10-21-24 Morning Rush - Bachelor Joey Shares Dancing Strategy On 'Scrubbing In Podcast' & A Couple NFL Comeback Stories & Trump's McDonald's Gig!

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you out there. It's October 21st. 2024, and we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

And on today's Monday morning rush, we've got bachelor Joey discussing intimacy with his dance partner, how they tackled the topic with his fiance, plus some Monday morning quarterbacking a story of a kicker plucked from obscurity in capitalizing on a second chance at success. And Deshaun Watson snapped his Achilles ruptured in a gruesome non contact injury.

We'll discuss why some fans. We're booing him after that happened. Plus Vanderpump bad boy, Tom Sandoval is moving in with his new girlfriend. And did we discover possible life on Mars? I bet you want to know. We got all those stories and more coming up next on the rash. You know, one thing I like to relate to you guys out there is whenever I see a good project, be it a movie or TV show online, I need to let you guys know.

And I found Anatomy of Lies to be absolutely wild. It's about a woman who faked cancer. And it sounds like a plot line on Grey's Anatomy, but it's actually because it was a writer on Grey's Anatomy. It's the wild true story of a TV writer who not just faked cancer, she sort of adopted or co opted a lot of people's tragedies as her own.

She said, She was there with her friend during a tragic, um, uh, mass shooting, which actually she wasn't there and it wasn't even her friend. All these stories were exposed. It's an absolutely wild documentary on Peacock and, uh, of course it's similar in scope to the Laura Owens, uh, fiasco surrounding Clayton Eckerd.

The only difference is in this film. Docu series, Anatomy of Lies. There's really no evidence of her lying, like they catch her in a lie, but that's just it. As opposed to the Laura Owen scandal, where there's fake ultrasounds, fake HCG, you know, fake ovarian cancer emails, I mean, the whole thing's bananas.

So, it's very interesting, but, I mean, It really goes to show, as far as proof of concept goes, that there is a thirst for people to see chaos. Really, people just like to expose grifters and expose liars. I think that's, I think that's kind of like, uh, just what we like in society. It makes us feel, you know, I mean, you know, because if I think most of us live in a general Contract, a universal contract where we try to tell the truth and be the best we can.

And when people, uh, when people violate that we want, we want to call them out on it. Right. I kind of feel like that's why it's so popular. And speaking of popular Deadpool and Wolverine surpasses Barbie as 12th biggest film in domestic box office history. I got to be honest when Barbie came out, it was kind of like a cultural phenomenon.

I haven't heard. anything about Deadpool and Wolverine. I I'm shocked it's this big. Marvel's Deadpool and Wolverine added another 679, 000 as Disney brought the film back to 1500 theaters over the weekend, boosting its North American total to 636 million. Those ticket sales were enough to ever so slightly surpass Barbie as the 12th highest grossing release ever.

ever at the domestic box office. All right. Well, I guess it means the nerds like to spend money. And you know, what, what can you do good for them? Uh, I tell you what, uh, I teased it in the opening, but, uh, it looks like they may have found signs of life on Mars. Let's have a listen. Mars rover Perseverance may have just found the first real evidence of life on the red planet.

Since February 2021, the rover has been rolling around an ancient Mars river delta looking for hints of microbial life. And just last month, it found an unusual veined boulder that put astrobiologists on the edge of their seats. The 1m by 60cm rock seems to contain carbon based organic material. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Lori Leshin said it's the kind of discovery you hope for, where mind bending observations make your heart beat just a little faster.

In a statement, NASA revealed the rock found exhibits chemical signatures and structures that could possibly have been formed by life billions of years ago, when the area being explored by the rover contained running water. Alright, so it's billion year old microbes. That's all it is, folks. What did you expect?

There'd be a guy playing Xbox on Mars or something? I don't know. I mean, hey, it's something, right? I don't know. I kind of want something a little more interesting. Well, we got, we got some interesting stories coming out of the NFL. And no, not my New England Patriots. They are terrible. Just god awful. I quit on the season.

Uh, but here we have the story of that wide receiver that was shot and he finally, uh, might make his first catch. Now to a homecoming of sorts for San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, 50 days after being shot in the chest during an attempted armed robbery. This week the rookie has been seen practicing with the team and tonight he's on the field ready to make his debut.

Here's ABC's Melissa Dawn. Tonight, just seven weeks after a dramatic shooting in downtown San Francisco that left 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall fighting for his life. Miraculously, he's back on the field moments ago, back on the field, making his exit. NFL debut against the Kansas City Chiefs fans erupting before the game as the 24-year-old took the field for warmups.

I mean, it was an absolute wild story. The video of him actually getting shot showed him walking to the ambulance. That's wild. I think the bullet went right through him. They missed all vital organs. Well, we can report that last night at the game that the Kansas City Chiefs won. Ricky Piersall makes his first NFL catch.

Unbelievable stuff. 50 days after getting shot in the chest, there it is.

And that's the crowd there cheering him on. So congratulations. Look, we love stories of perseverance. We love stories where people overcome all obstacles to find success. And we have another one of those coming out of the NFL, that being a Detroit Lions kicker. He actually explains how he thought his.

Sort of, uh, you know, uh, his dreams of being a kicker had ended after getting cut last year, but I'm going to play for you guys a little bit of the montage of the come up of this young kicker. And it'll set the stage for Jake Bates, who was a soccer player at Central Arkansas and then became a kickoff specialist at Texas State and Arkansas, was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Houston Texans last year, released her in the preseason and then made his name in the UFL with those.

Booming 60 yard kicks hit three of them including a game winning 64 yarder At Ford Field against the St. Louis battle hawks to that point He had only attempted and missed one kick in an organized game. That was all the way back in high school Incredible story He went 21 of 28 in the ufl earned a two year deal after michael badgeley tore his hamstring In july, he's hit a game time 32 yarder against the Rams late in the fourth quarter.

He is nine for nine. So at this point, he's nine for nine. He had never played in college. He was a soccer player. He had only attempted one kick in high school, and now his Detroit Lions are down 28 to 29, fourth and 14, 19 seconds left in the game. Can you believe this? This guy comes plucked out of obscurity.

in his NFL career, but this one, the most weighty kick of his life.

For the lead! I am love. Bates has delivered! Alright, so, the Football goes through the upright and he wins the game. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a heroic story. The guy with an, a great powerful leg who just played soccer and now all of a sudden he's back in the pros. It's absolutely amazing. 18 months ago, he said he thought he was done with football.

He was working as a brick salesman. Here's what he had to say after the game. I thought I was done with football. I was working as a brick salesman in Houston. I thought that I thought the dream was dead. It also makes me look back and think of how good the Lord's been in my life and the doors he's opened and closed for me to lead me here and to lead me in such a great situation with this coaching staff and this front office and these teammates, um, you know, it's definitely something that's like, I couldn't even have dreamt of this.

Like this moment is so cool. I'm, you know, I'm taking it in stride and I'm having fun with it. He said he couldn't even have dreamt of this moment. So how exciting. Listen, I mean, this is why we love the NFL or any sport really, because we get to see people overcome all odds. This is a guy I've never heard of in my life.

And then we get to hear a story where, you know, I guess, uh, it was just faith, faith in himself. That, uh, you know, if given the chance he could capitalize on it and so far he's perfect out there. Wild stuff. All right. How's that for some Monday motivation? I got a lot of content to get to. So stick around.

We'll be back with more right after this. Bachelor. Joey was on the scrubbing in podcast, uh, which of course is a former bachelor contestant, uh, Becca Tilly show. And he discussed sort of the, I guess. I'm called. I'm like, to make sure that my partner, Kelsey Anderson, doesn't feel left out now that he's dancing with his dancing partner.

And you know, these dances have quite a bit of intimacy, any strong relationship can get over them. But you know, a lot of these relationships are, you know, very fresh off the boat as it were. Here's what he had to say. I have personally. would have a really hard time watching my girlfriend be in this environment.

And it's so intimate and you're like with this person and you're doing these sexy dances. We're kind of desensitized as dancers to it because this is just our work and we do this year after year with somebody and our end goal is to make the best dance possible. There's no other motive. Beginning at the season of the season with Joey, I kind of said to him like the more open We can be and involve Kelsey and make her feel part of it.

So there's nothing like hidden. Right. I think the better. And I'll be the first to admit that I'm still figuring it out. Because I'm trying my best to be open, to share everything like she said. But it still is hard that I'm not able to be with Kelsey as much as I would like to because it's such a time restriction that we're putting in.

I think the hardest part about this truthfully is ignoring the outside. Um, It's just social media has turned into its own beast nowadays and it doesn't take anything other than one person to have a strong opinion and that can go viral and that feels like it's everyone's opinion but it's not. We have to be confident in what we're doing, we have to be confident in what we are doing, and then we have to let the outside be noise because we know what we're doing.

And that's not easy to do, but we're trying our best and just each week trying to get more confidence in it because we feel great where we're at and I know I'm great where I'm at with Kelsey too. Yeah. There it is. I mean, strong answer, but of course it's really, you know, Kelsey, who's got to feel that as well.

It sounds, it sounds so, I don't know, trivial to, to, to discuss like, what do you mean she wouldn't be happy for him, but it's going to be very challenging because I mean, you know, I, I don't want to trivialize it and say, Oh, it's just someone bumping and grinding with another partner, but there is a lot of time spent with another woman.

So you got to understand even, even someone, a confident person still Probably could use a good amount of reassuring as it were. Um, and you know, Joey speaks about how toxic social media can be. I just saw an article that jelly roll, uh, said he, he went back on Twitter X and he was like, Oh my gosh, it's so bad.

It's so bad out there, folks. Oh my gosh. Why are we torturing ourselves the way we are? Well, pod save America actually discussed how a tick tock executive explained why tick tock is so addictive. One unnamed TikTok executive put it in stark terms, saying the reason kids watch TikTok is because the power of the app's algorithm keeps them from, quote, sleep and eating and moving around the room and looking at someone in the eyes.

Yes! Yes! How do you as a TikTok executive write that sentence down and then say I'm doing a great job at work. I'm really, I'm really benefiting humanity. Documents also show that they went so far as to tweak the algorithm to reduce the visibility of people it deemed not very attractive, and quote, took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their young users.

Oh. I didn't even know you could do that with an algorithm. Sure, they can do whatever they want. This like radicalized me. Really? Even more against TikTok. How so? Just thinking about my kids. Yeah. And I'm just like, I don't, I don't want them to have the phone and to have this on the phone and like, you're just going to lose them.

Is it more knowing the danger from the platform or is it knowing that TikTok knows that it's dangerous for them? It's that. And it's, well, that just makes me mad. That's right. The, the idea of it makes me scared. The idea of them having it makes me scared. Right. This makes me mad. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, imagine if you, you don't want to give your kid a cell phone or TikTok or whatever, but all of their friends have it.

It's just scary out there. Now, to be quite honest, and we'll have to see how this goes, but, you know, I got a five month old son. I think this issue will be resolved by the time his generation gets a cell phone, whether it be somewhere between the age of 10 and 16. I think we're going to be able to resolve this issue because I think it's such a big issue that we're finally just starting to look at it.

As, as a problem, you know, it's almost like if we all just found brownies and thought brownies were so good. And after five years of eating brownies, our teeth start to fall out and we're like, maybe we should tone it down on the brownies. Well, that's what Tik TOK is. We should tone it down. And look, I mean, I use Tik TOK as one of my primary ways to source content for you guys.

The algorithm is so dang good. It knows exactly what the viral content is. Uh, but you just, you know, you, I guess you have to be able to cope with how am I going to use this and know if I've taken things too far. We've all done it, where we wake up in the morning and get online or if we go to, you know, I'm supposed to go to bed at midnight, next thing you know it's 1.

30 in the morning and I'm doom scrolling. What are we doing out there? I'll be the first to say, I don't think podcasting is as bad because in the podcast world, you're like listening to somebody. It's, it doesn't have that same reward dopamine dump that scrolling does. That seems to be the big problem.

It's not like if you were just watching TV all day, it's, it's actually way worse than that. Anyhow, um, I'm going to get off my high horse here. I think I've approved my point. I'm grumpy towards TikTok, uh, but also please like help me go viral. Uh, well, uh, we have a new job out there for president or former president Trump.

Uh, he's. I guess spent the weekend working at McDonald's. Now they shut the McDonald's down, whether it was for safety reasons or whatnot. So he wasn't actually working for real customers. I guess they had a bunch of supporters doing drive through runs and he was whipping, uh, whipping, uh, French fries at him.

But Hey, nonetheless, it's a, it's a dirty job. And, uh, listen, I can say that. As a fact, I actually worked at McDonald's only for a few hours, but I worked at a live McDonald's in New England once back in the day, I did advertising for McDonald's and we had to go there just to learn the ropes. And I have to say, you leave there with your shoes sliding around, you know, there's a lot of grease.

I feel like you're just covered in canola oil when it's all said and done. But, uh, here he is the former president, uh, I guess working the friolator. That's former president Trump in battleground, Pennsylvania at a McDonald's learning from a. Fry guy, the secret to making McDonald's legendary French fries.

Let's listen in. Yeah. I think each location is a little different.

All right. So there he is working the fry later. And I got to say, look, I'm not saying it's a low intelligence job working at McDonald's. I think every job you do, whether it's McDonald's or building rockets, uh, comes with, uh, you know, it comes with, there's a value to working. Uh, but with that said, I think you can learn how to work the machine within five minutes.

Uh, there's a lot of multitasking and, and, and, and buttons going off and blinkers and things, but it's pretty automated, but either way, that's, that's what he spent, I guess, the weekend doing. Uh, of course, you know, Pennsylvania is a big state, uh, you know, whoever's going to win this, you know, Pennsylvania, Georgia, these, these states, I mean, every single poll out there says they are just dead set.

A 50 50 split, but, you know, and again, it might just be my, my tick tock algorithm. There's a lot of pollsters that are saying, Hey, look, the polls are saying 50 50, but people still believe it could be a bloodbath in either direction. That's how close it is out there. I don't know. Uh, wild stuff. And it was a wild weekend.

Like I said, not just McDonald's, Donald Trump has a. thing going on with Arnold Palmer. He was in the news. I guess he discussed, uh, how Arnold Palmer's, uh, an American hero, uh, below the belt as it were the GOP presidential candidate. Trump said he ad libbed something Saturday night in Pennsylvania. Here's what he said.

Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that it all due respect to women. And I love women. But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. They said, Oh my God, that's unbelievable.

I mean, what the actual flip, you know what I'm saying? Oh, what are you going to do? I think love them or hate him. There is. Truly nobody like him. That's all I can say about that. Uh, well, look, we got, you know, I've been meaning to cover this story for so long, uh, that being selling sunset. I actually have a few selling sunset stories.

Here is Chris shell on the status of whether she'll come back for season nine. If you don't remember, she said, if Nicole goes back, she won't. She gave the producers a hard ultimatum. She may be backtracking on that. Have a listen. Okay. Here's what I will say about that. And this is actually the first time I've answered this question, but I will say at the end of the day, I mean, obviously I have very strong feelings about her that I stand 10 toes down and I don't take any of that back.

By the way, what, what white girl BS is this? At the end of the day, I stand 10 toes down. It's like, what are you even saying? Believe every bit of it. However, I'm also a business woman and you can, I, I always will be to change my mind. If you add a zero, so listen, I hate her, but if you're going to pay me a ton of money to go say it to her face.

Write the check, I guess. There it is. I mean, that's economics, right? Show me the money, is what Kerschel says. Show me the money. And speaking of Selling Sunset, I've got Selling Sunset's Chelsea and her husband, uh, I guess are asking the judge to end the marriage because they can't reach a settlement. I'll have that for you next.

Yeah, pretty messy world out there for Selling Sunset. Chelsea and her estranged husband, Jeff, need the judge to legally end their marriage because they can't come to terms on their settlement. Of course, it was in this past season of Selling Sunset that, uh, I guess one of the cast members said they caught him canoodling with a different woman in their atrium of a, you know, an apartment building or whatnot.

Hey, what can you do out there, right? Uh, cheater's gonna cheat. Um, well, uh, From that failed relationship to a success story, unlike any other. Bill Belichick, 72, again, one of the most winning coaches in the world, and girlfriend Jordan Hudson, 24, yes, that's right, I said the name right, they are heading for marriage, a source claims.

He wants to be with her all the time. I mean, look, I mean, by the time she's 40, he'll most likely be dead. Do you know what I mean? In 16 years, he'll be 88. I mean, the odds of him. I mean, you guys get the point. I'm not trying to be morose here. I'm just saying their age gap is in saying in the membrane, what can you do?

The 48 year age difference between Bill and Jordan doesn't seem to bother the shocking couple. According to a source, the former New England Patriots coach has had to decide if he wants to continue his football career or put time into his romance with the cheerleader. Listen, don't go back to football, right?

You're in your seventies, make TikToks with her. Enjoy being retired. Now, now on a selfish note, I wanted him to go back to the NFL because I wanted him to get the all time winning, uh, coach, uh, you know, winning record. But it's like, dude, you're, you're dating a 24 year old that counts as a victory. I mean, it's creepy.

Sure. But it's like, you know, do what you got to do. All right. Well, I already shared a couple political stories. We are just over two weeks away. What is that? 15 days away from the election. So we are getting there and here we have Fox news. Fact checking Trump on the dogs and cats thing. Uh, it's the guys this is we live in a wild time Okay, an absolute wild time that this is a real clip from a real news station Have a listen your famous line about springfield, ohio, and I I take your point that 15 to 20 000 Legal haitian immigrants settling in that area causes a lot of friction But when you said and you know, it's gone viral, they're eating the dogs.

They're eating the cats You say you're just reporting what had been said But why not say now? Well, look, that turned out not to be true. I don't know if it's my board of, I don't know if it's true or not true. I read something eating the pets. You don't know if it's true or not true. It's been debunked by the officials.

Well, what about the goose, the geese? What? What about the goose, about the geese? What happened there? They, they were all missing. I don't, it was one Howie, two geese, howing. I have no idea. And this is me talking to my parents. This is what it is. You know, hey, they debunked it. What about the ghosts? The geese?

They're missing all the geese. There was a flock of geese. They were flying south. Now they're gone. They're stealing the geese. There's a net. They used a net. They used a net. They were supposed to be cleaning the pools. The migrants, they were supposed to be cleaning the pools. They're coming for your jobs.

And they stole the geese. They grabbed the net and they swooped up and the geese are gone. What can you do? Sir, that's been debunked. What do I know? That's what I was told. Okay, alright. This is the world we live in, folks. Those are the, these are the choices you have to make. And I say, hey, do whatever you want with these choices.

You know what I mean? It's yours, it's your choice to make out there, folks. Alright, well, boy, where do we go from here? I mean, it's a real question we have to ask. Where the hell do we go from here? I won't steal your geese. I promise you that. Uh, okay, you know what? Let's end on this interesting story, okay?

We have a Company in, I guess, Peekskill, New York. Every Election season, they make cookies with the Democrat nominee and the Republican nominee on the cookies. And now, they're getting a lot of hate for that. For every presidential election campaign since 1996, this family owned business has sold cookies featuring a photo of each candidate.

This year, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, they say the reaction is different. You're disgusting, and why are you doing this, and we're not going to come there anymore. State Senator Pete Harkin got wind of the blowback, posting this on Facebook. I know that we're divided, I know we're polarized, but cookies?

Really? Threatening a bakery is not a productive way to help your candidate. The bakery vows to continue as customers cast their ballots at the register. I got one of each. I happen to get a Donald Trump one and I got a Kamala Harris one. Well there it is folks. Yeah, I mean, we've reached peak madness. You know what I mean?

Vote with your dollar. If you don't want to eat the Kamala Harris cookie, don't eat the cookie or vice versa. Who the hell cares? It's madness out there folks. And we got 15 days to the election. I don't know what's going to happen. I really, really do. I mean, I'm telling you, I don't know. My guess. Can I, can I, can I make a guess?

And I'm not encouraging this whatsoever. Please. I'm not encouraging this. I think there's going to be violence. I truly do, and I'm not trying to wish that into, into, uh, into being. I, I think there will be some sort of militia coup. I don't think it'll be big, but I think, I mean, look, we already have, I live in Tennessee now.

In Eastern Tennessee, there was a militia that surrounded who they thought were FEMA workers. If they're willing to surround FEMA workers, imagine if one gun shot goes off, it's a blood bath out there. I don't condone this at all, but I'm telling you right now. I hate to say it, but I, I feel like I'm gonna be glued to the TV.

And I just, I honestly, I just really hope that's not the case and I, I think we have 15 days and I'm going to use my platform and I hope everyone else uses theirs that we, we stay, we, we stay clear, level headed and just, you know, know what our realities are. I mean, I don't even know what else to say, but, um, it's going to be a very, very interesting, uh, Next month.

That's all I can say about that. We got a lot of content to get you today. I didn't get to half my stories. We're rambling too much. So we got you to work. That was the goal. And we'll catch you on the way home. 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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