11-11-24 Morning Rush - Bachelorette Villain Back Trolling Fans & Dave Portnoy of Barstool Exposes Zach Bryan's Lawyer & Responding To 'Be More Like Reality Steve'

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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 standup comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, good morning, everybody. Happy Monday morning to you. It's the rush hour podcast with your boy, Dave, November 11th, 2024. I have all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Host of dancing with the stars, Alfonso Ribeiro. injured his ankle at Disney while filming for the show. Their big 500th episode is tomorrow. We'll love that story. Plus dancer, Riley Arnold, hard launches her new man only a week into dating. Oh boy. We might have a clinger on our hands. We'll get into that.

And plus a Wisconsin man may have faked his own death in a bizarre Monday story. Those last two stories have nothing in common as far as I know, but I'll cover them plus a Christmas cruise sells out for some, a Christmas cruise is heaven on earth. For others, it's a combination of their greatest fears.

I'll share where I stand on the issue. Plus an all out meltdown by bachelorette villain, Devon, as he makes his ill fated return to social media, stick around. We've got all this content and more coming up next on the rush. Well, here's a fun way to start our morning episode. This is a false start penalty called by official Sean Hockley on a football game yesterday by the New York Giants versus Carolina Panthers.

Why is it so interesting? Well, they played the game in Munich, so have a listen to the call. You just know. Fershtag Angriff. Oh! Fuhnsjachtstrafen. It's by the center. Oh,

showing up! He is Oh, you know a Hockley's gonna flex. So the audience goes wild at the, you know, bare minimum done by Sean Hockley there, learning a little German to call. And look, hey, I'll be honest with you, uh, as a stand up comedian, when you go into a venue or a new town, and you know something about that community, Culture or that way of life, whether it be something, uh, very, you know, like, like some minutia, like now that I'm performing a few nights in Cincinnati, talking about skyline Chile, people go crazy when you know a little local reference.

So for an American referee to go over there and learn a little German, it goes a long way is what I'm trying to say. All right. Well. Surf's up Christmas cruise. Uh, Christmas cruise makes a splash on sold out Hallmark experience. The Hallmark channel is bringing the magic of its Christmas movies to the high seas.

Launching two star studded cruises set to put anyone in the holiday spirit. Hey, if you're excited for this cruise, don't be it's already sold out because Christmas people are insane. Trust me. I married one of them starting at midnight on Halloween. There's a sale. Celebration that happens where the ghouls are thrown out the Chris the hollow You know Halloween paint is put away and the red and green make its clear emergence from the attic I don't know how you guys feel about this I personally try to wait until December to get into the hall to get into the Christmas spirit We'll have a lot of Christmas spirit this year as we'll do our single mom Christmas wish list I don't have the announcement for that yet So just hang on tight, but we like to try to Find 12 single moms that need some help this Christmas time.

And we all donate to their Amazon wishlist. And then we feel like better people because it's good to help out single moms and people in need, isn't it? So anyhow, this set of cruises is sold out. Um, but they're going to have fan favorites from the Hallmark. So I guess, I guess how it works on the Hallmark channel.

They have about what, seven actors that star in all of the movies and they just play different roles. It's always like lady who returns to her hometown roots after failing to make it in the big city, um, has to sell cookies before the farms foreclosed on. You know, it's a, but Hey, guess what? Let me let you in on a little secret.

If you're new to my channel, I love Christmas movies. I love everything about them. So this year. Uh, in the holiday spirit, I don't want to waste your time. I'll be doing Christmas movie reviews. I'm going to be giving them a simple score of a red light, green light, yellow light. Uh, depending on what I think, if I think you should be able to watch it now, a green light doesn't mean it'll get a hundred percent on rotten tomatoes.

It might get a 20 percent on rotten tomatoes. And I say, look, I don't care what they say. You need to see it. See this movie about this, you know, uh, uh, peppermint, uh, salesman whose cruise gets docked in port and they need to get the peppermint to their local village in time for the schnitzels. I don't know what the hell it's going to be about, although that could probably be a good one.

So if anyone has any Christmas movies they recommend, please let me know. Please DM me, let me know, and I will be sure to try to cover them, because there are a lot. Well, Leo DiCaprio, uh, is turning 50 today. Uh, that might make some of you feel old, because we've seen him grow from a young man who dates young women to an old man who dates young women.

And we're just happy to root on his success, I guess, as long as it's all consensual, right? Uh, live your dreams there, Leo. But maybe find love. I don't know. If George Clooney could find love, you could too. Well, covering Dancing with the Stars, Alfonso Ribeiro injured ankle at Disney World while filming Dancing with the Stars.

I can't believe that they were there just days after me. Um, you know, I, uh, because I'm not a huge fan of Disney World. You know, it's weird. I love Christmas, but Disney World, I'm kind of like, I don't know. I, of course, Affane my love for it, like I do for Christmas music in November, uh, because my wife likes it.

And when, when you, what you find out is when your partner likes something, you just go along with it. It's just, it's just a simple and easy wave to surf. Well, here's the update. Sources close to Alfonso tell TMZ the ankle injury is indeed minor, and he's returning to production Tuesday to finish the special.

We're told he plans to participate in filming the 500th episode of Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday. All right, so it's a minor injury. I'm assuming that means a small injury. Injury, not an injury with a young person. I'm assuming that. Uh, just to go back to Leo DiCaprio for a second. So yeah, good. We're happy for him.

Uh, I'm looking for it. I love, I don't, I won't, I don't know if I'll be able to catch it live. The Dancing with the Stars. Oh, I absolutely won't catch it live. 'cause I have a show Tuesday night, so if you want to come to my standup Shelby in New York City Tuesday night for the Stand. It's a show called How to Trap.

It's uh, it's about trapping your boyfriend or something. I don't know. It's a dating theme show. I'll be, uh, I'll be on it and uh, it's gonna be a ton of fun. I know it's a little late Tuesday night. 10 PM. But if you're, if you live in New York city, come on, you can get up, you can be up at 10 PM on a Tuesday night, show up to work the next morning.

Tell your boss you saw Dave Neil perform live and he'll, it'll be fine with it. That's just, that's, you know, that's how it works. All right. Dancing with the stars pro Riley Arnold has a new lover. And, uh, speaking of young people, she's got a new lover. She was caught up with by TMZ. It looks pretty staged to me, but Hey, well you do what you got to do.

And, uh, her relationship is with a USC football player, Walker Lyons, uh, and here's what she had to say. So many people are so invested in your new love life. How's it feel? It feels awesome. Yeah. Are you guys serious? Or how did you guys meet? Um, we met through just mutual friends. Oh, really? We have a lot of people in common and yeah, it's just been really fun.

Yeah, is it getting serious? I mean, we're just having a good old time. We're super young. So we're just okay. Loving life together because we're super young. It's like rubbing in your 19 year old. Yeah, you guys have similar values. Do you feel like, you know? For your family, usually ends up getting married pretty young.

I mean, I don't know. I guess we'll see, but we're having the best time and he's just such an awesome guy. Now look, I love Riley Arnold. She's paired with my boy, Steven Adorazic, the pommel horse Prince still on the show. Although they're on the chopping box, they better deliver a hell of a dance this week, uh, because it's getting closer to the finale.

So when she says, uh, she, you guys are the same age. Same type. Does she mean that they're Mormons? I'm assuming. I think, I think she's a Mormon or was a Mormon. I don't really know how that works out. They do get married young though. Those Mormons, I tell you what we got, we know a Mormon or two there. If you're, if you're 22 and you're not married and you're a Mormon, you're done.

You're old. You got to go into the convent or something. Anyway, her boyfriend, six foot four, 235 pound, true freshman feels the same way as he posted a bunch of photos of the two looking loved up on his Instagram page. No good for them. This is young love. I mean, but to hard launch a relationship as a freshman in college is insane to me.

I couldn't even hold hands or look in the eyes with somebody. You know what I mean? Maybe that's just the stunted, repressed love I felt growing up as a Roman Catholic. I don't know. All right. Well, if you live in Chicago. I've got a new coke run for you. I mean, I've got a new train run for you from Chicago to Miami.

Have a listen to this. There's a new way for Chicagoans to travel to Miami and it doesn't involve the hustle and bustle of an airport. Starting this weekend, Amtrak will offer direct round trip tickets on its new Floridian line. This new train travels all the way from Chicago to Miami, but also makes a few stops along the way.

in Cleveland, Washington D. C., Orlando and Tampa. Amtrak says the full trip will take almost 48 hours and it'll run daily starting this Sunday, November 10th. If you want to take a ride, those coach seat ticket prices start at just about 100 each way. Traveling coach includes wide reclining seats with legroom, windows to enjoy the scenery and no middle seats, or you can upgrade to a private room with more amenities.

Those tickets start at 700. And yes, we know you're wondering, there will be a dining car and cafe service, plus free Wi Fi. And unlimited cocaine. Now, I say this because there's no TSA on a train, uh, you know, when you're flying, maybe don't bring coke. No, don't bring, don't bring coke anywhere. I'm just saying.

You're out of your mind. If you don't think there'll be some drug deals happening on this train, who's taking a 48 hour train. And they're like, Oh, you can enjoy the view out the window. Have you ever driven from Illinois to Florida? What are they talking about? Anyhow, enjoy. If anyone's out there listening to the podcast for 48 hours, I'll have a lot of content for you on your way to Miami.

Um, and, uh, again, don't bring cocaine onto the train. Although. I'm not here to stop you. That's just not my job. Okay. I got a lot of stories to get to. We've got Dave Portnoy in Brown at Chicken Fry commenting about that bizarre breakup and all the drama that has followed. We'll have that story for you next.

It's a love hate relationship with lawyers. Uh, I love lawyers when they help defend me against crazy people, and I hate lawyers when they defend crazy people. And that has nothing to do with the next story, other than the fact that Dave Portnoy goes off the rails on Zach Brian's lawyer in a text message.

So Zach Brian is a musician and he was dating Brianna Chicken Fry, aka Brianna LaPaglia. She has a podcast at BFFs or whatever it's called with Dave Portnoy. Dave Portnoy on the barstool network. Now, Dave Portnoy is worth several hundred million dollars, but he's kind of been this sort of a hole you want on your team.

He's a very loyal, I guess you would say guy to work for as long as, you know, he wants to fight for you. So when Brianna and Zach broke up, Zach's. team offered her 12 million to sign an NDA. So she wouldn't talk about the breakup on her podcast rather than take the 12 million. She decided to do a tell all with Dave Portnoy.

Here's David Portnoy discussing the lawyer that he had to deal with. Foul language ensues. We have nothing to do with at this point, a minute later, I sent this to the lawyer. Hey, this is Dave Portnoy. I don't know who the fuck you think you are dealing with. I've been, I've been nice so far. Pay Bree ASAP.

I'm coming for Zach's throat. Bree won't have a say in it anymore. Josh won't have a say. I can pay Bree myself. I've tried to stay out of it, but stop all caps fucking around. Pay her or shut the fuck up. I'm losing patience. So I sent that to the lawyer. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, I knew it. Yeah. Fuck off.

It's like enough of this lawyer talk. I know you can fucking pay. They try to turn around and say, I'm extorting Zach. They're like, that's a crime. Somebody tell me. It's so insane. It's like you guys are trying to silence Brie. You're offering her an NDA with all this money. And she's like, At one point, I'm ready to sign.

Get me the paperwork. You won't do it. You're just dilly dallying, changing the rules, changing the playing field. Now, Josh and I are involved. It's like, either fucking pay it, or it's fucking game on. And they tried to say, we're extorting him. I've never heard that. We're extorting him. You're trying to bribe her to be quiet with an NDA.

And it could have been that some people think, you know, you tell someone, Oh, if you sign this NDA, I'll pay you X amount of money. And then you, maybe a few weeks go by, the money doesn't show up. You don't end up signing it, but then the relationship's kind of over. You don't want to deal with it. And maybe you just move on bygones be bygones.

That didn't happen as in the podcast, Brianna explained all of what she referred to as emotional abuse and what went down with that relationship. So now she's taken to her TikTok to explain, you know, exactly why she decided to turn the money down. And a lot of people said, Oh, Dave must've paid her 12 million to, to, you know, to do the tell all.

Uh, and she said, no, I just wanted to share my story. And. Honestly, you gotta, if this is all true, you got to look at Brianna chicken fry and give her major flowers to say, this is good for women who want to speak out if they've been abused or feel like they've been abused in a situation. Uh, and in this case, by not taking the money, she did just that.

Hey guys. Um, I didn't know if I wanted to wait for the podcast for this, but I just have a couple very clear points that I want to make. And, uh, I'm going to. Do that now. So please bear with me and as I did on the podcast, and as I'll do on here, I'm trying to keep my composure because I know that when a woman gets mad or a woman gets angry, how it's perceived.

And I do not want my message to get lost through that. Uh, so one, I see a lot of people being like, well, Dave definitely just gave her 10 million to do a towel. So she took money anyway. Dave didn't give me any money. Two, a towel? You think that was a towel? I took the high road. What I did was set a scene, paint a picture.

And if you can't see that very clear picture, I don't have time to hold your hand and walk you to LensCrafters. Okay? Sorry. I am losing money right now. I am paying for storage. I am paying for movers. I am paying for fucking flights back and forth to New York to go try and find an apartment. That's besides the point.

Two, uh, people using my comments towards the Menendez brothers against me. Um. Uh, this is for the people that are so committed to misunderstanding me. I never once invalidated the abuse from the Menendez brothers. What I said was maybe they should just run away instead of murdering. Obviously I was projecting.

Obviously I was projecting. Second, uh, she blamed her friend for sexual assault. Again, committed to misunderstanding me. No, I was sitting there trying to warn young girls to stay away from men. I love how she mentions people that are committed to misunderstanding her.

In some ways, a group of people that are just committed to misunderstanding you always looking for the worst in somebody. And you gotta, you gotta decide if you live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world. The fact that Brianna chicken fried decided to leave or, or, or broke up with Zach, whether it was his.

Doing or not, you know, she's committing to a world of hopefully, hopefully dating better guys, setting those boundaries. And we have to look at every aspect of our life this way. Are we committing to getting rid of the drama and living the highest version of our life? Or are we, um, you know, complaining about our job because we're afraid to get into a better one.

We're afraid for what, what could become if we test ourselves in a new world, you know, whatever the case may be, uh, look at life as a way to challenge you to always, always choose the, the thing that brings you. little bit of fear because of fear. Now I'm not talking about like, well, let's just go swimming with sharks or maybe that's what you do.

I don't know, but a little bit of fear because you're anxious or excited about trying something new that that's what leads to the rewards and the goods out there. So wishing our best for her, she'll make that 12 million back one way or another. And now she can do it by telling her all. own story and not being silenced while speaking of being silenced, a missing Wisconsin kayaker may have faked their own death.

Listen to this story. The Green Lake County Sheriff says a Watertown man may have faked his own death, abandoned his wife and three kids, and then fled the country. 45 year old Ryan Borgwart was presumed drowned this summer on Green Lake. For weeks, crews used every tool they could to try and find him. My question is this, did he, did he take the train to Miami and then take a cruise, a Christmas cruise?

Okay, maybe not. Now they believe he has been alive the entire time. Mike Biermeister explains the clues now directing the search to Europe. Since August, teams have been searching Green Lake for Ryan Borgwart after uncovering his overturned kayak and vehicle nearby. Now, Green Lake authorities believe he faked his death and fled to Europe.

An investigation uncovered Borgward had a second passport, cleared his laptop, took out a 375, 000 life insurance policy, and was talking with a woman in Uzbekistan. A tough pill to swallow for the Watertown family. He felt that the dad was grown. A non profit organization that specializes in water searches.

They provided their skills in several situations, including the search for Sean A. Robinson in Milwaukee. He says speculation started early on in the search. If they do track him down, they want him to repay taxpayers. For the cost of all that searching. Geez, wild stuff. I mean, talk about a Christmas movie plot.

Holy cow! But seriously, don't do that. Don't fake your own death and move to Uzbekistan. But by the way, what a good, uh, tourism board, uh, sort of, uh, promotion for Uzbekistan. I don't know what they have going on over there, but, uh, it's worth faking dying for, I guess. Alright, well, uh, I've got this bachelorette story here.

Uh, Devin is back on Instagram. Is he reformed? Did he overcome his flaws to be a better version of himself? Not exactly. We'll have that for you coming up next. Now I try and give literally everyone on the bachelor a benefit of the doubt. I got a lot of hate for giving Devin the benefit of the doubt after his.

Uh, season ended on The Bachelorette. Uh, but of course, I'm one to admit when I'm wrong. And I'm also one to tell you, look, I go off the information I have. And the more information you get, the better decision you can make. And I've decided, Devin is a dirtbag. Uh, Tess D. Hagans on TikTok explains it best. I think the bachelor contracts need to state that if you become one of the worst guys in the show's history, your social media is getting revoked.

Because Devin's back, and to no one's surprise, he's being horrid. Someone commented, Jen found a great guy, his name is Sasha. It's referring to her Dancing with the Stars partner, Sasha. Devin says, That's a girl's name. Uh, to which this commenter replies, Smartly, it's actually a gender neutral name with Slavic, Ukrainian, and Russian origins.

Really rich coming from a guy whose name is Devin. Which, I know female Devins. So, like, I don't that's actually a crazy comment. I'm sorry. I just think if you're him, why do you want to come back to social media at all? You're not the hero, and you're certainly not like, a fun villain. It's not like you were Brayden, whose acts of villainy were just silly and weird and annoying.

You're villain Yeah, there's fun villains, and there's just bad villains. And even some of the bad villains Decide I'll never talk about bachelor again. I have to tell you what I asked Several villains to do interviews for driving with dave and they said you know what? I just it's not worth it Like I don't want to I don't want to drudge up all the bachelor hate because sometimes villains are taken out of context and it's like You know, how villainous are you you just had a bad relationship or whatever and then sometimes they're just antagonizing And the more you learn from devin with his past restraining orders and all the issues with him.

It's like this guy You Seems to really, really not get it. We'll have more on that story today on YouTube, but, uh, there's, there's your little teaser for what's to come. Now I've got a couple, I always, I always love feedback. So when I said, Hey, Dave, longtime, longtime fan, but also conservative. And Hey guys, that's okay.

I love my conservative friends out there. I just don't like people who, you know, uh, steal elections and things like that. But if you're conservative, that's fine. Have your conservative values. Have your small government and do what the hell you want. But, uh, this person says, I appreciate that you promote coexisting peacefully while disagreeing on politics.

However, I notice that you tend to cover random stories about conservatives being bad guys and seldom the other way around. For example, the story of the Trump supporter stealing Harris signs as if Trump signs aren't getting stolen in Dem areas. Anyhow, in case you wanted to see some of the nasty things that liberals are doing, here's something that ABCLA has reported on.

Both parties have bad outliers. I know you don't have to share these things equally, but it's almost as if you don't think these things also happen on the liberal side. Anyways, love the pods. Now listen, and by the way, thank you so much. I wanted to respond on the podcast because it's a little bit easier to respond to every comment privately.

It's like, I might as well bring this content to the people. I don't, I don't have an issue with people in how they decide to express their vote. I've always said this, If the Dems Can't win over your vote. That's on the Dems for not being good enough at sales to win your vote over. That's fine. Um, and I did cover the story where someone scooped up a hundred plus signs and they were tracked down on an air pod and whatnot.

Now this story of FEMA supervisor being fired after allegedly advising team to avoid homes with Trump signs. Yeah, that's a, that's a good story. Sure, it happened in Miami, where maybe they were, did they fly these, did they train these people in from Chicago? Okay. Anyway, look, yeah, we could go tit for tat on every story.

I just, some stories I pick up and some I don't. It depends on how juicy they are. Do I have multimedia that works in the podcasting world? Um, there are plenty of people. That would identify as left leaning, to, on one level or another, that are horrible people. Sure, I'm not gonna have the argument of, well, there's bad people on both sides.

I'm not gonna do this whole game of one person, this guy got a parking ticket and this guy, you know, whatever. Of course, I'd rather spend my time frying the fish of the elites and the people that are in charge. But yeah, you're right, I did cover that story, which was just a fun one of people stealing signs, it was like a, you know, I don't know.

Anyhow, um, I'm not gonna audit every story I do, but this idea that I, I think one side, one side shit doesn't stink, no, not at all. Not at all. I think one of the biggest issues with, with, uh, The people that have a problem with woke culture is that they think everybody on the left is so focused on quote unquote woke culture.

All I ever talk about with progressive policies are, you know, raising the minimum wage, trying to get medicare for all for everybody, taxing the billionaires at a marginal level. I like very practical things. I actually don't play into the culture war. If you look at my conversations with Megan Fox, God bless Megan Fox, but every, every conversation is like ends up culture war.

It's the same thing when I talk to my parents, everything is ends up culture war. They're stealing the goose. It's always a culture war thing. And I just go, you know what? Let's talk policies. And now clearly that conversation didn't, uh, didn't, uh, sort of transpire into Kamala Harris getting elected, but it doesn't change my thoughts on what values this country should hold.

In fact, when I call out, um, right leaning people, it's because so many people attach their political identity to their morality and their Christian identity. And that old saying, what would Jesus do? Well, I'll tell you what he wouldn't do. He wouldn't stoke violence and he wouldn't, uh, have a harmful rhetoric, you know, that leads to to things like not, you know, believing the election was stolen, he would, he would take the loss.

That's what he would do. Uh, which by the way, here's an interesting clip from Bill Maher on his episode this weekend. We have two more shows. Normally this would be our last show, but we thought, well, we should stay on because it'll be a shit show after this because there'll be all sorts of lawsuits and the country will be in flames, which I think let's not.

That, the most important thing to say about this election is the reason why we're sitting here so peacefully now is because the one party that still believes in conceding elections If the other guy had won, it would be a shit show now. Let's not pass over it. And that's the truth. And look, you have to understand that.

I took the loss. I, I, I'm, I, I'm the first one. I made a reel, reel this weekend saying, here's all that's, what, what's wrong with how they ran that election. Absolutely. I'm not, you know, and I'm getting DMs from people saying, actually, they're doing recounts in this state or this, okay, fine. Well, until that all happens, I'm not assuming any, there was any election interference, okay?

Um, I'm taking the loss. And thinking of ways that that party can do a better job of getting more votes. They lost a popular vote. That's a tragedy. It shouldn't have happened. Uh, especially because there's a lot of good things going on in this world, but it did, and now they must adjust and I'll be here to talk about it.

Now, someone said, Oh, I wish your podcast was more like reality. Steve's where it doesn't cover politics. What do you want? I love reality, Steve, but do you want him and I to do Three podcasts a day. He does one a day. I do too. Where we all disco and circle jerk around the same story there. You know, there's a lot of content out there in this world and I'm going to continue to tell people, I just gave you 20 banging minutes of non election And nonpolitical content.

And then I got a couple extra in here. For those that want to listen, you could have signed off before. So this idea that, Oh, I love you. But what if you just did it my way? I'm sorry, this ain't Burger King. This is Dave Neal. And this is the rush. We'll see you this afternoon. I'm Dave. 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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