11-1-24 Morning Rush - Bachelor Clayton Trial Update - County Prosecutor Releases Statement! & Bachelor Colton Underwood Discusses Fatherhood & Joe Rogan Interviews JD Vance!

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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 Friday to you on this November 4th. First, 2024. I like to refer to November 1st as my half birthday. Do you guys keep tally on your half birthdays?

I certainly do 39 and a half today. Can you believe it? And I haven't heard aged a day over that. I tell you what. All right. I got big updates for you in the bachelor Clayton Eckerd case. It's really not the bachelor Clayton Eckerd cases. Laura Owen's case as she may be getting indicted. It's a wild story.

And also the county prosecutor released a statement on Twitter. We're going to analyze and possibly overanalyze what that could have meant. Plus, Bachelor Colton Underwood talks about life as a dad and we also have ESPN planning on using artificial intelligence to customize their show to the viewer.

We'll Plus the state department gives an update on the 10, 000 North Korean soldiers training in Russia. Oh boy. This cannot be good. Uh, are they there for a birthday party? I don't think so. I don't think this is good. Plus an early vote check shows Dems and Republicans are both voting early and massive numbers.

And I got all those stories and so much more, so stick around. Those are coming up next on the rush. Why don't we start with updates on the bachelor Clayton Eckert story? Uh, again, not involving Clayton per se, although there is a, I guess, notice of appeal happening, which means Laura Owens and her, uh, esteemed attorney have a chance to appeal the decision and Nick, explain why.

And I think they have until mid December to do that, but this is something different. This is the Maricopa County attorney's office. And they released a statement, namely by Rachel Mitchell. She is the County prosecutor. So she's in charge of the County deciding which crimes to prosecute. They have different divisions, different attorneys that cover different types of crimes.

I don't know the ins and outs, but obviously she's aware that there's a lot of people that want to see, uh, the truth. You know, come to light and an investigation happened. You know, there was such a small scope of what could be prosecuted in the family court case with regards to Clayton and Laura. And now I guess, you know, they, I think they have the ability to really open it up and find whatever crimes exist and they may have just started and, you know, I think they call this a fishing expedition when you don't have anything, but they had something.

They had proof that she lied under oath and they had all these other sort of, uh, you know, repeat instances where they claimed she was, you know, coursing men into talking her, talking to her through dating contracts and, you know, uh, some called it extortion and things like that. Okay. So here's what they had to say.

An update on the Laura Owens matter, the Maricopa County attorney's office is continuing the process of reviewing the re from Superior Court on the case of Laura Owens. Further information is forthcoming when a charging decision has been made. So I guess the question is, why did they decide today to post this?

And the answer could be multiple things. It could be continued interest from the Justice for Clayton community. Uh, I recorded an episode yesterday with Reality Steve interviewing Rachel Juarez from Hot Bench. She's a family law attorney and really smart, Obviously, you know, knew what she was talking about with regard to what might be going on.

She was shocked to find out that Laura's attorney probably doesn't have malpractice insurance. Uh, and, and not that that would really make a difference, but she was like, Oh my gosh, in my state, I couldn't even, uh, you know, uh, be a lawyer without that. So 90 minute conversation and, you know, it's just a bunch of interesting stuff as far as what could possibly go down.

She was shocked. Uh, uh, Uh, to find out that they, they're actually looking into her for perjury. But then again, we don't know if they're looking to her for just perjury. There could be a whole bunch of other charges that come out that weren't available. You know, kind of what's tough when it comes to family court.

What I've learned just from covering this case is that you only can find information if you know where to look. Right? There might be a court case that's, you know, logged away somewhere and it's a public file, but if no one's looking for it, you don't, you know, you don't just Google those things in some cases, you know, in these smaller matters.

So what the hell have they found? Um, and a lot of people are holding onto that last thought. Further information is forthcoming when a charging decision has been made. And, uh, you know, I don't know what the verbiage is supposed to be there, but they didn't say anything. If a charging decision has been made, and if they do charge her with some sort of crime or an indictment, uh, they have a very high success rate there.

Uh, you don't want to be charged with crimes, uh, by the County prosecutors who have really all the resources in the world to, you know, taxpayer funded money to do what they need to do. Now, it could be that Rachel Mitchell is deciding. You know, less than a week before the election to remind her constituents, Hey, we're taking this seriously.

My hope is, is that, uh, we, you know, we, we get, uh, you know, we get them, you know, just, just to, uh, you know, uh, live up to what they're saying. And I, and I'm sure they, and I'm sure they will, but we don't have any more information right now. Uh, if that comes available, you know where to find it. I'll have it for you.

Well, from one bachelor to another bachelor, Peter Weber plans to listen to one Kygo song for the entire New York city marathon. I don't know why this is an us magazine. com article. And I also don't know why I'm covering it. Cause I have the option to not cover it, but I found this interesting. And he said, I'm doing the same song, the entire race kids in love by Kygo.

It's my race song. I wonder if that's the song he bangs too. It works for me and it puts me in a very meditative trance like state. I kind of go in and out of that, taking in the energy of the city and then right back to in between the ears. All right. Well, good for him. Hey, uh, I'm going to personally call Peter Weber out right now.

And I mean, this in a friendly way. I'm Uh, Pete, I texted you last time I was in New York and you didn't respond. What's up with that, Pete? I'll be in New York, uh, November 12th for the New York Comedy Festival. Uh, if you come to my show, I will walk on stage to that Kygo song for you. Mark my words. It must be very surreal for some people to be watching and like looking for their friends and family and like seeing you or seeing Matt or like, Oh, the bachelor is running.

Did you get people stopping you last time? Yeah, it's cool. The support is from everyone and the energy is awesome. You know, everyone, you know, reaching out and saying, hi, uh, push a smile on your face. And, um, I'm definitely always very, it's funny. I have like this, like divide. I feel like where I try to take it.

I do take it in the entire city energy that you're just feeding off of the inside, but I also stay very focused. Listen, AirPods in music. I'm a song repeater. So I'm doing the same song, the entire race. And yeah, I said that, what do you mean? What song are you listening to? Kids in love by Kygo. It's my race song for four and a half to five hours.

Yeah. Four and a half hours. We're going to go for this four and a half. I mean, I ran mine in three 47, but who's, uh, you know, who's timing it? Really? Wait, is this a thing people do? No, apparently not. Apparently I'm the only person that anyone's ever heard of doing this, but it works for me. And it puts me in a very meditative.

Trance-like state, um, Hannah Brown's like, yeah, we listened to, uh, mbo, WABA, I get knocked down for, uh, we listened to seven times in a row before he finished, and I kind of go in and outta that. So from that to like taking in the energy of the, of the city. And then right back to in between the ears. Um, it just works for me, something I've done and, um, I'm gonna be doing it again on Sunday.

You must have the most streams for that song when Kaiko Spotify out. You know, I actually look up, you can look, you can track those, those analytics, right? I think so. I should actually do that. . You should. Yeah. Um, we need Kaiko to hear this. Does he know? Actually, I don't think I've ever told him that, but, uh, he knows how much I love him.

Yeah. Yeah. And a big fan of his music, so. Wow, one song. I know that part of it is taking out the air pods and doing, getting the crowd to keep you going. So it's not necessarily about music as much as maybe like when you're on a normal run because it's like the experience, but I can, that is blowing my mind to listen to the same song.

If I had to listen to the same song, I would listen to White Christmas.

Boop, boop, boop, ba doop, ba doop, I'm dreaming of a white boop boop Christmas, ba doop, ba doop. No, just me? I don't know, it's got a good pace to it. Alright, well, uh, yay, it's November 1st. That's in honor of my wife, who will start listening to Christmas music today. And I'll pretend like it's not happening until Black Friday.

That's when I start. Technically, I like to be a December 1st guy, but I thought that would be a good negotiation to start on Black Friday, but not my wife. No, she is a hard lined, uh, non negotiator when it comes to her Christmas music. And it begins now. Okay. Well, listen, I got a lot of stuff to get into.

Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more content right after this. Do you remember we covered those Yankee fans that, uh, ripped the foul ball out of Mookie Betts glove? And we then had a story that Rob Gronkowski knew the kid from college and he lived up to the legendary status. Well, he was at Barstool headquarters.

Yankee fan interference guy is what they're calling him. He talked about his moment in the sun at the Game 4 of the World Series that led to him getting kicked out. Talk about if a ball were to and there never has been one. And every game I've been to, the ball's never, the situation has never arose. But it's like the, uh, it's like the Hail Mary play or whatever that they practice every week.

You prepare in case it happens. Just in case it happens, we know what we're doing. Uh, you know, like we're, if it's, if it still goes on, 100%. How many games have you been to? A lot. What do you think of those seats? Five hundred. Every playoff game there's ever been, yeah, since 2011 maybe we have those seats, I think since 11.

I go to every, I try to go to every primetime game, I went to like 6 this year, um, I won't go to a day game in the summer, I just won't do it, it's ridiculous. Yeah dude that sucks. It's ridiculous. Terrible. Terrible. Especially those seats. There's no coverage right here. And I'm not leaving the seats, if I'm going I'm sitting in those seats.

So there he is. Guy's living his dream. He's right in foul ball territory. He goes to all the prime time games. And then he finally had his shot to catch a ball. And to be quite honest, yes, he ripped it out of the guy's glove. But I thought if you, you know, you know, I thought if the, the ball crossed the plane, uh, you know, the plane from fair to foul that you were allowed to kind of go for it yourself.

I kind of feel like all rules should be off the table in that point. What do I know? Well, let's see. Let's stick to the sports, uh, world here. Here's ESPN's president on an AI driven personalized sports center. I don't know how I feel about this, but, uh, I'll give you my opinion after this. I would also call out a personalized sports center.

So I have long wanted a personalized sports center long before I even got to ESPN. Uh, and we are hard at work on this right now. So I am. Yankees, Giants, Knicks, Rangers, Notre Dame fan. And so when I fire up sports center, if those teams had played the night or day before, I want to see those highlights first.

Uh, and then you have kind of lowest common denominator highlights after that. And so we are hard at work on that. Talking to potential partners on the outside to help power this. This is, so it's an AI driven sports center. Exactly. Right. So there's some. Uh, third party voice that says, Hello, Jimmy. So we have not yet decided on what the voice narration will be.

Um, it could be in partnership with some of our talent. Or it could be separate. We have not, we have not locked in on that yet. I don't know how I feel about this. One of the joys of watching SportsCenter is watching the weird sports as you wait for the thing you thought you wanted. I kind of feel like you don't know what's in your best interest.

Like, sure. Like when I turn the TV on, I want to watch the, you know, the Patriots highlights, but then they'll show me some other thing that happened. And I'm like, Oh, that's really cool. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being, you know, am I turning into that old guy? I think I'm turning into the old guy that doesn't accept change.

Back in my day, you had to watch the full top ten list before you got to see your, you know, whatever. Alright, whatever. I'm trying my best. I don't like change. Who likes change? No one does. Well, Colton Underwood, a lot of people don't like him. Uh, but you know, hey, give the guy a chance. He's a, he's a new dad.

Uh, he's got a baby, uh, he's got a husband and a baby, two dads, uh, they have a podcast called Daddyhood Podcast. He says, I guess this is me screaming from the rooftop. Our baby has two dads. He doesn't have a mom. He will be loved beyond belief and raised with kindness and love in his heart. Uh, here's what he had to say.

And you want to go to the next most popular thing? Yeah. He's Arason and he doesn't have a mother. And I think that is something, if I could scream it from the rooftop, I would. Our child has two dads and he does not have a mother. Sometimes it's really disrespectful and again, other times it isn't. People, you know, some people don't know that, you know, there, there are comments sometimes of like this child was ripped away from its mom.

Not the truth. Not, not at all. Right. We made Bishop because there was an egg donor who is a separate person from the incredible woman who carried him, who was our surrogate. And. By the way, neither of them feels in their heart like he's their child. The term we use is he has an egg donor, like that he doesn't have a biological mom.

He doesn't have a mom. Like he had an egg donor and he had a surrogate that brought him into this world. Look, I get why people might say, Oh, he doesn't have a mom. How sad? Because most people do have a mom and yet at the same time, keep your mouth shut. You know what I mean? Like, the kid's gonna know what the kid knows.

I was raised with no father. I did not know my father. Oh, he doesn't have a dad. No, I knew the life that I had, and I turned out just okay. Uh, they're gonna, the kid's gonna have plenty of opportunities being raised by wealthy parents, and you know, look, I mean, does Colton Underwood need therapy for other things?

I'm sure he does. I'm sure he does. Uh, but, uh, you know, he's gonna try his best, and I'm sure the kid's gonna turn out just okay. Fine, because of it, uh, but, uh, you can go check out that podcast if you would like. Well, we've been talking a lot about sports here and, uh, an LA Dodgers fan blows off his hand with firework during a World Series celebration gone wrong.

I mean, I hate to tell you this, but. I mean, I lived in Los Angeles for a decade. The fireworks are insane in Los Angeles. I remember one New Year's, my, a palm tree caught on fire in the alleyway behind my apartment. People shoot fireworks sideways in that town. Absolutely banana land out there. Uh, especially, I mean, where I lived, it was like, good luck.

They would, the, the echoes would, you know, it was just a disaster. Well, this celebration on Wednesday night, uh, did not go well. A horrify, horri, horrifying. Incident happened in downtown just minutes after the Dodgers beat the Yankees in game five and it was all unfortunately captured on video In the footage a man wearing a clayton kershaw King number 22 jersey can be can be seen with a lit firework in the middle of a crosswalk When it suddenly detonated in his hand the explosion caused a fireball that engulfed the man and moments later He could be seen stumbling away from the smoke in what appeared to be a state of shock But Both of his hands seem to be bloody, but one of them looked like it was missing several digits.

Alright, I mean, sad stuff, folks. Sad stuff. Shouldn't be doing it. PSA. Don't. I mean, look, are fireworks that interesting? I mean, yeah, sure, you know, you blow some things up in the sky. Are they are they worth it? I don't know. Not not for me. Not for me. Alright, well. We've got a Diddy update, you know, I'm trying to limit the Diddy updates.

Like, so it's not an everyday thing, but the grand jury talks to a new witness. And that is a man who claims he has sex tapes from Diddy's parties. And the real Kim Porter memoir says he's been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Uh, and this is what he had to say in front of the courthouse at with TMZ.

Have the Feds been in contact with you? I did watch your YouTube interview. I saw as of two weeks ago, they haven't been in contact with you. What about today? Yes. So they have been in contact with you. Is that why you're here today? Yes. Okay. Oh, wow. So they, so were you surprised or was that the call that you were kind of waiting for?

Oh, do you feel like the interview had like, like had anything to do with it or? Yes. All right. So they're being serious. super vague, but not a good sign. If you're Diddy, when these people who claim to have the videos are talking, we'll have to see how it all shakes out. I really don't know what the heck's going to go down there.

Um, well, we've got a, uh, a governor of who's at Maryland here was being interviewed. His name is Wes Moore, the democratic governor of Maryland telling CNN's Chris Wallace. Why he would trade his political career for one in sports, which by the way, I would do the same thing. I mean, who wouldn't want to, who doesn't want to be a pro athlete?

Is not, is that not the coolest job in the world? Here's what he had to say. You also played football in college. This is the toughest question I'm going to ask you, honestly, would you have traded the career you've had for a career as a good football player? Pro football player. Oh, 100%. I would have. I'm telling you, I still have a dream of one day.

And I've told Coach Harbaugh this with the Ravens. I said, I just need a one day contract, man. I'm like, that is the ultimate bucket list item. I'm the biggest Ravens fan that you're ever going to find. And I just, I love football because I just think football is the perfect game. I think football is, football is a game where you have to understand everybody's position and what everybody's doing on every play.

And the complexity of the playbook is massive. So yeah, I would, if Coach Harbaugh said, listen, I'll give you a contract to play for the Baltimore Ravens. I'd be like, you know what, this government thing has been cool, but. I'm out. There it is. How about that? How about we get politicians to play one series a week on professional teams if they can survive getting blindsided by a young defensive end, you get to run for Congress.

How does that sound? All right. Well, I got a couple more stories to get to. J. D. Vance was on the Joe Rogan experience. Can you believe it or not? These are the, these are big stories happening days before the election. Wild stuff. I'm going to share a couple of clips from that, uh, right after a quick word from our sponsor.

All right, as I like to do the end of the episode, I stick to a little bit more of the touchy stuff, but let's go into some interesting things going down that are, uh, the first, the department of the state department, uh, gives an update on the 10, 000 North Korean troops that are heading to Russia or training in Russia, which by the way, it's so funny to me, it's like, Oh, you can't invade your own countries on your own.

And by the way, I shouldn't talk trash about dictators, but it's like, all right, what's, what's happening. You know, I just want to be the, I just want to be the dad and the. that looks in the rearview mirror and says, guys, knock it off. We now assess that there are some 10, 000 North Korean soldiers in total in Russia.

And the most recent information indicates that as many as 8, 000 of those North Korean forces have been deployed to the Kursk region. We've not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces, but we would expect that to happen in the coming days. Russia has been training DPRK soldiers in artillery, UAVs, basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, indicating that they fully intend to use these forces in front line operations.

Should these troops engage in combat or combat support operations against Ukraine, They would become legitimate military targets. Alright, so that's not good. And by the way, I feel bad for these people in North Korea. They're not allowed to leave. They're in, you know, some dictator's rule. A lot of them are starving.

I mean, the North Koreans are actually shorter. And malnourished than the South Koreans. They, they're, they, you know, it's just, it's a whole thing, right? It's just, it's just, it's just, it's sad that this exists out there. It really is. Alright, but let's go into Joe Rogan, uh, , let's lighter topic. Uh, JD Vance, running for vp, uh, was on Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan explained to JD Vance. He j, first of all, JD Vance is pro-life, and Joe Rogan explained to him why he's pro-choice. One of the issues is that men are making decisions for what women can and can't do. I hear that. And one of the more concerning aspects of this is like say if you live in a state like Texas where there's a limit to To when you can get an abortion.

I think it's like six weeks, which a lot of people think at that point in time, you can't even tell whether or not you're pregnant, and this puts a lot of women in like very vulnerable positions, and then there's this thought that they could go to another state where it is legal. And have an abortion.

They could be possibly prosecuted for that in their state. And by the way, a lot of times you can't even afford to go to another state. You know, when I interviewed Allie Phillips in Nashville, excuse me, in Clarksville, Tennessee, she had to go to another state, but all the Close surrounding states were overbooked from other people doing the same thing.

So then she had to fly to New York and it cost a whole bunch of money. There's a place in the country where it's legal to have medical procedure and you live in a state where it's not legal, that your state can decide what you can and can't do with your body, which is essentially based on a religious idea here.

I've not heard of this. Maybe as a as like a possibility but not as something that actually exists in the in the law But i've not heard of somebody being arrested and I don't like the idea of arresting people for I haven't heard of them I've heard of I've heard of the discussion is a threat that and again, you know there they they do want to be able to Know who's traveling in and out of certain states to get this procedure.

So what they do with that information uh, I guess it would leave a lot to uh to to the imagination to trust You Your officials, uh, what, you know, and again, you should be able to travel freely between states. It's absolutely absurd. Like, the concept in the zeitgeist is that abortion had always been, you know, Roe v.

Wade had always been the law of the land, and then all of a sudden that was taken away, and you have these religious men who are trying to dictate what women can and can't do with their bodies. Yeah. Yeah, no, look, I mean, again, I, I understand that. I understand the, the, the pushback against that, but I think you can go like with so many other issues, you can go way too far about it and it becomes trying to celebrate something that at the very best, if you grant, I think every argument of the pro choice side, it is a neutral thing, not something to be celebrated.

I think there's very few people that are celebrating that. There it is. Joe Rogan says, I don't think there's many people celebrating this. And it's, again, it's the idea that it's a 50, 50 split and it. just isn't. Most people think there needs to be safe and call it rare abortions, you know, but things that are called abortions might not be a living fetus or, you know, it might be, you know, a fetus that has already passed.

We saw Chrissy Teigen, right? And John Legend talk about the fact that she almost died. She was bleeding out, her baby had passed, and that's considered an abortion and not every, you know, every state. date might call things different, but it's, it's just like, let's get all, let's get on the same page here.

And we're going to find out during the election, how important this issue is based on how people vote. Here's a report about early voting being underway and Republicans and Democrats are both voting early. Here's your early vote check. Already five days before the election and more than 59 million Americans have already voted, either in person, early or by mail.

And when you look at the vote tracker, the party registration breakdown is like this. Democrats and Republicans are voting almost in equal numbers. So the question is Are Democrats voting for Kamala and are Republicans voting for Trump? And if not, at which percentage will some crossover people be enough to change the election?

We don't know how these voters are voting. There is a gender divide. We can tell you about women voting much more than men at this stage, 54 percent of that early in person or male and vote. And when you look at the battlegrounds, huge numbers in Georgia, for example, more than three million people have already cast a ballot.

State elections officials say by the End of the day today, they believe more than half of Georgia's active voters will have cast their ballot. It's a crazy, it's a crazy world we live in. We saw early voting and mail in voting during the pandemic because people didn't want to be sort of, you know, in big crowds.

And now we're seeing it because people wanted to get that vote in early and not have to deal with any shenanigans. on Tuesday. Just absolutely wild stuff. And I think at least it's good to see that people are coming out and expressing their opinion in a democracy. I think that's good to see. Uh, but look, I'm going to have a lot of content coming your way.

I've got interviews. I'll be recording today on the Patreon. So you can go behind the scenes on patreon. com. To see all of that. And we'll be back this afternoon to wrap it all up. So we'll see you then. Uh, I'll have a YouTube video on Clayton. I'll probably have another YouTube video, maybe on Jen Tran. So we have a lot in the works on YouTube.

So make sure to check us out over there and then we'll be back afterwards. 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. Live stuff. Too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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