10-22-24 Afternoon Rush - Taylor Swift Cruise Sets Sail & Kristin Cavallari Issues Comments On Ex Jay Cutler's DUI & Golden Bachelorette Dodges Questions About Passionate Kiss

 Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey everybody, welcome to the Afternoon Rush. Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024. I got all your pop culture entertainment news in one place. Starts on a sad note.

A legendary Baywatch cast member has passed away due to Parkinson's disease. Plus, Pam Anderson explains the joy of going makeup free as she was interviewed by Drew Barrymore, who also was makeup free. And we've got the star of Malcolm in the Middle becoming a NASCAR driver. Full time Abercrombie and Fitch.

Ex CEO is facing Diddy like charges. Pretty, uh, bad omen for him. And Kristen Cavallari comments on her ex Jay Cutler's DUI arrest. Plus the Swifties invade a cruise ship. Nothing but friendship bracelets and buffets. All these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, we've got a quick update on the DUI arrest from Jay Cutler, former Quarterback and also partner to Kristen Cavallari.

She offers a quick statement on her podcast, wishing him nothing but the best. Here's what she had to say. Really quickly, just before we get into the episode, I wanted to hop on here and just let you guys know that this episode was recorded right before a very public incident happened last week with my ex husband.

So just keep that in mind as you're listening. I will not be commenting. On what happened, I do, of course, wish Jay nothing but the best, and I do hope that he gets the help that he needs. But that's the only thing I will be saying about it publicly. There is your, I'm commenting to tell you I'm not commenting, comment, hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.

Uh, so, in other sports news, Paul George says he wants the media out of the locker rooms. You guys might remember, uh, presidential candidate and former president Trump mentioned Arnold Palmer's, uh, Package size, uh, and I guess there's an issue with reporters, uh, checking out the different players. You know, they gotta interview these players, but the players have to shower and get on with their day.

And, um, you know, you can imagine these jocks and, you know, it's the only world where reporters and athletes mix, right? You got the jocks and the people that, I guess, report on the jocks. And, uh, anyway, here's what Paul George had to say. Moving on, P, I'm unsure if you see this. But the NFL PA is actively calling for media members to be removed from the locker room and for practice interviews to be conducted elsewhere.

And the PA released this statement. And I quote, players feel that the locker room interviews invade their privacy and are uncomfortable. This isn't about limiting media access, but about respecting players, privacy and dignity. What do you think about that? Um, I didn't see that, but I agree. So P other players timed in with some very, very interesting tweets.

And, uh, one former wide receiver, Tori Smith tweeted. And I quote, Pause if only y'all knew how awkward some of the male reporters act. Straight meat watchers. I mean, it's one of those things, it's like, can you blame them? You know, you're, you know, uh, a lot of athletes are the peak of athletic prowess. Like, are you telling me, let's be quite honest, if I am in the urinal next to Tom Brady.

Are you telling me I'm not gonna, I don't know, see, see what's going on, you know what I mean? Does he wear the, uh, no Tom, no Tom, I was only seeing if you had your Super Bowl rings on, that's all it was. I was, I was checking out your Rolex. Tom's like, I'm not wearing a watch. Well, now I know that, I didn't know before, I had to go look.

Alright, no, but seriously, like, uh, yeah, there should be a little bit more respect there. You'd think that the Players Association could, uh, maybe create a, place to be interviewed when they're not, uh, you know, say, uh, putting a little gold bond powder on the old balls. You know what I mean? All right. In other weird news, Abercrombie and Fitch ex CEO is facing Diddy esque charges.

That's according to TMZ. Prostitutes and sex trafficking. Ex CEO is mirroring the lifestyle Diddy allegedly lived, at least according to the feds. Who've now secured an indictment against Michael Jeffries for very similar crimes. The grand jury hit Jeffries, who was Abercrombie's CEO from 92 to 2014, with 15 counts of interstate prostitution and one count of sex trafficking.

The indictment includes Jeffries BF Matthew Smith and James Jacobson, who allegedly recruited men for sex events and made them have sex with him in tryouts. Okay, that's Messed up. Now look, as far as sex workers are concerned, I think we should live in a world where everything's regulated. I think that would provide a lot more safety.

Like, so much is done behind the closed doors, and that's where a lot of abuse happens. Now, obviously, this would be done behind closed doors either way, but I just think, um, by criminalizing the act, the consensual act at the very least, you're making it hard to monitor, you know, to make sure everyone's on the same page.

Uh, but again What's illegal is illegal, uh, as far as maybe the semantics of Sex trafficking is it because they cross state lines or like what's the deal with that? I'm not really sure but clearly, clearly, um, If he's doing something and people are doing something that they're not comfortable with against their wishes, of course, You would think that they would come down with a heavy, uh, heavy indictment.

Speaking of which, we don't have any public updates in the Batchelor Clayton Eckerd vs. Laura Owens scandal. We know that she's, you know, working on an appeal that will probably be presented, I don't know, sometime in December. And then Clayton's side will have a chance, I guess, to look at it. And I don't really know how that all works.

But, we also know that the investigators for the county prosecutors are also looking into her case. And we really don't know what's going to happen, uh, as far as will she be indicted? How often do they put investigators on somebody and not indict them? We just don't know, but we know that the, the feds, you know, when they do indict someone, it's because they had, they're at a very high probability of winning or at the very least, uh, getting a plea agreement.

Now, what kind of plea would she make? Would she ever admit to what she's doing or would she, uh, not admit to it and then have to go to trial? It's one thing. No, God bless. Clayton's attorney, Greg Woodnick, you know, but it's one thing to use whatever funds and resources that we have here as private citizens.

And it's another to use taxpayer funded money. Let me tell you something. The federal government can, they can pull any file they want. I mean, they can do anything in their resources to To go after somebody and that's apparently what's going on. I mean, I don't think it's lip service, put it that way. I don't think it's lip service that Rachel Mitchell, the County prosecutor says they're investigating this.

I think, I think they, if there's any County in the country that wants to make an example out of somebody, it might be Rachel Mitchell. She seems to be somebody you don't want to mess with. And I guess. In a turn of fate for Clayton and Mike and Greg and maybe Matt and maybe Sean for all these other men that are out there, it may be that the one piece of luck that they have is that their county prosecutor is a bad person.

Mofo, who's coming after people and coming after them hard because they've always said perjury is illegal. And then when you pretty much have evidence that someone's changing their story on the witness stand and having contradictory things that they say in an affidavit and flat out lying about not faking cancers and this and that, you go, well, if this isn't a case where we hold people accountable.

Then what is in it? Like I said before, in the world of artificial intelligence, in that world, that's coming out, people will be able to make their own realities. And if we don't do a better job as a country, holding people accountable when they're not telling the truth, then I don't know. Uh, I don't know what direction we're all going to go in to be quite frank.

All right. Well, in speaking of retribution. Uh, Cardi B is slamming a CPS prank caller for reporting her kids in danger. This is so sad. As we know, there's been accusations in other cases we've covered where people have used CPS as a way to target others. I have personally alerted the sheriffs in my county that I am a target for things like this.

Uh, just in, in the off chance that anyone would do something like that. I would use my power to do that. You know, really make sure that any prank callers, if they ever did that, or swatted me or things like that would be held accountable. Like I'm not somebody to be messed with. I'm just putting that out there right now.

I would spend money and resources to make sure somebody paid for, you know, any reckless abuse of the system. Calling CPS should be a good thing. You should be able to call a CPS if you see somebody mistreating their kids, but when it's used as a prank, that is just wrong. Here's what Cardi B had to say. A little fucking prank call.

What is a CPS? Child Protective Services. Services for Child Protective Services to come to my fucking house, not my house, my gated mansion at 11 p. m. while my children are sleeping because there's an anonymous call that there's been going on. That my kids have been getting abused and beaten. So she actually went on Instagram live from the hospital bed.

So she wasn't even home. She was in the hospital under the weather. And of course, you know, as a protective mother, she she's irate. She shared her frustration that. Um, they showed up, you know, she's got three kids and accusations that are being made. And it's like, look, what's CPS supposed to do? They're supposed to follow leads.

I just think, you know, you got to be careful. I mean, there was that documentary about that kid in Florida who essentially CPS or whatever the protective service agency was, took the kids from the mom. The mom ended up killing her. So it was a wild story that exists out there. And you just, you know, that's why when you're, when you're people like Cardi B and I hate to relate myself to her, but when you're somebody.

Who can have the system used against you. I mean, look, we've seen swatting situations where people get shot and killed because someone else swatted them. And I've had the FBI called on me in all these cases. So I'm just here to say, I'm not messing around with this type of stuff. I'm not messing around whatsoever.

Any amount of resources used. In the wrong direction need to be pursued and those people like I, I know a lot of these are anonymous phone calls, but I hope they can track down who did that and say, look, if you didn't have any credible evidence that she was committing a crime, like you need to, you need to be held accountable.

That's what it's all about. Really? Right? It's accountability. All right. Well, we got Taylor Swift updates and we'll get to those right after a quick word from our sponsor. All right, I've got a few Baywatch stories. The first one, kind of sad. Baywatch star Michael Newman, dead at 68. This is the guy who was like sort of balding.

He was in great shape. Turns out he was like a real life, um, uh, competitive athlete and lifeguard. He competed in like the lifeguard global competition and won a bunch of awards and then he was, uh, if you remember my interview with the director Matthew Felker of the latest Baywatch documentary. We interviewed him a few weeks ago.

Uh, he said Michael Newman was supposed to be like, uh, sort of, uh, the expert on set, but they cast him. Known for his role as lifeguard Mike Newmy Newman on Baywatch. So he played himself. He died from heart complications Sunday night, surrounded by family and friends. With the tragic news confirmed Tuesday by his friend Matt Felker, who helmed Hulu's recent Baywatch documentary.

Matt told People, I got to see Mike the last time he was conscious, and he looked at me and in typical Mike fashion said, You're just in time. Felker posted a lengthy tribute to Michael on his Instagram. He was a staple on the iconic 90s California beach show, appearing in 150 episodes. He was the only cast member who was a real life lifeguard.

He also worked as a firefighter, juggling both jobs while starring on the show. After Baywatch wrapped up in 2001, he went back to firefighting full time until his retirement. So, sounds like a great guy. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age 50. And his journey was highlighted in Felker's After Baywatch moment in The Sun.

Yeah, you can go watch that documentary on Hulu. It's out now. Baywatch News, the one notable person who wasn't in that documentary, was Pam Anderson. Well, she's making sort of, sort of a resurgence out there in the, in the world where she's now going makeup free. Now, you might say, Dave, why the hell is this a story?

But it is. It's a bold statement, uh, as you age to say, you know what? I'm just going to show you Who I am now doesn't mean she hasn't had work done like a lot of people have not no judgment there But she actually was able to be interviewed by drew barrymore drew barrymore took out her own Extensions and went makeup free and they had a great chat doing this for a couple years now I really think you own this space I think you're the pioneer of What we're certainly doing here today, it's a big honor of, I think, your choices.

Now, what a wild world where you have to have a, you know, applause break for not wearing makeup. But, you know, I get it. I get it. You know, because look, whether it's You know, uh, look, Tom Brady, right? He, he wears makeup when he goes on to be, when he's a news reporter, men, women that you go in the makeup chair before you're on live TV.

Now, do I wear makeup on the recap here or the podcast? No, I just wear pantyhose, but that's not for any aesthetic reason. It just, it, it, it makes me feel like I'm my best version of myself when I do this podcast.

And I feel free. I mean, it's taken a while to, I've had my little journey with it, but I'm just like, yeah. We all are our own worst critics. When did you really start, like, embracing it? Like, really feeling comfortable with it? Well, it was at Paris Fashion Week, and I decided I was just going to a fashion show.

I didn't need to compete with anybody. Like, why am I wasting three hours in a makeup chair when I have these beautiful Vivienne Westwood clothes on? And, like, I didn't realize anyone would even notice. So then, then when people started coming up to me and talking about it, I thought, well, this is a great idea.

You know, this is to really peel it back and find out who I was again. I wanted to remember who I was. I found I played characters my whole life. I always wanted to be, you know, I was painfully shy. And, um, doing, even doing Playboy, for instance, was a huge leap of faith for me. It just, you know, I was physically sick doing it, but I didn't want to be shy anymore.

And then I became, you know, I just thought, Oh, this is what my fantasy of what a model is, or a playmate is, or a rock star wife is, or what anything is. I'm going to do it the best. And I've been playing these characters along the way, and it just hit me a couple years ago, and I was like, You know, just shaking my head going, who am I?

You know, and that's when I went home into my garden and started, you know, planting things and getting into nature and going back to the trees that knew me since birth. I bought my grandmother's property and renovated it and I just started taking it all back and then started peeking out without makeup.

And then I started realizing. Oh, I feel great You know, this is great. I I love that. She she tried to not wear makeup as sort of, you know Not wanting to play the whole game and then hollywood almost picked up on that because it was a little counter Uh counter to what you see in culture. It's just natural to see everyone in a full face of makeup, even though It's not realistic to people at home, you know, so what a fun story.

And, uh, you know, I love that. She said she found the trees that knew her from birth. I mean, how poetic of her, very happy for her. Well, Taylor Swift, always in the news, Swifties start their cruise era. Maiden voyage sets sail. Taylor fans are hitting the high seas. A cruise full of Swifties just set sail in their.

Celebrating Taylor all the way from Florida to the Bahamas. The Taylor themed cruise embarked Monday from the port of Miami. Team Z has photos of what it's like on board, plus we got our hands on the itinerary. Yeah, I bet you if you're a guy on this cruise, you're cleaning up. I mean, it's probably 99 percent women and there's just a couple single guys being like, Well, this is pretty nice, you know.

Hey, I look like Travis Kelce, you know. Well, it's a role play. The sailing Swifties are calling themselves the In My Cruise Era. The Taylor fans call it that. cruise group. Some of the planned events include friendship, bracelet swapping, Taylor trivia, dance parties, karaoke, and a ship wide scavenger hunt, a door decorating contest in nightly era outfit themes.

What they don't say is the whole ship's going to get diarrhea because that's what happens on a cruise ship, you know, 24 hour buffet, uh, meet with, uh, you know, a viral disease. And, uh, it can be a rough one on the boat in no time, but we're hoping the best for them. Well, Bill Maher is no stranger to lawsuits.

Uh, he got sued a few years ago because I think he made a joke about Trump, uh, not being born. He made a joke saying he thought Trump needs to show his birth certificate to prove that he wasn't born from an orangutan, whatever the joke was, it was a joke, but he got sued over it. I think it's settled. Well, now he's slapped with a defamation lawsuit for saying Trump banged Laura Loomer.

Bill Maher just got dinged by one of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters. He's being. sued for a whopping 150 million by Laura Loomer for saying on national TV that she slept with the 45th president. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ, Loomer named Marr and HBO as defendants in her suit. Phil filed in Sumter County, Florida, claiming that the real time with Bill Marr host besmirched her good name on his HBO show.

Oh, you never want to besmirch somebody's good name. You know, that is not something you want to do. Here's what. uh, caused this very expensive lawsuit. My question, because she said, Laura Loomer said Taylor Swift, she believes is in an arranged relationship with Travis Kelsey to influence the 2024 election.

I think maybe Laura Loomer's in an arranged relationship to affect the election because she's very close to Trump. She's 31. Looks like his type. Uh, We did an editorial here a few years ago. Who? Um, you're remembering it already. It was basically, Who's Trump fucking? Because I said, you know, It's not nobody.

He's been a dog for too long. And it's not Melania. I think we may have our answer this week. I think it might be Laura Loomer. I'm just saying. Now, I'm no lawyer, but somebody speculating, I think he's banging her. I don't know about that. I'd love to know what other lawyers have to say. My initial thought in the little I know about defamation is that Bill Maher would have to make a claim saying, he did this with her.

And then, you know, and then she would have to prove that he knows that's not true. This will get thrown out if you ask me. Um, Loomer says Maher does not have a shred of evidence to prove his allegations and has no basis for making this false claim. She says Maher simply fabricated the story to get attention and notoriety while also trying to profit off his lies, along with his employer, HBO, which she says acted in concert with Bill.

A week after Maher made his controversial comments, Trump weighed in on his true social platform, calling Billy befuddled mess and his show boring among other horrible things. Loomer is asking for more than 150 million in damages. We'll just have to see what the court says So no word back from Bill Maher Interesting story.

I'll give all the updates on that, but we got a couple more stories to get to We'll round it up right after a quick word from our sponsor A Malcolm in the Middle update. Frankie Munez announces he's becoming a full time driver in the 2025 NASCAR Craftman truck series. He said, I don't want to say it's a long time coming, but this has been a dream of mine for forever.

I think that's so funny. So he's going to be driving in a truck series. I wonder how that differs from the car series. I don't want anyone to DM me and give me a Seven page. Well, this technically is this way, but, uh, cool. Good for him. That's really great. This is what you get. You know, he made a ton of money when he was younger and he can pursue other things.

He's 38 years old. Can you believe this? Malcolm and who, who feels old at that? He's 38 years old. Began racing in 2004, started his professional career in 2006. He's joining Rome brothers racing as a full time driver of the number 33 F one 50. Uh, so he said, I started with doing the open wheel route, I thought I was going to go IndyCar, kind of the Formula 1 route, but I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to try NASCAR.

I wanted to do it, I grew up watching NASCAR, I was a huge fan, but it's not something I necessarily thought that I'd ever get the opportunity to do. Well, congratulations to Frankie, we'll be following him down the road. Alright, uh, I guess we're down to like one of our final stories. Joan was, uh, interviewed by Billy Bush.

She's on tomorrow night's episode of Golden Bachelorette. Here's what she had to say about kissing and telling, or not. Some serious hot lips connection with Chalk. Yeah, I don't need to expand. I don't need to talk anymore about kissing now. My kids are going to be mortified already. I've got every dollar on this guy.

You do? I've got every dollar on this guy. Oh, so she's quickly avoiding the topic of kissing men. I mean, why? Come on, you're the golden bachelorette. You're going all in, huh? Every dollar. Chalk's a good candidate. Yeah. Tall. Yeah. Good hair. Mm hmm. Blue eyes. Mm hmm. Uh, just adores you. And, like, Midwest, nice guy, good person, little bit of a kind of cute accent, yeah, he's a really good guy.

He's a good choice. I have a lot of good guys. When he left, and he had to leave the show, you could relate. It was like deja vu. He loses his mother. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. But. How sad were you when he left? I was really sad because I had just kind of been that person in the Golden Bachelor season. And I knew that I had planned, like, had hoped to come back.

Didn't really plan it, but thought, you know, there's a, a, you know, a world that I could get everything straightened at home and then come back and this won't be over. And that literally never happened. And so even though he said to me, I'm coming back, I'm coming back, I thought, uh, you don't know what's going to happen at home.

You don't know that you're going to be able to come back. You don't know. And of course he did come back and, uh, the season's only got a couple more episodes, so we'll find out if chalk's the one, but either way, uh, we're, we're wishing her the best. Now you might remember we covered the Otani, uh, home run ball.

It was a home run ball that got him to 50 home runs and he's the first. An only player to ever get 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases and now ken golden is saying it could fetch 10 million 10 million dollars, of course, I guess this is the guy who's brokering the Uh, the the bidding of it all he's I think they were initially they were going to open the bidding at like A million and then in like do like an all in price.

Like if you pay this amount, we don't even have to do the auction. But again, his his whole job is to hype up the sale of the ball. Who's who's got the money to buy these things? Who's buying a ten million dollar home run ball? Is Otani the next Babe Ruth? You know what I mean? And some people are saying he's the best to ever play the game.

So I don't know. Maybe let's have a listen. Well, so this right now, as we sit here, with like a week left on the auction, is somewhere around 2. 1 million dollars for that baseball. If the baseball's only at 2. 5 million, I'll put in an offer, but I'm not going a buck over. The bid right now, including buyer's premium, is a hair under 2.

1 million, which makes it the second most valuable baseball of all time. And the 62nd home run ball hit by Aaron Judge, we sold, uh, two years ago. And the only baseball hire was sold all the way back in 1998. And it was Mark McGuire's 70th home run ball bought by famous comic book artists, uh, and creator, uh, Todd McFarlane, my expectation, you know, with a week to go and knowing that most of these things take off the final day is that this will end.

The auction being the most valuable baseball of all time. All right. So he's saying 10 million. We'll have to see. My guess is you buy the baseball and then you get it insured. And then it's a way to move money. You know what I mean? I kind of feel like this like art dealers. Do they really want these 50 million paintings?

There's a different way to kind of hide your money when you're super wealthy. What do I know? You got to dodge taxes one way or another. I get, I'm not doing that. I've got an accountant. Don't come after me, but I'm just saying those that do. Okie dokie. Well, I've got no balls I'm selling over here, although I will auction off.

I'll lock. My shoes right now, if anyone wants to buy them, everything's for sale in this economy. Uh, but that's going to do it for us. We'll be back in the morning. We're, we're just beginning to heat it up. We're going to end 2024 really strongly. We got a lot going on. So double check that you're subscribed.

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