11-15-24 Afternoon Rush - Prepping For Tyson v Paul Fight & Recapping Crazy Legal Threats Made At My Colleagues & A Love Is Blind Cheating Scandal

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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 afternoon, everybody on this Friday, November 15th, 2024. Let's get into all of your pop culture and entertainment news all in one place. We've got bachelorette Jen Tran heading back to the ballroom dance floor, preparing for a dance with Sasha on the finale episode.

I'll share what she had to say, plus thoughts and all the drama that went down with the threats of suing podcasters. Plus we can reveal who will be hosting the Oscars. One of my all time favorite comedic personalities. I'm telling you right now, it's going to be a radonk episode of the Oscars. If this comedic actor has anything to say about it, uh, and I've also got a possible love is blind cheating scandal and we'll get hype for the fight of the century, Jake Paul versus iron Mike.

Tyson. How about that? I mean, Mike Tyson, listen, the boxer who wins is always the one with the biggest badonkadonk. I'm telling you right now, it's the one with the biggest badonkadonk. And, uh, don't get me wrong. Jake Paul's got a little bit of that Hoobastank energy, that Gen Z kind of vibe going on, but he's about to get whipped by, I guess, a Gen Xer, right?

It's a battle of the generation. So I'll have the hype video for that. It's a must watch tonight. And I'll have all of those stories and so much more coming up next on The Rush. All right, we'll start with the Jake Paul fight and I guess we should really give respect to Mike Tyson called the Mike Tyson fight.

It is on tonight on Netflix, I guess, uh, what, uh, eight o'clock, seven o'clock, whatever time it is, it's probably going to be like a five hour long episode. They're going to be multiple fights. It's going to be fun. I'm not a fighter. I'm a Hufflepuffer and you know, we don't like to throw down, but as the Hufflepuffers will tell you, do I enjoy a good, uh, dramatic, uh, bout.

And about damn time. So we're going to go do Colin Howard from the herd. Here's what he had to say about Mike Tyson V Jake Paul. I've never bought into the, the sanctity of boxing. Now give me a break. Do you hear yourself? It's a money grab. So tonight, Jake Paul takes on Mike Tyson. I'm in yesterday. They had their stare down.

Tyson and his camp saying Jake Paul stepped on his foot, Tyson slapped him, count me in. It's an elephant ear for dinner and a deep fried funnel cake for dessert. You may go home and feel sick to your stomach, but you only do it about once a year. That's how often you care about boxing. And perfectly placed at Jerry's world.

I can hear the carnival Barker. See the dangerous man, the world take on a YouTube sensation step right up. But Mike Tyson is also the rare athlete that has mystique. He's a little wilt tiger. When he went into the rough, where does reality end? And the tall tale begin with Tyson. I covered him in Vegas when I was 22 years old.

There were a lot of stories I can't repeat, I wouldn't put in print, I'm not sure I'd tell people over a cocktail at a lounge. That inappropriate. But he's endured, and that's kind of what America allows. Redemption. We're a little judgy, build you up, tear you down for a generation of kids. Mike Tyson's just that guy from the hangover.

Yeah, that's what's interesting is we have no idea what we're going to get from Mike Tyson. I mean, I've been watching the documentary. It's a three part series. And again, you might think. You think that this is some giant sponsored post. No, this is, I'm genuinely excited for tonight. There was a three part docu docuseries on Netflix.

You gotta watch it. Where it kind of breaks down where Jake Paul came from, all due respect to him, but Mike Tyson is from the streets. I mean, this guy is epic. I mean, when he, when he brings out the beast, he is just, you can see it, you can just see his eyes. He's got, he's a maniac inside. Well, here's what he had to say.

So he slapped the heck out of Jake Paul in their pre fight weigh in. And now you can see why. Here's a clip that was unearthed about how he said he doesn't like getting his toes stepped on. I don't know what I would do in the Because I watched the UFC a couple of times and I watched these guys step on people's feet and I have the worst feet in the world, right?

And if somebody stepped on my feet, I would totally tap out. I would just give up. It would be a no brainer. And of course, what did Jake Paul do in the weigh in? He stepped on his toe. I guess that's the secret to Mike Tyson. Everyone's coming for his jaw. No, you got to go for his big toe. I'm the same way.

Don't go near my toes. All right. So that's tonight. I'm excited for it. And we will. Share. Uh, Andre Ward says the Tyson versus Paul fight is impossible to predict. Some people say, uh, uh, Jake Paul is going to dance around and try to tire him out and then beat him in eight. Uh, but I think Mike Tyson, if he just comes right at him, uh, it could be a dangerous site.

Speaking of dangerous sites here, we have a little love is blind drama. Brittany Wisniewski. Uh, Brittany from this latest season of Love is Blind, I guess, blindsided her boyfriend with a Mod Sun hookup in it for fame and or money. I don't know who Mod Sun is. I guess he's a famous person. Uh, well, she shocked her boyfriend back home in Maryland when she hooked up with Mod Sun in Los Angeles.

And, uh, TMZ learned that the guy thought they were in a committed relationship. Well, here's why I'm calling BS. Sources say Britney had a whole boyfriend on the East Coast, a hunk named Rocky Hawkins. They've been in each other's lives for four years romantically. Well, apparently when she went away to film Love is Blind, he drove her to the airport.

And it's like, I'm sorry, if you're willing to let your quote unquote partner go film Love is Blind, you're not in an official relationship. So maybe, maybe there's more to the story we don't know about, uh, or maybe she really is in it just for the fame and whatever, you know, but, uh, you get what you pay for and.

And, uh, clearly she wasn't in it for, uh, the guy she met on love is blind as that relationship did not stand the test of time. Well, we hear a lot about financial advice from people saying, Oh, you need to cut down on the coffee. You need to cut down on the extra drinks after work. You need to cut down on this, on that.

Well, here's a money expert saying small expenses don't matter. I think this is a good clip for you on a Friday, uh, just so we can, uh, you know, get prepared to spend money. We don't have and, uh, live our life, uh, rack up some credit card debt. No, don't take my advice either way. Here's the clip about how you shouldn't sweat about small things.

In the camp of not caring too much about the small expenses, the coffee, it's a waste of time. Why is it a waste of time? Because the, they are 3 questions. If you actually added up how much they actually cost you, it's actually not that much. It's the simple joy that you enjoy in the morning. And you could spend your entire life agonizing over buying a coffee.

But when I ask people, Okay, so you stopped buying coffee for a month. How'd you feel? They go, Oh, I felt okay. I go, What'd you do with the money you saved? They go, I don't know, it's in my checking account. Not only do you have to make the decision every single day to save on these tiny little things, you then have to properly invest that money and you have to do this every single day for the rest of your life.

You know, I kind of have that same, uh, methodology, like, look, if you're on a fixed income, you only have so much money you can spend, then, then you have to be careful with where you put your money. But I think in this entrepreneurial world we live in, there's always a chance to make more money. And there's always, and I look at it this way, like, I'm not going to give up the small pieces of joy that I feel like, all right, I'm gonna go to Starbucks and get a coffee.

You know why? Because that coffee might be the thing that fires me up to go make an Instagram reel that might pay me 80 bucks. You know what I mean? So it's a fixed mindset to really think about savings on such a futile like level, uh, as little as, oh, Save on this dollar, save on that dollar. Again, it might be good in practice if you really are only making X amount of money, but I think in today's world, just like shooting for the moon and going, you know what?

Uh, like I've, like, I've thought about this with inflation. It's been so bad with court, with the, um, the way costs of groceries and things have gone up. Well, let's find a way to just keep on expanding my business. That's something I can control. Uh, well, I've got an update on who's going to be hosting the next Oscars.

And, um, I don't really love watching the Oscars. Uh, but I, I will say I do tune in depending on if I like the host or not. And I'll have that reveal for you coming up next. That's right. I can reveal now my lanky Christmas elf. My favorite comedian ever is hosting the Oscars and that is Conan O'Brien. This is incredible.

I've been handed an Oscar. I'm an Oscar winner. It's amazing.

Oh, I'm hosting. Yes. I'm an Oscar host. Oh, do I still get to keep the Oscar? No. When is it? March 2nd. I'm hosting the Oscars. Okay. Yeah. And then I get the. Ever. Ever. Ever. There it is. March 2nd, 2025, Conan O'Brien hosting the Oscars. I got to tell you the thing I loved about Conan growing up is, you know, no one really explained to me when I was growing up, what comedy was, and you would see the, the late show that Conan was hosting and you'd see them dressed up in a suit looking like adults, but as like a 10 year old, you're watching it going.

And like you're learning in real time, what irreverence is, what, uh, what, what different types of comedy there are. Like Conan is obviously different from Jay Leno. Jay Leno is a character in and of himself, but he's very straight, man. He's one who just reads the news and tells funny jokes. Yeah. Uh, but Conan O'Brien is.

Kind of like an Adderall version of a normal person, right? Like he's a character, maybe not so much as Chris Farley, but definitely in his lanky kind of stickiness, he's unique. And I think that's the hardest thing in comedy is to try to find your own uniqueness. And maybe that's the hardest thing in life is trying to be authentic.

We see that with politicians that say like one, you know, one politician sounds like, uh, you know, Barack Obama, like who, like one politician sounds like that guy. And it's like, who are you? What is it that makes you unique? And that, and then you see this on American Idol all the time too, where they're like, all right, sing it, but make it yours.

And what we're trying to say is like, make life yours. And again, not always easy to do, but, um, Hey, when you can really be authentic and let your freak flag fly. I think people will resonate with that. Oh, speaking of flying, we have a UFO update. The Pentagon released a report that said the UFO had a near miss with a plane in New York.

The Pentagon is coming clean about a number of unidentifiable flying phenomena in a new report. One near miss encounter between a commercial plane and a UFO on the East coast. The eyebrow raising case. Which was among 757 instances explored in the report took place in the past year off the coast of New York state per the annual report and airline crew flagged a near miss with a cylindrical object while over the Atlantic ocean.

Now we call that a near miss, but maybe, maybe the UFO knows to avoid our planes. You know, maybe they get as close as they can, but maybe, you know, maybe it wasn't a near miss because we haven't really seen a plane go down due to a UFO. Right. We haven't seen a commercial plane go down. So I'm guessing if they wanted to, they would have wiped us out by now.

It's unclear when exactly the instance took place or which airline was involved. My guess is it was a spirit airline flight. My guess is the UFOs were like, what is up with this airline? And they felt the need to go check them out. Uh, but either way it is a proof in some form or another of extraterrestrial life.

Uh, but again, I, I just, you know, you, you, you, you, you, I kind of want. The biologics of the UFOs to at least resemble a human, you know what I mean? Give me some lengthy kind of, give me a Conan O'Brien style UFO, you know, but if it's just like some cylindrical, you know, titanium block that's got a spherical orbit, or it's like, all right, that's kind of boring.

I don't know. Kind of jazz it up a little bit is what I'm trying to say. You know what I mean? All right. Well, anyway, speaking of jazzing it up, we've got the finale of dancing with the stars coming up here is Jen Tran, the bachelorette with her. Possible boyfriend, Sasha, uh, en route to rehearsals for the finale.

Here's what she had to say. Cardi B and the Chronicles are back! We're back! We're back! Say it with me, we're back! Wasn't my option. Say it with me. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're so back. Too much energy. Yeah, believe it or not, I had to clip that down from a much longer version. The Patreon, watch me do that.

Patreon. com slash Dave Neal for the behind the scenes live stream of me making the podcast. But hey, Jen's happy. She's clearly had her Celsius energy drink and she is back. Now they won't be voting on her. She's already been, uh, uh, removed from the show. Maybe for having too much energy, but. Hey, if it works, it works and we'll have to see if the star is faded on that couple or will they stand the test of time.

Well, we have an update on Selling Sunset. Uh, I thought Selling Sunset jumped the shark three seasons ago. I mean, the show is absolutely ridiculous. Do you see what they wear on the show? It's wild. Mary Bonnet confirmed Selling Sunset, including Chris Shell, is getting ready to film season nine. We remember Chris L said she wouldn't come back for another season.

And I guess if you're popular, you can do that and maybe they'll try to throw more money at you. But sometimes you gotta be careful. If you're like, I'm not coming back. And they're like, good, we didn't want you. And that's a whole nother issue. But she says, uh, Mary Bonnet says we're We're actually getting ready to start filming.

I'm not sure if I'm really supposed to say that, but we're getting to start filming and yeah, there's going to be another reunion. Netflix is yet to officially confirm the next season, but it sounds like that announcement is imminent. All right. I mean, no good for them. Again, I'm not here to shame anybody for life decisions they make, but I am here to say imagine, imagine if you're from another country or better yet a UFO.

And the only thing you know about Americans or humans in general is what you see on Selling Sunset, you would assume everybody has a face full of, in a chest full of plastic surgery. I mean, it is wild. You essentially have nine or ten women with, you know, Uh, done up as it were, and then two short twins, two short balding male twins.

I mean, that's it. That's the show. And then you've got all these million dollar homes and a million dollars, 20 million, 50 million homes, a million dollar home on selling sunset would be a dump. Uh, but either way they are back along with gentry and everybody's back. And now publicly, we've got the golden bachelorette winner chalk with Joan finally getting to spend some time out and about doing their thing.

Here is a clip from one of my favorite podcasts. Love to see it pod as they discuss golden bachelorette, the good old fashion, happy ending with the Instagram hard launch. I think it's possible that she would have dated him for a lot longer in real life being like, we keep getting closer, but. Ultimately, I just don't think it was.

Yeah, no, I think that they definitely could have dated, but I do think the answer is that something was missing, but it's also probably just not something that she can name. Yeah, but in a way, this seems like a more unkind answer, like coming from a very well intentioned place. But it's just like, We would have been in love.

We were so close to being in love. Everything could have been perfect, but like, sorry, you lost the race and now I'm with someone else. That's the thing. I always feel like people are reaching for this like time excuse and it's rarely true. Yeah, but it feeds into actually the show's need for stakes and drama because it's Lens validity to everyone jockeying so hard for time with each other.

Cause it's like, it's a race and like, it's like whoever gets there first gets the prize. Yeah, no, I get it. That's, that is the gasoline that pours onto the drama of the show, which is the time race. I mean, every good movie has some sort of time race. You're working against time. The bomb's going to come.

The thing's going to hit that. That's, you know, there's always time involved in the show has to build those stakes through time. Uh, but yeah, I mean. I think the way that Joan let down, uh, Guy is the way I would want to be let down where she goes, look, there was nothing wrong. It's just this, this other thing took root, you know, and maybe in a different world, it would have gone in a different way, but that's just the way it is.

Well, from one reality show to another, we have a reality star, Johnny Bananas. That's the name. He's been on all the MTV shows. He's Johnny Bananas. He talked about his fallout with his manager, I guess who embezzled money from him. This is on the challenge unfiltered podcast. Have a listen. Do you have a really good manager or are you just someone who's that relevant that the opportunities are coming to you directly?

Had a had a manager, uh, really bad falling out. This is what i'm saying. Like i've been burned by those closest to me Yeah, um And, and, and that just happened pretty recently. I found out there was a lot of, you know, mishandling of, of, of, of funds and embezzlement going on, that sort of thing. So I have a pretty solid team around me now.

Um, but you know, over the years, what, what I think I've learned from this is like the only person at the end of the day, that's going to protect me and look out for me is me. Um, so again, I'm very guarded with those that, that I let close to me. Uh, but I have managed to. Stay in the public eye for so long that no, I've got opportunities.

The majority of the opportunities that I have now are people coming and basically pitching me for, for shows or for projects, that sort of thing. Yeah, no, like when he says stays in the public eye, you might be like, who the hell is this guy? But you know, in the world of sort of celebrity reality contestants that do other reality shows, He's stuck around so good for him, but yeah, you got to be careful.

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It is those that support Clayton known as the justice for Clayton community, JFC, uh, versus the lawyer. Of Laura Owens, the lady who accused Clayton of being the father of her unborn twins. Of course, he alleges they only ever had several blowjobs. Uh, but because of this, it's just, it just becomes a melee of chaos.

So as I was making this morning's Podcast episode if you listen to it. I recorded that at midnight last night. That's what I do I record at midnight for the next morning. You're welcome fam. And while I was doing that he was actively Her attorney was actively threatening to sue a fellow youtuber named lauren and he was threatening to sue her for 100 50 million, excuse me, 150, 000 all because she was sharing one of his YouTube videos, which is perfectly legal and fair according to YouTube's fair use policies.

It's really protected under the first amendment rights. I mean, it's a wild, wild thing. So he's threatening to sue every single person who shares any of his content, which again, I shared about nine seconds of it. So is he going to sue me for nine seconds worth of content? Either way, I know regardless of what he decides to do.

I've got you, babe. You guys have me and we're not going to let any injustices go down. We are here to protect each other. Heads are on a swivel as it were. Well, speaking of fighting, uh, they fight for getting Matt Gates to become attorney general just got a little more challenging as members of the Republican party are preparing to stand up against it all because of a bombshell ethics report that alleges.

That a 17 year old was paid, prostituted for sex by him. And she actually testified at that ethics hearing, uh, which now they are trying to get that information from coming out, I say, let's let the truth rise to the surface. I'll share this bizarre story for you after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, here is ABC news breaking the report that the woman at the center of the department of justice probe of representative Matt Gaetz did testify.

Have a listen to this. News here today and president elect Donald Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. ABC news is now learning exclusively that the woman who accused Gaetz of having sex with her when she was just 17 years old, shared her claims in closed door testimony before for the House Ethics Committee.

That is according to sources that are familiar with this investigation. Now Gates has long denied these accusations. Yesterday, he stepped down from Congress following his nomination for Attorney General. Let's get now to ABC News Jay O'Brien, who's live for us on Capitol Hill. So, uh, Jay, this is quite stunning news here.

What more are we learning here about what she potentially said in front of the House Ethics Committee? Yeah, Kena, ABC News has learned, according to multiple sources, that the woman at the center of this investigation into Matt Gaetz for allegations of sex trafficking told the House Ethics Committee when she was interviewed by that committee.

That she had sex with Matt Gaetz when she was 17 years old and in high school, and Matt Gaetz was a member of the United States Congress. That, again, according to multiple sources who spoke with our Will Staken and our investigative team here at ABC News. Alright, so this is just a wild story, and really We are seeing the fabrics of our democracy hold, maybe very carefully on thin ice, as several Republicans say they will not be voting him through because you have to understand the Republicans do hold a majority in the Senate, but that doesn't mean they're all going to vote for him.

Here's what Lindsey Graham and others had to say. Elections have consequences. He chose Matt Gaetz. Matt will come before the committee and he will be asked hard questions and we'll see how he does. I can name. Between 5 and 10 Republicans. So that is Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, saying he has 5 to 10 Republicans who are not going to approve this.

Who are seriously considering voting against this nomination. I barely know Gates. All I know is he likes picking fights on social media. He'll have to deal with that in committees. But I don't know his background. I'm going to look at it and give him a fair hearing. And a fair hearing. We'll have to see if that goes down.

But I think it's fair to know if he was abusing his powers in, in, you know, working for the government. I mean, the taxpayers were paying him so that he could go bang a 17 year old. And you know, this is insane. This is insanity. So again, we'll We'll have to see how it all plays out, but wild times. And will the fabrics of our government continue to hold strong?

I mean, look, there's gotta be a lot of people that are qualified to be the head of the, uh, you know, the attorneys general, right? There's gotta be a lot of good people out there. And to think that. The only reason why the ethics committee didn't release this report is because he retired the day before they were supposed to, I say, release the report.

You know, who cares if it's damning, how about some consequences to his actions? All right, folks. Well, we had a wild one this week. We had brawls, we had UFO sightings. We really had it all, but I thank you guys for sticking around with me. You're going to love my conversation tomorrow with. Greer Blitzer.

She was on the bachelor Zach shall cross his season. And she also discussed, uh, you know, a lot of the, uh, hate she received for some controversial stuff that went down, uh, on her Twitter feed when she was on the show. So we covered all of that in our conversation. I had a few days with her ago in New York.

I'll have that live for you guys starting at midnight. So you can check that out on the podcast or on YouTube at the Dave Neal show. Well. Can you believe it's already Friday? I mean, these weeks just fly by. We have a tradition here for all of our newbies. We like to leave work. We like to just dingle hopper our way right out of work.

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