11-19-24 Afternoon Rush - Youtuber Warns About Bachelor Accuser Being 'UNSAFE' & Maria Georgas Denies Rumors She Dated Pete Davidson & Dax Shepard Goes Viral For Odd Question!

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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 afternoon everybody. It's Tuesday, November 19th. 2024 and I've got a roundup of all of your pop culture news in one place. Jake Paul has been called out by a world heavyweight champion after beating an aging Mike Tyson.

I love that story. Plus bachelor star Maria Georges responds to rumors. She dated Pete Davidson and I've got Dax Shepard making headlines after asking an actress a very personal question. I'll play what he said. And red lobster CEO has unlimited cheddar biscuits coming for you. This is not an advertisement.

But it sounds pretty good. And I've also got why the Menendez brothers being released has been put on hold. Plus the umbrella guy, our friend on YouTube who covers, uh, trials reveals his thoughts about Clayton Ecker's accuser, Laura Owens and her attorney. He gets very serious and in a moment says that they are unsafe.

I'll play his dire thoughts and all the other. Pop culture and entertainment news stories of the day. I'll have those for you next on the rush. You know, sometimes I feel a little dyslexic when I say what date it is. You know, instead of saying July, I'll say November and vice versa. And I keep on forgetting it's November.

Every time I look at the date, I say, Oh, it's November 19th. What we're done. Six weeks left. That's it in 2024. Where is the world going? We just cannot get anything done anytime we want to get it done, but I'm here for you as the year has flown by. This has been our first year as a doing double episodes a day.

And also having a baby this year, looking back on it, it's been quite wild. Now, obviously the monetization has been nice, you know, basically doubling my workload, uh, but the sleep has not. Uh, so I just want to thank everyone for sticking with me. You know, there's been moments where I'll, I'll just be tired and I'll be like, what am I even doing?

Uh, but you guys have enjoyed it. Nonetheless, so I appreciate all of you out there, uh, for this wild, groundbreaking year that it has been. All right. Well, Jake Paul called out by heavyweight champion and says, let's get it on. I'm going to share this story with you. It's actually pretty interesting. Uh, the DM was shared the 27 year old IBF title holder, not IBS.

IBF title holder, uh, extended the offer to El Gallo saying, hi, Jake, good business on the weekend. But how would you feel fighting for the legitimate heavyweight championship of the world? This is Daniel Dubois calling you out. Um, and Jake said, man, been boxing for 12 years, has over a hundred fights between amateur and pro and fought on my undercard.

But F it, I'm going to have Nakeeza talk to Frankie Warren and get you in line for the throne. Unlike Artur, at least you have a few thousand fans. So he said get in line and then he shared a photo of the, uh, little like, uh, cold cuts, uh, ticket puller that you get. Remember those things? From the store, uh, let's get it on and who wouldn't want to fight Jake Paul.

I mean, there's going to be a giant purse, you know, there's money attached to it. And any professional boxer probably feels like they can kick his ass. I mean, to be quite honest, he lost to the only sort of current professional boxer he's faced, uh, and, uh, you know, short and again, I'm not here talking trash, Jake Paul would kick my butt.

Absolutely. I'm just saying, you know, he knows where the money's at and, uh, you know, uh, Jake Paul losing. To a real boxer. I don't know if that's on his bingo card, but Hey, why not? I would still watch it. So long as Netflix doesn't buffer. Well, the rust film premiere ticket demand has crashed the website.

You guys might remember rust was the ill fated movie. Alec Baldwin was starring in producing on that killed cinematographer, Helena Hutchins. Uh, it was three years ago that she passed. It's finally getting its moment. People are scrambling for tickets to the world premiere. Now I support the airing of this movie mainly.

And we'll see if they cover it in the article here, but mainly because Helena Hutchins, uh, partner, I believe is now a producer on it. That's one of those things. It's like, look, you could say, oh, we're not going to make the movie, but Helena Hutchins, this was, this was her pride and joy too. And now that her partner is probably going to Receive more money.

If the film does well, it's kind of like everybody wins. If the film comes out, you know what I mean? The movie's dropping Wednesday at Poland's Energia Cine, uh, camera image. I, that might be a Polish word film festival, but when tickets went live for festival goers early Tuesday morning, the system crashed from all the crazy demand Netflix uses shortly after 8 AM in Poland, a message popped up on the site saying the camera image portal is currently undergoing system maintenance.

By 8 35 a. m. Hollywood reporter says some users were able to get back on and grab their tickets. All right. So they're eager to see rust, even though the festivals organizers purposely didn't invite, uh, Alec Baldwin noting his presence would be distracting. I mean, I think that's true regardless of whether or not he came out innocent and everything, his presence is distracting as he was the actor who fired the prop, what was supposed to be a prop gun that, um, ended up killing.

And injuring, uh, another, uh, so anyway, we'll have to see how the film does ratings wise. Uh, I mean, it's just absolutely wild. Yeah. How can you watch this film and not think about all that happened, um, you know, on the other side of the camera, real tragedy. Well, Kim Kardashian, always in the news, her site crashed her skims site.

You might be familiar. She. She. She. Has a product called skims, uh, like a lingerie line. Uh, her site crashed minutes after Dolce and Gabbana collab dropped. All right. Everyone wants Kim Kardashian's skims. It was the least interesting, uh, their collaboration site was the least interesting to look at for about 15 minutes, fully crashing.

Not long after going live. Maybe this is good PR to say the site crashed, you know, it in a, in a, I'm, I'm assuming it did crash, but what if. You crash a site on purpose. Should I do that with the Patreon? Dave Neal's Patreon crashes. Oh, I must go buy the, you know, Patreon, patreon. com. Dave Neal, the rush hour podcast won't load.

Too many people are trying to listen to it. It crashes. Let's get some press there. Um, well, here's a story that is peak internet. John Stamos. Is getting trolled because he decided to wear a bald cap with his friend, Dave Coulier, uh, amidst Dave Coulier's cancer treatment. So Dave Coulier is getting chemo.

He's going to lose his hair. So he decides to shave his head. Um, in the past, we've seen, you know, sometimes if a kid has chemo, you know, Sometimes his friends will also shave their heads or, you know, it's kind of like a solidarity thing. I'll shave my head cause you're going, you're going to go bald. So I'll go bald with you.

Now, obviously John Stamos, A list actor known for his nice Greek hair, uh, wasn't going to shave his head. So instead he put on a bald cap. Dave Coulier has responded. I'll share the, uh, initial article again, uh, full house, uh, real drama happening in the full house world. John Stamos showing solidarity with his friend and former TV castmate Dave Coulier During his battle with an aggressive cancer.

But some people online are taking issue with his method, calling him insufficiently committed to the cause. All right. So now they're upset that he didn't actually cut his hair off. Stamos posted a few pictures on Instagram of fellow Full House actor Coulier featuring Stamos wearing a bald cap and shaving Coulier's head.

Who's going through chemo. So. Uh, Dave Coulier actually responded, this is what he had to say as a response, I'm sorry to see a bunch of negative comments as I've just begun my cancer journey. It's our friendship, me and John, and this is how we are handling a very tough time. I'm a comedian and humor is what drives me.

John knows how to cheer me up. And I laughed out loud when he arrived wearing a bald cap, being a true and loving friend and brother. Yeah. So anyone else can go F off how, how they decide to handle this situation is up to them. Um, but John. Uh, Dave, they all just seem like great friends. The way they speak about the late, um, uh, uh, Bob Saget, you know, they really do seem like they built such a brotherhood from their time on the show full house.

Uh, we are really, really rooting on Dave Coulier to have a quick and strong recovery, hoping for the best. All right. I got a couple more stories, Dax Shepard, Post Malone, headlining Coachella, and so much more coming up right after this. An article has been going viral in The Sun that Pete Davidson checked into rehab after romance with Bachelor's Maria Georges.

Now, we of course have friends that are friends with Maria, and we're friends with Maria here, big fan of hers. And we heard that the story was not true. Well, now Maria has commented this on Instagram, Never dated Pete, false rumor. I'm friends with his sister case closed. So that's it. And how does the sun get away with doing this type of stuff?

The reason we've been in a year long battle, uh, exposing the truth with Clayton Eckerd and his accusers because the sun recklessly aired a one sided story. So I just, I just don't understand their, you know, first amendment is great. But when you share. Rumors that are not true, there are consequences, but hey, that's the world we live in, right?

Well, here's a world I want to live in. Red Lobster CEO, a very young millennial, says the Cheddar Bay Biscuit is back, baby! Now, it's always been around, but now it's coming right to your table and you can ask for as many as you want. As soon as you're greeted by your server, these will be brought to your table.

So you're going to have them right away, they're hot and they're warm. And by the way, you can ask for as many biscuits as you want, they say. Oh, this is butter, I thought it was honey. There it is. All the biscuits you want. Now, Red Lobster went broke from unlimited shrimp and now they're saying, all right, we'll just give unlimited biscuits.

Do they not understand the values of our great Americans? We love carbohydrates. You think they love crustacea? Wait until they get ahold of that glycemic, uh, sort of gluttony, and they're going to be pounding biscuits. Like it's their job. I never understood the unlimited breadsticks, unlimited biscuits thing.

Because like, if you go to. If you go to, um, uh, Olive Garden, if you don't get your order in on time, you're going to be full before the salad comes, you know what I mean? But either way, uh, you know, good little strategy, good promo. I guess you could argue how many biscuits do you really want? Well, if you're like my friends from college on 25 cent wing night, Uh, people used to bring their own Tupperware to uh, make sure they could snag a few extra for the way home.

Alright, Dak Shepherd, one of the largest podcasts in the world. He's a hundred million dollar podcaster. He had a question for Cynthia Avo, I hope I'm pronouncing her name right. She's, uh, the actress in Wicked. And look, sometimes what makes a great podcast is the ability to ask questions that are on people's minds.

And here he does not disappoint. Can I see your hands? I couldn't tell if it was your nails or so long if you were wearing some kind of hand thing. No, my nails were done. Okay, nothing was happening with your hands. Nothing was happening with my hands. I have very long fingers. Yeah. Very long fingers. Yeah.

My nails are very long right now. Can I ask you a really crazy question? It's inappropriate. Go on. When you're wiping your butt. I knew you would ask that question. I know, but everyone thinks it and everyone's afraid to ask it. Because, no, no one's afraid to ask it. Oh, is everyone asking that? Everybody asks that question.

All girls, though. No, all girls. My guess is, there's a lot of knuckles being used. Everybody asks that question. Okay, very cliche. And my answer is, nobody uses just their fingers to wipe their backside. You use tissue. Oh, sure. Correct. And you wipe. Yeah, I guess my question is, does the tissue go on the tip of the fingernails, or do you try to get the tissue on the Pads of the fingers.

Okay, great, great, great, great. Pads of the fingers. So it could just be that. And maybe the patron here can see my visuals of how I'm asking the question. Maybe she's got, um, you know, knuckles that hyper extend in a certain way. I don't know. I'm sure everyone who's listening right now is holding their hand out, wondering how you would wipe your butt with four inch long fingernails, but Hey, if there's a will, there's a way.

We're getting somewhere and then, um, okay. And then you're just feeling a little tickle of the nails on your crack of your butt sometimes. No, because the tissue's there. You don't feel none of that. I wonder, okay, what I would do if I were you is I would wrap my whole, I'd make a mitten. I fold. Okay. Oh, you're a folder.

I bunch. Now, are you offended by that question? Are you like, I get it. Well, I get it. I'm annoyed by it. I'm like, ah, come on guys. But I get it. But it's also like, I'm a functioning adult and I've never walked around someone Smelling like, you know, no one thinks that in fact, everyone thinks you smell so good.

It begs the question. How are you wiping your tush? All right. Well, now we have the answer folks. The answer to the question, nobody asked, how is Cynthia wiping her tush? I will leave, uh, I will leave a little, uh, uh, mystery for you guys, but I, my fingernails are short. Although I always wonder if you had long fingernails, would that make you a better swimmer?

Cause I imagine, you know, long fingernails, like a sloth has long fingernails. You could literally be scooping. Scooping the water as you go. I don't know. I don't know. Uh, I guess so. Well, I guess I'll just never know. Put that on Mythbusters, will you? All right. Post Malone is headlining Coachella 2025, which will kick off his stadium tour.

He's heading into the desert. The superstar singer is headlining Coachella. And I mean, that is a big gig. Uh, he's revealing his upcoming gigs. The first two dates on the lineup are April 13th and 20th in Italy. Indio, California. Uh, then he's got dates all over the country. Good on him. Good on post Malone.

Seems like a good guy. Uh, and we're always happy to hear about good people doing good things. Speaking of which Pat McAfee, uh, was a punter in the NFL. He decided to retire so that he could work for Barstool Sports and then kind of became his own thing, the Pat McAfee show. Now it's, uh, hired by ESPN. Just a, just an example of how big your world can be.

He literally turned down million dollar contracts to do the simplest thing in the NFL, punt a football. And instead now he's having fun with his boys making hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. He's So rich. He loves to give that money back and he does a kicking challenge on college game day where he draws a raffle from the audience who comes to watch and they get a chance to kick a field goal.

If they win, they win a lot of money. In this case, there was an 800, 000 prize. Prize. Half of that was going to go to charity and then half was going to go to whoever kicked the field goal. Well, in this case, and it's a super viral video, the person who won the lottery said, Hey, I'm not going to kick it. So I'm going to split it 50, 50 with this guy.

Here's Pat McAfee hearing about their story. We're in the car, I think, leaving the set and I opened my phone, somebody texted me and was like, yo, did you see this kid's Instagram profile? And I was like, no. I like almost got emotional because I thought about Henry. He wanted to do this. That's why I got there at 6 p.

m. She got there at 3 a. m. You're talking about being committed to the program and to the show. I am so incredibly thankful for Bell Session and Henry Silver for doing that. But then I've been waiting for somebody to do what Bell did. The rules are the first 300 people get tickets, raffle tickets, if they want it, then the ticket is drawn.

And then whoever it is gets a chance to do the kick. Now, we have never said that that person who wins the drawing can't say, I pick you. Do you want to? So whenever I was told of the happening, they're like, The person who won doesn't want to kick. They want to pick somebody else or whatever. I'm like, genius.

So I meet Bell and I'm like, did you plan on doing this? Like, was this a work? Like, hey, I'm gonna get here in the first 300 and I'm gonna find somebody that can kick. And she was like, no, he was just standing next to me. Didn't know. He just, so he was standing next to her. Whenever she looked nervous after she won, he looked at her and was like, I can make that kick.

All right. So the question was, did he make that kick? I'm going to play for you the live moment that everybody is talking about. This works is the first 300 people that get here to college game day, have an opportunity to get a raffle ticket that is randomly drawn in whoever it is. Normally does the kick.

Well, Bell Sessions, who got here at 3 a. m. this morning, was the winner. Her ticket was pulled, and you thought to yourself immediately, what, Bell? I knew I couldn't do it, and he was next to me, and he said that he could, so we're splitting it. Have you ever kicked a ball before? I've kicked a ball before, I've played soccer my whole life, I think I can do it.

You make it, you will both get 100, 000. 200, 000 to Hurricane Relief, 400, 000 on the line. Henry, are you ready? Of course! Have you ever seen any badmouth kickers? Of course! Shut up, let's go! Why don't we double it? Because the Georgia Bulldogs, 800, 000 Henry. But what I want to let you know is you're not getting a second opportunity.

And that's the moment that I just love to see it. That's the moment that his kick went straight through the uprights, winning him 200, 000 and winning Bella 200, 000. Now what's interesting about that first clip I shared when he said that he went on the guy's Instagram profile, it's that the guy who hit the kick had a.

photo, his Instagram profile. It's Henry dot silver 29, I believe. And he had a photo. Uh, his profile photo was actually Pat McAfee when he played for the Indianapolis Colts and he was, uh, and then, uh, Henry was just a child. So what a wild moment. Pretty cool to see, uh, the worlds collide like that. A lot of money goes to a good cause.

And also what great entertainment is that? That's why Pat McAfee is as big as he is. He's not afraid to put his money on the line for good entertainment and he sees the immediate returns. Well, Sadly, speaking of good entertainment, uh, the bachelor Clayton Eckerd, Laura Owens case has gotten pretty, pretty toxic with, of course, Laura Owens attorney, uh, posting crazy things online.

He waved a, he waved, uh, of, you know, his gun on a live stream. Now we have that umbrella guy. Who, by the way, he has been to hell and back on his YouTube channel dealing with crazy people. Here's what he has to say about how the trial went from interesting and fun to follow to really scary. Megan has been keeping up with it quite a bit more.

For me, I, I get, I got turned off by this guy right here. I liked laughing at some of the stupid that he would pull and everything else, but as I see more and more. that's been transpiring. My problem became the fact that I legitimately feel this is my legitimate opinion. I feel these people are unsafe.

Again, I cannot understand how someone rationalizes going after a judge like, like they, they did

to the point that the judge again is filing bar complaints and they, they, they don't relent. They, he's already been warned. Someone else filed a bar complaint. And. He was warned. Hey, slow that roll, baby. Yeah, he was warned after my bar complaint. I mean, yeah, it is scary. It, it, it, it is, it is definitely unhinged.

And if he does lose his license because of the bar complaint from the judge, I mean, I won't be happy about it. At that point, you'll just have somebody who's like hell bent on destroying you. Uh, but all we can do is continue to tell the truth. And share that with the audience. That's our greatest protection is to continue to share the truth.

So I appreciate everyone who's stuck around and follow that crazy story as it's gotten kind of real. All right, more content coming to you right after this. Imagine being the Menendez brothers, spending 34 years of a life sentence in prison, and then thinking you're getting released, but then the election happens and then there's a new prosecutor.

Here's the story on CBS mornings, 34 years of a life sentence in prison for the 1989 Beverly Hills murder of their parents. Any calls for a resentencing or clemency for Eric and Lyle Menendez will have to wait a bit longer. California governor Gavin Newsom says he will defer to the DA elects review prior to making any clemency decisions and respects the role of the district attorney in ensuring justice is served.

I believe. that they have paid their debt to society. The move comes after current L. A. District Attorney, George Gascon, filed a motion last month asking the judge to re sentence the brothers, citing new evidence of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse the brothers say they endured from their father, Jose.

I do believe that the brothers were subjected to a tremendous amount of dysfunction in the home. In molestation, but gascons critics say the motion for S resentencing was politically motivated, submitted days before reelection, which he lost to Nathan Hockman. We spoke to Hockman on Friday. I owe it to the Menendez.

I owe it to the victim family members. I owe it to the public. To make sure that if I do weigh in on this case, it's a decision that has been thoroughly vetted, thoroughly thought through, and I actually can defend in court. While some prosecutors are opposed to any leniency, family members are pleading for the brothers to be released.

Yeah, it looks like, it looks like most people say, alright, they've served 34 years, uh, they've had a clean record in prison, and it was, you know, whatever. And I think most people are, are okay with, with that sentence, kind of, um, Ending and them getting released. I don't know. I don't have real real stake in the matter.

All right. Well, uh, Matt Gaetz Has his accuser's attorney speaking out allegedly flew two women to New York City for sex in a real life pretty woman moment Here's the former US representative of Florida Matt Gaetz Donald Trump's nominee for the US Attorney General Continuing to combat sexual misconduct allegations including claims He flew these women to New York and this is the Florida attorney Joel Leppard You Representing the women involved, he sat down with ABC News Juju Chang and this is what he had to reveal.

What did your client witness? She testified in July of 2017, um, at this house party. She was walking out to the pool area and she looked to her right and she saw Representative Gates having sex with her 17. You know, I was wondering when they, when the person said that they witnessed someone having sex with a minor, how would they know?

But now it's, it's shown that in 2017, seven plus years ago, uh, she, she recalls this happened and knows that the girl was 17. And at the time he was a sitting congressman. I don't know if she was aware of who he was at the time, but at the time, yes, he was a sitting congressman for about six months. My client testified to the house that.

Um, her understanding was that Matt Gaetz did not know that she was a minor, and that when he learned that she was a minor, that he broke off things and did not continue a sexual relationship until she turned 18. Do we know how old he was at the time of this encounter? I believe he was 35. And she was 17, about to turn 18, presumably.

I believe so. They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them and my clients repeatedly testified, what was this payment for? That was for sex. Yes. Do you know? So let me get this straight. Assuming this is true. We have digital copy of sex payments. Now. My belief when it comes to prostitution, this is just my belief, is that you should be able to pay for sex if it's with an adult.

That's my belief. In this case, it wasn't. The person was 17. Now, it turns out the other person wasn't. Now, does that mean there could be an ethical issue? Yeah, there could still be ethical issues, absolutely. The real issue here is that she was underage, right, with a 35 year old, and that he was already in the house.

Uh, working for the people. This is where your taxpayer dollars are going to. And also Matt Gaetz only got the job through nepotism. He, he, he was a lawyer for like one year and then ran for office. His dad was a lawyer. His grandfather was a lawyer. I mean, it's sickening. So for those that say this shouldn't come out, it's like world, do we live in where someone would defend this?

Listen, Donald Trump could nominate probably another hundred different people that all have clean records. Do you know what I mean? It's not. Oh, don't nominate him because he's a Republican. Throw that out the window. Anybody who's got this kind of a track record should not be elected anywhere in public office.

So how many times, how many parties your clients went to and had sex with? Well, not all of them were parties, so some of them were events such as they attended election events, like at hotels. They went with him to New York for a taping on Fox News. Um, but approximately perhaps 10 times, 10 to 15 times.

Their testimony is that Representative Gates took them across state lines. For the purpose of having sex and paid them for that. That's correct. This is not a political hit job. This is not, uh, an anti Matt Gaetz stance per se. It is more that this is what happened to him. It's true. And, and they want the American people to know about this as they consider, um, their future attorney general potentially.

And by the way, now we have to look at who's in the Senate if they decide to vote him through and say, you guys all knew this happened because they're probably all going to get access to this ethics report. It'll get leaked. We're probably going to get it sometime this week. Somebody's going to leak it and it's real.

And our taxpayer dollars went towards his ethics report. And then we're going to have to decide if they vote him through which senators, you know, people that are supposed to be, uh, have a little barometer towards family values. We're okay with this. Again, do we really think Matt Gaetz is that good of a lawyer that he deserves to be the district attorney of the United States of America?

And if so, are we just okay with letting this happen? It is going to be a real, real litmus test for where the moral fiber of the American. People stands and I'll be here to cover it. That does it for us. We'll be back in the morning as we are every day with another episode of 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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