10-23-24 Afternoon Rush - A Lady Went Missing On Taylor Swift Fan Cruise & Anna Kendrick Does 'Call Her Daddy' Podcast

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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. Hey, good afternoon on the hump day folks, October 23rd, 2024. We got all the pop culture. Culture and entertainment news in one place. And on today, we've got a clip of Anna Kendrick on the call her daddy podcast, discussing texting etiquette.

We love a good millennial discussing how to text. And also Olivia Munn is going viral for her. Skims underwear campaign unapologetically featuring her mastectomy scars. Also McDonald's CEO breaks his silence on the possible E. coli outbreak and Jason Kelsey caught snoozing at a Taylor Swift concert. He defends himself in a clip from his podcast, new heights, which I will be sharing.

And sadly, tragedy strikes the Taylor Swift crews as a lady is now missing, went overboard. I'll share that sad story. Uh, and we've also got a preview for tonight's episode of Golden Bachelorette. So stick around. I got all those stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Justin Bieber upset that his business managers squandered a fortune.

He's considering legal action. He thinks it's way too late to say sorry when it comes to some of his former business managers here reported by TMZ, but thinks they grossly mismanaged his money and it could be time to take legal action. Listen, this is why I'm a one man shop. I don't trust anybody. No one's got your best interest.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ. Justin's been very upset for several years, claiming he's lost a ton of money as a result of terrible decisions made by business managers. We don't know how many managers, but we do know it's more than one. Yeah. Take your money and put it in the S and P 500. What's wrong with people?

Like you, that's all you got to do. It's going to give you 10 percent back right now. It's giving you a lot more than that, but put your money in a nice, boring mutual fund. Well, so. They don't know how much has been squandered, although they do say it's a huge amount. The argument against suing is that Justin went through a period where he was spending wildly.

Translation, he caused his own problem. Well, yeah, you can't do that. If your business managers are just not telling you not to buy things, that's how you know you're wealthy when you have to ask someone if you can afford something. Uh, you know, can I get this, uh, new electric Hummer vehicle? And the guy's like, do whatever the hell you want.

And you're like, all right, put it on the MX. Justin is not struggling financially. He sold his music catalog in January for 200 million. And before the sale sources say his net worth was around a hundred million. All right. Look, just like I said, what are we even talking about right here? All right. Well.

Patrick Mahomes Sr. is back in jail. As you know, a couple days ago, we shared the, uh, uh, arrest video from his DUI the night before the Super Bowl. This is Patrick Mahomes father. Well, he begins the sentence for the DUI, DWI conviction, I guess now. Uh, TMZ Sports has learned he's simply begun serving his sentence for his most recent DWI conviction.

A Smith County jail official says the father of the NFL superstar was booked on Tuesday afternoon at 4. 53 p. m., took a new mugshot, he's now not expected to be released until Halloween. Now look, I don't want to make light of the prison, uh, complex, uh, at all, uh, but if you had to go to jail for eight days, I mean That seems kind of not the worst case scenario.

Can you bring your own books? I mean, if you could bring movies, I would be getting, first of all, I haven't watched breaking bad or the wire. So I kind of feel like you could just watch episodes of breaking bad in the wire, and then that'll take you through the 10 days, but if you could just read a few books too, that would be nice.

Maybe catch up on a couple of Joe Rogan podcasts. Those are long. I don't know. Again, I'm not trying to make light of it. Look, you got to serve your time, you know, but I think more arrests should be short like this because it's like, look, the guy. And by the way, the fact that he even is serving time, um, I don't even know if I agree or disagree with that.

Couldn't they give him like community service or something? Isn't there something he could do that would be better off? You know, this is a complete side tangent, but do you guys watch those TikTok videos of people that are like power washing people's driveways? There's this one guy, he weed wax in most people's lawns and he does it for free.

Because he knows the videos will go viral and then he gets to make money off of that. And my thought was, how has Silicon Valley not monetize people cleaning up the streets? So lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. There's a lot of streets that are really dirty. Is there a way to set up a camera and videotape yourself cleaning and then those videos go viral and you make money that way?

I mean, how quickly would the world be a better place if we could capitalize on doing the right thing? I don't know. Just a thought. What do I know? Not much. Uh, well, uh, you know, if anyone wants some money, maybe this is how Justin Bieber squandered some of that money by buying expensive home run baseballs.

The Shohei Otani baseball, the 50 home run 50 stolen base baseball, the column, the 50, 50 ball sells for 4. 39 million. Now we've reported, I believe yesterday that the guy running the auction thought he was going to get 10 million for it, but Hey, it's still the most expensive ball Ever sold again, he might be the next babe Ruth, really this guy.

I mean, he's, he's the best of the best. And, uh, so that price tag, I guess is no surprise now to me, I just wouldn't have thought 50 home run 50 stolen bases was that big of a deal. You know, you know, you know what a big deal is to me, the home run record. That's a big deal, but stolen bases. It's like, no, one's trying to get the stolen base record.

That's the least sexy of all records out there. Well, I got a lot of Taylor Swift to talk about. We're going to get to that tragic story about the, uh, lady who I guess fell or jumped, who knows, off the cruise ship. We'll have that story in a minute, but first there's a photo going viral of Jason Kelsey, apparently sleeping as he listens to Taylor Swift.

I can really empathize, empathize with this guy. Okay. Look, maybe he just wanted to relax for a couple songs. You know what I mean? Close his eyes. Maybe he had a few drinks and he was just feeling the moment. Maybe he ate an edible. What do we know? Either way, of course, after this photo went viral, they decided to cover it on their popular podcast, new heights.

Again, this is Jason Kelsey defending himself, uh, with his co host and brother, Jason kills, uh, Travis Kelsey. You took a nap at the Arrows Tour. What is that all about Travis? You know, I didn't take a nap. I did not take a nap. This show is absolutely electric. It's the greatest show that's ever been on stage.

And you're over here falling asleep. Not only was it the greatest show, but this Miami show was incredible. It was like. On another level, I text you halfway through it. Like this rain is killing it. But back to this photo, I'm going to give a little background to this. We brought a bunch of people to the show and mom went for the first time.

And we're trying to figure out, we'll get a box. We'll make it happen so that everybody can come to the show. And. I want to be rich enough where I can say, we'll get a box. And I mean, a VIP box and not like, you know, a box of chicken wings. We go out there and I realized I'm in like the middle of the open.

Like it isn't like a box. It's like a close. I feel like I'm kind of in a fishbowl, like everybody's staring at me. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna sit down. I'm just like sitting here and I'm just like feeling it. And I'm tapping my thigh in the moment. And then all of a sudden I go on Twitter and I see this picture.

And I'm like, dude, what the f k? Like, I'm not even sleeping. And I can prove it to you. There is evidence in this photo that I'm not sleeping. You calling Bo Allen a liar? Bo didn't say I was sleeping. He just posted the picture. You were just feeling the groove. If you zoom in on my right hand, my hand is hovering.

You can't sleep with your hand hovering above your knee. It's impossible. And you know I play jazz. Sometimes when you close your eyes Dude, I'm Every jazz solo I ever saw you Yeah, who are we to judge how Jason Kelsey decides to absorb the musical delight known as Taylor Swift? You know what I mean? It's an immersive experience.

Now again, if he did decide to go take a nap, I wouldn't blame him. They got a box as the royalties like to put it, the VIP box. So they're going to be getting unlimited. Food, you know, me, I have a little bit of, uh, you know, some breaded chicken tenders and, uh, next thing, you know, the inflammation hits and I need to take a quick nap, you know, I might, I got a sugar, the glycemic index crashes my, whatever the heck is going on in.

Sometimes you just have to, uh, you know, catch a couple of Z's. I wouldn't blame them, but again, not the case here. I invite Bo Allen and then all of a sudden friendly fired. Like I'm nervous about all these other people getting pictures with me and Ellie and I'm trying to have a moment. And then all of a sudden I see this.

Betrayed by one of my best friends. That's not betrayal. That's just a good friend. All right. So there it is. Now, look, can you imagine how big the Taylor, uh, Taylor Swift effect is that Jason Kelsey retires again, a lineman, nobody outside of Philadelphia would know anything about, and then once he retired, now people, uh, Now he's a celebrity sighting at a Taylor Swift event because her ecosystem is just that big.

It's absolutely wild stuff. Okay, well coming up next is a sad Taylor Swift story. We'll take a quick break and we'll be back with that right after this. All right, not a story I wanted to report on. A Taylor Swift themed cruise has a woman who went overboard and is now missing. We reported on the cruise last episode.

It's a Royal Caribbean cruise and it's a themed cruise from Florida to the Bahamas. A rep for the U. S. Coast Guard tells TMZ the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, filled with Taylor Swifties, left the port of Miami Monday and it was about seven o'clock. 17 miles north of Nassau in the Bahamas when tragedy struck Tuesday night.

Look, if anyone's been on a cruise, you don't just fall off. I don't understand how this can happen. Uh, according to the spokesperson, the woman tumbled off the ship called Allure of the Seas plunging into the ocean at 9 40 PM. And I know, I know what people think. If you've never been on a cruise, you're like, yeah, well just, can you swim a little bit till they save you?

You're probably like knocked unconscious. The, the, the pull and rip in the waves created from the boat. I mean, it's, it's God. And then you're just completely invisible to them. So it just sounds, I mean, absolutely horrific. The Royal Bahamas defense force assisted by the U S coast guard responded and conducted search and rescue efforts using helicopters and airplanes.

But so far the woman has not been found and is considered missing. The cruise was supposed to be a fun get together attended by Taylor's most ardent fans to celebrate the pop star's career. But now it's turned into a nightmare as rescuers comb the waters to find the missing woman. It's unclear if she was part of the Swifties contingent or a separate group.

And should be noted that Taylor herself is not involved in the cruise. So, um, Yeah, Wild Stuff, I guess, uh, uh, uh, uh, Royal Caribbean announced, uh, their spokesperson said, Our crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort and is working with local authorities. We're also providing support and assistance to the guest's family during this difficult time.

To respect the privacy of our guest's family, we have no additional details to share. Well, by all means, I hope there's a happy end to this story, but I severely doubt it. I severely doubt it. Real sad stuff. All right. Well, I got some K pop news. I don't know much about K pop, uh, other than there are some very weird rules that they've got.

Well, BTS, which is kind of like the biggest K pop band of all time. They have a member named J Hope. They've all got these weird names. You know what I mean? Nothing's as it seems. The first pitch. So he threw out the first pitch at a Korean series baseball game after military discharge. Here's what I think is impressive, that BTS decided to literally disband like the biggest pop group in the world disbanded or at least put their careers on pause because he had to go serve military time.

I can't believe he's already done. Time flies. So, He was at the, um, uh, like I said, the Korean baseball series game. And, um, I guess it was his first time being in public or one of the first times being in public since he served his military service. So I don't know what that means. Do they just go back to being the band?

Are they still popular? The massively popular K pop group now has two members who have completed their military obligations with Jin handling business and getting out this past June. All right. So they have a total of seven members. So does that mean there's five more members? All right. Here's the info.

Jay Hope looks forward to getting back to what he does best and army will have to wait until at least 2025 until their boys are all reunited, but it'll be well worth the wait. I don't, I know these are words I'm saying out loud. I don't know what any of this means. Um, so they all have like, okay, I'll tell you my beef with K pop, K pop.

Is manufactured creativity by like producers, right? You know, they, they do these sort of, um, it's kind of like how, uh, some countries run the Olympics, these training programs, they do these training programs for pop stars. And then they, they see, of course, like looks is important, uh, talent. You got to have a good voice, but you also, they, they also don't want you to be unique.

You like, you have to almost fit into what a pop band wants, not a, not a Perform not a solo artist. And there's a Netflix special that kind of shows how this is all done. The making of a K pop band, it's very bizarre, but also you get like, in some cases, scolded, like, like I know in some of these K pop bands, you have to pretend like you're single.

Because it's supposed to be sort of this allure like the audiences are supposed to believe they have a shot with you So this was in the news today nbc news a k pop star was photographed kissing a woman again a male k pop star Photographed kissing a woman fans decided he should be fired for it. What the hell are we talking about?

Almost a year after photos of, uh, uh, Xinguan, Sheng, Shenggan kissing a woman led to his suspension from the boy band, R. I. Z. E, R I I Z E. His return was foiled by fans who expect their idols to have wholesome images. SCORNED IS THE MAN WHO KISSES SOMEBODY! See, in the culture that I grew up in. I mean, every culture is different, but I, I enjoy when someone's out there making out, you know, I want Olivia Rodrigo to find a man or a woman.

I want Chapel Rowan to find her partner. I don't want them to pretend like they're single. This reminds me of when my wife would lose followers when she was single. And, uh, she would post a photo with me. She would lose Instagram followers. Like what is wrong with people? Uh, so it all started with a kiss.

The K pop star was banished. For almost a year from his boy band, Rise, amid backlash over leaked photos showing him kissing a woman when he was a trainee, behavior considered unacceptable by some fans who expect their idols to remain single and have wholesome images. When the South Korean entertainment company behind the band, SM Entertainment, tried to bring him back to the band earlier this month, fans still weren't ready to forgive him, sending white funeral wreaths to the company's headquarters in Seoul and organizing online campaigns and protests.

Meanwhile, in the United States, we were letting our pop stars get out of limousines without their underwear on. And by the way, do whatever the hell you want. What do I care? It's just there, you know, they have a problem kissing someone. Katy Perry. You know, she's famous for kissing a girl. She liked it.

What are you going to do about it? That's not wholesome. I mean, you know, what's wholesome anyway. All right. Uh, wild, wild stuff. All right. Well, now that we're talking about music, let's go into, uh, the singer Zach Bryan. He has a new song he's been working on following his breakup from Brianna chicken fry.

We just covered this story, uh, earlier today, she released kind of a very tearful, uh, Instagram, uh, real. Uh, saying she was kind of blindsided when he announced the breakup. There's rumors that he was caught cheating on her rumors. He was on Raya. Who the hell knows? Maybe, uh, maybe they broke up a while back and just didn't announce it.

I don't really know. Either way, we've got a sort of clip of his new song. I'll play it for you. Um, again, Look, he's a country music star. I'm not saying he should be allowed to cheat by any means, but again, I'm not surprised. It's almost like one of those, hey look, you get what you sign up for. Like, you hope these guys could be single, but literally every single one of these rock stars is slinging dick and not apologizing for it, right?

Here he is. Alright,

you know what? I'm going to stop there. Why should I play his song when I can clearly hear that he's got the TV on in the background? These famous people, they can just get away with the worst production value. Either way, uh, Briana Chicken Fry. You dodged a bullet. The fact that, uh, it didn't work out with him.

I mean, look, go, go, I'm not saying go find an accountant with a boring life. No offense accountants. I'm not saying that, but you know, maybe, maybe someone who doesn't have bodies being thrown at them all day long when they perform and travel on the road, maybe find someone that has that. I don't know. Just a thought.

I'm not blaming you. I'm just saying. Uh, in other news, Anna Kendrick was on Call Her Daddy podcast and she says she does not return your phone call. Have a listen. If you need to get a hold of me, like, you're, you're gonna have to text me. If you want an email back, you're gonna have to wait like two weeks.

You might as well send me a postcard in the mail. I get it. You know, if someone doesn't leave me a voicemail, And I, you know, cause I have it set. So my voicemails will text me what was said. If you don't leave a voicemail, I'm not responding to your call. The last time I responded to someone's random call next thing, you know, I'm helping them move their apartment on a Saturday.

You know what I mean? Like, like, I need to, I need you to text me so I can formulate a response that is either an excuse as to why I don't want to do whatever you want me to do, or I can run it by my wife if it's like you wanted to go on to taco Tuesday, right? Uh, I'm sorry. My generation. There's so much anxiety from answering the phone back in the day because millennials are the last generation where you had to answer the family phone and you didn't know who the hell was calling.

You had that chatty aunt, you had a pollster, someone who's trying to sell you, you know, uh, you know, You know, cassette tapes, uh, you know, who knows, who knows what the, it was a real wild time back in the nineties. So my generation, yes, we are scarred. We will not return your phone call. We will not return your email.

Shoot us a text. Maybe you get a response. Maybe a don't period. That's it. You guys did this to us. Um, and you know, we were also scarred from cell phones. You know, when I, when I was, uh, when cell phones first came out, you, you You only had free minutes after 9 p. m. or on the weekends, right? So unless you called your friend at 9 p.

m. or on the weekends, you know, those are minutes you're using up. So you had to be very brief. You had to get to the point. And text messages were like a quarter a piece. So you never had text message conversations. You had the T9. There's no way you would burn a hole and you'd get blisters on your thumbs trying to text full on conversations.

We were quick, we were to the point, and that's how things were. Now these kids, I mean, they're sending voice notes, snapchats to each other. What are we even doing out there? The bandwidth is out of control. All right, look, I got a couple more stories to get to. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this.

Uh, well, uh, earlier I discussed shaken baby syndrome and that, uh, guy who was on death row, uh, For allegedly killing his baby and he has maintained his innocence for over 20 years. Well, I got an email from someone So they said hi Dave I feel compelled to reach out to you over your comments about shaken baby syndrome as a pediatric nurse and child care health consultant and Educator I believe you need to be really careful about the way you share both information in your opinion about the diagnosis Calling SPS or alternatively known as abusive head trauma junk science quack science or pseudoscience is incredibly misleading You The medical condition is a very real, very horrific, very traumatic injury or end to a little one's life.

I think where things get murky is when the origin of the trauma is being proved or disproved. Okay, so that's exactly the point I was trying to make. Yeah, no, of course these things are real. It's just like concussions are real. Just the idea that you can use that to then, you know, Immediately say someone committed that crime is very, it's very tough because what if like your kid falls down the stairs and then all of a sudden you're being charged with murder.

So they go on to continue. Perhaps you feel you inferred that or you assume others would know that. But I had to say something. I cared for too many little guys. Who lives were taken by this condition to not ask for you to publicly clarify. Thanks. So I do, I really appreciate when I get feedback like this.

So thank you so much for that. And of course, um, you know, shaken baby syndrome, which was diagnosed, uh, when doctors detected, uh, a triad of syndrome, uh, symptoms, unexplained bleeding on the brain, bleeding behind the retinas and brain swelling. Uh, Dr. Norman Guth, Kelch, a British pediatric neurosurgeon, is credited with first connecting these symptoms with shaking a baby in a 1971 paper.

So look, by all means, I think, I totally agree that like, we need to know that, that, that, you know, we gotta look after kids. We gotta look after to see where there's abuse and not, but at the same time, just because Shaken baby syndrome is a term that does exist and it is real. I feel like that doesn't mean you can just convict people for that.

But I totally understand what that pediatric nurse is saying. And I just love that we have pediatric nurses out there giving us their wisdom. So thank you so much. All right. Well, let's go to McDonald's. We covered that there was an E. coli outbreak in their onions. Here's what the CEO has to say. The onset dates for this disease are between at this point, September 27th and October 11th.

If there has been a contaminated product within our supply chain, it's very likely worked itself through that supply chain already. What's important today is that we've taken the action to protect the American public and promote public health. So what he's trying to say is don't stop going to McDonald's.

That's what, listen, if they could, you know, if they could respond just as quickly to fixing the, uh, ice cream machine, maybe, uh, you know, uh, I don't know, maybe we'd be in a better situation with McDonald's, but either way, the, you know, the, uh, don't eat any McDonald's, I guess, with the, with the onions right now.

Now he's saying, Oh, they worked it through the supply chain. Sure. Okay. Are you covering the E. coli bills when we get them? All right. Olivia Munn is making news here on the today show discussing, uh, uh, taking a photo and doing a photo shoot, uh, showing off her mastectomy scars, uh, photo shoot for skims.

Have a listen. When Skims approached me to do this campaign, um, it was just to do their shapewear and their new leggings and it wasn't about my scar at all. And then I was looking in the mirror and I just thought, I'm done being insecure about my scars. And so I went to the team of Skims and I said, what do you guys think about showing my scars in this campaign?

And they were so amazing and thoughtful and wonderful. And we talked it out and then we decided to do it and that's the result of it. And it, it was really. It's scary, but I feel like this is something I've been hiding for a long time now, and it just feels like like I can You know, breathe a little bit more.

I think this is fantastic. I love that we're starting to trend into a society where we not just normalize, um, the fact that we're all different, but we celebrate it. We saw Pam Anderson's not wearing makeup anymore, where, you know, people are showing off the sort of, uh, I would say, I mean, the scar tissue from a traumatic time, and it's a reminder to, you know, get tested.

It's a reminder, uh, that we're all going through battles that might not be seen by the naked eye. You know, so good on her. And, um, you know, that's, that's the world I think we need to live in. Not in the over Photoshop world where everyone looks perfect, but let's show our battle wounds. I think that is very brave of her.

And I know that term brave is overused in today's world, but I think that's a Brave move in a world where everyone's trying to hold onto their youth and hold onto this image of perfection. Olivia's out here saying, this is who I am a good on her. And I think that's a real great way to end this episode.

That's going to be it for me. We'll be back in the morning. Can you believe we're already halfway through this work week? I hope you got home safe. We'll see you tomorrow. 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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