11-22-24 Morning Rush - Brianna Chickenfry Facetimed With Zach Bryan's Ex! & My New Favorite Netflix XMas Movie & Russia's Ominous Message

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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 Friday. Friday T it's November 22nd, 2024. And I've got all of your entertainment, pop culture news in one place. And sadly we have a heavy story.

Russians sent another clear sign. They are escalating war. We'll explain what this means for us. Also the missing American. Who faked his own death has been found, all those details. And the new JonBenet documentary is on Netflix. Her father discusses wanting to finally move on after 25 years of mystery surrounding her death.

And yesterday we had AI Jesus in today. It's AI umpires. What does that mean? I'll explain if it's a strikeout or if they're going to balk on bringing in the technology to ump the game. And you look what I did there. And Brianna chicken fry reveals. She FaceTimed with Zachary. Brian's ex wife exchanging notes amongst the chaos.

Oh boy. You got to be shaking in your cowboy boots. If you're Zach, Brian, you never want the ladies to exchange notes on your bad behavior. All right. I got all those stories and so much more, and it's all coming up next on the rush. For our first story today, we've got John Stamos firing back at critics who slammed him for wearing a bald cap while shaving his buddy Dave Coulier's head.

As Dave Coulier battles an aggressive form of cancer, TMZ caught up with John. Here's what he had to say. I thought it was funny. I flew across, cross country to be with my, my brother, right? Yep. As I'm on the plane there, I get a text. My best friend, since I'm 11 years old, had died of a heart attack. Yeah, we saw that, and my condolences.

But I'm not gonna show that to Dave. I mean, I told him, but I said that's not, and I cried privately and whatever. But I made him, and we, we laughed so friggin hard, and he wanted me to come shave his head. I knew it before, so I brought it up. I brought the bald cap from the studio, and I got to work next week, I'm on a big show, so I can see it on the wire, which is great.

Oh great, yeah. But, uh, so I can't cut my hair. You can cut your hair, yeah, yeah. Regardless, I mean Aside from that. I'm, I'm so shocked. First I'll say People are nasty. I'm just, I'm just embarrassed. You're embarrassing. I, but I When I started seeing this blowback, I was like What? So anyway, yeah, he just shares his disgust.

I don't know if that audio wasn't good enough for you guys to hear, but shared his disgust at the audience that was upset that he wouldn't go the distance to shave his head. You know, it's that form of slacktivism, you know, the people online that just want to criticize others and, um, and yeah, he's like, yeah, I got a, I got a gig, I got to keep my hair.

What are you going to do? You know, he was, it was there hanging out, supporting Dave Koolyay. Well here we let's support, um, a populating Mars. How about that? And only fans model named Elsa. Thora, uh, wants Elon Musk to knock her up on Mars and wants to have the first red planet baby. I guess that would be a Martian.

I mean, would that make it, would that make her like, you know, the queen of Mars? How does that work? Here's what she had to say. Love to have the first baby ever on Mars. Um, obviously that's like a massive step in history. Like that's a massive deal. Um, I've seen that he's, he's planning on going to Mars by 2029.

Um, and then obviously it might take a few years to put some more people on there, but then ultimately have no civilization there. Um, and I would just love to be the first mother of Mars. I mean, trust me, the second she finds out there's no Sephora or Starbucks on Mars, it's just like a no for me. That's really what it comes down to for me.

Is there a good coffee shop nearby? That's literally all I care about. Now, you want to put a coffee shop on Mars? We might have an, we might have a story. Well, I'm open to both. Um, it would obviously depend on like what it looks like in Mars. Um, what would be the safest option? Um, I think it takes nine months to go to Mars.

So maybe I could get pregnant here and then by the time I land. I'll pop the baby out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't want to be pregnant on a, on a long flight. Okay? You're gonna, your feet are going to be swollen. You're going to be, no, that's not a good idea. Get pregnant in Mars and then hang out on the little space station.

You know what I mean? Anyway, uh, there's a possible movie we could watch. Elon Musk, uh, banging, uh, Or I should say, uh, procreating on Mars. All right, let's just move it on to another story. Uh, we've covered this a few times. The Wisconsin man who faked his own death, Ryan Borgward. Well, not only was he accused of faking his own death, but, uh, looks like he showed up overseas.

And in the case of that Wisconsin husband and father of three accused of faking his own death. on a lake. They searched for weeks tonight. He has now sent authorities a video confirming he is alive and investigators here at home now have a message for him. Here's abc Stephanie Ramos tonight. Authorities say the Wisconsin father who faked his death is living in eastern Europe.

45 year old Ryan Borg. Wart sending investigators this proof of life video. I'm in my apartment. I am safe. In August, Borgwart vanishing from this lake in Wisconsin, volunteers searching for weeks, but authorities later learning the father of three faked his death to convince his wife and children that he had died so he could start a new life in Europe.

Remains the same without having any more information. I'm pretty good with my intuition here. My thought is the wife was in on it. I don't know. I just, but then again, maybe he's a psychopath. I just can't imagine putting someone through the grieving process just to move on, you know, but if the wife was in on it, she gets a little bit of a old life insurance.

Although the life insurance plan was only 350, 000 bucks. You think if you're going to fake your own death, you'd boost your life insurance plan up to a million, right? With a woman he'd met online, he paddled his kayak. Any child size floating. Uh, out into the lake, he overturned the kayak and dumped his phone in the lake.

He paddled an inflatable boat to shore Boart, then riding an e-bike overnight to Madison, where he boarded a bus to Detroit, crossed the Canadian border, and hopped on an international flight. Authorities now communicating with Borgwardt daily, pleading for him to return home for the holidays. How did he, how did he ride an e bike overnight?

That's what I'm hung up on. Sure, you crossed into Canada, but how many miles do you get on an e bike? I mean, look, I'm not trying to say this guy's a hero, he's a scumbag by all measure, but this is an interesting story. Christmas is coming, and what better gift he could give his kids as to be there for Christmas with him.

David Borgwardt could face a state obstruction charge for faking his death. He may also have to pay for the time and money spent on the search. David. Stephanie Ramos with us here. I mean, look, the things you'll do for a lady online. You know what I'm talking about? Either way, if he comes back, they're going to immediately arrest him, but hey, why not go for it?

Um, all right, I'm going to save the Russian news for the end of the episode because it's kind of heavy stuff. So stick around for that. But we got. Pommel horse, Prince, Steven, and Nadorozik, uh, he spoke with the squeeze podcast, uh, with Taylor Lautner and Taylor Lautner about his experience of finding fame.

Has it quickly approached him that fateful day where he won a gold medal? And it was crazy. Like after the Olympics, I didn't even know what was really going on, like social media wise. Cause I got drug tested. I was doing this and that. And like, I didn't have my phone for like three hours. It wasn't until I finally got to dinner with Tess and she was like, dude, have you looked at your phone?

I'm like, I haven't taken it off airplane mode yet. You know, you know, she's like, you got to look at it And it's just blowing up. So crazy. Yeah. I mean look it's not very often that you become a name athlete from doing the pommel horse. When you grow up and say, what do you want to do? I want to be famous by doing the pommel horse.

It's like, Oh, that's really not an option. Unless your name is Steven. He was like, dude, you were trending on Twitter. And I was like, what is life? What is life? And then it just like, it is insane. Like I'll go outside sometimes and people are just be like, Hey, Like, dude, I loved watching you at the Olympics.

I mean, like, Childish Gambino walked up to me, like, a few weeks ago and was like, Are you the guy from the Olympics? And I was like, Holy crap, yeah? He was like, Thanks for giving my album a shout out. I was like, This is just unbelievable. Unbelievable. I can only imagine those things. I mean, imagine the moment where you're famous but you don't know it yet.

What a peaceful moment that must be. You know, because fame comes with a lot of, uh, B. S., you know? It comes with a lot of B. S. It comes with a lot of good things, but it comes with a lot of B. S. Some of the good things that it comes with is the ton of money that you can get, depending on what level of fame you have.

And while this might be obnoxious for some people to hear, I love hearing celebrities talk about their money. I don't know. It's interesting to me. Joe Rogan had Josh Brolin on the show and Josh Brolin asked him about his money. You know, cause Joe Rogan's got, you know, a hundred, 200 million. How'd you, what's your relationship like with money?

In what way? Just in what you, you made a certain amount of money for a long time. I don't think about it. You don't think about it? I just don't know. What I like about money is to not think about it. That's what I like. Do you like spending it? I like buying stuff. Me too. I have a nice car. Drove here. I drove a 69, uh, Camaro.

See, but that's, I like, that's different. Yeah. I like that. That's fucking different. That's character. I like fun stuff, but fun stuff. For the most part. I'm not. Interested in it like as a goal, you know, I just what I like about money is not having to think about it Hmm, my friend Brian Cowen said this to me once he said he goes real freedom is when you can go to a restaurant And not worry about anything costs.

He's like everything else is bullshit. Yes, and it really is. Everything else is bullshit When you just go to a restaurant get a nice steak, you know order a bottle of wine Have a good time and not think about the bill What I think happens is is and be grateful for it And to remind yourself to be that that that's exists to be grateful for yeah and not be taken advantage of and I think Yeah, look.

Hey, I mean, uh, he's got a good point about gratitude when you're grateful for things you get more of what it is that you're grateful for because Gratitude is sharing love for it. You have now, if anyone's out there and you have lack in your life, as in you don't have much, the thing is you always have something, right?

Your cup's always full. It's either full of abundance or it's full of lack. So what is important, I think to do is to try to. Remember all of the things that you do have in life because then you will be provided more of that. Does that make sense? I know that sounds so simple, but you got to get out of your own way, folks.

It's a Friday. Get out of your own way. Thanksgiving is around the corner, which is literally the holiday for gratitude. Just think of all of the amazing things that you have in your life and really cherish them. And you might find more good on its way. All right, more content coming your way right after this.

Well, it's been 28 years since Jean Benet passed away, died of homicide at the age of six. If you don't know the story, Netflix has a new documentary coming out November 25th, and there's exclusive interviews with Jean Benet's father. Here he is speaking to the Today Show. I'm doing this for the sake of my children and my grandchildren.

This cloud over our family's name needs to be lifted. They need to be able to go on and close this chapter and go on with their lives. It's hard on them. And, um, You know, we've been maligned and, and, uh, our family reputation's been tarnished, and I'm gonna do my best to clear that up for the sake of my children.

Yeah. And, um, and we, you know, today fighting the killer is not gonna change my life. Um, I've lost JonBenet. It's not gonna bring JonBenet back. I would like to close this chapter so we can. Be more rested at peace Yeah And of course he and probably anyone else connected to her if that at one time or another been accused of possibly Having done it and I hate watching documentaries where you don't know the ending and it's an unsolved mystery So I think I'm gonna pass on that one now in a feel good story Um, you know me, I like to, uh, recap for you, uh, my favorite Christmas movies.

And I'm telling you, I found the Christmas movie of the year, starring Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray. It's called the married gentleman. It's out on Netflix right now. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's pretty interesting. It's kind of like, I'm not going to give anything away, but it's kind of like a. Uh, lady who needs to save the family business and in doing so, um, hires, uh, or I should say creates a situation that is, uh, adult entertainment.

Now it's a PG 13 movie. There isn't really anything really risque other than maybe some shirtless men, but I'm telling you, it's a good movie. It's a green light. It's my first green light movie of the year. You know, we judge them green light. Yellow light, red light. We've had a couple yellow lights like that.

Um, hot frosty is a yellow light. Like you might like it. You might not it's it's yellow because it's definitely worth it. If you can't find anything else on, I'm telling you right now, the married gentleman is worth it. It's the number one movie on Netflix. I loved it. The second I found out exactly what the movie was about, you know, like.

About 10 minutes into the movie, you know, right when the movie started to take shape. And I was like, Oh, game on green light. I looked at Tasha. I said, green light. And we, and we, we, I, it was a blast. I mean, look, I don't want to oversell it. And then you go, Dave, it wasn't that great. No, it's a, it's a Christmas movie.

It's cheesy. It's like, you know, there's always some stupid trial and some stupid romance, but I thought it was fun. I thought I had some great moments. Great acting too. Believe it or not. Alright, so there's my green light. It's called the Merry Gentleman. Uh, we've got artificial intelligence and it is possibly going to be going to the baseball field.

Uh, Major League Baseball plans to test robot umpires at 13 ballparks during spring training. The league has experimented with the automated ball and strike system. System in the minor leagues, but are still working on the shape of the strike zone. Yeah. Wouldn't that be interesting? You know, you get called on a strike three and you just kick dirt into the, I mean, can you get thrown out if you yell at an automatic at a AI umpire, are they going to have the robot?

I mean, I have so many questions about it. Here's what a news nation had to say. Your thoughts and how the league plans to use these potentially. I like that they can test it out before making the rules set in stone. But at the end of the day, the players. The coaches, MLB, they want the calls to be right.

They want to see improvement throughout the umpires. I think there's about a third of the umpires that really do, um, do a good job behind home plate, calling balls and strikes and truly try to get better. But a majority of them right now have not. So MLB is trying to clean this up as much as they can.

Being a home plate umpire is a very, very hard job. And as a player, you want to be able to communicate and understand where the zone is and all that. And I think now it's gotten a little too, um, you know, the individual battles have really, really the egos have gotten in the way with some guys. So I think they need to find that happy medium to get the call, right.

But at the same time, you don't want to take the human element out of the game. And it's been out of the game for Uh, quite a few years now on the bases. You know, that's tough because it's like, what do you get? You can't automate everything, right? Like I understand they bring back instant replay for whether you're out at first.

Like that's like, that's a clear, you know, you don't want to miss those types of calls, uh, those replay calls. Uh, but when it comes to the home plate umpire, I, I like, I like having a zone that's a little different every game, but I mean, maybe that's just the old, old me who, uh, doesn't want, like, Change, you know, I don't know.

Do I not like change? Maybe I'm the old guy at the, you know, who says, Oh, back in my day, humans used to call balls and strikes. You know what I mean? Well, speaking of the sporting world, there's been a warning issued by the NFL after a string of home invasions. We showed the home invasions of Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes.

I mean, it makes sense, right? That, uh, these, uh, that you'd be subject. to a break in and entering because, uh, I mean, everyone knows you're out playing the game. All your agents and family are probably out watching the game and you're super wealthy. The new warning for its players after break ins at players homes in four states now, including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey.

The list is growing. Is this all coordinated? Here's our senior investigative correspondent, Aaron Kuturski, and what he's learned tonight. After a rash of recent burglaries targeting the homes of sports superstars like Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelsey, tonight the NFL is warning players to protect themselves.

Kelsey again! This memo obtained by ABC News says the burglars are organized and skilled and appear to exploit team schedules and target athletes homes on game days. This is going to be for all of the Super Bowl trophies. Alright, so yeah, I mean, you know, you're going to have I mean, these, these, uh, and these, uh, these are a hundred millionaire athletes.

So, uh, yeah, I mean, but you would think they would already have good security. Right. I mean, what do I know? Uh, and I'm sure they do to an extent, but, uh, you know, uh, you know, there's still probably smashing grabs and things like that. All right. So. Let's go to Brianna Chickenfry. We've covered her for the last few weeks.

Breaks up with Zach Bryan and, uh, he, of course, country musician. She claims he was emotionally abusive. And now she talks about, uh, FaceTiming his ex wife and swapping notes. FaceTimed with Rose for a couple hours, actually. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that. Right? I f ing love her. She, I've never felt more seen and validated in my life.

Same with her. Oh my gosh. Imagine Bridget hit a little, uh, screen share play to us, Dave, while that was going on. Just a little screen share play. That's between me and Rose. You know, I mean, how validating must it be to have an issue with someone and then you find out that you aren't alone and that other people had a similar issue.

I know I've had that when I've had spats with friends or things going on, you find out that they're the problem and not you. It's kind of, it's kind of validating. So I hope she feels very freeing because of that. All right. Take care, everybody. Well, I'm going to cover all of this crazy Russian stuff.

Ominous new escalations in the war in, in Ukraine. I'll have that story for you next. It's pretty crazy times out there. And I don't mean to be super heavy on a Friday, but I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the geopolitical world we live in Russia launched and launched a new experimental ballistic missile with multiple warheads.

Here's the story. escalation in the war in Ukraine. For the first time, Vladimir Putin firing an intermediate range missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons into Ukraine. Authorities say it did not have them, but it was destructive. And what the U. S. is now saying about this tonight, Ian Pannell from inside Ukraine, again tonight.

Tonight, in a defiant warning to the world, Russia carrying out an unprecedented attack with an intermediate range ballistic missile fired against Ukraine. Those ominous streaks of light falling from the night sky over the eastern city of Dnipro targeting a military industrial complex. A U. S. official confirming that new missile containing multiple warheads capable of striking several targets at the same time.

This was a new, um, type of lethal capability that was employed on the battlefield. But Vladimir Putin tonight saying the attack was a response to strikes by Ukraine using American and British long range missiles against Russia. The latest attack wounding a senior North Korean general. The U. S. says it was alerted by Russia shortly before today's launch.

Military analysts telling ABC News each one of those streaks of light could have been something even far more dangerous. Putin wanted the world to see these incoming flashes of light, these individual warheads that could have been armed with nuclear weapons. Clearly, this is a nuclear threat to the U. S.

and its European allies. Now, look. Uh, I don't, I don't know if I've got a solid opinion on this. You know, you've got people saying, Oh, Biden's leading us into world war three. I have no idea what you could have done to stop this. I mean, this war has been going on for over a year. What people need to remember is Russia invaded Ukraine.

They've defended themselves with honor. And it's like, if, if Russia invades Ukraine, then. Do you think they're going to stop there? So it's, it's been what I like to call a very large dick measuring contest between Putin and the rest of the world. Uh, here's another thought of what, I mean, other countries are actually issuing war survival guides.

In a worrying sign of the times, European nations are sending pamphlets to their citizens on how to prepare for and survive a crisis or conflict. Sweden has issued its 10 million citizens with a new survival guide that opens with this warning. We live in uncertainty. At certain times, armed conflicts are currently being waged in our corner of the world.

The focus is on how to survive during wartime, but the brochure also identifies extreme weather events, disease, and technology outages. I mean, imagine if, you know, the internet or some sort of cyber attack, you know, everything's so digital right now. It's just, uh, you know, how, how chaotic and we, and in our country, we're already divided because, um, you know, I think, I think foreign adversaries have placed their foot on the scale of disinformation, misinformation, trying to get us to all hate each other.

I mean, the one thing we should all agree on is that we don't want to live in a world that's a world war three. Absolutely not. Well, uh, I'll end on this clip here. Another clip from ABC news about, um, uh, you know, the, about this exact missile that was fired. I think is most important here is that it's not a weapon that's ever been used on a conventional battlefield, Lindsay.

So it's something that you would only use in a nuclear war. Putin was obviously trying to send a message with this nuclear capable missile, but should we still be confident that he won't use the real thing? I don't think so. Lindsay, this is, this is pretty spooky. And why I think it's particularly dangerous is he's run out of bluffs.

He had this and he demonstrated a nuclear capable missile with multiple independently targeted warheads that didn't have nukes on them, but could have. So what do you do next to bluff? Could it be you demonstrate a small nuclear weapon somewhere in Ukraine to say, I'm done bluffing and here's a nuclear weapon.

Uh, the Pentagon has to be concerned. The White House has to be concerned because again, he is out of ways to bluff. And why is the Pentagon pushing back on whether it was in fact an ICBM? Uh, I think they were trying to just be specific on what it was because if it was an ICBM, that's intercontinental, which means it could have gotten to the U S.

This was, did not have that kind of range. It was, it was either an intermediate range or a medium range. So. It was something that could range all of Europe, but it wouldn't get to the United States. And so the Pentagon perhaps wanted to assure the American people that this was not something that could reach the United States.

All right. So, I mean, I guess that's good, but look, I mean, what the, what the hell is Russia doing now? This information I'm sharing is from the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine. So I don't know if these numbers are accurate, but as of a few weeks ago, Russian combat losses amounted to 696, 000 troops.

What is this all for? I mean, we're so like fortunate to be on the other side of the world with this conflict, but with the holidays approaching, it just really makes you think like, again, there's, there's, there's other wars going on in the, in the world. And it's just like, what is this for? And I just, I just wish we could live in a world where we all realize that.

You know, we've got these boundaries that may divide us, but we're all, you know, uh, red blooded, uh, humans, you know, I don't know. I, I know, I know, I know I'm the pacifist. I, I just, I live in a friendly world. I know it's, uh, I know it's not always that way, but, um, Boy, wouldn't it be nice if, um, if we could find a way to get out of this thing without any more casualties.

All right. Well, actually, look, I can't end on that. That's just a sad story, but it's, I mean, come on, I ha I got to talk about this. You know, it's a pretty big deal. Let's give you a positive story. This is from billboards, tick tock. It's the impact Miley Cyrus had on this generation of pop stars. Have a listen.

Recently, an article in Rolling Stone talked about how you and particularly your music from Hannah Montana has influenced the next generation of huge pop stars like Sabrina Carpenter, Chapel Roan, Olivia Rodrigo. How does hearing that make you feel, knowing that these girls that are having so much success now grew up with you?

At the time, you never think about that. In the future, someone replicating what you do, you're just doing it because it's honest in the moment. And so now to see that impacting culture is something that I didn't know that I wanted, but I guess. Pretty cool. I guess I do. Yeah. I have. You know, my own artists that have created kind of who I am, like a Stevie Nicks or Dolly Parton or Tina Turner.

Even though they kind of look up to me the way that I've looked up to these other women, it's really important that they do it their own way because that's what my career has represented above all else is that, Even though I have always looked to these influences, I've always done it my own way. You know, do you remember Miley Cyrus?

People used to like, she was kind of smeared cause she was, you know, a child actor and she was kind of like a, you know, troubled, you know, youth or whatever, but she's really put together such a great career. All right. Well, before we wrap it up, I did, I did want to give one and I'm sorry, I'm sorry to bring too much.

bring this back up. But I wanted to give one note here when I said 696, 000 troops, uh, as losses, uh, that was actually 500, 000 of those or injured or missing. So 180, 000 Russian troops have been killed and 500, 000 of those injured and missing. And again, that's all because their leader decided that they wanted to take this land back.

Uh, wild stuff. All right, folks. Well, I'm going to be live this morning around the 10 a. m. hour central standard time. Check my YouTube for details. That'll be a public live stream covering all of the week's news. So if you want to come hang out with me on that, uh, you're more than welcome. Otherwise we'll catch you this afternoon.

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