11-14-24 Morning Rush - Golden Bachelorette Finale Thoughts & Laura Owens Drops A Video & Trump Nominates Gaetz & Both Parties Erupt & More UFO News!

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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. It's Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Let's dive into it. All your pop culture in one place. We have more info coming out from the new UFO hearings, uh, plus the shocking and emotional ending to golden bachelorette.

I've got all of my. Thoughts there, along with an update on the escaped monkeys. Also, I thought an update on the dad who faked his own death to move to Uzbekistan. You won't believe how good the algorithm is that found him pondering his escape. That's right. I'll share the. Very bizarre ramblings of this man who I guess committed fraud by fake killing himself.

Plus a bizarre video released by Clayton Eckerd's accuser. I'll share the clip with you right here. All those stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, it looks like The Office star, Kate Flannery, is rallying around John Krasinski telling TMZ she was thrilled to hear that he became the sexiest man alive.

Have a listen. Let me tell you something. This is so long overdue. John Krasinski has gotten robbed every year since 2005, in my opinion. It's so, it's so time. Let's, here we go. Uh, have you seen him lately? Have you seen him since Jack Ryan? He is so jacked up. He, he is so hot. I, my eyes are melting every time I see him in person.

He's, he and, and Emily are so good looking. I, I have to squint. They are so good. He is, he is, he's really, And the thing is he's six foot three and ladies, you love a tall man, don't you? And you know, he's a funny, I mean, he's got it all, but of course he's taken. So what can you do? Well, the internet's got all of the buzz around the UAP hearing.

They call them UAPs. I still call it a UFO. It's like how Twitter is now X I call it Twitter. Anyway, there was a UFO hearing yesterday, official Luis E. Elizondo made his opening statements. Uh, there are aliens folks have a listen. It was previously testified that there was biologics that were collected.

Are you aware of any of that? I am sure aware of the reporting that biologics have been recovered. Now look. I get they call them biologics. Can we just call them little green men, aliens? Like what's a biologic? Is it, uh, you know, is it, uh, like a little piece of DNA left on the keyboard or is it a body? Do we have bodies?

Again, my focus was more nuts and bolts. Um, looking at the, the physical aspects of these phenomenon, how they interacted around, uh, military equities and nuclear equities. So I'm certainly not a medical expert. I would not be able to probably provide you a whole lot of value in that simply because I don't have the expertise.

Was anything described as That we have possession of bodies. Yes. Yes. We have, is it multiple? The guy's asking all the questions I would want. Are they green? Are their eyes big? Are the, do they go by ET? Like, do they have the little glowy thing at the end of the finger? Types of creatures or. Sorry, I couldn't answer that.

Um, I can tell you anecdotally that it was, it was, um. Discussed quite a bit when I was at the pentagon. The problem is the Supposed collection of these biological samples occurred before my time. In fact before I was even born Wow, so so this guy looks like he was born in the 70s. So they might be talking about roswell So, oh, this is good folks this part of the lockheed martin discussion or is this a complete the biologists is a completely separate Separate yet related.

Okay. Um, has, has anyone made contact? So I'm sorry, could you specify? Has there been any, to your knowledge, any communication with a non human life form? So the term communication is a bit of a trick word because there's verbal communication like we're having now. The problem is you also have nonverbal communication.

And so I would say definitively, yes, but from a nonverbal meaning, Russian reconnaissance aircraft comes into us airspace. We should scramble two F 22s and we are certainly communicating intent and capability. Um, I think the same goes with this. We have these things that are being observed over controlled us airspace.

Um, and they're not really doing a good job hiding themselves. They're making it pretty obvious. They have the ability to even interfere with our, our nuclear equities. Yeah. And our nuclear readiness, geez. All right. Okay. They're coming for our nukes. Here we are with our petty little fights and the green men are up there zipping around at 20 G's gone.

Uh, you're not firing off any. I mean, look, Hey, to be quite honest at the way the world's going, maybe it could, it could be just maybe that these aliens have our best interest and they're just telling us to knock it off. Is, is, um, the United States government or in our contractors, are they pulling you?

You know, technology from this. They're they're reverse engineering this, sir. As I previously stated, please forgive me. Um, I am not authorized to discuss specifics about crash retrievals. Um, I again, I signed documentation with the U. S. Government. Um, what I can say was Thank you very much. After a very thorough review process by the Pentagon, what I wrote about, and that was my limit, unfortunately.

All right. So a lot of red tape, a lot of redactions there, but Hey, look, do we have anyone in our audience? That's a UFO expert. Can we get someone on the phone for one of our episodes to cover this? I need a UFO correspondent. You know, I got Jenna Carlton. She's now our veteran correspondent. We got correspondents of all shapes and sizes, but we don't have any.

A alien or interplanetary correspondence. So please shoot me a DM. I'd love to hear from you. Yeah. So just wild stuff indeed. Uh, and again, they talked about how fast these, uh, UFOs were going. They said they were going like 60 G's, you know, and, uh, or even more than that, like thousands of G's and it would just.

You know, it's, it's, uh, you know, we, we just don't have the technology. We don't have the technology. So just wild stuff, but you know, who might be an alien. Speaking of the rock, have you seen this guy's workload? Do you remember what it feels like to not be famous? Yeah. Way back in the day. I've been famous for some time, but yes, I remember what that's like.

And. So I love that you asked that because it reminds me of something that people always ask me. They say, do you ever get tired of it? Tired of you can't go out. Everything is backdoor through the kitchen. You know, nothing is in through the front door hotels. It doesn't matter. Everything is a setup.

Everything is you got to call ahead and can't go anywhere like malls and walks. That's all people. People have to really listen to what he's saying. The Rock Dwayne Johnson. You can't go. You know why? Because if one person wants a photo, then the next guy does. And then you gotta give them energy. And, and, you know, it's a, it's like the giving tree.

You just literally can't do it. That's not in my cards anymore, and they said, do you get tired of that? And I went, no, never. And it's true, because the alternative to that is going back to those days that you just brought up, where I wasn't famous, and no one, you know. Cared. No one gave a shit. Not that my thought was, oh, I want people to care.

Right. It's just at that time, that reminds me of a time where things were hard, and I didn't have any money, and I don't want to go back to that. Flea market Rolexes. Flea market, brother. What? So I will never Now, of course the rock, he's a giant man, so he gets recognized more so than others. There's plenty of A list celebrities like Timothee Chalamet, he puts a hat on, he can weave through traffic, no big deal.

But if you're going to be the rock, you know, you're going to cause a lot of attention. Uh, you know, it's interesting. I interviewed Greer Blitzer from the bachelor, uh, love, love Greer had such a warm conversation with her. She's really a doll, really enjoyed it. I interviewed her while I was in New York city yesterday.

I was literally in New York for. 20 hours. And I spent one of them interviewing Greer and in the interview, I swear to God, I'm going to share this clip with you in the interview. I was like, Oh, no one, no one ever slides into my DMS. I was just like riffing about something. And then within three minutes, some, some lady walks by Greer and I, and she shouts me out and she goes, I love your podcast.

And it was just the, uh, you know, look, we don't have the rock celebrity. So when it happens, I love it. You know, it's, but like, I know if I go to a farmer's market. If, you know, we're going to go walk by a thousand people, technically one of them might have listened to the show, you know, and, uh, statistically we always say, Hey, come say hi.

We appreciate you, but I'm also not at the rocks level where you've got to hide from the people. All right. Well, you know, we have been given updates on this dang peanut, the squirrel, and it's so sad that it's hit the mainstream news coverage. Here's CBS mornings talking about the fact that they found out that the squirrel did not have rabies.

The famous Peanut the Squirrel story, you'll recall I talked about this about a week ago, Peanut the Squirrel was put to death by the state of New York, um, that was required in order to, uh, to test Peanut for rabies. Uh, we said at the time that Squirrel had to be tested for rabies because, or Peanut, because he got, he bit one of the investigators.

But now there's a documentation released by the county that shows that they had already decided that, uh, Peanut was marked for because he was being held in a house. And according to the health department, uh, that necessitates a rabies test. Did he have rabies? I'm just curious now. That's the kicker.

Rabies tests, uh, require decapitation, then you test the, the head. Yeah, that's just how rabies tests work. The results have come in, according to the county where this man lives. Peanut was negative for me. But you know, the interesting thing was what they found out is that they actually gave the sign off for the, for euthanizing the squirrel before they ever even showed up three, like something like three weeks or three days beforehand.

So they used this excuse saying, well, you know, the thing bit us. So we had to do this. No, no, no. They agreed to kill it before they even showed up monsters. Well, speaking of monsters, I've got the guy who faked his own death and I'll have his story next. So we shared the story a few days ago of this guy who authorities think faked his own death, a kayaking accident.

They think he had a, they found out he had a second passport in Uzbekistan. He had a wife and family. Well, now a video has emerged. It looks like it was in maybe Santa Monica or Venice. There is a free advice video. A lady was offering to give people free advice. He pulls up on his bike. So this must have been, I don't know, earlier this year or wherever, whenever it was.

And he actually, he actually told this free advice person, his plan. Have a listen to this. And I don't know how the internet unearths this pretty wild stuff. Advice on anything. I go to Uzbekistan or stay here. Say that one more time. Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here? Do you have family there? No. Why do you want to go?

Meet a woman. To meet a woman. And it was Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan. You don't like American women? Well, they're familiar. Hmm. What a weirdo. He goes, well, they're familiar. This is crazy. So you've given up on meeting someone here? No, I'm married. Oh. Yeah. But you, you want to find someone else? Empty nest. I'm not sure.

That's why I'm asking you. Wait, empty nest? What do you mean? Empty nest. My kids are on it. Wait, so you want to find, like, adopt a child? No, no. I want to find a companion that I'm content with. I think that requires you to divorce someone first. Well, maybe. Or is she okay with that? That's a good question.

Remains to be seen. Have you guys had a conversation about that? Mm hmm. So, would it be like a thropple or something? No. Okay. Oh, you would You guys would get a divorce, possibly. Possibly, yeah. This is so weird. So I don't know, but it could be that his wife might've been in on the insurance fraud, right? Uh, because there was a 350 life insurance policy.

So if he died kayaking, she would get it or maybe she wasn't in on it and he thought it'd be better to give her the money, but in fake his own death. I don't know. It's fishy. They're investigating it, but for sure, this evidence. And again, why use Becca stance? Some people said, well, it's a country that doesn't have extradition back into the United States.

But don't you think if you're like the U S you could send over a couple of agents to, I don't know, throw them in a van and bring them back here. It's like, what's your punishment, sir? I don't know. Going back to living with your wife. I don't know. Weird stuff. All right. Well, Hopefully it ends better for the Golden Bachelorette than that.

Boy, the lengths that men will go to not show their emotions, I guess. But on the Golden Bachelorette, Joan chose Chuck. That's right, she chose Chuck. A devastating guy. What an episode was that, the finale. I think the people that did watch it found it very emotional. I just don't think the ratings were that high for the whole season.

But, yeah, it was interesting. Um, she dumps guy. She knew chalk was the one and it was just like a standard good proposal. Uh, Chuck, Chuck said everything poetic that you needed to say. He said, I'm going to honor your late husband by telling you I love you every day. I mean, real magical stuff. So congratulations to them.

Um, I will be covering any, um, you know, all of the sort of, uh, recaps, uh, the X's and O's of it on today's YouTube. Channel, but yeah, I was actually surprised when I saw guy and how emotional he was when he was being dumped I just thought like, you know, he you know, he was really into it So who knows maybe guy would be the next uh golden bachelor yet to be seen chalk gave Joan, a key, uh, or a little like heart to lock it.

And I guess said, Hey, we're going to move to New York city together. So clearly this guy's got some savings. Cause I don't know about you guys, but the prices for buying a place in New York city, it's like 6, 000 a month. In, um, in the, uh, you know, garbage disposal fees, let alone whatever the mortgage would be.

Uh, but Hey, I guess they're crushing it. So good for them. All right. Well, lots of other content to get to. All right. I'm going to save for the end of the episode, all of this Matt Gates stuff, cause it is a wild story. One of the people that Trump has nominated for attorney general. I'll have that story for you in a minute here.

Uh, but we do have some other content. Uh, how about, you know what? Let's, let's just take a moment. Hmm. And reset the palette with some good, wholesome news. This is Conan O'Brien recalling the time that Robin Williams helped him out. One of the most memorable examples to me of his kindness is when I went through my whole Tonight Show debacle.

And finally, I'm the show is done. And I don't know if I have a career anymore. What am I going to do next? You remember this this part very well, Sona. Kasana was with me during all that. And I'm lying on the floor. on the floor, uh, in the living room, my house and my phone rings and I pick it up and it's Robin Williams.

I don't even know how he got my phone number. I'll never forget. He goes like, how are you holding up chief? And I said, uh, Oh, Robin, thanks so much for calling. And he said, you know, listen, you know, you're going to be fine. You're going to be great. I know you like to ride bikes cause he was really into bicycling.

And he said, I know you like riding bikes, uh, go down, um, to this, the bike shop down in Santa Monica. I want you to go down there and I've. set up a bike for you. And I said, what? And he said, no, no, just, just head on down there. And so, and, uh, ride around, you'll feel better. And I went down and it was a Colgana, which is a very nice bike.

And he said, I told them to paint it and all these crazy Irish colors. And I get down there and it's the most, it's the ugliest. I mean, it was just, you know, greens and shamrocks and everything. And I couldn't believe. And he was like, Oh, you're going to like that bike chief. Don't worry about it. And I just thought I, uh, I thanked him many, many times.

I just couldn't believe that he was thinking about me. You know how we are in life. Yeah, but that's how he was. You think about someone, oh, that's too bad what happened to him. Oh, whatever. Anyway, I'm gonna go get a sandwich. No, no, he reached out. He thought what might please you. He went and got to a shop and chose, I mean, he would put a lot of effort into making you feel better, which I thought, that's very, very Robin.

All right. So let's take that moment to be more like Robin Williams here in the idea that we just selflessly help people when they need a boost. So very nice and kind story. Well, speaking of helping people, our community has done a pretty good job helping Clayton Eckerd, Greg Gillespie, Mike Maracini, and all the victims that have been, I guess, subjected to the fraud and coercion by, uh, his ex fling Laura Owens.

Uh, but I guess it doesn't look that way to. Her or her attorney because they seem to think that they are on the innocent side and they're trying to do I guess some work to get their image out there And i'm going to share a little bit about what they're saying because I think it's important to share all sides Even if she's proven to commit fraud here she is with her attorney, uh, speaking about a new video that's going to be coming out, sharing their side.

Again, she's under investigation by the county prosecutors in Maricopa. So I don't know how smart it is for them to be doing this, but, uh, what do I know? Okay. So we're reporting. Hello everyone. Uh, it's douche canoe and a pregnancy faker. We have just, um, I think you're supposed to look at the camera. See, I'm not a professional.

You are. Uh, so we just did our little video. Um, I just tried to do a, a Twitter live thing. Uh, that didn't work very well. So we're going to shoot this little quick thing for you. Uh, you are in charge of finalizing our video so we can send it out. Yeah. We're going to do it as soon as possible. Yeah. A day or two.

So, yeah. Okay. And we think we need to go again and do, uh, yeah. No question. We did not. We did not. She's like, we need to do volume two. He's like, well, pipe down. Someone's going to pay for this cover anywhere near what, like 10%? No, we didn't. We covered a little bit of the appeal, but I think we want to cover more of that.

Yeah. So I read the appeal, um, intro 15 pages. I said I was going to do that. Uh, we covered two hours of time, I mean, not just talking about that, but there's just so much. I mean, I guess, yeah, the intro, how we met, um, so forth. The fact that we are not dating. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, good to know that they're not dating.

All right. I'll share the rest of this video on today's YouTube. Uh, I don't know if it's bizarre, I don't know what the hell it is, uh, but it doesn't matter. Thank you. Changed the fact that she's committed fraud, medical fraud, faked cancer, faked black men, faked Jewish men, faked, uh, uh, ultrasounds, faked HCG tests.

I mean, it's like, what do you want? What do you want from me? I don't know what else to say. You know what I mean? I'm kind of done with it. Uh, but either way, we'll listen, we'll let enough of the heavy stuff. We'll go talk politics. We'll be back with more content right after this. It seems as though people are surprised at some of the nominations coming in for the different jobs that'll have to do with President elect Trump, but one of them, Attorney General, is leaving members on both sides of the aisle just, um, uh, befuddled, I guess I should say.

Here's what Jake Tapper had to say. President Trump announced just minutes Gaetz of Florida to be the next U. S. Attorney General. General, Gates is currently facing a House Ethics Committee investigation over whether he may have, and I should note before I even outline the charges, Gates denies it all, but the House Ethics Committee in a statement earlier this year said they're looking into whether he may have, quote, engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct, unquote.

Senator, uh, your reaction. Well, I was walking off the Senate floor just moments ago when the news was announced. You could literally hear the jaws dropping to the floor. So look, they've got all these announcements from one after another of people just saying how crazy with this, how crazy this is, but what's really interesting is Representative Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress because he's going to be the Attorney General, assuming that they vote him through, but that came two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a highly damaging report outlining its investigation into the Republican, according to multiple sources.

Familiar with the probe, the committee plan to vote Friday, just tomorrow on releasing the report ethics loses its jurisdiction over Gates. When he leaves Congress, the secretive panel has been investigating Gates on and off since 2021 president elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Gates to be attorney general.

So now we'll have to see, um, what the party of morality does. Will they vote him through or will they, you know, uh, find Trump's former NSA, uh, chief John Bolton responded to this news. It must be the worst nomination for a cabinet position in American history. Uh, I think this is something that, uh, falls well outside the scope of deference that should be given to a president in nominating members of his senior team.

Gates is not only totally incompetent for this job, he doesn't have the character, he is, he is a person of moral turpitude, and notwithstanding how difficult it may be politically, This is a nomination the Republican Party should oppose. By the way, don't make me look up turpid toad. So that was a member of the Republican Party, or that was John Bolton, a member of Trump's, uh, former, uh, cabinet, uh, cabinet, whatever.

Uh, well, now we have another thought. Representative Congressman Gonzalez says, I've served with some scumbags, but this guy's even scummier. He will survive. Look, the house is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is going to be just fine. I served 20 years in the military. It's my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I served with some real scumbags.

Look, uh, uh, Matt Gates, uh, he paid, uh, minors to have sex with them at drug parties. Bob, good endorse my opponent. Wow. So pretty damning stuff. I mean, look, what do you want me to do? You know, this is what's so crazy is, uh, you know, coming up to the election, people said, Oh, it's all rhetoric. He's not going to do half the things.

And now he's doing all of these things. And you have people that say, well, we need someone with good moral fiber. Well, he's, I mean, he's, he's, this is wild. Right. And they always said, Hey, don't worry about the next president unless he's going to start firing a bunch of generals. Well. Here's that story.

President elect Donald Trump has promised to make the armed forces less woke as the term goes by eliminating diversity training and firing any generals that he believes are supporters of a woke military. Now as commander in chief, he already has the power to fire any general he pleases. So which are the woke generals?

A draft executive order reportedly shows how he might identify those generals. According to the wall street journal, Trump's transition team is considering the creation of a quote warrior board. Made up of retired senior military personnel to remove generals and admirals found to be quote Lacking in requisite leadership qualities.

Alright, look, whatever, we'll see how it goes. There's your update on that. Oh, and as far as the monkey business goes, the monkeys that recently escaped, some have been returned. Monkeys that recently escaped from a research facility. We talked about this last week. 43 female monkeys escaped from a South Carolina lab.

As of yesterday, 32 have been recaptured, but there are legal questions about whether the research facility can claim ownership of the monkeys because they previously lived as free range animals before they were originally captured. I say this, bring them back to wherever you captured them from. They have families, they have aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters.

They have communities, send them home. What are we doing? And they are all free. female. So it's highly unlikely that they're going to procreate unless there's any male macaques hanging out there in the Cal, you know, Carolina woods. I don't know, but either way, uh, do the right thing. And, um, and that, and that means bring them home to wherever they came from.

What do I, do you need? I mean, is anyone advocating for the macaques is just me. Okay. Well, that was a heavy ending. We had a lot of good stuff in this episode, a lot of wild, wild stuff going on. I'm going to give you my honest takes as we share the news. That's all I can pledge to do a lot of content coming up on YouTube today.

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