10-21-24 Afternoon Rush - Bachelor Star Kelsey Speaks About Quitting Job On Trading Secrets Podcast & Chappell Roan Fires Manager!

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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. Happy Monday. It's the Afternoon Rush on this October 21st, 2024. You made it. You made it. This was a tough Monday, but you made it.

I'm so proud of you guys. It's not Christmas season. It's not summer. It's just kind of that little middle ground area where the sun starts to set earlier and earlier, but you did it, you worked hard. And here we are to enjoy the afternoon. And today we've got a lot to get into. Kmart closes for good. Plus the new Elon Musk outrage as he's been accused of playing.

excuse me, paying people to vote. It's more complicated than that, but we'll get into it. Plus bachelor star, Kelsey discusses quitting her job and life post bachelor while on the trading secrets podcast. Then we have updates on what the toxicology report said about Liam Payne, the one direction singer who just passed plus Chapel Rhone fires her manager.

And it's created a swarm of people wanting to work with her. And also is Ryan Seacrest regretting taking over a wheel of fortune? Sources say, yes. I've got those stories and so much more all coming up next on The Afternoon Rush. I guess they're calling it buyer's remorse for uh, Ryan Seacrest. I mean look, the guy's got too many jobs.

He is single handedly inflating, uh, the jobs report out there. You know, he's got like 19 jobs. He's reeling with regret after taking over Wheel of Fortune from Pat Sajak. It's a dumpster fire of fan hatred. Again, this is a report on Radar Online. Who knows how true this is, but the source said that he's feeling the pressure and wondering.

Well, what he's probably learning is that people might have loved the show because of the sort of reliability they got with the host and not exactly because they like watching, uh, you know, people win weird prizes on a wheel. Uh, it's kind of like if you watch a baseball, uh, team and you have a favorite announcer.

It's like you, you became friends with that person. I totally understand. Well, Tom, I meant to cover this yesterday. We ran out of time. Tom Sandoval and Victoria Lee Robinson are moving in together. Who cares? Nobody! But here we are. They said we're pretty serious. So, uh, I guess, um, they're, they spoke to an outlet.

Tom said how much Victoria has helped him since B since getting together. You're with somebody that inspires you to be a certain way. That's what makes it amazing. He said a lot of love, a lot of fun, a lot of support, a lot of great memories. Already. We compliment each other very well. We're both very adventurous and spontaneous.

Uh, and I think spontaneity is what got him into these problems in the first place. Right? Don't go in a hot tub with somebody you're not dating, at least alone, and don't hook up with them. That being Raquel Levis, Rachel Levis. Well, she had her podcast, Rachel goes rogue, which I think I, she, yes, she had said that it, uh, it is run its course and it's over.

So that's the end of that. And speaking about the ending of relationships, we've got, I guess, chapel Roan firing her manager. And now all the managers want her. Why wouldn't they? She's a huge pop star. Have a listen. Chapel Roan just fired her manager. And. Austin City Limits, the festival yesterday, it was like Hunger Games.

All these managers flew in to try to see her. She didn't see anybody, by the way. But like, it was, that's an industry open secret, and everybody's sort of trying to position themselves to, Um, to climb up the ladder and try to work with her. Now, I'm not gonna claim that I discovered Chapel Rone, but I will say I think I was in the early adopters of how badass she is.

So again, uh, she's gonna have her Pickens for who she wants to work with her. I just hope she picks. A manager that protects her from a lot of the chaos that's out there. You really need a good system around you. And I'm not saying that One Direction didn't have a good system around them. I have no idea.

But they found their fame very early on in life. And of course we covered Liam Payne, the singer who leapt to his death in Argentina last week. Well, toxicology tests now reveal he had pink cocaine in his system. Which, by the way, I have no idea what that is. Uh, the toxicolo Toxicology results for the late one director singer say he has cocaine and crack in his body when he fell to his death from a third floor balcony at a Buenos Aires, Argentina hotel.

So again, I don't know if he did it on purpose or, I mean, obviously if you have drugs in your system, you're not thinking in your right mind in the first place. Forensic examiners are told found crystal in his blood, which is the Argentinian version of methamphetamine. ABC News first reported the discovery.

The news adding that ketamine ecstasy and pink cocaine were also part of the drug cocktail in the system. All right. That's a hell. That's a hell of a concoction. They're unbelievable stuff and really sad too. You know, people are coming forward and saying, Hey, you know, we didn't, we didn't think that he had a problem, but you know, I, I, you, you, you can't blame.

Those that are around people that have these issues in the end, it's like, it's your battle and you can only help somebody so much. So I have no idea what his support system was like, but I will say so like batch, um, excuse me, um, you know, NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, like those boy bands existed before social media.

And you have to wonder if social media plays a part into the daily grind and the daily search for love and dopamine that's out there. Here's A. G. McLean. Uh, from Backstreet Boys, uh, addressing Liam's passing at LAX. These are one of the original boy bands, right? Um, and, you know, we just saw, we just, we just saw, we just saw the passing of, uh, of Liam Payne.

Yeah. Right? Another boy band. Obviously you guys have never lost a member, but how close do you guys get on the road? And how hard must it be for the remaining members of One Direction to kind of, you know, I can't. I can't even fathom. Uh, you know, we are family. We've been together for 31 years. Um, we've been through ups and downs together, but, um, you know, Liam was a friend.

Uh, he's a friend of yours. I mean, we just finished filming a TV show together and we spent six weeks together. Um, and, uh, you know, it's absolutely tragic. So I mean, you know, tragedy, it's like, look, you, you, you might go, what is, what is one direction having common with backstreet boys. They're from a different.

different era, but of course it's their boy bands and they go through probably a lot of the same rigmarole. So he actually said that he and Liam became friends while working on building the band, a music competition series where singers get a chance to build the next great pop group. He worked along with Liam and Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland.

So I guess that'll be coming out, which is wildly tragic because like, you know, uh, knowing what we know. Now, no, it's just a sad, sad ending. Well, in baseball news, the world series is locked in and it'll be Dodgers verse Yankees. I mean, LA versus New York, baby. It doesn't get any bigger than this. Unless my Boston Red Sox were in, but my new England sports dreams are on hold.

I just rewatched things from 15 years ago when we had our glory days. Uh, well, it's expensive. If you want to go to the world series, a thousand dollars for cheap seats. Although I have to say, uh, if you're a New York Yankee fan, Take, uh, it's take after me. And, and, um, if you get an early lead on the Dodgers, LA fans will not show up.

Uh, when the Red Sox were playing the Dodgers in the world series, I got world series tickets day of for 200 a piece, which by the way, is not bad. You know, maybe they were even cheaper. Maybe it was like 300 for two, either way. I got, I went to game five. I think the Red Sox ended up winning in game six. I get winning at all, you know, best of seven.

So either way, cheap seats right now are going for a thousand bucks. But, uh, like I said, if the, if the, uh, Yankees get, uh, maybe a couple of game lead, you'll probably be able to get cheap seats, uh, but that might not happen. You've got. What many are considering the greatest baseball player of all time, Otani against Aaron Judge.

It's a battle of the ballers out there, LA and New York. Okie dokie. Well, speaking about ballers that are no longer Diddy was slapped with new lawsuits and other celebrities are involved. I'll have that story coming for you after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, I'm not trying to give too many updates on Diddy because it's just a sad story, but he's being slapped with flood of new lawsuits citing other celebrities.

Diddy's facing five additional federal suits, which were filed by Texas attorney, Tony Busby on behalf of his clients who claimed Diddy sexually assaulted them in separate attacks between 2000 and 2022. Two more cases were filed Sunday night in state court in New York. And according to these documents, uh, the accuser listed as Jane Doe, um, uh, I guess.

There was in one case, a 13 year old who claims that Diddy, along with other celebrities, um, I guess drugged and assaulted her. So incredibly sad stories, if these accusations are true. And, um, you know, it's going to be a long time, but before I guess he. Uh, you know, all these stories kind of go through the court system.

So when there's any big news, I guess at this point, it's like people are really curious who these other celebrities are, who was complicit in these acts, you know, you know, did he worked with hundreds of a listers. So like, no one knows. And, um, you know, I, I think it's important not to speculate until, you know, more information comes out.

Well. Also, uh, Jenna Fisher from The Office, one of our favorite characters, uh, uh, gotta love The Office, says life is beautiful after her cancer battle. So here's some inspiration for those fighting adversity. I called my husband and I said, Lee, I think it's cancer. And I was like, but what? I don't know what it means.

And so, so it began. It was crazy because I went in for my routine mammogram. It's that annoying appointment that I'd been putting off. Three weeks later, they said, there were a few spots that were difficult to see. You have very dense tissue. We would recommend that you do another mammogram and maybe follow up with a breast ultrasound.

So was that for you an alarming thing, or was it an eye roll? It was a total eye roll. This is why I would put this off because now I have to go back again after the ultrasound. They said, Well, we found something we're gonna need to do a biopsy. So did you worry when they said that? Not really. Not really.

When I was getting the biopsy, the mood changed, and that's when I got nervous. So this is one of those weird things that you're refreshing a portal? Yeah. Constantly? Yeah, for like two days. Okay, now. Can you imagine refreshing a portal to find out if you have it or not? So either way. A brave story by Jenna Fisher to talk about the battle and, you know, share very human emotions, which is, this is why I put this stuff off.

I'd rather not know it's all BS, blah, blah, blah. But of course it comes back not so, but she's in recovery. So good for her. While Donald Trump is being sued by the Central Park Five, they are ripping him for debate lies. They say we never pled guilty. So he's getting called out in court for allegedly lying in the middle of the last debate.

Presidential debate, the only one he did with Kamala, that is the five men who were wrongly accused of a violent series of attacks in Central Park back in 1989 are taking issue with something Trump said on September 10th in Philly during the debate with Harris. If you recall, Harris brought up Trump calling for the execution of the Central Park five, something he did in a full page ad in multiple newspapers, including the New York Times, after they'd been arrested in 1989.

In the debate, Trump responded to Harris by defending his ad, saying they admitted, they said they pled guilty, and I said, well, if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person, ultimately. Well, they have a problem with Trump's remarks. In federal court, they pointed out no one was killed in the attack, and more importantly, they never pled guilty to the crimes.

They pled not guilty, and were ultimately found guilty. Fully exonerated. So there they are. We'll let you know what comes of that lawsuit. Uh, and do you remember the guy who was fixing celebrities? Kids, um, uh, college admissions, the college admissions scandal. Well, he's saying parents are so desperate that they are still asking him for help.

Here's what he had to say on good morning, America. Responsibility for everything I did. I am wrong. 100 percent wrong. Even on the days after the scandal broke, Singer says parents continued to text him. And I got 93 texts. I'd just been on national TV, they got everybody in my face, right? Within an hour. 93 texts.

Are you guys still coming this week? Is that where you thought, I can do this again, and again, and again, and make money? The money thing had nothing to do with it. Because the money thing, we didn't make, we didn't make money on it. I never ever thought I bribed anybody. I never even ever used that word. It never even entered my mind.

It was a donation. But if they needed to raise 250, 000 or 500, 000 For the program, they would call me and say, Hey, I have a spot. Do you have a family that would like to come here? Do you fully believe, though, that that spot wasn't important to somebody else that really wanted to wear that jersey? Doesn't matter.

To play for their school. Doesn't matter. It's up to the coach. You say you've taken responsibility for what has been done. You still view this as a victimless crime. Yes, ma'am. I actually, I don't want to say I agree with him, but if you remember this story, everyone, like college is so shady. I played baseball with a guy who he made the team and I didn't, like we were part of the fall team and he made the spring team and I didn't.

And his parents, I think, put the scoreboard. You know, bought the scoreboard for the stadium. You know what I mean? Like when you're not, if you're not like one of the top, top tier star athletes, there's a lot of college sports that, you know, it's everyone's neck and neck with each other and they can cherry pick who they want that's going to give them the funding.

And this guy just placed, you know, people with that demand. It is wrong by all means, but the whole process is wrong. It's so subjective. Who gets into what college? It's like. Not just based on test scores and not just, you know, it's, it's all hogwash. So the real issue I have is with parents not wanting their kids to face adversity.

That's what it comes down to. Now, look, I get it. My kid's only five weeks old, months old, but there'll be times when my son will try to roll over. And he'll get like his arm kind of stuck. Now I could move his arm for him so that he rolls over just fine. But why don't I give him 10 seconds to try to figure it out, figure it the F out and parents need to do a better job of it.

letting their kids figure it out. And if they messed around and didn't get good enough school scores to go to a school, learn about the consequences of that. Learn about the rewards of hard work, overcoming adversity. As I've talked about before, the main indicator of success in the world is grit, which is a combination of perseverance.

It's hard work, and it's like a don't take no for an answer attitude, and if your parents are there cleaning up your mess, you get to see sort of the golden handcuffs of privilege. And that's why so many people that come from parents that have money, They find a way to mess that up. They just do. You know, I interviewed over the weekend, Kalani, the ghost hunter.

We had a great conversation. So many people, maybe you guys listened to it. So many people wrote in and said, that was an amazing conversation. He came from lower middle class. He came from a poor family. Now he's a hardworking dude who goes in ghost hunting tours and he's got an incredible work ethic. Now, look, as parents, you can provide your kids opportunities to succeed, but you can't walk them over the finish line.

And that's the big problem there. And I hear this from teachers too, not to sound like an old cranky man, but in today's world, you hear that parents are more willing to take the side of their kids than they are the teachers. And sometimes it's like, who's disciplining who out here? That's the question.

All right. And again, there might be scenarios where you got to stick up for your kid, of course, but that's why I don't necessarily want to coach my son. I want him to learn how to take a direction. And instructions from other people and to respect authority in other ways and work really hard in this and that.

I got a, I got a long time before I need to figure it out. All right. Well, what we're figuring out is who the hell is going to win this election? Well, 60 minutes says it's going to come down to door County. What? What's door County. It's a small County. Inside of Wisconsin, whoever wins Pennsylvania and or North Carolina and or Wisconsin will have a heavy chance of winning the whole election.

So I guess, I guess historically this one county decides the election. Uh, let's have a listen to what the experts have to say. Whoever wins door County on election day probably wins the state of Wisconsin. Yet again, you say whoever wins door County likely wins Wisconsin. You also just said whoever wins Wisconsin likely wins the national election.

Not an exaggeration. Well, historically the case, whoever wins in Door County is probably the next president of the United States. All right. Can we get a call from somebody in Door County, Wisconsin as technically we must have at least one listener there. Any power listeners, any rushes there in Door County?

I hate to say it. Can we go back to the popular vote for F sake or not go back to it? Can we go to the popular vote? What are we doing where one county is like the deciding vote and a whole, okay, I get it. You know, you want representation. Everyone wants to have a voice, but it's like, come on already. Uh, I cannot wait for this thing to be over.

And speaking of things that are over, ladies and gentlemen, we say goodbye to the fabulous, although kind of dingy Kmart over the weekend. You may have heard the last full size Kmart superstar. Closed forever. Goodbye, blue light specials. Hello, empty parking lots. Hello, that sad outline of the giant red K that used to hang on buildings all over America.

There used to be more than 2, 000 K marts in America. Used to be, but what I mean, look, you can't compete with the internet. I'm sorry. I wish we lived in a world where we went, we, we went back to brick and mortars because you know, the internet, you know, like I had to buy Q tips the other day. I bought like a 750 pack, um, on Amazon.

There were 4. Then I was walking through Walgreens and there were 7 and 15 cents. What you cannot compete with the internet. Now, what, what if Amazon, like it's not going away, right. They need to find a way to be more environmentally, you know, savvy. They need to find a way to be more green with their packaging.

They need to find a way to pay their employees a livable wage. If they can do all that, I understand the autumn, the automation that like, you can't beat that. You can't beat that. Like a brick and mortar has to, Pay for its air conditioning and its employees that are effing around and all of this products that aren't selling and you just can't beat the, um, you can't beat the, uh, business model that Amazon has.

We just need to find a way to make it livable for everybody. So it's not just like the cheapest stuff in the world. I don't know. Just, just a thought, not trying to get political. I'll save that for after the break. All right, I've got a story of Elon Musk paying random people a million dollars, but before we get into that story, here's Kelsey Anderson talking about career moves while on Jason Tartick's Trading Secrets podcast.

I don't know. It's like with these opportunities now, Joey and I are both like wanting to embrace it. I think anybody in this situation would be happy. Totally like want to dive in and, you know, see what there is to offer and, and, you know, make the most of it. I think that we're really lucky because of like the support we have and all the people that, you know, love us, that we're able to do these things and, um, make like good money.

So I think that we're trying to focus on maybe building something else, building to something else, um, whether that's a business, whether that's a coffee shop, something that, you know, even when all this fades, like we can still have like a consistent, you know, stream of income with something else. Sure.

Sure. Um, but yeah, I don't know. I, I'm, I paused school for a second. I'm back in it now. Um, but still trying to get, you know, my degree in project management. Um, it just things were so crazy for a second. I had to pause and I, I like went to part time with my job and I had to quit because I, you can't juggle all this.

It's, it's a lot. And I think people don't realize, um, like the behind the scenes of a lot of this stuff. Now we'll cover this more on tomorrow's YouTube, but I, I, I don't, and I don't get this too much from Kelsey, but a lot of alumni are very apologetic when they talk about why they quit their job and why they're doing whatever.

It's like, look, you got a great opportunity. You got all this equity. You have a much bigger platform. Do with it what you want, you know, promote shampoo products and travel the world. Who the hell cares? There is, you don't owe it to anybody to explain like, If you've diverted your plans, I know everyone's asking Jen Drain, are you going to go back to PA school?

Yeah, who cares? You know what I mean? Uh, do whatever the hell you want. And I'll tell you what, Elon Musk is doing whatever the hell he wants. He actually is offering a million dollars to random people to, I guess, go vote. And people are saying, ah, I don't think you're allowed to do this. Have a listen.

We're going to be awarding a million dollars to randomly, to people who have signed the petition. Every day, from now until the election. You are a former attorney general? So now they're speaking to, uh, the governor of Pennsylvania, Governor Shapiro. Is this legal? I think there are real questions with how he is spending money.

Uh, in this race, how the dark money is flowing, uh, not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians. Now, look, I agree. I don't know what, what people had to sign the petition for and what's the contingency for the million dollars, because if it's not, you know, if you can still vote for whoever you want to vote for, it's like, all right, do whatever the hell you want.

My issue is more so that he. Literally bought a platform, a large one, said he wasn't gonna get into politics and then expressly got into voting, you know, pushing one side. Now look, I'm allowed to have an opinion. I don't own a platform. But when you own a platform, there's a responsibility to that. And that's kind of like, you know, newspapers, they do have a bias that, you know, biases exist, sure.

But just outward say, outwardly saying, this is why you should vote in this direction. I think that's dangerous. That is deeply concerning. Look, Musk obviously has a right to be able to express his views. He's made it very, very clear that he supports Donald Trump. I don't, obviously we have a difference of opinion.

Uh, I, I don't deny him that right. But when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think it raises serious questions. Yeah. I mean, but for all, by all means, you got to at least look into it. Here's what, uh, excuse me. Here's what, uh, Gavin Newsom, governor of California had to say. I've known Elon for over 20, 25 years, one of America's great entrepreneurs and innovators, but this is not the person I knew even two years ago.

And I, with respect to Elon, um, I just don't have the confidence that there's other things that he's not up to, uh, behind the scenes, not just again, what he's expressing quite publicly. And I'm very concerned about a country where people like Elon Musk, others that are sucking up to Donald Trump. Uh, that will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations, undoubtedly get massive, even larger, uh, federal contracts.

I mean, it is an American oligarchy that can, uh, be formed here. It's again, very, very serious. I hope people are paying attention, seeing this from Elon Musk breaks my heart a little bit again, as someone that really admires. Uh, his entrepreneurial and innovative tendencies. I mean, look, I have a Tesla, like I, I think he's, like, what he is done with rockets in Tesla and like in so many different ways is really genius.

But Ima imagine, you know, somebody who's not even from the United States, he's from South Africa. Imagine someone coming in here. Kind of taking advantage of all the opportunities to innovate here. And then like, like Gavin Newsom says, I mean, right now, like I got a tax incentive, I got a 7, 500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle because Tesla lived up to all of the requirements, you know, uh, you know, as far as how they mine for their lithium and all of the environmental requirements, if those go away, I mean, it's, it's, it's ugly out there.

So yeah, you can understand like, what's, why somebody so Interested in the outcome of this race. Now, again, Mark Cuban, also a billionaire, he had a take on Elon Musk. Here's what he had to say. Let's talk about Elon Musk. Uh, he's been critical of you. You've been critical of him. What do you make in particular of, uh, this weekend's, uh, new effort to get people to the polls that he is using a million dollars a day?

He's, uh, offering up, uh, for those who effectively sign his petition and register to vote. I mean, it's innovative and it's desperate. You know, you only do that because you think you have to, but you know, using a sweepstakes is not a bad idea. Um, whether or not it'll work is a whole nother thing. It just as easily could backfire, but you don't know until you try.

Do you think it's legal? I mean, I actually looked into it. I initially thought it might not have been, but as a sweepstakes, it looks like it may be. But from a FEC perspective, I have no idea. All right. Well, I think that gives you a fair perspective of whether it's legal or not, you know, it's funny from the standpoint of politics, I've gotten shit from the left for owning a Tesla.

And I, I personally, just because Elon's like a, a bigger than life figure is like, who, who, who's the CEO of. Ford. Who's a Toyota? What are they doing? You know, that's so great. So I don't, I don't know the answers to that, but I don't put like my sort of putting my money into electric cars. I don't really put that on Elon.

He makes a better car than all the other electric cars. They don't have the infrastructure to charge across the country. That's just point blank. How it is right now. They're getting there. They will, but he built something that was good. And I'm, I don't, I don't hold that against him when it comes to like wondering, well, I have different political thoughts, so I'm not going to support it by everyone vote with your dollar, do whatever the hell you want.

But I think it just goes to show, like, I try to be a free thinker. I try to do what's right for me, for my family. And I can also share my opinion and you guys can listen to that. You can agree or disagree. Isn't that a fantastic world we live in? We absolutely love that. Well, We're a little long today, but I wanted to get to this story.

We'll catch you back 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. 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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