, I've got one more Jake Paul story. I've got Howard Stern. It's actually more of a Netflix story. I've got a strong warning by Howard Stern. I'll have that for you next. All right, here it is. Howard Stern's warning of Netflix. He says, get their act together before the Christmas day football game.

He says, people are pissed. He told his listeners on Sirius XM. You F people's football. There is hell to pay. You better not. I don't know how this stuff works, but you've got to make sure it works. Yeah. That sounds like every boss. I don't know what goes on over there, but knock it off. Uh, Bloomberg reported that chief technology officer, Elizabeth wrote in an internal email to employees.

This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the stream for the majority of viewers. I'm sure many of you have seen the chatter in the press and on social media about the quality issues. We don't want to dismiss the poor experience of some members and know we have room for improvement.

But still consider this event a huge success. Yeah. I mean, look, it was garbage. I had to wait 45 minutes to watch it because it was buffering. But you know, I steal my internet, uh, my Netflix from my mom's account. And, uh, what am I going to do? Complain about it? You know what I mean? All right. Well, here was dancing with the stars last night.

It was the semi finale. They were down to the final two, uh, pros. You had Ilona, you had actually both Olympians, Ilona and Steven Nederozic. Uh, she's a rugby player and he of course is the pommel horse Prince. And this was the moment to find out which of the two would make it to the finals next week. Have a listen to the surprise ending.

The combination of the judges scores and viewer votes dancing in the finale are

all of you, there it is. They're all going to make it. Everyone gets participation trophies. I think they did this last year too. Uh, and I get it. Look, I mean, let them all dance in the finale. Now it's not looking good for my boy. Pummel horse, Prince, uh, Steven, the door, uh, not a Rosick now looking good for him.

He had a very bad dance last night. Uh, but he made it up with in the second dance, but you know, the winner is going to be Joey Graza day, the bachelor, or it's going to be Chandler. Kenny. Uh, because I mean, she's by far a better dancer. She's got more dance experience. She danced when she was younger. She is like flawlessly good.

They actually hold her to a way higher standard, flawlessly good. But Joey would be the first bachelor to win. No, several bachelorettes have won Caitlin Bristow and Hannah Brown. Um, but no bachelor has even come close to winning. So we'll see. We'll have to see next week how it goes down. Danny Amendola probably doesn't really stand a chance.

He's doing good. He's working really hard. Uh, Ilona doesn't really stand a chance other than she's got a pretty big following, so if she can sneak out a couple of flawless dances, maybe, but my guess is the winner will be Chandler Kinney. I mean, she just deserves it. She's the best. Although I will not be upset if bachelor Joey gets it.

Fingers are crossed for the pommel horse Prince that he at least has fun in the end. I think that's what it all comes down to, right? It's just people that get a chance to do something amazing, like dance, something you wouldn't just randomly be doing professionally or in front of an audience or with professionals and they get to live their dreams and it makes you wonder, right?

Doesn't it make you wonder what you would do if you won the lottery? Would it, I mean, if I won the lottery, I would take a dance class, but then, but then you have to think, why not just do what you would do if you won the lottery. Right. You know, like, and I understand everyone's got to show up to work and whatnot, but having that greater vision about just doing things you love, doesn't that seem so freeing.

And now that I got a son, I have to think, all right, how can I pursue my life and continue to pursue my life? In a way that he looks up to me and then he can sort of have that same spirit of self actualization that same spirit of really intending for the life. You want the power of intention, bringing that positive energy with you.

I think that can, I think that's something. That is going to be really challenging to show, not tell as in by that. I mean, show my son how that's possible and not just tell, I try to do that with you guys and with social media saying, Hey, you know, if you pursue something you love and work really hard at it, the world's going to conspire to help you out.

And I know that's very hard to believe. And I've been challenged on my faith on that in the past, but I stand by it. That you got to decide if you live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world in whichever decision you make. You're right. You will be provided that. So choose friendly, choose love. All right.

Well, here's a good dad, Anthony Scaramucci. He's telling a story about why you should invest long term. By the way, I don't think my, yeah, my mom, you know, single mom didn't have any money as far as I can tell to invest in my future, but boy, I wish, I wish I had Anthony Scaramucci as a dad. Listen to this story.

My son was born in September of 1992. I made a 1, 200 investment in Microsoft. I ticked the box for a dividend reinvestment. There were no dividends being paid at that time, but if they ever paid one, they would reinvest it in the shares of Microsoft on my behalf. This is when there was paper accounts, you know, paper statement got mailed to the house.

I moved a couple of times. It didn't catch up to me. The account statement got lost in the mail. 26 years went by. Somebody from Goldman Sachs recognized my name. They called me, your son's above the age of 21. Would you like us to disperse this to him or transfer this account out to him? Yes, I would. What do you think the 1, 200 of Microsoft went to?

It was 72, 000. So we went from 1, 200. To 72, 000 and I would have sold that years ago. I would have gotten bored with Microsoft and sold it. I didn't do that. My son was a direct beneficiary of me not knowing that the account existed. I think it's a big lesson for people. Don't do a lot of trading. Stay long term.

Act like you're dead. Act like you're dead. I mean, look, it's great advice. I'm boring. I only invest in the S and P 500, you know, very boring. Although the S and P 500, you know, it's, it's, it's what the top 500, uh, companies do. I have that right. Uh, and I'm sure there's some caveats to that, but, uh, you know, nothing sexy with that.

I'm not one of those big Bitcoin investors. Although I did buy some Bitcoin a couple of years back, but I'll tell you what, okay. Whenever I buy Bitcoin, it turns out to be the worst time to buy. And I'm, you know, I get on that hype train too late, but apparently I'm not the worst when it comes to Bitcoin investors.

This is an old story, but just a real fun to listen to. This is a guy who paid a Bitcoin to buy several pizzas a long time ago. And it turns out that that Bitcoin is now worth 900 million. Have a listen. You paid 10, 000 bitcoins for one pizza? It was two pizzas, actually. Oh, you got two pizzas out of it.

And, uh, I mean, you know, maybe the person spent 30, 40 dollars, something like that. What would it be worth today? 80 million dollars, I don't know. 80 million dollars. A lot. People laugh at that, but at the time it wasn't worth anything. Is it true some people celebrate the, the anniversary of the day you bought the pizza?

Yeah, May 22nd, Bitcoin Pizza Day, so. It's really, it's called Bitcoin Pizza Day? It is. Thanks for inspiring me. There it is, Bitcoin Pizza Day, according to my calculations. Now in this clip, it was worth 80 million, but Bitcoin has spiked. That would have been 920. Million to almost a billion dollars. But again, Hey, what do you know?

He didn't, uh, have the advice of Anthony Scaramucci. He shouldn't have bought that dang pizza. Oh, I bet you he has a sore spot for pizza. All right. Here's another fun story. This is carrot top. And by the way, I I'm here to tell you, I'm not ashamed to admit. Carrot Top, one of my favorite comedians. I would love to see him live in Vegas.

Uh, if you've ever get the chance to listen to Carrot Top in a long form interview, take it. He's extremely interesting and a great example of how hard work, compiled over time, can really help you live your dreams. Here is how he got the chance to star in a scene in The Hangover. They're filming this movie called The Hangover and they want to know if you want to be in it.

And I said, okay, but when are they doing it? They said, well, they're outside in the lobby. And I said, was there a script? And they said, no. So I said, well, what do they want me to do? And they said, I don't know. Why don't I ask the director? So the director walked in and he said, first of all, hey, big fan. I'm doing this movie.

There's a part of me where they're going to come and they're partying with you. And I said, okay, so we're just drinking. We're, what are we doing? That's up to you, just have fun with it. So they bring all the guys in. Now, there's no one in there I know. We're all sitting around doing drinks. Then I said, boy, this isn't funny.

Should we be doing blow? You could hear a pin drop. And he was like, are you cool with that? I said, yeah, I mean, I don't do drugs. So that would be kind of funny. So my assistant got some sweet and low and whatever. And we made it look like a Coke party. And then the director was like, holy and they were just loving it.

So I put a line on Zach's belly and we were, It was successful because doing coke with me is that's never I don't do it since then people like you're like do the coke guy I'm like, no, I don't do that's what makes the movie. It's a movie Yeah, I mean look the key to success when it comes to comedy is heightening, right?

You gotta heighten the scene so you gotta find what's funny and then you gotta light it on fire and make it funnier So good stuff right there. All right. I got a ufo story the ufos. Are they coming out of the oceans? Uh, maybe I've got a quick clip about an alien civilization, what it would look like.

I'll have that story for you next. You know, all this talk about UAPs and aliens, uh, and all of the, uh, uh, house hearings that are happening. You know, there's a lot of sightings of these alien spaceships coming out of the ocean, which is insane. Uh, but here on the Sean Ryan show, we have episode one 13.

They discuss what a. Underwater civilization might look like civilization in the ocean. What does that even look like? We've mapped the surface of the seabed again, not varying completely. So we don't even know is there underwater structures we don't really know, or are they deep below the geology as we know it?

Again, we don't know. It's not a stretch to think it's possible based on the length this planet's been in existence. We do see evidence of them all the time in the ocean and of course in the atmosphere. And you know of a Canadian USL encounter. Oh yeah, this is one of the earlier ones. It's in the 60s, I think early 60s, and there's a great book about it called Sweet Clear Five.

And it refers to the name of this mine warfare exercise. Uh, the subtitle is NATO's underwater UFO encounter. It's written by a researcher who interviewed these Canadian divers. What happened, there was a major UFO event in Canada, a place called Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia in, um, I think the late sixties, but before that.

There was another encounter where UFOs were seen to go into the water. I think it coincided with a NATO exercise and the ships all got vectored to go look for these things. And Canadian divers were interviewed and claimed to have seen these two underwater discs and actual Occupants outside the craft trying to repair it.

All right. I don't know. I mean, I believed it until that last second. And then I just imagined them like changing the spare tire on the craft. Who knows? Maybe it's real. Maybe it's not. It's out of this world though. Uh, I got a couple other, you know, I've got some stories here that we just don't have time for.

So I'm gonna have to save some of this. For the afternoon rush. Uh, but if you are worried about a nuclear nuclear war, did I pronounce that right? Nuclear. I always pronounce a nuclear and people get so upset with me. Nuclear war. I didn't have it on my bingo card for 2025 and I really hope it doesn't happen, but there is serious talk, uh, about, uh, about escalations.

US officials confirming that Ukraine has fired us long range missiles into Russia. For the first time, the Kremlin now responding with a possible nuclear threat. Ian Pannell, Inside Ukraine again tonight. Tonight, Ukraine firing the first American made long range missiles into Russia. Targeting an ammunition store in the Bryansk border region, seen in videos circulating online.

ABC News. Eight missiles known as the ATAKMS were fired and two intercepted. The Kremlin appearing to threaten possible use of nuclear weapons in response, but the Pentagon saying there are no signs it's preparing to do so. Russia already attacking Ukraine though, day and night. We joined drone hunters trying to intercept attacks.

Suddenly, an incoming drone. You can hear it in the sky. The team scours the skies and opens fire. These drone hunters are out every night across the country as Russia sends more and more drones across the border. Into Ukrainian cities. All right. So, I mean, I, I hate that I have to share this, but it's, it's literally a war that could turn into world war three.

Now, I guess you could get upset at the U S for supplying Ukraine with these missiles, but here you have Russia, you know, bringing over North Korean troops, training them because they're running out of troops because they're, you know, uh, you know, this war was supposed to last a day for them. No one, nobody has more heart than the Ukrainians fighting for their For their freedom.

Seriously, nobody. Uh, well, here's what the seven news Australia has to say about Russia preparing to escalate with nuclear threats. The threat of nuclear war is greater now than at any point in the history of Ukrainian conflict. Why? Well, overnight Vladimir Putin signed Russia's new nuclear doctrine, which allows the Kremlin to consider using nuclear weapons in response to any conventional missile attack.

Inside Russian territory, one that is backed up by a nuclear power like the U. S. Precisely the kind of attack Ukraine has just carried out after the U. S. and President Biden gave it the all clear.

Now look, I know a lot of people say, Oh, we shouldn't be giving money and supplies to Ukraine. What? But the alternative is sending troops over, right? Because what if Russia does take Ukraine? Well then the next country over is Poland and then you're in Europe. I mean, you're, you're in a, you're in the United Nations zone right there.

And then you've got a full, a full, you're right at the border of a full blown world war three. So like, at what point do you step in? I think it's actually been very smart that the U S has supplied Ukraine with a lot of Intel and weaponry and things like that without having to actually lose one American life.

Um, anyhow, I mean, what do I know? Hey, I'm just a podcast host. Don't listen to me for your, uh, you know, geopolitical news. Although I will say this, we have a legendary, legendary GOP strategist, Karl Rove saying Matt Gates is not going to get confirmed. Have a listen to this. This could be very harmful. It'd be one thing if this guy had a reputation as one, an extraordinarily gifted legislator, two, a tremendously gifted trial attorney, a proven prosecutor, somebody who had managed a big law firm and had demonstrated legal ability, but no, he has none of those attributes.

In fact, he has a reputation on the floor of the House for having shown pictures of his conquest to his fellow members, so If, if that's the best you can do, you're not going to get confirmed. All right. Well, there you have it. We got UFOs. We got dancing with the stars. We got appointed attorney generals with underage sex trafficking, uh, accusations.

What a wild time out there, folks. A wild time. Indeed. Uh, I got a lot of content to get to. I'll be sharing my, uh, update on the appeal for Clayton Eckerd. On today's YouTube, along with other bachelor news stories. And then I'll be back this afternoon as I always am 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 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. Hey, good afternoon everybody. It's Tuesday, November 19th. 2024 and I've got a roundup of all of your pop culture news in one place. Jake Paul has been called out by a world heavyweight champion after beating an aging Mike Tyson.

I love that story. Plus bachelor star Maria Georges responds to rumors. She dated Pete Davidson and I've got Dax Shepard making headlines after asking an actress a very personal question. I'll play what he said. And red lobster CEO has unlimited cheddar biscuits coming for you. This is not an advertisement.

But it sounds pretty good. And I've also got why the Menendez brothers being released has been put on hold. Plus the umbrella guy, our friend on YouTube who covers, uh, trials reveals his thoughts about Clayton Ecker's accuser, Laura Owens and her attorney. He gets very serious and in a moment says that they are unsafe.

I'll play his dire thoughts and all the other. Pop culture and entertainment news stories of the day. I'll have those for you next on the rush. You know, sometimes I feel a little dyslexic when I say what date it is. You know, instead of saying July, I'll say November and vice versa. And I keep on forgetting it's November.

Every time I look at the date, I say, Oh, it's November 19th. What we're done. Six weeks left. That's it in 2024. Where is the world going? We just cannot get anything done anytime we want to get it done, but I'm here for you as the year has flown by. This has been our first year as a doing double episodes a day.

And also having a baby this year, looking back on it, it's been quite wild. Now, obviously the monetization has been nice, you know, basically doubling my workload, uh, but the sleep has not. Uh, so I just want to thank everyone for sticking with me. You know, there's been moments where I'll, I'll just be tired and I'll be like, what am I even doing?

Uh, but you guys have enjoyed it. Nonetheless, so I appreciate all of you out there, uh, for this wild, groundbreaking year that it has been. All right. Well, Jake Paul called out by heavyweight champion and says, let's get it on. I'm going to share this story with you. It's actually pretty interesting. Uh, the DM was shared the 27 year old IBF title holder, not IBS.

IBF title holder, uh, extended the offer to El Gallo saying, hi, Jake, good business on the weekend. But how would you feel fighting for the legitimate heavyweight championship of the world? This is Daniel Dubois calling you out. Um, and Jake said, man, been boxing for 12 years, has over a hundred fights between amateur and pro and fought on my undercard.

But F it, I'm going to have Nakeeza talk to Frankie Warren and get you in line for the throne. Unlike Artur, at least you have a few thousand fans. So he said get in line and then he shared a photo of the, uh, little like, uh, cold cuts, uh, ticket puller that you get. Remember those things? From the store, uh, let's get it on and who wouldn't want to fight Jake Paul.

I mean, there's going to be a giant purse, you know, there's money attached to it. And any professional boxer probably feels like they can kick his ass. I mean, to be quite honest, he lost to the only sort of current professional boxer he's faced, uh, and, uh, you know, short and again, I'm not here talking trash, Jake Paul would kick my butt.

Absolutely. I'm just saying, you know, he knows where the money's at and, uh, you know, uh, Jake Paul losing. To a real boxer. I don't know if that's on his bingo card, but Hey, why not? I would still watch it. So long as Netflix doesn't buffer. Well, the rust film premiere ticket demand has crashed the website.

You guys might remember rust was the ill fated movie. Alec Baldwin was starring in producing on that killed cinematographer, Helena Hutchins. Uh, it was three years ago that she passed. It's finally getting its moment. People are scrambling for tickets to the world premiere. Now I support the airing of this movie mainly.

And we'll see if they cover it in the article here, but mainly because Helena Hutchins, uh, partner, I believe is now a producer on it. That's one of those things. It's like, look, you could say, oh, we're not going to make the movie, but Helena Hutchins, this was, this was her pride and joy too. And now that her partner is probably going to Receive more money.

If the film does well, it's kind of like everybody wins. If the film comes out, you know what I mean? The movie's dropping Wednesday at Poland's Energia Cine, uh, camera image. I, that might be a Polish word film festival, but when tickets went live for festival goers early Tuesday morning, the system crashed from all the crazy demand Netflix uses shortly after 8 AM in Poland, a message popped up on the site saying the camera image portal is currently undergoing system maintenance.

By 8 35 a. m. Hollywood reporter says some users were able to get back on and grab their tickets. All right. So they're eager to see rust, even though the festivals organizers purposely didn't invite, uh, Alec Baldwin noting his presence would be distracting. I mean, I think that's true regardless of whether or not he came out innocent and everything, his presence is distracting as he was the actor who fired the prop, what was supposed to be a prop gun that, um, ended up killing.

And injuring, uh, another, uh, so anyway, we'll have to see how the film does ratings wise. Uh, I mean, it's just absolutely wild. Yeah. How can you watch this film and not think about all that happened, um, you know, on the other side of the camera, real tragedy. Well, Kim Kardashian, always in the news, her site crashed her skims site.

You might be familiar. She. She. She. Has a product called skims, uh, like a lingerie line. Uh, her site crashed minutes after Dolce and Gabbana collab dropped. All right. Everyone wants Kim Kardashian's skims. It was the least interesting, uh, their collaboration site was the least interesting to look at for about 15 minutes, fully crashing.

Not long after going live. Maybe this is good PR to say the site crashed, you know, it in a, in a, I'm, I'm assuming it did crash, but what if. You crash a site on purpose. Should I do that with the Patreon? Dave Neal's Patreon crashes. Oh, I must go buy the, you know, Patreon, patreon. com. Dave Neal, the rush hour podcast won't load.

Too many people are trying to listen to it. It crashes. Let's get some press there. Um, well, here's a story that is peak internet. John Stamos. Is getting trolled because he decided to wear a bald cap with his friend, Dave Coulier, uh, amidst Dave Coulier's cancer treatment. So Dave Coulier is getting chemo.

He's going to lose his hair. So he decides to shave his head. Um, in the past, we've seen, you know, sometimes if a kid has chemo, you know, Sometimes his friends will also shave their heads or, you know, it's kind of like a solidarity thing. I'll shave my head cause you're going, you're going to go bald. So I'll go bald with you.

Now, obviously John Stamos, A list actor known for his nice Greek hair, uh, wasn't going to shave his head. So instead he put on a bald cap. Dave Coulier has responded. I'll share the, uh, initial article again, uh, full house, uh, real drama happening in the full house world. John Stamos showing solidarity with his friend and former TV castmate Dave Coulier During his battle with an aggressive cancer.

But some people online are taking issue with his method, calling him insufficiently committed to the cause. All right. So now they're upset that he didn't actually cut his hair off. Stamos posted a few pictures on Instagram of fellow Full House actor Coulier featuring Stamos wearing a bald cap and shaving Coulier's head.

Who's going through chemo. So. Uh, Dave Coulier actually responded, this is what he had to say as a response, I'm sorry to see a bunch of negative comments as I've just begun my cancer journey. It's our friendship, me and John, and this is how we are handling a very tough time. I'm a comedian and humor is what drives me.

John knows how to cheer me up. And I laughed out loud when he arrived wearing a bald cap, being a true and loving friend and brother. Yeah. So anyone else can go F off how, how they decide to handle this situation is up to them. Um, but John. Uh, Dave, they all just seem like great friends. The way they speak about the late, um, uh, uh, Bob Saget, you know, they really do seem like they built such a brotherhood from their time on the show full house.

Uh, we are really, really rooting on Dave Coulier to have a quick and strong recovery, hoping for the best. All right. I got a couple more stories, Dax Shepard, Post Malone, headlining Coachella, and so much more coming up right after this. An article has been going viral in The Sun that Pete Davidson checked into rehab after romance with Bachelor's Maria Georges.

Now, we of course have friends that are friends with Maria, and we're friends with Maria here, big fan of hers. And we heard that the story was not true. Well, now Maria has commented this on Instagram, Never dated Pete, false rumor. I'm friends with his sister case closed. So that's it. And how does the sun get away with doing this type of stuff?

The reason we've been in a year long battle, uh, exposing the truth with Clayton Eckerd and his accusers because the sun recklessly aired a one sided story. So I just, I just don't understand their, you know, first amendment is great. But when you share. Rumors that are not true, there are consequences, but hey, that's the world we live in, right?

Well, here's a world I want to live in. Red Lobster CEO, a very young millennial, says the Cheddar Bay Biscuit is back, baby! Now, it's always been around, but now it's coming right to your table and you can ask for as many as you want. As soon as you're greeted by your server, these will be brought to your table.

So you're going to have them right away, they're hot and they're warm. And by the way, you can ask for as many biscuits as you want, they say. Oh, this is butter, I thought it was honey. There it is. All the biscuits you want. Now, Red Lobster went broke from unlimited shrimp and now they're saying, all right, we'll just give unlimited biscuits.

Do they not understand the values of our great Americans? We love carbohydrates. You think they love crustacea? Wait until they get ahold of that glycemic, uh, sort of gluttony, and they're going to be pounding biscuits. Like it's their job. I never understood the unlimited breadsticks, unlimited biscuits thing.

Because like, if you go to. If you go to, um, uh, Olive Garden, if you don't get your order in on time, you're going to be full before the salad comes, you know what I mean? But either way, uh, you know, good little strategy, good promo. I guess you could argue how many biscuits do you really want? Well, if you're like my friends from college on 25 cent wing night, Uh, people used to bring their own Tupperware to uh, make sure they could snag a few extra for the way home.

Alright, Dak Shepherd, one of the largest podcasts in the world. He's a hundred million dollar podcaster. He had a question for Cynthia Avo, I hope I'm pronouncing her name right. She's, uh, the actress in Wicked. And look, sometimes what makes a great podcast is the ability to ask questions that are on people's minds.

And here he does not disappoint. Can I see your hands? I couldn't tell if it was your nails or so long if you were wearing some kind of hand thing. No, my nails were done. Okay, nothing was happening with your hands. Nothing was happening with my hands. I have very long fingers. Yeah. Very long fingers. Yeah.

My nails are very long right now. Can I ask you a really crazy question? It's inappropriate. Go on. When you're wiping your butt. I knew you would ask that question. I know, but everyone thinks it and everyone's afraid to ask it. Because, no, no one's afraid to ask it. Oh, is everyone asking that? Everybody asks that question.

All girls, though. No, all girls. My guess is, there's a lot of knuckles being used. Everybody asks that question. Okay, very cliche. And my answer is, nobody uses just their fingers to wipe their backside. You use tissue. Oh, sure. Correct. And you wipe. Yeah, I guess my question is, does the tissue go on the tip of the fingernails, or do you try to get the tissue on the Pads of the fingers.

Okay, great, great, great, great. Pads of the fingers. So it could just be that. And maybe the patron here can see my visuals of how I'm asking the question. Maybe she's got, um, you know, knuckles that hyper extend in a certain way. I don't know. I'm sure everyone who's listening right now is holding their hand out, wondering how you would wipe your butt with four inch long fingernails, but Hey, if there's a will, there's a way.

We're getting somewhere and then, um, okay. And then you're just feeling a little tickle of the nails on your crack of your butt sometimes. No, because the tissue's there. You don't feel none of that. I wonder, okay, what I would do if I were you is I would wrap my whole, I'd make a mitten. I fold. Okay. Oh, you're a folder.

I bunch. Now, are you offended by that question? Are you like, I get it. Well, I get it. I'm annoyed by it. I'm like, ah, come on guys. But I get it. But it's also like, I'm a functioning adult and I've never walked around someone Smelling like, you know, no one thinks that in fact, everyone thinks you smell so good.

It begs the question. How are you wiping your tush? All right. Well, now we have the answer folks. The answer to the question, nobody asked, how is Cynthia wiping her tush? I will leave, uh, I will leave a little, uh, uh, mystery for you guys, but I, my fingernails are short. Although I always wonder if you had long fingernails, would that make you a better swimmer?

Cause I imagine, you know, long fingernails, like a sloth has long fingernails. You could literally be scooping. Scooping the water as you go. I don't know. I don't know. Uh, I guess so. Well, I guess I'll just never know. Put that on Mythbusters, will you? All right. Post Malone is headlining Coachella 2025, which will kick off his stadium tour.

He's heading into the desert. The superstar singer is headlining Coachella. And I mean, that is a big gig. Uh, he's revealing his upcoming gigs. The first two dates on the lineup are April 13th and 20th in Italy. Indio, California. Uh, then he's got dates all over the country. Good on him. Good on post Malone.

Seems like a good guy. Uh, and we're always happy to hear about good people doing good things. Speaking of which Pat McAfee, uh, was a punter in the NFL. He decided to retire so that he could work for Barstool Sports and then kind of became his own thing, the Pat McAfee show. Now it's, uh, hired by ESPN. Just a, just an example of how big your world can be.

He literally turned down million dollar contracts to do the simplest thing in the NFL, punt a football. And instead now he's having fun with his boys making hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. He's So rich. He loves to give that money back and he does a kicking challenge on college game day where he draws a raffle from the audience who comes to watch and they get a chance to kick a field goal.

If they win, they win a lot of money. In this case, there was an 800, 000 prize. Prize. Half of that was going to go to charity and then half was going to go to whoever kicked the field goal. Well, in this case, and it's a super viral video, the person who won the lottery said, Hey, I'm not going to kick it. So I'm going to split it 50, 50 with this guy.

Here's Pat McAfee hearing about their story. We're in the car, I think, leaving the set and I opened my phone, somebody texted me and was like, yo, did you see this kid's Instagram profile? And I was like, no. I like almost got emotional because I thought about Henry. He wanted to do this. That's why I got there at 6 p.

m. She got there at 3 a. m. You're talking about being committed to the program and to the show. I am so incredibly thankful for Bell Session and Henry Silver for doing that. But then I've been waiting for somebody to do what Bell did. The rules are the first 300 people get tickets, raffle tickets, if they want it, then the ticket is drawn.

And then whoever it is gets a chance to do the kick. Now, we have never said that that person who wins the drawing can't say, I pick you. Do you want to? So whenever I was told of the happening, they're like, The person who won doesn't want to kick. They want to pick somebody else or whatever. I'm like, genius.

So I meet Bell and I'm like, did you plan on doing this? Like, was this a work? Like, hey, I'm gonna get here in the first 300 and I'm gonna find somebody that can kick. And she was like, no, he was just standing next to me. Didn't know. He just, so he was standing next to her. Whenever she looked nervous after she won, he looked at her and was like, I can make that kick.

All right. So the question was, did he make that kick? I'm going to play for you the live moment that everybody is talking about. This works is the first 300 people that get here to college game day, have an opportunity to get a raffle ticket that is randomly drawn in whoever it is. Normally does the kick.

Well, Bell Sessions, who got here at 3 a. m. this morning, was the winner. Her ticket was pulled, and you thought to yourself immediately, what, Bell? I knew I couldn't do it, and he was next to me, and he said that he could, so we're splitting it. Have you ever kicked a ball before? I've kicked a ball before, I've played soccer my whole life, I think I can do it.

You make it, you will both get 100, 000. 200, 000 to Hurricane Relief, 400, 000 on the line. Henry, are you ready? Of course! Have you ever seen any badmouth kickers? Of course! Shut up, let's go! Why don't we double it? Because the Georgia Bulldogs, 800, 000 Henry. But what I want to let you know is you're not getting a second opportunity.

And that's the moment that I just love to see it. That's the moment that his kick went straight through the uprights, winning him 200, 000 and winning Bella 200, 000. Now what's interesting about that first clip I shared when he said that he went on the guy's Instagram profile, it's that the guy who hit the kick had a.

photo, his Instagram profile. It's Henry dot silver 29, I believe. And he had a photo. Uh, his profile photo was actually Pat McAfee when he played for the Indianapolis Colts and he was, uh, and then, uh, Henry was just a child. So what a wild moment. Pretty cool to see, uh, the worlds collide like that. A lot of money goes to a good cause.

And also what great entertainment is that? That's why Pat McAfee is as big as he is. He's not afraid to put his money on the line for good entertainment and he sees the immediate returns. Well, Sadly, speaking of good entertainment, uh, the bachelor Clayton Eckerd, Laura Owens case has gotten pretty, pretty toxic with, of course, Laura Owens attorney, uh, posting crazy things online.

He waved a, he waved, uh, of, you know, his gun on a live stream. Now we have that umbrella guy. Who, by the way, he has been to hell and back on his YouTube channel dealing with crazy people. Here's what he has to say about how the trial went from interesting and fun to follow to really scary. Megan has been keeping up with it quite a bit more.

For me, I, I get, I got turned off by this guy right here. I liked laughing at some of the stupid that he would pull and everything else, but as I see more and more. that's been transpiring. My problem became the fact that I legitimately feel this is my legitimate opinion. I feel these people are unsafe.

Again, I cannot understand how someone rationalizes going after a judge like, like they, they did

to the point that the judge again is filing bar complaints and they, they, they don't relent. They, he's already been warned. Someone else filed a bar complaint. And. He was warned. Hey, slow that roll, baby. Yeah, he was warned after my bar complaint. I mean, yeah, it is scary. It, it, it, it is, it is definitely unhinged.

And if he does lose his license because of the bar complaint from the judge, I mean, I won't be happy about it. At that point, you'll just have somebody who's like hell bent on destroying you. Uh, but all we can do is continue to tell the truth. And share that with the audience. That's our greatest protection is to continue to share the truth.

So I appreciate everyone who's stuck around and follow that crazy story as it's gotten kind of real. All right, more content coming to you right after this. Imagine being the Menendez brothers, spending 34 years of a life sentence in prison, and then thinking you're getting released, but then the election happens and then there's a new prosecutor.

Here's the story on CBS mornings, 34 years of a life sentence in prison for the 1989 Beverly Hills murder of their parents. Any calls for a resentencing or clemency for Eric and Lyle Menendez will have to wait a bit longer. California governor Gavin Newsom says he will defer to the DA elects review prior to making any clemency decisions and respects the role of the district attorney in ensuring justice is served.

I believe. that they have paid their debt to society. The move comes after current L. A. District Attorney, George Gascon, filed a motion last month asking the judge to re sentence the brothers, citing new evidence of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse the brothers say they endured from their father, Jose.

I do believe that the brothers were subjected to a tremendous amount of dysfunction in the home. In molestation, but gascons critics say the motion for S resentencing was politically motivated, submitted days before reelection, which he lost to Nathan Hockman. We spoke to Hockman on Friday. I owe it to the Menendez.

I owe it to the victim family members. I owe it to the public. To make sure that if I do weigh in on this case, it's a decision that has been thoroughly vetted, thoroughly thought through, and I actually can defend in court. While some prosecutors are opposed to any leniency, family members are pleading for the brothers to be released.

Yeah, it looks like, it looks like most people say, alright, they've served 34 years, uh, they've had a clean record in prison, and it was, you know, whatever. And I think most people are, are okay with, with that sentence, kind of, um, Ending and them getting released. I don't know. I don't have real real stake in the matter.

All right. Well, uh, Matt Gaetz Has his accuser's attorney speaking out allegedly flew two women to New York City for sex in a real life pretty woman moment Here's the former US representative of Florida Matt Gaetz Donald Trump's nominee for the US Attorney General Continuing to combat sexual misconduct allegations including claims He flew these women to New York and this is the Florida attorney Joel Leppard You Representing the women involved, he sat down with ABC News Juju Chang and this is what he had to reveal.

What did your client witness? She testified in July of 2017, um, at this house party. She was walking out to the pool area and she looked to her right and she saw Representative Gates having sex with her 17. You know, I was wondering when they, when the person said that they witnessed someone having sex with a minor, how would they know?

But now it's, it's shown that in 2017, seven plus years ago, uh, she, she recalls this happened and knows that the girl was 17. And at the time he was a sitting congressman. I don't know if she was aware of who he was at the time, but at the time, yes, he was a sitting congressman for about six months. My client testified to the house that.

Um, her understanding was that Matt Gaetz did not know that she was a minor, and that when he learned that she was a minor, that he broke off things and did not continue a sexual relationship until she turned 18. Do we know how old he was at the time of this encounter? I believe he was 35. And she was 17, about to turn 18, presumably.

I believe so. They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them and my clients repeatedly testified, what was this payment for? That was for sex. Yes. Do you know? So let me get this straight. Assuming this is true. We have digital copy of sex payments. Now. My belief when it comes to prostitution, this is just my belief, is that you should be able to pay for sex if it's with an adult.

That's my belief. In this case, it wasn't. The person was 17. Now, it turns out the other person wasn't. Now, does that mean there could be an ethical issue? Yeah, there could still be ethical issues, absolutely. The real issue here is that she was underage, right, with a 35 year old, and that he was already in the house.

Uh, working for the people. This is where your taxpayer dollars are going to. And also Matt Gaetz only got the job through nepotism. He, he, he was a lawyer for like one year and then ran for office. His dad was a lawyer. His grandfather was a lawyer. I mean, it's sickening. So for those that say this shouldn't come out, it's like world, do we live in where someone would defend this?

Listen, Donald Trump could nominate probably another hundred different people that all have clean records. Do you know what I mean? It's not. Oh, don't nominate him because he's a Republican. Throw that out the window. Anybody who's got this kind of a track record should not be elected anywhere in public office.

So how many times, how many parties your clients went to and had sex with? Well, not all of them were parties, so some of them were events such as they attended election events, like at hotels. They went with him to New York for a taping on Fox News. Um, but approximately perhaps 10 times, 10 to 15 times.

Their testimony is that Representative Gates took them across state lines. For the purpose of having sex and paid them for that. That's correct. This is not a political hit job. This is not, uh, an anti Matt Gaetz stance per se. It is more that this is what happened to him. It's true. And, and they want the American people to know about this as they consider, um, their future attorney general potentially.

And by the way, now we have to look at who's in the Senate if they decide to vote him through and say, you guys all knew this happened because they're probably all going to get access to this ethics report. It'll get leaked. We're probably going to get it sometime this week. Somebody's going to leak it and it's real.

And our taxpayer dollars went towards his ethics report. And then we're going to have to decide if they vote him through which senators, you know, people that are supposed to be, uh, have a little barometer towards family values. We're okay with this. Again, do we really think Matt Gaetz is that good of a lawyer that he deserves to be the district attorney of the United States of America?

And if so, are we just okay with letting this happen? It is going to be a real, real litmus test for where the moral fiber of the American. People stands and I'll be here to cover it. That does it for us. We'll be back in the morning as we are every day with another episode of 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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11-19-24 Morning Rush - Bachelor Maria Georgas & Pete Davidson Dating Rumors - Is It True? & Oklahoma Brings Bibles Back Into Classroom

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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 Tuesday to you. It's November 19th, 2024. We got all of your pop culture in one place. Sir Richard Branson unveils his new space balloon open for commercial travel.

Talk about that. Plus McDonald's tries to rebound from its E. coli outbreak, a wild bachelor nation story involving Maria Georges and Pete Davidson, although it was, uh, published in the sun. So the question is, is it true? I've got some insider information that'll give you that answer. And Bibles are back in school in Oklahoma, but it's coming with a lot of pushback.

A lot of the details on that story. Plus more commentary on the Mike. Tyson fight and Netflix will be streaming its first football game on Christmas day. It includes a Beyonce performance and probable buffering because apparently Netflix can't do a live show without buffering, but we'll get into those stories.

They got all that and so much more coming up next on the rush. I've got billionaire Sir Richard Branson co piloting the world's first commercial space balloon and, uh, I guess they're gonna be selling some tickets. 125, 000 a seat. You wanna go? Here's the story. Sir Richard Branson is set to co pilot the world's first commercial space balloon that will fly to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere for 125, 000 a seat.

The spaceship Neptune will take him and seven other passengers 20 miles into the stratosphere above Earth. The luxury capsule designed by Florida based company Space Perspective features a window filled cabin, luxury chairs, fine dining, cocktails, a space bar, and even on board Wi Fi. The total trip time is six hours, two hours ascending to the maximum height, two hours for passengers to look out of the capsule at the curvature of the earth, and two hours descent.

And you don't even need to worry about being physically fit. As an astronaut, as the company have said, the six hour flight will be no more stressful on the body than a plane flight. More than 1, 800 people have already reserved seats on the hydrogen powered space balloon, which completed its first successful test flight just last month.

Would you sign up for this? Um, not for 125, 000 I wouldn't. I mean, would I be interested to go for a loop or so around the city? Sure. Uh, I don't know. I mean, six hours? I think what they should do is invite some of the flat earth people, just so they can see the curvature and do all that. But what is it going?

20 miles up? I mean, does that even count as space? Are you floating? Uh, they didn't even mention anything about floating. If you can't float, it's not worth it. You know what I mean? Can I do, you know, Somersaults and things like that. That's what I want to know. All right. Well, we have an update on Diddy, uh, another story breaking on Diddy from NewsNation.

He's been moved to a low security dorm, uh, and apparently is communicating with the women's unit. Have a listen to this. According to our sources, Diddy is not being housed in a solitary cell. And what's more surprising, the sources say he could still get his freak on, so to speak. There is apparently a secret system that inmates on the block all seem to know about.

A way to spy on the female inmates who are housed one floor below them. When I heard this, I was sort of like super shocked. I thought there's no way they could, there could be some way to contact the ladies down below, but tell me how it works. So basically, um, It's a dormitory pup that he's in. He's not in the cells.

So there's another, there's a big dorm with a bunch of bunks and then there's a little room where you go into and it's like a workout area, but it's not really a yard, you would say it's just like with gates, like you see right there in the building and you can literally lay down and the females are right below you and you could just yell at them and they yell back and basically like, you could, you could kind of see them and they could see you a little bit, but you have to watch out for the guards obviously, but you can talk with them and.

You know, show each other some things sometimes, which I never did any of that. There it is. He said the females are right below you. I mean, look, Hey, if you're in confinement with a bunch of men, I guess just hearing the female voice would, uh, really make the boys come to the yard. I guess. Well, speaking of that, let's get into this story.

Uh, the son is reporting that Pete Davidson checks into a rehab in bad shape after a secret romance and Georges. Now. I have spoken to a source who said this is completely fabricated. Uh, but Hey, you never know the source told the U S son about troubled Pete's most recent stint in rehab. Um, so the, and again, the U S son is garbage.

So who knows what the deal is with this, but the troubled Saturday night live alum, 31 years young is now in treatment for the second time this year amid his longtime struggle with mental health. Um, I mean, how do they know he was with her? He checked into rehab in Florida fairly recently, and he flew on a private jet.

He's in pretty bad shape this time around. He's not in a good place. Well, yeah, I mean, you don't go to, you don't go to treatment if you're in a good place. He made a cameo on his alma mater Saturday Night Live on November 2nd, and was previously seen at the Room premiere in L. A. with friend Machine Gun Kelly.

On October 24th. Uh, so it doesn't say much about Maria. It said, they said he ended up fling with Maria just before he checked in. The pair had only been dating for a couple of months, though. Fans may be shocked by the relationship. The former couple seemed to be hiding in plain sight. Maria chimed in on Pete's sister, Casey Davidson's Instagram, multiple times in case he liked the reality stars comments.

All right. Well, even though my source told me there's nothing to this story, I mean, look, maybe there is, maybe there isn't who really cares either way. And I just, you know, to, to even report on a story like this, it's like, all right. The guy's going back to rehab. He's trying to get on the straight and narrow.

I mean, but I really feel for Pete because he, he, he just, he really can't seem to figure it out. So I guess that's, that's the right step, but, um, maybe he needs to change some of his like lifestyle activities because, um, I feel like New York, if that's where he lives is not a good place. If you have a lot of these vices, you know, New York, New York will bring out the worst in you.

It'll bring out the best in you or the worst of you, depending on how you see the city. God bless it. Uh, maybe he needs to go live on a farm or something. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have any, don't take any advice from me. All right. Well, uh, speaking of I've, I've no transition. Let's just get into the next story.

The NFL and Beyonce will be premiering on Netflix on Christmas day. Oh, what a day. Have a listen to this. The NFL and Beyonce are giving us a cowboy Carter. Christmas. Beyonce says she'll play the halftime show, the Ravens Texans game in her hometown of Houston on Christmas Day. She posted this video on her YouTube channel as part of the announcement.

Details of the performance are still under wraps, but this will be the first time Beyonce performs songs from her Grammy nominated album, Cowboy Carter, live. The game and the halftime show will stream on Netflix, which is hosting two NFL games on Christmas Day. It's the first time Netflix will broadcast NFL games and comes on the heels of Friday's record breaking Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight, which Netflix says drew in 60 million households around the world.

Well, actually they said, I think 50 million in the United States, who knows the total numbers, but either way, they messed up. They had a lot of issues and there was buffering and people said the fight stunk. Well, a lot of people have said, Oh man, that was awful. Uh, here's a response on a Yahoo sports about, um, casual boxing fans and who cares what they have to say.

There's two things that kind of get under my skin when I see the aftermath. Number one, it's the people who, again, never talk about boxing, don't watch boxing, don't care about boxing, don't have a disowned subscription, aren't watching top rank on a Saturday or Friday night, aren't watching PBC on Amazon.

And I see them saying, we need to stop being conned by this. We need to stop falling for this. We need to stop, you know, giving this our attention so that boxing can clean itself up once and for all. You don't watch boxing to begin with. You don't give a. About boxing. Well, you weren't conned by anything.

The only thing that you did was convince yourself that Mike Tyson was going to show up as a, you know, 1987 version of himself and turn back the clock and shut up the guy that for whatever reason you can't stand. You're, you're the sucker. You convince yourself of this. No one conned you. No one told you that he was going to turn back the clock and no one told you that this was the best of boxing because if you stuck around for Barrios Ramos, if you stuck around or showed up early for Taylor Serrano, you would have seen.

And, and the issue with boxing over the years has been put one fight at the top and nothing on the bottom. This card didn't do that. Did you watch Shushu Carrington on the prelims? Did you watch Shadesha Green on the prelims? No, you didn't. Did you watch Taylor Serrano? You may have stumbled while you were waiting.

I listen, I'm going to cut him off there. I watched the other fights. There was a lot of good fights. I mean, you got what you paid for. 90 percent of us steal our network flick Netflix passwords from somebody else anyway. So you got what you paid for. I got more Mike Tyson stories, some actual really interesting takes about what went down over the weekend, this cultural moment still being talked about in the podcast sphere, and I'll have those for you next.

There's of course a conspiracy I shared, which is Mike Tyson blew the fight on purpose. Like he was only going to get paid if he lost. And I don't think this is true. I think he just was injured. You know, he had several injuries going into the fight and he is also an older guy here. He was opening up about his extravagant lifestyle and how he would spend up to 5 million in a week.

Is it true? You want to pay? Spent 5 million in a week and didn't buy anything. Um, 5 million might go in a couple of days. Yeah, I'm a heavy, I'm a big spender. Yeah, right, yeah. Still though, not as, not the way you were in the old days. No, not now, but when I was a young kid, 5 million might go in a couple of days, yeah.

Right, yeah, 5 million in a couple of days. And you never, did you ever look back on that and regret it? I had such a great time, had a good time. And of course he was valued up to 300 million. And I think before this fight was only worth one or two, 3 million. And then they said from this fight might've made another 20 million.

So, Hey, you know, he's made his comeback. So good for him. Uh, and in our final Tyson story, we'll move on after this. We've got the part in my take podcast, uh, saying Mike Tyson should not have been in that ring. They actually have a take that Jake Paul, uh, did him some mercy by not knocking him out. Have a listen.

I guess credit to Jake Paul for not knocking out Mike Tyson. And, uh, we, we said it before, but this has been two decades of me buying, I guess I didn't buy the fight cause it was Netflix, of watching Mike Tyson fights and being like, well, all it takes is one punch cause he's Iron Mike. Uh, he had no chance of winning that.

Jake Paul took mercy on his soul. Which should never happen in a boxing match. Like you should not spend rounds taking mercy on your opponent. But I'm happy he did. I get it. It would have been sad. I get it. No, listen, it was the right move for him to do. It was so apparent that Mike Tyson shouldn't have been in that ring.

I didn't want to see him get knocked out. He's it was elder abuse. That third round was elder abuse. That was the round where Jake Paul was like, I'm going to start unloading and Mike Tyson couldn't move. Mike Tyson's done. It's he's been done for 20 years. He was washed 20 years ago. This is stupid. Jake Paul fight someone your own age, please.

He did. He lost. All right. And I, I think that's a good idea. Fight. So in your own age, but you know, Hey, he's doing what he's doing. These are consensual fights. Take them for what they are worth. All right. From fighting in the ring to dancing on the ballroom floor, we've got dancing with the stars tonight.

Here is Riley Arnold talk talking with Steven, the doors, Zik, uh, or netter. Ozic, I always mess that up. Uh, talking about why she drives him to their practice. Again, he's got those Clark Kent. Uh, Clark Kent Glasses. He's got several different eye issues. Here's what they had to say. Most of the time, just me and Stephen because I drive him to rehearsals too because he can't drive.

Riley drives me every day to rehearsal because I don't have a license. I'm not technically banned from driving, but as someone who is Very sensitive to sunlight to the point where I can't see in the sunlight and the fact I don't have depth perception I don't think driving is a good idea. So Riley drives me to rehearsal and we have fantastic times in there We vibe out to songs.

She shows me new music because she jokes. I don't know any music. We haven't done karaoke I'm a little embarrassed to sing so I don't usually but every now and then when the vibes are right We'll start rapping or something There they are. Okay, look, I mean, I love this guy. Bronze medalist, the pommel horse prince, can't even see in the sunlight, doesn't have depth perception, and he's over there swinging his thing on the pommel horse and now on the dance floor, so he may, this might be the last night for him, right?

Let's see. See how it goes down. Are they at the finals? And I think there's one more week before the finals. Um, so, uh, you know, I, you know, I just, uh, I love to see people try to, uh, especially athletes. I love to see them try to conquer new spaces like, uh, the dance floor. And that's probably why. I enjoyed Mike Tyson so much is that, you know, we're watching someone fight against a father time.

Good stuff. All right. Speaking of father time and speaking of generational changes, here's Gary V talking about how it used to be with, with regards to, uh, parenting styles. It's under 30. If you're listening at 10 PM, there would be this like public service announcement commercial in the eighties that would come out and be like, It's 10 p.

m. Do you know where your children are? It's 10 p. m. Do you know where your children are? Because sometimes they forgot that we hadn't come home yet! You're right. My childhood, my parents, they had no idea who we were. And we just came back at night, right? When it was dark, I had to come back. My wife has never had a minute.

When my kids were younger than 18, but she didn't know where they were. How about the fact now that it extends way past 18? The amount of people I've met who have a fucking app on their 23 year old to know exactly where they are physically at all times is fucked up. It makes a 23 year old feel like they're f No shit they're acting like they're five.

No fuck they suck at work. They're fucking zoo animals. They can't live in the jungle. They're fucking being tracked by their fucking 59 year old parent. They're on the payroll. They're being tracked. And then you're upset that they can't stand on their own two feet. No shit. You created a fucking bubble baby.

I think the neighborhoods really shaped us. And I really genuinely believe the over coddling of knowing everything about your kid every second of everything where they are. We were growing up like, I don't know, fights and getting hit by a stick and like fucking reconciling shit without parents. You were learning how to function.

Fights with a stick. Gary Vee really lived life. Look, I, I, I kind of agree. I mean, I don't, I'll cross this bridge when I get there, but you know, we're, my wife and I, it's so funny. We just took our baby to the six month checkup and we have so many questions. Is his ear flap doing the right thing? You know, what's this crusty thing happening?

And you know, you just want what's best for your kid. And at some point, I think you need to realize that part of the character that they will flourish into. It's by giving them that space to become who they are. And, you know, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what I'll do. I got, I got a little time before I decide, you know, I think of it like this way.

We've got a Tesla, right? And if my wife's using the Tesla, I can go on my phone and see where she is. Now I've got no need to do that other than like the other day I was, uh, had, we had the in laws over and they were like, when's Tasha going to be home? And she wasn't responding. And then I looked at my phone and I saw that she was getting off the exit and I was like, Oh, she's seven minutes away.

So it's like. I understand using technology for the convenience aspect of where somebody is, but I would never want to track my son or daughter unless I was given a reason to worry about what might be going on. Like they shouldn't have to answer a text message right away. Now, if they're past a curfew, that's a different story.

You know, set proper guidelines, let them Try to live up to those guidelines and then go from there. You know, it'll be so interesting because by the time our son is old enough for this to work, I mean, I'm sure there'll be contactless payments. I'm sure we'll give him money in some sort of allowance on like a digital debit card, and then we could take it away.

And if he doesn't do the dishes, the wifi goes out. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'm sure like. There'll be new styles of parenting based on the world of tech that we live in. Now, what I would like to do, which it looks like what Gary V is talking about is try not to rob my, uh, kids of, um, of their childhood.

And you know, Jonathan Haidt talks a lot about this with screens and technology, but like the second you give them a cell phone, you. Robbed them of what life would have been like before they ever had that. How long can you go? And that might get, you know, me and having an extra dummy phone, a flip phone in the house and you know, like how, how far can you go before giving them access to technology that is almost overwhelming for them?

I don't know. These are just thoughts, but I, I think about it this way. I don't know if our parents had the luxury of even, of even thinking this way. When I, when I look back at parents, it's like you either had a textbook on parenting or you didn't either. You bought something on parenting or you didn't.

Now we've got Tik TOKs and social media podcasts, and we can discuss these things in, I think, such a healthy way that our parents didn't have access to. We just let our kids cry themselves to sleep. That's it. Thinking we were doing the right thing. Oh yeah. Put them all in a 80 person daycare. It's good for their socializing skills.

And I was like, well, maybe that's not the case. Maybe there's a different way to do it. I don't know. Those are my thoughts. Maybe the kid will just live off of McDonald's. Speaking of which, how about that transition? It looks like McDonald's is trying to recover from their recent E. coli outbreak of the onions.

McDonald's plans to invest 100 million to get customers back after the recent E. coli outbreak linked to onions on quarter pounder hamburgers. 65 million will go directly to the hardest hit franchises. More than 100 cases of E. coli were reported with one death and four people reporting life threatening diseases.

Yeah, that's not good. Of the 100 million, how much of that do you think is going to go to employees getting benefits or higher pay? My guess is a fat zero. All right, well, here's a cruise idea for you. An American cruise line offers a. Four year trip to escape Donald Trump's second term. Have a listen. An American cruise line offers a four year trip to escape Donald Trump's second term.

Villa V Residences has launched a four year cruise designed for Americans wishing to escape Donald Trump's second term in office. It will stop at 425 ports across 140 countries until 2028. According to their press release, prices for this life at sea start at 40, 000 a year. Over four years, the voyage therefore Four costs nearly $160,000 per person for a double room and $255,999 for a single cabin.

And while the idea of committing to a four year cruise may seem a bit far fetched, it's also possible to opt for their one year trip called Escape from Reality for a two year midterm selection trip. Or a three year, everywhere but home cruise. Villa V Residences emphasized that its four year package is designed for travelers from all political backgrounds.

Mikkel Pedersen, CEO of Villa V Residence, explained to Fox News that the campaign was organized before the election results. We think we have a perfect product for those who said they would leave the country if XYZ won the election. We may have differing political views, but our community comes together around our passion for exploring the world in a very real way that goes far beyond politics.

How funny would this be if you're like anti Trump and then you go on this cruise and then your neighbor has a MAGA hat on? I mean, look, it's a good idea. I've spent up to six days at a time on a cruise. And I gotta tell you, I still liked being there. Uh, you know, I wasn't like burnt out by it. I would need to get Starlink internet.

Because of course, if I, I mean, and by the way, it's not a bad amount if, um, if you have a job where you can work from anywhere, you know what I mean? It's not a bad amount, but I mean, how bad would the food be? Can you imagine that? You got to go to the same ventriloquist, uh, uh, you know, uh, show for the 17th week in a row.

And you know, the pool's only big enough to float in it. There's kids farting everywhere. I mean, I don't know, maybe it'll be fun. Uh, probably a lot of swingers though. I feel like a lot of swingers. Uh, would be on that cruise, just a thought. All right. I got more content coming your way after this quick break, a couple wild political stories to wrap things up on this Tuesday morning.

Donald Trump confirms his plan to declare a national emergency and use the military for mass deportations. Have a listen to this. President elect Trump confirming his plan to declare a national emergency when he takes office and that he plans to use the U S military to assist in mass deportations.

ABC's Mary Bruce in West Palm Beach, Florida tonight. Tonight, President elect Donald Trump confirming once he takes office, he will declare a national emergency and use the military to help carry out his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Today, his new pick for borders are Tom Homan saying criminals We'll be the first to go will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats because you're the biggest they pose a big danger to the United States.

Homan says he's heading down to Mar a Lago this week to put the quote final touches on a plan, but acknowledges there are many unanswered questions about how Trump's policy will actually work, including how much it will cost. So I've been asked 1000 times. How many people can you remove the first year?

Well, how many agents do I have? Uh, how many buses do I have? How much money do I have for airplanes? Right? Uh, can DOD assist? Because DOD can take off our plate. So there's a lot of what ifs. I don't know what the current budget is right now. I don't have insight in what currently ICE and CBP has for budget.

How much money can be reprogrammed? By the way, this sounds horrifying. It sounds horrifying because there's a lot of, I think something like 3. 5 to 4. 5 homes, a million homes in this country have mixed citizenship, which means you might have an uncle who's illegal, but you were legal. You might have a brother who's illegal.

You know, it's just, it's just. And by the way, I believe policy already existed that if you commit a crime, you get deported. So I don't know. I mean, it's seems like a scary time out there if you're not a U S citizen. And even if you are scary for whatever family you have that might be dealing with the thought of a raid at any given time, wild, wild, wild.

Uh, well, in other news, Oklahoma's public school chief, Says he's purchased 500 Donald Trump Bibles for the classroom. It he's the superintendent. There's now a petition for his removal. Here's a bizarre video that he instructed every superintendent to share to every student. I'm excited to announce today that Oklahoma is the first state.

To bring the Bible back to the classroom. Today we purchased over 500 Bibles that will be in the AP government classrooms across the state. Bible just like this. We have the Bible, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights. These are foundational documents in our nation's history.

Our kids have to understand the role the Bible played in influencing American history. It's very clear that the radical left has driven the Bible out of the classroom, which leads to a lack of understanding of American history. We will not stop until we brought the Bible back to every classroom in the state.

So after that went down, there's actually a petition now, uh, with 14, 000 signatures of parents saying, Get this out of there. And then there's other legal issues because he talked about the woke left. Uh, and when you talk about politics as the superintendent, you're kind of, uh, you're kind of making, you're, you're politicizing a job that shouldn't be political, right?

Where is your authority specifically coming from? As you know, thousands of people, including parents who signed a petition to impeach you with more than 14, 000 signatures. The last check say this is government overreach and you're taking control away from local parents, local school boards and parents over their kids.

What do you say to that? And where is your authority coming from to enforce this prayer video to be played in schools? You know, I appreciate you pushing that left wing narrative here, but here's the reality. It's not a left wing narrative. I'm literally talking about a petition that parents have signed that's gotten more than 14, 000 signatures that have raised this issue.

It's crystal clear on religious liberty. The Constitution's crystal clear on religious liberty. I know the left doesn't want our kids to know anything about the role the Bible played in American history. They don't want any of our kids to know about the constitution. Our religious liberties are protected and the left has driven the Bible out of schools, driven prayer out of schools and everything in education has gotten worse since.

You know what's interesting is it makes you wonder, do you have to have the Bible to talk about it? Like when you read a textbook that talks about the Alamo, it just, it's a blurb. They tell you a blurb about the Alamo. Like how, like. I don't know. It's a good question. How important is it to have the tangible Bible?

I mean, I've never had a tangible declaration of independence. We just read about it before we had a federal department of education and we had the Bible and prayer in school. Guess what? We were leading the free world. This was the greatest country in the world. And we have seen every statistic gotten has gotten worse since the creation of the federal department of education and the Supreme court pulled the Bible and prayer out of schools.

President Trump has won on this issue. He has a crystal clear mandate. It's one Americans want. It's what Oklahomans want. And so we're going to deliver on those, uh, on president Trump's promises here in Oklahoma. Now, don't forget the Bible did say thou shall not commit adultery, uh, I guess, unless her name is Stormy.

I don't know. But either way, uh, Oklahoma's ranked, I think second to last in education. So I don't know if the Bible is going to help them with regards to, uh, what the issues they have, but very fascinating stuff. All right. That wraps it up for today. A little charged at the end there, but we saved the news.

Uh, we saved. the tough stories for the end. Uh, there's going to be a lot more of those coming out wild times. Isn't it folks? Don't we feel like we live in a crazy world? We voted for it. All right. We'll talk to you this afternoon. 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 hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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11-18-24 Afternoon Rush - Golden Bachelorette Ex Calls Out Guy & Haliey Welch On Bobby Bones Podcast Discusses Fame & Diddy Lawsuit Updates!

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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. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Congratulations. You made it to the end of Monday. You did it. I'm so proud of you. It's November 18th, 2024. I got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Let's talk about why having a strong social media presence will help. Help you in today's job market. I know that might not be a sexy story for you, but I like to share some thoughts on growth and building equity and how to use the tools we have to make your lives amazing. So we'll cover that. Plus Haley Welch Hock to a girl was on Bobby bones podcast talking about if she keeps in touch.

With the guy who made her famous and also I've got some bizarre updates on the Diddy trial. Looks like some prominent celebrities aren't going down without a fight. And let's celebrate the resurgence of Lindsay Lohan. My generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's got a new movie coming out that is leaving fans very excited.

I'll have that. Plus some more thoughts on Ariana Grande, her new relationship, and why some cheating may have, uh, involved, been involved, uh, between her and her co star, a showmance of sorts. I got all this plus so much more coming up next on the rush. You know, I'm a big fan of Lindsay Lohan. She was, uh, you know, very famous at an early age from, uh, the remake of Parent Trap.

I mean, I loved the original Parent Trap, but the remake was really good with her. And then she of course was part of that Paris Hilton feud. That was a time when paparazzi were all taking photos of their cha chas when they were getting out of limos. I mean, Wild, insane stuff. And we just kind of let this all go down.

But a decade ago, well, she's made her resurgence and she's announcing her new movie reuniting with Jamie Lee Curtis in freakier Friday. And when she mentions that this movie is coming out on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the crowd goes crazy. Now listen up because you know, they have the applause, but, and they all They have this like sort of faux clapter that they do where they got to clap on all the jokes.

But this is a groundswell of support for Lindsay Lohan. Have a listen. Jamie Lee Curtis has signed on, you signed on to do Freaky Friday sequel, Freakier Friday.

The ladies are excited. And then Jimmy Fallon says, that's real. Not like that fake clap that they did for my monologue. But this is real.

We did not press the applause button or anything. That was just. I'm so happy for Lindsay Lohan, you know, she got into the Christmas movie world last year. I have to say, I didn't love the Christmas movie and I don't know if it was her fault. There's something that was off with the chemistry between her and the, the meat, the main actor, but I would love, I would, I want more, I want to pump out more Lindsay Lohan to whatever level she wants.

Uh, but. I said earlier in the intro, she's kind of like our generation's Marilyn Monroe, and I mean that to the extent where this could have ended very poorly for her. There was a lot of drug abuse and drinking and she was really skinny and she was being like sexualized and all the issues with the paparazzi.

I mean, she was, she was like having like kind of a Britney Spears kind of moment. Somehow she made it through the, you know, her parents got a divorce. There was, she was kind of like, her family was kind of Like the Kardashians before the Kardashians. They were, they were their own reality show. So, very good to see her as an adult.

Kind of just be, I guess, a more normal person. She's almost like a Macaulay Culkin, if you will. They just keep on cheering. This is gonna be big. Whoa. So you just got done filming? Yeah, we just finished. In August. And what was it like? Did you get the rhythm? Did it come right back to you? Did you It was just so, I mean, it's just been such a labor of love to make happen.

Yeah. And Jamie and I, even at the table read, we were just smiling so big that we couldn't, I don't think we were acting well because we were so happy. Yeah! Uh, and I heard there might be But the movie's funny, it's really funny. I might, I heard there might be a little singing in this. No, I'm jamie lee hinted but pink slip is back together Yeah All right, uh when that comes out, please come back and talk about that with us.

Oh, there it is I mean, you know, it's a big story when she wasn't even there to promote freaky freakier friday I mean just make a make three sequels the freakiest You know, freaky, freaky, you know, whatever. Okay. Anyhow, you got, it's a freaky Monday over here, but we're happy to hear about Lindsay Lohan because I know I got a good segment.

I know my demographic. There's a good segment of my audience. That is an elder millennial and we love a good, uh, Lindsay Lohan, uh, story. All right. Inside Ariana Grande in Ethan Slater's wicked romance, there was a gravity Pull. Uh, so the question was asked about whether or not there was cheating involved.

As we know, Ariana Grande started dating co star Ethan Slater. Last July, they went public. Both were still married to other people. Their questionable relationship timeline eclipsed the hotly anticipated movie. So she separated from then husband, LA based real estate developer, Dalton Gomez in July of 2023, after two years of marriage.

He divorced his former high school, sweetheart, Lily J with whom he shares a two year old son the same month. So that's, what's really sad is clearly there was a showman's happening. He was playing SpongeBob on Broadway, which, you know, Hey, look, I mean, take whatever gig you can get. Uh, you know, it's like, can you imagine you left your partner of a wealthy real estate developer?

Oh, who did she leave you for? I don't know, Spongebob, the guy who lives down under the sea. Yeah, that guy, you know, hanging out, he's taking you back to his place and bikini atoll. All right. Whatever. Those jokes don't probably make any sense geographically. It doesn't matter. Um, so anyhow, yeah, there was just a bunch of rumors, sources.

said that there were some hearts broken in the process. We know that, uh, they said they were definitely cheating. Ethan's wife found texts between them flirting. Ariana even met the baby a couple of times while they were both married. Uh, that's just sad, sad stuff. Absolutely. Uh, but that's the world they live in.

Hopefully Ethan Slater's wife got a nice little paycheck from that. Get some of that wicked money. You know what I mean? All right. And speaking of breakups and possible makeups, Brooke Nader. And Dancing with the Stars partner, Gleb Savchenko, spotted together after the split. Uh, this was posted by Us Weekly.

Who knows how much of this is hot garbage? The commenters say, who cares? Look, I think it's interesting, the social media game they're playing. They We're clearly dating and letting people see them. Canoodle. She keeps saying, we're not together, you know, blah, blah, can a lady kiss. And it's like, sure, you can do whatever the hell you want, but we can talk about it too.

And in the world of Brooks nadir and dancing with the stars, partner club, subchenko, they're not a list stars. So they'll benefit from whatever talk people have online about them. And even though they have. Already been voted off, clearly not that likable, which is crazy because he's gorgeous and she's gorgeous.

She's also a great dancer and yet people weren't really into it. It was almost like people want pretty but they don't want you to be too good looking like she's almost too good looking for anyone to care about her. Does that make sense? Either way. They'll be back for the Dancing with the Stars finale.

We'll have to, I mean, I'm sure they'll be dancing, right? That's what they do. They bring couples back to dance. So we'll have to see how that all goes down for them. All right. I've got a Diddy update. A prominent man, I guess we could call that an A lister, is suing Diddy's, uh, Diddy's accuser's lawyer and is alleging that there's extortion happening.

I'll have that story for you next. All right, before I get into the diddy freak off stuff, we got our own golden bachelor freak off story to share. This is from a tick tocker named mama bear advice. I did a YouTube video on it today, but I wanted to share just a slice of it. She dated guy, the runner up on the golden bachelorette.

And she went on two dates with him. This was their first date. Oh, no, excuse me. This was their second date, their first date. They went out to get wine, a wine bar. And then on their second date, this is part of her story. Exposing what she calls is creepy. And, uh, and, uh, let's listen to what she had to say.

With butter, which I just love ladies. I know you're feeling me and we sit down previews. Haven't even started. They began. I'm eating my popcorn and all of a sudden he takes. My hands and he proceeds to start licking my fingers. Now, as Bruce in the Patreon suggested, this is his joke, not mine. You could say that she got the lick.

Come on folks. That's a funny, get it? Cause you got the ick lick. All right. So there it is. And by the way, they were sitting down in the movies before the previews even started. No, you can't be doing that. You got to show up halfway through. Because it used to be, they'd play three trailers, but have you been to a movie in the last couple of years?

I, to be quite honest, I've, the last movie I went to was Top Gun and the movie before that was Barbie. So I've only gone to two movies in like the last five years. Uh, but I tell you they'll, they'll, they'll air anything before a movie. They'll do a real estate bloggers, uh, commercial. YouTube commercial though.

I mean, it's really devastating. You cannot get there too early to be subjected to that. So either way, she claims that he then, um, you know, asked to use her bathroom and stayed over and tried to kiss her. And then when she said, no, he said, can you show me your tits? And I mean, it was a whole, it's a pretty wild tick tock.

So you can go watch my recap of it all again, dating's tough out there, I guess, uh, for all levels. All right, let's go. Speaking of, um, What's tough out there, uh, it's tough out there for Diddy, he's getting accused by dozens if not hundreds of people of all sorts of things, uh, of course we've seen video of him abusing his then girlfriend, so that's no denying that, you know, sometimes we like to say, oh, well, we'll wait and see how it all plays out, we've seen evidence of him being a absolute monster, but there is a accuser's lawyer, who's like doing a class action lawsuit, getting a bunch of people together.

And now he's being sued. A prominent figure is suing the lawyer, repping more than 120 of Diddy's alleged victims, saying the attorney is shamelessly attempting to extort exorbitant sums from him. While threatening a lawsuit packed with wildly false, horrific claims, if he doesn't pay up, uh, this person, this, uh, a lister is being known as John Doe.

He filed a lawsuit in L. A. County Superior Court Monday today, describing himself as a high profile individual. So, you would think that if there was anything true about the accusations, that you wouldn't file, like, your own lawsuit. So, again, That doesn't mean Diddy's not guilty of other crimes. It just might be that there's so many people they're going after that.

Not all of them will be complicit, right? Uh, either way, this is for the courses and to work out, but if there's any merit to it and this gets sent to trial, we will be here to cover it. Um, all right. A pick a ball patreon. com. So I stayed with Neil. I'm not going to share it with you here. It's pretty wild.

Now, one. There's a two pickleball. It was a, you know, it's a doubles match, right? So the pickleball player kind of like smacked the other players paddle ball paddle out of their hand. And so as he bent over it, that other player drop kicked him in the face. Pickleball is pretty crazy. Now, while I don't suggest any physical violence toward any opponents in any sport, you play, this is kind of.

Interesting promo for pickleball as a sport. You just think of it as a bunch of grandmas playing back and forth. It's like a, it's like if tennis had sex with table tennis, you'd get pickleball. It's like a, you know, something in between. Uh, but these guys, they're, uh, they're, uh, getting pretty nasty out there.

It's almost like pickleball meets mixed martial arts. Um, so anyhow, are you guys out there playing pickleball? I haven't played yet. I think I would be pretty good at it though. I was, uh, my hand, eye coordination, pretty good. All right. Here's an update on Kim Zoliak. Am I pronouncing that right? And, uh, she's been trying to sell her home and they chopped another 300, 000 off the price.

So if anyone's out there, they're essentially giving away this mansion for a cool 3. 65 million. It's a seven bedroom, 11 bathroom mansion. And I believe it is in, is it in Georgia? Yeah, it's a Georgia home. I kind of want to buy it slightly out of my price range. Um, it's at, uh, it's the foreclosure auction is happening on December 3rd.

Let me ask you guys this. I don't live too far from Georgia. Does anyone want to go in on this with me? I'll put down 10, 000. If you could front me around 3 million, maybe we could do something here. Do we have any angel investors out there that want to be a part of it? I'll give you your own wing. You get your own wing of the house and it's got a nice pool and all of that.

You can see what I'm looking at here on the Patreon. Uh, so. They initially were listing it for 6 million just one year ago. So they've already knocked it down to half that price. I mean, come on, who's buying a 6 million home in Georgia? No offense to Georgia. It's not oceanfront property. Uh, so I don't know.

Uh, the estranged exes attempted to sell the property. It's been a rollercoaster. The house slipped into foreclosure two months before they filed their divorce petitions. You know, that's gotta suck. Not only are you getting a divorce, but you also can't sell your home. That's the thing. That's just, I mean, I don't even know what she's from.

What is she a real housewife? I have no idea. I just see these people. These are like, they must have good PR because they're always in the news. And I'm like, who are you? Um, all right, well, I've got a couple, uh, stories regarding, uh, Uh, work and sort of how to boost your earning potential in 2025. I also have a story about the international space station.

Let's go to the space station. And then we will go to some stories about how to boost your, your income. Uh, the first one is a NASA story and they, I guess I have a leak. There's a leak in the space station. It's okay, though. It's on the Russian side of the space station. Have a listen. A serious situation unfolding 250 miles above Earth.

The International Space Station, or ISS, which is about the size of a football field, has been experiencing air leaks. The leaks in its Russian section were first spotted in 2019, but have recently gotten worse. The space station needs to maintain its air pressure to keep astronauts safe. The problem is located in a tunnel connecting a Russian module called Zvezda to a docking port, where the spacecraft delivers supplies.

NASA is very concerned about the structural integrity of the space station and is warning of serious consequences. NASA added extra emergency seats to their SpaceX spacecraft in case of an evacuation. On the other side, though, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, maintains that fears of catastrophic failure are unrealistic.

Russia has actively searched for and repaired problem areas, reducing leak rates. and have concluded that operations can continue safely. Despite disagreements, NASA and Roscosmos continue to work together closely. They've taken the precautionary step of keeping that section sealed off unless they need to access it.

The ISS has been continuously occupied by astronauts since 2000. Scientists conduct research that helps us understand things like how to grow food in space and how diseases behave in zero gravity. They're like, yeah, they, they do research, like how to float. Like, what else are you doing out there? Uh, look, this, this reminds me of like, if you've ever had a roommate who will leave their window open in the winter and you're paying electric bill and you're like, Hey, can you close your window?

That's how this kind of feels. The Russians, they're so casual. They're like, Oh, who cares? There's a leak. You know what I mean? Like whatever. It's like, okay, fine. Yeah. Uh, the, the Russian experiments, how to drink vodka in space. Um, anyhow, no, look, uh, yeah, you don't want, you don't want leaks. And by the way, how do they even get oxygen in there?

Do they have an oxygen like converting kit? Where do they bring the oxygen from? I have no idea how that works. I have no idea how they get oxygen into the space station. Do they bring up oxygen tanks? Literally. Could anyone tell me this? I have no idea. All right. Well, here is a discussion I found on social media.

Uh, speaking of social media about why it's so important. In the job market to have a robust social media. So why is it important when you are searching for a job to show to your employer that you actually bring a network with you? Have a listen. What a new time we are in when you say social media, influencer and pre owned director.

These are new titles now, right? You know, I would reconsider hiring somebody if they did not have a social media presence. I mean, we're to the point now. Where it's such a strong advocate for sales and relationship building that if you don't have a social media presence, you literally aren't bringing everything to the table that a potential employer, a brand manufacturer, a dealer group or whatever, uh, to, to be able to, you know, maximize your value to them.

You have to have a social media presence. I make it a point when I interview people now, I, you know, to ask, you know, do you have social media and how many followers and whatnot? I think it's that prevalent. Listen, I think building your social media is important, whether you work for a corporation or you work for yourself.

I actually was covering this on the app blue sky. It's like a Twitter app, but it's new. They're getting like a new million subscribers every day. So my handle on blue sky is D Neals, D N E A L Z, just like my handle anywhere else. And I was sharing about how in the last three years I've gone from basically being unemployed to buying my own home, my car, you know, financing my, you know, Buying, paying for my wedding and having a baby, how I've been able to do all of these things, essentially because of YouTube podcasting and social media.

And it's, it's so easy to say, well, I don't care about that. I always want to go to a job or whatever, but the way the world's going, you're only going to be as good as what you bring to the table. Uh, so I think I'm going to start trying to give more tips on how to do that. I did give those tips on blue sky and on threads, which again, my, you know, Handle is the same.

Whether you go to threads or blue sky D Neils, uh, on, on how to provide information and entertainment to an audience. And you know, the internet's very simple. It's all about giving. If you can give content to others, whatever your expertise level is, if you're a real estate agent, you need a YouTube channel.

Because you need to talk every day or every week about the market rates. What's hot in the market. What's not, you need to provide value to your audience. And in return, you'll find new clients. That's how it all works. Right? So for me as a comedian, if I post very funny standup comedy clips, then I'm going to provide, build a demand for people that want to see me perform.

You know, I was just in New York city for shows and I was like, anyone want to come to our show tonight? And, and, and there it was a couple of my friends from, I believe, Ontario, Canada were just visiting in town and. Because I had a big enough social media, I was able to get audience to the show. Then the Booker sees that I'm in demand and I provide value to their club because now they're going to be buying cheeseburgers and watching me perform.

Everything you do comes back to what do you bring to the table, right? That's what a job is. And in the world moving forward, what you bring to the table is who is a part of your army that you represent. So I don't know. Uh, I was thinking about. putting together a little like, um, a segment of my Patreon where I help people grow their content by just discussing and answering questions they might have.

DM me if you'd be interested in that, join the Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. Otherwise I'll be continuing to share thoughts on here, but I am an example, right? So a lot of people give advice, but they never lived it. I'm an example of somebody who has built, you know, multiple six figure Revenue streams from nothing because I've, you know, kind of been trusted by the algorithms that trust comes from showing up for work every day.

And by that, I mean, continuing to make content. And of course you guys being amazing audiences. So it's mutually beneficial. I receive ad pay and all of that. And then you guys have some content to listen to, which wouldn't be here. If you know, I wasn't, um, being compensated for it. So the world out there is only moving into that direction.

And I love to see that a lot of my audience are also moving into that direction. Um, send me a DM, if you have any questions or you can follow me on those different platforms to get more tips. Uh, I'm not charging for it other than Patriot. I'm not charging for the other advice or over here. I just think it's.

Interesting and worth talking about. All right. From job opportunity to Jesse Eisenberg discussing what jobs he wants to take. We'll have that story for you next. Here's Jesse Eisenberg being interviewed by Variety on the red carpet, discussing the social network and whether he would do a sequel. I know Aaron Sorkin has talked about doing more social network, another social network movie, obviously, because things have changed since then.

Would you be into it? I would be into any acting job. Any job, any job period, I would do the voice of Rice Krispies or be in a movie or whatever. People are kind of. Open to having me in I would do those jobs. I love how honest he is. Now, obviously if you're in demand, you can be selective, but if you love acting and you're an actor and you're going to pay someone to do a job, you want to do it.

It's like summer camp. So good for him for being honest right there. Speaking of doing any job, we've got the hawk to a girl, Haley Welch discussing the job of going viral and how she doesn't talk to the guy who kind of made her viral, put her on the map. Have you talked to that dude? Have you said, Tell him thank you for what?

Making you famous? Well, see, we reached out to him and I asked him to stop posting those videos and he never did. He blocked us all and everything. I'm not telling him thank you for anything. Really? So you reached out to go, Hey, would you chill on that? And he blocked you? Cause I mean, he posts when I'm like, Oh, that's it.

Here would come another one. A few days later, I was like, man, maybe that's it. Here come another one. Then just so on. So in the beginning, you just wanted it to all go away and make it stop. And you just continue life at home and at the spring factory. And then now, since he wouldn't stop, You're just like, okay, what does this make possible for me?

Now i'll be honest. I've been very honest. I like hayley welch the idea of her Uh, she's objectively A bad podcaster, but that's okay. She's new to the game, but she's not good. She's she's she's actually Not good at all. There are, but I think what's funny about her is that she's like a fish out of water.

She's just straight out of the, the random, you know, uh, rural, uh, Tennessee, and she says some kind of crazy things with a twang, but she's not. So for her to be sort of above the guy who posted the clips, it's like, he didn't force you. To be interviewed. He was out there hustling, doing interviews. And yeah, I mean, was he going to exploit some funny things you said?

Sure. But you set it into his microphone. You know what I mean? So for that reason alone, I'm kind of like side eye. It's like, she probably has no clue. The level of lottery she actually hit. Like I think she, I think she gets it and contextualizes it to an extent, but there are people that work eight, 10, 15 years to build up their brand to only get a percentage of the success she got.

Now she said something super funny, super viral, and she's capitalizing on it. But what she needs to work on now, I think is a little bit of gratitude. And I know she has a lot of gratitude. I know she's donating to a lot of places, but like I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that the guy who made her famous, whether it was his intention or not, is the bad guy here.

He's, you wouldn't be where you are if it wasn't for the fate that introduced you to that guy who was running the man on the street interviews. Does that make sense? Um, okay. Anyhow. Bye. Last video, here is an update on what the heck might go down with this Matt, Matt Gates ethics report. Again, he's being accused of crazy things and he's nominated to be the next attorney general.

It looks like they may possibly vote on releasing the ethics report. You know, our tax dollars paid for this. The house ethics committee is meeting Wednesday to discuss their report on Trump's attorney general pick Matt Gates NBC's Allie Vitale. What options can the committee discuss here, Allie? Ali, look, we know Ana that this meeting had initially been set to happen at the end of last week.

It was postponed though. Some of the conversation was about whether or not it was canceled. Now we're seeing that it's back on the books and a source is telling our Scott Wong that it will happen on Wednesday afternoon, again, a highly anticipated meeting to discuss. Discuss the investigation that the Ethics Committee has been doing on and off, frankly, since 2021 into now former Congressman Matt Gaetz.

We have also, though, the Speaker of the House now saying to the Ethics Committee that he strongly urges them not to vote to release Matt Gaetz. I say the more they say don't release it, release it. Why not? The taxpayers paid for it. It's already done. Let us know what we're voting for, for, you know, who's going to lead our country and be the, the, what, you know, the attorney general's the largest law enforcement gig in the world.

Really? I think we deserve to know if he's, Done some crazy stuff. All right. That's it for me. Uh, the only crazy stuff I'm doing right now is releasing two podcasts a day. And if you know the podcast world, that's crazy enough. That's a lot of content. So if you appreciate what I do, share it with a friend.

Hit the, uh, you know, uh, subscribe, you know, make sure you're subscribed. And also, yeah, if you have any friend groups or chat boards or whatever the hell you do, keep sharing, posting, tweeting. We appreciate that organic growth that we get. No hawk to a moments for us. We're just building a brick by brick.

Hey, look, I don't blame her for, uh, you know, Riding the wave that she caught, uh, but either way, uh, here, this is the wave that we have and we're happy to have it. So anyhow, we'll talk to you guys in the morning as always. 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. Hey, good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you, November 18th, 2024. Got all your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. And, uh, I'll give you my thoughts on the Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson fight from Friday night.

Plus more drama from the Zach Brian, Brianna chicken fry breakup. She's threatening to release damning videos. If he doesn't return her cat plus Joe Biden becomes the first sitting president to give a speech in the Amazon rainforest. And we've got an E. coli outbreak in carrots, you Plus long range missiles have been given the go ahead for use by Ukraine in their war against Russia.

I don't know carrots in Russia. It ain't looking good. Uh, we got a lot of other positive stories to get to. It's not all doom and gloom. So I'll share some of those. Plus my gratitude for those that have. Had my back and stuck by my side as the relentless smear campaign against me continues by a person who's not happy that we've, you know, sort of exposed.

This is a, this is a, this is kind of the collateral damage, right? We exposed a fraud, which is, you know, going to be turned into a documentary and it's kind of a big deal and we've helped regain the character and lives of several people. But because of that, we've pissed off someone in particular and they keep smearing us.

But luckily We've got a lot of people, I guess, uh, you know, who have our back and we appreciate that so, so much. So I'll give, I'll give a statement on my thoughts there. And again, so much more to talk about. So stick around. We'll be back with all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. We actually have an update to a story we covered several days ago.

You might remember, we covered the story that The View co host Whoopi Goldberg said a local bakery refused to serve her a birthday dessert because of her liberal political views. Well, the owner has a different story. And I got to tell you, I called this out from a mile away. I said, ah, this feels a little fishy.

Here's what the owner had to say. You do not mess with Staten Island. The place that made these. Refused to make them for me. Oh, really? Yes. So then everyone spit out the cake. And look, I just, I called this out. I said, ah, this sounds kind of fishy. So what happens? Well, like the leaders of Staten Island have come forward and set up a podium to denounce Whoopi Goldberg.

They said that their, their ovens had gone down, all kinds of stuff. Folks went and got them anyway, which is why I'm not telling you who made them, but it's I, it's not can't be because I'm a woman, but perhaps they did not like my politics. The people who defamed Hulteman, the Hulteman family should apologize to the Hulteman family.

And by the way, this is Vito, who is the president of Staten Island, the borough. for making stuff up to suit their needs. We're here today to have Halterman bakeries back because the Halterman family, generationally, has had the backs of this community. Not everybody wakes up every day and thinks about politics.

I'm so glad that we see all the cars here, all the people coming in and out of the store today to send a message to the person who decided that she was too important for a boiler breakdown, that she had to have her own place. Her pastries. And if it wasn't coming to her, it must've been someone else's fault.

It must've been a directed insult to her. When he said a boiler breakdown, I thought that was like a political term. No, I think the boiler broke down. Well, there it is. That was your big beef between a Holterman's bakery and whoopie Goldberg from the view. We'll have to see if she responds to it. Uh, and that wasn't the only beef over the weekend.

Of course we had the. Jake Paul, the Mike Tyson fight. Uh, did you watch it? Did you have any streaming issues? Yeah. You remember a couple of years ago, we tried to watch love is blind. They tried to do a live after show and there was all these streaming issues. My guess is they had, I don't know, 6 million people watching and it crashed the servers.

Well, this time they had 60 million people in the United States watching, which. Probably was as, as many as the Superbowl, a cultural moment. Mike Tyson and Netflix are both bruised and battered after the 58 year old made his much anticipated return to the ring. The boxing legend lost to internet star turned boxer Jake Paul.

A lot of rust on old Iron Mike. Meanwhile, people watching live on Netflix had their own battle with streaming issues. Some posting pictures of their frozen screens on social media. You Netflix says the fight is now available to watch for everyone. I guess you just have to pretend that you don't know who won.

Yeah, that's, you know, what happened with me is it was buffering. And I knew to stay off my phone because I knew, you know, I watched it probably half an hour afterwards, but I was like, let's just wait for it to end. As soon as the fight's over, the buffering will probably stop and then I'll be able to enjoy it.

And I enjoyed it. I thought it was a good fight. Now, as I said, I wanted Mike Tyson to whoop some butt. It's the same reason I wanted Tom Brady to play football till his knees fell off in his fifties. I there's something about seeing someone fight father time that I think is quite impressive. Now I'll share with you what Mike Tyson had to say, because he was coming back from mass, a massive injury.

Uh, but yeah, 60 million households globally, uh, and 65 million concurrent streams, according to data shared by Netflix. That's a huge success. So more data will be released and we'll share that, but Netflix said 50 million households globally tuned in live for the co main event, which was Serrano versus Taylor too.

That, uh, probably became the most watched professional women's sporting event in us history, which by the way, was probably a more entertaining fight than. Tyson V Jake Paul, but either way, they were coheadlining the fight. Mike Tyson said victory was just getting back into the ring and says he nearly died in June.

Here's what he posted. This is, and I'm not going to do it with the lisp. Okay. This is one of those situations where you lost, but still won. I'm grateful for last night. No regrets. to get in ring one last time. I almost died in June, had eight blood transfusions, lost half my blood and 25 pounds in the hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight.

So I won to have my children, see me stand toe to toe and finish eight rounds with a talented fighter. Half my age in front of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an experience that no man has the right to ask for. Thank you. Um, yeah, so. Here's the deal. Oh, there's, there are so many conspiracy, I love conspiracies, but I don't fall for them, but there's so many conspiracies that Mike Tyson, that the fight was thrown, that he was paid to lose the fight.

And it's like, look, he's 58. He was hopping around on a bad knee. Uh, like, like you said, he had that stomach ulcer. He had all this bleeding. So even though he was like in peak training mode leading up to that, they had to postpone this fight for four or five months. And even then I'm sure, I mean, look. I'm 39.

I can't recover. If I bend over the wrong way, sometimes I sleep with the wrong hotel pillow and I'm out for a week. You know what I mean? So I've got so much grace for, for seeing someone like Mike Tyson at that age, hang in there for eight rounds. Well, what did Jake Paul have to say? He says he actually showed mercy on iron Mike and didn't want to hurt him.

Have a listen to Jake Paul and his after the fight press conference. Round three, Mike seemed to be running out of gas a little bit. You were working the jab really well. At any point, did you start to take your foot off the gas just a little bit? Cause you noticed he was tiring out? Yeah, definitely.

Definitely a bit. You know, I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn't want to hurt someone that didn't need to be hurt. Did you feel Mike's power at all? No, he hit you at one and you give him the tongue. I only, because the crowd like. Got turnt up, but it didn't actually hurt, but I mean No one's punches have like really hurt.

I got buzzed a little bit against Tommy Fury, but that's about it So anyway Look at you. People could say, Oh, Jake Paul, such a douche or whatever. Yeah. I mean, he fought a guy twice his age, but he did fight one of this is what's great. Crazy about boxing. Like who would have ever thought you could even get in the ring at that age?

I mean, that's just ridiculous that he would do that. But you know, Mike Tyson made 20 million on the fight. He was at a worth at, at one time up to 300 million and he's had some failed business ventures. And I think his net worth kind of went down to 3 million, which, you Multimillionaire, three millions, basically poor, not to us, but to them, you know, so for him to get in the ring and last eight rounds and make his 20 million.

Sure. There was pride on the line. I'm sure Mike Tyson wanted to whoop him up, but yeah, he didn't have the power, you know? And it's like, no surprises, you know, like what professional athlete outside of like golfing is playing into their fifties. You just don't see that happen like that. Um, yeah. Now, as far as Jake Paul, I mean, look, I want to see him fight a professional boxer his own age.

That's what I want to see. So we'll have to see if that comes next. Uh, Dana White, the sort of a chief czar of the UFC commented on the Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul fight. I'll have his commentary after a quick word from our sponsor. Well here it is. Dana White was asked about Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson.

Here's what he had to say. Jake Paul, I'm just your thoughts on what we saw. Mike Tyson was right and I was wrong. I basically said, I told him, Mike, you're basically 60 years old, and he's like, you honestly think this fucking kid's gonna do anything to me? He's not good. He's not gonna fucking knock me out, he's not gonna do this.

And you saw him, he tripped when he was walking down the thing, he had a hard time walking up the stairs, he had a knee brace on, and Jake Paul couldn't do anything to him. He made a ton of money, and I know people are mad, you stayed home on a Saturday night, but you didn't pay for it. You know what I mean?

And You know, Mike, this is what Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson shows up. Everybody makes money, you know, so look, I mean, he's got a point It's it's really how you look at it You can look at it and say well Jake Paul won the fight or you can look at it and say well Mike Tyson hung in there at the age of 58 and that's impressive enough All right.

So let's go to some other news stories. Let's go to Brianna La Paglia. That's Brianna chicken fries She claims she has a Zachary Brian abuse video and threatens to release it. There's some foul language here. Have a listen. If this man's post my fucking cat one more time, I'm going to post videos of you whipping shit at my face.

And that's literally all she said. She said, I'm going to post photos of him throwing stuff at her. And look, if he's throwing things at her, that is abusive. Unless it's like. I mean, I'm trying to think of a scenario. Are they playing wiffle ball? Like, you know what I mean? What, in what scenario would it not be really bad for him?

Now, David Portnoy comments on this again, the, uh, sort of creator of Barstool, uh, defending his, uh, employee, Brown and Chicken Fry saying, isn't it interesting that she's made all these claims about him after their breakup and he hasn't said a dang thing, which, you know, probably means he's guilty. Dave, what's crazy for me in this, and upsetting to me, cause this guy, what a, what a dickhead.

He might be the, the only enemy you've ever had that's too big. Well, you never know who else is out. That's one, that's another thing that's so great about what she did is, there are going to be other people out there. I mean, his silence is quite literally deafening. Deafening, like he hasn't disputed. He hasn't said the other thing he, he, they haven't said a fucking word to contradict anything she has said.

But you look at this guy, like Chris Brown. I mean, he's still like, he fucking punched Rihanna in the face. There's pictures of it. He still sells. So, you know, He, he's so massive. I don't know that he'll feel anything like this except you know this, this is a really bad dude, but I still see people like separate the music and the art.

Yeah. Like I get it. But this guy, this guy is a piece of shit . So there it is. Don't we all wanna boss who, uh, defends us that way? Alright, there's some pretty negative stories out there. Why don't we do a pallet cleanser with some claymation conversation on the Today Show. For the first time in over 50 years, this guy's returning to NBC.

Come home, Rudolph. Yeah. Christmas is not off, and you're going to lead my team. Yes, sir. You and that wonderful nose of yours. Next month, Love Reindeer, uh, with an O So Bright, is leading Santa's sleigh right back to NBC. That's where it debuted in 1964. More than Five decades after it was on CBS, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is the longest running holiday special in TV history, and you can watch it here, where it belongs, on Friday, December 6th.

All right, there it is. Friday, December 6th. My wife loves these claymation things. I'm sorry. No, I don't have any nostalgic value for like these types. I know I'm, you're going to cancel your subscription right now. I'm not a big fan. Like I'll watch it if I have to. And by the way, I watched my first Christmas movie of the season.

It's called Christmas Island. It's on Netflix. I think it came out last year, but it's new on Netflix. I wanted to give it a red light. I have a green light, yellow light, red light score. I wanted to give it a red light. And as I was going to give it a red light, I accidentally cried a little bit watching it.

And I was so ashamed. I'm not afraid to cry. But if my wife catches me crying over a stupid thing, she's going to make fun of me. And sure enough, I was, I was, I shed a tear. There was a moment that, that one of the B plot storylines got to me. It was about, it was about a brother and a sister and it was completely irrelevant to the movie.

But just for the fact that the movie made me shed a tear means it now has a yellow light, which means proceed with caution. It's not a green light, which means everyone should watch it. It was a pretty bad movie about a. Female pilot. I shouldn't say it was a female, but just for the heteronormative relationship structure here, she's a she's a pilot.

And then there's this sort of sassy air traffic controller and a guy. And then there's a blizzard and they're forced to land the plane in Christmas Island, which, by the way, Has all of the makings for a great movie. It just didn't deliver. You could say there was a little turbulence in the plot and script.

Now, if you have any Christmas movies you want me to review, let me know. I'm here to give you guys all the information you need. So go ahead and watch it. But I fell asleep in the last few minutes, but I did cry. So again, it's a yellow, it's a, it's a yellow for me. All right, let's move it along. Uh, found in the rainforest of the Amazon is President Joe Biden.

He pledged new financial help to protect the Amazon. Here's what he had to say. Today, I'm proud to be here. The first city US president to visit the Amazon rainforest to recommit to protecting the rainforest like this one. Folks, we don't have to choose between the environment and the economy. We can do both.

We've proven it back home. It's no secret. And I'm leaving office in January. I will have my, I will leave my successor and my country in a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so. Now, I don't believe there'll be much work to save the rainforest, but who knows? I mean, I think we should.

Didn't they say, isn't the Amazon rainforest, like the lungs of the world, all the oxygen that comes out of it, not to mention all of the great pharmaceuticals and cures that come out of it. But Hey, what do I know? We're going to need a cure for E. coli. It's in our dang carrots. Health officials are warning of an E.

coli outbreak linked to organic carrots, infecting 39 people across 18 States. One person died. Has died. The CDC is warning organic whole and baby carrots sold by Grimway Farms are making people sick. The products have been recalled by the company and they have been removed from store shelves. However, there's still the warning out there that they may be in your home.

Some of the brands being recalled include Whole Foods, 365, Simple Truth, Trader Joe's, Wegmans. You can find the entire list on cdc. gov, uh, for the list of brands and stores that are affected. No, I'm not going to do it. You know what? I ate carrots tonight. I'm going to wash my carrots and I'm not going to live in fear.

If I get wiped out by a dang carrot, no, not happening. And I love carrots. By the way, it's our son August's six month checkup and We were going to give him his first food today, which was a carrot. I think we'll switch to banana. Uh, what's on the menu, breast milk and bananas. It's going to be fantastic.

All right. You ever just wish if you're an old millennial, like me, you might daydream of, I don't know if you remember in college, we, the way that showed the real world, you know, there'd be those MTV shows. And this was like before social media, the only way to make it. In life would be to be like sort of a celebrity in a reality show.

Do you guys remember Johnny? I think it's, but is it Johnny bananas? Is that his name? Johnny bananas? Speaking of bananas, that's his name. Oh, well, here it is from one. How about that for a banana segue from one banana to another? No e coli on these bananas. Johnny bananas was on the change unfiltered podcast talking about how much money he was racking up partying every night.

As much as I want to say, this sounds so debaucherous. I think we can all agree. It'd be kind of fun for a little bit. Now have a listen. Um, spring break, there used to be a company called student city. We would do six weeks of spring break and that's partying for six straight weeks. So, I mean, that was kind of how I made a living back in the day.

Imagine partying for six straight weeks in today's world. Not again to, to, to be old. I can't eat carbs after 9 PM without having swollen knuckles the next day. Pay worth it. I mean, for me, I was a 23 year old kid, and I was making 3, 000 a night going to a bar and drinking. I remember, because this is before, um, this is before, like, they really got strict with, like, flying and what you were allowed to bring on the plane.

I would literally have Because they used to pay obviously the bars wanted to pay off the books So they would just give us a stack of either 20s or 100 bills Okay, I would travel around and I didn't want to I don't want to put that in the bank So I would literally travel around with 30 40 thousand dollars In cash in a backpack and i'd be going through the tsa and they were like what the hell is this You ever wonder what someone must have done in a previous life to be gifted that sort of I mean lifestyle Now if you're an introvert if you're like my wife, this would be miserable 3, 000 a night to go party with strangers.

She'd she'd say no. Thank you. I'll go read another harry potter book But for a chatterbug like me, I mean i'd love it. That'd be great. You know, anyhow All right. Well, I got a couple more stories to get to so let's uh, take a quick break We'll be back with more right after this Well, things have escalated in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Have a listen. NBC news has confirmed president Biden will now allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long range goals. This marks a significant policy shift and it comes after Biden officials condemned the North Korean deployment of troops to Russia as a possible expansion of the war. Look, I don't know how I feel about this, but, um, Yeah.

The world's getting interesting. What are you supposed to do? They invaded, uh, Ukraine. I, in other political news, I don't know if that's political geopolitical, uh, Hakeem Jeffries commented on the Gates report. Matt Gates was supposed to receive a, you know, the report on Friday of, uh, would appear to be an underaged sex trafficking ring.

Kind of a big deal. Here's what he has to say. Mr. Jeffries, how concerned are you that the House Ethics Report will not release? their findings into their investigation into congressman gates and do you think that's information that the senate's entitled to before his confirmation i think it was justice brandeis who once said that sunlight is the best disinfectant in the democracy transparency is always the best course of action particularly when it relates to high ranking government officials.

Uh, but I'm not going to get out ahead of the top Democrat on the Health Ethics Committee, Susan Wilde, until she and I have had an opportunity to talk. I mean, what's so interesting about this is our taxpayer money Has already gone towards this whole investigation. And now they're just not, I guess, letting it air because he's retired.

He's retired. He's a stepped down. He resigned, but he's supposed to be the attorney general. That's kind of a big deal out there. And of course, all this information is coming out that says like, look, this Matt Gates guy, he's a bad, bad guy. Now I'm hesitant to even share this clip because it's so disgusting, but this is what he said.

In a speech in front of people again, the guy who's supposed to be the leading attorney, the attorney general of the gosh dang United States of America. People are just disgusting. Why is it? That the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.

These people are odious on the inside and out. They're like 5'2 350 pounds he goes on and on and on and again This is Matt Gaetz Trump's pick for the top law enforcement officer in the land wild stuff in The only reason we know of him is because his dad and his grandfather were politicians. So from Nepo baby to working for like what a year in a law firm to then becoming a member of the U S house of reps.

And then of course, um, the allegations against him are just absolutely crazy. And now they're trying to keep them under wraps, not to be conspiratorial, but my thought is if Trump nominates him and he Pat and he, and he makes his way through to attorney general, he'll have to do Trump's bidding. Whatever Trump wants, otherwise Trump can like have his His, um, ethics committee file released.

I think they should be released already. And I think actually enough Republicans are going to come to their senses and vote against him, uh, being nominated for attorney general. That's my prediction. I don't, I don't think they're going to let this pass. Um, there has to, there has to be something done about this, right?

I mean, wild stuff. All right. Well. So where do we go from there? In other news, okay, so this is hard to talk about because I want to be brief here and I'm going to, I'll make a YouTube video about it, but there's been some crazy things being said about me by the lady who accused Clayton Eckert of being the father for unborn twins.

Now, of course, for the last year and change, we've covered this story and exposed so many cases of fraud, medical fraud, uh, her lying to me, you know, faking documents, things she admitted to under oath. Changing the date in places of where she allegedly got her, had her abortion or miscarriage, was using Plan B pills to hold over guys heads to sign dating contracts to date her.

I mean, real heinous, heinous stuff. Well, her and her attorney have, I guess, have a new strategy of a PR campaign. And to be quite honest, I don't really have a problem with it. Um, you'd be surprised what gets to me and what doesn't, but we, we are just surrounded by so many great people. I want to shout out Lauren and Bruce who, uh, on YouTube defended me very strongly last night.

And to all the others that have come to my back on the Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. It, it's like, We, you know, I've been accused of being a liar. Uh, I've had my character kind of slandered and some people even think I could sue for defamation, which I really don't have any plans of doing unless they cross the line.

But what happened yesterday was they brought my wife and baby into the conversation and essentially said things like, will, will his son, you know, what will his son have to say for when his dad is asked about for being a guy who ruined a lady's life? I don't look at it like I've ruined a lady's life.

I'm, I'm helping her. I guess, uh, uh, be, um, I held accountable really for the actions she caused, uh, against these men and I'm okay with that. I'm pretty good about that. And I think if I'm teaching my son anything, it's that it justice is important. It's important that we, you know, fight for each other. It's important that we fight for kindness and love and let that sort of rise above the hate that is out there.

There's been a lot of hate spewed. In our direction from her, she called the FBI on me. She called the district's attorney. She tried to get a lawsuit, a restraining order against me. She emailed other content creators. I now have people that like, don't talk to me in part because they don't want to be anything near the, this controversy.

And you know what we've done? We've really maintained. The direction of truth. We've kept that compass dead set for the North Star, right? Uh, we've just continued to slowly but surely go after the information and in the depths of all of the lies and pick them apart. And that's all we've done. And, and, and luckily, We were on the right side of the story when it started, and we've continued to stay on the right side of the story and expose through the help of all of you.

So much, uh, so, so many different, um, aspects of abuse, really, we've exposed tons of abuse and. By that measure, I sleep very well at night. So my response in brief to some of the smears, you can say whatever you want. Like we've, we've built up after years and years of covering. I mean, if this was a, he said, she said, and we didn't have any proof.

And I was like, I'm not the guy I wasn't in the room. I'm just the one who's sifted through the evidence. I've seen all the sort of, um, Fraud committed at me by her and all of the attempts to change public opinion through smear campaigns and creating fake characters. We call that astro turfing. We've seen all of that go down.

There's zero credibility coming from her camp. So for her to call me names and try to bring my family into it, I think it says more about them than it does about me. So I wanted to take the time this morning to just thank all of you guys for continuing to support me as we Navigate all of this. It's not a story and it's not a target.

I wish on anybody. I would not want anyone to deal with this. I'm preparing, I'm preparing that in 2025 I'll be served a lawsuit and I'm preparing to defend myself no matter the cost. And I think that'll be what I look back on as a moment of like, um, standing up for what's right. And I'm, I'm okay with the direction that that'll take me.

I've got complete faith in the judicial system that, that, that a, something wouldn't even go to trial, but B that I'd be able to defend myself and my actions every step of the way. And I appreciate you guys for supporting me on that. I truly do. If people don't even know what I'm talking about, you might, I might sound like a madman, but that's all it is.

Is it, it has created madness out of nowhere because of the senseless lies, manipulation, fraud. And deceit, uh, committed all, all to get your way revenge. I mean, it's very primal and, um, and, uh, you know, we, we don't need to, we don't need to lower ourselves to their levels. So anyone who's a fan of mine, mind you, just not to comment on their channel, not to feed into the hysteria they want to create and keep our eyes on the prize and keep sharing love.

Keep sharing positivity and, um, and I think that'll get us through all of this. I have a lot of faith in that. All right. Well, we'll have a lot of comment with that. A lot of, a lot of content to get to today with that said, we'll have a YouTube video and you can support me on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal.

I know I'm a few minutes long, but I gotta, I gotta give thanks to all these people. The folks in the Patreon community chat have been going last night, just off the charts in defense of me. I mean, I choose not to take offense to these things that are being said about me because a, they're just like completely baseless and they have no proof, you know, like they're calling me a liar.

They have, you know, I've done nothing but tell the truth. So none of that stuff bothers me, but seeing everyone come to my defense, that's special. I didn't expect that. So thank you guys all so much for that. We'll have a very busy and positive day today and maybe we'll be getting some, uh, first food for the baby today.

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11-15-24 Afternoon Rush - Prepping For Tyson v Paul Fight & Recapping Crazy Legal Threats Made At My Colleagues & A Love Is Blind Cheating Scandal

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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 afternoon, everybody on this Friday, November 15th, 2024. Let's get into all of your pop culture and entertainment news all in one place. We've got bachelorette Jen Tran heading back to the ballroom dance floor, preparing for a dance with Sasha on the finale episode.

I'll share what she had to say, plus thoughts and all the drama that went down with the threats of suing podcasters. Plus we can reveal who will be hosting the Oscars. One of my all time favorite comedic personalities. I'm telling you right now, it's going to be a radonk episode of the Oscars. If this comedic actor has anything to say about it, uh, and I've also got a possible love is blind cheating scandal and we'll get hype for the fight of the century, Jake Paul versus iron Mike.

Tyson. How about that? I mean, Mike Tyson, listen, the boxer who wins is always the one with the biggest badonkadonk. I'm telling you right now, it's the one with the biggest badonkadonk. And, uh, don't get me wrong. Jake Paul's got a little bit of that Hoobastank energy, that Gen Z kind of vibe going on, but he's about to get whipped by, I guess, a Gen Xer, right?

It's a battle of the generation. So I'll have the hype video for that. It's a must watch tonight. And I'll have all of those stories and so much more coming up next on The Rush. All right, we'll start with the Jake Paul fight and I guess we should really give respect to Mike Tyson called the Mike Tyson fight.

It is on tonight on Netflix, I guess, uh, what, uh, eight o'clock, seven o'clock, whatever time it is, it's probably going to be like a five hour long episode. They're going to be multiple fights. It's going to be fun. I'm not a fighter. I'm a Hufflepuffer and you know, we don't like to throw down, but as the Hufflepuffers will tell you, do I enjoy a good, uh, dramatic, uh, bout.

And about damn time. So we're going to go do Colin Howard from the herd. Here's what he had to say about Mike Tyson V Jake Paul. I've never bought into the, the sanctity of boxing. Now give me a break. Do you hear yourself? It's a money grab. So tonight, Jake Paul takes on Mike Tyson. I'm in yesterday. They had their stare down.

Tyson and his camp saying Jake Paul stepped on his foot, Tyson slapped him, count me in. It's an elephant ear for dinner and a deep fried funnel cake for dessert. You may go home and feel sick to your stomach, but you only do it about once a year. That's how often you care about boxing. And perfectly placed at Jerry's world.

I can hear the carnival Barker. See the dangerous man, the world take on a YouTube sensation step right up. But Mike Tyson is also the rare athlete that has mystique. He's a little wilt tiger. When he went into the rough, where does reality end? And the tall tale begin with Tyson. I covered him in Vegas when I was 22 years old.

There were a lot of stories I can't repeat, I wouldn't put in print, I'm not sure I'd tell people over a cocktail at a lounge. That inappropriate. But he's endured, and that's kind of what America allows. Redemption. We're a little judgy, build you up, tear you down for a generation of kids. Mike Tyson's just that guy from the hangover.

Yeah, that's what's interesting is we have no idea what we're going to get from Mike Tyson. I mean, I've been watching the documentary. It's a three part series. And again, you might think. You think that this is some giant sponsored post. No, this is, I'm genuinely excited for tonight. There was a three part docu docuseries on Netflix.

You gotta watch it. Where it kind of breaks down where Jake Paul came from, all due respect to him, but Mike Tyson is from the streets. I mean, this guy is epic. I mean, when he, when he brings out the beast, he is just, you can see it, you can just see his eyes. He's got, he's a maniac inside. Well, here's what he had to say.

So he slapped the heck out of Jake Paul in their pre fight weigh in. And now you can see why. Here's a clip that was unearthed about how he said he doesn't like getting his toes stepped on. I don't know what I would do in the Because I watched the UFC a couple of times and I watched these guys step on people's feet and I have the worst feet in the world, right?

And if somebody stepped on my feet, I would totally tap out. I would just give up. It would be a no brainer. And of course, what did Jake Paul do in the weigh in? He stepped on his toe. I guess that's the secret to Mike Tyson. Everyone's coming for his jaw. No, you got to go for his big toe. I'm the same way.

Don't go near my toes. All right. So that's tonight. I'm excited for it. And we will. Share. Uh, Andre Ward says the Tyson versus Paul fight is impossible to predict. Some people say, uh, uh, Jake Paul is going to dance around and try to tire him out and then beat him in eight. Uh, but I think Mike Tyson, if he just comes right at him, uh, it could be a dangerous site.

Speaking of dangerous sites here, we have a little love is blind drama. Brittany Wisniewski. Uh, Brittany from this latest season of Love is Blind, I guess, blindsided her boyfriend with a Mod Sun hookup in it for fame and or money. I don't know who Mod Sun is. I guess he's a famous person. Uh, well, she shocked her boyfriend back home in Maryland when she hooked up with Mod Sun in Los Angeles.

And, uh, TMZ learned that the guy thought they were in a committed relationship. Well, here's why I'm calling BS. Sources say Britney had a whole boyfriend on the East Coast, a hunk named Rocky Hawkins. They've been in each other's lives for four years romantically. Well, apparently when she went away to film Love is Blind, he drove her to the airport.

And it's like, I'm sorry, if you're willing to let your quote unquote partner go film Love is Blind, you're not in an official relationship. So maybe, maybe there's more to the story we don't know about, uh, or maybe she really is in it just for the fame and whatever, you know, but, uh, you get what you pay for and.

And, uh, clearly she wasn't in it for, uh, the guy she met on love is blind as that relationship did not stand the test of time. Well, we hear a lot about financial advice from people saying, Oh, you need to cut down on the coffee. You need to cut down on the extra drinks after work. You need to cut down on this, on that.

Well, here's a money expert saying small expenses don't matter. I think this is a good clip for you on a Friday, uh, just so we can, uh, you know, get prepared to spend money. We don't have and, uh, live our life, uh, rack up some credit card debt. No, don't take my advice either way. Here's the clip about how you shouldn't sweat about small things.

In the camp of not caring too much about the small expenses, the coffee, it's a waste of time. Why is it a waste of time? Because the, they are 3 questions. If you actually added up how much they actually cost you, it's actually not that much. It's the simple joy that you enjoy in the morning. And you could spend your entire life agonizing over buying a coffee.

But when I ask people, Okay, so you stopped buying coffee for a month. How'd you feel? They go, Oh, I felt okay. I go, What'd you do with the money you saved? They go, I don't know, it's in my checking account. Not only do you have to make the decision every single day to save on these tiny little things, you then have to properly invest that money and you have to do this every single day for the rest of your life.

You know, I kind of have that same, uh, methodology, like, look, if you're on a fixed income, you only have so much money you can spend, then, then you have to be careful with where you put your money. But I think in this entrepreneurial world we live in, there's always a chance to make more money. And there's always, and I look at it this way, like, I'm not going to give up the small pieces of joy that I feel like, all right, I'm gonna go to Starbucks and get a coffee.

You know why? Because that coffee might be the thing that fires me up to go make an Instagram reel that might pay me 80 bucks. You know what I mean? So it's a fixed mindset to really think about savings on such a futile like level, uh, as little as, oh, Save on this dollar, save on that dollar. Again, it might be good in practice if you really are only making X amount of money, but I think in today's world, just like shooting for the moon and going, you know what?

Uh, like I've, like, I've thought about this with inflation. It's been so bad with court, with the, um, the way costs of groceries and things have gone up. Well, let's find a way to just keep on expanding my business. That's something I can control. Uh, well, I've got an update on who's going to be hosting the next Oscars.

And, um, I don't really love watching the Oscars. Uh, but I, I will say I do tune in depending on if I like the host or not. And I'll have that reveal for you coming up next. That's right. I can reveal now my lanky Christmas elf. My favorite comedian ever is hosting the Oscars and that is Conan O'Brien. This is incredible.

I've been handed an Oscar. I'm an Oscar winner. It's amazing.

Oh, I'm hosting. Yes. I'm an Oscar host. Oh, do I still get to keep the Oscar? No. When is it? March 2nd. I'm hosting the Oscars. Okay. Yeah. And then I get the. Ever. Ever. Ever. There it is. March 2nd, 2025, Conan O'Brien hosting the Oscars. I got to tell you the thing I loved about Conan growing up is, you know, no one really explained to me when I was growing up, what comedy was, and you would see the, the late show that Conan was hosting and you'd see them dressed up in a suit looking like adults, but as like a 10 year old, you're watching it going.

And like you're learning in real time, what irreverence is, what, uh, what, what different types of comedy there are. Like Conan is obviously different from Jay Leno. Jay Leno is a character in and of himself, but he's very straight, man. He's one who just reads the news and tells funny jokes. Yeah. Uh, but Conan O'Brien is.

Kind of like an Adderall version of a normal person, right? Like he's a character, maybe not so much as Chris Farley, but definitely in his lanky kind of stickiness, he's unique. And I think that's the hardest thing in comedy is to try to find your own uniqueness. And maybe that's the hardest thing in life is trying to be authentic.

We see that with politicians that say like one, you know, one politician sounds like, uh, you know, Barack Obama, like who, like one politician sounds like that guy. And it's like, who are you? What is it that makes you unique? And that, and then you see this on American Idol all the time too, where they're like, all right, sing it, but make it yours.

And what we're trying to say is like, make life yours. And again, not always easy to do, but, um, Hey, when you can really be authentic and let your freak flag fly. I think people will resonate with that. Oh, speaking of flying, we have a UFO update. The Pentagon released a report that said the UFO had a near miss with a plane in New York.

The Pentagon is coming clean about a number of unidentifiable flying phenomena in a new report. One near miss encounter between a commercial plane and a UFO on the East coast. The eyebrow raising case. Which was among 757 instances explored in the report took place in the past year off the coast of New York state per the annual report and airline crew flagged a near miss with a cylindrical object while over the Atlantic ocean.

Now we call that a near miss, but maybe, maybe the UFO knows to avoid our planes. You know, maybe they get as close as they can, but maybe, you know, maybe it wasn't a near miss because we haven't really seen a plane go down due to a UFO. Right. We haven't seen a commercial plane go down. So I'm guessing if they wanted to, they would have wiped us out by now.

It's unclear when exactly the instance took place or which airline was involved. My guess is it was a spirit airline flight. My guess is the UFOs were like, what is up with this airline? And they felt the need to go check them out. Uh, but either way it is a proof in some form or another of extraterrestrial life.

Uh, but again, I, I just, you know, you, you, you, you, you, I kind of want. The biologics of the UFOs to at least resemble a human, you know what I mean? Give me some lengthy kind of, give me a Conan O'Brien style UFO, you know, but if it's just like some cylindrical, you know, titanium block that's got a spherical orbit, or it's like, all right, that's kind of boring.

I don't know. Kind of jazz it up a little bit is what I'm trying to say. You know what I mean? All right. Well, anyway, speaking of jazzing it up, we've got the finale of dancing with the stars coming up here is Jen Tran, the bachelorette with her. Possible boyfriend, Sasha, uh, en route to rehearsals for the finale.

Here's what she had to say. Cardi B and the Chronicles are back! We're back! We're back! Say it with me, we're back! Wasn't my option. Say it with me. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're so back. Too much energy. Yeah, believe it or not, I had to clip that down from a much longer version. The Patreon, watch me do that.

Patreon. com slash Dave Neal for the behind the scenes live stream of me making the podcast. But hey, Jen's happy. She's clearly had her Celsius energy drink and she is back. Now they won't be voting on her. She's already been, uh, uh, removed from the show. Maybe for having too much energy, but. Hey, if it works, it works and we'll have to see if the star is faded on that couple or will they stand the test of time.

Well, we have an update on Selling Sunset. Uh, I thought Selling Sunset jumped the shark three seasons ago. I mean, the show is absolutely ridiculous. Do you see what they wear on the show? It's wild. Mary Bonnet confirmed Selling Sunset, including Chris Shell, is getting ready to film season nine. We remember Chris L said she wouldn't come back for another season.

And I guess if you're popular, you can do that and maybe they'll try to throw more money at you. But sometimes you gotta be careful. If you're like, I'm not coming back. And they're like, good, we didn't want you. And that's a whole nother issue. But she says, uh, Mary Bonnet says we're We're actually getting ready to start filming.

I'm not sure if I'm really supposed to say that, but we're getting to start filming and yeah, there's going to be another reunion. Netflix is yet to officially confirm the next season, but it sounds like that announcement is imminent. All right. I mean, no good for them. Again, I'm not here to shame anybody for life decisions they make, but I am here to say imagine, imagine if you're from another country or better yet a UFO.

And the only thing you know about Americans or humans in general is what you see on Selling Sunset, you would assume everybody has a face full of, in a chest full of plastic surgery. I mean, it is wild. You essentially have nine or ten women with, you know, Uh, done up as it were, and then two short twins, two short balding male twins.

I mean, that's it. That's the show. And then you've got all these million dollar homes and a million dollars, 20 million, 50 million homes, a million dollar home on selling sunset would be a dump. Uh, but either way they are back along with gentry and everybody's back. And now publicly, we've got the golden bachelorette winner chalk with Joan finally getting to spend some time out and about doing their thing.

Here is a clip from one of my favorite podcasts. Love to see it pod as they discuss golden bachelorette, the good old fashion, happy ending with the Instagram hard launch. I think it's possible that she would have dated him for a lot longer in real life being like, we keep getting closer, but. Ultimately, I just don't think it was.

Yeah, no, I think that they definitely could have dated, but I do think the answer is that something was missing, but it's also probably just not something that she can name. Yeah, but in a way, this seems like a more unkind answer, like coming from a very well intentioned place. But it's just like, We would have been in love.

We were so close to being in love. Everything could have been perfect, but like, sorry, you lost the race and now I'm with someone else. That's the thing. I always feel like people are reaching for this like time excuse and it's rarely true. Yeah, but it feeds into actually the show's need for stakes and drama because it's Lens validity to everyone jockeying so hard for time with each other.

Cause it's like, it's a race and like, it's like whoever gets there first gets the prize. Yeah, no, I get it. That's, that is the gasoline that pours onto the drama of the show, which is the time race. I mean, every good movie has some sort of time race. You're working against time. The bomb's going to come.

The thing's going to hit that. That's, you know, there's always time involved in the show has to build those stakes through time. Uh, but yeah, I mean. I think the way that Joan let down, uh, Guy is the way I would want to be let down where she goes, look, there was nothing wrong. It's just this, this other thing took root, you know, and maybe in a different world, it would have gone in a different way, but that's just the way it is.

Well, from one reality show to another, we have a reality star, Johnny Bananas. That's the name. He's been on all the MTV shows. He's Johnny Bananas. He talked about his fallout with his manager, I guess who embezzled money from him. This is on the challenge unfiltered podcast. Have a listen. Do you have a really good manager or are you just someone who's that relevant that the opportunities are coming to you directly?

Had a had a manager, uh, really bad falling out. This is what i'm saying. Like i've been burned by those closest to me Yeah, um And, and, and that just happened pretty recently. I found out there was a lot of, you know, mishandling of, of, of, of funds and embezzlement going on, that sort of thing. So I have a pretty solid team around me now.

Um, but you know, over the years, what, what I think I've learned from this is like the only person at the end of the day, that's going to protect me and look out for me is me. Um, so again, I'm very guarded with those that, that I let close to me. Uh, but I have managed to. Stay in the public eye for so long that no, I've got opportunities.

The majority of the opportunities that I have now are people coming and basically pitching me for, for shows or for projects, that sort of thing. Yeah, no, like when he says stays in the public eye, you might be like, who the hell is this guy? But you know, in the world of sort of celebrity reality contestants that do other reality shows, He's stuck around so good for him, but yeah, you got to be careful.

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It is those that support Clayton known as the justice for Clayton community, JFC, uh, versus the lawyer. Of Laura Owens, the lady who accused Clayton of being the father of her unborn twins. Of course, he alleges they only ever had several blowjobs. Uh, but because of this, it's just, it just becomes a melee of chaos.

So as I was making this morning's Podcast episode if you listen to it. I recorded that at midnight last night. That's what I do I record at midnight for the next morning. You're welcome fam. And while I was doing that he was actively Her attorney was actively threatening to sue a fellow youtuber named lauren and he was threatening to sue her for 100 50 million, excuse me, 150, 000 all because she was sharing one of his YouTube videos, which is perfectly legal and fair according to YouTube's fair use policies.

It's really protected under the first amendment rights. I mean, it's a wild, wild thing. So he's threatening to sue every single person who shares any of his content, which again, I shared about nine seconds of it. So is he going to sue me for nine seconds worth of content? Either way, I know regardless of what he decides to do.

I've got you, babe. You guys have me and we're not going to let any injustices go down. We are here to protect each other. Heads are on a swivel as it were. Well, speaking of fighting, uh, they fight for getting Matt Gates to become attorney general just got a little more challenging as members of the Republican party are preparing to stand up against it all because of a bombshell ethics report that alleges.

That a 17 year old was paid, prostituted for sex by him. And she actually testified at that ethics hearing, uh, which now they are trying to get that information from coming out, I say, let's let the truth rise to the surface. I'll share this bizarre story for you after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, here is ABC news breaking the report that the woman at the center of the department of justice probe of representative Matt Gaetz did testify.

Have a listen to this. News here today and president elect Donald Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. ABC news is now learning exclusively that the woman who accused Gaetz of having sex with her when she was just 17 years old, shared her claims in closed door testimony before for the House Ethics Committee.

That is according to sources that are familiar with this investigation. Now Gates has long denied these accusations. Yesterday, he stepped down from Congress following his nomination for Attorney General. Let's get now to ABC News Jay O'Brien, who's live for us on Capitol Hill. So, uh, Jay, this is quite stunning news here.

What more are we learning here about what she potentially said in front of the House Ethics Committee? Yeah, Kena, ABC News has learned, according to multiple sources, that the woman at the center of this investigation into Matt Gaetz for allegations of sex trafficking told the House Ethics Committee when she was interviewed by that committee.

That she had sex with Matt Gaetz when she was 17 years old and in high school, and Matt Gaetz was a member of the United States Congress. That, again, according to multiple sources who spoke with our Will Staken and our investigative team here at ABC News. Alright, so this is just a wild story, and really We are seeing the fabrics of our democracy hold, maybe very carefully on thin ice, as several Republicans say they will not be voting him through because you have to understand the Republicans do hold a majority in the Senate, but that doesn't mean they're all going to vote for him.

Here's what Lindsey Graham and others had to say. Elections have consequences. He chose Matt Gaetz. Matt will come before the committee and he will be asked hard questions and we'll see how he does. I can name. Between 5 and 10 Republicans. So that is Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, saying he has 5 to 10 Republicans who are not going to approve this.

Who are seriously considering voting against this nomination. I barely know Gates. All I know is he likes picking fights on social media. He'll have to deal with that in committees. But I don't know his background. I'm going to look at it and give him a fair hearing. And a fair hearing. We'll have to see if that goes down.

But I think it's fair to know if he was abusing his powers in, in, you know, working for the government. I mean, the taxpayers were paying him so that he could go bang a 17 year old. And you know, this is insane. This is insanity. So again, we'll We'll have to see how it all plays out, but wild times. And will the fabrics of our government continue to hold strong?

I mean, look, there's gotta be a lot of people that are qualified to be the head of the, uh, you know, the attorneys general, right? There's gotta be a lot of good people out there. And to think that. The only reason why the ethics committee didn't release this report is because he retired the day before they were supposed to, I say, release the report.

You know, who cares if it's damning, how about some consequences to his actions? All right, folks. Well, we had a wild one this week. We had brawls, we had UFO sightings. We really had it all, but I thank you guys for sticking around with me. You're going to love my conversation tomorrow with. Greer Blitzer.

She was on the bachelor Zach shall cross his season. And she also discussed, uh, you know, a lot of the, uh, hate she received for some controversial stuff that went down, uh, on her Twitter feed when she was on the show. So we covered all of that in our conversation. I had a few days with her ago in New York.

I'll have that live for you guys starting at midnight. So you can check that out on the podcast or on YouTube at the Dave Neal show. Well. Can you believe it's already Friday? I mean, these weeks just fly by. We have a tradition here for all of our newbies. We like to leave work. We like to just dingle hopper our way right out of work.

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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. And happy Friday to you on this November 15th, 2024. What an episode we have for you. A bachelor fan favorite puts her now. Ex boyfriend on blast for what appears to be cheating.

I'll read her statement. Plus speaking of fighting, Iron Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul is tonight live on Netflix. I'll break down why this is a must see event and how amazing it is that it'll be free of charge. Unlike those normal 75 pay per views, you'll get it with your Netflix subscription or whoever you steal it from.

Plus for. People were arrested for insurance fraud, faking a bear attack. I'll describe that story in Alex Jones, InfoWars company put up for auction. I'll share who won the bid. Plus the golden couple chalk and Joan discuss their marriage timeline. And UFOs aren't the only thing out of this world. There's pressure coming from the Republican party along with the Democrats to get Matt Gaetz, uh, I guess his private investigation revealed from the ethics committee.

People want to know sources are talking and they want to see what the heck was about to go down before he, uh, uh, I guess quit to become the attorney general. It's a wild, wild day in news. We'll have all those stories and more coming up next on the rush. We have an update in the Dancing with the Stars world.

Artem Chigvintsev has spoken through his attorney and is on good terms with the producers of Dancing with the Stars amid his divorce. He made the Dancing with the Stars guest list earlier this week, but he's got his sights set on a full on return to the dance floor. The dancer's attorney, Ilona Antonian, tells TMZ Dancing with the Stars producers haven't reached out to him about joining the lineup for next season, but he'd love to return if they're open.

open to it. As we know, Artem didn't return as a pro for season 33, but Alona says it's all good. He's still on great terms with the show's producers. Look, I don't think they're going to bring him back even though he wasn't charged with any crimes. Uh, that's just the world we live in, right? That even though he wasn't charged with a crime, he had a messy divorce.

He was accused of DV. Look, if he didn't do anything wrong and they were going to invite him back, go for it. I just don't see that happening. Um, all right, well, uh, pretty wild, uh, insurance fraud. California. Let's let Hoda Kotb, uh, break this story. California officials say four people were arrested for insurance fraud after they claimed their cars were damaged by a bear.

But according to officials, the bear was actually a person in a costume. The so called bear was caught. Claim to have damaged a 2010 Rolls Royce and two other cars. Video was submitted to the insurance company that alleged to show the animal damaging the cars. Upon further scrutiny of the video, it was determined to be a fraudulent claim.

Well, that's, I mean, look, if you're gonna do a bear fraud claim, you gotta get the bear, uh, vibe down. That's the, that's the bare necessity of what you could be doing there. You know what I mean? Speaking of bear necessities here, should we go back to an old school one from the jungle book? Hey look, it's a Friday.

I want you to do the bear minimum. How about that? Who needs the bear necessities? Let's do the bear minimum today. But yeah, if you're gonna dress up like a bear, you gotta walk like a bear, you gotta act like a bear, you gotta talk like a bear. You got to give at least the necessities to being a bear. All right.

I'm not gonna play this song. Let's move it along We're having fun. So anyhow, uh speaking of the bear Uh escapades here the fraudsters, I guess didn't know what they were doing So tmz spoke with glenn ennis the actor and stuntman who? Who actually played the bear with the help of CGI in the Revenant movie.

Do you remember that movie? Leo DiCaprio got his butt whooped by a bear apparently based on a true story. Here's what the stunt man had to say. It was quite surprising to watch actually. Uh, Uh, they didn't quite get it right, obviously, uh, because they got into some trouble. I think they would have, uh, maybe consulted an expert first before they got into that, and they should probably stick with that going forward.

Because there is a lot more to being a bear than, uh, than just throwing on a suit, that's for sure. What did they do wrong, and, uh, how maybe could have an expert such as yourself sold it better? Well, I can tell you it was hard work doing it, uh, to do it right. And they were obviously lazy, uh, because if they, if they put a little bit of thought and research into it, like I did, the first thing I found out when I researched bears moving is that they don't walk on their hands and knees.

Well, they walk on their feet. Uh, so that was a dead giveaway. Uh, secondly, I think they neglected to put on the 60 pounds of foam, uh, underneath the suit to take care of those annoying wrinkles, because those are all obviously a dead giveaway. This is what I love about California, right? Rather than call them bad people for trying to dress up as a bear.

We're more like, no, they didn't perform the part right. So these Californians, they tore up their high end cars and tried to get an insurance company pay for the damage. Yeah. They had a Rolls Royce. I mean, real wild stuff. They, you know what they should have done is just drive to Northern California, leave some food in their car and let the bears actually break into their car.

I went camping once and they would tell us like, if you even leave a Cheerio in your car, the bear is going to break into it. And sure enough, we did see some black bears, so I don't know. I just didn't try hard enough, I guess. All right. Let's get to the big story of the day, which is we're about to have a cultural moment tonight, that being not, not my podcast.

Uh, although I wish the podcast was a cultural moment, share it with your friends, uh, but that being iron, Mike Tyson, 58 years young, we'll be fighting Jake Paul Paul, I believe 26 years young. Is that his age? Anyway, the, the fight was supposed to go down several months ago, but, uh, there, uh, Mike had an ulcer flare up on a flight and had to go to the hospital of which again is the most 58 year old thing in the world, but I'm watching the documentary that leads up to the fight.

And let me tell you something. I am so hyped to watch this go down. I personally want Mike Tyson to kick Jake Paul's ass, but. Again, no disrespect to Jake Paul. I mean, he's looking great for a guy who made his come up in the, you know, short form content with vine and then YouTube and kind of, uh, is reinventing himself into a boxer.

That's amazing. But you know, iron Mike came up on the mean streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn, and I'm telling you right now that he's a different type of animal, right? I mean, he's a, he's a certified badass. He's one of the best boxers to ever do it either way. Anyway, here's a little update on, uh, Thoughts about what might go down tonight.

It's on Netflix, which is free. If you have Netflix, most fights are normally on pay per view. They normally cost 50 to 75 bucks. This is going to be the most talked about thing this weekend. You know, barring, you know, any new wars or anything that comes out and I just love it old versus new It's just so simple Okay, so the fight was originally scheduled for july 20th, and then it got moved back.

Mike had a stomach ulcer So they moved it back. Eight rounds, two minutes, 16 minutes of actual fighting. I would take the pro athlete over the hardworking tough guy, YouTuber businessman who's worked his tail off to be a, I think a legitimate boxer in Jake Paul. Tyson is 58 has not won a fight since 2003.

He agreed to two minute rounds. I think that's an advantage for Tyson. He can come out swinging. If it was 10 three minute rounds, I would take Jake Paul. But I think the advantage for Tyson is a shorter fight. I've seen some of the video with sparring partners. I wouldn't want to be Mike's sparring partner.

So I'm going to take Tyson in round four. I can't wait to watch it. Netflix. Friday, check it out. I mean, I'm telling you right now, you don't have to be a boxing fan. This is what's great about boxing. It's so simple. And you know, I know, I know mixed martial arts is like the big deal now. And I just, it's, it's almost too complicated.

It's like, all right, two men don't punch each other in the balls. And don't kick each other. I mean, how many rules are there? Um, and again, we'll have to see how it all goes down. I think there's really no losing for Jake Paul. I mean, look, so if he gets beat up by Mike Tyson, it's like, yeah. What do you expect?

You know, it's Mike Tyson, but if Jake Paul wins, the upside is pretty crazy. Uh, it'll be in Arlington, Texas, where the Cowboys play. There'll be 80, 000 people there. Unbelievable stuff. And of course to hype it, uh, there's a video going viral. I'd show you here, but it's a podcast. So what's the difference? Um, and it was Mike Tyson slapping Jake Paul.

You know, they do these promo things. It's all just to sell the fight. It's all, it's all, it's, I don't want to say it's like a WWE wrestling because the boxing match itself will be real, but you know, all the antics to sell the fight there, they're there. To drum up as much attention as possible. So it's just been a, it's been really interesting to see.

And again, there's a three episode documentary leading up to it. If you want to get caught up, I'm not, look, they're not paying me to promote this. I'm just telling you, I'm really excited for this. I'm going to make some dinner and you know, my out of shape dad bod is going to sit on the couch and pretend like I'd have a shot in the ring.

All right. More content on your way. We'll be right back. Alright, we've also got Gleb and Brooks from Dancing with the Stars, remember their showmance? It burned out before the season even ended. Well, Brooks and Gleb got matching tattoos, now she's explaining what she'll be doing with the ink. Uh, they caught her, TMZ caught her leaving a restaurant, and here's what she had to say.

Do you have any, nothing, it's over? Why did you guys break up? Um, I didn't know we were dating, to be honest with you. You got matching tattoos! I know, but we're just friends, we were colleagues. Right. You know those matching tattoos I have with my colleagues really wore off. Never had a romantic relationship?

What do you call a relationship? There were videos of you guys like making out backstage. Well, you don't have to be dating someone to make out. I guess. Are you gonna get rid of the matching tattoo? Yeah. You are. I'm already on the in the process girlfriend. Oh, really? So there she is. She's already in the removal process.

Weird story, folks. Weird indeed. Well, let's hope that Joan and Chalk are not going to remove whatever matching tattoos they get. They were asked questions in the press junket after Golden Bachelorette, and that's where you get all the adorable first moments, even though they're engaged, they've yet to ride in a car together.

Here's what they had to say. We've never been in a car together. Isn't that crazy? We haven't even been in a executive limo together. No. Nothing. They don't let us. They keep us separate. We have no idea. I did. It's definitely going to be me. So they talked about who's the better dancer and I guess it's Joan.

Yeah. Chuck doesn't show me as a guy who's going to be great at dancing, but you know, that's just because he's, you know, he's a standard guy. He's just, you know, he's standard dad energy. Uh, they were asked about when they're going to get married. Here's the response. We're getting married. What's the date?

We are going to get married, but I think we just like want to exist as outside the bachelor nation. I and just be like a couple together, like go to dinner together. We've never been to a restaurant together. So there are things like we need to just do before we plan a wedding. I Smart idea, of course, after Gary and Teresa barely made it a month after you're walking down the aisle.

Yeah, go to dinner together. You know, you gotta learn about each other. Who's, you know, the messy one? Who's bad at, you know, who leaves the dishes in the sink? You know, who doesn't put the toilet, whatever. You figure that all out first. Network wedding. Are we open to it? So I originally thought that I wanted something intimate, you know, I've done a big wedding before.

I don't need to do that again. I want it to be intimate. It's gone, John. It's done. You belong to America. You belong to America. I mean, he's got a point, right? It's like, look, you, your story's already so public take the free wedding. Um, I thought maybe just family and friends, something smaller, but I feel like that at this point, everybody who's kind of invested in this journey and watch the show kind of deserves like that.

You know, they kind of got the epic ending at the end that we got engaged, and people love to see that. And we certainly didn't do it for them, we did it for us. But, um, I, I, I feel a little bit like they deserve to see like the beginning of Chapter Two. Like, us getting married, and, it's just like, you know, kind of a great ending to the story that it actually really does work.

And, um, you know, that You know, this journey that they saw really ended up in the, you know, what they had hoped for us. No offense, Joan, I'm rooting for you, but the idea that it does work doesn't get decided until at least a year down the line. Right. I wish them the best. If, if it's true, it looks like they're on the same page about moving to New York together.

Seeing their family and I, you know, Hey, I, I think they've got just as much shot as anybody else does. I truly believe that. So good luck to them. All right. Well, it's more drama in the bachelor Clayton world. Uh, I'm gonna give you guys some exclusive content yesterday. I made a video. About the drama that went down at the podcast studio that Laura Owens filmed her episode at.

The episode hasn't even been released yet. I'm assuming people reached out to the owners of the podcast studio because they released a statement basically saying, Hey, we didn't know the legal issues. She was a part of, and, you know, you know, kind of like, we're not going to, you know, we're not, we don't want to participate in any of the drama.

Well, of course I made a video saying, Oh, they banned Laura because we received information that they weren't going to have her back. While that might be true, I also don't think that they want to deal with any of the headaches that might come from her. This is just my opinion. I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming Laura, when they posted publicly, sent them information that they were going to try to sue the podcast company.

That's just my guess. My guess is that Laura, you know, she's litigious, right? She's, you know, she sent this same type of thing to me and, you know, Uh, a lot of talk with Mike and, uh, uh, you know, everyone, it's reality. Steve, Megan Fox, uh, Greg, Mike Clayton, the whole, the whole, the whole gang, Sean, Matt, you know, just these random people.

So they ended up releasing a statement, the podcast studio. I wanted to read it for you guys. They said PS studios is a local small business here in Scottsdale and has politely expressed their request to not be involved in this matter to support them. We have removed Instagram stories, referencing them.

They have requested privacy and wish to remain uninvolved in any ongoing matters with Laura. That was the update actually from justice for Clayton, the Instagram page that they removed the stories. And I actually changed my thumbnail title on my last video. I was going to delete the video. But then I was told, you know, it just changed the thumbnail and title.

And, you know, don't say that they were, she was banned, but, you know, clearly it looks like they don't want to work with her again, but again, you know, they have the right to refuse service to anybody for any reason. So what's Laura going to claim that they're persecuting her? No, they just don't want, they're not going to want to deal with her.

But of course, like, like I predicted, they didn't even know what they were getting themselves into. And sure enough, before the ink was dry, before I even uploaded my episode. There's already lawsuit threats, allegedly. Um, you know, but anyhow, speaking of threats, more threats coming from Laura Owen's attorney.

He posted this for, um, he posted this, um, new rule. If any justice for Clayton YouTube person posts any part of my video, I will copyright strike you. And again, that being his new video he's got coming out, here's what he needs to understand. There's such thing as the fair use rule, which is not copywriting.

So when I. Watch a video and respond with my commentary. It alters the video in a way that it's, it's different from the source material. So I can't just share his video without anything, you know, just like from beginning to end without interjecting. But if I'm there commenting on it, then I'm adding value and that's not a copyright.

So I'm going to. Post my thoughts on that and we'll call his bluff. If he does decide to post a copyright strike on me, I have zero copyright strikes on me right now, which means. Um, I won't receive any harm from it, but I also am in full belief that YouTube would side with me on this issue. And if so, David Gingras, Laura Owen's attorney, could possibly lose his YouTube channel for filing a false copyright claim.

It'll be interesting. We'll see how it all goes down. That's going to take place today on YouTube, so I'll be there just trying to do my thing. All right, well, we actually have a big story that we'll be covering on YouTube today. Bachelor fan favorite Kelly Flanagan, on again, off again girlfriend of one time Pete Weber, Peter Weber, posted on her Instagram stories this.

I'm going to read verbatim what she said. I know many of you have been curious about my dating life and I try to keep things private for a while. I thought working on it away from social media would have helped, but sometimes things don't go as planned. I found out that I was being highly disrespected for the past seven months.

And if it wasn't for all of you, my followers and girls being girls, girls, I would have stayed in the dark and never known my heart is shattered, but I'm so grateful to have you all prayer emoji. Yeah. Kelly Flanagan was dating, I guess this Greek guy. I think he was a CEO. I think they were together for a long time.

So very, uh, sad if, I mean, you guys read what I just read. Does it sound like she was cheating on, or at least there was some sort of emotional cheating? We don't know the details. Hey, if she wants to leak it to us, we can totally share. We're all about, uh, look, I like Kelly. I think Kelly Flanagan is kind of fun and I think she kind of got that sort of villain edit, but she seems to be, you know, Doing her best out there and you know, you hate, you just, you want to always root for people to find love and it's too bad that that wasn't the guy.

So I hope she holds her head up high and we'll find the one. All right. Well, I got a couple other bizarre stories to get to. I actually have a quick Vanderpump rules story and we'll have that for you next. Well, we have breaking news to get to actually, so we're going to interrupt what I was going to cover and have breaking news that David Gingras, Clayton Eckerd's accuser at Laura Owen's attorney.

Is that complicated? The attorney of Clayton Eckerd's accuser, uh, made a YouTube video, very bizarre in the description. He says, I don't have a patron because I'm not willing to lie for money. Have I lied at all folks? I don't think so. Join our Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal, private membership community, not a place to lie.

Just where we go to let people donate. Um, uh, you know, uh, in addition to watching our content online for free. Well, it turns out David Gingras had a bar complaint filed against him by the judge. He also had one filed against him by me and others. I wonder how this one plays out. Have a listen to this. But, here's another fact, uh, on September 17th, uh, 2024, so about two months ago now, Judge Mata filed a bar complaint against me.

Uh, I have it here, yep, September 17th. Why do you think that, our trial was June 10th, uh, September 17th is through, over three months later, uh, why do you think that she waited more than three months to report me to the bar? Could it be because of this? I don't know. Again, that's, I don't know. I haven't, I, to me it looks like retaliation.

I have, by the way, um, reported a second act of retaliation to the Judicial Conduct Commission, um, and what I will tell you as a factual matter, again, everything they do is secret. I can't tell you what the status is. Uh, they may very well have dismissed my complaint. The complaint is primarily, like I said, it's based on things you already know.

All right. So he goes into this complaint where he says she filed a complaint against him. He's filing a judicial complaint against her. How wild is this? I mean, she, she made her judgment. And then he said, I guess, disparaging things about her, uh, tried to pretend like, you know, she's part of this weird community that's got it out for, uh, Laura and their pro Clayton Eckerd.

How bizarre either way, I'll be covering this today. It's going to be pretty wild stuff. You know, he's made threats now, uh, to file content strikes on anyone who covers his channel. Well, I'll be covering it. We have zero content strikes on our end and I'm fully. Confident that YouTube will be siding with me there, but crazy.

And so bizarre. All right. I promised I'd cover the Vanderpump rule. So real quick, uh, there's a story. Um, Jax Taylor says, Brittany's shade is total BS. Uh, Brittany is his, I guess, ex or estranged wife. They're going through a divorce and they do have a kid together. Um, after Jax alleged that Brittany still calls him to hook up, Brittany is clapping back.

Here's what Jack said. So call me like two days ago, come over. You want to have some drinks? Come over. You want to hook up? Like She'll go out and publicly humiliate me and call me every name in the book. But three days ago, she's like, Hey, you want to come over and have dinner? You want to come over and have drinks?

Don't tell anybody that I'm doing this. So people don't know that she talks all this, but then, you know, she'll be like, come over, come and hang out. So I don't mean to blow her cover, but. So there it is. He says, I don't want to blow her cover. Now, she responded saying, let me make this clear. I was trying to see if we can be friends for our son.

And obviously we can't. And, you know, look, I wouldn't blame any of them if they wanted to still hook up. You know, you can go through a divorce and still enjoy some parts of the relationship. But either way, it's you got to be impeccable with your word out there or your ex will. Tell the truth. So, uh, pretty dramatic stuff going on in the world of politics.

We're going to shift into that now that we covered everything else. Um, uh, we have Nikki Haley here. She bootlicked for Donald Trump and then Donald Trump said, he's not going to have her in his cabinet. Uh, people think she tried to stick by the MAGA side so that she could possibly have a presidential run in four years.

Here's what she had to say. It is time to move on. It is time for us to focus on what America needs to do to be strong again. What America needs to do to be safe. The American people have spoken and spoken very loudly. And at this point, we should pray that president Trump does well. We should pray that everyone that he appoints does well.

We should. Hope for the sake of our kids and generations to follow us, that all of this goes forward. So, you know, do I take it personally? No, that's who he is. He's, he can be shallow at times. And I think he showed that, but I don't have to be shallow. Wow. Now, of course she's got no spine whatsoever. She let him walk all over her and then, you know, still stands by his side.

Where are the principles folks? Where are they? Well, I mentioned before that the onion, or maybe I didn't say it, but the onion has bought InfoWars in a bankruptcy. Pretty crazy stuff. Alex Jones Infowars put up for auction as part of bankruptcy proceedings. Well, it now has a new owner, The Onion. Yes, the satirical news site The Onion won the bidding with the help of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Massacre.

The very same families who won their defamation case against Jones over all that misinformation that he spread about the killings. Robbie Parker, who lost his daughter in the shooting, said Dissolution of Alex Jones assets and the death of InfoWars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for. I mean, that's good news.

It's like, look, he had every chance to correct his lies and he doubled down on them over and over and that's just wrong. Well, uh, as I said, I'd give an update on Matt Gaetz. He was supposed to Have an ethics hearing today, but he retired from his seat in the, in the, was it the Senate of the house? Uh, because he will be the new, if he's voted into it, the new attorney general.

Well, here's Senator John Corcoran, a Republican, and he demands to see house ethics report on Matt Gates. Issue of vetting though, how critical is it then to have access to what the House Ethics Committee has found in their investigation? I think there should not be any limitation on the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation, including, uh, whatever the House Ethics Committee has generated.

So you wanna see it? Absolutely. So she says, so you wanna see it? He's like, absolutely. I wanna see it. I mean, who doesn't wanna see it? Now the rumor is, is that he, I guess, was paying for sex with a minor. Uh, and I guess that's a pretty well known rumor as sources have come out and said, yeah, that's exactly what it was about.

Now, when pressed on this on Fox news, here's what Jim Jordan had to say. I was supposed to come out Friday. Remember, Gates had been accused of things and no prosecution had been continued. It had been dropped. Um, but Dick Durbin is trying to get his hands on that report, obviously to leak it out to hurt president Trump.

Um, what is your sense on that? Well, it's my understanding that is not supposed to go public. So if it's not supposed to under the rules, it shouldn't go public. Now it's very rich for Jim Jordan to have that opinion as he was part of an abuse scandal at Ohio state university. Uh, there were allegations of sexual abuse that occurred between 1978 and 98.

And, um, he was, uh, I mean, people have been quoted saying he turned a blind eye to it all. Do you really want a guy in that job who chose not to stand up for his guys? Said one former wrestler who had. attended OSU, uh, when Jordan was there. Um, so anyway, uh, I guess some people are just above the law. Uh, in ABC news reports said, I think the wrestlers that I represent, not one of us would back him for such a leadership position, former OSU wrestler and attorney Rocky Ratliff, Jr.

Said, and now here we have Jim Jordan saying, Oh, any allegations that the guy who's supposed to be the attorney general, the top lawyer for the government, um, had, uh, I guess, sex trafficked and prostitute with a 17 year old. We don't need to see that now. Don't we know all of the conspiracy theorists out there?

If the tables were turned, would demand to see that ethics report. I think that's only fair. I think that's only just, all right. Well, I hate to end on such a. Crazy story, but that's the world we live in and I've already gone long. Uh, it's gonna be a wild day on YouTube today. I got a lot of content to cover and I am bringing fastball.

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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. It's Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Let's dive into it. All your pop culture in one place. We have more info coming out from the new UFO hearings, uh, plus the shocking and emotional ending to golden bachelorette.

I've got all of my. Thoughts there, along with an update on the escaped monkeys. Also, I thought an update on the dad who faked his own death to move to Uzbekistan. You won't believe how good the algorithm is that found him pondering his escape. That's right. I'll share the. Very bizarre ramblings of this man who I guess committed fraud by fake killing himself.

Plus a bizarre video released by Clayton Eckerd's accuser. I'll share the clip with you right here. All those stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, it looks like The Office star, Kate Flannery, is rallying around John Krasinski telling TMZ she was thrilled to hear that he became the sexiest man alive.

Have a listen. Let me tell you something. This is so long overdue. John Krasinski has gotten robbed every year since 2005, in my opinion. It's so, it's so time. Let's, here we go. Uh, have you seen him lately? Have you seen him since Jack Ryan? He is so jacked up. He, he is so hot. I, my eyes are melting every time I see him in person.

He's, he and, and Emily are so good looking. I, I have to squint. They are so good. He is, he is, he's really, And the thing is he's six foot three and ladies, you love a tall man, don't you? And you know, he's a funny, I mean, he's got it all, but of course he's taken. So what can you do? Well, the internet's got all of the buzz around the UAP hearing.

They call them UAPs. I still call it a UFO. It's like how Twitter is now X I call it Twitter. Anyway, there was a UFO hearing yesterday, official Luis E. Elizondo made his opening statements. Uh, there are aliens folks have a listen. It was previously testified that there was biologics that were collected.

Are you aware of any of that? I am sure aware of the reporting that biologics have been recovered. Now look. I get they call them biologics. Can we just call them little green men, aliens? Like what's a biologic? Is it, uh, you know, is it, uh, like a little piece of DNA left on the keyboard or is it a body? Do we have bodies?

Again, my focus was more nuts and bolts. Um, looking at the, the physical aspects of these phenomenon, how they interacted around, uh, military equities and nuclear equities. So I'm certainly not a medical expert. I would not be able to probably provide you a whole lot of value in that simply because I don't have the expertise.

Was anything described as That we have possession of bodies. Yes. Yes. We have, is it multiple? The guy's asking all the questions I would want. Are they green? Are their eyes big? Are the, do they go by ET? Like, do they have the little glowy thing at the end of the finger? Types of creatures or. Sorry, I couldn't answer that.

Um, I can tell you anecdotally that it was, it was, um. Discussed quite a bit when I was at the pentagon. The problem is the Supposed collection of these biological samples occurred before my time. In fact before I was even born Wow, so so this guy looks like he was born in the 70s. So they might be talking about roswell So, oh, this is good folks this part of the lockheed martin discussion or is this a complete the biologists is a completely separate Separate yet related.

Okay. Um, has, has anyone made contact? So I'm sorry, could you specify? Has there been any, to your knowledge, any communication with a non human life form? So the term communication is a bit of a trick word because there's verbal communication like we're having now. The problem is you also have nonverbal communication.

And so I would say definitively, yes, but from a nonverbal meaning, Russian reconnaissance aircraft comes into us airspace. We should scramble two F 22s and we are certainly communicating intent and capability. Um, I think the same goes with this. We have these things that are being observed over controlled us airspace.

Um, and they're not really doing a good job hiding themselves. They're making it pretty obvious. They have the ability to even interfere with our, our nuclear equities. Yeah. And our nuclear readiness, geez. All right. Okay. They're coming for our nukes. Here we are with our petty little fights and the green men are up there zipping around at 20 G's gone.

Uh, you're not firing off any. I mean, look, Hey, to be quite honest at the way the world's going, maybe it could, it could be just maybe that these aliens have our best interest and they're just telling us to knock it off. Is, is, um, the United States government or in our contractors, are they pulling you?

You know, technology from this. They're they're reverse engineering this, sir. As I previously stated, please forgive me. Um, I am not authorized to discuss specifics about crash retrievals. Um, I again, I signed documentation with the U. S. Government. Um, what I can say was Thank you very much. After a very thorough review process by the Pentagon, what I wrote about, and that was my limit, unfortunately.

All right. So a lot of red tape, a lot of redactions there, but Hey, look, do we have anyone in our audience? That's a UFO expert. Can we get someone on the phone for one of our episodes to cover this? I need a UFO correspondent. You know, I got Jenna Carlton. She's now our veteran correspondent. We got correspondents of all shapes and sizes, but we don't have any.

A alien or interplanetary correspondence. So please shoot me a DM. I'd love to hear from you. Yeah. So just wild stuff indeed. Uh, and again, they talked about how fast these, uh, UFOs were going. They said they were going like 60 G's, you know, and, uh, or even more than that, like thousands of G's and it would just.

You know, it's, it's, uh, you know, we, we just don't have the technology. We don't have the technology. So just wild stuff, but you know, who might be an alien. Speaking of the rock, have you seen this guy's workload? Do you remember what it feels like to not be famous? Yeah. Way back in the day. I've been famous for some time, but yes, I remember what that's like.

And. So I love that you asked that because it reminds me of something that people always ask me. They say, do you ever get tired of it? Tired of you can't go out. Everything is backdoor through the kitchen. You know, nothing is in through the front door hotels. It doesn't matter. Everything is a setup.

Everything is you got to call ahead and can't go anywhere like malls and walks. That's all people. People have to really listen to what he's saying. The Rock Dwayne Johnson. You can't go. You know why? Because if one person wants a photo, then the next guy does. And then you gotta give them energy. And, and, you know, it's a, it's like the giving tree.

You just literally can't do it. That's not in my cards anymore, and they said, do you get tired of that? And I went, no, never. And it's true, because the alternative to that is going back to those days that you just brought up, where I wasn't famous, and no one, you know. Cared. No one gave a shit. Not that my thought was, oh, I want people to care.

Right. It's just at that time, that reminds me of a time where things were hard, and I didn't have any money, and I don't want to go back to that. Flea market Rolexes. Flea market, brother. What? So I will never Now, of course the rock, he's a giant man, so he gets recognized more so than others. There's plenty of A list celebrities like Timothee Chalamet, he puts a hat on, he can weave through traffic, no big deal.

But if you're going to be the rock, you know, you're going to cause a lot of attention. Uh, you know, it's interesting. I interviewed Greer Blitzer from the bachelor, uh, love, love Greer had such a warm conversation with her. She's really a doll, really enjoyed it. I interviewed her while I was in New York city yesterday.

I was literally in New York for. 20 hours. And I spent one of them interviewing Greer and in the interview, I swear to God, I'm going to share this clip with you in the interview. I was like, Oh, no one, no one ever slides into my DMS. I was just like riffing about something. And then within three minutes, some, some lady walks by Greer and I, and she shouts me out and she goes, I love your podcast.

And it was just the, uh, you know, look, we don't have the rock celebrity. So when it happens, I love it. You know, it's, but like, I know if I go to a farmer's market. If, you know, we're going to go walk by a thousand people, technically one of them might have listened to the show, you know, and, uh, statistically we always say, Hey, come say hi.

We appreciate you, but I'm also not at the rocks level where you've got to hide from the people. All right. Well, you know, we have been given updates on this dang peanut, the squirrel, and it's so sad that it's hit the mainstream news coverage. Here's CBS mornings talking about the fact that they found out that the squirrel did not have rabies.

The famous Peanut the Squirrel story, you'll recall I talked about this about a week ago, Peanut the Squirrel was put to death by the state of New York, um, that was required in order to, uh, to test Peanut for rabies. Uh, we said at the time that Squirrel had to be tested for rabies because, or Peanut, because he got, he bit one of the investigators.

But now there's a documentation released by the county that shows that they had already decided that, uh, Peanut was marked for because he was being held in a house. And according to the health department, uh, that necessitates a rabies test. Did he have rabies? I'm just curious now. That's the kicker.

Rabies tests, uh, require decapitation, then you test the, the head. Yeah, that's just how rabies tests work. The results have come in, according to the county where this man lives. Peanut was negative for me. But you know, the interesting thing was what they found out is that they actually gave the sign off for the, for euthanizing the squirrel before they ever even showed up three, like something like three weeks or three days beforehand.

So they used this excuse saying, well, you know, the thing bit us. So we had to do this. No, no, no. They agreed to kill it before they even showed up monsters. Well, speaking of monsters, I've got the guy who faked his own death and I'll have his story next. So we shared the story a few days ago of this guy who authorities think faked his own death, a kayaking accident.

They think he had a, they found out he had a second passport in Uzbekistan. He had a wife and family. Well, now a video has emerged. It looks like it was in maybe Santa Monica or Venice. There is a free advice video. A lady was offering to give people free advice. He pulls up on his bike. So this must have been, I don't know, earlier this year or wherever, whenever it was.

And he actually, he actually told this free advice person, his plan. Have a listen to this. And I don't know how the internet unearths this pretty wild stuff. Advice on anything. I go to Uzbekistan or stay here. Say that one more time. Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here? Do you have family there? No. Why do you want to go?

Meet a woman. To meet a woman. And it was Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan. You don't like American women? Well, they're familiar. Hmm. What a weirdo. He goes, well, they're familiar. This is crazy. So you've given up on meeting someone here? No, I'm married. Oh. Yeah. But you, you want to find someone else? Empty nest. I'm not sure.

That's why I'm asking you. Wait, empty nest? What do you mean? Empty nest. My kids are on it. Wait, so you want to find, like, adopt a child? No, no. I want to find a companion that I'm content with. I think that requires you to divorce someone first. Well, maybe. Or is she okay with that? That's a good question.

Remains to be seen. Have you guys had a conversation about that? Mm hmm. So, would it be like a thropple or something? No. Okay. Oh, you would You guys would get a divorce, possibly. Possibly, yeah. This is so weird. So I don't know, but it could be that his wife might've been in on the insurance fraud, right? Uh, because there was a 350 life insurance policy.

So if he died kayaking, she would get it or maybe she wasn't in on it and he thought it'd be better to give her the money, but in fake his own death. I don't know. It's fishy. They're investigating it, but for sure, this evidence. And again, why use Becca stance? Some people said, well, it's a country that doesn't have extradition back into the United States.

But don't you think if you're like the U S you could send over a couple of agents to, I don't know, throw them in a van and bring them back here. It's like, what's your punishment, sir? I don't know. Going back to living with your wife. I don't know. Weird stuff. All right. Well, Hopefully it ends better for the Golden Bachelorette than that.

Boy, the lengths that men will go to not show their emotions, I guess. But on the Golden Bachelorette, Joan chose Chuck. That's right, she chose Chuck. A devastating guy. What an episode was that, the finale. I think the people that did watch it found it very emotional. I just don't think the ratings were that high for the whole season.

But, yeah, it was interesting. Um, she dumps guy. She knew chalk was the one and it was just like a standard good proposal. Uh, Chuck, Chuck said everything poetic that you needed to say. He said, I'm going to honor your late husband by telling you I love you every day. I mean, real magical stuff. So congratulations to them.

Um, I will be covering any, um, you know, all of the sort of, uh, recaps, uh, the X's and O's of it on today's YouTube. Channel, but yeah, I was actually surprised when I saw guy and how emotional he was when he was being dumped I just thought like, you know, he you know, he was really into it So who knows maybe guy would be the next uh golden bachelor yet to be seen chalk gave Joan, a key, uh, or a little like heart to lock it.

And I guess said, Hey, we're going to move to New York city together. So clearly this guy's got some savings. Cause I don't know about you guys, but the prices for buying a place in New York city, it's like 6, 000 a month. In, um, in the, uh, you know, garbage disposal fees, let alone whatever the mortgage would be.

Uh, but Hey, I guess they're crushing it. So good for them. All right. Well, lots of other content to get to. All right. I'm going to save for the end of the episode, all of this Matt Gates stuff, cause it is a wild story. One of the people that Trump has nominated for attorney general. I'll have that story for you in a minute here.

Uh, but we do have some other content. Uh, how about, you know what? Let's, let's just take a moment. Hmm. And reset the palette with some good, wholesome news. This is Conan O'Brien recalling the time that Robin Williams helped him out. One of the most memorable examples to me of his kindness is when I went through my whole Tonight Show debacle.

And finally, I'm the show is done. And I don't know if I have a career anymore. What am I going to do next? You remember this this part very well, Sona. Kasana was with me during all that. And I'm lying on the floor. on the floor, uh, in the living room, my house and my phone rings and I pick it up and it's Robin Williams.

I don't even know how he got my phone number. I'll never forget. He goes like, how are you holding up chief? And I said, uh, Oh, Robin, thanks so much for calling. And he said, you know, listen, you know, you're going to be fine. You're going to be great. I know you like to ride bikes cause he was really into bicycling.

And he said, I know you like riding bikes, uh, go down, um, to this, the bike shop down in Santa Monica. I want you to go down there and I've. set up a bike for you. And I said, what? And he said, no, no, just, just head on down there. And so, and, uh, ride around, you'll feel better. And I went down and it was a Colgana, which is a very nice bike.

And he said, I told them to paint it and all these crazy Irish colors. And I get down there and it's the most, it's the ugliest. I mean, it was just, you know, greens and shamrocks and everything. And I couldn't believe. And he was like, Oh, you're going to like that bike chief. Don't worry about it. And I just thought I, uh, I thanked him many, many times.

I just couldn't believe that he was thinking about me. You know how we are in life. Yeah, but that's how he was. You think about someone, oh, that's too bad what happened to him. Oh, whatever. Anyway, I'm gonna go get a sandwich. No, no, he reached out. He thought what might please you. He went and got to a shop and chose, I mean, he would put a lot of effort into making you feel better, which I thought, that's very, very Robin.

All right. So let's take that moment to be more like Robin Williams here in the idea that we just selflessly help people when they need a boost. So very nice and kind story. Well, speaking of helping people, our community has done a pretty good job helping Clayton Eckerd, Greg Gillespie, Mike Maracini, and all the victims that have been, I guess, subjected to the fraud and coercion by, uh, his ex fling Laura Owens.

Uh, but I guess it doesn't look that way to. Her or her attorney because they seem to think that they are on the innocent side and they're trying to do I guess some work to get their image out there And i'm going to share a little bit about what they're saying because I think it's important to share all sides Even if she's proven to commit fraud here she is with her attorney, uh, speaking about a new video that's going to be coming out, sharing their side.

Again, she's under investigation by the county prosecutors in Maricopa. So I don't know how smart it is for them to be doing this, but, uh, what do I know? Okay. So we're reporting. Hello everyone. Uh, it's douche canoe and a pregnancy faker. We have just, um, I think you're supposed to look at the camera. See, I'm not a professional.

You are. Uh, so we just did our little video. Um, I just tried to do a, a Twitter live thing. Uh, that didn't work very well. So we're going to shoot this little quick thing for you. Uh, you are in charge of finalizing our video so we can send it out. Yeah. We're going to do it as soon as possible. Yeah. A day or two.

So, yeah. Okay. And we think we need to go again and do, uh, yeah. No question. We did not. We did not. She's like, we need to do volume two. He's like, well, pipe down. Someone's going to pay for this cover anywhere near what, like 10%? No, we didn't. We covered a little bit of the appeal, but I think we want to cover more of that.

Yeah. So I read the appeal, um, intro 15 pages. I said I was going to do that. Uh, we covered two hours of time, I mean, not just talking about that, but there's just so much. I mean, I guess, yeah, the intro, how we met, um, so forth. The fact that we are not dating. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, good to know that they're not dating.

All right. I'll share the rest of this video on today's YouTube. Uh, I don't know if it's bizarre, I don't know what the hell it is, uh, but it doesn't matter. Thank you. Changed the fact that she's committed fraud, medical fraud, faked cancer, faked black men, faked Jewish men, faked, uh, uh, ultrasounds, faked HCG tests.

I mean, it's like, what do you want? What do you want from me? I don't know what else to say. You know what I mean? I'm kind of done with it. Uh, but either way, we'll listen, we'll let enough of the heavy stuff. We'll go talk politics. We'll be back with more content right after this. It seems as though people are surprised at some of the nominations coming in for the different jobs that'll have to do with President elect Trump, but one of them, Attorney General, is leaving members on both sides of the aisle just, um, uh, befuddled, I guess I should say.

Here's what Jake Tapper had to say. President Trump announced just minutes Gaetz of Florida to be the next U. S. Attorney General. General, Gates is currently facing a House Ethics Committee investigation over whether he may have, and I should note before I even outline the charges, Gates denies it all, but the House Ethics Committee in a statement earlier this year said they're looking into whether he may have, quote, engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct, unquote.

Senator, uh, your reaction. Well, I was walking off the Senate floor just moments ago when the news was announced. You could literally hear the jaws dropping to the floor. So look, they've got all these announcements from one after another of people just saying how crazy with this, how crazy this is, but what's really interesting is Representative Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress because he's going to be the Attorney General, assuming that they vote him through, but that came two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a highly damaging report outlining its investigation into the Republican, according to multiple sources.

Familiar with the probe, the committee plan to vote Friday, just tomorrow on releasing the report ethics loses its jurisdiction over Gates. When he leaves Congress, the secretive panel has been investigating Gates on and off since 2021 president elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Gates to be attorney general.

So now we'll have to see, um, what the party of morality does. Will they vote him through or will they, you know, uh, find Trump's former NSA, uh, chief John Bolton responded to this news. It must be the worst nomination for a cabinet position in American history. Uh, I think this is something that, uh, falls well outside the scope of deference that should be given to a president in nominating members of his senior team.

Gates is not only totally incompetent for this job, he doesn't have the character, he is, he is a person of moral turpitude, and notwithstanding how difficult it may be politically, This is a nomination the Republican Party should oppose. By the way, don't make me look up turpid toad. So that was a member of the Republican Party, or that was John Bolton, a member of Trump's, uh, former, uh, cabinet, uh, cabinet, whatever.

Uh, well, now we have another thought. Representative Congressman Gonzalez says, I've served with some scumbags, but this guy's even scummier. He will survive. Look, the house is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is going to be just fine. I served 20 years in the military. It's my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I served with some real scumbags.

Look, uh, uh, Matt Gates, uh, he paid, uh, minors to have sex with them at drug parties. Bob, good endorse my opponent. Wow. So pretty damning stuff. I mean, look, what do you want me to do? You know, this is what's so crazy is, uh, you know, coming up to the election, people said, Oh, it's all rhetoric. He's not going to do half the things.

And now he's doing all of these things. And you have people that say, well, we need someone with good moral fiber. Well, he's, I mean, he's, he's, this is wild. Right. And they always said, Hey, don't worry about the next president unless he's going to start firing a bunch of generals. Well. Here's that story.

President elect Donald Trump has promised to make the armed forces less woke as the term goes by eliminating diversity training and firing any generals that he believes are supporters of a woke military. Now as commander in chief, he already has the power to fire any general he pleases. So which are the woke generals?

A draft executive order reportedly shows how he might identify those generals. According to the wall street journal, Trump's transition team is considering the creation of a quote warrior board. Made up of retired senior military personnel to remove generals and admirals found to be quote Lacking in requisite leadership qualities.

Alright, look, whatever, we'll see how it goes. There's your update on that. Oh, and as far as the monkey business goes, the monkeys that recently escaped, some have been returned. Monkeys that recently escaped from a research facility. We talked about this last week. 43 female monkeys escaped from a South Carolina lab.

As of yesterday, 32 have been recaptured, but there are legal questions about whether the research facility can claim ownership of the monkeys because they previously lived as free range animals before they were originally captured. I say this, bring them back to wherever you captured them from. They have families, they have aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters.

They have communities, send them home. What are we doing? And they are all free. female. So it's highly unlikely that they're going to procreate unless there's any male macaques hanging out there in the Cal, you know, Carolina woods. I don't know, but either way, uh, do the right thing. And, um, and that, and that means bring them home to wherever they came from.

What do I, do you need? I mean, is anyone advocating for the macaques is just me. Okay. Well, that was a heavy ending. We had a lot of good stuff in this episode, a lot of wild, wild stuff going on. I'm going to give you my honest takes as we share the news. That's all I can pledge to do a lot of content coming up on YouTube today.

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11-13-24 Afternoon Rush - Trump & Biden Meet In Oval Office & New UFO Info Revealed! & Golden Bachelorette Finale Preview & Full House's Dave Coulier Cancer Reveal

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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, my Rushies. It's hump day, baby. It's the Afternoon Rush, November 13th, 2024. We got a wild one. I say it every day, but I mean, how wild is this?

I'm going to share with you guys the news we have for the day. Again, thoughts on Dancing with the Stars plus Updates on the UFO hearings and president Biden welcomes a president elect Trump to the white house to continue to show what a peaceful transition of power looks like. I don't know what's more bizarre, the, the, the world of politics or that UFOs may be hanging out in the oval office.

And then I've also got a shocking and sad full house cast members, cancer diagnosis. We will not be cutting it out. It's uncle Joey. And we'll share his thoughts. I think he's okay, but we'll have to hear what he has to say. And also golden bachelorette is tonight. So we will be working our way to the finale of that.

I'll be flying back from New York city to Nashville tonight, and we'll be covering all of that. Plus I'll have some updates and thoughts on the Clayton Eckerd case. As we continue to get more information, lots to get into folks. We'll have all that and more coming up next on the rush. Bit of a somber story to start with, and if you're an old millennial like me, you might have grown up with the Full House series.

And it's really sad whenever we see a character that we loved, uh, in real life go through some problems. Dave Coulier, diagnosed with non Hodgkin lymphoma. Here's what he had to say on the Today Show. Five weeks ago, I was diagnosed with stage three, uh, non Hodgkin's lymphoma. And In that time, I've had three surgeries, I've had chemo, I've lost a little bit of hair, I kind of look like a little baby bird now, but it has been, uh, a, uh, a rollercoaster ride, for sure.

What, what do the doctors say, Dave, about the prognosis? Well, this is B cell lymphoma that I have. It's a very aggressive condition. Uh, type of lymphoma and, uh, it happened very quickly, uh, the onset of this, um, growing lymphoma in my groin area was very quick. So I said, uh, something's not right. I have a golf ball down here.

And so we, uh, we biopsied it, we took it out and they said, uh, you know, we wish we had better news for you, but, uh, you know, you have B cell. lymphoma. We need to get you into chemotherapy right away. Uh, then we had another hurdle. I told my wife, Melissa, I got the news. I was home by myself. She came home 20 minutes later.

And she said, have you heard anything? And I said, yeah, I have cancer. And she said, come on, quit making jokes. And I said, no, I did. And once that settled in, it was a, a gut punch, but there was still another hurdle. Uh, we had to find out what the staging was. And so they, um, You know, went into my bone marrow and, uh, we got good news that day once we got the results that, um, you know, it hadn't spread.

And so at that point, the curability rate went up to 90 plus percent. So it's very treatable. You had a slight swelling in a lymph node in your groin that grew. Rapidly? Is that what it was? Within days, Hoda. It had gone from just kind of, uh, I guess I'm fighting this cold off, this has happened before, to the size of a golf ball.

Alright, so that's just tragic, really. But we're rooting for him, and we'll have updates as they come. I guess it reminds everybody, I think Dave Coulier is Canadian, so again, probably has good health care, what can I say about that? But it just reminds us, if there's anything with your body that seems off, you know, make sure to look into it.

And really, you know, know if something's wrong, go get seen. All right, let's go to Dancing with the Stars. We have a couple of wild stories. The first being that Artem, uh, a former pro dancer who was not charged with domestic violence, but he of course was arrested for that, was in the audience at the show's 500th episode, which was a big deal.

A big deal because a lot of people, if you look at the comment section, oh my gosh, how could they let that monster there? And then others say, well, actually, I mean, he was never charged with anything. So, you know, we don't really know what went down and you know, you know, yeah, I think you actually see a lot of reasonable people online there, but, um, kind of a bold statement for them to let them back in.

But I guess that's it. They've banked on the fact that, you know, he's been, I don't know, uh, with the show for a decade, whatever, how long it was. And they've said, you know what? The pro dancers are sticking by his side there. Um, and anyway, Ilona Marr, the, uh, professional rugby player from the Olympics was again asked, she's getting asked nonstop about whether or not she would be the bachelorette.

She already said she would. Here's the response on entertainment tonight. After last night's episode, you would be down to be the next bachelorette. Oh my gosh! Stop spreading lies! Uh, Alan and I jokingly said that last, uh, week. Cause, uh, yes, I will date 20 men for America. That's what I meant. Should look 30 men.

No, I'll date 30 men for America. You should, I'm serious. You think my mans is on the bachelorette? I'm gonna set some tough requirements. I love her, she's like, Listen, if America needs me, I will come in there and sling as much rugby, you know what, on the pitch. For the guy to even get there. You gotta be able to be good in, in contact sports.

Yeah, right, right. You gotta be We're just, like, strong. Six two. So she's a big girl. I mean, as far as like rugby is concerned, she's, you know, she's a larger, you know, formidable force. I kind of could see her with like a real skinny nerdy guy. I don't know. Just me, you know, Hey, you know, every year that's Yang.

Um, all right. So we've got a lot of other news here. Oh boy. Can you believe this? Wild stuff. Jake Paul, YouTuber turned boxer, set to fight Iron Mike Tyson. And here he is on Haktur's podcast, Haktur, discussing the eight figure payouts he's going to get. Again, that means 10 plus million. My guess is it's closer to 50 million.

How much did they pay you for this fight? A lot of, a lot of dinero. Uh, it's, it's pretty crazy. Boxing is a very lucrative sport. But, um, It's, it's up there. Uh, I get, I've said it in the media, but then they get mad at me for saying it, so I'm not allowed to say it, but it's, it's up there in the eight figures.

Okay, props to you. So that's anywhere between 10 million to 99 million. Now she says props to you. Now I don't mean to insult the intelligence of Haley Welch. I don't know if she was able to do the math on what eight figures is because she was like props to you. He's like, yeah, that's 70 million. And she's like, Oh wow.

She's like, when you said eight figures, I thought 80, 000. I had no idea. Now what's this about you think JoJo Siwa would whoop my ass, hmm? She would! Yo! So anyway, Jake Paul, you know, as much money as he's making in the boxing ring, he's, she, uh, Talk Tua podcast is actually with Jake Paul's company, so he was smart enough to bring her along as an influencer.

Look, she's got a lot of growing to do as far as, um, How she is on camera. But I mean, all signs point to the fact that she's got the character and the charisma and the point of view as just like, sort of, um, like I've said before, the simple life, uh, you know, meets podcasting. So I think she'll do great.

Here's what Mike Tyson had to say again. Mike Tyson, uh, he's, he's no spring chicken, but man, I mean, this dude bit. Evander Holifield's ear off. Evander Olaf Holifield lost more of an ear than Donald Trump did. And what does that say about, I mean, you know, whenever you fight someone, you don't have to wonder, will I lose my ear?

Unless it's Mike Tyson. Everybody knows what you can do in the ring. But what a lot of people are talking about is the age difference. You are 58. And Jake is 27, and that is a big disparity. What say you about that? I don't know. Let's um, you see what you do for a living? You guys, do you think a guy 30 years your, your, your junior could do it better than you?

Absolutely not. All right. Okay. Okay. It really seems like it's split between people like myself and Harvey who actually were alive and watched you. Live in your heyday when you absolutely destroyed people. There was nothing like a Mike Tyson fight was the event that everyone and, and you had to watch from the very first, from the very first round, cause it might not go more than 10 seconds.

Right. The people have seen that, that they're, they've got your back. That's, that's me. And then there are the younger people who know your name, they know your legacy, but they didn't see it live. And so maybe they're not as impressed. And they're all going for Jake Paul. What do you say to those people who didn't experience your fights live and what they should be looking for on Friday night?

Hey, if they never seen my fight, they missed a hell of a legacy. And Friday night, they go, we'll look forward to seeing that man Jake Paul get beaten bad. Guys, this is going to be wild. Trust me when I say this is appointment television. I have no idea what's going to happen. Iron Mike is a. I mean, he's a legend, but he's 58, you know what I mean?

That's insane. I'm 39. You know what I'm sore from? I sneezed the wrong way. You ever sneezed the wrong way and you pull a back muscle and you're like, why does my neck hurt? I don't know. I looked to the left for too long. You know what I mean? So who knows what's going to happen, but either way, I will be there to watch it for you.

All right. I got a lot of content to get to. We still have UFOs and Biden Trump in the Oval Office. We'll have that for you next. All right, before we get into UFOs, here's another out of this world story. This is Jason Tartick's podcast. He had Jenna Johnson on opening up about what it's like to be a pro dancer nine months out of the year when they're not actually on the, on the show dancing, technically, I'm nine months out of the year.

Dancing with the Stars is only three months where I can really know that I'm gonna be solidified with a paycheck. You have to hustle. You have to be proactive. Before you take the shot on So You Think You Can Dance and then Dancing with the Stars, are you earning any form of income? You can do shows. Or you can assist on conventions, which I was doing.

But it is a very scary career to pursue. The life of a dancer is no joke. And it's all out of passion. So I am such a huge advocate for all dancers who pursue it. Because it is so scary. They do the most. I think, you know, I have every intention of getting our son, August, into dance classes and, and you know what, to be quite honest, continuing dancing with my wife, you know, my wife and I hired a professional dancer, a guy who actually works with the dancing with the stars, uh, dancers on their tour, uh, for our wedding dance.

And I got to tell you, there's no better feeling, no better release of endorphins than. Then getting your mind, body, and soul to all work in one. So good on Jenna for finding a way to not only make a living, but do it at such a high level. And just as a reminder to anyone out there considering career paths, if you choose safety over passion, you'll always wonder, what if, if you choose passion over safety, you'll at least have that high frequency of love that you lead every day with.

And it's really hard to not attract like minded kids. High frequencies of love when you're when you're acting that way. All right, real quick. Here's, uh, we just had Jenna Johnson. Here is her dance partner, the one and only Bachelor Joey, discussing how he has finally decided where to live. It's the West Coast.

But I'm really excited. We've decided to stay in L. A. and I'm excited. Have you guys anticipated what life would be like after the show? We just talked about it last night. We grabbed dinner and we were talking about like, what are you most excited for after the show? And we had different answers. I am excited to take this like version of a routine that I've created with dancing and then build it into my own.

I'm excited to see what's gonna possibly next for me and. It's the next venture I want to do, but I'm really excited. We've decided to stay in LA and I'm excited for us to like build a home together. We got an apartment and like, I cannot wait to make it feel like something that's really ours because the way that dancing set us up is amazing, but it's a small temporary place.

This is going to be the first time we have a place that's ours. So I'm thinking of those little things right now that I'm so excited for, um, and it's going to be great. I'm just excited about our next chapter because this is one we've been waiting for for a Wow. There it is real PR trained, but we expect nothing less from Joey.

And again, Kelsey's kind of had to be in the wings for him. So imagine after this is over for Joey, that Kelsey gets her say, go out there. She gets to order extra appetizers after all. Alright, well last night, or excuse me, this morning we talked about John Krasinski being the sexiest man alive. Here he was on Jimmy Kimmel discussing how he found out and his reaction.

My guess is he'll be very humble. If I was ever listed as sexiest man alive, I don't think I'd be humble. I think I would wear the People Magazine article as a t shirt or at least on a hat. I'm sure this was a big secret, held very close to the vest, right? How long have you known that you were the sexiest man alive?

I've known since Uh, five minutes ago. Yeah. They kind of tell you? I'm pretty sure this is still a bit. I thought it was a prank when they told me, and now I'm sure of it. But you've been in a Marvel movie. You were in the, you know, the multiverse of madness. Compare this kind of secret keeping to Marvel secret keeping.

When you're working with Marvel. Yeah. Did you tell anybody? You can't, cause you can't. No, you can't tell anybody. I mean, Emily knew, obviously. Yes. Right. Emily knew. Was she surprised? Of this? Yeah. Or Marvel? No, this. Was she like, it's about damn time? Or she's like, yes, darling, I don't know. There was so much laughter on the other end of the phone.

It was hard to get words, but yeah. Sure, sure. They just want to find a guy to make them laugh. Isn't that what they say? Exactly. This is one of my favorite couples. I have a huge crush on Emily Blunt. Uh, I saw her in that movie with Ryan Gosling, that stunt movie. Oh my gosh. The chemistry. Look, I've always known she was like conventionally attractive, but she's really great.

And John Krasinski just goes to show that women love a guy with a sense of humor. I mean, from the office To playing action stars. He's really had it all. We're very happy for them. Oh, and boy, I would say we have it all because we have the podcast sponsor that has it all. It's VEA this holiday season unwind and recharge with VEA.

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The holiday season needs you. Enhance your every day with VEA. All right, well we got that out of the way. How about the, um, I mean, where do we go from here? Do we want to Trump and Biden together. Why not? Here it is. White House meeting. Trump visits Biden in the Oval Office. Melania takes a pass and the meeting is over.

The president elect Trump thanked president Joe Biden for making this transition one of the smoothest ever. And then the press corps broke out into a cacophony of yelling questions at the two men. Uh, again, we did not get this peaceful transition when Trump. Lost the election to Joe Biden. He did not show up at the inauguration or any of this went down and he never actually said he lost that election, which again has led the nation to spiral into a divide thinking that the election was stolen and whatnot.

But in this case, as far as we could tell right now, Kamala Harris took the loss on the chin. I mean, sure, there might be some recounts of votes just to make sure everything's on the up and up, but I think that's fair. Recounting of votes is different than, you know, uh, claiming it was stolen and, you know, never actually getting that evidence out there.

I mean, look, that's the reality I live in, is that the election Now, is it Stolen in other ways? Well, I mean, there's gerrymandering, there's misinformation out there, but as far as ballots being hacked, when evidence of that comes out, we'll report on it. But in the meantime, here is Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

I had a chance to talk with some of that today, so welcome, welcome back. very much, and, uh, politics is tough, and it's, uh, in many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much. A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get, and I very much appreciate that, Joe.

You're welcome. He says, I very much appreciate that, Joe, and it says smooth as could be. And by the way, You just, I mean, if I could wave a magic wand and have Trump do this when he was president, when he lost to Joe Biden, I just think it's a really great message. I did not understand the importance of the transfer of power and the peaceful transfer of power.

I did not understand that until last election. I did not understand its importance until 2020 when we saw it didn't happen and how easy it is to get people very upset. I mean, it's like when you're sports. team loses and you get mad at the umps, but times a thousand, because this is democracy and we have to hold, uh, hold ourselves to a high standard.

If we're going to be a part of a country that, um, is, you know, in, in some parts of the birthplace of democracy. And if we want to spread democracy across the world, we're going to have to make sure that we live up to that and that everyone in this country knows that it is a fair election. All right. Well, Speaking of crazy stories, which we have today, let's go to the UFO talk, right?

Isn't that what everyone wants? Forget all this president mumbo jumbo, give me the UFOs. So, uh, there was a con, a congressional hearing on UAPs. I still call them UFOs. They call them UAPs. Um, I guess they're shadowing a U S submarine fleet. Oh boy. I tell you what, take a quick break. We'll be back with that story next.

All right, alien talk happening now. We just heard that the U. S. nuclear submarine fleet is being shadowed by UAPs, aka UFOs. That's what reportedly former U. S. Navy Admiral Kim Gallaudet will be testifying about on Wednesday at the House of Representatives Oversight Committee. After upgrades were made to our jets radar systems, we began detecting unknown objects operating in our airspace.

At first, we assumed they were radar errors, but soon we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple onboard sensors, including infrared systems, eventually through Visual ID. During a training mission in warning area Whiskey 72, 10 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, two F 18 Super Hornets were split by a UAP.

The object, described as a dark gray or black cube inside of a clear sphere, came within 50 feet of the lead aircraft and was estimated to be 5 to 15 feet in diameter. By the way, are they sure this isn't an Amazon Prime drone dropping off my package? Yeah, just like, yeah, it had a Jeff Bezos logo on it.

Uh, look, maybe the UFOs just wanted to see Virginia Beach. They, uh, they heard that there's a bunch of chubby, uh, burnt rednecks partying on the, on the beach and they wanted to see what all the commotion was about. The mission commander terminated the flight immediately and returned base. In previous hearings, we've seen Alright, so then they report more.

Look, uh, this, these hearings are happening today, so I'm sure we'll get some more, um, concise, uh, moments from, uh, all of what might have gone down, uh, because yeah, there will be a lot of information, uh, as far as they have said that the, there were biologics, as they call them. Now, it's like, what does that mean?

What is a biologic? Are we talking about green aliens? Let us know what it is. Alright, uh, up next, we've got the preview for tonight's interview. Episode, uh, finale episode of the golden bachelorette. Have a listen to this. I came on this journey because there's an empty hole in my life that John left. I've spent so much time holding back, but I feel happy about my future now.

I can see myself with Joan the rest of my life and what a special feeling that is. I have fallen in love and my intentions are to get that on the name. I woke up this morning and I realized it actually happened. I have only been in love with one person. One person, more than one now. There it is. Live event coming tonight.

So I'll be here to cover it, uh, first thing in the morning. And speaking of the bachelor and other news, bachelor Clayton Eckerd's accuser set to do a two hour video. I'm saying it with sort of, um, bewilderment. Cause I don't know if they will. If they release a video explaining their side and all this nonsense, I will cover it in the morning.

Either way, I'll have a video in the morning covering it because she released another blog, I guess, using her autism diagnosis to explain. I don't know how, you know, uh, how she cons these men into relationships through fake pregnancies. I mean, that's my opinion. done. Uh, she doesn't exactly admit that, but, um, yeah, I mean, when will the roost be up, please?

We're all so sick and tired of this story. Um, all right, well, sad news coming out of Bali, you know, I spent my honeymoon in Bali. It's absolutely beautiful. Um, they have canceled all flights to and from Bali for the rest of the day due to, I guess, a. Uh, volcano erupting. Have a listen to this. Breaking news at 9am on that situation in Bali where flights in and out of the holiday destination have been cancelled due to a volcanic eruption.

Two major airlines have just provided an update and it isn't good news. No, it's not, Jane. I can confirm that Virgin Australia has officially cancelled all flights both to and from Bali, from Australia, for the rest of today. Now, that includes, uh, pass that is affecting passengers not only in Australia but also overseas.

Who are stuck over in Bali, uh, Jetstar has also provided an update to say that at this stage, all flights currently scheduled for 2pm today onwards are going ahead, but they are hoping to provide an update as soon as possible. Now, we don't want anyone to be stranded, but if you're going to be stranded anywhere, Bali is a beautiful place to be stranded.

Uh, it's kind of an expensive flight to get there as you're in Indonesia, right? You're, you're very far away. But once you get there, the people are so kind. Uh, it's relatively affordable, uh, to stay there. Uh, your money goes a long way. And it's a beautiful, sort of like, humid environment. There's monkeys roaming around.

Although the monkeys will mess with you. I always say when I traveled there after the first day, after making eye contact with the monkey, here's what they do. They look at you and then they just start peeing. And I'm like, this cannot be good. When an animal, when a mammal looks at you in the eye and pees, I don't know.

I don't trust that. Uh, so, um, we had these monkeys kind of rough up my wife to, um, you know, try to steal a muffin from her. So for the rest of our trip, I took our selfie stick and kind of used it as a baton to keep them away. That's neither here nor there. Just a little anecdote to the travel. the travel lifestyle of, um, of YouTuber, Dave Neal.

Uh, but either way, yeah, Bali is a beautiful tourist destination. I recommend it. Um, uh, five out of five, um, you know, good people. Although, you know, don't, um, you know, don't desecrate the culture, be a part of it. Yeah. Once you go there, you go to these beautiful temples. They give you that little sarong thing you got to wear.

Cause you gotta be respectful. I don't know. It's cool. It's cool to see different cultures. Right. Um, and yeah, Anyhow, look, that's going to do it for us today. Uh, lots of stories we got into and so much more coming up. It's been a wild week, this post election and all the things going on this fall. Wild week, indeed.

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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 12th, 2024, and we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place, and There is a lot to get to today.

Let's jump right into the lead stories. Bachelorette star, Rachel Lindsay responds to questions about if she will be going back on reality TV dating shows. Spoiler. She says, heck no. Plus a spirit airlines flight got shot up with stray bullets as if there was a reason to hate spirit airlines anymore. Now add stray bullets to the other issues.

Plus comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's first live response following his Puerto Rico comments at Madison Square Garden. And Saturday Night Live cast member confirms that Elon Musk made her cry while he was hosting Saturday Night Live. I have those stories. Plus some motivation from Kristen Cavallari about becoming a business babe, how to launch your business and know what your calling is.

So we'll get a little motivation, uh, for your afternoon rush, uh, all these stories, plus so much more coming up next on The Rush. Alright, let's start with our favorite bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay. Here she is, I guess, getting pulled over by TMZ, and of course, discusses if she would go back on dating reality TV shows.

How are you doing? I'm so good. How are you? I'm great. I wanted to ask you, I mean, you know you and Brian are like done. I mean, how's the new chapter of single life been for you? It's been great. It's been great? Okay. So, is guys jumping into the DMs? I know you guys are. Nobody, oh the car's right there.

Nobody loves my DMs. Nobody loves my DMs. What do you mean? I'm just, I'm just all about having fun right now. Okay. I mean, would you ever give it a shot? I know a lot of people love watching our reality TV. Would you ever give it a shot? I would never go back on reality TV for dating. Ever again? Ever. Oh my gosh.

So you do the organic way then? I would do it the organic way. Yeah. I learned my lesson. All right. Fool me once. Fool me once she says. And yeah, even if she does it the organic way, don't forget, get that prenup. Okay. Britney speaking of prenups, Britney speaking of prenups. Spears is on her last final, I guess this doesn't count as a prenup, but it's her final child support payment this Friday.

The buck stops here. Uh, she's been paying, I guess for the last 18 years. Doesn't that make you feel old? To K Fed, Kevin Federline. She's three days away from closing the books on child support and TMZ, Brittany will write her last child support check, um, tomorrow. Uh, for November 15th, you know, you know, what a gravy train that was for K Fed.

Can you imagine to go from just being a backup dancer to essentially marrying the, and having kids with the biggest pop star at the time of all time, I guess, maybe not as big as Michael. Or Jackson, right? But she was, I mean, big as, she was huge. She was huge. Britney Spears. She's a Britney, bitch. And now all of a sudden, uh, you know, hopefully he was able to save a couple bucks.

I mean, how much was she paying him? Who knows? My guess is around 20, 000 a month. That's my guess. Um, and, uh, Uh, oh, actually, no, double that. Brittany and Kevin agreed at the time they divorced, she would pay him 20, 000 a month in child support. But in 2018, it went up to 40, 000 a month. An acknowledgement that despite their joint custody agreement, Kevin had the kids 100 percent of the time.

Uh, they agreed to the 20, 000 a month after Sean Preston turned 18. So as of Friday, Brittany will be free and clear of child support, and maybe she'll Forge a new relationship with her now adult children. Yeah. What a sad story. Everything involving Britney Spears is just a cautionary tale. Uh, just because, you know, I mean, I don't know what, what, what could the family have done to prevent this all from turning out the way it did?

Is it just because of fame or is it because the family sort of pimped her out? I mean, who, who really knows? Uh, sad stuff indeed though. Well. Speaking of sad stuff, Armie Hammer, remember him? Kind of canceled by Hollywood. I guess he's making his comeback. Well, he had his mom on his new podcast. Yes, that's right.

Podcasts are the, uh, pipeline to making it back when you've been sort of shunned by Hollywood. And, um, You know, is his voice worth hearing? I mean, it's up to you to decide. Who knows? But he says his mom gifted him a birthday vasectomy, that being of course, uh, I guess he was gonna get one and she paid the bill.

Here's the deal. You guys know how it is. If your parents ever want to foot the bill for something, you just let them. Have a listen. The thought that, you know, and and let's be honest, I think you learned not to put stupid things in DMs because No one was eaten, no one was raped, but you were stupid. And let's talk about what I gave you.

What a mom there. No, you were stupid. We need, we need more moms like this. For your birthday this year, the church lady. Okay. Uh huh. What did you get? So I call army and I go army, what would you like for your birthday this year? And he goes, Oh, I don't know. You know, maybe, maybe money, whatever. And I was like, I believe I'm going to give you a vasectomy.

So I go, I go to a doctor's office and I go, uh, yes, I'm here to schedule a vasectomy. And they go, great. Uh, here's what you need. Fill out this paperwork, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do a consult with the doctor. Do the consult with the doctor. And he's like, you sure you want to do this? I'm like, I have two beautiful kids.

I don't want any more kids. I'm good to go. He goes, you sure? Like, listen, it's reversible, but the reversal procedure is way harder and this and that. And I was like, no, no, no. I'm, I'm sure. Like they try to talk you out of it. Right. Right. Rightfully so. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, you're not going to talk me out of it.

Like I'm, I'm done. I'm good. I'm done. And he goes, all right, great. So go back out to the receptionist and um, and then she'll collect payment and the whole thing. And I go, great. Thank you, doc. Walk out to the receptionist. We're just like, okay, uh, are you going to be putting this on insurance? And I go, oh, actually I don't, I don't have insurance.

She goes, what? I go, yeah, I haven't had insurance for years. And she was like, Oh, okay. Uh, are you going to be putting it on a credit card? I don't know. My credit cards won't cover this. Um, my mother's going to be calling you and she's going to be paying for it. And she was like looking down and she goes, what?

And I go, yes, my mother gave me this as a birthday present. And she, It just was like one of those things like you could tell she was hearing something and like I've never heard. What are you talking? You know, yeah, cuz most moms want you to have kids. They want to be grandparents. Most moms aren't paying for your vasectomy What a bizarre interview, but hey, you know what people like bizarre interviews I just find it interesting, you know, so he, of course, was accused of being a cannibal because he texted the girl he was dating, being like, I want to eat you or whatever, you know, it's like, okay, I don't know.

The truth is he was never charged with any crimes and they dropped, you know, all the charges or whatever they were looking into him. So that's all you can say about that. I don't want to comment any further. I don't know a thing about this guy, uh, but he's, you know, he's trying to make his comeback and that's what's kind of nice about podcasting.

If people want to listen, they will, uh, very strange stuff. But, uh, clearly he's getting press. And getting press also is Kathy Bates. She talks about enjoying not having boobs after she ditched a reconstruction effort. Have a listen. There was a friend of mine that was concerned when I decided not to have reconstruction because at the age I was, I thought, you know, I really don't want to go through that.

Um, and I, I just didn't want to go through it. You know, I wasn't in a relationship. I was older and I didn't, didn't think that I would be in a relationship. And it's always kind of like, why do I have to, but also the other thing, this is really weird maybe, but I had really heavy breasts. They were like 10 pounds when they removed them.

Yeah, really big, big breasts. And I kind of enjoy not having breasts. It's strange. And, you know, at Matlock they devised this really cool, um, little, it's spankish kind of, uh, You know, a camisole, very thin, uh, straps and they put little, you know, falsie cups in it and they're so comfortable and they give me a nice shape.

And, and that's it. I mean, I feel so good when I go out like that. For a while, I just didn't go out with any, you know, prophylactics or at all, you know, or I went out with them. They're hot and heavy and they made me unhappy. Yeah. I mean, look, Hey, I don't know a thing about this conversation, but 10 pounds, that's a lot of extra weight to be carrying around.

So good for her for doing what feels right. And you know what? Good for her for normalizing the conversation around that. I think that's a big deal too. Well from, you know, a lot of bizarre stories today, we'll get to this spirit airline store. You guys know, I just flew to New York city, not on spirit. I flew Delta because I, you know, Don't hate myself.

And I tell, well, the last time I tried to fly Spirit, um, they canceled on me an hour before the flight. So I ended up having to book a very expensive flight. So I have vowed whenever I search for flights online, I click the box that says anything but Spirit Airlines. That's just me. I'll get DMs from people saying, no, Spirit's been great to me.

And I tell you this, they're good. Until they're not, you'll come crying back to me. I'll never, you know, and they'll have to pay me a lot of money. If I advertise for spirit, I'll be like, Hey, it's Dave. Come on spirit airlines. Then you'll be knowing I'm making a fortune. All right. Anyway, I'll have that story for you, but I am in New York city and I do have my last show in New York tonight, 10 PM at the stand.

If you want to come hang out, um, I'll be there a slinging jokes. It'll be a ton of fun. All right. We'll be back with this spirit airline. Uh, drive by, I should say fly by shooting right after this. Alright, as promised, here is the, a passenger talking about being traumatized after bullets pierced a plane on Spirit Airlines.

Have a listen to this. I heard clock, clock, clock, you know, three times and a couple of us in the plane, we recognized the noise. Um, It was a bit traumatic because I've been kidnapped. I mean, we, uh, I didn't know. Yeah, I mean, we are planning to land, you know, safely in Santiago. But, uh, and I saw a lot of people, I mean, going to the, to the back of the planes.

And, uh, the crew was really traumatized. People went to the back of the plane. Yeah. I could imagine that. Oh my gosh. The spirit airlines flight was so traumatizing. I wasn't even on the flight with the bullets. I'm just saying in general, it's a terrible airline. All right. Um, to each their own, uh, there just needs to be better airline regulations.

You know, spirit airline, you know, if you don't print out your boarding pass ahead of time, they charge you, they just nickel and dime you for everything, which by the way, whatever. But I feel bad for older passengers or people that might not travel often, and they don't realize all the little gotcha things that they fees.

So when they get to the flight, they think they got a 30 flight and then it come to find out they don't. That's what I love about like Southwest, you know, two check bags, you know, every single flight should just come with two check black bags. Make that standard. Tell me what the price is where I don't have to pay upgrades to not sit in the middle seat or whatever.

Tell me the price and shut the hell up. None of this. Hacking the um, you know the search results so you can be the best listed price And then you find out it doesn't include the cost of gas or whatever the hell you got to chip in All right Speaking of chipping in john mayer and mick g are making a rainbow connection to buy the jim henson studio As you remember we reported several weeks ago that it was looking like this Scientology was going to be buying the Muppets famed home in Hollywood, but now new owners, John Mayer and McG are set to buy the Jim Henson company lot after the Church of Scientology had reportedly eyed the property.

A mayor's rep confirmed the singer and the director are under contract to buy Henson's studio. This is, you know what, this is the exact reason why I would like wealth. Not so I can hoard it, but so I can buy things like Jim Henson's studio, you know? Oh, I don't know. But anyway, it'll be interesting to see what they end up doing with it.

Maybe it'll, it'll just be a museum. Maybe it'll be a recording studio. Who knows? All right, well, uh, let's go to Tony Hinchcliffe. As you guys know, he's the roast comedian, uh, who's got the podcast, uh, what, what's it called? Uh, Kill Tony. And, um, you know, I was on that actually years ago, uh, which is neither here nor there, but he, uh, spoke at the Madison square garden rally doing roast jokes about Puerto Rico amongst other places.

Well, that of course was a controversial night, which turned out to not make a difference as Trump won the election. But here's what he had to say. The night after Madison Square Gardens. It's finally been revealed. Ladies and gentlemen, last night I gave a speech. Uh, I don't know if you've heard about this.

It was a speech about free speech, believe it or not. And, uh, I'm currently under attack. Uh, I'm the news. I don't know if you guys know this, but, uh, On my speech, on free speech, I referenced Puerto Rico, uh, which currently has a, uh, a landfill problem in which all of their landfills are filled to the brim.

I guess I'm the only person that knew about this, uh, unfortunately. And with that said, I just want to say that I've been to P I love Puerto Ricans. They're very smart people. They're smart, they're street smart, and they're smart enough to know when they're being used as political fodder. And right now, that is happening.

And, uh, I apologize to absolutely nobody. There it is, folks. I mean, look, what do you want? That's free speech. He's allowed to say stuff. People are allowed to get offended and he's allowed to move on with his life. Can't get jailed for it. And was it used as political fodder? Well, to an extent, but I've, I said the same thing all along, that I don't fault Tony Hinchcliffe.

I just fault the people that decided it'd be a good idea to bring a roast comedian to the show. to a political rally meant to unite people. I don't know the direction of the world or where it's going, but, um, you know, you save that for the comedy clubs and for the places it's supposed to be. Not for uniting the country, right?

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And now on Vanderpump, Brittany Cartwright. Cartwright is putting her estranged husband, Jax Taylor, on blast. Uh, you know, you see, he claimed his stint in rehab, you know, made him a different man, and she said he hasn't changed one bit. I'll explain exactly her thoughts, uh, next. I was just like, I gotta, I have to do this now before I back out, before he gets out of the mental health facility and, and pulls me back in.

I have to do it now while I'm feeling strong, while I'm so angry, I've, I've just got to get it done. Because you were concerned otherwise that you would end up feeling bad for him and he would come out and he'd be especially nice to you. Yes. And. And draw, and pull me back in. Right. Because he's been able to do that for 10 years.

Yeah. So, I just was like, I have to go through with it now, and I have to be strong, and I have to stay strong from here on out. Well, basically what you're saying is that he was the same, but you were different. Oh, yeah. He, I don't feel like he changed at all. In those 30 days, and the reason, I mean, I'm sure it'll be on the show as well, but, you know, a lot of rage texting and stuff was still going on the entire time that he was in rehab, so for me, I was just noticing, like, this is just gonna be constant, like, if you're in therapy seven hours a day and you're still finding time to call me names and cuss me out and send me rage texts, then you're obviously not ever gonna change.

And that made the decision for you. Oh, yeah. Look, I wouldn't say you won't ever change, but I also wouldn't say 30 days in rehab would make someone change. Of course, she's right. Move on, you know? Don't wait for someone to change. That'd be very co dependent of her. So, I mean, I'm happy she made that decision, but you know, you never know.

The guy could change. It's just not gonna happen overnight. Like, this is bad. I can't stay in this. So, just kind of like, very eye opening. Yeah, and you just, you did it. Yeah. And I was like, let's do it now before I change my mind. I, and I'm so glad I did, and I'm Alright, there it is. She's so glad she did.

Well, we're very happy for you. Uh, I want to get into this crazy Saturday Night Live story. So, a Saturday Night Live cast member said a previous host made her cry. And nobody knew who it was. Everyone speculated. Well, now we know Chloe Fineman confirms that Elon Musk was the host who made her cry. Listen to her story.

about Elon Musk being like, butthurt about SNL and his impression. But I'm like, you're clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to come out and say, at long last, that I don't care. I'm the cast member that he made cry and he's the host that made someone cry.

Maybe there's others Um, but I saw some articles and stuff and I was like, i'm not gonna say anything But i'm like no if you're gonna like go on your platform and be rude like guess what you made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch. I was so excited. I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, it's not funny.

I waited for you to be like, ha ha, JK. No, then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page being like, I didn't laugh. I didn't laugh once, not one time. Cut to the sketch made it on and it was like fine and I actually had a really good time and I thought you were really funny in it, but But, you know, have a little manners here, sir.

There it is. Have some manners, sir. Elon Musk, co president of the United States of America. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about how being on the autism spectrum has affected his life. He said it's a never ending explosion of ideas. Look. I don't know too much about Elon Musk and his autism diagnosis, nor am I using that as an excuse for his behavior.

But I do think if you are Chloe Fineman, you know, you get these hosts, he's like an eccentric billionaire. Sure. He's got a lot of issues, but he's very, he's just, you know, he was probably really funny because he is so bizarre. He's a cyborg. People think he's an alien. Now that doesn't mean he wasn't an a hole to you.

I just think the more you think about it, you realize he probably. doesn't understand empathy that well. That's my thought. Not because he's on the spectrum, just because what we know about Elon Musk, again, everyone's different, everyone's unique. So I'm not trying to conflate or, or, or put him in a box with anybody else.

But, uh, it's, it says less about you, Chloe, and more about him. All right. We'll be back with more content right after this. Well, speaking of Elon Musk, there have been some reports that he's kind of like the co president, making a lot of decisions. Who knows if that's true? Well, President elect Donald Trump and billionaire buddy Elon Musk are inevitably bound to butt heads once the post campaign honeymoon is over because of their egos, says a CNN analyst.

Have a listen. They're both narcissists. And there's, there can be only one narcissist as head of the country. And that's Donald Trump who just won the election. I think, you know, he owes things to Elon, but at some point he's, he, you know, if he takes too much of the attention, think about Steve Bannon, do you remember he's on the cover of that magazine and how quickly he got out, even though he was the critical to Trump's first, uh, campaign.

And he was right in the middle of the white house and then he wasn't. And so Trump, you know, goes through people like tissues essentially. And I think even if it's Elon Musk and, and, and Elon has a lot of money and means and things like that, they're going to clash at some point. I don't know. I mean, maybe, but I think, I think this is what you have to, there's certain people in power that they're nice to the people that they really respect.

And then rude to people that they don't. Um, I could see it lasting pretty long because Donald Trump does have an adoration for Elon Musk. I think if Elon Musk got into the political game, then there would be some competition, but I, I think they're going to be, you know, sort of, I think they're going to work fine together to be quite honest.

Um, but then again, if Donald Trump doesn't, you know, we'll find out what sort of, um, things Elon Musk wants in return. I'm guessing there'll be a ton of deregulation. You know, I'm guessing there'll be some national parks that'll be blown up for some lithium batteries. All right. Well, it doesn't always work out when you're, um, when you're on Trump's side, Rudy Giuliani says he's so broke.

He can't buy food. Rudy Giuliani over the weekend took to social media to ask for money. From supporters of Rudy Giuliani, claiming he's so broke he can't eat, can't afford to feed himself, saying the law firm representing the two election workers he defamed, Ruby Freeman and Shea Moss, as well as the judge, quote, seized my measly checking account so I can't buy food.

This comes after Rudy was admonished by a federal judge in New York for hiding his assets that he's supposed to be selling. turning over, including a Mercedes, two dozen high end watches, a jersey signed by New York Yankees Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio. But Rudy Giuliani has been flagrant in his refusal to hand over any of those things, even taking the vintage Mercedes to Florida last week.

Today is the deadline for Rudy's attorneys to give instructions on how the remaining items will ultimately be delivered to Moss and Freeman. All right, here's what I say. Rudy, you can keep one of your watches, give the other 11 away. You don't need the Don DiMaggio outfit and sell the car for a Toyota Camry.

There it is. Rudy, join the rest of us. You only have one nice Rolex and you drive a Toyota. Okay. All right. Well, enough of the political talk. Let's do something inspirational. Here is the neuroscience. Of empathic connection, coordinating right brain activity, how by eye contact, direct eye connection really is the most powerful form of communication.

I always remind people, these are two little bits of brain outside your cranial vault. As weird as that might seem, there are two bits of brain. Your retina is central nervous system and you're, you're looking at. That's about as close as you can get to looking at somebody's brain state as anything. Well, you know, the, the, the, this is the, the eyes are being controlled by the autonomic nervous system.

So you got the, you have an autonomic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system synchrony here, so to speak, et cetera. But essentially, uh, what's occurring at this point in time, face, Voice, gesture. The face is processed in the posterior parts of the right hemisphere, the face processing. Right hemisphere, face processing.

The posterior parts of the right hemisphere, the sensory areas of the right hemisphere, process the voice. The melody of the voice. The tone of the voice. That's different than the semantics of the voice. So this is prosody, this is, uh, This is what the Italians do so well. Right. And the, and the, and the posterior parts of the right hemisphere also will process gesture and tactile.

All of that comes together, is integrated together. Alright, so that's a lot for me to comprehend, but I think what they're trying to say is, be kind, make eye contact with people, and again, this is hard in today's world with social media, we're always looking at our phones. Find those moments to connect with others, those two little bits of brains outside of your brain known as your eyeballs, and maybe, just maybe, you'll find a pleasant surprise in human connection.

Well, I got to tell you, that's going to do it for me. I got to get ready for my show tonight, but I will be back in the morning as I am every time. I'm Dave Neal. We'll see you in the morning. Uh, this is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up 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 Tuesday, November 12th, 2024. I have all of your entertainment and pop culture. Culture news in one place. And on today's episode, we've got toy maker, Mattel, making a wicked big mistake, apologizing for an 18 plus problem.

I'll get into that. Plus insiders say more will be revealed this week regarding UFOs. And speaking of UFOs, today the episode drops with David Duchovny and Jillian Anderson. This is gonna call for some X Files music. He's got a new podcast out and they talk about how they, they had a relationship falling out and how they got better.

And I'll tell you what, As a lot of elder millennial men will tell you, I got a thing for Jillian Anderson. I don't know if it's her or the trench coat, but there's something in that, uh, ginger Bob haircut that left all the boys crazy in the nineties. All right, moving on. Dancing with the stars continues this week after a short hiatus known as the 2024 election.

What Jen Tran has to say about the rumored relationship with Sasha. Totally not a girl's name. Farber. We'll get into that. Rather than point fingers. AOC tries to find out why people who voted for her also voted for Trump. I love stories like that. Stories where we actually try to solve the world's problem and just not call the other side names.

So I got all of that and more coming up next on the rush. Well, we've got machine gun babies coming. That's Megan Fox is pregnant, expecting baby with machine gun Kelly. Congratulations to the two of them. She's pregnant. The transformers actor announced the news on Instagram, sharing a photo of her positive pregnancy test, as well as a picture of herself covered in what looks to be black oil, embracing her stomach.

She. Tagged Machine Gun Kelly in the photo and used his music on the post. All right. Well, I guess that means she's having a baby. Good on her. You know, uh, there was that weird kind of rumor, I guess, that they broke up. She, you know, kind of unfollowed him and did that whole thing, but Hey, I guess they're back together.

All right. Let's dive into some good, interesting UFO news. Uh, cause nothing cleanses the palate like a little alien talk. Do you think that Americans will learn new information about UAPs or are you expecting massive revelations on Wednesday? I think we're going to learn some things. It's peeling back the layers of an onion.

Um, the one thing I think that would be, will happen eventually is President Trump will move towards total disclosure. The federal government tells us they don't exist in one breath, but then they won't release files. And when they do, They're redacted heavily. Don't we think if he knew that they were aliens, he would have told us already.

I mean, I don't know what, I guess we'll have to see. This is something we have to look forward to in the upcoming year. Cause they think we're ignorant and they're arrogant. It says everything to do with Washington, its power, influence, overconfidence and arrogance and, um, and money. Of course, I'm hoping president Trump fires a lot of people and put some people in there that trust the American public with the truth.

Well, there it is. Rep Tim Burchett. We're going to peel back some layers on the onion. It's like, okay, well, enough about lunch. Do they have aliens or not? You know what I mean? And speaking of aliens, or should I say out of this world? Uh, relationships. Uh, David Duchovny talks failure of friendship with Jillian Anderson during the X Files, he said he could have handled himself better.

Uh, on today's episode of fail better, his podcast, the co stars reunite and reveal that there were times where they wouldn't speak, uh, off camera for weeks. You know, which by the way. That's not that big of a deal. They're working with each other all day long. It's kind of like, you know, sports broadcasters, you know, they work together all day.

They don't have much to say when they're not filming. Or maybe there was some, you know, nookie lovemaking that happened that went south and who knows? Either way, I gotta tell you. I grew up one of the first, uh, female crushes. I had two crushes. I'm going to tell you right now. It was Jillian Anderson and it was, um, uh, uh, uh, what's her name?

Louise Dreyfus. What's her first name? Julia Louise Dreyfus. That was it. Elaine. If I, if Elaine was dancing, I was all into it. I had Elaine and I had Jillian Anderson in a trench coat. That was it. So anyhow, uh, they had an intimate conversation. It releases today. But he says, uh, you know, I guess, I guess they, uh, they, they had that much chemistry that even though they weren't talking off camera when they, uh, were on camera, they just lit up the stage.

He said, we know each other very deeply and yet we don't know each other in some weird way. De Kovny, 64 said. Over the past 30 years in which the duo have starred together in a total of 11 seasons of the X Files, as well as two spinoff films, De Kovny said, I don't know that we ever sat down and said, Hey, what was your childhood like?

I don't know. We didn't. And why would we? We were busy, uh, uh, Anderson says. We have a closeness that we don't have with probably many other people and went through something that we didn't go through with any other people. I mean, yes, there were crew and etc. But in terms of our experience as actors, I thought it would be a curious investigation.

So I very much look forward to getting some of the soundbites from that interview. But of course it's drops, I guess, later today, uh, David, and you know, there's a lot of celebrities that I don't think should have podcasts, but David Duchovny is interesting. And here's a quick clip from eight years ago of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson explaining their tension they had in the nineties.

I went there and blow dried my hair again, and things take a long time. And I got, I got pissed at that? Well, I think it added to the tension of the fact that I took so long to, you know So this is what's so funny. She's saying because it was very humid where they filmed in Vancouver, it took longer for her to get her hair done, which added to the tension of them filming.

Which actually is literally the tension of every relationship. It's like you're ready to go to the ballgame, but your wife decided to change the outfit she was gonna wear because she realized the home team's in red, and she was clashing with the girls. Colors and it becomes a whole thing and next thing you know, you're having the silent treatment while you eat popcorn.

Is it? Kind of makes me sound like an a hole.

So there it is. It kind of made him sound like an a hole, but hey, maybe he was either way. Love them. Hate them. They, they, uh, you know, the, the sort of, uh, conversation around UFOs in my generation was centered around

gotta love it. I'll never get old with that sound clip. Okay, so let's move it on. That's enough alien talk. Let's go back to the terrestrial world. Heading to Cabo's, uh, Cabo, no, silent S, Cabo, was Bachelor in Paradise former couple Avon and Kylie. Of course, he cheated on her twice. She outed him. She did an episode on Vile Files last year and made a whole big stink about it, but There was a little bit of a window left open as to whether or not they would get back together.

And it seems as though they may be dating. Now, I can understand why they wouldn't want this relationship to be full blown public because people are going to say, How could you take him back? Blah, blah, blah. And actually, I think they explained it very well. You know, they go on the show, they get engaged or whatever, and then they start to watch the show back and go, Was this even real?

Are we even engaged? They start to question things. Now, that doesn't, Explain or write off why he cheated, but if any relationship can overcome early relationship debauchery, I would say it should be some early 20 something people from bachelor in paradise. If they can make it, any of us can make it now in other bachelor news.

It's also a dancing with the stars update. Bachelorette Jen Tran, of course, eliminated or two weeks ago from dancing with the stars, her eliminated fiance. Her ex, Devin Strader, was commenting on some haters comments saying, who's this guy you're referring to her new man, Sasha. That sounds like a girl's name.

Of course, Sasha Farber professional dancer. People said, well, it's actually gender neutral name of Slavic or, you know, whatever they said. Well, now Sasha has responded on his Instagram stories. The name Sasha is short for Alexander. You know, who else had the great name, Alexander, the great FYI. And look, I didn't know Sasha was short for Alexander, but Hey, you know, a Dick is short for William and skip is short for Leonard and you get all these crazy things out there.

So Jack is short for John. None of it makes sense to me. I'm Dave that's short for David. You know, what can you do? All right. Well, speaking of bachelor, we have a season premiere date for bachelor Grant. Ellis. That's right. It'll be January 27th. So a little late in January. Normally it's the first week in January.

Grant Ellis will start handing out roses on the Bachelor premiere. And I don't think Reality Steve has a spoiler yet for who wins that. I think it should be a good season. I mean, he's a good looking dude. He's got a job. I mean, could the bar be set any lower ladies? He has a job. Woo. Oh my gosh. I can't believe it.

Uh, so we'll have more information as that comes. Now, if you happen to be in the New York city area, I am performing tonight. At the stand at 10 PM. I know it's Tuesday night. I'm in the New York comedy festival. So you're going to love this festival. I'm actually the only guy on the show. There's three, uh, four, as far as I know, amazing comedians plus me, four females, one male, Dave.

And you're going to love it. It's called Leah Lamar, how to trap your soulmate. My good pal, Leah Lamar is producing the show. She's very funny. She's been a guest on driving with Dave. You're going to absolutely love that. If you're in New York, you got to come out. We'll hang out before we'll hang out after it'll be a treat.

All right. Lots of content to get to hang tight. We'll be back with more right after this. Anyone want to feel good story? This is from NBC, Chicago, a Chicago man visited a South shore bakery without knowing the woman behind his favorite treats was his birth mom. Let's uh, let, you know, a lot of negativity out there.

Let's listen to a good old story. I didn't order anything. I don't, what is it? That's when we started screaming. It's an unbelievable family reunion story. The Chicago man finds his biological mother just blocks away from his home. There are lots of bakeries in Chicago, but give me some sugar in the city South shore neighborhood had the Mar Hunter hooked the lemon bars.

That was, that was my cat and the chocolate chip cookies. So three things. And the lemon pound cake. The Mars started coming here about 10 years ago and he says he really felt at home here. As a matter of fact, he lived about a block away and also enjoyed talking to the owner. You know, she interacts on a personal level.

Wimber Mar was 35 confirmation of what he always suspected he was adopted. He got a genetic profile and some help from a genetic genealogist. Soon, his biological mom was located. When she was ready, she called from a familiar number. By the way, this is, this story is just amazing. I just have to interject here.

I can imagine how tough it must be to give your baby up for adoption. Now, I don't know this reason why sometimes people are in and out of, you know, uh, poverty or they're, you know, drug issues, whatever the case may be. It must be such a tough decision to make. So To have this kind of happy ending just really tickles my soul.

I had the bakery in my phone, locked in. I'm like, give me some sugar. And all I'm thinking in my head is why, why don't I give me some sugar? I didn't order any. I don't, what is this? I, it's still not, not dawning on me. And then, you know, I'm like, hello, you know, she's like, hello, and then that's when we started screaming and, um, and I started crying on the phone.

Lenore had put Vimar up for adoption when she was 17. I left the adoption open and I said, you know, if he really wants to find me. then he'll be able to find me. But otherwise his life must be great. I wouldn't interfere in that life. Their relationship now, like they've never been apart with Lenore. Now, semi retired, Vamar runs much of the business.

The puzzle that always haunted him What a great, what a great story. You know, we need these stories in today's world. We need these stories of unity and of coming together against all odds. And believe it or not, as great as that story is, why don't we take the moment? You know, sometimes here's what I do.

I, I compile all these new stories I want to share with you. And then I kind of free, Form how I want them to lead into each other and they don't always make sense, right? They don't always make sense, but this idea of unity, it has to exist in our country. We have to find a way to stop calling the other side idiots and, and start getting to the place where we realize we all.

We're all like beating hearts and we're all humans. I know this sounds so stupid to say, uh, AOC is of the idea that we need to find a way to come together. She asked her own voters who split the ticket for her and Trump, why they did just that. So that being people who voted for her, you know, state, you know, in the, in the representative and then people who also voted for Trump, what.

Did they have in common? Because if she could try to figure this out, she could probably try to sell this to other members of the party to say, see, this is more of what the people want in a democracy. You need to know what people want. Here's where, here's the question. She asked, as a matter of fact, let's do this right now.

If you voted for Donald Trump and me, or. If you voted for Donald Trump and voted Democratic down ballot, I would really love to hear from you. Um, this is not a place of judgment. I'm not going to like put your stuff on blast or anything like that, or dunk on it. That's like genuinely not the intent here.

I actually want to learn from you. I want to hear what you were thinking. And, um, I just want to hear from you. So if you did that, I don't even know if anybody like that is even watching this right now, but if you are, please fill out a little Q and a here and just tell me what your thought process was.

Y'all this is why I say that we should be signing up to knock on doors and be on the phones because the internet and mass media, which by the way, at this point, All of these apps, Instagram, X, like Twitter, whatever, it's mass media too because they've all been bought up by billionaires the same way a lot of these television channels have.

Anyways, um, if you're only tuning in to those mediums. You will think that most people fall along this Spectrum and I've said the same thing a few days ago I know so many people that went Bernie to Trump on that pipeline. So this isn't even a conversation about what side you're on It's more great a conversation about what do we have that unites us all now?

Do I think AOC and Trump are the same person? No, Trump was raised a multi millionaire and AOC was bartending to work her way through school They're very different But The perception is that while they're different, they're also real and authentic, whether you believe it or not, that's what these voters believe.

And a lot of people don't. And that's why it's important to be at the doors. And that's why it's important to be on the phones. And that's why it's never just like a little junior thing that you grow out of, but that we always need to be listening because So, she then went in and shared a lot of the reasons why people voted for her and Trump.

And a lot of it, like I said, was they were both seen as outsiders. Whether or not they are is a different question, you know, um, they obviously are on different sides of the coin as far as who, uh, you know, what they stand for. But, again, It's, it's more three dimensional than people think. And I, and I guess that's just something we need to grapple with moving forward.

All right, let's go back to a cheesy story. A woman, uh, was ordered to return a 70, 000 engagement ring to her former fiance posing a hypothetical question. If a relationship ends, do you give the ring back? This was on the today show. So who gets to keep an engagement ring if the wedding is called off?

Well, that. Is what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a 70, 000 ring at the center of that dispute. The court ultimately ruled last week that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it. It ended a six decade state rule that required judges to try to identify who was to blame for the end of the relationship.

Wow. See, I would have sided with the, whoever broke up, you know, if, um, if a guy gives someone an engagement ring, but then the guy dumps her, she gets to keep it. Cause that engagement ring was like a deposit for the marriage. You know what I mean? But if she breaks it up, she has to give it back. That's what I would have thought.

But I guess they're saying, but Regardless of how the relationship ends, which is pretty crazy. I mean, imagine if you are, let's go to a hypothetical. Imagine if you give someone an engagement ring, then you cheat on them. They've spent several years wasting their time with you. So you get the ring back after cheating with, no, I don't know if that's right.

I don't know if I agree. All right. Well, that's just my thoughts there. So what else do we got here? Oh boy. Big mistakes for Toymaker Mattel. They're apologizing for a wicked typo. Toymaker Mattel is apologizing for a wicked typo. So the packaging for its new Wicked Dolls, which is based on the upcoming movie starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, mistakenly listed an adult website.

The box had meant to send people to the website wickedmovie. com, but there was a typo. That sent folks to an entirely DIFFERENT website. It's porn, folks. It's a porn website. Mattel blamed the mix up on an unfortunate error, and they vowed to take immediate action. Yeah, it's a porn site. A quote from Mattel.

Parents are advised that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate. Well, I guess children shouldn't be going on websites anyway, so jokes on them, I guess. I don't know. Either way. Yeah. Wicked. com, not a sponsor of the podcast, although I'm sure that spiked some of their internet searches, and I'm sure there's a wicked themed porn out there.

You know what I mean? There's got to be some green skinned, uh, you understand. Okay. Anyhow, uh, All right, we're cooking and moving today. We just are, we got so much content still to get into. So let's take a quick break. We'll be back to finish this up right after this. All right. Dancing with the stars is back tonight.

One of the front runners to win the season is Bachelor Joey. Here's what his star, excuse me. Here's what his professional dancer, Jenna had to say going into their season, knowing if he was a good dancer or not. And I had no idea. I didn't watch his season, so I didn't know. And flamenco scene, but. He wasn't his best.

Um, but I, yeah. So I, I didn't know what to expect. I just heard like he plays tennis, he's going to be an athlete when I met him. And I started to see the way that his body was able to move. He's super agile, but honestly, more than anything, he's so smart. I think that aspect of him being a coach himself makes him an incredible student, right?

He understands where the critique is coming from. He doesn't take it personally. He takes it with like motivation of this is ABC to get to D, you know? So he's really methodical. Sometimes he gets a little too methodical with it, where he asks so many questions. When I first met him, I was like, Oh boy, we're gonna have so many questions this season, but I love it.

I love that he is so thorough and really wants to know what he's doing, why he's doing it, and how it gets him from point A to point B. You know, we talk a lot about, um, You know, leaping in the net will appear this sort of transcendental, uh, law of attraction idea where if you decide to do something, the world will transpire around you to make it happen.

But what's actually going on inside your brain that does that? Well, I'm going to, I didn't plan on talking about this, but real quick, there's a book called the talent code again, not a sponsor, but the talent code basically discusses how we think that. Experts just exist. We think that talented people just exist, but there's something very specifically that they did to get to where they are.

The traditional view is that talent is innate. You've either got it or you haven't, but in the talent code award winning journalist, Daniel Coyle reveals that the reality is very different. Drawing on the latest findings of scientists and educationalists and looking at disciplines ranging from math to music, he actually shows how the brain can be physically rewired and developed by training to create a talent And what they talk about is the enzyme myelin.

And it's a sort of like, uh, super highway that's created when you learn how to do something. So imagine if you learn how to take your right pointer finger and hit a C note on a piano. And that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the more you do it, the more that neuro, those neurons fire that gets your brain and your soul to do the body what it wants.

Dancing's kind of the same way. So as a coach, if you know the skill set to really hammer down the repetitions to make something effortless, you see the same thing when you're studying your lines to be an actor. If you can memorize those lines so hard to be off book, you'll be absolutely pure and in the moment, and you won't have to pretend like you're thinking about what you have to say next.

So the same can be said for Athletes for muscle repetition. The same can be said for positive thinking, training your body to be in alignment with where your soul wants it to go is not a fluke or a flaw. It's an absolute skill. It's grit. It's determination. It's positivity. Again, that's called the talent code.

And when I read it, I mean, it was like, boom, easy. Absolutely. So whenever I learned something new, whether it's, uh, writing a joke or where the punchline goes. Yeah. I say it slowly and I work my way up so I make sure I get every word right as if my voice and my mouth is the instrument and your feet, your hips, your arms, the way you dance is no different.

All right. Well, after that, look, I just, by the way, I just gave you. A lot of free motivation. Okay. You should hit that. You should five star review me and share that with somebody right now, because that's deep. Well, Sasha Farber, who we mentioned earlier in Jen Tran, uh, were voted out last week on dancing with the stars, but they are still hanging out, doing the red carpet thing and getting asked about rumors as if, you know, Uh, you know, wondering whether they're dating or not.

Here's what they had to say on Entertainment Tonight. You guys are still hanging out. I love that. This is not helping the rumor mill. So what's the deal? What's going on? Are you ready to define the What? Wait, are there rumors? What are the rumors about? Tell me. People think y'all are really dating in real life.

What? Do you want to set the record straight here yet? How do you take it away? We're just here to watch an amazing movie called Wicked. We're feeling really wicked. Wait, what happened to the dancing? I thought we were all about the dancing. We are, but we got eliminated. You guys are here together though.

So what does that mean? I'm here to try to get on Broadway. So I'm here to prove my skills. So there it is. They are not giving answers, but that's okay. They're adorable in the process. All right. I always like to end on something political just to keep rallying, you know, uh, pissing people off. So here's, uh, was it Caitlin Collins?

Is that her name talking about Elon Musk and how she thinks Caitlin Collins thinks he may be a new shadow president. Oh boy. Mar a Lago has basically been brimming for the last two days, I'm told, with two kinds of people. Those angling for a job and those who are trying to influence Trump into hiring their picks.

But one person has loomed over all of that. His name is Elon Musk. Multiple sources tell me tonight that Musk has been seen at Mar a Lago nearly every single day since Donald Trump won, dining with him on the patio at times. Today, they were seen on the golf course together. Musk has been in the room when world leaders have called Trump.

And tonight we've learned he's also weighing in on staffing decisions, making clear his preference for certain roles even. Oh boy. Publicly tonight, Elon Musk is backing Florida Senator Rick Scott as the next leader of the Republican conference to replace Mitch McConnell. While Musk himself is still not expected to take any kind of formal position inside Trump's administration, given how complicated it would be with his companies, what's becoming clearer tonight is that he doesn't really need to.

With one source telling me Elon Musk is having just as much influence from the outside. Oh boy. Well, there it is. The world is going to be supercharged. Uh, I mean, look, I don't know. I'm just living in it. I don't control policies. God bless. That's the popular decision to elect Donald Trump. That's all I have to say.

We'll be back with more content this afternoon. I'm Dave Neal. This is a 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. Don't be caught clueless at the water cooler.

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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. Hey, good morning, everybody. Happy Monday morning to you. It's the rush hour podcast with your boy, Dave, November 11th, 2024. I have all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Host of dancing with the stars, Alfonso Ribeiro. injured his ankle at Disney while filming for the show. Their big 500th episode is tomorrow. We'll love that story. Plus dancer, Riley Arnold, hard launches her new man only a week into dating. Oh boy. We might have a clinger on our hands. We'll get into that.

And plus a Wisconsin man may have faked his own death in a bizarre Monday story. Those last two stories have nothing in common as far as I know, but I'll cover them plus a Christmas cruise sells out for some, a Christmas cruise is heaven on earth. For others, it's a combination of their greatest fears.

I'll share where I stand on the issue. Plus an all out meltdown by bachelorette villain, Devon, as he makes his ill fated return to social media, stick around. We've got all this content and more coming up next on the rush. Well, here's a fun way to start our morning episode. This is a false start penalty called by official Sean Hockley on a football game yesterday by the New York Giants versus Carolina Panthers.

Why is it so interesting? Well, they played the game in Munich, so have a listen to the call. You just know. Fershtag Angriff. Oh! Fuhnsjachtstrafen. It's by the center. Oh,

showing up! He is Oh, you know a Hockley's gonna flex. So the audience goes wild at the, you know, bare minimum done by Sean Hockley there, learning a little German to call. And look, hey, I'll be honest with you, uh, as a stand up comedian, when you go into a venue or a new town, and you know something about that community, Culture or that way of life, whether it be something, uh, very, you know, like, like some minutia, like now that I'm performing a few nights in Cincinnati, talking about skyline Chile, people go crazy when you know a little local reference.

So for an American referee to go over there and learn a little German, it goes a long way is what I'm trying to say. All right. Well. Surf's up Christmas cruise. Uh, Christmas cruise makes a splash on sold out Hallmark experience. The Hallmark channel is bringing the magic of its Christmas movies to the high seas.

Launching two star studded cruises set to put anyone in the holiday spirit. Hey, if you're excited for this cruise, don't be it's already sold out because Christmas people are insane. Trust me. I married one of them starting at midnight on Halloween. There's a sale. Celebration that happens where the ghouls are thrown out the Chris the hollow You know Halloween paint is put away and the red and green make its clear emergence from the attic I don't know how you guys feel about this I personally try to wait until December to get into the hall to get into the Christmas spirit We'll have a lot of Christmas spirit this year as we'll do our single mom Christmas wish list I don't have the announcement for that yet So just hang on tight, but we like to try to Find 12 single moms that need some help this Christmas time.

And we all donate to their Amazon wishlist. And then we feel like better people because it's good to help out single moms and people in need, isn't it? So anyhow, this set of cruises is sold out. Um, but they're going to have fan favorites from the Hallmark. So I guess, I guess how it works on the Hallmark channel.

They have about what, seven actors that star in all of the movies and they just play different roles. It's always like lady who returns to her hometown roots after failing to make it in the big city, um, has to sell cookies before the farms foreclosed on. You know, it's a, but Hey, guess what? Let me let you in on a little secret.

If you're new to my channel, I love Christmas movies. I love everything about them. So this year. Uh, in the holiday spirit, I don't want to waste your time. I'll be doing Christmas movie reviews. I'm going to be giving them a simple score of a red light, green light, yellow light. Uh, depending on what I think, if I think you should be able to watch it now, a green light doesn't mean it'll get a hundred percent on rotten tomatoes.

It might get a 20 percent on rotten tomatoes. And I say, look, I don't care what they say. You need to see it. See this movie about this, you know, uh, uh, peppermint, uh, salesman whose cruise gets docked in port and they need to get the peppermint to their local village in time for the schnitzels. I don't know what the hell it's going to be about, although that could probably be a good one.

So if anyone has any Christmas movies they recommend, please let me know. Please DM me, let me know, and I will be sure to try to cover them, because there are a lot. Well, Leo DiCaprio, uh, is turning 50 today. Uh, that might make some of you feel old, because we've seen him grow from a young man who dates young women to an old man who dates young women.

And we're just happy to root on his success, I guess, as long as it's all consensual, right? Uh, live your dreams there, Leo. But maybe find love. I don't know. If George Clooney could find love, you could too. Well, covering Dancing with the Stars, Alfonso Ribeiro injured ankle at Disney World while filming Dancing with the Stars.

I can't believe that they were there just days after me. Um, you know, I, uh, because I'm not a huge fan of Disney World. You know, it's weird. I love Christmas, but Disney World, I'm kind of like, I don't know. I, of course, Affane my love for it, like I do for Christmas music in November, uh, because my wife likes it.

And when, when you, what you find out is when your partner likes something, you just go along with it. It's just, it's just a simple and easy wave to surf. Well, here's the update. Sources close to Alfonso tell TMZ the ankle injury is indeed minor, and he's returning to production Tuesday to finish the special.

We're told he plans to participate in filming the 500th episode of Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday. All right, so it's a minor injury. I'm assuming that means a small injury. Injury, not an injury with a young person. I'm assuming that. Uh, just to go back to Leo DiCaprio for a second. So yeah, good. We're happy for him.

Uh, I'm looking for it. I love, I don't, I won't, I don't know if I'll be able to catch it live. The Dancing with the Stars. Oh, I absolutely won't catch it live. 'cause I have a show Tuesday night, so if you want to come to my standup Shelby in New York City Tuesday night for the Stand. It's a show called How to Trap.

It's uh, it's about trapping your boyfriend or something. I don't know. It's a dating theme show. I'll be, uh, I'll be on it and uh, it's gonna be a ton of fun. I know it's a little late Tuesday night. 10 PM. But if you're, if you live in New York city, come on, you can get up, you can be up at 10 PM on a Tuesday night, show up to work the next morning.

Tell your boss you saw Dave Neil perform live and he'll, it'll be fine with it. That's just, that's, you know, that's how it works. All right. Dancing with the stars pro Riley Arnold has a new lover. And, uh, speaking of young people, she's got a new lover. She was caught up with by TMZ. It looks pretty staged to me, but Hey, well you do what you got to do.

And, uh, her relationship is with a USC football player, Walker Lyons, uh, and here's what she had to say. So many people are so invested in your new love life. How's it feel? It feels awesome. Yeah. Are you guys serious? Or how did you guys meet? Um, we met through just mutual friends. Oh, really? We have a lot of people in common and yeah, it's just been really fun.

Yeah, is it getting serious? I mean, we're just having a good old time. We're super young. So we're just okay. Loving life together because we're super young. It's like rubbing in your 19 year old. Yeah, you guys have similar values. Do you feel like, you know? For your family, usually ends up getting married pretty young.

I mean, I don't know. I guess we'll see, but we're having the best time and he's just such an awesome guy. Now look, I love Riley Arnold. She's paired with my boy, Steven Adorazic, the pommel horse Prince still on the show. Although they're on the chopping box, they better deliver a hell of a dance this week, uh, because it's getting closer to the finale.

So when she says, uh, she, you guys are the same age. Same type. Does she mean that they're Mormons? I'm assuming. I think, I think she's a Mormon or was a Mormon. I don't really know how that works out. They do get married young though. Those Mormons, I tell you what we got, we know a Mormon or two there. If you're, if you're 22 and you're not married and you're a Mormon, you're done.

You're old. You got to go into the convent or something. Anyway, her boyfriend, six foot four, 235 pound, true freshman feels the same way as he posted a bunch of photos of the two looking loved up on his Instagram page. No good for them. This is young love. I mean, but to hard launch a relationship as a freshman in college is insane to me.

I couldn't even hold hands or look in the eyes with somebody. You know what I mean? Maybe that's just the stunted, repressed love I felt growing up as a Roman Catholic. I don't know. All right. Well, if you live in Chicago. I've got a new coke run for you. I mean, I've got a new train run for you from Chicago to Miami.

Have a listen to this. There's a new way for Chicagoans to travel to Miami and it doesn't involve the hustle and bustle of an airport. Starting this weekend, Amtrak will offer direct round trip tickets on its new Floridian line. This new train travels all the way from Chicago to Miami, but also makes a few stops along the way.

in Cleveland, Washington D. C., Orlando and Tampa. Amtrak says the full trip will take almost 48 hours and it'll run daily starting this Sunday, November 10th. If you want to take a ride, those coach seat ticket prices start at just about 100 each way. Traveling coach includes wide reclining seats with legroom, windows to enjoy the scenery and no middle seats, or you can upgrade to a private room with more amenities.

Those tickets start at 700. And yes, we know you're wondering, there will be a dining car and cafe service, plus free Wi Fi. And unlimited cocaine. Now, I say this because there's no TSA on a train, uh, you know, when you're flying, maybe don't bring coke. No, don't bring, don't bring coke anywhere. I'm just saying.

You're out of your mind. If you don't think there'll be some drug deals happening on this train, who's taking a 48 hour train. And they're like, Oh, you can enjoy the view out the window. Have you ever driven from Illinois to Florida? What are they talking about? Anyhow, enjoy. If anyone's out there listening to the podcast for 48 hours, I'll have a lot of content for you on your way to Miami.

Um, and, uh, again, don't bring cocaine onto the train. Although. I'm not here to stop you. That's just not my job. Okay. I got a lot of stories to get to. We've got Dave Portnoy in Brown at Chicken Fry commenting about that bizarre breakup and all the drama that has followed. We'll have that story for you next.

It's a love hate relationship with lawyers. Uh, I love lawyers when they help defend me against crazy people, and I hate lawyers when they defend crazy people. And that has nothing to do with the next story, other than the fact that Dave Portnoy goes off the rails on Zach Brian's lawyer in a text message.

So Zach Brian is a musician and he was dating Brianna Chicken Fry, aka Brianna LaPaglia. She has a podcast at BFFs or whatever it's called with Dave Portnoy. Dave Portnoy on the barstool network. Now, Dave Portnoy is worth several hundred million dollars, but he's kind of been this sort of a hole you want on your team.

He's a very loyal, I guess you would say guy to work for as long as, you know, he wants to fight for you. So when Brianna and Zach broke up, Zach's. team offered her 12 million to sign an NDA. So she wouldn't talk about the breakup on her podcast rather than take the 12 million. She decided to do a tell all with Dave Portnoy.

Here's David Portnoy discussing the lawyer that he had to deal with. Foul language ensues. We have nothing to do with at this point, a minute later, I sent this to the lawyer. Hey, this is Dave Portnoy. I don't know who the fuck you think you are dealing with. I've been, I've been nice so far. Pay Bree ASAP.

I'm coming for Zach's throat. Bree won't have a say in it anymore. Josh won't have a say. I can pay Bree myself. I've tried to stay out of it, but stop all caps fucking around. Pay her or shut the fuck up. I'm losing patience. So I sent that to the lawyer. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, I knew it. Yeah. Fuck off.

It's like enough of this lawyer talk. I know you can fucking pay. They try to turn around and say, I'm extorting Zach. They're like, that's a crime. Somebody tell me. It's so insane. It's like you guys are trying to silence Brie. You're offering her an NDA with all this money. And she's like, At one point, I'm ready to sign.

Get me the paperwork. You won't do it. You're just dilly dallying, changing the rules, changing the playing field. Now, Josh and I are involved. It's like, either fucking pay it, or it's fucking game on. And they tried to say, we're extorting him. I've never heard that. We're extorting him. You're trying to bribe her to be quiet with an NDA.

And it could have been that some people think, you know, you tell someone, Oh, if you sign this NDA, I'll pay you X amount of money. And then you, maybe a few weeks go by, the money doesn't show up. You don't end up signing it, but then the relationship's kind of over. You don't want to deal with it. And maybe you just move on bygones be bygones.

That didn't happen as in the podcast, Brianna explained all of what she referred to as emotional abuse and what went down with that relationship. So now she's taken to her TikTok to explain, you know, exactly why she decided to turn the money down. And a lot of people said, Oh, Dave must've paid her 12 million to, to, you know, to do the tell all.

Uh, and she said, no, I just wanted to share my story. And. Honestly, you gotta, if this is all true, you got to look at Brianna chicken fry and give her major flowers to say, this is good for women who want to speak out if they've been abused or feel like they've been abused in a situation. Uh, and in this case, by not taking the money, she did just that.

Hey guys. Um, I didn't know if I wanted to wait for the podcast for this, but I just have a couple very clear points that I want to make. And, uh, I'm going to. Do that now. So please bear with me and as I did on the podcast, and as I'll do on here, I'm trying to keep my composure because I know that when a woman gets mad or a woman gets angry, how it's perceived.

And I do not want my message to get lost through that. Uh, so one, I see a lot of people being like, well, Dave definitely just gave her 10 million to do a towel. So she took money anyway. Dave didn't give me any money. Two, a towel? You think that was a towel? I took the high road. What I did was set a scene, paint a picture.

And if you can't see that very clear picture, I don't have time to hold your hand and walk you to LensCrafters. Okay? Sorry. I am losing money right now. I am paying for storage. I am paying for movers. I am paying for fucking flights back and forth to New York to go try and find an apartment. That's besides the point.

Two, uh, people using my comments towards the Menendez brothers against me. Um. Uh, this is for the people that are so committed to misunderstanding me. I never once invalidated the abuse from the Menendez brothers. What I said was maybe they should just run away instead of murdering. Obviously I was projecting.

Obviously I was projecting. Second, uh, she blamed her friend for sexual assault. Again, committed to misunderstanding me. No, I was sitting there trying to warn young girls to stay away from men. I love how she mentions people that are committed to misunderstanding her.

In some ways, a group of people that are just committed to misunderstanding you always looking for the worst in somebody. And you gotta, you gotta decide if you live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world. The fact that Brianna chicken fried decided to leave or, or, or broke up with Zach, whether it was his.

Doing or not, you know, she's committing to a world of hopefully, hopefully dating better guys, setting those boundaries. And we have to look at every aspect of our life this way. Are we committing to getting rid of the drama and living the highest version of our life? Or are we, um, you know, complaining about our job because we're afraid to get into a better one.

We're afraid for what, what could become if we test ourselves in a new world, you know, whatever the case may be, uh, look at life as a way to challenge you to always, always choose the, the thing that brings you. little bit of fear because of fear. Now I'm not talking about like, well, let's just go swimming with sharks or maybe that's what you do.

I don't know, but a little bit of fear because you're anxious or excited about trying something new that that's what leads to the rewards and the goods out there. So wishing our best for her, she'll make that 12 million back one way or another. And now she can do it by telling her all. own story and not being silenced while speaking of being silenced, a missing Wisconsin kayaker may have faked their own death.

Listen to this story. The Green Lake County Sheriff says a Watertown man may have faked his own death, abandoned his wife and three kids, and then fled the country. 45 year old Ryan Borgwart was presumed drowned this summer on Green Lake. For weeks, crews used every tool they could to try and find him. My question is this, did he, did he take the train to Miami and then take a cruise, a Christmas cruise?

Okay, maybe not. Now they believe he has been alive the entire time. Mike Biermeister explains the clues now directing the search to Europe. Since August, teams have been searching Green Lake for Ryan Borgwart after uncovering his overturned kayak and vehicle nearby. Now, Green Lake authorities believe he faked his death and fled to Europe.

An investigation uncovered Borgward had a second passport, cleared his laptop, took out a 375, 000 life insurance policy, and was talking with a woman in Uzbekistan. A tough pill to swallow for the Watertown family. He felt that the dad was grown. A non profit organization that specializes in water searches.

They provided their skills in several situations, including the search for Sean A. Robinson in Milwaukee. He says speculation started early on in the search. If they do track him down, they want him to repay taxpayers. For the cost of all that searching. Geez, wild stuff. I mean, talk about a Christmas movie plot.

Holy cow! But seriously, don't do that. Don't fake your own death and move to Uzbekistan. But by the way, what a good, uh, tourism board, uh, sort of, uh, promotion for Uzbekistan. I don't know what they have going on over there, but, uh, it's worth faking dying for, I guess. Alright, well, uh, I've got this bachelorette story here.

Uh, Devin is back on Instagram. Is he reformed? Did he overcome his flaws to be a better version of himself? Not exactly. We'll have that for you coming up next. Now I try and give literally everyone on the bachelor a benefit of the doubt. I got a lot of hate for giving Devin the benefit of the doubt after his.

Uh, season ended on The Bachelorette. Uh, but of course, I'm one to admit when I'm wrong. And I'm also one to tell you, look, I go off the information I have. And the more information you get, the better decision you can make. And I've decided, Devin is a dirtbag. Uh, Tess D. Hagans on TikTok explains it best. I think the bachelor contracts need to state that if you become one of the worst guys in the show's history, your social media is getting revoked.

Because Devin's back, and to no one's surprise, he's being horrid. Someone commented, Jen found a great guy, his name is Sasha. It's referring to her Dancing with the Stars partner, Sasha. Devin says, That's a girl's name. Uh, to which this commenter replies, Smartly, it's actually a gender neutral name with Slavic, Ukrainian, and Russian origins.

Really rich coming from a guy whose name is Devin. Which, I know female Devins. So, like, I don't that's actually a crazy comment. I'm sorry. I just think if you're him, why do you want to come back to social media at all? You're not the hero, and you're certainly not like, a fun villain. It's not like you were Brayden, whose acts of villainy were just silly and weird and annoying.

You're villain Yeah, there's fun villains, and there's just bad villains. And even some of the bad villains Decide I'll never talk about bachelor again. I have to tell you what I asked Several villains to do interviews for driving with dave and they said you know what? I just it's not worth it Like I don't want to I don't want to drudge up all the bachelor hate because sometimes villains are taken out of context and it's like You know, how villainous are you you just had a bad relationship or whatever and then sometimes they're just antagonizing And the more you learn from devin with his past restraining orders and all the issues with him.

It's like this guy You Seems to really, really not get it. We'll have more on that story today on YouTube, but, uh, there's, there's your little teaser for what's to come. Now I've got a couple, I always, I always love feedback. So when I said, Hey, Dave, longtime, longtime fan, but also conservative. And Hey guys, that's okay.

I love my conservative friends out there. I just don't like people who, you know, uh, steal elections and things like that. But if you're conservative, that's fine. Have your conservative values. Have your small government and do what the hell you want. But, uh, this person says, I appreciate that you promote coexisting peacefully while disagreeing on politics.

However, I notice that you tend to cover random stories about conservatives being bad guys and seldom the other way around. For example, the story of the Trump supporter stealing Harris signs as if Trump signs aren't getting stolen in Dem areas. Anyhow, in case you wanted to see some of the nasty things that liberals are doing, here's something that ABCLA has reported on.

Both parties have bad outliers. I know you don't have to share these things equally, but it's almost as if you don't think these things also happen on the liberal side. Anyways, love the pods. Now listen, and by the way, thank you so much. I wanted to respond on the podcast because it's a little bit easier to respond to every comment privately.

It's like, I might as well bring this content to the people. I don't, I don't have an issue with people in how they decide to express their vote. I've always said this, If the Dems Can't win over your vote. That's on the Dems for not being good enough at sales to win your vote over. That's fine. Um, and I did cover the story where someone scooped up a hundred plus signs and they were tracked down on an air pod and whatnot.

Now this story of FEMA supervisor being fired after allegedly advising team to avoid homes with Trump signs. Yeah, that's a, that's a good story. Sure, it happened in Miami, where maybe they were, did they fly these, did they train these people in from Chicago? Okay. Anyway, look, yeah, we could go tit for tat on every story.

I just, some stories I pick up and some I don't. It depends on how juicy they are. Do I have multimedia that works in the podcasting world? Um, there are plenty of people. That would identify as left leaning, to, on one level or another, that are horrible people. Sure, I'm not gonna have the argument of, well, there's bad people on both sides.

I'm not gonna do this whole game of one person, this guy got a parking ticket and this guy, you know, whatever. Of course, I'd rather spend my time frying the fish of the elites and the people that are in charge. But yeah, you're right, I did cover that story, which was just a fun one of people stealing signs, it was like a, you know, I don't know.

Anyhow, um, I'm not gonna audit every story I do, but this idea that I, I think one side, one side shit doesn't stink, no, not at all. Not at all. I think one of the biggest issues with, with, uh, The people that have a problem with woke culture is that they think everybody on the left is so focused on quote unquote woke culture.

All I ever talk about with progressive policies are, you know, raising the minimum wage, trying to get medicare for all for everybody, taxing the billionaires at a marginal level. I like very practical things. I actually don't play into the culture war. If you look at my conversations with Megan Fox, God bless Megan Fox, but every, every conversation is like ends up culture war.

It's the same thing when I talk to my parents, everything is ends up culture war. They're stealing the goose. It's always a culture war thing. And I just go, you know what? Let's talk policies. And now clearly that conversation didn't, uh, didn't, uh, sort of transpire into Kamala Harris getting elected, but it doesn't change my thoughts on what values this country should hold.

In fact, when I call out, um, right leaning people, it's because so many people attach their political identity to their morality and their Christian identity. And that old saying, what would Jesus do? Well, I'll tell you what he wouldn't do. He wouldn't stoke violence and he wouldn't, uh, have a harmful rhetoric, you know, that leads to to things like not, you know, believing the election was stolen, he would, he would take the loss.

That's what he would do. Uh, which by the way, here's an interesting clip from Bill Maher on his episode this weekend. We have two more shows. Normally this would be our last show, but we thought, well, we should stay on because it'll be a shit show after this because there'll be all sorts of lawsuits and the country will be in flames, which I think let's not.

That, the most important thing to say about this election is the reason why we're sitting here so peacefully now is because the one party that still believes in conceding elections If the other guy had won, it would be a shit show now. Let's not pass over it. And that's the truth. And look, you have to understand that.

I took the loss. I, I, I'm, I, I'm the first one. I made a reel, reel this weekend saying, here's all that's, what, what's wrong with how they ran that election. Absolutely. I'm not, you know, and I'm getting DMs from people saying, actually, they're doing recounts in this state or this, okay, fine. Well, until that all happens, I'm not assuming any, there was any election interference, okay?

Um, I'm taking the loss. And thinking of ways that that party can do a better job of getting more votes. They lost a popular vote. That's a tragedy. It shouldn't have happened. Uh, especially because there's a lot of good things going on in this world, but it did, and now they must adjust and I'll be here to talk about it.

Now, someone said, Oh, I wish your podcast was more like reality. Steve's where it doesn't cover politics. What do you want? I love reality, Steve, but do you want him and I to do Three podcasts a day. He does one a day. I do too. Where we all disco and circle jerk around the same story there. You know, there's a lot of content out there in this world and I'm going to continue to tell people, I just gave you 20 banging minutes of non election And nonpolitical content.

And then I got a couple extra in here. For those that want to listen, you could have signed off before. So this idea that, Oh, I love you. But what if you just did it my way? I'm sorry, this ain't Burger King. This is Dave Neal. And this is the rush. We'll see you this afternoon. I'm Dave. 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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It's Friday, baby, November 8th, 2024. And on today's episode, we have Joe Rogan asking Trump to be more around and Barstool's David Portnoy continues to rip into musician Zach Brian. I'll share that clip. Meanwhile, prosecutors in the death of Liam Payne of One Direction are ruling out suicide. I'll explain why.

Plus Tim Wall's daughter reacts to the election results and Anthony Scaramucci. Officially declares that we are in the age of the podcast. He breaks down why media is no longer trusted. Also, Elon Musk, Musk explains how he got the Amish to vote in Pennsylvania. All right. I know I got a lot of random content.

I've got a story I've been promising for literally a few days now. We just keep running out of time and that is an SNL star apologizing to Ariana Grande for opening his mouth during an SNL kiss. Let's start off with that story. I have that and so much more coming up next on The Rush. Well, one of the reasons we have intimacy coordinators on set is that you can communicate with your co star and scene partner How you're gonna kiss if that, you know a time calls for it.

Well now we have Bowen Yang from Saturday Night Live Apologizing to Ariana Grande on a podcast for his kissing that he did on a skit on SNL Have a listen. I really have to apologize to you in person for what I Opened my mouth up too much when we kissed on You I was shaking the last day. No, no, no, no, no.

Not in a bad way. Not in a bad way. Just like a disarming way. Because, you know what, like, The chemistry was so good. Oh my gosh, thank you. I mean, it comes from a real place. I know it does. But I kissed you too much. You know what? That's okay. And I know we were really dropped in. So look, here's, I have a story of being kissed a little too hard on Saturday Night Live.

Back in my day living in New York, I would do background work on SNL, uh, like I would on many shows. And there was a digital Short that they were creating called Nuva Bling. It was about a bejeweled nuva ring and Kate McKinnon You know, it's so interesting here is Kate McKinnon's gay and Bowen Yang is gay So maybe maybe there's more permission to go for it.

I don't know but Kate McKinnon kissed me In this like weird scene, the funny part is, is it was deleted. They didn't even use the take, but she went for it. She like licked my face and bit my lip and pulled it, like pulled it, you know, did that sexy thing or whatever. And I was like, first of all, you didn't ask me.

Like, I don't, you don't even know me. It's just, anyway, the point is, is it's crazy what can happen, you know, in the, in the world of theater when it comes to going in for the joke here, but again, you got to be on the same page. We were dropped in. We were dropped in and it felt like what these people needed at that time.

It felt like what these characters. It was motivated. Required. Yeah. A little open mouth. And I'm, I'm all for it. Yeah. I just. Should we talk about, like, what, how we arrived at it? Because there was not a kiss originally. Right. No, there wasn't a kiss originally. Whose idea was it? Well, that, here's the thing.

Go ahead. No, you go. You go. You go. No, I mean, I, when we rehearsed it, a little, I don't know, thought. Something went on. Yeah, in my head. And I was like. I didn't say anything because, like, oh, everyone's gonna think I'm absolutely insane and too comfortable. But I was like, how funny would it be if we kissed at the end?

Yeah. And then Bowen texts me a few hours later and was like, It's totally fine if this is way too crazy. But we were talking and thought it would be so funny if we kissed. We kissed at the end and I was like, wow, what if we can, yeah. So there they are. There you have it, folks. The, uh, the conversation of, of how, how the backdoor dealings go in the world of Saturday night live, but that's it, I guess.

All right. We got a lot of stories to get to. Uh, I mean, where do we even start on today's YouTube? I covered Caitlin Bristow, uh, of course, bachelorette queen, Caitlin, uh, responding to criticism of why she hasn't covered the The election and a response was if I talked politics, I'd have a hundred people telling me to shut up.

So I'm just doing what feels authentic to me knowing I'll never win. Sorry, if you're hurting, it's a scary time. I made about a 25 minute video or 20 minute video in response to this about why I do talk politics But I understand why people don't it's like you have to either be fully committed to educating yourself on everything that's going on or Just stay out of it and make sure you don't share any misinformation.

There is a lot going on out there and we do have a new president coming in, president Trump. He was number 45 and he'll be number 47. And I'm trying my best to sanitize the conversation in a way that's practical, doesn't trigger people on any side. And I got to tell you, it's like throwing into triple coverage.

It is a tight, tight needle to thread, but I think we're doing okay. Joe Rogan played a pivotal part in the election, uh, being that he hosted, uh, Donald Trump on his podcast, uh, again, notably Kamala Harris didn't make time to go on Joe Rogan's podcast, the biggest podcaster in the world, but hopefully People like Joe Rogan will try to push Trump in the right direction, a direction that unifies the country.

He no longer has to run for office again. This is his second term. He doesn't get a third term unless they change the constitution. This is it. I'm saying that half jokingly. I think this is it. Is this it? Oh boy. So, my point being, he no longer has to play to his base. Win. Over people with great ideas. You want to do prison reform.

You want to take toxins out of the food you want to, you know, cut out insider trading or get rid of money and campaigns. I would love that. And I think the Americans would too. So rather than want to be proven. he's a lousy president, prove me wrong, because that means that the country will be heading in a great direction.

Here was Rogan and what he explained after the election was called for Trump. Back then they didn't know what he was going to do and what he did economically. Chamath has the best way of explaining it. He said, It was the right messenger, it was the wrong messenger. But if you look at the actual actions, and were they good for the economy, were they good for the United States, they were.

But it's Donald Trump, as the messenger, was so polarized, and the people lost what's really going on, just based on who this guy is, who has, uh, Like, just like Tony Hinchcliffe is an insult comic, Donald Trump's entire career is you're fired. So I understand the point, you know But what I don't understand is this idea that trump's policies were what made everything great I just I I personally believe he rode a good wave given to him by obama And things were fine until the pandemic came along.

I don't know what policies they're talking about The only policies that I can think of is that there was a tax cut To the ultra rich, which ended up costing, uh, you know, which ended up adding more debt into our big spiraling debt. And don't, we all want to get rid of the debt. Anyhow, this idea that we live in a world that's post centrist media and post corporate media.

I absolutely agree with here's Anthony Scaramucci. He famously worked for Trump for about 10 days before getting fired. He's not a Trump fan, but I respect Anthony Scaramucci. He says. What he thinks. And I, and that's, what's hard, you know, there's so many people that are so spineless, like Nikki Haley, that, and Ted Cruz, they'll literally let Trump walk all over them and their family.

And then they still want to like, you know, lick his boots. Anthony Scaramucci tells you how he, how he feels, but he also gives credit where it's due that we live in the age of podcasting. This is the age of the podcast and that campaign was the podcast campaign. The old media is no longer trusted by this country.

The suits are no longer trusted. You know, Scott and I are old enough to remember a book that was written by David Habelstam called the powers that be was written in the seventies about the, the great David Sarnoff who created RCA and became NBC and Bill Paley and how CBS became the gold standard in the news.

And this was very successful. and they were somewhat coordinated with the government. And whether people like this or not, they were all tied into the military. You know, the, the U. S. benefited from millions and millions of men and women being in the American military, taking oaths of the constitution, working together from different parts of the country.

And then after the war, it was a sort of rectitude and a process that was followed. That part of America is now completely over. The Vietnam Bones Spur. The ferment is the process now, and he's brought that culture with him. So, you know, it's interesting because the problem with podcasts is they're generally friendly conversations for the most part.

And, you know, you need to be able to hold people accountable. How will he be held accountable in the next four years is yet to be seen. Um, but of course, half the country. Uh, was I guess bummed out to say the least that he wasn't chosen. And now I'm going to play for you, Tim Walls, the nominee for VP on Kamala's ticket, what his daughter had to say.

I'll have that for you next. All right. So as promised, I've, I've got the David Portnoy conversation about Zach Brian. I've got Carrie Ann Anaba on. Uh, Kelly and Mark, the morning, uh, show. Uh, but first let's go to what Tim Wall's daughter had to say, speaking out after the heartbreaking election loss. Okay.

I'm sitting here on my couch eating Spongebob mac and cheese and watching Otter Banks. And I just have a couple like initial post election thoughts. I've like officially reached a point of anger and I'm not an angry person. So I'm just trying to channel it. Um, the first one being this country does not deserve Kamala Harris.

That woman should go live her best life wherever she wants, doing whatever she wants, because we don't deserve her at this point. Um, the only people that delivered this election were black women and we failed them. Um, and it's just heartbreaking and we've got to do whatever we can to support them and support our people, um, through these next four years.

Um, another one is. These people have to live in their own skin as in JD Vance and Donald Trump have to be JD Vance and Donald Trump. Um, and that is not a punishment I would wish upon anybody except those two individuals. Um, Yeah, so I'm just really grateful that I am who I am, and that I'm on the side of love, and hope, and joy, and progress.

So there it is, some very strong thoughts. My thought is this, I actually would blame Kamala Harris less, and more so blame the DNC party for not properly running a strong primary. You know, that's what it comes down to. I think that, I think they might've had more faith in her if, um, if there was a sort of democratic process that was followed and because they waited till the last minute, uh, they didn't do that.

And, uh, yeah, I mean, what else can you say about that? So I'll share a few more thoughts in a little bit, but let's change the subject. Here's David Portnoy. He of course, uh, is the boss of chicken, of Brianna chicken fry, Brianna, Brianna LaPaglia. Who was broken up with by Zach Bryant. Um, so David Portnoy shares some more stories about Zach Bryant.

We shared this morning, how Brianna turned down a 12 million, um, NDA offer because she wanted to share her story about, um, you know, how much of a monster this guy was. And here's, uh, David Portnoy's thoughts. You know, this Brie that he kicked miss peaches out of the dressing room. No, I had no idea that drove me.

Miss peaches is his famous dog. Bananas. I think it's driving a lot of people bananas. Explain. We went to the concert and it was, I think, Boston's birthday. It was Boston's birthday. You had never met peaches. So I'm like, can I bring peaches? Like, yeah, let's have the dogs meet all this stuff. And of course, I asked Zach.

I'm like, Kim, is peaches come? Is that okay? Yes. Green light, green light, green light. And by the way, for anybody who says, I think Brie knew the entire time, people are like, why are we up there singing? It's like, uh, Brie knew I didn't like Zach. And I think Zach knew, it was kind of obvious, but whatever, big star dating somebody you're friends with, he's playing master's go.

So we bring the dog, he's got a big dressing room, Boston and Jack are in there. It's a birthday party. I brought little hats. I brought little cakes for the dogs, but yeah, during the concert you go in and out. So. Peaches is in the dressing room. Peaches is the least maintenance dog. Other than she'll try to get into stuff.

She's as chill as can be, but it's peaches. So I'm walking back and forth to make sure she's okay. I walked in back to check on her and he's just bringing her to this little band dressing room. And he's kind of like, Oh, I hope you don't mind. I'm just moving peaches. What am I going to say? I'm like, okay.

But like, I have no idea to this day why he wants to get peaches out of that locker room. And why, like, The other locker room was actually sort of dangerous for her because there was so much equipment and like crap laying around that I like need to watch her. I don't know why he did that, but it like pissed me off greatly in the moment.

Maybe because he didn't want me there. He hates me, but this peaches, you kick her out of the locker room. Listen, I love it. I love it. When people You know, are going through a breakup and they tell you all of the hits about why they didn't like the person they were dating. Uh, in this case, it's so funny.

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Prosecutors rule out suicide. Says the effects of drugs caused a fatal fall, which you know makes a big difference because you know, Obviously it's it's It's terrible and tragic regardless, but the idea that someone self harms intentionally is one that's tough to cope with because it's like everyone thinks, Oh, I wish I could have done something.

Well, now they're saying he didn't commit suicide. And I understand the term, you know, they, they, people don't like to use the term committing suicide, whatever the heck you want to call it. I'm just reading the article. According to the prosecutor in charge of the case in Argentina, a law enforcement source in Buenos Aires tells TMZ that.

Prosecutor in the case has officially ruled Liam did not die by suicide, stating the effects of the drugs the One Direction alum took caused him to fall to his death from the balcony of his suite at the Casa Sur Palermo Hotel back on October 16th. Uh, three people have been arrested. As we mentioned earlier, the housekeeper and I guess a friend of his who left the scene in an alleged drug dealer.

Uh, what comes of that, we'll have to see. The British singer had been staying at the hotel after his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, returned to Florida following their extended visit. Um, so anyway, it's a tragic story, and, uh, photos coming from inside the room show it was ladled with drug use, paraphernalia, just real tragic, tragic stuff.

Um, you hate to see it. Well, it's a big milestone this coming week for Dancing With The Stars, and we've got Carrie Ann Inaba on Kelly and Mark, The Morning Show. Discussing, uh, what it's like to be one of the only hosts that's been there for 500 episodes. I have done all 33 seasons. Have you ever missed an episode?

I have never missed an episode. Bruno and I have never missed an episode. And what's so beautiful about this is look at that family. Julianne and Derek who came in and then Alfonso who won his season. And it's just a family and it keeps growing and hopefully we'll just go on for generations and generations and then dance will just be forever.

You know, I would watch a documentary on Alfonso Ribeiro. So he played the younger brother, the younger cousin, excuse me, to Will Smith on Fresh Prince of Bel Air. And he was known for his iconic dance. Uh, that he does called the Carlton is unusual to be loved by anyone. You know, it has wailed his arms.

He's snapping his hands. He's he's gleeful. It was a great character actor that Alfonso Ribeiro played, and I don't know how many roles he got after that, but his career kind of dried up and as it does dancing with the stars, uh, showcased. Alfonso Ribeiro one season and he ended up winning. How amazing is that?

The guy's got dance moves. So after becoming a crowd favorite, they were like, let's have you host the dang show. Now, as much as I love Ron Bergeron, who was unceremoniously fired for no reason whatsoever. I think along with Aaron Andrews, as much as I loved, uh, them, uh, they bring in, uh, you know, and, and by the way, they brought in, uh, uh, uh, what's her name?

Tyra banks for one or two years. And she was. Horrible. I mean, she was literally the worst. I mean, I, I mean that with all this, with all respect, she was so bad as a host and she was not meant for live TV, but Alfonso Ribeiro is fantastic. So then he, he gets his career sort of surge and now he's actually, I think he's also hosting funniest home videos.

He's essentially stealing all of Ron, uh, Bergeron's jobs at this point. And like, anyway, Ron Bergeron will be just fine, but it's, it's good to see those stories. And I think that's part of what dancing with the stars is all about, right? It's about, you know, you know, celebrities sometimes that, you know, Have faced adversity, or maybe they've been canceled or they need a redemption.

And what better way to redeem yourself than to put your ego aside and learn the art of dance. I mean, it sounds hilarious to say, so it's been amazing. I remember when this show first came out, it sounded so it's, we almost forget because it's such a cultural icon now, but dancing with a star sounded like the dumbest show possible.

It's like, what are we even doing? And it's like, well, it turns out we're putting on sequins and dancing to the Paso Doble. Mother effort. That's what we're doing. And I love it. So anyway, um, congrats to them on, uh, on 500 episodes, wild stuff. Okay. I'll end with a couple more clips. We're rounding the day out.

We're having a blast. So just stick around. We'll be back with more right after this. For tomorrow's weekend episode of the rush hour podcast, I'm going to do a Q and a I've posted the questions on my Instagram story. So you can literally ask me a question, really anything. I might not read it, but chances are a lot.

Read your question and I'll give you my answer. I know people are asking me, what are my greatest regrets? What do I think of the election? What's going to happen moving forward with your career and whatever. So if you have any questions, personal, maybe you want some dating advice. I don't know. You can ask me on Instagram.

You can also ask me by going to, um, my voicemail system. So that's right. I have a Google voicemail system and I'm going to share the number with you right now. You can call in and leave a voicemail. It's 4 0 1. Five, five, eight, seven, eight, four, one. I would love to hear from you. I truly mean that I love hearing from new people.

If you're out there and you've never left a voicemail, or if you're a returning favorite, feel free to call in, ask me anything, just say hi. 401 558 7841. How about this for a prompt? How do you feel about the results from this week? Do you feel drained? Do you feel inspired? What are you doing to make your life, um, the most fulfilling as it can be?

Uh, what, what are your goals for 2025? Share with me, open up to this great community of ours. 401 558 7841. I always say, leave it at 30 seconds, but you know, To spend as much time as you need, get to the point, but you can leave a longer one than that. But I'd love to hear from you guys. And I'll have all of those voicemails and questions on tomorrow's episode of the rush hour podcast.

All right. Well, uh, uh, former house speaker, Kevin McCarthy spoke to CBS news about what he thinks will be the involvement of RFK jr. And Elon Musk in this election. Here's what he had to say. should play a role in his cabinet? I think a lot of people should. But look, no, he has played a significant role in his run.

Elon has played a significant role in North Carolina without a hurricane. He played a significant role for our competition. I'm talking about in his cabinet. Yes, but he won't, Elon can't go into his cabinet because he still has to work. He still has to run his other companies. What I believe we should take, not just Elon, but everybody else that has good ideas, how do we make government better?

more efficient and more accountable. That's not a Republican or Democrat issue. So, you know, when Elon bought Twitter, he really gutted the place and got rid of a lot of jobs to make it more efficient. He plans on doing the same thing for the political, uh, for, you know, for, um, you know, they call them the deep state, right?

The people that are not elected officials, which in some instances could be fine, but they also plan on gutting, you know, certain organizations like the department of education and it's, it can be. Pretty scary out there when one state decides to teach a different type of education than another state.

But again, I don't know what's going to happen. We'll have to see how it all goes down. Here's Elon Musk explaining how he helped win over the Amish vote. We paid particular attention to the Amish community in Pasadena. Um, It's a myth. Has anyone ever gotten the Amish out to vote before? Not in significant numbers, but the Democrats did make a mistake because they, there was government overreach.

And with some of the Amish farmers, there's no such thing as like organic farming or not organic. They just, they're farmers. They're like, they've been farming the same way for a long time, you know, and there was some government overreach that. That shut down some Amish farmers, which really, you know, made them pretty upset.

You just need to be able to channel that, the fact that they're upset, and like, well, there's a thing you can do about it, which is called voting, and we're happy to transport you to, they're allowed to ride in vans, uh, as long as they're not driving the van. So, you know, we're just making sure we bring them to the polls and they vote how they want to vote.

Look, I'm all for auditing the government. I just think it's kind of ironic that we couldn't even get Donald Trump's tax returns, which, you know, used to be a big deal. And now people are just over it. They're like, Oh, they're going to come in tomorrow. You know, just like our healthcare plan. So anyway, uh, don't blame me for being cynical to see how it all plays out, but, um, we have no other choice, but to see what goes down.

And, uh, yeah. Yeah. It's been a wild week, hasn't it folks, regardless of what side you're on. I mean this, when I say it, I want us to all find a way to come together. And I think part of that is to just stop fighting with strangers online. And I, I'm, I honestly mean that let's stop fighting with strangers online and let's go back to like, so working on our own communities and then build outward from there.

And if we all do that and take part in. Restoring those types of conversations. Maybe we can get back to a productive place. Those are my thoughts. I still, I stand by what I'm about to say, because if you knew here, maybe you found me on a good, uh, it's your first week finding me and you didn't know this, I still like to end every episode the same way, and that is let's leave work.

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 It's pretty fun. 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 Friday to you. November 8th, 2024 got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. Can you believe we made it to the Friday after the election?

Does it not feel like it's been the longest week of the year? Well, it just got a little too long. Crazier, if you can believe that monkeys are loose in the Carolinas, a research lab admits dozens of monkeys have broken out of their cages. And to be quite honest, I'm rooting for the monkeys. I'll have that full story.

Plus three people charged in the death probe for one direction star at Liam Payne, including a hotel employee where he was staying. And also a story came out that liberal women are going on a sex strike over a Trump win and a scientist weighs in on whether cutting. Fluoride out of tap water is a good idea.

That being because RFK Jr has said, that's what he plans to do along with some other updates to the FDA. So he's going to wipe it clean. So we'll have that story. People want to know in a bombshell. Tell all by Brianna La Paglia, AKA Brianna chicken fry. As she turns down a 12 million NDA to discuss her messy breakup from country singer, Zach Brian.

It's juicy as heck. I'm going to share a few clips of what she had to say on her barstool podcast. Very fascinating stuff. We are not going into the weekend with any subtleties whatsoever. Bombshell stories all coming up next on the rush. All right, let's open on this monkey story. If you live in South Carolina, you might be on the lookout for several monkeys.

A search is underway for more than 40 of them. They escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, Wednesday evening. I love how we're just finding out about this now. Where have they been? They've had a two day head start. Here's the story on NewsNation. So last night we were by representatives from Alpha Genesis that they had an escape of approximately 43 monkeys.

And at this point, none have been captured. And that was the town administrator. He says a new employee left a few gates open, allowing the monkeys to escape. And look, my thought is this, maybe It wasn't, you know, maybe it wasn't an accident. Maybe this was the work of PETA. And again, I don't blame them. You know, these monkeys don't belong in cages.

Uh, we want to, uh, ensure that the community is aware that there is no public health threats associated with these animals. Oh, sure. Let's just go ahead and believe the people that were caging up monkeys for science experiments. Like the work they do there. These animals are not infected with anything.

They're healthy. They're skittish in nature. We were informed that they're all female, so they'll typically congregate in a large group. Oh, no, they're all female. So they've been gossiping throughout the forest monkeys not try to trap the monkey as a pet. We've seen posts on facebook already. People want to try to Take a monkey's pet.

Do not do that. That's a federal crime. They say it's a federal crime. Look, they call it a federal crime. I say it's finders keepers, losers weepers. Now, to be quite honest, I did spend some time monkeying around in Bali. And I have to tell you, monkeys should not be messed with. They'll rip your face off.

They'll rip your Dick off. They really will. They don't care. They're, they're, they're cray. They'll gouge your eyes out. Uh, you know, they, I mean, Hey, you know, they can also be cute looking, but Hey, they'll do what they got to do. And by the way, I'm sure they're not fans of humans. They've been locked up their whole lives.

So I say let them roam free and let the Carolinas, uh, have their own population of female monkeys running around. Uh, here's another update on the story from ABC news. And the search is on for 40 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research center. Officials say the private company breeds monkeys for medical testing and research, so Yemesee residents fear the animals could be carrying diseases.

Nineteen monkeys escaped from the same center in 2016, but were all returned to the facility within six hours. Police at that time blamed broken or loose cages. Now officers are asking residents not to interact with the primates and call 911 if you see any. No word yet on how the monkeys got out this time.

All right. Well, you're, you heard it here first from my podcast. If you see some of these monkeys, don't call nine one one. I'm telling you, let them live. You know what I mean? The world's crazy enough out there. We're overturning laws that have been around historically for decades. Let the monkeys live, let a few primates exist.

And by the way, there's no male monkeys, just a bunch of female monkeys. So let them hang out. They'll do their thing and we'll just go on with our life, right? Who cares? All right. From a crazy stories about monkeys. Humans, the real crazy primates. We've got Zach Brian, of course, his breakup with Brianna LaPaglia.

I've got several different clips I'm going to play from, uh, the podcast. It was a big tell all, you know, came about a week or two after the breakup. She probably wanted to wait till she had her wits about her before she could talk about it. Well, now she's spilling it all. Um, she's claiming emotional abuse says he, uh, she said she's still scared of him.

And it's, it's called the BFF. podcast. Brianna LaPaglia dove into some of the emotional abuse she endured while dating singer Zach Bryan. Uh, she offered a huge admission that she was offered 12 million by his team to sign an NDA, which she clearly rejected. I got to say 12 million is a lot of money to reject.

So, um, you know, maybe boy, and by the way, how bad was it? You ever have a breakup so bad, you have to pay the other person 12 million bucks, just not to talk at brunch. Brianna. talked about the infamous Raya profile screenshot that went viral on social media. I guess she received a bunch of DMs from people saying that he was on Raya.

He merely responded that he reactivated the app when confronted, which is why she claims he posted about the breakup, because he got caught. Alright, well, here's a couple clips of what she had to say about the breakup, the relationship, and how messy it was. episode of Me Not Taking the money, like it's not just for me, it's for anyone else that's been emotionally abused.

It's for people right now that are being emotionally abused. It's for people that don't have a support system that I was luckily enough to have going through this. And like the last year of my life has been the hardest year of my life, like dealing with the abuse from this dude. Like I'm still scared right now.

Cause I'm like scared of him. Still. My brain's rewired. Like I'm scared to make him mad. And last week, I didn't want to talk about it because I was scared. So I was like, yeah, we can just talk about this stuff. That's public. And I still said your money, but you made the women before me believe that they had no other choice than to take money from you sign their, their experiences away, sign what they went through away.

You get to go skip off and sing your little songs on stage. Like you're a good, good dude. I don't want in two years to buy a house and think. This is the money from the dude that literally destroyed me and broke me for a year that you, I don't want your money. And I I'm, this isn't me getting on the, this isn't like a drama thing for me.

This isn't me not signing the NDA or not taking the money because I want to get on here and expose who he is and his secrets and all that shit. I didn't take the money because I'm not signing away my experiences and what I went through to protect someone that hurt me. And. I'm a lot stronger than a weak man, and I'm not you for your money.

Well, I just deleted about 17 F bombs from that rant, but good for her. She's like, I don't need the money. I don't want to buy a house with it, and I'm not going to be silenced. So that's, you know what? I actually have a lot of respect for her right now. And it helps that she, of course, is employed by Dave Portnoy, who's worth well into the hundred million dollar range.

So she's, uh, Got a guy that's supporting her and making sure she's, I guess, taking care of here. And, you know, boy, just pretty wild, wild stuff. I had one more clip I wanted to play from this. I mean, you know, it's kind of a bombshell deal here. This being, he's a pretty big deal in the country music scene.

And, um, she actually explained a story about how he got mad when she sang Morgan Wallen, have a listen. One morning. Like we were out the night before and one morning I like woke up or I was like scrolling TikTok and last night we let the liquor talk was stuck in my head and I walk up the stairs in the New York apartment and I'm singing like I'm about to like make breakfast or something like last night we let the liquor talk he freaked the fuck out like freaked the fuck out I he could not believe you're singing another man's song under my roof in this house that I own like all like it was a fight for I think a week.

I came up the stairs saying last night, we let the light. What, what is, is that anybody or was there, is there like specific beef or something with like Morgan Wallen song? No, I know that, but like, what's he care about? Like, there's a lot of songs. Like, is it specific to Morgan? I think he, I think he really doesn't like Morgan Wallen.

I think he really hates Morgan Wallen. I think he feels inferior to Morgan Wallen. I also, I was like, not really allowed to listen to Noah Cahan. I listened to him too much. I thought they were friends. I thought I was friends with Zach too. So Noah Cahan just ate shit. I mean, he, he, he just lied. Yeah. He just lied.

Why? Like he must be happy. He must be like, fuck. Finally. Somebody said, said the truth because that would drive me insane. Well, good for her for having her boss stick up for her. Pretty wild story. Anyway, shoutout to Last Night by Morgan Wallen. It was the last night, it was the last night that we break up.

I see you tear the lights in the dust. You call your mama, I call your bluff. In the middle of the night, pull her out. You know what's funny actually is, You know, that'd be like if my wife got, uh, you know, told me a funny joke, she heard from another male comedian. And then I got jealous. Now I kind of understand that.

I understand the idea behind that, but bro have like, you're, you're, you're kind of like a well known multi million dollar earning. Musician, just like you don't get mad when your girl sings another man's lyrics, you know, have some, uh, you know, pride in yourself there. Wow. So good on her for 12 million. It wasn't enough money for her to be silenced.

And I think, you know what? I think we need more people like her out there. Spread the truth, share your story and don't take nothing from anybody. All right. Well, let's take a quick break. I got a lot. We're just heating up folks. I got a lot of content coming your way right after this. Well, for this weekend, I don't have a driving with Dave episode.

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All right. So, you know, uh, before we get into some political stuff, uh, this is semi political liberal women going on sex strike over Trump, when disgruntled female voters draw inspiration from Korean for B movement to take revenge against men who voted Republican. Well, there it is now to be quite honest, I didn't read the rest of the article because it was behind a paywall, but I think I got enough.

Yeah. Look, if there's a lot of guys out there not getting laid, oh, it must be a, it must be because. The ladies are doing a sex drive. No, they're just not that into you. Hey, but Hey, you know, that's a good motivator. I don't think that's the biggest problem out there. Kamala lost in a relative landslide. She lost the popular vote.

There's plenty of people that didn't show up to vote. It's not just Republican men. Although of course, yeah, it would be a segment of it. Uh, but what's interesting. And I, and I've been covering this a lot. You know, a lot of people are looking at the democratic party and saying, boy, how could things have gone wrong?

Who didn't turn out to vote? Are there sexists? Are there racists? But the truth is the democratic party, the, you know, the DNC, the leaders, they're really the ones to blame here. They silenced. The primaries, which had Marianne Williamson and RFK Jr. And Dean Phillips, and even, uh, Cenk Uygur, uh, am I pronouncing his name?

Right. They had tons of people that wanted to get their voices out and share good thoughts and they silenced it. The media didn't cover once RFK Jr. He literally had to kind of go out on his own. So I'm not surprised that that's what happened. And now you've got RFK Jr. Who's been like a lifelong Democrat working closely with Trump again.

I'm not a huge fan of some of the things that are going on there, but I do find it interesting that this is the world we live in now and will, will they come after, you know, the powers that be when it comes to the, uh, FDA, will they come after the corporations that are putting terrible ingredients in our food?

I mean, it's yet to be seen, but, uh, the news they're, they're reporting on it. ABC news covered RFK and, um, you know, this specific topic about whether they're going to remove flora. R. K. Jr. also says he wants to stop recommending fluoride be added to drinking water. So small amounts of fluoride are found naturally in water.

In the U. S., more has been added to the public water supply since the 50s to help with dental health. But some recent studies have suggested fluoride in high amounts can negatively impact brain development. in children. I know major medical associations have said in recommended levels, the benefits outweigh the risks.

But this is another one. This is really tricky as a parent to decide what's right here. So how do you give guidance on this? What I gave guidance is first for parents to understand what fluoride is actually doing. So fluoride, the recommended amount in public water, according to the CDC and WHO is about seven milligrams per day.

per liter. That's a few drops of water in a 55 gallon vat. So it's not that much. It is naturally occurring as well. And Florida can actually strengthen the enamel, the surface of teeth, prevent and protect our teeth against acid bacterial growth, and it reduces the risk of tooth decay. So my thought is this.

That all might be true. Why the hell do we have it in the drinking water then? You know, can't you just get it in your toothpaste? Like, you know, how come we have to ingest it? And again, some people say, well, fluoride's a neurotoxin. I'm sure at some level it's dangerous. What is that level? They're not doing these studies.

These are the things we need to know out there. They also, and again, like just because, you know, I don't know. So I understand why a lot of people out there don't have too much faith in the. System because we, we all collectively feel as if corporations have bought and paid the people that make the policies.

I mean, did you know there's any, I hate to say, share, share information that I don't know is entirely true, but there are countries where they've got products that we have here and there's banned ingredients from other countries that we keep in our products here. And it's like, are we above? Poisoning our own people to make a profit?

I don't think so. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to take up a major role in the new Trump administration involving health issues. RFK Jr. says he may gut the nutrition departments at the FDA. He also says many ingredients in America's food are illegal in Europe. Now he's taking aim at Froot Loops using cereal as an example.

Oh, they're coming for your Froot Loops. What about the goose? What about the geese? They're migrants. They stole your Froot Loops. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it's got two or three? ABC's medical contributor, Dr. Loke Patel joins me now for more on this.

Dr. Patel, walk me through this and what we just heard, because you say Froot Loops in the U. S. and Canada actually have roughly the same number of ingredients, but a big difference when you look at the dyes. So can you expand on that? Absolutely Diane. If you look at a box of Fruit Loops in both the Canada and the United States, they have roughly the same amount of ingredients from ingredients such as sugar and different types of flour.

The big difference is that in Canada, they're using natural dyes. Dyes that are made from products such as carrot, blueberry, and watermelon juice to give fruit loops that color. In the United States, they're using artificial dyes such as red 40, blue 1, yellow 5, and 6. And some of these dyes in preliminary studies have been linked to certain adverse reactions in children, such as children with ADHD or autism spectrum disorder, more hyperactivity.

noting that there is some research happening in these dyes, but most importantly, parents should feel empowered to look at any products they're giving their children Look at the back and read the ingredients and make a decision about what they want to feed their family. All right. So I have thoughts here, right?

Sure. You should be making these decisions as a parent, but also we should have a You know a system that's set up to protect from corporations that will Be greedy and we'll give us the, whatever is the lowest costing they can give us. I mean, remember Coca Cola, they switched to corn syrup instead of sugar because there were corn subsidies.

It was just simpler to get simpler to get sugar out of Coke. But if you bought the Mexican Coke, that was real sugar. And then it was so different. But now if you buy the Mexican Coke in the U S it now comes with corn syrup too. You know, you just can't win when it comes to corporate greed that exists out there.

So no, I do not trust corporations. You know, I got a kid who's about to start eating food and I grew up on processed food and crap like that because my mom probably didn't know the difference. Single mom, I was fed a diet of frozen fish sticks. Half the time, I'd put them in the toaster, they'd still be frozen in the middle when I ate them.

Who the hell's know what, I would have been an astronaut, instead I'm just a lousy podcaster. I got, I grew up on fluoride and Fruit Loops, baby, come on, we need to do better than this. So, I think at the very least, if, uh, RFK Jr. will Take an earnest look at what's bought and paid for, you know, it'll be, it'll be good at least to be able to audit, um, those that are in control of the systems that are there to protect us at the very least, again, there might be a lot of other issues going on.

I'm not here, you know, we, the, the votes happened, the president's going to be coming in. And it's a change of guards at the very least, because look, I mean, you've seen these like Sackler documentaries, right? The opioid crisis and how there's literally like the link between executives for like Sackler, these big pharmaceutical companies, they were getting high profile jobs right out of being in the FDA.

Right. So it's like, how corrupt can this system get? And it's all about money. And it's robbing us of our health and it's robbing us of our sanity, really. And I'm not saying it's one political side versus the other. At this point, the trust is gone. And I don't know which side is, um, you know, is more at fault than the other.

I truly don't know how far back you have to go to figure that out. Well, look, Adam McKay, famed director says it's time to abandon the democratic party as Trump declares victory. Now, I don't agree with him, but I still think this is very interesting. He said, I thought liberals whole thing is being smart.

So he posted this on Twitter, kind of like a diatribe here, explaining his rationale. He said, who would have guessed lying about Biden's cognitive health for two years, refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee, never mentioning public health care and embracing fracking the Cheney's in a year long slaughter of children in Gaza.

Wouldn't be a winning strategy. Um, anyone with half a brain. But I thought liberals whole thing is being smart. It's not. So anyway, I mean, Hey, this is the time for dialogue. This is a time for people to audit what went down in the last few years and say, you know what, what we need now more than anything is a robust discussion of what went wrong, why it went wrong and not just say, Oh, the other side is racist.

Oh, the, no one wanted to vote for a woman. It's like, Okay. We can't just keep saying that we have to come up with a plan to put the best people in place with the best ideas in place. And if we're just going to continue to blame other people for not getting a strong turnout in the election, then, you know, you're going to keep on getting the same problems.

We'll be back with more content right after this. Three people have been charged in a death probe, including the hotel employee in Liam Payne's death from One Direction. It's a big break in the death investigation. Buenos Aires, our authorities have charged three people they believe were involved. Law enforcement sources tell us that three people were charged Thursday, and at least one of the suspect worked at the Casa Ser Palermo hotel where he died.

One suspect is described as a friend who was in Liam's hotel room with him, but left him there at some point before he died. That suspect has been charged with abandonment of a property. a person before death. The second suspect, a hotel housekeeper who police believe likely delivered drugs to Liam in a soap box.

As reported, cops had been eyeing the dove soap box found in the room because only housekeeping staffers have access to that soap supply within the hotel. In the third suspect in the alleged drug supplier who prosecutors say delivered narcotics to Liam twice on October 14th, two days before his death, the alleged dealer and the hotel staffer are both facing.

Charges for dealing pretty scary. Sad story there. So, yep. I mean, Hey, you got it. You just got to, um, you know, figure out what the heck went wrong, but, uh, it's like straight out of a movie to think that there's some drug dealing housekeeper that works in these hotels. Who knows? Well, CBS morning shared a, uh, interesting story.

Good, good way to end the Friday morning here. Cause we've had a lot of heavy stuff. Uh, it is a cloned ferret who just gave birth. Listen to this. Cloned black footed ferret. You're like, why is he talking about that? Just stick with me for a second. It's given, it's given hope to all endangered species.

Here's why. Antonia is the first cloned ferret ever to give birth. She had two babies known as kits at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute earlier this summer. Now, this is the first time a cloned endangered species in the U. S. has hatched. Had offspring. So this is awesome because it got me thinking does this remind you of anything?

How about what jurassic park ate your minds away? That's right So this is where scientists clone dinosaurs. You might remember how it all went down didn't really work out for the movies But you know what i'm saying? So this is a breakthrough for antonio. So do you think that? This could be a breakthrough for other endangered species because there's a lot on the list that have been around for hundreds of millions of years.

Well, don't we like to end on a great story like that, but, but, but wait, there's more. I got one last minute story I wanted to fly into. It's Paris Hilton sending love to the ADHD community. Have a listen. Hey, it's Paris Hilton, and I just wanted to take a moment to send all my love and support. I know that ADHD can sometimes be hard.

It's exhausting and frustrating. But it also makes life colorful and exciting. Some of the most creative and iconic people in the world have ADHD, and they've used it to absolutely slay. So to anyone who's out there struggling with ADHD, know this. You are not alone, and you are not broken. You have a unique way of seeing the world, And that's something to be celebrated.

How about that from Paris Hilton? She says, slay out there, my ADHD Queens. I hope you guys have a fantastic morning. I will be back this afternoon. Don't forget to call the voicemail line. Like I said before, I've got a voicemail number and you can leave a message. You can just say something kind. You can ask a question 4 0 1 5 5 8 7 8 4 1.

Let me dust off the old dating advice and see if I can help you guys get laid this weekend. Why not? Fuck. Folks, unless you're doing a sex strike, you're allowed to do that too. All right. Well, we'll see you this afternoon. I'll be live on the 10 AM hour Eastern time on Patrion with a nice behind the scenes live stream patreon.

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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. It's Thursday, Thursday, November 7th, 2024. I got all of your afternoon news. pieces of content for you, all here in one place.

An update on Artem Chigvintsev, the dancer from Dancing with the Stars, in his ugly divorce battle. Apparently, the accusations made against him have cost him over six figures. We'll discuss that. Plus, An Olympic legend retires the break dancer from Australia. How famous is she? Not famous enough for me to remember her name, but of course she, uh, plenty of people went as her for Halloween.

So she clearly was the meme of the year. Uh, and now that Trump has been reelected. Did, uh, yeah, that's the world we live in, which of his campaign promises can we expect? We'll discuss the new world we live in as we transition to president elect Trump. Also another indication of a peaceful trans, uh, transfer of power, uh, coming from president Joe Biden, as he offered his, uh, speech congratulating Trump.

I'll share that. Plus Penn state police still haven't ID'd the college student who taunted Jason Kelsey. Uh, I feel like we need to get down to the bottom of this and also Saturday night, live star apologizes to Ariana Grande for a wicked open mouth kiss. All these stories plus more coming up next on the rush.

All right, let's start with some light news here. It is reported on the today's show. Breakdancer Ray gun announced her retirement. One of the stars of the Paris Olympics is calling it quits. Rachel Ray gun gun announced that her professional breakdancing career is over. The 37 year old Australian went viral with her unorthodox dance moves during the game.

She cited unfavorable reaction to her performance. As the reason for her sudden exit. Wow. Interesting. I mean, look, a lot of people don't even believe she's really a break dancer. You know, sometimes you'll have a country that, you know, maybe they're landlocked and nobody knows how to swim because they don't do that.

And they'll have a swimmer and they, they're really bad. Or you'll have situations where, uh, someone is representing their country in a sport that is not normally played there. And with break dancing, this being their first year, people felt like she was making a mockery of the sport because she was.

Object fully awful. I mean, it was really bad. You know, I don't know how to break dance, but she, her break dancing felt like if I had a couple Celsius and vodkas, that's how I felt like I would have break danced. And it actually felt like the perfect definition of gaslighting. It felt like people were saying, no, no, no.

She's a professional. That's a professional break dancing. They go, what? I don't really believe it. I mean, look, imagine being so bad at your job that the internet is Has conspiracy theories that you're actually like an Andy Warhol like character, sort of faking the profession. That'd be like if I had a stand up set so bad, people took to chat rooms going, Is he even a comedian?

What is this? What's going on there? Alright, well, here's some news updates from the world of entertainment and the streaming landscape. Warner Bros. Discovery adds 7 million streaming subs in Q3. To hit 110 million as box office dives 40 percent in Barbie less summer. Isn't that, isn't that crazy? It's like Barbie had the ability to be such a successful movie.

It drove the box office last summer. So Warner brothers discovery reported its third quarter 2024 earnings results Thursday. And like they said, they have up to 110 million global subscribers, which is interesting because discovery, they had that weird merger with HBO and HBO got rid of, like, they no longer call it.

HBO, the streaming, you know, it used to be HBO go, then it was HBO. Now, now it's like discovery. Plus, I don't know, I don't know, um, you know, I'm no expert in branding, but it's very confusing. So either way, um, Hey, that's, that's one of the locations of, you know, that could be bidding for a bachelor Clayton Necker documentary.

It could be Netflix or Amazon or discovery or peacock. I don't really care where the hell it goes. As long as it makes its way to the internet. Alright, well, here's your update from Dancing with the Stars. Artem Chigvintsev lost out on 100, 000 following domestic violence arrest and claims Nikki Garcia has anger issues.

So, again, I don't know why, like, I don't know if he's gonna be suing her for defamation or whatnot. Uh, he was arrested August 29th in Yountville, California in connection with domestic violence. But prosecutors in Napa County ultimately decided against filing criminal charges in the case. Nikki later filed for divorce and unsuccessfully requested sole custody of their son, Mateo, with the pair granted temporary restraining orders against each other.

So, in legal documents obtained by DailyMail. com filed Halloween in Napa Superior Court. Dancing with the Pros star, Csik Vincif, who was axed from the show's latest season, says the trauma of the arrest and false allegations led to him losing substantial income. The document said, it is not true that I have not been able to find other work as a dancer.

I normally start jobs in November and it goes for 20 weekends. After the mugshot and the arrest Based on her false allegations, I was taken off the website faculty list, resulting in loss of over 100, 000 in income. Uh, and then of course, he posted photos of how he was hit. And he said she, I mean, he initially called the cops on her, which is I guess the main indicator that he's telling the truth because, and again, again, who the hell knows, but he initially called the cops.

And when they showed up. He was the one who got arrested based on what she said. Uh, I bet you, I bet you, they wish they have a ring light, a ring camera, because it's going to be a, he said, she said, he said, I also lost a social media promotion revenue, which she continues to benefit from as she was more worried about her career when she lied to the police than mine.

Um, it is further a lie that I was growing increasingly angry, snapping at her and yelling. I was not violent with her and did not violently grab or yell at her. He claims we had an argument, but it's not how she describes it. We agreed months before my surgery that she would be there with Mateo. I was supposedly to fly to have my surgery on May 19th.

She forgot about it and booked herself for work in New York. Alright, so this is just, it's just a sad story. And the truth is, even if they were to get divorced, Like, let's, let's, let's, um, let's assume he's telling the truth, just for a second here. And by the way, if she's telling the truth, he's a monster.

If he's telling the truth, then he's losing out on a lot of money that would probably go to help raise the kid. And this is what's so ugly about divorces is sometimes, you know, you're kind of You're trying to cancel each other in, in an instance, and it's only going to hurt your kid in the long run. So he said, She then told me that her work was more important than my medical procedures, so she ended up leaving.

Our son was left with the nanny. I canceled my ticket and stayed behind. She then started sending me texts for different flights I could take, so I ended up going because she insisted I go. I have texts to prove this. He writes, I cannot trust her anymore. Not only did she lie to the police so that her career remains intact, ruining mine, but she used the court proceedings to keep our son away from me for almost a month, not letting me see him until this court.

Issued its 50 50 orders on October 15th. So very, very sad story. I'm reading this for the first time. So he has images submitted to the severe court of California showing marks and bloody scratches on his elbows and hands, as well as behind his ears that he alleges were inflicted upon him by Garcia.

Again, you know, when this story first came out, a lot of people didn't want to really weigh judgment because you just don't know what's going on. And I totally, I totally don't know anything about either one of them. I couldn't spot them in a lineup. You know what I mean? Like I watched dancing with the stars, but I don't know any, I'm probably mispronouncing this guy's name.

So I'm not, I'm not taking any side whatsoever. Other than to say, clearly there's a giant disagreement in the Napa County decided not to prosecute him. And that case, if you're not going to get prosecuted, I think you, you know, he should have a chance to get his job back. Uh, that's just what I think. I mean, what else can you do?

You know, if, if something, you know, I understand civilian or vigilante justice, if the court systems fail you, you know, sometimes people need to rally together in clear cases, but like, this isn't a case sadly like Diddy where he was caught on camera doing something or Ray Rice or some despicable case.

This is, this is a case where the police couldn't figure it out. So why should we? That's my thoughts on that sad, sad for the kid. Well, the voice of AOL's you've got mail is dead at 74. And if you're under the age of 35 or 30, I should say, you probably don't even know what I'm talking about. So let me refresh.

Here is the initial sound, the sound, uh, old millennials will never forget. You've got mail. There it is. Etched in etched into our minds forever. Oh, the initial dopamine rush. Ooh, me, I've got mail. And it was a chain letter from a friend. If you don't forward this to 10 people, you'll live the worst life ever.

Donald Trump will get elected a second term. And, uh, if you don't fall, I was like, boy, Josh, I guess I should have forwarded that chain letter. All right, folks. Well, look, we got a lot of stories to get into the Patriot nose. They're watching behind the screens. We've got a bunch of tabs open, so we're going to barrel through this right now.

After, well, I'll tell you what, we'll get to our stories after a quick word from our sponsor. Getting some comments in from the Patreon. That's the private membership community that watches behind the scenes. Patreon. com slash Dave Neal. And Alex says, what I wouldn't give to not have email now. Yeah. Isn't that funny?

Growing up, you were affluent if you had email. And now if you're Successful enough where you don't need email. That's like the true sign of success. Oh yeah. Just to think that somebody can reach you. The fact that I was able to get threatened with a cease and desist while I was hanging out in the South Indian sea in the country of the Maldives, uh, that just goes to show there's some places we just need to turn off the wifi.

Hey, but even if you turn it off, you're expected to answer, you know? So what can you do? Uh, they got us by the balls. Well, I'll tell you what, some more thoughts from the men tell all from golden. Bachelorette. Here's our good friends. Love to see it. Podcast. Discussing, uh, you know, how, um, you know, how special this season has been is geared towards the idea that pop culture has meaning and not just in a reflection of our culture, but in creating it.

And I think so often on this show, we feel like it is reifying the worst impulses and there's something about the golden franchise that actually feels like the opposite to me. It's like a vision of what it could look like for men to still be like so deeply in love with each other. In their masculinity, but connect and reach for like emotion and reach for the ability to process and respect each other and respect women to love their Children and want a better world for them.

Like I just, I just in a way felt both alienated from this episode in the wake of the election and like. Needed it. How impressive. What that was one of the best 58 seconds I think I've ever played there from love to see it pot. Yeah, I totally, I totally understand. You know, it's almost, and it's, and it's, and it's been hard for me to sort of digest what we're watching on golden bachelor golden bachelorette.

But on the younger episodes, it's a lot of ego and it's basically this hierarchy of everyone trying to be the alpha male and who's going to succeed and who isn't. And then I think what you see is less. of a threat between the cast members on Golden Bachelor, Golden Bachelorette, less of this, um, every, um, it's me versus everybody mentality.

And when you take those walls down, you have a better chance at building long lasting friendships. So yeah, very interesting words coming from the Love to See It pod, which no surprises there. Always love to hear their takes on the matter. And I would, I would argue that That it's, it's the same thing with the ladies of the bachelor, right?

The cast members, the Victoria Larson's fighting the infighting that happens on the younger seasons. You don't see it as much on the older seasons, although we did see Kathy. She was pretty sassy. There was a couple sassy people out there, but you'll always have a little sass. But for the most part, yes.

Heartwarming golden bachelorettes indeed. Well, Penn state police still haven't ID'd the man. In the Kelsey incident after the viral confrontation, which is shocking to me that none of it, no, that no one's ratted this guy out. This dude was essentially following Jason Kelsey and taunting him. A spokesperson for the university police department tells TMZ sports.

They do not know the identity of the guy adding. No one has come forward to make a complaint over their personal property. Smith smashed phone being damaged. I can't believe. They haven't identified this guy. What? This should take two seconds. It's the internet and I'm not saying they should dox him, but Just as much as everyone knows who Jason Kelsey was in that moment, they need to know who the guy is that was trying to create a viral moment.

It's like, bro, you want a viral moment? You got it. That was Jason Kelsey's, uh, are you not entertained moment? You wanted the smash? You got it. Uh, but, uh, I guess cowardly this guy has not stepped forward and taken a sort of claim, uh, as to being the guy who, uh, was responsible, you know what I mean? Uh, so it's like, what's that thing that the Gen Z kids say?

Stand ten, ten toes down? How does it go? Yeah, it's like, oh, you're so busy wanting to follow him to go viral. Where are you now? That's my thought. All right. Well, I'll tell you where I am him here in Kentucky. That's right. I got a show tomorrow night. I'm doing just a guest spot. So I'm doing a short spot on Kelly Colette's show.

I posted the details on my Instagram. She's a very funny touring comedian, and I'm also performing a free show on Saturday night in Cincinnati. Both will be fun shows. Uh, the first one, let me actually look it up. The first show on Friday night is actually in Dayton, Uh, I think Kentucky, which is right next to Cincinnati.

Yeah. And that's called Commonwealth Sanctuary. So if you want to come hang out, there'll be some alum. So there'll be some bachelor friends there. Um, some people from the communities will be coming out. So if you want to meet some folks in Cincinnati, that's where they'll be. And then Tuesday night, same deal.

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Campaigns are contest of competing visions. The country chooses one or the other. We accept the choice the country made. I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win. You can't. Love your neighbor, only when you agree. Something I hope we can do, uh, no matter who you voted for, is see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.

Bring down the temperature. I also hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent. And it can be trusted. Win or lose. There it is. Can you believe that? I mean, look, this is a big deal. Democracy only exists if we believe it is fair.

Now, don't get me wrong. There's collusion that takes place in different ways, right? We got billionaires owning newspapers, colluding not to, you know, to, to stop their editorial team from nominating people, uh, from, you know, from endorsing people. We've got collusion and stuff like that, and there'll always be corporations that want to put their foot on, uh, sort of the scale of justice.

Absolutely. But when it comes to votes being counted and votes being delivered, if you do not, and again, this is what's so funny to me is, you know, 2020, it wasn't fair. It's like, bro. Sis grow the F up. You know what I mean? No one, no one takes a loss better than me. I play, I play baseball stand. I did. I pitch.

You lose more than you win when you pitch. Okay. I stand up comedy. I've bombed for, for years acting. I don't get 99 percent of the jobs I auditioned for. I know how to take a loss. I wear it on my chin and I wear it with pride, learn how to take a loss. And right now, We are learning from Biden and Kamala actually how to do that.

They are not saying the election wasn't fair. Now you could have said, well, there was all these bomb threats that turned out to be from the Russians that happened at, you know, no one's, no one's using those excuses. It was a. Pretty solid victory for Trump. Now, does that mean you just lay down your, your, your sort of virtues and you just do whatever the hell that administration wants?

No. If they want to pass a law, you disagree with you fight like hell to stop that. You do what you can in a democracy and you play within the bounds and within the rules. But. But just really, really love seeing, uh, this sort of response in this show of grace, because that's what we need more in this country is grace.

And as far as a peaceful transition of power, does anybody out there think that there will be a violent insurrection come January? I do not. Yesterday I spoke with president elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory. And I assured him that I'd direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.

That's what the American people deserve. The struggle for the soul of America, since our very founding, has always been an ongoing debate and still vital today. I know for some people, it's a time for victory, to state the obvious. For others, it's a time of loss. Campaigns are contest of competing visions.

The country chooses one or the other. We accept the choice the country made. I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win. So there it is. Again, uh, my, my, my final thoughts with regard to, you know, the election as, as far as, you know, this landslide victory is not that surprising when you look at the global sort of, uh, trends of what's gone down.

A lot of the leaders globally, the incumbents that, uh, That existed during the pandemic were voted out because of global inflation and everything that was done to try to keep, keep every country running smoothly. Uh, you know, when the world was kind of being shut down. So it's no surprise that. You know, cause you know, a lot of economists look and they say, well, the stock market has never been higher.

Um, and unemployment's at record lows. Like how the heck could it be that we think the economy is so bad? Well, it's corporate greed and a lot of other issues. Um, but I wanted to share with you guys a clip from a right leaning commentator about what he expects to come from Donald Trump. I'll have that for you right after this.

Well, Bill O'Reilly kind of vile, if you ask me, but still interesting to hear what he has to say with regards to why he thinks Trump might actually do what's best for the people. Again, I'm holding my breath on this one. Uh, but he, uh, Bill O'Reilly tells Chris Cuomo that there's never been a presidential candidate who has worked harder than Donald Trump.

I don't know about that. Have a listen. You say that he wants to be liked even by the people who hate him. Why would we believe that that's the case if he has basically complete autonomy where he doesn't have to deal with the other side at all because they have control of the House and the Senate? And he doesn't need them to get things done.

It's not a matter of have. He wants to go down in history as one of the greatest presidents ever. He wants to be on Mount Rushmore. In fact, he'll buy a mountain and put himself on the mountain. Okay? That's what he wants. That's his legacy. So, he wants to achieve what he wants. So called great things he's motivated to do it and he's the hardest working sob I have ever seen there has never been a presidential candidate or a president That's worked harder than that man and I don't know if that's I don't I don't know the metric he's talking about there because I think trump's at the record for the most Uh, days golfing in the least amount of days in Washington.

But again, either way, I don't care what Trump's motivation is, uh, for wanting his face on a mountain somewhere. As long as the payoff is for the American people. A lot of people are worried this will be one of the biggest, you know, transfers of wealth to the upper class ever, uh, because he's surrounded by essentially billionaires.

I mean, most of the billionaires other than Mark Cuban, uh, you know, you have, you have, uh, uh, Bezos. You have musk. I mean, they want, you know, they want him to win and you have to wonder why like what sort of regulations will be rolled back like we, we have no idea, but at this point, he's one. So I'm, I'm done trying to state the case against him and I'm more willing to say, all right, well, I guess, I guess we're just going to let him cook and we'll see how the dinner tastes.

Never. But he wants to go down in history as one of the titans. Unless there's a huge war, um, it doesn't happen. There it is, yeah. So hopefully it's not a war. And he did say, I mean, he did talk about ending the war in Ukraine before he even takes office. I mean, these are huge Sort of platforms he ran on.

So me, just a random podcaster, comedian out here, I'm interested. I'm like, all right, well, let's see how this happens. Donald Trump has said, I'll end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, which Ukraine Hawks and people who are concerned about its territorial sovereignty said you ended in 24 hours. If you're going to give, you know, force Ukraine to give up territory.

Yeah, I've met. President Zelensky many times and interviewed him for half a dozen times. And I know that Zelensky and his inner circle are very concerned that when Trump says he's going to end the war in 24 hours, that when he calls President Zelensky the greatest salesman, it doesn't mean that as a compliment.

He means that every time Zelensky came to the United States, he was able to sell the war in Ukraine and get billions of dollars in support, which is a pattern that President Trump has said that he wants to end. He's going to end the war. He's going to make it cheaper. That's all very good news if you're Vladimir Putin, and I can just imagine going back to Ukraine soon.

I have a feeling I'll be heading back. I came here to be tested. Part of this this is the biggest story in the world right now for all of these reasons and and seeing Ukrainian troops without enough Ammunition without enough support pulling back and feeling very betrayed by the United States I mean the interesting part is it's not a war where the where Ukraine and Russia came together and decided to fight Ukraine was Invaded so yeah, how is Trump going to reason with Putin?

That's the Question we all have. I don't think he will, but he promised he would. So how's this thing gonna end? We'll have to see. Alright. I got a whole bunch of other clips that I wanted to share, but we are just flat out of time. We're really just got so much content and news going on out there. I appreciate you guys, uh, sticking around this week.

I know it's crazy. Look, a lot of people wanted to tune out from all this, but we're at the, we're at the. Place of curiosity now, to me, the election is, is the part that triggers a lot of people. It's like, okay, the, the uncertainty is what drives a lot of the fear. Now we know at least who's going to be president.

And we know to an extent what to expect. Let's fight like hell to try to push. The president and the government and the conversation in a direction. That's great for the middle class, not just for corporations and billionaires. That's where I'm going to be here to give you guys my thoughts on what decisions come in, what we can best do to make that happen.

And Hey, regardless of anyone's political affiliation. I really want all of us to have abundance, feel safe and prideful to live in this country of ours. I want that more than anything. So stick around. We'll be back tomorrow morning. We got, we had a lot of content we didn't get to today, so Friday's going to be off the chains.

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