10-9-24 Afternoon Rush - Bachelor Star Maria Responds To Bachelor Nation Shaming Her & Reacting To Lawyer Threatening To Sue Me

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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, everybody, on this Oct October 9th. It's a hump day, 2024. I got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. We'll give some updates on hurricane Milton.

Hope everyone is safe out there. I know a lot of people are on the road evacuating. We'll also be covering a UFO conversation. Whistleblowers say the government has vehicles of alien origin and their possession. Plus a pilot dies mid flight. And Travis Kelsey explains how Taylor Swift has expanded his palette and also Bachelor Nation star, excuse me, Bachelor star Maria shares how she was slut shamed by some members of Bachelor Nation.

And speaking of bizarre Bachelor content, I've also got an update. To the lawyer who's still threatening to take me to court. Uh, well, audiences don't seem too happy about his threats. It's nice to have an army of vigilante, uh, justice seekers out there willing to help me fight for truth. We'll have all these stories and more coming up next on the rush.

I'm sure we've all got a family member who it's never enough. No matter what we do. Well, Kathy Bates won an Oscar. This is reported by variety and her mom told her you didn't discover the cure for cancer. So I don't know what all the excitement is about, you know, every once in a while, you know, gosh, we love moms, right?

It's just never enough every once in a while. Uh, you know, I'll be arguing with my mom about something. I'll be like, you know, a lot of people online listen to what I have to say. You know, I'll be, I'll be hanging out with family and they won't be paying attention to me. And I'll be like, you know, uh, people, people pay meet and greets to hang out with me, uh, which whether that's true or not, uh, wasn't exactly helping my case.

Uh, I'm going home to see family this weekend. I've got a standup show. Friday night in Rhode Island, uh, at 6 PM in the rogue Island comedy festival. If you want to come to that show, I recommend it. I think there are still a few more tickets available, but it will sell out. It's a great lineup of comedians from all over taking part in a festival to laugh.

We love that. Well, in a festival of X files type of content, the extra terrestrial, we've got a leaked whistleblower reporting that the Pentagon has a UAP program called Immaculate Constellation that's been kept secret. From Congress. Uh, I love the idea of immaculate constellation. That's, that's what Clayton should name his, uh, kid he never had with Laura Owens.

Anyway, have a listen to what, uh, the whistleblower has to say. Intercon is illegally hiding secret UFO programs from Congress. Sources allege. Tell me more, sir. So a new whistleblower has come forward with a written report that this person has shared with. Some members of Congress and with me and the report is quite extraordinary.

It says that there is an unacknowledged. Special access program called Immaculate Constellation, which is the parent program is the language used for exactly what you said. UAP, crash retrieval, reverse engineering. And apparently a very large database of high quality photographs, videos, infrared videos, apparently much more sophisticated documentation of many more UAP encounters.

Listen, I don't believe it until you let me do a driving with Dave in a UAP, okay? I don't believe it. Now, Elon Musk, uh, loves to talk about aliens. He was interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Here's what he had to say. When you say, what are the aliens, what do you mean? Where are the aliens? Like, why don't we see them?

A lot of people think we see aliens, but I I've not seen any evidence of aliens. So, by the way, Elon Musk says he doesn't believe in aliens because we can't find any, which, by the way, would be the first thing an alien would ever say. My thought, Elon Musk, from out of this world. Um, you know, we've got 6, 000 satellites in orbit and not once have we had to maneuver around an alien spacecraft.

So, um. But on this Earth, the U. S. military's had to do a lot of maneuvering around objects they can't explain. Well, unidentified flying objects is one thing, but, I mean, there's always, there's always a bunch of, um, classified programs that are underway, uh, that, uh, of, of new aircraft and new missiles and things, so, that, that are classified even within the military, so it's, you know, only, you know, the, if you have the top secret compartmented clearance, would you know about this new program?

So then, you know, some pilot sees something fast, remember it fast, and So UFO. I'm like, yeah, that was actually a new weapons program, but we can't tell you that. Should I, if you can guarantee that. What a buzzkill, by the way, talk about aliens. The split second I see any evidence of aliens, I will immediately post that on the X platform and it'll probably be our number one post of all time.

That'll be your biggest day. Yes, for sure. All right. I don't buy it. I think he's an alien. He's trying to cover for the other cyborgs out there. Uh, anyhow, uh, speaking of non aliens doing things that are out of this world, Jussie Smollett, of course, uh, I guess created that crazy hoax, which he never really admitted to.

Uh, which I guess is, I guess that's the game plan. Create a hoax, never admit to it. It was all so he could drum up victimhood. Well, now he says his mom's home was nearly broken into. He had another brush with the law. This time the crime was for real and it involved one of his closest family members. Now, of course, we don't want any, uh, Uh, any, anyone to deal with issues like this, but I wonder if when they accepted the phone call, if they believed him, they're like, who lives there?

And it's like, well, it's Jesse Smollett's mom. And they're like, well, uh, who knows what to believe anymore? Hey, it's a bright boy who cried wolf, right? While sources do tell TMZ that Jussie's mom, Janet, had her L. A. home nearly burglarized by a couple of would be thieves Monday night, and her actor son immediately rushed to her side to make sure she was alright, thankfully, she was.

Which is good, you know what I mean? We don't want any, uh, Pain out there for anybody. Uh, no violence. I'm a pacifist folks. Well, now we have an update. So this is crazy, right? Yesterday I reported, or this morning I reported the story about Bob Woodward and said, I didn't know who he was. I said, I figured he's a reporter, but I don't know who he is.

Well, I get this email from a friend, Noel. She says, Dave, I'm sure by now your inbox has been exploding with messages, educating you on who Bob Woodward is. He's one of the most respected journalists of all time. A key voice during Nixon's Watergate scandal. Woodward and Bernstein. Dude, you sounded really stupid.

Now my response was stupid. Ouch. And then she says, you are not. And by the way, that was her chance to apologize. Noelle, just so you know, that was me saying, Hey, I don't know you, but why? Why? Send me a message that ends with you. Sounded really stupid. And then she says, you are not stupid. But that made you sound stupid.

I'm sorry. Okay. Oh, she apologized. That's good. It was a super cringe moment, Dave. I mean, who is Bob Woodward? Yikes. . And I said. You can imagine it's rough receiving an email first thing in the morning being called stupid and she said please accept my apology. I accept your apology. Now listen, I think people just don't understand the amount of bandwidth and content that you gotta sift through.

And look, I, yeah, I don't know if my intelligence correlates to whether or not I know a journalist who cracked the Watergate scandal which was, I don't know, 14 years before I was born. I don't know. I don't know if that should be what, you know, if we should be calling each other stupid. Uh, what I did appreciate was a different email I got from somebody else named Loretta.

She said, who is Bob Woodward? Oh, Dave, I love you, but Bob Woodward is one of the most respected journalists of our time. He broke the Watergate scandal with his partner, Bernstein, please research, keep up the good work. So that was a friendly one. And I respect that. Spotted friendly saying I appreciate it.

You know, I record these episodes at midnight sometimes I whatever. And she said, I realized you have a high amount of content to shift to sift through and organize and you do a great job in your range of topics. Here's a good interview. And then they send me an interview. Have a fantastic day, Dave. That was so nice.

I responded. You're too kind. Thanks for the grace. So. All of this just to say, be kind out there, folks. I'm a human like everyone else. Now you might say, oh Dave, you're so defensive. Look, I'm not trying to be, but I do try to set a boundary when someone calls me stupid just to say, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not up to date on Bob mother effing Woodward.

You know, and some people say, oh, you should definitely know who he is. Yeah. I'm sure I should. And maybe just maybe that day of history class I was flirting with Nicole who sat in front of me. I have no idea why I don't know that story, but I'm not afraid to sound stupid or cringe as I present you to the news and I am not pretending to be an expert.

You know, the more you grow, the more you learn about things, which is going to lead us to our next story, which is Travis Kelsey being introduced to new foods. Thanks to his girlfriend, pop icon, Taylor Swift. We'll have that for you next. I got to be honest, not only did I not know who Bob Woodward was until this morning, I also never tried Thai food until I dated my wife.

I had never tried Indian food and I had never had sushi. Now, to this day, I've still never had a red lobster. I'm waiting for someone to pop my red lobster biscuit as it were. Uh, but in the meantime, Hey, you date new people. You learn a little bit of flavor. Travis, Kelsey's a jock. He probably just eats boiled chicken and rice, you know?

You know what I mean? But now he's dating a pop star. His palate certainly will be expanded. Here's a clip from his podcast, New Heights. I in Kansas city. Also it's a pasta lie. You ever had that? No, I'm not. I'm also not a Creole, like New Orleans style food or missing out. I hear this all the time. And every time I'd try it, I'm just like, still not feeling it every time.

Well, I think it's just a mental block. Yeah. Or you just don't like it. Is it the spice? Like, what do you not like about it? Jambalaya, I just, there's something about just like water and rice. I just, I don't, I don't think. It's like a soupy rice? Soupy rice. I'm just, and then it's like, do you like curry? It's like Pooey Pooey.

Yeah. You don't mind color. Yeah. You're still judging foods by the color. It's not even judging it. It's just like, it's like a mental block. Like, Oh, it. That's, that's poop. Yeah. Do you like curry? Do you just, do you just not, you know, I'm, you know, I'm starting to open up to, I know to the, my girl TAs you opened up.

She is, she's introducing new foods to you and this has been one that, and one of the greatest things that I've been happy about. And the Israeli spot in Philadelphia, Zaha Zaha. Yep. Shout out to Michael Solomonov. That was awesome. Yeah. I like that spot a lot. Um, I'm still picky when it comes to like what I'll eat on it, but yeah, or eat on the table.

But at the same time, it's like, I'm. So are you in or out? I'm down to dance. I'll dance. Are you in or out on curry? I'm in on like a light curry. The more, yeah, the more. So I'm gonna cut here because I'm sure people are hungry on their way home and they're like, Dave, enough with this. I love, I love good Indian food.

I, for New Year's Eve, actually, two weeks before we moved from LA, we found a new Indian restaurant that was unbelievable. We had this place called India, I think it was called Clay Pit. And, uh, it was in Koreatown and near Silver Lake that we used to go to, but yeah, you know, like, look, I mean, you know, we have little Ethiopia in Los Angeles.

You got all these different types of food you get exposed to. I don't even know what my favorite is. Uh, but you know, you have different, you know what I love about my wife. If I even mentioned sushi, she's like, we have to have sushi. Like that's her sort of, um, her brain cannot think about a different type of food.

If I mentioned that, if I mentioned pasta, it's gotta be a pasta night. So we kind of bounce back and forth, but Hey, you know, in the last year, I've had a pregnant wife and now I've got a wife who's breastfeeding. So you got to keep them fed. That's literally my only job is to provide. For my family so that my wife is well fed, you know, what do they say?

Breastfeeding is like running a marathon every day. Don't quote me on that folks. Who's the person who invented breastfeeding Bob Woodward. Woodford is it? Was it Bob Woodward reserve? Does he have a whiskey or something? I'm not really sure. All right. Well, in the NFL, we have more news. Robert sailor breaks his silence after the jets firing.

Thankful for his time in New York. So apparently this was, I mean, you thought you had a bad Monday. He shows up to work Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever day it was, I think it was Tuesday. And he was immediately escorted out and you know, that's what they do. They don't want the, they escort you.

They don't want you to steal any company secrets. They don't want you to steal a jet stapler, but, um, he, I guess has no ill will, at least publicly. Hold on. You can hear my baby in the background. We're doing double time today because we're getting ready to travel again. We have. Three different, uh, types of traveling coming up.

So we're going to be, uh, you know, moving around and I got to make sure I watched the baby, my fair share. I, uh, you know, I, I, I say sure my, all my job's just to feed my wife, but I got to try my best to be a great husband here and a good dad. And I tell you what, anyhow, sorry. That was, so that's why my son's making noise in the background.

If you listen to that, uh, Robert says this, I will always be appreciative of the love and support from everyone at one jets drive. He thanked the players he worked with over the course of the three plus seasons at the helm of Gangrene. The character of the men in the locker room made coaching you guys the ultimate privilege.

Through the ups and downs, each and every one of you showed up every day and attacked every moment. Well, look, I mean, good on him for having some, you know, I don't know, positive Thoughts on how it went down in the end, he had disagreements with Aaron Rogers and he's their sort of center piece of their offense.

So what can he do? All right. I tell you what I can do is pass my baby off to his mother. So I love my son, but I also love good audio. All right. Well, let's tell you, you know, what I love is promoting products that pay us money to sponsor them. And today's sponsor is via my new favorite adult gummy. It's back.

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I'll be sharing that tomorrow morning. I'm just letting you guys know, I'm loving the sort of eclectic content from news, pop culture, motivation, and in this case, entrepreneurial interviews. Don't we love that? Speaking of entrepreneurial, the talk to a podcast is from the hawk to a girl, a Haley Welch, she's just getting all the interviews here.

She is interviewing Jojo Siwa and Jojo mentioned she spent 60, 000 on a date. That's the craziest date you've ever been on. This is so bad. I spent like 60 grand in one week on this girl just to get laid and it didn't work. I didn't realize that's what I wanted, but I literally was just horny. Listen, Jojo, she's just like us.

Spends a lot of money just to get laid. Didn't realize it could have just gone to Disney World. I thought I was just trying to have a girlfriend. Nope, I was just horny. Okay. 18. Courtside Lakers, backstage Disney, security, first class tickets. Did you end up getting laid? Nope. What? And you still didn't get fucking laid?

Still didn't get laid. I love Haley's, uh, just random southern input. And you still didn't get laid! Alright, so there it is. Hey, Hoc Tua. Hoc Tua is one of the biggest podcasts in the world right now. Uh, she did everything right. You know, she took a scenario, uh, that went super viral and she found a way to monetize it good on her.

Well, tough day for Turkish airlines. A pilot died on a flight tragedy on a Turkish airlines flight, forced a plane to make an emergency landing. When the pilot died in the air early Wednesday, the Airbus A350 was en route from Seattle to Istanbul. When 59 year old pilot, uh, Ichen Pelivan collapsed, according to airline spokesman.

That's really sad. So I feel bad for the airline and the family of the pilot. You know, you know, it's crazy. I've flown on some of these cross world flights. And it's just incredible how many pilots it actually takes to fly one of those airplanes. I think, I think it's because of union rules. Sometimes they have three pilots, three co pilots, they have like a whole team, you know, because they can only work so many hours.

And you know, I mean, it's gotta be kind of boring. Obviously takeoff and landing is important, but after that, you're kind of just floating through the sky, right? All right. I don't want to offend any pilots. I'm sure it's harder than that. I'm just saying, um, either way, my thoughts, my thoughts are with the Turkish airlines community there.

Well, Bachelor Nation, excuse me, Bachelor star Maria is now making the rounds on Chicks in the Office podcast, talking about how difficult it was to deal with all of the hate she was receiving following Jen's season of The Bachelorette. From that point of her mentioning my name, like, I was getting slut shamed like no tomorrow for like three days straight.

I say three days because you know, it didn't last long until I finally put my video out there to clarify, but I was getting slut shamed. I was getting more jumping to conclusion. Oh, absolutely. I was getting messages like while I'm in the Bahamas, like I post a picture of the beach and they're like, where's Devin you whore.

I'm like, what the, like, this is so dangerous, by the way, as if you would ever give him the time. No, I'm no, absolutely not. And like at the end of the day, like. It just made me upset because I know Jen knew that and so for her to have brought up my name I get it like you had to do it if that's how you felt in the moment but not kind of looking out to how it was gonna affect me kind of sucked because She knew she even mentioned that she knew the effect that it was gonna have by bringing that up So it kind of just made me sad that like you didn't really think about me in that moment knowing that like I was I was innocent again.

I have nothing to hide. I think everyone that's ever come at me online knows that. Is there more to the story? Sure. Absolutely. There's more to the story. I think everyone with the right mind would know that there's always more to the story. But for the sake of everyone just moving the on, you just got to keep things quiet.

But that doesn't mean if someone comes at me, I don't I don't have my chance to speak. Yes. And I'll always be that way. All right, there it is. Maria says there's more to the story. And somehow this is more mysterious than the UAPs in the, uh, spacecraft that are hiding in plain sight. Look, all right, I, I say, hey, hey, my, my schedule's wide open.

If there's more to the story, come share it. Now, of course, Maria has tried to get on my podcast and, um, we were actually ghosted by bachelor producers. You know, they're very quick to respond to me when it's convenient for them, but crickets are the word when it's not. Uh, so open invitation to have Maria on.

We'd love to hear more of her story. Now, obviously. People like the snarky subreddits are saying Maria is giving entitlement. Sorry, don't act like you weren't going around on podcasts while Jen was filming saying how you were the first choice. Listen, I get it. I get it. Like Jen and Maria clearly had some weird falling out, but like Maria's entitled to share her story.

It's not Jen's fault of bachelor nation is going to, um, slut shame her, but you know, she could have said more about Devin following Maria. She kind of just threw that out there like chum for people. But again, I wouldn't blame Jen. This is more an issue of bachelor nation. Audiences in part are insane.

That's just what they are. We'll be back with more content right after this. Well, I covered this on a YouTube video today, and I guess I got to keep talking about it. Laura Owen's attorney, David Gingras is sort of threatening to sue me right now. He says, um, maybe we should take this to court. Uh, maybe a jury can help clear this issue up.

Good idea. Ready, Dave. And of course this has lit a fire. Fire under people's asses, because, you know, I think my audience has been very defensive of me and not just my mental health, but my family's. This is a lawyer who used threats and intimidation to really try to mess with my family when my wife was pregnant.

And I think that is one of the worst things you can do is to try to affect, uh, you know, to try to bully me in a time when my wife was, you know, worried about the safety of the baby. Our child and still is so the comments that are coming in are absolutely insane from people that clearly support me and what is this all about?

Anyway, I was just offering my commentary on Um on something that was posted online someone responded on twitter and said this don't you dare threaten dave? He has done nothing wrong, and your treatment of him is unforgivable. Quite frankly, Dave has more fans than Clayton ever had. We will have his back to the nth degree.

Hell, maybe we'll make an actual cult for Dave's defense. And, guys, I do appreciate the support out there. All I try to do is give you my take on the news. On the entertainment news, the political, whatever it is, that's all I'm trying to do. And with the Clayton scandal, all we did was try to present both sides as best as we could, which was Share all the evidence that came in as it turned out All of the evidence that came in from Laura Owens was fraudulent And you know, that's why there'll be a documentary made about it That's why people will be talking about this for a long time because It just wasn't a fair fight.

Now, someone said to David, if you want to prove your case, why not obtain it and produce the elusive Planned Parenthood sonogram? That's what's needed to prove pregnancy. And Laura testified that it exists. The rest of this is noise and distraction. And you have to remember this all comes back to the point where.

Bachelor Clayton claims he never even had sex with this woman. Here's a highlight clip. You can find these on the Justice for Clayton official Instagram account. Figure you're the bachelor. That's why everyone's watching today. Did you have penile vaginal sex whatsoever with Laura Owens? No, absolutely not.

She came over to your house. She gave you oral sex twice. The next day you told her you weren't interested in her. That's correct. I rejected her. Yes. Uh, four days later, um, she started making claims that she could possibly be pregnant. I wasn't trying to trap him. I mean, if this is good, I, I'm not comfortable with this.

The JFC crew is going to be having reactions. Honestly, can I like take a minute? These are yes or no questions. This document states that the ultrasound image you have claimed is from Panned Parenthood is not consistent with ultrasound images generated by their practice, right? I could have been seen by another different entity.

You have an opportunity right now. To come clean and start fresh. You were never pregnant by Clayton Eckert. That is absolutely incorrect. You're a wild stuff. And when you add some music behind it, boy, does it make it interesting? So, yeah, I appreciate everyone who supported me as we deal with new threats of lawsuits.

Uh, I don't want that in my life. But at the same time, I'm not going to back down either. I don't back down to bullies online and, um, and you guys respect that we don't back down. So as a member of the rush hour community, I thank you guys for sticking by me as we, uh, fight all this misinformation really.

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It helps us get the word out and keeps new people, uh, watching or listening to the podcast and finding it. So I appreciate that all so, so much. All right. We'll be back in the morning. As always, I'm I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush. The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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