11-5-24 Morning Rush - It Is Election Day! Everything You Need To Know! & Jason Kelce Apologizes On Air For Smashing IPhone & Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos Does 'Off The Vine Podcast'

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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, November 5th, 2024. It's election day and I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news. In one place on this episode, we will cover dancing with the stars judge, Carrie Ann and ABBA responding to backlash over her scoring.

Plus Jason Kelsey apologizes on air for his outburst when he smashed a student's phone over the weekend that was on Monday night football. It will also share some information from several swing state pollsters in preparation for today's. massively important election, what to expect when results may come in and also why NBC was under hot water with the FCC.

Plus Joan, the golden bachelorette does Caitlin Bristow's off the vine podcast. I'll share what she had to say about fan favorite, Mark Anderson, all those stories and more coming up next on the rush. So over the weekend, we had that viral story of Jason Kelsey spiking a guy's phone after the dude, uh, yelled a slur at him, uh, and involved his brother, who's dating Taylor Swift, pop superstar, and it was pretty ugly stuff.

But just about everybody agreed with Jason Kelsey that he deserved to spike the kid's phone. Well now Penn State police are investigating Kelsey phone smashing incident. We don't have any information about the investigation But I think that I think they should discipline the kid. I mean look, you know He was taunting and following someone around filming him calling him names and using slurs I mean, is that what you want from your students there at Penn State?

Is that what you expect? I don't think so either way You Uh, Jason Kelsey ended up taking the high road by issuing an apology last night on Monday night football. Here's what he had to say. So I'm not, I'm not happy with anything that took place. Um, I'm not proud of it and you know, in a heated moment, uh, I chose to greet hate with, with hate.

And I just don't think that that's a productive thing. I really don't. I don't think that, uh, You know, it leads to discourse and it's, and it's the right way to go about things. And in that moment, I fell down to a level that I shouldn't have. So I think the bottom line is, uh, you know, I want to live my life.

I try to live my life by the golden rule. That's what I've always been taught. I try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I'm going to keep doing that moving forward. Um, even though it's past. Even though I fell short this week, I'm going to do that moving forward and continue to do that.

So, um, yeah, I think we got a game to focus on, obviously a matchup. I don't think this is the platform to necessarily go into more detail. Uh, so. So, get ready for this Chiefs game. Much respect, bro. Respect. All respect, my friend. Respect. No doubt. If you have more to say, we'll be listening with that, and in the meantime, as you say, we got a game to get to.

So then they get to the game, and did he have more to say? Will he say more? I'm not sure. Although Like I said, I don't know one person that sided with this, uh, petulant child, this college student. He's not a child. He's essentially, I'm assuming he's an adult. I'm assuming he's 18 plus. And yeah, I mean, look, there should be consequences when you mess with people.

Now, I'm not saying there should be physical consequences, but again, I don't, I don't think many people at all blame Jason Kelsey when his family was involved. You know, you can only imagine that there's been so much pain. There's so much to celebrate by his brother, Travis Kelsey, dating Taylor Swift, but I'm sure it's done a number on their family.

You know, he was, uh, you know, they were living in relative obscurity in Kansas city. Then his brother shoots his shot and starts dating the most famous pop star, one of the most famous people of all time. And now he's got to protect his family whenever he's out with his wife. You know, people are videotaping them and then you got this little prick following him along.

I mean, you know, he's lucky he didn't throw this kid through a wall or something like that. Uh, yeah, so he does need to learn how to show restraint there. But again, I don't think anyone blames him. Well, on Good Morning America, Carrie Ann Anaba joined the show and discussed some backlash she's receiving.

As you guys know, we had a fan of our program. Podcast say, no, no, you don't understand. Carrie Ann is way harsher on the females than she is the males. And Hey, that might be true. Um, but here's what she had to say in response to that backlash. I mean, people want to get her fired. Always. The most exciting thing is that our show, everybody's involved.

Like we're there, we're telling our part and then everybody at home gets to be involved. And I think that's the way the world should work. We want it this way. Right. And we have different opinions. Sometimes people come after me for my opinion, but I'm like, does it hurt your feelings? Sometimes. Sure. Sure.

But, but the better thing is that it shows that people love what's happening. And right. That makes me happy. They love, they're passionate about who they're voting for. It's okay. They can come after me. I'm a judge. I'm used to it. Tuscan. No worries. And by the way, this is, this is a very good PR answer, which is, Oh, they're just passionate people.

No, you know, just like that guy following Travis, Jason Kelsey with his iPhone, just a passionate person. You can say it. Oh, there's a lot of people online that are a holes. No, but that doesn't mean they don't have. Look, I mean, she did not, she gave these, these guy dancers higher scores or the same scores as Chandler Kinney, who was just dancing a thousand times better.

So again, it's, it's foolish. Who cares? It's a, it's a show. You're doing a great job. Well, sometimes I read it cause sometimes it's good feedback and sometimes I can learn too. So it's, it's all fair. It's all good. I will have so many more questions, but we're being wrapped. I guess we'll just have to watch.

I'm going to keep coming back. I always love having you. Your energy is. Perfect example of why the show is so special. Guys, Dancing with the Stars returns on Tuesday, November 12th with a very special episode you do not want to miss. All right. Well, I guess, I guess they're miss, they're not going to be on tonight.

They're normally on Tuesday night, but again, it is election night and I've got a clip here that explains it. So it's always good that we learn something. Uh, they say ever wonder why election day is always on a Tuesday. You can thank farmers for that. So everyone go thank a farmer. Here's the story. Ever wondered why election day is always on the first Tuesday of November?

The answer lies with farmers in the 1800s. Before then, states held elections whenever they wanted within 34 days before the first Wednesday in December. But this obviously came with lots of problems because early voting could affect turnout and sway opinions. So 1800s, the majority of the population worked as farmers and lived far from their polling places.

So lawmakers wanted to give voters at least a day to travel. Weekends didn't work because most people didn't vote. People spend Sundays in church, Wednesdays didn't work because it was the market day for farmers. Tuesday was then selected as the most convenient day of the week to hold elections. And in 1845, Congress passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November as election day.

Farmers are also the reason elections are in November because spring and early summer is planting season, late summer and early fall is harvest, and it was way too cold to travel in the dead of winter. There it is. Too cold to travel in the dead of winter. You know, that's very interesting. And if you're wondering, Oh, Dave, it's election day.

Are you going to have results for me? Well, no, we don't have results. We won't have them this afternoon. We might not have them tonight or tomorrow. We, we, we, I really don't know. Uh, but what I can tell you is we have the results from a very small unincorporated community called Dixville Township in New Hampshire.

They actually only have six. People that are voting in the election. So what they do is they start the election at midnight, and then as soon as all six people vote, they just close the polls and give their, their sort of announcement of who they're voting for. Uh, it's a midnight voting tradition.

Dixville notch is what they're called. And they're best known in connection with its longstanding midnight vote in the U S presidential election. Uh, the first, so anyhow, in case you guys were wondering three People voted for Donald Trump and three people voted for Kamala Harris. So they are right there, 50, 50.

But, uh, other than that, we're not going to get information for a good while as to who is winning, where certain swing States, and it's going to be different. They call it the red Mirage. That being that there'll be this idea that maybe the election's going one way, but then once mail in votes and, and, and votes that were done, uh, you know, early, early voting come in, it could be different.

And what we need to remember is, you know, until things are finalized, let's just wait and see how it all plays out. But I do have a couple interesting stories to get to regarding voting. Precautions being taken, uh, before this election, we've got, uh, election officials speaking out, sharing their mind.

We've got, uh, people that are, uh, you know, volunteering or driving all over their state and country to help people get to voting polls. I'll have all that and more coming for you next. One thing we've battled during this election season is some people saying, Oh, Dave, we want entertainment news. What are we talking about here?

You know, people can get very triggered by politics, but it's really great to discuss democracy and how we all have a vote in the election. Sure. It's kind of complicated, the electoral college and, you know, gerrymandering to hell and, you know, does my vote even matter? And how come only seven states really seem to be swing states?

But our votes do matter, and, uh, ABC World News here actually was doing a feature on someone named Perman Hardy, and they've driven across some 700 square miles of rural county in Alabama to help people vote on election day. These are the heroes we can elevate. Finally, tonight, America Strong, a woman who's making sure the voice of every voter is heard.

On election day, no one's busier than Perman Hardy in Lowndes County, Alabama. For the past 30 years, she has driven across 700 square miles driving people to vote, many of them farm workers. If you need a ride, Permanhardi is there with her truck, which has more than 300, 000 miles on the odometer. I go out on that phone and pick them up on their lunch break.

You gotta stop to eat. So why not come go with me? And let's go eat on our way to the poll. I'll bring you back. There's a lot of excuses, but I don't take excuses. Herman Hardy, the check engine light apparently on in that truck, but she is still making sure everybody gets out to vote. All right. I love, I love stories like this.

I think it's fantastic to hear people that really take pride in their duty to vote. Now, historically speaking, the females in the demographic actually vote more often than men. So we'll have to see if that has anything to do with this election. Uh, you know, we've been talking about polls and how they could be off or on.

I think I'm just excited to see how the election plays out so that we can actually, for once and all, find out who the heck is going to win this thing, right? I mean, it feels like it's been going back and forth and back and forth and are the pollsters right? Are they wrong? And what will finally. We get, uh, get to put this to rest pretty soon.

Well, the Philadelphia district attorney on election day security says F around and find out, uh, you know, there's obviously been some issues with people going to polling stations and trying to intimidate workers and random kind of instances of security breaches. Well, it doesn't look like Philly is one to play around with and we should, we should know that they, they are the city of brotherly love.

But they also threw snowballs at Santa Claus at a Eagles game. So we don't mess with Philly. I want people to be reassured that when they get up tomorrow to go vote, if they have not voted already, that everybody in the city is working and has been working for months to make sure that there will be nothing tough about that experience and nothing to fear in that experience.

But I also want to be clear, anybody who thinks it's time to play militia, F around and find out. Wow. Anybody who thinks it's time to insult, to deride, to mistreat, to threaten people, F around and find out. We do have the cuffs, we do have the jail cells, we do have the Philly juries, and we have the state prisons.

So if you're going to try to turn an election into some form of coercion. If you're going to try to bully people, bully votes or voters, you're going to try to erase votes. You're going to try any of that nonsense. We're not playing F around and find out. I think we get the message F around and find out.

Uh, again, there have been instances where people. People show up and intimidate, uh, you know, uh, poll workers. They're all volunteers, right? Or, you know, there was a case last election where there was a truck that showed up to a polling venue. And I think it ended up with, I think it was a truck just delivering sandwiches or whatever.

And they followed the truck and made a whole big deal about it. Now, look, we do live in a world where there's militias running around our country thinking they're doing the civic duty. Uh, but, uh, you know, Hey, we got this thing under control. Pennsylvania not only says F around and find out, but they have new technology to speed up the vote count.

This is what's interesting, right? Every state does it differently. So there's some states where they won't count your mail in ballot until. The polling night is over and then there's other states where they'll kind of have it all ready to go. But here's how they're trying to get their results faster.

2020 it took Erie County four days to count all the ballots. This time around County Clerk Karen Chilcott isn't taking any chances. Since 2020, we've purchased a lot of equipment, nearly 900, 000 in new equipment and other improvements to count ballots faster. The sorting machine that you see there, and we have a couple of openers for the ballots over here.

The sorter verifies the completed ballots authenticity. It then cross checks voter identification and automatically catalogs the ballots. I believe this is more secure. They've also hired more staff. In 2020, election workers had to Hand sort goodness. So that must have taken a long time. Pennsylvania is one of the last battlegrounds to start counting ballots on election day at 7:00 AM we start opening the ballots, but you can't count them yet, correct.

The four days it took to get a final tally in 2020 gave way to conspiracy theories and unprecedented legal challenges. So you're going to fill out your ballot. So this year, they've also taken steps to be more transparent, while keeping their workers safe. So, you call this the fishbowl. It's kind of like an aquarium.

They've installed windows so poll watchers can see election workers tallying the ballots. I mean, how ridiculous is this? I mean, you know what I mean? Just trying to make sure that no one thinks anything shifty is going on. Now, look, it's, it's good that we have transparency, but it's also ridiculous. And Pennsylvania wasn't the only state that had issues, Georgia as well.

And now we have Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger saying the state is prepared for today's election and he's confident that things will go smoothly. Well, I know in Georgia, we're gonna have a free, fair and fast election. I'm really excited about our process because tomorrow night, all these people that have voted early, that's about 65 percent expected votes will be reported one after the polls close.

All the absentee ballots that have come in will have been ready for tabulation and those will be reported. That's 70 percent that will be reported by eight p. m. plus or minus, assuming polls all closed at seven in those counties. And that really will give you a great path of what you can expect for that day.

What we've shown, we have photo ID for all forms of voting. I've done two citizenship checks. I've done an audit about two years ago, and I did one this past summer, proving that only American citizens have voter rolls. We found 20 Americans in this last audit. They were kicked off the voter rolls, and we sent that information to local DAs for prosecution.

We have the cleanest voter list in the entire country. We have photo ID for all forms of voting. At the end of the day, it's going to be fair and fast and accurate. Isn't it wild? We have to say all of this, uh, you know, there's plenty of rumors out there that just anybody can walk in and vote. And he says, no, just like every other, uh, polling place, you have to show your government issued ID.

All right. Now we've got, um, Dan Pfeiffer, uh, formerly, uh, one of the, uh, workers for the Obama campaign, I believe. Right. Uh, and he is now with, uh, Pod Save America. He just kind of runs people. gives everyone the rundown of what to expect once the polls close. Cause again, you know, the election could be a runaway where it's called early and, but, but in most cases, you know, it's, it's going to take a little bit.

First two battleground states to close are Georgia and North Carolina. And so you're going to be very interested to see what happens there, both in the suburbs Kamala Harris is getting the numbers that she needs to get, which is probably a little bit above what Biden did. In 2020, and then particularly in Fulton County, which comes in maybe a little bit later, but to see what the vote is in Atlanta and to see if Trump is actually making gains in some of the more African American heavy precincts in Georgia, that will be a warning sign one way or the other.

Well, there it is. And again, again, not to bore people with this news, but it's going to be fascinating to see how the day goes and how the week goes. My fingers are crossed, uh, but the very thin ice sort of Uh, world that we live in with, you know, the fact that, you know, militias have showed up to FEMA workers, uh, during hurricane relief in the last few weeks.

And, you know, I just, I just hope that, um, you know, because everyone's kind of been warned that, uh, no, you know, F around and find out. I just hope that people go out, vote and then go home. I just kind of hope that there's a lot of peace. But, uh, again, I have no idea and we'll have to see how it all plays out.

All right. I got some more bachelor stories to get to. Um, so we'll have those and a few others coming to you right after this. All right. Before I get to the golden bachelor story, NBC was accused of violating media law for allowing Kamala Harris to be on Saturday night live, which you might've seen led to on Sunday night, uh, NBC giving Donald Trump some airspace as well.

After Harris appearance on SNL, NBC was accused of violating a federal media law, leading them to air a message from Donald Trump. Here's what happened. Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on SNL November 2nd, in a sketch mirroring Maya Rudolph, who impersonates her on the show. When it was announced Harris would be on the show, the Federal Communications Commission commissioner, Brenton Carr, Hosted to X quote.

This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the fccs equal time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct. The equal time rule requires broadcasters for radio and TV to give rival political candidates equal opportunities for airtime if the candidates themselves request it.

Carr also argued that since the episode aired, quote, only 50 hours or so before election day, it complicated the implementation of the equal time rule, which allows candidates seven days to request airtime. An FCC representative stated that Carr did not represent the agency's official views. Early November 3rd, the FCC said they had, quote,

So anyway, they ended up getting Trump to do a several minute long speech on, uh, Sunday night football. So I don't know if there'll be any further sort of penalties there. No, look, I think it's a good rule, you know, there should be equal time. And even if someone goes onto one sketch, they should be You know, they, they, they ended up, um, you know, making amends the way they should have.

So I think that was good on them. All right. You know, I got so many stories. I have a, I have a Tom Sandoval story. I've got peanut the squirrel updates. We have so many stories to get to, uh, but we are kind of just at a time. So why don't we just share what, uh, we'll share the golden bachelor story. Uh, Joan Vasos was on off the vine podcast and discussed her connection to Mark.

from golden bachelor, Kelsey Anderson's father. Here's what she had to say happened with Kelsey's dad. I fell in love with them when he was on Joey season when he was just Kelsey's dad and what a great father he was. And I, I honestly, I texted a producer and said, if I'm the golden bachelorette, we're going to need Mark on the season.

Really? Yeah, I did. But what? I kind of discovered about Mark and I, I think that he had such a personal growth during the season because of the men and not particularly because of me. So in the end, I felt like he was becoming more emotionally ready, but I know I wasn't positive. He was picturing a life with me.

He was just now. Picturing a life with somebody else. Do you think they would make him the golden bachelor the next golden bachelor? So either way, I think she said he would be a great golden bachelor. I don't know mark might be too young He's uh, he's a few years younger than the than gary. I think he's actually still in his 50s, right?

So we'll have to see we'll have to see what what goes down with that But let's uh, let's end on another golden bachelor story fans are getting annoyed that the golden bachelor franchise guys Is not casting from within the same region that being because the older you are the less likely You are going to move for somebody else the way you might in the uh, normal bachelor show I'll do an interview with glamour after this week's episode and he made a great point about what the golden bachelor franchise should change Basically, he thinks it's pointless to do a season of the golden franchise if all the contestants don't live in the same city Here's what he said.

Chicago's got 30 million people You tell me you can't find 25 widowed or divorced people in that age group because in my age I want to wake up with somebody I want to go to bed with somebody I When I take a walk with somebody, I don't want to get in a plane and see somebody every two weeks. So I think the concept of the golden bachelor needs to be modified in a way where they can accommodate the older generation like myself.

But this is where it kind of starts to shade Joan a little bit to me. If I meet somebody who lives in another suburb of Chicago, okay, then we could go spend every weekend together. We could spend a couple nights a week together, but if you live in Washington DC, when am I going to see you? And I think to me, that's the biggest challenge I had with Joan.

I didn't want to invest because I want to partner on a daily basis. I think this is a great point. I think it's totally fair, you know, when you're 25 or 30 going on the bachelor or bachelorette, you're a little more flexible with where maybe you want to end up living. But if you're older, you have family and kids already, you probably don't want to.

That's certainly the reason Gary and Teresa got divorced in the span of like, what, four months? Yeah, I mean, remember Gary and Teresa, they were like trying to decide on where's he from, uh, Indiana and she, she's in Jersey and they were like, maybe we'll buy a home in the Carolinas and eventually they just called the whole thing off and we'll have to see how Joan's season goes.

Uh, the finale, I think is tomorrow night. Can you believe that? It's just going to be, there's going to be so much going on. Make sure you are subscribed to the podcast. We're going to have a lot to talk about and trust me when I say, I'm as excited for the election season to be over as I'm sure you guys are, but we're just not quite there yet.

So, uh, I have to use my platform responsibly. I got to give you all the entertainment news, but in the end, I give you news that you need for pop culture and pop. Short for popular culture in today's world means the election updates. Again, I'm not saying that to apologize for any of my content that I'm delivering.

I think most of you guys get it. I'm just fascinated to see which polls got it wrong and which got it right. I'm fascinated to see if. Uh, whoever loses, if they concede that they even lost, I'm very interested to see if there's a red wave, a blue wave, a pink wave, um, or, or, or a different colored wave. So we're going to get that information soon.

Hang tight. And like I said, just, uh, let's, let's try to spread as much joy. And if you haven't already, what are you waiting for? Go out and vote. Uh, and, uh, folks, I'll be back this afternoon to give you whatever updates come from this crazy. Uh, I hope you guys have a good one. I'll see you this afternoon.

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