11-18-24 Morning Rush - Recapping Tyson v Paul Fight & Responding To Smear Campaign By Laura Owens & More Brianna Chickenfry Exposing Ex Bf Zach Bryan

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you, November 18th, 2024. Got all your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. And, uh, I'll give you my thoughts on the Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson fight from Friday night.

Plus more drama from the Zach Brian, Brianna chicken fry breakup. She's threatening to release damning videos. If he doesn't return her cat plus Joe Biden becomes the first sitting president to give a speech in the Amazon rainforest. And we've got an E. coli outbreak in carrots, you Plus long range missiles have been given the go ahead for use by Ukraine in their war against Russia.

I don't know carrots in Russia. It ain't looking good. Uh, we got a lot of other positive stories to get to. It's not all doom and gloom. So I'll share some of those. Plus my gratitude for those that have. Had my back and stuck by my side as the relentless smear campaign against me continues by a person who's not happy that we've, you know, sort of exposed.

This is a, this is a, this is kind of the collateral damage, right? We exposed a fraud, which is, you know, going to be turned into a documentary and it's kind of a big deal and we've helped regain the character and lives of several people. But because of that, we've pissed off someone in particular and they keep smearing us.

But luckily We've got a lot of people, I guess, uh, you know, who have our back and we appreciate that so, so much. So I'll give, I'll give a statement on my thoughts there. And again, so much more to talk about. So stick around. We'll be back with all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. We actually have an update to a story we covered several days ago.

You might remember, we covered the story that The View co host Whoopi Goldberg said a local bakery refused to serve her a birthday dessert because of her liberal political views. Well, the owner has a different story. And I got to tell you, I called this out from a mile away. I said, ah, this feels a little fishy.

Here's what the owner had to say. You do not mess with Staten Island. The place that made these. Refused to make them for me. Oh, really? Yes. So then everyone spit out the cake. And look, I just, I called this out. I said, ah, this sounds kind of fishy. So what happens? Well, like the leaders of Staten Island have come forward and set up a podium to denounce Whoopi Goldberg.

They said that their, their ovens had gone down, all kinds of stuff. Folks went and got them anyway, which is why I'm not telling you who made them, but it's I, it's not can't be because I'm a woman, but perhaps they did not like my politics. The people who defamed Hulteman, the Hulteman family should apologize to the Hulteman family.

And by the way, this is Vito, who is the president of Staten Island, the borough. for making stuff up to suit their needs. We're here today to have Halterman bakeries back because the Halterman family, generationally, has had the backs of this community. Not everybody wakes up every day and thinks about politics.

I'm so glad that we see all the cars here, all the people coming in and out of the store today to send a message to the person who decided that she was too important for a boiler breakdown, that she had to have her own place. Her pastries. And if it wasn't coming to her, it must've been someone else's fault.

It must've been a directed insult to her. When he said a boiler breakdown, I thought that was like a political term. No, I think the boiler broke down. Well, there it is. That was your big beef between a Holterman's bakery and whoopie Goldberg from the view. We'll have to see if she responds to it. Uh, and that wasn't the only beef over the weekend.

Of course we had the. Jake Paul, the Mike Tyson fight. Uh, did you watch it? Did you have any streaming issues? Yeah. You remember a couple of years ago, we tried to watch love is blind. They tried to do a live after show and there was all these streaming issues. My guess is they had, I don't know, 6 million people watching and it crashed the servers.

Well, this time they had 60 million people in the United States watching, which. Probably was as, as many as the Superbowl, a cultural moment. Mike Tyson and Netflix are both bruised and battered after the 58 year old made his much anticipated return to the ring. The boxing legend lost to internet star turned boxer Jake Paul.

A lot of rust on old Iron Mike. Meanwhile, people watching live on Netflix had their own battle with streaming issues. Some posting pictures of their frozen screens on social media. You Netflix says the fight is now available to watch for everyone. I guess you just have to pretend that you don't know who won.

Yeah, that's, you know, what happened with me is it was buffering. And I knew to stay off my phone because I knew, you know, I watched it probably half an hour afterwards, but I was like, let's just wait for it to end. As soon as the fight's over, the buffering will probably stop and then I'll be able to enjoy it.

And I enjoyed it. I thought it was a good fight. Now, as I said, I wanted Mike Tyson to whoop some butt. It's the same reason I wanted Tom Brady to play football till his knees fell off in his fifties. I there's something about seeing someone fight father time that I think is quite impressive. Now I'll share with you what Mike Tyson had to say, because he was coming back from mass, a massive injury.

Uh, but yeah, 60 million households globally, uh, and 65 million concurrent streams, according to data shared by Netflix. That's a huge success. So more data will be released and we'll share that, but Netflix said 50 million households globally tuned in live for the co main event, which was Serrano versus Taylor too.

That, uh, probably became the most watched professional women's sporting event in us history, which by the way, was probably a more entertaining fight than. Tyson V Jake Paul, but either way, they were coheadlining the fight. Mike Tyson said victory was just getting back into the ring and says he nearly died in June.

Here's what he posted. This is, and I'm not going to do it with the lisp. Okay. This is one of those situations where you lost, but still won. I'm grateful for last night. No regrets. to get in ring one last time. I almost died in June, had eight blood transfusions, lost half my blood and 25 pounds in the hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight.

So I won to have my children, see me stand toe to toe and finish eight rounds with a talented fighter. Half my age in front of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an experience that no man has the right to ask for. Thank you. Um, yeah, so. Here's the deal. Oh, there's, there are so many conspiracy, I love conspiracies, but I don't fall for them, but there's so many conspiracies that Mike Tyson, that the fight was thrown, that he was paid to lose the fight.

And it's like, look, he's 58. He was hopping around on a bad knee. Uh, like, like you said, he had that stomach ulcer. He had all this bleeding. So even though he was like in peak training mode leading up to that, they had to postpone this fight for four or five months. And even then I'm sure, I mean, look. I'm 39.

I can't recover. If I bend over the wrong way, sometimes I sleep with the wrong hotel pillow and I'm out for a week. You know what I mean? So I've got so much grace for, for seeing someone like Mike Tyson at that age, hang in there for eight rounds. Well, what did Jake Paul have to say? He says he actually showed mercy on iron Mike and didn't want to hurt him.

Have a listen to Jake Paul and his after the fight press conference. Round three, Mike seemed to be running out of gas a little bit. You were working the jab really well. At any point, did you start to take your foot off the gas just a little bit? Cause you noticed he was tiring out? Yeah, definitely.

Definitely a bit. You know, I wanted to give the fans a show, but I didn't want to hurt someone that didn't need to be hurt. Did you feel Mike's power at all? No, he hit you at one and you give him the tongue. I only, because the crowd like. Got turnt up, but it didn't actually hurt, but I mean No one's punches have like really hurt.

I got buzzed a little bit against Tommy Fury, but that's about it So anyway Look at you. People could say, Oh, Jake Paul, such a douche or whatever. Yeah. I mean, he fought a guy twice his age, but he did fight one of this is what's great. Crazy about boxing. Like who would have ever thought you could even get in the ring at that age?

I mean, that's just ridiculous that he would do that. But you know, Mike Tyson made 20 million on the fight. He was at a worth at, at one time up to 300 million and he's had some failed business ventures. And I think his net worth kind of went down to 3 million, which, you Multimillionaire, three millions, basically poor, not to us, but to them, you know, so for him to get in the ring and last eight rounds and make his 20 million.

Sure. There was pride on the line. I'm sure Mike Tyson wanted to whoop him up, but yeah, he didn't have the power, you know? And it's like, no surprises, you know, like what professional athlete outside of like golfing is playing into their fifties. You just don't see that happen like that. Um, yeah. Now, as far as Jake Paul, I mean, look, I want to see him fight a professional boxer his own age.

That's what I want to see. So we'll have to see if that comes next. Uh, Dana White, the sort of a chief czar of the UFC commented on the Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul fight. I'll have his commentary after a quick word from our sponsor. Well here it is. Dana White was asked about Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson.

Here's what he had to say. Jake Paul, I'm just your thoughts on what we saw. Mike Tyson was right and I was wrong. I basically said, I told him, Mike, you're basically 60 years old, and he's like, you honestly think this fucking kid's gonna do anything to me? He's not good. He's not gonna fucking knock me out, he's not gonna do this.

And you saw him, he tripped when he was walking down the thing, he had a hard time walking up the stairs, he had a knee brace on, and Jake Paul couldn't do anything to him. He made a ton of money, and I know people are mad, you stayed home on a Saturday night, but you didn't pay for it. You know what I mean?

And You know, Mike, this is what Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson shows up. Everybody makes money, you know, so look, I mean, he's got a point It's it's really how you look at it You can look at it and say well Jake Paul won the fight or you can look at it and say well Mike Tyson hung in there at the age of 58 and that's impressive enough All right.

So let's go to some other news stories. Let's go to Brianna La Paglia. That's Brianna chicken fries She claims she has a Zachary Brian abuse video and threatens to release it. There's some foul language here. Have a listen. If this man's post my fucking cat one more time, I'm going to post videos of you whipping shit at my face.

And that's literally all she said. She said, I'm going to post photos of him throwing stuff at her. And look, if he's throwing things at her, that is abusive. Unless it's like. I mean, I'm trying to think of a scenario. Are they playing wiffle ball? Like, you know what I mean? What, in what scenario would it not be really bad for him?

Now, David Portnoy comments on this again, the, uh, sort of creator of Barstool, uh, defending his, uh, employee, Brown and Chicken Fry saying, isn't it interesting that she's made all these claims about him after their breakup and he hasn't said a dang thing, which, you know, probably means he's guilty. Dave, what's crazy for me in this, and upsetting to me, cause this guy, what a, what a dickhead.

He might be the, the only enemy you've ever had that's too big. Well, you never know who else is out. That's one, that's another thing that's so great about what she did is, there are going to be other people out there. I mean, his silence is quite literally deafening. Deafening, like he hasn't disputed. He hasn't said the other thing he, he, they haven't said a fucking word to contradict anything she has said.

But you look at this guy, like Chris Brown. I mean, he's still like, he fucking punched Rihanna in the face. There's pictures of it. He still sells. So, you know, He, he's so massive. I don't know that he'll feel anything like this except you know this, this is a really bad dude, but I still see people like separate the music and the art.

Yeah. Like I get it. But this guy, this guy is a piece of shit . So there it is. Don't we all wanna boss who, uh, defends us that way? Alright, there's some pretty negative stories out there. Why don't we do a pallet cleanser with some claymation conversation on the Today Show. For the first time in over 50 years, this guy's returning to NBC.

Come home, Rudolph. Yeah. Christmas is not off, and you're going to lead my team. Yes, sir. You and that wonderful nose of yours. Next month, Love Reindeer, uh, with an O So Bright, is leading Santa's sleigh right back to NBC. That's where it debuted in 1964. More than Five decades after it was on CBS, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is the longest running holiday special in TV history, and you can watch it here, where it belongs, on Friday, December 6th.

All right, there it is. Friday, December 6th. My wife loves these claymation things. I'm sorry. No, I don't have any nostalgic value for like these types. I know I'm, you're going to cancel your subscription right now. I'm not a big fan. Like I'll watch it if I have to. And by the way, I watched my first Christmas movie of the season.

It's called Christmas Island. It's on Netflix. I think it came out last year, but it's new on Netflix. I wanted to give it a red light. I have a green light, yellow light, red light score. I wanted to give it a red light. And as I was going to give it a red light, I accidentally cried a little bit watching it.

And I was so ashamed. I'm not afraid to cry. But if my wife catches me crying over a stupid thing, she's going to make fun of me. And sure enough, I was, I was, I shed a tear. There was a moment that, that one of the B plot storylines got to me. It was about, it was about a brother and a sister and it was completely irrelevant to the movie.

But just for the fact that the movie made me shed a tear means it now has a yellow light, which means proceed with caution. It's not a green light, which means everyone should watch it. It was a pretty bad movie about a. Female pilot. I shouldn't say it was a female, but just for the heteronormative relationship structure here, she's a she's a pilot.

And then there's this sort of sassy air traffic controller and a guy. And then there's a blizzard and they're forced to land the plane in Christmas Island, which, by the way, Has all of the makings for a great movie. It just didn't deliver. You could say there was a little turbulence in the plot and script.

Now, if you have any Christmas movies you want me to review, let me know. I'm here to give you guys all the information you need. So go ahead and watch it. But I fell asleep in the last few minutes, but I did cry. So again, it's a yellow, it's a, it's a yellow for me. All right, let's move it along. Uh, found in the rainforest of the Amazon is President Joe Biden.

He pledged new financial help to protect the Amazon. Here's what he had to say. Today, I'm proud to be here. The first city US president to visit the Amazon rainforest to recommit to protecting the rainforest like this one. Folks, we don't have to choose between the environment and the economy. We can do both.

We've proven it back home. It's no secret. And I'm leaving office in January. I will have my, I will leave my successor and my country in a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so. Now, I don't believe there'll be much work to save the rainforest, but who knows? I mean, I think we should.

Didn't they say, isn't the Amazon rainforest, like the lungs of the world, all the oxygen that comes out of it, not to mention all of the great pharmaceuticals and cures that come out of it. But Hey, what do I know? We're going to need a cure for E. coli. It's in our dang carrots. Health officials are warning of an E.

coli outbreak linked to organic carrots, infecting 39 people across 18 States. One person died. Has died. The CDC is warning organic whole and baby carrots sold by Grimway Farms are making people sick. The products have been recalled by the company and they have been removed from store shelves. However, there's still the warning out there that they may be in your home.

Some of the brands being recalled include Whole Foods, 365, Simple Truth, Trader Joe's, Wegmans. You can find the entire list on cdc. gov, uh, for the list of brands and stores that are affected. No, I'm not going to do it. You know what? I ate carrots tonight. I'm going to wash my carrots and I'm not going to live in fear.

If I get wiped out by a dang carrot, no, not happening. And I love carrots. By the way, it's our son August's six month checkup and We were going to give him his first food today, which was a carrot. I think we'll switch to banana. Uh, what's on the menu, breast milk and bananas. It's going to be fantastic.

All right. You ever just wish if you're an old millennial, like me, you might daydream of, I don't know if you remember in college, we, the way that showed the real world, you know, there'd be those MTV shows. And this was like before social media, the only way to make it. In life would be to be like sort of a celebrity in a reality show.

Do you guys remember Johnny? I think it's, but is it Johnny bananas? Is that his name? Johnny bananas? Speaking of bananas, that's his name. Oh, well, here it is from one. How about that for a banana segue from one banana to another? No e coli on these bananas. Johnny bananas was on the change unfiltered podcast talking about how much money he was racking up partying every night.

As much as I want to say, this sounds so debaucherous. I think we can all agree. It'd be kind of fun for a little bit. Now have a listen. Um, spring break, there used to be a company called student city. We would do six weeks of spring break and that's partying for six straight weeks. So, I mean, that was kind of how I made a living back in the day.

Imagine partying for six straight weeks in today's world. Not again to, to, to be old. I can't eat carbs after 9 PM without having swollen knuckles the next day. Pay worth it. I mean, for me, I was a 23 year old kid, and I was making 3, 000 a night going to a bar and drinking. I remember, because this is before, um, this is before, like, they really got strict with, like, flying and what you were allowed to bring on the plane.

I would literally have Because they used to pay obviously the bars wanted to pay off the books So they would just give us a stack of either 20s or 100 bills Okay, I would travel around and I didn't want to I don't want to put that in the bank So I would literally travel around with 30 40 thousand dollars In cash in a backpack and i'd be going through the tsa and they were like what the hell is this You ever wonder what someone must have done in a previous life to be gifted that sort of I mean lifestyle Now if you're an introvert if you're like my wife, this would be miserable 3, 000 a night to go party with strangers.

She'd she'd say no. Thank you. I'll go read another harry potter book But for a chatterbug like me, I mean i'd love it. That'd be great. You know, anyhow All right. Well, I got a couple more stories to get to so let's uh, take a quick break We'll be back with more right after this Well, things have escalated in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Have a listen. NBC news has confirmed president Biden will now allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long range goals. This marks a significant policy shift and it comes after Biden officials condemned the North Korean deployment of troops to Russia as a possible expansion of the war. Look, I don't know how I feel about this, but, um, Yeah.

The world's getting interesting. What are you supposed to do? They invaded, uh, Ukraine. I, in other political news, I don't know if that's political geopolitical, uh, Hakeem Jeffries commented on the Gates report. Matt Gates was supposed to receive a, you know, the report on Friday of, uh, would appear to be an underaged sex trafficking ring.

Kind of a big deal. Here's what he has to say. Mr. Jeffries, how concerned are you that the House Ethics Report will not release? their findings into their investigation into congressman gates and do you think that's information that the senate's entitled to before his confirmation i think it was justice brandeis who once said that sunlight is the best disinfectant in the democracy transparency is always the best course of action particularly when it relates to high ranking government officials.

Uh, but I'm not going to get out ahead of the top Democrat on the Health Ethics Committee, Susan Wilde, until she and I have had an opportunity to talk. I mean, what's so interesting about this is our taxpayer money Has already gone towards this whole investigation. And now they're just not, I guess, letting it air because he's retired.

He's retired. He's a stepped down. He resigned, but he's supposed to be the attorney general. That's kind of a big deal out there. And of course, all this information is coming out that says like, look, this Matt Gates guy, he's a bad, bad guy. Now I'm hesitant to even share this clip because it's so disgusting, but this is what he said.

In a speech in front of people again, the guy who's supposed to be the leading attorney, the attorney general of the gosh dang United States of America. People are just disgusting. Why is it? That the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.

These people are odious on the inside and out. They're like 5'2 350 pounds he goes on and on and on and again This is Matt Gaetz Trump's pick for the top law enforcement officer in the land wild stuff in The only reason we know of him is because his dad and his grandfather were politicians. So from Nepo baby to working for like what a year in a law firm to then becoming a member of the U S house of reps.

And then of course, um, the allegations against him are just absolutely crazy. And now they're trying to keep them under wraps, not to be conspiratorial, but my thought is if Trump nominates him and he Pat and he, and he makes his way through to attorney general, he'll have to do Trump's bidding. Whatever Trump wants, otherwise Trump can like have his His, um, ethics committee file released.

I think they should be released already. And I think actually enough Republicans are going to come to their senses and vote against him, uh, being nominated for attorney general. That's my prediction. I don't, I don't think they're going to let this pass. Um, there has to, there has to be something done about this, right?

I mean, wild stuff. All right. Well. So where do we go from there? In other news, okay, so this is hard to talk about because I want to be brief here and I'm going to, I'll make a YouTube video about it, but there's been some crazy things being said about me by the lady who accused Clayton Eckert of being the father for unborn twins.

Now, of course, for the last year and change, we've covered this story and exposed so many cases of fraud, medical fraud, uh, her lying to me, you know, faking documents, things she admitted to under oath. Changing the date in places of where she allegedly got her, had her abortion or miscarriage, was using Plan B pills to hold over guys heads to sign dating contracts to date her.

I mean, real heinous, heinous stuff. Well, her and her attorney have, I guess, have a new strategy of a PR campaign. And to be quite honest, I don't really have a problem with it. Um, you'd be surprised what gets to me and what doesn't, but we, we are just surrounded by so many great people. I want to shout out Lauren and Bruce who, uh, on YouTube defended me very strongly last night.

And to all the others that have come to my back on the Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. It, it's like, We, you know, I've been accused of being a liar. Uh, I've had my character kind of slandered and some people even think I could sue for defamation, which I really don't have any plans of doing unless they cross the line.

But what happened yesterday was they brought my wife and baby into the conversation and essentially said things like, will, will his son, you know, what will his son have to say for when his dad is asked about for being a guy who ruined a lady's life? I don't look at it like I've ruined a lady's life.

I'm, I'm helping her. I guess, uh, uh, be, um, I held accountable really for the actions she caused, uh, against these men and I'm okay with that. I'm pretty good about that. And I think if I'm teaching my son anything, it's that it justice is important. It's important that we, you know, fight for each other. It's important that we fight for kindness and love and let that sort of rise above the hate that is out there.

There's been a lot of hate spewed. In our direction from her, she called the FBI on me. She called the district's attorney. She tried to get a lawsuit, a restraining order against me. She emailed other content creators. I now have people that like, don't talk to me in part because they don't want to be anything near the, this controversy.

And you know what we've done? We've really maintained. The direction of truth. We've kept that compass dead set for the North Star, right? Uh, we've just continued to slowly but surely go after the information and in the depths of all of the lies and pick them apart. And that's all we've done. And, and, and luckily, We were on the right side of the story when it started, and we've continued to stay on the right side of the story and expose through the help of all of you.

So much, uh, so, so many different, um, aspects of abuse, really, we've exposed tons of abuse and. By that measure, I sleep very well at night. So my response in brief to some of the smears, you can say whatever you want. Like we've, we've built up after years and years of covering. I mean, if this was a, he said, she said, and we didn't have any proof.

And I was like, I'm not the guy I wasn't in the room. I'm just the one who's sifted through the evidence. I've seen all the sort of, um, Fraud committed at me by her and all of the attempts to change public opinion through smear campaigns and creating fake characters. We call that astro turfing. We've seen all of that go down.

There's zero credibility coming from her camp. So for her to call me names and try to bring my family into it, I think it says more about them than it does about me. So I wanted to take the time this morning to just thank all of you guys for continuing to support me as we Navigate all of this. It's not a story and it's not a target.

I wish on anybody. I would not want anyone to deal with this. I'm preparing, I'm preparing that in 2025 I'll be served a lawsuit and I'm preparing to defend myself no matter the cost. And I think that'll be what I look back on as a moment of like, um, standing up for what's right. And I'm, I'm okay with the direction that that'll take me.

I've got complete faith in the judicial system that, that, that a, something wouldn't even go to trial, but B that I'd be able to defend myself and my actions every step of the way. And I appreciate you guys for supporting me on that. I truly do. If people don't even know what I'm talking about, you might, I might sound like a madman, but that's all it is.

Is it, it has created madness out of nowhere because of the senseless lies, manipulation, fraud. And deceit, uh, committed all, all to get your way revenge. I mean, it's very primal and, um, and, uh, you know, we, we don't need to, we don't need to lower ourselves to their levels. So anyone who's a fan of mine, mind you, just not to comment on their channel, not to feed into the hysteria they want to create and keep our eyes on the prize and keep sharing love.

Keep sharing positivity and, um, and I think that'll get us through all of this. I have a lot of faith in that. All right. Well, we'll have a lot of comment with that. A lot of, a lot of content to get to today with that said, we'll have a YouTube video and you can support me on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal.

I know I'm a few minutes long, but I gotta, I gotta give thanks to all these people. The folks in the Patreon community chat have been going last night, just off the charts in defense of me. I mean, I choose not to take offense to these things that are being said about me because a, they're just like completely baseless and they have no proof, you know, like they're calling me a liar.

They have, you know, I've done nothing but tell the truth. So none of that stuff bothers me, but seeing everyone come to my defense, that's special. I didn't expect that. So thank you guys all so much for that. We'll have a very busy and positive day today and maybe we'll be getting some, uh, first food for the baby today.

Maybe we'll have some bananas. How about that? Whatever, whatever. Award. From breast milk to bananas isn't time. Just flying by. We'll see you in a little bit. 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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