11-20-24 Morning Rush - Shocking Dancing With The Stars Semi Finale Recap & Bachelor Star Maria Calls Out Bad Journalism & Jake Paul Discusses Mike Tyson Fight!

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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 hump day to you. It's Wednesday, November 20th, 2024. And I've got all of your pop culture news in one place on today's episode, a shocking semi finale of dancing with the stars.

I'll share who is going to the finals. Plus, Jake Paul's first podcast interview with his brother after the Mike Tyson fight, where I'll also share, uh, how there's over 100 million people tuned in to watch. Unbelievable. Plus, Bachelorette Maria claps back at the false story about her dating Pete Davidson.

More speculation about the underwater aliens. And an appeal has officially been filed. By Laura Owens attorney against bachelor Clayton Eckert. Of course, he won the June 10th lawsuit. She owes him 150 K, but their appeal may have some flaws. I'll have an expert weigh in on what that might mean. So we've got a lot of content to get to the week's flying by stick around.

We'll be back with those stories and more next. We shared on yesterday's Rush Hour, the afternoon edition, that Bachelor star Maria Georgias unequivocally denied dating Pete Davidson. Well, now she has an update to this damning story from The Sun. And again, you just have to wonder, do these journalists have any consequences for flat out lying?

Or did a source lie to them? You know, I'm not really sure, but either way, this is why you get multiple sources. Um, so she said, Never dated Pete. False rumor. I'm friends with his sister. Case closed. But what we didn't share is what she said after that. Maria Georgia said just spoke to Pete's sister. He's not in rehab and has been sober for months.

Can't believe this stuff. It's very insulting to his recovery and my mental health. He's literally home. Yeah. So let, I mean, let the guy work on himself, right? Pete Davidson. I mean, heck his father dies in nine 11 as a firefighter. Right. And he's got mental health issues. He's battling through, uh, and, uh, he's trying to do it in the public light and we don't need the sun to write fake stories.

And I get, look, I'm all about free speech and all that jazz. I absolutely, but come on, what the heck, right? We can at least shame some people for getting that story wrong. All right. Well, speaking of shaming people, uh, uh, we have the official appeal, uh, on the Clayton Eckerd v Laura Owens case. He won on June 10th, uh, the decision, uh, that she has to pay him his legal fees, 150 or so thousand dollars.

She continues to deny any wrongdoing and has filed an appeal. Now, as far as the X's and O's of the appeal, I will read it on today's YouTube channel, but a reality, Steve had his lawyer friend on the podcast to go over the comments and said, I think Gingras his argument is a loser. There were other bases for the sanctions awarded.

I don't think he knows family law. I think he's wrong about rule 26, but it really doesn't matter because there are other bases for the sanctions. All right. So there is a very highly well respected lawyer calling the appeal a loser. We'll have to see what the judges think. They bring that appeal in front of three judges, I think in Tucson, Arizona.

And I don't know, do all three judges have to agree to two out of three have to agree? I'm not really sure. But, uh, we'll see how it all goes down. Uh, very, very fascinating stuff. Um, and also there have been predictions made from people behind the scenes. Again, not a source. I don't have any insider information, but there are predictions being made from people who have seen this play out that know a thing or two.

They are saying they now believe. She may get jail time. Now, of course she's being investigated by County prosecutors, but no indictment has been made. We'll have to see what goes down. Speaking of a knockout or lack thereof, we have information from the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight. It made history with 108 million live global viewers.

Have a listen to uncrowned podcast. Netflix announcing that Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson was seen by over, as they put it, 108 million viewers around the world. It's the most streamed global sporting event ever, and Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 2 is the most watched professional women's sports event in U. S.

history. I mean, look, there was zero barrier to entry because everyone already has Netflix. They had a fighters in the undercard from Brazil, from India. They had the, the female championship fight from a Puerto Rican versus an Irish lady. So you got people from all over the world in this fight, not to mention Mike Tyson, who doesn't want to see him.

So no surprises there that have caught everybody's attention like this. They just need to figure out their buffering issue. Would we say that's a success? I'm sure someone will say, Ah, but hey, oh, ah, eh, it was a black eye. It was a black eye on the sport. Netflix is ABC in the 1970s. The wide world of sports, they would put on these one off events.

And, um, that was a huge deal. Millions upon millions of people, when there were just four channels, would watch these events. Whether it was, um, you know, races between people, Celebrities and athletes, Evil Knievel type stuff, and that's the lane that they're occupying now. And it's a pretty damn good lane because of the the most successful streaming platform on the planet, but also because You know, they they do a a chestnut Kobayashi one off on Labor Day.

They'll do this, the WWE deal will open the door to many more things. That's obviously not a one off, but it's a whole new era When Netflix, which historically has always been in the, you know, VOD business, is now in the live sporting event business. Oh, by the way, Christmas Day NFL, huge, huge. I mean, that's gigantic.

That's gigantic. Yeah, so as we reported, the NFL will have their Christmas Day games on Netflix, and folks are wondering, will they have buffering issues? I'm sure they can handle the NFL. What will it be? 15, 20 million viewers. Uh, it'll be nowhere near 108 million for the live event of the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight, which is wild.

It's wild that that many it's wild that a YouTuber turn boxer can command the attention. By by mainstream. I mean, this is a huge deal, not just for Netflix, but for content creators, because that's what Jake Paul started out as right. Just a content creator here. He is being interviewed by his older brother, Logan Paul, regarding his performance against Mike Tyson.

Are you happy with your performance in the fight? Are you, are you happy with the way the night went down? I wish she would have. Yeah, like put up a better fight so that I could have like risen more and done more and like he was surviving. He was. So that was, that was the only thing I didn't like. So annoying when they don't bring the fight to you.

Yeah. But he got you with a couple of punches. How did they feel? Nothing. Didn't feel a thing to be honest. I, I, I'm literally being honest, bro. Nothing, nothing. So there it is. He felt nothing. Now I've read all the comments on this from all aspects. I've read people saying they think the fight was staged and Mike Tyson had plenty of chances to knock him out and pulled back.

I also read people saying that the contract stipulated no uppercuts from Mike Tyson. I don't know if any of that's true. Uh, Mike Tyson would only get paid if Jake Paul won again. No clue if any of that is true, but you know, it could very well be that Mike Tyson just got gassed after the first two rounds, he had a knee injury.

He almost died several months earlier. And oh yeah, by the way, he's 58 years old. Here's what Denzel Washington, I mean, come on, this is a cultural event. If anyone's going to say, Oh Dave, why are you covering this? This is the biggest story in the world in as far as entertainment and sports goes. Uh, but here is Denzel Washington commenting on late night TV about the fight.

I know you, you're a big boxing fan, right? Would you consider what happened this weekend to be boxing? Mike is one of the all time greats and I'm glad he got paid. He told me he was here like a few weeks ago and he said that there was a good chance he was going to smoke pot before the fight. Maybe even do mushrooms before the fight.

Did you sense any of that in the ring? Uh,

no, I didn't. So anyway, I've got one more Jake Paul story. I've got Howard Stern. It's actually more of a Netflix story. I've got a strong warning by Howard Stern. I'll have that for you next. All right, here it is. Howard Stern's warning of Netflix. He says, get their act together before the Christmas day football game.

He says, people are pissed. He told his listeners on Sirius XM. You F people's football. There is hell to pay. You better not. I don't know how this stuff works, but you've got to make sure it works. Yeah. That sounds like every boss. I don't know what goes on over there, but knock it off. Uh, Bloomberg reported that chief technology officer, Elizabeth wrote in an internal email to employees.

This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the stream for the majority of viewers. I'm sure many of you have seen the chatter in the press and on social media about the quality issues. We don't want to dismiss the poor experience of some members and know we have room for improvement.

But still consider this event a huge success. Yeah. I mean, look, it was garbage. I had to wait 45 minutes to watch it because it was buffering. But you know, I steal my internet, uh, my Netflix from my mom's account. And, uh, what am I going to do? Complain about it? You know what I mean? All right. Well, here was dancing with the stars last night.

It was the semi finale. They were down to the final two, uh, pros. You had Ilona, you had actually both Olympians, Ilona and Steven Nederozic. Uh, she's a rugby player and he of course is the pommel horse Prince. And this was the moment to find out which of the two would make it to the finals next week. Have a listen to the surprise ending.

The combination of the judges scores and viewer votes dancing in the finale are

all of you, there it is. They're all going to make it. Everyone gets participation trophies. I think they did this last year too. Uh, and I get it. Look, I mean, let them all dance in the finale. Now it's not looking good for my boy. Pummel horse, Prince, uh, Steven, the door, uh, not a Rosick now looking good for him.

He had a very bad dance last night. Uh, but he made it up with in the second dance, but you know, the winner is going to be Joey Graza day, the bachelor, or it's going to be Chandler. Kenny. Uh, because I mean, she's by far a better dancer. She's got more dance experience. She danced when she was younger. She is like flawlessly good.

They actually hold her to a way higher standard, flawlessly good. But Joey would be the first bachelor to win. No, several bachelorettes have won Caitlin Bristow and Hannah Brown. Um, but no bachelor has even come close to winning. So we'll see. We'll have to see next week how it goes down. Danny Amendola probably doesn't really stand a chance.

He's doing good. He's working really hard. Uh, Ilona doesn't really stand a chance other than she's got a pretty big following, so if she can sneak out a couple of flawless dances, maybe, but my guess is the winner will be Chandler Kinney. I mean, she just deserves it. She's the best. Although I will not be upset if bachelor Joey gets it.

Fingers are crossed for the pommel horse Prince that he at least has fun in the end. I think that's what it all comes down to, right? It's just people that get a chance to do something amazing, like dance, something you wouldn't just randomly be doing professionally or in front of an audience or with professionals and they get to live their dreams and it makes you wonder, right?

Doesn't it make you wonder what you would do if you won the lottery? Would it, I mean, if I won the lottery, I would take a dance class, but then, but then you have to think, why not just do what you would do if you won the lottery. Right. You know, like, and I understand everyone's got to show up to work and whatnot, but having that greater vision about just doing things you love, doesn't that seem so freeing.

And now that I got a son, I have to think, all right, how can I pursue my life and continue to pursue my life? In a way that he looks up to me and then he can sort of have that same spirit of self actualization that same spirit of really intending for the life. You want the power of intention, bringing that positive energy with you.

I think that can, I think that's something. That is going to be really challenging to show, not tell as in by that. I mean, show my son how that's possible and not just tell, I try to do that with you guys and with social media saying, Hey, you know, if you pursue something you love and work really hard at it, the world's going to conspire to help you out.

And I know that's very hard to believe. And I've been challenged on my faith on that in the past, but I stand by it. That you got to decide if you live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world in whichever decision you make. You're right. You will be provided that. So choose friendly, choose love. All right.

Well, here's a good dad, Anthony Scaramucci. He's telling a story about why you should invest long term. By the way, I don't think my, yeah, my mom, you know, single mom didn't have any money as far as I can tell to invest in my future, but boy, I wish, I wish I had Anthony Scaramucci as a dad. Listen to this story.

My son was born in September of 1992. I made a 1, 200 investment in Microsoft. I ticked the box for a dividend reinvestment. There were no dividends being paid at that time, but if they ever paid one, they would reinvest it in the shares of Microsoft on my behalf. This is when there was paper accounts, you know, paper statement got mailed to the house.

I moved a couple of times. It didn't catch up to me. The account statement got lost in the mail. 26 years went by. Somebody from Goldman Sachs recognized my name. They called me, your son's above the age of 21. Would you like us to disperse this to him or transfer this account out to him? Yes, I would. What do you think the 1, 200 of Microsoft went to?

It was 72, 000. So we went from 1, 200. To 72, 000 and I would have sold that years ago. I would have gotten bored with Microsoft and sold it. I didn't do that. My son was a direct beneficiary of me not knowing that the account existed. I think it's a big lesson for people. Don't do a lot of trading. Stay long term.

Act like you're dead. Act like you're dead. I mean, look, it's great advice. I'm boring. I only invest in the S and P 500, you know, very boring. Although the S and P 500, you know, it's, it's, it's what the top 500, uh, companies do. I have that right. Uh, and I'm sure there's some caveats to that, but, uh, you know, nothing sexy with that.

I'm not one of those big Bitcoin investors. Although I did buy some Bitcoin a couple of years back, but I'll tell you what, okay. Whenever I buy Bitcoin, it turns out to be the worst time to buy. And I'm, you know, I get on that hype train too late, but apparently I'm not the worst when it comes to Bitcoin investors.

This is an old story, but just a real fun to listen to. This is a guy who paid a Bitcoin to buy several pizzas a long time ago. And it turns out that that Bitcoin is now worth 900 million. Have a listen. You paid 10, 000 bitcoins for one pizza? It was two pizzas, actually. Oh, you got two pizzas out of it.

And, uh, I mean, you know, maybe the person spent 30, 40 dollars, something like that. What would it be worth today? 80 million dollars, I don't know. 80 million dollars. A lot. People laugh at that, but at the time it wasn't worth anything. Is it true some people celebrate the, the anniversary of the day you bought the pizza?

Yeah, May 22nd, Bitcoin Pizza Day, so. It's really, it's called Bitcoin Pizza Day? It is. Thanks for inspiring me. There it is, Bitcoin Pizza Day, according to my calculations. Now in this clip, it was worth 80 million, but Bitcoin has spiked. That would have been 920. Million to almost a billion dollars. But again, Hey, what do you know?

He didn't, uh, have the advice of Anthony Scaramucci. He shouldn't have bought that dang pizza. Oh, I bet you he has a sore spot for pizza. All right. Here's another fun story. This is carrot top. And by the way, I I'm here to tell you, I'm not ashamed to admit. Carrot Top, one of my favorite comedians. I would love to see him live in Vegas.

Uh, if you've ever get the chance to listen to Carrot Top in a long form interview, take it. He's extremely interesting and a great example of how hard work, compiled over time, can really help you live your dreams. Here is how he got the chance to star in a scene in The Hangover. They're filming this movie called The Hangover and they want to know if you want to be in it.

And I said, okay, but when are they doing it? They said, well, they're outside in the lobby. And I said, was there a script? And they said, no. So I said, well, what do they want me to do? And they said, I don't know. Why don't I ask the director? So the director walked in and he said, first of all, hey, big fan. I'm doing this movie.

There's a part of me where they're going to come and they're partying with you. And I said, okay, so we're just drinking. We're, what are we doing? That's up to you, just have fun with it. So they bring all the guys in. Now, there's no one in there I know. We're all sitting around doing drinks. Then I said, boy, this isn't funny.

Should we be doing blow? You could hear a pin drop. And he was like, are you cool with that? I said, yeah, I mean, I don't do drugs. So that would be kind of funny. So my assistant got some sweet and low and whatever. And we made it look like a Coke party. And then the director was like, holy and they were just loving it.

So I put a line on Zach's belly and we were, It was successful because doing coke with me is that's never I don't do it since then people like you're like do the coke guy I'm like, no, I don't do that's what makes the movie. It's a movie Yeah, I mean look the key to success when it comes to comedy is heightening, right?

You gotta heighten the scene so you gotta find what's funny and then you gotta light it on fire and make it funnier So good stuff right there. All right. I got a ufo story the ufos. Are they coming out of the oceans? Uh, maybe I've got a quick clip about an alien civilization, what it would look like.

I'll have that story for you next. You know, all this talk about UAPs and aliens, uh, and all of the, uh, uh, house hearings that are happening. You know, there's a lot of sightings of these alien spaceships coming out of the ocean, which is insane. Uh, but here on the Sean Ryan show, we have episode one 13.

They discuss what a. Underwater civilization might look like civilization in the ocean. What does that even look like? We've mapped the surface of the seabed again, not varying completely. So we don't even know is there underwater structures we don't really know, or are they deep below the geology as we know it?

Again, we don't know. It's not a stretch to think it's possible based on the length this planet's been in existence. We do see evidence of them all the time in the ocean and of course in the atmosphere. And you know of a Canadian USL encounter. Oh yeah, this is one of the earlier ones. It's in the 60s, I think early 60s, and there's a great book about it called Sweet Clear Five.

And it refers to the name of this mine warfare exercise. Uh, the subtitle is NATO's underwater UFO encounter. It's written by a researcher who interviewed these Canadian divers. What happened, there was a major UFO event in Canada, a place called Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia in, um, I think the late sixties, but before that.

There was another encounter where UFOs were seen to go into the water. I think it coincided with a NATO exercise and the ships all got vectored to go look for these things. And Canadian divers were interviewed and claimed to have seen these two underwater discs and actual Occupants outside the craft trying to repair it.

All right. I don't know. I mean, I believed it until that last second. And then I just imagined them like changing the spare tire on the craft. Who knows? Maybe it's real. Maybe it's not. It's out of this world though. Uh, I got a couple other, you know, I've got some stories here that we just don't have time for.

So I'm gonna have to save some of this. For the afternoon rush. Uh, but if you are worried about a nuclear nuclear war, did I pronounce that right? Nuclear. I always pronounce a nuclear and people get so upset with me. Nuclear war. I didn't have it on my bingo card for 2025 and I really hope it doesn't happen, but there is serious talk, uh, about, uh, about escalations.

US officials confirming that Ukraine has fired us long range missiles into Russia. For the first time, the Kremlin now responding with a possible nuclear threat. Ian Pannell, Inside Ukraine again tonight. Tonight, Ukraine firing the first American made long range missiles into Russia. Targeting an ammunition store in the Bryansk border region, seen in videos circulating online.

ABC News. Eight missiles known as the ATAKMS were fired and two intercepted. The Kremlin appearing to threaten possible use of nuclear weapons in response, but the Pentagon saying there are no signs it's preparing to do so. Russia already attacking Ukraine though, day and night. We joined drone hunters trying to intercept attacks.

Suddenly, an incoming drone. You can hear it in the sky. The team scours the skies and opens fire. These drone hunters are out every night across the country as Russia sends more and more drones across the border. Into Ukrainian cities. All right. So, I mean, I, I hate that I have to share this, but it's, it's literally a war that could turn into world war three.

Now, I guess you could get upset at the U S for supplying Ukraine with these missiles, but here you have Russia, you know, bringing over North Korean troops, training them because they're running out of troops because they're, you know, uh, you know, this war was supposed to last a day for them. No one, nobody has more heart than the Ukrainians fighting for their For their freedom.

Seriously, nobody. Uh, well, here's what the seven news Australia has to say about Russia preparing to escalate with nuclear threats. The threat of nuclear war is greater now than at any point in the history of Ukrainian conflict. Why? Well, overnight Vladimir Putin signed Russia's new nuclear doctrine, which allows the Kremlin to consider using nuclear weapons in response to any conventional missile attack.

Inside Russian territory, one that is backed up by a nuclear power like the U. S. Precisely the kind of attack Ukraine has just carried out after the U. S. and President Biden gave it the all clear.

Now look, I know a lot of people say, Oh, we shouldn't be giving money and supplies to Ukraine. What? But the alternative is sending troops over, right? Because what if Russia does take Ukraine? Well then the next country over is Poland and then you're in Europe. I mean, you're, you're in a, you're in the United Nations zone right there.

And then you've got a full, a full, you're right at the border of a full blown world war three. So like, at what point do you step in? I think it's actually been very smart that the U S has supplied Ukraine with a lot of Intel and weaponry and things like that without having to actually lose one American life.

Um, anyhow, I mean, what do I know? Hey, I'm just a podcast host. Don't listen to me for your, uh, you know, geopolitical news. Although I will say this, we have a legendary, legendary GOP strategist, Karl Rove saying Matt Gates is not going to get confirmed. Have a listen to this. This could be very harmful. It'd be one thing if this guy had a reputation as one, an extraordinarily gifted legislator, two, a tremendously gifted trial attorney, a proven prosecutor, somebody who had managed a big law firm and had demonstrated legal ability, but no, he has none of those attributes.

In fact, he has a reputation on the floor of the House for having shown pictures of his conquest to his fellow members, so If, if that's the best you can do, you're not going to get confirmed. All right. Well, there you have it. We got UFOs. We got dancing with the stars. We got appointed attorney generals with underage sex trafficking, uh, accusations.

What a wild time out there, folks. A wild time. Indeed. Uh, I got a lot of content to get to. I'll be sharing my, uh, update on the appeal for Clayton Eckerd. On today's YouTube, along with other bachelor news stories. And then I'll be back this afternoon as I always am for 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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