11-18-24 Afternoon Rush - Golden Bachelorette Ex Calls Out Guy & Haliey Welch On Bobby Bones Podcast Discusses Fame & Diddy Lawsuit Updates!

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride, buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Congratulations. You made it to the end of Monday. You did it. I'm so proud of you. It's November 18th, 2024. I got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Let's talk about why having a strong social media presence will help. Help you in today's job market. I know that might not be a sexy story for you, but I like to share some thoughts on growth and building equity and how to use the tools we have to make your lives amazing. So we'll cover that. Plus Haley Welch Hock to a girl was on Bobby bones podcast talking about if she keeps in touch.

With the guy who made her famous and also I've got some bizarre updates on the Diddy trial. Looks like some prominent celebrities aren't going down without a fight. And let's celebrate the resurgence of Lindsay Lohan. My generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's got a new movie coming out that is leaving fans very excited.

I'll have that. Plus some more thoughts on Ariana Grande, her new relationship, and why some cheating may have, uh, involved, been involved, uh, between her and her co star, a showmance of sorts. I got all this plus so much more coming up next on the rush. You know, I'm a big fan of Lindsay Lohan. She was, uh, you know, very famous at an early age from, uh, the remake of Parent Trap.

I mean, I loved the original Parent Trap, but the remake was really good with her. And then she of course was part of that Paris Hilton feud. That was a time when paparazzi were all taking photos of their cha chas when they were getting out of limos. I mean, Wild, insane stuff. And we just kind of let this all go down.

But a decade ago, well, she's made her resurgence and she's announcing her new movie reuniting with Jamie Lee Curtis in freakier Friday. And when she mentions that this movie is coming out on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the crowd goes crazy. Now listen up because you know, they have the applause, but, and they all They have this like sort of faux clapter that they do where they got to clap on all the jokes.

But this is a groundswell of support for Lindsay Lohan. Have a listen. Jamie Lee Curtis has signed on, you signed on to do Freaky Friday sequel, Freakier Friday.

The ladies are excited. And then Jimmy Fallon says, that's real. Not like that fake clap that they did for my monologue. But this is real.

We did not press the applause button or anything. That was just. I'm so happy for Lindsay Lohan, you know, she got into the Christmas movie world last year. I have to say, I didn't love the Christmas movie and I don't know if it was her fault. There's something that was off with the chemistry between her and the, the meat, the main actor, but I would love, I would, I want more, I want to pump out more Lindsay Lohan to whatever level she wants.

Uh, but. I said earlier in the intro, she's kind of like our generation's Marilyn Monroe, and I mean that to the extent where this could have ended very poorly for her. There was a lot of drug abuse and drinking and she was really skinny and she was being like sexualized and all the issues with the paparazzi.

I mean, she was, she was like having like kind of a Britney Spears kind of moment. Somehow she made it through the, you know, her parents got a divorce. There was, she was kind of like, her family was kind of Like the Kardashians before the Kardashians. They were, they were their own reality show. So, very good to see her as an adult.

Kind of just be, I guess, a more normal person. She's almost like a Macaulay Culkin, if you will. They just keep on cheering. This is gonna be big. Whoa. So you just got done filming? Yeah, we just finished. In August. And what was it like? Did you get the rhythm? Did it come right back to you? Did you It was just so, I mean, it's just been such a labor of love to make happen.

Yeah. And Jamie and I, even at the table read, we were just smiling so big that we couldn't, I don't think we were acting well because we were so happy. Yeah! Uh, and I heard there might be But the movie's funny, it's really funny. I might, I heard there might be a little singing in this. No, I'm jamie lee hinted but pink slip is back together Yeah All right, uh when that comes out, please come back and talk about that with us.

Oh, there it is I mean, you know, it's a big story when she wasn't even there to promote freaky freakier friday I mean just make a make three sequels the freakiest You know, freaky, freaky, you know, whatever. Okay. Anyhow, you got, it's a freaky Monday over here, but we're happy to hear about Lindsay Lohan because I know I got a good segment.

I know my demographic. There's a good segment of my audience. That is an elder millennial and we love a good, uh, Lindsay Lohan, uh, story. All right. Inside Ariana Grande in Ethan Slater's wicked romance, there was a gravity Pull. Uh, so the question was asked about whether or not there was cheating involved.

As we know, Ariana Grande started dating co star Ethan Slater. Last July, they went public. Both were still married to other people. Their questionable relationship timeline eclipsed the hotly anticipated movie. So she separated from then husband, LA based real estate developer, Dalton Gomez in July of 2023, after two years of marriage.

He divorced his former high school, sweetheart, Lily J with whom he shares a two year old son the same month. So that's, what's really sad is clearly there was a showman's happening. He was playing SpongeBob on Broadway, which, you know, Hey, look, I mean, take whatever gig you can get. Uh, you know, it's like, can you imagine you left your partner of a wealthy real estate developer?

Oh, who did she leave you for? I don't know, Spongebob, the guy who lives down under the sea. Yeah, that guy, you know, hanging out, he's taking you back to his place and bikini atoll. All right. Whatever. Those jokes don't probably make any sense geographically. It doesn't matter. Um, so anyhow, yeah, there was just a bunch of rumors, sources.

said that there were some hearts broken in the process. We know that, uh, they said they were definitely cheating. Ethan's wife found texts between them flirting. Ariana even met the baby a couple of times while they were both married. Uh, that's just sad, sad stuff. Absolutely. Uh, but that's the world they live in.

Hopefully Ethan Slater's wife got a nice little paycheck from that. Get some of that wicked money. You know what I mean? All right. And speaking of breakups and possible makeups, Brooke Nader. And Dancing with the Stars partner, Gleb Savchenko, spotted together after the split. Uh, this was posted by Us Weekly.

Who knows how much of this is hot garbage? The commenters say, who cares? Look, I think it's interesting, the social media game they're playing. They We're clearly dating and letting people see them. Canoodle. She keeps saying, we're not together, you know, blah, blah, can a lady kiss. And it's like, sure, you can do whatever the hell you want, but we can talk about it too.

And in the world of Brooks nadir and dancing with the stars, partner club, subchenko, they're not a list stars. So they'll benefit from whatever talk people have online about them. And even though they have. Already been voted off, clearly not that likable, which is crazy because he's gorgeous and she's gorgeous.

She's also a great dancer and yet people weren't really into it. It was almost like people want pretty but they don't want you to be too good looking like she's almost too good looking for anyone to care about her. Does that make sense? Either way. They'll be back for the Dancing with the Stars finale.

We'll have to, I mean, I'm sure they'll be dancing, right? That's what they do. They bring couples back to dance. So we'll have to see how that all goes down for them. All right. I've got a Diddy update. A prominent man, I guess we could call that an A lister, is suing Diddy's, uh, Diddy's accuser's lawyer and is alleging that there's extortion happening.

I'll have that story for you next. All right, before I get into the diddy freak off stuff, we got our own golden bachelor freak off story to share. This is from a tick tocker named mama bear advice. I did a YouTube video on it today, but I wanted to share just a slice of it. She dated guy, the runner up on the golden bachelorette.

And she went on two dates with him. This was their first date. Oh, no, excuse me. This was their second date, their first date. They went out to get wine, a wine bar. And then on their second date, this is part of her story. Exposing what she calls is creepy. And, uh, and, uh, let's listen to what she had to say.

With butter, which I just love ladies. I know you're feeling me and we sit down previews. Haven't even started. They began. I'm eating my popcorn and all of a sudden he takes. My hands and he proceeds to start licking my fingers. Now, as Bruce in the Patreon suggested, this is his joke, not mine. You could say that she got the lick.

Come on folks. That's a funny, get it? Cause you got the ick lick. All right. So there it is. And by the way, they were sitting down in the movies before the previews even started. No, you can't be doing that. You got to show up halfway through. Because it used to be, they'd play three trailers, but have you been to a movie in the last couple of years?

I, to be quite honest, I've, the last movie I went to was Top Gun and the movie before that was Barbie. So I've only gone to two movies in like the last five years. Uh, but I tell you they'll, they'll, they'll air anything before a movie. They'll do a real estate bloggers, uh, commercial. YouTube commercial though.

I mean, it's really devastating. You cannot get there too early to be subjected to that. So either way, she claims that he then, um, you know, asked to use her bathroom and stayed over and tried to kiss her. And then when she said, no, he said, can you show me your tits? And I mean, it was a whole, it's a pretty wild tick tock.

So you can go watch my recap of it all again, dating's tough out there, I guess, uh, for all levels. All right, let's go. Speaking of, um, What's tough out there, uh, it's tough out there for Diddy, he's getting accused by dozens if not hundreds of people of all sorts of things, uh, of course we've seen video of him abusing his then girlfriend, so that's no denying that, you know, sometimes we like to say, oh, well, we'll wait and see how it all plays out, we've seen evidence of him being a absolute monster, but there is a accuser's lawyer, who's like doing a class action lawsuit, getting a bunch of people together.

And now he's being sued. A prominent figure is suing the lawyer, repping more than 120 of Diddy's alleged victims, saying the attorney is shamelessly attempting to extort exorbitant sums from him. While threatening a lawsuit packed with wildly false, horrific claims, if he doesn't pay up, uh, this person, this, uh, a lister is being known as John Doe.

He filed a lawsuit in L. A. County Superior Court Monday today, describing himself as a high profile individual. So, you would think that if there was anything true about the accusations, that you wouldn't file, like, your own lawsuit. So, again, That doesn't mean Diddy's not guilty of other crimes. It just might be that there's so many people they're going after that.

Not all of them will be complicit, right? Uh, either way, this is for the courses and to work out, but if there's any merit to it and this gets sent to trial, we will be here to cover it. Um, all right. A pick a ball patreon. com. So I stayed with Neil. I'm not going to share it with you here. It's pretty wild.

Now, one. There's a two pickleball. It was a, you know, it's a doubles match, right? So the pickleball player kind of like smacked the other players paddle ball paddle out of their hand. And so as he bent over it, that other player drop kicked him in the face. Pickleball is pretty crazy. Now, while I don't suggest any physical violence toward any opponents in any sport, you play, this is kind of.

Interesting promo for pickleball as a sport. You just think of it as a bunch of grandmas playing back and forth. It's like a, it's like if tennis had sex with table tennis, you'd get pickleball. It's like a, you know, something in between. Uh, but these guys, they're, uh, they're, uh, getting pretty nasty out there.

It's almost like pickleball meets mixed martial arts. Um, so anyhow, are you guys out there playing pickleball? I haven't played yet. I think I would be pretty good at it though. I was, uh, my hand, eye coordination, pretty good. All right. Here's an update on Kim Zoliak. Am I pronouncing that right? And, uh, she's been trying to sell her home and they chopped another 300, 000 off the price.

So if anyone's out there, they're essentially giving away this mansion for a cool 3. 65 million. It's a seven bedroom, 11 bathroom mansion. And I believe it is in, is it in Georgia? Yeah, it's a Georgia home. I kind of want to buy it slightly out of my price range. Um, it's at, uh, it's the foreclosure auction is happening on December 3rd.

Let me ask you guys this. I don't live too far from Georgia. Does anyone want to go in on this with me? I'll put down 10, 000. If you could front me around 3 million, maybe we could do something here. Do we have any angel investors out there that want to be a part of it? I'll give you your own wing. You get your own wing of the house and it's got a nice pool and all of that.

You can see what I'm looking at here on the Patreon. Uh, so. They initially were listing it for 6 million just one year ago. So they've already knocked it down to half that price. I mean, come on, who's buying a 6 million home in Georgia? No offense to Georgia. It's not oceanfront property. Uh, so I don't know.

Uh, the estranged exes attempted to sell the property. It's been a rollercoaster. The house slipped into foreclosure two months before they filed their divorce petitions. You know, that's gotta suck. Not only are you getting a divorce, but you also can't sell your home. That's the thing. That's just, I mean, I don't even know what she's from.

What is she a real housewife? I have no idea. I just see these people. These are like, they must have good PR because they're always in the news. And I'm like, who are you? Um, all right, well, I've got a couple, uh, stories regarding, uh, Uh, work and sort of how to boost your earning potential in 2025. I also have a story about the international space station.

Let's go to the space station. And then we will go to some stories about how to boost your, your income. Uh, the first one is a NASA story and they, I guess I have a leak. There's a leak in the space station. It's okay, though. It's on the Russian side of the space station. Have a listen. A serious situation unfolding 250 miles above Earth.

The International Space Station, or ISS, which is about the size of a football field, has been experiencing air leaks. The leaks in its Russian section were first spotted in 2019, but have recently gotten worse. The space station needs to maintain its air pressure to keep astronauts safe. The problem is located in a tunnel connecting a Russian module called Zvezda to a docking port, where the spacecraft delivers supplies.

NASA is very concerned about the structural integrity of the space station and is warning of serious consequences. NASA added extra emergency seats to their SpaceX spacecraft in case of an evacuation. On the other side, though, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, maintains that fears of catastrophic failure are unrealistic.

Russia has actively searched for and repaired problem areas, reducing leak rates. and have concluded that operations can continue safely. Despite disagreements, NASA and Roscosmos continue to work together closely. They've taken the precautionary step of keeping that section sealed off unless they need to access it.

The ISS has been continuously occupied by astronauts since 2000. Scientists conduct research that helps us understand things like how to grow food in space and how diseases behave in zero gravity. They're like, yeah, they, they do research, like how to float. Like, what else are you doing out there? Uh, look, this, this reminds me of like, if you've ever had a roommate who will leave their window open in the winter and you're paying electric bill and you're like, Hey, can you close your window?

That's how this kind of feels. The Russians, they're so casual. They're like, Oh, who cares? There's a leak. You know what I mean? Like whatever. It's like, okay, fine. Yeah. Uh, the, the Russian experiments, how to drink vodka in space. Um, anyhow, no, look, uh, yeah, you don't want, you don't want leaks. And by the way, how do they even get oxygen in there?

Do they have an oxygen like converting kit? Where do they bring the oxygen from? I have no idea how that works. I have no idea how they get oxygen into the space station. Do they bring up oxygen tanks? Literally. Could anyone tell me this? I have no idea. All right. Well, here is a discussion I found on social media.

Uh, speaking of social media about why it's so important. In the job market to have a robust social media. So why is it important when you are searching for a job to show to your employer that you actually bring a network with you? Have a listen. What a new time we are in when you say social media, influencer and pre owned director.

These are new titles now, right? You know, I would reconsider hiring somebody if they did not have a social media presence. I mean, we're to the point now. Where it's such a strong advocate for sales and relationship building that if you don't have a social media presence, you literally aren't bringing everything to the table that a potential employer, a brand manufacturer, a dealer group or whatever, uh, to, to be able to, you know, maximize your value to them.

You have to have a social media presence. I make it a point when I interview people now, I, you know, to ask, you know, do you have social media and how many followers and whatnot? I think it's that prevalent. Listen, I think building your social media is important, whether you work for a corporation or you work for yourself.

I actually was covering this on the app blue sky. It's like a Twitter app, but it's new. They're getting like a new million subscribers every day. So my handle on blue sky is D Neals, D N E A L Z, just like my handle anywhere else. And I was sharing about how in the last three years I've gone from basically being unemployed to buying my own home, my car, you know, financing my, you know, Buying, paying for my wedding and having a baby, how I've been able to do all of these things, essentially because of YouTube podcasting and social media.

And it's, it's so easy to say, well, I don't care about that. I always want to go to a job or whatever, but the way the world's going, you're only going to be as good as what you bring to the table. Uh, so I think I'm going to start trying to give more tips on how to do that. I did give those tips on blue sky and on threads, which again, my, you know, Handle is the same.

Whether you go to threads or blue sky D Neils, uh, on, on how to provide information and entertainment to an audience. And you know, the internet's very simple. It's all about giving. If you can give content to others, whatever your expertise level is, if you're a real estate agent, you need a YouTube channel.

Because you need to talk every day or every week about the market rates. What's hot in the market. What's not, you need to provide value to your audience. And in return, you'll find new clients. That's how it all works. Right? So for me as a comedian, if I post very funny standup comedy clips, then I'm going to provide, build a demand for people that want to see me perform.

You know, I was just in New York city for shows and I was like, anyone want to come to our show tonight? And, and, and there it was a couple of my friends from, I believe, Ontario, Canada were just visiting in town and. Because I had a big enough social media, I was able to get audience to the show. Then the Booker sees that I'm in demand and I provide value to their club because now they're going to be buying cheeseburgers and watching me perform.

Everything you do comes back to what do you bring to the table, right? That's what a job is. And in the world moving forward, what you bring to the table is who is a part of your army that you represent. So I don't know. Uh, I was thinking about. putting together a little like, um, a segment of my Patreon where I help people grow their content by just discussing and answering questions they might have.

DM me if you'd be interested in that, join the Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. Otherwise I'll be continuing to share thoughts on here, but I am an example, right? So a lot of people give advice, but they never lived it. I'm an example of somebody who has built, you know, multiple six figure Revenue streams from nothing because I've, you know, kind of been trusted by the algorithms that trust comes from showing up for work every day.

And by that, I mean, continuing to make content. And of course you guys being amazing audiences. So it's mutually beneficial. I receive ad pay and all of that. And then you guys have some content to listen to, which wouldn't be here. If you know, I wasn't, um, being compensated for it. So the world out there is only moving into that direction.

And I love to see that a lot of my audience are also moving into that direction. Um, send me a DM, if you have any questions or you can follow me on those different platforms to get more tips. Uh, I'm not charging for it other than Patriot. I'm not charging for the other advice or over here. I just think it's.

Interesting and worth talking about. All right. From job opportunity to Jesse Eisenberg discussing what jobs he wants to take. We'll have that story for you next. Here's Jesse Eisenberg being interviewed by Variety on the red carpet, discussing the social network and whether he would do a sequel. I know Aaron Sorkin has talked about doing more social network, another social network movie, obviously, because things have changed since then.

Would you be into it? I would be into any acting job. Any job, any job period, I would do the voice of Rice Krispies or be in a movie or whatever. People are kind of. Open to having me in I would do those jobs. I love how honest he is. Now, obviously if you're in demand, you can be selective, but if you love acting and you're an actor and you're going to pay someone to do a job, you want to do it.

It's like summer camp. So good for him for being honest right there. Speaking of doing any job, we've got the hawk to a girl, Haley Welch discussing the job of going viral and how she doesn't talk to the guy who kind of made her viral, put her on the map. Have you talked to that dude? Have you said, Tell him thank you for what?

Making you famous? Well, see, we reached out to him and I asked him to stop posting those videos and he never did. He blocked us all and everything. I'm not telling him thank you for anything. Really? So you reached out to go, Hey, would you chill on that? And he blocked you? Cause I mean, he posts when I'm like, Oh, that's it.

Here would come another one. A few days later, I was like, man, maybe that's it. Here come another one. Then just so on. So in the beginning, you just wanted it to all go away and make it stop. And you just continue life at home and at the spring factory. And then now, since he wouldn't stop, You're just like, okay, what does this make possible for me?

Now i'll be honest. I've been very honest. I like hayley welch the idea of her Uh, she's objectively A bad podcaster, but that's okay. She's new to the game, but she's not good. She's she's she's actually Not good at all. There are, but I think what's funny about her is that she's like a fish out of water.

She's just straight out of the, the random, you know, uh, rural, uh, Tennessee, and she says some kind of crazy things with a twang, but she's not. So for her to be sort of above the guy who posted the clips, it's like, he didn't force you. To be interviewed. He was out there hustling, doing interviews. And yeah, I mean, was he going to exploit some funny things you said?

Sure. But you set it into his microphone. You know what I mean? So for that reason alone, I'm kind of like side eye. It's like, she probably has no clue. The level of lottery she actually hit. Like I think she, I think she gets it and contextualizes it to an extent, but there are people that work eight, 10, 15 years to build up their brand to only get a percentage of the success she got.

Now she said something super funny, super viral, and she's capitalizing on it. But what she needs to work on now, I think is a little bit of gratitude. And I know she has a lot of gratitude. I know she's donating to a lot of places, but like I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that the guy who made her famous, whether it was his intention or not, is the bad guy here.

He's, you wouldn't be where you are if it wasn't for the fate that introduced you to that guy who was running the man on the street interviews. Does that make sense? Um, okay. Anyhow. Bye. Last video, here is an update on what the heck might go down with this Matt, Matt Gates ethics report. Again, he's being accused of crazy things and he's nominated to be the next attorney general.

It looks like they may possibly vote on releasing the ethics report. You know, our tax dollars paid for this. The house ethics committee is meeting Wednesday to discuss their report on Trump's attorney general pick Matt Gates NBC's Allie Vitale. What options can the committee discuss here, Allie? Ali, look, we know Ana that this meeting had initially been set to happen at the end of last week.

It was postponed though. Some of the conversation was about whether or not it was canceled. Now we're seeing that it's back on the books and a source is telling our Scott Wong that it will happen on Wednesday afternoon, again, a highly anticipated meeting to discuss. Discuss the investigation that the Ethics Committee has been doing on and off, frankly, since 2021 into now former Congressman Matt Gaetz.

We have also, though, the Speaker of the House now saying to the Ethics Committee that he strongly urges them not to vote to release Matt Gaetz. I say the more they say don't release it, release it. Why not? The taxpayers paid for it. It's already done. Let us know what we're voting for, for, you know, who's going to lead our country and be the, the, what, you know, the attorney general's the largest law enforcement gig in the world.

Really? I think we deserve to know if he's, Done some crazy stuff. All right. That's it for me. Uh, the only crazy stuff I'm doing right now is releasing two podcasts a day. And if you know the podcast world, that's crazy enough. That's a lot of content. So if you appreciate what I do, share it with a friend.

Hit the, uh, you know, uh, subscribe, you know, make sure you're subscribed. And also, yeah, if you have any friend groups or chat boards or whatever the hell you do, keep sharing, posting, tweeting. We appreciate that organic growth that we get. No hawk to a moments for us. We're just building a brick by brick.

Hey, look, I don't blame her for, uh, you know, Riding the wave that she caught, uh, but either way, uh, here, this is the wave that we have and we're happy to have it. So anyhow, we'll talk to you guys in the morning as always. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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