10-18-24 Morning Rush - A Bachelor In Paradise Alum Gets Engaged & Reacting To Being Called A Cult Leader (wtf?) & Fyre Fest 2 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, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday to you on this October 18th, 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. We've got a bachelor in paradise star getting engaged.

I'll share that for you. Plus fire festival, two tickets go on sale. No longer using FEMA tents to host house people. They've got palapas going for about a million bucks. I'll share the details if you dare. And Travis Kelsey discusses the relationship he's got with Taylor Swift and he calls it unfathomable.

Plus a judge in Texas halts an execution at the 11th hour in a wild viral story and selling Sunset Star Chris shell discusses whether she will return or not on the next season plus a manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian accused of massive drug trafficking. I'll share in a His story from the powdery slopes to rails of the old Booga Sugar, a perfect way to start our Friday as we blow off steam and milk the clock to victory.

I'm here for you like I am every day, these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, I got to wonder, I don't know if you guys are in for it today. Are you ready? Are you feeling naughty? How about naughty by nature? Hello? Hip hip hip hop. Hooray. How about that? To get the day started today. Cause we've got a wild story to jump into coming from, uh, the Canadian Olympics.

Snowboarder Ryan Wedding is wanted by the FBI for running cocaine ring. All right, let's jump right into it. Cause I can't legally play this music, but I thought it would be fun. Now let's cook it a little longer. Come on, let's go. Let's party. You guys getting paid today or what? You're going to have a good one.

Everyone's going to go out there and have a little happy hour. Hard to have a happy hour when you work from home. Start in the morning, why not? Let's go. So max out what feels now. The deal is that we're real, so we still around. Don't lay em with a frown. Alright, I might as well get into this first story, cause, uh, you know, we have a lot to cover.

So, uh, I wouldn't want to just blast music the whole episode. I got stuff to do. Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! Here we go! Okay, I got it. Okay, so. Seriously, they're gonna take me down. Alright, well, this story is interesting and, uh, let's, let's lead off with the good one here. Tonight, a manhunt now underway for a former Olympic athlete accused of running a billion dollar international drug ring.

Federal prosecutors say Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian snowboarder, shipped tons of cocaine into the U. S. and Canada for more than a decade. A dozen other suspects are already in custody tonight. Well, here's my thought. Okay. So, and by the way, this does count as an Olympic story. So when we have the Olympic story, we need the Olympic music.

How about this with the, Hey, Hey, Oh, okay. That's enough. That's enough. That's just lost to 50 people. All right. But Hey, maybe he wasn't trying to import cocaine. Maybe he was just trying to recreate. The slopes, maybe he was trying to get some snowboarding practice in and his snow was melting. So he did the booger sugar.

Who knows? Either way. Fantastic story. Canadian Olympic snowboarder, Ryan wedding accused of running a massive and violent drug trafficking operation, routinely shipping hundreds of kilos of Coke and ordering people to be killed in the process. Well, now he's wanted by the FBI, Martin Estrada, the U S attorney for the central district of California.

Said on Thursday, wedding and 15 others have been charged in a 16 count indictment. 43 year old wedding who uses aliases like El Jefe giant and public enemy and his accomplices are being accused of conspiring to ship huge quantities of Coke from Columbia to Mexico and through stash houses in the LA area, delivering it to couriers to be taken to Canada via semi trucks to see their operation through a wedding and an associate allegedly ordered violent.

Crimes, including two murders of family members in Ontario, Canada, and in retaliation for an intercepted drug shipment that was passing through SoCal. Uh, wow. That's some pretty crazy stuff. As part of the investigation, official sees more than one ton of blow. Quarter million dollars in us currency, 3 million in crypto firearms and ammunition.

Oh boy. There they, they got people buying Coke with crypto. What's more insufferable than a guy. Telling you about crypto is a guy on Coke telling you about crypto. Okay. So anyway, we're done here. Let's carry on with the story. So that's kind of stuff. Oh, you know, it's from cocaine. Oh, geez. We got a lot of drugs in the news today from cocaine to the, uh, devil's lettuce here.

Snoop dog decided to give his weather report. Uh, on the today show, I guess he was just going to tell you the weather in every town that has something to do with Mary Jane. Have a listen. Oh wow. It's 57 degrees in Mary Jane Falls, Nevada, and then I heard it was going to be 56 degrees in Stoner, Colorado.

That's right. But my favorite is when it's nice, hot and misty outside, 84 degrees in Blunt, South Dakota. I ain't sliding no down to this area right here. Above the average highs, 70 degrees in Roche, Missouri. And over here, you know, I love, you know, we stay lucky in Kentucky. It's going to be 60 as we blaze in blaze, Kentucky.

So there it is. You dig, you got the answers. That's all you needed. Listen, if marijuana is a gateway drug, I want it. If snoops got it. Okay. And the truth is I don't, I'm, I'm a, I'm a very light edible type of guy. And, and, uh, you know, I can't be doing that stuff with the baby. Now I, you know, I used to have, you know, it w it would help with my, uh, my joints.

That's like my whole verse of it. I didn't inhale no officers for my joints, uh, either way. Very interesting way to start the day. Giselle bunch in declines, invite to return to runway says no thanks. Victoria secret. Of course, they just had their fashion show that came came back after several years away.

Listen, I get it. Why, why would she want to be in lingerie? You know, when I go on a family vacation by the third day, I'm so bloated. I don't even want to go shirtless by the pool. So I can understand if she's got any hesitation to, uh, I don't know, making it, uh, making it out there. I mean, because it's a lot, I mean the, and by the way, the stress of the wings on the back, that would just really make me need to pop an edible for my, I, like I said, neck pain there.

Um, well, we got some fascinating stuff to get to bachelor and paradise star, Carly Waddell is engaged. She said yes. And guess what? He said, yes. She posted this on Instagram, a little thing happened in Costa Rica. Many of y'all have been wondering why Todd wears a ring on his hand. And it is actually because I asked him last Halloween to marry me first.

I'll give you way more of this story soon, but spoiler alert. He said yes, even though, to be honest, he was so shocked it was hard for him to speak. Then also, spoiler alert, he has to meet this October, and also I said yes. Now, of course, we know that Carly was married to Evan, uh, following their stint on Bachelor in Paradise.

Uh, good for, good for her. You know, it's always a happy day when someone in bachelor nation, uh, finds love, right? We're very happy for her. And where do we even go from here? So much to get into. Uh, what's, you know, what are they going to do, uh, to celebrate their engagement in Costa Rica? How about some cocaine?

I don't know. No. Okay. You're like, all right, jokes over Dave. All right. So, uh, you know, I'm going to have a kid and, uh, I guess the one thing you are, I'm going to, I have a kid. No, sorry. No, we're not pregnant again. We're not pregnant again. We just have a child. We have one beautiful. Beautiful five month old son.

We love him to death. He's so amazing. Uh, but you know, you want to, you, you have these questions you ask when you have a kid, like, how am I going to teach him to. To like, you know, navigate this world we live in. And I think, I think the answer is you, you want to raise your kid to question things in life.

And now maybe this is just, maybe we're going to regret this because it's like, you know, I'm sure he's going to have a question every two minutes. Daddy, why do we do this? Daddy, why do we do that? Daddy, why did, why is your belly bigger? Because we're on vacation and I ate too many carbs, you know what I mean?

You're just gonna have to answer these questions Uh, but here we have a discussion about the tooth fairy in a clip by james corden where he interviews American astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson have a listen to this Scientific with the facts or do you go with myths like the tooth fairy? No, no So when their teeth start coming out, right, what do you do?

So we're not gonna lie to because the universe is amazing enough To have to invent stuff just to keep kids entertained. So what we said was, We heard that if you put your tooth under the pillow, a tooth fairy comes. We're not sure, we just heard. They put the tooth under the pillow, we swapped it out. And they said, look, mommy, daddy, the tooth fairy came.

We said, how do you know it was the tooth fairy? And then she thought about it. There's my daughter. She said, oh, no, I don't know. I just know that there's money here. So she started setting up booby traps for the tooth. Like, Crinkly aluminum foil on the ground, so she would wake up, walk in. She had one of these dream catchers, hoping she could catch the fairy in the dream catcher.

Didn't work. At school, she got together with her friends and said, We think it might be our parents who are doing this. If it is, whoever's tooth comes out at school, don't tell your parents. Put that tooth under the pillow and see what happens the next day. And it stayed a tooth. So they performed the experiment to demonstrate that the parents are the tooth fairy.

And I'm just thinking, this is how adults should behave, okay? All right. We're cooking. We're rocking. We're rolling. It's a Friday. We got ads. We'll be back with more right after this. Well, as promised, I'm giving FireFest updates here. We have Billy McFarland giving an update on the housing at FireFest two.

Hey, what's up guys. I have a fire update. The team is on the island and it is safe to say things are already looking better than fire one. Unfortunately, luxury palapas have replaced the white FEMA tents. So I've been getting a lot of questions about the ticket packages. Let's start from the top with Prometheus.

Prometheus literally stole fire from the gods and shared it with civilization. For those of you who believe that life is meant to be lived, the Fire Prometheus Pass takes you pretty damn close to the sun. The Prometheus Pass comes with eight tickets, your entire group will be flown to the island privately, and you'll have your own yacht in the artist marina.

But most importantly, Oh, so they have an artist marina. Wasn't this what I was saying, which is if they just brought boats to the island, you wouldn't have to worry about housing. So this Prometheus, like I said, it comes with eight tickets. It's a measly 1. 1 million. So I'm thinking maybe we should go.

Should, does anyone, do I have any, Billionaires in my audience. No, look, I, people will go to this. This will happen. Uh, as we've reported yesterday, Billy McFarlane owes 26 million still to people. But look, I say this double down, Billy, this is your thing. You are the fire fest guy. And the only way, and I'm like half kidding and I'm half not, but the only way for him to not be the guy with the failed fire fest is to make fire fest successful.

I'll watch the documentary either way. Yeah. I don't expect them getting many investors. I really honestly think the only thing they needed last time, and again, maybe I'm wrong here, but last time they were just operating against time. They didn't realize how many people that have to pay off and how slow it would be to get equipment to a, you know, deserted Island in the middle of the Bahamas and all of that.

But like I said, all they got to do is pull up a cruise ship to the Island, throw a party on the Island, and then tender everyone back to the cruise ship. Bingo, bingo, dunzo. The Prometheus pass gives you access to everything. It will make fire the most memorable weekend of your entire life. You and the artists will be bouncing around on seaplanes to neighboring islands, catching lobster, and coming together at night for intimate performances on your yacht, in remote cenotes, and even at this underwater bar, where you have to free dive and hold your breath to get to it.

Ticket applications are live right now at firefestival2. com. All right. There it is. 1. 1 million. So again, they're not a sponsor of mine. I just find it fascinating. Listen, I need to know who the artist is first. If it's an artist, I don't like, it's not going to be, I mean, if it's Kenny Chesney and we can just chill out, sure.

But you know, catching lobsters, I don't know. I'm not sold on lobsters. I've said this before. I'm from Utah. Coastal New England. I'm just not a lobster guy. I don't like animals that have exoskeleton. It's just a line I draw in the sand. Well, to a more serious story, ABC world news is reporting on the judge who is pausing the execution of a Texas man in the shaken baby syndrome case.

It's absolutely fantastic. Listen to, I mean, this is good news to the extent that he's not being killed. Uh, but bad news in the sense that it's been years that he's been behind bars when he has been literally guilty of nothing other than his baby passing away. It's so, it's so tragic headline from Texas at this hour.

Just in the execution of a prisoner set for 7 p. m. Eastern has suddenly been halted for now. That prisoner on death row, a father convicted of shaken baby syndrome more than 20 years ago. ABC's Barea Villarreal from Texas. Tonight, a stunning reprieve just hours before he was set to be put to death. A Texas judge halting the execution of Robert Roberson, the first person scheduled to die by lethal injection in a case of shaken baby syndrome.

I can't tell you what happened to her, because I don't know. Roberson was convicted of murdering his two year old daughter Nikki in 2002. For more UN videos visit www. un. org He said he woke to find her unresponsive after she fell off the bed, but a doctor said there were signs of shaken baby syndrome.

The detective who helped convict Roberson now believes he's innocent. He's a special man and I am, I'm ashamed that I missed that 20 years ago. We were looking for an offender. And we labeled him as such, and we made it stick. See, this is the problem with prosecutors sometimes, is they want somebody so they can say they did their job.

And they had quack science. Apparently all this shaken baby syndrome stuff was all quack science. And like, God forbid this guy, this guy loses his child and then has to spend 20 years behind bars. I mean, can you think, can you think of a greater hell? Just unbelievable stuff. So, get him out of jail and f And fix this monster of an issue.

All right. I know it's a heavy story, but it's wildly fascinating. All right. Now we have Travis Kelsey admitting that he can't fathom what his star studded life with Taylor Swift is like, listen, I saw a video from the other day, uh, dropping into a restaurant in New York city and the whole restaurant stops, everyone gets their phones out.

I mean, Taylor Swift really is larger than life and here he is some chump, some random tight end. Now, obviously he was good, but come on. He's a, he's a, he's Midwestern famous. Uh, now he's internationally known. Can't fathom what's going on, so it's just like a dream. You're just like, oh yeah, no, you're not surprised by, like, the next thing that comes in, or comes into your life, or the next person that walks into the door, yeah.

Travis Gelsie takes fans inside his very Hollywood lifestyle. On the newest episode of his and bro Jason Kelce's New Heights podcast, the NFL star dishes to guest Pat McAfee on some of the perks of fame amid his whirlwind romance with Taylor Swift. One of those perks, hanging out with some very Alright, so they go into the whole story.

And yeah, everyone's going to leech on to Travis Kelsey now that he's with Taylor Swift, because that's what you do. You leech on to successful people. And by the way, speaking of leeching, unbelievable, uh, commentary was written about me from the lawyer of the lady who claimed she was pregnant with Clayton Eckerd's twins.

You're not going to believe this. I'm going to cover this on today's YouTube. I'm going to have to go live. I don't know around 11 a. m. Central time. I'll let you know exactly what time I'm going live. But this guy calls me a horrible. Heartless human being because of this people have come out of the woodworks to say no Dave's community donates money to single moms They donate money to teachers.

We we we lift people up in all of this, but either way I'm not taking offense to what he wants to label me as I'm gonna let my actions speak louder than his words It's just absolutely wild. I guess he's upset that I've been making money making YouTube videos calling out his client But look that's that's the fact she entered my world of Bachelor Nation, and we weren't going to let her lie, even though she, of course, and by the way, for those that haven't kept up with it, I mean, she lied to me with medical fraud.

She admitted to faking evidence, faking medical documents, to convince me she was pregnant when she didn't have the numbers that, you know, were believable. I mean, a lot of people think she wore a prosthetic belly into the courtroom, for God's sakes. It's absolutely wild. So for him to call me a horrible, heartless human being, he's more worried about his client who lied.

I'm more worried about the families of the men who were accused of very wild things and had their lives upended. So since they can't come after me for anything else, they're just calling me names at this point. Well, I've got something to say about that, and I will be doing it live today. So check it, check in on the YouTube for that.

Just wild stuff. Again, I'm, and it's so bizarre because he wants to make it out like we're arch enemies. I don't, I don't give two shits about this guy. I'm living my life. I'm, I'm, I'm doing things that I love creatively. I'm writing standup and performing in New York and I'm, and traveling around and I'm, you know, enjoying my life with my beautiful wife and our, our just gorgeous baby, and I'm trying to fight for justice.

I feel absolutely, uh, wildly grateful for all of the abundance that's come into my life from just being me. I don't have any hate and I don't want to harbor any hate. For anybody else. I truly don't, you know, do I think he's disgusting for some of the things he did while my wife was pregnant to threaten to make us homeless and things like that?

Sure. I mean, that's despicable of him. I don't even, I don't live in a world where humans would ever act that way, but clearly he does. I mean, he's unapologetic for it, but as far as I'm concerned, no, I wouldn't know this guy exists. If you didn't keep saying my name. Uh, I guess there's only one question left to ask him.

How am I asking? Taste, uh, how my ass taste. I think that's the only question there. Uh, cause my world and the world I surround myself in, in all of you guys, we are not horrible, heartless human beings. We have a pulse on reality and, uh, and, and, and, and that's okay. And that's okay. Uh, it's just too bad. His.

Client, uh, is on the train tracks of justice and this momentum we have in pursuit of justice ain't slowing down for nobody Metaphorically speaking. I think he's just trying to piss me off to try to get me to do or say something I regret But hey, I don't really drink and I don't do drugs So unless there's some crazy canadian with a ton of cocaine coming into town.

No, so it's not it's not going to happen You know, i'm not volatile. Maybe there's a little projection happening from his end Uh, but we will Keep our focus on justice and no sort of retribution to him. He doesn't need to exist in my world. All right. Well, well, boy, I mean, look, what else can you say about that?

I got a throwback video. I'm going to play for you guys next or audio. I should say about Netflix. I'll have a fun Netflix story coming right after a quick word from our sponsor. And by the way, a lot of people. Dave, why do you even respond to this troll lawyer for calling you out? I'm dedicated to pursuing the justice for Clayton in, in I'm I'm dedicated to following the story into its fullest capacity.

So every single time they want to rewrite history or change the reality, I'm going to present logical, Cold hearted facts. So that's what I'm going to present. If that makes me a horrible guy. Well, I don't know what law school he went to, but I don't see it that way. All right. Netflix. If you're old enough, like me, if you're an old millennial, you remember when Netflix was just a company that was mailing you DVDs, have a listen to the founder discussing their crazy idea.

Netflix was pretty big. We had probably in our warehouse, several hundred thousand DVDs. And I remember one day we were, Reid and I were in the warehouse and looking at all these DVDs and going, it's such a shame all these DVDs are here in the warehouse where they're not doing anywhere any good. I wonder if there's a way to store them at our customers houses, let them keep them, and then when they're done, they mail it back, we'll just replace it.

And rather than having them have to. Pay each time they replace it. Let's just have a monthly fee, a subscription, and they can rent as often as they want. There's no due dates and no late fees. And it was a ridiculous idea, but when we tested it, it was that mythical product market fit. It, it worked. People loved it.

They couldn't get enough of it. I mean, look, I was in the fraternity when this was big. We would literally have 20 DVDs coming in and out every single day. I think Netflix single handedly kept the U. S. post office, uh, employed for a few years. If you're younger than 30 years old, you probably don't remember this world that existed, but I'm telling you, it was wild out there.

And then. And then Netflix finally got into the streaming service, but it was garbage. I mean, it was like worst and Hallmark quality movies because they didn't have the rights to anything. They had to slowly get the funding to create their own content and bet it all on house of cards and Wayne orange is a new black.

You know, I, you know, it's actually funny as my roommate in, when I lived in Harlem, a guy that I lived with. Um, got the pilot for orange is the new black and he became one of the stars of the show and his name is Matthew and he, and when I found out he was on a Netflix show, I was like, Oh, you're doing a web web series.

Cool. Whatever. And then it became a massive success. And I was like, Oh, you can make TV shows this way. This is absolutely wild. And of course, then there's red box, which. Red box still kind of exists. If you go to some random seven 11, you'll find a red box. I mean, talk about the pressure on a Friday afternoon of picking a movie on red box.

There's seven people breathing down your neck for you to make your selection. Red box, the Netflix ATM. All right. So anyhow, uh, those are some good nostalgic stories there. Uh, but what, but boy, I wanted to leave you with some, uh, happy visions, uh, to have, but before I get to those visions. I'm always big into self actualizing.

Let's do a little happy hour conversation, or should I say the end of happy hour? Sad news for happy hour. Gen Z doesn't even know what it is. Grabbing a drink with colleagues is on the decline, and it's all thanks to how remote work blurred the lines of when the workday actually ends. We've been doing the five at five o'clock for 13 years.

I've never gone. I've never seen a happy hour in my life. I mean, I can't even remember what it's like. Well, you know, the old saying, It's five o'clock somewhere, happy hours, whenever you want to be happy, do your thing. No, look, there's, there's pros and cons to working from home, but from the social element, there really is nothing better than the camaraderie of being with teammates after a big win, whether it be sports or your career.

Client success or whatever the hell it is. Uh, nothing beats that. Uh, but anyhow, uh, you know, it's a Friday, so we're not, we're not quite ready for happy hour just yet. Although I'll give you permission to throw some Bailey's into that coffee, whatever, do whatever you want. I mean, as long as you're not like, I don't know, a nanny or something, maybe you should be sober for that, but Hey, you got a corporate job.

They don't need you to be sober. You just got a couple interviews to do mail it in today. Here is why the universe actually wants to give you. Everything you desire. Have a listen. Your odds are better than you think. So ask, man, this universe is a, is a playground. It really wants to give everybody everything.

It doesn't feel that way. And that's the trick. It's all a mental game. It's called pronoia. It's the belief that. The universe is working in your favor. It's the opposite of paranoia. I believe in paranoia. I believe that the universe is conspiring to help me at all times. And now once I kind of shift my mindset into that and I go, wow, right now I could ask for anything.

Listen, I understand. Uh, I understand. And, and Billy McFarland's like, I did that and now I owe 26 million. The other, the Olympian from Canada is like, I did that too. And I got all this cocaine and nowhere to go. Uh, but listen, uh, it's Um, it's kind of hokey, but I believe it. And the mantra I like to say is, isn't it great that it's all working out?

Uh, just take actionable steps to whatever biggest dream you have in life and find the path as it emerges. Now, I interviewed a ghost hunter. Uh, yesterday, which is going to air tomorrow on Saturday, and we talked so much about content creation because he's a ghost hunter who's got hundreds of thousands of followers online, a million, multi millions views, and it all, it all happened for him because he believed in himself, and it's amazing the, the worlds that open up when you do that, so folks, Hanging out.

It's going to be a fun one today. I'm going to, I've got a live stream buckle it up. I am going to be throwing the fastballs straight down the middle and ain't nobody touching them. We'll see you then. And then of course, this afternoon, we'll wrap it up. We'll see you later. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush.

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