11-19-24 Morning Rush - Bachelor Maria Georgas & Pete Davidson Dating Rumors - Is It True? & Oklahoma Brings Bibles Back Into Classroom

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride, buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you. It's November 19th, 2024. We got all of your pop culture in one place. Sir Richard Branson unveils his new space balloon open for commercial travel.

Talk about that. Plus McDonald's tries to rebound from its E. coli outbreak, a wild bachelor nation story involving Maria Georges and Pete Davidson, although it was, uh, published in the sun. So the question is, is it true? I've got some insider information that'll give you that answer. And Bibles are back in school in Oklahoma, but it's coming with a lot of pushback.

A lot of the details on that story. Plus more commentary on the Mike. Tyson fight and Netflix will be streaming its first football game on Christmas day. It includes a Beyonce performance and probable buffering because apparently Netflix can't do a live show without buffering, but we'll get into those stories.

They got all that and so much more coming up next on the rush. I've got billionaire Sir Richard Branson co piloting the world's first commercial space balloon and, uh, I guess they're gonna be selling some tickets. 125, 000 a seat. You wanna go? Here's the story. Sir Richard Branson is set to co pilot the world's first commercial space balloon that will fly to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere for 125, 000 a seat.

The spaceship Neptune will take him and seven other passengers 20 miles into the stratosphere above Earth. The luxury capsule designed by Florida based company Space Perspective features a window filled cabin, luxury chairs, fine dining, cocktails, a space bar, and even on board Wi Fi. The total trip time is six hours, two hours ascending to the maximum height, two hours for passengers to look out of the capsule at the curvature of the earth, and two hours descent.

And you don't even need to worry about being physically fit. As an astronaut, as the company have said, the six hour flight will be no more stressful on the body than a plane flight. More than 1, 800 people have already reserved seats on the hydrogen powered space balloon, which completed its first successful test flight just last month.

Would you sign up for this? Um, not for 125, 000 I wouldn't. I mean, would I be interested to go for a loop or so around the city? Sure. Uh, I don't know. I mean, six hours? I think what they should do is invite some of the flat earth people, just so they can see the curvature and do all that. But what is it going?

20 miles up? I mean, does that even count as space? Are you floating? Uh, they didn't even mention anything about floating. If you can't float, it's not worth it. You know what I mean? Can I do, you know, Somersaults and things like that. That's what I want to know. All right. Well, we have an update on Diddy, uh, another story breaking on Diddy from NewsNation.

He's been moved to a low security dorm, uh, and apparently is communicating with the women's unit. Have a listen to this. According to our sources, Diddy is not being housed in a solitary cell. And what's more surprising, the sources say he could still get his freak on, so to speak. There is apparently a secret system that inmates on the block all seem to know about.

A way to spy on the female inmates who are housed one floor below them. When I heard this, I was sort of like super shocked. I thought there's no way they could, there could be some way to contact the ladies down below, but tell me how it works. So basically, um, It's a dormitory pup that he's in. He's not in the cells.

So there's another, there's a big dorm with a bunch of bunks and then there's a little room where you go into and it's like a workout area, but it's not really a yard, you would say it's just like with gates, like you see right there in the building and you can literally lay down and the females are right below you and you could just yell at them and they yell back and basically like, you could, you could kind of see them and they could see you a little bit, but you have to watch out for the guards obviously, but you can talk with them and.

You know, show each other some things sometimes, which I never did any of that. There it is. He said the females are right below you. I mean, look, Hey, if you're in confinement with a bunch of men, I guess just hearing the female voice would, uh, really make the boys come to the yard. I guess. Well, speaking of that, let's get into this story.

Uh, the son is reporting that Pete Davidson checks into a rehab in bad shape after a secret romance and Georges. Now. I have spoken to a source who said this is completely fabricated. Uh, but Hey, you never know the source told the U S son about troubled Pete's most recent stint in rehab. Um, so the, and again, the U S son is garbage.

So who knows what the deal is with this, but the troubled Saturday night live alum, 31 years young is now in treatment for the second time this year amid his longtime struggle with mental health. Um, I mean, how do they know he was with her? He checked into rehab in Florida fairly recently, and he flew on a private jet.

He's in pretty bad shape this time around. He's not in a good place. Well, yeah, I mean, you don't go to, you don't go to treatment if you're in a good place. He made a cameo on his alma mater Saturday Night Live on November 2nd, and was previously seen at the Room premiere in L. A. with friend Machine Gun Kelly.

On October 24th. Uh, so it doesn't say much about Maria. It said, they said he ended up fling with Maria just before he checked in. The pair had only been dating for a couple of months, though. Fans may be shocked by the relationship. The former couple seemed to be hiding in plain sight. Maria chimed in on Pete's sister, Casey Davidson's Instagram, multiple times in case he liked the reality stars comments.

All right. Well, even though my source told me there's nothing to this story, I mean, look, maybe there is, maybe there isn't who really cares either way. And I just, you know, to, to even report on a story like this, it's like, all right. The guy's going back to rehab. He's trying to get on the straight and narrow.

I mean, but I really feel for Pete because he, he, he just, he really can't seem to figure it out. So I guess that's, that's the right step, but, um, maybe he needs to change some of his like lifestyle activities because, um, I feel like New York, if that's where he lives is not a good place. If you have a lot of these vices, you know, New York, New York will bring out the worst in you.

It'll bring out the best in you or the worst of you, depending on how you see the city. God bless it. Uh, maybe he needs to go live on a farm or something. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have any, don't take any advice from me. All right. Well, uh, speaking of I've, I've no transition. Let's just get into the next story.

The NFL and Beyonce will be premiering on Netflix on Christmas day. Oh, what a day. Have a listen to this. The NFL and Beyonce are giving us a cowboy Carter. Christmas. Beyonce says she'll play the halftime show, the Ravens Texans game in her hometown of Houston on Christmas Day. She posted this video on her YouTube channel as part of the announcement.

Details of the performance are still under wraps, but this will be the first time Beyonce performs songs from her Grammy nominated album, Cowboy Carter, live. The game and the halftime show will stream on Netflix, which is hosting two NFL games on Christmas Day. It's the first time Netflix will broadcast NFL games and comes on the heels of Friday's record breaking Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight, which Netflix says drew in 60 million households around the world.

Well, actually they said, I think 50 million in the United States, who knows the total numbers, but either way, they messed up. They had a lot of issues and there was buffering and people said the fight stunk. Well, a lot of people have said, Oh man, that was awful. Uh, here's a response on a Yahoo sports about, um, casual boxing fans and who cares what they have to say.

There's two things that kind of get under my skin when I see the aftermath. Number one, it's the people who, again, never talk about boxing, don't watch boxing, don't care about boxing, don't have a disowned subscription, aren't watching top rank on a Saturday or Friday night, aren't watching PBC on Amazon.

And I see them saying, we need to stop being conned by this. We need to stop falling for this. We need to stop, you know, giving this our attention so that boxing can clean itself up once and for all. You don't watch boxing to begin with. You don't give a. About boxing. Well, you weren't conned by anything.

The only thing that you did was convince yourself that Mike Tyson was going to show up as a, you know, 1987 version of himself and turn back the clock and shut up the guy that for whatever reason you can't stand. You're, you're the sucker. You convince yourself of this. No one conned you. No one told you that he was going to turn back the clock and no one told you that this was the best of boxing because if you stuck around for Barrios Ramos, if you stuck around or showed up early for Taylor Serrano, you would have seen.

And, and the issue with boxing over the years has been put one fight at the top and nothing on the bottom. This card didn't do that. Did you watch Shushu Carrington on the prelims? Did you watch Shadesha Green on the prelims? No, you didn't. Did you watch Taylor Serrano? You may have stumbled while you were waiting.

I listen, I'm going to cut him off there. I watched the other fights. There was a lot of good fights. I mean, you got what you paid for. 90 percent of us steal our network flick Netflix passwords from somebody else anyway. So you got what you paid for. I got more Mike Tyson stories, some actual really interesting takes about what went down over the weekend, this cultural moment still being talked about in the podcast sphere, and I'll have those for you next.

There's of course a conspiracy I shared, which is Mike Tyson blew the fight on purpose. Like he was only going to get paid if he lost. And I don't think this is true. I think he just was injured. You know, he had several injuries going into the fight and he is also an older guy here. He was opening up about his extravagant lifestyle and how he would spend up to 5 million in a week.

Is it true? You want to pay? Spent 5 million in a week and didn't buy anything. Um, 5 million might go in a couple of days. Yeah, I'm a heavy, I'm a big spender. Yeah, right, yeah. Still though, not as, not the way you were in the old days. No, not now, but when I was a young kid, 5 million might go in a couple of days, yeah.

Right, yeah, 5 million in a couple of days. And you never, did you ever look back on that and regret it? I had such a great time, had a good time. And of course he was valued up to 300 million. And I think before this fight was only worth one or two, 3 million. And then they said from this fight might've made another 20 million.

So, Hey, you know, he's made his comeback. So good for him. Uh, and in our final Tyson story, we'll move on after this. We've got the part in my take podcast, uh, saying Mike Tyson should not have been in that ring. They actually have a take that Jake Paul, uh, did him some mercy by not knocking him out. Have a listen.

I guess credit to Jake Paul for not knocking out Mike Tyson. And, uh, we, we said it before, but this has been two decades of me buying, I guess I didn't buy the fight cause it was Netflix, of watching Mike Tyson fights and being like, well, all it takes is one punch cause he's Iron Mike. Uh, he had no chance of winning that.

Jake Paul took mercy on his soul. Which should never happen in a boxing match. Like you should not spend rounds taking mercy on your opponent. But I'm happy he did. I get it. It would have been sad. I get it. No, listen, it was the right move for him to do. It was so apparent that Mike Tyson shouldn't have been in that ring.

I didn't want to see him get knocked out. He's it was elder abuse. That third round was elder abuse. That was the round where Jake Paul was like, I'm going to start unloading and Mike Tyson couldn't move. Mike Tyson's done. It's he's been done for 20 years. He was washed 20 years ago. This is stupid. Jake Paul fight someone your own age, please.

He did. He lost. All right. And I, I think that's a good idea. Fight. So in your own age, but you know, Hey, he's doing what he's doing. These are consensual fights. Take them for what they are worth. All right. From fighting in the ring to dancing on the ballroom floor, we've got dancing with the stars tonight.

Here is Riley Arnold talk talking with Steven, the doors, Zik, uh, or netter. Ozic, I always mess that up. Uh, talking about why she drives him to their practice. Again, he's got those Clark Kent. Uh, Clark Kent Glasses. He's got several different eye issues. Here's what they had to say. Most of the time, just me and Stephen because I drive him to rehearsals too because he can't drive.

Riley drives me every day to rehearsal because I don't have a license. I'm not technically banned from driving, but as someone who is Very sensitive to sunlight to the point where I can't see in the sunlight and the fact I don't have depth perception I don't think driving is a good idea. So Riley drives me to rehearsal and we have fantastic times in there We vibe out to songs.

She shows me new music because she jokes. I don't know any music. We haven't done karaoke I'm a little embarrassed to sing so I don't usually but every now and then when the vibes are right We'll start rapping or something There they are. Okay, look, I mean, I love this guy. Bronze medalist, the pommel horse prince, can't even see in the sunlight, doesn't have depth perception, and he's over there swinging his thing on the pommel horse and now on the dance floor, so he may, this might be the last night for him, right?

Let's see. See how it goes down. Are they at the finals? And I think there's one more week before the finals. Um, so, uh, you know, I, you know, I just, uh, I love to see people try to, uh, especially athletes. I love to see them try to conquer new spaces like, uh, the dance floor. And that's probably why. I enjoyed Mike Tyson so much is that, you know, we're watching someone fight against a father time.

Good stuff. All right. Speaking of father time and speaking of generational changes, here's Gary V talking about how it used to be with, with regards to, uh, parenting styles. It's under 30. If you're listening at 10 PM, there would be this like public service announcement commercial in the eighties that would come out and be like, It's 10 p.

m. Do you know where your children are? It's 10 p. m. Do you know where your children are? Because sometimes they forgot that we hadn't come home yet! You're right. My childhood, my parents, they had no idea who we were. And we just came back at night, right? When it was dark, I had to come back. My wife has never had a minute.

When my kids were younger than 18, but she didn't know where they were. How about the fact now that it extends way past 18? The amount of people I've met who have a fucking app on their 23 year old to know exactly where they are physically at all times is fucked up. It makes a 23 year old feel like they're f No shit they're acting like they're five.

No fuck they suck at work. They're fucking zoo animals. They can't live in the jungle. They're fucking being tracked by their fucking 59 year old parent. They're on the payroll. They're being tracked. And then you're upset that they can't stand on their own two feet. No shit. You created a fucking bubble baby.

I think the neighborhoods really shaped us. And I really genuinely believe the over coddling of knowing everything about your kid every second of everything where they are. We were growing up like, I don't know, fights and getting hit by a stick and like fucking reconciling shit without parents. You were learning how to function.

Fights with a stick. Gary Vee really lived life. Look, I, I, I kind of agree. I mean, I don't, I'll cross this bridge when I get there, but you know, we're, my wife and I, it's so funny. We just took our baby to the six month checkup and we have so many questions. Is his ear flap doing the right thing? You know, what's this crusty thing happening?

And you know, you just want what's best for your kid. And at some point, I think you need to realize that part of the character that they will flourish into. It's by giving them that space to become who they are. And, you know, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what I'll do. I got, I got a little time before I decide, you know, I think of it like this way.

We've got a Tesla, right? And if my wife's using the Tesla, I can go on my phone and see where she is. Now I've got no need to do that other than like the other day I was, uh, had, we had the in laws over and they were like, when's Tasha going to be home? And she wasn't responding. And then I looked at my phone and I saw that she was getting off the exit and I was like, Oh, she's seven minutes away.

So it's like. I understand using technology for the convenience aspect of where somebody is, but I would never want to track my son or daughter unless I was given a reason to worry about what might be going on. Like they shouldn't have to answer a text message right away. Now, if they're past a curfew, that's a different story.

You know, set proper guidelines, let them Try to live up to those guidelines and then go from there. You know, it'll be so interesting because by the time our son is old enough for this to work, I mean, I'm sure there'll be contactless payments. I'm sure we'll give him money in some sort of allowance on like a digital debit card, and then we could take it away.

And if he doesn't do the dishes, the wifi goes out. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'm sure like. There'll be new styles of parenting based on the world of tech that we live in. Now, what I would like to do, which it looks like what Gary V is talking about is try not to rob my, uh, kids of, um, of their childhood.

And you know, Jonathan Haidt talks a lot about this with screens and technology, but like the second you give them a cell phone, you. Robbed them of what life would have been like before they ever had that. How long can you go? And that might get, you know, me and having an extra dummy phone, a flip phone in the house and you know, like how, how far can you go before giving them access to technology that is almost overwhelming for them?

I don't know. These are just thoughts, but I, I think about it this way. I don't know if our parents had the luxury of even, of even thinking this way. When I, when I look back at parents, it's like you either had a textbook on parenting or you didn't either. You bought something on parenting or you didn't.

Now we've got Tik TOKs and social media podcasts, and we can discuss these things in, I think, such a healthy way that our parents didn't have access to. We just let our kids cry themselves to sleep. That's it. Thinking we were doing the right thing. Oh yeah. Put them all in a 80 person daycare. It's good for their socializing skills.

And I was like, well, maybe that's not the case. Maybe there's a different way to do it. I don't know. Those are my thoughts. Maybe the kid will just live off of McDonald's. Speaking of which, how about that transition? It looks like McDonald's is trying to recover from their recent E. coli outbreak of the onions.

McDonald's plans to invest 100 million to get customers back after the recent E. coli outbreak linked to onions on quarter pounder hamburgers. 65 million will go directly to the hardest hit franchises. More than 100 cases of E. coli were reported with one death and four people reporting life threatening diseases.

Yeah, that's not good. Of the 100 million, how much of that do you think is going to go to employees getting benefits or higher pay? My guess is a fat zero. All right, well, here's a cruise idea for you. An American cruise line offers a. Four year trip to escape Donald Trump's second term. Have a listen. An American cruise line offers a four year trip to escape Donald Trump's second term.

Villa V Residences has launched a four year cruise designed for Americans wishing to escape Donald Trump's second term in office. It will stop at 425 ports across 140 countries until 2028. According to their press release, prices for this life at sea start at 40, 000 a year. Over four years, the voyage therefore Four costs nearly $160,000 per person for a double room and $255,999 for a single cabin.

And while the idea of committing to a four year cruise may seem a bit far fetched, it's also possible to opt for their one year trip called Escape from Reality for a two year midterm selection trip. Or a three year, everywhere but home cruise. Villa V Residences emphasized that its four year package is designed for travelers from all political backgrounds.

Mikkel Pedersen, CEO of Villa V Residence, explained to Fox News that the campaign was organized before the election results. We think we have a perfect product for those who said they would leave the country if XYZ won the election. We may have differing political views, but our community comes together around our passion for exploring the world in a very real way that goes far beyond politics.

How funny would this be if you're like anti Trump and then you go on this cruise and then your neighbor has a MAGA hat on? I mean, look, it's a good idea. I've spent up to six days at a time on a cruise. And I gotta tell you, I still liked being there. Uh, you know, I wasn't like burnt out by it. I would need to get Starlink internet.

Because of course, if I, I mean, and by the way, it's not a bad amount if, um, if you have a job where you can work from anywhere, you know what I mean? It's not a bad amount, but I mean, how bad would the food be? Can you imagine that? You got to go to the same ventriloquist, uh, uh, you know, uh, show for the 17th week in a row.

And you know, the pool's only big enough to float in it. There's kids farting everywhere. I mean, I don't know, maybe it'll be fun. Uh, probably a lot of swingers though. I feel like a lot of swingers. Uh, would be on that cruise, just a thought. All right. I got more content coming your way after this quick break, a couple wild political stories to wrap things up on this Tuesday morning.

Donald Trump confirms his plan to declare a national emergency and use the military for mass deportations. Have a listen to this. President elect Trump confirming his plan to declare a national emergency when he takes office and that he plans to use the U S military to assist in mass deportations.

ABC's Mary Bruce in West Palm Beach, Florida tonight. Tonight, President elect Donald Trump confirming once he takes office, he will declare a national emergency and use the military to help carry out his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Today, his new pick for borders are Tom Homan saying criminals We'll be the first to go will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats because you're the biggest they pose a big danger to the United States.

Homan says he's heading down to Mar a Lago this week to put the quote final touches on a plan, but acknowledges there are many unanswered questions about how Trump's policy will actually work, including how much it will cost. So I've been asked 1000 times. How many people can you remove the first year?

Well, how many agents do I have? Uh, how many buses do I have? How much money do I have for airplanes? Right? Uh, can DOD assist? Because DOD can take off our plate. So there's a lot of what ifs. I don't know what the current budget is right now. I don't have insight in what currently ICE and CBP has for budget.

How much money can be reprogrammed? By the way, this sounds horrifying. It sounds horrifying because there's a lot of, I think something like 3. 5 to 4. 5 homes, a million homes in this country have mixed citizenship, which means you might have an uncle who's illegal, but you were legal. You might have a brother who's illegal.

You know, it's just, it's just. And by the way, I believe policy already existed that if you commit a crime, you get deported. So I don't know. I mean, it's seems like a scary time out there if you're not a U S citizen. And even if you are scary for whatever family you have that might be dealing with the thought of a raid at any given time, wild, wild, wild.

Uh, well, in other news, Oklahoma's public school chief, Says he's purchased 500 Donald Trump Bibles for the classroom. It he's the superintendent. There's now a petition for his removal. Here's a bizarre video that he instructed every superintendent to share to every student. I'm excited to announce today that Oklahoma is the first state.

To bring the Bible back to the classroom. Today we purchased over 500 Bibles that will be in the AP government classrooms across the state. Bible just like this. We have the Bible, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights. These are foundational documents in our nation's history.

Our kids have to understand the role the Bible played in influencing American history. It's very clear that the radical left has driven the Bible out of the classroom, which leads to a lack of understanding of American history. We will not stop until we brought the Bible back to every classroom in the state.

So after that went down, there's actually a petition now, uh, with 14, 000 signatures of parents saying, Get this out of there. And then there's other legal issues because he talked about the woke left. Uh, and when you talk about politics as the superintendent, you're kind of, uh, you're kind of making, you're, you're politicizing a job that shouldn't be political, right?

Where is your authority specifically coming from? As you know, thousands of people, including parents who signed a petition to impeach you with more than 14, 000 signatures. The last check say this is government overreach and you're taking control away from local parents, local school boards and parents over their kids.

What do you say to that? And where is your authority coming from to enforce this prayer video to be played in schools? You know, I appreciate you pushing that left wing narrative here, but here's the reality. It's not a left wing narrative. I'm literally talking about a petition that parents have signed that's gotten more than 14, 000 signatures that have raised this issue.

It's crystal clear on religious liberty. The Constitution's crystal clear on religious liberty. I know the left doesn't want our kids to know anything about the role the Bible played in American history. They don't want any of our kids to know about the constitution. Our religious liberties are protected and the left has driven the Bible out of schools, driven prayer out of schools and everything in education has gotten worse since.

You know what's interesting is it makes you wonder, do you have to have the Bible to talk about it? Like when you read a textbook that talks about the Alamo, it just, it's a blurb. They tell you a blurb about the Alamo. Like how, like. I don't know. It's a good question. How important is it to have the tangible Bible?

I mean, I've never had a tangible declaration of independence. We just read about it before we had a federal department of education and we had the Bible and prayer in school. Guess what? We were leading the free world. This was the greatest country in the world. And we have seen every statistic gotten has gotten worse since the creation of the federal department of education and the Supreme court pulled the Bible and prayer out of schools.

President Trump has won on this issue. He has a crystal clear mandate. It's one Americans want. It's what Oklahomans want. And so we're going to deliver on those, uh, on president Trump's promises here in Oklahoma. Now, don't forget the Bible did say thou shall not commit adultery, uh, I guess, unless her name is Stormy.

I don't know. But either way, uh, Oklahoma's ranked, I think second to last in education. So I don't know if the Bible is going to help them with regards to, uh, what the issues they have, but very fascinating stuff. All right. That wraps it up for today. A little charged at the end there, but we saved the news.

Uh, we saved. the tough stories for the end. Uh, there's going to be a lot more of those coming out wild times. Isn't it folks? Don't we feel like we live in a crazy world? We voted for it. All right. We'll talk to you this afternoon. I'll see you then. 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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