10-31-24 Morning Rush - Love Is Blind Reunion Recap & Golden Bachelorette Recap & How Joe Rogan Kamala Harris Interview Fell Apart

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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 Halloween to you on this Thursday. Thursday, October 31st of 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

And on this morning's rush, we've got world series champions to talk about and a wild love is blind reunion. I'll give you some of my first thoughts on that in a very emotional golden bachelorette fantasy suite episode. Plus Donald Trump dresses up as a garbage man at a Wisconsin rally. Don't worry.

I'll explain why. And Joe Rogan explains why he. wouldn't fly to interview Kamala Harris. Plus Dancing with the Stars contestants try to explain what the heck is going on with the Gleb and Brooks showmance and breakup. It's a wild one. This is a Halloween special. I got all these stories and more coming up next on The Rush.

Well, let's begin by congratulating the Los Angeles Dodgers. Here's the moment they closed it out against the New York Yankees to win the world series.

There it is. Walker Bueller with his first save ever. Closes the door on the season and the Dodgers win four games to one in the Bronx. So good for them. It was their fourth time defeating the Yankees in the World Series for a total of eight World Series. I got to tell you, the thing that I miss most about living in Los Angeles is knowing that When there's a big wind, albeit, uh, soccer, baseball, football, it didn't really matter.

There would be fireworks going off. It's the city of fireworks, especially where I lived in East Los Angeles. Uh, the fire, literal windows would be rattling. So very happy for them. And I got to tell you, I don't know. If you've never experienced the joy of your team winning a championship, I have to tell you, it's a real blast.

You're hugging people. You're just sharing that real great moment. It feels like New Year's in Times Square. That's what it feels like. Just everyone's happy when you're on the winning side, that is. As a New England sports fan, I celebrated the first 18 years of my life not knowing what that felt like.

And then we had a little bit of a good run there. Thanks to Tom Brady and a couple, uh, Red Sox teams, um, Celtics and Bruins teams. But now I know, and now I am back onto the losing side. So all I can do is rewatch the documentaries of the time of the glory days, that's what I can do. But no, seriously, you know, people rekindle relationships with their father over sports.

Baseball is one of those sports. It's like the, it's like the sport version of, uh, of the soap opera. It's long, it's slow. It's arduous. I remember growing up. I actually used to listen to, uh, sports talk radio as a child. I didn't have cable TV. In fact, our only TV was in the basement. We'd watch full house and whatever TGIF we could on Friday nights in the mid 1990s.

It was a moldy basement. We had no other way of kind of getting entertainment, except I had this radio that I got for Christmas and I would tune it to, I think it was 630 AM, whatever the AM radio station was. And I would go to sleep every night, listening to baseball games and those Commentators, they, they were like, uh, what podcasters are now, just people you would listen to talk about anything.

And thwack in between a couple of words, swinging a drive, deep left field, you would hear commentary. And I think from an early age, I've been attracted to the art of radio, you know, radio and what we do here, podcasting the art of audio. There is something about it that cannot be replicated by the medium.

A video, YouTube, there really is something about it. You know, a lot of stand up comedy specials fall flat, but the audio version, if you've ever listened to a stand up comedy album, you feel like you're in the room. It's almost as if our brain does a better job of coloring the scenery together than what we see out of our eyes.

And I think that speaks a little something to what we're capable of between our ears, the imagination that can exist and the inspiration that can come from that. Now, sadly, in a world of social media with short form content, our eyes are just reading everyone else's resumes. That's what we're doing on social media, reading someone's resume, their best day, their worst day, cop shooting, part seven, you know, whatever the crazy story is of the day, whatever that morphine drip is that keeps us going, that's not creating, that's consuming.

So one of the messages, I guess. I think that I'm kind of like uniquely qualified to share as we approach a new year and get ready for new goals is what can we all do to be creators? Now, I don't mean start your own podcast. I mean, do whatever the hell you want. I mean, what can we do in our lives to create our story, not to consume it, to be behind the wheel?

Of the ship heading in the direction of our dreams. What can we all do? What actions can we take? And I'm not sure I have the answer to that. I think quiet time, I think having some moments out there where you just hit pause on all the noise in your life. And just get out there and listen. And maybe we'd be surprised what we end up hearing.

Now I mentioned a few minutes ago, a little bit about TGIF, you know, thank goodness it's Friday. Now it's not Friday yet here, but I mentioned this idea that I'd only watch TV every once in a while. Well, have you heard of the Mandela effect? Essentially it's that we misremember what actually. Uh, in life, in whatever cultural event there is.

Well, now someone says there's a Mandela effect for full house with uncle Joey and uncle Jesse. Have a listen to this. And here's another thing. Here's another thing. People go like uncle Jesse and uncle Joey. No, Joey wasn't a fucking uncle. Joey was the best friend of Danny. Jesse was the only uncle there, but they called him uncle Joe.

They never called him uncle Joey. Now, what time did they call him Uncle Joey? It was Uncle Jesse and Joey. What? But people in their mind, people in their mind have called him both uncles. Not once did those kids call him Uncle Joey. I watched that show religiously. I am positive. A new man. Uncle Jesse and Joey.

Those kids called him Joey. And there it is, they googled it, and they say that Dave Coulier named his most iconic role after a gag, and in the new episode of the Rewatch podcast, Full House Rewind, the actor behind Uncle Joey, though despite popular recollection, he was never actually referred to as Uncle Joey on the show, revealed the origin of his character's name, Gladstone.

How about that? Cut it out. Am I right, folks? Okay, let's move it on. Did that hurt anyone's brains? I think it did. Uh, we got a couple of we got some really great and random stories to share today, but last night was Joan Vasso's episode of Golden Bachelorette, the fantasy suites. She made it clear to her three men that she would not be getting intimate with them.

Well, actually, technically, she only made it clear to two, Chalk and Guy. When it came to Pascal, he actually said goodbye to her before she could, uh, you

I wish you were ready, but if you're not, you're not, and I can't force that. Just, I'm not there. Are you gonna be okay? I am. Of course I am. I'm sorry. You know, she tried to say it's okay, it's okay, I know it's not okay. When you get hurt, you try to overcome by, say, oh, I'm okay, it's okay, it's okay. To try to protect yourself.

I could see it, I could feel it. You know, the way she was holding my hand, I knew she was not okay. There it is. Powerful stuff, right? I think, and again, I'll have a video on this today. And by the way, in, in my recap video, I will be wearing my Halloween costume, so don't worry. You'll get to see the big reveal of what I'm doing for Halloween this year.

I have to give major props to my wife who use, knows how to use a glue gun. You can't take away her second amendment rights. She will bear arms when it comes to gluing together a lot of things for the outfit we made for our son. Uh, it involves a rocket ship that is attached to his bassinet stroller.

He's He's absolutely going to love it or he's going to cry. I don't really know to be quite honest, but I hope he likes it. So I'll, I'll have that reveal later on today. But yeah, no, this moment, I mean, it's so real. It's so real here because you had Pascal. He of course, um, you know, uh, You know, he just wasn't that into Joan in a romantic way.

He said he liked her as a person and liked hanging out with her, but he just didn't have that feeling. And, you know, it's sad. It seems like he was more sad for her, that maybe he felt like he let her on, he didn't think he was gonna make it that far. I don't think he actually felt that way. He did what he had to do.

I mean, look, he was probably gonna get dumped by her anyway, so he just, uh, you know, emotions are getting high on the show, and that's why we watch this show, for those types of vibes that we get there. All right. Well, we have, speaking of breakups, we have a breakup that happened in dancing with the stars.

We'll get to right after a quick word from our sponsor. All right. Spreak it. Speaking of breakups, we'll have our love is blind thoughts in a second, but first we've got a interesting sort of a talk of the town on dancing with the stars. Everybody wants to know what's going on with Gleb Savchenko, the pro dancer.

And his former, recently former partner, both on the ballroom floor and off Brooks Nader. Were they dating? Were they not? Here's what the pros and the dance in the, uh, actors had to set that, excuse me, the pros and the dancers had to say, what the heck is going on with Brooks and glad we are all lost. We don't know.

We've been sending it talks back and forth. We're trying to figure it out ourselves. We're just lost. And I'm a subscribed fan at this point. I love it. Do your thing. We're all about posting, so keep it up. I'm entertained. You said, do you love me? I tell you, only part of you. Only my bed and my mom. I'm sorry, I said, did I miss a chapter?

I'll ask Webb to his face, and he doesn't tell me an answer. I don't know how they're doing it, but they're good. Coinciding with each other very well. We both are like what is going on pop my popcorn and I'm sitting back and I'm just like The tea is hot and I love to drink it We're all watching Tea with Popcorn and have zero idea what's going on Every top comment There they are.

All right. So did we learn anything right there? Not at all But social media can be used to further your fame if you're gonna drive the traffic to To the, are they together? Are they not together? It can also be used to expose people. Now let's just go into love is blind. The reunion last night was pretty wild.

If you ask me, I thought it was pretty wild. You know, I'll be honest. I don't know if I like love is blind. It's a lot. I wish someone could watch all the episodes every season and then say, Dave, it's a watch or Dave, it's a miss. But it's really hard. You know, there's so many storylines and so many people.

So I bit the bullet over the weekend and I kind of binged as much of it as I could. Watched the reunion last night. We essentially have two couples that made it. So as far as an experiment goes, is love blind? Turns out it's pretty much. Not blind at all. You know what I mean? Like love does involve, uh, all forms of attraction, eye contact, physical touch, things like that.

It's almost, it almost makes you feel like when you take away all of that, maybe it is a little easier to fall in love, but that's not sustainable. You know, some of these relationships worked until they saw each other and not just that, but all the other, um, Uh, the other aspects of an experiment, like going back to work, uh, how they handle the relationship of living together and all of that.

Well, Taylor and Garrett and Ashley and Tyler are the only married couples from the batch. And it's very interesting. Taylor and Garrett, I thought, had the best chance to go the distance. You know, they kind of had this nerdy yet also kind of sexy science thing going on. They're planning on moving to D. C.

Look, you know the whole deal. If it bleeds, it leads. So the real interesting stuff here is actually what went down with the couples that didn't make it out here. And, again, I'm gonna cover this all, uh, uh, all my thoughts on YouTube today in a much longer video. But this Hannah and Nick thing thing was pretty crazy, right?

Nick and Hannah were dating. Clearly Nick wasn't that attracted to Hannah. Uh, but she was also a B word to her. She said she was a bitch to him and they went back and forth and people wanted Nick to admit that he said that she was only a five out of 10. He says he never says that, but he did say that, uh, you know, he just, you know, maybe it wasn't that into her physically, which is fine.

You know, like that's part of the whole thing, right? Uh, but Hannah thinks Nick's very calculated and Hannah said that, um, he wrote, I guess. I guess in like a vision book or whatever, like in a journal, that he wanted to go on Love is Blind and become famous. And look, I mean, to be quite honest, I mean, you know what, a lot of people do stuff like that on their vision boards.

Like, I wanna be a name, I wanna be this, I wanna be that. And it's like, alright, okay, whatever, you know, I don't blame him or anybody who goes on the show and looks for fame. Like, I'm sorry. If you weren't looking for fame, you wouldn't You know, go on social media to an extent, like everyone wants to build equity for whatever their brand is.

It's 2024. That's the world we live in. So if all these people saying they're not going on it for fame, I say, well, then don't cash in any money when you get some sponsorships on your social media. You know, and by the way, fame is kind of fleeting, you know, going on these shows can open up opportunities, you know, I hate to say it, but that's what it can do in today's world, you're almost better off going on love is blind than, than getting a degree from an Ivy school.

If you're trying to get your business launched or, you know, You know, live, uh, sort of, uh, self, uh, you know, self, uh, you know, uh, uh, employed or I don't know. Now, now don't take it wrong. I'm not telling people not to get a good degree. I'm just saying in today's world, the sale, the only thing that's important is can you bring money in and you do that by having a large following, which you could get from these shows.

Hey, don't take my word for it. I didn't go on any of these reality shows. I'm just talking about them. So the other interesting story is, well, there's a couple, right? There's a, there's, I mean, there's this guy, uh, let's get into it. It's, um, he was accused of fathering. I get, he was, so he said he was a sperm donor.

And then the internet went wild when they said, you're not actually a sperm donor. You were with these kids of yours. And now you're disavowing them. Well, he admonished viewers, Tyler did, uh, for digging into his private life, saying his children's birth certificates have now been made public. Things that shouldn't be happening are now happening, he said.

So I guess if I have this right, he was He was a sperm donor to a lesbian couple, and they broke up. And when they broke up, his friend was now a single mom. So he went to help out. And so the kids knew him. And when he was asked, would they recognize you? He denied it because he says he didn't want to bring them into it and have anyone kind of connect the dots.

So when you hear his side of the story, it's actually extremely, um, generous and it makes sense, right? Doesn't it just make sense? And his. Lady, right? His wife says, look, I wouldn't have married the guy if I didn't think he was on the, on the straight and narrow or whatever. So I don't know. I thought that was very interesting.

The other interesting story was, and by the way, I found them all to be interesting was Alex and Tim. They were both very well spoken as they kind of went after each other and kind of did the whole, he said, she said, who did it? And by the way, if you didn't watch the show, I know this means hogwash to you, so I won't spend too much time on it.

You can go to my YouTube and check it out. Um, But I guess there was accusations that she physically assaulted him because she put her hand on his mouth. And he was saying, no, she only put her hand on his mouth because she didn't want production to intervene in the argument that they were having. And they kind of paraded each other.

He called her a little, she called him a little ass bitch. And he was like, why would you call that to a grown man who is trying to love you? I don't know, guys. You know, the problem with this show is. Everything that happens is not caught on camera, so it becomes a huge he said, she said, which is extremely annoying because I don't know who to believe.

So people are, you know, inevitably going to get mad at me if I take one side versus the other, and it's like, I'm sorry, I don't know what the heck went down. I'll have all my thoughts on that on today's YouTube, but let's just keep it there for now. Interesting stuff, and if that wasn't interesting enough, Let's just go into Donald Trump.

He says, how do you like my garbage truck? He trolls Joe Biden in Wisconsin. That's because, and again, everyone's looking for that moment where they can kind of take over the other side. Joe Biden said, uh, you know, uh, you know, in response to the Puerto Rico is a floating garbage joke, he, uh, Joe Biden said, your supporters are garbage, and then he took it back and said, I mean, the people that were talking on stage and it became a whole thing, you know what I mean?

My thought is this, you know, All the people that weren't going to vote for Joe Biden when he was running for president said because they thought he was senile. Now he says something kind of senile and everyone's taking it for what it's worth. It's like, look, at this point, I, I say we laugh because we cannot cry.

That's really what it comes down to. It is a sad state of affairs as to where we are in this country. So Donald Trump trolled president Biden by calling MAGA folks crazy. Garbage by riding around in a swing state in a custom garbage truck. How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.

He goes, how do you like my garbage truck? What? Oh boy.

I love Puerto Rico. They said, do you owe, uh, do you owe Puerto Rico an apology for what the comedian said? He goes, nope, but I love Puerto Rico. So there it is. Look, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about it. I, you know what I said, I'm going to tell you exactly what I said. And you know, Jon Stewart and a lot of people have agreed with what I said.

I said this early on. My first take was forget what Tony Hinchcliffe said on stage. Forget it. Whoever booked him is at fault here. Tony Hinchcliffe, like he does what he does. Okay. He's a venomous, uh, snake. When it comes to writing roast jokes, call him racist, call him whatever you want. That's what he does.

You brought him to a non roast venue and that's on you. Now, you could say, well, that just goes to show that they, you know, don't have the sort of, um, ability to see through common sense decisions. I don't know. But either way, a couple of clips here about the mistake that was made. Here is actually Joe Rogan on his latest episode discussing this Tony Hinchcliffe roast joke that inevitably led to.

Donald Trump driving a garbage truck. What a wild world we live in. Tony Hinchcliffe is gonna be Tony Hinchcliffe. Exactly. So whoever fucking booked him, that's the person that's, that's made the mistake. Not just booked him, but apparently went over his material. Did they go over his material? No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. In the words of Donald Trump, someone's getting fired, man. I gotta tell you that joke kills at comedy clubs. I don't like the joke. It kills and I said to him, I don't, it's just like, if you're Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you're like, oh, but it's a funny joke. The joke does well, but I said to him, I go, dude, that's the one's going to get you stabbed.

Really? Yes. And he used to talk about it on stage saying, Joe Rogan always says, that's the one's going to get me stabbed. Well, little did he know that was going to get him stabbed, uh, by public opinion. All right, I got, I got a question. More thoughts onto why the heck Kamala Harris didn't end up doing the Joe Rogan podcast.

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Well, here's Joe Rogan explaining why the Kamala Harris interview never happened. Have a listen. But she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas. And I literally gave them an open invitation. I said, anytime I said, if she's done at 10 o'clock, we'll come back here at 10 o'clock, by the way, this is so annoying.

So Joe Rogan says, the door's open. All you need to do is come, come visit me and we'll do the podcast. And people have said, Oh, how dare Joe Rogan. And this is, this is where you lose people. They say, how dare Joe Rogan not. Be able to fly to her. It's the last week of the election. He can't fly to her to do it.

And it's like, bro, Joe opens his studio. He's got like a whole seal team, six of people that work there. It's completely vetted. It's probably the safest place in the world. And he's got the largest platform in the country, if not the world for you to share your opinion. And you might say, well, 65 percent of Joe Rogan's audience votes.

Yeah? Well, how about those people that are undecided? How about those people that might not vote? How about the people that already voted? If you want to be the president, you gotta find your flipping audience and talk to them. And this is where the Democrats sometimes, and look, you can say this about both sides, sure.

I'm not trying to do a both sides are bad thing. But the Democrats do a real bad job at their communication. Go speak to Joe. Go talk to him about everything. aliens, tell them about your workout routine. Tell some funny stories about who the hell cares this election that we are in. Whoever's going to win it.

It's whoever does a better job feeling like, like, I hate to say trustworthy because you guys know where my vote is, right? I I've made this clear. I've already voted. I voted for the democratic ticket. Now you guys can do whatever the hell you want. But I think the fair thing is to get as much information as you can from both sides.

I hate this when people say, Hey, I'm voting for Trump. And they didn't even listen to a full conversation of hers. And again, I'm not trying to say that she stops traffic with her, you know, amazing speeches or anything like that. But everyone, everyone on both sides goes, Oh, there's no policy issues. They are there.

They need to be spoken to, and it's just annoying that she couldn't find the time. Look, she might be doing five interviews a day, the one with Joe Rogan's gonna get more views. And already, like, his, his interview with Donald Trump has like 30 million views on YouTube. Are you flipping kidding me? I mean, if she goes on MSNBC or The View or whoever, That's a million views tops.

That's all it is. So she does five of those throughout the day That's not even a sixth of what she would have got if she just went on Joe dang rogan's podcast. This is very annoying. I'm very upset It was a huge miss for her not to go who cares if joe rogan's a fan or not Prove him wrong go in there and give the hell give a hell of a conversation I'll do it at 9 in the morning.

I'll do it at 10 p. m. I'll do it at midnight She's up. She wants to, you know, drink a Red Bull fucking party on. Yeah. But I think this idea that you're being a diva silly, cause you're asking her, you're offering her the opportunity to do exactly what the other candidate did. Right. Well, she actually reached out when she found out that he was coming on.

So their camp reached out to me. So I said, great. I would love to talk to her, but it was very difficult to tie it down. And a lot of, they wanted to travel and see that the thing is like, you can't, if I go somewhere. Then there's going to be other people in the room. And they want to control a lot of things, I'm sure, according to the Brett Breyer interview on Fox, like people were waving him off.

That's a distraction. I don't give a fuck what we talk about. I really don't. And you know what? I, I agree with Joe here when Bernie Sanders went on Joe Rogan's podcast, he was very much like, like Bernie Sanders was able to sell Joel on a Joe Rogan on a lot of his ideas. So did, uh, so did Andrew Yang. So this idea that he's just, you know, not going to give a fair shot, I think is so misguided.

And I'm, I'm really, it's just annoys me, you know, you need to, you need to like, I believe she, if, if she wins, she will want to govern for the people. And I don't know if you can say the same about Trump. I really don't, I don't know. Uh, you know, you've got people like Elon Musk who is literally trying to suck his, you know what, so that he can get, you know, whatever regulations, uh, taken away so he can build more cars or whatever.

And it's like, I don't want to live in a world where we play favorites, like, versus who you voted on. I want the best candidate to win. But that's not the direction we're going in unless you can try to talk to the most people in the most effective way possible. So that's where I stand. There is frustration.

But you might say, you know what, you know, most people aren't changing their opinion at this point. Well then, like, what are we even doing? What are we even doing? So, it doesn't look like she's going to go on. It's never too late up until Tuesday. I sure there's a lot of early voting, but there's a lot of people that might not vote until Tuesday.

And there's a hell of a lot of people that might not vote that you could inspire to vote. So we'll have to see how it all goes down, but lots going on here from garbage men to fantasy suites to love is blind to world series champions. We really had it all for you today. Could you believe that? Look, I can't believe we're already out of time.

I got a lot going on, but I will be back as I am always this afternoon. Happy Halloween, everybody. I'll see you then. 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. Live's too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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