11-13-24 Afternoon Rush - Trump & Biden Meet In Oval Office & New UFO Info Revealed! & Golden Bachelorette Finale Preview & Full House's Dave Coulier Cancer Reveal

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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, my Rushies. It's hump day, baby. It's the Afternoon Rush, November 13th, 2024. We got a wild one. I say it every day, but I mean, how wild is this?

I'm going to share with you guys the news we have for the day. Again, thoughts on Dancing with the Stars plus Updates on the UFO hearings and president Biden welcomes a president elect Trump to the white house to continue to show what a peaceful transition of power looks like. I don't know what's more bizarre, the, the, the world of politics or that UFOs may be hanging out in the oval office.

And then I've also got a shocking and sad full house cast members, cancer diagnosis. We will not be cutting it out. It's uncle Joey. And we'll share his thoughts. I think he's okay, but we'll have to hear what he has to say. And also golden bachelorette is tonight. So we will be working our way to the finale of that.

I'll be flying back from New York city to Nashville tonight, and we'll be covering all of that. Plus I'll have some updates and thoughts on the Clayton Eckerd case. As we continue to get more information, lots to get into folks. We'll have all that and more coming up next on the rush. Bit of a somber story to start with, and if you're an old millennial like me, you might have grown up with the Full House series.

And it's really sad whenever we see a character that we loved, uh, in real life go through some problems. Dave Coulier, diagnosed with non Hodgkin lymphoma. Here's what he had to say on the Today Show. Five weeks ago, I was diagnosed with stage three, uh, non Hodgkin's lymphoma. And In that time, I've had three surgeries, I've had chemo, I've lost a little bit of hair, I kind of look like a little baby bird now, but it has been, uh, a, uh, a rollercoaster ride, for sure.

What, what do the doctors say, Dave, about the prognosis? Well, this is B cell lymphoma that I have. It's a very aggressive condition. Uh, type of lymphoma and, uh, it happened very quickly, uh, the onset of this, um, growing lymphoma in my groin area was very quick. So I said, uh, something's not right. I have a golf ball down here.

And so we, uh, we biopsied it, we took it out and they said, uh, you know, we wish we had better news for you, but, uh, you know, you have B cell. lymphoma. We need to get you into chemotherapy right away. Uh, then we had another hurdle. I told my wife, Melissa, I got the news. I was home by myself. She came home 20 minutes later.

And she said, have you heard anything? And I said, yeah, I have cancer. And she said, come on, quit making jokes. And I said, no, I did. And once that settled in, it was a, a gut punch, but there was still another hurdle. Uh, we had to find out what the staging was. And so they, um, You know, went into my bone marrow and, uh, we got good news that day once we got the results that, um, you know, it hadn't spread.

And so at that point, the curability rate went up to 90 plus percent. So it's very treatable. You had a slight swelling in a lymph node in your groin that grew. Rapidly? Is that what it was? Within days, Hoda. It had gone from just kind of, uh, I guess I'm fighting this cold off, this has happened before, to the size of a golf ball.

Alright, so that's just tragic, really. But we're rooting for him, and we'll have updates as they come. I guess it reminds everybody, I think Dave Coulier is Canadian, so again, probably has good health care, what can I say about that? But it just reminds us, if there's anything with your body that seems off, you know, make sure to look into it.

And really, you know, know if something's wrong, go get seen. All right, let's go to Dancing with the Stars. We have a couple of wild stories. The first being that Artem, uh, a former pro dancer who was not charged with domestic violence, but he of course was arrested for that, was in the audience at the show's 500th episode, which was a big deal.

A big deal because a lot of people, if you look at the comment section, oh my gosh, how could they let that monster there? And then others say, well, actually, I mean, he was never charged with anything. So, you know, we don't really know what went down and you know, you know, yeah, I think you actually see a lot of reasonable people online there, but, um, kind of a bold statement for them to let them back in.

But I guess that's it. They've banked on the fact that, you know, he's been, I don't know, uh, with the show for a decade, whatever, how long it was. And they've said, you know what? The pro dancers are sticking by his side there. Um, and anyway, Ilona Marr, the, uh, professional rugby player from the Olympics was again asked, she's getting asked nonstop about whether or not she would be the bachelorette.

She already said she would. Here's the response on entertainment tonight. After last night's episode, you would be down to be the next bachelorette. Oh my gosh! Stop spreading lies! Uh, Alan and I jokingly said that last, uh, week. Cause, uh, yes, I will date 20 men for America. That's what I meant. Should look 30 men.

No, I'll date 30 men for America. You should, I'm serious. You think my mans is on the bachelorette? I'm gonna set some tough requirements. I love her, she's like, Listen, if America needs me, I will come in there and sling as much rugby, you know what, on the pitch. For the guy to even get there. You gotta be able to be good in, in contact sports.

Yeah, right, right. You gotta be We're just, like, strong. Six two. So she's a big girl. I mean, as far as like rugby is concerned, she's, you know, she's a larger, you know, formidable force. I kind of could see her with like a real skinny nerdy guy. I don't know. Just me, you know, Hey, you know, every year that's Yang.

Um, all right. So we've got a lot of other news here. Oh boy. Can you believe this? Wild stuff. Jake Paul, YouTuber turned boxer, set to fight Iron Mike Tyson. And here he is on Haktur's podcast, Haktur, discussing the eight figure payouts he's going to get. Again, that means 10 plus million. My guess is it's closer to 50 million.

How much did they pay you for this fight? A lot of, a lot of dinero. Uh, it's, it's pretty crazy. Boxing is a very lucrative sport. But, um, It's, it's up there. Uh, I get, I've said it in the media, but then they get mad at me for saying it, so I'm not allowed to say it, but it's, it's up there in the eight figures.

Okay, props to you. So that's anywhere between 10 million to 99 million. Now she says props to you. Now I don't mean to insult the intelligence of Haley Welch. I don't know if she was able to do the math on what eight figures is because she was like props to you. He's like, yeah, that's 70 million. And she's like, Oh wow.

She's like, when you said eight figures, I thought 80, 000. I had no idea. Now what's this about you think JoJo Siwa would whoop my ass, hmm? She would! Yo! So anyway, Jake Paul, you know, as much money as he's making in the boxing ring, he's, she, uh, Talk Tua podcast is actually with Jake Paul's company, so he was smart enough to bring her along as an influencer.

Look, she's got a lot of growing to do as far as, um, How she is on camera. But I mean, all signs point to the fact that she's got the character and the charisma and the point of view as just like, sort of, um, like I've said before, the simple life, uh, you know, meets podcasting. So I think she'll do great.

Here's what Mike Tyson had to say again. Mike Tyson, uh, he's, he's no spring chicken, but man, I mean, this dude bit. Evander Holifield's ear off. Evander Olaf Holifield lost more of an ear than Donald Trump did. And what does that say about, I mean, you know, whenever you fight someone, you don't have to wonder, will I lose my ear?

Unless it's Mike Tyson. Everybody knows what you can do in the ring. But what a lot of people are talking about is the age difference. You are 58. And Jake is 27, and that is a big disparity. What say you about that? I don't know. Let's um, you see what you do for a living? You guys, do you think a guy 30 years your, your, your junior could do it better than you?

Absolutely not. All right. Okay. Okay. It really seems like it's split between people like myself and Harvey who actually were alive and watched you. Live in your heyday when you absolutely destroyed people. There was nothing like a Mike Tyson fight was the event that everyone and, and you had to watch from the very first, from the very first round, cause it might not go more than 10 seconds.

Right. The people have seen that, that they're, they've got your back. That's, that's me. And then there are the younger people who know your name, they know your legacy, but they didn't see it live. And so maybe they're not as impressed. And they're all going for Jake Paul. What do you say to those people who didn't experience your fights live and what they should be looking for on Friday night?

Hey, if they never seen my fight, they missed a hell of a legacy. And Friday night, they go, we'll look forward to seeing that man Jake Paul get beaten bad. Guys, this is going to be wild. Trust me when I say this is appointment television. I have no idea what's going to happen. Iron Mike is a. I mean, he's a legend, but he's 58, you know what I mean?

That's insane. I'm 39. You know what I'm sore from? I sneezed the wrong way. You ever sneezed the wrong way and you pull a back muscle and you're like, why does my neck hurt? I don't know. I looked to the left for too long. You know what I mean? So who knows what's going to happen, but either way, I will be there to watch it for you.

All right. I got a lot of content to get to. We still have UFOs and Biden Trump in the Oval Office. We'll have that for you next. All right, before we get into UFOs, here's another out of this world story. This is Jason Tartick's podcast. He had Jenna Johnson on opening up about what it's like to be a pro dancer nine months out of the year when they're not actually on the, on the show dancing, technically, I'm nine months out of the year.

Dancing with the Stars is only three months where I can really know that I'm gonna be solidified with a paycheck. You have to hustle. You have to be proactive. Before you take the shot on So You Think You Can Dance and then Dancing with the Stars, are you earning any form of income? You can do shows. Or you can assist on conventions, which I was doing.

But it is a very scary career to pursue. The life of a dancer is no joke. And it's all out of passion. So I am such a huge advocate for all dancers who pursue it. Because it is so scary. They do the most. I think, you know, I have every intention of getting our son, August, into dance classes and, and you know what, to be quite honest, continuing dancing with my wife, you know, my wife and I hired a professional dancer, a guy who actually works with the dancing with the stars, uh, dancers on their tour, uh, for our wedding dance.

And I got to tell you, there's no better feeling, no better release of endorphins than. Then getting your mind, body, and soul to all work in one. So good on Jenna for finding a way to not only make a living, but do it at such a high level. And just as a reminder to anyone out there considering career paths, if you choose safety over passion, you'll always wonder, what if, if you choose passion over safety, you'll at least have that high frequency of love that you lead every day with.

And it's really hard to not attract like minded kids. High frequencies of love when you're when you're acting that way. All right, real quick. Here's, uh, we just had Jenna Johnson. Here is her dance partner, the one and only Bachelor Joey, discussing how he has finally decided where to live. It's the West Coast.

But I'm really excited. We've decided to stay in L. A. and I'm excited. Have you guys anticipated what life would be like after the show? We just talked about it last night. We grabbed dinner and we were talking about like, what are you most excited for after the show? And we had different answers. I am excited to take this like version of a routine that I've created with dancing and then build it into my own.

I'm excited to see what's gonna possibly next for me and. It's the next venture I want to do, but I'm really excited. We've decided to stay in LA and I'm excited for us to like build a home together. We got an apartment and like, I cannot wait to make it feel like something that's really ours because the way that dancing set us up is amazing, but it's a small temporary place.

This is going to be the first time we have a place that's ours. So I'm thinking of those little things right now that I'm so excited for, um, and it's going to be great. I'm just excited about our next chapter because this is one we've been waiting for for a Wow. There it is real PR trained, but we expect nothing less from Joey.

And again, Kelsey's kind of had to be in the wings for him. So imagine after this is over for Joey, that Kelsey gets her say, go out there. She gets to order extra appetizers after all. Alright, well last night, or excuse me, this morning we talked about John Krasinski being the sexiest man alive. Here he was on Jimmy Kimmel discussing how he found out and his reaction.

My guess is he'll be very humble. If I was ever listed as sexiest man alive, I don't think I'd be humble. I think I would wear the People Magazine article as a t shirt or at least on a hat. I'm sure this was a big secret, held very close to the vest, right? How long have you known that you were the sexiest man alive?

I've known since Uh, five minutes ago. Yeah. They kind of tell you? I'm pretty sure this is still a bit. I thought it was a prank when they told me, and now I'm sure of it. But you've been in a Marvel movie. You were in the, you know, the multiverse of madness. Compare this kind of secret keeping to Marvel secret keeping.

When you're working with Marvel. Yeah. Did you tell anybody? You can't, cause you can't. No, you can't tell anybody. I mean, Emily knew, obviously. Yes. Right. Emily knew. Was she surprised? Of this? Yeah. Or Marvel? No, this. Was she like, it's about damn time? Or she's like, yes, darling, I don't know. There was so much laughter on the other end of the phone.

It was hard to get words, but yeah. Sure, sure. They just want to find a guy to make them laugh. Isn't that what they say? Exactly. This is one of my favorite couples. I have a huge crush on Emily Blunt. Uh, I saw her in that movie with Ryan Gosling, that stunt movie. Oh my gosh. The chemistry. Look, I've always known she was like conventionally attractive, but she's really great.

And John Krasinski just goes to show that women love a guy with a sense of humor. I mean, from the office To playing action stars. He's really had it all. We're very happy for them. Oh, and boy, I would say we have it all because we have the podcast sponsor that has it all. It's VEA this holiday season unwind and recharge with VEA.

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The holiday season needs you. Enhance your every day with VEA. All right, well we got that out of the way. How about the, um, I mean, where do we go from here? Do we want to Trump and Biden together. Why not? Here it is. White House meeting. Trump visits Biden in the Oval Office. Melania takes a pass and the meeting is over.

The president elect Trump thanked president Joe Biden for making this transition one of the smoothest ever. And then the press corps broke out into a cacophony of yelling questions at the two men. Uh, again, we did not get this peaceful transition when Trump. Lost the election to Joe Biden. He did not show up at the inauguration or any of this went down and he never actually said he lost that election, which again has led the nation to spiral into a divide thinking that the election was stolen and whatnot.

But in this case, as far as we could tell right now, Kamala Harris took the loss on the chin. I mean, sure, there might be some recounts of votes just to make sure everything's on the up and up, but I think that's fair. Recounting of votes is different than, you know, uh, claiming it was stolen and, you know, never actually getting that evidence out there.

I mean, look, that's the reality I live in, is that the election Now, is it Stolen in other ways? Well, I mean, there's gerrymandering, there's misinformation out there, but as far as ballots being hacked, when evidence of that comes out, we'll report on it. But in the meantime, here is Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

I had a chance to talk with some of that today, so welcome, welcome back. very much, and, uh, politics is tough, and it's, uh, in many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much. A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get, and I very much appreciate that, Joe.

You're welcome. He says, I very much appreciate that, Joe, and it says smooth as could be. And by the way, You just, I mean, if I could wave a magic wand and have Trump do this when he was president, when he lost to Joe Biden, I just think it's a really great message. I did not understand the importance of the transfer of power and the peaceful transfer of power.

I did not understand that until last election. I did not understand its importance until 2020 when we saw it didn't happen and how easy it is to get people very upset. I mean, it's like when you're sports. team loses and you get mad at the umps, but times a thousand, because this is democracy and we have to hold, uh, hold ourselves to a high standard.

If we're going to be a part of a country that, um, is, you know, in, in some parts of the birthplace of democracy. And if we want to spread democracy across the world, we're going to have to make sure that we live up to that and that everyone in this country knows that it is a fair election. All right. Well, Speaking of crazy stories, which we have today, let's go to the UFO talk, right?

Isn't that what everyone wants? Forget all this president mumbo jumbo, give me the UFOs. So, uh, there was a con, a congressional hearing on UAPs. I still call them UFOs. They call them UAPs. Um, I guess they're shadowing a U S submarine fleet. Oh boy. I tell you what, take a quick break. We'll be back with that story next.

All right, alien talk happening now. We just heard that the U. S. nuclear submarine fleet is being shadowed by UAPs, aka UFOs. That's what reportedly former U. S. Navy Admiral Kim Gallaudet will be testifying about on Wednesday at the House of Representatives Oversight Committee. After upgrades were made to our jets radar systems, we began detecting unknown objects operating in our airspace.

At first, we assumed they were radar errors, but soon we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple onboard sensors, including infrared systems, eventually through Visual ID. During a training mission in warning area Whiskey 72, 10 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, two F 18 Super Hornets were split by a UAP.

The object, described as a dark gray or black cube inside of a clear sphere, came within 50 feet of the lead aircraft and was estimated to be 5 to 15 feet in diameter. By the way, are they sure this isn't an Amazon Prime drone dropping off my package? Yeah, just like, yeah, it had a Jeff Bezos logo on it.

Uh, look, maybe the UFOs just wanted to see Virginia Beach. They, uh, they heard that there's a bunch of chubby, uh, burnt rednecks partying on the, on the beach and they wanted to see what all the commotion was about. The mission commander terminated the flight immediately and returned base. In previous hearings, we've seen Alright, so then they report more.

Look, uh, this, these hearings are happening today, so I'm sure we'll get some more, um, concise, uh, moments from, uh, all of what might have gone down, uh, because yeah, there will be a lot of information, uh, as far as they have said that the, there were biologics, as they call them. Now, it's like, what does that mean?

What is a biologic? Are we talking about green aliens? Let us know what it is. Alright, uh, up next, we've got the preview for tonight's interview. Episode, uh, finale episode of the golden bachelorette. Have a listen to this. I came on this journey because there's an empty hole in my life that John left. I've spent so much time holding back, but I feel happy about my future now.

I can see myself with Joan the rest of my life and what a special feeling that is. I have fallen in love and my intentions are to get that on the name. I woke up this morning and I realized it actually happened. I have only been in love with one person. One person, more than one now. There it is. Live event coming tonight.

So I'll be here to cover it, uh, first thing in the morning. And speaking of the bachelor and other news, bachelor Clayton Eckerd's accuser set to do a two hour video. I'm saying it with sort of, um, bewilderment. Cause I don't know if they will. If they release a video explaining their side and all this nonsense, I will cover it in the morning.

Either way, I'll have a video in the morning covering it because she released another blog, I guess, using her autism diagnosis to explain. I don't know how, you know, uh, how she cons these men into relationships through fake pregnancies. I mean, that's my opinion. done. Uh, she doesn't exactly admit that, but, um, yeah, I mean, when will the roost be up, please?

We're all so sick and tired of this story. Um, all right, well, sad news coming out of Bali, you know, I spent my honeymoon in Bali. It's absolutely beautiful. Um, they have canceled all flights to and from Bali for the rest of the day due to, I guess, a. Uh, volcano erupting. Have a listen to this. Breaking news at 9am on that situation in Bali where flights in and out of the holiday destination have been cancelled due to a volcanic eruption.

Two major airlines have just provided an update and it isn't good news. No, it's not, Jane. I can confirm that Virgin Australia has officially cancelled all flights both to and from Bali, from Australia, for the rest of today. Now, that includes, uh, pass that is affecting passengers not only in Australia but also overseas.

Who are stuck over in Bali, uh, Jetstar has also provided an update to say that at this stage, all flights currently scheduled for 2pm today onwards are going ahead, but they are hoping to provide an update as soon as possible. Now, we don't want anyone to be stranded, but if you're going to be stranded anywhere, Bali is a beautiful place to be stranded.

Uh, it's kind of an expensive flight to get there as you're in Indonesia, right? You're, you're very far away. But once you get there, the people are so kind. Uh, it's relatively affordable, uh, to stay there. Uh, your money goes a long way. And it's a beautiful, sort of like, humid environment. There's monkeys roaming around.

Although the monkeys will mess with you. I always say when I traveled there after the first day, after making eye contact with the monkey, here's what they do. They look at you and then they just start peeing. And I'm like, this cannot be good. When an animal, when a mammal looks at you in the eye and pees, I don't know.

I don't trust that. Uh, so, um, we had these monkeys kind of rough up my wife to, um, you know, try to steal a muffin from her. So for the rest of our trip, I took our selfie stick and kind of used it as a baton to keep them away. That's neither here nor there. Just a little anecdote to the travel. the travel lifestyle of, um, of YouTuber, Dave Neal.

Uh, but either way, yeah, Bali is a beautiful tourist destination. I recommend it. Um, uh, five out of five, um, you know, good people. Although, you know, don't, um, you know, don't desecrate the culture, be a part of it. Yeah. Once you go there, you go to these beautiful temples. They give you that little sarong thing you got to wear.

Cause you gotta be respectful. I don't know. It's cool. It's cool to see different cultures. Right. Um, and yeah, Anyhow, look, that's going to do it for us today. Uh, lots of stories we got into and so much more coming up. It's been a wild week, this post election and all the things going on this fall. Wild week, indeed.

We'll be back in the morning. We'll see you then, uh, for another episode of The Rush. The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast. by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day. Don't be caught clueless at the water cooler.

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