10-17-24 Morning Rush - Golden Bachelorette Recap & Bachelor Star Claps Back At Fan Questioning Relationship & UFO Drones Swarm Army Base & Reaction To Kamala's Fox Interview

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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 morning, everybody. Happy Thursday. Thursday to you. It's October 17th, 2024. And I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place on this morning's rush.

We've got bachelor winner, Kelsey discussing how she's learning to navigate the world of public relationships. And also a quick recap of last night's golden bachelorette episode. Plus, uh, we have a drone problem or is it an alien problem or maybe it is a drone alien problem. We'll get down to the bottom of that story.

Plus the tragic death of One Direction star, Liam Payne, and we've then got pro dancer, Artem Chigvinsev, scoring a legal win against soon to be ex Nikki Bella, as we've continued to cover that story. Also Kamala Harris went on Fox news last night. What everyone is saying about the interview and a neuroscientist explains why it is we get duped with information.

or excuse me with misinformation in the first place. We've got all these stories and so much more coming up next on the morning rush. Well, I guess we better start with the rough news. Former one direction star Liam Payne was found dead after falling from the third floor of his hotel room. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, here's what David Muir had to say.

Breaking news, the sudden death of former One Direction member Liam Payne. Police say he fell from the third floor at his hotel. He was just 31. ABC's Trevor Ault with the details, just coming in tonight. Tonight, a shocking tragedy in the music world. Former One Direction member Liam Payne died. Dead in Argentina.

Local authorities say the 31 year old pop star fell from his third floor hotel room in Buenos Aires. Payne had been staying at the Casa Sur Hotel. Paramedics pronouncing him dead at the scene.

Singer was part of a global phenomenon when One Direction exploded in popularity in 2010, with concerts drawing massive crowds. After the group went on hiatus in 2016, Payne transitioned into a solo career, this year releasing the song Teardrops. Paine leaves behind one young child, recently sharing this photo of his son looking up at his dad on a billboard.

David, local authorities say Paine fell about 45 feet and now an investigation and an autopsy will be performed. Paine had been in Argentina attending the concert of one of his former bandmates. Yeah, real bummer stuff there. I mean, look, it said he had substance abuse issues and, uh, you know, who knows what actually went down.

Uh, we'll, uh, we'll let you know if we find out, but just a sad story all around. Well, in other bizarre news, uh, and before we get to the Bachelor story, we have a bizarre drone story. Uh, mysterious drones reportedly breached high, highly restricted U. S. airspace. Some think this is an alien, uh, sort of, uh, wreak.

Con mission happening. What do you guys think? America has what sure seems like a very serious new drone problem. This is a security issue that's gone all the way to the white house. I'm talking about multiple major breaches of the most restricted us airspace, including some of our most sensitive military and national security sites.

Now all of this is based first on a report in the wall street journal, including on the record interviews with multiple us generals and many other government officials. But the Pentagon acknowledged the incursions as they called it yesterday at a briefing. So in October of 2023 Five drones flew over a little known site in Nevada used for nuclear weapons experiments.

In recent months, more unidentified drone swarms, as they've been described, flew near Edwards Air Force Base near Los Angeles. And last, uh, December, in the biggest incursion publicly known, a dozen or more drones per night for 17 nights straight circled the area of Langley Air Force Base along the Virginia shore.

This is an area that includes the Navy's SEAL Team 6, you heard of them, and Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval port in the world. Now one of these drones recovered after it hit a tree, had been taking pictures of U. S. Navy vessels. So a lot of big questions here. Where are the drones coming from? Is it hobbyists or a hostile nation?

And why didn't the military just shoot them down? Or is it, uh, something more like, I, no, I, I actually, okay. So I thought it would have been an alien thing until I listened to their, uh, sort of saying that one of the drones was shot down or excuse me, it was crashed down. So I guess it's not an alien. Cause, uh, maybe the alien drones wouldn't be taking photos or maybe they would, I don't know.

Do they use, uh, Sony's like, what, how does this even work? Right? Listen, I, I have a drone. I, I, I love drone photography. I have a DJI drone. What's scary though, is that DJI is made, uh, in, uh, by the Chinese. And it's scary because, you know, you're not trying, trying to. Bring out a conspiracy where there is none, but you, you think that it's one of our adversaries and here they have a very popular drone.

They make the best drone and you can buy them and then just fly them all over the country. And then do they get to just map out our country from that? Like the amount of data that can come from that is probably very interesting. I don't know, just a thought. You know, we're not at war with anybody, uh, but, uh, again, you know, maybe, maybe don't let these drones, maybe we can start shooting these drones down.

I don't know. Maybe not. All right. Well, uh, here's one thing I'd like to shoot down more Vanderpump rules, spinoff shows. Uh, but again, they've got the Valley, which is, I guess, a spinoff kind of, of, uh, Vanderpump rules. And Tom Sandoval actually says. Never say never to the valley. And again, the Vanderpump rules might not come back.

You know, maybe the show never comes back or it takes a long hiatus. So would he go on the valley? Here's his answer. Jax recently came out and said he was very shocked that you guys rekindled your friendship. You know, did you feel the same way? Um, no, I mean, me and Jax are friends. I know he's going through a lot, so, um, you know, obviously I've been there in that situation, so I just wanted to, uh, support my friend.

Okay. Yeah. Is there a chance we'll see you on his, you know, spin off television show? Uh, who knows? Who knows what the future holds, you know what I mean? You never know. Now, he said you are one of his absolute best friends, you know, and that, you know, you guys hang out a lot. You know, do you feel the same way about him?

Is he, you know? Jax is definitely, like, you know, we have so much history and so many years together. I mean, I've seen that guy. And, uh, ups and downs. I mean, we both have with each other. And when one person says they're your best friend and you're, and you say, well, we've been together for years, maybe it's not reciprocated, but either way, I mean, these TMZ interviews, they, Tom Sandoval eats him up.

I mean, he's going to live on reality TV as long as they'll have him. We know that for sure. Well, Artem Chigvintsev was on reality TV as a dancer on Dancing with the Stars, and now he nabs a legal win in Nikki Garcia, which is Nikki Bella divorce case, no anger management and no supervised visitation. As we know, the prosecutors declined to prosecute him.

For domestic violence. Following his initial arrest, he walked away with his best case scenario. Following a two hour, two hour hearing in his Nikki Garcia divorce case, according to documents obtained by TMC, the professional dancer and the retired WWE star had a hearing in the Napa County, California court.

Tuesday, where a judge ordered the exes to share custody of their son, four year old Mateo. This was certainly the outcome the Dancing with the Stars alum was hoping for, as he previously requested joint custody when he filed his divorce response in September. Nikki sought sole custody of Mateo when she filed for divorce, requesting Artem have Supervised visitation with their son and undergo anger management classes.

Uh, TMZ broke the original story where Nikki was granted a restraining order against Artem and he again was arrested. And, um, but he shares a different side of the story painting her as the aggressor. And it really is a, he said, she said, so he was arrested for DV. And then again, there was no charges actually put on him.

So we'll have any more updates as they come. Uh, here is Kelsey. From the bachelor, uh, Joey's fiancee responding to a tick tocker who says she was acting weird at the dancing with the stars finale, have a listen. Nope. Something was off there with Joey and Kelsey. Something. I still feel like I'm very new to having a relationship in the public eye.

And, you know, sometimes it stinks whenever people want to pick it apart. But I am thankful for all of the great things that it's brought me, like Joey. And the amazing opportunities that we've been able to share together. Um. But people like to assume things. And, um, sometimes it's hard for me not to say something back.

I feel the need to say something back. And so I am going to, cause I feel like it's going to make me feel better. But last night was dedication night. And a lot of people dedicated their songs to people that made a big impact in their life, uh, people that they lost, people that they've seen suffer through illnesses.

And, uh, there was a couple of moms as well. So it was a hard night for me. Um, seeing how I've lost my mom. Six years ago to breast cancer, um, I really resonated with a lot of these stories, um, of you know, having amazing moms and all of these things and, um, it, yeah, struck a nerve for me. Um, so I was a little emotional last night, um, so I guess she was right of, you know, something's not right.

Yeah, I was, um, I was missing my mom a little extra and, um, Joey's dance was so beautiful and it meant a lot to me. me and it did make me emotional because he dedicated it to me. So I wasn't grinning ear to ear. I also get a lot of anxiety before Joey's dances. Um, sometimes I get a little lightheaded during them.

Um, so yeah, I mean, whenever the video got me, I was smiling with my mouth closed, but I was still so proud of him. Um, I just, you know, was in my feelings a little bit, um, with how special it was and also, you know, missing my mom. So yeah. Yeah, I think that maybe we should just focus more on positives and not always assume the worst of things.

Um, that's all. I love it. There it is, Kelsey Anderson saying, Let's assume the best in people. I always say everyone's trying their best with the information they have. And I gotta tell you, that initial TikToker who said something was off with Joey and Kelsey tonight, I bet she feels really dumb right now when Kelsey says, Yeah, you know what was off?

was I felt really emotional because my mom passed away and in a night where everyone was getting sentimental, it made me think about my own lost relationship with my mother. You jackass. You know what I mean? Now she said, no shit, don't share any hate with anybody, but it just goes to show that so much empathy and grace can come when you know where someone else stands, like where they are in life.

I just say this, why don't we start having empathy and grace for people when we don't know their story and just assume that maybe they're having a rough day and they're trying their best. I'm going to try my best to bring the heat to you coming up next after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, speaking of Kelsey Anderson, uh, as you guys know, her father is competing on dancing with the star.

Excuse me. Her father is competing on the golden bachelorette. Uh, and that is really because we got to meet Kelsey Anderson's father during her hometown visit, when Joey met her parents, or excuse me, her father. And we got to learn the story of how Kelsey's mom had passed away of breast cancer. Well, everyone loved her dad, Mark Anderson, and so much that they were like, get him on.

Golden Bachelorette. I don't know. Maybe he's a couple of years too young. You know, he's, he's a little bit younger than some of the other cast members, but I think he would be great for Golden Bachelorette. He just seems like a great dude. Well, he finally got his one on one date last night on Golden Bachelorette with Joan Vasos and John's doing a great job too.

And on that one on one date, uh, they, they, They, they connected, but it was very clear to Joan that there wasn't more to the relationship and, uh, the following day she pulled him aside and said, Hey, Mark, uh, I really wanted to let you know before the rose ceremony that it's just not going to work out. And she said it in such a beautiful way.

She didn't want to, you know, she didn't want to do the thing where it's this big thing at the rose ceremony. She wanted to talk to him as a human. So Mark understood. And he said, look, I want what's best for you and go, go get them. And he announced to the guys that he was leaving. And this is what touches me more than anything.

When you see these men kind of all love on each other, the male on male. I guess, you know, friendship that they are showing is so powerful. And to me, it feels as if, and maybe you guys can relate. I'm not so sure. It feels as though we're getting to watch adult men, you know, you know, in this generation, the older men, men that would probably be our dad's age, have emotions that we maybe didn't get to see our parents have, I don't know about you guys, but.

Um, it just seems, it seems so right to watch and so therapeutic because as Mark said, Hey, I'm going to leave these guys got choked up. Pascal, the French guys, uh, you know, he's like, Oh, Mark's Mark became my best friend. What do you know? They're all acting like, uh, you know, he's gone for good and they're going to have reunions and they're going to catch up and they're going to have this bond that no one else.

Knows anything about because they're the first cast of the Golden Bachelorette I just found it very beautiful and I wanted to share my thoughts with you guys as while Mark wasn't right for Joan and Charles wasn't right for Joan and some of these other, Jack wasn't right, some of these other cast members that left They all had such a lasting impression on each other and I just found that very Endearing to see, um, and it, maybe it's because, and maybe I'm being very, um, I don't know, elementary in the way I'm looking at these men, but we think of the older generations as kind of being stiff and rigid without, you know, unable to share their emotions in a lot of way.

I look at it as, you know, a lot of these older guys had a dad that only shook their hand and they never knew what it was like to really hug and be, uh, you know, and, uh, A very, really embracing of the, of the love that friends can share. So, so I just like to see that, that they're getting to live this moment in this experiment outside of falling in love with Joan and outside of becoming the quote unquote winner of the show.

You just get to see that they're, they're all winning. They're all winning by being a part of this experience. And like I said before, I mean, they, they, they exist in their own families as the guy who's, you know, uh, the, the dad or the grandfather, the decision maker, the prideful man, they, you almost like the, I feel like the older you get, you lose your peer group because someone else, they're having a family and their grandfathers.

And to see all these men come together as dads, grandfathers, and, you know, And what not, and to see them all just confide in each other. Again, I found it to be beautiful. So Mark is gone. Will he be the next golden bachelor? We'll have to see. We'll have to see how it all plays out. I'll have my full recap on golden bachelor on today's YouTube.

All the X's and O's of what went down. Cause there was a fun, you know, bowling date and. Who's, you know, all of all the nuances over there on the YouTube today. So make sure to go check that out. So a lot of good stuff to get into. Maybe you're feeling like you aren't worth as much money as you wish you were.

Well, how about this story? Fire festivals, Billy McFarland says he owes 26 million. So, just as a thought today, if you are not where you want to be in life, just know you're probably not 26 million in debt. How much money do you owe? I owe approximately, that's a good question, I owe approximately 26 million in restitution.

Have you chipped away at that at all? Yes, every month I pay, so I have a percentage of my personal income that goes back directly to restitution. And then in addition to that, I'm doing more. By dedicating 10 percent of the profits from FIRE, you know, forever, until it's paid back, back to restitution as well.

What is your income coming from right now? I do a lot of marketing work, so I work for a lot of venture capital backed startups, helping them create viral moments for their brand. And also do various, you know, media work, TV appearances, I did a karate combat fight, so like, literally I'm fighting to pay people back in every possible way.

Here's a, here's a sort of theory I had, Billy, from FireFest, if you want to pay people back, throw FireFest 2 and make it bigger and better! The Fiery Fist! Festival, we're going to call it. Well, look, I mean, Hey, I, I actually, you know, in some ways I kind of feel for the guy, you know, they always say fake it till you make it and he faked it and now he owes 26 million, but hey, what can you do out there?

You know, you tried your best. Isn't that what you need? Well, no, I mean, seriously, uh, good on him though, for, I guess, paying some of it back, I don't know. Here's an interesting wildlife story for you. If you know me, if you really know me, you know, I have an interest in a since extinct animal. Called the thylacine.

Are you familiar with this animal? It's like part tiger, part coyote. It's very bizarre looking. Well, how a putrid find in a museum cupboard could be the key to bringing the Tasmanian tiger back to life. That's right. The thylacine is also called the Tasmanian tiger. A well preserved thylacine head was a gruesome sight, but it also contained RNA molecules crucial to reconstructing the extinct animal's genome.

Breakthroughs sometimes turn up in unexpected places. The researchers working on the international push to bring back the thylacine say they found theirs in a long ignored bucket in the back of a cupboard at a Melbourne museum. It contains an astonishingly well-preserved head of the extinct marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian tiger.

It was literally a head in a bucket of ethanol in the back of a cupboard that had just been dumped there with all the skin removed and been sitting there for about 110 years. Professor Andrew Pasch, head of the Thialysine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research with the perfect acronym. Tiger Lab at the University of Melbourne says it was pretty putrid, a completely gruesome site.

People had charted large. Chunks off of it. Well, either way, I find this fascinating. Now the Tasmanian tiger, AKA the thylacine has been spotted, uh, by people. They say they think they see it randomly running across the street in remote areas. So whether or not it's actually extinct, I'm not sure. There are only a few photos of it because there was one decades ago that was still in a zoo, but it didn't have a mate.

So I don't know. I just like the thylacine. theory that there's a couple of families of thylacine living out there and why does it matter? I don't know. Again, it's just that idea that you just hope, uh, you just hope, uh, that some animal forms can continue to live even when we say they're technically extinct.

I don't know. So anyway, if anyone has any updates, I know I've got a lot of Australian listeners out there. If you've got any updates or have you spotted a thylacine or a Bigfoot, We like that too. We'll take a big foot, a good old Sasquatch story. Uh, please let me know. So the plan to de extinct the thylacine is a project driven by Colossal, a Texas based biotechnology de extinction and species preservation company that's aiming to recreate the woolly mammoth in the dodo using genetic engineering.

techniques. All right. Well, we already covered it doing the woolly mammoth. So Hey, bring it all back. What could this do? You know, this can't be a, this, this feels like a final destination movie. Like you're going to re engineer this. And also some pandemic comes out of nowhere. I've seen this happen before.

I know how it plays out. All right. Well, as promised, I gave you all your non political stories first. Now, next I'm going to get to Kamala Harris, uh, being grilled by Fox news. That story's coming up after a quick word from our sponsors. All right. So last night was a big night for the Kamala Harris campaign as she's running, obviously for president from the Democratic Party ticket.

And she went on Fox news. Uh, they've been, you know, kind of saying, uh, you know, people have complained that she's not doing any hard hitting, uh, interviews. Well, Fox news gave her that hard hitting of interview. I'm going to share what, uh, I'm going to share a, some praise and some criticisms for how it I have to say first, my point of view was that I only caught the second half, but Brett bear was literally asking her questions and then interrupting her nonstop.

I don't know. I mean, this is just what I hate about TV is that they, they didn't have, they, they should have done a longer interview. Do a, do an hour or two, three hour long. Like. Why are we chopping these up, these 20 minute, uh, you know, interviews on 60 Minutes? Like, air the dang thing. Either way, here's what CNN had to say, and then we'll get to what Sean Spicer, a Republican had to say.

I totally agree, Ashley. I think this strategy from Harris was a Google strategy. She wanted Fox viewers to start to Google some of the things she was saying, because some of the comments she was making in this interview are foreign to the Fox audience. For example, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. General Mark Milley, saying Trump is a fascist to the core, that's barely been covered on Fox News.

So she was able to get some of those talking points in. This was the most adversarial interview Kamala Harris has probably ever done. Instead of getting to debate Trump again, she got to debate Brett Baier. And a lot of viewers are going to come away saying, Wow. She's willing to do that. That's a sign of toughness and strength.

Now, what's interesting is people are either saying she crushed it or saying that she's done. There's actually a lot of people online saying that the polls are way off and they think it's going to be a landslide win for her. I don't think that's the case. Here's what Don Lemon had to say about the technical aspect of the interview.

Look, I got to say, this is a tough interview, but I think she's doing really well. It's right there's doing a good job. And so is she. This tough type of interview is going to be great for her. She's holding her own. I mean, look, I think she wasn't going to lose any audience and she can only gain voters at this point.

Here's what Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, had to say about her interview and how it didn't hit the spot. This was designed to reach out to moderate, either Republicans or Independents, who watch Fox News, who were, uh, Shall we say Harris curious? Kamala curious. Kamala curious. Uh, I'll go for you for the alliteration.

Uh, did she give them reason to be more than curious? I don't think so. I mean, the immigration answer off the bat was disqualified. That was the first, that was the first topic, but it went on and on and on because she can't answer the question. And I give Brett a lot of credit for going back to the question.

Okay. These were your policies. You repealed 90 executive orders out of the gate. Don't talk about a bill that happened three and a half years later. Talk about the policies that you implemented and acted on. Right out of the gate. She couldn't answer that question. I think that's the number one issue facing a lot of voters.

And for people who were common, commonly curious there, that wasn't going to satisfy them. And then at the end to say, I'm going to be very different from Joe Biden tonight. Didn't move the needle. Well, I don't know if I agree or disagree about whether it moves the needle, but the needle, it's. itself is so delicate right now, so far as to say it is a 50 50 deadlocked tie.

Although some people online are saying the polling is getting it wrong. Now in, of course, 2016 the polling was wrong, uh, whereas the polling thought Clinton was going to win and then Trump kind of outperformed the polls. Now some people are saying it's the exact opposite. Have a listen. Is getting Trump wrong again, but this time they're inflating his numbers and I'm going to prove to you why.

As of right now, the race is a dead heat tie from a polling perspective, and a lot of people think well, Trump overperformed in 2020 and in 2016, so isn't he really winning right now? No, he's not. But, we have to understand what exactly happened in 16 and 20 to understand what's happening today. Back in 2016, the national polls were actually pretty accurate, but the battleground state polls, especially in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, were wildly incorrect.

But why did that happen? It's because Trump spoke to a group of voters that almost nobody had previously and they got very excited to vote for him. And that group was uneducated white people. That's not meant to be an insult, it's just a representation of the demographics that pushed Trump over the edge.

But it's also a representation of the people that made the polling wrong. And you can see it right down here. This is why the state polls were wrong. It's because that group historically did not turn out that well. Like, yeah, they voted for Republicans, but their turnout rate was low. Trump Activated them in a way that polling couldn't capture and that's how he outperformed polling in these states and in 2020 it happened again But this time it was for a different reason trump took a very unique approach to his 2020 campaign Instead of chasing after undecided voters and trying to moderate his message.

He tried to turn out red counties and at a rate that they've never turned out before by amping up his base in a big way. He did this because the core of his 2016 campaign was being this agent of change. He was different from politicians who was going to come in and change the game. He couldn't run on that in 2020.

He had to run on the chaos, fears about lockdowns, vaccine mandates. All right. So they talk about that chaos and fear, you know, and it's very interesting to think of the different, uh, ways that can activate voters. We actually have the neuroscientist, Dr. Rachel Barr here. to share why misinformation sticks in the brain and there is a little bit of correlation.

Have a listen. Why is it so difficult to change somebody's mind after they've been exposed to online misinformation? You're asking the right girl because I'm Rachel, the neuroscientist. Nothing quite captivates human attention like fear, rage, shame, and loneliness. And algorithms, personalized algorithms, learn quickly that that's what captivates human attention.

We scroll, which makes us feel bad. Which makes us scroll even more, which makes us feel even worse, right? This is where the trap really catches us. The more that you're feeling things like fear and shame, the more that you and your brain, consciously and not, will be working to build a narrative around that.

Just for a second, step back and think about humans in the wild. It's very rare that you would be feeling that level of fear and shame without good reason, like running away from saber toothed tigers or whatever. So your brain says, alright, I'm feeling ashamed a lot, there must be a reason why, we'll find a way to justify those.

The very emotions that are being used against you by other people. for pernicious algorithmic cycles. And those justifications are not trivial, right? They're like fundamental shifts in worldviews, fundamental shifts in sense of identity. Reversing those justifications and changes is very difficult. Even if you can, and you can change somebody's mind at a factual level, that initial justification emotional residue tends to stick around.

That will be the thing that informs somebody's behavior, like which causes you advocate for, who you vote for, like that will have much more of a bearing than all of the logical stuff. Yeah, and I always said that when you're, uh, sold on fear, you can't be logical, like the brains can only work with one versus the other.

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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. It's hump day, Wednesday, October 16th. 2024. And I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. And it is a wild one today on today's afternoon rush, former bachelorette contestant admits to transition hoax and a bizarre interview.

I'll break all of that down for you. Plus Patrick Mahomes says his daughter bakes with Taylor Swift. And that sounds magical to me. I'd love to eat a Taylor Swift cookie. Oh boy, I bet it's good. The Jonas Brothers run off stage after a laser pointer targets them during a concert, and a militia group encounters FEMA workers during hurricane cleanup.

I wish these stories weren't true. What a world. Plus, we've got a preview of tonight's episode of The Golden Bachelorette. All those stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, let's start with a little groove. This is the songwriter for Rihanna's song SOS explaining the lyrics. Have a listen. I wrote it.

I had no idea what I was doing. The whole second verse of that song is 80 song titles strung together as sentences, because I thought it would be super clever. Take on me. You know inside you feel it right Take me on I could just die up in your arms tonight I melt with you You got me head over heels But boy you keep me hanging on the way you make me feel They're all number one songs from the 80s That's incredible, I had no idea about that No one does No one does.

There it is. Well, you learn a little bit. Could AI do that? I don't think so. Well, maybe who knows. All right. Nick Jonas runs off stage. Speaking of a lyricist, you know, everyone loves a good Nick Jonas song. I couldn't name one. I couldn't name one Nick Jonas, not my demographic. Well, he runs off stage after being targeted by laser pointer during Jonas brothers concert.

They had a concert in Prague and it was halted on Tuesday after Nick Jonas was targeted. He ran off stage footage of the incident incident emerged on social. Media where Nick can be seen dashing off stage, mid concert while making a timeout sign with his hands a rep for the O2 arena In Prague where the concert was held, confirmed to variety, the show was halted.

We can confirm that Jonas Brothers performance had to be interrupted for several minutes due to the use of a prohibited laser pointer. So my guess is they thought it was like a sniper rifle or something like that. I don't know. It sounds pretty wild, but I guess if a laser point is heading in your direction, the safest thing to do is.

Get off stage. Well, Sidney Sweeney is going to be in a new movie. She's the heartthrob dojor. We love Sidney Sweeney, uh, but she is unrecognizable on set. She seems to be getting a feeling of euphoria from working out. She's showing off her muscles and new photos from the Christie Martin biopic. Yeah.

She's kind of got like a little bit of a perm thing happening. She's getting jacked out there. I'm all about it. Um, She shared these photos about her transformation and paparazzi took photos of her and didn't even know who she was. Uh, she was wearing sweatpants and a red tank top. I love it. I love, I love when actors can, especially pretty actors.

I love when they can just dumb it down a little bit. She's going to be playing a boxer. She told deadline. She was stoked to take on the new challenge saying she grappled in kickbox for about a decade. She looked forward to getting back in the ring and training once again. I didn't know she was a grappler, but, uh, we're happy for her.

Well. Uh, from one violent sport boxing to another football. We, uh, shared that New York Jets coach who was just fired. Robert Sela was making 800 an hour, 20, 000 a day for the next two years. What would you do with 20, 000 a day? For the next two years. That's a good question. I don't know. Yeah. I'll tell you what he's doing.

He's going to Whole Foods. I tell you what, he's not going to Trader Joe's with that kind of money. You're going to need it to shop at Whole Foods. Here is, I guess, TMZ catching him outside of Whole Foods and discussing his newfound free time. Hey coach, how you doing? How are you feeling after everything this week?

Well, we saw coach Belichick and the Mannings kind of give some support for you yesterday. How does that feel? Do you feel like your Lebanese flag had anything to do with your, what happened? Oh, he's silent. Can we see you on a, on a sideline soon? All right. I like that. He said, God willing. So you can tell when these TMZ paparazzi videos are planned versus when they're not, when they're planned, the person's, you know, pulls over, sits on a stoop, talks to them for a while when they're not.

It's this case where he's just going to his car. Look, it's gotta suck. Like he didn't. plan, you know, as a football coach or football player, you're essentially busy from like July to January if things go well. And I'm sure he did not have it in his playbook as it were, that he would be unemployed come October.

I say, just take the money. Get, you know, some valuable family time, go on a nice Whole Foods run. And by the way, is there anything better than going to the rest, going to the store when you have free time? I mean, I hate to say this because I understand the pandemic was a very tough time for a lot of people out there, but it was a time when my wife and I really bonded over kind of slowing down our rat race.

And maybe it was a good reminder to us that there's no, like, what's the point in working 24 seven, obviously, like we live in a world where pay is down and expenses are up and a lot of people just have these crazy work schedules, but the pandemic literally forced us to go home from work. Buy a sack of potatoes and make some loaded potatoes while we watch Survivor.

And, you know, we just needed that so much in our life. We started going on afternoon walks together during the pandemic, and we do that today. And I don't know if there's a better thing for couples to do out there than to find a Time every day to go on a walk together. It gets the body and the brain moving.

It gets the heart rate going and, you know, working out to get a couple of that workout together, look great in bed together and stay together. Uh, well, I'm not saying I look good in bed, but that's a different story. Hey, when you have a baby, you eat every carb you can find. Uh, going carb free is the single life.

Once you got dad bod, you got biscuits in the belly. Well, speaking of biscuits in the belly, Patrick Mahomes was on a podcast and says Taylor Swift's baking is as good as her music. Uh, so not only does she shake it off, she shakes and bakes. I have to ask you, has Taylor ever baked something for you and what did she make you?

Um, I don't, she's never like baked anything specifically for me, um, but, uh, She's, uh, she's made different, uh, treats that have been around my house, like muffins and, and, and donuts and stuff like that. Her, uh, Sterling's a big baker as well, so they make some stuff together sometimes, and I'm not gonna say I don't eat them.

So, uh, she's, she's as good as everybody's talked about. She's, she's great as it comes, uh, as far as it comes to baking. Let me tell you something. You know who doesn't bake? My wife, Tasha. She is not a baker. She'll, I'm the baker in the household. She'll eat it. She is, she is an eater, not a baker. And by the way, can you believe this?

I totally missed out on shouting out my wife yesterday. It was her second wedding anniversary. You know, I'm not, I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be honest with you guys. There's this trope that the man always forgets the anniversary. Yesterday we were preparing for our flight to Boston. We had to drive to Boston and fly to Nashville and we had to get all of our stuff together.

You know, we have a baby for the first time. So we're packing the baby, you know, the, this, the, that all the things that go along with it, making sure the breastfeeding time lines up with, you know, all of that stuff, right? Uh, you change his diaper just so he can, you know, shard himself in the TSA line. It happens every time it's a tale as old as time.

But the point is. The point is, is that my sister texted me and says, happy wedding anniversary. And she texted it to me and she's, and she sent it to Tasha as well. She sent it in a group chat. Now, if she just sent it to me, I would have used that as a hint to then tell Tasha happy, happy anniversary. But because we were both in it, I couldn't pretend that I knew all along.

I said, Tasha, look at your, look at your DMs. And she, we laughed. Look, we just, we. We are, we are on such a day to day basis on life right now that, uh, yeah, we forgot. So we'll make plans. We'll be okay folks. But, um, I don't know. I'm sure, I'm sure families of a young baby can relate that nothing really matters in your life.

You just become so consumed in your baby. And again, we will, we, we of course try to do things without the baby, but, um, that, that, that very rarely happens. Like the baby is, you know, he's a five month old. He's in every plan we make, uh, because, uh, you know, we're, we're not at the stage where we just. Leave him at home with the babysitter.

That's not happening yet, folks. Uh, one of these days, uh, one of these days. All right. Well, we have a lot to get to. I'm going to cover the bachelorette trans hoax. Boy, geez, you wish you didn't have to cover this story. I'll have that story for you after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, as promised, here it is.

We've got the Bachelorette contestant, Josh Sider, who said he was a woman for five or six months, and now he says it was all just a social experiment, which we call trolling. Now, as far as it being an actual experiment, um, it is, it is a real just, um, cry for attention, if you ask me. Here's what he had to say.

You want to know what's going on. Well I gotta be honest, for the last five months I've been conducting a social experiment online to expose how gullible and how delusional the left is.

Now to say the left is delusional, again, we spoke to people about this. You know, the idea that if someone comes out as trans, what are you supposed to do, ask them for proof right away? No, you just accept people for who they are. Not everyone is like a megalomaniac on Instagram doing things for likes. Now, we know that he faked his death.

He said, no, it wasn't fake. And you know, it was very bizarre. His family, you couldn't get in touch with him for a while. He faked his death and then he was no longer dead. He goes to a mental health place that clearly the guy's off his rocker in other ways. But to say that this was some grand experiment is just laughable.

We love it, Josh. And now I'm so happy that you came on this program and you're so gracious to fly all the way here from Chicago to come speak with us and talk about how insane the world is that. You, putting on a woman face, I guess, is that the best way to describe it? Yeah, woman face. You were accepted by some, you were demonized by most, and now you're saying this was all a ruse, this was a social experiment, and I know you studied sociology, didn't you major in sociology?

I did. Wow, he majored in sociology, guys. I guess it's okay. Look, he wasn't demonized by most. The only people that demonized him knew he was faking it. You know, no one demonized him for being trans. They demonized him because they knew he was exploiting a marginalized community. People on the comment section are saying, get this man into a mental hospital.

Oh, this is terrible. He's causing so much hate and making fun of a community. He needs some help. Uh, and look, he'll, he'll be applauded by some that use him as a pawn and some, you know, faux culture war that exists out there. Uh, you know, we're, we're covering this in today's Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal, and I was talking to my community and someone said, listen, if you believe someone, when they say they're trans.

And then later on they lie, you can expose them as a liar. If you don't believe someone is trans, you could possibly. Uh, be hurting them in a way, because, you know, you know, it's like, it's like such a delicate place for somebody who's trying to find their identity. Right? So I have no problem calling people by their pronouns, believing people for who they are, because most people aren't exploiting an issue of identity like this of gender identity.

So again, it's such a non story to me when he transitioned, other than no one believed him. What you did is arguably. One of the greatest social experiments of our modern internet age, in my opinion. You want to know, so he says it's the greatest social experiment, which again, like I covered in my video today on YouTube, the experiment, as far as I can tell, didn't involve any taking of any, uh, statistical information.

Like, what was he trying to show that That that the left is easily duped and then the people that didn't believe him, he's now calling them haters. It was a lose lose. If you ask me for everyone involved, but let's just remember if anyone is struggling with their identity, be you. You don't have to fit into any boxes.

Just be you. And the people that believe in you and the people that respect you won't care who you are. I remember when my, one of my best friends from college came out to me as gay. He was worried that I was going to disown him as a friend. And I was like, what are you talking about? Yeah, my, my friendship with you has nothing to do with Who you like or who you're into and you'll, you'll see this.

I mean, Will Ferrell has this new documentary that came out with his friend who came out as trans in his sixties. Do you think someone in their sixties just comes out as trans? Because they're part of a social experiment. No, it's it's when you know, the dust settles on people's lives and they realize Maybe they've been hiding their true identity.

Like enough is enough. And people come to that point and trans people have existed since people have existed on a spectrum of hyper masculine to hyper feminine to everything in between. It's all a spectrum. How, uh, you know, how we relate to what norms we fit into is up to us. And I think it's up to us as a society to be welcoming of people and not let people like Josh Siter, um, get in the way of our good nature.

You know, all right. So anyway, here's a very interesting story coming out of Carter County, an armed group confronted FEMA workers, and they were open carrying with weapons, which I think they're allowed to and surrounded the FEMA workers. Um, this all took place while they were, they actually weren't even FEMA workers.

They were disaster relief volunteers in Northeast Tennessee. So this isn't too far from me. Let's have a listen to this bizarre story. The elk mills pokey area of Carter County is now a much longer drive from the sheriff's department in Elizabethan. So when a 911 call comes in, like it did Saturday, it was a good thing the situation was diffused before it got worse.

Tracy Elder with the International Alliance of Community Chaplains, who's running the donation center in the area, found herself between FEMA workers and a group of armed citizens criticizing the work of the government agency. They were armed. They were, they were all open carry. Um, they had surrounded them and it was, there was a lady that was yelling at them and threatening them.

Elder says a trooper was nearby and she was able to explain to the group that her volunteer organization is not fema. It's a disaster relief charity. I don't care what, whatever their beef is with the government or FEMA. That's not my, that's not my job. My job on this ground is to take care of the folks here.

Carter County Sheriff Mike Fraley says the group is believed to be from North Carolina, where similar incidents have happened because of misinformation about FEMA. Those FEMA workers, they're here to help, and if you don't want FEMA, Famous help then, you know, politely tell them. So, but they, they are human beings just like we are.

Fraley says if that group comes back, there will be consequences. And in order to deter similar behavior, he's setting up a new command post where deputies will work and sleep. And we're going to assign two officers, uh, up here, 24 hours a day. And they're going to basically work the life of a firefighter.

Unbelievable. I mean, can you imagine this folks? Listen, these armed, uh, vigilante militia groups, like they think they're protecting their country. They know there might be racist undertones and other undertones, but they're just operating on such a limited information that it's so, you know, Scary to think how easily it is to activate people to do the wrong thing here.

What a wild story. We'll have updates as this progresses. Cause you know, the elections in three weeks and God forbid poll workers get shot up, you know, all, I mean, We're going to need a national guard out there just to conduct a democratic election. Well, Mint Mobile is our sponsor of the week. Can you believe this?

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So yeah, whether you're, um, FEMA or a group trying to work for the cleanup. Let's be a part of society that brings people together. Let's be a part of a society that lifts up the, um, you know, the sort of, uh, the, the people that are struggling and helps those in need. I think we can do that. And one way we inspire.

Our community in our country to come together is to share stories that we can all relate to stories of love and loss. And usually this is what's so sad about the issues going on out there, you know, nine 11 happened. Everyone came together Uh when when when it's an us versus them it rallies people to come together, but now With all the misinformation that frankly could be coming in part by foreign sources.

You just don't know what to believe anymore. And it, and it makes us live in a world that is questioning our reality. One thing that is a highlight in our world is a show like the golden bachelor and golden bachelorette, uh, where everyone can root for love for people. Like we've all had parents. We've all had people that.

Uh, you know, they're approaching the last act in life and they want to find happiness and we find that Pursuit in golden bachelorette a new episode is tonight. It's getting rave reviews. Here's a quick clip of what to expect tonight We're at a bowling alley today, and it's my last ever group date. How are you?

Thank you We have Bowling shirts. We have beer. We have food. By the way, what's better than bowling beer food. And it's always the best kind of food, right? Just that fried greasiness. Why do bowling alleys have greasy food when you got to touch the bowling ball? You know, they need, uh, they need a little sink right next to the bowling ball.

So you can wash up between chicken wings. Anyhow, the trailer is very visual based, so I'm not going to share it with you, but the next episode is tonight and we'll have a recap for you guys tomorrow. Well, I wanted to. share some thoughts on what went down on, on the, uh, dancing with the stars. We have Jen Tran discussing after her dance, how her partner, Sasha Farber educated her, and, uh, she shared with him a little swifty lingo.

We'll get to that story next. All right. Bachelor at Jen had a great dance on dancing with the stars. Here she is on good morning America, discussing that with her partner, Sasha. Well, I've learned that I, I feel like I'm in, if I was in, in eras, I would be era. An era, babe. I would be in the lovers era. Lover.

Era Lover. That's the album name, honey. That's what I meant. That's, see we still got some work to do. And back to the classroom bracelets, bracelet. What do we do with the bracelets? We switch them for friendship. So when you see someone, you change them. Oh, good. Wow. So there it is. Jen training her partner on all what it means to be a Taylor Swift fan.

And we've got actually another clip here to share of, uh, uh, the lady who played Topanga on Boy Meets World. One of my first crushes, Danielle Fishel. She talks about her breast cancer journey. My doctor told me, you're going to be okay. I just want you to know, I'm so thankful that it's stage 0, but I do want you to know there is no easy cancer.

And I didn't really quite understood what she meant, but now having, you know, just been on this journey for a couple of months, I get it now. The 43 year old mother of two diagnosed with DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ. Doctors label it stage 0 breast cancer. Having to break the news to my husband was really hard.

Both of his parents passed from cancer. I waited until the kids went to bed and he actually brought it up. He said, Still no results yet, huh? And I said, No, I did get the results back and I do have cancer. And I, I mean, truly just saw the blood drain from his face. For the last three months, Fischl undergoing two surgeries, including a lumpectomy, and weighing her options about treatment.

Hey, and this is what, uh, you know, you want celebrities to be doing with their platform, just educating others, like, hey, this happens, you know, I'm sure Danielle Fischl doesn't feel, you know, Like she's even at the age where, you know, we, you know, it kind of creeps up on you as the point. And, uh, you know, you got to get your mammograms and, uh, don't take it from me, folks.

I think everyone's got a story in their family, uh, that is like, you know, if you catch these things early, uh, they can be most likely manageable. So. Uh, interesting stuff. Let's just finish it off today with the Menendez brothers story, which is really coming back into the world of true crime as family members push for the Los Angeles district attorney to recommend resentencing.

Listen, I mean, you've got some members of the brothers family, um, Including, uh, their, their mother's sister, who's, who've always stood by them. Uh, look, I mean, at this point, I mean, we've, we've covered, uh, large murder trials in, in the past. But, I mean, what is it, I mean, what do you make of, of, of that, that consistency, specifically in this, in this case?

Well, two of the cousins testified in the first trial. They They testified that Jose was abusive, that they had seen evidence of the abuse, and that the brothers had confided in them. Again, that was excluded in the second trial, but ever since that guilty verdict, many of the family members have felt haunted by the fact that they were not heard.

Now look, I mean look, murder's murder, but obviously, is it premeditated? Is it a reaction to abuse? I don't know how it all works, but if there was information that was withheld, that would, you know I guess, uh, I don't want to say justify what they did, but maybe explain it in a different way. I think that'd be interesting to share.

Uh, in other news and our final story of the day, a judge in the Michael Jordan's dad's murder case asked for parole board to release convicted killer. Michael Jordan's dad was murdered. He, his father was slain. James Jordan. Any, uh, I guess a judge. Uh, has, he's retired and he's, uh, his name is Gregory Weeks.

He oversaw the 96 murder trial, petitioned the North Carolina State Parole Board, calling on the commission to release Daniel Green, the man who was found guilty of killing Michael Jordan's dad in the mid nineties. During a botched robbery. Now, the conspiracy around this is that, and I don't believe it. I don't have any information into it, was that Michael Jordan's dad was killed because Michael Jordan was like in a big gambling debt, which I don't know.

That sounds ridiculous, but botched robbery is also ridiculous. Uh, judge week says a forensic blood expert failed to disclose key findings during the trial evidence that could have. Cast doubt as to whether green was guilty of the horrific crime. I hate that we live in a world where forensic information is coming out.

That's actually exonerating people. I mean, it's good that it is, but it just goes to show how many people existed out there and have been wrongfully convicted. I know I watched a documentary. When I was in my, in high school, that was a guy wrongfully convicted of crimes. And he was on the death, you know, he's received a death penalty and he was able to finally exonerate himself, but how many people don't, and then you just forget about it.

We had a story that happened last week where a guy was, uh, you know, killed, um, and, uh, and, and there were still concern as to the evidence might not have been right or accurate. It's just bizarre out there. It's really bizarre. Well, look. I know it's a weird one to end on, but we're out of time for the day.

Uh, lots, lots of content to keep on talking about. So many tabs are left open here that I didn't get to. So we'll be back in the morning. We'll see you then. I hope everyone had a safe drive home, be a Taylor Swift and go bake some cookies. You can send some my way. I'll tell you, no, don't, don't send me baked cookies.

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I actually wanted to talk about this on our last episode, but we ran out of time. Joker, the new Joker movie, it bombed in the box office and it's set to lose 150 to 200 million in its theatrical run, uh, after, I guess, uh, not getting the love at first sight. thought it was going to get. It was primed to be another twisted comic book smash.

Instead, the sequel to 2019 billion dollar hit Joker is a box office disaster. The offbeat musical about Batman's notorious foe has grossed 51 million domestically and 165 million globally after two weeks of release. By comparison, the first Joker generated 96. 2 million domestically. So look, I mean, what are you going to do?

It didn't do well. Tim Dillon, a famous comedian, had this to say about the new movie. I'm grateful to have sat in a trailer for three months and been a small part of probably the worst film ever made. Arguably the worst film ever on a, on a screen where people are walking out of this film. I saw it in Laguna beach.

I was in California and I was watching it and people were walking out of the theater, confused, befuddled. Angry. Why? Why did you do this? I had a nice little scene. In fact, I missed my scene. I was talking. I was texting on the phone about how bad this movie is. There you go. Show the people. I was texting on the phone about how atrocious the film is.

I missed my scene. I did. I mean, you know, the movie's not good if you're in it and you're still saying, yeah, it's not good. Even see it. And I just walked out and looked at the beach. Do you know that when my agents called me to put me in this, they told me it was going to be a big deal for me. Oh, it's going to be a big disco.

Open up doors for you. It's going to open up doors. The only door it opened up is the door in the Laguna Beach movie theater when everybody walked the fuck out. That's the door it opened up. And people, I was hiding. A few people, I don't get recognized all the time, but every now and then somebody will recognize me.

I was hiding like Diddy in that theater trying to get out. Somebody went, Tim Dillon, you were in that. You were good. And I went, it was terrible. They went, it was terrible. And I just ran to my car. There it is. I mean, Hey, they can't all be hits. You know what I mean? So yeah, I guess Joker, if you didn't like the second Joker, just go back and rewatch the first one.

Well, here's an interesting story for you. We covered this the other day. A New York Jets coach, Robert Sala, was fired. Well, now Bill Belichick is ripping the Jets owner after firing him because he of course worked for the New York Jets for one day. Uh, you might not know this, uh, but yes, that's right. The head coach of the New England Patriots, the most winning or one of the most winning coaches of all time.

One of the greatest coaches of all time, Bill Belichick. Uh, was hired by the New York Jets as the head coach and he resigned on a cocktail napkin that read, I resign as H. C. of the N. Y. J. Right on his face. Hey, look, Peyton, I was the head coach of the Jets twice. I was the head coach before Parcells came there and I was the head coach after Bill resigned.

Undefeated, unscored on, alright? My career as a coach of the Jets is over. It's unblemished. Unblemished, well, I tell you what, uh, Robert Sala's coaching of the Jets is not unblemished. So he was fired, but here's the deal. He still has to get paid for the next two years. And, uh, just so you guys know, Robert Sala is going to be getting paid 800 an hour.

The equivalent of 20, 000 a day. Uh, and I guess that comes out to half a million dollars a month, uh, because they didn't want to hire them, but they didn't want to keep them. Did I do the math? Right? The point is it's a lot of money when you fire somebody, I guess you still got to pay them. Who knew? Uh, well, okay, let's go to a rather Serious and bizarre story.

This was being billed as the possible third assassination attempt on Donald Trump over the weekend, uh, where someone was found with multiple passports and loaded weapons outside of Trump rally while news nation interviewed that man, his name's Vem Miller. He's a Los Angeles man arrested Saturday for possessing multiple guns and fake press passes outside of a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump.

Well, he says he's being framed. Have a listen. Why did you bring these weapons, including a loaded handgun? The fake passports, what you, I imagine, will say is not, uh, fake, uh, press credentials, but a fake driver's license, all to this rally. You could understand why people would say that's strange and why you needed to be detained.

So those are all false allegations. I didn't have fake passports, they were valid passports, I didn't have fake IDs, that's a false accusation. But are you saying all the, this is being reported by multiple agencies, including from the sheriff's office. You're saying everybody's getting it wrong about what happened?

Uh, the FBI and Secret Service have come out and said that I was no threat, they saw no threat, so they've been very clear. There's a difference though. There's a difference between you not being a threat, you not being an attempted assassin, versus you having illegally possessing weapons and having these faked documentation.

Are you saying that part is not true? That is 100 percent false. The Sheriff's office is lying and they're about to get hit with a lawsuit. The Sheriff is going to be investigated, he's going to lose his position. The Deputy Sheriff that, uh, Was part of this, is going to be investigated, is going to lose his position, there's going to be a massive lawsuit.

They always say there's going to be a massive lawsuit and then you never hear anything, but I vow to cover it if this is the case of some weird conspiracy. All right, well, speaking of sad news here, uh, Hurricane Milton, of course, hit Florida and there was just some bizarre stories, one of which, uh, body cam footage, uh, showed police Showing up to the scene, I guess, of a dog that was chained to a fence.

It was abandoned. Well, governor DeSantis, I guess, found out who that was that did that. And they're going to charge this man. One of the issues that we saw happen was we had somebody decide as hurricane Milton approached. that it would somehow be a good thing to take his dog and chain it to a post on the interstate.

Well, um, we had, um, uh, a florida highway patrol, uh, with us here today. Um, that that saw that that dog in distress dog was very rattled from that experience, uh, rescued the dog. The dogs now in Tallahassee, it will be adopted, uh, renamed trooper. But we said at the time, You don't just tie up a dog and have them out there for a storm.

Totally unacceptable and we're going to hold you accountable while I'm proud to announce that, um, uh, the authorities have identified the dog's former owners. And state attorney Susie Lopez is now pursuing animal cruelty charges against the individual. So I mean, I just, I just, first of all, saying he's proud to announce his bizarre, cause there's a lot of other big issues to deal with.

But you know, after a hurricane, it makes people do weird things. People price gouge. There's just like, you know, but obviously it's like, in what scenario was chaining him? I mean, you know, could you say, well, they were going to drive across town in the. Didn't want him to run away, but he wasn't safe at home.

Like I, I just can't, I can't understand. Uh, we'll see if they provide any defense to that. Well, speaking of strange and sad news out of Hurricane Milton, we covered Lieutenant Dan, this guy, uh, Joe C he of course went viral because he was riding the storm out in his boat, which is, you know, good news. But there was a guy named Terrence that he goes by Tampa Terrence and he started a GoFundMe for this guy, Joe, AKA Lieutenant Dan, and he really put him on the map.

map. Well, Tampa Terrence wants people to ask for a refund on the GoFundMe because he doesn't want to be involved with Lieutenant Dan anymore. Uh, I guess he gave Lieutenant Dan around 7, 000 of the 40, 000 that happened that came out of the GoFundMe. Uh, but the funds weren't fully accessed yet. And Lieutenant Dan thought he was getting ripped off.

It could just be a case of Lieutenant Dan being very paranoid, you know, having been unhoused and living on the streets and living on the waters. Uh, not that, you know, he's not homeless now. He's got a boat, but he was in and out of homeless shelters and in, uh, the prison, it could just be a sad case of him being very paranoid, but either way, Tampa, Terrence wants nothing to do with them.

Here's a statement he released. Um, part of me just wants to refund every single person. Now this guy's part of me just wants a refund at all, but since I already gave him the 7, 000, I just got a phone call from me and they said, um, if I refund all the money, then. If the 7, 000 is gonna have to be included and then like I would have to cover the 7, 000 and I don't want to give that guy any more money that I already have and I just don't want to be involved in this GoFundMe anymore.

I don't want to go over there and talk to him. But like part of me feels like he should get the GoFundMe money. I mean, if you guys gave to the GoFundMe and You want your money back? Please request a refund on GoFundMe. That's like the best way to do it. I don't want anything to do with him anymore. I don't even want to go over there and talk to him.

I don't want to give him any more money. Very sad stuff folks, but you know, you can vote with your dollar, do whatever the hell you want. Look, I mean, You know, the guy, the guy probably needs help in one way or another, but, uh, not Tampa Terrance, but, uh, Lieutenant Dan, but either way, you know, it's, uh, it's a product of the times we're in where there's a lot of desperation.

And when you get the internet involved, people get a taste of that fame and it makes them do weird things. Well, all right. Well, I'll tell you what, let's reset. This was some good news. We'll talk dancing with the stars when we come back right after this. How amazing was Dancing with the Stars last night?

If you, if you don't watch the show and have never watched it, I say give it a shot. You know what I love about the show? Uh, you got celebrities that have, uh, you know, or people that have, they're influential, they made money, they've done different things in the world of, uh, entertainment, and then they come into the world of dance, and they are very quickly humbled because it's, Dancing's very hard and it really, it really gives us all something to root for when we watch the show.

It's kind of like watching special forces, but for the ballroom, right? What I love so much about this season is you have several cast members that were Olympians in this year's Paris Olympics, Steven Nadorozik, and then Alona Maher, she's a, he's a pommel horse guy. So for his dance today, he did the pot or last night he did the pommel horse to start the dance.

I mean, people went absolutely crazy for this guy in Alona. She had a beautiful. She's a rugby star. So for them, you know, being physical is a little bit different than the finesse needed in the ballroom. But the story of the night was Derek Hough of Kent. You know, he's, of course, a longtime professional dancer, and now he's a judge.

Well, he recalled the moment that he learned his wife Haley was pregnant. Was essentially dying ahead of her return to Dancing with the Stars. It was a year ago. They were on the Dancing with the Stars live tour. She was supposed to go out and do a dance with him, but she was actually backstage having a seizure.

They needed to remove a large part of her skull and they said she is just not going to be the same person afterwards. Now it's pretty emotional for me because. One of my best friends died of a stroke, which, um, you know, they had to remove part of his brain to reduce the swelling and they kept on giving us worse and worse news until eventually we learned of his passing, you know, but they, you know, whenever someone has a stroke or something serious with their brain, sometimes they can't speak anymore or walk or honestly just, you know, become a different version of themselves.

So how, you know, petrifying for him to wonder if she's going to a, survive. And even if she does survive, will she even be there spiritually? Will her soul be there? So the whole package, uh, where they showed Derek describing the pain of not knowing what went down was absolutely wild. It was just a year ago.

She had to, you know, start walking again and dancing was out of the question. Well, Derek said, That the doctor said, it's an absolute miracle that she not only survived, but is out there dancing. And not only is she dancing, they had a remarkable dance. I mean, unbelievable, unbelievable to watch people have such control over their body, you know, because obviously you need control of your body to dance, but you need that connection to your soul.

And I think. With a lot of people, there's a disconnect with the connection to the soul. It's, I, I, look at it this way, it's almost like we're trained to be worker bees. We're trained to just go out there, do the nine to five, work for somebody else, don't laugh too much, don't cry too much, don't do whatever.

And we're just like repressed humans. And to see these people just so freely moving their body. I've said this before and I'll say it again. It is, in one way or another, my goal in life to dance like nobody's watching. To be that version of myself that is so free, to just be me. And you know, I actually felt that a few nights ago watching Sam talent.

He is a standup comedian and he wrote a book, a book called running the light. Uh, and, uh, which is a very insane fictional book about standup comedy. Well, he was on stage just being so in the moment that it was just unbelievably Uh, inspiring to watch, to watch somebody's brain work. It's almost like popping the hood on a antique car to see a brain work with someone on stage or to see a brain and body work with someone on the ballroom floor, it just inspires me.

And so when I see. Successful people. And when I see professionals doing what they do, it's, um, I think it's should be something we all strive for. No, it doesn't mean we all need to make our living being dancers, but have you ever taken a dance class or considered it, have you ever considered going out there and, you know, doing improv and being silly and playing and, uh, clowning around as it were?

Everyone in their right mind tells us not to do this, but with automation, with AI, with, uh, with the way the world's going, I think the last kind of, uh, hurdle we'll all have when everything else is provided for us, when we have food that's readily available and you know, whatever, I think it's going to be.

Remembering to play, remembering to clown and be our inner child. So did you abandon that inner child? It's kind of like the movie hook, right? In the movie hook, you've got Peter Pan. It's you, Peter. Yeah, Peter, you know, whatever. He doesn't even know he's Peter Pan. He doesn't believe it. He's lived a serious life and it takes a world of the lost boys to, uh, tell him, you know, no, you can, you can be goofy.

You can be fun. You can be playful. I think that's what having a baby has also helped me with. It's just being goofy, being playful and just being in the moment. So either way, unbelievable episode last night and Brooks Nader. Surprisingly lost. She lost the episode. She of course has this very interesting love affair happening.

Not, not as it's an affair, like they're not in any other relationships, but her partner, um, Gleb, uh, uh, uh, Savchenko, is that his name? He actually said he loved her, uh, whether that's, you know, In a relationship form or whatnot, but they've got tattoos and they were, they were kind of poet poised to, to be finalist or at least top five, top four.

But I think they're there at like the top eight or 10 and they didn't make it look really comes down to this. And I hate to say it. Brooksnader is very attractive and I don't think anyone really. Had a reason to want to root her on, you know, there was no real, you know, it's not like she's older or past her prime.

It's not like that she was overcoming something. She was just a pretty person who's okay. Pretty okay at dance. She wasn't in the bottom. She wasn't in the top. She was just kind of like right there in the. Middle or upper middle of all the dancers or all the professionals. So I don't know. I found it interesting.

I found it very interesting that, um, that, uh, she did not get America's vote. That's for sure. All right. Well, last night in, uh, we had the, I guess what's called the Victoria's secret fashion show. Remember that it happens, uh, every year, although I think they took a few years off, uh, I think, uh, I think people were like, all right, enough of this Victoria's Secret, but it's back and Gigi Hadid is dusting off her wings as the iconic Victoria's Secret fashion show makes its grand return.

Oh, it took a five year break. She's got a little help from none other than Taylor Swift chatting with entertainment tonight while getting glammed up before the show. In New York City Tuesday, Gigi spilled she's got a little something extra planned for the runway. Here's what she had to say. Yeah, there's something, there's something on the runway tonight that um, is, is new for at least me on this runway.

I can't remember if it's ever been done on the BS runway. But there's an aspect to it that I was trained to do by Taylor. Olivia Rodrigo saying, hopefully it's not a hole in the floor. On her tour. I mean that way. In one of her rehearsals she was like, I'm gonna show you how we do this. Did that and now I'm using it tonight.

And I honestly don't know what that is, but when we get a copy of it, we'll let you know. So yeah, you know, this is what's interesting. If there's a demand for the Victoria's Secret fashion show, I say do it. Why did they do not do it for five years? Was it, uh, I guess maybe due to, uh, Victoria's Secret having unrealistic body Uh, body image issues, I guess, I don't know.

I don't know, but it's back and I guess everyone's okay with it. So who knows? Well, Tom Brady is back. Uh, and by back, I mean, not on the playing field, but in the owner's booth, he now owns a piece of the Raiders. Tom Brady released a statement on the news saying he was incredibly humbled and excited to get unanimous approval from the owners.

Football has been part of my entire life growing up in the Bay area. And in so many ways, my football life and journey has come for us. Full circle. Brady said I grew up on the field and it's a blessing to know I'll be involved in the greatest league in the world for the rest of my life. I don't know. I don't know why you'd want to be an owner.

I don't know. It seems stressful to me. Your team starts losing. Everyone's going to hate you. I don't know. Not for me. I'll tell you what I'll tell you this. I have no plans on buying an NFL football team. Well, I can already tell you it's going to be a busy day because we got a lot to get to, and we are running out of time.

So we'll take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this. Well, the election season is less than three weeks away, but you can vote early, depending on what state you live in, which can be very complicated because different states have different rules. But now they're noticing that Georgia sees records for first day of in person early voting.

Here's a clip from NBC news. I felt a leading, a calling to come in and vote today. And uh, I'm glad I did. It's time for revision. It's time for. Things to really, really improve. So that's why I got here this morning. You know, I did it for my mother, who's of course long dead and her mother and all the women that I grew up with who were so eager to be Americans.

It was such a privilege. I couldn't wait. Uh, I just wanted to avoid any issues that could happen on election day. Um, I figured the lines would be shorter. There it is. Yeah. Vote early and vote often. I think regardless of who you're voting for, it's your civic duty. It's a duty we all have as citizens of the United States.

And hey, congratulations to my son. His passport came in. So if we need to jet out of the country, we now can. There's nothing like getting a passport for a five month old. I'm going to have that vlog coming out later this week, but taking passport photos is so funny. They actually laid him on the ground at a Staples and took five.

It's just, it's just so bizarre. It's like, I mean, he's going to look different in three weeks, but what can you do? All right. Well, very interesting story to get to. Um, and by the way, this afternoon, we'll, whatever we didn't get to now, we'll play more this afternoon, but check this out. Grey's Anatomy writer, Elizabeth Finch apologizes for lying about having cancer.

I trapped myself in an addiction of lies. On the day of the premiere of Peacock's investigative discussion, a docuseries, Anatomy of Lies, which examines the long cancer scam perpetrated by former Grey's Anatomy writer Elizabeth Finch, she has offered something new, a full apology for her actions. In a post on Instagram, she begins by writing, I've given no one any reason to believe a word I say.

I lied about so much things. So many people have been devastated by in real life. I'm sorry. It feels like the smallest words compared to what I've done. Yet they are the truest. Finch goes on to write that in many years since stories in spring of 2022 in the Ankler and Vanity Fair exposed her many lies and revealed her to be a con woman who'd gotten her job on Grey's Anatomy after lying about having chondorosa colitis.

coma, a rare cancer. She has been receiving mental health treatment for nearly three years. Alright, so look, this is an interesting story. The mental health facility is in Arizona. She said, the biggest mistake of my life alongside lying about cancer was saying yes to Jennifer's proposal before I was honest with her.

I guess that proposal, uh, is, uh, they met while they were in treatment together. I don't know. What's the deal is with her. She said she married a woman with whom she felt deeply and truly in love. And then recounts that she fell in love with Jennifer Bayer, a woman she met while they were both in treatment.

Yeah, you shouldn't be meeting women or anyone when you're in treatment for mental health issues. That's probably a bad idea. So it's called anatomy of lies and is directed by Evgenia Peretz and David Shizgale. It paints a damning portrayal of Finch. The three part docu series takes apart all of her lies, especially that she had cancer, a ruse that involved shaving her head and faking chemo treatments and their side effects.

She lied about being sexually harassed by a director on the Vampire Diaries, in which she wrote cleaning up a friend's remains who'd been murdered in the Tree of Life massacre in 2018 and her brother dying by suicide. What the hell is this story? This is crazy. Now we know someone else who lied about cancer.

That being. Laura Owens, the, uh, accuser from bachelor Clayton Eckerd. Now we know she lied because she wrote in emails that are pretended to be a doctor that said she had ovarian cancer to a guy named Mike Marichini. All probably as a ruse, just my guess to keep him dating her. Uh, well, We knew it was fake because we paid money for an investigative expert, really a forensic computer expert to crack open a laptop and confirm that she sent those emails, which she has denied doing.

She's denied it. She has not admitted to it, but it's pretty wild stuff. Well, now her attorney accidentally admits that. ultrasound she had was actually her sister's, which is insane because we know that no one else has ever, even though we knew it was her sister's, uh, there's never been any sort of admission that it was her sister's.

Well, now what's happened is There has been no tweeting in the last three days by her lawyer with regards to this case. So some think the relationship might be on the rocks. Some think that maybe she's ready to fire this guy. Again, I think he's been taking advantage of her for his own fame clout as he tries to make a name for himself in this world and get whatever exposure he can.

But how bizarre would it be if he accidentally. ruins it. I mean, we already knew she was lying about this, but how interesting would it be if this is the thing that kind of ends his relationship with her? Uh, my belief is he's taking advantage of her. I, my belief is he absolutely knows she's lying, but he's trying to hold onto a sliver of her.

Of, uh, you know, a sliver of hope that, uh, he can, I guess, maybe win on appeal or win in the Supreme court and get his name attached to case law. That's my thought. I don't know. We'll have to see. All right. We have so many stories we didn't get into, and I mean so much going on. So stick around with me. I'll be back around 10 AM, maybe 11 AM for our Patreon live stream, which is for the behind the scenes community.

We'll, we'll have a ton to talk about as we prepare more. Content. I'm going to continue talking about this Grey's anatomy, uh, cancer story, and I'm going to relate it back to the Clayton Eckerd case on today's YouTube channel. So stick around for that. And then we'll be back this afternoon. As always, I'm Dave Neal.

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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. Hope you're doing fantastic out there on this 15th day of October. It's Tuesday, 2024, and we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news right here in one place.

On the morning episode, we've got the NFL possibly moving the Superbowl Outside of the United States. Could they ever do that to us? Plus NFL billionaire owner goes on the breakfast club and announces who he will be endorsing. And we've got Kat Stickler, influencer extraordinaire, and Jason Tartick's ex discussing the negative feedback from the breakup they had over the weekend.

And Netflix is looking to get into the evening variety show game with a John Mulaney show. Plus, live reaction to the sequestered Big Brother cast, finding out in real time who is now running for president, and believe it or not, there have been threats made to FEMA workers following the hurricane relief.

I'll get all of these stories and more for you coming up next on The Rush. Well, let's start off with a cool story, uh, yesterday, uh, in Florida, you might have seen a spacecraft floating around. No, not Elon's. This is NASA, a NASA spacecraft blasted off to Jupiter moon. It's looking to, I guess, land on the Europa, which is Jupiter's icy moon.

And I guess it's there on a mission to see if it can support life. Here's the moment of takeoff. One, ignition, and liftoff! Liftoff of Falcon Heavy with Europa Clipper. Unveiling the mysteries of an enormous ocean lurking beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Engine temperatures are nominal.

Alright, well there it is. We'll find out what's under the crust, you know what I mean? You know, I've always wondered what if, what, what happens if one of these spaceships just lands on a moon somewhere and it's just got billions and billions of diamond rings. It does my wife's engagement ring. Is it no longer worth anything?

How does that work? Please someone let me know. Well, there seems to be a lot of movement in the space race happening and we have Bridget Mendler talks about revolutionizing outdated space tech, uh, with. private ties companies. She's a part of a startup called Northwood, and they're looking to build ground stations, which can talk to satellites and can be scaled fast in a matter of days.

All right, I'll have a listen. I think, you know, for space companies, you're running a business that is completely reliant upon connectivity, but connectivity with space is stuck in a different era where you anticipate outages or you find very expensive and cumbersome solutions for outages in a way that would be, Completely unacceptable in other industrialized sectors.

Um, we were actually talking to a space company yesterday that had their contact time, just slipped out from under them at the last minute. And so it's really hard to think of how to deliver a reliable business to your customers under those conditions. And so, uh, we're excited to really change the expectations for space companies where you have this always on reliable and frankly, dynamic satellite connectivity, um, that you would expect Listen, I'm all about space travel, uh, but can I just get 5G on my T Mobile?

Like, can we get that first? I don't know, just a thought. But either way, very interesting stuff here. You know, look, I'd like to give you some, uh, some good, some good smart stuff to talk about here at the water cooler. And then I'd like to give you some dumb stuff. And sometimes the dumb things are the good stories.

Well, Tampa Bay, of course, experienced several hurricanes. Hurricane, um, uh, Gilbert, Milton, whatever. Whatever. Stupid names. Well, either way, the Tampa Bay rays have a mascot, which is a stingray. And I'm here to let you guys know that the stingrays are all safe. Following hurricane Milton, they are back in the Florida aquarium.

The Tampa Bay race stadium was hit hard by hurricane Milton, but fear not fish lovers, the stingrays that called Tropicana field home or unharmed in the storm. You know, I mean, honestly, the best case scenario would have been that, uh, one of those water spouts sucked them up and brought them back into the ocean because they're, uh, not below.

That's just my thought, but what can I do about it? You know, um, well, speaking of swimming in tanks, uh, do you remember Olympic swimmer Luana Alonzo? Well, she's making a splash on OnlyFans. You may remember her. She was the controversial Paraguayan swimmer, uh, and she's now kick starting her post OnlyFans, the 20 year old beauty who made headlines for her.

for reportedly being booted from the 2024 Olympics for sparking an inappropriate atmosphere, which she later denied, dropped the link to her profile a few days ago, promising exclusive content for a hefty 35 a month. Oh my gosh. Inflation these days. When I was a kid, you could get on OnlyFans for 99 cents a month.

According to the Daily Mail, Alonzo hasn't dipped her toe into any nudity, instead electing to keep it private. Pretty PG 13. She's no stranger to that content as she's known to fill her Instagram page with plenty of bikini shots. Again, this is all TMZ is reporting here. So look, 35 bucks a month and you don't even get a, I mean, you can watch that Titanic and get more skin than that.

All right. Hey, but you know what? Everybody can set the price wherever they want. You know what I mean? So good on her. And by the way, how wild the only thing she was guilty of was because we covered this story. Do you remember we covered the story back in August? In fact, I should have the music for it.

Ladies and gentlemen, 35. I mean the inflation in Paraguay is pretty crazy, but we're happy for go live your dreams. Do whatever the hell you want. Be happy. That's what I gotta say. I hope she makes a fortune. We will keep you posted. We will find out regardless. All right. Well, we spoke about the Hurricane Milton, uh, you know, issues.

We now know that the stingrays are safe, but what about Lieutenant Dan? Uh, the guy who goes by, I forget, I forget what his real name is. Uh, that's what they call him. Joe C, I think they call him either way. Of course, it came out that he has a pretty extensive, uh, criminal record. Nobody's surprised. He talks about his drug addictions after recovering from painkillers, uh, that he was on because he had cancer.

I mean, it's a, it's a real mess. Well, he was being sort of, um, platformed by this one guy named Terrence. Terrence was the guy who asked if he was okay and started a GoFundMe for him and all these other things. But then once he got kind of famous, he ditched Terrence and went to another guy. It's a pretty wild story, but if you like some niche drama, here it is.

TikTok is turning on Lt. Dan because of what he's doing right now. So let me introduce you to this guy, Tampa Terrace. He's the guy who basically made Lt. Dan. Think of him as the Hawktua interview guy, and Dan is Hawktua girl. Now let's talk about this guy, CheckTheStar. Think of him as Mr. Baste, and Dan as World of T Shirts.

Because after Terrence made Dan famous, this guy came in and essentially tried to take advantage of Dan's new fame. Now after hanging out with Check the Star for a while, Dan started to turn on Terrence. And he has started to accuse Terrence of trying to take everything from his GoFundMe. If you don't know, Terrence made Dan a GoFundMe and got over 40k.

And Dan was completely cool with this, trusting Terrence and everything, until he started hanging out with Check the Star. After hanging out with Check the Star, he basically completely turned on Terrence. And Dan also appears to have started some kind of substance or something. Because ever since he met CheckTheStar, Dan has seemed like he's been on something.

Many people watching Dan also notice this change. And speaking of change, the way that Dan has changed has everyone wanting their change back. As many people are now saying they want a refund for the support they gave Dan on his GoFundMe. Now, according to Terrence, the reason he hasn't given Dan all of his funds, it's because Dan has some issues with his bank account and he can't receive them yet.

But Terrence is actively trying to work and help Dan get that fixed. And in the meantime, he is giving Dan 7k while everything gets sorted out. Boy, I tell you what, no good deed goes unpunished. And how sad is this? If this new guy comes in and takes advantage of a, you know, an addict and just supplying him with drugs.

I mean, who knows what to believe? Uh, but I don't think it means that Lieutenant Dan is a bad guy. It just means he is ripe for being, I guess, taken advantage of. And, uh, that's, you know, scammers come out of nowhere and they, uh, yeah, that's what they do. So sad, sad stuff. Well, in other news, if you're an NFL fan who lives in the United States, you might be very pissed when you hear this next story.

To the index. Now the NFL is hoping to expand outside the U. S. Commissioner Roger Goodell is floating the idea of holding the Super Bowl abroad. Goodell mentioned the idea as he outlined his plan to expand the regular season to 18 games and play 16 of those games internationally. Um, how about no? Listen, there's nothing more American than sliced bread.

And which by the way, I think comes from Iowa and who cares, right? And, uh, the Superbowl is an American creation. It is a game unlike any other. Now, sure. They've got the world cup and all these other things, but no, we've got the Superbowl baby and all day event of American debauchery. Gluttony. We eat nonstop until our bodies can't move anymore.

We have funny commercials for products we don't care about, uh, bud wiser. You know what I mean? Like this is our thing. We don't England go do your thing. We left you for a reason on July 4th, 1776, we signed the declaration of independence so we could have a game called football. Where it is thrown in the foot is very rarely used.

You know what I mean? Uh, what do we call it? That for anyway, uh, that we couldn't think of another name like pass ball. What are they doing either way? Um, no, that's going to be a no for me. Uh, but I got more NFL news and I've also got the cat stickler update. Let's do all of that after a quick word from our sponsor.

Well, over the weekend, we saw the relationship between Kat Stickler and Jason Tartick expire. She released an Instagram story saying, Hey, I don't want to talk about it, but just so you guys know, we're broken up. And then Jason Tartick released a statement saying, you know, Um, it was good to, you know, Be with her.

I love her. Blah, blah, blah. Now, of course, she has a daughter and people are criticizing her because I guess she introduced her daughter to Jason. Either way. She felt the need to address this on Tik TOK. She posted in the bio in, in the S in the status update. I know that no matter what I say, people will still have something to say, but I just wanted to say my peace in light of current events.

It has come to my attention that some of you are concerned with the fact that I introduced MK to the man I was dating and that relationship is now no more. So I thought, you know what? Let's have a chat about it. Because I think it's important and I think it needs to be discussed. Did my former boyfriend spend time with my daughter?

Yes. Has my daughter met my male friends? Yes. Has my daughter met the husbands of my girlfriends? Also yes. Three things. She's always with me when these males are introduced in her life, and they are always introduced as mommy's friends. She doesn't call anyone dad. She has a dad. That is never a point of confusion for her, and I promise you guys, she is okay.

And also, let's be real, internet dating timeline is very different from real life dating timeline. I was in a relationship where we were heading down a serious route until we weren't, and that's okay. I just hope that MK knows I am looking to find the right partner for the both of us, because we are a package deal.

And I know I don't always make the right decisions, but I learn from my mistakes. And every decision that I do make, it's because it's what I think is best for my daughter and I. Also, I'm 29 years old. I know. First thing you guys are gonna say, Cat, how in the heck are you 29? You youthful angel. That's not what this is about.

Also, no one's ever said that, but I know. Some people think that a big part for someone who dates me is that they have to come into my world and I know that's not easy and I can't leave Florida. I can't. If someone comes to visit me, I can't just shove MK in the cupboard. It doesn't matter what you guys say.

It's just not right. Imagine if we all listened to the judgments that other people had about our lives and based our life decisions on those judgments. I never want to live in fear of not doing what's right for me because of what other people are going to think and I do understand the majority of you guys are looking out for us and I love that.

Just be patient with me because this is a lot. I know my child, I know that every single decision I make is with her best interest at the forefront of my mind, and I can live with that, so, that's all. There it is, that is all. I mean, look, this is, by the way, I'm surprised, I'm shocked she's only 29, not because she looks older, just because she has like a kid, and for me, I'm just such a weirdo, I'm like, 20s have kids still?

Who can afford such a thing? Uh, well, Kat Stickler can. No, I Googled her net worth again. The number's never right, but it says 10 million. And I wouldn't be surprised because she's been an influencer for a good while now. So she's providing for her family. Now, does that mean people are going to know her daughter's name's MK?

Yeah. I mean, look, people are going to know what my son's name is. You know, it's just one of those, it's just one of those inevitable things that's going to exist when part of the currency of what you do is by putting yourself out there. Now, with that said, I'm not saying. Anyone should treat her in a negative way, but I do understand that's just going to happen.

People are going to be judgy as hell because that's going to be their way of thinking they have control over something they don't. Oh, well, I would never do that to my kids. Okay. You know, Barbara shore, whatever, you know what I mean? Well, cat sticklers, I, she's a, she's a force, you know, she's a, Uh, big personality and she's not pimping her kid out.

It's just part of her life. Uh, but I, I like that she's sticking up for herself. I would probably not know who she was if it wasn't for her having dated Jason Tartick. I'm sure she got a tiny bump in audience from the bachelor world. I'm sure he got more because she's got a much bigger following. Uh, and interesting that she's not mentioning his name.

So I wonder if there's a sort of a, I wonder how this relationship ended. We'll see. If more is said, you know, whenever a relationship ends, if there's any bitterness by one party towards another, even though a lot of times you'll get those truces where you're like, all right, we promise to take care of each other after a while, when the dust settles, if that's the case, the truth will get out there.

And anyway, we'll be here to cover it, but I do wish her well. And like I said, yeah, so. So she has to live with her life under a little bit of scrutiny because people know her because she's got a big following. But with that comes a unbelievably large paycheck. She would never get, um, if she was just say, I don't know, working HR somewhere.

No offense to people working HR, but go start a YouTube channel. Have a tick tock. Come on. All right. Well, I. Personally, do not watch the Tucker Carlson network. Uh, the disgraced host who was fired from Fox news. But I did find it interesting that he was talking to Elon Musk. Now, Elon Musk has publicly endorsed Donald Trump.

Uh, is it important for this conversation? Well, kind of, because, you know, there's a lot of conspiracy theorists that exist both on the left and on the right. And one of those conspiracies is that a lot of people think, Oh, the news media is lying to you and no one's ever traveled to the moon. Well, here.

Tucker Carlson asks, flat out to Elon Musk, Have we landed on the moon? Here's what he had to say. We got to the moon the first time. We definitely went to the moon. Yes, we went to the moon. We went to the moon several times. I just want to check your view on that. 100 percent went to the moon. I know in depth the technical designs of the rockets, the spacecraft, everything.

What went right, what went wrong. It was a remarkable piece of technology. Like, incredible piece of technology for to go to 69. Uh, that was, uh, like reaching into the future and pulling the future forward, uh, dramatically. And it was an important ideological battle with communism. They couldn't put a person on the moon and capitalism could.

Well, so he says capitalism could put a person under the moon. But technically it was a social program that put a person on the moon, right? Now it wasn't communism, but it was, you know, it was the fact that our taxpayer money funds NASA and okay, whatever, who cares? I'm just saying it wasn't fully capitalism.

Who knows? All right, let's go to Netflix. Netflix is getting into the variety talk show game, which is interesting because now you've seen, you know, all of the variety talk shows on network TV die because no one wants to watch them. But it looks like. It looks like Netflix is going to take a risk. I'm really excited about, so for next year, for 2025, we have, we're doing a.

Variety live talk show with John Mulaney, which I'm super excited about. Um, so yeah, you can call, I feel like that was a clap. I mean, John Mulaney, hello. Um, so we have a long relationship with John obviously, and we, you know, have done his standup specials and during Netflix as a joke festival, um, this year he, you know, did a live talk show called everybody's in LA and it was, you know, when I was There are a couple of the tapings and it's, it was just, it was so bold and original and fresh and unpredictable.

And I think it will be really fun to get to do a live show with him. There it is. I think one of the problems with the Network TV format is it was every night, five nights a week. You're putting on an hour and a half long show variety show. Now that worked when all of Hollywood was like working with three networks, but there's so many other options now.

So it's like, who's got the time. You know what I mean? Who's got the time. Well, before we go to our next break, I thought this was so interesting. Big brother. Do you guys watch big brother? I don't, I don't really know how it works, but I guess they record it live in the people on the show are sort of sequestered, whereas they don't really know what's going on in the outside world, so the only people really out there that don't know who's running for president of the United States are the folks that I'm about to air.

They get filled in during the live finale that Kamala Harris is running against Donald Trump. Okay. Here's how it all went down on jurors have been out in the real world since they've been evicted, but the rest of you have missed some big news. The seven jurors and Chelsea and Mackenzie, the nine of you are the only Americans in the entire world who have no idea.

Who's running for president of the United States. Let me know. You think by the way, wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where you didn't have to know you could just be on a TV show and just not know, you know? Okay. So 12 weeks ago, president Joe Biden. Dropped out of the race for president. So vice president Kamala Harris is running against former president Donald Trump.

Is this not the funniest thing? They're like, what? But wait, there's more. What's more is, I hope that everyone here is registered to vote. And that goes for you too, America. The 2024 election is just 23 days away. So that's right. Oh, is it really coming? Oh my gosh. It really is only like three days. Three weeks away.

I thought it was a month away. It's three weeks away. Boy, can't you just wait for this stuff to be over and we can move on with our life. And hopefully, uh, you know, nuclear fallout doesn't happen and civil wars go down. Hey, who knows? Either way, as long as I can get my news to you guys, I'll be reporting from the bunker.

We'll be back with more content right after this. Well, it's a travel day for me. I'm flying back to Tennessee today. Uh, so I'll be back to my actual studio set up tomorrow. Uh, but I'll have a lot of content in the meantime. I mean, there is so much happening right now with all the different shows. And of course, as I said before, leading up to the election, uh, what's really wild though, is something I wanted to cover that being a suspect was arrested, uh, I guess in North Carolina for interfering with FEMA workers.

Have a listen. To the alarming threats against FEMA workers after weeks of dangerous misinformation about FEMA's response to these hurricanes. Tonight, the news coming in, there has been an arrest amid the threats targeting the workers, a suspect now arrested with multiple guns. Here's ABC's Victor Akendo.

After weeks of misinformation about FEMA's response to recent hurricanes, tonight, a man arrested for allegedly threatening FEMA workers in North Dakota. Carolina. So, I mean, this is just ridiculous, right? They're like this, this happened after the election where election workers, which by the way, they're just volunteers, right?

They were getting harassed because people thought they were shredding ballots. I mean, it's just crazy out there. It's absolutely crazy. So as I've said all along, we're going to, we're going to keep on using our platform to make sure people understand how to, you know, um, how to, how to, uh, you know, know what real news is and have critical thinking skills.

Well, here's an interesting story for you. Uh, we've got NFL billionaire Robert Kraft, uh, uh, announcing his endorsement on the Breakfast Club, a morning talk show with Charlamagne Lagarde. I haven't talked to him since then. You have donated money to Democratic politicians. You donated the most money to President Obama's campaign out of all the NFL owners.

But you talked about what happened in Charlottesville, you're also good friends with Donald Trump and in 2017 you said Trump will be great for the economy. So how do you feel about him in 2024 because he's fueled a lot of the, the, the dangerous things that have happened that you're talking about? Yeah, well, let me just say I've been, I, I'm a Democrat.

I've been, I was head of the Democratic City Committee in Brookline and Newton and I ran, um, uh, Teddy Kennedy's reelection campaign with a young man called Tommy O'Neill in Boston, uh, who was Tip O'Neill's son. Get to the good part. And I've always been democratic. Uh, Donald Trump became a social friend, um, careful in the early nineties.

He's like, he was a friend, but we didn't go on any flights together. And I was going down to Florida. The only donation I ever gave to him was he called me when he got elected and I made a strong donation to his inauguration. I couldn't believe it. It was like having someone who's a drunk fraternity brother.

I mean, I didn't believe that, you know, he would, you know, and yeah, I think he did things. I mean, I'll say this since I was very upset what happened January 6th. He led an insurrection in his country? Pardon? I think he led an insurrection in his country. And I haven't talked to him since then. Well, I mean, I think that's pretty wild, you know, uh, that he kind of thought he would be good for the economy before, and now he's changed his mind about who he wants.

Uh, but look, everyone's allowed to make their own decisions out there. I know a lot of people say, Oh, why is it that all the billionaires want the Democrat to win? Well, I mean, he's a new England guy. Most, uh, you know, the new Englanders, uh, were already voting in that direction in the first place. All right.

Our final clip, which is actually very interesting is that there's going to be a Fox news interview of, and with Kamala Harris. I've said this all along. You need to go to where the voters are. You need to show up for people across the aisle. And that means go to Fox news, go to the places that will. Talk to you so that you can reach their voters and, you know, try to win over their votes.

Uh, just like I think Trump should go to, I don't know, CNN and MSNBC, if they'll have them. I mean, go where you can to get your message across. The vice president is going to sit down on Fox News. This was just announced by Fox News. It's going to happen on Wednesday. She's going to sit down with Brett Baier, according to Fox.

It's her first formal sit down interview on that network. And look, I think this is good. I think Brad bear is pretty fair. I've seen, I've seen him host town halls with Bernie Sanders. I thought he was a fair guy, so we'll see how it goes. But I don't like that Kamala will do like an hour long interview with 60 minutes and then it'll be edited to 20 minutes long.

Just play the full interviews. You know what I mean? Like that's what people want. Like give the people all the info they can possibly have to make the choices they want. That's what you would do if you're a strong candidate. And if you believe in her, you believe in her message and you'd run it all. So this is good because I don't think Fox news has any reason to, I don't know, try to protect her.

So it's like, all right, let her, let her grow out there. This is your moment to shine. Right. She did not do it when she was running for president in 2019, a brief on the democratic side or as a sitting vice president is significant. It's going to be in It shows one thing, that she is willing to take more risks.

Because they believe that, uh, this is a, uh, a deadlocked race on the margin and she needs to do something to try and shake this up. It's also a sign of confidence in her and that she has performed, uh, pretty well, most people will agree, on 60 Minutes, on all of this batting practice that's been going on, uh, through podcasts and other things.

But look, now is the time. People are going to be voting very soon. And some are, actually, millions are. And this is a sign that she is, uh, again, we see so many lessons from 2016. I think this is yet one more example that they're putting everything out there at the end of this. There's not going to be, Oh, she didn't go to Michigan.

She didn't go to Wisconsin. She didn't do this or that they're doing everything. I think it's significant. There it is. Significant. And we're giving you all that news from entertainment to politics. We've got it all for you. All right. Like I said, it's a travel day for me. I'll be flying to Boston and I'll have more content for you when I land.

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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. It's Dave here on the set. Afternoon rush here, October 14th, 2024. It is Columbus day. Some people call it indigenous people day, about 30 states have it as a national holiday.

I guess that doesn't mean get a national holiday, whatever the hell it is, either you're working or you're not, but I'm here regardless to give you all of the pop culture and information you need to get you on your ride home. And on today's afternoon rush, we've got gypsy Rose giving advice to the Menendez brothers.

Plus Olivia Rodrigo falls into a sinkhole on Sunday. stage and we have Jason Kelsey's cameraman falling into a sinkhole on an RV. Uh, Scooter Braun asked Swifties to move on and another man busted in a possible assassination attempt, a bachelor nation throwback to the glory days of Corinne Olympios. And we've also got some country music beef as the polarization of politics rips apart the country scene.

I've got all these stories and more coming up next on The Rash. Well, let's first start off with some crazy news. There was a third assassination attempt on Donald Trump, although I don't think this one got to the point where any bullets were flying. Let's just go to Fox five, Washington DC. They're on the scene.

Now to a developing story out of California, a man with multiple guns was arrested outside of former president Donald Trump's rally in California. Yes. Saturday, the local sheriff says 49 year old Van Miller illegally had a shotgun loaded handgun and a high capacity magazine. They say the arrest did not impact the safety of the former president or event attendees.

This is a developing story. So of course, we'll bring you the latest updates right here on air and online Pretty wild stuff. I mean, I don't have any comments to make other than violence is never okay. And on a scale of zero to 10, as far as how concerned I am for what goes down in the next month, I'm at about an eight to be quite fair.

Not because I think anything's going to change in my personal life, but, uh, you know, it's almost like, have you ever been, have you ever been in a family argument where you can't talk your family down, you know, you're at the dinner table on Thanksgiving. People start yelling and escalating. And you're like, oh boy, this is going in the wrong direction.

That's how I feel to an extent, uh, of politics right now, which is that I feel like no matter what happens in the election, it will not resolve the deep seated issues we have as a country. And by extension, a family, uh, with regards to the people that think there's misinformation or people that don't believe what the government saying or whatnot, it's fascinating to say the least I'll be here to give you guys my honest thoughts and to try to.

to keep this family from a full out meltdown, uh, because you guys know our, our audience, we, we are in lockstep, sharing, love, sharing joy, and, uh, trying to share the truth, critical thinking wise and all of that. Uh, I can't speak for others. All right. Olivia Rodrigo takes a dramatic fall into a hole on set.

stage. We just watched the video on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. Yeah. Somebody didn't batten down the latches. I guess it looked, I mean, it looked like she was doing like a Pratt fall, like a kind of walking down the stairs, but she just fell into some giant hole. I'll share the audio with you.

It's not pretty. Here it is. She's walking. She's getting everyone to cheer. Now listen to this. Here it comes.

I was, you can't see it. And I'm laughing cause she's okay. Uh, but you just have this moment where everyone goes, ah, And then she emerges. And this is a good example for all of us out there. She emerges from the sinkhole. Here's what she said.

There it is folks. Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage. Uh, wiser words have never been spoken. So if you're out there falling into a metaphorical stage and at your workplace, just know you're not alone. And Olivia Rodrigo isn't alone either. We've got Jason Kelsey. That's right. His camera guy falls through a hole in the roof of an RV.

That's right. The former Philadelphia Eagle center. And of course, co host of the new heights podcast was filming a segment for, for a Sunday morning football game, Eagles versus Browns on the roof of an RV. The camera guy falls through the roof and drops his hundred thousand dollar camera. I'm guessing it's insured here and it looks like everyone's okay.

But you know, who's not okay is the people that have to ride a frontier airlines, not that there's anything wrong with the airline, but the passenger had a presidential meltdown claims she owns seven continents. Now, maybe she's got connections that I don't, but if you own any amount of property whatsoever, you're probably not flying frontier airlines.

My guess is if you're not flying private, you're flying Delta sitting in Delta blue or extended leg room, but probably look, if you own, I mean, by the way, seven continents. is pretty much the whole world as far as I'm concerned. So my guess is she was telling a fib. She had a freak out and it was caught on camera during the lead up to a flight from San Diego to Las Vegas.

It was shared on a Tik TOK Sunday because that's what we do folks. We share things on Tik TOK. Uh, she was yelling at the crew saying, if I was white in a suit, you would be the, you would stop the effing plane. The presidential outburst was so absurd that a few passengers couldn't help but crack up. Cue her going absolutely unhinged on them, barking, Laugh now, I am the president of the whole gosh darn country.

Watch, see the effing TV news. All right, so I don't think she is the president of the country. Look, there's something that happens when you fly. I don't know if it's the cabin pressure or maybe the beers they serve in the airport lounge. I don't really know what it is, but it's kind of sad, you know. And, and it's also just You know, flying, you know, here we have Olivia Rodrigo falling through the stage, but flying is kind of like triggers the same sort of, uh, issues, right?

It's that caged rat mentality. Normal people get put in situations where they're on each other's butts. One person sneezes, it's the butterfly effect. Next thing you know, the flight's going down because some lady claims she owns the world in the, uh, you know, 24A. So either way, uh, uh, you know, just a reminder out there, whether at Thanksgiving dinner or sitting in the back of a frontier airlines flight, take a deep breath.

It's going to be okay. Well, congratulations to Olympian Noah Lyles. He has Sprinted his way to the, uh, well, I was going to say to the altar, but he's not married yet. Just engage proposed to a Jamaican sprinter. He's of course, one of the fastest men in the world. He got down on one knee on Saturday and shared the proposal with his 1.

5 million Instagram followers. Uh, the lovely couple had on their best fits as they walked through a fancy house. When, uh, she noticed the rose petals, candles, and a massive floral sign that said, will you marry me? He recently won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the a hundred meter dash presented a ring and she was clearly thrilled showing off the diamond.

A few seconds later, uh, her name's Junelle Brumfield. And I gotta tell you, I mean, statistically speaking, two of the fastest people in the world procreating, they're probably going to have a fast baby. That or a fast delivery. I don't know how it works. Uh, will there be starting blocks in the womb? Who, who knows?

Right. But, uh, all joking aside, uh, very happy for him. And we'll have to see now that he's getting married. Will he still be fast? Because I got to tell you something since I got married, I, I mean, not that I was fast beforehand, but I certainly have lost a step. There is something that happens when you get married to the belly.

Of the male, uh, the, the females seem to be perfectly fine, but there's something in the male belly that is, uh, sort of triggered when, uh, when you get married, that forces you to really slow down and enjoy, uh, an extra appetizer or two ladies like a good appetizer. What can you say? All right. Gypsy Rose, uh, spoke out about the Menendez brothers.

She gave some advice to them, of course, because they. Uh, were found guilty, I guess, of killing their parents, and I think she of the same. So, what a unique bond they have. Uh, TMZ caught up with her. Here's what she had to say. Can you say? I don't think we're at liberty to say yet. Okay. You know something? I can read between the lines on that.

Yet. Biggest, one of the biggest stories in the world right now. The Menendez Brothers. Have you been following that at all, or? Um, not a whole lot. I'm not very, uh, educated in their case or anything. So, they essentially, they went to prison for Uh, murdering their parents. And nobody denies that they did it, but it's coming out, and it's pretty credible.

A lot of people feel that they were abused by their parents. So now, the DA is reviewing their case, and they're possibly gonna get, uh, released. And I kinda wanted your, uh, Okay, well, I mean, I really can't, really can't speak on the specifics of that case. I'm not really educated in that case. But, um, I will say that I'm an advocate for abuse victims in general.

Um, and I'm all about prison reform, so. You support their release, you think? I don't think either of us are educated enough on the subject. All right, so the guy interrupts and says, uh, we said we're not educated in the subject. Now, now, to be quite honest, I'm a little surprised if I was gypsy and was in jail, uh, for killing my parents, I would think I would know about similar circumstance.

Or maybe you could argue, she goes, well, I, you know, I don't want to know about others because of the triggering aspects. Who knows? I don't know much about her case. I actually don't know much about the Menendez case, but of course, uh, I do think, I do, I do think that if there is abuse going on and if it's provable that you can look at that from a different lens as just a cold blooded killer, right?

Well, look, I got a lot of content to get to, so let's just take a quick break. Let's reset. We'll be back with more right after this. One thing I've learned now that I've got a five month old baby, it's that I value my sleep. I get it when I can. Here's a throwback to Bachelor Villain and one of my favorite contestants of all time, Corinne Olympios, describing the importance of napping while on the show.

And they got mad at me for napping. Like, they were pushing me so hard to apologize to the group for napping. And I'm like, do you guys realize how dumb that is? And they were like, no, you have to do it. And I was like, no, I don't, I don't want to do it. The producer was like, okay, when I put my hands up like this.

You have to initiate the conversation. So I was like, Oh my God. So I'm like sitting there and like, sure enough, the producer behind the camera puts his hands up. I was like, guys, so I need to apologize. Is that really how it went down? Yeah. You should have pulled a Conor McGregor. Oh my God. I'd like to apologize.

To absolutely. Yeah, I would, I would love to see Corinne Olympios come back. She's a once in a generation character. And I have to say this, having had her on driving with Dave, her stock grew so much in my eyes, not because she's a perfect person, but she's just authentic. She tells you how it is. She gives you her honest take on things.

And I just. I don't know, there's just something about her that's so dang likable. You know what it might be, and if you listened to my episode with her, which was probably about a year ago, right? Actually over a year, it was before we had the Teslas driving around in the Prius. Um, but uh, what was so endearing about her is she uses a lot of humor and puts on a brave face, but I think she exists in a world where she hasn't been given, um, You know, she's, you know, raised with affluence.

She's rich, uh, comes from a rich family. And I think because of that, your, your, your, um, your own pain and issues are sort of overlooked because you do come from a place of privilege. And throughout my conversation with her, I learned so much about The struggles she had to deal with, with parents that were sick and dealing with family issues and kind of, you know, so, you know, maybe some absenteeism.

So you see that and you just, you just learn to love somebody for all of the things you didn't even know. And, um, I think we could use more of that in society, which is just taking a chance to, um, I don't know, judge people, uh, uniquely. As kind people and not based on where they come from. I don't know.

Does that make any sense? Just a thought while Scooter Braun was being interviewed. And of course he was the one who bought Taylor Swift's record label and be created this big war. She really saw her for music. He probably lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, now he weighs in on his, on his long term, uh, his long term feud with singer Taylor Swift.

Now it's not really a feud with her so much as it is her audience. Here's what he had to say.

There was a lot of things that were misrepresented. I think that it's important in any kind of conflict that people actually communicate directly with each other. I think doing it out on social media and in front of the whole world is, is not the place. And I think when people actually take the time to stand in front of each other and have a conversation.

Usually find out the monster is not real and that hasn't happened and that has not happened So he says the conversation with him and Taylor never happened The monster is not real which again if you're a monster and say the monster is not real That's kind of hard to do but you know A lot of people that watched the documentary that kind of breaks down what actually happened are sympathetic towards his side I'll just say this.

I mean, he's a dude who's I'm not gonna say exploited But as a manager, he launched Bieber's career and he's made a ton of money so it's It's like, all right, if you get caught up in some pop star cross hairs, just do whatever. You know what I mean? Whatever, man, maybe it's not 100 percent your fault. Um, and maybe, you know, the, basically it came down to the fact that, uh, Taylor's side insists she didn't know that her masters were being sold.

Masters being like the copies The, the, the produced copies of her music that she created. She didn't know it was being sold. Um, his site says, no, come on. She was well aware. This is what was going down. So she's no victim here. Either way, Kelly Clarkson tweeted, Hey, you should just rerecord your music. To which she did.

That's why she's got all the Taylor's version. And because of all of that, it is, I mean, she was a famous pop star, but she's probably grown five times the size since. Since then, uh, she's like the Grinch. Her pop culture grew five times its size. Uh, but no, she's not the Grinch, uh, in as far as temperament goes.

I love Taylor Swift. You know, you can already see I'm trying, I don't want to lose any of my Taylor Swift fans here. No, but I really do. But you know, she's, she's grown because of that adversity that came from that. And he's saying, let's just move on. Now, sadly, I don't think Taylor's in control of whether or not they move on.

It's probably got more to do with her audience. And, uh, let me tell you, they never forget. And you know what? I don't forget a good deal. When I say And thanks to Mint Mobile, we got just that. With big wireless providers, what you see is never what you get. Somewhere between the store and your first month's bill, the price you thought you were paying magically skyrockets.

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Additional taxes, fees and restrictions apply. See Mint Mobile for details. I got to tell you something guys, we, and again, this has nothing to do with Mint Mobile, but nothing to do with my parents internet here in Portsmouth in rural Rhode Island, but I've had a hell of a tech issue today. You might've noticed on my YouTube video, um, my, my audio keeps going in and out.

Now you're not going to hear it because I'm sort of duct taping these leaks together, but I've got to figure out what the problem is. I'm going to go buy some new cords at Marshall's. We're going to. to figure it all out, folks. But I made a YouTube video today discussing the bizarre takes that are coming from the camp known as Laura Owens and the Clayton Eckerd, uh, scandal.

And I hate to say it's a Clayton Eckerd scandal because he's really done nothing to warrant any of this other than accept a very consensual dual blow job. That's, I mean, that's what got him into this mess. Uh, of course, uh, he claims she lied about being pregnant with his unborn twins, twins that never showed up and ultrasounds that never existed.

Well, now we're finding out that her lawyer is, I guess, admitting that one of the ultrasounds she had was her sister's. Now it's very bizarre. It's very bizarre because again, I covered this ad nauseum today, but there's so many layers to this, to the story. So many lies being exposed that I think in some ways he thinks he's doing the right thing.

He thinks he's catching people and contradicting people, but then people are presenting evidence saying, Oh, you're actually contradicting your own client. So he tweeted this. Again, this is Laura Owen's lawyer said she was describing what the fake costume picture was attempting to show quote unquote our son Not what it actually showed a copy of Laura's sister's sonogram that Clayton had this was discussed in other emails to Clayton So he admits that the sonogram that Clayton had was a copy of Laura's sister's sonogram So why?

Would Clayton have a copy of Laura's sister's sonogram if it wasn't something that had been sent to him? Now again, this same sonogram was sent to me claiming to be Laura's. So the connective tissue is this. Her attorney is now officially labeling that sonogram as Laura's sister. When, to be quite honest, no one ever said it was her sister's.

We just kind of knew it was her sister's because her sister was pregnant the year previous, the year prior, and because we knew Laura wasn't actually pregnant. So In essence, he accidentally admits in his own haste, tweeting late at night on Saturday night, having a big party there, Saturday night here, a big tweet party.

He actually accidentally admits that the ultrasound that was used to coerce people into believing she was pregnant was actually her sister's. That's wild stuff. Now this was the same ultrasound that I think was used, um, When she called the FBI on me and so many other things. So again, my apologies to those that say, Oh, Dave, we're so sick of this story.

Which again, I don't think there's many people. I think most people find this fascinating. Uh, but the, these are the details that will continue to emerge. The more he continues to talk. Now, a lot of times lawyers will recommend their clients not talk because it might incriminate themselves. But now it's like, geez, it's your lawyer.

Who's doing all of the dirty work here. Whether or not she approves of this, who knows? I mean, I just think it comes down to the fact that they've shared so many different versions of the story. They can't possibly remember which is the accurate one. So we have a justice for Laura's story. Nephew, really.

That's what it comes down to because he's the one who's had his photos used. My biggest question is this. I I'm not surprised that Laura's parents are protecting her. I'm also not surprised that Laura's sister is protecting her. I am surprised that Laura's sister's husband isn't doing something about this.

And I'm certainly surprised that Laura's sister's. husband's mother isn't publicly denouncing this because like they don't have any loyalty to Laura as far as they know. Imagine this. Imagine being Laura's, okay, hold on a second. Imagine being Laura's sister's husband's mother. Your child, your son has a baby.

Your child's son's wife has a sister. That sister has used the ultrasound to To trap a man to pretend she's pregnant and to send it to journalists. I don't know, guys, I would not want the ultrasound. The first image of my baby being used for such toxicity. But no one's come forward. Certainly no one's come forward to defend them other than the doctor she paid and the lawyer she paid.

But no one has come forward to say enough is enough. And I think at this point, it would be nice to hear from somebody. So with that said, my DMs are open. I'll be back with more content right after this. You know, for the longest time, anyone who operated in country music tried to stay out of politics. I mean, to the extent that you didn't want to, I guess, go against the president.

There was this nationalism we saw with the Dixie chicks, right? They essentially got canceled. I think they're called the chicks. Now the Dixie chicks, whatever their name is, uh, but either way, they're back. But, uh, now we've got Maren Morris. She has basically left country music, uh, because of her political beliefs.

Here's what she had to say on Dak Shepherd's podcast. Tucker Carlson called you a lunatic country music person, and then you made shirts that said that and sold shirts. I want that. I think that's so funny. I want that. Tell me your size. That's incredible. It's kind of like beautiful, though, because, you know, I'm from the South.

I've got a lot of conservative family members. When he called me that, it's sort of like, you know, You can talk shit about your own family, but no one else can. A lot of them stopped watching his show. Yeah. It like broke the Fox News spell. I was like, Okay, so that's a blessing in disguise. They had to come at one of their own personally.

Now I think about that. And if I had a beef with someone, I don't know, in conservative TV, say someone at Fox News came for me. Would that When my family defend me, that, that's, that's actually a good question. Well, maybe, you know, because we have this question of, is family stronger than people's political beliefs?

Cause your political belief really has become your identity in some ways. So I don't know if I have an answer to that. I would hope my family would defend me. I think for the most part, when I have political, you know, sort of differences within my family, because I, I have a very diverse family. Uh, family, uh, dynamic.

I have far very liberal and very conservative family members. And, you know, we, you know, I think in person you could have a disagreement, but it always ends okay. Like you hug it out, but that's the problem with the internet is that you'll just see a family member leave some snarky comment. Like we just, we just treat people the worst way possible.

Um, I don't have any of those discussions with family members online, but I do wonder how many family members might have avoided having conversations with me because they know I'm not going to like. I don't know. Cherry coded. I'm going to tell people how I feel either way within a month or so. We'll get to the end of this.

Uh, we're about a month away from the election, uh, just under, right? Just, or just over a month. And then we can all just go about our day, right? The world will go back to normal. No. Okay. Well, either way, it's essentially a neck and neck race. It's tied. It's 49, Uh, the polls all are essentially tied. What the hell does this mean?

Let's go to Crooked Media and they say they don't look at the public polls because either way, uh, you know, in a poll, who's listening to a poll and who's being truthful to a poll like these, you know, who knows, I certainly don't, but here's a clip on why polls don't matter. Have a listen. I really can't speak to the public polls and most of them are horseshit.

You know, some of them may be close, but generally I'd say any poll that shows Kamala Harris up four to five points in one of these seven states, ignore it, any point that shows Donald Trump up like that, ignore it. This thing's very close. It's a. Margin of error race. Uh, but again, I'd rather be us than him because I think we, uh, have the ability to get to 49 and a half or 50.

Uh, I'm much more confident about that than Donald Trump, but it's going to be close all the way in. That's it folks. All of the polls are within the margin of error. A wild time to be alive, regardless of what side you are fighting for. I always say this, you know, after the election's done and over, just think about ways in which you want to improve your community and try to vote for local officials.

And I mean, I don't know what else to say. It's, it's, it's messy out there. I think we're divided on rhetoric. We're divided. Because of the political leaders. But I truly do believe most of us want the same thing, which is we want our family to be protected. We want our family to be safe and we want our family to flourish and our community to flourish.

I think we can all agree on that. It's just how we get there that people have an issue with. And, uh, you know, I don't know. I, I personally think my opinions are pretty good ones, which is that I want to raise the bottom of what we should expect in living in this great country, that being Using issues, uh, you know, being aware of the different issues and using whatever tools we have to protect each other.

That's what I want. I don't think people should go bankrupt if they get pneumonia, just me. If you fall through the stage while performing, you shouldn't go bankrupt. We should be able to protect each other. All right. Well, I appreciate you guys sticking around. I had so many tech issues today. As soon as I'm done recording, I'm going to go find out what the heck actually happened, but you guys have been fantastic.

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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 morning everybody. Happy October 4th. 14th, 2024 on the morning rush. We've got a wild weekend roundup in bachelor nation, a golden bachelorette contestant addresses allegations against him and a big bachelor breakup.

Also Ashton and Mila consider a move to Europe. Carson Daly says his mental health has been repaired due to a daily cold plunge. And we've got hurricane Milton updates, beaches forming in neighborhoods. Plus Hillary Duff takes matters into her own hands going viral after calling out. paparazzi snapping pictures at her son's soccer match.

I have all these stories and so much more coming up next on the rush. As mentioned, we had several stories pop off this weekend in bachelor nation. One being the breakup announcement between bachelorette star, Jason Tartick and influencer Kat Steyer. Here's what she had to say over the weekend regarding, uh, her new single status.

Okay, so with two back to back hurricanes, I obviously didn't think it was the right time to talk about my personal life. But a lot of you have already guessed, and yes, Jason and I have broken up. Um, it was amicable. It just didn't work. I don't want to talk about it. Just wanted to tell you. I understand that with posting a relationship online, You also have to show this side, uh, after math.

Woo hoo! So fun, I loved it. Um, I just wanted to tell you guys, and it's not love wasted. I feel like sometimes it's so easy to think when a relationship ends that the love was wasted, but love is never wasted. So, that's all I have to say. And, uh, that's the world we live in, where public relationships tend to lead to public announcements when they break up.

Jason added this on his Instagram. I'm sad to share that Kat and I are no longer together. It's fair to say that I love hard with all my heart and fall fast. Sometimes in life that works out and other times it doesn't. This time, it didn't. Cat has brought me so much happiness and light. She brought out parts of me.

I never knew existed. I will forever be grateful for her. And of course, sweet MK. This chapter closes amicably and another opens. I'll be rooting for her happiness. And I also am rooting for mine. Yeah, look, there it is. I mean, Jason, of course, had a public breakup with Caitlin Bristow, and now he had a public one with Cat Stickler.

What is next for, I guess, one of the more eligible bachelors in Bachelor Nation. Only time will tell. Right. Lots of up. Diddy scandal rocking the nation. Uh, here's a story, uh, it's by intouchweekly. com. So who knows if this is of any sort of credibility, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis considering move to Europe amid Diddy drama had it with Hollywood, they say.

They are back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, once again, this time with association to Sean Diddy Combs. The drama has them doubting, uh, uh, doubling down on plans to move away from Hollywood and build a new life in Europe. Instead, a source exclusively tells InTouch. The source said this, Ashton's so exasperated that once again he's being dragged through the mud because of his past associations.

First it was Danny Masterson, and now it's Danny Combs. Well, look, I mean, don't blame the city, right? These are just like, uh, you know, uh, Danny Masterson turned out to be a R word. Uh, he was, uh, convicted of, uh, R ing someone. I'm not gonna say that. I'm not gonna say the actual word, you know, it's morning here and let's, uh, ease into this tough conversation.

Right. Um, and, uh, And Diddy of course is accused of terrible things. I mean, Diddy's accused of crazy things. Here's a clip of people that are saying he's actually hired a death penalty lawyer. What's up with that? He hired a death penalty attorney. New York's not a death penalty state. However, he's being charged federally.

In federal cases, they still do have the death penalty. He hasn't been charged with crimes that could bring the death penalty yet, but maybe he anticipates much, much more coming down the pipeline, especially since we have things like Tupac's family hiring lawyers to invest. murder connections potentially between Diddy and Tupac.

That's why people think that maybe he hired this death penalty attorney because he's afraid he might get it. Yikes. I mean, again, who knows? Um, but as far as actions considered, it does feel very clickbaity. This article, uh, the source then says they had such a great time in Europe. And in many ways, the idea of moving there is topping their list right now because they figure it would be such a great place to live and raise their kids with a much more grounded lifestyle.

The only thing stopping them from making the move is work because they do still have a lot of business interests in the U S. So the. Concern is that Europe may be too far away. Yeah. I mean, look, they, you know, Hollywood is where people go to make a name for themselves and it, and it invites, and it is a magnet to a lot of crazies out there.

That's just how it is. There's a lot of crazies out there in Hollywood. Hollywood's more like, and I, you know, an idea rather than an actual place. Now, I mean, it is a place, but I lived there and I was perfectly fine, but you know, Ashton successful. So people attach their name to successful people. I mean, look, you know, you've got like a, whenever, whenever Some crazy person is exposed in Hollywood.

We then share photos of everybody that took a photo with that person and saying, are these people bad too? And it's like, they all had to work with each other. Imagine if we publicized all of the, uh, toxicity in whatever job or culture that exists, um, you know, with other people, you, you, you know, everyone's sick.

CEO probably has skeletons in their closet is what I'm trying to say. Now that doesn't mean it's, it's right. I'm just saying, when you, when you look into the lifestyles of the version of the famous, it's like, uh, you know, they're, they're, uh, as flawed as everybody else is what I'm trying to say. All right.

Well, uh, What a busy weekend for me. I had a standup show Friday night. We had people come from different States. We had Rhode Island there. We had Massachusetts there. We had, uh, uh, Connecticut there. I want to, I want to specifically thank, uh, the, the, the ladies that came out. We had a couple, uh, different ladies come out.

One from someone I actually met in Vegas at Reality Steve's party, uh, but I think someone drove two and a half hours each way to see my show on Friday night, my sold out show. So thank you guys all so much. And yesterday, uh, we had, uh, we'll call her Jay. I don't want to out her name, but we had Jay Uh, checking in on me after I went to church, I went to church to my family and she approached my wife and said, Hey, I watch your husband.

And I get lucky. Luckily Tasha knew what she was talking about and we had a good chat with her and I guess she watches the channel and her sister does too. So big shout out to all of the love we're getting out there. You guys have been absolutely fantastic. I mean, that's what our community is all about.

We are just here to try to bring people together. All right. Well, I did tease briefly a little bit about what's going down in Hollywood. As far as there's a, there's a lot of people that aren't working right now. Here's an update from the Tik TOK account stage runner LA telling us why fewer, fewer than one in five scripted productions are being shot in LA right now.

Hollywood is turning its back on Los Angeles. And now we have the numbers to prove it. Hi, I'm Alex from Pop Culture Brain, and this is Stage Runner, your source for what's shooting and where. We've reported a lot recently about how Hollywood is shooting less and less in Los Angeles these days, instead turning to lucrative, tax friendly places like the UK, Canada, Atlanta, New York, and more.

And now, according to a new report by Film LA, we've got the numbers to back that up. In 2023, Just 18 percent of the biggest scripted shows and movies were made in Los Angeles. That's right. Fewer than one in five Hollywood projects are actually shot in Hollywood. And that's down from 22 percent in 2022 and 23 percent in 2021.

Okay, so the studios are shooting elsewhere. What's the plan? What's the big deal about that? Well, the problem is 27 percent of the industry's workers still live in LA, meaning there isn't enough work where they live to go around, because the studios have now created those job opportunities elsewhere. The good news is the entertainment industry still pumps 43 billion in wages into the California economy.

But Film LA's president, Paul Audley, isn't optimistic, saying, How long can California subsist, or help businesses and families thrive, on an ever thinner slice of a shrinking production pie? And it might not just be California's entertainment industry that suffers as a result of this. It could also hurt the state's entire economy, as Audley explains, We're now at a place where inadequate investment in this industry places other economic supports at risk.

You know, it's kind of like how, you know, the auto industry left Detroit, and, you know, certain industries just, Take over certain, uh, certain cities or, you know, certain factories exist in different places. And Hollywood is not immune to the idea that, uh, markets will move people to different places. You know, I always talk about, don't rent your time out, work for yourself, build equity in yourself, do what you can to not make yourself replaceable, and I'm going to read a nice comment I got from one of you guys, a listener who took my advice.

And we'll have that for you after a quick word from our sponsor. I feel like I've learned a lot about myself when I started making YouTube videos and podcasts. And I learned that I didn't really love Hollywood. What I loved was the connections I was making with people. I hated the audition process because it wouldn't really share my hot, my, my best version of myself.

You know, it felt like being a soup kitchen, like a line, a line at a soup kitchen, right? Because everyone's so desperate for work and the gatekeepers are there and you're at someone else's, uh, you know, a whim and anyhow. So if. Is there ever a chance for anyone out there to take matters into their own hands, work for themselves?

I'm, I'm, I'm always in support of that. Well, I got a comment from one of you guys. She said, I got to say, Dave, I used to get really annoyed with you. I hear you encouraging your viewers to work for themselves. It only bothered me because I was too scared to take the leap. Well, I finally did it as a Friday.

I own my own business and get to spend more time at home with my baby girl. I'm not sure I would have done it without all your encouragement, even though it wasn't directly towards me. And I can't say thank you enough. My response was, Oh, you had it in you. Congrats on all the new opportunities. Isn't it great that everything is working out?

That's the mantra. I like, uh, I'd like to shift the energy to say, isn't it great that everything's working out and whether it be writing your next big book. or taking a leap into whatever small business you want to start. I think we need to live in a world where people take care of themselves because with automation, with the moving around of working from home, and all I'm trying to say is where possible, try to protect yourself and try to grow.

Give yourself all of the opportunities to not have to give your destiny, uh, to someone else's control. All right. A couple updates on the hurricane Milton actually have an uncle in town who lives in the Carolinas and he builds docks. He's a Marina builder. You know, I'd love to interview him one of these days, maybe I'll get him on driving with Dave.

Uh, but he is okay. And his docs all, I think. past the safety test after these crazy hurricanes. Uh, so it's, um, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm happy that he's okay, but I know a lot of families aren't and 16 people are now confirmed dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. And again, it could have been a lot more.

It could always be a lot more. It could always be a lot less to, uh, ABC news, Victor acquainted, acquainted reports from Venice, Florida, where homes are buried in sand. unique. So it looks like I'm standing on a beach right now, but this none of this sand should be here. Milton pushed all of this right this way and this condo here.

It is now Buried in sand. We are talking about feet of sand right here. I also had a chance to speak with the property manager here who tells me that they cleaned it out after Helene two weeks ago. So everything that you see here behind me, that was brought in by Milton. And now I mean the bottom of the roof here, it's at my waist level and I can see right over the roof and that's just in this spot too.

We've had a chance to go around this area in Venice and there was some significant wind damage and destruction to other homes as well. Pretty crazy stuff out there. We'll have a few more updates on the hurricane. Uh, actually a meteorologist is telling a Cuomo on NewsNation that she's receiving death threats for debunking hurricane conspiracy theories regarding the latest misinformation out there.

All right. So Katie says her efforts to debunk the conspiracies. They were met with a death threat, so much so she doesn't want us to reveal which TV station she works for. It's crazy to think you actually received a threat, uh, people are, are they like blaming you for the hurricane? Well, it's interesting because I'm not alone.

Lots of meteorologists are reporting that they're getting these hostile messages, whether they be physical threats, death threats, whatever it may be. And it's tied, I think, to the recency of having two major hurricanes hit the United States. We're a hot button topic right now. And a lot of people are looking for Someone to blame.

And so for me, I'm just trying to be able to get out there and tell people, if you have questions, ask me, I'd love to answer them and just trying to get everyone on the same page here in terms of understanding this insane weather that is occurring, but you know, it's the tropics, it happens every year. We see it.

Now, look, I mean, when it comes to science, right, science, you know, sometimes we'll, we'll get it wrong and they'll learn something new and, and change the way they feel about certain things. But science is also kind of very objective in a lot of ways, you know, uh, like the, the waters get warmer and then hurricanes get worse because they feed off of the warm waters.

Again, not a meteorologist, right? Uh, but this idea of people lashing out at the truth and thinking there's a greater conspiracy of people that are behind it. What's the purpose? What did they get out of it? Now, I understand conspiracies are kind of sexy. We see that in the bachelor nation world, this idea, Oh, so and so cheating on so and so, Ooh, like we, like it almost, like we almost get this dopamine rush by thinking that there's something more interesting than what's actually going on, but in most cases, the most honest truth is the most obvious truth.

Uh, here's DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying he's incredibly concerned about the disinformation around the government's hurricane response. Because if we can't even get the hurricane response. Response thing in order, how are we going to deal with elections? We are weeks away from a ticking time bomb of conspiracies that are going to come out.

There's going to be people following, uh, you know, uh, trucks saying there's poles that are being rigged. I mean, it's going to be crazy out there. Have a listen. We've seen some dangerous misinformation being amplified online. Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, hit back hard at some of these claims that if you got help from the federal government, somehow they'd seize your assets in his state.

FEMA has been trying to counteract some of these lies as well. Are you concerned when you see this? And how widespread it is that it's a preview of what's to come with the upcoming US election as well. Attempts to manipulate people incredibly concerned and the misinformation. I should say it's disinformation, false information deliberately spread to impact people's behavior and perceptions.

It is extremely pernicious. We have individuals in need of assistance who are entitled to assistance who aren't seeking it. Because of the false information. Who's driving it? Well, I'll tell you what we need. We need individuals, elected officials, people who have the platform to really debunk this false information.

And we're not seeing enough of that. And I find that to be incredibly irresponsible and irresponsible to the People who are survivors of these extreme weather events. I love that she asked, she goes, who's responsible for this? And he did a very good job of shifting from rather than blaming the people that are responsible for sowing all this doubt and rather saying, we need people to come together.

And share the truth and vet things. So let's just all remember out there. We're going to have our crazy uncle. We're going to have our, that, that zany sis sibling or whatever. Let's just remember, uh, to be slow to the share button and quick to looking into stories to make sure they're vetted, not just screen grabs of something or anecdotal evidence.

Like knowing the difference between what one person said versus is it a trusted source? I hope you guys trust in me. I'm surely going to try to trust in what I share with you guys and make sure that it is, you know, things that, things that make sense and not just any reckless misinformation. Well, here's an interesting story.

Did you hear about this? The Saharan desert has flooded. Right aside in the Sahara desert, one of the driest places on earth has flooded. Torrential rainfall in Southeastern Morocco swamped the desert for the first time in half a century. Last month, the area received more than a year's worth of rain in just two days.

I would love it if we could divert these hurricanes to the Saharan desert and get that to be kind of like a Palm Springs. You know what I mean? Let's get a nice little place for all of us to go have some mojitos. Wouldn't that be nice? Uh, anyhow, uh, let's move on. Oh, here's a good story. Speaking of, uh, Uh, you know, sometimes I'll try to make a link and there is none speaking of floods in the Saharan desert.

How about a flood in Carson Daly's backyard and a flood of cold plunges? That's what I'm, that, that was the link I was trying to make here. Here's Carson Daly talking about his mental health and what he has done to, I guess, overcome it by doing cold plunges every day. One year ago I was at this event, maybe at one of my lower points in my mental health, physically and mentally, I was a wreck and I thought next year I want to feel better and I I treat it, I really do, so stupid, but I really, uh, tribute it to the cold plunge.

I've cold plunged every day for a year. I have a home, cold plunge, 40 degree water, two minutes, literally every day. It's really hard to do, and it turns out doing hard things is good for you. My husband and I did it, and actually it was reported at the Daily Household that no one screams louder than me.

That's true. That is true. And I only last a minute. I did a cold plunge for the first time with Tasha and I went way deeper than she did. I went down into my shoulders and she went kind of like breast level. And I was like, come on, get in there. But I, I, I can't disagree. And it's so challenging to do that by doing it, you feel like you've overcome something.

And, and of course, I'm sure there's a physical like shock to the body. That's good for you. I don't know, but you know, whenever there's anything culty out there, like you got to try this. Everyone's doing it. It's like, Oh, please. But I have to say, it sounds great. Now, do I think I've got it in me to do it every day?

Maybe, maybe, but I don't know. I mean, I just, I, I like a hot shower. I'm just a real sucker. I want a hot shower and I want to go sleep. Sunbathing at a beautiful resort in the Saharan desert. That's what I want. But Hey, who knows? Maybe, maybe we'll have to install one of those ourselves this winter. All right.

Did you, did you hear about Elon Musk's SpaceX? They had this crazy, uh, landing of one of their rocket boosters. They launched it and then landed it in, in, in the arms. It almost like caught itself. They didn't land it on the ground. They landed it. They sort of caught it on a crane of sorts. Let's play this clip.

This is a custom built tower with, uh, arms that'll, that are designed to catch the, the largest and heaviest flying object ever made and pluck it out of the air. I mean, that's the theory anyway. So. Elon just said, you know, delete the legs, delete. We're like, well, what's the, you just, just use the arms and then said it again.

I mean, they go, wow, are you serious? Okay, we better get on this. And now it seems normal. All right. So I mean, look, you can't, you can't, uh, look, he's got a 250 ton rocket booster that he's able to catch what, listen, people have their strong opinions on Elon Musk. I think his, his, you know, chatter on Twitter, like him personally, I was like, I'm all about open platforms and discussion, but I think his chatter on Twitter and his ideas.

They're often debunked is a lot of misinformation, but it's kind of like, that's the, the, the bad that comes with the good, the good being you've got an eccentric billionaire who's into tech, doing tech things that other people weren't doing. I mean, look, everyone gets mad when I drive a Tesla, but it's like, well, well, you know, the auto industry killed the electric car decades ago.

So like, we're not going to blame someone who reinvented it, made a market for it. And now all these great electric cars are coming up because of it. But Hey, I'm not here to defend him. I'm A very interesting place and what they're doing there with rocket technology is incredible. So that was a big story from over the weekend.

All right. I got a couple more things to get to. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this. Here's a clip of, uh, actor Hillary Duff going up to a paparazzi taking photos of her children at a soccer game. Who are you here with? Who are you here with? I'm here with me. With you? Yes. Do you know any of the people on the team?

No. Oh, can you stop taking pictures of the kids, please? It's legal. It's, it's making me feel really uncomfortable. Well, you shouldn't feel uncomfortable. You want me to show you ID? I'm not asking for your ID. I'm asking you to stop taking pictures of our children. 7-year-old children. If you don't know anyone that's here, but it is legal, I'm asking you.

It's not just a law, human to human as a mother, if you don't know anyone here, can you please stop taking pictures of our children playing football this morning? What? I'm just telling you, it's not illegal. That's so, I guess it's legal. It is legal to take photos of people in public. Yes. But she has this point, which is to say, yeah, but there should be some more protection for people's kids.

She then goes on to explain the viral video and what the police didn't do to help. And the police, you know, were pretty dismissive of me saying, what do you want us to do? You're at a public park. Well, yeah, I'm at a public park. I'm at a place where kids play and kids should be safe here. I mean, we're all watching, but it's just extremely strange and inappropriate and creepy to have a man Photographing our senior old children and that to be completely legal.

Like, I think she's doing the right thing by trying to expose it and maybe they can help get laws changed. I mean, maybe there needs to be laws changed. You know, when I used to do, um, I used to shoot sketches in like Central Park and in New York City, and there was, so we had, we had this like policy. Like, if you like shoot a sketch in Central Park, just make sure the cameras aren't aimed at.

Playgrounds and the idea is being is like give the respect to people that their kids are protected It's like yeah, even if something is legal, where's the respect there, you know, so interesting stuff and in other news for the Golden Bachelorette I cover this on YouTube over the weekend, but guy the name of the guy his name's guy in ER doctor was exposed for having a Uh, restraining order, temporary restraining order against him.

His ex wife at the time has dropped the order and they tried to get it sealed, but they couldn't. And the update is that he, he says he and his wife have, or he and his ex wife have moved past that. And, and they, you know, while they couldn't get the order sealed, you know, it was a dark time in his life and he's better and this and that.

So I wanted to share that update with you guys just to make sure, you know, y'all know that, um, You know, while it's worth reporting on the story, because it is pertinent to the world of golden bachelorette, it is also to have, I guess, whatever nuance that might exist, which is if, if guy is some sort of crazy monster, you know, his ex can share her story, but she's decided that, Hey, let's let bygones be bygones.

Let's move on from it. We were married for 30 years and you know, this, that, and the other. So, you know, it's a tough needle to thread covering some of these topics because you know, it could come out that he, Oh, he's a monster. And Dave is an apologist. And it's like, no, that's not it at all. It's just that, you know, you, you know, these restraining orders, they, they come out in people's darkest times and they're all sort of like unique.

And you need to have your critical thinking skills to say, which of these is because somebody is a monster or because you're in the heat of the moment and you you're really heartbroken, or maybe, maybe, you know, maybe you're not active. You know, level headed because you're going through a divorce and whatnot.

So I think you guys all understand having covered this from the Clayton case and the Colton case and the Devon case and all these other cases that we have to look at everything from a unique lens. And I'm not a judge, but, uh, you know, I do like to share my opinion out here. So hoping that, uh, what guy is saying that he is a better version of himself.

Now, I hope that that's true. And I hope that we get to see that version of him and that he does find happiness in, uh, in the world, uh, because we, he, you know, he's obviously a major player there in the, uh, in the golden bachelorette, which will be airing in a couple of days. So anyhow, folks, whether it's indigenous people's day or Columbus day, whatever the hell you want to cover it.

I hope you have a good one. Um, I'm still here with my family in Rhode Island. You know, actually Columbus day was supposed to be a one off holiday celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus landing on, uh, on, on the soil. What did Columbus do? Didn't he land in Detroit where, no, I'm kidding. He was in the West Indies or what they called it.

Right? Uh, so my point being is that, uh, I know, I know there's a lot of, uh, discussion over the merits of this holiday. I think only 30 States celebrated. I'm in one of them that does, but it ain't slowing me down. I'm here to give you that content you crave. So I'm here for your morning rush. Go to work.

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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 morning, everybody out there. Dave here on this Friday, October 11th, 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Uh, some heavy content to get to some salacious entertainment news lawsuits happening at golden bachelor. We really have it all in on this morning's rush. I've got. updates on the wreckage from Hurricane Milton, including Lieutenant Dan, uh, the Tampa legend who decided to ride out the hurricane in his 20 foot vessel.

I'll also cover the lawsuit that alleged Kanye hired a fixer to follow the Kardashians. Plus we've got LA attorneys saying they've got new evidence in a Marilyn Manson lawsuit and a trial date has been set for. So he better get comfy in his cell. Cause he's got about seven months to prepare. Also the Trump call a call out of call.

Her daddy host has divided America. I'll share what people are saying on both sides of the aisle. I got all those stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, as far as Hurricane Milton is concerned, there will be stories that come out of heroicism and there will be stories of tragedy and some that involve both.

One story that we've been following is the man that they call Lieutenant Dan. He of course, as I've covered in the last several episodes, uh, tried to ride out the storm in his 20 foot vessel and seemingly has made it out alive. Now there's been some controversy surrounding, uh, This man, they call Lieutenant Dan.

He's a 54 year old man named Joseph Malinowski. Uh, there has been a few reports about him that there were some wild crimes he committed. I'm being told after looking into it, that those, uh, reports were false. He has a prison record. He was essentially homeless before living on this boat after, uh, getting cancer.

And then getting addicted to Oxycontin. And after that, he was living on the streets with his addiction. This is a guy who has battled a lot in his life. And the reason why he didn't want to leave his boat was because he said it's all he had left. Well, here's the update on his heroic. Uh, I guess, uh, trials and tribulations of the last few days.

The wind picked up for a little bit and bounced me around. At one point last night, I was getting bashed up against this wall. So I went out and I cut my anchor line to get away from it. So I got a 250 anchor sitting down there that I gotta go in and get. Dan, you, you weren't afraid at all last night? No.

I'm not scared of anything. And what I've been through with this weather is nothing. And I, and I put my faith in God. I, God told me to come here. God told me five years ago, I was in Colorado. He put on my heart, Tampa, Florida, and get a boat. I woke up one morning with doubt on my heart. And that's all I could think about.

And I left Colorado. I went to North Carolina, left North Carolina, came to Florida. I've been in Florida for five years, stuck on the East coast, never came over. In March, I came over, I found this boat for 1200 bucks. I bought it. I come to Tampa and guess what? Guess what? Can't pledge. Not today. So he's sharing his story.

Of course, it got super viral. There's actually a streamer who offered him 100, 000. And as far as I know right now, that offer still stands for this guy to continue streaming and sharing his journey. Look, I mean, yeah, he he's, he's got a kind of a crazy life he's lived. And that's, that's the world we live in, folks.

And he's got, you know, over 30, I mean, people. wanted him to survive this thing. And we'll see, we'll see what he makes of it. To be quite honest. Now, there were reports here. CNN's Isabel Rosales joined Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Cronister on an airboat, touring flooded out neighborhoods in Tampa. And you can hear a moment where the Sheriff, uh, sort of starts to break down and cry.

Just realizing that a lot of these neighborhoods that were affected. Uh, you know, there were neighborhoods that were already, you know, these, these weren't all affluent neighborhoods. These were a lot of people that like lost everything that they had from torrential rainfall. This is not storm search.

This is not an evacuation area. This is something completely unexpected for this area. I've never seen flooding like this. We had people that evacuated here to make sure they were safe. They listened. They came here. This is a neighborhood that doesn't have a lot. They have very little and the very little they had.

They've lost everything. You're getting choked up right now.

Your heart shatters for these people. Uh, we did a bunch of rescues. We took them to a shelter. This water has nowhere to go. So it actually reminds me of Hurricane Katrina when the levees broke in New Orleans and the ninth ward was flooded. And of course it was a lot of the homes of the people of lower class or lower middle class.

I got to see that firsthand as we, uh, helped clean out some of the homes. Uh, and I have to tell you some of the people you meet, uh, that have that I've had to deal with such adversity. It's so, it's so hard to think about, but so many of those people that you meet that have lost everything somehow have the most gratitude.

You know, these are people that would ride a storm out on the roof. And these are people that lost their animals and their family members. And, and you hear about those heroic stories and it really. Is one of the only things that reminds us all that we all are, you just red blooded Americans and we're all, you know, when you're trying to save someone's life, you're not asking what political party they belong to.

Here's Fox News. There's a woman who was trying to dodge the storm and a man saved her life. Have a listen. I just started walking because my girlfriend lives about four blocks from here, from there, and I thought I could make it, and as I go about a block, the water comes up to here, and I'm falling down, and I'm yelling, and a gentleman comes out of his house, he pulls me in, and he says, get in here, he had no idea who I was.

And his name is Roy and I want to say Roy, thank you for saving my life. Cause I almost got, I almost died. There it is. So big shout out to Roy and every other hero that's out there. I mean, there's going to be a lot of stories that come up from not just this hurricane, but Helene and Susan. So, and you know, in all the devastation and the sort of rebuilding that comes out and we'll try to cover it as we see fit, uh, we have an update to a story we covered yesterday.

Uh, I actually, so yesterday was a travel day for me and I'll get into that in a minute, but because it was a travel day, I had to make some content ahead of time. While there's been so many restraining orders in the bachelor world, it's hard to cover them all. The last one was a guy named Gil. Well, now there's a new restraint.

He's on golden bachelorette and he had, you know, it's. It's a current, uh, temporary restraining order that will be adjudicated in court between him and his ex. Well now there's a guy named guy. Guy Ganser is actually doing really well on this season of, uh, golden bachelor, uh, it's called the bachelorette.

And I think I accidentally conflated them to in the last episode because guy and Gail restraining orders, they sounded like the same. I didn't even know there was a new, there was a new restraining order out there. So there, there was, it took place in 2020. 21 by guy and, uh, his, uh, then I guess wife, he was divorcing.

Well, they both dropped the restraining order. Uh, they came to terms, you know, that they were breaking up and it was messy, I'm sure. And they actually tried to get that order sealed. But of course the sun, uh, was able to expose it. The sun being the, uh, the, uh, you know, British tabloid and guy came out with a statement to just let people know about that restraining order that surfaced.

Here's what he had to say. I would like to respond to articles about a personal matter from 2021. This was an unfortunate situation that occurred during an incredibly stressful time for me and my former spouse, and I was ultimately resolved when she voluntarily, uh, voluntarily dismissed her request for protective order.

Together, we crafted a resolution that was agreeable to both parties. My ex wife and I recently asked the court to seal, to seal her application for the protective order as we had hoped to maintain privacy for our family. But I know that with being in the public eye comes responsibility. My ex wife and I were married for 34 years, and in that time had four children who was raised together and deeply loved.

They are my greatest accomplishment. My divorce was extremely difficult for me and led me to a very low point in my life, and as a result, I acted in a way that does not represent who I am. The past few years have caused me to conduct a deep, personal evaluation and I will always continue to work to improve myself.

I am so appreciative of the Golden Bachelorette and Bachelor Nation, as well as my family who have been exceptionally supportive during the most difficult times of my life. I'm eternally grateful for them. Look folks, when it comes to People doing bad things and maybe this breakup was toxic. Maybe there was arguments and, and, and, and accusations and who knows what, right?

But when it comes down to it, you know, I do believe in a world where people can redeem themselves and overcome their darkest moments. And I can't pretend to know what it's like to go through a 34 year marriage that ends the way it does and when, and whatnot. Uh, so. I, but, but, uh, but I also don't blame the articles for coming out because like, you know, if it's a dating show and if you have, uh, problematic issues, they're going to get brought up on a dating show.

So, you know, he's a relatively powerful ER doctor, uh, who probably was able to have some money to try to get this thing sealed and wasn't able to do that. So it is what it is. Uh, sunlight's the greatest disinfectant and, uh, share your story and try to be a better version of yourself moving forward. What else can you say?

All right. I'll give you an update to my wild day. I'll have that story for you coming right after a quick word from our sponsor. You know, I almost struggled to even tell this story because it was a perfectly fine day for me. And you know, there's, you know, the, the, the, the, the cleanup of the hurricanes and this and that.

So again, everything I'm about to say is in total jest and life is good on my end and I'm completely grateful for my family and my health and all that jazz. So with that said, it was a wild day of flying because I had to fly from Nashville to see my family in Rhode Island. I've got a show tonight at the Rogue Island Comedy Festival, 6 p.

m. Uh, I don't know if tickets are still available, but you can check them, but there probably are a few. It's a big venue. Uh, but anyhow, go to my Instagram to get tickets to that. If you want to come out Portsmouth, Rhode Island, uh, but I had to fly. We had a flight to Boston from Nashville and the flight itself went fine, but now, you know, we're learning to fly with a baby and, you know, you got to take them to the little baby family, uh, the family bathroom in the airport and everyone's loving the babies looking cute.

But he always, he always poops at the wrong time. That's the kid. He always poops at the wrong time. That's what he's known for. Uh, you know, when, when we had the beauty pageant right before, boom. Ready to go. You know what I mean? He just, he just knows like, should I do it now? And we're like, no. And he is like, but I have to, uh, takes after his dad.

So he, uh, , we, we land, we land in Boston, and uh, we're on the tarmac and sure enough, he lets one rip. And, uh, for whatever reason, when you poop on an airplane there, there's something with a cabin pressure. It shoots the, it shoots the, uh, you know what right up the, right up the spine. So we quickly had a situation and then of, and then of course the, uh, the pilot says, you know, due to whatever.

We're going to be stuck on the tarmac for a while. Well, for almost an hour, we had to sit with our fidgety son in our seats who had, uh, you know, our, you know, had, uh, sort of ruined his outfit of choice as it were. Uh, but then we get to the car rental and it was, it was the busiest. And again, I know it's busy because there's 3000 flights diverted and it took an hour Hours to get into that car to drive two more hours to Rhode Island.

And I'm just, I'm just happy to be here with family and everything I say, it's, it's all just to say, we knew all day long as our, as our day was, uh, one filled of a lot of travel and, uh, you know, a lot of sort of, uh, you know, not getting, not getting much sleep that, Hey, life is good. Life is good. And these are the challenges and the bumps that we should appreciate as young parents, uh, with a newborn baby, with a, with a five month old is, I guess he's not newborn anymore, you know, but you know, I, and I just couldn't imagine, I just couldn't.

And again, this is, this is, I guess what wrecks you as a parent. This is what wrecks you as a parent is the amount of worry that comes into your life. We had an issue this week where the baby fell for the first time. Um, um, When he shouldn't have in a situation that was completely my fault, uh, and he was fine and we didn't take him to the hospital, but we monitored him and it left me, it just left me crying in a way that I didn't know possible because, you know, you know, go through a breakup or something happened, you know, there's so many times when you cry for yourself, but to cry for somebody else, to care about somebody else.

That's, that's a different feeling. You know, I care about my wife, but she, she's got agency and she's an adult and, and, and my poor baby to think that I put him in a situation to hurt and he, and he hurt from it. And again, he was okay, but it was just a scary situation. So when we have all these issues in our country, So often we don't have empathy for people that don't look like us and we have to really put, uh, and do our work to put ourself in a situation to think, wow, what if that was me?

What if that was my son in that flood water? What if that was my mom that was stuck on the streets and we needed someone like Roy to save their life? You have to really think about all of the that. I guess, I don't want to call them guardian angels, but good Samaritans that exist and when push comes to shove, they're all out there.

So we shared earlier a clip of the county sheriff, uh, uh, from Hillsborough County discussing, you know, how emotional it was to sort of deal with some of these situations. Well, they actually had a moment where they caught on camera a 14 year old boy. That was essentially floating, uh, in, in, in some, in some flooded neighborhood.

And he was trying to wave down the boat to help him. Here's what the Sheriff had to say. We actually want to talk to the Sheriff of Hillsborough County. Now Sheriff Chad Chronister joins us live. Sheriff, you put this video out on social media. Uh, I'm wondering what goes through your mind when you see footage like this?

And the footage was them literally scooping up a 14 year old boy who, who may have spent the night in the waters. I mean, who knows? Listen, I just happened to be on the airboat for that one, uh, that's over 200 rescues we've done and are still actively conducting. We just offloaded a family as, as, as I'm standing here by the flooded water.

He was waving us down, flagging us down. Most people were saying hello. He was frantically wailing his arms. We went over and it literally was like the scene of the Castaway movie, how he's hanging on for dear life. His mom evacuated him to a safer area last night. He was walking home. Didn't realize the water was going to get as flooded as deep as it did.

And he's not a good swimmer. And hence, hence the rescue. And he was visibly shaken. I mean, he hugged us. He was just so grateful and we took him to some dry land, but just one of many rescues we've been conducting. Heroes, folks. Heroes. Well, I mean, it's a heavy stuff, but like, you'd be heartless to not cover this, right?

You'd be absolutely heartless. I just can't. I mean, you want to bubble wrap your kid, right? That's all you want to do is just put your kid in bubble wrap and not let them go outside ever. But what can you do here? And, um, you know, for every. For every 10 stories of, you know, heroic behavior, there's those that, you know, people didn't get to, and we're going to, and we're going to have, you know, those are going to come out.

And it's just one of those things we need to just do a better job of giving people the financial freedom to be able to evacuate. On time. And, you know, we, we have all of those resources, but so many people just like they, they, they strap down because they don't think they've got any other options. And I know it's a mess out there and, and, and we'll try to support, uh, in any way we can, any relief efforts.

If there's anyone that is in our community that has any personal, uh, sort of, um, donations that, that are needed in any way whatsoever, please, my DMS are open, send, I know someone sent me some links already, we're trying to, we're trying to get. To people that we can tangibly help right now. There's a lot of donations going in a lot of different directions, but, uh, we're here for you guys.

All right. I got it. I got to take a twist to some more like poppy news here. Um, but, uh, Kanye West is a bizarre new lawsuit alleges he hired a fixer to follow Bianca and investigate the Kardashians he's being sued. By a man claiming to be his former director of intelligence, who has alleged the rapper ordered him to orchestrate investigations into both wife, Bianca and former in laws to Kardashians.

Per the lawsuit in December, 2022, Kanye had initially hired the staffer to be his campaign manager for his presidential run. but later reworked his role to be Yeezy's Director of Intelligence. The man claimed the position required him to be responsible for handling Kanye's NDAs and other investigations, which included closer looks at the Kardashians and Bianca.

He was tasked with hiring private investigators to tail Bianca, without her knowledge, whenever she traveled solo, including during visits with her family in Australia. Well, this is insane. So we'll have to see. Um, uh, he said, he says that in Kanye in, in may of 2024 began exhibiting erratic behavior as a result of his alleged nitrous oxide usage after implanting titanium grills on his teeth.

All right. Well, this is just sad. We'll have to see what comes of this lawsuit and uh, yeah, who knows? Well, well, Trump, uh, I guess, let it spill that his daughter Tiffany is pregnant. He said it, um, I guess he said it, um, here, let's listen to what he actually had to say. And a very special man, a great guy, Dr.

Massad Boulos, many of you know him. He's a very successful man.

He happens to be the father of Tiffany's husband, Michael, who's a very exceptional young guy. And she's an exceptional young woman. And so. And she's gonna have a baby, so that's nice. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much. Alright, so he just throws it out. I don't know. I mean, that's such a I know he's not a boomer, right?

He's older than a boomer. What is he, the Forgotten Generation? But that's such a thing where like, you know, you're like, Dad, you're not supposed to announce it yet. We haven't told, we haven't gotten the Instagram photo out yet. Oh, whatever, what can you do, you know? Well So Trump, and I covered this earlier, right?

Trump, uh, called Alex Cooper stupid, uh, because of her interview skills with Kamala Harris. Well, it's led people in different directions to criticize Alex Cooper and to defend her. Let's go to the criticism first and then we'll go to the defense. This is the Tim cast, Tim pool, roasting Alex Cooper over her interview.

Alex Cooper hosts a show where she discusses, like, general interest topic stuff for women, dating, sex, sexuality, she, as are her words, she interviews the vice president and current democratic candidate for the election coming up in less than a month and she never! Google searched this, and so she's got millions of listeners and millions of followers, and she may as well be drooling into the microphone.

Okay. I'm sorry. Okay. Voting should not be easy. Voting should not be hard, but it should not be easy. I think ballots should be blank. That's it. You can go vote. Bye. You don't need an ID, paper ballots, and they're blank. All right. So I think this is the, a ridiculous take. I mean, a lot of people actually thought that Alex Cooper did a really good job with her interview.

Now she's getting criticized for being like very propagandist because she didn't push back with any hard hitting questions. Look, Alex Cooper is kind of like the, uh, the girl from, uh, Schitt's Creek. She's very, um, uh, uh, war. She's, she's very warm in the way she interviews. She plays it like she's your best friend, but it gets the interviewee to open up in a way that they might not in a normal stiff interview.

So a lot of people are upset with Alex, but I think, I think she's. I don't call it genius, but I think what she does is really good. She's just not that type of interview. She's not the hard hitting interview. That's not what she's there to do. Um, so it's like, you can't, you can't fault someone for doing something that they just don't do.

Well, I'm going to share what Bethany Frankel has to say, which I think is pretty interesting since Bethany Frankel is also like a self made mega millionaire from all of her success. We'll have that for you next. Let's talk about Alex Cooper. So I met her at a birthday party this summer and then I was a guest on her Unwell tour.

First time I met her, um, it was a big crowd and she was engaging the crowd and I liked her. I just sort of know instantly if I like someone. Uh, we chatted and she understands her audience and she's connecting and it's not disingenuous. Like she really is grateful to be where she is. And then I went to the unwell tour.

Now, keep in mind, I've done Jay Leno. I've done Jimmy Kimmel. I've done Jimmy Fallon, Ellen, all of them. And I went to the dressing room, uh, and she knocked on the door and my social person was in there and she said, we're not ready. I didn't even know it was Alex. And I thought, Oh my God. But anyway, two seconds later, she opened up.

This girl came to play in a different way. Meaning she came to play. She wanted to creatively collaborate. We were like riffing and riffing. And, and bantering and just like bang, bang, bang. It was like being with a kindred spirit. Okay. And we shot some content and we chatted and then I met her husband and she met the people that I was with.

And it was very, very, to say that it was down to earth, it would be an understatement. And then I watched her show and I watched her engage her audience and the people that she surrounded herself with, like the sort of friends of the show. And. Whether it was Harry Jowsey or, um, the girl who was a guest, Megan Maroney, please.

If I get her name wrong, I'm so sorry. She's a beautiful young girl. Um, and again, her husband, and we did chat about the interview that she had coming up that was really big and her team, the people around her. And I just want to say that, as I said on stage to her, She's the real deal. So there it is. I mean, look, she's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

She's, she's the real deal. Not by accident, not because she's the smartest person in the room or the sexiest person in the room or the most influential because she's the richest. No, she's, she is because of the energy she's put out there and people relate to that. And that's undeniable. There's no knocking.

I mean, you can knock it if you don't get it, but she has built an empire. So it's funny when people go, Oh, she was a bad interview. It's like, I, I, I guess she's not for everyone to understand what she is. Well, Diddy is behind bars and his trial is not happening for a few more months. Here's the update to that story.

Judge has set a May 5th trial date for Sean Diddy combs to face those charges of racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation, a prostitution. Now Diddy was in court today. He entered the courtroom wearing a jail issued outfit, a khaki long sleeve shirt and pants. He was also shackled at the ankles.

His family members were in the courtroom. Room. His mother and most of his children, he had waved to them, blew a kiss to his mother, and one of his sons had raised and flexed his arm, his bicep as though to show a sign of strength. Now, this hearing was mostly about procedural issues, right? So either way, I mean, you know.

The fact that he's not, doesn't have parole. I mean, he has to sit in jail and wait for this thing. I mean, but it's like, look, we'll see how it all plays out. You know, they're afraid he's a flight risk cause he's a very influential guy. You can just get on a private jet and go wherever he wants. Well, Marilyn Manson, I guess.

is back in court. There's new evidence in an alleged sexual misconduct case. The LA district attorney says, uh, we'll have to see. They released a statement saying that the sex crimes division are reviewing new leads and additional evidence that have come to their attention from the LA Sheriff's department.

So I guess if that goes to trial, we'll have more information there. I know it's kind of heavy today. There was a lot of, uh, geez, a lot of like, you know, just toxic news out there, but I hope the stories of Roy And the stories of the sheriff and saving the boy and in, in Lieutenant Dan, I hope that can at least remind us all to be humans.

You know, when we're in, when we have that idea of going into the DMS and leaving a snarky comment or if we have, and by the way, that person who called me an idiot did apologize. We appreciate that. So all is right in that world, you know, from the other day, but I just want to remind everyone we are here explicitly to share the truth.

Love and to try to make light of some entertainment news and to try to do good thing. That's what all, that's all I want to do. I, I, you know, so with the heavy news, I have to offset it with some positivity. It's going to be a good one today, folks. Uh, you know, Fridays are meant to be, you know, you're meant to smile on Friday.

So find, find a reason to tell your loved ones. You love them. Call your mom, tell her your lover and try to make a stranger's day and maybe they'll do it in return. That's all we can do during trying times like this. this. I hope you guys have an excellent one. I'll be live on Patreon later this morning, um, from my Rhode Island set up.

So we'll be live behind the scenes covering some content today and then I'll catch you this afternoon. I'll see you then. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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10-10-24 Morning Rush - Hurricane Milton Updates & An Interview With Co-Founder of Fazit Beauty About The 'Taylor Swift Effect' & A Golden Bachelorette Horror Story!

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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 morning everybody on this Thursday, October 10th, 2024. I've got all of your pop culture. Pop culture news in one place. But first we have updates from several people stuck in Florida that aren't evacuating due to the catastrophic hurricane Milton, a story gripping the nation as one sailor refuses to give up his boat.

Plus California is suing Tik TOK. I'll explain why. And a golden bachelorette contestants, wicked restraining order involves some very heavy accusations. I'll share pieces of that with you. Also, I've got an interview with the co founder of the Glitter Freckle Company that has exploded due to Taylor Swift featuring their product.

If you're an entrepreneur, if you're a content creator, if you want some motivation for any of those reasons, you're going to need to listen to this great podcast. Conversation we had. So I got all those stories and more coming up next on the rush. Have you heard of the waffle house index? Well, it is at level red says founder and former FEMA administrator, Craig Fugate.

It's what's used to see how bad a storm actually is based on how many waffle houses are closing down. It might sound trivial, but you know, the, the, this is kind of a. Really good indicator of how bad it is on the grounds, Craig, you, of course, famously created the Waffle House Index, which is, I guess it may be an unscientific if I can use that term metric of a severity of the storm based on how many Waffle Houses have decided to close.

This brings us all the way back to 2011. And I wonder what the Waffle House Index is telling you. If anything, yet in advance of this storm, what color are we at? Red Waffle House is getting ready. They're shutting down most of their, uh, uh, restaurants in the heart forecast and hard hit areas. And, you know, Waffle House is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for them to close is extraordinary.

And they're also a good indicator of when the disaster is over, how recovery is going because many cases that I've seen Waffle House will be open before anybody else and their philosophy of show up and get open really depends upon the roads being open. Uh, infrastructure starting to come back. And it's a good indicator that things are starting to stabilize and we're starting to move into that recovery.

Now, just so you guys know, today's a travel day for me as I'm flying to Boston, I've got my standup show tomorrow night in Rhode Island. Of course, all of tickets for sale. You can hit me up on Instagram, uh, on Friday night. But because of that, I'm recording this episode a few hours early. I normally record around midnight.

It's 10 PM my time, central standard time. So just so you know, no, this is not live in the morning for your up to date information, go check out a reliable news source. So vice president Kamala Harris actually called into the weather channel to give critical info regarding those evacuating. And, you know, a lot of people didn't want to evacuate because they might not have been able to afford to.

And she's basically saying. No one better be jacking up prices and you're going to get, you know, you covered, just get out of harm's way. Our federal, federal resources, you are entitled to receive without condition. And there are resources that are available to you to deal with what you need right now to, for example, get money, to be able to fill your prescriptions and deal with a hotel expense and help you recover over the longer term.

The other point I would make is this, and I've done this work in my career. Sadly, there are some folks who during the moment of a crisis will be very predatory and start jacking up prices like gasoline or hotels, um, or airlines, um, to, to take advantage of the desperation people are experiencing. So to anybody who's thinking about jacking up those prices, those companies that are thinking about doing it, know that we are monitoring.

And we're watching, and if there is that kind of price gouging, that there will be a consequence for that. All right. Yep. And don't forget, Kamala's got her Glock. So be careful. No, but all seriously, but all seriousness, uh, you know, uh, it's sad that companies do that. And yeah, there are laws against price gouging in, and of course in times of need, but you know, those aren't always enforced.

So, uh, I hope our government will make sure that people are taking care of people. This is where you don't want capitalism. This is where you want to make sure you're preventing companies and corporations and whatnot from taking advantage of those in need. Here's one family in need. They're called the Hartig family.

They're going viral on Tik TOK. They've decided not to leave. Uh, here's what they had to say on inside edition. Eight year old Ashley Harding and her husband are staying put in her home in Sarasota with their three Children. You've decided to hunker down and wait out the storm. Why? The highways were packed.

They're running out of gas. The there's nowhere to go. Hotels are booked. So I felt safer in my own home. She showed me how the family plans to survive the storm. We're starting to put them all over the house, covering every window. This is actually our master bedroom, and since the hurricane So they're covering the windows with metal and all of that, so, uh, look, I mean, not everyone is in an evacuation zone, which is, you know, people need to know and take care of, you know, uh, their families in the best way they can, and sometimes that means not being vulnerable if you're stuck on a highway somewhere.

I just wish we I wish the country was in a place where nobody had to worry about whether or not they could afford a hotel. You know, With the way technology is, we should just be able to disperse funds immediately to families that need it. And it's like, okay, so what if the family doesn't use that 500 to go stay at a hotel for three nights?

Then they get an extra 500 because they're in a, in a flood zone. I don't know. You know what I mean? It's not, everything's fair. Some people get some money. Uh, forgiven on student loans. Some people get helped out in a hurricane. Like not everything has to be even Steven. Like it's almost like we're in a giant family.

Not everything gets treated evenly, but what I would love is if our country could come together and protect its own. Now there is a man going viral on Tik TOK because he refuses to leave his boat in Tampa. God knows how he is doing right now. You remember Lieutenant Dan, the guy who's gone viral, who's Um, in this sailboat.

He, he's still here, Nicole. Everybody's worried about you. Who's worried about me? It's all over TikTok. Everybody, like across the, like across the country. So these are news organizations coming up to him. The mayor tried to get him to leave his boat. I'm gonna go live in a minute. The mayor in her press conference said that they, they came and got him and took him to a shelter, but it's like so weird she said that because he is still in the boat.

I mean, I just saw, His hand sticking out, uh, like a couple of minutes before this live shot. I have a secured anchor point. I'm tied to the boat. If the tide goes up, I go up. As long as the water stays out of the boat, I'll be fine. And I'm the one, I'm the black sheep, I'm the one that does what I And look, I, I respect the, the fearlessness of this man.

I just hope he's going to be okay. He doesn't want to leave his boat because if he doesn't have his boat, he becomes homeless. Like this is everything he owns. And it's just so sad because a GoFundMe has been set up for him. I'll actually let the TikTokers explain because some people are accusing some TikTokers of taking advantage of him.

But there has been a GoFundMe set up for him to donate funds to make sure he can go stay in a hotel and ride this out. But I guess he just doesn't want to do that. Everyone. I just want to come on here and explain what's going on with Lieutenant Dan. And I've been, he's seen a lot of comments, a lot of misinformation out there.

So I just want to come on here and set all the facts straight about what's going on. My name's Terrence. I'm the one that started this whole Lieutenant Dan thing. I've been filming him, making all the videos with him. I stayed with the last hurricane with him, checked in on him, made sure he was okay. And so I just want to, you know, answer some questions that people have been asking me.

I've been seeing it on Twitter or whatever, everything about him. So Dan is not leaving the boat for the hurricane. He is staying on that boat. There has been many attempts to get him off this boat. People have offered houses, hotel rooms, apartments. He will not leave. So for all the people saying, get him a hotel, you're trying to get him to stay on the boat.

We have all tried to get him to leave. The mayor, Tampa police, me, a bunch of other people. He will not leave guys. So do not put that on me. He's a grown man. At the end of the day, he makes his own decisions. He's I set him up to go fund me and all that money is going to him a hundred percent of the money.

He has no bank account, no ID, so it is tricky right now getting him the money, but he will get all that money. Now the reason they call him Lieutenant Dan is because he's a, he's a one legged man and uh, look, uh, we'll give updates on how it goes. I hope he's okay, even if his boat gets wrecked. But as long as he survives, there will be GoFundMes to support him.

We'll get him a bigger boat. He's going to be okay so much as. If he can ride this thing out. Well, we have a great interview to bring your way and it is the co founder of a company going super viral after Taylor Swift put them on the map. We'll have that for you next. As you know, we reported on the Taylor Swift effect.

Taylor Swift can literally change the economies of towns when she visits them. Well, something wild happened on Monday night where she wore the glitter freckles of a company that was started this past year, co founded by a lady named Elliot Buttleman. Well, she joins me right now to talk about what has happened to her small business since the Taylor Swift effect.

took place on Monday night. How has this week been for you after the biggest pop star of all time wore your product on her face? Two days ago now we had somebody who follows us on our face at beauty Instagram account message us and say, Hey, I think Taylor Swift freckle patches. And obviously was a little confused.

I guess it was confused, but we did send to her makeup artist four months ago. Um, so I guess maybe that would make sense, but we turned on the TV and checked my phone and every media outlet was covering her outfit as soon as she walked into the Arrowhead Stadium. And I'm sure as everyone saw me crying of a video that has 5 million views now.

Uh, we were, you know, so emotional, um, really just to have. You know, Taylor, the number one influencer and icon of our generation, be validating the hard work that we've put into our brand over the last two years. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? Now your reaction was so like organic, but also such gold for, for, for the internet, because that's how I actually saw at first was that video.

And then you explained later on how it all went down. So, I mean, who's filming you and like, how are you even digesting that? Cause you're right. She is the biggest influencer in the world. She took two weeks off of not being at the game. So this was kind of a big story that she was coming back. It really was kind of an amazing moment.

Um, yeah. So, um, You know, my I live with my fiance and he's been through a lot of the highs and lows of our business over the last two years. And I think now he's realizing when there are certain special moments to try and capture them just for the memory bank. So He was actually filming me crying as I'm reading the news and, um, I should hire him as our full time social media manager now because he killed it.

Unbelievable. Yeah. What a, what a great, uh, test that he passed there. You know, it's like they have, when I've seen this happen on, on TV shows that usually the director will be in someone's ear going moment, moment, moment. And it's like that moment where everyone has to make sure you're getting this. And it was really such an organic, uh, uh, You know, I guess, I guess what it was, it was a validation for all the hard work you've put in.

Right? Exactly. Yeah. I mean, it's funny because he was like, don't post that. Don't post that. It's just like, you know what? I have nothing to lose. I'm just going to throw up like a natural raw reaction. Um, you know, it obviously has turned into something much larger. And it, and it obviously wasn't like a shot in the dark.

Your company, I think I saw was featured in urban outfitters and, you know, tell me about the come up from the, I have an idea to, wow, let's actually try to do this. Uh, what was, what was that entrepreneurial spirit all about that got you into this? Yeah, so my partner and I, Nina, we've been working on FACEIT for about the last year and a half, two years.

We started out with skincare patches and segued way into makeup patches. So using patches as the format of applying both skincare and makeup. Before Taylor amplifying this product for us and obviously amplifying our business on a national stage. You know, we have had many viral moments on social media.

We launched our makeup patches during Coachella weekend, immediately sold out and went viral. We're nationwide at Urban Outfitters. We're rolling out into a massive, uh, retailer come November next month. So a lot has been building upon this moment. So it's funny from an entrepreneurial mind. Everyone now is very excited about the brand and obviously congratulating us, but we've been working to get to this point.

Nothing actually happens overnight. We sent to Taylor's makeup artists in May when we launched the product. Um, I'm not sure if that's who gave it to her. She bought it on her own. We've also had a strategy in place to send to all of the chiefs wags. So we definitely have had a strategy in place to make sure that phase it is surrounded, sorry, that Taylor is surrounded by phase it.

Yeah. You know, it's, there's such an industry that we saw blow up last year with a lot of the, with the NFL partnering with one of the wives of a player. Uh, when it comes to a lot of the, uh, you know, alternative fashion, redesigning jerseys. And I mean, Taylor's really, you know, she has just had a sort of a trail of economic boom wherever she touches.

And for, for something so simple as her deciding to put on some, you know, glitter freckles, which is a term I've never, it's probably trending out there. I've never said glitter freckles in my life. Now it's, you know, I think with entrepreneurs, a lot of times before someone endorses it, like Taylor Swift, a lot of times, you know, people don't believe in what you have.

Did you face resistance when, with the idea? Like, no, no, no. People are going to want to wear fake glitter freckles. Like the idea itself sounds. Yeah. No, totally. As an entrepreneur and as, you know, a business owner, I've had a few other companies, you know, a lot of the journey is knocking on people's doors and convincing them on this idea and how it's actually going to change their business as well.

And nobody believes you until it's almost too late for them to take that chance. So we've definitely encountered that along the way. And I understand, I mean, from a retail perspective, uh, or even from a customer perspective, you want that outside validation. If I'm going to spend my money on this product, like I want to know that other people love it too.

And likewise for retailers, they make a big investment bringing on new brands and they want to know that they can sell through. We've never had a problem selling through. I mean, Urban has been so successful for us being able to launch into 180 of their doors, which is nationwide. All their Urban Outfitters has been amazing.

So it's now so great that, you know, now that Taylor says, you know, I love Glitter Freckles. Everyone's quoting mean girls as everyone else wants glitter freckles now. So TMZ posted an article. I read it on yesterday's podcast that glitter patches see 2, 500 percent spike in sales. What's life like for you and for the company right now?

Oh my God. Well, let me like pull up actually like real statistics right now in front of my laptop. Yeah. We've had a 2, 500 percent increase in sales over the last 48, eight hours. Um, So thankful for my team who was ready for this. I know that the swift effect has, you know, been able to move mountains for other small businesses.

And a lot of times they do sell out not anticipating this response, but we've had so many viral moments. We have a team manufacturer distribution center, social media team, everyone's working around the clock, um, trying to keep up with all of this, but we also have, have had the infrastructure Ready for a moment like this.

So I'm definitely sleeping and eating less than I was 48 hours ago. But, um, it's really all about, you know, taking advantage of this moment with our company and really milking it for as long as possible. Yeah. You know, uh, I think that's how a lot of companies work, right? You'll have these giant boosts of sales and new opportunity.

You know, inevitably will plateau and then the next thing will come along. But I think what you've proven is like, put yourself in the right position to have luck strike. And that of course came from you putting your brand out there on social media. I mean, it's really, uh, you're, you're what's happening to you right now is like a textbook chapter for marketing.

Uh, you know, with with products that you might not have the ability and the funds to compete with, you know, getting, you know, product placement in vogue or paying for, you know, whatever, but you're able to do it through what really matters, which is getting getting in the right hands of people that can move product.

Yeah, exactly. So anyhow, I'm, I'm going to be following you. Um, I, I don't know, maybe I'll be wearing glitter patches on the show. So we'll have to see if it helps. We have a team spirit collection. So we have red, purple, orange, and blue. So if you support a team that that's their color. I think, I think everyone's going to be wearing these two game days and tailgates.

It's been exciting. We've had an immense response from the sports community, reaching out, every retailer reaching out. It's, it's been a whirlwind of, of 48 hours. What was the big, what was the big one? Uh, can you name any big retailers that want to work with you or has anyone even tried to buy the company?

Uh, uh, yes and yes. Uh, can't say too much about either of those. Don't sell, do not sell. Yeah, say it louder for the people in the back. If anyone's wondering, my advice, keep that equity. It's, it's gold. Yes. Yes. I mean, it's, we've been completely bootstrapped. We had a friends and family investment two years ago, but you know, we've been able to cashflow phase it, which we're really impressed by ourselves for doing that.

And, and even today with these, Insane orders and insane retail orders were able to keep up. Um, and then retailers, we have a drug store, um, launching into about 1800 stores come November, but this was pre Taylor. Um, but very thankful to Taylor to help us sell through with that first retail partner. And very lastly, what any advice for young women out there that are looking to leap into an entrepreneurial sort of idea and they're afraid to take that jump?

Any advice? Yeah. Um, what I would tell my younger self is just do it. I really proud of this generation because they're not afraid to put themselves on social media and make these silly little videos that can potentially turn into a career for them. So just keep doing it. Don't be embarrassed. Um, your friends are gonna be really jealous later on.

Um, sacrifice. There's a lot of sacrifices that go into being an entrepreneur. So having with the stomach for that. Don't take no for an answer and don't let rejection kill you because there's just so much rejection along the way. Um, you just have to keep pushing and manifestation is also really real. Oh, I, I agree with that.

I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with me today and uh, thanks again and good luck. The sky is the limit for you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Well, that was a fun, inspiring conversation. We'll have more to get to before we're done here. Let's just take a quick word from our sponsors.

We'll be back right after this. Let's go to California for a quick update on why they and a dozen other states are suing the social media giant Tick Tock. Have a listen. State of California today is announcing a lawsuit against TikTok. We're filing in state court. We're bringing claims based on our false advertising law and our unfair competition law because TikTok has intentionally and deliberately, um, manipulated and hurt knowingly, um, young people through its platform.

It has promoted, uh, excessive and addictive content. use by design, uh, of our children, uh, through its, its different features from autoplay and infinite scroll to its likes, to its beauty filter. I think there are parents throughout this state and this nation who are rightfully worried about their children's future.

Mental health, uh, their safety, their wellbeing, uh, because of the use, uh, of social media and its ubiquity, its omnipresence. I got to tell you, tic tac is weird in the sense that even when you don't choose a filter, it cleans up your face. It literally, the no filter is still airbrushing your face. You look good on it.

Now, as far as how addictive it is, it's like, look, I don't know if we can compare a tick tock to Snapchat. I think we need to have the same conversation across the platforms about ways to police the algorithms to kids. Absolutely. Now I, I've talked a lot about this and I'm planning on not letting my kids be a part of that.

I want them to be kids. It sounds so archaic to say that, well, what if all their friends are doing it? Well, I think, I think my generation now we're realizing how addictive this stuff is and we're coming to the conclusion that because it's so addictive, We can do a better job of trying to understand like in a community setting how to overcome it.

In a way, because it is just absolutely wild out there. I actually have another clip I can share with you guys about how addictive social media is, and to put less blame on the kids and more on us as adults, we can't control the addiction. How often did I look at my mom wanting her attention? And instead I saw the back of her phone zero.

How often does my kid. They want time with me, because they say something on the surface that seems minor, but it's actually just the beginning of an unraveling story that leads to them being left out, that they actually really want to figure out with me, and instead I'm on my phone. If I'm honest, like a decent percentage of the time.

And so if we're not so available for those deeper, synchronous connections, because we're on our phone, it's not just about modeling behavior. Our kid then, they're not getting what they need, and then they learn to turn to what seems to be soothing. Hey, that's what it comes down to. How can we fix the problem with our kids when we're all addicted junkies ourselves?

And we can, we can start to, you know, go out with friends and say, Hey, let's do no phones or no devices. If you need to go check something, just go to the bathroom, whatever, you know, but at least we can start having those conversations. Now, very quickly, we have this wild story. I'm going to be covering this on YouTube today.

Extremely unstable, Golden Bachelorette star Guy Gansert's ex claims he threatened to shoot her in recent request for restraining order. So we already shared the information that this restraining order came in after they did background checks on this current season. And the reason why this has been such a big deal is that the recent bachelorette, Jen Tran.

Her winner on the season, Devin, who they had since broken up, had a pretty horrific restraining order against him. And it's like, how did it, how did that slip through the cracks? Well, this just happened recently, but he's a retired doctor and in text messages, they say he flips to anger and the X alleges that he has done some pretty crazy things, followed her and, you know, was attempting to possibly put a tracking device on her car.

Uh, we call that pulling the Colton Underwood. Uh, but I'm going to read all of the remarks, but I'm not, and I'm not saying I want to take this with a grain of salt, I'm taking this seriously, but it was published in the U S sun, which does publish hot garbage. I'm assuming these quotes that they're pulling are from the restraining order and they've been signed off by the judge.

I don't think that this is a permanent restraining order. It could just still be temporary, which means there will be a trial or he'll just agree to it and move on. Either way, we'll be here to cover it as it goes down. I know you guys might be expecting a golden bachelorette recap. I don't have that for you yet.

As I mentioned, I'll be traveling very busy, uh, but just know it will be coming. I'll have extra content for you on Patrion today. If you want to catch my driving with Dave weekend episode, you can go actually check that out in the description. Now on Patrion, I'll have the private link for you there. And I appreciate all the support we've had.

Uh, it's going to be a busy day for me, but I'll be back as always this afternoon with another episode of the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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10-9-24 Afternoon Rush - Bachelor Star Maria Responds To Bachelor Nation Shaming Her & Reacting To Lawyer Threatening To Sue Me

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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 Oct October 9th. It's a hump day, 2024. I got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. We'll give some updates on hurricane Milton.

Hope everyone is safe out there. I know a lot of people are on the road evacuating. We'll also be covering a UFO conversation. Whistleblowers say the government has vehicles of alien origin and their possession. Plus a pilot dies mid flight. And Travis Kelsey explains how Taylor Swift has expanded his palette and also Bachelor Nation star, excuse me, Bachelor star Maria shares how she was slut shamed by some members of Bachelor Nation.

And speaking of bizarre Bachelor content, I've also got an update. To the lawyer who's still threatening to take me to court. Uh, well, audiences don't seem too happy about his threats. It's nice to have an army of vigilante, uh, justice seekers out there willing to help me fight for truth. We'll have all these stories and more coming up next on the rush.

I'm sure we've all got a family member who it's never enough. No matter what we do. Well, Kathy Bates won an Oscar. This is reported by variety and her mom told her you didn't discover the cure for cancer. So I don't know what all the excitement is about, you know, every once in a while, you know, gosh, we love moms, right?

It's just never enough every once in a while. Uh, you know, I'll be arguing with my mom about something. I'll be like, you know, a lot of people online listen to what I have to say. You know, I'll be, I'll be hanging out with family and they won't be paying attention to me. And I'll be like, you know, uh, people, people pay meet and greets to hang out with me, uh, which whether that's true or not, uh, wasn't exactly helping my case.

Uh, I'm going home to see family this weekend. I've got a standup show. Friday night in Rhode Island, uh, at 6 PM in the rogue Island comedy festival. If you want to come to that show, I recommend it. I think there are still a few more tickets available, but it will sell out. It's a great lineup of comedians from all over taking part in a festival to laugh.

We love that. Well, in a festival of X files type of content, the extra terrestrial, we've got a leaked whistleblower reporting that the Pentagon has a UAP program called Immaculate Constellation that's been kept secret. From Congress. Uh, I love the idea of immaculate constellation. That's, that's what Clayton should name his, uh, kid he never had with Laura Owens.

Anyway, have a listen to what, uh, the whistleblower has to say. Intercon is illegally hiding secret UFO programs from Congress. Sources allege. Tell me more, sir. So a new whistleblower has come forward with a written report that this person has shared with. Some members of Congress and with me and the report is quite extraordinary.

It says that there is an unacknowledged. Special access program called Immaculate Constellation, which is the parent program is the language used for exactly what you said. UAP, crash retrieval, reverse engineering. And apparently a very large database of high quality photographs, videos, infrared videos, apparently much more sophisticated documentation of many more UAP encounters.

Listen, I don't believe it until you let me do a driving with Dave in a UAP, okay? I don't believe it. Now, Elon Musk, uh, loves to talk about aliens. He was interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Here's what he had to say. When you say, what are the aliens, what do you mean? Where are the aliens? Like, why don't we see them?

A lot of people think we see aliens, but I I've not seen any evidence of aliens. So, by the way, Elon Musk says he doesn't believe in aliens because we can't find any, which, by the way, would be the first thing an alien would ever say. My thought, Elon Musk, from out of this world. Um, you know, we've got 6, 000 satellites in orbit and not once have we had to maneuver around an alien spacecraft.

So, um. But on this Earth, the U. S. military's had to do a lot of maneuvering around objects they can't explain. Well, unidentified flying objects is one thing, but, I mean, there's always, there's always a bunch of, um, classified programs that are underway, uh, that, uh, of, of new aircraft and new missiles and things, so, that, that are classified even within the military, so it's, you know, only, you know, the, if you have the top secret compartmented clearance, would you know about this new program?

So then, you know, some pilot sees something fast, remember it fast, and So UFO. I'm like, yeah, that was actually a new weapons program, but we can't tell you that. Should I, if you can guarantee that. What a buzzkill, by the way, talk about aliens. The split second I see any evidence of aliens, I will immediately post that on the X platform and it'll probably be our number one post of all time.

That'll be your biggest day. Yes, for sure. All right. I don't buy it. I think he's an alien. He's trying to cover for the other cyborgs out there. Uh, anyhow, uh, speaking of non aliens doing things that are out of this world, Jussie Smollett, of course, uh, I guess created that crazy hoax, which he never really admitted to.

Uh, which I guess is, I guess that's the game plan. Create a hoax, never admit to it. It was all so he could drum up victimhood. Well, now he says his mom's home was nearly broken into. He had another brush with the law. This time the crime was for real and it involved one of his closest family members. Now, of course, we don't want any, uh, Uh, any, anyone to deal with issues like this, but I wonder if when they accepted the phone call, if they believed him, they're like, who lives there?

And it's like, well, it's Jesse Smollett's mom. And they're like, well, uh, who knows what to believe anymore? Hey, it's a bright boy who cried wolf, right? While sources do tell TMZ that Jussie's mom, Janet, had her L. A. home nearly burglarized by a couple of would be thieves Monday night, and her actor son immediately rushed to her side to make sure she was alright, thankfully, she was.

Which is good, you know what I mean? We don't want any, uh, Pain out there for anybody. Uh, no violence. I'm a pacifist folks. Well, now we have an update. So this is crazy, right? Yesterday I reported, or this morning I reported the story about Bob Woodward and said, I didn't know who he was. I said, I figured he's a reporter, but I don't know who he is.

Well, I get this email from a friend, Noel. She says, Dave, I'm sure by now your inbox has been exploding with messages, educating you on who Bob Woodward is. He's one of the most respected journalists of all time. A key voice during Nixon's Watergate scandal. Woodward and Bernstein. Dude, you sounded really stupid.

Now my response was stupid. Ouch. And then she says, you are not. And by the way, that was her chance to apologize. Noelle, just so you know, that was me saying, Hey, I don't know you, but why? Why? Send me a message that ends with you. Sounded really stupid. And then she says, you are not stupid. But that made you sound stupid.

I'm sorry. Okay. Oh, she apologized. That's good. It was a super cringe moment, Dave. I mean, who is Bob Woodward? Yikes. . And I said. You can imagine it's rough receiving an email first thing in the morning being called stupid and she said please accept my apology. I accept your apology. Now listen, I think people just don't understand the amount of bandwidth and content that you gotta sift through.

And look, I, yeah, I don't know if my intelligence correlates to whether or not I know a journalist who cracked the Watergate scandal which was, I don't know, 14 years before I was born. I don't know. I don't know if that should be what, you know, if we should be calling each other stupid. Uh, what I did appreciate was a different email I got from somebody else named Loretta.

She said, who is Bob Woodward? Oh, Dave, I love you, but Bob Woodward is one of the most respected journalists of our time. He broke the Watergate scandal with his partner, Bernstein, please research, keep up the good work. So that was a friendly one. And I respect that. Spotted friendly saying I appreciate it.

You know, I record these episodes at midnight sometimes I whatever. And she said, I realized you have a high amount of content to shift to sift through and organize and you do a great job in your range of topics. Here's a good interview. And then they send me an interview. Have a fantastic day, Dave. That was so nice.

I responded. You're too kind. Thanks for the grace. So. All of this just to say, be kind out there, folks. I'm a human like everyone else. Now you might say, oh Dave, you're so defensive. Look, I'm not trying to be, but I do try to set a boundary when someone calls me stupid just to say, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not up to date on Bob mother effing Woodward.

You know, and some people say, oh, you should definitely know who he is. Yeah. I'm sure I should. And maybe just maybe that day of history class I was flirting with Nicole who sat in front of me. I have no idea why I don't know that story, but I'm not afraid to sound stupid or cringe as I present you to the news and I am not pretending to be an expert.

You know, the more you grow, the more you learn about things, which is going to lead us to our next story, which is Travis Kelsey being introduced to new foods. Thanks to his girlfriend, pop icon, Taylor Swift. We'll have that for you next. I got to be honest, not only did I not know who Bob Woodward was until this morning, I also never tried Thai food until I dated my wife.

I had never tried Indian food and I had never had sushi. Now, to this day, I've still never had a red lobster. I'm waiting for someone to pop my red lobster biscuit as it were. Uh, but in the meantime, Hey, you date new people. You learn a little bit of flavor. Travis, Kelsey's a jock. He probably just eats boiled chicken and rice, you know?

You know what I mean? But now he's dating a pop star. His palate certainly will be expanded. Here's a clip from his podcast, New Heights. I in Kansas city. Also it's a pasta lie. You ever had that? No, I'm not. I'm also not a Creole, like New Orleans style food or missing out. I hear this all the time. And every time I'd try it, I'm just like, still not feeling it every time.

Well, I think it's just a mental block. Yeah. Or you just don't like it. Is it the spice? Like, what do you not like about it? Jambalaya, I just, there's something about just like water and rice. I just, I don't, I don't think. It's like a soupy rice? Soupy rice. I'm just, and then it's like, do you like curry? It's like Pooey Pooey.

Yeah. You don't mind color. Yeah. You're still judging foods by the color. It's not even judging it. It's just like, it's like a mental block. Like, Oh, it. That's, that's poop. Yeah. Do you like curry? Do you just, do you just not, you know, I'm, you know, I'm starting to open up to, I know to the, my girl TAs you opened up.

She is, she's introducing new foods to you and this has been one that, and one of the greatest things that I've been happy about. And the Israeli spot in Philadelphia, Zaha Zaha. Yep. Shout out to Michael Solomonov. That was awesome. Yeah. I like that spot a lot. Um, I'm still picky when it comes to like what I'll eat on it, but yeah, or eat on the table.

But at the same time, it's like, I'm. So are you in or out? I'm down to dance. I'll dance. Are you in or out on curry? I'm in on like a light curry. The more, yeah, the more. So I'm gonna cut here because I'm sure people are hungry on their way home and they're like, Dave, enough with this. I love, I love good Indian food.

I, for New Year's Eve, actually, two weeks before we moved from LA, we found a new Indian restaurant that was unbelievable. We had this place called India, I think it was called Clay Pit. And, uh, it was in Koreatown and near Silver Lake that we used to go to, but yeah, you know, like, look, I mean, you know, we have little Ethiopia in Los Angeles.

You got all these different types of food you get exposed to. I don't even know what my favorite is. Uh, but you know, you have different, you know what I love about my wife. If I even mentioned sushi, she's like, we have to have sushi. Like that's her sort of, um, her brain cannot think about a different type of food.

If I mentioned that, if I mentioned pasta, it's gotta be a pasta night. So we kind of bounce back and forth, but Hey, you know, in the last year, I've had a pregnant wife and now I've got a wife who's breastfeeding. So you got to keep them fed. That's literally my only job is to provide. For my family so that my wife is well fed, you know, what do they say?

Breastfeeding is like running a marathon every day. Don't quote me on that folks. Who's the person who invented breastfeeding Bob Woodward. Woodford is it? Was it Bob Woodward reserve? Does he have a whiskey or something? I'm not really sure. All right. Well, in the NFL, we have more news. Robert sailor breaks his silence after the jets firing.

Thankful for his time in New York. So apparently this was, I mean, you thought you had a bad Monday. He shows up to work Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever day it was, I think it was Tuesday. And he was immediately escorted out and you know, that's what they do. They don't want the, they escort you.

They don't want you to steal any company secrets. They don't want you to steal a jet stapler, but, um, he, I guess has no ill will, at least publicly. Hold on. You can hear my baby in the background. We're doing double time today because we're getting ready to travel again. We have. Three different, uh, types of traveling coming up.

So we're going to be, uh, you know, moving around and I got to make sure I watched the baby, my fair share. I, uh, you know, I, I, I say sure my, all my job's just to feed my wife, but I got to try my best to be a great husband here and a good dad. And I tell you what, anyhow, sorry. That was, so that's why my son's making noise in the background.

If you listen to that, uh, Robert says this, I will always be appreciative of the love and support from everyone at one jets drive. He thanked the players he worked with over the course of the three plus seasons at the helm of Gangrene. The character of the men in the locker room made coaching you guys the ultimate privilege.

Through the ups and downs, each and every one of you showed up every day and attacked every moment. Well, look, I mean, good on him for having some, you know, I don't know, positive Thoughts on how it went down in the end, he had disagreements with Aaron Rogers and he's their sort of center piece of their offense.

So what can he do? All right. I tell you what I can do is pass my baby off to his mother. So I love my son, but I also love good audio. All right. Well, let's tell you, you know, what I love is promoting products that pay us money to sponsor them. And today's sponsor is via my new favorite adult gummy. It's back.

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I'll be sharing that tomorrow morning. I'm just letting you guys know, I'm loving the sort of eclectic content from news, pop culture, motivation, and in this case, entrepreneurial interviews. Don't we love that? Speaking of entrepreneurial, the talk to a podcast is from the hawk to a girl, a Haley Welch, she's just getting all the interviews here.

She is interviewing Jojo Siwa and Jojo mentioned she spent 60, 000 on a date. That's the craziest date you've ever been on. This is so bad. I spent like 60 grand in one week on this girl just to get laid and it didn't work. I didn't realize that's what I wanted, but I literally was just horny. Listen, Jojo, she's just like us.

Spends a lot of money just to get laid. Didn't realize it could have just gone to Disney World. I thought I was just trying to have a girlfriend. Nope, I was just horny. Okay. 18. Courtside Lakers, backstage Disney, security, first class tickets. Did you end up getting laid? Nope. What? And you still didn't get fucking laid?

Still didn't get laid. I love Haley's, uh, just random southern input. And you still didn't get laid! Alright, so there it is. Hey, Hoc Tua. Hoc Tua is one of the biggest podcasts in the world right now. Uh, she did everything right. You know, she took a scenario, uh, that went super viral and she found a way to monetize it good on her.

Well, tough day for Turkish airlines. A pilot died on a flight tragedy on a Turkish airlines flight, forced a plane to make an emergency landing. When the pilot died in the air early Wednesday, the Airbus A350 was en route from Seattle to Istanbul. When 59 year old pilot, uh, Ichen Pelivan collapsed, according to airline spokesman.

That's really sad. So I feel bad for the airline and the family of the pilot. You know, you know, it's crazy. I've flown on some of these cross world flights. And it's just incredible how many pilots it actually takes to fly one of those airplanes. I think, I think it's because of union rules. Sometimes they have three pilots, three co pilots, they have like a whole team, you know, because they can only work so many hours.

And you know, I mean, it's gotta be kind of boring. Obviously takeoff and landing is important, but after that, you're kind of just floating through the sky, right? All right. I don't want to offend any pilots. I'm sure it's harder than that. I'm just saying, um, either way, my thoughts, my thoughts are with the Turkish airlines community there.

Well, Bachelor Nation, excuse me, Bachelor star Maria is now making the rounds on Chicks in the Office podcast, talking about how difficult it was to deal with all of the hate she was receiving following Jen's season of The Bachelorette. From that point of her mentioning my name, like, I was getting slut shamed like no tomorrow for like three days straight.

I say three days because you know, it didn't last long until I finally put my video out there to clarify, but I was getting slut shamed. I was getting more jumping to conclusion. Oh, absolutely. I was getting messages like while I'm in the Bahamas, like I post a picture of the beach and they're like, where's Devin you whore.

I'm like, what the, like, this is so dangerous, by the way, as if you would ever give him the time. No, I'm no, absolutely not. And like at the end of the day, like. It just made me upset because I know Jen knew that and so for her to have brought up my name I get it like you had to do it if that's how you felt in the moment but not kind of looking out to how it was gonna affect me kind of sucked because She knew she even mentioned that she knew the effect that it was gonna have by bringing that up So it kind of just made me sad that like you didn't really think about me in that moment knowing that like I was I was innocent again.

I have nothing to hide. I think everyone that's ever come at me online knows that. Is there more to the story? Sure. Absolutely. There's more to the story. I think everyone with the right mind would know that there's always more to the story. But for the sake of everyone just moving the on, you just got to keep things quiet.

But that doesn't mean if someone comes at me, I don't I don't have my chance to speak. Yes. And I'll always be that way. All right, there it is. Maria says there's more to the story. And somehow this is more mysterious than the UAPs in the, uh, spacecraft that are hiding in plain sight. Look, all right, I, I say, hey, hey, my, my schedule's wide open.

If there's more to the story, come share it. Now, of course, Maria has tried to get on my podcast and, um, we were actually ghosted by bachelor producers. You know, they're very quick to respond to me when it's convenient for them, but crickets are the word when it's not. Uh, so open invitation to have Maria on.

We'd love to hear more of her story. Now, obviously. People like the snarky subreddits are saying Maria is giving entitlement. Sorry, don't act like you weren't going around on podcasts while Jen was filming saying how you were the first choice. Listen, I get it. I get it. Like Jen and Maria clearly had some weird falling out, but like Maria's entitled to share her story.

It's not Jen's fault of bachelor nation is going to, um, slut shame her, but you know, she could have said more about Devin following Maria. She kind of just threw that out there like chum for people. But again, I wouldn't blame Jen. This is more an issue of bachelor nation. Audiences in part are insane.

That's just what they are. We'll be back with more content right after this. Well, I covered this on a YouTube video today, and I guess I got to keep talking about it. Laura Owen's attorney, David Gingras is sort of threatening to sue me right now. He says, um, maybe we should take this to court. Uh, maybe a jury can help clear this issue up.

Good idea. Ready, Dave. And of course this has lit a fire. Fire under people's asses, because, you know, I think my audience has been very defensive of me and not just my mental health, but my family's. This is a lawyer who used threats and intimidation to really try to mess with my family when my wife was pregnant.

And I think that is one of the worst things you can do is to try to affect, uh, you know, to try to bully me in a time when my wife was, you know, worried about the safety of the baby. Our child and still is so the comments that are coming in are absolutely insane from people that clearly support me and what is this all about?

Anyway, I was just offering my commentary on Um on something that was posted online someone responded on twitter and said this don't you dare threaten dave? He has done nothing wrong, and your treatment of him is unforgivable. Quite frankly, Dave has more fans than Clayton ever had. We will have his back to the nth degree.

Hell, maybe we'll make an actual cult for Dave's defense. And, guys, I do appreciate the support out there. All I try to do is give you my take on the news. On the entertainment news, the political, whatever it is, that's all I'm trying to do. And with the Clayton scandal, all we did was try to present both sides as best as we could, which was Share all the evidence that came in as it turned out All of the evidence that came in from Laura Owens was fraudulent And you know, that's why there'll be a documentary made about it That's why people will be talking about this for a long time because It just wasn't a fair fight.

Now, someone said to David, if you want to prove your case, why not obtain it and produce the elusive Planned Parenthood sonogram? That's what's needed to prove pregnancy. And Laura testified that it exists. The rest of this is noise and distraction. And you have to remember this all comes back to the point where.

Bachelor Clayton claims he never even had sex with this woman. Here's a highlight clip. You can find these on the Justice for Clayton official Instagram account. Figure you're the bachelor. That's why everyone's watching today. Did you have penile vaginal sex whatsoever with Laura Owens? No, absolutely not.

She came over to your house. She gave you oral sex twice. The next day you told her you weren't interested in her. That's correct. I rejected her. Yes. Uh, four days later, um, she started making claims that she could possibly be pregnant. I wasn't trying to trap him. I mean, if this is good, I, I'm not comfortable with this.

The JFC crew is going to be having reactions. Honestly, can I like take a minute? These are yes or no questions. This document states that the ultrasound image you have claimed is from Panned Parenthood is not consistent with ultrasound images generated by their practice, right? I could have been seen by another different entity.

You have an opportunity right now. To come clean and start fresh. You were never pregnant by Clayton Eckert. That is absolutely incorrect. You're a wild stuff. And when you add some music behind it, boy, does it make it interesting? So, yeah, I appreciate everyone who supported me as we deal with new threats of lawsuits.

Uh, I don't want that in my life. But at the same time, I'm not going to back down either. I don't back down to bullies online and, um, and you guys respect that we don't back down. So as a member of the rush hour community, I thank you guys for sticking by me as we, uh, fight all this misinformation really.

All right. In the meantime, if you do want to support our case, you can join the patron patron. com slash Dave Neal. Whenever something like this happens, it drums up people that want to talk about things. There's a chat room on Patrion you can use to discuss all that. And if you want to just support the, you know, it's just a good way to put some bread in the tip jar, but, uh, otherwise, if you want a free version of supporting, just sharing us with your friends is really important.

It helps us get the word out and keeps new people, uh, watching or listening to the podcast and finding it. So I appreciate that all so, so much. All right. We'll be back in the morning. As always, I'm I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush. The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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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 Wednesday. Is it already Wednesday? Can you believe that October 9th, 2024. And on the morning rush, we've got tiger King star, Carol Baskin in hot water using big, Cat rescue funds to purchase a home.

I'll share that story. Plus Melania Trump joins Fox to discuss her husband's humor, complimenting his personality and dancing with the stars wrapped up. It's two night event last night. I'll break down my favorite dances. Plus what is going on with the judges? Wild scoring fluctuation. Also in FBI has thwarted a massive election day terrorist attack, which may have targeted.

Oklahoma voting booths, frightening stuff. And Joey Grazia day went on vile files podcast to discuss where he plans to move with Kelsey after this season of dancing with the stars and Justin Timberlake cancels a concert due to a mystery illness, these stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, good news coming in Bachelor Nation as Bachelor in Paradise stars Abigail Harringer and Noah Erb marry in Gatsby Garden Wedding in Tulsa.

I'll make a YouTube video of this so you can see the wedding outfits. Plenty of the couple's Bachelor Nation star friends celebrated the nuptials including Serena Pitt, Joe, and Thomas Becca and Ivan Halls and Blake Moynes. So again, we'll give all the updates on that on today's YouTube video. The stunning, uh, wedding was at a 1920s Italian Renaissance style villa nestled on 25 acres of formal and informal gardens.

Uh, beautiful stuff, folks. Well, uh, sadly there's a scary story coming out of Oklahoma and that was broken last night on ABC world news. The department of justice has thwarted a chilling. Alleged terror plot by an Afghan national. Have a listen. Following this breaking news from the justice department at this hour, they said late today that they have thwarted an alleged terror plot targeting election day right here in the U.

S. Let's get right to our chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas. Pierre, what have you learned? David, it's a new potentially chilling terror plot stopped by the FBI. The justice department charging 27 year old Nasir Ahmad Tahiti, an Afghan national living in Oklahoma, and the FBI to kill Americans on Election Day on behalf of ISIS.

According to newly unsealed charges to he and the juvenile were arrested yesterday after attempting to buy two AK 47 assault rifles, 10 magazines and 500 rounds of ammunition from undercover FBI operatives. When he was arrested, DOJ claims Tahiti confirmed the attack was planned for Election Day targeting large gatherings of people during which he and the juvenile were expected to die as martyrs.

DOJ officials say the investigation intensified after the FBI searched Tahiti's phone, discovered communication with an Afghan ISIS recruiter. David. Very scary stuff. So, uh, you know, Hey, you know, glad they were able to catch this ahead of time. The scene in Florida, specifically Tampa, is one ripped right out of an apocalyptic movie.

Here's a TikTok video that was shared of, I guess, a recorded device being played by the police as they drive through town, uh, in sort of a evacuation protocol. Have a listen, please.

This is the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. You are in a That

is scary. storm surge. The lady says that is scary. Well, look, I mean, they, they're trying their best to make sure everybody knows this thing is serious. NBC6's John Morales, who has worked in meteorology for more than 40 years, says says that Hurricane Milton could have devastating impacts. It might be might be one of the strongest hurricanes to ever to ever hit.

I think people in florida, generally speaking, are taking this event very seriously and I've seen a lot of preparation. I know there's a lot of people on the road, which is also dangerous. Lots of people trying to get out of arms way. Uh, but, but this could be, this could be the new record setting hurricane for Florida in terms of property damage.

We just set that record two years ago with Hurricane Ian, our costliest disaster in history. I wouldn't be surprised if Hurricane Milton becomes the new multibillion dollar costliest disaster in a state. That has an insurance crisis amongst other, and a climate crisis too, amongst other things. And you know, some people think that this is man made, like they're seeding the clouds.

I mean, look, uh, what, what can we even do with people like that, that think that, that this is a sort of something that, uh, was put in the direction of Florida, a good riddance. Well, have you heard of Lieutenant Dan? No, not the guy from, uh, Forrest Gump. There's actually a viral guy named Lieutenant Dan going around TikTok.

In fact, they're calling it Lieutenant Dan talk. He is a man who. I think he's disabled in the sense that he has one leg and the other leg, uh, is, uh, I don't know if it's a birth deformity or if he lost it, uh, and you know, in some accident, I'm really not sure. Uh, and I'm not trying to make light of this situation, but everyone's following this guy because he says he's not going to leave and he has a boat.

I don't know if it's 20 or 30 feet long. He's got this little boat. And people are literally going up to him. The mayor went up to him saying, dude, you got to go. And he's saying, I'm going to ride this storm out. People think he's crazy. They're online rooting him on. Here's a tick tock. We got three hours until high tide and we're checking in on lieutenant.

Dan, his phone has risen a little bit. So there they are looking for him, he's in there, you know, he's kind of become a local hero or I should say a mythological legend of sorts. I hope he evacuates. I hope he doesn't try to ride this storm out, but either way, we're We'll be giving updates on Lieutenant Dan as his story has become larger than life.

Now, look in Australia, there is an OnlyFans model who is now being investigated, uh, because I guess she fed, um, a chicken to an alligator. Do I have that right? Uh, Jaylee Bonow posted a deleted video on her feed, uh, of her feeding a chicken, and she claims it was cooked to a saltwater crocodile on the banks of the Russell River in far north Queensland.

Well, it turns out that's a serious no no down under, and now she's under investigation. I mean, look, can you really get mad at someone for wanting to feed another animal? I don't know. I don't know all the rules and policies in other countries for feeding animals, but you'd, you'd like to think that there's some sort of a slap on the wrist.

You give someone, you know, for not understanding that rule, just a thought. Well, in other news, limp biscuit is seeking 200 million from universal music over unpaid royalties. Fred Durst frontman of the rock band, limp biscuit sued universal music group, the world's largest record company. Claimed he was cheated out of millions of dollars in royalties.

Well, I mean, that's a lot of money, but Hey, you know, you got to, you know, uh, I wouldn't be surprised to every other story in the music world is how record labels are sort of ripping people off. So not a big surprise there. Hoda Kotb has announced she'll be retiring from the today show and she went on Jimmy Fallon's tonight show.

And explains what it was like to sort of learn and grow while working at NBC. Uh, you know, it doesn't always come easy to everybody and, um, having a good mentor and learning from the best seems to be the way to go. Here's what she had to say. When I was starting here, Jimmy, I started working at Dateline and I'll never forget it.

I was, everyone was better at everything, you know, compared to me, better interviews, better writing, better everything. And I was like, but you know what? I have a great. pretty good voice, so at least I got that. And my boss, Neil Shapiro, called me in one day, and he was like, Hey, I need to talk to you. About that voice.

I go, what about my voice? He goes, look, you really need to work on it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna set you straight right here. And now I go, okay, what do you want me to do? He goes, read this paper. And he wrote down, and then something amazing happened and he held it up to me and I, I, I go, and then something amazing happened.

He goes, no, no, no, no. Punch it. I go, and then something amazing happened. He goes, I didn't say yell. I said, . I said, punch you. He took the paper and he goes, listen. He goes, and then something. Amazing happened. He said, you see what I did? He goes, you've got to do that. So I wander out of his office. I hear Keith Morrison tracking a Dateline piece and I'm standing outside listening and it's beautiful.

And when he's done, I go, Keith, I go, what are you doing in the booth? He goes, what am I doing? He goes, Oh, I'm, I'm reading my kid a bedtime story. And then Something amazing happened. The Rosetta stone. So he kind of changed my whole behavior at Dateline. And I think from there I started to get confidence.

That's great advice. So I like the advice. I want to talk to you guys like it's a bedtime story. How about that? I mean, it's the morning now, so it's not a bedtime story, but Hey, look, I think the point is, is that you always think everyone else has these God given skills, but sometimes you need to work on it, on your delivery, on your presentation, on all the things.

What can you do to, I guess, sharpen the tool, as it were? And that's a question we have to ask ourselves every day. But isn't that why we're on this God given earth? To improve, to be a better version of ourselves today than we were yesterday? So good on her for sharing that wisdom. Well, Justin Timberlake, I guess, had an accident and he's missing a concert.

I've got him and Carole Baskin coming up next. All right, Justin Timberlake postpones a concert over an injury and says, I'm so disappointed. He posts, I'm so sorry to postpone tonight's show. I have an injury that's preventing me from performing. I'm so disappointed to not see you all, but I'm working to reschedule ASAP.

I promise to make it up to you and give you the best show y'all deserve. Thank you guys. Hey, listen, my, my thing is this, if you have to cancel. A show on the same day, you should have to provide proof of whatever the injury is, especially if you're getting in your older age, like if you're an old millennial, like I'd love to hear it.

I pulled my back out sneezing. You know, I'd like to know I was, I slipped in the shower trying to shave my who knows what, right? Um, that's what I would like, but, um, either way, I guess we're not going to find out what's caused his delay. Well, Carol Baskin's in hot water. Remember her, uh, she used Big Cat Rescue funds to purchase an 895, 000 home office, at least according to TMZ.

Carol and her husband Howard got the Odessa, Florida house for 895K. The deed obtained by TMZ lists Big Cat Rescue as the property owner. There is no mortgage evident from the deed, so it appears the property was purchased outright with Big Cat Rescue funds. Uh, it's a charitable organization and she is the CEO.

She said she bought the place after she and Howard sold their sanctuary headquarters and moved the cats to the, uh, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. So I don't know, uh, you know, if you can use, I don't know, is it, are you allowed to use charitable money to buy a home? I guess they say there's nothing illegal about the purchase.

Uh, assuming she uses the house for the benefit of the charity. Well, you know, most charities are really, you know, BS, right? I mean, I feel like most charities are quote unquote, administrative costs, which are really the CEOs of the charity flying around to promote the said charity. So anyhow, I mean, Hey, look, not all of them, but just know where you're donating your money before you put it in any direction.

Well, Taylor Swift, as we reported, had her glitter patches that she wore on the Monday night football. Well, sales have spiked 2, 500 percent. Employees are working around the clock. Co founder Elliott Buttleman told TMZ she was always determined to get the glitter freckles in front of the pop star following Faze It Beauty's launch back in May.

She felt the trend fit Taylor's vibe on the heiress tour, which sees the chart topper in a number of glittery outfits. Now I've Cover this, uh, the last couple of days. I just love a good phenomenon where Taylor goes viral, you know, and where something different, and then it launches a career. I mean, we used to have this with Oprah.

I remember the Oprah's book club, like the Oprah was the influencer before social media even existed. Well, I've spoken with Aliette, uh, Aliette here, and we're going to try to get her on the show for tomorrow. Cause I'd love to know more about. Her company and how she really took such bold choices to send.

I mean, look, you know, it takes a little bit of capital. It takes investment to try to get your product in front of the right people. Uh, but I think they're doing all the right things. And it's amazing how one little, uh, you know, appearance at a football game can change people's lives. So very happy for them.

And we'll continue to cover that story. Well, we've discussed this a few times, Joey Grazia day. From the bachelor and, uh, the amazing dancer on dancing with the stars, he and his fiance Kelsey are discussing whether they're gonna move to Los Angeles or New York. It looks like they're leaning on Los Angeles.

Here's what they had to say, uh, while chatting with the Vile Files podcast. Exciting. There's a lot going on. So yeah, you're like living here now. Well, temporarily, but we are starting to look at places in LA, which is exciting. So we're starting that process. You're becoming in LA. Yeah. That is, that is the idea right now.

I'm not sure if Kelsey's fully sold yet, but we're, we're making our way. I feel like last time you were here, it was New York. It was New York. Yes. Kelsey, do you want to touch on that? I mean, yeah, we were originally wanting, well, I wanted to live in New York. I've always wanted to live in New York, but I feel like LA still gives that city.

But then also it's got the sun and the beach for Joey, which I know would make him a little happier. I'm like, he would probably be really depressed in New York. So I guess I have to think about what kind of, uh, bag or purse or what are you going to be getting Kelsey living your dreams? I think every day there's going to be a new gift.

Now I get to live my dream. So yeah, no, I got it. I got to definitely, uh, repay that one for me. And it's, um, she's got a lot of, She's already gotten one or two, but I'm sure we're going to add some more to the collection here for this. So there it is. I mean, look, you know, the LA, New York debate has existed forever.

Having just got back from New York and in going to Los Angeles very soon. I have to tell you, I mean, LA, I think is a better option for them right now. You're working in Hollywood. You know, you need to be where all the influencers are. All the parties and things like that. New York's great, but LA gives you that vitamin D.

You can be on the beach surfing in the morning. You can be at a meeting in the afternoon and you can be in downtown LA at a swanky party at night. LA is really just a vast County. So, you know, the idea that it has the city life that New York has, it's just different, but you know, in the position that they're in.

I, I would honestly say stay in Los Angeles and I think she'll get there. LA and New York are both the types of cities where if you visit for three days, you won't understand what makes them so good. You need to invest more time there. And then, you know, when you do that, you know, the good things. You know, you, you start to see what's good about the cities.

Well, Joey's on Dancing with the Stars. Last night was the second night. And we said goodbye to the two elder castmates, uh, that being Julia Roberts, brother, Eric Roberts, and, uh, the dad from Family Matters, Carl Winslow. Uh, look. They're, they were barely moving, you know, it's, I love the show that it brings out the best in people and there's a lot of support coming from audiences because, you know, you get to see people that are maybe past their prime physically, you know, get back out there and move along.

But. I mean, we, we've seen, we've had older cast members like Cloris Leachman and, you know, people that have danced really well. And, and these guys, I mean, they were just really, really bad. I kind of feel like the judges were gaslighting us saying, Oh, it's great. The chemistry you bring to the show. And I'm like, I'm looking and I'm like, where I don't see any of it.

Uh, but unbelievable Chandler McKinney, uh, kind of an unknown, at least to me, it's just absolutely crushing it. Joey received, uh, I think the highest score of the night or one of the highest scores of the night, he keeps on improving, which is very hard to do. Uh, you know, as the male, you have to be the lead and, you know, uh, Jen Tran looking good.

Brooks, Nader and Gleb are a full out couple. He, he said he loved her, uh, which is wild. Uh, but hey, she just got out of a, a relationship. I think she just went through a divorce or whatever, so. Um, is she moving on or is she having a rebound with her hot dancer? Who knows who cares the show's on fire. Um, I just, I, I just, you know, Dwight Howard, here he is.

He's like six foot 10 or whatever the hell he is. His partner's. Barely five foot tall. It's comical seeing them next to each other. Cause he actually looks about three times her size. It looks like a father daughter dance gone wrong. That's what it looks like, but Hey, I'm loving watching it all. I love seeing, uh, art.

I love seeing people face adversity and learn something, you know, stretch and grow so many people, we just get set in our ways. Right. And so. To see, uh, people challenge themselves to learn something new and what that must do to the brain to try to force your muscles to do something they haven't done either in years or ever that being dance.

It's just really so special that after, I don't know, 30 seasons, however long they've done this show that I still find it inspiring to watch people learn how to dance. And you know, my wife and I, we took dance lessons for our, uh, you know, our wedding and we, you know, we, we took private ballroom dance lessons and we're going to actually be.

Looking to take dance lessons here in Nashville, because I have to tell you, uh, whether it's with your partner, if you go do it alone, there is something so amazing about continuing to challenge the body to, to, to, to do things like that. So very much feeling the inspiration as I watched that show. Well, I have.

A lot of tea to share with you in the political world. I really do. There was a bombshell new, uh, book that came out, which is making some crazy accusations. We'll have that story for you next. All right. Just to be fair, I've got a pro Melania Trump story, and then I have an anti Donald Trump story. Okay. So if you're wondering about politics, we're going to give you one of each.

Well, Melania Trump wrote a book and she was with, I guess, a. Fox TV show describing what she loves most about Donald. Now, some folks are surprised about this because they, you know, thought she lived in a different house and they don't even communicate, but it really is a bizarre relationship. We don't know much about, here's what she had to say.

Well, is there something you would want people to know about your husband that they probably don't know that they should know? Something that they would be, Oh, that's, you know, that's pretty good. Well, I have some stories and Jesse, you read that in the book. So they're kind of, you know, cute, nice stories.

And he's very warm. He's fun. He has a great personality and all he wants, he's very passionate about this country. All he wants, he wants to make this country safe. Um, so everybody has a jobs and enjoying family life and, you know, he's treating everybody equal. You know, he doesn't, man or woman, he could be tough on a woman, he could be tough on a man.

We experienced that. We've seen that. We've seen that. Does he make you laugh? Yeah. Yes, he does. Of course. Yes. Yes. That's the key. He is. He is. All right. All right. So I get it. I don't know if she was there by hostage takeover or not, but I got to be honest. Donald Trump is one of the funniest politicians we've ever had.

I mean, you know, it might be offensive to people, but he's funny. He has a good sense of what's funny. You know, a lot of people find it strange that he never laughs at things. Like he won't give people the credit of like, he won't laugh when you laugh a lot. Yeah. It's, it's a psychological thing, right?

You're giving the other person the credit over something funny. They said he doesn't go there. He almost always stays in character. I would love it. I would love to see him laugh. I just, I've just never seen it, but does he have, he, he, he does have the ability to find truth in very obscure things. I've, I saw him give a speech once about social media and it got a lot of laughs.

Now, again, it doesn't mean that you got to agree with his policies. That's for sure. Now, we only have, what, 26 days left until the election, something like that. So bear with me, but there's a bunch of crazy stuff that's about to happen. You know, the month leading up to the election always has wild stuff.

Well, in a new book called War, journalist Bob Woodward alleges new details about former President Trump's private conversations with Vladimir Putin. Very, very interesting stuff. Trump secretly sent to Putin. scarce covid testing machines for his personal use. This was at a time during the height of covid where everybody wanted.

One of these in the new book, Bob Woodward, reveals details about Trump's private conversations. Woodward has the conversation between Trump and Putin in the book. Here's what they said. Putin, please don't tell anybody you sent these to me. Trump. I don't care. Fine Putin. No. No. I don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.

They don't care. Now, what's interesting here is like, who's Bob Woodward anyway, you know, does he have audio of this conversation in today's world? If you don't have audio of the conversation, I don't think anybody's going to believe it. Woodward also writes that a top Trump aid, Pamela told him that Trump had as many as seven phone calls with Vladimir Putin.

I don't think anybody's going to believe it. post presidency since he left office. We do not know what the content of those. All right. So anyway, obviously the Kamala Harris campaign is going to use this information to their advantage. Here she is reacting to this bombshell bombastic news. I mean, this all just dropped.

So here's her instant reaction. Everybody was scrambling to get These kits the tests The covid test kits couldn't get them couldn't get them right and get them anywhere, right? So now she's on howard stern having this conversation as she does her media blitz and it's fascinating but guys look I mean, I don't I don't know who bob woodward is.

I don't know how he knows this You know, do you is it a former trump aide with an ax to grind? I mean because the point of what i'm saying is do I think the conversation's true maybe but without hard evidence It's not going to change anybody's minds Right. And this guy who is president of the United States is sending them to Russia to a murderous dictator for his personal use.

The point being, that is just the most recent stark example of who Donald Trump is that he secretly. Sent COVID test kits for the personal use of Putin of Russia, an adversary to the United States. Now, I don't know if this would move the needle or anything, but Trump's campaign made a statement of the, what they say are made up stories by Bob Woodward.

They said this, none of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump derangement syndrome. Woodward is an angry little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously.

President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally and he's slow, lethargic, incompetent, and overall a boring person with no personality.

That was Steven Chung, communications director. Well, it kind of makes me believe it now more than I did before, but either way, I don't know if any information will come out, um, uh, validating what was said here are authenticating. We'll have to see, but, uh, you know, the stories, they're just going to keep on getting stranger until election day, but, uh, make no bones about it.

Election day will come and go, and then we will hopefully be able to talk about other things. Oh, right. Well, that does it for us this morning. We'll be live on Patrion. I got a lot going on today, a couple of YouTube videos coming up, so stick around with that We'll be back afterwards. As always, I'm Dave Neal.

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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 Tuesday, October 8th, 2024. We've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place, and we'll have an update on Hurricane Milton.

As Tampa residents continue to evacuate, it should make landfall tomorrow night. Plus some tips on how to increase your luck. And we've also got our first football season firing. This season has barely started in the head coach has been let go. And also Taylor Swift can change a small business owner's life in one quick moment.

I'll share the story of how that went down and bachelor. Joey's acts gives him flowers metaphorically for how well he is dancing on the current season of dancing with the stars. And in a touching moment, it's revealed that Richard Simmons was buried in his iconic workout gear. I'll explain why and every other story coming your way next on the Afternoon Rush.

Well, safety first. So before we get to all of your pop culture news, let's start with some Hurricane Milton updates. Uh, Florida is on high alert. Here's the current update from the Weather Channel. As fast as any storm that we've had in the modern satellite era. Uh, what they usually say, Tony, is 30 knots in 24 hours is what we call rapid intensification.

We had nearly triple that if it puts it into perspective. So that's the problem. You've got a monster out there which is going to go through meteorological changes in the center, but it is going to get bigger in terms of its wind field. And that's the most important takeaway. All the water and waves it's pushing is going to continue to do so here as we see approach probably Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

So let's talk about that water and waves storm surge of 10, maybe even 15 feet. Can you put that in some kind of context that people can comprehend? Yeah, I'm up here by Tampa General. This is one of the lowest parts of Tampa Bay. Uh, I'm well underwater at 10 to 15 feet. If you see that bridge over there that goes across to the convention center, um, basically we're talking about water pretty much on the top of that road.

All right. So they're already showing the damage that will be done. And I have to say, you know, I go on Instagram, looking for clips to share with you guys for the podcast, as I like to curate a interesting show every morning and afternoon. And I'm seeing people going viral already that live in the Tampa area that are saying we're not leaving.

And this is what we're doing to prepare for the storm. So. Obviously, those clips are going viral for the worst way possible because people want to see, like, you know, in one way they want to root them on, like, we want to see how you're going to do, but how crazy that the world of entertainment is brought into natural disasters in this way.

Well, the mayor of Tampa is not mincing her words. She says, if you stick around, you could die. What would you say to people tonight who are saying, you know what, I'm going to ride this out, I've ridden others out. What would you say to people who aren't heeding those evacuation orders? Uh, well, I can tell you right now that, uh, they may have done that in others.

There's never been one like this. And this Helene, Helene was a wake up call. Uh, this is literally catastrophic. And I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die. Geez. Wow. I mean, that is an incredibly blunt message. And, and I know.

You have a lot of experience dealing with these storms. You don't say something like that lightly, Mayor. I've never said that. And 10 to 12 ft surge. I mean, if this takes a job to the south, that's going to save us from the storm surge. But it stays on the track that it's projected to be on right now, or if it goes a bit north would be even worse.

Alright, so not looking good. Look, and I understand why some people don't want to evacuate, they have nowhere to go to. Whenever there's an evacuation order, like we live in the richest country in the world, at least we're supposed to, right? And I say that because we need federal funds ready to go into people's bank accounts.

I mean, it should be that if you're in an evac, evacuation zone. You just are given a voucher to go stay at a hotel for a little bit of time. You know, uh, when I lived in California during the Malibu wildfires, a lot of people were displaced from Malibu to Santa Monica, just a few towns over. And I met a lot of these folks and they were staying in hotels and they were just hoping their insurance was going to cover it.

And that's what I just hate about Some of the ways that the business side of our economy works is that we rely on insurance companies and then they don't want to pay out. And then people get skeptical and they're like, I don't even want to leave town. And then you've got, you know, the weather channel and you know, in the different weather programs, kind of boy who cried wolf, right?

Because a lot of times they, they, their ratings go through the roof whenever there's a storm coming. So in some cases it'll hype the storm up and then it'll be a dud and they're saying, no, no, no, this is the real one folks. And then some people are saying, yeah, sure. We'll see when we believe it. And, um, you know, sadly we'll be here to cover it, but, um, it's looking pretty scary out there.

We'll have more on some of the. Hurricane relief, uh, coming in a little bit, but here's a breaking news moment from the, uh, from when jets fired Robert. Is it sailor? I might be pronouncing that wrong. The head coach. Now they're not even the worst team in the division that goes to my new England Patriots, right?

But the jets are not doing as well as they should have. And here's the moment on first take where they realized he was fired. We got to stop you right there. We got breaking news. We got breaking news. Yeah. Uh, it's obviously happening in real time. Breaking news into first take that Robert Sala, the Jets head coach has been fired.

I'll get you more details as they come in, but yes, Robert Sala again, the New York Jets head coach fired. Obviously they had a tough loss across the pond against the Bills at two and three record. Stephen A, your reaction. Oh, roll it. Roll the tape. Shannon, didn't I say about a week or two weeks ago, I don't know if he's going to make it through the season.

I mean, listen, when you look. At how the defense, first of all, the defense was obviously good, but there were times when we saw they were struggling a little bit. And then Robert Sala seemed to have. No control over the team itself. The office was being run by Aaron Rodgers. You had, and we saw Aaron Rodgers had a fight, uh, you know, an arguing match with him earlier.

And when you're a star quarterback like that, your job's not going to be lost. It's the coaches, very interesting stuff. Now. And in more sad news in the world of NFL, we actually covered this, I think yesterday, one of the star, the captain of the Patriots defense was arrested and the charges were absolutely crazy.

He was charged with domestic violence on his girlfriend. She claimed that he pushed her down the stairs and did all these crazy things. Um, He has a completely different story. Now he was arrested. Um, he says she went off on him because he wouldn't have unprotected sex with her. Well, now his attorney is speaking out.

His name is Jabril Peppers. The attorney says, what I said in the courtroom, I'll repeat. We have evidence that completely contradicts the alleged victim story. And I expect my client to be fully exonerated. The reporter said it was video evidence. And he said, yes. And other evidence as well. Look, I don't know what the evidence is, but I can tell you this.

Because I'm in, I'm shopping for home security systems right now, uh, because you got, you know, you know, I've been under threat, um, as I've been harassed by, um, Laura Owens, uh, with my coverage of the Bachelor Clayton Eckerd, uh, paternity case, as you guys know, she knows my address and she's sent processing servers to my house, or at least paid to send a processor.

Processing server to my house to serve me restraining orders papers. Of course, uh, she later found out. And I later found out those were denied due to first amendment rights as I've done my due diligence and done my job as a reporter. But the point is, is that you never know what type of craziness might exist out there.

And when, when you run your business, you know, people can find out where you live and it's the whole thing. So for me, I'm not only. You know, uh, upping my surveillance on the outside of my house, but the inside of my house as well. Now again, I'm not saying that Jabril Peppers is innocent or guilty. I have no idea with regards to this story.

But if I was him, I mean a ring cam footage inside your house. Now you're not supposed to be able to, um, you're not supposed to be able to tape Uh, to, to have video evidence of, um, uh, you know, of someone without their consent, you know, if you're doing, doing something like, you know, hooking up or whatever, I don't know the rules behind that, but just in the off chance that someone might make a false accusation against you now, in my world, that would never happen.

You kidding me? What are you talking about? I'm happily married, living in my house, but someone like Jabril peppers, if you're a, if you're someone who's a millionaire athlete and you're meeting people, God knows how there could be a chance where someone, you know, Tells a lie about you and it's your word versus them.

I'm not saying that's the case here. I have no idea what the case is, but for his lawyer to say that they fully expect him to be exonerated, interesting stuff, but also we know lawyers speak up for their client. As we've seen with Laura Owens, her attorney has said the same thing. Oh, my client's innocent.

When we know. If actually she's done nothing but lies. So we'll have to see how this all plays out. But another, um, another tough, uh, tough blow for the new England Patriots and in otherwise abysmal season. All right. I have a happy NFL story involving Taylor Swift and a very, very, very happy small business owner.

I'll get to that right after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, Taylor Swift was at the Chiefs game last night, and she had glitter freckles on. And now we have a TikTok creator named, uh, Elliot Butts saying, how I know Taylor Swift is wearing my brand glitter freckles. She went viral crying when she saw that Taylor Swift was wearing her brand.

Well, why is that? Because that's a huge deal to have the biggest pop star of all time endorsing your brand of glitter freckles. I didn't know glitter freckles were a thing. And to be quite honest I didn't know how I lived my whole life without glitter freckles. Somebody send me a pair of these glitter freckles.

Here's what she had to say. My world has been rocked overnight. Last night, Taylor Swift wore my brand Faze. It's glitter freckles to the chiefs game and everything has changed. Let's say I didn't sleep at all last night. But we keep getting this question, how do we know they're our brand? And obviously like when you're the founder and you put like your love, your heart, your sweat and tears into building a product, you can identify that's your baby.

But we also sent to her makeup artist, Lori Turk, Back in the spring when we first launched our makeup patches in April, I actually made a TikTok about this, that it was my goal to get them on Taylor Swift. Like I was going to do everything and find a way. So I reached out to Lori Turk's makeup artist agency and they provided her mailing address and we sent to her and like, obviously nothing happened and wasn't expecting anything to happen.

So not sure If, if that's how she found our products or maybe she bought them, we've had so many videos going viral on Tik Tok and on Instagram. So maybe like her team organically saw it, but this is, this is so unreal in the Swifty community is unbelievable. There it is. So she also shared a video of her just crying.

I don't know if it was her husband or boyfriend, whoever took the video, but it was of course a very powerful moment. You know, anyone who started a small business, you can imagine the struggles. That go into differentiating yourself from others. And, you know, it involves a lot of times an investment of your personal, uh, life savings and things like that.

So to see a story where the biggest pop star of all time is wearing your product, that's a moment where you go, we've, We've developed this. We have proof of concept and now we have trendsetters, uh, featuring it. So that is a good day for her. You know, maybe this is connective tissue. Maybe it's not, but I also pulled up this, uh, this clip from TED talks.

Which is the Ted Talks on TikTok. And here's a thought about how taking risks can increase your luck. I've spent nearly two decades observing what makes people luckier than others and trying to help people increase their luck. I got to tell you what, one way to increase your luck is to send Taylor Swift's makeup artist, your innovative.

Sparkly freckles. I gotta tell you. I mean, that's that increases the luck. You know, Taylor Swift doesn't come knocking on your door. You put the product near her. So how do you catch the winds of luck? It's easy, but it's not obvious. The first thing you want to do is to change your relationship with yourself.

Be willing to take small risks that get you out of your comfort zone. The second thing you want to do is to change your relationship with other people. You need to understand that everyone who helps you on your journey is playing a huge role in getting you to your goals. And if you don't show appreciation, not only are you not closing the loop, but you're missing an opportunity.

And third, you want to change your relationship with ideas. Most people look at new ideas that come their way and they judge them. That's a great idea or that's a terrible idea. But it's actually much more nuanced. Ideas are neither good and bad. And in fact, in the seeds of terrible ideas are often something truly remarkable.

Yes, sometimes people were born into terrible circumstances and sometimes luck is a lightning bolt that hits us with something wonderful or something terrible. But the winds of luck. Are always there. And if you're willing to take some risks, if you're willing. To really go out and show appreciation and you're willing to really look at ideas, even if they're crazy through the lens of possibilities, you build a bigger and bigger sale to catch the winds of luck.

Amazing stuff, right? I've, I've always said the Eastern mantra, which is leap in the net will appear. And that being that when you take chances in life, you will see the world conspire to help you with those chances. And luck is the same way. So looking at luck visually as wind. Uh, and, and, and, and in one way, increasing the effectiveness of that wind by building sales.

I mean, that's like, if you knew it was going to be windy outside, you planted a wind farm, you know, you had, uh, you had the, uh, turbines ready to go to harness that energy of luck. And, you know, that's kind of what happened on my channel to be quite honest during the pandemic. I, I, I started getting more aggressive in the amount of content I was creating.

And as stories came about, I became the first one to cover those stories. The algorithm started picking it up because I was like the main guy and I was becoming trustworthy to YouTube so that when big stories hit, I was full time. I actually went full time two months before the biggest story that ever hit bachelor nation, the Chris Harrison sort of firing and the Matt James story.

So by the time that came out, I was already doing full time news. And. You know, you can wait and say, all right, well, now that there's a big story, I might as well start making content. But I just had this sort of lightning bolt moment happened to me, which was that I realized let's do this full time. And then when the stories come, I will be sort of the voice that is here covering it.

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Oh, I mentioned this earlier. Richard Simmons was buried in his iconic workout gear. So he can, quote, help the angels get into shape, his brothers say. The fitness icon died at 76 on July 13th of complications from recent falls and heart disease. How nice is that? Just like Clark Kent underneath his beautiful things that he was wearing, his clothing, Richard is wearing a tank top and shorts.

Uh, Lenny told the crowd, E. W. confirmed with Richard Simmons representative. Why, you ask? Because we think that God has another plan for him. And we want to make sure that he was going to be in his normal costume that we all know and love. To help the saints and the angels get into shape. You know, to some people on the outside, this might seem hokey or whatever, but to those that Knew Richard Simmons and followed his workout programs and all the positivity he shared.

I think it's a very special moment to, to look at a man who, who, I don't know if he was completely understood in his latter years, he was kind of became reclusive, but he was a guy that always was trying to increase the energy in the room. So good on him for that. Now Olivia Rodrigo is in the news. She's donating all ticket sales profits from her Philippines concert.

She reached a major career milestone over the weekend after she played for the largest audience ever and is also giving back to the community that means a lot to her. The pop star traveled to the Philippines as part of her Guts World Tour to play at the massive Philippine Arena in Manila. The venue is the largest indoor arena in the world and holds 55, 000 people.

She is part Filipina and is proudly spoken of her heritage and shared a sweet message on Instagram after the show, expressing her gratitude for the fans in Manila and announced that all profits from ticket sales will be donated. So good for her. You know, a lot of times artists say, Hey, We make our money not because of what we do on stage, but because of what we have to do to get on stage, you know, with standup comedy.

It's like, I love performing. I performed for, I think, 25 bucks in New York. That's all I made, you know, probably cost me 5, 000 on that trip, but we love, we love to perform and anything you can do to get into the position to perform is great. So for her to be able to give that money away to the people that believe in her, no surprises there whatsoever.

All right. Well, artists have really done outdone themselves. An elevator mechanic mistakes artwork for trash and throws it out. We hear, we hear this story all the time. An elevator mechanic mistakenly threw out a piece of artwork made to look like empty beer cans, assuming it was litter, a Dutch museum revealed earlier this month.

Well, why were you, you know what I mean? Was it artwork or was it, uh, was it, did someone drink some beers at the, you know what I mean? The theme of our art collection is food and consumption. We let you look at everyday things in a special way through art, by presenting the works of art differently, that effect is increased.

You're surprised time and time again. I mean, well, let me contribute to the artwork and I'll leave you some of my McDonald's wrappers. You know what I mean? You know, that greasy wax paper from the biscuit, bacon, egg, and cheese you ate. How bizarre. All right. Well, I've got an airline apologizing for an R rated movie they played, which was not suitable for their crowd.

I'll have that story for you next. All right, we've all been in that situation where you're watching a movie with your parents and there's an impromptu sex scene that nobody knew about and then you feel so awkward and no one wants to get up and say something and there's, you know, you know that moment?

Well, it happened on a Qantas flight. Uh, Qantas Airlines apologized to passengers on a recent flight from Sydney to Japan after playing the R rated 40 minutes of penis and boobs. Well, by all means, this is good promo for the movie. The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight, and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience.

All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight. Well, I have to say, yeah, was this, you know, I haven't been on an airline where they have, do you remember, oh, this is going to sound, I feel old. Do you remember airlines that had the little TV that was like every five rows, and depending on which row you got, Was whether you could see the TV or not, and everyone is forced to watch the same thing.

Oh, my gosh, have times changed. You're telling me Qantas Airways has those old airplanes that had the just random TV on. I always say this if it's the TV at every seat watch whatever the hell you want. Maybe you could put up a little divider or whatever if it gets kind of, uh, You know, I don't know, uh, graphic or whatnot, but I, I like to watch a good rated R movie on a flight.

I'm not caring if the kid behind me is peeking, uh, peeking a sneak or whatever, do whatever you got to do. You know what I mean? All right. Well, as promised, uh, I'm trying to keep the political political stuff for the end of the episode, but I do have a couple updates on the hurricane sort of relief.

Controversy is hitting here is, uh, Vice President Kamala Harris discussing why she contacted DeSantis regarding the relief efforts, but this is going to be different than they've been before. And I know a lot of folks might think I've been through this. I grew up here. I've seen it all. I'll be fine. This one is going to be different.

And that's why I called the governor about what Florida has received in terms of impact. We have to have an agreement that at some point. We, we all need to work together. So this idea that we all need to work together is great. And now we have Biden responding to some of the misinformation that he believes and other believes has been sowed as a way to hurt the current administration right before an election.

Sir, what's the risk of political figures sharing misinformation during this time? The past is prologue is real. The fact of the matter is I, I think we have, uh, I've been able to contact all the governors. They are sticking up for what they've asked for. They're pointing out that they're satisfied with everything they're getting.

Uh, but I can't speak for others on the internet. And I mean, it's just Look,

those who do it, do it to try to damage the administration. Well, that's, we take care of ourselves. But it misleads people, puts people in circumstances where they panic, where they're really, really, really worried, and they think they're not being taken care of. And it really is, it's going to sound, I'm using an old phrase, it's un American.

It really is. People are scared to death. People know their lives are at stake. All that they've worked for, all that they own, all that they value. And it's just, it's, it's just Anyway. So look, uh, you know, I know he's hard to listen to golly Biden. I mean, he is just really aged to be the guy, you know, they boost the audio.

You could barely hear what he's saying, but the point remains, it's so un American to take these natural disasters and make a political war out of it. Especially four weeks before an election, you're seeing, and again, people say, Oh, don't be political or biased. You're seeing across, uh, across, uh, networks, the sort of battling of the misinformation here.

We have on Fox news, um, a GOP rep French Hill, uh, responding to misinformation from Maria Bartiromo. You are an elected official, you know, where and how the money is spent. How is it possible that FEMA is out of money? Biden is urging Congress to come back, approve more funding for FEMA by the end of the year.

Uh, Vice President Harris still under fire for promising to send 157 million to Lebanon. Yeah, Lebanon. While residents of at least six states in America are struggling to recover from Hurricane Helene. Okay, you're watching pictures of them hanging from trees. They've lost everything because of these storm surges.

How is FEMA out of money? FEMA's not out of money, uh, and this was made clear by the Inspector General report saying that Mayorkas has, uh, access to nearly 8 billion of funding from the FEMA Disaster Relief Funds accumulated since 2012. Plus, as I've said and as Mike Johnson has said, Congress is ready to replenish that funding as soon as we get back to Washington.

They have the money. To take care of Florida, take care of North Carolina, take care of Georgia. And they need to get about delivering it and listening to what their governors are asking and meeting those governor's requests. But it's that money frozen for some reason? This is where the inspector general says no, Congress's staff says no, they have access to the funding.

All right. So that's the clip. And look, you know, this is. You know, federal funding is a social welfare program that when everyone complains about socialism, I think what they're not understanding is these social welfare programs are here to help people, whether it's because you battled an illness or because you were stuck in a catastrophe or because you're low income due to circumstances out of your control, where this is all here to help Americans to help our brothers and our sisters.

And. Uh, so far, DeSantis and everyone else has said that they've been approved for all of the money they've asked for. So I think that's a good thing. I think we're getting to see how the system works. Now, I gotta tell people, if you're in Florida listening to this, if you're in the path of the hurricane or an evacuation zone, please get out.

Please get out. If, um, If, uh, you know, you can't afford a hotel or whatever, create a GoFundMe, send it to me. We'll share it with our community. We just want everyone to be safe. Um, that's the least we can do is to try to keep our audience safe during this very, very wild time. Well, we've made it to the end.

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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 morning, everybody out there on this Tuesday, October 8th, 2024, and let's get into all of your pop culture news. On today's episode of The Morning Rush, we've got updates on the new hurricane heading for for Florida Milton, a viral clip shows a long time South Floridian meteorologist brought to tears in anticipation of the devastation.

Plus Taylor Swift was back on Monday night supporting the chiefs and golden bachelorette Joan tells us a few things she's learned in her sixties. Plus a slew of political leaders in the South come forward to fight the misinformation about the hurricane Helene cleanup. Plus a couple of gals were booted off a spirit airlines flight for wearing crop tops.

I've also got quick dancing with the stars recap and so much more. All of this coming up next on the morning rush. Folks. We have a very serious hurricane approaching Florida right now. And I want to share a clip with you yesterday. John Morales from NBC affiliate WTVJ was sharing an update. On Milton when he got choked up.

Have a listen. It's just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. Uh, it has dropped,

it has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. Um, I apologize. This is just horrific. Um, winds, maximum sustained winds are 160 miles per hour. And, um, It, uh, it is just, uh, gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico where you can imagine, uh, the winds, I mean, the seas are just so. Incredibly, incredibly hot, a record hot, as you might imagine, you know, what's driving that I don't need to tell you global warming, climate change, uh, leading to this and becoming an increasing threat, uh, for, uh, the Yucatan, uh, including Merida and Progreso and other areas there.

Uh, let's see if I can show you. So it shows the path which is heading directly for the western coast of Florida. And look, this is scary. The hurricane's supposed to brush by where I had my wedding two years ago, mid October. Hurricanes aren't supposed to be around this late in the season. They're starting earlier, they're going later.

And they're getting stronger and there's only been two category. There's only been several category five hurricanes to ever even come out of this area. So look, I'm not a meteorologist. I don't think it's, I don't think it's a political conversation at all that, uh, that there is a sort of man made global warming and just the.

Trajectories of these. I mean, the last storm went inland in, into areas that hurricanes have never even affected. So lots of warnings of evacuation. Here is Rianne Ramirez on TikTok explaining the chaos trying to evacuate from Tampa. 60 miles in four hours. Think about that. It's taken us four hours to go 60 miles.

If you are a Florida resident and you are evacuating for this, This huge, huge hurricane, Hurricane Milton, that's about to slam right into the West Coast of Florida. And you told yourself, it's okay, we'll wait till Tuesday morning, Tuesday night. Don't do it. Leave now because these interstates are insane.

All right, folks. So you heard the message here. This is important stuff that we share with our audience. We'll get into some of the. I don't know more trivial pop culture. You know what? What do you want me to speckle in some more trivial pop culture for you? Let's do that right now. Uh, P Diddy's, uh, going to be having to give his, uh, Miami beach key to the city back.

How about that? All right, let's go to sources with direct knowledge. Say Miami beach. City officials are in the final negotiations. To rescind Diddy's key to the city. Well, if he doesn't give it back, you could just have the locks changed into this metaphorical key. That doesn't actually do anything. Uh, but either way, look, uh, you know, I get it.

Some people say, Oh, Dave, less political, more of this. We got four weeks left before the election. So. Everything in the news is going to be political in one way or another. That's just the way it's going to be. And then after that, maybe it'll calm down, but the rhetoric's absolutely insane out there. We've got natural disasters that are affecting our audience and are affecting our country.

And it shouldn't be political. Here is Tampa mayor, Jane Caster, speaking with CNN about the challenges her city faces as hurricane Milton approaches. We're just asking people to go to a reliable source and our communications department in the city of Tampa does an amazing job of keeping our residents informed, uh, with factual information and the information that they need, not only to prepare.

Uh, but to evacuate and to ensure that they're keeping themselves and their families safe. The Tampa Bay region was becoming somewhat complacent, but Helene really woke everyone up and Milton is on a whole other, uh, plane. And look, I get it. You know, I actually have family that build marinas and they build, um, docks that are supposed to withstand these hurricanes.

And so I've got family that live on the coast in the area affected. And I've got a, you know, I've got a, uh, a sister in law that was without power for a long time. So, you know, we've all, we've all got somebody who's affected at the very least, we want everyone to get the accurate news and so. You know, at times like these are just ripe for people to make things up.

And so, uh, fear and so division. So here's CBS morning, uh, cleaning up, uh, I guess not just the North Carolina coast, but also the misinformation out there. is claimed by national figures that are just plain false, according to local reps from both parties. Among them is this one. The FAA is restricting search and rescue operations.

That is simply not happening. Another one, FEMA is too broke to help because the storm money is going to immigration problems and, and foreign wars. That's not how funding for FEMA works. Senator Tom Tillis confirmed as much on Face the Nation yesterday, and another local Republican called it all, quote, conspiracy theory junk.

But here's one of the sources of that junk.

And that's not the only quote. Now, so just imagine if you've lost your home, And then you hear that. How's it going to make you feel? Alright, so obviously it's tough out there when you have the right information. But I've never even, I've never seen this happen before. Where so many different leaders in different, uh, uh, political parties, both, uh, the Democrats and the Republicans, they're all saying the same thing, which is that we're trying our best, we're working around the clock to get, you know, Uh, you know, the, the right resources allocated in the right direction.

Here's governor Harry McMaster warning against misinformation. Again, I've never seen this before. I've absolutely never seen this many, uh, you know, elected officials coming forward, just warning people to get their news from a trusted source. Yes. People not to, not to listen to rumors. Don't get your information from these.

unofficial sources because 99 percent of the time they're wrong. You know, a couple of them that were circulating recently and causing fear and concern among people in Columbia, and that is that the Columbia water system was going out the wastewater as well as the drinking water. Well, none of that's true.

It was stated that everyone was evacuating the facility and all that. And I think the mayor and Others had a press conference earlier today to knock down those rumors. I spoke to the mayor a minute ago. He says he thinks they got those rumors knocked down, but there'll be another one coming right behind it before long.

So please get your information from official sources. I mean, how sweet and kind is this and sad at the same time that the governor of South Carolina has to come forward and tell people to be careful where they get, where they're getting their information from. It's, it's mayors and governors and it's like enough is enough.

You know, uh, and it's like, look, the government shouldn't have control over the social media, but we, as the consumers need to do a better job, not sharing information that is not accurate and vetted. Um, here is representative Jeff Jackson giving an update on all of the debunking going on. And let's address some specific rumors.

No one's land is being taken by FEMA. FEMA doesn't even have the authority to do that. Why is this even a rumor? There's no blockade on private aid. There is an enormous amount of private aid rolling in. The only people being turned away are the ones headed down a road that's been destroyed, and a checkpoint is telling them, don't go that way, the road has been destroyed.

If you want to bring in a private plane full of supplies, you can do that. The only issue is, there's now triple the normal amount of air traffic because of all the planes bringing in supplies and there have been a bunch of near misses in the air, so they're just asking folks, Get in touch with the emergency operations center.

Let them know you're coming and the FAA will clear you to land. I mean this sounds so reasonable. Here we have a country divided where our common enemy right now should be the hurricane and the relief of that hurricane. We should be linking arms as we recover and yet Social media has divided us so much that we're fighting over such trivial things.

Finally, finally, uh, and again, we'll go to a break after this. I want to share with you, uh, Mike Johnson, he's using the hurricane, uh, victims as political pawns. There's really no other way about it. Here he is on Fox news Sunday, speaking about why he will not bring Congress back to vote on more funding until wait for it.

After the election. I mean, these guys are just telling on themselves. President Biden has said more money is needed. He actually sent a letter to congressional leaders on Friday night, including you. And he said specifically, the small business administration is in real trouble. Here's what he says. I warned the Congress of this potential shortfall even before Hurricane Helene landed on America's shores.

I requested more funding for SBA multiple times over the summer. It's past several months. And most recently, my administration underscored that request as you prepared a continuing resolution to fund the government. Will you call Congress back before the election? Do you need to? Look, we'll be back in session immediately after the election, that's 30 days from now.

The thing about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude is that it takes a while to calculate the actual damages. And the states are going to need some time to do that. So rather than bring Congress and get them off their asses to come back and vote for more relief for the, you know, for FEMA, they're saying, well, wait till after the election, because why that's going to change the amount of money.

Like it's, it's, it's sickening. And I think surgically. We need to vote out anybody who's politicizing the response to a natural disaster. Absolute sickening. We'll be back with some more content right after this. And look folks, I'm, I promise you this, I'm not trying to give you too much heavy content.

It's just, this is really important stuff for all of us. That we don't share misinformation and that we don't, uh, share half truths. Like, we have to be impeccable with our word in times like this. And make sure that we aren't part of the problem of division. Thanks Uh, Kanye, speaking of division, Kanye West and Bianca sensory marriage on the rocks divorce on the horizon, which by the way, I feel like this whole time she's been held hostage.

You know what I mean? Uh, who knows? Uh, but, uh, multiple sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ yay. And Bianca have been telling people around them. They split up a few weeks ago with the Yeezy architect heading down to Australia to spend time with her family. Since the split while there's no word on what prompted the split or who pulled the rug on the relationship We're told Kanye has been telling people close to him.

He plans to live in Tokyo and divorce her. All right Well, hey good for him. What the hell do I care? In other news. Oh, let's let's do a little palate cleanser. Here is our good pal Joan Vasso's the Golden Bachelorette Discussing the three things she will not do in her 60s. Have a listen Things that I will not do now that I'm in my 60s.

I don't gossip anymore. Nothing good ever comes of it. Find better things to talk about. The second thing is compare myself to other people. There's always going to be somebody smarter or prettier or more successful. Just makes you feel bad about yourself. And the third thing is, and this is very superficial, I will not sleep on bad sheets and I will not Alright, for the record, she bleeped that third one, not me.

Joan, tell us! What's the third one? We have to know! What did you bleep out? Alright, well let's go to the crop top controversy. A Southern California woman and her friend claim they were kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight for wearing crop tops. Well, the first problem here is that they were on a Spirit Airlines flight, but let's listen to what they had to say.

It's a crop top controversy. Oh, the news! It's a crop top controversy. Nobody talks like that going viral. A male flight attendant came up to us and aggressively said, mumbled, put something on. The women took this video before boarding, showing they had sweaters but removed them, saying the plane did not have air conditioning before takeoff.

Telling both of us put our fighters on. And then we're like, oh, can we see a dress code? Carla Hager, a woman they did not know was sitting in front of them. I also have a crop top under my sweater and I took my sweater off and I was like, so if they're kicking you off the flight, then they're also going to have to kick me and my toddler off of the flight.

But that's what happened. The three women and a toddler kicked off the Spirit Airlines plane with no refund. A statement from the company said Our contract of carriage, a document all guests agree to upon making a reservation with us, includes certain clothing standards for all guests traveling with us.

We are investigating the matter and we are in contact with the guests about their experience. Jeez, this is ridiculous. First of all, when I search travel, the first thing I do uncheck Spirit Airlines. I'm telling you this for those that say, I have no problem flying them. You will get bent over sideways.

If it hasn't happened yet, you are on borrowed time. This airline is, uh, atrocious. I won't do it. I don't care how cheap they say their flights are. Nope, uh, there's no such thing as a free lunch. It always comes at a cost. And you know what? Maybe also it's the cost of, uh, you know, lower, lower cost tickets leads to shenanigans because everyone just feels like they're on a city bus.

I mean, what do I know? I don't know. You know who I want in my life? I want a brother like Jason Kelsey. Now he's retired from professional football, but he was there covering Monday night football with Travis Kelsey on the field. Here's what he had to say about his younger brother and his slow start to the NFL season.

He is always going to find a way to make football the number one priority in terms of being prepared. There's so many things that rely on this between his relationship with his teammates in Reed and his legacy. So I know it's been a slow start for him. I know that the optics have certainly appeared that way.

Uh, to a, look at that. Now she's got the part on right there. That looks good. My, uh, Travis always good. Just find a way to show up and show out. And I think it's only a matter of time before it gets back to the Travis Kelsey we've seen. So what he was saying there was they cut to Taylor Swift arriving at the stadium.

As you know, she took a few weeks off to some other, uh, you know, she had some other, uh, I guess, uh, things going on there, but now she's back. The chiefs won. It looks like Travis Kelsey had a pretty decent game. So all is right in the world. All right. Well, we'll see. So, uh, dancing with the stars was last night.

I don't know what you guys thought about it, but as far as dancing with the stars goes, I'm absolutely loving this season. Joey Grazia day, the bachelor did great. I mean, Hey Jen, Jen trans doing great too, but Joey Grazia day is doing really, really well. And bachelors don't usually perform well.

Bachelorettes have won the trophy and they've been top finalists, but, uh, we really have a lot of stiff competition, but I have to say. I'm really rooting for Chandler Kinney. I mean, she was absolutely fantastic. She was the first to get a full set of nines last night and I didn't know, I've never watched her on anything.

She was on pretty little liars, uh, or I should say lethal weapon. The pretty little liars revival series, zombies, you know, Disney shows, things I don't know about, but she's absolutely fantastic. I think. She's been on the leaderboard every single week. Brooks Nader, of course, is getting sultry as she's having sort of a show mance with her pro partner, Gleb Savchenko.

Um, and again, I love, I love the pommel horse, Prince Steven Nadorozik. But I got to tell you, he's, he's, he's pretty stiff. I mean, look, you don't get to the Olympics without a very hard and strong work ethic. So folks like Danny Amendola, Superbowl champions, Steven Adorozik, you expect them to continue to improve a lot during the show.

Uh, but you know, how much time does he have left to improve? That's the question, you know, uh, is his fan base big enough to keep him performing for several more weeks while he kind of gets out of his own way as it We'll have to see. But either way, I'm loving this season. I'm loving the diversity of choices from, uh, Carl Winslow on family matters to Olympians to four, you know, other athletes and, uh, in actors we've never heard of.

So anyway, good stuff. My, my recap though, I am all in on Chandler Kinney. I'm all in on her. I know I'm attached. I'm on attaching myself to the best one out there, but Hey, I mean, you gotta love a winner, right? All right. So speaking of loving a winner, we've got Gabby, uh, wind, uh, Wendy, is that his name? Is that your name?

Oh my gosh. Gabby. Wendy talked about her experience on the dancing with the stars tour. Here she complains about the sleeping conditions. I went on tour with dancing with the stars. Well, And I will not shut the fuck up about it, because it was the worst thing I've ever done. I think, I mean, that doesn't really sound awesome.

Yeah, so wait, can you please, uh, fill me in on the insides and outs of that? Yeah. The insides were a decrepit tour bus. Um, we were sharing, there was like 12 of us and I think there was like 10 bunks. At one point people were sleeping on the floor, which that is a liability, but what's done is done. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

What network is this always? Anyway, so Gabby, not a fan. So I do not think she'll be invited back for a future tour, but, uh, either way, what can you do? She made a, what a couple hundred thousand dollars dancing, got paid some more to go do it on a tour bus and Hey, no complaints from me. I'll do it for you.

I'll take her spot. I'll do some Paso Doble. All right. Well, let's take a quick break and we've got some more content coming right after this. All right. We have Sally Field making headlines. She actually discussed, uh, as a teenager, she had an illegal abortion and it was traumatic. Uh, she, uh, discusses what it was like to get pregnant at the age of 17 in the 1950s.

Share this on her Instagram stories. Have a listen. I feel still very shamed about it because I was raised in the fifties and you know, I, it's, it's ingrained in me. Uh, um, and I was 17. Uh, I had no choices in my life. I didn't have a, a lot of family support in any way, uh, or, or finances. I, I graduated from high school, but had no, no one ever said, go, how about college?

How about, you know, I, nothing, I didn't know what was going to be. And then I, I, I found out I was pregnant. Luckily, I had a family doctor who was a friend of the family and, uh, he drove me and his wife and my mother in their brand new Cadillac, ay yay yay, um, to Tijuana. And I what we parked on a on a really scrunchy looking street scary and he parked about three blocks away and said see that building down there and he gave me an envelope with money and with cash and I was to walk into that building and give them the cash and then come right back to him and I guess he thought if I were dying maybe he could help me and it was it was it was beyond hideous and, and, uh, you know, life altering.

Um, I had no anesthetic. Um, there was a technician giving me a few puffs of ether, but he would then take it away. So it just made my arms and legs feel numb and weird, but I felt everything, um, how much pain I was in. And then I realized that the technician was actually molesting me. So I had to figure out how can I make my.

arms moved to push him away. And, uh, you know, so it was just, you know, this absolute pit of shame. And, and I, um, then when it was finished, they said, go, go, go, go, go. Like, like the building was on fire and they didn't want me there. You know, it It was illegal, you know. Wow. Oh my gosh, my jaws on the floor listening to that.

Uh, that was absolutely wild to hear her experience from 70 years ago. Is that right? How, 60 years ago? I mean, this is absolutely insanity, uh, that she's able to recall this story with as much sort of pain and shame as she felt, uh, on the day. What tragic stuff. And, um, you know, I think about how many people in today's modern world of 2024 might have to do something similar.

Wild times out there, and Fox News actually interviewed Melania Trump as her new book's coming out. Uh, as Melania Trump basically came out as pro choice. Melania, you also write about abortion in the book. You write about That you are staunchly for a woman's right to choose, you are pro choice. You write, it is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference in having children based on their own convictions, free from intervention or pressure.

From government. Had you spoken to President Trump about that before you wrote that in the book? Yes. He knew my position and my beliefs since the day we met. Uh, and, uh, I believe in, uh, individual freedom. I want to decide. What I wanted to do with my body. I think, um, I don't want government in my personal business.

That she disagrees with a major policy initiative that her husband has passed. So wild times indeed, folks, uh, and a lot of people, you know, they go, well, Dave, if you couldn't, you know, why do you, why do you making things political? Well, the former president was a reality TV star. He married a model. Uh, the, the conversations around all of the podcasters, who's supporting him, who's supporting her.

It's just absolutely wild. Now. A lot of people have posted how many instagram followers, uh that Alex cooper lost since uh announcing her interview of vice president kamala harris And with what several million followers she lost About 5, 000, which is essentially like nothing. It's less than a percentage.

Right. Uh, which is very interesting. It's interesting when you think of the vocal minority, the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, we, uh, regardless of political ideology, whether it's, you know, the left or the right, a lot of times we feel beholden to these loud voices. And what we have to remember is.

Just do what you feel is right, and the loud voices will be loud as they exit, but your real fans, your real supporters, they will be there. So, I, I, I get some of your DMs, and again, it's, it's very rare, but there are people that are saying, Oh my gosh, I can't stand it with blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah, blah, and to that I just have to say, well, you are allowed to go on your day.

And I'm just going to try to just try to share with as much love as possible. What I'm doing over here. It doesn't have to be for everybody and y'all don't have to agree with me. I was listening to a Joe Rogan episode, uh, the other day where he said like 17 things that I thought were patently false, wrong misinformation, but you know, I don't take what everyone says.

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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 Monday to you out there. It is the 7th of October, 2024. And on today's episode of the morning rush, big news in the call her daddy podcast world.

As Alex Cooper scored an interview with VP Kamala Harris, but not without serious fallout from some fans. She responded to the decision to get political and we'll play what she had to say. Uh, plus could new evidence change the fate for the Menendez brothers? Dolly Parton donates a million bucks to help folks recover from Hurricane Helene and Elon Musk joined Trump in Pennsylvania and made some wild claims.

And two major networks are in an apparent bidding war for the Diddy videos. Plus we've got bachelorette Claire exposing a weird stalker situation and a possible new hurricane is headed for Florida. I've got all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, as we just begin the recovery efforts for the devastation from hurricane Helene, there's actually a new, uh, possible hurricane picking up speed right now, heading for Florida.

Have a listen. And another hurricane threat is facing Florida's west coast. Just moments ago, tropical storm Milton became category one hurricane Milton and could hit Florida as a category three storm in just a few days. Now, Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 51 counties ahead of Milton, and it could bring devastating storm surge to parts of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene.

I urge Floridians to finalize your storm preparations now. I highly encourage you to evacuate. Attorney General Ashley Moody went even further Omar, telling Floridians who ignore evacuations orders that quote you probably need to write your name and permanent marker on your arm so that people know who you are when they get to you afterwards.

So where is Milton right now? It is still sitting in the Gulf of Mexico, and that's the problem. It's sitting over very warm ocean waters, and that's why it's been able to rapidly intensify over the last 24 hours. A category one hurricane with 80 mile per hour winds sitting 800 miles away from Tampa Bay.

The track continues to keep it over the Gulf of Mexico, those very warm ocean waters, which will let it intensify again to a major category three hurricane All right. So we will keep you updated on the whereabouts of that hurricane. Well, let's do some bachelor news real quick. I'm going to have a video on this today.

Claire Crowley, uh, responded to a bizarre comment. She got, I guess, trying to expose her. The commenter said this, I saw these two in real life, her and her husband. At a hotel with their baby. And all weekend they were on their phone in front of the baby. So sad what our world has become. I feel like someone needs to tell them and all the other influencers to put down your phone.

At least try in front of your kids. It's so damaging to our human interactions and relationship. Now, look, I mean, You're not wrong that you shouldn't have your phone out in front of your kids, but we use our phone for so many different things in today's world. And Claire responded to this by saying, I don't usually respond, but this one touched a nerve.

We are damn good parents that are also human and doing the best we can. I feel like someone needs to tell the people that make judgy comments like this to also put their phone down and stop assuming things about people they don't know. Uh, this is the epitome of a troll. Do you know if I was checking on my mom, making reservations for my family, making a doctor's appointment?

So it literally goes on and on. And look, you know, I've been one to criticize kids for being on their devices while at dinner, but you know, it's a complicated world out there. A lot of parents, you know, uh, are working while they're actually with their kids and you can say, well, this is harmful. And then they could say, well, it's better than being at work and abandoning my kid.

You know, I don't know what the right answer is, uh, but I know that shaming specific parents. I don't think. that's it. Now again, like I said, I've, I've gotten hard on people saying, Hey, shouldn't we not be letting our kids be on their devices while we're out to dinner, you know, trying to have family bonding moments.

It's a, you know, distracting, but I'm not calling out any specific person when I could, but I'm not, it's a general, you know, You know, it's one thing when it's a general conversation and it's another when it's targeting and shaming someone whose situation we don't know what that's all about. Well, did you watch any movies over the weekend?

Uh, here's a deadline article. No one's laughing now. Joker folly. Uh, duh. Falls down with. 39 million opening how the sequel went sideways. So apparently it's getting terrible reviews. I guess a lot of people don't like it, but then some said, well, the reviews were so bad when I went to see it, I thought it was all right.

Uh, if anyone was better on Joker as being a winning tent pole in their fantasy box office league a year out, sorry, you just lost a ton of cash. This sequel based on a DC comics character is one of the lowest sequel openings in memory to a major franchise film based on a comic book. Yeah. I mean, 46 million is 46 million.

Uh, apparently a lot of people didn't realize it would be sort of kind of like a, like a musical, I guess, but some people thought it was brilliant. So to each their own, I suppose. Well, You know who gives influencers a bad name? Guys like Jack Dougherty. You know, this guy, he's a 20 year old. I don't know him.

I guess I'm not, uh, I'm not his demographic. He crashed his custom McLaren while on a stream texting and driving the 20 year old internet personality was cruising down a slick Miami highway in his expensive whip Saturday morning. While on the platform kick with the beginning of the now viral moment, showing him looking down at his phone while behind the wheel.

So he crashed it. It was a 300, 000 car. And he was also permanently banned from kick for, I guess, streaming while driving. Well, I mean, good. I, you got, you know, there's, you gotta, you gotta be careful out there, folks. Like, what are you doing? You know what I mean? Well, the Jim Henson family, remember Jim Henson from the Muppets, right?

The family says Scientology will not acquire the Muppet studios lot family denies report. Yes, that's right. There was a report that the historic studio lot that served as a home for the Muppets was going to change hands and end up with Scientology. But I guess that's not true. They said in regards to recent rumors about the sale of the La Brea studio lot, The Henson family is not in any business dealings with the Church of Scientology, and that organization is not in consideration as a potential buyer of the property.

Now, I'm, I, I've always been intrigued by the Church of Scientology just because, you know, I'm, I'm intrigued by cults in general. And it's very interesting. I actually know people that have joined, you know, on lower levels. And, uh, it's very interesting because they have a tax, they don't pay taxes, right?

Because they're considered a church. But at what point are you You know, like the church is based on all like their, their main sort of way of sharing their message is through their multimedia centers that they have. I mean, they've got such good, there are TV channels and radio channels, and you'll be.

Literally watching something and not realizing there's like a Scientology message behind it. I even know a lot of people that auditioned for projects and were literally, you know, rehearsing lines in a play before they realized it was Scientology back. So, I mean, they're doing innovative things to get in there.

And I think at the very least, uh, all the cults I know should at least be paying their fair share of taxes. That's what I have to say about that. Well, that's not the only problem to hit California. There's an invasive rodent called the Nutria. Are you familiar with this? They've got big orange teeth and it's an invasive species of rodent.

And it was discovered in a new part of California. And they're posing a threat to humans, pets, livestock, and the important ecosystem. These critters are invading the Bay Area, making their way into the Sacramento, uh, Delta in Contra Costa County, a critical source of water for the state. Look, I mean, if you ask me, they look adorable, so I don't see what the big problem is.

They resemble beavers and grow up to three feet long with bright orange teeth. Nutria are known to carry parasites and tapeworms. Well, clean them up a little bit. You know what I mean? Like, like, welcome him. Welcome him to California. At least the Nutria will pay taxes, right? Well. Speaking of paying taxes, here is someone who has paid her dues.

And then some Dolly Parton makes a massive donation to the, uh, sort of people that are affected by hurricane Helene. She made an announcement that she'll be donating a million dollars cash, her money, and taxes. partnering with Walmart, they'll be donating 10 million. Now, if you ask me, I'd rather Walmart just pay a higher level of corporate tax, but that's a separate issue for a separate day.

So good on them for donating money right now. Here's what she had to say in this announcement. Because then we had that crazy old. Helene. Helene. Helene. Helene. Helene. You came in here and broke us all apart. Helene. Helene, Helene, Helene. But we're all here. To me and these broken hearts, and that's what I'm doing here.

So I really, really wish that we were all together for another reason, but we all have seen the devastation. I mean, who knew? And then she went on to talk about the precious parts of the country that she is a part of. Has, you know, the grown up in that are, uh, facing this devastation think that this is a time for me to step up again for all of us to step up and do what we can.

And of course, today I wanted to announce that from myself personally, just from my own bank account, I'm donating a million dollars today, but there it is. folks. I mean, look, she puts her money where her mouth is. She's one of the most charitable people that have ever existed. And she's a living, living legend.

And in her later years, uh, you know, uh, I think, you know, you know, the country music world has always known this about her, but I really think, I mean, she's reaching sainthood, like a level. I, I'm not even saying that, uh, to be hyperbolic. Uh, she donates millions. To help kids with, uh, you know, illiteracy, uh, you know, provides books.

We got one sent in the mail to us from her foundation and, you know, she, she could easily be a billionaire if she wanted to be, but she's not because she's donated her life savings to helping others. And I think that is worth, uh, you know, uh, worth discussing with all the toxic news that's out there. It's worth showing the people that do the right thing.

All right. Well, I got a lot to get to. It's a very busy Monday morning, so stick around. We'll be back with more right after this. So you may know this about me, but I'm kind of a, an addict when it comes to diet Coke and, you know, you get a lot of people to say, well, regular Coke's actually better for you than diet.

And I go, well, I don't know about that. And they usually cite this one study that showed that like, you know, diet Coke can, can lead to cancer, even though, uh, when you read this study, it doesn't really, anyway, my whole point is I found a clip that backs the confirmation bias I want, which is diet Coke's better.

Have a listen. Is it better to have a Coke Zero or the real thing? A Coke Zero. A Coke Zero. Tell us why. Sweeteners, Aspartame, Stevia, Monk Fruit, Maltitol, Allulose, all of these sweeteners that contain zero calories. Yes, they're not good for you, right? They have consequences. They impact your microbiome. They may make you crave more foods.

They're not something good to add to your diet, but they are infinitely better for you than the 25 grams of real sugar in a real Coke. Okay. This is very important for people to hear. The diet version of a soda is infinitely better for you than the real soda with the real sugar. So there it is. But of course, you know, it comes with its own set of problems.

And I have to tell you, don't ever take your dietary advice from me. I am on a. Real, real bender. After my trip to New York, uh, you know, I was staying at a hotel on 24th and eighth, which is in Chelsea and right at that corner on a 24th and seventh, excuse me, right at that corner, there was a, a cookie shop called crumble and.

The line was around the block all day, every day. And I was like, Oh my gosh, why is the line around the block? I need to try these cookies. So I ordered six of them cost about 25 bucks. You know, there were very big cookies. I have to tell you per ounce, this was a better deal than like a subway cookie, because these were gigantic cookies, but let me tell you something.

These cookies hit me. If, if this was a drug, it was pure grade cocaine straight out of Columbia. You know what I mean? These cookies. Were so good, too good that I spiraled, I was eating them for breakfast. I couldn't lay off the, I was scraping the box to get every last morsel of these cookies. And again, they're not a sponsor.

God bless them for not being a sponsor because, uh, today I tried to go without sugar and I'm, I'm facing a real, uh, with, you know, a real. Real withdrawal. I try to eat a lot of salty foods, high protein. I'm trying to, I eat a bunch of pistachios, you know, I'm just trying to confuse my brain, drink a whole ton of water, but it sucks.

I got that. I got that addiction. You know, the good thing about a sugar addiction though, is it only lasts physically for a couple of days after that. It's just psychological. So I'm trying my best to just get through the hard parts because I mean. I do that when I travel, you know, I was eating pizza nonstop and I'm just like, all right, Dave, you know, whenever I'm in the airport, uh, you know, restaurants, I eat terrible.

So I'm here, I'm just saying this out loud. So you guys hear it. I'm going to try my best to get my act together. Cause it's, it's quite literally, um, if my kryptonite, I can't think right with it, uh, when I've had too much, too many cookies, you can tell you're like, oh, this podcast is weird today. Dave must've ate a cookie.

Well, you Here's a new story that's pretty interesting. Prosecutors in Los Angeles are examining new evidence in the Menendez brothers, 1989 slayings of their parents. Have a listen. The major turn tonight, all these years later in one of the most notorious murder trials in U. S. history, the Menendez brothers sentenced to life without parole for murdering their parents.

Well now the Los Angeles D. A. says he's reviewing new evidence. So could the Menendez brothers go free? Terry Moran covered the case years ago. He's back on the story tonight. Tonight, will the Menendez brothers go free? We have a moral and an ethical obligation to review what is being presented to us.

After more than three decades behind bars, there is now a glimmer of hope for Lyle and Eric Menendez, who are serving life in prison without parole for the brutal killings of their parents in 1989. The Los Angeles District Attorney has announced that he will review their case, after lawyers for the brothers came forward with new evidence that they say corroborates the brothers claim that they were sexually abused by their father, the crucial issue in the case.

All right. Well, uh, you know, we'll, we'll be giving any updates as they come in. I don't know if this is all because of the new TV show that came out, but either way, I mean, they've been in bars for decades now, so we'll have to see. Uh, we'll have to see what they have to say. And, uh, speaking about going behind bars, we've got Diddy behind bars and apparently there, an attorney says there are two major networks in a bidding war to buy the video of Diddy in an A list male celebrity.

First of all. I don't think this should be something that's on the market. Second of all, whoever buys it, it's going to be shared around two seconds afterwards. So I can't, I can't even understand why there's even a market for this. We know that you've seen the footage. You talked about that last week when you were with us.

So. You know, as you know who it is, and I know that you can't tell us who it is, uh, for all the reasons, right? Um, but as you know who it is, and as we're moving through this story, and it's starting to really feel like it's unraveling, and you feel bad for the person, and we don't even know who it is. Um, is there anything mo that part of it?

I really the person, part of the r and say something outside my own safety, but I want essentially bring the dog They should do something about this before it came out. So this is wrong, right? Because look, if it's a consensual experience and so on, it's in the closet, you know, that's nobody's business.

Like this is not what did he's in prison for, right? It not for people that are consensually doing whatever it's for a way it's, it's for way more reckless and scary things. So, I mean, I'll, I'll cover the story, whatever's out there, but, uh, you know, we're not gonna, uh, we're not gonna, you know, uh, I don't know, participate to the levels that, that some will.

When it comes to whatever spectacle they want, whatever witch hunt they want. Now I'll tell you what's crazy. Uh, we're going to get into some of the, uh, pop culture, political discussions that are out there regarding the presidential election, because how can you not, how can you not? We gave you 17 minutes before we dove into it.

Here's Elon Musk speaking at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania. The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech. They want to take away your right to bear arms. That they want to, it's, we're, we're, they want to take away your right to vote effectively. Text people now, and then make sure they actually do vote.

If they don't, this will be the last election. So first of all, what the hell is he talking about? You know, I'm not, I don't even know how to respond to any of that, but I think it's wild that this is somebody who owns one of the largest media platforms out there. He actually said he would remain apolitical.

And now of course, his fully endorsed Trump, which it's like, look, people can. Do whatever they want. He's allowed to endorse Trump. Um, but you know, the lying, the brazen lying, taking away your guns, uh, this is going to be the last election. What are you talking about? So that's, what's happening on the Trump side of the, of the ticket.

And now for Kamala Harris, she's actually planning an all out media blitz. Harris is also embarking on a campaign media blitz this week with appearances on popular podcasts and sit downs with big names like Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert, and the Ladies of the View. What do you make of this mix of traditional media and more targeted efforts like podcasts, and also the importance of timing?

Is it absolutely necessary right now? I think it's a wonderful recognition by her comms team and her executive leadership of her campaign that media is wherever you can get eyeballs. And listen, we do this every week. And I think we've been on TV together long enough to know that we're competing with a whole lot more outlets.

So Kamala Harris has to be in all of those spaces. So what's interesting is, you know, people, it's like, this is mainstream media, MSNBC, can you believe she's going to go on a podcast? And it's like, hello now, Trump's been going on podcasts for a while now. It's one of the. Most effective ways where you can have a long form conversation.

Now, is he out there breaking down great policy? And I don't really think so. Uh, but it is a chance to meet people at a place. What would that is longer than a 32nd ad they might see on TV. Now with that said, uh, Alex Cooper is receiving a lot of, uh, hate for her decision to have Kamala Harris on her podcast.

Uh, I want to play. The full clip of what she had to say, and we'll get to that next, right after a quick word from our sponsor. So real quick, if you don't know, uh, Alex Cooper, she's a multi multi hundred millionaire. She's had several hundred million dollar contracts. I think a 60 million, a hundred million dollars.

She's doing quite well for herself. And she's probably the biggest female voice in the world right now. If not one of them, she's like the female, the female voice. And some people are not happy that she had Kamala Harris on her podcast. Here's what she had to say addressing her audience after the interview.

Daddy gang, I went to Washington D. C. to interview Vice President Kamala Harris. As you guys know, I do not usually discuss politics or have politicians on the show because I want Caller Daddy to be a place that everyone feels comfortable tuning in. Every single week I talk about topics like mental health, relationships, sex, sexuality, trauma.

Overall, my focus is women and the day to day issues that we face. So I will be honest, I had been going back and forth with this decision for a while to get involved Or to not get involved, but at the end of the day, I couldn't see a world in which one of the main conversations in this election is women, and I'm not a part of it.

I am so aware I have a very mixed audience when it comes to politics. So please hear me when I say my goal today is not to change your political affiliation. What I'm hoping is that you're able to listen to a conversation that isn't too different than the ones that we're having here every week. I was given 40 minutes with the vice president of the United States.

No topic was off limits. I prepared seven different versions of this interview. Do I talk about the economy? Do I talk about border control? Do I talk about fracking? But then I realized you can hear about All of those issues on whichever news site you prefer. And let's be real. I'm probably not the one to be having the fracking conversation, but the conversation I know I am qualified to have is the one surrounding women's bodies and how we are treated and valued in this country.

I want to be so clear, since this isn't a one sided conversation, we reached out to former President Donald Trump to come on the show. If he also wants to have a meaningful, in depth conversation about women's rights in this country, then he is welcome on Call Her Daddy anytime. So, Daddy Gang. With all of that said let's get into it.

So here's what's really interesting to me that in today's world you have to put these kid gloves on and tell people, you know, in a two minute clip why I interviewed so and so and I don't want to lose you. And I understand why she did what she had to do here because she's getting a lot of hate from people online saying, I'm no longer listening.

I'm boycotting you, this and that. The same thing they do to Taylor Swift, right? And I understand why there's a lot of influencers and people. Put in podcasters that don't want to get into the political world. Heck I was shamed, um, uh, abundantly. I was shamed by so many people saying, I come to your channel to get pop culture news, not to get this.

And it's like, look, that's okay. You, you know, everyone's got a different reason why they come to my channel or call her daddy's channel. But when the day is over. You have to speak your truth as a, as a, as a voice, as a content creator. And in doing that, you've got to share your opinions on things and in the world we live in, that's so intertwined.

How could someone like Alex Cooper pass up the chance to interview the possible next, next generation? Future, you know, the future president and how could she pass up that chance to take that giant leap for her career, a show that was built on talking about the female body, maybe in more crude fashion, you know, as the show is built on a more sex based conversation, but how could anyone pass up that chance to take such a great leap for their career?

And it's so interesting to read some of the comments. because you see people trying to control her saying, I won't listen to you anymore. I gave you this. I gave you that I'm, I supported you. And again, it's the same stuff I've gotten in so many other content creators have gotten. And we have to understand is while, while she may ruffle feathers, while she may lose some people, those that Respect and appreciate her sharing her opinion and respect, respect her going out on the edges of the branch here to have that conversation will follow her for many more years now.

So it's not about being polarizing. Like I don't, I personally don't want to be polarizing, but it doesn't mean I'm afraid to. Call out a con when I see it, it doesn't mean I'm afraid to call out a cult when I see it. It doesn't mean I'm afraid to call out a fraudster when I see it, whether it's Laura Owens in the Clayton Eckerd case, or whether it's someone who lies on stage who owns Twitter.

You know what I mean? You got to respect the authenticity, even if it doesn't fit the side that you might be on or you don't, but for all the people that gave her all this shit, it's good to see content creators say, you know what, I'm going to risk not playing it safe because what is playing it safe? Get you anyway, you know, playing it safe.

Didn't get Alex Cooper hundreds of millions of dollars on caller daddy. No, that playing it safe. Doesn't get you anything. Say what you mean and mean what you say, live by it. I'm okay with that. And when you're okay with that, when you're impeccable with your word, and when you have a strong opinion that you can stand behind, you know, people will come and go, uh, and that's okay.

And that is okay. And that's why I really appreciate those of you that have stuck around because guess what? I'll be honest. We received a hell of a lot of negativity following our first You know, a lot of what happened in 2024 in the podcast continues to grow. So I have to go with my sort of North star here.

My guide, which is to keep being true to myself and knowing that while those loud voices may be exiting, there's a lot of people that are sticking around and bringing their new friends in, and we are welcoming as hell to all of you guys. We've got a lot of content to get to today. I'll be giving an update on the Clayton Eckerd case and a YouTube video.

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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. Happy Friday to you on this October 4th, 2024. I've got all of your entertainment. Pop culture and political news all in one place.

And there is a lot to get into a real current a copia of content today. On the afternoon, we hear from pommel horse, Prince and Olympian, Stephen Adorazic, he's such a great example of doing what you love and doing it. Well, we'll get some tips about living life from him. Plus, Donald Trump comments on his wife, former first lady Melania's new memoir, promoting pro choice.

Also, a candidate running for Congress is taking heat for posing with a fake family, and a resurfaced video shows Diddy on Kimmel discussing his house parties with Justin Bieber. And also we've got disgraced dancer Artem Chigvintsev claiming his soon to be ex wife Nikki lied about And he's got pictures to support his case.

Also, we've got election denier getting nine years in prison. What a wild time to be alive. I'll have all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. Well, we have breaking news to report. Did everyone get enough toilet paper stacked up? A potential economic crisis has been averted after striking dock workers strike a tentative agreement on wages, including a 62 percent wage hike over the course of the next six years.

Let's have a listen to the today show. Starting today, tens of thousands of union workers will return back to work after heading to the picket line on Tuesday. It's good news because the shutdown could cost the U S economy. Up to four and a half billion dollars a day in a lengthy strike could have led to higher prices and shortages of goods ahead of the holiday season.

The union released a statement on Thursday expressing they had reached a tentative agreement on wages and they've agreed to extend the master contract until January 15th. That's when they said they'll return to the bargaining table to negotiate all the other outside costs. Standing issue. So here's what we know so far.

Sources telling CNBC that under this tentative deal, workers will see a near 62% wage hike over the course of six years. The union remember, had additionally or originally asked for 77%. Um, this increase would potentially raise the top longshoreman's wage to just over 63 bucks an hour. At the end of that six year deal, that's an increase from 39 uh, dollars an hour.

Now, NBC News has reached out to the union for. Any more details, but have not heard back. This is the difference that we have between union workers and non union. You've got companies like Amazon with non union workers and their drivers are peeing in Gatorade bottles and trying to, you know, schlep your packages around town for, uh, you know, uh, for, uh, uh, a low wage.

Uh, the solidarity that can come from collective bargaining shows the power that exists. And you might say, Oh, 60 an hour? But. The, uh, shipping owners are making billions. So it's not like there isn't money to go around. Uh, they just, uh, have realized that, Hey, if you want to play a game, the collective power between the workers is stronger than the bosses.

You really love to see it. Well, now we have the international longshoremen association, which represents these 45, 000 striking dock workers, uh, speaking about the power that they actually hold. Have a listen. Liz, let me explain something to you. These people today don't know what a shrike is. Right. When my men hit the streets, from Maine to Texas, every single port, a lockdown.

You know what's gonna happen? I'll tell ya. First week, be all over the news every night, boom boom. Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars cause the cars ain't coming in off the ships. They get laid off. Third week. Malls start closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They can't sell clothes.

They can't do this. All right. And he goes on and on. And, you know, these guys don't even know what a strike is. Let me tell you about a strike. So the strike was short lived because I think they understand, uh, you know, the bosses saw the solidarity between the workers and they go, okay, let's just give them what they want now.

And we'll come back to the bargaining table. And when they go back to the bargaining table. In January, trust me when I say the ball is in the worker's court. All right. So interesting stuff there. And in other, let's, let's do some light news. We've got Steven Adorosik, of course, he's transitioning from the Olympic games to dancing with the stars and he's on the UGG It's Joe show, Joe Volpis on TikTok.

Here's what he had to say about kind of transferring that expertise from the pommel horse to the dance floor. So you go from the Olympic games to dancing with the stars pretty, pretty quickly. Yeah. Was it a hard transition going from that to this now? The transition itself, like, you know, from the outside, it wasn't very hard of a transition because I went from doing something extremely elite, extremely like hard on my body to something that's like softer and more like people don't have expectations for me to dance.

There's not much pressure. But like the thing that was really hard is like the last like five months of my life, I've been. I've been so locked in to gymnastics, and it's like every day I wake up, eat, sleep, and breathe gymnastics, and like, you know, finally after the Olympic Games, I was like, I, you know, I should have some time to relax, like a couple months to chill and let my body heal.

Was that, that was the plan, right? Yeah, that was the plan. And then like, you know, I blew up at the Olympics and so many opportunities came my way. And, you know, I'm the type of guy that doesn't like to turn anything down and I just want to enjoy it. I think it's part of like my victory. So once you get that call for Dancing with the Stars.

How quickly until the show actually started? Um, yeah, so I got the call while I was still at the Olympics, actually. Amazing, and of course, Dancing with the Stars very smartly jumped on the chance to have Stephen join them. You know, this is what I love about the Olympics, it's almost as if there's a There's a part, there's people that just consume the Olympics, whatever's on TV, right?

And then there's that kind of like new generation Z sort of look for the next meme. Like what's the next thing going to be? And you know, it's, uh, the South Korean sharpshooter, you know, she goes viral and then she becomes, you know, she gets a role in a new movie, you know, as a, as a, an assassin. Right. And now it's like, how, how dare Steven Nadorozik.

Close his eyes as he prepares for pommel horse. And with those Clark Kent glasses on and high cheekbones, we ate him alive. And you know what? He effing delivered. He was so good. And I could tell you this. I did not have on my bingo card that my favorite athlete of the year was a guy who specialized in the pommel horse and they don't call him pommel horse Prince for nothing.

By the way, I think I'm the only one who calls him that either way. I love hearing specifics of, you know, what people do and, and, uh, you know, like I could, I could talk all day and I'm, I'm no Olympian, I'll tell you that, but I could talk all day a day about the split finger fastball, the circle change up, how to throw a two seam or I could tell you a few things about, uh, you know, junk pitches out there.

So I'd love to hear the specifics of such a niche sport. Here he is talking about the misconceptions of men's gymnastics. One thing that I do differently than a lot of pommel horse specialists or gymnasts in general is I don't even wear, like, the wrist supports. I think that, like, doing That's a personal choice?

That's a personal choice, and it's a belief that I have that, like, the event itself is, like, a sort of rehab for your wrists and muscles. So, like, as you're doing it without that support, um, you're kind of exercising them as well to make them stronger. What do you think is the biggest misconception with Pommel Horse while you figure out that Rubik's Cube?

Yeah, no, the biggest misconception for sure is like, and it's kind of just like the misconception about gymnastics in general, is how easy we Just so you know the visual, as he's answering this question, he's also solving a Rubik's Cube. The legend of Steven Nodarozyk grows larger. Make it look like it is our job essentially to make gymnastics look as easy as possible.

So like when people see me sort of just like spinning, that's what they think it is. Like, they just think I'm spinning around for a minute and then I'm done. Uh, there's so many years of technicalities that go into that training where it's like. Borderline impossible the stuff that we can do is as athletes and as he answers he has solved the Rubik's Cube All right, folks.

I got a lot to get into. I'll tell you what before we take a break Let's just do one more you guys love Steven and Doris ik so much. Let's do one more here He is talking about his critical performance where he won bronze and how he could have done better and all that your performance of pommel horse was Was there things that you think you could've tweaked?

Uh, so like, at the Olympics, um, especially like, in, like, the first couple competitions, so I competed three times. There was the preliminaries, and then there was the team final, and then there was the event final. Preliminaries went great. I missed one tenth of, uh, difficulty marathon. I just played it a little bit safe.

I was a little bit hesitant, but like, I knew in the moment, like, it didn't have to be an all out thing. Like, competition. Like, I did my job and it was okay to lose a tenth. Was that a game time decision? Like, you made that while you were doing it? Yeah, yeah. And every now and then it is good to have those game time decisions.

Because like, you know, especially for like, qualification day, it's not that big of a deal if you miss a tenth. But when it came to team final, now that one I missed out a lot. But like, at the same time, it was just like, you know, prelims. There was a game time decision, and like, so many things were going against me at that team final.

Um, as a specialist, to sort of have to wait until, you know, competition. I mean, not only is that like a stressful situation to be in, but it's also like physically difficult. You know, what's so interesting is it's kind of, I'm going to relate this to stand up. When you're doing standup, you have a set of jokes that you want to perform.

You know what you're going to start with, you know what you're going to finish with. But as you're walking to the stage, something might happen that changes the Everything. And they always say you have a plan until he gets punched in the face. And it's kind of that idea where here he is, he's got his plan of the best that he wants to do, but depending on how risk adverse he needs to be, or depending on if, uh, you know, uh, maybe, maybe the competitor before him did something more challenging.

So he needs to rise to the occasion. It's just so interesting to see how locked in they are and how I guess how they're, I mean, they're experts. They're experts in every move they make with their body and they can just change things on the fly. Fascinating stuff. Okay. We have a lot of content to get into another dancing with a star story.

Tragically, this is about a domestic issue with Artem. We'll have that for you right after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, it's a heavy story to cover, but it is right down our alley for what we discuss on the show, and that is a domestic issue between Nikki Garcia, Nikki Bella, and her husband, soon to be divorced her ex husband, Artem Chigvintsev.

She is a former professional lawyer. You know, wrestler, uh, you know, uh, worldwide wrestler, what do they call them? You know, the fake wrestling and she, and he is a former pro dancer. I believe he was Caitlin Bristow's professional dancer. Well, something went down and, uh, between them and the cops showed up.

Uh, after he called the police, he called the police saying she was throwing shoes at him, uh, and then he, and then he called them back and said, Hey, you don't need to show up. We're good. And then the police showed up anyway. They saw what apparently would be physical marks on her, which means they can arrest him for DV domestic violence without needing her to say, you know, you know, say, you know, what, anything that happened, basically, they can just say, Nope, we saw it.

We're going to arrest him. And then I believe she got a restraining order on him and we haven't heard from him. And again, I'm not. You know, sadly, as a he said, she said, and the biggest loser here is the fact that they have a baby involved, a two year, uh, a young baby, uh, but let's just read the article.

Artem Chigvintsev is firing back at Nikki Bella and their ugly divorce, claiming the completely made up domestic violence allegations that landed him behind bars. Allegations she detailed in a restraining order she obtained Monday. In new legal documents, Artem painted the retired WWE star as the aggressor with anger issues that led to his arrest in late August, ultimately destroying their two year marriage.

Artem filed photos with the court showing injuries to his hand, elbow, and the back of his head, claiming Nikki was responsible for it all. On October, excuse me, on August 29th, Artem says he was cooking breakfast for the now estranged couple's four year old son, Mateo, in their Napa County, California home.

He says Nikki was also present, stressing over what to wear to an upcoming Netflix event. The former Dancing with the Stars pro says Nikki started arguing with him over his failure, in her view, to adequately toast the bread. Uh, this is so sad because I feel like It's so common to argue about things that are not, that are kind of superficial, but there's always a deeper meaning.

Artem says their dispute escalated after Nikki chastised him for placing two food options, a quesadilla and chicken tenders in Mateo's lunchbox. Artem says he left the kitchen and went into the living room where he helped Mateo get ready for school. Nikki allegedly came into the room, yelled at Artem.

saying he couldn't even put Mateo's shoes on properly. Artem says he defended himself, which only made Nikki angrier, prompting her to throw the sneakers at him and strike him in the chest. Now listen, folks. This is a clear he said, she said. And we've shared in dozens of episodes Sort of her version of the story and we've, I think, very fairly covered it.

So I think it's appropriate to hear, you know, now that he's coming out with his response as Nikki screamed about getting a divorce. Artem says, Matteo just stood there frightened and confused. I'm sorry. This is just, it's really heartbreaking. This is just such a heartbreaking thing. You should never, you know, Fight in the first place, let alone in front of your child like this.

Artem says he pleaded with Nikki to calm down and brought Mateo upstairs to his room to protect him from the escalating situation. Artem says Nikki followed them to the bedroom and tried to force open the door while he held it close with Mateo crying next to him. Uh, and again, it goes on and on and on.

Um, Artem says he attempted to fend off Nikki as the two ended up grappling on the floor. He says he broke free, called 911 from his cell phone, telling the dispatcher what happened as Nikki shouted threats in the background. Now this. This would be available. This is, you know, when you call 911, this information becomes available, which we don't need to play it, but I'm just saying for the record, it's not like a he said, she said in hindsight.

So in the moment, because you wonder, and you do have to wonder this, just critically thinking, if she was the one That was in danger. Why would he call 911? Why would he want the police to get involved if she was the one in danger now at the very least it's messy It's toxic. It's horrible And hopefully they can kind of get down to the bottom of this In artem's account of the incident.

Nikki said at one point. Do you understand here? This is gonna go now artem. You just ruined my career and you know it that being because he called 911 on her In Nikki's version of events, in her restraining order against Artem after the breakfast disagreement and the shoe throwing incident, she claims she tried to get into Mateo's room when Artem opened the door and tackled her to the ground.

Listen, and this is again, when you have a, when you have a child, you cannot be using it as leverage in your fight, uh, but again, whether, whether you're trying to protect the child or not, it is like, this is just so heartbreaking, uh, for this poor, poor four year old. I mean, he is going to carry this. with him for the rest of his life.

Absolutely. Um, so the cop cops arrived. Artem says he gave his account and Nikki provided her story, which he says was a pack of lies to get him arrested for DV. Artem was then carted off to jail to pose for a mugshot. What's curious if police had observed injuries to Artem when they arrived at the house, standard procedure would have been to arrest Nikki for DV, but that didn't happen.

So the, and this is where it gets interesting. The Napa County district attorney decided not to charge Artem due to insufficient evidence. So what's fair is fair. As he was not charged with a crime in the court filing, Artem sought a temporary restraining order against Nikki and the judge signed off on it.

And as you know, Nikki filed for divorce from Artem after their nasty altercation. It's unclear if they have a prenup. That's where they stand, folks. That's the story. It's a bummer. And, um, I don't know what else to say about it. And just to get the bummer stories out of the way, we'll end on some better news.

Here is a throwback clip of Diddy being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel with Bieber next to him. Of course, in hindsight, we're looking at these clips. This one is a 13 year old clip from 2011, and we're seeing the possible coercion by Diddy to make sure. Folks like Justin Bieber stay silent about what's going down at his, you know, quote unquote freak offs with you guys Are you working together?

I'm not I mean, I think that we uh We've become like we've become friends in a strange way, you know Yeah, yeah I mean to a lot of us he's like a A little brother, you know what I'm saying? He's not afraid to call and ask for advice. He's somebody that in the industry wise, the record industry is a strong family.

And he's somebody that, you know, we definitely have our arms around and we want to protect him because he's such genuinely a nice person besides his talent. You know what I'm saying? He's one of the greatest kids that you could ever know. Justin, you,

you know, Diddy bought his son a Bentley. Maybe, you know, he could buy you one also while you're out here. He got me a Lamborghini. Oh, well, that's nice. I haven't gotten it yet, though. Yeah, I know. When is that coming, that Lamborghini? We talked about this last time. He had the Lamborghini for a day or two, and he got access to the house.

And he knows better than to be talking about the things that he does with Big Brother Puff on national television.

Apparently not. Something, everything ain't for everybody. Now could that have meant, you know, the fact that he bought an underage guy a Lamborghini or something else? Who knows? You know, with Diddy in jail and all of the things coming out, everyone is screening every interview looking for, uh, you know, possible clues to some of the monstrous activities going on.

Well, here's a bizarre one. A GOP candidate poses with friends family for a campaign video. Inside Edition has the scoop. Now, take a look at this photo from a campaign video. The man is running for Congress in Virginia, and it sure looks like he's posing with his wife and three daughters. The issue? He isn't married and doesn't have children.

As Alison Hall reports, his opponent says he deliberately staged a fake family. A bachelor running for Congress is taking heat today for posing with what some are calling a fake family. That's not his wife and three daughters. Hey folks, Derek Anderson here. GOP candidate Derek Anderson from Virginia lives alone with his dog.

This campaign video also includes footage of him seated at the head of the table with the family. That's not his. If you want to run for Congress, your spouse and your children are typically part of the package. But, what if you don't have either? If you're a Virginia Republican congressional candidate, Derek Anderson, well, you borrowed them from a friend.

Alright, so this is just ridiculous. I mean, but hey, that's the world we live in. I mean, did he not think he would get exposed? And what about, I mean, it's just so laughable. Now, in the real sad news here, you guys remember a few weeks back I had Allie Phillips on Driving with Dave. She had a terrible day.

you know, real terrible issue where she had to travel out of state to get an abortion because she couldn't get one in, um, you know, in, um, the state of Tennessee, uh, and her baby wasn't viable. It was a real tragedy. Um, she of course, uh, lost the baby before even making it into the abortion clinic. Well, she's running for office now in Tennessee and, um, her opponent, uh, is a running a smear campaign against her.

She posted this on her Instagram. Her Instagram is Allie4Tennessee, A L L I E. The letter, the number four, TN. She posted this, Yesterday I learned about a piece of hateful mail the Tennessee Republican Party sent out attacking me by featuring photos of my seven year old autistic daughter, Adalie. I'm running for office because I stand for Tennessee values, those of family, kindness, inclusion, and diversity.

I value the hardworking individuals that make Tennessee what it is today, and I believe in helping our neighbors, not harming them. Most of all, I believe in integrity, especially here in politics. Attack me. Attack my policies. Make up stories about me. Do your absolute worst when it comes to trying to sway voters away from me.

But do not come after my baby, you know, very powerful stuff here And she's considering a lawsuit because apparently there is a law about not using someone's child in in publications without their consent And of course, this was signed off by the treasurer of the Republican Party in Tennessee So it's just it's sick stuff It's getting ugly out there folks.

And my hope is that people have enough critical thinking skills, um, to really do their research for every single person they're voting for up next. We've got Trump responding to Melania's new memoir where she admits she's pro choice. Alright, here it is, Donald Trump being asked about Melania supporting a woman's right to choose after his nominated justices helped overturn Roe v.

Wade. Melania's memoir about championing, championing abortion rights and reproductive freedom. When you read it, what were your thoughts? We spoke about it and I said, you have to write what you believe. I'm not going to tell you what to do. You have to write what you believe. She's very beloved. Uh, people love her.

Former first lady. I can tell you that. But I said, you have to stick with your heart. I've said that to everybody. You have to go with your heart. Uh, there are some people that are very, very far right in the issue, meaning without exceptions. And then there are other people that I view it a little bit differently than Alright, so there it is.

And look, I mean, you know, he's kind of scapegoating by saying, well, we wanted to send it back to the states, but, um, you know, these sort of human rights issues and these, uh, women's rights issues, I don't think they should be states issues, I think they should be something we decide about federally. And I think, um, I think the voters have kind of made up their mind on that, as it is a losing issue for those that, uh, are on the ballot for pro life.

It's a losing issue. And that's not an opinion, that's just what's happened out there. As we've seen, um, since Roe v. Wade Was overturned. Um, now what's really interesting is speaking of losing issues here is another person has bit the dust. That's right. Former, uh, election worker and election denier, Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison, uh, following her letting conspiracy theorists have access to voting equipment.

Uh, a Western Colorado judge showed her no mercy. Elections have consequences. And so does breaking the law in search of election rigging. Tina Peters sentenced today to nine years in her election tampering case. Colorado's best known election denier, the former Mesa County clerk, was defiant till the end, arguing with the judge at sentencing and bringing in a parade of fellow election conspiracy theorists to defend her.

R. Mark Salinger was in court in Grand Junction where Peters laughed at prosecutors, lectured the judge, Then was led away in handcuffs. Yeah, Kyle, I want to tell you a little bit about Tina Peters Day. This is the Mesa County Justice Center right here, where earlier today, Tina Peters stood in front of the judge for 40 minutes pleading for him to give her probation to give her a lenient sentence.

So how did that go? Just down the street right here across the parking lot is the Mesa County Sheriff's Office detention facility where she is spending tonight and likely many more nights to come. All right, so She's locked up for nine years now. She'll probably get off with only a year served. You know what I mean?

They're not gonna She's This feels This What I'm about to play for you feels like a conversation somebody's gonna have with their parent at Thanksgiving. That's what it feels like. But it is a judge trying to reason with someone who is not admitting any fault whatsoever. In the machine. Whatever it tabulates is.

Whatever it tabulates. No, it doesn't. It changes. You're not letting me finish. Okay. Please. Whatever it tabulates is, whatever it tabulates my hand vote. My ballot remains the same. They counted those ballots. I understand. Did they not? I understand what you're saying, your Honor. Did they count the ballots?

No. The ballot images were changed and that's what the total shows. Okay. I'll move off of this 'cause I can see that. It, you know, I would encourage to read, uh, the report number three. I've read them, ma'am. You've read all of them? I've read those reports. So she's grilling the judge, and it, I mean, I truthfully mean this, this is triggering some people, but doesn't this feel like a Thanksgiving conversation?

Well you just have to to read it. Do your research. I read it, but you know, she's not talking to a random person. She's talking to a judge who has sentenced her to nine years in prison. Uh, wild stuff, folks. Look, we had a crazy week. I've been over here in New York city. I want to thank people for coming out to my standup shows.

It's been a ton of fun. Um, I'm exhausted. I'm going to take the wife and the baby out to go hang out in the park and get some Italian food and go enjoy the rest of our stay. I, uh, went to the High Line in New York City, which is a beautiful park, to interview Davia Esther. Davia was on Zach Shallcross season of The Bachelor.

She also was on Bachelor in Paradise. We had a very interesting conversation, uh, about why she thinks It didn't really work out on the show for her, her life in the pageant world, life in New York, dating guys here. And we actually talked about your inner child, had a really good conversation about, um, different types of dependency and neediness you bring into relationships and overcoming that and, uh, thriving and finding ways to sort of, uh, live, live that life you intended.

really, it was a really interesting conversation and I'm going to have that for you starting at midnight tonight. And that'll be my weekend episode of driving with Dave. Uh, but we're calling it walking with Dave and Dov. So you can go check that out here on the audio only, or you could go to the YouTube and check it out there as well.

Uh, everyone, I want you to have a fantastic rest of your day and a fantastic weekend. If you're new here, because we have new people every week, I want to let you know what we do on Fridays. We, we end the episode by walking out of our office. Kick the door in double middle finger pistols up in the air and tell your boss to go fuck himself.

Have a good weekend, everyone. I'm Dave Neal. This is a rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up 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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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, it's Dave Neal. It's the Thursday episode of the Rush Hour on October 3rd, 2024. And on today's Afternoon Rush, we've got good news for billionaire Powerball winner Ed Castro, plus the Saturday Night Live beef everyone is talking about, and a source tells Us Magazine that there's also a beef, a feud between Denzel Washington and Diddy that happened at one of his infamous parties.

And actress Sheryl Hines can Considers a divorce from RFK Jr. And the toilet paper shortage that's happening right now. It's not being caused by the port strike, but just by idiot Americans. I'll explain all that. And also an update speaking of idiot Americans, we'll have an update on the fire fest too.

Yes. You heard that right in the crazy bank of America glitch has been fixed. It left a lot of people panicked yesterday. I'll have all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. All right. We have a feel good story here. You know, we all, we all like think we could win the lottery one day and we go, what would you do with the money?

Well, I would do this. I would do that. Well, Powerball winner, Edwin Castro's first thing he did with the money, the 2 billion is he had to go to a lawsuit. There was a lawsuit from a guy who said, Hey, he stole the ticket from me. Well, the judge rules who cares it's finders keepers. Now there was clearly no case there.

The person who sued him probably just wanted a quick and easy settlement, you know, cause look, if I want 2 billion and some guy was. I'd be, to be quite honest, I'd be like, here's a hundred grand now, shut up. You know what I mean? Either way. So now, now the money's officially his. And you know what, but after taxes, it's really just like a billion dollars.

Can you even survive? Well, according to Ed, he's living the lap of luxury. As reported, Edwin dropped a cool 76 million on three homes, including one in Bel Air and one in the Hollywood Hills. He purchased a fleet of exotic cars and he's got a new model girlfriend. Uh, yeah, no. Trust me though, the model girlfriend loves him for his personality.

That's what it is. It's not the three 25 million model homes each. All right. Well, I teased this story on last episode and we ran out of time. Here is why Colin Jost is no longer speaking to Pete Davidson. A Saturday night live beef. Headline that ran in the sun. It's about Colin Jost and Pete Davidson. It reads Colin Jost ends friendship with Pete Davidson after 10 years.

And refuses to be in the same room as him. A lot of people have been asking about this. I reached out to somebody and this is what they had to say. Well, first of all, they said that, I mean, this is like common sense. The headline was a little dramatic. According to my source, a big falling out is not accurate at all.

It was more of like a sooner or later. Virtually everyone who has ever been close to Pete winds up putting some distance between them and Pete. Because he's just a lot to handle and has a lot going on emotionally. This is not to say that Pete is in a bad place right now. Colin is far more grounded and consistent.

There was no big dramatic blow up or Pete Davidson. Didn't do anything horrible to Colin Jost. It sounds like Pete's, you know, more like living, outliving his life, and Colin's become more of like a family man. Colin Johansson moved to my hometown, which was like 13 miles north of New York City. And it's like really quaint.

I heard they joined the country club, which was shocking to me. And I think that sometimes just happens when friends, you know, go on different life paths and like one gets married and has kids and the other one's single and out doing their thing. And again, to say Pete Davidson's just out doing his thing.

I mean, you know, to be fair, he's got a lot of issues, you know, he's, he's got, he's had a lot of issues. Um, and you know, he's the son of a guy. His dad died in nine 11 as a firefighter, you know, and look, you should stand by your friends and all that. Absolutely. And everyone, I'm sure everybody wants Pete Davidson to get all the help and get on the right page.

But at the same time, you got to put your own happiness ahead. And I kind of feel like that's a good point. When you're calling Jost, you get married yet you then you have to then protect your partner from your toxic friends. Now, does that mean, is Pete Davidson toxic? Well, I mean from a lot of accounts from different people, it seems that way, at least volatile.

I don't know. Well, speaking of toxic, we now know Diddy is pretty toxic. Quite toxic. Uh, the cat's out of the bag. We have an update. Um, uh, Denzel Washington confronted Diddy and stormed out after an all night party in 2003. Yes, this is a 21 year old story, but it's just coming out now. A source who was friendly with Diddy in the early 2000s, latest issue of Us Weekly that Oscar winner Denzel Washington and the music mogul got into it during an all night gathering.

Denzel screamed, you don't respect anyone, the insider recalled. And Denzel and his wife Pauletta had been partying until dawn with Diddy and they had seen something and stormed out. So who knows what it is, but again, because everyone's dead. taking their virtual victory lap around Diddy right now. These are the types of stories that are coming out.

And in the other bizarre story, we've been covering RFK jr. Of course, presidential candidate, RFK jr. Uh, independently running, uh, I guess was having FaceTime, uh, romance to sanitize that topic with a lady named Olivia Nuzzi. Olivia Nuzzi was a reporter who covered him. Uh, Olivia Nuzzi's, uh, now has a stay away order, I guess that's like a protective order, against her ex fiancé, because she said he kind of blackmailed her and exposed this whole story.

Well, now Sheryl Hines, who's married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., uh, might be considering a divorce. The Curb Your Enthusiasm actor adored being a member of the Kennedy family, but his family, Thoroughly embarrassed and furious about his alleged affair and friends believe she wants out. Kennedy's biographer writes Oh, he's got a biographer.

Cheryl Hines has reportedly reached the limits of her marriage to the ego maniacal and politically polarizing RFK Jr And is considering a divorce. The limits have been reached following revelations of Kennedy's allegedly bizarre Sexting relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, a much younger political journalist.

All right, so we'll have to see what happens from that I mean, it's bizarre It's bizarre to say the least, we'll cover it. Uh, Taylor Swift feeds over 900 people with generous Food Bank donation, leaving employees incredibly grateful. Now, this story you could rewrite every week, because she continues to do this at every, uh, stop on her Eros tour.

The team at Welsh charity Cardiff Food Bank said they're grateful to Swift for Shining a light on the global issue of poverty. She's 34, of course, and is currently on a break from her heiress tour until mid October when she heads to Miami to perform at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday, October 18th. Uh, but she reportedly made multiple food bank donations during her UK show earlier this year.

Yeah, Taylor Swift must have like a philanthropy chair that just does all this for her. So good for her. The BBC reported Swift's donations to the food bank provided 925 people with emergency food parcels with the charity confirming it had managed to buy one and a half articulated lorries full of food.

Oh, a lorry full of food. All right, so we're happy. We're happy that there is some good news going around because this next story involves crop dusting of the butt variety. Men in Black director says Will Smith is a farter. One fart was so bad we evacuated the stage for about three hours and that's incredible.

Um, let's have a listen to Barry Sonnenfeld and he is the movie director from Men in Black. Here's what he had to say about Will's flatulence. We were getting ready to shoot. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and Tommy does not suffer fools, I'll tell you that. And, uh, although he loved Will and Will loved Tommy, they just thought each other was hilarious.

So anyway, they have to be put in this device, which is the inside of their car that transforms into a hypercar, right? And they're gonna go through the Midtown Tunnel upside down. So we have to bring a ladder over, you know, on wheels. Like it's like the old days when, you know, you would get on airplanes from the tarmac.

And we get them up there and we put them in the thing and we turn it upside down and we're ready to shoot. And they're hermetically sealed in this space. And there, there are locks to prevent it from opening and falling. I say, roll camera. And I hear Will Smith go, Oh Jesus. So sorry, Tommy. So sorry, Baz, get the ladder.

And you hear Tommy saying, that's fine. Will, no worries. Will. Don't worry, Will. Anyway, I don't know what's gone on, right, so we race the ladder over. Tommy, like, reaches his leg out as the ladder is coming over, races down the stairs, and what happened was, Will Smith is a farter. It's just some people aren't.

And you really don't want to be inside a very small, hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart. You don't even want to be sitting next to him at the Disney Ranch. When you release them from the Uh, did the, did, did the stench emit out? Like, were you able, were you able to smell it? We evacuated the stage for about three hours.

And that's incredible. No, he's, you know, lovely guy. Just, he farts. There it is, folks. Will Smith is a farter. So when he said we evacuated the stage for three hours, that, that came off to me as a joke. And when I first saw the story, I thought, wow, you must have really bad gas to, uh, to evacuate a whole stage.

But as it turns out, I mean, look, they were in a small, submersible, like, you know, sealed container. I mean, any, any amount of fart far it could do damage in that environment. And, you know, to, to, you know, maybe, maybe Will Smith, you know, there's a craft services, maybe they were presenting a new dish that day, maybe a cheese plate, something that his body just wasn't prepared for.

Either way. I wonder if they were able to use the neuralyzer on Tommy Lee and able to make it so that he forgets it. You like that reference. All right, folks got a lot of content to get to. We're having fun. We're cooking. We'll be back with more right after this. All right. We've been talking about the port strike and how it's going to affect people.

And of course, dumb Americans, everyone's deciding to go buy toilet paper, thinking that's going to be the one thing they need because of this strike. Well, here's a tick tocker named best wallet hacks, Jim Wang, giving us some advice on what to do for, to, you know, to prepare for this strike. So this port strike, who knows how it's going to be, but it'll last for a long time, it's going to affect some products and not others don't need to buy toilet paper.

Because most of it, some believe around 90 percent are produced in domestic factories. And the rest come from Canada or Mexico, which means they don't have to pass through a port on the east coast. The things that you do have to think about, if this worries you, are products that have a shorter shelf life that come internationally.

One common category is fruit, bananas. Most of them come from outside the United States by container ship, so they will be affected. Since it is a shorter shelf life, the time between cutting down a banana from the tree and getting it to your plate, It's only a couple of weeks. Another thing to worry about is seafood.

Seafood when it's imported has to come frozen by container ships and if it's not being unloaded, it's going to thaw. It's going to be gross and you're not going to have it anymore. It's just in the food category. If you think of canned goods, a lot of the products internationally, they also come by boat.

If what else is in a can, beer, imported beer, whiskey, scotch, all that stuff. That's going to be affected too. So if you're going to hoard things, which I do not recommend, please don't hoard things unnecessarily. You can always wait until this thing is over. It's not like the pandemic. It's not somewhere where you don't know the ends in sight.

The end will occur at some point. And if you don't have your favorite bottle of scotch, while that would make me sad and probably make you sad. It's not the end of the world. All right. So there it is. So the, so, oh, he's not finished. He says, don't go to Costco. Dude, don't go to Costco, Walmart, Target, and start hoarding paper supplies and water.

Yeah. I mean, that's what the issue is, is, and, you know, psychologically speaking, I've, I've heard some thoughts on why during the pandemic people were hoarding, uh, toilet paper. And it really came down to a mass panic. And if you think about it, imagine if you bought a dozen cans of tuna fish, nobody would notice.

You know, 12 cans of tuna fish, uh, you know, just, it's, it's small, it's whatever. But imagine if you bought a 12 packs of toilet paper, it's large. So if you walk into a store and you see someone buying 12 packs of toilet paper, you might say, I want to buy 12 packs of toilet paper. And the next thing you know, they're like, The toilet paper aisles empty, and then that photo goes viral.

Oh my gosh, they're buying all the toilet paper. And you can just see how that rush and hysteria can formulate. So here we have an example where they're saying, look, this port strike is going to affect you like products coming from Europe, idiot. It's not going to, and maybe the West coast too. I'm not really sure.

It's not going to affect certain things, but you know, um, you just get, you just get to see how easily the grid can be fried in any direction. With, you know, what's going on out there. And by the way, I do want to let you guys know, we are looking at, uh, different charities that are existing in the Carolinas that we can, uh, promote to help out the relief of what's going on there.

There's just, there's a lot happening and I don't want us to necessarily get in the way of the immediate cleanup of the hurricane. So it's one of those things. For all my friends out in the Carolinas or in Georgia or places that have been affected, we're not forgetting about you. If there's any, uh, any of our specific audience members with your own GoFundMes or things that you can use, uh, for help, please let us know.

Uh, but separate from the port strike is the, the effect that we want to make sure everyone's safe and, and healthy and, and, you know, we can work on that rebuilding process for our friends and family. Well, back to the port. Here's what transport transport. Excuse me, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had to say about the strike.

He said it could be ending today. Look, this strike can be ended today. And what that's going to take is the parties coming to terms. Uh, the companies need to put forward an offer that's going to get the workers to the table. And again, uh, such an offer would be absolutely compatible with the company's remaining profitable.

Remember, we're talking about an industry that got Unbelievable profits. There was a single year where this shipping sector took 220 billion in profits around the world. And you've got these ocean carriers, their ownership, foreign ownership. Uh, but we've been engaging them both at the global level and at the North America level, uh, you know, they are certainly in a position.

To be able to include workers to participate in this profitability, they could end this tomorrow. Now, another thing I do have concerns about is many of them have filed the paperwork to be able to introduce surcharges, uh, related to the strike. And if they were to do that, While those surchargers would, you know, in the first instance, be slapped on whoever's shipping cargo, uh, the stores, retailers, whoever it might be, uh, that would trickle down to the consumer.

And I've sent a message, uh, saying that, uh, these ocean carriers should not be doing that, should not be taking advantage of this situation. Again, they've already seen enormous windfalls, frankly, as a result of situations that hurt American consumers, uh, the scarcity, the supply chain crunches that we've seen in the past.

Uh, it is time for that profitability to be shared with workers. Hey, look, you want it to be shared. It's just not fair what's going on out there. And again, I hate to say it. I'm, I'm of the belief where I don't, I'm not saying I like to see things burn metaphorically. I just, I like to see courses get corrected.

So if there's something that is exploiting people out there, I'm just of the belief where I want to see people, I want to see people be, you know, held accountable for that. And not just held accountable, but like systemic changes go down. Uh, you know, and I think most people are there, you know, you get the kind of like the sort of be all end all capitalists that are going, no, they own the ships.

They're allowed to do with it what they want. Well, that's it. Go find some people to unload those ships. You know, you need the manpower and that those jobs, absolutely, absolutely. Those jobs could go away to automation. And these workers know that. And for the first time, they're able to get together and say, no, enough is enough.

We won't let that fly. So I think that's a good thing. All right. Here's a bizarre story, which is no surprise, but finally the tragedy that is the movie rust, the movie that Alec Baldwin was producing and starring in, which featured, um, sadly the tragic death of the onset cinematographer, Helena Hutchins.

Well, rust is to make world premiere at Cameron. Camera Image Film Festival without Alec Baldwin. The indie western will be unveiled before the public three years after the tragic onset death of Helena Hutchins. Its star and producer will not be in attendance. Yeah, this is one of those things, it's like, do you finish the film?

I mean, people were invested in it, people put money into it. Would the cinematographer wanted the film finished? You know, you have to like weigh all these things out. My guess is the cinematographer would want it finished if, you know, it's, you know, Beautifully shot. It's almost like an homage to the work that they do even though, you know, She tragically died through an accident and through gross negligence Three years after the tragic death.

Helena hudgens alec baldwin's indie western rust will finally be revealed to the public The movie has been selected to make its world premiere in late november at poland's camera image International Film Festival, a respected specialty event focused on achievements in cinematography. The festival said Thursday that it plans to hold a panel discussion after Russ first screening to honor Hutchins memory.

Yeah, I mean it's a wild story unlike anything else really in film and I think at the very least it'll be interesting to people, just a curiosity factor to see how this all plays out. All right, well, yesterday Bank of America had a crazy glitch. A lot of people went onto their app and realized there was no money in their bank account.

All my comedian friends are saying, well, that's what we expected. We're broke. Uh, either way, here's what was said on CBS morning about this unfortunate glitch. Bank of America is very frightening online glitch that panicked thousands of customers yesterday. This morning, the bank says the problems have all been fixed.

There were more than 20, 000 individual reports of customers having trouble with their accounts. Many of them say that the bank's website showed they had a zero balance. Yikes. Imagine that for just a second. The online issues began around noon Eastern time and spiked about one hour later, bank of America has since apologized to the customers for any inconvenience.

It is still unclear what caused the outages. All right. I mean, look, this is the way the world ends, right? Is there like some sort of terrorist glitch that wipes out everyone's bank accounts? Workers are on strike. Everyone's running to Costco to pay cash so they can wipe their ass. I mean, this is no bueno folks.

I don't want to be an alarm. They were able to fix the glitch. I'm sure they have systems in place to back it up. You would hope, I don't know. Um, well, speaking of gross incompetence, uh, the FireFest guy, Billy McFarland is planning a FireFest 2. 0. I mean, he had literally went to prison because the, you know, version one was so bad.

Here's what he had to say. Hey guys, quick fire update. I just left a meeting with my partners. And we've assembled the dream team to build fire too. I'm about to send them all to live on the island for the next six months. But before we do, we definitely need a new fire duck. Comment your best idea for a title, and I'll pick a winner to come to fire to for free.

All right. No offense. Yeah, I wouldn't mind going to Fyre Fest, too, as long as there's some sort of insurance company that, like, got your money back. If things don't go well, I actually enjoy the idea of like fake it till you make it. You know, it's just in his case, it didn't work out. Uh, I think one way they could fix this is if they got a cruise ship involved.

So cruise ships already have all of the dining and lodging, right? So what you do is you get an island in the Caribbean, you put the festival there, you know, you bring drinks, you bring, you know, like accoutrements or whatever onto the island, but then you just, you just, you know, Boat people back to their cruise ship when it's all said and done.

Is that not the smartest way ever, Billy McFarland? I think you should, uh, let me onto the Fyre Fest 2. 0. Uh, you know, my wife won't come. She will not be happy if, oh my gosh, I cannot think of a greater hell in me having to listen to my wife complain. The food's soggy. Yeah, I know. It's a bad thing. Okay, look, we got a couple more stories to get to, so stick around.

We'll be back with more right after this. So we've talked earlier about the idea of collective bargaining when it comes to strikes and speaking up for the working class. Well, here's an interesting clip that is titled, Gen Z are the worst at working. And it was Tim Dillon, comedian, talking about how Gen Z works.

Have a listen. This younger generation aren't apparently working themselves to death. Some of them have figured out that the country's a scam. And here's the good news. They're not wrong. And when, when you figured out the country is a scam, you can approach it the way a con artist or a scammer would approach it, which is what a lot of them do.

They invent mental health ailments they don't have. They take days off on end. They terrify their superiors into respecting their mediocre shoddy quality of work. This is something that Gen Z has latched on to. This is something that I fully support. This is their way of rising through the ranks. They're taking advantage of people that they work with, making them tolerate less and less work and work of a lower and lower quality because they've realized that a lot of this is bullshit.

So they're like, why shouldn't I get in on it? You know, I don't disagree. I would frame it this way. I think because of Technology and pay transparency and understanding how the whole system works. I think the younger generation understands how ripped off they're getting. You know, I always say this, like when I worked a minimum wage job, you're not getting the version of me that as a business degree, you're getting the version of me that is working a minimum wage job.

I'm not going to go above and beyond. And I've talked with like my mother in law about this and she's like, no, you have to go above and beyond. And I go, no, no, you don't. You save that energy for your own passion projects, for your own equity. You do what the job entails. Cause if you go above and beyond, they're going to expect that tomorrow.

And I don't know. So that's just kind of my way of thinking about it all. And I think Gen Z for the most part realizes that like the carrot that was dangled in front of us is now so far away because prices are so high, you know, for, for cost of goods, housing prices are so crazy and credit card debt just keeps rising that you, the carrots too far away to entice them to want to run in that direction.

That's, that's the way I see it. And how do you fix that? Well, I don't know, maybe finding a system where you give, uh, equity and ownership to, to employees. I think that would help them want to work harder to build something. Uh, you know, okay, I got a, I got a thought about negative rumination. The idea that, uh, we constantly think of what can go wrong and don't think of what can go right.

So I wanted to share this with you for a little motivation to end the day. Have a listen. We never overthink about positive outcomes. When you're overthinking, you're overthinking because you're running endless negative scenarios. You are never running endless positive scenarios. You never wake up going, my company is going to make too much money.

Oh my gosh, my relationship's going to go too well. We're never overwhelmed by positive scenarios. We're always overwhelmed by negative scenarios. And here's what happens. We fall into negative patterns, but we have to move into positive. You do not fall into positive patterns. You do not fall into positive thoughts.

You have to move into positive things. You have to move into positive behavior. I know, I know. No one hates the bad soundtrack more than I do. But it's a, it's a truth. It's like, as, as humans, we're more so on the defensive. We're always looking for the trap we could fall into. The guy that could rob us. All these different hazards that might exist on the road.

Which, you know, it's good. To in survival terms, be aware of that. But what if we are now aware of all the things that can happen that are good? I, you know, I have a mantra I like to share with people. That's it. That's that's this, isn't it great that everything's working out. And use that energy, use that energy of positivity to say, I can't believe it.

I'm working hard on all these things. And there's so much payoff that's coming my way. Even if you don't see that payoff right now, just know that that time energy, that way that you're teaching yourself and informing yourself and all that hard work you're putting in, it is working out and isn't that great.

That's your thought for the day. Uh, and, uh, Hey, my podcast is doing so well. We're going to be featured in fire fest 2. 0. Isn't that amazing? They are setting that up right now. All right, folks. Uh, we'll, uh, we'll talk to you tomorrow as always. Have a good one. We'll see in the morning. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush.

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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 to all of my rushes out there. It's October 3rd, 2024 Thursday morning, and we've got all your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Coming up on this episode, we've got a golden bachelorette week three recap and chapel Roan discusses her mental health. struggles while performing in Nashville. Oh, and I've got Diddy updates. Everybody is talking. Names are being named and it's getting messy. And also messy is a beef between several Saturday night live stars.

Plus an update on the port workers strike and also a dancing with the stars rumor takes over the ballroom floor. I'm YouTube plans a major revamp of their TV app. After overtaking Netflix and we've got Anthony Scaramucci giving an unbiased take of the VP debate and one of the doctors involved with the Matthew Perry death pleads guilty.

All these stories and more coming up next on the rush. All right, let's start with the Matthew Perry story. One of the doctors charged in connection with Matthew Perry's ketamine death is one step closer to prison because he just copped to a crime. Dr. Mark Chavez, one of two physicians busted in the Perry case, appeared before a judge in federal court Wednesday in L.

A. and pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. Now here's what his lawyer had to say. The factual basis from the plea agreement will be used as the basis for the medical board to issue a complaint against him, requesting the surrender of his license. We will agree with that conclusion, and at that point, his license will be revoked.

I cannot give you an exact timeline about when that will happen, because it is up to the medical board, but the wheels are in motion, and now that the guilty plea has been entered, it should happen sooner than later. Hey, a plea deal is never really good. I mean, it's kind of one of those like win win for both sides, right?

He doesn't have to go to trial and face worse charges, but he has to admit to something. And, you know, you see this happen a lot. So all right, I'll take it. Not that anyone asked me in other news. Let's get to this. Let's get to Chapel Row. And she canceled several concert dates last weekend and it left everyone complaining about her.

Oh, these Gen Z just want to take days off for their work life balance. Pull yourself up by your fishnet bootstraps or whatever, whatever the hell she's wearing on stage. Either way. She talked about mental health at her Nashville show after canceling those gigs. Here's what she had to say. I just said to myself that this is why I do it.

It's like I can see you and feel you. And like, that's what is important. I just,

I needed this so bad when I was 15. I felt so completely misunderstood and very alone. And I really, really needed a place where people weren't gonna make fun of me for how I dressed. Or who I liked. Or anything.

I hope you know that you are wanted here. And you're welcome here. However you are, wherever you are in your life, you are working on it. Alright, so she goes on and on and look, we're happy for her, but she doesn't really, you know, dive into the X's and O's of what went down. Uh, if I was her though, or friends with her, I would say, let's get you off your phone.

You are loved by millions. Let's get you off your phone. Let's just get you working on spreading that love. Alright, well. Here's the drama from the dancing with the stars. Harry Jowsey, uh, was on, what was it? One of those Netflix shows too hot to handle whatever. And he was with Riley Arnold, uh, like last year.

Right. And everyone was like shipping them and whatever these kids say these days, they wanted them to date. But of course he's like a bad boy and she's like a pure, you know, Utah, you know, very, very, I don't know, innocent vibe. So here's the full story. Rumor is that some sort of altercation went down when Harry Jowsey tried to approach his ex dance partner Riley Arnold at the Dancing with the Stars live taping last night.

If you were following Dancing with the Stars closely last year or honestly just on social media at all, you know that a lot of drama went down between you. Harry Jowsey and his Dancing with the Stars partner, Riley Arnold. Long story short, everyone wanted Harry and Riley to be boyfriend and girlfriend, everyone was shipping them together, everyone wanted them to date, and they did lean into that.

They did kind of never confirm the speculation, never let anyone know if they were just dating. friends or if they were dating. I personally found it a little creepy because Riley had just turned 18 and Harry was 26 at the time. But anyway, there ends up being this massive falling out online because Harry admitted that he had a girlfriend while they were filming and said that he would never date Riley.

So then last night we see that Harry Jowsey is at the taping of the Dancing with the Stars live show and apparently he tried to approach his ex partner Riley Arnold to say hi, who knows, and Ezra, one of Riley's best friends who is also a pro, stepped in and said you are not talking to her. All right.

That's kind of a long way to go to just say these dancers have each other's backs. I mean, it's like, it's like, uh, it's like a union out there between these dancers. They got to protect their own, you know, cause a lot of them have been dancing with each other since they're like younger days, right?

They've been doing this for a long time. So, hey, good to see there's some solidarity there between the dancers. All right. Here's your update. about YouTube. And this, you know, peaks my interest as a YouTuber. And look, YouTube's what an app, right? It's the only video platform. I mean, no one's watching videos on Vimeo, right?

Or rumbles, no offense or Twitter. You know, you watch them on YouTube. Those were the, that's where the videos are. Right. And, uh, well now YouTube plans a major revamp of their TV app after overtaking Netflix. That's right. On TVs, YouTube is watched now more than Netflix. This is good for people that want to get into content creation.

This just goes to show the power of, of creating and being, having the ball in your own court. We're a talented content creator. I really just hope that you continue on because there's a lot of good things that are going to happen for you. Listen up at YouTube's maid event. They announced that they are going to be making some big changes to the TV app I know for myself last year It's been the most that I have ever watched YouTube in my living room actually sitting down Watching it like a TV show and what they announced is that they're going to be changing their YouTube app to actually allow creators to format their content as if it is Shows like a streaming service like how Netflix has seasons prime has seasons now Why do I think this is really interesting for creators?

Because if the YouTube TV app becomes synonymous with any of the other The difference between those and YouTube is anybody can go and upload on YouTube. It removes gatekeepers. There's nobody that is stopping you from posting your content onto YouTube. This continues to become the platform that everybody is watching in their household.

The only thing that people are competing on is the actual value of the content and who can get people to want to watch what they're putting out, which makes the entire industry be based around merit rather than signing a deal with a big studio. And that's why it's going to be something that is really interesting to watch.

Yeah. Well put. I mean, look, there's never been a better time to be alive as a content creator. I mean, I've got a, I've got a series that I want to create, and, you know, I could say, well, I want to sell it to Netflix, but hey, if you know, worst, worst case scenario, you just put it on YouTube. YouTube's got this audience that can find it because I feel like the, the barrier to entry for YouTube is low.

Every single phone You buy in the U. S., comes preloaded with YouTube, and while you can pay for the premium version, you can also get it for free. So, you know, a lot of comedians, if they can't sell their special to Hulu or HBO or Netflix, they'll just post it on YouTube. You know, they'll make some money, but they're all, they're also going to expose their content to a greater number of fans, which will help more people find you and come to shows.

And, you know, so I think this is a very, uh, big deal. And. Gosh. I mean, look, I'm, I'm looking to, you know, continue to create on the app. And, you know, I think no, but nobody, I say this, nobody does a better job than YouTube to make their content creators feel happy and supported. And that's because there's a revenue share program, you know, for every dollar that comes in, YouTube gets half in the creator gets half, which is a big deal because you can, you know, just create content, content, and you don't have to pay for, you know, uh, hosting or browse, you know, all that stuff.

You just. You get to use their, their, so their service, uh, you know, their servers and you get to, and then, you know, they, YouTube's also got the most robust algorithm as far as, you know. If you make good content, people will find it. So I'm all on board. Uh, never gonna, never gonna turn my back on you, YouTube.

Alright, I got all the updates on the strike that. could be disrupting our day to day life. And, um, it's a good thing that it's happening. It's good that workers are sticking up for themselves and there are 25, 000 of them and they are ready to walk off the job site if, if, if they haven't already. I'll have that story for you right after a quick word from our sponsor.

All right, not to confuse anybody, I've already mentioned that the port strike has happened. The first clip I'm about to share with you is from a few days ago. This is 25, 000 dock workers having walked off the job. And then I'm going to share some words directly from what, from them and what they're saying about why this is important.

Strike that could disrupt, some say even cripple nearly every 25, 000 dock workers and 14 ports from Texas all the way to Massachusetts could walk off the job. Tonight, negotiations between their union and the shipping industry have been stalled since back in June. A strike could affect nearly half of America's ports, leading to shortages of everyday items like pharmaceuticals, produce.

Fresh meat, cars, you name it, driving up prices across the board. JP Morgan Chase says that a dock strike could cost the American economy about 5 billion every day. Well, then there's, you know, a strike of this calamity should really pressure the powers to, uh, to be, to make the right decision. Harold Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen's Association leads the strike at the port of New York and New Jersey.

The union of dockworkers is demanding better wages and protection against automation technology. Uh, this is going to be so interesting for other people. For other transportation workers and anyone who may be losing their job to automation. Those greedy companies are making billions of dollars and they don't want to share.

That's why we're out here now fighting for a contract. We're going to fight for it now. And we're going to win it or this portal will never open up again from here to Houston. I'm not playing games here. I understand what you guys do and they don't want the economy to shut down, but they don't fully understand the job of the men and women who work.

That's the problem. Nobody knew what the longshoremen were. We didn't get respected, but now we will. Now we will. When they find out malls are going to shut down because goods can't come in, our salesmen are going to get laid off. Well, guess what? Everything that comes in this country comes from the containers off these ships that my men work.

And I want the world to know it. They learned don't come after us saying we're greedy. Go after those greedy that all these companies in Europe go after them. They're sitting over there taking 4 billion bonuses for themselves. at Christmas time. Wow. How about that? I mean, listen, I can understand if people aren't educated on what's going on, but these longshoremen, I mean, they're, they're not, they're not millionaires.

Yeah, sure. They have, they have good jobs, but they're going to get replaced to automation if they don't stand in solidarity and they literally control every item we import into this country. So all they have to do is stay united. And let me tell you something, they are going to get one friendly deal.

I'll be here to cover it. Uh, the ball is in their court and they really have all the chips. They really do, uh, to combine multiple metaphors into one. All right. We got a lot to get into a Diddy. Let's do a palate cleanser before we get into Diddy and just quickly talk about the golden bachelorette. Last night was week three.

I got to tell you something based on the amount of views I'm getting on my golden bachelorette content I'm making on YouTube. I don't think that many people are watching. Uh, And I, that makes me feel bad. I think it's totally worth watching. I think it's great that it doesn't have any toxic drama, fabricated storylines, or anything that's like low hanging fruit.

It's just a good story about people that have lost their partners, whether it be through divorce or death. Uh, they've got stories of learning to overcome, uh, adversity and learning to love again. And. They all come from different walks of life. I don't know. It's a, it's a fantastic show, but after watching last night's episode, they had a kickball tournament and of course it was sponsored by oatmeal.

It's like, Oh my gosh. You know, Quaker oats. Look, I get it. They got to pay their bills, but I was like, Oh, my Lanta. Why don't they have like Tylenol sponsored? I mean, these guys are popping hip muscles. They're pulling groins. I really hope that they paid overtime to the, uh, set medic who was there giving them, uh, you know, heating pads and whatever.

Uh, but either way they, it looks like they all made it out well, I shouldn't say unscathed, but scathed enough, but still, you know, no, no one was sent to the hospital as far as I could tell for that, at least, uh, but we're very, um, We're very excited to root for everyone. The captain, uh, of course, uh, did not make it past last night.

Listen, I'll have my full recap, all the X's and O's. It's really more of a visual thing to show everyone the photos of what went down, but I'll have that on today's YouTube. Uh, but we did have Gary show up and you know, Gary single now, Gary Turner for his golden bachelor. What's really crazy is now we know Joan Vasso's of course she came from Gary season.

And these men will then possibly, one of them might become the next Golden Bachelor. But what was great is it all stems from old Golden Gary, the first Indiana Golden Bachelor. And he comes back, and I was kind of hoping he might have tried to shoot his shot again, but, uh, Gary's really good at putting himself in the friend zone.

He's done that with plenty of his exes, and maybe this is just something that the older generation is better at. You know, because maybe there's, and again, this is just a hypothesis, but maybe there's less of a worry about sex. So it's more like, who do I want to hang out with? And if you're not worried about sex or being platonic or being, you know, monogamous, I should say, then it's like, all right, well, I'll hang out with all of you.

And Gary, uh, I mean, at least showed that, uh, when, when, when it's, uh, when everyone's on the same page, why not? So Gary's friends with his ex Joan, she of course walked off the show and you can tell on this season. She's. Sort of been a little flighty, kind of realizing how heavy it is that, um, she might not be over her late husband.

And I think that's okay. You know, she sat all the men down and said, look, I don't know if I can give you a hundred percent. Um, you know, my heart might still be with my late husband. And it's like, look, you know, he didn't die this year. It's been several years. And I think that's fair to say. And I think that's a fair thing to know.

It's like, you're not trying to replace somebody that person passed. You're trying to be you. And if it works out together. And you've got a friend for the end of the world. And I think that's what it comes down to. And I think that's why the show is, is, um, you know, at least performing well with those that are watching it, because they get to see it as something we're all rooting for, which is finding happiness throughout time.

But I must say, you know, I was watching Gary Turner and I kind of felt bad, but Because, you know, Gary had to deal with the hit piece on The Hollywood Reporter, he had to deal with all this BS, and it's like, when Gary was announced, everybody loved Gary, they built him up, and then they wanted to tear him down.

And we saw the same thing happen with Michael A., where everyone built up Michael A. from Katie's season, you know, a guy who lost his wife, and, you know, tragically, and they Then everyone wanted to tear them down. And it's just, it's just kind of tiring to see that we find these people and we always say, Oh, protect so and so at all costs.

But what happens? They get too famous. And then what do we do? Tear them down. I don't want to be a part of that, but you know who I am okay tearing down is people like Diddy who seem to have a lot of skeletons in the closet. I've got a clip here from the Piers Morgan uncensored show. This is a clip where, um, I guess, Uh, there's a discussion of people that have been blowing this whistle for way too long.

How many victims, potentially, do you think there could be? Thousands. Thousands. I've talked to hundreds that I deal with steel myself. I have three victims right now who are willing to give testimony about not only what Mr. Carter has done to them, but his wife as well. Okay, I guess this is where it's getting interesting.

Now we're talking about Jay Z and Beyonce. I am not a hundred percent sure how they're comparing them, them to Diddy. Uh, maybe it's that they were all at the same parties. Continue. They're a nasty little couple. They do nasty things. What'd you think happened with Kim? Keeping people against their will.

Putting people on planes while they're unconscious. Just like Aaliyah got on that plane. Whoa. Unconscious. There's a lot of things that people don't want to talk about, Pierce. Listen, like I said, Jay Z and Beyonce are not here, uh, unfortunately, to respond to that. I know. Um, I'm just being honest with you.

You're perfectly entitled to your, to your views, obviously. Uh, Kim Porter. Yes. A new book claims that Diddy may have been involved in her early death. What do you think of that? Uh, I think people should really look into that more. I am friends with Al B. Shore. I love him. I love his children. I, I knew Kim.

We used to all hang out together at the Kit Kat club back in the mid 90s, when Diddy was first starting his reign. So it goes on and on. So they're making wild claims. And guys, this isn't just some online rumors. This is on like proper, you know, cable. I don't know. I don't know if this appears Morgan. He counts his cable.

Right. But this is still. Unbelievable. And it's like, look, did he still has powerful lawyers? He's still a hundred millionaire. And same thing with Jay Z and these people that are speaking out, they have not been sent cease and desist. They have not been sued for defamation. So it really makes you wonder like, wow, are they lying?

Or is there more to this story that we don't know about? yet. Investigative reporter and co author of Kim Porter's memoir, Chris Todd alleges there are Diddy tapes with Jay Z, Will Smith, and Jamie Foxx. And I'll have that all for you right after a quick word from our sponsor. Wild stuff. We continue with the Diddy story.

Here's the investigative reporter talking about the possible tapes that exist. There are allegations of Diddy's involvement in alleged sexual activities with celebrities, including Jay Z, Will Smith, and others. What evidence or testimony supports these explosive claims? Again, I'm only going to go off of what Kim says, and that's all I can go off of for that.

If you were to ask me to research and investigate that these guys were bisexual, there's a lot of evidence that they are. Not just from Kim. And you're gonna see it come out. So, so what I, what I want, what I want to be clear about is, is the question. Once again. There are allegations of Diddy's involvement in alleged sexual activity in the book with celebrities including Jay Z, Will Smith, and others.

What evidence or testimony supports these explosive claims? So basically you're telling me that you per se don't have any tapes, videos of anything involving Jay Z? There's tapes of them, yeah. No, you have tapes. You are in possession of Well, I'm not going to comment about what the word possession means, but there are tapes of them, yeah.

No, I'm saying you've seen those tapes? No comment. Whoa. Because that, that's a You're talking about a criminal investigation. No, no. And I understand, I understand what you're saying. But I'm saying, what evidence or testimony supports the explosive claims? Kim saying it. So we start with her. Okay. So if Kim says When she calls him the two Sean's and I really wasn't big on that whole thing.

Anyway, it's very brief when it's talked about that talking about Jamie Also, I know what you're talking about when she mentions that the first source is Kim herself Through research through investigators P eyes all the people with me. Yes, we believe that That it is true. Okay, if you're asking for like a tape and this no, there's no tape of Diddy with them that i'm going to comment on So he says no, you know comment there now So i'm googling kim porter because she of course passed away and amazon has pulled a memoir Attributed to late model Kim Porter that detailed the alleged abuse at the hands of her ex boyfriend.

This is what's crazy. Now Amazon's pulling the memoir that they're talking about releasing. The e commerce giant on Tuesday removed Kim's Lost Words A Journey for Justice from the other side from its website. The removal comes on the heels of Kim Porter's children denouncing the word in casting doubt on its authenticity.

They said, we were made aware of a dispute regarding this title and I've notified the publisher. So this is crazy stuff. I mean, look, this is absolutely crazy stuff. We'll continue to report on it as information comes out. I'm a little, uh, short on time, so I'm going to have to say. Save my SNL story for tomorrow.

I didn't get a chance. We're just short folks, or excuse me, not for tomorrow for this afternoon. So, uh, whatever stories we don't get to in the morning, we get to more in the afternoon. A lot breaks in that time. So stick around for that, but let's go to a quick political thought from Anthony Scaramucci, who again, worked in the Trump administration, but I think does a very good job as a traditional Republican and being fair when it comes to, uh, who wins the debates and what's going on, I think he's a very, uh, Uh, is a very unbiased, uh, voice, uh, in, in the media space.

So here's what he had to say about the debate between Waltz and JD Vance. Wanted Waltz to win, but he did not win that debate. And so we have to be very objective as to why he didn't win that debate. He got very nervous. He looked lost. Whoever prepped him either didn't know how to prep him or he didn't prepare for the debate because you have to be ready for the Tiananmen Square question.

He spent 90 seconds in dead air and you could feel screeching in the room, but he got better. He got better in the middle of the debate. He got better with gun control. He got better with healthcare. He got better with women's reproductive rights. Did something that Donald Trump is not going to like, and that is, yeah, well, you're saying that.

And I agree with you, but that's not what your top of the ticket candidate is saying. That's not what he's saying. And he split Vance three or four times. And I'm going to tell you that Vance did well enough for Trump to pretend that he liked it, but he really is not going to like it. Both of those guys did way better than Donald Trump did on September the 10th.

Yeah, it's very interesting. You know, I mean, I thought it's, I think the bar set so much lower for J. D. Vance in the aspect that they're saying J. D. Vance won the debate because he didn't come off like a creep, you know what I mean? Oh, he came off like a normal politician. Yeah, but he also said a lot of things that just weren't true.

Uh, will this change anything? I don't think so. I don't think it'll change one dang thing in this race. But, um, yeah, I mean, they both had their moments. There was no slam dunk moment. There was no one side crushing the other. Both sides will claim that they won. But, you know, was it useless? Well, I think it was a glimpse into a way of debate.

could be held if there isn't crazy rhetoric and smashing of each other and this and that. But Hey, maybe, maybe some other election now will JD Vance be the heir apparent for the Republican party? I don't believe so. Um, I do not believe so, but Hey, who knows what do I know? Not much. All right, folks. Well, I'll have my.

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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. Hello everybody, happy hump day to you on this afternoon Rush Hour, October 2nd, 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

And as you know, I'm recording from my mobile studio set up in New York, New York, but I've never sounded so good on the road folks. And on the afternoon rush, we've got bombshell reporting regarding the Diddy case was a Diddy tape. The reason why J Lo and Ben Affleck got divorced. Some think so. There are also additional.

Famous accomplices that may go down. Plus why Taylor Swift missed the last two chiefs games. Plus a ring cam captures a home birth in California and also Lady Gaga's proposal story is out. We'll have to share what she has to say. And a preview of tonight's week three episode of the golden bachelorette.

I've also got some manifesting motivation for you and how to have faith that you will and are being rewarded for all the hard work you're putting into life. Plus what you should know about the port workers strike and how this may affect your day to day. We'll get all these stories and more coming up next on the rush.

As you guys know, fans are crazy. I mean, fan is short for fanatic and Taylor Swift fans are no less crazy than the rest of them. People are wondering, is there a reason why Taylor Swift missed the last two chiefs games? Well, here's a new story for you. Taylor Swift missed Travis Kelsey's games due to.

Busy schedule, security concerns, and not because of romance woes. I mean, you have to realize this with the election coming up and of course her endorsing Kamala Harris, uh, not to mention she had stadiums shut down in Europe for, for possible terrorist threats. You know, she's kind of a larger than life character.

She doesn't just get to sneak into the guest suites and enjoy the game, like maybe she used to. She's a pop star. She's a global pop star. With that said, you know. Travis Kelsey is also not having a great start to the season. So maybe she wants to keep a distance so he can go there and get his business done.

Because, you know, when the lady's in the crowd, you got to worry about what you're going to do for dinner afterwards. Are we, you know, is she happy? Is, you know, is there a draft? There's always a draft. There's you're either hot, you're cold, you know, you're always got to try to make sure you're taking care of your lady.

Well, in this case, he doesn't have to worry about that because she's missed the last few games. Taylor was a no show at her NFL star boyfriend's past two games were told her absence isn't a sign that she's on the outs with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelsey. Some eyebrows were raised after she was absent.

Okay. So the whole article is just, and look, it's like she's the Joe Rogan of pop culture. So whenever she, whenever they can find a way to make a story about her, they will. Now Travis says, yeah, my numbers suck, but they are winning games and that's all that matters. Here's what he had to say on his podcast, uh, which is called, what is it called?

The Heights, New Heights. Have a listen. And we did get something going this past week. Uh, and that is the big Yeti. The big Yeti obviously, uh, had notably been struggling a little bit through the first three weeks. Well, he finally gets going. I'm struggling in terms of stats. I was still playing winning football and that, that, that's all that fucking matters.

And I said it on here on the podcast last week, everything outside of, um, the building, Is it's just noise, big game. What is the 80? And it says, what is 89 yards? A big game is a solid game. Yeah. Like a big game is like I score a touchdown or something. If you don't go over the a hundred yard mark, it's not a big game for the beginning.

Just being honest. I'm not. Yeah. I mean, I w I was accountable this game. I didn't have any drops, which was. You know, what happened in Atlanta to make me feel like I had a bad game, but I, I, I still didn't have an outstanding game. There's a, there's a lot that goes into having a great game, but I did have a seven catches, which is a lot of times you get the rock and I got north with him.

So it is what it is. Help my team find a way to win. It is what it is. I mean, he's like, look, I didn't drop the ball. It not bad. Uh, but yeah, this shouldn't be newsworthy. It's only the beginning of a season for a team that will most likely be going to the Superbowl. Well, uh, love is blind is out. Have you guys seen this?

The new season of love is blind is out and star Hannah Giles is defending. Writing a list of fiance's flaws. She said it helped. Love is blind star. Hannah does not regret writing out a list of concerns she had about fiance Nick Dorca, which he later found. Boy, his last name's Dorca. That what a Dorca. I think I'm someone who I say things and it just comes out.

And so for me, if I write it down, it really helps me kind of like journaling. She said, I was just writing a list of likes things that may be like he needs to to work on or red flags. Maybe I'm seeing, I laid it down and he found it. You know what a red flag is writing your partner's red flags out. Like I, it's one of those things you're allowed to do it.

You're just not allowed to get cut. Now I've never written down any flaws of my wife's. Why? Because A, she's in the room with me and B, she has no flaws. She is a perfectly made person who's doing perfectly amazing in life and there's no flaws whatsoever. I could ever identify even if I was being paid to.

It wouldn't happen. You wouldn't catch me folks. Anyhow, let's move on to the next story. We've got Diddy in the news. Our daily Diddy update. Sean Diddy Combs is one of many powerful people who will go down for alleged sexual assault crimes that took place. According to this lawyer, who's representing about 120 individuals.

Here's what he had to say. But the names that we're going to name, assuming that our investigators confirm and corroborate what we've been told are names that will shock you. These are individual cases. There are indeed other perpetrators involved. They will be revealed when that particular individual case is ready to be filed.

They already know who they are. And I'm talking here about not just the cowardly but complicit bystanders. That is, those people that we know watched this behavior occur and did nothing. And I'm talking about the people that participated, encouraged it, egged it on. They know who they are. Now, I don't know who this would be, but there are people that, you know, notoriously have been at these ditty parties.

I hope it's not Ashton Kutcher. I like Ashton Kutcher. He also, uh, is a big advocate for, like, trying to stop child sex slavery. You know what I mean? Uh, but again, to even speculate is pretty wild because a lot of celebrities went to these parties, you know? So, who the hell knows? Who may be a part of it? Uh, here's another page six story.

Sean Diddy Combs allegedly drugged victims with horse tranquilizer in their drinks, says the attorney. Now, whether or not, uh, They used the term horse tranquilizer. I think they're, I think it's ketamine. I think that's what they're talking about. But during this Tuesday press conference, the Texas based lawyer that I just talked about, uh, Tony Busby made the shocking allegations on behalf of 120 alleged victims.

Now you have to, uh, you know, you have to wonder, will there be people trying to jump on this as a money train? Well, he says, these are just the victims that have been vetted. So we have to assume that there have been vetted and that they'll have their day in court and so will Diddy. Several of the individuals I represent, the lawyer said, were drug tested and drugs were found in their system.

Weird drugs, drugs that you probably never heard of. Um, he then went on to say, one in particular that continues to pop up is a drug called xylazine, or Trank, which based on our research is known as a horse tranquilizer. Okay, well that's not ketamine, that's a legit, you know, cause some people, you know, people conflate things.

Oh, it's just a horse dewormer or whatever. No, this is a tranquilizer for horses. She, um Busby specifically spoke about a 20 year old who was allegedly invited to attend a hotel party with Diddy. She was flattered, went to the party, and was given one drink and doesn't remember anything else. Ultimately, she was so messed up that she went to the hospital, where they found cocaine and this horse tranquilizer in her blood system.

Yeah, it's really messed up, folks. And you know, a lot of people early on, and probably including my, my podcast, made fun of that thousand people You know, uh, things of baby oil, but some people are hypothesizing that they weren't containers of baby oil. They were containers of either GHB or ketamine or whatever.

And we don't know anything about that as far as the facts are concerned, other than it's truly turning out to be, uh, a horror story. Allegedly, if all, if, if even a fraction of this stuff comes out to be true. Now, Chris Cuomo on News Nation actually interviewed Suge Knight about the Diddy charges. Now, Suge Knight, co founder of Death Row Records, who knows if what he says has any merit, but I think it's at least very interesting to hear their conversation.

That's why JLo and Ben Affleck got divorced because of videos that he has of her that now they know about. Where is this coming from with you? What do you believe about the people around Diddy and what everybody knows? Boys, you gotta start with the top. You starting with the top. Clyde Davis. Russell Simmons.

I'm Jarell. Jimmy Iovine. So when you look at all these things and everybody wanna say Puffy, Puffy, Puffy, don't get me wrong, yeah, Puffy's fucked in this shit and even if he wiped the shit off his shoes, he still stinks. But he's not the only one. He got all the kicks. I don't like mentioning Usher, I don't like mentioning Chester Beeger, I don't like mentioning all these people that everybody know what time it is.

It's a kick of bollocks. Raw ball egg had those guys pull their pants down and bend over and they stick it up their ass. The eggs break. They said they not ready yet. They ain't put enough work in. This is Hollywood. They never been in those but naked parties. Even some of the preachers been in those parties and they wasn't on their knees praying for God.

See, they was praying for somebody to have come real quick or something. I wasn't there. This proof. What the hell was he even talking about? I have no idea. Hard boiled eggs. Was that a metaphor? You know what I mean? This is Suge Knight. And by the way, this is on the news. Now it's News Nation. This isn't exactly a bastion of like ethical, you know, news reporting, but still this is crazy stuff, you know?

And in one way we try to make this work. The show light and airy. It's pop culture news. It's entertainment news. But on the other, I mean, I'd be remiss. How could I not cover this Diddy story? So we'll continue to cover it. I'm just going to try to sanitize it as best as possible for you. Because to be quite honest, the more you dig into the different stories, the more tragic it seems.

All right. We got a lot of stories to get into. So stick around. We'll be back with more right after this. Well, you may know that I've got a healthy and beautiful five month old son, one who has won the Tennessee state fair baby pageant, which by the way, last night on my standup show, I discussed the baby pageant.

Oh, you can hear him even chiming in in the background. He's a co host now. Well, I'll have the video of my New York comedy club set. Uploaded to Patreon as soon as I get the footage patreon. com slash Dave Neal So if you want to be a part of the private membership community That's where you can go to listen to that clip that I have talking about the baby pageant How apropos of baby August to be chiming in in the background you might say Dave the production value you've added babies Crying in the background.

No, that is actually live and in the moment. And speaking of babies being live and in the moment, a California mom had her baby on the front porch and the doorbell cam recorded the birth. Can we get them a Ring Cam sponsorship? That is the most California influencer mom thing I've ever heard. So this mom is being applauded for her resilience after her water broke on her front porch forcing her to give birth right then and there.

Natasha Downing's doorbell cam documented the whole incredible scene and has rightfully taken the internet by storm. Check it out. Natasha who was 39 weeks along at the time is seen heading out of her home when her water breaks right in front of her door. The labor escalates quickly with Natasha squatting down and pushing out a baby girl named Lily Bella right on the stoop.

Thankfully, Natasha wasn't alone during the unexpected birth. Her husband Tom was seen supporting her during the entire scenario. I got to tell you as a husband who, um, helped give birth. And by helped, I mean, panic, eight suites for seven hours while I waited for the head to come out. Uh, I gotta tell you, there is nothing more useless than being a man trying to help your lady give birth.

You know, she's in the moment, she's doing her thing. You're just like, I'll catch it. I went, you got your catcher's mitt, you know, you've got a, uh, like you're in, you know, blowing up an inflatable pool. And then what does she do? You pay all this money for a hospital bills and she just has that baby right in the stoop.

And if I can speak, uh, on behalf of my wife here, I think you would, I think you would have been okay. Delivering birth on the stoop, you know, sure. You don't have to pay for the epidural. All you gotta do is pay for a power washer to, uh, blast, pull a placentia. Did I pronounce that right? Placenta? Blast Placenta!

That sounds like a punk band. Come on, it's it's the power washing placentas. You could blast placenta right off of the stone and you're good to go. You might not even lose your security deposit. So good for her. I'm glad they've got a new and fresh baby. What a fun story to share. And they didn't have to pay for the birthing photographer.

They just got it all in the ring cam. Well, Lady Gaga is talking about how she was proposed to by Michael Polanski. I guess they went rock, climbing. I don't know if that's a good way to do it, but I tell you, hopefully he was able to afford a big diamond for her and then she can climb up that rock. Um, you know, good carrot joke.

Here's what she had to say on Jimmy Kimmel. Like it was fun. And so, and he has proposed and done the whole thing, right? I mean, like, yeah,

you're so creative. You're so particular that it will be like, I would become paralyzed if I had to figure out a way to propose to you. No, he, you know, he was, he proposed to me right after my birthday. And so my birthday passed and I was like, well, I thought he was going to propose to them, maybe. I'm glad he didn't do it on your birthday, because sometimes guys will do that as an excuse to only get you one gift.

He didn't do that. He actually threw me like a beautiful birthday dinner and then, um, we went on, uh, Like a trip together and we went rock climbing and we'd been rock climbing before which was super fun and for real Yeah, for real you climb rocks. I mean I I do now I would do anything for love

So this crowd's very excited. They applauded the fact that he proposed. Wow What a great guy the bar is set low gentlemen. The bar is set low Uh, well, Donald Trump, uh, was tweeting during the debate last night, the VP debate. No, he wasn't tweeting about the debate. He was demanding that baseball hall of fame put Pete Rose in.

Donald Trump sent a message loud and clear to the baseball hall of fame on the day after Pete Rose died, urging the organization to put the ex red star in now before his funeral. Look, Hey, this might be the one thing that Donald Trump and I agree on. He said the great. Pete Rose just died. He was one of the most magnificent baseball players ever to play the game.

He paid the price. Major League Baseball should have allowed him into the Hall of Fame many years ago. Yeah. You know, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame system, it's very flawed. I mean, they're going to have to come to terms with this steroid era. You know, which was very commonplace in all of the other eras.

Like what's, you know, you know, uh, here we have Pete Rose banned for gambling and now DraftKings is probably one of the biggest sponsors of the league, you know, so get it right folks. What's it going to be? Yes, that's right. Last night was the VP debate. And a photo of Tim Walls shows that he's making a Swift debate fashion statement.

That's right. He was spreading the love at the VP debate, according to TMZ. com rocking a friendship bracelet. They gave a massive nod to Taylor Swift's Kamala Harris endorsement. So either way, did anyone learn anything at the debate last night? I have no idea. The Harris Walls friendship bracelet though is for sale on their official store.

And um, I guess it's a, I guess it's a way to do campaign finance. donations. Uh, so unlike the hundred thousand dollar Trump, uh, watch that he's selling, this is just a cheap 20 bucks. That's, that's really the difference there. A gold plated, hundred diamonds Trump watch or 20 bracelet. That's the, those are your options there folks.

Okay. Well tonight is week three of the golden bachelorette. And of course we have a nice preview for you. Have a listen to the trailer for tonight's episode. I feel like I'm the top of the world right now. I feel like it's a dream. I feel super visible and very grateful. Love is still alive. I feel like I've been pushing stuff down.

Are you doing okay? And people keep asking me, Are you 100 percent ready? And I keep saying yes, but I'm not really. I'm sorry. Don't pressure yourself when you are ready. Let your heart decide. There it is. Tonight, the Golden Bachelorettes stream on Hulu tomorrow. And look, it's a fair question to ask. Is Joan ready to find love?

And she might not have those answers. And you might not even know till you're put in that position. She lost her man just a couple of years ago. A reliable force in her life, her love of her life, her whole adult life. And now she goes on. Gary Turner's season ends up self eliminating. And, you know, you say, well, that's because my daughter needed me and my granddaughter and it's like, well, maybe, but also, you know, you get to that age and you just start putting other people first, your kids, your grandkids.

And it's like, all right, Joan, here's the time for you. You're literally the lead of the show. It is your time to shine. We all support that. And again, thank you. You know, it's week three. Maybe some of this is clickbait saying, Oh, I don't know if I'm ready. It's like, I'm sure she wouldn't have taken the gig if she wasn't going to clear the schedule.

You know, she is the star. She's ready to go. Speaking of being the star of the drama, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, uh, MomTalk can survive season one. They have gotten a season two at Hulu. They had, they ended on a really big cliffhanger and it seems MomTalk did survive the scandal. TMZ learned Hulu's sensational new reality show, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has been greenlit.

Sources connected to the docuseries, which has become the streamer's number one unscripted premiere of the year, tell TMZ the cast begins filming the new season within the next week with pre production already well underway in Utah. Alright, so there it is, the bad girls of the, of the Utah Mormon life.

Um, you know, whatever. Uh, you know, it is one of those things, it's like, are people actually watching this? Well I was flying to New York yesterday and saw multiple people streaming this on their tablets. So it's clearly a hit folks. And, uh, I hope this podcast is a hit. And if you want to share us with a friend, that is the best way to grow the show.

And the more I grow the show, the more I add to the production value that helps me keep on bringing you the most aggressive. Two episode a day series. You know, I was talking to some comedians last night. They're like, Oh, what do you do? I got a podcast. Oh yeah, no way. And a lot of comics have a podcast.

They do 13 episodes, then they quit. They do one every three weeks. You know, it's hard, it's hard to be on top of it. I got to tell you, there is nothing more stressful than traveling and also doing the podcast. Just for the fact that I'm like literally in the airport. I'm, I'm, you know, every, every waking chance I get, I'm trying to compile some data here for you, but I love what I do and I hope you love listening.

So if you, if you have any friends that might have a decent commute to work or like to talk pop culture, entertainment news, have, you know, maybe a parallel political views, whatever it may be, feel free to send them my way. We're always looking for some new friends. All right. I got a few more stories to get to hang tight.

We'll be back with more right after this. How about some news that actually matters? Uh, The Today Show is reporting that the Port Workers Strike entered its second day as tens of thousands of dock workers are on picket lines across the country. What does this mean for you? Will you get that Amazon package you wanted?

Have a listen. It's one of the big, big sticking points here. The union, um, says it has rejected a 50 percent pay raise offer from the shipping consortium. Um, they want something bigger than that. They're now asking 5 an hour for Every year for the next six years is what the, what the, the, yeah, is what the, is what the, um, the dock workers want, but it's not just that you guys, this is existential for them.

They want guarantees that their jobs won't be taken over by technology and robots. Essentially. They want, um, big protection so that their jobs are still there as this industry rapidly rapidly um gets more high tech. So they're really far apart here, the White House urging the shippers to come to the table and help share their profits.

So the White House saying it's not really going to step in and break the strike, but seems like the language is leaning on the side of the dock workers at this point in terms of what the White House messaging right now. There it is. And that's why unions can be powerful. They're literally halting the shipment of goods.

You might, we might have a new toilet paper crisis folks. And why? Because they want to know their jobs aren't going to go away with automation. And let's not pretend like these shipping companies aren't making billions and billions of dollars. There's money to go around and they're fighting for what is theirs.

We love to see it. Well, are we on the brink of a war? What the hell is going on out there? Israel, Iran, missile attacks. Here's what CNN has to say. We're at a watershed moment right now in the middle East. While we can't look far ahead, we can look at the next few days at least and know for some certainty that Israel will absolutely respond.

They will respond disproportionately, meaning they're going to do more to Iran than what Iran already did to them. And so what we saw today from Iran was absolutely this effort to deter and to show Israel that they are powerful and to warn Israel off. Either they miscalculated or they know that this is just a cycle that they're going to have to go through.

It's part of their doctrine to be able to absorb hits. It's my expectation that Iran knows, doing this today, that Israel absolutely is going to respond. And then the question will be, can they absorb that hit? Can they absorb it and do something minor or are they going to take it to another level? All right, there it is, folks.

So, you know, Hey, we're all, we're always one day away from nuclear catastrophe, not to be morose out here on a pop culture podcast, but we'll be coming to you with any breaking stories of what the hell's going on out there. Now let's put all that aside and end with some positive news. Here's Mel Robbins.

And she says, you will be rewarded for the work you put in. And that's a problem when you, uh, are trying to build something new, or sweat equity, or, or work with your side hustle, or thing that's not really paying its, or coming to fruition right away, is wondering, will this pay off? Here's Mel Robbins saying, and absolutely it will.

Act like the person you want to become. That's not fake until you make it, by the way. This is intentional. When you intentionally act like the person you want to become, your brain sees you taking those actions, So your brain starts to change the way it relates to you. But when it comes to manifesting based on science, I want you to think as manifesting as a bridge.

Manifesting is a bridge that's made of bricks between you and the thing that you dream about. And what you do when you manifest is you don't manifest where the bridge is going. You manifest the bricks. Visualization is the bricks. And so what I want you to do when you visualize is you're capable of breaking any pattern.

You're capable of getting control of your health. You're capable of launching a business. You're capable of making millions of dollars. You're capable of absolutely anything. that you put your mind to because I do believe that people who put in the work get rewarded. There it is. There are rewards out there, folks.

So keep working hard. I know my audience is very entrepreneurial. I'm here for you. Just keep pursuing that dream. I know talking about meditations and manifesting seems so hokey, but Hey, I'm here to say, I really think if you just work hard, you don't need to know in which direction you're running. Just start running.

And just start doing what makes you feel good and, uh, that positive energy you bring out to the world, I think will be returned to you. I think that's the only currency we have in a world of A. I. and dock work, strikes, and people trying to make sure they're not taking advantage of. I think the only clear path for Control over your destiny is to, uh, is to be entrepreneurial and have some form of equity, whether it be through social media or whatever it is that you do out there, have some ownership over it so that someone else can't be making tough decisions for you.

All right. Well, that's it for the day. Can you believe it? We've made it halfway through. I'll be back in the morning. As I am always enjoy the golden bachelorette tonight. I'll have a recap for you tomorrow on the YouTube channel. We'll see you then. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush. The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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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 morning everybody and happy hump day to you on this October 7th. Second, 2024, we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news here, uh, in one place.

And I'm recording this from my mobile studio setup in Manhattan. If I sound a little sullen, no, the mood is great here. We're just using our whisper voices as the baby is sleeping in the same hotel room. That's right, folks. We do not take a day off. No paternity leave here. And on the morning rush, we've got Kristen Cavallari discussing why she broke up with her younger boyfriend.

Plus a couple brief thoughts on last night's vice presidential debate. The cause of Pete Rose's death has been announced, plus co star of American Pickers has passed, and also Bachelorette Jen discusses intimacy on Dancing with the Stars while chatting on the Trading Secrets podcast. Plus more tea emerges with Olivia Nuzzi.

The reporter who may have, uh, ruined her relationship for JRFK Jr. Not JFK, RFK Jr. She gets a no contact order on her ex who may have leaked the info to the press. It's getting messy folks. Plus Taylor Swift proves once again to be a boost for the economy as new Orleans hotels swiftly sell out. I got these stories and more coming up right after a quick word from our sponsor.

Well, folks, as I mentioned, I'm recording this from my very small hotel in one of the greatest and most congested cities in the world, New York City. I want to thank everyone so much for coming out to the show last night. I made some new friends, some coming from as far away as New Delhi, India. India.

That's right. Uh, we also had a Olga shout out to you for dragging a friend out to the show. It was a fantastic sold out audience at the New York comedy club. Appreciate everyone who did come. If you are in New York city and want to catch me one more night, Thursday night at West side comedy club on the Upper West side, I'll be there.

Plus October 11th, you can find me in Portsmouth, Rhode Island at the Rogue Island comedy festival. So lots of good chances to come out and hang. All right, let's dive into the news. Uh, and again, pardon me. I've got pizza on my breath here in the great city of New York. Olivia Nuzzi gets no contact order against ex Ryan Lizza accuses him of exposing her tryst with RFK Jr.

What the hell's up with these Italian names? Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza. Was she going to use both of her names and become a Nuzzi Lizza? What is going on? going on. Either way here, uh, just the absolute most bizarre scandal. Uh, Olivia Nuzzi has been granted a no contact order against her ex. According to an August filing obtained by CNN Tuesday, Nuzzi accused Lizza, a prominent political journalist with Politico, of killing threatening to release her personal information and even hacking into one of her electronic devices to blackmail her.

Specifically, Nuzzy claimed Lizza explicitly threatened to make public personal information about her to destroy her life, career, and reputation, a threat he has since carried out. Now look, I'm not, uh, defending the guy here, but she's the one who cheated, at least virtually, on her fiancé with Lizza. RFK Jr.

I mean, there was an alleged, uh, Facebook, uh, or excuse me, FaceTime, uh, sort of, uh, uh, intercourse happening. However that works. I don't know what in the Zuckerberg is that you don't need to know either way. Um, I think it's good that she's got a no contact order against him, but let's not forget, she kind of blew up her, uh, relationship for who.

Rfk jr. All right, fine. All right in other news hotels are selling out in downtown New Orleans ahead of Taylor Swift's heiress tour. They're calling it Taylor tourism or Taylor takeover Whatever it may be. We can't wait to have her here in New Orleans says Kelly Schultz the VP of communication for New Orleans and company Swifties are counting the days until her heiress tour stops in New Orleans and tourism leaders are getting ready to count those dollars Look, it's a proven fact If you want to boost the GDP of your city or state Try to get Taylor Swift to perform there.

Talk about having some pull. Now, look, I know she made an endorsement and people said, Oh, we're never going to go see her perform. Well, how do you think that worked out? Ask New Orleans about that. And from pop stars to stars of bachelor nation, we have reported rumors that Blake Moines, good friend of ours here at the program.

We love Blake Moines from the bachelorette seasons 16 and 17 bachelor in paradise season nine, maybe on an upcoming season. match season three on Netflix. Now you might be wondering, well, perfect match. That's a show for Netflix dating contestants. Well, it looks like they're opening their Rolodex to the bachelor community because Rachel Rekia is also rumored to be on that show.

Uh, does this mean I'll go watch it? I don't know yet. I really don't know. I mean, don't we have enough out there to watch? Well, if you like good movies and not reality TV, you probably enjoy a Daniel Day Lewis film. Well, he's retired seven years ago, but now Daniel Day Lewis, 67 years young, makes an unexpected return to acting.

seven years after retiring. The Oscar winner was photographed Sunday, looking barely recognizable. By the way, is he ever recognizable? Every movie he does, he's just a different person. For the scene, he was recognized filming for a new movie called Avalyn. Day Lewis was dressed in an olive green bomber jacket, black pants, brown boots, and black gloves.

Look. If we all could retire for seven years, we would love to go back to our job. I would love to go back to mowing lawns if I had seven years off. I mean, good for him for taking a little bit of a break, but you know, it's a point of privilege when you can retire for seven years and then just come back.

You know, you don't, you know, he's not in a desperate state, unlike singer James Blunt. Now we love James Blunt. You're beautiful, right? Good song. Is that what it's called? You're beautiful. It's true. He promises to change his name to Anything the public wants if his debut album returns to number one. Well, I guess we know what we need to happen.

We need James Blunt to become James Blippity Blunt Blunt, or maybe something marijuana related. James pass the blunt a blunt if he gets number one. So we'll all be streaming him on Spotify. The label are going to launch a campaign to get it back to number 120 years. How do you do this? How do you get it back to number one?

It's 20 years old. So what they've made me sign up to do is that. If it reaches number one, I have signed up, um, to, uh, changing my name to whatever the public, uh, may change my name. Oh no. And this is not just an act of desperation, uh, it's a genuine thing. I swear on my life and the life of my one fan. His name is Brian from Glasgow that I will, uh, Well, what should I do to garner the love and trust of my audience?

I don't want to change my name, but should I maybe get a tattoo? If you guys get me to a certain audience size, I mean, we can certainly come up with something right, folks. Well, did you watch last night's debate? Uh, you know, whenever there's a big, highly publicized debate or, you know, Super Bowl or whatever's going on, you'll see big, it's a big, uh, sort of a economy for trailers and other promotions.

Well, the apprentice trailer, which is a Donald Trump. Biopic has been rejected by CBS and ABC on debate nights because it's too controversial. The Apprentice, one of the most contentious and sought after films of the year depicting the life of a young Donald Trump, is too spicy for some major TV networks, at least during presidential and VP debates.

Briarcliff Entertainment, the film's distributor, tells TMZ a 15 second ad for the film was rejected from airing during, I mean, I mean, you can understand, right? They're, they're, they're The eight, these news networks are supposed to try to be as neutral as possible. And of course, uh, airing in a, you know, a 15 second clip of a movie about one of the contestants you're trying to be impartial about, isn't gonna fly.

Um, We'll have more on the debate in a little bit, but we announced yesterday Pete Rose passed away. 83 years young, died from heart disease. Somewhere Rob Schneider is blaming the vaccine. Of course he's 83, so I mean, I think that's past the age you're supposed to live anyway. Now I wish everyone lived to 83, but I think it's in the Mid seventies is, and didn't the age go down for the first time where Americans are so unhealthy, we're actually living younger, dying at a younger age.

Anyhow, MLB legend Pete Rose died from heart disease. According to the Clark County office of the corner medical examiner in Nevada. Maybe he died because he lived in Nevada. Do we ever think about that? It's kind of bleak out there. I don't know. And by the way, it's like, you're, you know, you're trying to get into the hall of fame You're banned for gambling.

Don't live in Nevada. Go live in New Orleans. Well, this is a sad story. We have an update on Diddy, allegedly sexually abused a nine year old boy. Accusers attorney claims they have something like 120 different, uh, people that are being represented by a law firm in Texas, and now we have an update. And I'll get to that story with you guys right after a quick word from our sponsor.

Now, I can't possibly tell you which of these, uh, lawsuits has merit. Of course, when someone like P. Diddy worth, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, there's going to be accusations that don't line up, but there's going to be a lot of people coming out of the woodworks that have a real and genuine story to share.

Well, Diddy is about to be hit with lawsuits for assault accusers is telling some of their stories. Here's a quick clip for you. A few. If you just kind of give you a sense. of the kind of cases and the kind of instances that people are calling and reporting that we are trying to corroborate that. And these are the ones that we've already corroborated, vetted and collected evidence on.

But this individual who was nine years old at the time, uh, was taken to a audition in New York City with bad boy records. Uh, other boys were there to audition as well. All of them were trying to land a record deal. All of them were minors. Uh, this individual was sexually abused, allegedly by Sean Combs and several other people at the studio, uh, in the promise to both his parents and, uh, to him himself of getting a record deal.

Um, another instance, another minor, uh, told allegedly by Sean Combs. That he would make him a star. And look, that's all I'm going to share that I had to cut away from it. The stories are too heartbreaking. All I can say is if there's evidence to any of these wrongdoings, I really hope the families get a good financial windfall.

And I hope that Diddy gets the A brunt of the Justice Department and the brunt of, uh, what he has coming his way. Uh, again, if that all lines up and this is true, well, another sad news, American Pickers star, Frank Fritz dead at 60 complications from stroke. Uh, you guys might remember American Pickers.

That's just one of those TV shows you can turn on, right? You got the tall guy and then the short guy, and they just go into people's garages and kind of create a yard sale out of nothing. Well, The short guy was Frank and he passed, a rep for Frank Fritz tells TMZ he died from the effects of a stroke he had several years ago.

He had Crohn's disease for decades, which may have played a role. Frank was in a Quad Cities hospice facility, uh, and was surrounded by friends, including Mike Wolfe. When he passed. So, uh, rest in peace there to American Pickers star, Frank Fritz. Uh, all right. Well, this is probably our most salacious story of the day.

I should say Kristen Cavallari choked up discussing split with Mark Estes. She said age was a factor. So we discussed the 37 year old who has been, I guess, dating for seven months, the 24 year old, and they seemed pretty hot and heavy, but maybe she just came to the realization that he's a young guy and it's like, what are you going to do when she's And I know if you reverse the genders and if you said, well, if a guy was 30, you know, uh, that would still be like, you know, be 24, you have six years left in your twenties, go, go live your life.

And maybe she came to the realization that she couldn't give him the youthful experience he needed. Here's what she had to say. on her podcast. And, um, it's kind of a hard conversation for me. But, um, Mark and I broke up and I'm just gonna come out and say it. And, um, it's hard because, um, I broke up with Mark because I just know long term it's not right.

And it's not because Of love lost, or something bad happened, no one cheated, no one was mean, like, no one did anything. And those breakups are always the hardest, I think, because it's almost easier if the guy, you know, does something that makes you hate him. And then it's like, fuck that guy, I want him out of my life forever.

Like Mark didn't do anything. Mark has been nothing but so sweet and so supportive. And he's always been there. I mean, he's really been, he's been the best boyfriend I've ever had. I just know. Long term, he needs to experience life, you know, he's young. I mean, he is, and I started to feel the age a little bit just with life experience.

And you know, I, I look at, I look back when I was 24 and how much life has happened for me in between then. And I mean, those are crucial years. Those are formative years. This is when you find yourself. And. He needs to be able to do that, you know, um and and you know I know a lot of people will be like well, no shit.

And yeah, no shit. I get it I'm I've always been well aware that he is 24 and he does need to experience life I've always been aware of that. It wasn't like I was like ignoring the fact that he was younger and Like really just got out of college. Like I, I know I'm, I'm very aware of the situation. Um, but you know, this isn't a bad thing.

I, I really look at our relationship as such a beautiful relationship. Probably the best relationship of my life. Quite honestly, it was very healthy and very mature. Boy, don't you love ladies, right? She goes, it was the best relationship of my life. He was the best boyfriend. I broke up with him. No, all joking aside.

I understand. Yeah. It's like, it's not always about having the right person. It's about being in the right time of your life as well. And he's got a lot of life to live. And speaking of living a lot of life, happy birthday, Mr. President, Jimmy Carter turns 100. A milestone birthday and it is one worth extra celebration.

The former president's hundred birthday makes history as he becomes the longest living president. The longtime politician turned 100 on Tuesday after spending the last 19 months in hospice care. He's the only US president to live to 100. That's first of all, 19 months in hospice care. That's absolutely wild.

So, uh, very happy, uh, that he has, uh, I guess stretched his life out. I don't know. I don't know. What am I supposed to, I don't know what to say about that, but either way, uh, he's maybe a little too old for Kristin Cava, but, you know, finally got between the ages of 24 and a hundred, I would say. Well, our good pal Morgan P talks, of course, from, uh, she's got a great podcast.

She, uh, you know, I always love when my fellow content creators have some discussion. Discussion. And she says they should give Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette, their own paradise spinoff. Let's have a listen to Morgan P. Talks. You're telling me there's a chance that we're getting a golden bachelor in paradise.

Yes. Yes, I am. Post Jesse Palmer is being very cryptic about what we can expect for season 10 of bachelor in paradise. He told us weekly. I do know some of the ideas that are being pitched around. I know there's a lot of different stuff sort of in the bachelor verse that they're putting into this. Now, he does say it sounds like a lot of the old and it sounds like there are some new ideas being floated in as well.

But here's where it gets a little bit more vague. In this interview, he talks about cast members from the Golden Seasons making appearances on the beach. He said, I absolutely hope so. And I believe in manifestation. I think it would be so great. I mean, the cast from Gary season and the cast from Jones season.

It's incredible. He says, I think you need to have an open kitchen and let Jack and Susan go in there. It would be amazing. And he also said, I hope maybe there's going to be some sort of golden iteration as well. Look, I think this is a great idea. And thank you, Morgan P talks for the great thoughts. You can go check that clip out on her Instagram.

Morgan P talks. Yeah, look, I mean, I think what the golden bachelor. series, Bachelor Bachelorette has taught us is that there's a lot more depth to relationship than the superficiality that comes from the show. I mean, let's be quite honest. What does a 24 year old have to complain about, about the dating world they're in on The Bachelorette?

Nothing. And when you have folks like Susan or Jack or any of these, uh, you know, real great, charismatic folks from their fifties, sixties and seventies, you get a little levity. You get some, um, You know, some, some context to what life is all about for the gratitude that they have to have sort of this, like, sort of late stage fame coming their way and notoriety, I think it would be absolutely fantastic, fantastic, not necessarily to bring in golden bachelorette contestants just to host a date.

But really let them live and coexist with the younger cast. No, not to mingle and date, but to, you know, be there and, and partake in activities or, you know, some, some, some version of bachelor and paradise that involves, you know, like summer games, some, some sort of, uh, you know, I don't know, competition series where maybe an older cast member gets paired with a younger cast member and they can help each other out because they wouldn't be competing for the same, uh, the same people.

I don't know. These are just thoughts I'm having. I don't know. I'd love to know what you guys think about all that. Well, over here at the rush hour podcast, we consider ourselves very eclectic with the content we cover. Here is Chris Stableton on the Howard Stern show, discussing what went into preparing to sing the national anthem.

Did the Superbowl. This performance of the National Anthem was so mind blowing. I've read that you said this is the most preparation you ever did for a TV appearance. What does that mean? What is your preparation for something like the Star Spangled Banner? There's a lot of people who, who, who screwed up the National Anthem.

I mean, that's the one thing you don't want to be immortalized for is that, to me. Like, playing the National Anthem period is a dangerous thing. It's like throwing out a first pitch at a baseball game. You can, you can really mess that up if, if you don't. You know, go throw a few pitches before you do it.

But does someone call you up from the NFL and say, listen, Chris, we want you to do this. And do you have to think about it or you accept it immediately? You know, the joke for me for the longest time was people would ask me to do play the national anthem and be like, no, I'll just wait on the Superbowl.

And that was, that was kind of my joke, you know, like, cause I didn't think that that would be something somebody would ask me to do. And oddly enough, it wasn't the first time they had asked me to do it. Um, There was a year, and I forget which year it was, they had asked me to do it and it turned out somebody else in the NFL organization had asked somebody else to do it first.

And I said, yeah, I'll do that. And then they came back and they're like, well, sorry, we want to change you to, you know, not this year. I'm just like, Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. So what are you doing to me when the opportunity came to do it for real? Um, yeah, I said yes, immediately. And he absolutely crushed it. Well, you're crushing it on this morning commute.

We're almost at work. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back to wrap it up with some talk about last night's debate. All right, before I get into the debate, I did promise I would have a clip of Jason Tartick interviewing Bachelorette Jen, uh, from Dancing with the Stars, but I accidentally made a mistake.

It's not Bachelorette Jen, it is Jason Tartick in, uh, interviewing Jenna, who is Joey Grazaday's professional dancer. Uh, apologies for that confusion. Here's what she had to say about intimacy and chemistry while dancing. Just from your vantage point, do you think other pros struggle with that? I think we all know what our job is, and I think we've all had to learn, you know, because it can become hard and messy.

And you just want you and your partner to have the best three months possible and for it to be a very positive experience. And you don't want any extra things coming into the studio that are already stressful and really intense. So I think everyone does a pretty good job about being professional. It's just like you said, it's like different, uh, being desensitized.

Like even like bachelor nation, like I saw some of the comments and they're like, watch your hand, Jenna, I know, I know, and it's wild how different stars who have different followings have different reactions to that area of the business, but it's. Yeah, I think what it comes down to is audiences are very, uh, they have a lot of ownership over their celebrities because they're the fans.

So the dancers get in the middle of them and they go, Oh no, you're gotta, you gotta treat them this way or you're not doing this right. And in the end, I guess the audience is probably want the best for them, but it's also, yeah, like Jason said, you get to see how more toxic some audiences are than others.

All right. Well, as promised, I got a couple questions. It was absolutely off the rails.

J. D. Vance, we're going at it with regards to whether they can at least admit that the last election was lost by Trump. He is still saying he didn't lose the election. I would just ask that. Did he lose the 2020 election? Tim, I'm focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 election?

COVID situation. That is a damning, that is a damning non answer. It's a damning non answer for you to not talk about censorship. And I think the reason why this specific line resonates with a lot of people is because right now you're not trying to win over MAGA, you're trying to win over the undecided voters.

Well, there was a town hall of undecided voters and one of them said that that specific moment is why they were kind of going with Kamala over Trump. All seven of you came in undecided. One of you said they've made up their mind. Ryan, who do you, who are you going to vote for and what kind of solidified that opinion?

Well, I'm going to be voting for Kamala Harris. You know, uh, one of the stark sort of aspects of that debate that really stuck with me was when they were talking about January 6th and how Mike Pence certified the election and they were wondering if J. D. Vance would certify the election should Trump lose.

And, you know, J. D. Vance didn't really give us a definitive answer and I, I'm disappointed in that fact. I think what it comes down to is a lot of people just want to make sure that there are the, the, uh, sort of, uh, systems in place that there's checks and balances to prevent what could have happened last election.

And, you know, some people, this is just, uh, this is just like the litmus test, you know, it's like, well, do you think that the last election was stolen? Yes or no. If you think it was, then, you know, in, in their, their response to that was. It was, well, Hillary said that Russia interfered with the election, but of course, Hillary showed up to the inauguration of Trump and was there to be a part of the peaceful transition of power.

And I think what we learned was that that is so important symbolically that people on both sides see that transition of power. It was an interesting debate, depending on what side of the news you want to read. People say JD Vance. Crushed him and people say no Tim Walz crushed him. And I think what it comes down to is Uh, these vp debates don't really sway the opinion much But that might have been a telling moment.

I'd love to know your thoughts All right. Well, i'll be on patreon today to discuss some of the news going on in bachelor nation Plus we'll have a youtube video up for you. And then this afternoon i'll be back. So as always we'll see you then I'm, dave neal. This is the rush The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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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. It is the 1st of October, 2024. It's a big one for you. All right. Get out your Oktoberfest boots that you like to wear. You know, those knee high tan ones.

All the girls wear it's pumpkin spice latte season. Hocus Pocus is on the DVR. We're just living this with our cinnamon smells everywhere. On the morning rush hour today, we've got Maddie Prewett, bachelor star, Maddie Prewett announcing she and billionaire bad boy, husband Grant Trout have moved to Nashville.

Plus a golden bachelorette conspiracy theory brought to you by Caitlin Bristow and the bachelor birth announcements of the week. Plus Adam Devine shares his pregnancy wake Thank you for supporting your wife there. It's always good when the dad's put on a few extra pounds dad solidarity We're calling it plus rest in peace to baseball bad boy Pete Rose dead at 83 I've also got a modern family lawsuit and Diddy tries to get bail for the third time is Sam Bankman freed that annoying all that plus a possible selling sunset lawsuit.

Yes, that's right It's a wild morning here all these stories and more coming up next on the rush Well, folks, you're not going to believe this, but the news moves so fast, uh, here in bachelor nation. I was preparing to share for you guys the Instagram reel of Caitlin Bristow announcing her conspiracy, but it has disappeared.

Why did it disappear? Well, it looks like it just hit the 24 hour mark where it goes away forever. Uh, but I can summarize Caitlin Bristow hypothesizes that the garbage disposal is broken. at the mansion where they film Golden Bachelor, Golden Bachelorette, uh, because it was also broken when she was the lead on the show some 29 years ago, whenever it was seven years ago, four years ago, what's the difference, right?

Uh, but she says she thinks the garbage disposal is Broken on purpose, that way the dishes pile up and it creates a lot of stress and friction amongst the cast members who are forced to cook and rub elbows with each other. I don't know if that's true, but that would, I would literally need to get some sort of Emmy award for the producer who thought up, Hey, let's mess up the garbage disposal.

Wouldn't that be annoying if there was just like a small. like little things in the mansion are going wrong. The, the water pressure's weak. Uh, it gets really hot and then really cold, you know, just the little things that can really mess people up. Well, speaking of bachelor, let's get to the news. We didn't have time to cover before it is a birthday or excuse me, a baby on the way for Kendall long.

Of course, she, uh, she is a bachelor fan favorite for her weird nature Instagram. She's collaborated with Blake Moynes, although not with this baby. We assume it's not Blake's, it's probably our husband's. She said we have had quite the escapade these past few years, but our most exciting adventure is yet to come.

Baby Sage Lee due February, 2025. So very excited for her. Congratulations. And Colton Underwood announced he's got his bundle of joy, announces the son's name and birthday. And I guess they get added points for the amount of names. The baby's name is Bishop Colton Brown Dash Underwood. Uh, our world is a million times better with you in it, he says.

Uh, he was born on Thursday, September 26th, a smidge earlier than his expected. Do date. Well, I got to tell you, nothing changes you like having a baby to care for. It really takes a lot of, um, the selflessness or the selfishness. I should say out of the world, you now have something more important than yourself.

And Hey, no, that was probably gonna be a good thing for them. Uh, you know, I've been one who's, I've been very critical of Colton for, you know, what he put his ex Cassie Randolph through, uh, and, you know, to say, well, did he pay the price or not? You know, publicly he's, you know, taking accountability. I guess, uh, but you know, also him, you know, probably convinced Cassie to sign some sort of NDA.

So they'll never talk about those nightmarish times during the pandemic. Uh, hopefully he's living a more authentic and true version of himself that that'll make him the best dad he can be is if he's authentic and can teach his son some of those values. Uh, I would say this though. Please keep your kid away from reality TV.

It does a number on people. And speaking of reality TV, selling sunset is reportedly on the brink of cancellation due to a feud between cast and producers. Radar online posted this Chris shell, Emma and Chelsea are all threatening to quit and sue the producers for creating fake storylines that are damaging.

A lot of the cast are saying they are done being lied to and misled for ratings. They're resigned to the show closing down and are predicting it will end with a bitter showdown in the courts that could leave everyone flat broke. Well, first of all, they. probably don't have as high powering lawyers as the production company does.

So I'd be very careful what you wish for there. Um, I don't know. I don't know. I'm sure. I wonder like I've always take the side of contestants because often they're mischaracterized, misreported in this and that. So it would be very interesting to follow what might go down. If they do decide to take their production company to court, depending on what is, you know, shown in the contracts of how they're, you know, I'll say this in most contracts, they say like, we can do whatever the hell we want with your likeness.

I don't necessarily think that's right. I think there needs to be some sort of ethical concern where, you know, You, you know, but, but at the same time, are they allowed to, you know, at, at, at what's the gray area, I guess is what it comes down to. And again, this lawsuit probably stems from the idea that, uh, Nicole lied, or I guess made up rumors about, um, about, uh, there being sort of, uh, a, a cheating scandal, a homewrecker scandal, Chris shell came out going, I've had enough.

I'll never work with her. The producers need to pay. Well, let's see. Let's see what all goes down. It could be very interesting. And, you know, these rumors are really damning because it's hard to prove a negative. Like if, if you say, Oh, so and so cheated on so and so or so and so is a homewrecker. You can't prove that somebody's not, if they never did it.

Right. Does that make sense? You know, anyhow, um, it makes, uh, you know, Selling Sunset odd. They jumped the shark a long time ago. You know, it's such a bizarre show. Everyone's got plastic surgery. Everyone's an insane, like if you never came to the United States and you thought everybody looked like how the people look on Selling Sunset, I mean, it's absolutely Ridiculous.

It's the opulence, you know, no one's as rich as they come off being. They're all dressed like crazy. It's a, it's a, it's a TV show and it's all made up. It's, it's all made up. So anyhow, but people don't believe that people believe it's real. So they, they're it, while it's made up, their character is kind of, uh, you know, no one ever watches a fiction.

No one ever watches X Files and goes, Oh, Dana Scully's, you know, whatever. It's like, no, it's, Made up, you know, it's made up, but reality TV, when you make up a storyline, it lingers and follows people into their real lives. All right. Speaking of real lives and reality stars, Maddie Prewett, uh, the evangelical influencer, uh, has announced she's moving from Waco, Texas, or has already moved.

Here's what she had to say on her state true podcast about where she lives. He asked to say that, where are we, where are we? I mean, we're looking out. Into a city right now. Into a city. That starts with the letter T and ends with the letter. No, starts with the city. Oh. I was like T. Wait, where are we? We now live in.

Nashville, Tennessee. Well, it looks like they followed me here. Um, we'll have to see if they want to come on driving with Dave. My guess is that won't happen, but Hey, I'd welcome them. Absolutely. Let's chat. Now they decided to podcast from, I guess their new place, but they haven't unboxed anything. So the acoustics, let me just warn people when.

It's hard to podcast when you haven't unboxed anything, you know, your walls are bare. You don't have artwork or, you know, you know, rugs, carpets, accoutrements, lamps, you know, things that break up the echo. So the echo is pretty bad, but Hey, this is a, this is a, I'm, trust me living in Nashville. This is a pretty biblical city.

There's a lot of, uh, there's a lot, there's a lot happening here. So I think they're going to enjoy it. You guys. I feel so Morgan Wallen, man. Like I feel so Luke Bryan on him. It's been so fun. We are in the music city. We are in like, we're not in downtown Nashville, but we do feel a little downtown ish.

This is our official, like, this is where, this is us saying Oh yeah, guys, we moved to Nashville, Tennessee. But this is like, no one's heard this, right? No, no one knows. Guys, we moved to Nashville, Tennessee. We're in Nashville, baby! On the low, and it's Honestly, the greatest place ever, by the way, he's a white guy.

I don't know what he sounds like, but he, he doesn't look like what he sounds like. I'll put it that way. He's kind of that character, the intern from 30 rock. What was that guys? And you know, you know, I'm talking about that. That's the kind of the vibe I get. I mean that with all due respect. So I'm sure they have a mega mansion.

I mean, some of the colossal homes in the suburbs here are just insane. I'm very much looking forward to getting a house tour and seeing what, uh, the good Lord has provided them here. Well, the Lord doesn't do a state income tax, uh, in Tennessee. So they're off. I mean, they didn't have that in Texas anyway, but property, uh, property, uh, taxes are low here.

So I'm sure they're going to continue to spread their empire as it were. Well, I've got a pretty interesting minute long conversation to share with you about Maddie. And Grant here talking about the expectations of sex. In marriage versus what it's really been like, um, as of course, Maddie entered the marriage of virgin.

Uh, that's not, uh, information we're privy to. I mean, that's like well known. She literally put on her veil worth the weight and he of course didn't. But, um, did she, did it live up to expectations? That's the question we have. We'll take a quick break and we'll be back with that right after this. Alright, here's Maddie and Grant talking about sex, and I know, guys, I know, it's an early one, it's the start of the new month, we gotta start somewhere, I know you care a lot about this, here's what they have to say.

Sex and marriage, I was not a virgin, she was, having to work through thoughts, and The music in the background, by the way, and having to work through expectations of where she's like, I waited. So God's going to bless this. It's going to be the best thing in the whole entire world. She's like, God's going to bless this and Grant's like, listen, my, my, my game ain't that good.

All right. God, God ain't blessing my game. Trust me. I can't. You want to call one of my exes every day of my life and I'm like, I come in with these crazy expectations and all I was going off of were these like Hollywood movies, you know, where it's like just whatever, however they paint the picture that's extremely unrealistic and they usually are painting it in a sinful way.

And so that's all I had to really go off of. And so, yeah, it was a lot of, I think us both working through and having to learn how to communicate because a lot of times I would communicate things that were really hurtful for him to hear and you know, and vice versa. And it was just like a. Hey, we want to be honest, but what is the best way we can communicate and even putting mentors in our life to be like, Hey, help us like work through this in our marriage and also individually, because it's not helpful for my husband, for me to vocalize every feeling or fear or thought that I have towards this, every insecurity I have.

And so, yeah, I think it was definitely a lot of communication. There it is. Hey, you need communication. Now, look, people think I bash the idea of waiting till marriage. No, not at all. I don't care if you wait or never have sex or do it every day as long as it's consensual. I don't care what people do with their body.

Which is kind of my point, which is I don't care so much what people do with their body. That I want people to have autonomy over what to do with their body. So when I kind of rag on the people that are like hardcore wait till marriage, it's not that I'm ragging on you and your choice. It's that Maddie's kind of like in, like I said, an evangelical influencer.

So by promoting purity culture, you're not just saying that you're saying, this is the only way, this is This is the, this is the way God intended and look, I don't think, I don't think God cared if you knocked boats, bumped uglies, did the horizontal tango, the mambo, whatever the mambo number five, uh, I don't think God, I don't care what you did to get to where you are.

Some people experiment early on in their life. And some people, you know, it bits and pieces and have a healthier relationship with their body and sex than others. And some people like, you know, are scarred because when they were 12, the pastor made them put a t shirt on when they went to the pool and they felt objectified before they went, you know what I mean?

Like everybody's different. We talked to Dr. We talked to Dr. Laura Anderson all the time. Dr. Laura's fantastic. She talks about, and again, she's been on the podcast several times, but you can go see Dr. Laura. I'm pulling it up right now on Instagram. She always, she's so good at breaking down these things.

She, her Instagram byline is helping you heal from religious trauma, founder of trauma resolutions and recovery. And then it's Dr. Laura Anderson on Instagram. And she's really good at talking about religious trauma. In fact, Now that Maddie lives in Nashville, I would love it if Maddie and Dr. Laura got together.

Maybe, just maybe, Maddie, I mean, Maddie can still, you know, worship her God and live a happy life, but maybe she can work through some of those feelings she's now admitting to having after putting a lot of weight behind, Losing it for the first time. Listen, Maddie, let me be the first to tell you some sex is good.

Some sex is bad. It gets a little predictable. And the more something gets predictable, the harder it is to find that dopamine. You need to get freaky in there. This would be the greatest place if I had a sex toy sponsorship, but I don't. So it fill in the blanks, uh, your, your, your move, uh, Adam and Eve get a discount code for you.

All right. Anyhow, uh, so we're happy for Maddie and Grant and, uh, yeah, uh, get freaky, enjoy Nashville and, um, we'll see out there, let's move it along. Oh boy. We got one for all of my screen minded folks out there. Kristen Bell shares the trick that she and her husband, Dak Shepard are using to introduce their two daughters to smartphones.

As you guys know, I've taken quite a little bit of heat online for saying we're not going to let our kid have smartphones or devices, and here's what, uh, Kristen Bell has to say. daughters are 11 and nine. Do you let them use social media and what types of conversations are you having about it? They do not have phones.

They have iPods that they can like use for music and stuff. And I guess they can text with grandma at home because it's on the wifi. But um, I mean, to be honest, the initial conversations we had with our kids were about how phones are a trick. We felt like that was like a interesting way to introduce them.

Like, whenever my husband and I would pick up our phone, we would go, Oh, you know, this phone, it has all these tricks inside that make me want to come back to it. So that they kind of developed a little bit of a suspicion about it, which was really helpful. And yeah, and then to be honest, I'm just glad people are, are researching it and exploring it because it's sort of like with every piece of new technology.

Cars are so great. We can get everywhere. And then we're like, whoops, accidents. We got to do seatbelts. Yeah. I like the analogy with seatbelts and it's all about education. You know, it's all about education. And the, the idea of teaching your kids, what dopamine is like, they're not going to understand what dopamine is because a lot of adults don't understand what dopamine is.

And as we explained what that was with Maddie and Grant using the sex analogy, dopamines. When you need a brownie. Oh, it tastes good. Brownie is so good. I love sweets. So I'm going to eat another one. And then eventually second, third, or if you're like me, the fifth, that brownie is not going to fill that urge that you had.

And you're going to feel bad. It's going to be low energy. That's what scrolling is. Doom scrolling online. And these devices were built to infiltrate the brain and make you addicted. And that's exactly what they do. And if we can't admit that as parents, how the hell can we? Are we going to help institute change?

Now I got a five month old, uh, happy birthday, August. And he's not at the age where I need to worry about, you know, the sort of consciously like how he handles it, but there will be a time, I don't know where, whether it's 13 or 14 or 11, I don't know what the age is where you have to like teach them how to manage that time.

But like I said, as adults, we have yet to learn all of the tricks. Uh, as a society where we are overblown and addicted. So anyhow, I'll tell you this though, when I was in Best Buy the other day, my son was glued to the TVs as we were walking by. I mean, it's, it's almost, it's, it's chocolate for your eyes.

You can't, you can't stop it. So what we try to do is we, when, when we're watching TV, we have to make sure that the baby can't see the screen. And he's facing in the other direction and we keep him occupied with toys. And, you know, as we get older, we're going to have to, we're going to have to find new ways to manage that.

And we might have to get friend groups that also agree to, to limit the, the interaction with, with the screens. And it's, it's a tough one folks. And I know, I know I've triggered a lot of people by talking about it, but it is something we're all going to have to come to terms with as we sort of, um, you know, navigate, What in how, how, how deadly this addiction can be and not deadly in the sense that like a seatbelt is a, it's like a life or death where, you know, but it's, but longterm, I mean, it can, it can really atrophy the mind and also the eyeballs.

They're doing studies that people have worse peripheral vision now because they're stuck on their phones. All right. Well, it's October 1st and I've got an update for you. We no longer have one moon in our system here, orbiting earth. There are two. Let's welcome moon. And by the way, we need to name this moon.

Earth is about to get a second moon for two whole months. So there's a small asteroid that is going to orbit Earth from September 29th to November 25th. Now this asteroid will be drawn in by Earth's gravitational pull, and it's going to be a mini second moon for us for about two months. Now it's going to orbit around Earth in a horseshoe shape.

Before leaving Earth's gravitational pool and returning to the site. Oh, look at that. Earth, uh, attracting another moon with its gravitational pull. How about that? Will our original moon get jealous and use this opportunity to become a better moon? We'll have to see, but there's your astrological update of the day.

Lots of news to get into here. And we continue to share it all. As mentioned before, new dad, Adam Devine reveals he gained 25 pounds during wife Chloe Bridge's pregnancy. He says, I was just a fat pig. Uh, her mental bounce back was super fast for her and her physical bounce back was so annoying. The actor whose son Bo was born in February told us she was pregnant.

And meanwhile, I was just eating everything with her and gained 25 pounds. I was just a little garbage can of a person, just a garbage disposal. I was so gross. Well, hopefully he wasn't a broken garbage disposal. How often do we talk about garbage disposals on a podcast? All the con half the content today is garbage disposal.

Listen, I can. I empathize with Adam Devine here, of course, from Pitch Perfect and all those other great movies. Uh, yeah, my wife, and I know everyone's different, you know, she's, she's a power breast feeder is what I'm calling her, a power breast feeder, PBF. And uh, she's, yeah, are the weights melting off? I mean, it's like every day she runs a marathon, you know, I mean, she's, I mean, guys, you know, I know, I know we've got a big female audience here and you might be privy to this, but, you know, I've never so intricately studied, um, Yeah, how the milk comes out of the nipple.

I assumed it was like a garden hose, like a one spout thing, but it's actually more porous, there's multiple sort of halls. It's, it's more like a, like a shower system. And, uh, sometimes my, my son, he's at the age now where he'll. Kind of eat a little bit, then lose focus, but the, the, the letdown, the, uh, the breast milk doesn't know how to shut itself off.

So it'll just start, uh, you know, spraying on his eyeball and, you know, I've, I've talked already a lot about breast milk. It's just amazing. You know, you get a little rash, rub a little breast milk on it. Breast milk is the human version of Robitussin. Remember the Chris Rock? It break a leg, rub some robot testing on it.

Well, I guess you can do that with breast milk too. So if, you know, I mean, we had some breast milk sitting in the fridge, maybe it was in there for a day too long. What do we do? Throw it in the bathtub. Let's have a bath. I mean, it's just incredible. Uh, we, we, we don't, we, you know, I know we value the ladies out there, but I don't think we value them enough.

You're, you're a living, walking miracle of an organism. And I am here to say, I respect that. We'll be back with more content right after this. And not everybody listens to the morning rush and the afternoon, although most people do, but I'm here to tell you, we have so much content to get through that there's going to be a lot here.

I'm flying to New York City today. I'm still going to have all of the regularly scheduled programming. If you're in New York tonight and want to come see me perform, I'll be at the New York Comedy Club, uh, at 7pm in the Midtown location, because they have several locations. There's a link. To buy tickets in my Instagram, or you can just walk up and buy tickets, or you can just come say hi, you know, afterwards, I'll be there.

And I've got another show Thursday, um, in New York, uh, that's Uptown. And then on October 11th, I've got a show at Rogue Island Comedy Festival in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, which is on Aquidneck Island, which is the other side of Newport. So if you want to come enjoy Columbus day weekend, October 11th, that might be, I think the best time to come to Rhode Island.

You can see some very funny comedians and, you know, do very, a very fun Newport stuff. All right. So let's get into this crazy story. Rob Schneider is receiving backlash for promoting an anti vax stance after it was announced that, um, uh, that, uh, Dikembe Mutombo passed away. Mind you, Dikembe Mutombo passed away from cancer.

Rob Schneider, Posted this rest in peace. I'm sure this is just in quotes, another coincidence, but I took a pass on the jab and I'm going to not let anyone I know and who will listen, get it either. So people in the comment section have gone nuts because to campaign, but tumble is a very lovable guy. And, you know, they showed a video from three years ago where he was promoting getting the vaccine, um, hashtag the son of Congo.

So I'm guessing he's from Congo. He's made his career as a NBA, great defensive player, but look, people die. And they die of different causes, and it's confirmation bias to think every time someone dies, it's because they got the vaccine. If half the country got the vaccine, then half the time anybody dies, you would assume, you could assume it's because of the vaccine.

So, you know, you just gotta, you, we just gotta do a better job of, of How we discuss sensitive things like that. So very, I think it's good for Rob Schneider. I used to love Rob Schneider, but like, he's made his whole identity culture war issues. And it's just like, you've lost me on that. All right. Sadly, Pete Rose passed away.

I could have sworn he was like 60. He was 83. Can you believe that Pete Rose is the all time hit leader. And he's also. banned from Major League Baseball for gambling on the sport, although he says he never gambled in a game that he played or coached. He only gambled in other games, which is kind of crazy now that gambling and DraftKings, it's all kind of becoming legalized.

Pete's agent, Ryan Feiterman of Feiterman Sports confirmed the news, adding the family is asking for privacy at the time. The cause of Pete's death is unclear, although Rob Schneider says it's probably because of the jab. No, I added that part. The Clark County, Nevada has Rose's body, and they will conduct an autopsy this week.

I mean, look, he's 83. Uh, Rose, uh, he took, okay, so his nickname was Charlie Hustle for his tenacious play, was one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace a diamond, earned 17 All Star Game nods, winning three Three World Series titles in the 1973 NLMV play. No player in the a hundred plus year history of major league baseball had more hits than Pete who accumulated an astounding 4, 256 hits over his 24 season career.

Yeah. In this world, if you can hit, if you can get to 3000 hits, you're probably going to be in the hall of fame. He had. 50 percent more than that. Unbelievable. Almost that Rose led major league baseball and games played 3, 562 at bats 15, 000 and plate appearances, 14, 000 in the field. Rose was very versatile playing first, second, third, and the outfield.

So, uh, RIP to a legend. And who knows, maybe even in the, though he's already passed away, maybe we can get them in the hall of fame. Who knows? We'll have to see. All right. I got a couple of quick stories. Sarah Highland is being sued by her former manager. Uh, and they say, you owe me modern family money. The ex manager wants a 10 percent cut.

She's cutting out her former manager from his cut of her modern family paychecks, according to a new lawsuit. The modern family star is being sued by Richard Konigsberg, who claims he served as her personal and professional manager for 15 years and helped her land her breakthrough role on the sitcom.

Yeah, that's what's crazy is like. If you're the manager that gets some, you know, that gets so in a role, I think you are entitled to that management fee for all the residuals and for everything else. I don't know if that's true. We'll have to see how it all plays out. Uh, in the lawsuit obtained by TMZ, Richard says Sarah unceremoniously fired him in April.

And what he believes is an attempt to get out of paying him his 10 percent commission on a couple lucrative projects. He helped Sarah land. So anyway, we'll see. We'll see if that's true. Uh, you gotta be careful out there. I'm sure she's got a good lawyer as well. Uh, but who knows now in our final story of the day, Diddy assembles a legal dream team for a new bail attempt.

It's his third time trying to get bail and we'll have to see new court documents show the rep mogul's lawyer filed to appeal the most recent order denying him bond. We'll have to see if he can get out on this one. In the meantime, he's stuck with the likes of Sam bankman free talking about Bitcoin.

He's like, look, I'll put up a hundred trillion dollars. I just don't want to talk about Bitcoin anymore with Sam Bagman Fried. All right. Well, look, can you believe we made it all the way to the end? I mean, and look, I still have so much more content to get to, you know, I'll never do this to you, but I, if I wanted to, I could do a morning rush, a lunchtime rush and an afternoon rush.

I won't do that to you, but just so you know, I could, um, I'll be back this afternoon. So hang tight. We'll be back with more. And by the way, no Patreon today, although I will be posting on Patreon some behind the scenes tea. So go to Patreon to check out who's, uh, going to do my, uh, my interview series while I'm in New York.

I'll also share Who decided not to do it. Although people were very kind to those that rejected me. Uh, so I'll have that on Patrion and then we'll be back tomorrow with more live stream content, all the behind the scenes stuff. So definitely hang out over there and we'll see you this afternoon. As always, I'm Dave Neal.

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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 Monday, September 30th, 2024, and I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. And on today's Afternoon Rush, we've got a bachelor baby arriving, Colton Underwood's, And a former contestant announces she is pregnant, plus a deranged man buys a Taylor Swift autographed guitar and smashes it to pieces with a hammer.

Cool, we'll have that update. And an update on Bachelor Joey's relationship as he enters his third week on Dancing with the Stars. What he said about wanting to dance with a married woman only. And Ariana Maddox dishes on what it's like to moderate a reunion, giving Andy Cohen props for how he handles those toxic situations.

I'll share what Vanderpump alum, Ariana Maddox has to say about that. And also a Tegan and Sarah pop duo. They weigh in on the chapel Rowan situation. Uh, maybe we can all learn a thing or two about boundaries. Uh, but I don't have any boundaries here. I appreciate you letting me be a part of your rush hour drive home.

And we'll have all those stories coming up next on the rush. Our first story of the day is Netflix co CEO in why the company cracked down on password sharing. Here's what he had to say. It was a couple of problems. One was revenue, but the other part of it was we, with this personalization, helping you find something to watch works better.

Um, if you don't have five or six different people using your account. So for us, it was a really, a way to really hone in with the personalization technology, but also a way to kind of test the value proposition. Sure. If you've got, uh, our average members are watching about two hours of Netflix every day.

Uh, so basically when you go back out to people and say, Hey, you know that thing that you're using for two hours a day and not paying for, we'd like you to get your own account. And what's turned out nicely about that is most people say, Yeah, that's well worth it for me to do that. Yeah, look. Netflix, I say this as somebody who has never had my own Netflix account.

I get it. They want people to pay their fair share. Netflix cracking down on password sharing is what the U S government should be doing on people who don't pay their fair share of taxes. Do you know what I mean? I'm not trying to make this political. I'm just saying if you're a millionaire out there and you hide your money in offshore accounts or Depreciate, you know, use loopholes to avoid it.

I just think everyone it's like, it's almost like this. Netflix could probably lower their prices if they, if nobody shared passwords, right? If everyone just paid their fair share, I don't know, five bucks a month, it would be fine. But you know, you've got a Netflix account with 17 different people using it.

And, um, we actually, we've, we've been borrowing from my mom. Uh, thank the, what have you ever done for me, mom? Well, you've let me use your Netflix account. We've been borrowing for her from her for years now. And my in laws were in town and they signed out of my mom's account so that they could sign in on their daughter's account.

Cause they were stealing from their daughter. I was stealing from my mom. It's a whole real, um, real ethical situation here. And now I can't sign back in. So I no longer have Netflix. At home. Will somebody pray for me? We'll go. Will somebody help me out there now? I don't need your DM saying, Oh, you can use my account.

I appreciate that. But I might just foot the bill and get my own Netflix because I'm sick of wondering what my dad thinks when he sees that all I watch are gold rush shows. It's like, why is Dave only watch gold rush reality TV, you know, but I love that Ted Sarandos here or whatever his name is, makes 50 million a year.

And he's going, well, we want. We want to crack down on the password sharing because we want to use our purse, our person, uh, what does he say? Personality experience. What the hell does he call it? Either way. It's like his personalization technology. That's what he called it. It's like, no bro, you want to maximize profits.

And I get that. He's right. Look, you watch a lot of it. You might as well pay for it. I understand begrudgingly. We will finally have to do that. Alright, well, I've got Bachelor Joey in the news. I made a YouTube video about this today. He had one request for Dancing With The Stars, a partner, a partner who was in a healthy relationship.

He said, I wanted to be in a situation where I was comfortable that I didn't have to worry about a lot of this noise. And again, you might say, well, what noise is he talking about? Is he talking about flirting with a single person? No, no, no. I think what he's talking about is not wanting to deal, deal with people.

Bachelor Nation and or the speculation that he's having a showmance with his partner. He said, you know what? I want my partner to be in a happy relationship. I'll be in a happy relationship and then we can actually treat this dance like what it is. Uh, so it's not that he doesn't have trust in himself.

It's just that he doesn't want to have to deal with people like me spec, although I was never one to speculate on that, but you got a lot of people out there going, well, but do you see the way he touched her lower back? Whoa, it's like, okay, grandpa, chill out. You know what I mean? It's, you know, like we can.

We can touch people consensually. All right. So here's what he had to say on the almost famous podcast about his communication with his fiance, Kelsey Anderson. I did asking her how her day was, how was her workout? How was this meeting that she walked to? Like all those little things of trying to just have the open communication.

Um, But then feeling each other out to like, I want to make sure that she's feeling comfortable. And if we need to have a chill night, she'll understand that. But then if she really wants to go out and go to this party, because it's an opportunity for her to meet more people, I got to suck it up and go to that party.

But. It's been good so far. I can obviously always be better. I'm not going to act like I'm a master at this, but I think that we've been doing really well at the communication and not letting things fester if there is any type of issue. So I'm just trusting and leaning on her. She's happy, I'm happy, and we're just trying to have as much fun as we can with this awesome opportunity that came my way.

Sounds like you're doing it right. I've been married for three years. It's, uh, I would love to sit here and be like, no, this is how you should do it. I don't know. Just, you'll do your best. Uh, if you love her, you'll figure it out. Uh, Jenna, uh, Kelsey has said that you've been a support. Uh, you know, obviously your relationship with her is important too.

You've done this for 10 years. As you've said, you're not shocked, you know, by the fans reactions and these comments. What are some ways that you've kind of found to support Kelsey through this journey or just give some insight into what to expect? Yeah, um, I think it was really important right away as soon as Joey and I had met each other we were like, Let's get you guys over to our house.

I want her to meet me. I want to meet you. I want her to meet Val, meet our son, you know, just already established that relationship together too. So she felt really part of it and comfortable in this partnership because she's part of it. Um, so yeah, we did that right away before we were announced on Good Morning America as partners.

Um, they'd come over to our house. We had dinner, which was so much fun. And then she's been our like social media queen. She sends us all sorts of audios and ideas. All right. So there you can see that Kelsey Anderson is fitting in just right with the dancing world. I think, I think it's great for her. Like, like I said, they get to live in And I think they live in the grove.

I think that's where they put it. Contestants. I could be wrong. Um, you know, I don't know where it is, but you know, you're working for ABC Disney, they put you up in a nice place. They're paying Joey, you know, a hundred thousand dollars. And if he makes it through the first month, he'll get another hundred thousand or whatever it is.

So you're making a fortune. I mean, if I'm Joey, I'm like, Kelsey, go shopping, meet some friends, have fun, and let me win this thing. And, uh, so we're, we're rooting them on this week. There is no dancing with the stars as their normal time Tuesday. I believe, do I have this right? It's being skipped because of the vice presidential debate, which is Tuesday night.

I won't be watching the debate live at least because I have a standup show in New York City. Uh, again, that's tomorrow, October 1st. You can still get tickets to the show if you're in town. It's in a great location at the Midtown location of the New York Comedy Club, a 7 p. m. show. So come to the show, have a couple laughs, have a nice cold beverage, and then you can hang out with me afterwards.

Um, it's going to, I'm always so stressed when I, when I have to travel and now that I do the podcast twice a day and have a baby, it's a little wild, uh, but, um, we already flu once with the baby. So, you know, if you guys, if you guys don't know, it's, it's, um, making content on the road sucks. Uh, but New York city, it's just a whole nother ballgame because the, the, the hotels are tiny and you know, it's like 400 bucks a night.

So I'm T I take a huge loss when I go to New York, but I think it's worth it to just to get a, just to, just to really absorb that culture every once in a while. And, uh, but my setup and I'll show a photo to you guys is I use an ironing board as my desk, because they don't give you a desk normally that they have like a tiny bed, a tiny couch, and now we're going to have a tiny crib.

I don't know how they're going to do that. And I'm going to be making my personal bed. Podcast. So you'll know when I'm in New York, when the podcast sounds nice and quiet, that's because there'll be a baby sleeping next to me. Uh, but, uh, the show must go on as they say, and as the show must go on, I will continue this podcast coming up next.

Ariana Maddox explains why she has a newfound appreciation for Andy Cohen. I'll have that store story for you after a quick word from our sponsor. As we know, Arianna Maddox, star of Vanderpump Rules, is also having a career resurgence following Scandaval. Uh, she's been the host of Love Island Is it called Love Island?

USA, season six, which she described as very intense. Well, now she thanks Andy Cohen for some of the tips he gave her, uh, to moderate. Uh, a contentious cast. She said, and he gave me the best advice beforehand. He said, don't be afraid to go out there and to be you and put your own stamp on it. He's literally like the king of it.

So it was really amazing to be able to get some advice from him before doing it. She said about her at Love Island. USA season six reunion. It was a dream dual role for the former bartender who told page six, that Love Island is still her favorite show. But unlike watching the Peacock dating a competition series from the comfort of her couch where she can freely vocalize her opinions, she admitted that she absolutely had to show some restraint while in front of the cameras.

Yeah, that's what's gotta be tough. You can't just be like, that guy's an idiot. As host, there is leeway for you to feel how you feel and have a bit of your own opinion, but at the same time, you do have to be as impartial as you can, she explained. It's tough sometimes because you're watching all these things happening, and you're rooting for everyone to find love.

And you're rooting for everyone to be treated properly, but of course, life happens. So anyway, I mean, what a world for Ariana Maddix that she was, you know, been able to flourish post cheating scandal. Very happy for her. And speaking of scandal, we've discussed Chapel Roan, maybe ad nauseum by this point, because everyone has an opinion on her, the pop star who, you know, She wanted to set boundaries and say, don't come up to me if I'm walking alone.

Don't, you know, give me, give me a chance to live my normal life. And the lecturers fans have said, no, you asked for this, you signed up for this. And so she, you know, of course, had some fallout for her political opinion, which was. While I might be voting for one side over the other, I think both sides have a lot of work to do, and I'm not going to endorse anyone.

That's essentially what she said. Um, people didn't like that. Oh, you think this is just as bad as that? I mean, people are just so ready to fight with others. Well, now we have Tegan and Sarah. They are discussing Chapel Roan, setting boundaries with fans. Fun fact about Tegan and Sarah, I had no idea who they were, but I do believe they're the ones who sang Everything is Awesome, which is the Lego song.

Everything is awesome. Is that, do I have that right? Anyway. Tegan and Sarah were in my Uber several years ago when I was still driving Uber and we got to chatting and they were like, do you know who we are? And I was like, I'm sorry, I don't. And they said, we're Tegan and Sarah. And then they told me what, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.

They were so kind. I drove them, you know, from West Hollywood To downtown LA. I remember very specifically, I let them out and they were very nice to me and actually took a selfie with me and posted on their Twitter. Uh, they were, they, they, they clearly were comfortable in their celebrity, but again, Tegan and Sarah, not Chapel Rowan, like they're not getting recognized.

They have probably a little bit more of a niche celebrity fandom. Here's their thoughts on what, uh, on why it's good. Chapel Rowan is setting boundaries with their fans. While I think it is exciting and empowering to see an artist like Chapel Rowan say something that we were really afraid to say, um, all these years, I also think that there is a responsibility, not just on the fans and the artists.

It is the industry around us, the industry that makes money on turning us into celebrity endorsers and content creation and selling pictures and videos of people having their walk from the courthouse after they just filed divorce papers. Papers or whatever, like we are an industry obsessed with celebrity, you know, people make money off of this stuff And so we we can't we can't exactly like yell I mean we can fans shouldn't behave this way the way that Chapel Rowan is talking about that is inappropriate But it's not so different from the way that the paparazzi acts So if we see adults behaving this way to other adults and making money and getting rich off of it How can we expect our fans to not think that that behavior is cool?

Like, you know? And you know, it's not cool, but it's an interesting conversation. And a lot of celebrities will say, yeah, I would talk to you, but I'm with my family. And you have to realize, if you're at the airport and you're Brad Pitt, um, maybe he's a bad example. If you're at the airport and you're, I don't know, Dax Shepard, and you know, I could use any of these examples, and someone wants to come up to you, it's like, okay, you talk to that person.

But then, Then, then you start to see this commotion happening and then the next person wants to talk to you and then it just becomes people tearing you down. Now, I, I know nothing like that level of celebrity, but I will say it's interesting. I was back in my hometown in Rhode Island and there was somebody in line at brunch and they go, are you Dave Neal?

I was like, yeah, I'm Dave. And they're like, yeah, I heard your voice. Um, you know, I'm a fan, you know, watch, listen to your podcast. And it was like, really cool. Now the person behind them was like, who are you? And then they were interested in talking because they were like, oh, you're somebody I should check you out.

It was a. normal, fine conversation, but I had my baby with me and I, and at that moment I had to make sure my baby was okay. And by the way, it was a very pleasant situation. They were, they were all really nice people, but I've had to start to look at a boundary setting for my family in a way that I haven't had to worry about for myself.

And, you know, as I've got my show in New York tomorrow night, I'm asking people to come talk to me. I've got, we've got audience coming from India. We've got audience coming from different parts of the country that are, that are going to be in New York for the show. So they're going to come out and I always say.

Come take a photo, hang out, like, you know, but I'm also not at that stage where that involves 20, 000 people coming up to you and analyzing this and that. So you can only imagine it works and you have to harvest that parasocial relationship with your audience until it affects you to the point of, you just can't do that any longer.

And so I think sadly what Chaperone will realize is. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube and she's just going to have to do a better way of, I mean, I hate to say it, but living in a world where she can be more obscure. And a lot of times that's why people live in Los Angeles or New York, because you can kind of get away with dressing in your street clothes and blend in in a way that you wouldn't in other towns.

I don't know if that makes sense. Uh, but either way, I keep on coming back to talking about this because there's this entitlement that we have as audiences. That we're, that, um, that someone owes us something in return. And it's like, you don't, Chapel Rowan doesn't owe anybody anything. You enjoyed her music.

That's the exchange done period. You know, whenever I get in a riff, you know, tiff with someone online, I've been supporting you forever. Okay, first of all, thank you. But also you've gotten a hell of a lot of content from me. So I'm not going to go to bed feeling guilty that, uh, for whatever reason, you feel like you're entitled to a piece of me that you're not, you know?

Um, I just think I don't see a scenario where enough of the audiences can be educated on this because, Bieber days and the Britney Spears days. So with that said, I just think. Sadly, it's more on Chapel Rhone to learn how to navigate that, that journey. All right. Green day is in the news band from a Las Vegas radio station after Billy Joe Armstrong calls the city a shithole.

We're breaking up with green day, completely shared one sin city station. Oh, how brave of this radio station. Come on. Listen, green, green day can call. Me shitty. And I'm still going to love green day. You know what I mean? The front man was performing a show at San Fran's Oracle park this month when he expresses disapproval that his hometown baseball team, the Oakland A's are moving to Vegas, taking shots at the team's owner, according to San Fran Bay area news station, KRON four, the punk rock singer said, we don't take shit from people like effing John Fisher.

I hate Las Vegas. It's the worst shithole in America. First of all, I think there are way worse cities in Vegas, but I will say, I mean, Vegas is so fake that it's like, I don't know. I personally don't love it, but I like going back for two nights a year. I go back for reality. Steve's event that he has every year.

And by the way, his next one, I think is going to be his 50th birthday party. It's going to be a big one. So I always go back, but it's like 48 hours in Vegas and then get. The hell out KOMP 92. 3 has pulled any and all green day from our playlist. It's not us, Billy. It's you hashtag Vegas forever. It's like, Oh, shut up.

Shut. We love green day. Come on. He was just upset that his baseball team was getting sold. Another Vegas radio station was upset by Billy's comments writing. Well, sin city heard him loud and clear and. X107. 5 is not having it. In response to Armstrong's inflammatory comments, the station is banning all Green Day music, effective immediately.

Considering he played a pop up show at Fremont Country Club last year, we're surprised at his comments. The show is spectacular. But now, Armstrong has crossed a line with Vegas locals, so we're breaking up with Green Day completely. Okay, this is, it's kind of like when the Dixie Chicks were in Europe and they were like, man, F Texas or whatever they said, right?

This is what you do when you're in one city, you're, you're Do you say the other city sucks when a guy, when I go to New York, I'll be like, yeah, Philly people suck. Right. And when I'm in Philly, I'm gonna be like those crazy New Yorkers. Am I right? You're just pandering to the audience. Uh, so I'm sure Green Day will be just fine.

And speaking of being just fine, I got another connection for you. The house buyers for George Clooney's mansion have been revealed. I know one of them, or at least. I used to know one of them. I'll have this story coming up next. How Christian McCaffrey and Olivia Culpo put down quite a chunk of money for George Clooney's LA mansion.

We'll have that coming up next. Over a decade ago, I made a sketch comedy called caving, which was about a cave man drawing illicit. Images of his genitalia on a cave woman's cave wall. Now I know this sounds really pervy and that was the point. It was kind of to show how bad it would be to receive an unsolicited DP back in the stone age time.

And we actually shot it at a cave. We dressed up in cave costumes. I'm telling you this, it was actually, I think it was a really funny sketch. Uh, but the, the, uh, the woman who starred in that was a young, uh, lady named Olivia. And, you know, while she probably wishes this, uh, sketch comedy doesn't exist, it's somewhere online.

Olivia was the, um, She was, she, she was about to compete for Miss Rhode Island in the Miss USA pageant. Well, she did that and she won. And then she competed in the Miss USA pageant. And believe it or not, she won and that was crazy. And then she competed in the Miss University pageant and she won! And since then she's been a star.

Style icon, a fashion icon. Now, would she ever return my phone call? Probably not. But I'm sure if I was in the room with her, I'd be like, remember that sketch we did? And I'm sure she's like, please don't ever talk about that again. But either way, I'm happy for her to say the least. She's got a new home she's moving into.

She's married to Christian McCaffrey. I believe he's actually on injured reserve, San Francisco 49ers football player. And they just bought George Clooney's home. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ the model and her football team. of the Miss Universe in 49ers cash to scoop up the Fryman Canyon home.

The estate, uh, was Clooney's, um, six bedroom home and it was listed, uh, just over 14 million. Nearly 30 years ago, he bought it from singer Stevie Nicks for 2. 2 million. George's wife, Amal, called the house, their private oasis back in 2018. And it's pretty secluded, totally surrounded by trees. I mean, unbelievable stuff.

And by the way, I love Fryman Canyon. It's so close to Hollywood, but it's really secluded. Culpo and Christian McRaffrey said I do at ocean house in Westerly, Rhode Island back in June. And they attend attended by several of, uh, fellow sports illustrator, swimsuit model colleagues, and some of his 49ers.

teammates. Um, so anyway, good for them. Good for them to find a nice home like that. Now I don't, I wasn't in the market for it. I'm not exactly in the, um, range to buy a 14 million home, but very happy for them. Well, in sad news, basketball icon, one of the greatest defensive players of all time, Dikembe Mutombo has passed away.

He died after a battle with cancer at the age of 58. You might remember him, Dikembe Mutombo was always blocking people's shots and then he would kind of showcase that bony finger and say, no, no, no. Dikembe Mutombo was simply larger than life, says NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. On the court, he was one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players in the history of the NBA.

So very happy for him. I actually have a couple stories. I'm not going to get to today. Now that I'm looking, we've run a little long. So I'm going to save the Colton Underwood, um, story for the next episode tomorrow morning, uh, because we do have that to cover. So we'll hold off on that. We'll get that for you in the morning.

Uh, but also we've got this story. We'll end on some of America's stupidity, Taylor Swift. I guess a man bought a car. Her guitar at auction, an autographed guitar, and then smashed it with a hammer. So they say this, there's a whole load of teardrops on one of Taylor Swift's old guitars after a man bought her prize instrument at auction, only to immediately smash it to smithereens.

Have a listen. The guy's approaching the guitar with the hammer. Here it comes.

There it is. I mean, look, he paid four grand just to, just to show, I guess he doesn't like her politics. I'm assuming that's what it is. The footage is going viral, showing a white haired dude, grabbing a hammer and going full demolition mode on the autograph for his guitar after dropping 4, 000 on the instrument.

How in the hell did he not throw it over his head and say, smash it down like an axe. Hitting a guitar with a hammer is not the way to destroy a guitar. This is the least rockstar like way to ever destroy a guitar. He might as well have just taken like a nail gun to it. What are you doing? Smash it over your head.

Come on. Anyhow, we'll, we'll see if any Vegas people want to buy Billy, uh, Armstrong's Green Day guitar and do the same. So he was giggling like a kid in a candy store, relishing the chaos. And again, this is a guy, you know, who's Who knows, maybe he's super wealthy, but I'm sure he's got kids that are like, um, dad, we've got student loans.

We got to pay off. Can you not spend 4, 000, uh, buying a guitar that you just want to smash? Can't you spend 50 bucks and go to a rage room? People are speculating. It might be tied to politics, especially since Taylor endorsed Kamala Harris for president. Uh, but either way, look, you're allowed to do what you want with the guitar you just bought.

I would first though, if I was at the auction, make sure he paid in cash. I want, I would make sure that check. cleared before doing that. The world's deranged is what I'm trying to get at. There's a lot of mental illness out there. And, um, boy, I mean, look, there was one story that I talked about on today's YouTube channel.

A comedian I know attacked another comedian I know in Los Angeles and the district attorney apparently isn't pressing charges, even though there's video of the comic approaching a male comic approaching a female comic after outside of a comedy venue Dumped water on her and then hit her upside the head with his metal canteen.

So, um, I've posted about this on YouTube and I definitely think something needs to be done about it. And, uh, if, if anyone wants to, they can contact the LA district attorney's office to say, Hey, I don't care if you think this is a misdemeanor, this guy. Uh, he did this, it's on camera, and then he sped off and sideswiped a bunch of cars.

On behalf of the comedy community, comedy should be a place in an art where we celebrate, uh, the oddities of life, not where we are worried about, um, assault. So, um, I'll give you guys updates as they come in, but I'm really hoping that Comedian is charged. At the very least, he's been banned from about every comedy club you can imagine.

I can't imagine he's ever going to have a show he goes to where he doesn't, um, you know, Deal with some form of protest or getting canceled. I mean, no one's going to, no one's going to want to deal with the, with, with a guy who's violent like that. So again, I'll give updates as they come in, uh, because the story is developing, but I covered it all on my YouTube today and we'll have a lot to cover tomorrow morning.

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