11-12-24 Morning Rush - New UFO Info Coming This Week? & Bachelor 2025 Gets Air Date & Bachelorette Jenn Responds To Dating Rumors!

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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. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday, November 12th, 2024. I have all of your entertainment and pop culture. Culture news in one place. And on today's episode, we've got toy maker, Mattel, making a wicked big mistake, apologizing for an 18 plus problem.

I'll get into that. Plus insiders say more will be revealed this week regarding UFOs. And speaking of UFOs, today the episode drops with David Duchovny and Jillian Anderson. This is gonna call for some X Files music. He's got a new podcast out and they talk about how they, they had a relationship falling out and how they got better.

And I'll tell you what, As a lot of elder millennial men will tell you, I got a thing for Jillian Anderson. I don't know if it's her or the trench coat, but there's something in that, uh, ginger Bob haircut that left all the boys crazy in the nineties. All right, moving on. Dancing with the stars continues this week after a short hiatus known as the 2024 election.

What Jen Tran has to say about the rumored relationship with Sasha. Totally not a girl's name. Farber. We'll get into that. Rather than point fingers. AOC tries to find out why people who voted for her also voted for Trump. I love stories like that. Stories where we actually try to solve the world's problem and just not call the other side names.

So I got all of that and more coming up next on the rush. Well, we've got machine gun babies coming. That's Megan Fox is pregnant, expecting baby with machine gun Kelly. Congratulations to the two of them. She's pregnant. The transformers actor announced the news on Instagram, sharing a photo of her positive pregnancy test, as well as a picture of herself covered in what looks to be black oil, embracing her stomach.

She. Tagged Machine Gun Kelly in the photo and used his music on the post. All right. Well, I guess that means she's having a baby. Good on her. You know, uh, there was that weird kind of rumor, I guess, that they broke up. She, you know, kind of unfollowed him and did that whole thing, but Hey, I guess they're back together.

All right. Let's dive into some good, interesting UFO news. Uh, cause nothing cleanses the palate like a little alien talk. Do you think that Americans will learn new information about UAPs or are you expecting massive revelations on Wednesday? I think we're going to learn some things. It's peeling back the layers of an onion.

Um, the one thing I think that would be, will happen eventually is President Trump will move towards total disclosure. The federal government tells us they don't exist in one breath, but then they won't release files. And when they do, They're redacted heavily. Don't we think if he knew that they were aliens, he would have told us already.

I mean, I don't know what, I guess we'll have to see. This is something we have to look forward to in the upcoming year. Cause they think we're ignorant and they're arrogant. It says everything to do with Washington, its power, influence, overconfidence and arrogance and, um, and money. Of course, I'm hoping president Trump fires a lot of people and put some people in there that trust the American public with the truth.

Well, there it is. Rep Tim Burchett. We're going to peel back some layers on the onion. It's like, okay, well, enough about lunch. Do they have aliens or not? You know what I mean? And speaking of aliens, or should I say out of this world? Uh, relationships. Uh, David Duchovny talks failure of friendship with Jillian Anderson during the X Files, he said he could have handled himself better.

Uh, on today's episode of fail better, his podcast, the co stars reunite and reveal that there were times where they wouldn't speak, uh, off camera for weeks. You know, which by the way. That's not that big of a deal. They're working with each other all day long. It's kind of like, you know, sports broadcasters, you know, they work together all day.

They don't have much to say when they're not filming. Or maybe there was some, you know, nookie lovemaking that happened that went south and who knows? Either way, I gotta tell you. I grew up one of the first, uh, female crushes. I had two crushes. I'm going to tell you right now. It was Jillian Anderson and it was, um, uh, uh, uh, what's her name?

Louise Dreyfus. What's her first name? Julia Louise Dreyfus. That was it. Elaine. If I, if Elaine was dancing, I was all into it. I had Elaine and I had Jillian Anderson in a trench coat. That was it. So anyhow, uh, they had an intimate conversation. It releases today. But he says, uh, you know, I guess, I guess they, uh, they, they had that much chemistry that even though they weren't talking off camera when they, uh, were on camera, they just lit up the stage.

He said, we know each other very deeply and yet we don't know each other in some weird way. De Kovny, 64 said. Over the past 30 years in which the duo have starred together in a total of 11 seasons of the X Files, as well as two spinoff films, De Kovny said, I don't know that we ever sat down and said, Hey, what was your childhood like?

I don't know. We didn't. And why would we? We were busy, uh, uh, Anderson says. We have a closeness that we don't have with probably many other people and went through something that we didn't go through with any other people. I mean, yes, there were crew and etc. But in terms of our experience as actors, I thought it would be a curious investigation.

So I very much look forward to getting some of the soundbites from that interview. But of course it's drops, I guess, later today, uh, David, and you know, there's a lot of celebrities that I don't think should have podcasts, but David Duchovny is interesting. And here's a quick clip from eight years ago of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson explaining their tension they had in the nineties.

I went there and blow dried my hair again, and things take a long time. And I got, I got pissed at that? Well, I think it added to the tension of the fact that I took so long to, you know So this is what's so funny. She's saying because it was very humid where they filmed in Vancouver, it took longer for her to get her hair done, which added to the tension of them filming.

Which actually is literally the tension of every relationship. It's like you're ready to go to the ballgame, but your wife decided to change the outfit she was gonna wear because she realized the home team's in red, and she was clashing with the girls. Colors and it becomes a whole thing and next thing you know, you're having the silent treatment while you eat popcorn.

Is it? Kind of makes me sound like an a hole.

So there it is. It kind of made him sound like an a hole, but hey, maybe he was either way. Love them. Hate them. They, they, uh, you know, the, the sort of, uh, conversation around UFOs in my generation was centered around

gotta love it. I'll never get old with that sound clip. Okay, so let's move it on. That's enough alien talk. Let's go back to the terrestrial world. Heading to Cabo's, uh, Cabo, no, silent S, Cabo, was Bachelor in Paradise former couple Avon and Kylie. Of course, he cheated on her twice. She outed him. She did an episode on Vile Files last year and made a whole big stink about it, but There was a little bit of a window left open as to whether or not they would get back together.

And it seems as though they may be dating. Now, I can understand why they wouldn't want this relationship to be full blown public because people are going to say, How could you take him back? Blah, blah, blah. And actually, I think they explained it very well. You know, they go on the show, they get engaged or whatever, and then they start to watch the show back and go, Was this even real?

Are we even engaged? They start to question things. Now, that doesn't, Explain or write off why he cheated, but if any relationship can overcome early relationship debauchery, I would say it should be some early 20 something people from bachelor in paradise. If they can make it, any of us can make it now in other bachelor news.

It's also a dancing with the stars update. Bachelorette Jen Tran, of course, eliminated or two weeks ago from dancing with the stars, her eliminated fiance. Her ex, Devin Strader, was commenting on some haters comments saying, who's this guy you're referring to her new man, Sasha. That sounds like a girl's name.

Of course, Sasha Farber professional dancer. People said, well, it's actually gender neutral name of Slavic or, you know, whatever they said. Well, now Sasha has responded on his Instagram stories. The name Sasha is short for Alexander. You know, who else had the great name, Alexander, the great FYI. And look, I didn't know Sasha was short for Alexander, but Hey, you know, a Dick is short for William and skip is short for Leonard and you get all these crazy things out there.

So Jack is short for John. None of it makes sense to me. I'm Dave that's short for David. You know, what can you do? All right. Well, speaking of bachelor, we have a season premiere date for bachelor Grant. Ellis. That's right. It'll be January 27th. So a little late in January. Normally it's the first week in January.

Grant Ellis will start handing out roses on the Bachelor premiere. And I don't think Reality Steve has a spoiler yet for who wins that. I think it should be a good season. I mean, he's a good looking dude. He's got a job. I mean, could the bar be set any lower ladies? He has a job. Woo. Oh my gosh. I can't believe it.

Uh, so we'll have more information as that comes. Now, if you happen to be in the New York city area, I am performing tonight. At the stand at 10 PM. I know it's Tuesday night. I'm in the New York comedy festival. So you're going to love this festival. I'm actually the only guy on the show. There's three, uh, four, as far as I know, amazing comedians plus me, four females, one male, Dave.

And you're going to love it. It's called Leah Lamar, how to trap your soulmate. My good pal, Leah Lamar is producing the show. She's very funny. She's been a guest on driving with Dave. You're going to absolutely love that. If you're in New York, you got to come out. We'll hang out before we'll hang out after it'll be a treat.

All right. Lots of content to get to hang tight. We'll be back with more right after this. Anyone want to feel good story? This is from NBC, Chicago, a Chicago man visited a South shore bakery without knowing the woman behind his favorite treats was his birth mom. Let's uh, let, you know, a lot of negativity out there.

Let's listen to a good old story. I didn't order anything. I don't, what is it? That's when we started screaming. It's an unbelievable family reunion story. The Chicago man finds his biological mother just blocks away from his home. There are lots of bakeries in Chicago, but give me some sugar in the city South shore neighborhood had the Mar Hunter hooked the lemon bars.

That was, that was my cat and the chocolate chip cookies. So three things. And the lemon pound cake. The Mars started coming here about 10 years ago and he says he really felt at home here. As a matter of fact, he lived about a block away and also enjoyed talking to the owner. You know, she interacts on a personal level.

Wimber Mar was 35 confirmation of what he always suspected he was adopted. He got a genetic profile and some help from a genetic genealogist. Soon, his biological mom was located. When she was ready, she called from a familiar number. By the way, this is, this story is just amazing. I just have to interject here.

I can imagine how tough it must be to give your baby up for adoption. Now, I don't know this reason why sometimes people are in and out of, you know, uh, poverty or they're, you know, drug issues, whatever the case may be. It must be such a tough decision to make. So To have this kind of happy ending just really tickles my soul.

I had the bakery in my phone, locked in. I'm like, give me some sugar. And all I'm thinking in my head is why, why don't I give me some sugar? I didn't order any. I don't, what is this? I, it's still not, not dawning on me. And then, you know, I'm like, hello, you know, she's like, hello, and then that's when we started screaming and, um, and I started crying on the phone.

Lenore had put Vimar up for adoption when she was 17. I left the adoption open and I said, you know, if he really wants to find me. then he'll be able to find me. But otherwise his life must be great. I wouldn't interfere in that life. Their relationship now, like they've never been apart with Lenore. Now, semi retired, Vamar runs much of the business.

The puzzle that always haunted him What a great, what a great story. You know, we need these stories in today's world. We need these stories of unity and of coming together against all odds. And believe it or not, as great as that story is, why don't we take the moment? You know, sometimes here's what I do.

I, I compile all these new stories I want to share with you. And then I kind of free, Form how I want them to lead into each other and they don't always make sense, right? They don't always make sense, but this idea of unity, it has to exist in our country. We have to find a way to stop calling the other side idiots and, and start getting to the place where we realize we all.

We're all like beating hearts and we're all humans. I know this sounds so stupid to say, uh, AOC is of the idea that we need to find a way to come together. She asked her own voters who split the ticket for her and Trump, why they did just that. So that being people who voted for her, you know, state, you know, in the, in the representative and then people who also voted for Trump, what.

Did they have in common? Because if she could try to figure this out, she could probably try to sell this to other members of the party to say, see, this is more of what the people want in a democracy. You need to know what people want. Here's where, here's the question. She asked, as a matter of fact, let's do this right now.

If you voted for Donald Trump and me, or. If you voted for Donald Trump and voted Democratic down ballot, I would really love to hear from you. Um, this is not a place of judgment. I'm not going to like put your stuff on blast or anything like that, or dunk on it. That's like genuinely not the intent here.

I actually want to learn from you. I want to hear what you were thinking. And, um, I just want to hear from you. So if you did that, I don't even know if anybody like that is even watching this right now, but if you are, please fill out a little Q and a here and just tell me what your thought process was.

Y'all this is why I say that we should be signing up to knock on doors and be on the phones because the internet and mass media, which by the way, at this point, All of these apps, Instagram, X, like Twitter, whatever, it's mass media too because they've all been bought up by billionaires the same way a lot of these television channels have.

Anyways, um, if you're only tuning in to those mediums. You will think that most people fall along this Spectrum and I've said the same thing a few days ago I know so many people that went Bernie to Trump on that pipeline. So this isn't even a conversation about what side you're on It's more great a conversation about what do we have that unites us all now?

Do I think AOC and Trump are the same person? No, Trump was raised a multi millionaire and AOC was bartending to work her way through school They're very different But The perception is that while they're different, they're also real and authentic, whether you believe it or not, that's what these voters believe.

And a lot of people don't. And that's why it's important to be at the doors. And that's why it's important to be on the phones. And that's why it's never just like a little junior thing that you grow out of, but that we always need to be listening because So, she then went in and shared a lot of the reasons why people voted for her and Trump.

And a lot of it, like I said, was they were both seen as outsiders. Whether or not they are is a different question, you know, um, they obviously are on different sides of the coin as far as who, uh, you know, what they stand for. But, again, It's, it's more three dimensional than people think. And I, and I guess that's just something we need to grapple with moving forward.

All right, let's go back to a cheesy story. A woman, uh, was ordered to return a 70, 000 engagement ring to her former fiance posing a hypothetical question. If a relationship ends, do you give the ring back? This was on the today show. So who gets to keep an engagement ring if the wedding is called off?

Well, that. Is what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a 70, 000 ring at the center of that dispute. The court ultimately ruled last week that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it. It ended a six decade state rule that required judges to try to identify who was to blame for the end of the relationship.

Wow. See, I would have sided with the, whoever broke up, you know, if, um, if a guy gives someone an engagement ring, but then the guy dumps her, she gets to keep it. Cause that engagement ring was like a deposit for the marriage. You know what I mean? But if she breaks it up, she has to give it back. That's what I would have thought.

But I guess they're saying, but Regardless of how the relationship ends, which is pretty crazy. I mean, imagine if you are, let's go to a hypothetical. Imagine if you give someone an engagement ring, then you cheat on them. They've spent several years wasting their time with you. So you get the ring back after cheating with, no, I don't know if that's right.

I don't know if I agree. All right. Well, that's just my thoughts there. So what else do we got here? Oh boy. Big mistakes for Toymaker Mattel. They're apologizing for a wicked typo. Toymaker Mattel is apologizing for a wicked typo. So the packaging for its new Wicked Dolls, which is based on the upcoming movie starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, mistakenly listed an adult website.

The box had meant to send people to the website wickedmovie. com, but there was a typo. That sent folks to an entirely DIFFERENT website. It's porn, folks. It's a porn website. Mattel blamed the mix up on an unfortunate error, and they vowed to take immediate action. Yeah, it's a porn site. A quote from Mattel.

Parents are advised that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate. Well, I guess children shouldn't be going on websites anyway, so jokes on them, I guess. I don't know. Either way. Yeah. Wicked. com, not a sponsor of the podcast, although I'm sure that spiked some of their internet searches, and I'm sure there's a wicked themed porn out there.

You know what I mean? There's got to be some green skinned, uh, you understand. Okay. Anyhow, uh, All right, we're cooking and moving today. We just are, we got so much content still to get into. So let's take a quick break. We'll be back to finish this up right after this. All right. Dancing with the stars is back tonight.

One of the front runners to win the season is Bachelor Joey. Here's what his star, excuse me. Here's what his professional dancer, Jenna had to say going into their season, knowing if he was a good dancer or not. And I had no idea. I didn't watch his season, so I didn't know. And flamenco scene, but. He wasn't his best.

Um, but I, yeah. So I, I didn't know what to expect. I just heard like he plays tennis, he's going to be an athlete when I met him. And I started to see the way that his body was able to move. He's super agile, but honestly, more than anything, he's so smart. I think that aspect of him being a coach himself makes him an incredible student, right?

He understands where the critique is coming from. He doesn't take it personally. He takes it with like motivation of this is ABC to get to D, you know? So he's really methodical. Sometimes he gets a little too methodical with it, where he asks so many questions. When I first met him, I was like, Oh boy, we're gonna have so many questions this season, but I love it.

I love that he is so thorough and really wants to know what he's doing, why he's doing it, and how it gets him from point A to point B. You know, we talk a lot about, um, You know, leaping in the net will appear this sort of transcendental, uh, law of attraction idea where if you decide to do something, the world will transpire around you to make it happen.

But what's actually going on inside your brain that does that? Well, I'm going to, I didn't plan on talking about this, but real quick, there's a book called the talent code again, not a sponsor, but the talent code basically discusses how we think that. Experts just exist. We think that talented people just exist, but there's something very specifically that they did to get to where they are.

The traditional view is that talent is innate. You've either got it or you haven't, but in the talent code award winning journalist, Daniel Coyle reveals that the reality is very different. Drawing on the latest findings of scientists and educationalists and looking at disciplines ranging from math to music, he actually shows how the brain can be physically rewired and developed by training to create a talent And what they talk about is the enzyme myelin.

And it's a sort of like, uh, super highway that's created when you learn how to do something. So imagine if you learn how to take your right pointer finger and hit a C note on a piano. And that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the more you do it, the more that neuro, those neurons fire that gets your brain and your soul to do the body what it wants.

Dancing's kind of the same way. So as a coach, if you know the skill set to really hammer down the repetitions to make something effortless, you see the same thing when you're studying your lines to be an actor. If you can memorize those lines so hard to be off book, you'll be absolutely pure and in the moment, and you won't have to pretend like you're thinking about what you have to say next.

So the same can be said for Athletes for muscle repetition. The same can be said for positive thinking, training your body to be in alignment with where your soul wants it to go is not a fluke or a flaw. It's an absolute skill. It's grit. It's determination. It's positivity. Again, that's called the talent code.

And when I read it, I mean, it was like, boom, easy. Absolutely. So whenever I learned something new, whether it's, uh, writing a joke or where the punchline goes. Yeah. I say it slowly and I work my way up so I make sure I get every word right as if my voice and my mouth is the instrument and your feet, your hips, your arms, the way you dance is no different.

All right. Well, after that, look, I just, by the way, I just gave you. A lot of free motivation. Okay. You should hit that. You should five star review me and share that with somebody right now, because that's deep. Well, Sasha Farber, who we mentioned earlier in Jen Tran, uh, were voted out last week on dancing with the stars, but they are still hanging out, doing the red carpet thing and getting asked about rumors as if, you know, Uh, you know, wondering whether they're dating or not.

Here's what they had to say on Entertainment Tonight. You guys are still hanging out. I love that. This is not helping the rumor mill. So what's the deal? What's going on? Are you ready to define the What? Wait, are there rumors? What are the rumors about? Tell me. People think y'all are really dating in real life.

What? Do you want to set the record straight here yet? How do you take it away? We're just here to watch an amazing movie called Wicked. We're feeling really wicked. Wait, what happened to the dancing? I thought we were all about the dancing. We are, but we got eliminated. You guys are here together though.

So what does that mean? I'm here to try to get on Broadway. So I'm here to prove my skills. So there it is. They are not giving answers, but that's okay. They're adorable in the process. All right. I always like to end on something political just to keep rallying, you know, uh, pissing people off. So here's, uh, was it Caitlin Collins?

Is that her name talking about Elon Musk and how she thinks Caitlin Collins thinks he may be a new shadow president. Oh boy. Mar a Lago has basically been brimming for the last two days, I'm told, with two kinds of people. Those angling for a job and those who are trying to influence Trump into hiring their picks.

But one person has loomed over all of that. His name is Elon Musk. Multiple sources tell me tonight that Musk has been seen at Mar a Lago nearly every single day since Donald Trump won, dining with him on the patio at times. Today, they were seen on the golf course together. Musk has been in the room when world leaders have called Trump.

And tonight we've learned he's also weighing in on staffing decisions, making clear his preference for certain roles even. Oh boy. Publicly tonight, Elon Musk is backing Florida Senator Rick Scott as the next leader of the Republican conference to replace Mitch McConnell. While Musk himself is still not expected to take any kind of formal position inside Trump's administration, given how complicated it would be with his companies, what's becoming clearer tonight is that he doesn't really need to.

With one source telling me Elon Musk is having just as much influence from the outside. Oh boy. Well, there it is. The world is going to be supercharged. Uh, I mean, look, I don't know. I'm just living in it. I don't control policies. God bless. That's the popular decision to elect Donald Trump. That's all I have to say.

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