11-5-24 Afternoon Rush - Joe Rogan Endorses Trump Last Minute & Taylor Swift's Brother Stops Security From Roughing Up A Fan & Election 2024 Updates

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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. Good afternoon everybody. On this election day, Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, I have all of your entertainment and pop culture news. In one place, I'll have plenty of non election stories though, to maybe give you a little bit of a break from today, because we'll look, I don't have the answers on who's going to win this thing.

You guys don't, it's going to be a while before we know. So we'll get into some other stuff, but we will have election updates. Joe Rogan drops a bombshell endorsement of Trump, Taylor Swift's brothers going viral for helping a fan. Who is getting kicked out for dressing up as Travis Kelsey. That's an odd story.

And then updates on justice for peanut the squirrel plus Dodger star, Freddie Freeman relives his game winning grand slam. I got all those stories. I also have Kristen Cavallari, uh, up coming up first. She discusses why Britney Spears asked for her phone number. It's because Kristen Cavallari believes that Britney Spears is a clone.

So. You can't make it up, and you can't, uh, you can't, uh, doubt people's stupidity. But we'll get to those stories and so much more coming up next on The Rush. One thing I love about our country is our ability to turn everything into a conspiracy theory. Kristen Cavallari did just that saying, she thinks Kanye and Britney Spears are clones.

Here's what she had to say on her podcast called Let's Be Honest. He calls me and he goes, guess who wants your phone number? And I went, who? Britney. fucking spears and I'm going, I'm not going to lie though. At first you guys, cause okay, if you didn't listen to the last episode, Justin and I did go fucking listen, but we talked about Hollywood conspiracies and I said, my big thing was Kanye West, I think as a clown, but also I said, Brittany is not Brittany.

Okay. So Brittany obviously caught wind of that. So my initial reaction was, I was scared. I'm not going to lie. I was honestly like, Oh my God. Like you thought it was the Illuminati or the Cabal? Like, they're fucking on to me, man. Okay? They didn't like that podcast episode. So I'm like, give her my number.

I'm like, great. Maybe an hour later, I get a text message. I'm in a group chat with her manager and Britney Spears. Her manager puts us on a group chat and says like, Oh, ladies, like, oh, he called us icons. But I got to get that two icons coming together, blah, blah, blah. And then Brittany sent me a text and I'm not going to read it.

I would love to read it. Just take my word. Why would you love to read it? Cause I know I would love to read it. It was a bit of a rollercoaster. And it was so, it was like, no, that's Britney Spears. Nobody can fake that. That's or it's the Britney Spears. That's put out to us right now. Cause it was like one big run on sentence.

Oh, it's her clone. Her clone. Let me know that she's not a clown. That's a red fucking flag. Only a clone would say something like that. Okay, so it went from like being scared to now we're just like, we're excited, we're all in. And then Justin's like, you should text her separately on the side, you know, just like girlfriend and girlfriend.

I'm like, yeah, great idea. So I text her separately and I'm so nice and I'm like, hey, like, you know, I'm hardly in LA anymore. But when I come in December, I'll let you know. Cause she's like, we should hang out and blah, blah, blah. Okay. And then she just never fucking responded. Ghosted. There it is. You know why?

Because you thought she was fake. Now look, is there an issue with Britney Spears? Yeah, she's obviously got a mental health issue. She's made that known. She's been, you know, drugged up and prodded out there as a pop culture icon since her formative years. So, uh, I feel for Britney and I don't have a solution for her, but, uh, you know, I think good on her for wanting to clear up when people think she's a clone.

Good on her. All right. Well. Again, lots to get into today. Let's go to our Taylor Swift story. Taylor Swift's brother stopped security from ejecting fan dressed as Travis Kelce. Let's not put hands on people. So on the morning rush, we shared the apology from Jason Kelce, which would be the older brother to Travis Kelce, who's dating pop legend Taylor Swift.

Well, Taylor's brother Austin took Swift action to protect and excite and one excited fan from a comeback. Uh, combative security guard intervening before someone emerged as the antihero. Oh, you see what they did there? They, okay. I get it. Very swift. During the singer's tour stop in Indianapolis over the weekend, a fan was wearing a Travis Kelsey costume dressed to get the attention of the Kansas City Chiefs tight end who popped up in the VIP section of the stadium to cheer on his superstar girlfriend as the passionate Swifty who donned a full NFL getup, helmet and all.

tried to get Travis to look over at her. The guard grabbed her by the elbow and began guiding her away from the floor. Oh, so it was a lady dressed up as Travis Kelsey. Uh, so the guy, the guard said, this is not allowed. He says, cause her family is here. All right. That was a little aggressive. Let's just calm down a little bit.

And then, then that's when, uh, uh, Taylor Swift's brother gets in and says, that's okay. And I, and I think that's because look, the security, the security for these people, it's very tough, right? They have to protect from any big threats, but then here you have someone dressed up as Travis Kelsey in a full costume, like full helmet and everything.

But So the security guard, you know, has to do his job, but at the same time, not overdo it. I mean, it really can be a very tight needle to thread. So, um, uh, good on Taylor Swift's brother. I mean, honestly, he's probably one of the only people she can trust. Taylor Swift's brother, Austin, must be You know, like she's so lucky to have someone who will just tell her how it is.

I have a few people like that in my world, in the bachelor nation, whenever there's a fight going on or there's some, you know, BS happening, I go tell me what's going on because I don't get to know, like, I'm kind of buffered from here, from, from a lot of the drama and people will treat me differently than they treat other people.

It's not, again, guys, I'm not comparing myself to Taylor Swift. I'm just saying, you know, Every one of her handlers and people that works with her is, it's going to just sanitize all the news and she's going to deal with the big picture stuff, but God forbid a security guard lays hands on a woman, that's not going to be good press.

So good for, good for her to have Austin out there and say, Hey, let's put hands on people. Uh, so that's how that story goes. Of course, Taylor was at Travis Kelsey's game. Uh, and she, you know, it's just such a wild world. She, she must feel so bad. Taylor Swift. And I know, I know she's not going to get a lot of pity for this, but she must feel so bad that Jason Kelsey is having to deal with all of the news reporting, you know, after he, you know, uh, spiked someone's iPhone.

And of course, someone came up to Jason Kelsey and said, Oh, your brother's a. F word for dating Taylor Swift. So sadly, Taylor has to live with the fact that any public figures go near her, they're going to be subjected to a new level of scrutiny. Speaking of gigantic. People in gigantic figures, the Taylor Swift of podcasting is Joe Rogan, whether you want to believe it or not.

And he has announced who he's endorsing for president, which is wild, wild, wild, wild. Considering he said time and time again that he wasn't going to get into the election. He actually endorsed Bernie Sanders in the previous primaries, um, which, you know, I don't think it really helped too much. I think at this point people are voting for who they're voting for.

And I don't think. The Joe Rogan's going to move the needle in any which way this late in the game, but it's absolutely wild that he would. I guess take a political stance, not because he doesn't have the right to, but just because I think like, so when he interviewed Trump, he didn't ask about any of the very important things, like a lot of the sketchy things going on.

And we, we played a few days ago, uh, comedian, uh, um, Giancarlo Soresi, I think is his name, who was calling out these comics saying, Oh, you want to, you guys all want to talk about conspiracies. And then when it's revealed that Trump was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein, no one asked Trump any of those questions.

You know what I mean? It's just a, it's just an example of a complete ball washing. And you might say, well, that's not the case, but look, conspiracy theories birth off of the Smallest of information and the fact that you've got Epstein on tape that came out last week saying that he was very close friends with Donald Trump and nobody seems to care.

It's just a little surprising and you know, Rogan's, uh, he's a dad to daughters and you know, that doesn't mean he should blindly support one side versus the other, but. But you can see that some of these rich folks like Elon Musk, they have ulterior motives for what they want out of the country. He wants deregulation so he can build more rocket ships and build more cars.

So here's what Joe Rogan had to say. The great and powerful Elon Musk, uh, if it wasn't for him, Uh, for him, we'd be effed. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear. And I agree with him every step of the way for the record. Yes, that's an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast.

It's so funny to me. That he would endorse Trump the day before the election, you know, in some cases, 65 percent I think in Georgia, I could be wrong in Georgia. I think 65 percent of people have already voted that are going to vote. So in endorsement right now, it doesn't have much of an upside. And it has a big downside because it kind of, you know, pushes you away from some audience member who appreciated neutrality or whatever.

Again, you're not going to get that out of me. I'm going to share my opinions with you, but again, I didn't start doing this today. We've been doing that for a long time. All right. Let's take a quick break. I got a ton of stories to get to. We'll be back with those right after this. How about a palate cleanser?

Let's go to Freddy Freeman. He was on the Jimmy Kimmel show discussing his World Series Grand Slam. So, night one, the first game of the World Series, he hits a walk off Grand Slam. First time this has ever happened. He's also had a kid who's been in and out of the hospital. He's had a lot of family issues.

He didn't just hit a home run that game. I think he hit a home run in the next four games. So here's what he had to say. And I watched what you did, uh, which was incredible. And I want to ask you a couple of things, cause I was kind of imagining what was going through your brain at that time. So they intentionally walk Mookie Betts to get to you.

They put him on first, the bases are now loaded. And I turned to my buddy, I said, Cleto, I said, Oh, Freddie's mad. They intentionally walk. He's mad. This is going to be good. Were you annoyed? Uh, I'm not annoyed because I mean, if you follow baseball, once you saw them get second or third on show, he's. I kind of knew, just left on left, that's kind of the matchup.

But I was replaying everything I was, my process that I was going to go with in that moment. So I wasn't really thinking about Mookie getting walked, I was just kind of Going over my plan in that moment. You had a plan going into the at bat? Yes. Well, I will tell you another thing. Our other pal, Jimmy, is sitting next to me.

He goes, he's going, Please don't swing at the first pitch. Please don't swing at the first pitch. I'm glad he's, I'm glad he was wrong. I'm glad you didn't rush him. Okay, so you want to know my thought process on that? Yeah. Okay, so I had watched, actually, at bats against Shohei. Shohei against Nestor. Um, because usually when Shohei walks into the box, your back's against the wall.

You, it's Most likely going to be a home run when he comes into the box. I wanted to see how he pitched to Shohei. And a lot of cutters and sliders away. So I was like, you know what? I'm just going to move my sights closer to me and try and be on the fastball. Because if I'm on the fastball on the inside part of the plate, I won't swing at the cutters or sliders away.

And he threw it right where I was looking. He sure did. Is this You gotta hit him too, that's the hard part. Like, you can be looking in certain spots, but sometimes you miss the mistakes you get. Yeah, I would miss every single time. I'm glad I didn't miss that moment. Have you spoken to Ness, or did you ever?

No, we haven't. You say thanks? I mean, you should send him a little something. I don't know. I don't know how to go about that. A fruit basket would be nice. I think that is the appropriate gift. All right. So there it is. I love to hear the science of baseball because you don't understand a lot of times what goes in.

You just see someone hit a home run. You don't understand the planning and the strategy and how good you have to be in those situations. You know, what's interesting is I'm in Florida because I'm here on a baseball tournament, playing in adult league. And I actually pitched, uh, yesterday, or excuse me, two days ago.

And I threw almost a complete game. I threw into the ninth, uh, was taken out with one out in the ninth. We ended up losing in the semifinals. Uh, and I'm telling you right now, I can barely move. That's how sore I am. So these grown men who play 170 to 180 games a year, when you think about it, there's 162 games in the season plus, uh, world plus, uh, playoffs and spring training, they might be close to 200 games a year.

Unbelievable the bodies on these men, uh, and also the precision to even be able to hit a baseball. So, uh, very cool. He's taking the victory lap and sharing all of the stories that are, you know, the, the, those like little intimate moments of heroicism. As he was the first player to ever have a walk off grand slam.

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Does Chick fil A stop you from listening on Sunday? I'm just kidding. Cause you know, they don't serve food on Sundays. All right. Well, I, you know what? I got some Tom Sandoval stories. I got a lot to get into, but of course, speaking of paying the bills, we don't have Chick fil A as a sponsor, uh, which, but that's okay because we've got one even better.

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Famed lawyers behind reality wrecking reckoning accused of enticing Tom Sandoval to point the finger at Bravo NBC universal. Wait, what the hell is this story? A high profile lawyer. That is leading the reality reckoning are accused of trying to, uh, take Tom Sandoval and get him to implicate their primary target, target of reality, giant Bravo.

Now I can understand this is like, uh, with the mob, right. Or, you know, they try to get the lower men to flip. So I guess, uh, they're, uh, They've got Bethany Frankel and, oh, it's attorney Brian Friedman. Can you believe that? It's power attorney Brian Friedman. They're noisily launching the crusade last year, promising to make NBC Universal, the company that owns Bravo, pay for its allegedly grotesque and depraved mistreatment of its stars.

I don't think. Tom Sandoval would snitch because I think what he wants more than a payday is fame. And I think he's already got that with Bravo. So why bite the hand that feeds either way? We'll have to see how it all goes down. Uh, I guess this is because of Scandaval after Sandoval had an affair with co star Rachel Levis, uh, Rachel Levis wound up suing Sandoval.

Ariana in a revenge porn action, claiming that Sandoval had secretly taped her having FaceTime sex again. I don't know what the results of that are. I'm sure it's a slow moving process. Um, but anyhow, uh, what did, what did Sandoval have to say here? So Sandoval alleges that sometime over the summer of 2024 Friedman and, uh, approached his attorneys, uh, and offered a quid pro quo.

Uh, my lawyer said to me, they gave you an offer. I know you're not going to take it, but I have to bring it to you. If you point the finger at NBC universal, they'll drop the case against you. By the way, that should be considered extortion. Shouldn't it? That, I mean, it's like, Oh, I just, I, I, this legal world.

I don't like it either. I will give any updates if anything comes from that, but it's absolutely weird. All right. I got a sad story. Can I share a sad story with you? It's an update from Peanut the Squirrel. As we shared, Peanut the Squirrel, uh, was euthanized. He was a squirrel that was owned by his owner for seven years after the owner sort of nursed it back to health.

Well, I guess Peanut the Squirrel, uh, his heartbreaking owner broke down because he found an almond in his pocket. And why is that interesting? Well, that's because I guess the squirrel, you know, in his DNA to stash a couple of nuts would hide things for his owner to find. This is, this is. So extremely sad.

I want to bring this to attention because it's going to probably make me cry, but, um, you know, you, I do this every day and I fidget in my pockets and, and, you know, this is, this is what Peanut did. Peanut put his almonds all over my house, all over my pants and my clothes, and it's just, it's just a little reminder of, you know, him always being here.

Jeez. Oh my gosh. So sad. Now, action will be taken or, you know, they're looking into what they can do with regard to peanut the squirrel and New York politician introduced what they're calling peanuts law in, um, in the, the story hit hard over the New York state assemblyman, uh, who's now pushing for a law to stop future animal heartbreaks like the one that befell the The social media star, Jake blooming Krantz repping assembly district 15 on Long Island drafted peanuts law, the humane animal protection act, which would impose a 72 hour wait before euthanizing any sanctuary animal.

He tells TMZ, the New York state department of environmental conservation and governor Kathy Hockel have been radio silent about an investigation into the matter so far. Yeah. You look, that's what it comes down to. It's like if someone's on, you know, it shouldn't be that you can just take someone's pet and kill them.

Um, like. If there's an issue, pause it, get the right people involved, have some sort of jury or some sort of judge look at the case. You just like, don't just be executioner. I mean, what else can you say about that? Just a wild, wild story. Well, um, we covered the election earlier and Patrick Mahomes mom was going viral because she's supporting Trump at the game, make America great again, which is kind of interesting because you know, Travis, Kelsey, and, um, Taylor, or at least Taylor is a big Kamala Harris fan.

Well, either way, I mean, it just goes to show that people can work together. If they have political differences, it's just the world we live in. Um, well, Katy Perry, uh, made a wild statement at a song during her rally. She was performing. I've got her and Lady Gaga performing. At the rally for Kamala Harris, Katy Perry hit the campaign trail on behalf of VP Kamala performing a medley of her hits at the presidential hopefuls rally in Pittsburgh.

So she took the stage and said, my body, my choice, get out and vote. You're going to change the lyrics around. I won't play them for you. Uh, but a lot of energy out there. And again, regardless of who you vote for, today should be a day that we celebrate democracy. This week we should be celebrating democracy.

Here's Lady Gaga, and she sings, God bless America. In Philadelphia on the final night of campaigning in this 2024 presidential election

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now, regardless on who you vote for or didn't vote for, we do exercise that right to vote in our country founded on democracy. And that, uh, exercising of our right to vote can lead to a lot of emotions coming out. I want to end with this. A Michigan voter explains who they just voted for. This was a sort of post poll, uh, interview and uh, again.

Everyone be well out there. Be careful not sharing any news that's not vetted. Uh, be careful, you know, like, let's just, uh, let's just try to have a safe, safe day, safe week as we wait for this all to shake out. It could get kind of funky out there. Again, Michigan voter here in a swing state describing who they voted for.

I voted for Kamala Harris. Why is that? Uh, I have three daughters, uh, four children overall, and, uh, women's rights is pretty important. Uh, Them and my daughters. Sorry, I'm getting a little emotional. I didn't think that I was going to do that. But um, you know, just Their bodies their choice type of a mentality.

Um, you know, I want them to grow up in a world that's welcoming to everybody Um, so yeah, that's why I cast my vote today. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another episode We might have a new president to announce I'm not sure if we'll have the results in, but we'll see you guys then. So you're going to want to stick around for that episode.

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