10-24-24 Morning Rush - Golden Bachelorette Recap & Update On Taylor Swift Cruise Missing Person! & WILD Jamie Foxx & Diddy Conspiracy Theory

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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 Thursday to you, October 24th, 2024. We're going to get into it. I got golden bachelorette recaps from last night's hometowns episode.

Plus bachelorette Jen responds to the speculation about a romance between her and dancing partner Plus a big update on the missing person aboard the Taylor Swift themed cruise ship. And we've got clips from people on board. Also a wild story emerging about Jamie Foxx's stroke and how it may have actually been Diddy poisoning him.

Don't believe me, but I'm going to play the interview clip that is circulating this strange and wild story. Also Anna Kendrick's got a new movie and she explains how fate would land her in the director's chair. And as police Prep for polling site distribution disruptions. We've got several stories of election shenanigans leading up to the big day.

Uh, it's a wild one. It's the end of October. We have October surprises. We've got Halloween on the way and one of the biggest elections ever coming up. So we've got all the stories and we're going to break them down for you. Coming up next on the rush. Let's start with our Bachelorette news. First Golden Bachelorette, Joan had her, uh, hometown episode last night.

She got to go to the hometowns of the men vying for her heart, preparing for fantasy suite, and she sends home Jordan. Uh, she kind of alluded to the Chicago native saying she felt like he wasn't kind of getting there. You know, she wasn't telling her what she needed to hear, but of course the hometown with Choc went really well.

Chucks. Mom passed away several episodes earlier, or maybe the, the episode earlier. So they did a nice little memorial for her, which was very sweet. And of course, Guy showed her Lake Tahoe, you know, I mean, this is it. This is the, uh, golden bachelorette. It's the exact opposite of what you see on the bachelorette, the bachelorette.

You've got dads that don't want to give the blessing to these random dudes. Cause they know they're all there for the wrong reasons. And then on the golden bachelorette, everyone's like, Go get them, have fun, break a leg, do whatever the hell you want to do. So yeah, we, uh, don't exactly, uh, get too much tea from these episodes.

Just good conversations. And you know why? Because Joan is an unproblematic queen. That's what she is. Uh, but of course it's not going to work out for everybody. Now we've got Chalk, Guy, and Pascal are all heading to the fantasy suites. And if you want more of this content, I'll have a YouTube video up later today, uh, recapping this episode with some visuals.

Plus I was joined by Stephanie from She's All Batch podcast. They've got an audio podcast and now they're also on YouTube. So if you want to hear my conversation with her, we dive deep into all of the aspects of this last episode. Plus a lot of irreverence. I couldn't help it. I couldn't stay focused. You know, these episodes, they're kind of more of a formality.

We don't learn too much and you kind of got it. You got to get through these to get to the good stuff in the old fantasy suite. So we did what we had to do. All right, let's move it on to. Speaking of the fantasy. It almost looks like a fantasy suite between Jen and Sasha. They're making it look, uh, sharing their flirty side, and they respond to romance rumors and dish on the kiss that they did on the performance.

It was just a forehead kiss from Sasha to her, but hey, you gotta start somewhere. I have to ask, because, I mean, even in this interview, the chemistry is Off the charts. Is it? I think it is. Um, I just want to know, like, how do you guys, what do you guys think about fans shipping, shipping you two or having a showman?

How do you control yourself? What do you mean? I'm not that one. I'm just being a smart ass. Yeah, you are. Listen, we have so much trust in each other. She's an incredible woman. I'm just happy to be here on this incredible journey with her. Um, this dance was so beautiful. She was hitting all the beautiful lines.

All right, so they don't really say much else about the romance now my in my educated opinion The teasing of a romance one might call it romance baiting is just a ploy to drum up interest In them to get more votes, which by the way, hey, I don't blame them Do what you, I would do the same thing if I were single.

I'd say, yeah, let's have a romance. We'll get people to want to keep us around. I don't think they need that. She's a good dancer. They're doing a good job, but I don't buy it for one second that they're together. That's just me. I've been fooled before. I could be fooled again. All right. Well, here's a good, speaking of dancing with the stars, we have Steven Nadarizik explaining what it was like to get his first spray tan.

Steven, what was it like to get your first spray tan? I mean, I mean, yeah, they were like, you're playing Hercules. We need to tan you up, so let's do it. And I was, I'm down for anything really. So like, I personally wouldn't have gotten one on my own, but for the show, I have to own the character, right? So I got the spray tan.

They were very excited to give it to me and it smelled really nice. So, and it made me look good. So I'm happy about it. Did you go for support? Riley, were you there cheering him on? Yes, I just went for support. It was so fun. And I'm, I'm telling you guys right now. I think he's into the spray tans. I wouldn't be surprised if we got another one this season.

I'm telling you right now, from bronze metal to bronze skin, Steven Nadorozik, the pommel horse prince, loves a good tan. Uh, spray tan, I mean, look, that's the safest way to do it. When I was his age, when I was in college, we'd go to the tanning salon and you'd buy these tanning beds. They were 20 minutes, you know, but you have to pay for the 20 minute version.

And they'd always be like, all right, you're new to it. You might as well only do 10 minutes. And I'd be like, well, I'm paying for 20. I'm going to do 20. And I know people are listening, going, no, Dave, you're going to burn your white ass. Well, let me tell you something. I sure did. My Catholic moles were throbbing, uh, probably got, I mean, I just got my moles checked from the dermatologist.

So I think I'm in the clear, but I don't recommend that. Although I have to say there is something sensual about wiping up the of butt sweat from the person before you who used it. Uh, but he does have a point. The smell is always good. It always smells like coconuts. Uh, all right. Well, anyway, I probably, I hope no one was eating their breakfast while they listen to this, cause you probably lost all of your, uh, sort of taste there.

Uh, okay. Let's, let's, let's go. Let's dive right into the Jamie Foxx story. So it was written up in an article that Jamie Foxx is talking about Diddy in his upcoming Netflix comedy special, which is called What Had Really Happened Was. The actor makes a startling claim that Sean Diddy Combs was behind the stroke he suffered a year ago.

According to Media Takeout, Fox, who is in the middle of filming this special across various LA venues, goes into detail about what transpired before, during, and after his health scare. In a particularly shocking moment, Fox reportedly tells the audience, Diddy was responsible for my stroke. Well, I know he poisoned Jamie Foxx.

And Jamie Foxx reported him to the FBI because of it. I know that's a fact. Wait, you're saying that Diddy Diddy Poisoned Jamie Foxx and that's how Jamie Foxx got sick? Jamie Foxx reported this man to the FBI because of this. Is there any idea why Diddy would want to poison Jamie Foxx? You get called to testify.

If you on camera in some of this footage, and you want to make it a little bit easier for yourself. It is a, it's a way. It is. It is ways in this industry. People go about doing things now. I actually believed the first half, but the second half, it felt like a lost credibility. I mean, if it's true, what they're saying about Diddy, there's gonna be tons of tapes.

What is he poisoning? Everybody? Again, we'll have to see how it all plays out. Now, if you remember when Jamie Fox had a stroke, people didn't really know what was going on. There were a lot of conspiracies even back then about what was going down, whether it was actually a stroke or if something else happened.

So who the hell knows? But. I think it's fair to say that this clip is going super viral online, so I felt like I needed to share it with you. Alright, well I'll tell you what, I got the Taylor Swift cruise updates, we'll get to those after a quick word from our sponsor. We have an update on the Taylor Swift themed cruise, which of course Taylor had nothing to do with just like that attack that happened.

What was it in the UK where there was like a terrorist style attack at a Taylor Swift themed party? Look, she's a giant pop star. So there's going to be Taylor Swift events going on that, uh, you know, sadly will attract some criticism. craziness. Well, the women that went overboard is now officially missing.

They've called off searches. And the update, uh, that we just got was that a rep for the Royal Bahamas Defense Force confirmed to TMZ that the 66 year old woman jumped from the 14th floor of the cruise ship. Search and rescue efforts were officially called off Wednesday. Now, I mean, assuming each floor is 10 feet, a 14th floor is going to be 140 plus feet.

That is so far up. And even if she made a good landing, you know, I mean, there's a million ways that this does not end well. Well, there was somebody, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people were making content, but there was someone named Ashley travels seven one five. And she, uh, shared of course the wrong information, but the, there was a lot of rumors going around at first.

Here's what she had to say. There is a man overboard. They just came on the loudspeaker and they said, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar. And now there is another cruise ship across from us coming this way. And they have all the lights along the sides on. All right. So pretty, pretty freaky when you think that they get rid of all the ambiance lights and they just have all the floodlights and it's like shows over.

We are in, you know, uh, you know, you know, I don't want to say panic mode, but they're in an emergency situation. Well, she gave an update. This actually travels 7 1 5 the next morning. Good morning, everybody. Um, we slept in because we were up to about two o'clock in the morning outside, kind of watching what was going on in the search efforts.

Shortly after we went to bed, I did get messages that they did call off the utopia from searching and they left. And shortly after we did leave, I guess when the Coast Guard arrived. It was a 66 year old woman, despite all the fake claims and all the false reports, it was a 66 year old woman. So, of course, after this lady's, you know, clips were going viral, sharing the updates, TMZ interviewed this lady, I'm assuming still on the cruise ship.

Here's what she did, here's how she described the scene. To us, um, how this kind of unfolded, I guess you must have been, this happened fairly late. Were you in the cabin? What did you hear? Um, can you kind of Yeah, do they inform everyone on board that there's a rescue going on or did you realize that? Yeah, set the scene.

I was coming out of the show Mamma Mia. She wanted to watch the second half and I kind of wanted to walk around. Um, as I walked out of the theater, they were saying Oscar, Oscar, Oscar on the loudspeaker repeatedly, not knowing what that was. I tried to go outside on the fifth deck, which the doors were closed.

There was somebody guarding it and everybody's yelling. Somebody jumped, went up to the top decks and just proceeded to see a search go on for. I stayed up there for a good three hours, just watching, praying and wondering what was happening. The Utopia of the Seas, which is another sister ship, came over and we were both doing rotating, um, searches along with a plane and a helicopter that came around midnight, and they're making a flower formation.

Around both ships with four different, there's the boat for different little search boats out in the water. Um, and we were there for a good three hours doing that. All right. So she says we were there doing that. She was, uh, called rubber necking, but Hey, what else are you going to do sit in your, you know, your room?

No, look, I was on a cruise last year. Surprised my wife. Cause she was always afraid of cruises. We did a short one, uh, from, you know, long beach, uh, Los Angeles down to, uh, Encinitas, I believe just a couple of days and yeah, they, they, they'll do. They'll do these regular, um, scheduled, uh, rescue, uh, training sessions where they'll throw a dummy overboard.

Now look, it's a little easier to rescue someone in the daylight when you can see people, but if you've ever been on one of these ships, they are floating cities. So if you don't find this person and track them from the get go, it is just a real sad situation. But, and again, I hate to say this, but if someone was jumping to their death, they're And they were doing it voluntarily, maybe this is what they wanted.

I hate to say it. Maybe it's what they wanted. Obviously, it's very selfish and ruins the trip for everyone else and their family. And, you know, but, um, who knows, who knows the whole story? We'll say that, who knows? But I always wondered, like, there's no way you drunkenly fall off one of these cruise ships.

I mean, your center of gravity is below your waist. You'd have to be running really fast and jumping and actually, you know, there's just no way. So it looks like it was, um, you know, um, I'm, I'm guessing death by, Jumping off the boat. I mean, there's no other way to put it. Uh, we'll we'll have any updates as they come in tragic sad story All right.

Well in other news netflix has a new movie coming out called women of the hour I actually think it already is out and anna kendrick stars in it and she discussed how she took the role of Director along with star you got cast in it But then the director had to drop out because that's what happens in hollywood And at what point did you say?

Oh, hey, i'm gonna drop out Direct this. Yeah, so we were scrambling looking for a director and I just had like the most horrifying thought imaginable, which was, I think I want to do it and I think I'm going to pitch myself. So I was very much trying to throw my hat in the ring and also say, if this is a bad idea, I don't want to do it.

Like, I don't want. To do what's wrong for the movie. Everyone was basically like maybe tomorrow do like a real pitch and I just kind of like scrambled to put into words how I imagined the film and why it felt like This was the right film Move for me because I don't know there was something like really emotionally resonant for me in the script I mean good for her anna kendrick is she's a smart businesswoman great actor I mean, she's a five tool star so good for her to get into the world of directing now The movie woman of the hour is a 1970s.

Uh, a period piece in los angeles as a wave of murderers Make headlines a young woman aspiring to become an actress and a serial killer cross paths during an episode of a dating show That my friends is how you write a hell of a log line Now a log line is the elevator pitch for a movie and that that i'm sure they spent weeks working on what I just said But that is concise and it sounds really good.

I love a good period piece Uh, my wife hates horror. So it'll be a fantastic mix Uh, although it doesn't sound like a horror more like a sort of a scary mystery. Um, all right Well Uh, speaking of horrors, this is an absolute scary story here. This is a, uh, I guess, uh, uh, adult siblings discussing what it was like to find out their father had put himself 50, 000 in debt after donating to political campaigns, essentially put himself 50, 000 in debt after he had given them his life savings.

So you made more than a hundred donations in one day. So this is the saddest story I saw. This is, this is a man, he's obviously beginning, you know, the cognitive decline, suffering from dementia, and he gets these text messages we all get, Hey, we'd love for you to donate to my campaign. I'm not even going to play the part of the clip that shares that he actually thinks he's donating to Donald Trump.

But you know, you'll get, Hey, it's Pete Buttigieg. We could really love your donation. So when these people would text him, which clearly were like automated text messages, he thought they actually needed his specific help. And he donated his life savings and they didn't find out until after he had spent hundreds, uh, made hundreds of donations totaling, uh, you know, uh, whatever he had and then some, so real sad story.

I don't know how this is legal. Um, I, you know, It's one of my biggest worries, not, not necessarily of my parents, but just this idea that you get a little older and you stop being smart with your decisions, you start to lose your fastball, you start to not kind of, you know, know if you're getting duped because there's new technologies and this and that.

I mean, when I, when I went home to see my family, I had to tell them, Hey, just so you guys know, I'm never going to call you and ask for money. So if someone says, you know, because you could, you can use AI. To mask someone's name and, uh, the light, their likeness and sound like them. I mean, it is just absolutely scary out there and I don't mean to, uh, put fear in anybody, but, uh, you know, this is just something everyone out there with your parents, you should have these conversations to know what the protocol would be to make sure that you don't, uh, you know, deal with getting scammed in the modern world.

All right. Well, uh, we got, uh, we got a war breaking out. Between, uh, the political ideologies in our country, we're 12 days away. I guess, yeah, 12 days away till the election. Well, there was a, this is, this is a sort of lighthearted story. A news nation reported that there was a Texas Republican and a Texas Democrat sparring about a silly billboard.

I guess one person posted a billboard and then they posted one next to it. And anyway, the only person laughing here is the guy who owns the billboard. Laura Bray, a Democrat decided to put up this billboard saying vote Democratic. in a majority red county. Clint Voight saw the billboard above his business and decided to put up his own.

They put a f ing Vote Democrat sign right above the damn shop and that one right there is still available. You guys didn't plan this, right? You guys just now are figuring out that you know each other? No? Have you been surprised by the reaction? I've been very surprised by it. We've, we've gotten a lot of, of good coverage and some donations and some, uh, from across the nation.

So we're really, we're, we're excited about it. We did it because it was located above our business and, uh, we did it just to have fun back and we've. We've received a bunch of donations from all across the country too. I mean, look, this is good. This, this is friendly. Oh, my side versus your side. This is, I wish the country could be more friendly.

The problem is, I think, is you'll have lopsided counties. You'll have a red county where people People are afraid to share something blue and then you'll have a blue county where people are afraid to share something red. And I understand the rhetoric and people say, no, the election is too important. I get it.

You know, we should take this election seriously, but I also think we need to love our neighbor, right? We have to love our neighbor. Even if we don't like them, we have to treat people with kindness and live in a world where we respect each other. Now I got an interesting story here, caught red handed. So in place to tracking device on there.

Political campaign signs after they were being stolen. I'm going to play what went down next. Well, if you know me, you know, I love vigilante justice and Fox 2 now in St. Louis is reporting a story where a Missouri woman Not only recovered her stolen election sign but captured the confrontation with the alleged thief on video.

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Here you go liberals So, so, so the person goes, here you go, liberals. You can take them all. So what happened was the lady put a tracking device, probably like an AirPod tracker in the, in one of the signs. Now these were Kamala Harris, Tim wall signs. Uh, what happens next is the person freaks out. Who, of course, stole all of them and said, Oh, fine.

We were just having fun. Go take them. And they go, No, no. Each of these signs is worth 20. You've committed a felony. It's more than that, actually. No, it's not. It's so stupid. Just go vote. It's so stupid. Just go vote. Captured on video and viewed thousands of times. A confrontation between a Springfield woman and a man in Nixa.

After she says dozens of stolen Harris Wall signs were in his trunk. It's a bigger deal than you're making it out to be. I mean, obviously it's important or you wouldn't have taken your time to take these. No, I mean, honestly, it's just, I saw it on TikTok. I saw a guy that apparently he filled his house up with some buddies.

You know, I'm not saying it was right or anything. Laura McCaskill says they were only able to get that video because one of the signs had her partner's Apple AirTag still on it. I expected to find the AirTag, but not 59 signs. It was kind of like, Finding a dead body. It was like, Oh, are you kidding me?

McCaskill has filed a police report and says others in her roundtree neighborhood plan to do the same. Missouri law says stealing an election sign is a misdemeanor and could carry a 2, 500 fine, jail time or both. There it is. I mean, look, you know, you got to have a fair election. You're allowed to put a sign up in front of your business.

If you don't want to support that business because of their ideologies. That's fair too, but you can't be stealing signs that goes for all sides, right? That's that's that's my thought on that. But still I love a good air tag You know you put the air tag on you start following it to a car next thing, you know, you find 59 of these signs So yeah, it's getting pretty serious out there And you know i'm trying to do my best to calm the rhetoric down amongst my community And I hope you guys are doing the same Cops are preparing for polling site disruptions as the 2024 presidential election shapes up to be one of the most important in the country's history.

Law enforcement agencies are planning extra measures to ensure the security of polling places in the aftermath of the 2020 election. In the January 6th, uh, 2021, Capitol, riots, votes and poll workers in some states are now facing threats. Now, we know this because even in my state, my home state where I live now, of Tennessee in, uh, northern Tennessee or eastern Tennessee, there was a militia group from North Carolina that was surrounding who they thought to be were FEMA workers.

And look, this is what it comes down to, is there's already viral video saying, uh, there's election fraud happening when, when last election, none of it was proven. And those dominion voting booths, you know, Fox had to pay them like half a billion dollars or something in a defamation lawsuit. Let's let the system play out.

A lot of people are voting early. Those votes don't get tabulated right away. There will be States that don't know how many votes they're They have by the end of the night. It doesn't mean there's anything nefarious going on. So let's just do our job to make sure we calm down any of the rhetoric and we just let it all play out, trust in the judicial system.

And it might, you know, they, they warned us this last time. They said, you might not know who wins. The night of the election, because there's so many mail in ballots that just don't get counted till whenever, you know, and that's because states have agreed to doing it that way. So we'll have to see how it all plays out.

But like I said, I'm, I'm here to, uh, you know, just, um, try to cover it all. You know, it is, this might be one of those, you know, I just, I hate to sound sinister, but I feel as though I'm. Preparing to cover some pretty heavy and wild stories out there. So, uh, you know, my advice to people vote early. I already cast my vote two days ago, go vote early and love your neighbor and try to stay away from large crowds.

I mean, what else can you say? You know, don't, don't, uh, don't, uh, you know, get yourself in any sticky situations. Well, I know that sounds super sketchy to say, but we've obviously seen some violence play out and, um, you know, we don't need any excuse for a maniac to, to, to be a maniac. So, uh, if, and again, I sound so silly saying it, but if you see something, say something, if, if something looks fishy, You know, call your local law enforcement, but like, let, let the professionals handle it.

Right. All right. Jeez. I mean, boy, what a weird way to end this episode. Uh, Hey, did I, did I tell you this? I got a new Instagram account for the podcast. It's called the rush hour with Dave Neal, and I'm going to be posting clips on there. I'm going to be posting stories and other updates. Again, the rush hour with Dave Neal.

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