10-30-24 Morning Rush - Bachelorette Jenn Speaks Following Her Exit From Dancing With The Stars & Yankees Win Big & More Presidents Comment On Comedian's Bad Joke!

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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. Happy Thursday. 30th of October, 2024. It's the hump day morning rush hour. And on today's episode, we have a dancing with the stars, shocking elimination of bachelorette, Jen.

I'll share what she had to say after getting a 10. She is now being sent home. And speaking of dancing with the stars, Maxim Chmerkovsky comments on the drama surrounding former dancer, Artem plus a zoo executive gets, Jail time for a monkeying around with millions and the Yankees prevent a sweep with a big world series win.

And Vanderpump rule star explains why there's been a delay in starting a new season, plus more commentary from the failed roast joke, what Biden had to say, and also what Trump had to say and why some of that is getting some negative attention. Okay. We've got a lot to get into stick around and we'll be back with all that content and more right after this.

Did you watch last night's dancing with the stars? Uh, it was a wild one. Jen Tran went home, although she did get a 10 from Carrie Anne, not an overall 10. She scored a 10 and two nines for a total of 28. And Ilona Amar, the, uh, rugby player, uh, is still in the tournament, even though she received a 24.

That's because you also have to do with the fan voting, which is very interesting because, you know, you think of bachelor as having this big loyal fan base. But why didn't they push Jen Tran through when she scored points higher than Ilona? I really can't answer that for you, but here's what she had to say following the news that she was no longer going to be dancing in this competition.

What a way to go out. I mean, hello. You scored a 10. You danced to Olivia Rodrigo. I mean, the song is about vampires, but it's really about men sucking, so I can definitely relate to that one. Fuck here. We all, I mean, I really call it fate, like I wasn't supposed to be here and it to have the experience that I've had and to also cut cross paths with this one, like it's really truly just been so incredible and I couldn't be more grateful.

I'm so proud of her because she worked so hard week in, week out. I'm just so grateful that I got to teach this incredible person, and I'm so proud of her. You're making me ugly cry. Where does this relationship go from here? What was that little giggle? I didn't want her journey to be about relationships or this or that.

I wanted her to be in this for the dancing, and we'll see, you know. No, not we'll see the relationship. We're always working. So now we have some time off. There they go. They have some time off. That being because, of course, she's now eliminated. You know, what sucks about this is, you know, you get paid like, I don't know what they're getting paid, around 20, 000 an episode.

So it's just a lot of money. You want to stick around as long as possible. It's like being in summer camp, right? So good on them for making it this far, but also a little side eye with the online, you know, You know, voters, they didn't push her through. That's what it comes down to. Uh, but, uh, anyhow, some more dancing news.

There's a lot of it. We've got Maxim Chermakovsky, uh, weighing in on the Artem and Nikki, uh, domestic violence issue that happened. Of course, Artem Chigventsev called the cops. On his wife, Nikki, uh, as I guess he accuses her of throwing shoes or something at him. There was a fight that went down when the cops actually showed up.

She said that he had her, and of course he went to jail, but then they never pressed charges on him. So I guess the case has been dropped either way. Maxim Chermakovsky is a very popular former dancer. And he was asked, Hey, what, what do you think about this after, you know, initially he refused to comment on it.

He said he wanted to wait to, you know, see what the police had to say. First of all, I'm just, you know, I think that people need to learn to let go when, when it's, before it's too late. And so if the couples don't work out, I think we live in a world where, you know, you give it an honest, honest effort, and then you can still be happy going your separate ways, and I think that it's one of the examples that we see.

Alright. You know, people would fast to judge Autumn. Uh, I believe that that's also the world we live in now. So, I'm just happy that people got to understand exactly what the situation is not. And, uh, that he gets a chance to also clear his name and move on. So he said he hopes he gets a chance to clear his name and move on.

Look, I'm not, I don't know anything about this situation other than the prosecutors decided not to press charges. And yet, there's still going to be a stain on his name here because, you know, the mugshot goes around, everyone's asked about it, Caitlin Bristow, I mean, everyone who has danced with him in the past was asked about it.

You know, the short of them having a ring cam in their living room, you just won't know what went down and it's truly a sad, regardless for the child. Cause clearly something really bad happened there. Uh, our final dancing with the stars story is the Alona Mar, the rugby player from the Olympics who made it through this week, she was, uh, taught, she was asked in people magazine, uh, what it's like kind of with her newfound fame, is she getting to meet any celebrities?

Here's what she had to say. That's crazy! It's all very positive moms. They're all like, I love what you've done for my daughter. I'm like, where is the unavailable hairs? Where are they? God, I thought there'd be more. No billionaires in here? Thought there'd be more. It's okay, but I love you moms. Keep sending me DMs.

I love them. I'm the same way. I don't get DMs from any of the, you know, I just get moms, a lot of grandmothers. God bless them. We love our audience here. No, no, no pain whatsoever. But for Alona, she's, I think, single, right? So she's like, hey, let's go meet some NFL players. And instead she just gets a mom being like, You were fantastic on the show, honey.

Hey, good for her, you know? Uh, a lot of people have wondered if she could possibly be the next, uh, bachelorette. I don't think so. I think so, but hey, what she proved on Dancing with the Stars is she might have a bigger fan base. Which is hard to believe. Again, I'm just over it. Were people sleeping on Jen?

Or were they just not a fan of her? Bachelor Joey, he made it through with uh, he's, he's doing incredible. He has a chance to win this thing. So who knows? All right, well, we've got a sneak preview for the, I know it's not Christmas yet. If you're like my wife, it starts at midnight on Halloween night, the beginning of November 1st is when she starts with Christmas music, which I personally think that, you know, people should go to therapy if they want to play Christmas music on November 1st, where I come from black Friday, that's when you start after Thanksgiving is when you start.

But either way, because I love my wife, I will play Christmas music for her whenever the hell she wants. Uh, same thing with Harry Potter. She's not feeling well. Let's put some Harry Potter on. I'll go make some soup for you. You know what I mean? Well, Uh, Travis Kelsey's brother, Jason Kelsey every year does a charity, uh, uh, Christmas album, like a real professional album.

And now Travis is taking part. So they have a preview of that album. I'm going to play for you guys just like 30 seconds, if you don't mind, here is a preview of a Christmas song that has Jason and Travis Kelsey performing in it. This was released by the, uh, as a clip by the new heights podcast.

Here it comes. So good! Fantastic. Oh yeah. I can't wait for Travis to hear that. I also just I think when Travis hears it he's gonna be very excited about it. Wandering the streets of my hometown.

Must've been years since I've been home. It's

Christmas time. In Cleveland Heights. It's Christmas time. In Cleveland Heights. There it is. There's the clip. Not bad, right? I'll play more of it when more music comes out when it's the right time, but Hey, look, a little technology, a good producer can turn a football player into a musician, I guess. Uh, now look, should we do a Christmas intro song for the rush hour podcast?

Should we do something like that? I don't know. We'll have to see. Um, I'm still kind of trying to figure out what I want to do for Christmas this year. As far as, you know, all of you guys, what we can do, you know, maybe, maybe, uh, what we could do is, uh, we'll do a stuff. The single mom wishlist where we try to help out some single moms in our community.

We'll get that planned in the next coming weeks. But, um, yeah, we always like to give back. It's a great time of year to really show love. Starts with Thanksgiving, right? So it starts with Thanksgiving, which I, you know, that's my favorite holiday, hands down. It's where you just tell people you're grateful for them.

That's what it's all about. There's something. That I try that, that, that is so meaningful within my soul that I just always feel the need to try to speak to other people and inspire other people. And that is to say, we are all just a vibrational ball of energy. And as we sort of, you know, start to work towards the end of 2024 and work into 2025, there's a lot of toxicity out there, but we can overcome that.

We can overcome that by just, you know, Putting a smile on our face and trying to do good. And it's going to be a rough week. The next week is going to be rough with the election, regardless of what side you're on. It's gonna be a lot of toxicity. There's a lot of, there's some real nasty stuff going on out there.

What I say about that is let's just try to put a nice orb of positivity around our bodies and around our soul. And let's try to fight this thing as an army of love. I know that's a lot. Sounds cheesy to say, but can you do that with me? I'll try to lead you guys in that path, but, uh, let's, uh, let's try to lead with some love.

All right. I got a lot of content to get to, so let's stick around. I'll be back with more right after this. As mentioned, there's a lot of nuttiness going on out there in Georgia, a man barricaded himself in a hotel room at the four seasons hotel. Here's that story. The developing story we're following tonight, those alarming images from Atlanta, a gunman barricading himself inside a room on the 33rd floor at the four seasons in Midtown Atlanta.

You can see they're throwing objects off the balcony, then opening fire, police telling people to shelter in place, SWAT teams evacuating floors above and below, and how this played out. Faith Abubay on the scene for us in Atlanta. Tonight, shots fired in Atlanta, police swarming the busy Midtown area around 2 p.

m. after a man reportedly pulled a gun on someone at the Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, barricading himself inside a residence on Well, it looks like they got the guy in custody. But again, just remember, stay safe out there, folks. Listen, I know, I know the way the internet works and the way news works.

We're a country of 300 plus million people. You're gonna get some deranged and some crazy out there. But whenever the scale is sort of tipping in during chaotic times. There's just going to be people that are on the brink and let's just not, let's just not feed them. Right. Uh, well, speaking of a wild story, here's one for you.

Uh, I guess a prosecutor alleges that this guy Pete Fingerhut misused over 2 million of the zoo's funds on sports, entertainment tickets and alcohol. This guy likes to party. The former marketing director of the Columbus Zoo broke down in court as Pete Fingerhut learned he'll be going to prison for five years.

It was all for a decade long reign of what prosecutors called Fingerhut using zoo assets as a personal entertainment fund and a golden ticket to free food and entertainment. Fingerhut, along with other zoo executives, Rung up more than 2. 3 million dollars worth of booze, tickets, and country club memberships.

Fingerhut made the choice every day to continue his criminal activity and knowing it was wrong. His greed and ego spoke louder than his values. The Ohio Attorney General's office calls it a crime against not just the zoo, But taxpayers. Yeah. So look, I mean, I did the math. If 2 million spread out at over a decade, if you work 180 days a year, that's 1, 100 a day you are burning through.

So this guy liked to party and there he was weeping and crying. And it's like, look, I don't know, you need to get help. You can't just be doing that. Uh, so, you know, I guess, I guess I'm glad that, uh, that they caught him. And by the way, Speaking of catching people, oh boy, the teachers in Texas are in trouble.

I got a story here for you about a lot of teachers, I guess, were caught cheating, uh, in, I guess, in the exam that leads to them becoming teachers. Have a listen to this. They are accused of running a fraudulent exam. teacher certification testing scheme right here in Houston that utilized a test taking proxy or teacher impersonator to take the tests along with a corrupt testing proctor to allow the switch between the applicant and the proxy test taker.

This was used to certify more than 200 unqualified teachers. All. Now, practicing or having practice here in our Texas public schools and in districts across the state. That's crazy. I mean, this, what kind of world do we live in? This stuff's going to be more common with AI. I'm sorry. AI is going to create more shenanigans and fraud.

That's why I say we need, we need to like almost have more money made available to just make sure people are being honest and on the straight and narrow. What the hell is this? Right? All right. Well, in other news, the Yankees, uh, broke their. slump with the bats and beat the Dodgers 11 to 4 and are now down 3 to 1 in the World Series.

Game 5 is tomorrow night. They're still staying in the Bronx, I believe. So, uh, we'll have to see if they can string together a couple more wins, but wild stuff. Isn't this crazy? Uh, what else do we have in the news? Here's a story for you. Blake Lively waited like a normal person for a table at New York City hotspot, dined everything on the menu.

Yes, that's right. This is an article in a newspaper page six. com. Oh, Blake Lively waited like a normal person. Uh, slow news day, you know, cause a lot of people, you know, I, not a lot, but I had that person that said, Oh Dave, I wish you wouldn't talk about politics. This is what you want. Blake Lively waiting like a normal person for a table at a New York City hotspot.

Well then this is what you get. Okay. This is all. We got nothing else going on. That's fine. How about a little Tom Hanks for you? You want some inspiration? Who better than Tom Hanks than, uh, to deliver it? Have a listen. What is the best advice you've ever heard or received? Throw deep, baby. And why? If you're going to do it.

If you have the chance. Do it. Don't pause. Instinct, man. If you got an instinct, go at it. Throw deep. There it is. We call it leap and the net will appear. I mean, what is the hurt in pursuing your dreams out there, folks? What is the hurt? Now, you might find me some limitations. Just remember, any answer that's not, you're right, let's get on and do it, is you telling yourself why it can't happen.

Now don't get me wrong. Take care of your family, you know, you know, fulfill whatever duties you have in life. 2025 is around the corner. It is right around the corner. And rather than start with a hangover on June, you know, January 1st. And, you know, why not start making some of those changes to get yourself in the position to succeed in the ways you want.

I want, and I say this because, you know, in some ways, you know, I'm pursuing my dream. You know, live performing and stuff. I don't know if the podcast and my YouTube channel fulfill all of my destiny. I think there's a bigger thing that I want to pursue out there, but for sure, in the meantime, it's, you know, I'm sure I'm sharpening the sword as it were.

And, um, you know, of course I, I want to be somebody who tells you like, look, you know, good things are out there. When you do what you want to do with passion and speaking of that, Charlie D'Amelio, one of the biggest stars in the world is doing what she does with passion. She's starring in a new Broadway show called and Juliet.

And here she, and of course she won dancing with the stars. She's one of the most recognizable faces on Tik TOK, the biggest star on Tik TOK. Here's what she had to say about the audition process. Yes, so I got the opportunity to audition in New York City. So I flew here in September and did my audition, you know, waited a couple days and then I heard back that they wanted me to be in the show and I got that call and immediately was like, all right, let's go.

We're ready. And, you know, finished up all of the fashion week stuff and immediately came here and started rehearsals. So it was definitely quite a quick turnaround. All right. Well, we're happy for her. She's very quiet. Hopefully she speaks louder on Broadway. You got to enunciate on Broadway, Charlie. I could barely hear you, but either way, good on her.

You know, she's just, uh, you know, she's a someone who just dances on Tik TOK. And I mean, look, if you've ever watched the D'Amelio show on Hulu, I'm telling you her, her family's interesting. You know, it's interesting how many opportunities that have come from them just going viral online. You're like, not a bad thing.

Well, online. Not a bad thing, although can be if it's for the wrong reason. Here is the Will Cain show talking about the behind the scenes with Tony Hinchcliffe after his infamous Puerto Rico joke. Have a listen. You and I went in with Tony Hinchcliffe. You and I, when we entered Madison Square Garden, he was out on the street.

Yeah. Uh, smoke break. Now, as you remember, he's the one who made the roast joke about Puerto Rico being a floating island of trash. It went super viral, but this is the moment that he realized, Oh man, I'm in trouble. He was having a cigarette. And I think that cigarette was to try to calm some of the nerves of what he was feeling, but the first thing he said to us, he's like, it's like, yeah, the, uh, the Harris HQ, uh, that they, they clipped it.

It's everywhere. And I'm getting slack for it. And like, he said that he was shaking. He went back into the garden with us. We rode the elevator together as first time I'd ever met Tony. He was a super nice guy. It was great to talk. We talked about Texas. He, um, immediately told us. Yeah, one of my jokes has already been clipped by Kamala HQ.

Now Kamala HQ is a troll account. That is, I think, actually, officially affiliated with the Kamala Harris campaign. It's a troll account that does this. And it, by the way, it is a huge offender of misinformation. Like, it does the thing where it takes people out of context, and it, and it will tell you, You know, it'll, it'll give you the world through the looking glass.

Well, look, let's hit the pause button there. I wouldn't call it misinformation out of context. I don't know. Short form content. Yes. And I am one that says you should never get all of your news from short form content. Absolutely. Uh, but I wouldn't say it's misinformation. You know what I mean? And, but by the way, there is a lot of misinformation out there.

There is both sides to it. Trying to twist what is being said to benefit them. Uh, and in the final week, I mean, in the final week, we are six days till this election is officially over in the sense that we'll have all cast our ballot by then. Hopefully you guys are voting, but you know, in the final week there'll be, you know, there'll be momentum shifts.

A lot of people have already voted, so maybe none of this even matters, but here is. Joe Biden response. Actually, you know what? We got to take a break. I'll, I'll be back with Joe Biden's response and the sort of slip up the faux pas, if you will, the gaffe that he made, I'll have that for you next. How wild essentially all polls of swing States are at a dead, even a 50, 50 coin toss between Kamala.

And Donald, and yet at this point in the race, the final week, the last thing you want to do is do anything that gets you to lose votes. Of course, Tony Hinchcliffe's comments, uh, have been disavowed by Trump and I'll get to what he has to say in a second. But first here's Joe Biden, not exactly helping the case.

Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community. He's a failed businessman. He only cares about the billionaire friends he has and accumulated wealth for those at the top. He says immigrants are poison in the blood of our country. Give me a break. He wants to do away with the birthright citizenship.

Who the hell has said that in the last hundred years? And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Well, let me tell you something. I don't, I, I don't know the Puerto Rican that, that I know, or Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people.

The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. All right. So of course, that's the moment that the Trump side, that faction is going to use to be, you know, they're going to want that to be like when Hillary called them all deplorables. And I think Biden walked it back, but Hey, you say what you say, you know what I mean?

So it's just one of those things. It won't make a difference at this point. None of it's going to make a difference, but in all fairness, because I try to be fair over here, I'm going to give you what Trump had to say about Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who said the roast joke. So you have this big event at Madison Square Garden.

It went on for hours. Um, I don't even know if you were there for the whole thing. I don't know what time you got there. Uh, I was told and made aware that you had no idea about this comedian who made comments. I still have, I have no idea who he is. Somebody said there was a comedian that joked about Puerto Rico or something, and I have no idea who it was.

Never saw him, never heard of him. And don't want to hear of them, but I have no idea. They put a comedian in, which everybody does. You throw comedians in, you don't vet them and go crazy. It's nobody's fault, but somebody said some bad things. Now, what they've done is taken somebody that has nothing to do with the party, has nothing to do with us.

said something and they try and make a big deal, but I don't know who it is. I don't even know who put them in. Uh, and I can't imagine it's a big deal. I've done more for Puerto Rico than any president. I think that's ever, that's ever been president. All right. There it is. You're happy. You got both sides.

Now let's give you some information to end the morning rush here. Uh, ABC is a good morning, America. The third hour, uh, tells us the difference between the different, uh, I guess, Types of food expiration. You know how it'll say best buy or use by or expired. Apparently they mean different things. Here's what they have to say.

You also say the dates on your food, you should know what they are. Why do you all have fights in your house about this? I know me and my husband do. There's always one of you who was like, nah, nah, nah. That's still good. So I think knowing the difference between best by use by I use the sniff test. And expired is really important.

So if you're doing best buy, right, or a used by, let's start with that one. That's about peak quality. So it's not talking about the safety of the food. And even though you see it on dairy or meats, you definitely want to pay attention, but then follow the date and use your nose and your eyes because it may go past that date.

And that's OK. That's the one my husband has a hard time with. And then there's best buy, which is more about the quality. So you might have like a cereal that isn't quite as crunchy. But it's safe, right? And then finally expired. If you've got medication or you have a baby formula and expired that word, we don't mess with, right?

You know, what's funny is when it comes to expired, like I follow these rules for other people, but for myself, I treat myself. Horribly, you know what I mean? If the milk's chunky, I just shake it up a little bit. You know what I mean? Anyhow, maybe that's, I just don't value myself. I guess I need to, I need to learn to take better care of myself.

I did buy myself UGG slippers in an attempt to take better care of myself. So I got that going for me. All right. Look, we made it to the end of this morning's episode. Uh, I hope you're having a good day at work today. And I'll tell you what, I'll be live on Patreon this morning. Patreon. com slash Dave Neal.

If you want to join me behind the scenes to do a couple hours of. Private live streams. We'll have a couple of YouTube videos and then I'll catch you this afternoon. I'll see you then. As always, 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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