10-29-24 Afternoon Rush - Why 50 Cent Turned Down $3Mil Gig & Comedian Marc Maron & Jon Stewart Discuss Tony Hinchcliffe 'Roast' Failure & Kristin Cavallari Shares Fun Clip!

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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. Good afternoon, everyone in my Rush Hour community. It is Tuesday, the 29th of October, 2020. And I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

On this episode, 50 Cent reveals he turned down a 3 million offer to rap a couple songs at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. Plus rumors fly that Bachelorette Jen is dating her partner, Sasha. I've also got famous comedians fighting over their Thoughts on the Tony Hinchcliffe roast gone wrong, Mark Maron and Jon Stewart take opposing views, plus some inspirational thoughts on how to stop letting negative self talk hold you back.

And also Joe Rogan offers an update on if he will interview Kamala Harris, plus Subway was sued for misleading sandwich ads. I'll explain why. And also our Self driving taxis, good or bad? I'll break that story down and so much more coming up next on The Rush. Now that we have a voicemail line, I can properly let you guys fact check me.

The voicemail line is 401 558 7841. And I was fact checked after my story about Hayley Welch. We made fun of Hayley Welch because she thought that Helen Keller was deaf. Blind and also was Amelia Earhart because she said she flew planes. And I said, how ridiculous is that? Amelia Earhart, or Helen Keller doesn't fly planes.

Well, Paige from Fort Wayne, Indiana actually is here to correct us. Hey Dave, my name is Paige and I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I think you're great. But I wanted to tell you that Annie Welsh was not wrong, at least not. Unintentionally wrong. Fun fact. Helen Keller piloted a plane in 1946 by herself for 20 minutes with her interpreter, uh, relaying instructions from the pilots of Keller.

So maybe not completely by herself, but she did file a plane. Uh, fly a plane. All right. Uh, have a good one. I love it. Thank you so much, Paige. And I love, Paige is so funny. She goes, I think you're great, but that should be the name of my tip line. Dave, we think you're great, but here, and again, at the end of this episode, I'll have another clip, uh, voicemail that I got, but if you want to leave a voicemail with any questions, updates, or thoughts, 401 558 7111.

I don't answer it. It goes straight to the voicemail and I'll play them for you. Well, imagine having so much money you can turn down a 3 million offer to perform at Madison Square Garden. That's 50 cents. He, uh, I guess he's worth more than 50 cents. He's, uh, by the way, 50 cents. And now, you know, he's been, you know, the one trying to expose Diddy for so long.

It seems as though he might be our new national hero, 50 Cent. Here's what he had to say, uh, speaking to Charlemagne, the God, about his decision to turn down the pretty penny. I got a call, but they wanted me to, well, Sunday. Oh, they wanted you to come yesterday? This week? Oh yeah, cause they wanted you to perform mini mini, they wanted you to perform mini mini at the RNC too, right?

Yeah. And yeah, they offered me 3 million. To perform? At the RNC or this past Sunday? This past Sunday. Three million and then they offered you money for the Republican National Convention too, right? He turns down that yeah, I didn't Even go far, but I wouldn't talk to them about that kind of stuff. I'm afraid of politics.

He says, I'm afraid of politics, bro. And look, let me tell you something. If he doesn't want to perform many men for 3 million, I will. Okay. Many men. Wish death upon me. All right. Anyway, so there it is three million dollars. I'll take that in cash Uh, what if you paid them in 50 cent coin pieces? That would be how many 50 cent?

Let's do a little trivia for you guys How many 50 cent coin pieces do you need to be paid to make three million dollars? Six million of them. Okay. Uh, there you go. You're smart out there folks. Don't let anyone tell you Otherwise, there's your 50 cent update and now we've got bobby flay the uh, chef Talking about sliding into Kristen Cavallari's DMs.

This is uh, you know, an interesting chat amongst friends. Ever slide into the DMs? Or have you ever? Actually, I have to, I want to talk to you about this. Okay. Because you and I had a situation where I was going to Nashville. Okay, yeah, let's talk I tell this? Yes, absolutely. I was going to, I was coming to Nashville literally for one day for a meeting.

And I was like, who do I know in Nashville? Okay, so I DM'd you. Yeah. And I was like, And, and I said to you now, I know what I, what words I use specifically because you reminded me, I said, can I, I'm going to be in Nashville for one night, can I take you to dinner? Yeah. And you literally said something to me, like, I'm already like dating somebody.

And I said, I just want to go to dinner with you. I was like, uh, foot and mouth. And then, and we had the best time, but what you taught me is something I didn't know, which is the words that you use made me feel that way. You said when you, when you said, can I take you to dinner? To me, that is a date. Okay.

Right. I mean, I didn't think of it that way. I know, but also I think there's a fair argument that I shouldn't just assume. I said this to you too. I probably shouldn't have just assumed that you also wanted to take me on a date, but I think that's fair too. Um, everyone wants to take me out. Calm down. Take it easy.

Relax. By the way, Bobby Flay. For sure would have accepted that if Kristen's like, Oh, it's a date. Then he'd be like, I guess it's a date. You know, it just goes to show, even if you're a celebrity chef, like Bobby Flay or a celebrity influencer, like Kristen Cavallari, you still don't know how to define these things.

My whole generation. Doesn't know how to ask people out. I think we were just weird, right? I, and maybe it's because we kind of had to do it before cell phones existed, like old millennials, you had to be like, Hey, you want to go study together? And then you'd be like, are we studying? Are we hooking up? Like, what is it?

You know? And, uh, I think what, what you kind of learn maybe with a little bit of alcohol, uh, you know, in your twenties is to just shoot your shot, you know? But now we're back into that world where you're liking it. It's so vague, right? You're liking each other's. Instagram photos. That's like the first point of contact is like, are you, you know, showing that, that like subtle social media flirting?

I don't know. So I kind of, I kind of respect Bobby Flay for just saying, let me take you to dinner. Even if he says he didn't mean it in that kind of way. I also am like, I don't quite believe it. All right. Well, we have a lot of talk about comedians. We'll get into what Mark Maron and John Stewart had to say about Tony Hinchcliffe.

Possibly costing somebody the presidential election. I mean, it literally could come down to that. It's such a coin toss. But before we get to that, here is comedian, um, uh, the hell is his name? John Mulaney, uh, in a surprise. Speech. He actually reads text messages he received from his concerned wife, Olivia Munn.

Of course, John Mulaney, a Chicago's finest just has a funny, he just has a way of making everything funny. Here's what he had to say. This was reported by InStyle Magazine. I guess it was at an award that they were giving her for women of impact, uh, women of impact honoring her for visibility and change making in women's health.

And here's what he had to say before he introduced her. constantly trying to keep me out of danger and keep me alive through a series of texts throughout our entire relationship. Here is a text she sent me when I was going to the Tom Ford store in Chicago. Baby, be so careful today. You can get monkey pox trying on clothes at a store and or not washing your new clothes.

March of 2023, 7 a. m. She texted me in People Magazine article, Florida man dies of brain eating amoeba after rinsing sinuses with tap water. And she texted underneath it, John, John, we are never moving to Tampa. Now we had never discussed moving to Tampa, but it was officially off the table. Okay. This was one after this was like the 200th time.

I took our son on a walk. In the stroller in Chicago. She wrote me, out of nowhere, no context. Please be so careful today. So many crazy things can come out of nowhere. I texted back, like what? Olivia responded, crazy cars. You don't hear enough about crazy cars. I don't, I can't believe it's not an issue in this election.

John John, Dick Van Dyke just got into a car accident. Bloody nose, bloody mouth. You have to be so careful driving in the rain. Oil collects on LA streets. I wrote back, Because of Dick Van Dyke, question mark? Olivia wrote back, Yes. When I was on tour in Australia, she sent me this. Baby, so many things in Australia can kill you.

Just go to your show and go back to your hotel and never go outside. Then, this is the last one. You have a family to think about now. Very good. There it is. I mean, it's true, right? Every relationship has a risk adverse person who just doesn't want life to be lived. You know, it might hail out there. You just never know.

And, uh, good for Olivia and for JonJon right there. Very heartwarming stuff to listen to. All right. I'll be back with that Jon Stewart story and a lot more. So stick around. We'll be back right after this. By the way, before I get into the Jon Stewart story, we have Subway being sued for a misleading sandwich ad.

Can we do a better job? I don't know if this is an FDA issue or whatnot, but we've got E. coli coming from onions and McDonald's. Subway's not even real. In my opinion, I don't want to get sued for defamation, but didn't they already show that in, in Ireland, they can't technically call Subway sandwiches bread because they're just not.

So it's like, what are these companies doing? What science are they doing to keep us from, you know, or just to maximize their profits and how does it affect us? Well, now they're being sued in a, I guess, a class action lawsuit. Here's what today's show had to say about it. This morning, Subway facing scrutiny in a new proposed class action lawsuit.

The plaintiff, Anna Tolleson, accusing the restaurant chain of grossly misleading customers after she bought a steak and cheese sandwich that the suit says contained 200 percent less meat than the heroes depicted in Subway ads. Tolleson's suit arguing that Subway's actions are especially concerning now that inflation, food and meat prices are very high.

Now my question would be, are you even sure that that was meat? Adding many consumers are struggling financially. And the suit says other Subway customers have noticed shrinkage in its sandwiches too. Similar lawsuits filed in the same court against McDonald's, Wendy's, and Taco Bell were dismissed last year.

NBC News has reached out to Subway for comment. Now what happens? What's next? So look, a judge has to certify or approve this to move forward, right? That could take some time. It's up to a judge next. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified, unspecified damages. For New Yorkers over the past three years who bought sandwiches and didn't get exactly what they thought they were going to get.

Can't be all buns. I mean, look, I don't know how I feel about this. We live in an overly litigious world, but at the same time, you have to sort of. Hold people accountable, but you know, if you're ordering your food and it doesn't come out how you want it, just don't buy it. You know what I mean? Just say, no, I'm, I don't agree to the sale there.

Uh, I'll tell you what, the only time I ever go to a Subway sandwich shop is if I'm at like a gas station on a trip and that's all they have, you know? It's like, I used to love, I used to love a good Subway sandwich. You go in there, you get extra banana. I, uh, it's the only time I ever eat those banana peppers.

What are they? Pepper chinos, whatever they're called. Uh, who cares? Right? That's the only. I'm in there, but who knows who, you know, that sneeze guard, the bread's just too fluffy. I'll tell you what the best thing that Subway sandwiches has is their chocolate chip cookies. And I will fight you on that. Who the hell are they to serve like raspberry white chocolate?

Now. Have I ever turned one of those down? No, but that's because I'm a sugar addict, but the chocolate chip cookies are quite, quite, I'll join the class action lawsuit if they pay in free chocolate chip cookies for life. Alright, let's move it on. So we've got a few different stories to jump into here. Of course, we've covered the Tony Hinchcliffe roast joke that he told at the campaign event for Donald Trump.

And of course it is received. Tons of backlash all around the world. Well, Mark Maron calls out comedians who joke around with white supremacists and fascists on their podcasts. All it does is normalize fascism. That's what he had to say. When someone who uses their platform for that reason, they are facilitating anti American sentiment and promoting violent.

Uh, autocracy, he wrote in a blog post shared to social media. He did not call out anyone by name. The post comes three days after Joe Rogan, who's Joe Rogan experience experience is the number one podcast in the U S and on Spotify and Apple. He released an episode with guest Donald Trump. So I guess he was actually more so calling out.

Joe Rogan, even though I do not do a political show, I have been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe and have believed for years. What is brewing in this country is an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources.

Well, it's fully percolated and pouring into the minds of all of us. It is shameless and proud culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear mongering and the anti woke movement is Has delivered their message for the future, a future that marginalizes almost all voices. Well, that's what, that's what's interesting is he doesn't just blame one side.

He, well, I guess he is, he's blaming the anti woke movement, this sort of backlash from progress. He continued. That the anti woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement.

Um, you know, I guess that's, yeah, I guess that's a result of people feeling like their free speech was infringed upon or attacked, which it wasn't. But, you know, you'd be lying if you said, Cancel culture wasn't real. People do cancel things. People are canceling their Washington Post subscriptions, 200, 000 of them because they didn't like, um, the fact that they, you know, didn't, uh, endorse a president.

Um, but Joe Rogan has said that he wanted to have both sides on. He said he still might interview Kamala. Uh, here's, you know, he was obviously getting questions following his interview of Donald Trump. So here's what he had to say. For the record, the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast.

They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and to get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.

Let me tell you something, Kamala Harris, if you're listening, Vice President Kamala, Go on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's only going to help you to normalize who you are and for people to get to know you, uh, Trump received a hundred million plus views in different platforms. It's going to be absolutely good for you, but you know, every day, there's so many people online, uh, you know, voting beforehand, it's like you better, you better get going.

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Please support the show and tell them we sent you. This fall, enhance your every day with VEA. Enhance your every day with VEA. All right. So let's keep the party rolling here. We shared what, uh, what, uh, Mark Marin had to say. Um, and look, I don't even know if it's productive to call things fascist because I don't even think most people even know what that means, but Jon Stewart shared his thoughts on Tony Hinchcliffe's performance during Trump's rally.

Um, it seems as though Jon Stewart had essentially the same opinion that I did. I'll play his opinion and then i'll share kind of how I think it's the same as mine. Come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key voting demographic. Probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy's really just doing what he does.

I mean, here he is at the Tom Brady roast a few months ago. The great Jeff Ross, ladies and gentlemen. Jeff is so Jewish, he only watches football for the coin toss. Gronk, you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on the ovens. Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton, they called it deadlifting.

Yes, yes, of course. Terrible, blue, yes.

There's something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and have him not do roast jokes. That'd be like bringing Beyonce to a rally and not have. Oh. All right. So here's the deal. And I made pretty much the same comparison. It's not even worth addressing what Tony Hinchcliffe said, because if you go to a comedy show and.

Or if you go to a roast, you're, you're kind of, um, you, you, you accept the terms and conditions, which is nothing's off limits. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't, you know, that's what a roast battle is. It's two people roasting each other. And usually one person wins and one person loses. Uh, of course the main issue is not that Tony Hinchcliffe.

Does what he does. It's that it happened at a campaign rally. You could talk about punching down and all those things. I mean, you know, that's a whole different conversation, but what, what I think I agree with, with Jon Stewart here, it's, it's not even a conversation about Tony Hinchcliffe. It's a conversation about who thought this was a good idea and how big of a faux paw or whatever you want to call it.

It was, I mean, it'd be the same thing as, uh, Like, like I said before, hiring an adult entertainer to do a pole dance at the podium. It's just not the time or place. And when you talk about political correctness, it used to be that the only place you needed to be PC was in politics. It's the most important place to be.

PC. And that essentially is the point that Tony Hinchcliffe has been making these jokes on TV at roast. So again, blame Tony or don't blame Tony. You really should be blaming the, uh, people that thought this was a good idea. And just know that you should, if, listen, if you are a Trump supporter, you should be upset because it just, it, you know, having someone like that there, it just puts fuel on the fire for, you know, You know, uh, for, uh, people to say what they want about your side.

All right. Well, last, last clip I have here is Shannon Sharpe talking to vice president Kamala Harris about how much money they make. I'll have this right after a quick word from our sponsor. All right. Kamala Harris was on Shannon Sharpe's podcast, discussing the pay that you get as the vice president.

What, what do you define as a black job? Cause let me tell you what I define as a black job, vice president, United States. That's a good one, right? It is. I don't know about the pay, but it's a good job to have. Well, you know, not everybody is Shannon Sharpe. No, but you know what I wanted to ask? It's true though.

They really don't get paid that much money. You know, plenty of YouTubers and podcasts. I mean, I hate to say, I think I'm, I think I could, Possibly. I mean, don't get me wrong. Kamala probably makes, they probably make a lot of money in other ways. If you know what I mean, looking at you, Nancy Pelosi. Okay. So anyhow, that's it for your, uh, political stories, but I gotta tell you, you know, someone said, Oh, Dave, you know, I don't listen to your podcast anymore because it was a safe space to get away from the political talks.

Listen, you've got former athletes, podcasters, entertainers. It's all mixing with politics right now. What the fuck? Fuck, do you possibly think I would have to talk about if we didn't talk about this wild, wild world we live in right now? Good grief, you know? Like, like I said this before, you want me to talk about J Lo?

I got no J Lo stories. There's literally nothing going on. I can't do 50 minutes a day on Dancing with the Stars. So just give me a break. All right. Well, I promised you I'd have some nice, uh, motivational thoughts here. So here is James Doty, a doctor, a neurosurgeon talking about not letting negative self talk hold you back.

Have a listen. It doesn't matter where you're at. It's matters what you believe. When you have this negative self talk and you create these limited belief systems, that is the prison you're creating for yourself. And the first step. Though, is to understand that, yes, circumstances can be very horrible. Yes.

Circumstances can result in you not even being able to feed your family. And I truly acknowledge that because I know what it's like to be hungry. Regardless, you have possibilities when you're able to interrupt. That negative belief system, when you're able to look through the lens of possibilities, because when you are negative, when you say it's not possible, the world is against me, everybody hates me, fundamentally, you're changing your physiology.

We have oscillation or vibrations that come from our bodies. And one of the greatest ones is from your heart. If you have this negative self talk, if you create this negativity, that goes out. I mean, the, the bioelectrical energy that comes from your heart extends three to five, uh, feet outside your body.

And I'm sure you've experienced, you were mentioning something earlier. Gosh, when you walked in, you made me feel good. That is a gift all of us have to give people. And I'm sure you've met people who, as soon as you meet him, go, I do not like that person. All of us have the ability to become the former, not the latter.

It's how you look at the world. And when you change, how you look at the world from that one of negativity, because you know, your situation is difficult to look at. There are amazing possibilities here. Because what I tell people, when I changed how I And of course, that's a, you know, an old quote, Wayne Dyer said, it basically reflects Einstein's thoughts that when you change, when you decide to live, you know, it's a, it's your biggest decision in life to decide if you live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world.

It can be tough out there when you, when you're beaten down by the dopamine crashes of social media and all the negative comments that come out there. Just remember, don't let Rob you of that joy harness it and you know tend to that fire every day go on a nice hot girl Walk a hot boy walk go out there and take care of yourself and uh the world I I really believe it will take care of you.

All right. Well, that's it for me For me, we got a lot of content we didn't get to. We'll just save it for tomorrow morning. We'll see you then have a good one. Everyone. I hope you enjoyed your ride home. We'll talk to 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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