10-22-24 Morning Rush - Bachelorette Star Jason Tartick (Trading Secrets Podcast) Discusses His Breakup From Kat Stickler & Breaking Down The Jersey Shore / Bachelor Nation Crossover!

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Do you feel good? You got that morning coffee flowing. Maybe you threw a couple extra packets of sugar in there. You dirty dog. Let's do it on the morning ride We've got bachelorette star jason tartik host of trading secrets podcast addressing his breakup from kat stickler Plus what's the crossover with him in the jersey shortcast i'll catch you up On that story.

Plus crazy news, a surfer dies by swordfish attack. Another reason to never go in the ocean. I'll also get an update on the astronauts stuck in space and how they will be long distance voting. Speaking of voting more info on the County in Wisconsin that may decide the election. I got all those stories and so much more coming up next on the rush.

All right. Like I said, we're jam packed today. We're going to have a lot of YouTube content, real busy Tuesday here in the end of October, preparing ourselves for a freaky Halloween, Halloween election season. Uh, it's just a full out melee is approaching us. That's all I can say. And we've got bachelorette, Jason Tartick, uh, sort of, sort of addressing his recent breakup this past week from cat stickler.

Here's what he had to say on the trading secrets podcast. Past week's been tough. Yeah, I mean, there's just no way to kind of beat around the bush. Tough week. Breakups suck. If you're in a situation where you're not feeling okay, just know that's okay. And I had a speaking engagement that I committed to months ago that I had to fulfill this week.

So powered through there. And weirdly enough, it was like, I felt like it was one of the better speeches I ever gave. And it was what I was dreading the most. Yeah, it's gotta be tough. Imagine that you break up and then you got to go speak in public. They're like, why do you have a gallon of ice cream at the podium?

It's like, don't worry about it. And why are you watching marathoning episodes of OC? Because I, this is my soft space. Okay. Me and Seth, we got to deal with this. And they're like, why are you here? He's like giving a speech about the economics of being a sort of influencer. And he's like, and never date an influencer who lives in a state you don't want to move to.

I feel like I was in a head space to do it, but if anyone's not feeling okay now, I guess some productive ideas, some that have helped me is really leaning in, you know, when you feel as though, you know, you're off balance or you're losing, you're not centered, or you're just in a state of confusion, just In your head, right?

Like everything to get grounded again, and I think leaning into the people that matter most to mom, dad, for me, brother to best friends. Um, some other things I've been doing is meditation. I mean, look, all joking aside, he offers great advice for moving on. I listen every time I've gone through a breakup, I was relatively poor.

And, and I, and I hope I don't go through a breakup. I don't anticipate that happening here. Uh, but I do have to say when I think of Jason Tartick going through a breakup, I think, wow, imagine being still pretty young, worth a lot of money and having like a lot of career opportunities. You can travel all over the world.

He can take his work anywhere he wants to go. He's essentially the boss of his career. Company. I mean, I, I know I get it. Break, break up suck, but the world is your oyster. My guy. Well, okay. I guess we'll get into this. It's It's, it's, it's a big Jason Tartick day for us. All right. There's a lot of Jason Tartick in the news.

He was on the, I guess recent season of Jersey shore. Now you're thinking, what are you talking about? They still film Jersey short. Well, they do like reunion, you know, and by the way, a fraternity brother of mine's, uh, wife, I believe actually produces, I think the Jersey store. So I should get her on the show.

Uh, but either way, There's, there's a, there's a conversation happening between members of the Jersey Shore cast talking about Jason Tartick and his ex, Kaitlin Bristow. Now I'm going to play it for you and I'll pause where it might get a little confusing.

Jason, he used to date Joey's friend. Joey is my Alright, Joey is my Joey is Snooki's, hold on. Joey is Snooki's gay bestie. Joey used to be friends with Caitlin Bristow and Jason Tartick, but there was like a falling out and here that's where they pick it up. Joey is my gay bestie. So I definitely trust his opinion I just don't want her to get hurt by this guy because I know some things that Joey said So now that's Angelica Angelica Angela Angela Angela I guess is sliding into the DMS with Jason Tartik.

Again, this is all for the TV show. Maybe this is completely made up. You know what I mean? It's like scripted reality, whatever the hell you want to call it. So I guess, and I'll break this down more on YouTube because it is quite complicated, but I guess Jason in this, the timestamps of this would have happened before he dated Kat Stickler.

So he was single, but I guess Angela had a thing going on with Jason. Maybe it was just flirty. And at the same time, Snooki was saying, Hey, my gay best friend. Has some weird things to say about him. Well, we actually have an update, believe it or not, from the gay best friend on their podcast. Because, you know, they shoot these episodes months earlier, then they realize, oh my gosh, I shouldn't have said what I said.

So, I guess Snooki and Joey have a podcast called It's Happening. Here's what he had to say about the, you know, the clip going around. About him saying, I don't know about Jason. The whole Jason thing, Jason is a good guy and I, I, I don't want to just, you know, come across like I'm talking shit about him, but just, you know, gossip happens, relationships happen, things, you know, things, things go on.

I mean, I have no bad feelings toward him and I think he's a great guy and I, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not, nobody's butting my nose in people's business. But, you know, it was just no, yeah. So that's his way of saying, no, he's fine. But in the moment, it seems as though Joey was siding more with Caitlin Bristow.

Again, we're going in the weeds. Like I said, I don't think that makes Jason Tartick a bad guy. He's dating people in the influencer world, the bachelor world. And when it doesn't work out, everyone's got a platform, everyone's talking like, what can you do? All right. Well, that's it. On NFL on Fox, they posted a clip of the Dolphins quarterback to a tell of tell of Aloha.

See, I always mess his name up, uh, saying he will play Sunday versus the Cardinals. Now, why is that interesting? Well, he's had a handful of concussions, literally the doctor who invented the term CTE and learned about the serious brain damage that exists. Spoke about him. The more concussions you have, the easier it is to have concussions.

He actually gave a lot of answers to a did about why he's deciding to come back and play after a lot of people thought he would never play again.

Personal choice. So the question was, would you wear a guardian cap? And that is an external cap that goes on the outside of the helmet. You might've seen these around. They look a little silly, but honestly, if they help. Prevent concussions by, you know, minimizing the blow. Then why wouldn't you wear one?

Maybe he just doesn't believe in it But aesthetically when you're wearing the helmet, you don't it doesn't make a difference What do your family say about you coming back and how how deep was that discussion? nobody nobody uh no one's sort of advice had affected anything that I thought in terms of returning So no one had an effect on it.

Um, had some conversations with my wife, but that was, that was it. A lot of people out there legitimately worried about your health and making sure that you're okay. What would you say to those that are worried that, that you might get hurt again? And this is something that's going to continue. I appreciate your concern.

I really do. Um, I love this game and I love it to the death of me. That's it.

It's documented with each concussion, the chance of getting one is exponentially more. Has that ever been discussed with you by doctors, not this time and the last few times, because this is the third documented one since you've been with Adolphus. Yeah. Has that been discussed and is that even, you ask questions about that?

It's been discussed with me and the doctors. Okay. And I've asked questions about it. All of that. He then goes on to talk about the risks that they take when they sign up to play football. Well, how much risk do we take when we get up in the morning to go, to go, uh, drive, drive to work? Uh, get into a car crash maybe?

I don't know. I mean, I think that's a foolish way to put it because, you know, I've driven for 25 years, I've been in several small crashes in my brain. I've never had a concussion. You know what I mean? Uh, maybe it's more like the risk you take driving a motorcycle without a helmet because you know you are gonna crash.

You know, statistically, you know, that's, that's way more dangerous to drive a motorcycle versus a car, right? Or an ATV, whatever. So I think that's a bad comparison. And I guess, you know, people are looking out for them. You know, the symptoms of CTE include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control, aggression, depression, anxiety, suicidality, Parkinsonism, and eventually progressive dementia.

And here are these athletes in their twenties saying, I live and die by football. I get it. It's sad. It's sad. It's scary. We'll be back with more content right after this. I don't know too much about the pay discrepancy and the pay gap between female professional athletes and male professional athletes, but to, uh, he's probably, I mean, who knows he's making 10, 20 million a year, right?

I'm just a guessing. And then you had Deshaun Watson, who's. Got the highest guaranteed contract of all time. And he just snaps his Achilles. And now you've got angel Reese. And she says my 73, 000 WNBA salary can't cover my bills. I'm living beyond my means. Now, a lot of WNBA female basketball players will play abroad in the off season just to, you know, get by again.

I don't know what, what percentage. Uh, revenue pay they get, like it should be, it should be equitable across the sports, right? So if in the NBA, 60 percent of revenue goes to the players, then it should be the same in the WNBA. I honestly don't know how that works. It could be that they're operating at a loss.

I have no idea, but Angel Reese may be one of the faces of the WNBA. Her time on the court hardly pays the bills. The Chicago sky's all star rookie last week revealed that her 73, 000 salary isn't anywhere close to enough to help her make ends meet. She said, I just hope y'all know that WNBA don't pay my bills at all.

Um, she said on Instagram Live, I don't even think that pays one of my bills. She said her monthly rent payment is 8, 000, meaning that a year's housing costs her 96k, more than she earns in a full season. I'm living beyond my means, she joked. Well, look, I mean, I guess you're not owed anything. Like I said before, I don't even mean to make this Controversial.

I don't know what the books are. I don't know how much money is coming in versus how much is going, you know, going to all of them. I don't, I don't believe, I believe in a social democracy, but I don't believe in socialism, and they're very different, right? In socialism, you might take the pay from the multi millionaires and spread it out evenly, but hey, Tom Brady sells Tom Brady.

tickets, right? Uh, and by the way, Caitlin Clark does two of the WNBA. I have no idea where she's getting paid. So it's not a gender issue. It's are you filling seats and are you bringing in revenue? That's really what it comes down to. And again, I don't have the answer to that, but at the very least, I think it is good that these conversations are happening and pay transparency is sort of a new idea that I believe in.

Well, Speaking of pay transparency, Hugh Hefner's son, Cooper, offers a 100 million cash to buy iconic Playboy brand, my family's legacy. And I didn't know that the Playboy wasn't owned by the Hefner family anymore, but imagine that 100 million. He said, the opportunity to acquire Playboy is deeply personal for me.

This brand is woven into my family's legacy, and I've seen firsthand its cultural impact over the decade, Playboy over the decades. Playboy represents more than just a business. It's a platform for creativity, freedom of expression and storytelling. Perfect. All right, go easy. Professionally. I see immense potential to restore the brand to its roots while innovating for the future and unlocking significant untapped value for investors.

Uh, in 2019 Cooper, who previously served as the chief of global partnerships at Playboy enterprise is now a managing partner at VC firm, venture capitalist firm, Hefner capital. He left the company to launch his own digital media platform, Hefner Media Corporation. In 2020, Cooper launched an ultimately unsuccessful bid for state senate seat in California.

Alright, well look, uh, I'll give Cooper some advice, if Cooper Hefner is listening. Don't pay a hundred million dollars for Playboy. Instagram exists, OnlyFans exists, people can release their own content on Patreon. Like, Existed when there was gatekeeping between audience and You know, people that wanted to, you know, live in a world that I guess was taboo at the time, you know, being in a topless photo, she was a little more taboo.

I believe in the past than it is now. Now it's kind of like normalize, go get your money. Everyone do it, do whatever the hell you want, as long as you're okay with it. You know what I mean? So anyway. I don't think it's worth a hundred million. Wait five years and buy it for 5 million. Like who's, who bought a playboy?

Who who's out there? I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old. You know what I mean? Please tell us. Well, in other sad news, surfer Julia Manfrini is dead at 36. Speared by a swordfish. I mean, this is a wild story. The tragic incident happened earlier this month in Massacut, Island a popular spot for surfers when a swordfish jumped out of the water and struck her in her chest It was a wound a few inches deep and she was taken to a nearby clinic and she did not survive So real tragic story.

She uh, you know is uh, she's a surfer and an influencer and um, you know Absolute freak accident never heard of it before. All right Uh, in other news, uh, we've got one more Jason Tartick story. It's actually more Kelsey Anderson. Of course, she was on, uh, the last season of the bachelor and she's with Joey, who's on dancing with the stars, which has an episode tonight.

Joey's doing a fantastic job, but Kelsey keeps get asked, getting, getting asked the same question, which is like, are you okay with the dancing and how it works and all of that? And obviously. It's, it's almost like at this point, it's not the dancing, like the intimacy that Joey's having with his dancer.

That's a problem. It's the unlimited supply of people online judging her for not, you know, caring or, you know what I mean? Or should I be being like, Oh, I would never let my man do that. And she's like, what live his dreams. And, you know, in the end, if Kelsey and Joey do work out the best thing for them as a couple is, you know, To enlarge their platforms, it's going to help them with whatever they want to do moving forward.

So Kelsey has to be supportive and hopefully Joey is cognizant. He seems to be to know, to keep, you know, make sure he makes time for his fiance. Here's what Kelsey had to say again, back on Jason Tartick's trading secrets podcast. I mean, obviously like I'm reading all these comments, like, Oh my gosh, Kelsey, like, like why is she touching him like this?

And I'm like, Oh, am I seeing something that Like, am I not seeing something that everyone else is? Yeah, and I'm like questioning myself. And like, but I just, like, I'm able to bring it up to Joey, and he reassures me or like talks to me in a way. Like, oh, like, You know, that's this or this is that or like Jenna feels this way or like we have to do this for this or yeah So when after the dance is done, you always see the dancers holding their partner Next to the host in this, you know And and then they get the scores and they do the interview and it always looks way more intimate but I think the dancers are trained to sort of um Corral their partner to make sure that they're in a tight shot.

So when the camera is a closeup, it gets both of them in frame. When you think of the technical side of these things, it's like, Oh no, she's not just holding my man. She's on live TV. Let's not make this about me. Or, you know, like they're doing the rumba coming up and that is a more like sensual dance or whatever.

But it's like, that is the way that the dance has to be. Um, the choreography has to be in a way, so I'm not worried about it. Like he spends four. Hours about practicing every day at this point. Um, but then like he spends all of the other 20 hours with me. It's waited out. I would love a season where Kelsey gets to go on dancing with the stars and do the rumbo with one of these guys.

And then we can watch Joey sweat it out. Jenna needs to stop touching my man. By the way, wouldn't, they should play into this. They should do a Paso Doble where it starts with. You know, with, uh, Kelsey and Joey and then maybe Jenna comes in and Kelsey gets mad and she's a part of it. Kind of tell a novella style, come on up the, uh, performance aspect of it.

But by the way, dancing with the stars has been having a knockout season. It's not too late to catch up if you're not watching. Oh, I, I think it's funny to be, people are like, Oh my gosh, they're like, why is she touching Joey like that? Or why is she touching Joey? And I'm like, they have to touch each other to dance.

It's sad. And I think that Joey, you know, is just so reassuring in our relationship that I don't need to wonder or guess or I've always been in relationships where I fully trust the guy that I'm with and Joey is just the most amazing person. And well, look, here's I'm going to pause right there and I want my audience to know I'm declaring today.

The beginning of my Kelsey Anderson fan club. Uh, you know, I like to sort of almost psychotically, uh, endorse certain people in bachelor nation. Kelsey Anderson's great. She's got that rare combination of beauty, but, um, IQ level to like know where she's at in life. Uh, she's overcome great hurdles in adversity, losing her mom to breast cancer.

She gets to share with her father now that he just spent his time on golden bachelorette. Heck her father might be the next golden bachelor. Of course, there's no spoilers. They haven't cast that, but he's in the running for all I know. And we just get to see what appears to be a healthy relationship here.

Now. There are times when a couple breaks up in Bachelor Nation and some people are like, oh my gosh I'm so sad and then other times you're like, yeah, whatever. This is one of those couples. I Sincerely root for I wish them the best. All right. Well, we're just flying through the day I don't know if you knew this.

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It's going to be a good one, folks. I can feel it. And by the way, how about this? I'm planning on bringing back the voicemail line for the podcast. Do you guys like that? Wouldn't that be fun? Bring back the old voicemail line for you guys. Let me know, shoot me a message on Instagram. Do we want to do that?

All right. We'll be back with more right after this. I almost forgot to mention that we have another Dancing with the Stars story. Haley Erbert, do you remember her? She's the wife to, uh, Dancing with the Stars former professional dancer and judge Derek Hough. Well, she reveals that she has a medical team around when she's dancing after her emergency.

She was in the middle of her and her husband's Derek Hough's Symphony of Dance tour when she was rushed to the hospital for a brain bleed in December of 2023. They called it an all out miracle that not only she survived, but can dance and kind of enjoy life again. And, um, she says, I just listened to my body.

Uh, being a dancer, I feel like I'm really in tune with my body. I do have a medical team still around. And of course that's because like she said, she had a cranial hematoma characterized by blood collecting in the skull. She underwent an emergency craniectomy. Uh, and that happened while she was supposed to be performing one of her dances with Derrick Hough.

He found out live on stage that she was not doing well. I mean, nightmare, nightmare scenario. And to think that they've made it back from that. I can't imagine. I mean, look, sadly, I remember when we had to bring our dog in for like emergency surgery and he survived. And I just remember that night when we took our dog in and thinking, we're going to get a phone call from this doctor.

You know, they made us go home. They were like, all right, he's in surgery. And he had a, um, uh, flipped stomach and it's something that happens to dogs and it, it really kills them if they can't fix it in time. And I was like, the next phone call we get. He's either surviving or he's not, and gosh darn it, if I tell you every phone call we got for the next five hours, we got a phone call every hour that was better and better and better, and he made it through, and it was hell of expensive, but he survived another three years till he passed several months ago, and, um Anyway, I use that as an example to say as much love as we have for a dog, I cannot imagine what it would be like to go through a life threatening situation with your partner.

Now, I know members of our audience have shared with me, you know, losing their partner. We've, we've got a big audience here and we've heard a lot of grief and how people handle it. And I'm just here to tell you guys, all of you that made it to the other side, You're a strong person. You're a strong person out there.

So don't let any of this small stuff get in the way. Don't let any of this small stuff get in the way of how brave you are to handle that. And Derek Hough can now, you know, relate to the fact. And of course, obviously, obviously his wife, she was the real fighter, but she woke up going, Hey, what happened?

What are we doing here? And he's like, are you kidding me? You know what I mean? You almost didn't make it. So just a incredible story that they've got. And we're just so, so happy for them. All right, quick, a couple of stories left. We've got two, uh, outer space astronauts. How are they going to vote? You know, those two astronauts that are stuck in space for months, they'll be voting in the presidential election from 250 miles above earth.

So how is that possible? American astronauts, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stuck on the international space station since June and won't be able to come home until around February, 2025. That means they'll. They promised their chance to vote in the election on November 5th on Earth, but thanks to a bill that was passed in Texas in 1997, they can cast their votes from space.

Astronauts fill out their absentee ballots on their computers and send them in an encrypted email, which then gets sent to Earth in the same way most data is transmitted between the space station and mission control. Once NASA gets the ballot, it's then forwarded to the astronaut's home county clerk, and their vote is recorded much like a regular absentee ballot.

The only difference is their address will be listed as low Earth orbit. Sunny and Butch said they're excited to In this year's election and no, they have not revealed who they're voting for. Oh, they should. I want, I wonder if they're on the same page. Can you imagine getting in an argument with somebody and then, you know, like, 'cause you're not voting for the same candidate and then you can't go anywhere 'cause you're in low orbit.

Can you imagine that? Oh boy. They're stealing votes from the low orbit. They're just reigning them in from the. Stratosphere folks. Well, of course I promised you I would have the updates when it came to the Butch and Sonny story that, uh, you know, these astronauts just are not getting enough attention.

Well finally, we mentioned this, uh, yesterday, 60 minutes stumbled across a rare place in America where family and community outrank party loyalty. This is a conversation about door County, the County that may decide the election. We found a place in America where family and community outrank party loyalty.

In this divisive election season, we came to America's ultimate battleground, except there was no battle. As they say here with pride, we live above the tension line. What's your sense of how the tone in Door County compares to the tone nationally? You don't want to alienate your neighbors. You don't want to alienate your fellow business owners.

You all come together. Do you have family members that are gonna vote differently from you? Oh, absolutely. Everyone invited to Thanksgiving regardless? Absolutely. Politics is, uh, you know, if we can't talk about it, that means it's gone way too far in the wrong direction. You recognize that's not necessarily the vibe in the country at large.

Hey, we're a little different in Wisconsin. I guess we got that Midwest nice going on. Well, listen, I don't know. I've been to some places in the Midwest where they don't have that nice going on, but Hey, power to them. Can I have conversations with my relatives at the dinner table during Thanksgiving? No.

You know why? Cause I'm stuffing my face full of biscuits and gra and cranberry sauce. But even if they weren't stuffed full that I wouldn't be having those conversations anyway. It's like, let's leave it on Facebook. We're. Where our pitchforks belong in real life. We don't talk politics, not at the dinner table and not what people you disagree with the least.

All right. Well, that's going to do it for me. I got a lot coming to you today. Um, I'm not going to be revealing much on the Patrion as far as my buckle up hint goes, but just know stay buckled up. That's all I can say about that. So much going on. So we'll see you on Patrion. And then again, I'll be back tomorrow to, uh, I'll be back later this afternoon as I am always with another episode of the rush.

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