10-29-24 Morning Rush - Gisele Bundchen Is Pregnant! & Chicks In The Office Thinks Some 'Dancing WIth The Stars' Relationships Are Faked!

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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 morning, everybody. It's Tuesday, the 29th of October, 2024. I got all of your Entertainment and pop culture news in one place and a surprise pregnancy announcement by Giselle Bunchen.

And also a Vegas brothel has incentives for people to get out and vote. I'll explain what that is. And world series game three is in their books after a wild ending. The Dodgers hold off the Yankees with a four to win a three to nothing series lead. Game four is tonight. They've all but wrapped up the world series, not to jinx it.

And a conspiracy that I've got from chicks in the office that dancing with the stars ex couple Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko faked their relationship. Also, the FBI investigates burning ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington. Plus captain Sandy from below deck reveals how she sabotages the crew during filming.

Plus the Rockefeller Christmas tree has been picked out in Stockbridge, Mass. And also, subscribers are cancelling their memberships with Washington Post after Jeff Bezos interferes with their endorsement of Kamala Harris. The big question being, why? I've got the answer to all that and so much more coming up next on The Rush.

Let's start the episode off with some wild and breaking news, that being Giselle, I guess the most famous model of all time, definitely the most successful, announced she's having a baby! So, here's what's next! Congrats to her. Here's the story. Of course, she was shacked out with Tom Brady for a long time.

Uh, they have since parted ways when he didn't want to quit football. Who else knows what led up to it, but she is now with a jujitsu guy and a gee whiz. Uh, looks like they're having a kid. She gave Tom the hea Do you like that pun? Gee? Because a gee is the outfit they wear. whiz? Okay. I just, you know, I didn't want that to fly over your head.

Uh, but she gave Tom Brady the heads up on her pregnancy. Didn't want him to find out from the media. You know, I mean, look. If you share kids with somebody, Anything you can do to try to make things as smooth as possible is the best thing for the kids, right? And they do have several children together.

She's now pregnant, uh, with Joaquin Valente. Uh, and, uh, I think she started dating this guy like pretty quickly after. I don't know if there's any overlap. I don't know when her and Tom were on the outs, but either way, you know, it sucks. He, you know, he was, you know, I don't know if she gave him the ultimatum, Tom Brady, but it's like the guy was 44, 45.

He was close to retiring. I'm not saying it was her fault, but it's like, you know, come on. The guy was so close to retiring. He just, how can you say no to football? You know, he's the greatest player of all time. Unclear how long Tom and their two kids have known Giselle was pregnant. But as we first reported Monday TMZ, that is she's at least over halfway through her pregnancy.

I have no idea. You know. This whole idea, you know, some people show earlier than others, you know what I mean? But she's going to be a mom at 44 and she shares a, uh, two kids with Tom, 14 year old Benjamin and 11 year old Vivian. I think that's gotta be so hard. To have kids, uh, you know, and then a decade later have another kid.

It's like, you finally get your sleep back. My thing is traveling. You know, you go to the airport, the kids can finally walk themselves through the thing. I got a six month old. I'm at the, I'm at the stage where my child. Poops in the TSA line. There's something about the TSA line that triggers a blowout every single time.

And now she's going to have to be dealing with that again. Oh, who knows? Maybe she, uh, flies private either way. Uh, and Tom, of course, had a baby with Bridget Monahan before that. So they've got quite the mixed family. Good on them. So they got divorced in 2022, but of course she's gotten closer and closer to the Joaquin.

And, um, yeah, I mean, what do you know? Good on them. Uh, Tom's doing just fine. Uh, and in other news of relationships that made it and then didn't make it, Chicks in the Office has a theory that Brooks Nader, uh, from this season of Dancing with the Stars and Gleb actually weren't even dating. Here's what they had to say.

This entire thing is fake. I think they were never dating or whatever. I think they put on this whole showmance. I think now this big breakup, they're just looking for clout, followers, people, engagement, people are into it. It's working for them, but I think all coordinated by the two of them. I think they, they coordinated the showmance and they are now coordinating this public weird breakup.

I think that this is the fakest of all time. I mean, I like a good conspiracy. I just don't know if they're smart enough when I look at them from beginning to end. I, I don't like, I am not into this. Like, I don't, I don't like it. Like, I, I just like, They are both making me like weirded out like I'm like I don't I don't I don't know I don't like just from the start.

I was like these two like I feel like they're on another planet I don't know. I mean they were photographed getting tattoos together They're both pretty good looking people. She just got a divorce. So she's recently single. I don't know. I don't know where I stand I personally think Sasha and Jen Tran Are sort of hinting at a relationship that's not there, which they don't have to do, but you know, why not have fun with it?

Who cares, right? It's a big thing. Who cares? Maybe they're together. I'd love it if they weren't. I'd have a story to make, but I don't know if I believe that. Well, there's another episode of Dancing with the Stars tonight. Uh, we'll have to see who's going to be going home, uh, soon. So we'll let you know, I guess, on tomorrow morning's episode after we get all that information.

Well, are you planning to vote? A Vegas strip club in neighboring brothel are offering free lap dances if you wear your I voted sticker. So it looks like Vegas is going to have quite a lot of people, uh, you go into the ballot box, if you know what I mean, they're going to be hitting that ballot box all pretty hard.

If you ask me. Uh, Uh, so, hey, good on them. Hey, I mean, you still, just so people know, a gentleman's club, you gotta be a gentleman. You still have to tip, uh, leaving the Pack. Vegas Staple Crazy Horse. Three Gentleman's Club setting election day on fire with their Dances for democracy. Election day, erection day, whatever the hell you want to call it.

But good on them, you know? And you might be thinking, how come Elon Musk can offer people a million dollars to go vote? But they can't give away free lap dances. What kind of world is this? We live in. Well, I'll tell you what, uh, from Giselle being pregnant to, uh, you know, might not be the craziest pregnancy story.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is actually taking a pregnancy test this week. She's cutting through the confusion about her unborn child's paternity. We're told she's finally set to take a paternity test this week. Oh boy. Bring in Brett. From Ravgen, we missed you, Brett. We haven't talked to you in a while, so we'll have to see.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ Gypsy isn't questioning her boyfriend Ken's paternity. She's doing this to give the public and her estranged ex, Ryan Anderson, some closure so he and everyone else can move on and know once and for all, who is the baby daddy. So, all right, good. I mean, look, you know, you just want to be no for sure.

And boy, she's good at staying. Listen, I could care less. Who the father is with Gypsy Rose. I wish I didn't know who she was, but for some reason, she's just one of those storylines that just won't seem to go away. And I mean, at least she's actually pregnant. Uh, unlike the little to no fetal DNA found by Clayton Eckerd's accuser, who of course said she was pregnant with Clayton's twins, they said, no, you weren't in for some reason or another.

That evidence was not brought into the courtroom. We'll have to see if the federal investigators or should say. State investigators, uh, maybe subpoena Brett from ravgen to find that out. Uh, if, if it is, or when it is, they decide to indict Laura Owens podcaster for all of the sort of, uh, financial, or I should say medical fraud and whatnot that was committed.

All right. Well, speaking of investigations, the FBI is investigating hundreds of ballot boxes. Uh, that were lit on, excuse me, hundreds of ballots that were lit on fire by joining the investigation. Now, after three ballot drop boxes were set on fire in the Pacific Northwest, destroying hundreds of ballots.

Images of burning paper being pulled out of a drop box. This is Vancouver, Washington, just before dawn this morning. And what officials are now saying voters should do. Here's our Chief Justice Correspondent, Pierre Thomas, now. Tonight, the FBI on the hunt for a suspected arsonist behind three fiery attacks on ballot drop boxes, destroying hundreds of ballots in the Pacific Northwest.

We do have smoke coming out of the ballot box. Officials say the fires, only miles apart in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. were sparked by incendiary devices attached to the outside of the drop boxes. Any form of voter intimidation, disruption, blocking of access, or vandalism at these sites will not be tolerated.

Authorities concerned that someone could get hurt releasing a photo of the suspects Volvo. This box set ablaze just before dawn in Vancouver, Washington. Officers prying open the box, then pulling out ballots still burning. An hour earlier in Portland, a second find. It looks like there's some kind of, uh, a device attached to the ballot box.

Luckily, only three ballots damaged because of fire suppressant. It comes as Homeland Security officials today issued a new bulletin warning that domestic violent extremists are posting online threats of violence toward election officials or infrastructure to prevent perceived fraud or to retaliate against it.

Alright, so look, I I want to do my best to use my platform with you guys to try to walk people through what's going to happen on election night, because chances are on election night, we might not have the results of the election. I'll save that all for the back end of this episode. So just stick around.

We'll do some more entertainment news. And at the end of this episode, I just want to, you know, give my own PSA as to what we can expect to happen so that when it does, we just are all on the same page and that's an apolitical conversation. I don't think we want. Political violence or violence in any way for ourselves, for the sake of democracy and whatnot.

So more on that in a little bit, and we'll be back with more content coming right after this. Do you watch below deck on a Bravo? It's a fantastic show about these charter yachts. And of course, captain Sandy is one of the better known captains. Well, she spills production secrets at a fan fest panel about how she was messing with the crew.

Tell you a little secret. So sometimes I get upset with production. And I'll take that boat and I'll stuff it into waves. I'll make sure that boat goes like this. And then I'll call all those crew that they hired up on the bridge and I'll say, Hey, you guys know where the life rafts are? Oh my God, you're evil and I love it.

How many crew are on board at any one time? So we have about, uh, 28 to 33 on board, uh, with production. There are cameras in every corner and microphones. I even have to look for them So when they leave the boat and they have a dark day I go in that room and I look at all those cameras and angles and make sure but sometimes I forget because you can see How I look you know, look if you don't watch Below deck.

I'm telling you, it's a fantastic show. Cause it's really about the debauchery of the crew who has to, you know, kind of like, uh, be sober and coherent for these party guests. And then when the guests are off the boat, they just get debaucher as they're all hooking up with each other. It's a, it's a fantastic show.

And believe it or not, I've been told that one of the casting directors for below deck, uh, is actually a fan of mine and watches my content, if that's true, and you want my wife and I to be guests on the. Cruise on the yacht, we'd be happy to do that. I just don't think we would be that controversial. Uh, I don't see us, you know, we don't really drink much.

And, uh, I mean, we fight like any normal couple. I just don't think it'll be that interesting. It'll be my wife more so asking me why I left a dirty diaper and didn't throw it out. You know what I mean? It's a real unproblematic stuff. Who knows though? Hey, I got comedy friends. We could get some comedians on the yacht.

We could have fun. All right. Well, they found the new tree. For Christmas for the Rockefeller center, Christmas tree. It's in Stockbridge mass, 74 feet tall. It's a Norway spruce. Listen, I'm telling you right now, do we really need to be cutting down trees every year? Can't they find a way to just make a fake tree?

I hate to say it. Can we do a fake tree? In central in uh in rockefeller center every year. Why do we have because like all right, you know They cut the tree down a bunch of squirrels families have to get relocated, isn't it? I mean i'm not trying to be a buzzkill here, but it seems like it's quite the mess.

All right Uh big issue going on with washington post. So jeff bezos Is being criticized Uh, after, I guess he's doing some dealings with Trump. I, you know, I try to save the political stuff for the end, but this is a newspaper. This is one of the biggest newspapers in the country and in the world, the Washington Post is supposed to be a reputable newspaper, but of course, the Amazon owner bought it and, uh, they, uh, this year the editorial section was supposed to pick an endorsement, like who are they going to endorse and they, along with LA times, both decided not to endorse anybody, which it's like.

I guess that would be fine, but it's like, there's the editorial section, and then there's the news section. And this is just the way it's always been done. Here's what happened. Jeff Bezos is being criticized after executives from his company met with Trump the day Bezos reportedly stopped the Washington Post from endorsing Harris.

Here's what we know. Executives from multi billionaire Jeff Bezos's aerospace company, Blue Origin, met with Donald Trump just hours after the Post, owned by Bezos. Announced they would not be endorsing a presidential candidate on October 25th. So I guess it's the same issue that people have with Elon Musk.

They think he's sort of supporting Trump because he wants Tesla to be deregulated and is really a weird thing we're seeing, right? It's like, why are all these billionaires? So excited to have Trump. It's almost like the billionaires that need, uh, sort of regulation want him. And then you've got the other billionaires cause I mean, there aren't that many, but you have billionaires like Mark Cuban, who is anti Trump.

So I don't know. I mean, everyone's got their own best interest in mind. Uh, but now after failing to endorse a candidate candidate, and after it came out that Elon Musk is probably behind. And first of all, do we really want Trump? Billionaires owning newspapers. I mean, this just sounds crazy, regardless of what side you're on.

I want news to feel like it's completely, uh, not bought and paid for it. You know what I mean? Huge breaking news right now. The Washington post has lost more than 200, 000 subscribers since failing to endorse in the presidential election. And two of its top editors resigned today. Now to put that into perspective, that is 8 percent of the entire newspaper's revenue gone out of the window because Jeff Bezos decided to block an endorsement of Kamala Harris.

In an effort to get into the good graces of former President Donald Trump. But look, do you think he even cares? This is chump change to him. Which is why billionaires, you know, shouldn't be allowed to own new I mean, whatever. You guys, you guys understand. I think it's a very reasonable point that I have here.

That it's not about one side versus the other. It's about How as a country, do we get back to trusting people to deliver the news? I honestly don't have an answer to that, uh, but it might get worse before it gets better, really. Uh, you know, there's already. Okay. So there's already this idea happening that, oh, you know, this, well, here's what happened last election, right?

Last election was during the pandemic. So there was a lot of votes that were tallied that were mail in votes. And a lot of those votes don't even get counted depending on the state until election night. So what happened is something they were calling a red mirage. And that is the idea that when you go to bed on election night, it looks like there are more People voting red.

And then when you wake up the next day, you realize there was actually millions of votes that had yet to be counted. And again, that, that doesn't mean there's cheating happening. That's just technically explaining how the, how the votes are counted. It's almost like you'll see. Um, you'll see one state, uh, skewing very high for the Democrats because they only counted maybe inner city votes in Atlanta.

And then you realize once they count the rural votes that normally vote red, it changes things. So what really should be done is we should not be expecting to know who won on the night of the election, which is one week from today. Here's how an NPR producer named Audrey Wynn explained the situation. On election night, states where Republicans are May not stay that way as more places report their election results after polls close Those seemingly Republican states could switch in favor of Democrats This phenomenon is called the red mirage or the blue shift and when it happened in 2020 then President Trump and his allies said it was evidence of voter fraud, but The truth is, it's because there's a big difference in how ballots are counted across the U.

S. These differences mean counting takes longer in some places than others. There are two main reasons for this. First up, research from MIT found that in the 2020 election, smaller and more rural counties, which favored Trump, counted results more quickly than bigger urban areas. Second, there are partisan differences in how people vote.

Republicans are more likely to vote in person, while Democrats are more likely to vote by mail. And there's something else. Some states have laws that limit when they can start processing all those mail in ballots that come in. Take, for example, the swing states, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. State laws there don't allow mail in ballots to be processed until after.

So then you can, you can understand the problem there, right? So the bandwidth is fried on election night and they don't even start counting till, you know, till that day. So, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's almost like this. And I know I'm talking to a bunch of reasonable people. I'm. I'm almost warning you guys and our whole audience that we're about to watch a lot of misinformation happen, uh, right in front of our eyes when we know dang well, this is how the world works.

I mean, maybe more Republicans would have voted early, but Trump was telling people not to in the last election. You should always vote early. As early as possible, it'll free up time on election day. So there's less lines, which will encourage more people to actually vote. God forbid it's raining or there's some sort of weather event that happens on election day, then only the people that are privileged enough to be able to drive their own cars or sit through traffic or whatever, are able to vote.

So I voted early. I hope you guys do as well. Uh, and it's going to be fascinating. And, you know, look as the Rush Hour podcast, and as far as I'm concerned, it's our civic duty to let our voices be heard and let this democracy play out. I just am trying to warn people ahead of time just to get ahead of some of that, uh, you know, possible misinformation that might be out there.

Here's what Reuters had to say about, Hey, let's all just take it slow. In 2020, media outlets weren't able to declare the winner for four days after the election. And this year, we expect it's going to take even longer. Polls are showing that this is likely to be one of the closest elections in U. S.

history, between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. There are seven states that are considered battlegrounds. Every single one of those states is essentially tied, according to the polls, with very small margins in one direction or the other. There are a lot of people who vote by mail. Right, so, and then you get the same thing.

And look, there'll be, there'll be lawsuits that have already been filed. There's one right now, I think, going to the Supreme Court in possibly Pennsylvania. That's a lawsuit by the Republican Party that's going to try to get a certain ballots removed. It's a whole, it's a whole thing, right? This is happening across the board in many states.

So, we all just need to Uh, vote, and then just relax and let the system play out and trust the judicial judicial system. I think that's the fair and measured thing to do, which is very important guys. It's very important, right? In our country with the democracy that we have faith in that democracy. And while there was a lot of accusations about voter fraud, we let the whole system play out and nothing of any substance whatsoever came out.

All right. I have some Sunny Hostin from The View, responding to Tony Hinchcliffe. Uh, she says, Puerto Ricans are not going to be happy with this political backlash. We'll have that story for you next. Oh, okay. So before I get to The View's response to the Puerto Rico joke, I do want to tell you about my voicemail line, 401.

It's a voicemail line. You can call and leave a voicemail. Ask me any questions. I'll play them on future episodes. Seriously. Try me. Ask any questions. Maybe you have a question about how to grow your social media. Here's what Mel Robbins had to say about how your social media is for your fans. It's not for your friends.

Your social media is not for your friends. Your social media is for you and your dreams and your self expression. And it's meant to put something out in the world intentionally so that people who are looking for you and who need you can find you. That is what social media is for. You know, look, Hey, it's kind of like fake it till you make it.

It's like your social media is your vision board. Like live the life you want to live. And of course, some people will say, well, that's toxic. It's fake. Your real life isn't, is okay. Sure. Whatever. But you know, uh, try, you know, when you're, when you're putting that framework together to try to be the best version of yourself, I think social media can help share and connect you with things.

Those that are of like minds. All right. Well, Sonny Hostin says, uh, has choice words to say following comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe's roast jokes at, uh, at the, uh, uh, Madison square garden rally that happened over the weekend. We always talk about the October surprise. Could it be that Tony Hinchcliffe's October surprise, uh, a joke bombing that was about Puerto Rico.

Could it be that that's enough to shift the election? Uh, Uh, I've been told from some Puerto Ricans out there, Hey, don't put it past Puerto Ricans to all like want to, uh, you know, uprise over this. This Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love, where my family is from Puerto Rico is trash.

We are Americans, Donald Trump.

Now to be fair, Trump's side said they don't endorse anything Tony Hinchcliffe said, but also it was a written joke that was, I guess. probably submitted through the, you know, the draft because apparently Tony Hinchcliffe was also going to call Kamala Harris the c word and they red flagged that. Serve disproportionately high in the military while you have bone spurs.

And we vote. Pennsylvania is home to almost half a million Puerto Ricans. North Carolina, 115, 000. Georgia, 100, 000. Arizona, 64, 000. Wisconsin, 61, 000. Michigan, 43, 000. Nevada, 27, 000. We vote Donald Trump. Trash.

Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny, Luis Fonsi, and Mark Anthony have over 345 million followers on Instagram. I think you only have 26 million. Since you care so much about size. Jesus. All right. So she tells you how it is. Now. Look, will this really change things? I don't know. I mean, you don't need, you know, in some of these states they might be decided by 10, 15, 000 votes.

So could it change things, you know, and say, say Pennsylvania comes down to 30, 000 votes. Well, if there's 500, 000 Puerto Ricans in 30, 000 of them out of the 500 switch their votes. That's only a small percentage. I don't know. We'll have to see. Very interesting stuff out there. I think, look. In life, before you make your vote, you just need to get educated.

Uh, but not everyone in our country is educated. Uh, I've got Haley Welch from the talk to a podcast, uh, learning a lot about history. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Cause you're telling me this bitch is blonde and deaf and they let her fly a fucking plane. Right. In a fucking plane? She's getting a Amelia Earhart. I thought Helen Keller flew a fucking plane.

Amelia Earhart. Yeah. Uh, so there it is. So Haley Welch, Thought she, she thought Helen Keller was Amelia Earhart, uh, stay in school folks. Now, look, we like Haley. Well, she's a sort of, uh, uh, I don't want to call her dumb because she seems very lovely, but she's, uh, you know, she's trying the best with the information she has.

God bless her for that. We love her. Get me on her show. Get it, get Amelia Earhart on that show. All right, folks. Well, that does it for us this morning. We'll have a lot of content coming into you today. I'll be live on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. If you want to support the private membership community, and then we'll be back this afternoon as we are every day.

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