11-12-24 Afternoon Rush - Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay Swears Off 'Reality Men' & SNL Star Calls Out Elon Musk & Vanderpump's Jax Exposed By Ex

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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. It's Tuesday, November 12th, 2024, and we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place, and There is a lot to get to today.

Let's jump right into the lead stories. Bachelorette star, Rachel Lindsay responds to questions about if she will be going back on reality TV dating shows. Spoiler. She says, heck no. Plus a spirit airlines flight got shot up with stray bullets as if there was a reason to hate spirit airlines anymore. Now add stray bullets to the other issues.

Plus comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's first live response following his Puerto Rico comments at Madison Square Garden. And Saturday Night Live cast member confirms that Elon Musk made her cry while he was hosting Saturday Night Live. I have those stories. Plus some motivation from Kristen Cavallari about becoming a business babe, how to launch your business and know what your calling is.

So we'll get a little motivation, uh, for your afternoon rush, uh, all these stories, plus so much more coming up next on The Rush. Alright, let's start with our favorite bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay. Here she is, I guess, getting pulled over by TMZ, and of course, discusses if she would go back on dating reality TV shows.

How are you doing? I'm so good. How are you? I'm great. I wanted to ask you, I mean, you know you and Brian are like done. I mean, how's the new chapter of single life been for you? It's been great. It's been great? Okay. So, is guys jumping into the DMs? I know you guys are. Nobody, oh the car's right there.

Nobody loves my DMs. Nobody loves my DMs. What do you mean? I'm just, I'm just all about having fun right now. Okay. I mean, would you ever give it a shot? I know a lot of people love watching our reality TV. Would you ever give it a shot? I would never go back on reality TV for dating. Ever again? Ever. Oh my gosh.

So you do the organic way then? I would do it the organic way. Yeah. I learned my lesson. All right. Fool me once. Fool me once she says. And yeah, even if she does it the organic way, don't forget, get that prenup. Okay. Britney speaking of prenups, Britney speaking of prenups. Spears is on her last final, I guess this doesn't count as a prenup, but it's her final child support payment this Friday.

The buck stops here. Uh, she's been paying, I guess for the last 18 years. Doesn't that make you feel old? To K Fed, Kevin Federline. She's three days away from closing the books on child support and TMZ, Brittany will write her last child support check, um, tomorrow. Uh, for November 15th, you know, you know, what a gravy train that was for K Fed.

Can you imagine to go from just being a backup dancer to essentially marrying the, and having kids with the biggest pop star at the time of all time, I guess, maybe not as big as Michael. Or Jackson, right? But she was, I mean, big as, she was huge. She was huge. Britney Spears. She's a Britney, bitch. And now all of a sudden, uh, you know, hopefully he was able to save a couple bucks.

I mean, how much was she paying him? Who knows? My guess is around 20, 000 a month. That's my guess. Um, and, uh, Uh, oh, actually, no, double that. Brittany and Kevin agreed at the time they divorced, she would pay him 20, 000 a month in child support. But in 2018, it went up to 40, 000 a month. An acknowledgement that despite their joint custody agreement, Kevin had the kids 100 percent of the time.

Uh, they agreed to the 20, 000 a month after Sean Preston turned 18. So as of Friday, Brittany will be free and clear of child support, and maybe she'll Forge a new relationship with her now adult children. Yeah. What a sad story. Everything involving Britney Spears is just a cautionary tale. Uh, just because, you know, I mean, I don't know what, what, what could the family have done to prevent this all from turning out the way it did?

Is it just because of fame or is it because the family sort of pimped her out? I mean, who, who really knows? Uh, sad stuff indeed though. Well. Speaking of sad stuff, Armie Hammer, remember him? Kind of canceled by Hollywood. I guess he's making his comeback. Well, he had his mom on his new podcast. Yes, that's right.

Podcasts are the, uh, pipeline to making it back when you've been sort of shunned by Hollywood. And, um, You know, is his voice worth hearing? I mean, it's up to you to decide. Who knows? But he says his mom gifted him a birthday vasectomy, that being of course, uh, I guess he was gonna get one and she paid the bill.

Here's the deal. You guys know how it is. If your parents ever want to foot the bill for something, you just let them. Have a listen. The thought that, you know, and and let's be honest, I think you learned not to put stupid things in DMs because No one was eaten, no one was raped, but you were stupid. And let's talk about what I gave you.

What a mom there. No, you were stupid. We need, we need more moms like this. For your birthday this year, the church lady. Okay. Uh huh. What did you get? So I call army and I go army, what would you like for your birthday this year? And he goes, Oh, I don't know. You know, maybe, maybe money, whatever. And I was like, I believe I'm going to give you a vasectomy.

So I go, I go to a doctor's office and I go, uh, yes, I'm here to schedule a vasectomy. And they go, great. Uh, here's what you need. Fill out this paperwork, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do a consult with the doctor. Do the consult with the doctor. And he's like, you sure you want to do this? I'm like, I have two beautiful kids.

I don't want any more kids. I'm good to go. He goes, you sure? Like, listen, it's reversible, but the reversal procedure is way harder and this and that. And I was like, no, no, no. I'm, I'm sure. Like they try to talk you out of it. Right. Right. Rightfully so. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, you're not going to talk me out of it.

Like I'm, I'm done. I'm good. I'm done. And he goes, all right, great. So go back out to the receptionist and um, and then she'll collect payment and the whole thing. And I go, great. Thank you, doc. Walk out to the receptionist. We're just like, okay, uh, are you going to be putting this on insurance? And I go, oh, actually I don't, I don't have insurance.

She goes, what? I go, yeah, I haven't had insurance for years. And she was like, Oh, okay. Uh, are you going to be putting it on a credit card? I don't know. My credit cards won't cover this. Um, my mother's going to be calling you and she's going to be paying for it. And she was like looking down and she goes, what?

And I go, yes, my mother gave me this as a birthday present. And she, It just was like one of those things like you could tell she was hearing something and like I've never heard. What are you talking? You know, yeah, cuz most moms want you to have kids. They want to be grandparents. Most moms aren't paying for your vasectomy What a bizarre interview, but hey, you know what people like bizarre interviews I just find it interesting, you know, so he, of course, was accused of being a cannibal because he texted the girl he was dating, being like, I want to eat you or whatever, you know, it's like, okay, I don't know.

The truth is he was never charged with any crimes and they dropped, you know, all the charges or whatever they were looking into him. So that's all you can say about that. I don't want to comment any further. I don't know a thing about this guy, uh, but he's, you know, he's trying to make his comeback and that's what's kind of nice about podcasting.

If people want to listen, they will, uh, very strange stuff. But, uh, clearly he's getting press. And getting press also is Kathy Bates. She talks about enjoying not having boobs after she ditched a reconstruction effort. Have a listen. There was a friend of mine that was concerned when I decided not to have reconstruction because at the age I was, I thought, you know, I really don't want to go through that.

Um, and I, I just didn't want to go through it. You know, I wasn't in a relationship. I was older and I didn't, didn't think that I would be in a relationship. And it's always kind of like, why do I have to, but also the other thing, this is really weird maybe, but I had really heavy breasts. They were like 10 pounds when they removed them.

Yeah, really big, big breasts. And I kind of enjoy not having breasts. It's strange. And, you know, at Matlock they devised this really cool, um, little, it's spankish kind of, uh, You know, a camisole, very thin, uh, straps and they put little, you know, falsie cups in it and they're so comfortable and they give me a nice shape.

And, and that's it. I mean, I feel so good when I go out like that. For a while, I just didn't go out with any, you know, prophylactics or at all, you know, or I went out with them. They're hot and heavy and they made me unhappy. Yeah. I mean, look, Hey, I don't know a thing about this conversation, but 10 pounds, that's a lot of extra weight to be carrying around.

So good for her for doing what feels right. And you know what? Good for her for normalizing the conversation around that. I think that's a big deal too. Well from, you know, a lot of bizarre stories today, we'll get to this spirit airline store. You guys know, I just flew to New York city, not on spirit. I flew Delta because I, you know, Don't hate myself.

And I tell, well, the last time I tried to fly Spirit, um, they canceled on me an hour before the flight. So I ended up having to book a very expensive flight. So I have vowed whenever I search for flights online, I click the box that says anything but Spirit Airlines. That's just me. I'll get DMs from people saying, no, Spirit's been great to me.

And I tell you this, they're good. Until they're not, you'll come crying back to me. I'll never, you know, and they'll have to pay me a lot of money. If I advertise for spirit, I'll be like, Hey, it's Dave. Come on spirit airlines. Then you'll be knowing I'm making a fortune. All right. Anyway, I'll have that story for you, but I am in New York city and I do have my last show in New York tonight, 10 PM at the stand.

If you want to come hang out, um, I'll be there a slinging jokes. It'll be a ton of fun. All right. We'll be back with this spirit airline. Uh, drive by, I should say fly by shooting right after this. Alright, as promised, here is the, a passenger talking about being traumatized after bullets pierced a plane on Spirit Airlines.

Have a listen to this. I heard clock, clock, clock, you know, three times and a couple of us in the plane, we recognized the noise. Um, It was a bit traumatic because I've been kidnapped. I mean, we, uh, I didn't know. Yeah, I mean, we are planning to land, you know, safely in Santiago. But, uh, and I saw a lot of people, I mean, going to the, to the back of the planes.

And, uh, the crew was really traumatized. People went to the back of the plane. Yeah. I could imagine that. Oh my gosh. The spirit airlines flight was so traumatizing. I wasn't even on the flight with the bullets. I'm just saying in general, it's a terrible airline. All right. Um, to each their own, uh, there just needs to be better airline regulations.

You know, spirit airline, you know, if you don't print out your boarding pass ahead of time, they charge you, they just nickel and dime you for everything, which by the way, whatever. But I feel bad for older passengers or people that might not travel often, and they don't realize all the little gotcha things that they fees.

So when they get to the flight, they think they got a 30 flight and then it come to find out they don't. That's what I love about like Southwest, you know, two check bags, you know, every single flight should just come with two check black bags. Make that standard. Tell me what the price is where I don't have to pay upgrades to not sit in the middle seat or whatever.

Tell me the price and shut the hell up. None of this. Hacking the um, you know the search results so you can be the best listed price And then you find out it doesn't include the cost of gas or whatever the hell you got to chip in All right Speaking of chipping in john mayer and mick g are making a rainbow connection to buy the jim henson studio As you remember we reported several weeks ago that it was looking like this Scientology was going to be buying the Muppets famed home in Hollywood, but now new owners, John Mayer and McG are set to buy the Jim Henson company lot after the Church of Scientology had reportedly eyed the property.

A mayor's rep confirmed the singer and the director are under contract to buy Henson's studio. This is, you know what, this is the exact reason why I would like wealth. Not so I can hoard it, but so I can buy things like Jim Henson's studio, you know? Oh, I don't know. But anyway, it'll be interesting to see what they end up doing with it.

Maybe it'll, it'll just be a museum. Maybe it'll be a recording studio. Who knows? All right, well, uh, let's go to Tony Hinchcliffe. As you guys know, he's the roast comedian, uh, who's got the podcast, uh, what, what's it called? Uh, Kill Tony. And, um, you know, I was on that actually years ago, uh, which is neither here nor there, but he, uh, spoke at the Madison square garden rally doing roast jokes about Puerto Rico amongst other places.

Well, that of course was a controversial night, which turned out to not make a difference as Trump won the election. But here's what he had to say. The night after Madison Square Gardens. It's finally been revealed. Ladies and gentlemen, last night I gave a speech. Uh, I don't know if you've heard about this.

It was a speech about free speech, believe it or not. And, uh, I'm currently under attack. Uh, I'm the news. I don't know if you guys know this, but, uh, On my speech, on free speech, I referenced Puerto Rico, uh, which currently has a, uh, a landfill problem in which all of their landfills are filled to the brim.

I guess I'm the only person that knew about this, uh, unfortunately. And with that said, I just want to say that I've been to P I love Puerto Ricans. They're very smart people. They're smart, they're street smart, and they're smart enough to know when they're being used as political fodder. And right now, that is happening.

And, uh, I apologize to absolutely nobody. There it is, folks. I mean, look, what do you want? That's free speech. He's allowed to say stuff. People are allowed to get offended and he's allowed to move on with his life. Can't get jailed for it. And was it used as political fodder? Well, to an extent, but I've, I said the same thing all along, that I don't fault Tony Hinchcliffe.

I just fault the people that decided it'd be a good idea to bring a roast comedian to the show. to a political rally meant to unite people. I don't know the direction of the world or where it's going, but, um, you know, you save that for the comedy clubs and for the places it's supposed to be. Not for uniting the country, right?

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And now on Vanderpump, Brittany Cartwright. Cartwright is putting her estranged husband, Jax Taylor, on blast. Uh, you know, you see, he claimed his stint in rehab, you know, made him a different man, and she said he hasn't changed one bit. I'll explain exactly her thoughts, uh, next. I was just like, I gotta, I have to do this now before I back out, before he gets out of the mental health facility and, and pulls me back in.

I have to do it now while I'm feeling strong, while I'm so angry, I've, I've just got to get it done. Because you were concerned otherwise that you would end up feeling bad for him and he would come out and he'd be especially nice to you. Yes. And. And draw, and pull me back in. Right. Because he's been able to do that for 10 years.

Yeah. So, I just was like, I have to go through with it now, and I have to be strong, and I have to stay strong from here on out. Well, basically what you're saying is that he was the same, but you were different. Oh, yeah. He, I don't feel like he changed at all. In those 30 days, and the reason, I mean, I'm sure it'll be on the show as well, but, you know, a lot of rage texting and stuff was still going on the entire time that he was in rehab, so for me, I was just noticing, like, this is just gonna be constant, like, if you're in therapy seven hours a day and you're still finding time to call me names and cuss me out and send me rage texts, then you're obviously not ever gonna change.

And that made the decision for you. Oh, yeah. Look, I wouldn't say you won't ever change, but I also wouldn't say 30 days in rehab would make someone change. Of course, she's right. Move on, you know? Don't wait for someone to change. That'd be very co dependent of her. So, I mean, I'm happy she made that decision, but you know, you never know.

The guy could change. It's just not gonna happen overnight. Like, this is bad. I can't stay in this. So, just kind of like, very eye opening. Yeah, and you just, you did it. Yeah. And I was like, let's do it now before I change my mind. I, and I'm so glad I did, and I'm Alright, there it is. She's so glad she did.

Well, we're very happy for you. Uh, I want to get into this crazy Saturday Night Live story. So, a Saturday Night Live cast member said a previous host made her cry. And nobody knew who it was. Everyone speculated. Well, now we know Chloe Fineman confirms that Elon Musk was the host who made her cry. Listen to her story.

about Elon Musk being like, butthurt about SNL and his impression. But I'm like, you're clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to come out and say, at long last, that I don't care. I'm the cast member that he made cry and he's the host that made someone cry.

Maybe there's others Um, but I saw some articles and stuff and I was like, i'm not gonna say anything But i'm like no if you're gonna like go on your platform and be rude like guess what you made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch. I was so excited. I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, it's not funny.

I waited for you to be like, ha ha, JK. No, then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page being like, I didn't laugh. I didn't laugh once, not one time. Cut to the sketch made it on and it was like fine and I actually had a really good time and I thought you were really funny in it, but But, you know, have a little manners here, sir.

There it is. Have some manners, sir. Elon Musk, co president of the United States of America. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about how being on the autism spectrum has affected his life. He said it's a never ending explosion of ideas. Look. I don't know too much about Elon Musk and his autism diagnosis, nor am I using that as an excuse for his behavior.

But I do think if you are Chloe Fineman, you know, you get these hosts, he's like an eccentric billionaire. Sure. He's got a lot of issues, but he's very, he's just, you know, he was probably really funny because he is so bizarre. He's a cyborg. People think he's an alien. Now that doesn't mean he wasn't an a hole to you.

I just think the more you think about it, you realize he probably. doesn't understand empathy that well. That's my thought. Not because he's on the spectrum, just because what we know about Elon Musk, again, everyone's different, everyone's unique. So I'm not trying to conflate or, or, or put him in a box with anybody else.

But, uh, it's, it says less about you, Chloe, and more about him. All right. We'll be back with more content right after this. Well, speaking of Elon Musk, there have been some reports that he's kind of like the co president, making a lot of decisions. Who knows if that's true? Well, President elect Donald Trump and billionaire buddy Elon Musk are inevitably bound to butt heads once the post campaign honeymoon is over because of their egos, says a CNN analyst.

Have a listen. They're both narcissists. And there's, there can be only one narcissist as head of the country. And that's Donald Trump who just won the election. I think, you know, he owes things to Elon, but at some point he's, he, you know, if he takes too much of the attention, think about Steve Bannon, do you remember he's on the cover of that magazine and how quickly he got out, even though he was the critical to Trump's first, uh, campaign.

And he was right in the middle of the white house and then he wasn't. And so Trump, you know, goes through people like tissues essentially. And I think even if it's Elon Musk and, and, and Elon has a lot of money and means and things like that, they're going to clash at some point. I don't know. I mean, maybe, but I think, I think this is what you have to, there's certain people in power that they're nice to the people that they really respect.

And then rude to people that they don't. Um, I could see it lasting pretty long because Donald Trump does have an adoration for Elon Musk. I think if Elon Musk got into the political game, then there would be some competition, but I, I think they're going to be, you know, sort of, I think they're going to work fine together to be quite honest.

Um, but then again, if Donald Trump doesn't, you know, we'll find out what sort of, um, things Elon Musk wants in return. I'm guessing there'll be a ton of deregulation. You know, I'm guessing there'll be some national parks that'll be blown up for some lithium batteries. All right. Well, it doesn't always work out when you're, um, when you're on Trump's side, Rudy Giuliani says he's so broke.

He can't buy food. Rudy Giuliani over the weekend took to social media to ask for money. From supporters of Rudy Giuliani, claiming he's so broke he can't eat, can't afford to feed himself, saying the law firm representing the two election workers he defamed, Ruby Freeman and Shea Moss, as well as the judge, quote, seized my measly checking account so I can't buy food.

This comes after Rudy was admonished by a federal judge in New York for hiding his assets that he's supposed to be selling. turning over, including a Mercedes, two dozen high end watches, a jersey signed by New York Yankees Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio. But Rudy Giuliani has been flagrant in his refusal to hand over any of those things, even taking the vintage Mercedes to Florida last week.

Today is the deadline for Rudy's attorneys to give instructions on how the remaining items will ultimately be delivered to Moss and Freeman. All right, here's what I say. Rudy, you can keep one of your watches, give the other 11 away. You don't need the Don DiMaggio outfit and sell the car for a Toyota Camry.

There it is. Rudy, join the rest of us. You only have one nice Rolex and you drive a Toyota. Okay. All right. Well, enough of the political talk. Let's do something inspirational. Here is the neuroscience. Of empathic connection, coordinating right brain activity, how by eye contact, direct eye connection really is the most powerful form of communication.

I always remind people, these are two little bits of brain outside your cranial vault. As weird as that might seem, there are two bits of brain. Your retina is central nervous system and you're, you're looking at. That's about as close as you can get to looking at somebody's brain state as anything. Well, you know, the, the, the, this is the, the eyes are being controlled by the autonomic nervous system.

So you got the, you have an autonomic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system synchrony here, so to speak, et cetera. But essentially, uh, what's occurring at this point in time, face, Voice, gesture. The face is processed in the posterior parts of the right hemisphere, the face processing. Right hemisphere, face processing.

The posterior parts of the right hemisphere, the sensory areas of the right hemisphere, process the voice. The melody of the voice. The tone of the voice. That's different than the semantics of the voice. So this is prosody, this is, uh, This is what the Italians do so well. Right. And the, and the, and the posterior parts of the right hemisphere also will process gesture and tactile.

All of that comes together, is integrated together. Alright, so that's a lot for me to comprehend, but I think what they're trying to say is, be kind, make eye contact with people, and again, this is hard in today's world with social media, we're always looking at our phones. Find those moments to connect with others, those two little bits of brains outside of your brain known as your eyeballs, and maybe, just maybe, you'll find a pleasant surprise in human connection.

Well, I got to tell you, that's going to do it for me. I got to get ready for my show tonight, but I will be back in the morning as I am every time. I'm Dave Neal. We'll see you in the morning. Uh, this is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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