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

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon everybody. On this election day, Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, I have all of your entertainment and pop culture news. In one place, I'll have plenty of non election stories though, to maybe give you a little bit of a break from today, because we'll look, I don't have the answers on who's going to win this thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Oh, Dave, I got it. You know, your credit, uh, you know, cause it used to be, you know, it's like, did you get that show on ABC? Are you doing a sitcom? No. No. No. I've now got the number three podcast on Chick fil A. Does it come with the hot sauce? What can you do? Okay. Either way. Uh, so can you, what if you want to listen to a podcast on Sundays?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. It's election day and I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news. In one place on this episode, we will cover dancing with the stars judge, Carrie Ann and ABBA responding to backlash over her scoring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 Friday to you on this November 4th. First, 2024. I like to refer to November 1st as my half birthday. Do you guys keep tally on your half birthdays?

I certainly do 39 and a half today. Can you believe it? And I haven't heard aged a day over that. I tell you what. All right. I got big updates for you in the bachelor Clayton Eckerd case. It's really not the bachelor Clayton Eckerd cases. Laura Owen's case as she may be getting indicted. It's a wild story.

And also the county prosecutor released a statement on Twitter. We're going to analyze and possibly overanalyze what that could have meant. Plus, Bachelor Colton Underwood talks about life as a dad and we also have ESPN planning on using artificial intelligence to customize their show to the viewer.

We'll Plus the state department gives an update on the 10, 000 North Korean soldiers training in Russia. Oh boy. This cannot be good. Uh, are they there for a birthday party? I don't think so. I don't think this is good. Plus an early vote check shows Dems and Republicans are both voting early and massive numbers.

And I got all those stories and so much more, so stick around. Those are coming up next on the rush. Why don't we start with updates on the bachelor Clayton Eckert story? Uh, again, not involving Clayton per se, although there is a, I guess, notice of appeal happening, which means Laura Owens and her, uh, esteemed attorney have a chance to appeal the decision and Nick, explain why.

And I think they have until mid December to do that, but this is something different. This is the Maricopa County attorney's office. And they released a statement, namely by Rachel Mitchell. She is the County prosecutor. So she's in charge of the County deciding which crimes to prosecute. They have different divisions, different attorneys that cover different types of crimes.

I don't know the ins and outs, but obviously she's aware that there's a lot of people that want to see, uh, the truth. You know, come to light and an investigation happened. You know, there was such a small scope of what could be prosecuted in the family court case with regards to Clayton and Laura. And now I guess, you know, they, I think they have the ability to really open it up and find whatever crimes exist and they may have just started and, you know, I think they call this a fishing expedition when you don't have anything, but they had something.

They had proof that she lied under oath and they had all these other sort of, uh, you know, repeat instances where they claimed she was, you know, coursing men into talking her, talking to her through dating contracts and, you know, uh, some called it extortion and things like that. Okay. So here's what they had to say.

An update on the Laura Owens matter, the Maricopa County attorney's office is continuing the process of reviewing the re from Superior Court on the case of Laura Owens. Further information is forthcoming when a charging decision has been made. So I guess the question is, why did they decide today to post this?

And the answer could be multiple things. It could be continued interest from the Justice for Clayton community. Uh, I recorded an episode yesterday with Reality Steve interviewing Rachel Juarez from Hot Bench. She's a family law attorney and really smart, Obviously, you know, knew what she was talking about with regard to what might be going on.

She was shocked to find out that Laura's attorney probably doesn't have malpractice insurance. Uh, and, and not that that would really make a difference, but she was like, Oh my gosh, in my state, I couldn't even, uh, you know, uh, be a lawyer without that. So 90 minute conversation and, you know, it's just a bunch of interesting stuff as far as what could possibly go down.

She was shocked. Uh, uh, Uh, to find out that they, they're actually looking into her for perjury. But then again, we don't know if they're looking to her for just perjury. There could be a whole bunch of other charges that come out that weren't available. You know, kind of what's tough when it comes to family court.

What I've learned just from covering this case is that you only can find information if you know where to look. Right? There might be a court case that's, you know, logged away somewhere and it's a public file, but if no one's looking for it, you don't, you know, you don't just Google those things in some cases, you know, in these smaller matters.

So what the hell have they found? Um, and a lot of people are holding onto that last thought. Further information is forthcoming when a charging decision has been made. And, uh, you know, I don't know what the verbiage is supposed to be there, but they didn't say anything. If a charging decision has been made, and if they do charge her with some sort of crime or an indictment, uh, they have a very high success rate there.

Uh, you don't want to be charged with crimes, uh, by the County prosecutors who have really all the resources in the world to, you know, taxpayer funded money to do what they need to do. Now, it could be that Rachel Mitchell is deciding. You know, less than a week before the election to remind her constituents, Hey, we're taking this seriously.

My hope is, is that, uh, we, you know, we, we get, uh, you know, we get them, you know, just, just to, uh, you know, uh, live up to what they're saying. And I, and I'm sure they, and I'm sure they will, but we don't have any more information right now. Uh, if that comes available, you know where to find it. I'll have it for you.

Well, from one bachelor to another bachelor, Peter Weber plans to listen to one Kygo song for the entire New York city marathon. I don't know why this is an us magazine. com article. And I also don't know why I'm covering it. Cause I have the option to not cover it, but I found this interesting. And he said, I'm doing the same song, the entire race kids in love by Kygo.

It's my race song. I wonder if that's the song he bangs too. It works for me and it puts me in a very meditative trance like state. I kind of go in and out of that, taking in the energy of the city and then right back to in between the ears. All right. Well, good for him. Hey, uh, I'm going to personally call Peter Weber out right now.

And I mean, this in a friendly way. I'm Uh, Pete, I texted you last time I was in New York and you didn't respond. What's up with that, Pete? I'll be in New York, uh, November 12th for the New York Comedy Festival. Uh, if you come to my show, I will walk on stage to that Kygo song for you. Mark my words. It must be very surreal for some people to be watching and like looking for their friends and family and like seeing you or seeing Matt or like, Oh, the bachelor is running.

Did you get people stopping you last time? Yeah, it's cool. The support is from everyone and the energy is awesome. You know, everyone, you know, reaching out and saying, hi, uh, push a smile on your face. And, um, I'm definitely always very, it's funny. I have like this, like divide. I feel like where I try to take it.

I do take it in the entire city energy that you're just feeding off of the inside, but I also stay very focused. Listen, AirPods in music. I'm a song repeater. So I'm doing the same song, the entire race. And yeah, I said that, what do you mean? What song are you listening to? Kids in love by Kygo. It's my race song for four and a half to five hours.

Yeah. Four and a half hours. We're going to go for this four and a half. I mean, I ran mine in three 47, but who's, uh, you know, who's timing it? Really? Wait, is this a thing people do? No, apparently not. Apparently I'm the only person that anyone's ever heard of doing this, but it works for me. And it puts me in a very meditative.

Trance-like state, um, Hannah Brown's like, yeah, we listened to, uh, mbo, WABA, I get knocked down for, uh, we listened to seven times in a row before he finished, and I kind of go in and outta that. So from that to like taking in the energy of the, of the city. And then right back to in between the ears. Um, it just works for me, something I've done and, um, I'm gonna be doing it again on Sunday.

You must have the most streams for that song when Kaiko Spotify out. You know, I actually look up, you can look, you can track those, those analytics, right? I think so. I should actually do that. . You should. Yeah. Um, we need Kaiko to hear this. Does he know? Actually, I don't think I've ever told him that, but, uh, he knows how much I love him.

Yeah. Yeah. And a big fan of his music, so. Wow, one song. I know that part of it is taking out the air pods and doing, getting the crowd to keep you going. So it's not necessarily about music as much as maybe like when you're on a normal run because it's like the experience, but I can, that is blowing my mind to listen to the same song.

If I had to listen to the same song, I would listen to White Christmas.

Boop, boop, boop, ba doop, ba doop, I'm dreaming of a white boop boop Christmas, ba doop, ba doop. No, just me? I don't know, it's got a good pace to it. Alright, well, uh, yay, it's November 1st. That's in honor of my wife, who will start listening to Christmas music today. And I'll pretend like it's not happening until Black Friday.

That's when I start. Technically, I like to be a December 1st guy, but I thought that would be a good negotiation to start on Black Friday, but not my wife. No, she is a hard lined, uh, non negotiator when it comes to her Christmas music. And it begins now. Okay. Well, listen, I got a lot of stuff to get into.

Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more content right after this. Do you remember we covered those Yankee fans that, uh, ripped the foul ball out of Mookie Betts glove? And we then had a story that Rob Gronkowski knew the kid from college and he lived up to the legendary status. Well, he was at Barstool headquarters.

Yankee fan interference guy is what they're calling him. He talked about his moment in the sun at the Game 4 of the World Series that led to him getting kicked out. Talk about if a ball were to and there never has been one. And every game I've been to, the ball's never, the situation has never arose. But it's like the, uh, it's like the Hail Mary play or whatever that they practice every week.

You prepare in case it happens. Just in case it happens, we know what we're doing. Uh, you know, like we're, if it's, if it still goes on, 100%. How many games have you been to? A lot. What do you think of those seats? Five hundred. Every playoff game there's ever been, yeah, since 2011 maybe we have those seats, I think since 11.

I go to every, I try to go to every primetime game, I went to like 6 this year, um, I won't go to a day game in the summer, I just won't do it, it's ridiculous. Yeah dude that sucks. It's ridiculous. Terrible. Terrible. Especially those seats. There's no coverage right here. And I'm not leaving the seats, if I'm going I'm sitting in those seats.

So there he is. Guy's living his dream. He's right in foul ball territory. He goes to all the prime time games. And then he finally had his shot to catch a ball. And to be quite honest, yes, he ripped it out of the guy's glove. But I thought if you, you know, you know, I thought if the, the ball crossed the plane, uh, you know, the plane from fair to foul that you were allowed to kind of go for it yourself.

I kind of feel like all rules should be off the table in that point. What do I know? Well, let's see. Let's stick to the sports, uh, world here. Here's ESPN's president on an AI driven personalized sports center. I don't know how I feel about this, but, uh, I'll give you my opinion after this. I would also call out a personalized sports center.

So I have long wanted a personalized sports center long before I even got to ESPN. Uh, and we are hard at work on this right now. So I am. Yankees, Giants, Knicks, Rangers, Notre Dame fan. And so when I fire up sports center, if those teams had played the night or day before, I want to see those highlights first.

Uh, and then you have kind of lowest common denominator highlights after that. And so we are hard at work on that. Talking to potential partners on the outside to help power this. This is, so it's an AI driven sports center. Exactly. Right. So there's some. Uh, third party voice that says, Hello, Jimmy. So we have not yet decided on what the voice narration will be.

Um, it could be in partnership with some of our talent. Or it could be separate. We have not, we have not locked in on that yet. I don't know how I feel about this. One of the joys of watching SportsCenter is watching the weird sports as you wait for the thing you thought you wanted. I kind of feel like you don't know what's in your best interest.

Like, sure. Like when I turn the TV on, I want to watch the, you know, the Patriots highlights, but then they'll show me some other thing that happened. And I'm like, Oh, that's really cool. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being, you know, am I turning into that old guy? I think I'm turning into the old guy that doesn't accept change.

Back in my day, you had to watch the full top ten list before you got to see your, you know, whatever. Alright, whatever. I'm trying my best. I don't like change. Who likes change? No one does. Well, Colton Underwood, a lot of people don't like him. Uh, but you know, hey, give the guy a chance. He's a, he's a new dad.

Uh, he's got a baby, uh, he's got a husband and a baby, two dads, uh, they have a podcast called Daddyhood Podcast. He says, I guess this is me screaming from the rooftop. Our baby has two dads. He doesn't have a mom. He will be loved beyond belief and raised with kindness and love in his heart. Uh, here's what he had to say.

And you want to go to the next most popular thing? Yeah. He's Arason and he doesn't have a mother. And I think that is something, if I could scream it from the rooftop, I would. Our child has two dads and he does not have a mother. Sometimes it's really disrespectful and again, other times it isn't. People, you know, some people don't know that, you know, there, there are comments sometimes of like this child was ripped away from its mom.

Not the truth. Not, not at all. Right. We made Bishop because there was an egg donor who is a separate person from the incredible woman who carried him, who was our surrogate. And. By the way, neither of them feels in their heart like he's their child. The term we use is he has an egg donor, like that he doesn't have a biological mom.

He doesn't have a mom. Like he had an egg donor and he had a surrogate that brought him into this world. Look, I get why people might say, Oh, he doesn't have a mom. How sad? Because most people do have a mom and yet at the same time, keep your mouth shut. You know what I mean? Like, the kid's gonna know what the kid knows.

I was raised with no father. I did not know my father. Oh, he doesn't have a dad. No, I knew the life that I had, and I turned out just okay. Uh, they're gonna, the kid's gonna have plenty of opportunities being raised by wealthy parents, and you know, look, I mean, does Colton Underwood need therapy for other things?

I'm sure he does. I'm sure he does. Uh, but, uh, you know, he's gonna try his best, and I'm sure the kid's gonna turn out just okay. Fine, because of it, uh, but, uh, you can go check out that podcast if you would like. Well, we've been talking a lot about sports here and, uh, an LA Dodgers fan blows off his hand with firework during a World Series celebration gone wrong.

I mean, I hate to tell you this, but. I mean, I lived in Los Angeles for a decade. The fireworks are insane in Los Angeles. I remember one New Year's, my, a palm tree caught on fire in the alleyway behind my apartment. People shoot fireworks sideways in that town. Absolutely banana land out there. Uh, especially, I mean, where I lived, it was like, good luck.

They would, the, the echoes would, you know, it was just a disaster. Well, this celebration on Wednesday night, uh, did not go well. A horrify, horri, horrifying. Incident happened in downtown just minutes after the Dodgers beat the Yankees in game five and it was all unfortunately captured on video In the footage a man wearing a clayton kershaw King number 22 jersey can be can be seen with a lit firework in the middle of a crosswalk When it suddenly detonated in his hand the explosion caused a fireball that engulfed the man and moments later He could be seen stumbling away from the smoke in what appeared to be a state of shock But Both of his hands seem to be bloody, but one of them looked like it was missing several digits.

Alright, I mean, sad stuff, folks. Sad stuff. Shouldn't be doing it. PSA. Don't. I mean, look, are fireworks that interesting? I mean, yeah, sure, you know, you blow some things up in the sky. Are they are they worth it? I don't know. Not not for me. Not for me. Alright, well. We've got a Diddy update, you know, I'm trying to limit the Diddy updates.

Like, so it's not an everyday thing, but the grand jury talks to a new witness. And that is a man who claims he has sex tapes from Diddy's parties. And the real Kim Porter memoir says he's been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Uh, and this is what he had to say in front of the courthouse at with TMZ.

Have the Feds been in contact with you? I did watch your YouTube interview. I saw as of two weeks ago, they haven't been in contact with you. What about today? Yes. So they have been in contact with you. Is that why you're here today? Yes. Okay. Oh, wow. So they, so were you surprised or was that the call that you were kind of waiting for?

Oh, do you feel like the interview had like, like had anything to do with it or? Yes. All right. So they're being serious. super vague, but not a good sign. If you're Diddy, when these people who claim to have the videos are talking, we'll have to see how it all shakes out. I really don't know what the heck's going to go down there.

Um, well, we've got a, uh, a governor of who's at Maryland here was being interviewed. His name is Wes Moore, the democratic governor of Maryland telling CNN's Chris Wallace. Why he would trade his political career for one in sports, which by the way, I would do the same thing. I mean, who wouldn't want to, who doesn't want to be a pro athlete?

Is not, is that not the coolest job in the world? Here's what he had to say. You also played football in college. This is the toughest question I'm going to ask you, honestly, would you have traded the career you've had for a career as a good football player? Pro football player. Oh, 100%. I would have. I'm telling you, I still have a dream of one day.

And I've told Coach Harbaugh this with the Ravens. I said, I just need a one day contract, man. I'm like, that is the ultimate bucket list item. I'm the biggest Ravens fan that you're ever going to find. And I just, I love football because I just think football is the perfect game. I think football is, football is a game where you have to understand everybody's position and what everybody's doing on every play.

And the complexity of the playbook is massive. So yeah, I would, if Coach Harbaugh said, listen, I'll give you a contract to play for the Baltimore Ravens. I'd be like, you know what, this government thing has been cool, but. I'm out. There it is. How about that? How about we get politicians to play one series a week on professional teams if they can survive getting blindsided by a young defensive end, you get to run for Congress.

How does that sound? All right. Well, I got a couple more stories to get to. J. D. Vance was on the Joe Rogan experience. Can you believe it or not? These are the, these are big stories happening days before the election. Wild stuff. I'm going to share a couple of clips from that, uh, right after a quick word from our sponsor.

All right, as I like to do the end of the episode, I stick to a little bit more of the touchy stuff, but let's go into some interesting things going down that are, uh, the first, the department of the state department, uh, gives an update on the 10, 000 North Korean troops that are heading to Russia or training in Russia, which by the way, it's so funny to me, it's like, Oh, you can't invade your own countries on your own.

And by the way, I shouldn't talk trash about dictators, but it's like, all right, what's, what's happening. You know, I just want to be the, I just want to be the dad and the. that looks in the rearview mirror and says, guys, knock it off. We now assess that there are some 10, 000 North Korean soldiers in total in Russia.

And the most recent information indicates that as many as 8, 000 of those North Korean forces have been deployed to the Kursk region. We've not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces, but we would expect that to happen in the coming days. Russia has been training DPRK soldiers in artillery, UAVs, basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, indicating that they fully intend to use these forces in front line operations.

Should these troops engage in combat or combat support operations against Ukraine, They would become legitimate military targets. Alright, so that's not good. And by the way, I feel bad for these people in North Korea. They're not allowed to leave. They're in, you know, some dictator's rule. A lot of them are starving.

I mean, the North Koreans are actually shorter. And malnourished than the South Koreans. They, they're, they, you know, it's just, it's a whole thing, right? It's just, it's just, it's just, it's sad that this exists out there. It really is. Alright, but let's go into Joe Rogan, uh, , let's lighter topic. Uh, JD Vance, running for vp, uh, was on Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan explained to JD Vance. He j, first of all, JD Vance is pro-life, and Joe Rogan explained to him why he's pro-choice. One of the issues is that men are making decisions for what women can and can't do. I hear that. And one of the more concerning aspects of this is like say if you live in a state like Texas where there's a limit to To when you can get an abortion.

I think it's like six weeks, which a lot of people think at that point in time, you can't even tell whether or not you're pregnant, and this puts a lot of women in like very vulnerable positions, and then there's this thought that they could go to another state where it is legal. And have an abortion.

They could be possibly prosecuted for that in their state. And by the way, a lot of times you can't even afford to go to another state. You know, when I interviewed Allie Phillips in Nashville, excuse me, in Clarksville, Tennessee, she had to go to another state, but all the Close surrounding states were overbooked from other people doing the same thing.

So then she had to fly to New York and it cost a whole bunch of money. There's a place in the country where it's legal to have medical procedure and you live in a state where it's not legal, that your state can decide what you can and can't do with your body, which is essentially based on a religious idea here.

I've not heard of this. Maybe as a as like a possibility but not as something that actually exists in the in the law But i've not heard of somebody being arrested and I don't like the idea of arresting people for I haven't heard of them I've heard of I've heard of the discussion is a threat that and again, you know there they they do want to be able to Know who's traveling in and out of certain states to get this procedure.

So what they do with that information uh, I guess it would leave a lot to uh to to the imagination to trust You Your officials, uh, what, you know, and again, you should be able to travel freely between states. It's absolutely absurd. Like, the concept in the zeitgeist is that abortion had always been, you know, Roe v.

Wade had always been the law of the land, and then all of a sudden that was taken away, and you have these religious men who are trying to dictate what women can and can't do with their bodies. Yeah. Yeah, no, look, I mean, again, I, I understand that. I understand the, the, the pushback against that, but I think you can go like with so many other issues, you can go way too far about it and it becomes trying to celebrate something that at the very best, if you grant, I think every argument of the pro choice side, it is a neutral thing, not something to be celebrated.

I think there's very few people that are celebrating that. There it is. Joe Rogan says, I don't think there's many people celebrating this. And it's, again, it's the idea that it's a 50, 50 split and it. just isn't. Most people think there needs to be safe and call it rare abortions, you know, but things that are called abortions might not be a living fetus or, you know, it might be, you know, a fetus that has already passed.

We saw Chrissy Teigen, right? And John Legend talk about the fact that she almost died. She was bleeding out, her baby had passed, and that's considered an abortion and not every, you know, every state. date might call things different, but it's, it's just like, let's get all, let's get on the same page here.

And we're going to find out during the election, how important this issue is based on how people vote. Here's a report about early voting being underway and Republicans and Democrats are both voting early. Here's your early vote check. Already five days before the election and more than 59 million Americans have already voted, either in person, early or by mail.

And when you look at the vote tracker, the party registration breakdown is like this. Democrats and Republicans are voting almost in equal numbers. So the question is Are Democrats voting for Kamala and are Republicans voting for Trump? And if not, at which percentage will some crossover people be enough to change the election?

We don't know how these voters are voting. There is a gender divide. We can tell you about women voting much more than men at this stage, 54 percent of that early in person or male and vote. And when you look at the battlegrounds, huge numbers in Georgia, for example, more than three million people have already cast a ballot.

State elections officials say by the End of the day today, they believe more than half of Georgia's active voters will have cast their ballot. It's a crazy, it's a crazy world we live in. We saw early voting and mail in voting during the pandemic because people didn't want to be sort of, you know, in big crowds.

And now we're seeing it because people wanted to get that vote in early and not have to deal with any shenanigans. on Tuesday. Just absolutely wild stuff. And I think at least it's good to see that people are coming out and expressing their opinion in a democracy. I think that's good to see. Uh, but look, I'm going to have a lot of content coming your way.

I've got interviews. I'll be recording today on the Patreon. So you can go behind the scenes on patreon. com. To see all of that. And we'll be back this afternoon to wrap it all up. So we'll see you then. Uh, I'll have a YouTube video on Clayton. I'll probably have another YouTube video, maybe on Jen Tran. So we have a lot in the works on YouTube.

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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 Halloween to you on this Thursday. Thursday, October 31st of 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

And on this morning's rush, we've got world series champions to talk about and a wild love is blind reunion. I'll give you some of my first thoughts on that in a very emotional golden bachelorette fantasy suite episode. Plus Donald Trump dresses up as a garbage man at a Wisconsin rally. Don't worry.

I'll explain why. And Joe Rogan explains why he. wouldn't fly to interview Kamala Harris. Plus Dancing with the Stars contestants try to explain what the heck is going on with the Gleb and Brooks showmance and breakup. It's a wild one. This is a Halloween special. I got all these stories and more coming up next on The Rush.

Well, let's begin by congratulating the Los Angeles Dodgers. Here's the moment they closed it out against the New York Yankees to win the world series.

There it is. Walker Bueller with his first save ever. Closes the door on the season and the Dodgers win four games to one in the Bronx. So good for them. It was their fourth time defeating the Yankees in the World Series for a total of eight World Series. I got to tell you, the thing that I miss most about living in Los Angeles is knowing that When there's a big wind, albeit, uh, soccer, baseball, football, it didn't really matter.

There would be fireworks going off. It's the city of fireworks, especially where I lived in East Los Angeles. Uh, the fire, literal windows would be rattling. So very happy for them. And I got to tell you, I don't know. If you've never experienced the joy of your team winning a championship, I have to tell you, it's a real blast.

You're hugging people. You're just sharing that real great moment. It feels like New Year's in Times Square. That's what it feels like. Just everyone's happy when you're on the winning side, that is. As a New England sports fan, I celebrated the first 18 years of my life not knowing what that felt like.

And then we had a little bit of a good run there. Thanks to Tom Brady and a couple, uh, Red Sox teams, um, Celtics and Bruins teams. But now I know, and now I am back onto the losing side. So all I can do is rewatch the documentaries of the time of the glory days, that's what I can do. But no, seriously, you know, people rekindle relationships with their father over sports.

Baseball is one of those sports. It's like the, it's like the sport version of, uh, of the soap opera. It's long, it's slow. It's arduous. I remember growing up. I actually used to listen to, uh, sports talk radio as a child. I didn't have cable TV. In fact, our only TV was in the basement. We'd watch full house and whatever TGIF we could on Friday nights in the mid 1990s.

It was a moldy basement. We had no other way of kind of getting entertainment, except I had this radio that I got for Christmas and I would tune it to, I think it was 630 AM, whatever the AM radio station was. And I would go to sleep every night, listening to baseball games and those Commentators, they, they were like, uh, what podcasters are now, just people you would listen to talk about anything.

And thwack in between a couple of words, swinging a drive, deep left field, you would hear commentary. And I think from an early age, I've been attracted to the art of radio, you know, radio and what we do here, podcasting the art of audio. There is something about it that cannot be replicated by the medium.

A video, YouTube, there really is something about it. You know, a lot of stand up comedy specials fall flat, but the audio version, if you've ever listened to a stand up comedy album, you feel like you're in the room. It's almost as if our brain does a better job of coloring the scenery together than what we see out of our eyes.

And I think that speaks a little something to what we're capable of between our ears, the imagination that can exist and the inspiration that can come from that. Now, sadly, in a world of social media with short form content, our eyes are just reading everyone else's resumes. That's what we're doing on social media, reading someone's resume, their best day, their worst day, cop shooting, part seven, you know, whatever the crazy story is of the day, whatever that morphine drip is that keeps us going, that's not creating, that's consuming.

So one of the messages, I guess. I think that I'm kind of like uniquely qualified to share as we approach a new year and get ready for new goals is what can we all do to be creators? Now, I don't mean start your own podcast. I mean, do whatever the hell you want. I mean, what can we do in our lives to create our story, not to consume it, to be behind the wheel?

Of the ship heading in the direction of our dreams. What can we all do? What actions can we take? And I'm not sure I have the answer to that. I think quiet time, I think having some moments out there where you just hit pause on all the noise in your life. And just get out there and listen. And maybe we'd be surprised what we end up hearing.

Now I mentioned a few minutes ago, a little bit about TGIF, you know, thank goodness it's Friday. Now it's not Friday yet here, but I mentioned this idea that I'd only watch TV every once in a while. Well, have you heard of the Mandela effect? Essentially it's that we misremember what actually. Uh, in life, in whatever cultural event there is.

Well, now someone says there's a Mandela effect for full house with uncle Joey and uncle Jesse. Have a listen to this. And here's another thing. Here's another thing. People go like uncle Jesse and uncle Joey. No, Joey wasn't a fucking uncle. Joey was the best friend of Danny. Jesse was the only uncle there, but they called him uncle Joe.

They never called him uncle Joey. Now, what time did they call him Uncle Joey? It was Uncle Jesse and Joey. What? But people in their mind, people in their mind have called him both uncles. Not once did those kids call him Uncle Joey. I watched that show religiously. I am positive. A new man. Uncle Jesse and Joey.

Those kids called him Joey. And there it is, they googled it, and they say that Dave Coulier named his most iconic role after a gag, and in the new episode of the Rewatch podcast, Full House Rewind, the actor behind Uncle Joey, though despite popular recollection, he was never actually referred to as Uncle Joey on the show, revealed the origin of his character's name, Gladstone.

How about that? Cut it out. Am I right, folks? Okay, let's move it on. Did that hurt anyone's brains? I think it did. Uh, we got a couple of we got some really great and random stories to share today, but last night was Joan Vasso's episode of Golden Bachelorette, the fantasy suites. She made it clear to her three men that she would not be getting intimate with them.

Well, actually, technically, she only made it clear to two, Chalk and Guy. When it came to Pascal, he actually said goodbye to her before she could, uh, you

I wish you were ready, but if you're not, you're not, and I can't force that. Just, I'm not there. Are you gonna be okay? I am. Of course I am. I'm sorry. You know, she tried to say it's okay, it's okay, I know it's not okay. When you get hurt, you try to overcome by, say, oh, I'm okay, it's okay, it's okay. To try to protect yourself.

I could see it, I could feel it. You know, the way she was holding my hand, I knew she was not okay. There it is. Powerful stuff, right? I think, and again, I'll have a video on this today. And by the way, in, in my recap video, I will be wearing my Halloween costume, so don't worry. You'll get to see the big reveal of what I'm doing for Halloween this year.

I have to give major props to my wife who use, knows how to use a glue gun. You can't take away her second amendment rights. She will bear arms when it comes to gluing together a lot of things for the outfit we made for our son. Uh, it involves a rocket ship that is attached to his bassinet stroller.

He's He's absolutely going to love it or he's going to cry. I don't really know to be quite honest, but I hope he likes it. So I'll, I'll have that reveal later on today. But yeah, no, this moment, I mean, it's so real. It's so real here because you had Pascal. He of course, um, you know, uh, You know, he just wasn't that into Joan in a romantic way.

He said he liked her as a person and liked hanging out with her, but he just didn't have that feeling. And, you know, it's sad. It seems like he was more sad for her, that maybe he felt like he let her on, he didn't think he was gonna make it that far. I don't think he actually felt that way. He did what he had to do.

I mean, look, he was probably gonna get dumped by her anyway, so he just, uh, you know, emotions are getting high on the show, and that's why we watch this show, for those types of vibes that we get there. All right. Well, we have, speaking of breakups, we have a breakup that happened in dancing with the stars.

We'll get to right after a quick word from our sponsor. All right. Spreak it. Speaking of breakups, we'll have our love is blind thoughts in a second, but first we've got a interesting sort of a talk of the town on dancing with the stars. Everybody wants to know what's going on with Gleb Savchenko, the pro dancer.

And his former, recently former partner, both on the ballroom floor and off Brooks Nader. Were they dating? Were they not? Here's what the pros and the dance in the, uh, actors had to set that, excuse me, the pros and the dancers had to say, what the heck is going on with Brooks and glad we are all lost. We don't know.

We've been sending it talks back and forth. We're trying to figure it out ourselves. We're just lost. And I'm a subscribed fan at this point. I love it. Do your thing. We're all about posting, so keep it up. I'm entertained. You said, do you love me? I tell you, only part of you. Only my bed and my mom. I'm sorry, I said, did I miss a chapter?

I'll ask Webb to his face, and he doesn't tell me an answer. I don't know how they're doing it, but they're good. Coinciding with each other very well. We both are like what is going on pop my popcorn and I'm sitting back and I'm just like The tea is hot and I love to drink it We're all watching Tea with Popcorn and have zero idea what's going on Every top comment There they are.

All right. So did we learn anything right there? Not at all But social media can be used to further your fame if you're gonna drive the traffic to To the, are they together? Are they not together? It can also be used to expose people. Now let's just go into love is blind. The reunion last night was pretty wild.

If you ask me, I thought it was pretty wild. You know, I'll be honest. I don't know if I like love is blind. It's a lot. I wish someone could watch all the episodes every season and then say, Dave, it's a watch or Dave, it's a miss. But it's really hard. You know, there's so many storylines and so many people.

So I bit the bullet over the weekend and I kind of binged as much of it as I could. Watched the reunion last night. We essentially have two couples that made it. So as far as an experiment goes, is love blind? Turns out it's pretty much. Not blind at all. You know what I mean? Like love does involve, uh, all forms of attraction, eye contact, physical touch, things like that.

It's almost, it almost makes you feel like when you take away all of that, maybe it is a little easier to fall in love, but that's not sustainable. You know, some of these relationships worked until they saw each other and not just that, but all the other, um, Uh, the other aspects of an experiment, like going back to work, uh, how they handle the relationship of living together and all of that.

Well, Taylor and Garrett and Ashley and Tyler are the only married couples from the batch. And it's very interesting. Taylor and Garrett, I thought, had the best chance to go the distance. You know, they kind of had this nerdy yet also kind of sexy science thing going on. They're planning on moving to D. C.

Look, you know the whole deal. If it bleeds, it leads. So the real interesting stuff here is actually what went down with the couples that didn't make it out here. And, again, I'm gonna cover this all, uh, uh, all my thoughts on YouTube today in a much longer video. But this Hannah and Nick thing thing was pretty crazy, right?

Nick and Hannah were dating. Clearly Nick wasn't that attracted to Hannah. Uh, but she was also a B word to her. She said she was a bitch to him and they went back and forth and people wanted Nick to admit that he said that she was only a five out of 10. He says he never says that, but he did say that, uh, you know, he just, you know, maybe it wasn't that into her physically, which is fine.

You know, like that's part of the whole thing, right? Uh, but Hannah thinks Nick's very calculated and Hannah said that, um, he wrote, I guess. I guess in like a vision book or whatever, like in a journal, that he wanted to go on Love is Blind and become famous. And look, I mean, to be quite honest, I mean, you know what, a lot of people do stuff like that on their vision boards.

Like, I wanna be a name, I wanna be this, I wanna be that. And it's like, alright, okay, whatever, you know, I don't blame him or anybody who goes on the show and looks for fame. Like, I'm sorry. If you weren't looking for fame, you wouldn't You know, go on social media to an extent, like everyone wants to build equity for whatever their brand is.

It's 2024. That's the world we live in. So if all these people saying they're not going on it for fame, I say, well, then don't cash in any money when you get some sponsorships on your social media. You know, and by the way, fame is kind of fleeting, you know, going on these shows can open up opportunities, you know, I hate to say it, but that's what it can do in today's world, you're almost better off going on love is blind than, than getting a degree from an Ivy school.

If you're trying to get your business launched or, you know, You know, live, uh, sort of, uh, self, uh, you know, self, uh, you know, uh, uh, employed or I don't know. Now, now don't take it wrong. I'm not telling people not to get a good degree. I'm just saying in today's world, the sale, the only thing that's important is can you bring money in and you do that by having a large following, which you could get from these shows.

Hey, don't take my word for it. I didn't go on any of these reality shows. I'm just talking about them. So the other interesting story is, well, there's a couple, right? There's a, there's, I mean, there's this guy, uh, let's get into it. It's, um, he was accused of fathering. I get, he was, so he said he was a sperm donor.

And then the internet went wild when they said, you're not actually a sperm donor. You were with these kids of yours. And now you're disavowing them. Well, he admonished viewers, Tyler did, uh, for digging into his private life, saying his children's birth certificates have now been made public. Things that shouldn't be happening are now happening, he said.

So I guess if I have this right, he was He was a sperm donor to a lesbian couple, and they broke up. And when they broke up, his friend was now a single mom. So he went to help out. And so the kids knew him. And when he was asked, would they recognize you? He denied it because he says he didn't want to bring them into it and have anyone kind of connect the dots.

So when you hear his side of the story, it's actually extremely, um, generous and it makes sense, right? Doesn't it just make sense? And his. Lady, right? His wife says, look, I wouldn't have married the guy if I didn't think he was on the, on the straight and narrow or whatever. So I don't know. I thought that was very interesting.

The other interesting story was, and by the way, I found them all to be interesting was Alex and Tim. They were both very well spoken as they kind of went after each other and kind of did the whole, he said, she said, who did it? And by the way, if you didn't watch the show, I know this means hogwash to you, so I won't spend too much time on it.

You can go to my YouTube and check it out. Um, But I guess there was accusations that she physically assaulted him because she put her hand on his mouth. And he was saying, no, she only put her hand on his mouth because she didn't want production to intervene in the argument that they were having. And they kind of paraded each other.

He called her a little, she called him a little ass bitch. And he was like, why would you call that to a grown man who is trying to love you? I don't know, guys. You know, the problem with this show is. Everything that happens is not caught on camera, so it becomes a huge he said, she said, which is extremely annoying because I don't know who to believe.

So people are, you know, inevitably going to get mad at me if I take one side versus the other, and it's like, I'm sorry, I don't know what the heck went down. I'll have all my thoughts on that on today's YouTube, but let's just keep it there for now. Interesting stuff, and if that wasn't interesting enough, Let's just go into Donald Trump.

He says, how do you like my garbage truck? He trolls Joe Biden in Wisconsin. That's because, and again, everyone's looking for that moment where they can kind of take over the other side. Joe Biden said, uh, you know, uh, you know, in response to the Puerto Rico is a floating garbage joke, he, uh, Joe Biden said, your supporters are garbage, and then he took it back and said, I mean, the people that were talking on stage and it became a whole thing, you know what I mean?

My thought is this, you know, All the people that weren't going to vote for Joe Biden when he was running for president said because they thought he was senile. Now he says something kind of senile and everyone's taking it for what it's worth. It's like, look, at this point, I, I say we laugh because we cannot cry.

That's really what it comes down to. It is a sad state of affairs as to where we are in this country. So Donald Trump trolled president Biden by calling MAGA folks crazy. Garbage by riding around in a swing state in a custom garbage truck. How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.

He goes, how do you like my garbage truck? What? Oh boy.

I love Puerto Rico. They said, do you owe, uh, do you owe Puerto Rico an apology for what the comedian said? He goes, nope, but I love Puerto Rico. So there it is. Look, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about it. I, you know what I said, I'm going to tell you exactly what I said. And you know, Jon Stewart and a lot of people have agreed with what I said.

I said this early on. My first take was forget what Tony Hinchcliffe said on stage. Forget it. Whoever booked him is at fault here. Tony Hinchcliffe, like he does what he does. Okay. He's a venomous, uh, snake. When it comes to writing roast jokes, call him racist, call him whatever you want. That's what he does.

You brought him to a non roast venue and that's on you. Now, you could say, well, that just goes to show that they, you know, don't have the sort of, um, ability to see through common sense decisions. I don't know. But either way, a couple of clips here about the mistake that was made. Here is actually Joe Rogan on his latest episode discussing this Tony Hinchcliffe roast joke that inevitably led to.

Donald Trump driving a garbage truck. What a wild world we live in. Tony Hinchcliffe is gonna be Tony Hinchcliffe. Exactly. So whoever fucking booked him, that's the person that's, that's made the mistake. Not just booked him, but apparently went over his material. Did they go over his material? No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. In the words of Donald Trump, someone's getting fired, man. I gotta tell you that joke kills at comedy clubs. I don't like the joke. It kills and I said to him, I don't, it's just like, if you're Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you're like, oh, but it's a funny joke. The joke does well, but I said to him, I go, dude, that's the one's going to get you stabbed.

Really? Yes. And he used to talk about it on stage saying, Joe Rogan always says, that's the one's going to get me stabbed. Well, little did he know that was going to get him stabbed, uh, by public opinion. All right, I got, I got a question. More thoughts onto why the heck Kamala Harris didn't end up doing the Joe Rogan podcast.

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Well, here's Joe Rogan explaining why the Kamala Harris interview never happened. Have a listen. But she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas. And I literally gave them an open invitation. I said, anytime I said, if she's done at 10 o'clock, we'll come back here at 10 o'clock, by the way, this is so annoying.

So Joe Rogan says, the door's open. All you need to do is come, come visit me and we'll do the podcast. And people have said, Oh, how dare Joe Rogan. And this is, this is where you lose people. They say, how dare Joe Rogan not. Be able to fly to her. It's the last week of the election. He can't fly to her to do it.

And it's like, bro, Joe opens his studio. He's got like a whole seal team, six of people that work there. It's completely vetted. It's probably the safest place in the world. And he's got the largest platform in the country, if not the world for you to share your opinion. And you might say, well, 65 percent of Joe Rogan's audience votes.

Yeah? Well, how about those people that are undecided? How about those people that might not vote? How about the people that already voted? If you want to be the president, you gotta find your flipping audience and talk to them. And this is where the Democrats sometimes, and look, you can say this about both sides, sure.

I'm not trying to do a both sides are bad thing. But the Democrats do a real bad job at their communication. Go speak to Joe. Go talk to him about everything. aliens, tell them about your workout routine. Tell some funny stories about who the hell cares this election that we are in. Whoever's going to win it.

It's whoever does a better job feeling like, like, I hate to say trustworthy because you guys know where my vote is, right? I I've made this clear. I've already voted. I voted for the democratic ticket. Now you guys can do whatever the hell you want. But I think the fair thing is to get as much information as you can from both sides.

I hate this when people say, Hey, I'm voting for Trump. And they didn't even listen to a full conversation of hers. And again, I'm not trying to say that she stops traffic with her, you know, amazing speeches or anything like that. But everyone, everyone on both sides goes, Oh, there's no policy issues. They are there.

They need to be spoken to, and it's just annoying that she couldn't find the time. Look, she might be doing five interviews a day, the one with Joe Rogan's gonna get more views. And already, like, his, his interview with Donald Trump has like 30 million views on YouTube. Are you flipping kidding me? I mean, if she goes on MSNBC or The View or whoever, That's a million views tops.

That's all it is. So she does five of those throughout the day That's not even a sixth of what she would have got if she just went on Joe dang rogan's podcast. This is very annoying. I'm very upset It was a huge miss for her not to go who cares if joe rogan's a fan or not Prove him wrong go in there and give the hell give a hell of a conversation I'll do it at 9 in the morning.

I'll do it at 10 p. m. I'll do it at midnight She's up. She wants to, you know, drink a Red Bull fucking party on. Yeah. But I think this idea that you're being a diva silly, cause you're asking her, you're offering her the opportunity to do exactly what the other candidate did. Right. Well, she actually reached out when she found out that he was coming on.

So their camp reached out to me. So I said, great. I would love to talk to her, but it was very difficult to tie it down. And a lot of, they wanted to travel and see that the thing is like, you can't, if I go somewhere. Then there's going to be other people in the room. And they want to control a lot of things, I'm sure, according to the Brett Breyer interview on Fox, like people were waving him off.

That's a distraction. I don't give a fuck what we talk about. I really don't. And you know what? I, I agree with Joe here when Bernie Sanders went on Joe Rogan's podcast, he was very much like, like Bernie Sanders was able to sell Joel on a Joe Rogan on a lot of his ideas. So did, uh, so did Andrew Yang. So this idea that he's just, you know, not going to give a fair shot, I think is so misguided.

And I'm, I'm really, it's just annoys me, you know, you need to, you need to like, I believe she, if, if she wins, she will want to govern for the people. And I don't know if you can say the same about Trump. I really don't, I don't know. Uh, you know, you've got people like Elon Musk who is literally trying to suck his, you know what, so that he can get, you know, whatever regulations, uh, taken away so he can build more cars or whatever.

And it's like, I don't want to live in a world where we play favorites, like, versus who you voted on. I want the best candidate to win. But that's not the direction we're going in unless you can try to talk to the most people in the most effective way possible. So that's where I stand. There is frustration.

But you might say, you know what, you know, most people aren't changing their opinion at this point. Well then, like, what are we even doing? What are we even doing? So, it doesn't look like she's going to go on. It's never too late up until Tuesday. I sure there's a lot of early voting, but there's a lot of people that might not vote until Tuesday.

And there's a hell of a lot of people that might not vote that you could inspire to vote. So we'll have to see how it all goes down, but lots going on here from garbage men to fantasy suites to love is blind to world series champions. We really had it all for you today. Could you believe that? Look, I can't believe we're already out of time.

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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, good afternoon. It's cabbage day. That's October 30th, 2024 the day before Halloween. That's what we celebrated in new England. At least, uh, I don't recommend celebrating that just a bunch of nine year olds spraying, uh, you know, aftershave on people's cars, debauchery, hide your toilet paper.

Uh, does anyone do that anymore? Throw toilet paper on people's trees. I feel like ring cams probably got rid of that fun treat we used to do. Uh, and for good reason. All right. Well, on today's episode, we've got Olivia Rodrigo explaining to Jimmy Fallon the moment she fell through the stage plus Travis Kelsey gives an update on his relationship with Taylor Swift, all good things, and former California governor and Mr.

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his presidential endorsement. And I'll explain the messy feud between Channing Tatum and his ex's new man. Uh, speaking of messy, Armie Hammer also has a new movie role in a western. And we've got some salacious news. swinging happening on the dance floor among some Dancing with the Stars professionals plus updates on the Vanderpump Rules renewal status and Love is Blind reunion is tonight.

What to expect? All these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, I promised this earlier and we ran out of time. So let's get right to it. Vanderpump rules star Lala Kent explains the rumor that she and Arianna Maddox are holding off on the next production of the next season of Vanderpump rules.

There's something out there, I guess, where it's being said that Arianna and I, the reason production's being held up on Vanderpump rules is because Arianna and I are. Uh, wanting a lot of money. And although that is a rumor, I like it. Give me more money. There's literally been not one conversation, but let's go with that.

That sounds pretty gangster. I like it. And Hey, who knows? Maybe Ariana, look, her star exploded, right? She's hosting love is blind USA or none. What a, what a miss. What's a love Island USA. One of those shows she's doing just fine. So who knows what's going on over there? Uh, but either way, the season I'm, I'm sure we'll return, but you know, even good things.

Sometimes you need to. Just, you know, take some time off and recover from all the crazy drama. Uh, you know, I love the show below deck about people who work on super yachts. And here is, uh, a podcast called crew mess podcast talking about helicopter beer delivery. On a super yacht. There is no request that can't be granted.

Yeah. Like I feel like. People will just make anything happen and that's one thing. It's so fun. I even heard of this guy. He was saying how They were somewhere super remote, but they were it was a really big boat and they had a helicopter the guests wanted It's this very, very specific type of beer and they got a helicopter to bring it to them.

Do you know how much money that costs to use your helicopter to deliver beer? Yeah. I don't usually use my helicopter to deliver beer, but when I do it's Corona with a small wedge of lime. Uh, I put a lime in all my beers. I'm a big, uh, light lager guy. I like a lager and I like lime. I like that. The, the, the quenching thirst of some citrus.

Don't sue me for it. Now, I don't even know like what I would do if I had that kind of money, right? If you're, if you're that rich, you have to start thinking of how to spend it. And I think if you're going to be spending your money, basically postmating some beer with a helicopter, um. I think that that's just like a power move.

Like you don't even want the beer. It's just a power. It's like, you know what? Fly to Italy and get me a good pizza and come back. It's like that type of deal. Uh, well look, here is one way to make money. Uh, only fans, only fans as a business is just swimming in cash. But I mean, it's just impressive. 391 million users, 5.

3 million. Creators 23 billion valuation operating profits last year, 649 million this year, 775 million only fan users have spent 6. 6 billion in 2023 and on track to spend 7. 9 billion in 24. It's just a monster. So as crazy as that is, you know, what's funny to me is a lot of people that make their money on only fans do it by interacting with their audience.

And it's like, if you're making at least a couple hundred thousand dollars and only fans. You probably hire somebody to like flirt with your audience for you. Now I don't do that. I flirt directly with my audience. You know me, I'm I'm one that you guys have me, but you know what, you know what I just found out on Instagram, you might not have access to this.

This, this is like a new beta program. They're rolling out. I don't mean to sound like an elite here, getting my beer delivered by helicopter in Instagram status, but there's a new AI training tool on my Instagram that I found yesterday. That's. Letting me teach it what to tell my audience. So I'm basically plugging in all of my podcast links and Patreon.

So that way, if someone ever asks, Hey, how do I listen to your podcast? The AI version of Dave will respond. Isn't that crazy? I at least hope that it tells the person it's the AI version of me. I don't want to dupe anybody, but you know, At the level we're at right now, it's, you know, we're kind of in that mid tier level where we're not, uh, we're not like, you know, international, everybody knows the rush hour, but you know, we get a lot of DMS.

I say, we, I'm talking about me and my brain's absolutely fried from all the DMs you can probably hear in the background. I got a six month old son crying. I'm trying to do all the different things here. So. I wouldn't hate having a little AI help me out. Now, do I think AI should be used to replace our artistic endeavors?

No, but if it can lighten the load a little bit on the day, it's like, it's like, uh, doing your, uh, sort of social media laundry for you. I don't know. I wouldn't be opposed to it. Well, speaking of Cashing in from helicopters. This whole, this whole beginning of the episode feels like, uh, just a big, uh, dopamine rush of, uh, hitting the lottery, but I got a couple more stories for you who better to strike it rich than Forrest Gump.

I mean, he's a story of poverty, although he was kind of wealthy. He had that nice house with his mom there, but, uh, either way from that to being like absurdly rich, he's the story kind of like Tom Hanks. Now, Tom Hanks, of course played Forrest Gump, but he kind of is Forrest Gump in a way. Is there any line from the film that You hope to live your life never hearing quoted back to you again.

No, it's all great. You don't mind life is a box of chocolates. Oh, you run for us, Ron. It's all no, no, no, no. Shrimp sandwich. All of that. No, all of that stuff is great. Peas and carrots. People yell a bunch of stuff at me, you know. What's the most common? Uh, uh, I get Wilson a lot. Wilson! Brace for impact, I get that.

Brace for impact. I'm the captain now? I get, I'm the captain now, which wasn't my line. No, but. You know, that Barkha Dabney's line. Houston, we have a problem. Houston, we have a problem. For you, you've been in every iconic classic film. There, everyone's shouting those quotes at you. Ride like the wind, bullseye, I get that.

So literally, literally, Tom Hanks can't play anybody but a protagonist. I mean, he's just such a likable guy. I remember when I was filming the movie Birdman, I was standing in on it and had a very, very small role in the movie, but it filmed at the St. James Theatre. theater, which I believe was on 44th street and 7th Avenue, maybe 42nd street.

But either way, it was in smack dab, the center of times square. And at the time, Tom Hanks was making an appearance on the Broadway version of, I don't, I don't even, I don't even know what the play was. Uh, but either way he would come out in every day. You'd have to hold cameras because you would hear all of this cheering happening.

And it was audiences that got a chance to see Tom Hanks. He's absolutely loved. cherished. He's probably one of the most beloved person out there. And of course his character didn't just strike it rich. He also struck it rich, uh, by kind of just being really good at what he does. And speaking of striking it rich, here's a story of a man who found 43, 000 in a couch he bought used.

The only thing I ever find when I buy a couch is bedbugs. Have a listen. Last month he purchased a couch for his man cave, and this weekend he made a shocking discovery. It was filled with thousands of dollars in cash. I still have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming or something. Kirby says that he had this ottoman for a few weeks.

before noticing that it was uncomfortable. And that's when his daughter decided to open it up and then she started pulling out this. Oh my goodness. A total of 43, 170 was found in the ottoman cushion. But Kirby says he didn't feel right keeping the money. So he reached out to the restore to find out who had donated the couch.

Turns out was Kim Fouth Newberry. The couch originally belonged to her grandfather. And he died last year. It's just crazy. Today, the restore held a big surprise for falcon Newberry to give back every dollar found in the cushion. Why he's got money in cushions. I don't know. Kirby says an attorney told him that he had no legal obligation to give the money back, but he felt like he had to morally.

And that's something that Rick Merling, the store manager, thinks is heartwarming. All right, so a man finds 43k in his couch and gives it back to the first owner. What, uh, like, uh, like not to, not to be here and kind of, uh, taking a shit on old, the older generation, but what an older generation thing to do to just store money in a couch.

You know, you can get it in an Amex, uh, high yield store. Savings account at 4. 2 percent interest. You could be, I mean, you know what you make on 43, 000 cash. You'd probably make 300 bucks a month. Just letting it sit in a, uh, in a high yield account, let alone putting it into the stock market. All right. But that's just me here.

Either way. Good to see good deeds done. Uh, and by the way, the couch cushion itself looks disgusting. You know, if I was the person who donated the couch, I would give some of that money back to the person who did the good deed. How about that? How about you guys split it down the middle? You know, it's found money.

Why not? All right. We've got a lot of content to get to, so stick around. We'll be back with more right after this. All right. I tease this dancing with the stars drama. I said there was swinging happening on the dance floor, but I don't mean like sexual swinging and more. So just like, uh, a lot of, uh, it's kind of like bands.

You guys remember band in high school, everyone kind of dated everybody. Well, I guess that's how it is with the former. We're the professional dancers because dancing with the stars pro Alan Burstyn and Emma Slater are hooking up says a source. Now some say this has been going on for a while, but I guess they were spotted in a photo recently.

So it's kind of been talked about. Now Emma Slater was married to Sasha. Um, Sasha was Jen trans partner until last night when they were sent home, Sasha Farber. So either way, uh, yeah, it's going to be kind of tough. They're kind of cramped into that little, that little room where they all hang out and it's kind of, can you imagine dancing with your ex and then seeing your ex dancing with your coworker?

I don't know. I know they say don't shit where you eat, but also don't do the Paso Doble where you bang. I know that's just a thought that I had. All right. Army hammer. We've. shared him a few times. He was essentially canceled from Hollywood, and then he was selling real estate in some, you know, Virgin Island somewhere.

Well, now he's riding back into Hollywood and he booked a role in a Western following cannibal claims. Uh, he's, like I said, got this podcast. Obviously he's got a good PR team because he's, he's kind of being shown everywhere. He posted several photos on Instagram earlier this morning, featuring him with a cowboy hat on wistfully looking to the horizon with a script on his lap.

Here's the deal with Armie Hammer. If everything that he did in his past relationship was consensual, if, yeah, and by the way, I don't know. So I'm not vetting this guy. I have no idea, but they ended up never pressing charges on him. If all of that's true. And he, he and his partner just enjoyed some weird stuff, then go, go work, do whatever you want to do.

Uh, but back in 2021, a woman named Effie Angelova Accused Hammer of the R word and said he had cannibalistic fantasies while Hammer's ex Paige Lorenz claims he branded her with an A before licking the blood off of her. Yeah, that's what was kind of weird is, I mean, more than kind of weird. There was a documentary where he had his ex get a tattoo and she didn't at the time realize that it was actually his initials.

So he admitted to discussing cannibalism as a form of role play, but denied being an actual cannibal. Listen, if you're going to be doing role playing out there, you need to insert a disclaimer before every. Like I want to eat your arm off, allegedly for role playing purposes, not in real life. You know what I mean?

And maybe, uh, you know, maybe that's, uh, you know, when this story came out, it's like, look, I didn't believe the cannibalism things because come on, who's like, you know, how many, how many Hollywood people are cannibals, but for whatever reason, people want to believe these crazy stories. Like, you know, Hillary Clinton sucks the blood from the youth.

to, you know, to, you know, so she'll look younger and I'm like, Hillary Clinton doesn't look that young. If you were Jennifer Lopez and you told me that I'd be like, well, you're onto something here. But again, JLo's got that, you know, beautiful Puerto Rican skin. So, uh, you know, clearly that's her solution anyway, just a lot of messiness here.

And you know what? Look, when you break up, there is a lot of messiness and I'm not saying he didn't commit these. Crimes, I'm just saying he was never charged with anything, right? Well, Jenna's, Jenna Dewan's fiance posts something after Channing Tatum announced his split. So Channing Tatum has been engaged to Zoe Kravitz, I guess for a while, they've been dating for three years.

He just finally fin Like finalized his divorce from Jenna. Well, Jenna's fiance, Steve Kazee is having one hell of a chuckle, dropping a very telling message right after he called it quits. And he posted on Instagram, ha ha ha ha ha, like a thousand times. Listen, let me tell you something. This is so petty as hell.

And look, I don't know more to the story, but I'm just like over passive aggressiveness. If you have a problem with Channing Tatum, Own it and say what your problem is. Don't post some vague thing. That's such a, that's so annoying when people just post like some vague thing. Tell me what your issue is. We want to hear the tea.

All right. Uh, speaking of tea, we want to hear from Travis and Taylor, the double T's. Uh, well here they had a guest on Nisi Nash Betts. Uh, and she discussed, uh, sort of how polite the friend group is around the celebrity known as Taylor and Travis. Tell you about, about people who text me about Travis, it all started off saying, you know, we're watching the thing.

Is he the killer? Yeah. Just to get you, just to get you on the line, texting them. And then they like, well, what do you know about his relationship? You know how it goes. I'm like, I'm like, man, get off that man business. I'm a vault. I don't say nothing. You're a real one. You ain't get nothing out of me.

You're a real one. I mean, y'all just being nosy. Don't ask me nothing. If I was, like, a real celebrity, I would feed fake stories to different people to see which gets leaked. That's what I would do. I would be like, all right, my wife, Tasha has gout. And then I would only tell that to one person. And then if it's like a news report, Tasha has gout.

I'd be like, it was you, Rebecca, you'd said it. You know, I give just like, you know, and I'd have to like, keep track of which, you know, whatever. Anyway, it's gotta be, it's gonna be exhausting. I'm trying to keep, uh, the social circle tight, but if you're in that inner circle, you probably really respect them as well.

You see this a lot when there's like celebrities that they, that will often go to the same gym or the same restaurant. You'll see, you'll see it very often that people want to sort of defend them and help them with their privacy because you don't want to blow it, right? You don't want to be the friend that, uh, you know, that blows the fact that they're trying to just have private moments.

Oh, man. Oh, my goodness. That's great. I appreciate you always. And every time someone, uh, that has a mic in front of you always, uh, ask you something like that. Thank you for always showing love. You know, it's real. And you know that me and Tay are absolutely happy and I appreciate you always making sure that everybody knows that.

So thank you. You know, it's gotta be interesting because, uh, I fully believe Travis Kelsey is probably the type to just wear his heart on his sleeve and tell you what he's thinking because he's just kind of like a small town guy and he's got a good sense of humor. But I guess what he's realized with this Taylor Swift thing is if anything is said, you know, about their relationship, it's always going to come back to haunt them in one way or another.

So the best thing is to try to keep quiet and try to just protect that as best as you can. Well, I tell you what, if the, if the Travis and Taylor relationship needs anything, maybe they could use some help in the bedroom. And I've got. Not just the solution for them. I've got VEA. It's a company dedicated to harnessing the natural benefits of hemp to create high quality wellness products.

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Well, the Dodgers star Freddie Freeman was heckled last night during the cancer tribute. They do this nice moment of silence where everyone kind of shares who they're, you know, who they're rooting for with their cancer journey. It's a real special moment. But in that moment, a Yankees fan shouted, you suck.

Now, I wouldn't normally share a story like this, but it's very interesting because you have an audience full of 50, 000 people, all behaving, all respecting this moment. And then some drunk buffoon yells, you suck a, this shouldn't be a news story, but it is. But B, it's kind of like the internet, right?

Freddie Freeman is. He's kind of like the star of the World Series. He's hits, uh, home runs in six straight games dating back to the previous World Series. I mean, he's absolutely a legend right now, and yet somebody in the stand can just tell him he sucks and he has to ignore it and take it because if he lashes back, it'll look bad on him.

That's peak internet. And I'm sure, you know, the socio economic structure of a baseball game, clearly someone in the stand is not someone on the playing field. But on the internet. People in the stands, AKA a troll commenter can treat a content creator or an influencer or someone on Instagram with the same level of vitriol.

And what we have to remember everyone involved is that if someone heckles you and yells, you suck, it really says a whole lot more about them than it does about you. Clearly Freddie Freeman doesn't suck. And for those people out there that troll influencers or whatever, yeah, no, they're just not happy with their lot in life.

That's just what it is. And it's like, that's fine. We just need to remember not to take things so personally on the internet because those people shouldn't have the megaphone to even talk to you that way. All right. I got a lot of stories left to cover Olivia Rodrigo. I've got, um, I've got a, I've got a, uh, the preview for a bachelorette, uh, tonight and then love is blind reunion.

So lots to get into. We'll be back with all that right after this. We shared last week that Olivia Rodrigo was seen falling through the stage and, uh, she calls it beautiful that she had no broken bones. Here's what she had to say on Jimmy Fallon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love all that jam. Uh, there was a moment I saw in Australia.

I don't know if you remember that you went to Australia. Ha ha, yep. Uh, yeah, you fell through a hole in the stage. Oh, God, I know. I'm sorry, I had to bring it up. I know, but I'm bringing it up only because you, you handled it like a pro. Thanks, Jimmy. And you're fine. I actually have a video. So here's the I'm sorry, I have to do it.

Here's Olivia Rodrigo in Australia. Take a look at this. Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage.

Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage. That feels like a Woody line from a Toy Story. There's a snake in my boot. Somebody poison the water hole. Sometimes there's just a hole in the stage. That's alright. What was that? Not bad. No, no, you did a great job. Dude, that could have been It was really scary, yeah.

What did it feel like? Watching the video back is pretty terrifying. I'm, I mean, show must go on, that's showbiz, baby, but um, Yeah, look at you. It was actually kind of a beautiful thing, and I'm really happy it happened in hindsight. Um, so I'd just been to the Philippines, that was my next stop, Australia, after the Philippines.

And I was thinking about my family, and my heritage, and my relatives, Of course. I fell and I was like all shaken up and I went to the hospital after I had nothing happen But they just wanted to make sure I didn't have a concussion and I'm randomly the nurse was a Filipino man with the same name As my grandpa who just passed away a few months ago And so I was like, wow, that was that was him looking out for me making sure I didn't get hurt And so I'm really happy it happened.

I think that was your grandfather. Absolutely That's a sweet moment. So hey, we let you know what that's a positive person making a good decision Sort of a thing out of a tough situation. Well, here's Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsing Kamala Harris. He says, get to the polls. He says, I don't really do endorsements.

I'm not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don't trust most politicians, which by the way, it's such a funny thing to say, having been governor. He said, I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity. I'm a fan. I'm a former Republican governor. My time as governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics.

I'm proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That's policy.

It requires working with the other side, not insulting them, to win your next election. And I know it isn't sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make better decisions. People's lives better with policies like I still do through my institution at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rigged the system against the people.

Uh, Arnold was governor before I really got into politics. I think I was still pretty young or whatever. Just don't remember it. But either way, I kind of remember him getting a lot of criticism as governor, but what a world we live in where a celebrity could just get. Alright, well let's move it over to the Bachelorette.

Tonight's Golden Bachelorette, and it's Fantasy Suites. Here's your preview. This week is Fantasy Suites. I'm hopeful I'm going to find somebody that I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, and this ends with an engagement. I'm falling for you. My heart, it just has to let love in. Can I see myself getting engaged?

I just don't know. So, he says he doesn't know. I feel like that's clickbait. I think Chuck's very much ready to get engaged, but we're excited to see how Fantasy Suites go. It's also the reunion of Love is Blind tonight. I'll be watching that, so make sure you stick around tomorrow morning and we'll have to see what goes down because there's obviously a lot of crazy tea happening in the Love is Blind world.

Well, as promised, I wanted to end on Aubrey Plaza. Here she is giving a speech out of character. She kind of plays a very deadpanned character. Like that's kind of her act. Well, here she is criticizing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. It's been a rough week for Tony Hinchcliffe. Here's what she has to say. As a Puerto Rican woman.

Um, I just wanted to very quickly respond to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, where most of my family is from. Thankfully, my sweet abuelita wasn't here to hear that disgusting remark, but if she was alive today, I think she would say Tony Hinchcliffe. Go yourself and yes, the Wall Street Journal and quote me on that.

Alright. Right. Well there, hey, we, we also like to tell people to go f themselves. We normally save it for a Friday, but Aubrey, maybe, Hey, my a Audrey, uh, Aubrey Plaza, maybe she, uh, maybe she's a rush hour listener, and she's like, yeah, my OTA is gonna tell people to go f themselves. Two, either way, uh, make a note out there.

Don't make fun of Puerto Ricans. No, look, I mean, look, you can make fun of Puerto Rican. You can make fun of anybody. Just, you know, find a way to write a smarter joke and also don't do it at a presidential rally. There's my advice for you. All right, folks, we'll be back in the morning. So much to cover. So share me with your friend groups.

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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. 30th of October, 2024. It's the hump day morning rush hour. And on today's episode, we have a dancing with the stars, shocking elimination of bachelorette, Jen.

I'll share what she had to say after getting a 10. She is now being sent home. And speaking of dancing with the stars, Maxim Chmerkovsky comments on the drama surrounding former dancer, Artem plus a zoo executive gets, Jail time for a monkeying around with millions and the Yankees prevent a sweep with a big world series win.

And Vanderpump rule star explains why there's been a delay in starting a new season, plus more commentary from the failed roast joke, what Biden had to say, and also what Trump had to say and why some of that is getting some negative attention. Okay. We've got a lot to get into stick around and we'll be back with all that content and more right after this.

Did you watch last night's dancing with the stars? Uh, it was a wild one. Jen Tran went home, although she did get a 10 from Carrie Anne, not an overall 10. She scored a 10 and two nines for a total of 28. And Ilona Amar, the, uh, rugby player, uh, is still in the tournament, even though she received a 24.

That's because you also have to do with the fan voting, which is very interesting because, you know, you think of bachelor as having this big loyal fan base. But why didn't they push Jen Tran through when she scored points higher than Ilona? I really can't answer that for you, but here's what she had to say following the news that she was no longer going to be dancing in this competition.

What a way to go out. I mean, hello. You scored a 10. You danced to Olivia Rodrigo. I mean, the song is about vampires, but it's really about men sucking, so I can definitely relate to that one. Fuck here. We all, I mean, I really call it fate, like I wasn't supposed to be here and it to have the experience that I've had and to also cut cross paths with this one, like it's really truly just been so incredible and I couldn't be more grateful.

I'm so proud of her because she worked so hard week in, week out. I'm just so grateful that I got to teach this incredible person, and I'm so proud of her. You're making me ugly cry. Where does this relationship go from here? What was that little giggle? I didn't want her journey to be about relationships or this or that.

I wanted her to be in this for the dancing, and we'll see, you know. No, not we'll see the relationship. We're always working. So now we have some time off. There they go. They have some time off. That being because, of course, she's now eliminated. You know, what sucks about this is, you know, you get paid like, I don't know what they're getting paid, around 20, 000 an episode.

So it's just a lot of money. You want to stick around as long as possible. It's like being in summer camp, right? So good on them for making it this far, but also a little side eye with the online, you know, You know, voters, they didn't push her through. That's what it comes down to. Uh, but, uh, anyhow, some more dancing news.

There's a lot of it. We've got Maxim Chermakovsky, uh, weighing in on the Artem and Nikki, uh, domestic violence issue that happened. Of course, Artem Chigventsev called the cops. On his wife, Nikki, uh, as I guess he accuses her of throwing shoes or something at him. There was a fight that went down when the cops actually showed up.

She said that he had her, and of course he went to jail, but then they never pressed charges on him. So I guess the case has been dropped either way. Maxim Chermakovsky is a very popular former dancer. And he was asked, Hey, what, what do you think about this after, you know, initially he refused to comment on it.

He said he wanted to wait to, you know, see what the police had to say. First of all, I'm just, you know, I think that people need to learn to let go when, when it's, before it's too late. And so if the couples don't work out, I think we live in a world where, you know, you give it an honest, honest effort, and then you can still be happy going your separate ways, and I think that it's one of the examples that we see.

Alright. You know, people would fast to judge Autumn. Uh, I believe that that's also the world we live in now. So, I'm just happy that people got to understand exactly what the situation is not. And, uh, that he gets a chance to also clear his name and move on. So he said he hopes he gets a chance to clear his name and move on.

Look, I'm not, I don't know anything about this situation other than the prosecutors decided not to press charges. And yet, there's still going to be a stain on his name here because, you know, the mugshot goes around, everyone's asked about it, Caitlin Bristow, I mean, everyone who has danced with him in the past was asked about it.

You know, the short of them having a ring cam in their living room, you just won't know what went down and it's truly a sad, regardless for the child. Cause clearly something really bad happened there. Uh, our final dancing with the stars story is the Alona Mar, the rugby player from the Olympics who made it through this week, she was, uh, taught, she was asked in people magazine, uh, what it's like kind of with her newfound fame, is she getting to meet any celebrities?

Here's what she had to say. That's crazy! It's all very positive moms. They're all like, I love what you've done for my daughter. I'm like, where is the unavailable hairs? Where are they? God, I thought there'd be more. No billionaires in here? Thought there'd be more. It's okay, but I love you moms. Keep sending me DMs.

I love them. I'm the same way. I don't get DMs from any of the, you know, I just get moms, a lot of grandmothers. God bless them. We love our audience here. No, no, no pain whatsoever. But for Alona, she's, I think, single, right? So she's like, hey, let's go meet some NFL players. And instead she just gets a mom being like, You were fantastic on the show, honey.

Hey, good for her, you know? Uh, a lot of people have wondered if she could possibly be the next, uh, bachelorette. I don't think so. I think so, but hey, what she proved on Dancing with the Stars is she might have a bigger fan base. Which is hard to believe. Again, I'm just over it. Were people sleeping on Jen?

Or were they just not a fan of her? Bachelor Joey, he made it through with uh, he's, he's doing incredible. He has a chance to win this thing. So who knows? All right, well, we've got a sneak preview for the, I know it's not Christmas yet. If you're like my wife, it starts at midnight on Halloween night, the beginning of November 1st is when she starts with Christmas music, which I personally think that, you know, people should go to therapy if they want to play Christmas music on November 1st, where I come from black Friday, that's when you start after Thanksgiving is when you start.

But either way, because I love my wife, I will play Christmas music for her whenever the hell she wants. Uh, same thing with Harry Potter. She's not feeling well. Let's put some Harry Potter on. I'll go make some soup for you. You know what I mean? Well, Uh, Travis Kelsey's brother, Jason Kelsey every year does a charity, uh, uh, Christmas album, like a real professional album.

And now Travis is taking part. So they have a preview of that album. I'm going to play for you guys just like 30 seconds, if you don't mind, here is a preview of a Christmas song that has Jason and Travis Kelsey performing in it. This was released by the, uh, as a clip by the new heights podcast.

Here it comes. So good! Fantastic. Oh yeah. I can't wait for Travis to hear that. I also just I think when Travis hears it he's gonna be very excited about it. Wandering the streets of my hometown.

Must've been years since I've been home. It's

Christmas time. In Cleveland Heights. It's Christmas time. In Cleveland Heights. There it is. There's the clip. Not bad, right? I'll play more of it when more music comes out when it's the right time, but Hey, look, a little technology, a good producer can turn a football player into a musician, I guess. Uh, now look, should we do a Christmas intro song for the rush hour podcast?

Should we do something like that? I don't know. We'll have to see. Um, I'm still kind of trying to figure out what I want to do for Christmas this year. As far as, you know, all of you guys, what we can do, you know, maybe, maybe, uh, what we could do is, uh, we'll do a stuff. The single mom wishlist where we try to help out some single moms in our community.

We'll get that planned in the next coming weeks. But, um, yeah, we always like to give back. It's a great time of year to really show love. Starts with Thanksgiving, right? So it starts with Thanksgiving, which I, you know, that's my favorite holiday, hands down. It's where you just tell people you're grateful for them.

That's what it's all about. There's something. That I try that, that, that is so meaningful within my soul that I just always feel the need to try to speak to other people and inspire other people. And that is to say, we are all just a vibrational ball of energy. And as we sort of, you know, start to work towards the end of 2024 and work into 2025, there's a lot of toxicity out there, but we can overcome that.

We can overcome that by just, you know, Putting a smile on our face and trying to do good. And it's going to be a rough week. The next week is going to be rough with the election, regardless of what side you're on. It's gonna be a lot of toxicity. There's a lot of, there's some real nasty stuff going on out there.

What I say about that is let's just try to put a nice orb of positivity around our bodies and around our soul. And let's try to fight this thing as an army of love. I know that's a lot. Sounds cheesy to say, but can you do that with me? I'll try to lead you guys in that path, but, uh, let's, uh, let's try to lead with some love.

All right. I got a lot of content to get to, so let's stick around. I'll be back with more right after this. As mentioned, there's a lot of nuttiness going on out there in Georgia, a man barricaded himself in a hotel room at the four seasons hotel. Here's that story. The developing story we're following tonight, those alarming images from Atlanta, a gunman barricading himself inside a room on the 33rd floor at the four seasons in Midtown Atlanta.

You can see they're throwing objects off the balcony, then opening fire, police telling people to shelter in place, SWAT teams evacuating floors above and below, and how this played out. Faith Abubay on the scene for us in Atlanta. Tonight, shots fired in Atlanta, police swarming the busy Midtown area around 2 p.

m. after a man reportedly pulled a gun on someone at the Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, barricading himself inside a residence on Well, it looks like they got the guy in custody. But again, just remember, stay safe out there, folks. Listen, I know, I know the way the internet works and the way news works.

We're a country of 300 plus million people. You're gonna get some deranged and some crazy out there. But whenever the scale is sort of tipping in during chaotic times. There's just going to be people that are on the brink and let's just not, let's just not feed them. Right. Uh, well, speaking of a wild story, here's one for you.

Uh, I guess a prosecutor alleges that this guy Pete Fingerhut misused over 2 million of the zoo's funds on sports, entertainment tickets and alcohol. This guy likes to party. The former marketing director of the Columbus Zoo broke down in court as Pete Fingerhut learned he'll be going to prison for five years.

It was all for a decade long reign of what prosecutors called Fingerhut using zoo assets as a personal entertainment fund and a golden ticket to free food and entertainment. Fingerhut, along with other zoo executives, Rung up more than 2. 3 million dollars worth of booze, tickets, and country club memberships.

Fingerhut made the choice every day to continue his criminal activity and knowing it was wrong. His greed and ego spoke louder than his values. The Ohio Attorney General's office calls it a crime against not just the zoo, But taxpayers. Yeah. So look, I mean, I did the math. If 2 million spread out at over a decade, if you work 180 days a year, that's 1, 100 a day you are burning through.

So this guy liked to party and there he was weeping and crying. And it's like, look, I don't know, you need to get help. You can't just be doing that. Uh, so, you know, I guess, I guess I'm glad that, uh, that they caught him. And by the way, Speaking of catching people, oh boy, the teachers in Texas are in trouble.

I got a story here for you about a lot of teachers, I guess, were caught cheating, uh, in, I guess, in the exam that leads to them becoming teachers. Have a listen to this. They are accused of running a fraudulent exam. teacher certification testing scheme right here in Houston that utilized a test taking proxy or teacher impersonator to take the tests along with a corrupt testing proctor to allow the switch between the applicant and the proxy test taker.

This was used to certify more than 200 unqualified teachers. All. Now, practicing or having practice here in our Texas public schools and in districts across the state. That's crazy. I mean, this, what kind of world do we live in? This stuff's going to be more common with AI. I'm sorry. AI is going to create more shenanigans and fraud.

That's why I say we need, we need to like almost have more money made available to just make sure people are being honest and on the straight and narrow. What the hell is this? Right? All right. Well, in other news, the Yankees, uh, broke their. slump with the bats and beat the Dodgers 11 to 4 and are now down 3 to 1 in the World Series.

Game 5 is tomorrow night. They're still staying in the Bronx, I believe. So, uh, we'll have to see if they can string together a couple more wins, but wild stuff. Isn't this crazy? Uh, what else do we have in the news? Here's a story for you. Blake Lively waited like a normal person for a table at New York City hotspot, dined everything on the menu.

Yes, that's right. This is an article in a newspaper page six. com. Oh, Blake Lively waited like a normal person. Uh, slow news day, you know, cause a lot of people, you know, I, not a lot, but I had that person that said, Oh Dave, I wish you wouldn't talk about politics. This is what you want. Blake Lively waiting like a normal person for a table at a New York City hotspot.

Well then this is what you get. Okay. This is all. We got nothing else going on. That's fine. How about a little Tom Hanks for you? You want some inspiration? Who better than Tom Hanks than, uh, to deliver it? Have a listen. What is the best advice you've ever heard or received? Throw deep, baby. And why? If you're going to do it.

If you have the chance. Do it. Don't pause. Instinct, man. If you got an instinct, go at it. Throw deep. There it is. We call it leap and the net will appear. I mean, what is the hurt in pursuing your dreams out there, folks? What is the hurt? Now, you might find me some limitations. Just remember, any answer that's not, you're right, let's get on and do it, is you telling yourself why it can't happen.

Now don't get me wrong. Take care of your family, you know, you know, fulfill whatever duties you have in life. 2025 is around the corner. It is right around the corner. And rather than start with a hangover on June, you know, January 1st. And, you know, why not start making some of those changes to get yourself in the position to succeed in the ways you want.

I want, and I say this because, you know, in some ways, you know, I'm pursuing my dream. You know, live performing and stuff. I don't know if the podcast and my YouTube channel fulfill all of my destiny. I think there's a bigger thing that I want to pursue out there, but for sure, in the meantime, it's, you know, I'm sure I'm sharpening the sword as it were.

And, um, you know, of course I, I want to be somebody who tells you like, look, you know, good things are out there. When you do what you want to do with passion and speaking of that, Charlie D'Amelio, one of the biggest stars in the world is doing what she does with passion. She's starring in a new Broadway show called and Juliet.

And here she, and of course she won dancing with the stars. She's one of the most recognizable faces on Tik TOK, the biggest star on Tik TOK. Here's what she had to say about the audition process. Yes, so I got the opportunity to audition in New York City. So I flew here in September and did my audition, you know, waited a couple days and then I heard back that they wanted me to be in the show and I got that call and immediately was like, all right, let's go.

We're ready. And, you know, finished up all of the fashion week stuff and immediately came here and started rehearsals. So it was definitely quite a quick turnaround. All right. Well, we're happy for her. She's very quiet. Hopefully she speaks louder on Broadway. You got to enunciate on Broadway, Charlie. I could barely hear you, but either way, good on her.

You know, she's just, uh, you know, she's a someone who just dances on Tik TOK. And I mean, look, if you've ever watched the D'Amelio show on Hulu, I'm telling you her, her family's interesting. You know, it's interesting how many opportunities that have come from them just going viral online. You're like, not a bad thing.

Well, online. Not a bad thing, although can be if it's for the wrong reason. Here is the Will Cain show talking about the behind the scenes with Tony Hinchcliffe after his infamous Puerto Rico joke. Have a listen. You and I went in with Tony Hinchcliffe. You and I, when we entered Madison Square Garden, he was out on the street.

Yeah. Uh, smoke break. Now, as you remember, he's the one who made the roast joke about Puerto Rico being a floating island of trash. It went super viral, but this is the moment that he realized, Oh man, I'm in trouble. He was having a cigarette. And I think that cigarette was to try to calm some of the nerves of what he was feeling, but the first thing he said to us, he's like, it's like, yeah, the, uh, the Harris HQ, uh, that they, they clipped it.

It's everywhere. And I'm getting slack for it. And like, he said that he was shaking. He went back into the garden with us. We rode the elevator together as first time I'd ever met Tony. He was a super nice guy. It was great to talk. We talked about Texas. He, um, immediately told us. Yeah, one of my jokes has already been clipped by Kamala HQ.

Now Kamala HQ is a troll account. That is, I think, actually, officially affiliated with the Kamala Harris campaign. It's a troll account that does this. And it, by the way, it is a huge offender of misinformation. Like, it does the thing where it takes people out of context, and it, and it will tell you, You know, it'll, it'll give you the world through the looking glass.

Well, look, let's hit the pause button there. I wouldn't call it misinformation out of context. I don't know. Short form content. Yes. And I am one that says you should never get all of your news from short form content. Absolutely. Uh, but I wouldn't say it's misinformation. You know what I mean? And, but by the way, there is a lot of misinformation out there.

There is both sides to it. Trying to twist what is being said to benefit them. Uh, and in the final week, I mean, in the final week, we are six days till this election is officially over in the sense that we'll have all cast our ballot by then. Hopefully you guys are voting, but you know, in the final week there'll be, you know, there'll be momentum shifts.

A lot of people have already voted, so maybe none of this even matters, but here is. Joe Biden response. Actually, you know what? We got to take a break. I'll, I'll be back with Joe Biden's response and the sort of slip up the faux pas, if you will, the gaffe that he made, I'll have that for you next. How wild essentially all polls of swing States are at a dead, even a 50, 50 coin toss between Kamala.

And Donald, and yet at this point in the race, the final week, the last thing you want to do is do anything that gets you to lose votes. Of course, Tony Hinchcliffe's comments, uh, have been disavowed by Trump and I'll get to what he has to say in a second. But first here's Joe Biden, not exactly helping the case.

Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community. He's a failed businessman. He only cares about the billionaire friends he has and accumulated wealth for those at the top. He says immigrants are poison in the blood of our country. Give me a break. He wants to do away with the birthright citizenship.

Who the hell has said that in the last hundred years? And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Well, let me tell you something. I don't, I, I don't know the Puerto Rican that, that I know, or Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people.

The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. All right. So of course, that's the moment that the Trump side, that faction is going to use to be, you know, they're going to want that to be like when Hillary called them all deplorables. And I think Biden walked it back, but Hey, you say what you say, you know what I mean?

So it's just one of those things. It won't make a difference at this point. None of it's going to make a difference, but in all fairness, because I try to be fair over here, I'm going to give you what Trump had to say about Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who said the roast joke. So you have this big event at Madison Square Garden.

It went on for hours. Um, I don't even know if you were there for the whole thing. I don't know what time you got there. Uh, I was told and made aware that you had no idea about this comedian who made comments. I still have, I have no idea who he is. Somebody said there was a comedian that joked about Puerto Rico or something, and I have no idea who it was.

Never saw him, never heard of him. And don't want to hear of them, but I have no idea. They put a comedian in, which everybody does. You throw comedians in, you don't vet them and go crazy. It's nobody's fault, but somebody said some bad things. Now, what they've done is taken somebody that has nothing to do with the party, has nothing to do with us.

said something and they try and make a big deal, but I don't know who it is. I don't even know who put them in. Uh, and I can't imagine it's a big deal. I've done more for Puerto Rico than any president. I think that's ever, that's ever been president. All right. There it is. You're happy. You got both sides.

Now let's give you some information to end the morning rush here. Uh, ABC is a good morning, America. The third hour, uh, tells us the difference between the different, uh, I guess, Types of food expiration. You know how it'll say best buy or use by or expired. Apparently they mean different things. Here's what they have to say.

You also say the dates on your food, you should know what they are. Why do you all have fights in your house about this? I know me and my husband do. There's always one of you who was like, nah, nah, nah. That's still good. So I think knowing the difference between best by use by I use the sniff test. And expired is really important.

So if you're doing best buy, right, or a used by, let's start with that one. That's about peak quality. So it's not talking about the safety of the food. And even though you see it on dairy or meats, you definitely want to pay attention, but then follow the date and use your nose and your eyes because it may go past that date.

And that's OK. That's the one my husband has a hard time with. And then there's best buy, which is more about the quality. So you might have like a cereal that isn't quite as crunchy. But it's safe, right? And then finally expired. If you've got medication or you have a baby formula and expired that word, we don't mess with, right?

You know, what's funny is when it comes to expired, like I follow these rules for other people, but for myself, I treat myself. Horribly, you know what I mean? If the milk's chunky, I just shake it up a little bit. You know what I mean? Anyhow, maybe that's, I just don't value myself. I guess I need to, I need to learn to take better care of myself.

I did buy myself UGG slippers in an attempt to take better care of myself. So I got that going for me. All right. Look, we made it to the end of this morning's episode. Uh, I hope you're having a good day at work today. And I'll tell you what, I'll be live on Patreon this morning. Patreon. com slash Dave Neal.

If you want to join me behind the scenes to do a couple hours of. Private live streams. We'll have a couple of YouTube videos and then I'll catch you this afternoon. I'll see you then. As always, 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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10-29-24 Afternoon Rush - Why 50 Cent Turned Down $3Mil Gig & Comedian Marc Maron & Jon Stewart Discuss Tony Hinchcliffe 'Roast' Failure & Kristin Cavallari Shares Fun Clip!

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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, everyone in my Rush Hour community. It is Tuesday, the 29th of October, 2020. And I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

On this episode, 50 Cent reveals he turned down a 3 million offer to rap a couple songs at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. Plus rumors fly that Bachelorette Jen is dating her partner, Sasha. I've also got famous comedians fighting over their Thoughts on the Tony Hinchcliffe roast gone wrong, Mark Maron and Jon Stewart take opposing views, plus some inspirational thoughts on how to stop letting negative self talk hold you back.

And also Joe Rogan offers an update on if he will interview Kamala Harris, plus Subway was sued for misleading sandwich ads. I'll explain why. And also our Self driving taxis, good or bad? I'll break that story down and so much more coming up next on The Rush. Now that we have a voicemail line, I can properly let you guys fact check me.

The voicemail line is 401 558 7841. And I was fact checked after my story about Hayley Welch. We made fun of Hayley Welch because she thought that Helen Keller was deaf. Blind and also was Amelia Earhart because she said she flew planes. And I said, how ridiculous is that? Amelia Earhart, or Helen Keller doesn't fly planes.

Well, Paige from Fort Wayne, Indiana actually is here to correct us. Hey Dave, my name is Paige and I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I think you're great. But I wanted to tell you that Annie Welsh was not wrong, at least not. Unintentionally wrong. Fun fact. Helen Keller piloted a plane in 1946 by herself for 20 minutes with her interpreter, uh, relaying instructions from the pilots of Keller.

So maybe not completely by herself, but she did file a plane. Uh, fly a plane. All right. Uh, have a good one. I love it. Thank you so much, Paige. And I love, Paige is so funny. She goes, I think you're great, but that should be the name of my tip line. Dave, we think you're great, but here, and again, at the end of this episode, I'll have another clip, uh, voicemail that I got, but if you want to leave a voicemail with any questions, updates, or thoughts, 401 558 7111.

I don't answer it. It goes straight to the voicemail and I'll play them for you. Well, imagine having so much money you can turn down a 3 million offer to perform at Madison Square Garden. That's 50 cents. He, uh, I guess he's worth more than 50 cents. He's, uh, by the way, 50 cents. And now, you know, he's been, you know, the one trying to expose Diddy for so long.

It seems as though he might be our new national hero, 50 Cent. Here's what he had to say, uh, speaking to Charlemagne, the God, about his decision to turn down the pretty penny. I got a call, but they wanted me to, well, Sunday. Oh, they wanted you to come yesterday? This week? Oh yeah, cause they wanted you to perform mini mini, they wanted you to perform mini mini at the RNC too, right?

Yeah. And yeah, they offered me 3 million. To perform? At the RNC or this past Sunday? This past Sunday. Three million and then they offered you money for the Republican National Convention too, right? He turns down that yeah, I didn't Even go far, but I wouldn't talk to them about that kind of stuff. I'm afraid of politics.

He says, I'm afraid of politics, bro. And look, let me tell you something. If he doesn't want to perform many men for 3 million, I will. Okay. Many men. Wish death upon me. All right. Anyway, so there it is three million dollars. I'll take that in cash Uh, what if you paid them in 50 cent coin pieces? That would be how many 50 cent?

Let's do a little trivia for you guys How many 50 cent coin pieces do you need to be paid to make three million dollars? Six million of them. Okay. Uh, there you go. You're smart out there folks. Don't let anyone tell you Otherwise, there's your 50 cent update and now we've got bobby flay the uh, chef Talking about sliding into Kristen Cavallari's DMs.

This is uh, you know, an interesting chat amongst friends. Ever slide into the DMs? Or have you ever? Actually, I have to, I want to talk to you about this. Okay. Because you and I had a situation where I was going to Nashville. Okay, yeah, let's talk I tell this? Yes, absolutely. I was going to, I was coming to Nashville literally for one day for a meeting.

And I was like, who do I know in Nashville? Okay, so I DM'd you. Yeah. And I was like, And, and I said to you now, I know what I, what words I use specifically because you reminded me, I said, can I, I'm going to be in Nashville for one night, can I take you to dinner? Yeah. And you literally said something to me, like, I'm already like dating somebody.

And I said, I just want to go to dinner with you. I was like, uh, foot and mouth. And then, and we had the best time, but what you taught me is something I didn't know, which is the words that you use made me feel that way. You said when you, when you said, can I take you to dinner? To me, that is a date. Okay.

Right. I mean, I didn't think of it that way. I know, but also I think there's a fair argument that I shouldn't just assume. I said this to you too. I probably shouldn't have just assumed that you also wanted to take me on a date, but I think that's fair too. Um, everyone wants to take me out. Calm down. Take it easy.

Relax. By the way, Bobby Flay. For sure would have accepted that if Kristen's like, Oh, it's a date. Then he'd be like, I guess it's a date. You know, it just goes to show, even if you're a celebrity chef, like Bobby Flay or a celebrity influencer, like Kristen Cavallari, you still don't know how to define these things.

My whole generation. Doesn't know how to ask people out. I think we were just weird, right? I, and maybe it's because we kind of had to do it before cell phones existed, like old millennials, you had to be like, Hey, you want to go study together? And then you'd be like, are we studying? Are we hooking up? Like, what is it?

You know? And, uh, I think what, what you kind of learn maybe with a little bit of alcohol, uh, you know, in your twenties is to just shoot your shot, you know? But now we're back into that world where you're liking it. It's so vague, right? You're liking each other's. Instagram photos. That's like the first point of contact is like, are you, you know, showing that, that like subtle social media flirting?

I don't know. So I kind of, I kind of respect Bobby Flay for just saying, let me take you to dinner. Even if he says he didn't mean it in that kind of way. I also am like, I don't quite believe it. All right. Well, we have a lot of talk about comedians. We'll get into what Mark Maron and John Stewart had to say about Tony Hinchcliffe.

Possibly costing somebody the presidential election. I mean, it literally could come down to that. It's such a coin toss. But before we get to that, here is comedian, um, uh, the hell is his name? John Mulaney, uh, in a surprise. Speech. He actually reads text messages he received from his concerned wife, Olivia Munn.

Of course, John Mulaney, a Chicago's finest just has a funny, he just has a way of making everything funny. Here's what he had to say. This was reported by InStyle Magazine. I guess it was at an award that they were giving her for women of impact, uh, women of impact honoring her for visibility and change making in women's health.

And here's what he had to say before he introduced her. constantly trying to keep me out of danger and keep me alive through a series of texts throughout our entire relationship. Here is a text she sent me when I was going to the Tom Ford store in Chicago. Baby, be so careful today. You can get monkey pox trying on clothes at a store and or not washing your new clothes.

March of 2023, 7 a. m. She texted me in People Magazine article, Florida man dies of brain eating amoeba after rinsing sinuses with tap water. And she texted underneath it, John, John, we are never moving to Tampa. Now we had never discussed moving to Tampa, but it was officially off the table. Okay. This was one after this was like the 200th time.

I took our son on a walk. In the stroller in Chicago. She wrote me, out of nowhere, no context. Please be so careful today. So many crazy things can come out of nowhere. I texted back, like what? Olivia responded, crazy cars. You don't hear enough about crazy cars. I don't, I can't believe it's not an issue in this election.

John John, Dick Van Dyke just got into a car accident. Bloody nose, bloody mouth. You have to be so careful driving in the rain. Oil collects on LA streets. I wrote back, Because of Dick Van Dyke, question mark? Olivia wrote back, Yes. When I was on tour in Australia, she sent me this. Baby, so many things in Australia can kill you.

Just go to your show and go back to your hotel and never go outside. Then, this is the last one. You have a family to think about now. Very good. There it is. I mean, it's true, right? Every relationship has a risk adverse person who just doesn't want life to be lived. You know, it might hail out there. You just never know.

And, uh, good for Olivia and for JonJon right there. Very heartwarming stuff to listen to. All right. I'll be back with that Jon Stewart story and a lot more. So stick around. We'll be back right after this. By the way, before I get into the Jon Stewart story, we have Subway being sued for a misleading sandwich ad.

Can we do a better job? I don't know if this is an FDA issue or whatnot, but we've got E. coli coming from onions and McDonald's. Subway's not even real. In my opinion, I don't want to get sued for defamation, but didn't they already show that in, in Ireland, they can't technically call Subway sandwiches bread because they're just not.

So it's like, what are these companies doing? What science are they doing to keep us from, you know, or just to maximize their profits and how does it affect us? Well, now they're being sued in a, I guess, a class action lawsuit. Here's what today's show had to say about it. This morning, Subway facing scrutiny in a new proposed class action lawsuit.

The plaintiff, Anna Tolleson, accusing the restaurant chain of grossly misleading customers after she bought a steak and cheese sandwich that the suit says contained 200 percent less meat than the heroes depicted in Subway ads. Tolleson's suit arguing that Subway's actions are especially concerning now that inflation, food and meat prices are very high.

Now my question would be, are you even sure that that was meat? Adding many consumers are struggling financially. And the suit says other Subway customers have noticed shrinkage in its sandwiches too. Similar lawsuits filed in the same court against McDonald's, Wendy's, and Taco Bell were dismissed last year.

NBC News has reached out to Subway for comment. Now what happens? What's next? So look, a judge has to certify or approve this to move forward, right? That could take some time. It's up to a judge next. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified, unspecified damages. For New Yorkers over the past three years who bought sandwiches and didn't get exactly what they thought they were going to get.

Can't be all buns. I mean, look, I don't know how I feel about this. We live in an overly litigious world, but at the same time, you have to sort of. Hold people accountable, but you know, if you're ordering your food and it doesn't come out how you want it, just don't buy it. You know what I mean? Just say, no, I'm, I don't agree to the sale there.

Uh, I'll tell you what, the only time I ever go to a Subway sandwich shop is if I'm at like a gas station on a trip and that's all they have, you know? It's like, I used to love, I used to love a good Subway sandwich. You go in there, you get extra banana. I, uh, it's the only time I ever eat those banana peppers.

What are they? Pepper chinos, whatever they're called. Uh, who cares? Right? That's the only. I'm in there, but who knows who, you know, that sneeze guard, the bread's just too fluffy. I'll tell you what the best thing that Subway sandwiches has is their chocolate chip cookies. And I will fight you on that. Who the hell are they to serve like raspberry white chocolate?

Now. Have I ever turned one of those down? No, but that's because I'm a sugar addict, but the chocolate chip cookies are quite, quite, I'll join the class action lawsuit if they pay in free chocolate chip cookies for life. Alright, let's move it on. So we've got a few different stories to jump into here. Of course, we've covered the Tony Hinchcliffe roast joke that he told at the campaign event for Donald Trump.

And of course it is received. Tons of backlash all around the world. Well, Mark Maron calls out comedians who joke around with white supremacists and fascists on their podcasts. All it does is normalize fascism. That's what he had to say. When someone who uses their platform for that reason, they are facilitating anti American sentiment and promoting violent.

Uh, autocracy, he wrote in a blog post shared to social media. He did not call out anyone by name. The post comes three days after Joe Rogan, who's Joe Rogan experience experience is the number one podcast in the U S and on Spotify and Apple. He released an episode with guest Donald Trump. So I guess he was actually more so calling out.

Joe Rogan, even though I do not do a political show, I have been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe and have believed for years. What is brewing in this country is an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources.

Well, it's fully percolated and pouring into the minds of all of us. It is shameless and proud culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear mongering and the anti woke movement is Has delivered their message for the future, a future that marginalizes almost all voices. Well, that's what, that's what's interesting is he doesn't just blame one side.

He, well, I guess he is, he's blaming the anti woke movement, this sort of backlash from progress. He continued. That the anti woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement.

Um, you know, I guess that's, yeah, I guess that's a result of people feeling like their free speech was infringed upon or attacked, which it wasn't. But, you know, you'd be lying if you said, Cancel culture wasn't real. People do cancel things. People are canceling their Washington Post subscriptions, 200, 000 of them because they didn't like, um, the fact that they, you know, didn't, uh, endorse a president.

Um, but Joe Rogan has said that he wanted to have both sides on. He said he still might interview Kamala. Uh, here's, you know, he was obviously getting questions following his interview of Donald Trump. So here's what he had to say. For the record, the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast.

They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and to get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.

Let me tell you something, Kamala Harris, if you're listening, Vice President Kamala, Go on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's only going to help you to normalize who you are and for people to get to know you, uh, Trump received a hundred million plus views in different platforms. It's going to be absolutely good for you, but you know, every day, there's so many people online, uh, you know, voting beforehand, it's like you better, you better get going.

You know what I mean? Oh boy. You know, obviously. He, he likes to indulge in a nice drink or maybe, you know, have a little weed. I'm not saying you should go smoke weed on there with them, but have a good time. But if you do want an edible, I got to tell you today's sponsor is VEA, my new favorite adult gummy.

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Please support the show and tell them we sent you. This fall, enhance your every day with VEA. Enhance your every day with VEA. All right. So let's keep the party rolling here. We shared what, uh, what, uh, Mark Marin had to say. Um, and look, I don't even know if it's productive to call things fascist because I don't even think most people even know what that means, but Jon Stewart shared his thoughts on Tony Hinchcliffe's performance during Trump's rally.

Um, it seems as though Jon Stewart had essentially the same opinion that I did. I'll play his opinion and then i'll share kind of how I think it's the same as mine. Come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key voting demographic. Probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy's really just doing what he does.

I mean, here he is at the Tom Brady roast a few months ago. The great Jeff Ross, ladies and gentlemen. Jeff is so Jewish, he only watches football for the coin toss. Gronk, you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on the ovens. Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton, they called it deadlifting.

Yes, yes, of course. Terrible, blue, yes.

There's something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and have him not do roast jokes. That'd be like bringing Beyonce to a rally and not have. Oh. All right. So here's the deal. And I made pretty much the same comparison. It's not even worth addressing what Tony Hinchcliffe said, because if you go to a comedy show and.

Or if you go to a roast, you're, you're kind of, um, you, you, you accept the terms and conditions, which is nothing's off limits. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't, you know, that's what a roast battle is. It's two people roasting each other. And usually one person wins and one person loses. Uh, of course the main issue is not that Tony Hinchcliffe.

Does what he does. It's that it happened at a campaign rally. You could talk about punching down and all those things. I mean, you know, that's a whole different conversation, but what, what I think I agree with, with Jon Stewart here, it's, it's not even a conversation about Tony Hinchcliffe. It's a conversation about who thought this was a good idea and how big of a faux paw or whatever you want to call it.

It was, I mean, it'd be the same thing as, uh, Like, like I said before, hiring an adult entertainer to do a pole dance at the podium. It's just not the time or place. And when you talk about political correctness, it used to be that the only place you needed to be PC was in politics. It's the most important place to be.

PC. And that essentially is the point that Tony Hinchcliffe has been making these jokes on TV at roast. So again, blame Tony or don't blame Tony. You really should be blaming the, uh, people that thought this was a good idea. And just know that you should, if, listen, if you are a Trump supporter, you should be upset because it just, it, you know, having someone like that there, it just puts fuel on the fire for, you know, You know, uh, for, uh, people to say what they want about your side.

All right. Well, last, last clip I have here is Shannon Sharpe talking to vice president Kamala Harris about how much money they make. I'll have this right after a quick word from our sponsor. All right. Kamala Harris was on Shannon Sharpe's podcast, discussing the pay that you get as the vice president.

What, what do you define as a black job? Cause let me tell you what I define as a black job, vice president, United States. That's a good one, right? It is. I don't know about the pay, but it's a good job to have. Well, you know, not everybody is Shannon Sharpe. No, but you know what I wanted to ask? It's true though.

They really don't get paid that much money. You know, plenty of YouTubers and podcasts. I mean, I hate to say, I think I'm, I think I could, Possibly. I mean, don't get me wrong. Kamala probably makes, they probably make a lot of money in other ways. If you know what I mean, looking at you, Nancy Pelosi. Okay. So anyhow, that's it for your, uh, political stories, but I gotta tell you, you know, someone said, Oh, Dave, you know, I don't listen to your podcast anymore because it was a safe space to get away from the political talks.

Listen, you've got former athletes, podcasters, entertainers. It's all mixing with politics right now. What the fuck? Fuck, do you possibly think I would have to talk about if we didn't talk about this wild, wild world we live in right now? Good grief, you know? Like, like I said this before, you want me to talk about J Lo?

I got no J Lo stories. There's literally nothing going on. I can't do 50 minutes a day on Dancing with the Stars. So just give me a break. All right. Well, I promised you I'd have some nice, uh, motivational thoughts here. So here is James Doty, a doctor, a neurosurgeon talking about not letting negative self talk hold you back.

Have a listen. It doesn't matter where you're at. It's matters what you believe. When you have this negative self talk and you create these limited belief systems, that is the prison you're creating for yourself. And the first step. Though, is to understand that, yes, circumstances can be very horrible. Yes.

Circumstances can result in you not even being able to feed your family. And I truly acknowledge that because I know what it's like to be hungry. Regardless, you have possibilities when you're able to interrupt. That negative belief system, when you're able to look through the lens of possibilities, because when you are negative, when you say it's not possible, the world is against me, everybody hates me, fundamentally, you're changing your physiology.

We have oscillation or vibrations that come from our bodies. And one of the greatest ones is from your heart. If you have this negative self talk, if you create this negativity, that goes out. I mean, the, the bioelectrical energy that comes from your heart extends three to five, uh, feet outside your body.

And I'm sure you've experienced, you were mentioning something earlier. Gosh, when you walked in, you made me feel good. That is a gift all of us have to give people. And I'm sure you've met people who, as soon as you meet him, go, I do not like that person. All of us have the ability to become the former, not the latter.

It's how you look at the world. And when you change, how you look at the world from that one of negativity, because you know, your situation is difficult to look at. There are amazing possibilities here. Because what I tell people, when I changed how I And of course, that's a, you know, an old quote, Wayne Dyer said, it basically reflects Einstein's thoughts that when you change, when you decide to live, you know, it's a, it's your biggest decision in life to decide if you live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world.

It can be tough out there when you, when you're beaten down by the dopamine crashes of social media and all the negative comments that come out there. Just remember, don't let Rob you of that joy harness it and you know tend to that fire every day go on a nice hot girl Walk a hot boy walk go out there and take care of yourself and uh the world I I really believe it will take care of you.

All right. Well, that's it for me For me, we got a lot of content we didn't get to. We'll just save it for tomorrow morning. We'll see you then have a good one. Everyone. I hope you enjoyed your ride home. We'll talk to you tomorrow. 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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10-29-24 Morning Rush - Gisele Bundchen Is Pregnant! & Chicks In The Office Thinks Some 'Dancing WIth The Stars' Relationships Are Faked!

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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. It's Tuesday, the 29th of October, 2024. I got all of your Entertainment and pop culture news in one place and a surprise pregnancy announcement by Giselle Bunchen.

And also a Vegas brothel has incentives for people to get out and vote. I'll explain what that is. And world series game three is in their books after a wild ending. The Dodgers hold off the Yankees with a four to win a three to nothing series lead. Game four is tonight. They've all but wrapped up the world series, not to jinx it.

And a conspiracy that I've got from chicks in the office that dancing with the stars ex couple Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko faked their relationship. Also, the FBI investigates burning ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington. Plus captain Sandy from below deck reveals how she sabotages the crew during filming.

Plus the Rockefeller Christmas tree has been picked out in Stockbridge, Mass. And also, subscribers are cancelling their memberships with Washington Post after Jeff Bezos interferes with their endorsement of Kamala Harris. The big question being, why? I've got the answer to all that and so much more coming up next on The Rush.

Let's start the episode off with some wild and breaking news, that being Giselle, I guess the most famous model of all time, definitely the most successful, announced she's having a baby! So, here's what's next! Congrats to her. Here's the story. Of course, she was shacked out with Tom Brady for a long time.

Uh, they have since parted ways when he didn't want to quit football. Who else knows what led up to it, but she is now with a jujitsu guy and a gee whiz. Uh, looks like they're having a kid. She gave Tom the hea Do you like that pun? Gee? Because a gee is the outfit they wear. whiz? Okay. I just, you know, I didn't want that to fly over your head.

Uh, but she gave Tom Brady the heads up on her pregnancy. Didn't want him to find out from the media. You know, I mean, look. If you share kids with somebody, Anything you can do to try to make things as smooth as possible is the best thing for the kids, right? And they do have several children together.

She's now pregnant, uh, with Joaquin Valente. Uh, and, uh, I think she started dating this guy like pretty quickly after. I don't know if there's any overlap. I don't know when her and Tom were on the outs, but either way, you know, it sucks. He, you know, he was, you know, I don't know if she gave him the ultimatum, Tom Brady, but it's like the guy was 44, 45.

He was close to retiring. I'm not saying it was her fault, but it's like, you know, come on. The guy was so close to retiring. He just, how can you say no to football? You know, he's the greatest player of all time. Unclear how long Tom and their two kids have known Giselle was pregnant. But as we first reported Monday TMZ, that is she's at least over halfway through her pregnancy.

I have no idea. You know. This whole idea, you know, some people show earlier than others, you know what I mean? But she's going to be a mom at 44 and she shares a, uh, two kids with Tom, 14 year old Benjamin and 11 year old Vivian. I think that's gotta be so hard. To have kids, uh, you know, and then a decade later have another kid.

It's like, you finally get your sleep back. My thing is traveling. You know, you go to the airport, the kids can finally walk themselves through the thing. I got a six month old. I'm at the, I'm at the stage where my child. Poops in the TSA line. There's something about the TSA line that triggers a blowout every single time.

And now she's going to have to be dealing with that again. Oh, who knows? Maybe she, uh, flies private either way. Uh, and Tom, of course, had a baby with Bridget Monahan before that. So they've got quite the mixed family. Good on them. So they got divorced in 2022, but of course she's gotten closer and closer to the Joaquin.

And, um, yeah, I mean, what do you know? Good on them. Uh, Tom's doing just fine. Uh, and in other news of relationships that made it and then didn't make it, Chicks in the Office has a theory that Brooks Nader, uh, from this season of Dancing with the Stars and Gleb actually weren't even dating. Here's what they had to say.

This entire thing is fake. I think they were never dating or whatever. I think they put on this whole showmance. I think now this big breakup, they're just looking for clout, followers, people, engagement, people are into it. It's working for them, but I think all coordinated by the two of them. I think they, they coordinated the showmance and they are now coordinating this public weird breakup.

I think that this is the fakest of all time. I mean, I like a good conspiracy. I just don't know if they're smart enough when I look at them from beginning to end. I, I don't like, I am not into this. Like, I don't, I don't like it. Like, I, I just like, They are both making me like weirded out like I'm like I don't I don't I don't know I don't like just from the start.

I was like these two like I feel like they're on another planet I don't know. I mean they were photographed getting tattoos together They're both pretty good looking people. She just got a divorce. So she's recently single. I don't know. I don't know where I stand I personally think Sasha and Jen Tran Are sort of hinting at a relationship that's not there, which they don't have to do, but you know, why not have fun with it?

Who cares, right? It's a big thing. Who cares? Maybe they're together. I'd love it if they weren't. I'd have a story to make, but I don't know if I believe that. Well, there's another episode of Dancing with the Stars tonight. Uh, we'll have to see who's going to be going home, uh, soon. So we'll let you know, I guess, on tomorrow morning's episode after we get all that information.

Well, are you planning to vote? A Vegas strip club in neighboring brothel are offering free lap dances if you wear your I voted sticker. So it looks like Vegas is going to have quite a lot of people, uh, you go into the ballot box, if you know what I mean, they're going to be hitting that ballot box all pretty hard.

If you ask me. Uh, Uh, so, hey, good on them. Hey, I mean, you still, just so people know, a gentleman's club, you gotta be a gentleman. You still have to tip, uh, leaving the Pack. Vegas Staple Crazy Horse. Three Gentleman's Club setting election day on fire with their Dances for democracy. Election day, erection day, whatever the hell you want to call it.

But good on them, you know? And you might be thinking, how come Elon Musk can offer people a million dollars to go vote? But they can't give away free lap dances. What kind of world is this? We live in. Well, I'll tell you what, uh, from Giselle being pregnant to, uh, you know, might not be the craziest pregnancy story.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is actually taking a pregnancy test this week. She's cutting through the confusion about her unborn child's paternity. We're told she's finally set to take a paternity test this week. Oh boy. Bring in Brett. From Ravgen, we missed you, Brett. We haven't talked to you in a while, so we'll have to see.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ Gypsy isn't questioning her boyfriend Ken's paternity. She's doing this to give the public and her estranged ex, Ryan Anderson, some closure so he and everyone else can move on and know once and for all, who is the baby daddy. So, all right, good. I mean, look, you know, you just want to be no for sure.

And boy, she's good at staying. Listen, I could care less. Who the father is with Gypsy Rose. I wish I didn't know who she was, but for some reason, she's just one of those storylines that just won't seem to go away. And I mean, at least she's actually pregnant. Uh, unlike the little to no fetal DNA found by Clayton Eckerd's accuser, who of course said she was pregnant with Clayton's twins, they said, no, you weren't in for some reason or another.

That evidence was not brought into the courtroom. We'll have to see if the federal investigators or should say. State investigators, uh, maybe subpoena Brett from ravgen to find that out. Uh, if, if it is, or when it is, they decide to indict Laura Owens podcaster for all of the sort of, uh, financial, or I should say medical fraud and whatnot that was committed.

All right. Well, speaking of investigations, the FBI is investigating hundreds of ballot boxes. Uh, that were lit on, excuse me, hundreds of ballots that were lit on fire by joining the investigation. Now, after three ballot drop boxes were set on fire in the Pacific Northwest, destroying hundreds of ballots.

Images of burning paper being pulled out of a drop box. This is Vancouver, Washington, just before dawn this morning. And what officials are now saying voters should do. Here's our Chief Justice Correspondent, Pierre Thomas, now. Tonight, the FBI on the hunt for a suspected arsonist behind three fiery attacks on ballot drop boxes, destroying hundreds of ballots in the Pacific Northwest.

We do have smoke coming out of the ballot box. Officials say the fires, only miles apart in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. were sparked by incendiary devices attached to the outside of the drop boxes. Any form of voter intimidation, disruption, blocking of access, or vandalism at these sites will not be tolerated.

Authorities concerned that someone could get hurt releasing a photo of the suspects Volvo. This box set ablaze just before dawn in Vancouver, Washington. Officers prying open the box, then pulling out ballots still burning. An hour earlier in Portland, a second find. It looks like there's some kind of, uh, a device attached to the ballot box.

Luckily, only three ballots damaged because of fire suppressant. It comes as Homeland Security officials today issued a new bulletin warning that domestic violent extremists are posting online threats of violence toward election officials or infrastructure to prevent perceived fraud or to retaliate against it.

Alright, so look, I I want to do my best to use my platform with you guys to try to walk people through what's going to happen on election night, because chances are on election night, we might not have the results of the election. I'll save that all for the back end of this episode. So just stick around.

We'll do some more entertainment news. And at the end of this episode, I just want to, you know, give my own PSA as to what we can expect to happen so that when it does, we just are all on the same page and that's an apolitical conversation. I don't think we want. Political violence or violence in any way for ourselves, for the sake of democracy and whatnot.

So more on that in a little bit, and we'll be back with more content coming right after this. Do you watch below deck on a Bravo? It's a fantastic show about these charter yachts. And of course, captain Sandy is one of the better known captains. Well, she spills production secrets at a fan fest panel about how she was messing with the crew.

Tell you a little secret. So sometimes I get upset with production. And I'll take that boat and I'll stuff it into waves. I'll make sure that boat goes like this. And then I'll call all those crew that they hired up on the bridge and I'll say, Hey, you guys know where the life rafts are? Oh my God, you're evil and I love it.

How many crew are on board at any one time? So we have about, uh, 28 to 33 on board, uh, with production. There are cameras in every corner and microphones. I even have to look for them So when they leave the boat and they have a dark day I go in that room and I look at all those cameras and angles and make sure but sometimes I forget because you can see How I look you know, look if you don't watch Below deck.

I'm telling you, it's a fantastic show. Cause it's really about the debauchery of the crew who has to, you know, kind of like, uh, be sober and coherent for these party guests. And then when the guests are off the boat, they just get debaucher as they're all hooking up with each other. It's a, it's a fantastic show.

And believe it or not, I've been told that one of the casting directors for below deck, uh, is actually a fan of mine and watches my content, if that's true, and you want my wife and I to be guests on the. Cruise on the yacht, we'd be happy to do that. I just don't think we would be that controversial. Uh, I don't see us, you know, we don't really drink much.

And, uh, I mean, we fight like any normal couple. I just don't think it'll be that interesting. It'll be my wife more so asking me why I left a dirty diaper and didn't throw it out. You know what I mean? It's a real unproblematic stuff. Who knows though? Hey, I got comedy friends. We could get some comedians on the yacht.

We could have fun. All right. Well, they found the new tree. For Christmas for the Rockefeller center, Christmas tree. It's in Stockbridge mass, 74 feet tall. It's a Norway spruce. Listen, I'm telling you right now, do we really need to be cutting down trees every year? Can't they find a way to just make a fake tree?

I hate to say it. Can we do a fake tree? In central in uh in rockefeller center every year. Why do we have because like all right, you know They cut the tree down a bunch of squirrels families have to get relocated, isn't it? I mean i'm not trying to be a buzzkill here, but it seems like it's quite the mess.

All right Uh big issue going on with washington post. So jeff bezos Is being criticized Uh, after, I guess he's doing some dealings with Trump. I, you know, I try to save the political stuff for the end, but this is a newspaper. This is one of the biggest newspapers in the country and in the world, the Washington Post is supposed to be a reputable newspaper, but of course, the Amazon owner bought it and, uh, they, uh, this year the editorial section was supposed to pick an endorsement, like who are they going to endorse and they, along with LA times, both decided not to endorse anybody, which it's like.

I guess that would be fine, but it's like, there's the editorial section, and then there's the news section. And this is just the way it's always been done. Here's what happened. Jeff Bezos is being criticized after executives from his company met with Trump the day Bezos reportedly stopped the Washington Post from endorsing Harris.

Here's what we know. Executives from multi billionaire Jeff Bezos's aerospace company, Blue Origin, met with Donald Trump just hours after the Post, owned by Bezos. Announced they would not be endorsing a presidential candidate on October 25th. So I guess it's the same issue that people have with Elon Musk.

They think he's sort of supporting Trump because he wants Tesla to be deregulated and is really a weird thing we're seeing, right? It's like, why are all these billionaires? So excited to have Trump. It's almost like the billionaires that need, uh, sort of regulation want him. And then you've got the other billionaires cause I mean, there aren't that many, but you have billionaires like Mark Cuban, who is anti Trump.

So I don't know. I mean, everyone's got their own best interest in mind. Uh, but now after failing to endorse a candidate candidate, and after it came out that Elon Musk is probably behind. And first of all, do we really want Trump? Billionaires owning newspapers. I mean, this just sounds crazy, regardless of what side you're on.

I want news to feel like it's completely, uh, not bought and paid for it. You know what I mean? Huge breaking news right now. The Washington post has lost more than 200, 000 subscribers since failing to endorse in the presidential election. And two of its top editors resigned today. Now to put that into perspective, that is 8 percent of the entire newspaper's revenue gone out of the window because Jeff Bezos decided to block an endorsement of Kamala Harris.

In an effort to get into the good graces of former President Donald Trump. But look, do you think he even cares? This is chump change to him. Which is why billionaires, you know, shouldn't be allowed to own new I mean, whatever. You guys, you guys understand. I think it's a very reasonable point that I have here.

That it's not about one side versus the other. It's about How as a country, do we get back to trusting people to deliver the news? I honestly don't have an answer to that, uh, but it might get worse before it gets better, really. Uh, you know, there's already. Okay. So there's already this idea happening that, oh, you know, this, well, here's what happened last election, right?

Last election was during the pandemic. So there was a lot of votes that were tallied that were mail in votes. And a lot of those votes don't even get counted depending on the state until election night. So what happened is something they were calling a red mirage. And that is the idea that when you go to bed on election night, it looks like there are more People voting red.

And then when you wake up the next day, you realize there was actually millions of votes that had yet to be counted. And again, that, that doesn't mean there's cheating happening. That's just technically explaining how the, how the votes are counted. It's almost like you'll see. Um, you'll see one state, uh, skewing very high for the Democrats because they only counted maybe inner city votes in Atlanta.

And then you realize once they count the rural votes that normally vote red, it changes things. So what really should be done is we should not be expecting to know who won on the night of the election, which is one week from today. Here's how an NPR producer named Audrey Wynn explained the situation. On election night, states where Republicans are May not stay that way as more places report their election results after polls close Those seemingly Republican states could switch in favor of Democrats This phenomenon is called the red mirage or the blue shift and when it happened in 2020 then President Trump and his allies said it was evidence of voter fraud, but The truth is, it's because there's a big difference in how ballots are counted across the U.

S. These differences mean counting takes longer in some places than others. There are two main reasons for this. First up, research from MIT found that in the 2020 election, smaller and more rural counties, which favored Trump, counted results more quickly than bigger urban areas. Second, there are partisan differences in how people vote.

Republicans are more likely to vote in person, while Democrats are more likely to vote by mail. And there's something else. Some states have laws that limit when they can start processing all those mail in ballots that come in. Take, for example, the swing states, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. State laws there don't allow mail in ballots to be processed until after.

So then you can, you can understand the problem there, right? So the bandwidth is fried on election night and they don't even start counting till, you know, till that day. So, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's almost like this. And I know I'm talking to a bunch of reasonable people. I'm. I'm almost warning you guys and our whole audience that we're about to watch a lot of misinformation happen, uh, right in front of our eyes when we know dang well, this is how the world works.

I mean, maybe more Republicans would have voted early, but Trump was telling people not to in the last election. You should always vote early. As early as possible, it'll free up time on election day. So there's less lines, which will encourage more people to actually vote. God forbid it's raining or there's some sort of weather event that happens on election day, then only the people that are privileged enough to be able to drive their own cars or sit through traffic or whatever, are able to vote.

So I voted early. I hope you guys do as well. Uh, and it's going to be fascinating. And, you know, look as the Rush Hour podcast, and as far as I'm concerned, it's our civic duty to let our voices be heard and let this democracy play out. I just am trying to warn people ahead of time just to get ahead of some of that, uh, you know, possible misinformation that might be out there.

Here's what Reuters had to say about, Hey, let's all just take it slow. In 2020, media outlets weren't able to declare the winner for four days after the election. And this year, we expect it's going to take even longer. Polls are showing that this is likely to be one of the closest elections in U. S.

history, between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. There are seven states that are considered battlegrounds. Every single one of those states is essentially tied, according to the polls, with very small margins in one direction or the other. There are a lot of people who vote by mail. Right, so, and then you get the same thing.

And look, there'll be, there'll be lawsuits that have already been filed. There's one right now, I think, going to the Supreme Court in possibly Pennsylvania. That's a lawsuit by the Republican Party that's going to try to get a certain ballots removed. It's a whole, it's a whole thing, right? This is happening across the board in many states.

So, we all just need to Uh, vote, and then just relax and let the system play out and trust the judicial judicial system. I think that's the fair and measured thing to do, which is very important guys. It's very important, right? In our country with the democracy that we have faith in that democracy. And while there was a lot of accusations about voter fraud, we let the whole system play out and nothing of any substance whatsoever came out.

All right. I have some Sunny Hostin from The View, responding to Tony Hinchcliffe. Uh, she says, Puerto Ricans are not going to be happy with this political backlash. We'll have that story for you next. Oh, okay. So before I get to The View's response to the Puerto Rico joke, I do want to tell you about my voicemail line, 401.

It's a voicemail line. You can call and leave a voicemail. Ask me any questions. I'll play them on future episodes. Seriously. Try me. Ask any questions. Maybe you have a question about how to grow your social media. Here's what Mel Robbins had to say about how your social media is for your fans. It's not for your friends.

Your social media is not for your friends. Your social media is for you and your dreams and your self expression. And it's meant to put something out in the world intentionally so that people who are looking for you and who need you can find you. That is what social media is for. You know, look, Hey, it's kind of like fake it till you make it.

It's like your social media is your vision board. Like live the life you want to live. And of course, some people will say, well, that's toxic. It's fake. Your real life isn't, is okay. Sure. Whatever. But you know, uh, try, you know, when you're, when you're putting that framework together to try to be the best version of yourself, I think social media can help share and connect you with things.

Those that are of like minds. All right. Well, Sonny Hostin says, uh, has choice words to say following comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe's roast jokes at, uh, at the, uh, uh, Madison square garden rally that happened over the weekend. We always talk about the October surprise. Could it be that Tony Hinchcliffe's October surprise, uh, a joke bombing that was about Puerto Rico.

Could it be that that's enough to shift the election? Uh, Uh, I've been told from some Puerto Ricans out there, Hey, don't put it past Puerto Ricans to all like want to, uh, you know, uprise over this. This Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love, where my family is from Puerto Rico is trash.

We are Americans, Donald Trump.

Now to be fair, Trump's side said they don't endorse anything Tony Hinchcliffe said, but also it was a written joke that was, I guess. probably submitted through the, you know, the draft because apparently Tony Hinchcliffe was also going to call Kamala Harris the c word and they red flagged that. Serve disproportionately high in the military while you have bone spurs.

And we vote. Pennsylvania is home to almost half a million Puerto Ricans. North Carolina, 115, 000. Georgia, 100, 000. Arizona, 64, 000. Wisconsin, 61, 000. Michigan, 43, 000. Nevada, 27, 000. We vote Donald Trump. Trash.

Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny, Luis Fonsi, and Mark Anthony have over 345 million followers on Instagram. I think you only have 26 million. Since you care so much about size. Jesus. All right. So she tells you how it is. Now. Look, will this really change things? I don't know. I mean, you don't need, you know, in some of these states they might be decided by 10, 15, 000 votes.

So could it change things, you know, and say, say Pennsylvania comes down to 30, 000 votes. Well, if there's 500, 000 Puerto Ricans in 30, 000 of them out of the 500 switch their votes. That's only a small percentage. I don't know. We'll have to see. Very interesting stuff out there. I think, look. In life, before you make your vote, you just need to get educated.

Uh, but not everyone in our country is educated. Uh, I've got Haley Welch from the talk to a podcast, uh, learning a lot about history. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Cause you're telling me this bitch is blonde and deaf and they let her fly a fucking plane. Right. In a fucking plane? She's getting a Amelia Earhart. I thought Helen Keller flew a fucking plane.

Amelia Earhart. Yeah. Uh, so there it is. So Haley Welch, Thought she, she thought Helen Keller was Amelia Earhart, uh, stay in school folks. Now, look, we like Haley. Well, she's a sort of, uh, uh, I don't want to call her dumb because she seems very lovely, but she's, uh, you know, she's trying the best with the information she has.

God bless her for that. We love her. Get me on her show. Get it, get Amelia Earhart on that show. All right, folks. Well, that does it for us this morning. We'll have a lot of content coming into you today. I'll be live on Patreon, patreon. com slash Dave Neal. If you want to support the private membership community, and then we'll be back this afternoon as we are every day.

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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. Good afternoon. It's Monday, October 28th, 2024. I got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place, and boy, time is flying as Uh, friends and family celebrate Matthew Perry on the one year anniversary of his death.

I'll share what his, uh, stepdad, uh, had to say. Plus Forbes has released their top creator list and I'll tell you how much money Mr. Beast pulled in. It's a lot. And speaking of YouTube, I've answer, I'm answering some of your questions on my, uh, call in line about how you can grow your content, uh, this year.

So if you want to stick around for some of that, I'll have that for you. And I'll share the online war between AOC and comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, people wondering if his joke will affect the election. I've got a clip from Anthony Jesselnik, the original roast comedian about how to properly get away with this.

Telling an offensive joke and possibly my opinion as to why Tony did not. Also army hammer answers questions about what it felt like getting canceled and some thoughts on love is blind episodes one to three and watch out Virgos. Neil deGrasse Tyson takes a dig at astrology, all these stories and more coming up next on the rush.

Sad news to report as the world's fattest cat, a 38 pound cat named crumbs dies weeks after feline fat camp. He sadly died after shedding some pounds at feline fat camp with vets saying his excessively chunky layers hid cancerous tumors. It was a cat in Russia. How bizarre he ballooned to whopping 38 pounds from living in a hospital basement and munching on cookies and soup.

Well, don't they say you die doing what you loved. If I, uh, if I die from eating cookies and soup. I think that would, Hey, it's one way to go. Uh, the Forbes list of the top creators has been named. No, I am not on the list, but Livvy done is, uh, if you watch tick tock, you might know her. She's, uh, she's actually dating, uh, a, the, one of the best rookie pitchers.

Uh, but she's on the list as the, I guess, highest earning female athlete. That is a creator also Logan Paul and his brother, uh, the other Paul, I'm calling him the other Paul, Logan Paul is interesting because he started the WWE, but he's also got his prime energy drink, which might make him a billion dollars.

Now, according to this, a Forbes article, he made 9. 8 million this year. His brother, Jake has made 3. 5 million. 13. 6 million. And he's set to box, uh, Mike Tyson. So Leah, lots of big money in the content world. Livvy Dunn is the biggest college star, you know, just a few years ago, you couldn't make any money in college sports, but now with content creating, she's made 3.

9 million from her deals, uh, making her the top earning female in college sports, unbelievable stuff. Of course, Mr. Beast is at the top of the list. Earning 85 million with over 500 million followers on social media. So again, real quickly, I've, I've answered some of your questions. People are calling in on the phone lines.

I have a phone line. It is 4 0 1 5 5 8 7 8 4 1. You can ask me literally any question you want. And if it's a sort of worthwhile for the audience, I'll try to play it. Uh, some people are just leaving nice phone calls. Here's Cheryl from Arizona. Hey Dave, it's Cheryl from Arizona. I came to your show when you're out.

It was fantastic. I just wanted to say I'm a fan. And I appreciate you and I support you a hundred percent kid, that baby. And I hope that you're well, I'm rooting for you. Always appreciate you. I mean, look, is that not a nice voicemail to get now? You don't have to just praise me. You can actually ask questions.

Uh, we did get a couple of questions regarding YouTube growth. I made a video today and explained exactly how I make my money on podcasts and on YouTube and on Patrion. Uh, here is a question from Elisa. Oh, hi, Dave. Um, I just watched your YouTube and, oh, you said under 30 seconds. There's no way. Um, I wanted to, uh, talk to you about, I don't know if you do one on one support in getting started.

Since I'm cut to 30 seconds, I guess I'll leave it as the first question. So, no, I don't do one on one support. Now, Uh, to be quite fair, if you were like, Hey, Dave, I'm super rich and I'll pay you 500 an hour. Like, trust me when I say there's a price for everything, but most people getting started in content wouldn't have that money.

And I just, I don't have the time to do one on one cause I literally would have a million people. So what I'm trying to do is just answer questions that might be able to help everybody. So if you have any questions, feel free to call back. We actually got a nice text message from someone on that voicemail line from Jocelyn.

She said, I subscribed to your podcast. I used to be on the Patreon. I'm a grief recovery specialist. I would love to build a channel that can do the things like talk about current topics, trends from my viewpoint, create content around the thoughts I have about healing and how to go about living your best life.

And I'm also a classically trained actor. So I'd love to have content around certain performances as well. Um, so look, here's my thought. You, uh, in this text, you said, you don't have a place to record. There are so many YouTube channels that are literally people making selfie videos as they walk around their neighborhood, find a quiet place, Record good audio on your phone and start giving content to the platform.

It's almost like, uh, you need to start sacrificing, you know, like in the, in the old, old worlds, they would do sacrifices for the gods. The sacrifice is you taking time to share your. Talents in your expertise with the Internet, the gods are the algorithms. So if you're a grief recovery specialist, find ways to help people out.

Maybe you could be covering pop culture. When people die, you could be talking about how to be a grief recovery specialist. But, um, It seems as though one of your holdups is that you aren't ready to release content because you don't have a place to record. And I'm here to tell you some of the best places to record would be in your car or as you're walking around a nice Lake, there's something about that, that is peaceful.

Your audience is as long as you're giving good information, treat YouTube videos like a thesis statement, you know, give a strong opening statement and then follow it up, uh, eight to 12, 14 minutes long. Uh, again, any more questions, let me know. Um, but, uh, those are some of my thoughts with regards to. are to content creation, you know, it's the end, uh, it's Q4 here in 2024.

And a lot of people want to start the new year off, maybe trying some new things in life. So again, if anyone has any more questions, uh, the voicemail line, uh, which I just shared with you, uh, you can give it a ring. Uh, all right, let's keep the party moving here. Uh, yes, it's been one year since Matthew Perry's death.

Here's what his family had to say. Speaking with a deep voice is Dateline's Keith Morrison. That's right. That is Matthew's stepfather. Here's what he had to say. He does seem like that light up the room personality. Oh, gosh, yeah. It's something you're born with or you're not born with. And, um, he was certainly born with it, in spades.

But it must be said, I think, that he was also very lonely in his soul. The sort of exterior that people know about. Yeah. He had a, an insecure, um, often very sad, um, Guy when he passed, did, did you think he's sober? He's still on his path. It, it appeared to us as if he was, uh, not to you. It certainly li seemed like it to me that he was, though he was, had been treated with ketamine, that it hadn't turned into something that he couldn't control, although.

You know, he was a guy who would make decisions. I can handle this. I can do this. I can tell you what's right. I know the whole system inside and out. I know what the drug will do to me. And, uh, so there was that worry that, let's see, what's he really doing. And that's too sad. Of course, yesterday, yesterday we reported his home just sold in an off market deal and, you know, it's one of those things, maybe in a lot of ways he had it all together, but of course, mixing, you know, uh, you know, uh, ketamine in the wrong dosages with also.

You know, being in the hot tub and things like that. You know, it's, it's a real tragedy that that after all of his struggles, that that was the way he went. Um, all right. In other news, we got a lot of it dancing with the stars pro Riley Arnold. She's paired with Steven Nadorozik. I've been told I'm pronouncing his name wrong.

Did I get it right? Uh, she has hard lines to her new boyfriend, university of South Carolina player, Walker Lyons. Dancing with the Stars pro has a new man in her life, and she wants everyone to know she posted an official photo debuting him on her Instagram. I can't believe she's only 19. You know, she's been on Dancing with the Stars for a few years and she's only 19.

I mean, what a life. She's a professional dancer. She's got a college boyfriend on the football team. Sounds like fun to me. So either way, so yeah, she's, uh, she's living that good life, athletes and dancers. I bet you they, uh, have incredibly interesting conversations, uh, in and out of the bedroom. All right.

They're not me to speculate. Uh, Jon Stewart, don't have to speculate about his job opportunities. He's extended the deal to host the daily show on Mondays through December, 2025. Listen, this is what I love. He didn't want to be a full time. It's true. Two draining on him later in life to be doing this job five days a week.

So they just give it to him one day a week. That's a great way. That's like, uh, when Roger Clemens, uh, you know, kind of half retired and he just came back for the good games. It's like, give me the ball when the game matters. That's all I care about. All right. Well, I have a lot of content regarding the viral, uh, The viral story around Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian, uh, we have responses from AOC, the Rolling Stones, uh, the Rolling Stone magazine has, uh, spoken to press secret, uh, the press campaign where they are denouncing the comedian.

There's so much to get into. So we'll have all of that for you next. So there's a time and a place for everything, and every time is not every place, and the argument I made, uh, in the earlier episode about Tony Hinchcliffe, when he made that joke about Puerto Rico, was that it's almost not even an argument about whether or not you can make that joke, it's about making that joke At a rally, you wouldn't have an adult entertainer, a stripper, Stormy Daniels.

You wouldn't have them perform at a rally because it's not the time or place, but I fully support sex workers of all types doing whatever the heck they want to do in their time and place. And the same kind of works for comedy in that you have to almost consent to being in the room. Uh, in a comedy venue to experience, uh, you know, uh, no holds barred comedy, which is what it was.

So I don't even want to get into whether or not it was funny or not offensive or not. People can make those decisions. What is interesting is that the Trump campaign would let this happen, uh, because, uh, uh, Or, or, or if they let this happen, because anyone that goes on their stage is pretty much speaking on behalf of that campaign and they're trying to win voters, not lose them.

Well, Rolling Stone has an article called who books this effing jerk Trump allies pressed campaign to denounce rally comedian, Trump supporters demanding his campaign reject the racist comedian who called Puerto Rico a floating Island of garbage at his New York rally. So I'm going to share. What Tony Hinchcliffe said in response to the sort of virality that happened following his, uh, following his joke.

So, uh, he wrote this on Twitter. These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, would take time out of his busy schedule to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone. Watch the whole set.

I'm a comedian, Tim. Might be time to change your tampon. So that was his response. Now, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was with Tim Walz when this all went down. So her response was this, she said, you're opening for Trump by calling Puerto Rico, a floating pile of garbage, 4, 000 plus Puerto Ricans died under him.

I think that being the hurricane, this isn't the comedy store you're using your set to boost neo Nazis like. A Marjorie Taylor Greene and stripping women's rights to the Stone Age. Your sense of humor doesn't change that. And then, uh, AOC went on to say, and P and before people try to act like this is some PC overly sensitive nonsense, I've been to kill Tony shows.

I'm from the Bronx. I don't give a shit about crude humor, but don't pretend that your support for Trump is a joke. Own it. You doing a set to support him. That's a choice. And look. You know, I'm not, I'm not going to judge people for supporting whichever political candidate they want. It's like I said, the venue, sometimes as a comic, you need to understand, don't book that gig.

It ain't worth your time. Cause even though, you know, I, like I said before, I think I understand what they were trying to do. Like, let's have an edgy comedian on to warm up the crowd. Bad idea. Because it's all going to be used against you. So then you have Rick Scott, who I believe is a Florida Republican.

I don't even know what, uh, was he in the Senate? I don't remember if he was the governor, was he the governor, uh, mayor or whatever, he said this joke bombed for a reason. It's not funny. And it's not true. Puerto Ricans are amazing people and amazing Americans. I've been to the Island many times. It's a beautiful place.

Everyone should visit. I will always do whatever I can to help any Puerto Ricans in Florida or the Or on now, my personal belief, if, if a comedian makes a joke, it doesn't mean they endorse whatever the punchline of that joke is. That's my personal belief. And in, but yet I understand that this just isn't the venue for that.

And he should have said, you know what? I shouldn't have taken the gig. This is meant for a comedy club and that's where it belongs. So AOC responded and said, of course, Ted Cruz hasn't lifted a finger to defend or champion Latinos under attack. He's the first one sipping pina coladas in Cancun when Latinos across Texas are targeted at their job or getting their families.

Torn apart, and she's not wrong. As we know, Ted Cruz was seen heading to Cancun to vacation when his own home state of Texas, I believe it was during the deep freeze or, or was it during the hurricane? It was during like a power outage that they had, and he wasn't there being boots on the ground. He was actually vacationing with his family.

So she says. Uh, AOC says, can't get over this dude telling someone else to change tampons when he's the one shitting bricks in his depends after realizing opening for a Trump rally and feeding red meat racism alongside a throng of other bigots to a frothing crowd does unironically make you one of them.

Okay. So, I mean, just wild stuff. She then went on to speak the next morning, this morning about what went down at that event. I mean, it's just absolutely, it's, look, for those that say, Oh, you know, I don't want to listen to politics. This is politics. This is roast comedy. This is pop culture. This is the biggest talking point news story of the day.

This is not the first time that Donald Trump has said disparaging things or uninformed things about Puerto Rico or those around him. What did you think when you first heard it last night? You know, under the Trump administration. Over 3000 Puerto Ricans died due to Donald Trump's intentional neglect of the island after one of the worst natural disasters and hurricanes in American history and the history of the entire Western hemisphere.

So I'm going to cut it there and just say this, this is why you don't do roast comedy at a campaign rally, because what you say, regardless of whether you endorse it or not, will be used and can be used against you and against whatever movement you're trying to be a part of. So even though he's a roast comedian, people already had these fears that all of this existed, uh, you know, that, uh, that he didn't care about certain communities or, you know, it's, uh, you know, you know, whatever.

And because of that. You know, the worst case scenario is happening, which is at, you know, you're not going to gain any votes because of this. Here's what, uh, Anthony Jeselnik, who is a very, uh, offensive comedian, had to say about comedians that, uh, can't, uh, can't take the heat. In all these comics now, it's like almost the point is to get in trouble.

It's like, why are you giving me shit? I'm, I'm a comic. I'm allowed to say whatever I want. That's wrong. As far as I'm concerned. Art. Oh, we say it again. So I don't reach out. People think like, oh, as a comic, your job is to get in trouble. And so, but they don't want to get yelled at. It's like, it's okay to make people mad, but they don't want any pushback.

And I think that's wrong. As a comedian, you want to make people laugh. Andy, this is a quote attributed to Andy Warhol that I love. It's just art is getting away with it. You know, if you put out a special and everyone's pissed, like you didn't get away with it. You know, you need to make everyone laugh at that.

Like, yeah, he talked about this fucked up stuff, but we're all happy. Now, Patrice O'Neill would say it's not whether the joke was funny. It was the attempt at the joke that matters, which generally in the standup world, I agree with. The problem is we cross pollinated worlds here. This wasn't the standup world.

This was a political rally where you're trying to win over people's trust for the future of their country. country and for the livelihood of different communities. And you know what? I mean, that's, what else can you say about that? The very least, you know what Tony Hinchcliffe should do? He should take an edible and get off the internet.

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I think that's enough on Tony Hinchcliffe. Uh, you know what? There isn't. I, I want to be clear to share both sides of the story. So here's what Tony said. And then I'm going to give the press secretary for the Trump campaign. I'm going to give a chance to let them respond. And so you can properly hear what they have to say.

Literally a floating Island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico the comics comments which were offensive have been denounced by the campaign and everybody else It was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste Obviously that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump.

So that's what they said. He made the joke in poor taste It doesn't reflect their reviews, which by the way May or may not be true, but you're giving your opponent a lot of ammo to shoot you with. That's what you're doing there. And I don't, I mean, it did not go well. All right. Well, did you mail it in on a Monday?

That's okay. Bill Gates says he's full of regret about missed vacations and broken relationships in his commencement speech. So if you feel like mailing it in, here's your permission to do so. It took me a long time to learn. And it is this. You are not a slacker. If you cut yourself some slack, when I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations.

I didn't even believe in weekends. I pushed everyone around me to work very long hours. In the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot. And I would keep track of who was leaving early, who was staying late. But as I got older, and especially once I became a father, I realized that both in terms of doing your best work and having a great life, that that intensity was not always appropriate.

Don't wait as long as I did to learn this lesson. You know, I'm kind of in that place right now with a baby and I'm trying to work hard, but I'm also knowing to just spend those moments that would normally be stressful. I get a lot of anxiety when I'm not working, you know, because for so long I was kind of like living, you know, just right on the, right on the borderline of poverty, just paycheck to paycheck, you know, and then now things are going better, but I'm like, I have to keep my foot on the gas.

But also at the same time, I'm stressing out when I'm not, you know, I don't know, bringing in the, bringing home the bacon. And, um, I, I think it's interesting. And obviously very easy for him to say as a billionaire, but the one thing we never get back is time, right? So the last thing I want is to exchange knowing my son and enjoying this time with my wife for what could possibly be, you know, maximizing revenue.

Uh, all right. Well, look, uh, speaking of maximizing revenue, let's take a quick break. I got a couple more stories to get to right after this. Well, you might remember army hammer was effectively canceled from Hollywood. Uh, he was accused of being like a cannibal or whatever. And then I guess he ended up never getting charged with any crimes.

Now I'm not saying he wasn't a creep and whatever, who knows? But here he is, uh, speaking, uh, about when he found out things were hitting the fan, what happened? I want to ask you if you have any questions for me. Yeah. Nothing. What was it like when the shit hit the fan? Your agency dropped you. Yeah. Was that a phone call?

What was that like? Oof. Okay, so I remember when the shit hit the fan. I got a call from my agent and my publicist. First, there were, you know, crisis PR people that got involved. You know, at one point there was like three different crisis PR people that were involved and like, that you're paying these people to handle this crisis.

And very quickly I was like these people have no idea what they're talking about Each person had a different idea of what needed to happen, but they were each completely convinced that it was the only way so My lawyer at the time, uh, he was like, you need to shut the fuck up. So all of these people were saying, you got to do this, go to this, go to this.

And my lawyer came and said, if you do anything, you can go to jail. I mean, interesting stuff. I guess the takeaway is a crisis PR people might not exactly be up on the times with how to work in today's world. You know, who needs crisis is the singer Loomis. She actually spoke to TMZ about being a good singer.

Here's the clip we shared earlier about her sort of bombing, uh, the national anthem.

Can I go back? Can I go back, please? And then someone goes, you're alive.

Now, by the way, so she does bomb that part, but if you listen 30 seconds earlier, she really does have a good voice.

The problem is, is I think the song just went out of her range, you know, and part of that's about knowing your range. Either way, TMZ caught up with her. Here's what she had to say. Hey, how are you? Good to see you. So you're going obviously insanely viral on the internet for your C SPAN natural anthem.

What happened? Girl. So let me start out by saying I am the daughter. of a veteran. So dad, I'm sorry. I didn't want to mess up the national anthem. Is this how you got the gig or how'd you get the gig? No. Cause I really do sing and I'm really a good singer. I promise you. So what had happened was I didn't know it was live.

Right. And I was like, well, how did you not know it was live? Because listen, I had walked out. Right. And I was like, and then I was like, Oh, say, can you see? And then I gave it like the right tone. Cause you know, you gotta start lower so you can get up there, you know? But then he stopped me. He was like, we're not ready yet.

Oh, and I was like, what? So then I didn't know it was live. Cause I'm like, okay, we can go back. You know what I mean? And then when I got to the spot and then I got nervous and then I was scared, but it was crazy. And I'm all about redemption for people. You know what I mean? So it's all, you know, Hey, she, she, she, like I said, Got a better voice than I do.

And to be quite honest, I didn't know who Loomis was before this. So I, you know, I, I said this before that whenever you go viral for the national anthem, it's usually because you bombed it, which might be true. But considering I didn't know her, it's so it's almost that idea of like, is this bad press? Like, sure.

It's terrible. But if she can actually learn how to kind of conquer that song, I'd play it here. I'd play it in its entirety. And, and can I tell you guys something? Since I was a little girl, this was the most. I've, I've always said, I don't want to sing the national anthem. It's like the scariest thing to me ever.

She's always a little girl because you know, everyone's standing up all serious. When no, when no, you know, all right, anyway, so clearly she had called TMZ for this interview. They're not just going to find her, but either way, I'm all about, like I said, I'm all about it. Uh, I guess it just wasn't in the stars for her.

How's that for a transition? Let's finish with a good, fun piece here on CBS morning. Neil deGrasse Tyson takes a couple of digs at astrology in his new book, Merlin's tour of the universe. He shares why he believes. The topic deserves the criticism. Have a listen, you Virgo. You seem to take a couple of digs at astrology.

Deservedly so. Why? Well, well He's like, because I'm a Taurus. What do you want from me? Just a couple of digs. Just a couple. I mean, so, Prodigy will say, what's your sign in there? Capricorn. I mean, Merlin just tells it like it is. You know, the signs no longer line up with how they did 2, 000 years ago when it was all laid out.

And there's 13 constellations in the Zodiac. That's right. One of them is Ophiuchus, and if you thought you were Scorpio, you're probably Ophiuchan. And all Scorpions and Ophiuchans Are you speaking English, Neil? I don't know what is going on. Alright, oh, he's really pissing off these Ophiuchans. They're gonna tell him to Ophiuch himself.

Alright, look. There's two things I believe that astrology isn't real and that love isn't blind, but I am watching season seven of love is blind. You know, what do you just when you talk about love being blind? What what are we talking about when we think of attraction? It's not always physical and I understand the premise of the show You know, you're gonna sort of like go after someone's emotional connection, but what I find so interesting I've only watched episodes one through three but what I find so interesting is that so much of the show is people trying to hint at As to why they're a valuable companion, you got this guy, Leo.

He's an art dealer, but apparently when you look into the type of art he deals, it's just like expensive glass bongs. I don't know. Uh, but he was in, he inherited this company from his parents, which again, fine, I guess his grandparents were the first art dealers. And I think he has like a, like a master's degree in art history or whatever.

Uh, so that, that's fine. But you know, He makes his whole identity how, how wealthy he is, which I think is really interesting. And then you really, through the first few episodes, just see how insecure people are when they don't have the tools. Uh, you have that one, uh, lady, uh, what's her name? Is it, uh, Brittany?

Where she says, you know, normally I'm able to seduce guys with my eyes, but I can't now. So I do think the show is fun to watch, uh, you know, now that there's people that are sort of like hooking up and getting together. Then you get to see, but, uh, But that's, what's interesting to me is the show only becomes interesting when they actually do meet, uh, because then they get to see who they, uh, didn't choose.

And that just proves that love isn't blind because how often is it where they get to go, you know, canoodle with the people they didn't choose and then realize they actually had a connection and they vibe more with somebody else because they picked someone who wasn't as physically attractive. I mean, it happens every, every season, which really proves the experiment that love.

Anyway, that's my thought on it. But if you want love is blind content, I'll be covering this season more. Uh, so I wanted to just give that a shout out here. We're out of time. We're over the limit. If you enjoy this free episode of the podcast, share it with your friends. Uh, leave a good review. And, um, yeah, we, we appreciate that.

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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 on this October 28th, 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Statistically, at least some of you guys. Went out over the weekend in Halloween costumes. And statistically, at least one of you might have gone as Dave Neal. Could you let me know, did anyone go as me? You know, I hope you could find a better inspiration than that, but maybe you still have paint you're trying to wear off.

from over the weekend that promised it was washable, but it wasn't. I feel your pain. I've been there. Well, on today's episode of the rush, we have a comedian going viral for roasting Puerto Rico at a campaign event, which may have massively backfired. I'll give a very fair and generous take. And also the Yankees and Dodgers had a wild weekend of world series games.

Dodgers up to nothing with the greatest star in the game, getting a shoulder injury. I'll catch you up on all of that and what went down. Plus Timothy Chamele Chamele, Chalamet, Chamele and Snoop Dogg surprise fans in separate and equally wholesome encounters. Also Taylor Swift explains the whole friendship bracelet thing, plus an update on the wild Joe Rogan Trump podcast interview and what this means for mainstream media.

I'll also have what Rogan said about how the interview went down in hindsight. That plus a nostalgic update about RL Stein's Goosebumps book series. And we've got what might be the worst national and. Well, I'll save the anthem story for you, uh, probably towards the end of this episode because there is some swearing.

The singer has a. Complete meltdown during her set. I, look, I've been there. I've bombed before, but not in front of an audience like that. Uh, in other news, Kate Winslet says the Titanic door from the famous scene was actually another piece of the ship. Wasn't even a door. She says, why are we learning this all?

You know what I'm talking about the door that she was leaning on and everyone says there was room for both of them Well, she says it wasn't even a door. She said he's busting he a busting out the titanic question and next he's gonna ask me About the door. I absolutely know it but you know what? I will say that's really interesting is People keep referring to it as a door.

It actually wasn't even a door. It's a piece of banister, like stairway or something that had broken off. Who knows if DiCaprio could have fit on there or not? Honestly, I don't have any insights here that anyone else hasn't already tried to figure out. We still want this man to survive in this family.

Fictitious world of Jack and Rose. Uh, in another speaking of fictitious worlds in the Hollywood world, uh, Los Angeles right now is experiencing a gigantic drought in movies and TV shows. Alarming production drop spurs Gavin Newsom to propose doubling tax credits to Hollywood. The governor wants to increase incentives to film and television up to 750 million a year.

Further changes may be on the way as the migration of production from the state borders on an exodus. Yeah, that's what happens. You know, like there's states like Georgia, which are called a, you know, like a right to work state where they don't have to pay union dues and it's easier to make projects.

That's why Tyler Perry makes like 17 projects a year. And then there's other states that offer incentives and, you know, um, I don't know. It's like, you, you know, as the state, you have to try to entice people to come. But here's the thing with Southern California, it's got the most sunlight out of the country with the least amount of rain.

And if you don't think that's a big deal, you've never tried to do anything outside. That's good news for people who are trying to make projects, you know, on location where they need a lot of daylight and good weather. All right. Well, you know, um, uh, you know, but, but then again, you know, it's, it's. It's also good to get the character of where you're filming a Boston drama is going to feel different than a, uh, Albuquerque, whatever.

You know what I mean? All right in or how about a show in New Orleans? Speaking of New Orleans, a judge has blocked a sweep of homeless camps before New Orleans. Taylor Swift shows temporary restraining order against disturbing on house. People is in effect until November 4th. So a judge in Louisiana temporarily blocked further efforts by state officials to clear homeless encampments in New Orleans, stalling a push that came before three Taylor Swift concerts in the city this weekend.

The effort to relocate 75 people living in tents beneath an overpass near the Superdome began in the days leading up to the pop star's shows, which could draw 150, 000 visitors to the stadium. Judge Lori Jupiter granted the temporary restraining order on Friday. Directing state law enforcement officials to not destroy or dispose of the property.

Okay. Look, I mean, I don't know how I feel about this. I just wish they would spend as much time and energy actually trying to help the homeless. And I understand it's a complicated problem. Uh, but, uh, you know, there, these are people that need help to get back on their feet. They need, uh, medical care in some cases or psychiatric care, or they need rehab.

You know, they need to just get back on their feet and, uh, boy, the amount of money we spend just trying to shuffle and move people around. It's like, let's just address the problem. Well, did you watch the World Series over the weekend? The Yankees are down 2 0 in a best of 7 to the Dodgers. The Dodgers won on a grand slam in the, in extra innings.

First time it's ever happened to walk off a game in the World Series. And they also won, uh, over the weekend, uh, in a less of a nail biter, but also a very close game. Shohei, awesome job. Ohtani, which is considered to be one of the best players ever, if not the best, even better than Babe Ruth, slid into second, was called out and injured his left shoulder, a very wild scene.

Here's ABC World News reporting. Here is an injury to Dodger superstar Shohei Ohtani, one of the best players in baseball. The breaking news tonight about that injury and what it will mean for game three against the New York Yankees. More now from ABC's Morgan Norwood reporting from New York. With the L.

A. Dodgers just Two wins away from winning the World Series tonight, mounting concern over the health of global superstar Shohei Otani ahead of Game three. He's in some pain. Otani injured while sliding into second base late in the game to grab his left arm in pain before heading to the locker room.

Fans anxiously looking on. The Dodgers manager, Dave Roberts, says he suffered a subluxation defined as a minor dislocation of the shoulder and will undergo further testing. All right, so we'll have to see if he's better now. I know plenty of people that they pop their shoulder out and they can pop it back in.

And as painful as it is, it's different than say, tearing your shoulder in high school. I separated my shoulder from the A. C. Joint, which, uh, It was, it was very painful and also doesn't get popped right back in. Even though one of my coaches tried to pop it back in and then the team doctor showed up and yelled at him being like, what are you doing?

You know, you can't pop something in that separated. It's not dislocated, but Hey, these coaches weren't paid enough to be doctors. What do you, what do you want? That's a medical care in Rhode Island for you. So anyway, very interesting and very popular world series. You know, they're not all popular.

Sometimes it's a weird market, you know, that doesn't have a big fan base, but in this case, it's LA V New York, baby. And speaking of popular, Timothy Chalamet is so popular that he, there was a look alike. contest in his honor, and he, uh, actually crashed the event in New York city. And unofficial, uh, Chalamet lookalike contest took place in Washington square park Sunday with a massive crowd coming out to watch the spectacle.

Like I said earlier, If anyone wants to dress their kid up as me for Halloween, you can do that. You can do a Dave Neal lookalike contest and, um, I will send you a, you know what I'll do, I'll send you a koozie. How about that? Uh, don't, you know, whatever it, only if your kid has the hair to pull it off. All right.

Either way, here's the moment. I'm going to play the moment that Timothee Chalamet. Is it Chalamet or Chalamet? I can't tell. Uh, here's the moment he crashed the event. Obviously this is a visual heavy medium in the podcast world, but you'll be able to hear the moment the fans went wild

and there it is. Timothy Chalamet is hugging people that look like him. What a weird moment, but not the weirdest moment here. Uh, in a, in a, in an equally as wholesome story, we've got Snoop Dogg. You know, those, uh, annoying party buses that drive around is. Bunch of people on the inside dressing, you know, dancing around with stripper poles, having fun well.

I guess, I don't know how this happened, Snoop Dogg decided to just walk on to one of them completely unbeknownst to the audience there. He crashed the random party bus and they, they were like, Oh my gosh, it's Snoop Dogg. Like, could you imagine? You know, he's so recognizable, right? And then what does Snoop Dogg do?

Uh, he lights up a blunt, and I'm sure they lost their security deposit over that one. And then they played, uh, some Snoop.

And there, and whoever's controlling the music immediately switches it from whatever song they were playing, like Colby Calais, to playing a little Snoop.

So they're like Snoop, take a jello shot and Snoop's like, play, I'm going to light up a joint. What are you talking about? Jello shots. I'm smoking some weed in the house. All right. Either way. You had to be there. I guess I sure wasn't. All right. I got a lot of content to get into. We're really vibing on a Monday morning.

I don't know about you guys, but I think we're going to be in for a wild week. We'll be more. We'll be back with more right after this. My wife and I have been designing our son's Halloween costume. Uh, I guess I shouldn't give it away, but I'll just say it is, it is someone from the Disney universe, a fictitious character that also is from outer space or has flown through outer space.

How about that? Either way, we have to make a spaceship. So we went to Joanne's fabric. Let me tell you something. I don't know if you've ever been to Michael's or Joanne's fabric, essentially the same place. I kind of feel like Michael and Joanne. We're like a, like a, like they started this fabric company and they, maybe they got divorced or something and then they split off, but it's essentially the same stuff, right?

I don't know the real story. Uh, but when your lady gets into a Joanne's fabric, Oh boy, are you going to be spending a lot of money? We were buying particle board and glitter and glue. I have a, I mean, there was canvases and we have paint supplies and colored duct tape. I mean, it's, trust me when I say.

It's going to, I mean, I'm buying, I got a dry ice guy. Does anyone in Nashville know a dry ice guy? I need more dry ice. Uh, this costume is going to be amazing. Trust me. And then my wife and I, our costumes came in and I put my, I put the mask on, uh, you know, which is, you know, it didn't cover my face. It only covers the head.

You'll see, just wait. And of course my son immediately started crying because he, I was like, oh, he finds me so adorable. He's crying. No, I think I scared him. I think I scarred the kid. It took only six months, but I finally scarred my son by wearing a, uh, a costume from. a yet to be named Pixar movie.

You'll know, you'll know, you can take guesses, uh, but either way, we're excited for Halloween and then after Halloween, it'll be a travel day on Friday for us as we'll be heading to Florida for a few, uh, business and pleasure activities, more on that to come. Well, Matthew Perry, can you believe it's been almost a year since his death?

His home where he died sells for 8. 55 million. Dollars. In a off the market deal this week, uh, it's again, you know, I mean, look, would you, would you buy a home from someone who died? I mean, it's not like it was, um, I hate to say it, but it's not like it was like a Kurt Cobain thing. You know, he died accidentally and, um, sad tragic, of course, but I feel like you got to sage the house either way.

You give the house a good sage, maybe bring in a priest, you know, a little holy water, say a couple of mantras, but you know, homes, homes, whatever you make of it. Uh, but, uh, you know, Either way, I mean, and I, and I don't mean to be morose, but if it would be cool, like you should pay homage to you, you should pay homage to Matthew Perry in one way or another.

I don't know. I don't, and I don't mean, I don't mean this with any disrespect. You know what I mean? Like put it like a little memorial tree up or something. I don't know. Um, yeah. All right, well, we got Taylor Swift. She of course has been back in her eras tour and she explains to her audience what the friendship bracelet thing is all about.

We all know these friendship bracelets. Everyone has, well, here's what she had to say. Anything I've ever done before, you've created traditions, you've like this mass movement of joy every time you play a show and it makes me so proud. It really does.

So then she talks about the friendship bracelet. Because when she played, I think this was in new Orleans where she was over the weekend. They put a giant friendship bracelet outside over the stadium, which is really cool. And I love the way she describes it. A mass movement of joy. We need more of that in life.

You know, you'll find media and so you'll find social media, definitely trying to divide us by fear and trying to get us to just fight with each other. And while that will exist out there, I'm telling you right now, love is. You know, I got called out over the weekend again by that one lawyer who's trying to like leech off of my sort of popularity, uh, because, uh, we of course have exposed his client as a fraudster.

And he said, Oh, Dave Neal is just this angry guy. And I was like, I think you couldn't be further from the truth. We are going to prove this man wrong and continue to spread so much dang love out there that, you know, it's again, trust me. We're going, we're going for the, we're going for the goods folks.

It's going to be good. Trust me. Um, but you know, not everyone's spreading love. I got an interesting story for you. Hallmark is accused of age discrimination against a holiday film star. Here is the Today Show reporting the story. A new lawsuit filed by Penny Perry, a former casting director for the studio, Perry claims that Hallmark programming executive Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed her not to cast old people in roles, saying, our leading ladies are aging out and we need here.

Named in the lawsuit, are two of the network's biggest stars. Merry Christmas. E Holly Robinson. Pete has been with the network for nearly a decade and recently turned 60. Perry alleges that Daly said no one wants Robinson Pete because she's too expensive and getting too old. Lacey Chabert, often called the Queen of Hallmark, has 40 movies under her belt at this point.

42 years old. Penny alleges the executive commented about Chabert. We have to find someone like her to replace her as she gets older in the lawsuit. Perry, who is 79, also claims that she was fired from Hallmark in April because of her own age. In a statement to NBC News, the network writes, Lacey and Holly have a home at Hallmark.

Adding, while we deny these outrageous allegations, we are not going to discuss an employment relationship in the media. All right, so here's my take on this. Like, obviously, ageism exists, and it exists across different industries, and people can generally try to hire younger and cheaper people. But it's interesting in Hollywood because, you know, I mean, yeah, it's, it is.

Ageism absolutely exists. And, and it's like, you, you, you can only play a role that is in the realm of what the, of what, of what the casting calls for. So, you know, rather it's like, it's, it's hard to talk about because I don't want to sound like an a hole, but like, if there's a movie about a girl who came home and hated her job after college, and she's a divorcee with a, you know, a single mom, that story doesn't work for a 60 year old, you know, It might in real life and in different circumstances, but that's a story for like a 35 year old, you know?

So either way, you know, it's, it's really depending on whatever story you're trying to tell, but by all means, just saying someone's getting old, so you got to replace them. It's like, well, yeah. I mean, people age out of. Character types. You know, I'm, I'm no longer going to interview for the, uh, college student.

I can't pull it off. You know, I'm, I'm only going to interview to play Timothee Chalamet's look alike in the off, off, off Broadway version of the, you know, whatever, anyhow, I don't know. That's my take. It's not a great one, but I tried. Um, all right. Well, you got goosebumps. I love goosebumps. I love RL Stein.

Nothing gave. Kids of my generation, more nightmares than an RL Stein goosebumps book. Remember they had the bumps on the cover. Well, here's what he had to say about not even wanting to write the franchise that started 30 years ago. Never wanted to do goose bumps. And my editors, my wife and her partner said, no, one's ever done a series for seven to 11 year olds, scary books.

We have to try it. And I didn't want to do it. That's the kind of businessman I am. Then finally I said, okay, goose bumps. hasn't changed at all in 30 years. The technology has changed. You know, kids aren't walking around with Walkman. That's all changed. The thing about Goosebumps is, I think they could have been written when I was a kid because our fears never change.

We're still afraid of the dark. Afraid something's lurking under the bed. Afraid of getting lost. Afraid of being somewhere we've never been before. More than 300 Goosebumps books later, R. L. Stine has captured the hearts and minds of millions of young readers, including me. The Goosebumps series kept me company while I was at sleepaway camp.

You are such a formative part. of my childhood and so many kids. What does it feel like to have that type of legacy? Well, I never get tired of hearing about people, kids who read under the covers with a flashlight. I love that story. Would that kid and you, that nine year old with the typewriter, What would he think of all this?

He'd be amazed. So fun, I mean, very heartwarming segment there with Jenna Bush Hager. Of course, Jenna Bush, daughter of George W. Bush. Can you imagine, you know, uh, it's like, uh, President Bush, what, uh, books do you have in the White House? Well, I've got the biography of Lincoln and I got R. L. Stine's, uh, Swamp Thing.

Yeah. You know, Hey, what a wild time we live in. And I think there's a goose bumps series coming out. It might already be out and it's going to be starring David Schwimmer. Could you get any cooler? Um, you know, boy, did you think we'd have, uh, both David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry mentioned today? Fun stuff indeed.

All right. Well, I've got your politics and I've got your president, you know, you know, before I go to break, why don't we do this? Why don't we do this? Let's. Play the national anthem clip. It's only 26 seconds long. I'm going to play it unedited. This is the moment a singer botched the national anthem live.

She's an indie artist. I don't even want to say her name because I kind of feel bad because everyone has a bad day at work, but she, um, she was performing at the free and equal elections, presidential debate held between three independent care candidates. So, okay. Not like it was in front of a large audience.

Okay. But if, if this didn't, that's the problem with the national anthem. Is it's only going to go viral if you mess it up. That's it right here. It is. Enjoy this. Please be careful.

Can I go back? Can I go back, please? I got to say though, the notes that she did hit sounded good, but yeah, can I go back? Can I go back? And the guy goes, we're live. All right. We'll be back with more right after this. I have several clips to play regarding the upcoming election. We're only eight days away.

Can you believe it? The first is comedian Tony Hinchcliffe blasted for calling Puerto Rico an island of garbage at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. Here's what he had to say. It is absolutely wild times. It really, really is. And uh, you know, there's a lot going on. Like, I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.

Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico. Okay, all right. Okay, we're getting there. Now again, normally I don't follow the national anthem everybody, uh. So regardless of whether you think the joke's funny, because, you know, comedy is subjective. Some people might find it funny. Some people might not. As a comedian, I've actually been on Tony Hinchcliffe's podcast years ago.

He's one of the most famous and biggest roasters out there. So whether you think comparing Puerto Rico to a floating island of trash is funny or not, what you have to understand is it's not really important what Tony said. It's who let him on stage. That's the important part because what works and what is funny in a comedy club.

I personally don't like to analyze outside of that comedy club because that's where it's meant to be. People that pay to see a comedian, they're kind of operating under those risks, right? It's like going to SeaWorld and sitting in the splash zone. Although I don't condone SeaWorld. So the point is. It's not the heat that he's getting.

It's the fact that like, Oh my gosh, who let this happen? Knowing full well, even if you're making jokes, it's at the expense of a voting class in a voting part of the country. So here's a lot of, you know, tick tockers are sharing their opinion, but I thought this one was very interesting. The thing that really, really actually just baffles me though, is, is that the Trump campaign did this.

Having to know the fact that this would be cut up, this would be put on the internet, this could be potentially run in campaigns, and Florida is very, very much in play right now. And of course, so is Pennsylvania. They said something like 500, 000 Pennsylvanians are Puerto Rican, so again, it'll be interesting to see if that moves the needle.

As that was happening, Kamala Harris Got, uh, endorsed the endorsement of bad bunny. Uh, so, you know, of course, uh, a gigantic, uh, you know, uh, uh, musician pop star with 45 million followers. So we'll have to see what, if that moves the needle now, would it move the needle that Trump went on Joe Rogan? I I've said all along, it's a good idea for.

Any political candidate to go find your audience. It might not be the best thing. Like you're not going to get a grilled and cross examined by Joe Rogan, but if you're a, if you're running for office and you can go on the biggest podcast in the world, uh, Kamala went on caller daddy, which is pretty big.

Uh, and then of course, Trump goes on Joe Rogan. Here was Trump trying to get Joe Rogan to endorse him on the spot. You know, Elon Musk. Yes, he endorsed me, by the way, he gave me the nicest endorsement to this, to tough. He said the country's going to fail. You should do the same thing, Joe, because you cannot be voting for Kamala.

Kamala, you're not a Kamala person. I know you. I've watched you. I know him better than he is. You know what? Without speaking to you, I think I know you maybe almost as well as your wife. I have watched you for so many years. You're not a Kamala person. All right. So anyway, the interview was over three hours long.

There were Funny moments. I mean, Trump said he wanted to be a whale psychiatrist. He, listen, I've said this all along there. He can, he can be really funny. This whole thing where he talks about weaving in and out can be really funny. And yet at the same time, when he was pressed about, uh, you know, why he thought the election was stolen, he didn't really give any answers.

And again, I don't think it's going to move the needle much, but here's what Rogan had to say, uh, afterwards talking to some pals on his podcast the next day about what it was like to interview Trump. Were you at all nervous? for Trump? Uh, I was definitely hyped up. I was excited. Cause I wanted to, there's a lot of questions I need to answer.

Did you feel pressure? No, no, no, not pressure. Pressure being like, make sure you cover everything you want to cover. No, no, no, no. Just like, I knew what was important. Did you prepare for it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Did you ask him why he was so pro vaccine? No, I didn't. But I also wanted to be rigid.

Because there was a moment when he brought up the polio vaccine. I was like, ugh, I don't want to correct him. I don't want to show, like, when the Have you ever seen the chart of when polio actually dropped off when the vaccine was introduced? I referenced it at the very end. It's all bullshit. That's a rough one.

That's a, when you look at the actual, like, there's a bunch of them. Measles is another one. I said that. They kind of go into different directions, but he mentions how he was trying to steer Trump in, in the direction to answer some of his questions. I want to know what that. First fucking day is like, and I don't think I really got that answer out of him.

I don't think he remembers. I think he does. What I'm talking about is like this feeling of now you have to appoint 10, 000 people. All right. So, but here's the point, right? Is that on YouTube alone, that episode has 31 million views. It probably has that many on the podcast app. It's probably had 80 million people listen or watch to a three hour conversation.

You cannot buy that kind of airtime. So in fairness, Rogan has invited. Kamala Harris to speak and she has not said yes, and she has not said no But you know a lot of people are early voting like now is the time you you're if you I just i'm just befuddled like no offense, but you know, uh trump Uh, I guess what?

Had a rally in michigan that he was two hours late for because he decided to do a longer episode with rogan That's the type of intuition that is smart because rogan's audience is massive It's not just a bunch of dudes in the manosphere. It's people from the left You'd be shocked. I mean, it's when you have a pocket that big and you're trying to quote unquote, find 10, 000 new votes, you'd be shocked what can come out when 80 million people listen to what you say.

Now, do I think it made Trump look any better? Well, I don't think anyone's changing their votes at this point. Uh, but Trump at least has already defined who he is over the, you know, several different election cycles. It's his third time running for office where Kamala Harris would say what you want about her, but she's only been running for office.

For a few months. So she still has a chance to define herself and not be defined. Will that happened? We'll have to see, but I'm going to be covering it. We have one more week to go and, uh, let's try to keep our cool. Let's double down on compassion, grace, love of our neighbor. Even for people we disagree with, let's try our best not to fight online and smile to strangers.

Maybe that's how we can spread some joy. I'll be back this afternoon. As always, more content. 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. Life's too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day.

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On this morning's episode, we've got the full Menendez brothers story. District attorney says they've served enough time and asked the judge to release them after 35 years in prison. Also, Caitlin Bristow stops by the love to see it podcast to chat about her night with Joan at dancing with the stars.

And speaking of bachelor bachelor star, Maddie Pruitt stirs up some political controversy. with their thoughts on the upcoming election. And we've also got Barstool founder, Dave Portnoy, weighing in on his employee, Brianna chicken fries, breakup with country singer, Zach, Brian, all these stories and so much more coming up next on the rush.

We've made it very clear. We are a bachelor, Kelsey Anderson fan page here. Uh, big fan of Kelsey. She's engaged to Joey from his season on the bachelor and her father was on this season of golden bachelorette. Well, now Kelsey says she would fully support her father, Mark as the next golden bachelor. 100%.

My question is, is he too young? He's still in his fifties, you know, to the, what's The age range they're looking for. She said this, if that's what he wants to do, I would fully support him. She exclusively told us weekly while promoting her partnership with F cancer and little words project. I think that my dad has grown so much through this journey of the golden bachelorette.

So yeah, I would 100 percent be excited for him and support him. I think this is great. I think it's a great idea. I just love the synergy, uh, amongst the Anderson family. You know, it's so rare. You know, this has never happened before where someone can bond with their parent or daughter because they both were in the same bachelor franchise.

Uh, I want a podcast, Mark and Kelsey, get me a podcast, bring your family together. We need more of you. Well, speaking of families. Well, this is a family story for you. The Menendez brothers have paid their debt to society says the district attorney. Let's go to this full story of what was, I guess, breaking news yesterday that they may now, we don't know for sure, but they may be releasing the Menendez brothers if all goes according to plan, here's what the district attorney had to say.

Very careful review of all the arguments that were made for people on both sides of this equation. I came to a place where I believe that under the law, resentencing is appropriate. And I am going to recommend that to a court tomorrow. What that means in this particular case is that we're going to recommend to the court that the life without the possibility of parole be removed and that they will be sentenced for murder.

Which, because there are two murders involved, there will be 50 years to life. However, because of their age under the law, since they were under 26 years of age, At the time that this crimes occurred, there will be Eligible for parole immediately. Alright. So I guess if you just kill people when you're under the age of 26, I mean get, get your killings in before you're 25.

Wait. 'cause once you turn 25 then you can rent a car and I don't know. No, I look, I, you know, all joking aside, I understand. The idea that if you're younger, maybe, maybe your whole life shouldn't be ruined for a mistake that you made, even if it's, uh, you know, such a, such a terrible crime. Now, when it comes to the Menendez brothers, I guess new information came out that they were being abused, which.

You know, does it change the fact that they murdered their parents? No, but you know, there are different levels of degrees when it comes to, you know, how bad a crime is, right? Well, now they're saying that it is Ryan Murphy who made all the difference in the Menendez decision. And that's, uh, Kim Kardashian gives Ryan Murphy that credit.

She posted this on her Instagram story. She said the Menendez brothers were granted a second chance at life and will wake up tomorrow. Finally eligible. For a parole hearing, they could be released in as early as six months. Thank you George Gascon for revisiting the Menendez Brothers case and writing a significant wrong.

Your commitment to truth and fairness is commendable to the brothers, family, friends, and the millions who have been vocal supporters. Your voices were heard. The media's focus, especially on the heels of Ryan Murphy's TV show, helped expose the abuse and injustices. in their case. Society's understanding of child abuse has evolved, and social media empowers us to question the systems in place.

This case highlights the importance of challenging decisions and seeking truth, even when guilt is not in question. I believe in the justice system's ability to evolve, and I am grateful for a society where we can challenge the decisions and seek justice. Guys, that was from Kim. Kardashian. Now, I'm not surprised because I followed Kim for a minute now, and I know she's worked on a lot of prison reform issues.

She, I think, decided to not finish getting her, uh, law degree, uh, but she did study a little bit, and of course, daughter of a pretty famous lawyer in the California area, of course, worked on the OJ Simpson trial. I don't know if everyone knows that about Kim Kardashian. I really don't, but maybe they do. Uh, of course she got her celebrity as an influencer because of a leaked sex tape or a stolen sex tape.

Who knows? And, um, look, I got to tell you, She's doing good with her platform. She's gotten people exonerated that were convicted of crimes. She's using her platform to elevate justice. And again, because people are revisiting the Menendez brothers going, okay, they've been behind bars for 30 plus years.

They have shown a good record and we've looked at all the other information. Like go out there, get a chance, give them a chance. Well, Lyle Menendez, his first wife, says the brothers should be freed despite personal heartbreak. So this is where, this is where the Rush Hour podcast comes in with some weird stuff.

Like, I like to dig into a good story. So the Menendez brothers resenting, resentencing is happening. Uh, but one of the brothers was married, and I'm doing the math and I'm going, Wait, did he meet his wife while he was in jail? Her name was Anna Erickson and she was married to Lyle Menendez from 96 to 2001.

She tells TMZ that even though Lyle shattered her trust when a misdirected letter revealed he had feelings for someone else, it doesn't change her stance. She still believes the brothers should be freed. All right. So what you're telling me is this, the Menendez brothers are just firing off so many.

Romantic letters that they accidentally sent the wrong one to the wrong address. Listen, I've never been incarcerated. Don't know what it's like, but I gotta tell ya, you're probably pretty bored. You got side pieces on the outside of the walls. You're firing off letters. Next thing you know, you meant to send it to Rebecca, but you sent it to Anna.

You got your names mixed up. up. It's a real, I mean, a real rom com move that happens here. So anyhow, she's like, yeah, despite that happening and her filing for divorce, she's still happy for him. So of course I do some more digging. That was Lyle. Now we got the other Menendez brother. And as it turns out a while back in the early two thousands, the other Menendez brother's wife spoke about their relationship.

Now this lady also met. Him behind bars. I don't know if it's these high profile cases that, you know, Charles Manson had a, had a girlfriend who was 50 years younger than him. What is it about some ladies that like a man in pinstripes? Always there for me emotionally. This is the wife of Eric Menendez, one half of the infamous Menendez brothers, the ones who brutally killed their parents.

She made a rare appearance on Larry King in 2004. The holding of the hands when I'm with him is, is a big, big thing. You, you wouldn't think so, but just being next to him. They're the women who will never know what it's like to do dinner at a movie. Now, this, this CNN story was from 2015, almost 10 years ago.

So, they were saying they'll never know what it's like to do a movie. Well, that's wrong, because apparently they're gonna be let out. That's because their spouses have no hope of getting out of prison. Serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy, among the other notorious murderers who were in committed relationships before they were put to death.

Who would decide to get involved with a prisoner? I like him for who he is and I would like him no matter where he was. This is 40 year old Chelsea. All right. So then they go through these different ladies that enjoy these prisoners. Maybe, maybe, you know, maybe if you're introverted and you don't like a guy who leaves the toilet seat up or spends too much time watching sports, you go, you know what the best case scenario for a happy relationship is when your husband's behind bars, you get a conjugal visit once a month, everybody's happy, you know, until they send the wrong name to the wrong letter.

And, you know, you get busted for cheating from behind bars. You know, the prison yard, but either way, I mean, it's, I'm sure there's, I'm sure I'll get an email from some people out there, uh, telling me about the psychology of it all, but it's, you know, it's an interesting thought. You know, there's, uh, you know, some people like a man, uh, they always say women like a man in uniform, but, um, you know, a prison guard, I guess so.

All right. I got a feel good college football story coming to you right after a quick word from our sponsor. A couple of days ago, I shared with you the story of the NFL kicker who was selling bricks and then all of a sudden gets called up to the big leagues. Well, now we have a tryout for a new Arizona state kicker after the current kicker, I guess was pretty bad.

And I want to share this whole story for you. Uh, we might have a pretty wild weekend ahead of us. We might be about to witness one of the great walk on sports stories of all time. So Arizona State, they just lost, moved to 5 2. They're holding open kicking tryouts on campus. But our kicking game's atrocious.

So if you can kick and you're at Arizona State, uh, email me. Right, we're gonna have kicking tryouts on Monday. So bring it on, kicking tryouts Monday. Let's go. I think they should have more open tryouts. Like, what if every college team had open tryouts and, uh, you know, just, I mean, I know they do tryouts, but you know, just, just one spot that has to be filled based on, you know, a viral Tik TOK video.

So with open trials coming up, meet new internet sensation, Nolan Krinsky. He's an Arizona state student who went and hit the practice field. Let me tell you, he's gone viral. He's absolutely bootin the ball. So, this guy, he tweets, I would love to tryout for the Arizona State football team. I am a kicker, punter, placeholder, and have been trying to walk onto the team for three years now, and I love kicking and putting in the work.

If you give me a tryout, I promise I won't disappoint. Well, I'm here to tell you that he got that tryout yesterday. I'm not sure if he made the team. Lacing him through the uprights from 50 yards out, and he's gone viral. 2. 7 million views on this, and he said, Look, coach, I've been trying to make the team as a walk on for three years now.

I'm a kicker. Punter placeholder at Kenny Dillingham. Give me a shot and great news for Nolan and the rest of us who were going to live vicariously through him. The trial is confirmed for Tuesday or Wednesday, so that's this week. So he's locked in forks up. This would be reminiscent of when coach Mike Leach saw a halftime kicking contest where a student, Matt Williams, laced one through the upright.

Mike Leach said, hold on, we need a kicker. When got his info. And next thing you know, Texas tech had a new place kicker walk on Matt Williams. I'm not alone. We're all rooting for Nolan here to make this college football team seven games into the year and become the new place kicker of the sun devils. Oh my gosh, I hope he's single.

I hope this kicker is single because once he's, once he joins the team, he's going to be the Steven Nadorczyk of Arizona State. And by the way, Arizona State is where good looking people go to college. I don't know, and I think Megan Fox went there, right? I don't know if it's The highest IQ people that go there, but if you got good bone structure, you go to Arizona state and you have some fun out there.

That's just how it works. Well, I got a sad story. Uh, this is a New York city story. Have you, have you heard of the Bed Stuy aquarium? It was a. Uh, street aquarium that was created by the local residents after a hydrant was dripping. They actually turned a little sidewalk area with a dripping hydrant into a full blown aquarium with, uh, with, uh, fish.

And it was kind of the talk of the town all summer long. Well, I guess the firemen showed up and actually, uh, I actually, uh, sealed off that fire hydrant, killing the fish. Finding out that all the fish are dead. I'm kind of sad about it. This is what the spot looks like now. Gone dozens of little goldfish.

This is what it looked like before these fish and the little hydrant aquarium were a favorite neighborhood curiosity. I just came over to see it. I didn't know that I was shut down. A leaky hydrant and the pool of water it made this summer is what started all of this whimsicality. But securing and sealing the hydrant on Tuesday Look, look at his face.

Remember the firemen that did it? Kill all the fish. People enjoy this place. We had international media attention, and yet no city agency reached out. That is a solar panel, and there's actually a heater attached. This was all part of their whole plan. To keep the fish alive during the winter by regulating the temperature of the water.

All right, so that was the report by ABC7 in news in New York City. Now, I'm being told that even though the firemen came and drained the whole area, that they've already begun rebuilding. So yeah, don't ruin a good thing. And now, now, You know, it gets pretty cold in New York. I don't know if one little solar panel is going to keep things warm, but who knows?

Like, uh, you know, it's just, uh, you know, New York is a city of resilience and New York is a weird city. I lived there for a long time and when, when they get their minds about something, they don't let it go. So if they want an aquarium in Bed Stuy, by golly, they're going to have one. All right. Our good pal, Caitlin Bristow was on our other four.

love to see it. And she discussed, uh, what it was like to catch up with the golden bachelorette, Joan, while at dancing with the stars. Here's what she had to say. I actually had that conversation with her. Um, they didn't air it, but I had, um, I had quite a long conversation with her about how she needs to just, you know, Be herself and surrender to this whole thing of, like she said, not driving the bus.

Like, yes, you're the lead, but you're also still a human being who's been through a lot and once you open yourself up, like that show will crack you wide open and, and, It helps like so once once you allow yourself to be human and show all of your emotions and being like You're not perfect and nobody wants you to be perfect And they're all relating to certain things that they've been through It brings them all closer and and just takes all those relationships to another level and I really saw that Between her and chalk in that moment.

I agree caitlin and uh, you know I also agree with caitlin that I don't think joan has fully opened up. I think she's doing the best she can You But you know, I think there's still some hesitation there, but the season is young. So we'll have to see. I think she's doing a fantastic, fantastic job though, but good insight by Caitlin Bristow.

Uh, all right. Well, uh, Dave Portnoy, uh, founder of Barstool sports, uh, reacted to his employee, Brianna chicken fry, getting dumped by country musician, musician, Zach Bryan, and he reacted by sharing a story about why he doesn't like Zach. I think Brie, I'm paraphrasing, was interviewed on the red carpet, like, anybody you're excited to meet, and it was some famous, like, awesome looking celebrity.

And I think she's like, oh, he's good looking, or like, yeah, he looks nice. Oh, jeez. Oh boy, here we go. He, he unfollowed Brie. On social blocked BFFs. She's on the gold, like the red carpet being interviewed. So he just seemed like a really immature, not confident baby. And then when I'd been around, like he was nice to us at the concert, but off, like his vibes were just, he was so over the top, nice.

so much for coming. It means the world to me that you came. It's like, no, don't fake, fake, insecure. So insecure. All right. So there it is. Dave Portnoy says his vibes were off and good for him for going to bat for his employee, Brianna chicken fry. As we reported a few days ago, she, you know, released that video crying where she found out that he posted that they broke up again.

Look. I don't know how they broke up, I don't know the full story, and I don't know the parameters around when they were going to announce the breakup, but you know, at some point you gotta rip the band aid off. Now maybe she thought they would get back together, who knows? But either way, it seems that it is, uh, as dead as a doornail.

Uh, okay, well, I've got A lot of stuff to get to today, uh, with regards to bachelorette or bachelor star, Maddie Pruitt. It might take a few minutes. So why don't we do this? Let's take a break and we'll be back with Maddie Pruitt stirring the pot right after this. Alright, I'm going to share what Bachelor, uh, Maddie Pruitt had to say.

Of course, she's, she's having a baby, she's pregnant, maybe she's got baby brain or whatever they call it. She's kind of like an evangelical influencer, which is like a mall about do whatever the hell you want to do. Uh, she posts this story and it says, This is your friendly reminder to vote. Doing a whole podcast on faith and politics next week and I can't wait.

She said, Just overheard a lady saying her vote doesn't matter. Your vote matters and your prayers matter. You should be doing both. Choosing to not vote is a sin of omission and negligence. And then she goes on to say, and while we're on the topic, please, when you vote, focus on the policies and not the person you're not choosing a spouse or a pastor, it's not a Valentine.

The policies enforced will impact you and your children. This isn't about politics. And by the way, it's like this election's not about politics. She goes, this isn't about politics. This is biblical. Freedom of religion is at stake. amongst a lot of other things. And mass media has made this election a superficial thing where we focus on the personality, gender, and character of a person.

We should be looking at policies that will impact God's design for family, marriage, and children. And which candidate will promote more God and bring this nation back to a nation under God. Now look, I know some people think that sounds fine, and I also know some people were really triggered by what I just shared.

The internet's going absolutely crazy over this. I have a lot of thoughts. I'll be doing a much longer video on this today on the YouTube, because I'll share some, you know, a little bit more nuance as to my opinion, but I do find it interesting. That we live in a world that is so highly triggered by even the conversation around politics.

There's people that found out that I vote for progressive policies and they think I'm some crazy guy now, when they supported me, when I was getting attacked on the Clayton stuff and they supported me in these, you know, Oh, Dave, you're a real truth seeker. And then they find out that I don't vote for the same person that they do.

And they go, I've changed my mind. And it just goes to show there's really nothing out there that that is a. Tighter bond than political ideology in today's world. Now, I have to say it's not just one sided. I know I have plenty of friends that are left leaning that when they find out someone is right leaning, they roll their eyes and they go, I can't with this.

This is crazy and vice versa. Now, look, I moved to Nashville and, um, Nashville's a. Blue city. And by blue, I mean, it's, it leans Democrat in a red state, Tennessee leans Republican, but not by a crazy amount. It's like 60, 40. It's, it's a pretty reasonable split if you ask me. Uh, but the point of what I'm saying is that I have my opinions, but I never tell anybody what to do.

Right. So, and I'm not blaming, I'm not saying Maddie's telling people what to do. I just think she's woefully ignorant. She married a man whose father is a. I don't know if they've ever worked like a real job in their life. I have no idea what kind of, you know, like what they know about the struggles of a lot of people that are out there.

Right. And it's like, you're allowed your opinion by all means, but it almost, you wouldn't even know what side she's clearly, uh, she's clearly voting of red, but. This, this idea that it's not about politics and go over policies, not the guy. It's like a lot of people that are in the sort of, um, that, that sphere put the guy over the policies.

They can't name one policy of their, of their supreme, you know, leader, right? It's, it's all about a cult of personality. And I was thinking about it. I, I didn't think twice that Kamala Harris. Was a, was a woman. I don't really dabble in the, in the culture war battles that exist. To me, that's completely different than, than the political side of things, which is, you know, I've interviewed people that are fighting for, uh, women's body autonomy and things like that.

So for her, who, by the way, you know, is pregnant with a baby girl to say, focus on You know, the things that matter. I don't know if she even knows what matters because the policies aren't going to really affect her. You know, that's called privilege. When people can, can exist above whatever the policies are.

Does that make sense? So she said we should be looking at policies that will impact God's design for family, marriage, and children. And yet. There's no policy for universal healthcare. Wouldn't that be God's design for family and children to not let children go starving, to not let children go to school hungry, or not be able to get the right medical treatment they need because we don't provide for each other.

So when I look at this, I go, Oh my gosh, it is going to take me. a good amount of time to pick this apart. And when it comes to character, you know, you don't, don't take it from me. When I look at that, the guy running for president here, Trump, I see every single person that he hired saying he's a, he's a guy who's unfit for presidency.

So what does that mean? You know what I mean? Now, again, you might get really triggered by this and I just say, okay. Vote however you want, but my channel is I share some news then I offer my opinion and I would be remiss if I didn't say Maddie Pruitt sounds really, really dumb right here. Now I'm not going to get into the whole debate about separating church and state which, you know, you should because not everybody's Christian.

It might be the majority religion in our country and by the way, I did see one of my power listeners at church last week. That's right. I was at Catholic mass. I told you I was raised Catholic, so I don't. Judge people for whatever religions they have, but we have to be aware that it ain't all the same God that everybody worships.

So this idea that we need to bring the nation back to a nation under God, I think that's a scary thought. I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think we can elect political officials that, uh, that speak for the people and do what the people want. A populist, Kind of leader that tries to provide, you know, basic social programs, uh, to, to make this country a better and safer place.

And I think in the off time, you can also go to your church and pray to your God. I think we can separate those just fine. So this weekend I'll actually be interviewing someone who's running for a representative position here in Tennessee, because a lot of people say, Oh Dave, you rant about these things, but what are you doing to solve the issues?

We're talking to people, we're using our platform to, uh, to look at some of the issues that exist out there. And I mean, by the way, my podcast is not big enough to flip any elections. That's not what I try to do. I just try to be authentic and tell you what I think about the different issues that are going on out there.

And I got to tell you. I'm about to shred Maddie when it comes to her ideology. I know I'll have that on YouTube. And you know what, if you don't like my opinion, you can make a YouTube video where you agree to disagree with me too. That's okay. Even though some others are triggered, I still think we can have these conversations and we can address, you know, them by a point by point basis.

So for those that don't enjoy this part of the conversation, I understand. I empathize. I get it. I try to save it for the end of the episode because not everyone wants to talk about it, but in 12 days, it's going to be the biggest election of our lifetime. And like Maddie says, I agree with her on this note is that we should all be voting.

So don't complain if you're not going to vote, get out there and support. Whichever candidates you support, do your research on the local side of the elections and vote in your, in your gut and in your heart for who you think best represents this country. That's all you can do. All right. It's going to be a busy day for me on YouTube today.

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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 Thursday to you, October 24th, 2024. We're going to get into it. I got golden bachelorette recaps from last night's hometowns episode.

Plus bachelorette Jen responds to the speculation about a romance between her and dancing partner Plus a big update on the missing person aboard the Taylor Swift themed cruise ship. And we've got clips from people on board. Also a wild story emerging about Jamie Foxx's stroke and how it may have actually been Diddy poisoning him.

Don't believe me, but I'm going to play the interview clip that is circulating this strange and wild story. Also Anna Kendrick's got a new movie and she explains how fate would land her in the director's chair. And as police Prep for polling site distribution disruptions. We've got several stories of election shenanigans leading up to the big day.

Uh, it's a wild one. It's the end of October. We have October surprises. We've got Halloween on the way and one of the biggest elections ever coming up. So we've got all the stories and we're going to break them down for you. Coming up next on the rush. Let's start with our Bachelorette news. First Golden Bachelorette, Joan had her, uh, hometown episode last night.

She got to go to the hometowns of the men vying for her heart, preparing for fantasy suite, and she sends home Jordan. Uh, she kind of alluded to the Chicago native saying she felt like he wasn't kind of getting there. You know, she wasn't telling her what she needed to hear, but of course the hometown with Choc went really well.

Chucks. Mom passed away several episodes earlier, or maybe the, the episode earlier. So they did a nice little memorial for her, which was very sweet. And of course, Guy showed her Lake Tahoe, you know, I mean, this is it. This is the, uh, golden bachelorette. It's the exact opposite of what you see on the bachelorette, the bachelorette.

You've got dads that don't want to give the blessing to these random dudes. Cause they know they're all there for the wrong reasons. And then on the golden bachelorette, everyone's like, Go get them, have fun, break a leg, do whatever the hell you want to do. So yeah, we, uh, don't exactly, uh, get too much tea from these episodes.

Just good conversations. And you know why? Because Joan is an unproblematic queen. That's what she is. Uh, but of course it's not going to work out for everybody. Now we've got Chalk, Guy, and Pascal are all heading to the fantasy suites. And if you want more of this content, I'll have a YouTube video up later today, uh, recapping this episode with some visuals.

Plus I was joined by Stephanie from She's All Batch podcast. They've got an audio podcast and now they're also on YouTube. So if you want to hear my conversation with her, we dive deep into all of the aspects of this last episode. Plus a lot of irreverence. I couldn't help it. I couldn't stay focused. You know, these episodes, they're kind of more of a formality.

We don't learn too much and you kind of got it. You got to get through these to get to the good stuff in the old fantasy suite. So we did what we had to do. All right, let's move it on to. Speaking of the fantasy. It almost looks like a fantasy suite between Jen and Sasha. They're making it look, uh, sharing their flirty side, and they respond to romance rumors and dish on the kiss that they did on the performance.

It was just a forehead kiss from Sasha to her, but hey, you gotta start somewhere. I have to ask, because, I mean, even in this interview, the chemistry is Off the charts. Is it? I think it is. Um, I just want to know, like, how do you guys, what do you guys think about fans shipping, shipping you two or having a showman?

How do you control yourself? What do you mean? I'm not that one. I'm just being a smart ass. Yeah, you are. Listen, we have so much trust in each other. She's an incredible woman. I'm just happy to be here on this incredible journey with her. Um, this dance was so beautiful. She was hitting all the beautiful lines.

All right, so they don't really say much else about the romance now my in my educated opinion The teasing of a romance one might call it romance baiting is just a ploy to drum up interest In them to get more votes, which by the way, hey, I don't blame them Do what you, I would do the same thing if I were single.

I'd say, yeah, let's have a romance. We'll get people to want to keep us around. I don't think they need that. She's a good dancer. They're doing a good job, but I don't buy it for one second that they're together. That's just me. I've been fooled before. I could be fooled again. All right. Well, here's a good, speaking of dancing with the stars, we have Steven Nadarizik explaining what it was like to get his first spray tan.

Steven, what was it like to get your first spray tan? I mean, I mean, yeah, they were like, you're playing Hercules. We need to tan you up, so let's do it. And I was, I'm down for anything really. So like, I personally wouldn't have gotten one on my own, but for the show, I have to own the character, right? So I got the spray tan.

They were very excited to give it to me and it smelled really nice. So, and it made me look good. So I'm happy about it. Did you go for support? Riley, were you there cheering him on? Yes, I just went for support. It was so fun. And I'm, I'm telling you guys right now. I think he's into the spray tans. I wouldn't be surprised if we got another one this season.

I'm telling you right now, from bronze metal to bronze skin, Steven Nadorozik, the pommel horse prince, loves a good tan. Uh, spray tan, I mean, look, that's the safest way to do it. When I was his age, when I was in college, we'd go to the tanning salon and you'd buy these tanning beds. They were 20 minutes, you know, but you have to pay for the 20 minute version.

And they'd always be like, all right, you're new to it. You might as well only do 10 minutes. And I'd be like, well, I'm paying for 20. I'm going to do 20. And I know people are listening, going, no, Dave, you're going to burn your white ass. Well, let me tell you something. I sure did. My Catholic moles were throbbing, uh, probably got, I mean, I just got my moles checked from the dermatologist.

So I think I'm in the clear, but I don't recommend that. Although I have to say there is something sensual about wiping up the of butt sweat from the person before you who used it. Uh, but he does have a point. The smell is always good. It always smells like coconuts. Uh, all right. Well, anyway, I probably, I hope no one was eating their breakfast while they listen to this, cause you probably lost all of your, uh, sort of taste there.

Uh, okay. Let's, let's, let's go. Let's dive right into the Jamie Foxx story. So it was written up in an article that Jamie Foxx is talking about Diddy in his upcoming Netflix comedy special, which is called What Had Really Happened Was. The actor makes a startling claim that Sean Diddy Combs was behind the stroke he suffered a year ago.

According to Media Takeout, Fox, who is in the middle of filming this special across various LA venues, goes into detail about what transpired before, during, and after his health scare. In a particularly shocking moment, Fox reportedly tells the audience, Diddy was responsible for my stroke. Well, I know he poisoned Jamie Foxx.

And Jamie Foxx reported him to the FBI because of it. I know that's a fact. Wait, you're saying that Diddy Diddy Poisoned Jamie Foxx and that's how Jamie Foxx got sick? Jamie Foxx reported this man to the FBI because of this. Is there any idea why Diddy would want to poison Jamie Foxx? You get called to testify.

If you on camera in some of this footage, and you want to make it a little bit easier for yourself. It is a, it's a way. It is. It is ways in this industry. People go about doing things now. I actually believed the first half, but the second half, it felt like a lost credibility. I mean, if it's true, what they're saying about Diddy, there's gonna be tons of tapes.

What is he poisoning? Everybody? Again, we'll have to see how it all plays out. Now, if you remember when Jamie Fox had a stroke, people didn't really know what was going on. There were a lot of conspiracies even back then about what was going down, whether it was actually a stroke or if something else happened.

So who the hell knows? But. I think it's fair to say that this clip is going super viral online, so I felt like I needed to share it with you. Alright, well I'll tell you what, I got the Taylor Swift cruise updates, we'll get to those after a quick word from our sponsor. We have an update on the Taylor Swift themed cruise, which of course Taylor had nothing to do with just like that attack that happened.

What was it in the UK where there was like a terrorist style attack at a Taylor Swift themed party? Look, she's a giant pop star. So there's going to be Taylor Swift events going on that, uh, you know, sadly will attract some criticism. craziness. Well, the women that went overboard is now officially missing.

They've called off searches. And the update, uh, that we just got was that a rep for the Royal Bahamas Defense Force confirmed to TMZ that the 66 year old woman jumped from the 14th floor of the cruise ship. Search and rescue efforts were officially called off Wednesday. Now, I mean, assuming each floor is 10 feet, a 14th floor is going to be 140 plus feet.

That is so far up. And even if she made a good landing, you know, I mean, there's a million ways that this does not end well. Well, there was somebody, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people were making content, but there was someone named Ashley travels seven one five. And she, uh, shared of course the wrong information, but the, there was a lot of rumors going around at first.

Here's what she had to say. There is a man overboard. They just came on the loudspeaker and they said, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar. And now there is another cruise ship across from us coming this way. And they have all the lights along the sides on. All right. So pretty, pretty freaky when you think that they get rid of all the ambiance lights and they just have all the floodlights and it's like shows over.

We are in, you know, uh, you know, you know, I don't want to say panic mode, but they're in an emergency situation. Well, she gave an update. This actually travels 7 1 5 the next morning. Good morning, everybody. Um, we slept in because we were up to about two o'clock in the morning outside, kind of watching what was going on in the search efforts.

Shortly after we went to bed, I did get messages that they did call off the utopia from searching and they left. And shortly after we did leave, I guess when the Coast Guard arrived. It was a 66 year old woman, despite all the fake claims and all the false reports, it was a 66 year old woman. So, of course, after this lady's, you know, clips were going viral, sharing the updates, TMZ interviewed this lady, I'm assuming still on the cruise ship.

Here's what she did, here's how she described the scene. To us, um, how this kind of unfolded, I guess you must have been, this happened fairly late. Were you in the cabin? What did you hear? Um, can you kind of Yeah, do they inform everyone on board that there's a rescue going on or did you realize that? Yeah, set the scene.

I was coming out of the show Mamma Mia. She wanted to watch the second half and I kind of wanted to walk around. Um, as I walked out of the theater, they were saying Oscar, Oscar, Oscar on the loudspeaker repeatedly, not knowing what that was. I tried to go outside on the fifth deck, which the doors were closed.

There was somebody guarding it and everybody's yelling. Somebody jumped, went up to the top decks and just proceeded to see a search go on for. I stayed up there for a good three hours, just watching, praying and wondering what was happening. The Utopia of the Seas, which is another sister ship, came over and we were both doing rotating, um, searches along with a plane and a helicopter that came around midnight, and they're making a flower formation.

Around both ships with four different, there's the boat for different little search boats out in the water. Um, and we were there for a good three hours doing that. All right. So she says we were there doing that. She was, uh, called rubber necking, but Hey, what else are you going to do sit in your, you know, your room?

No, look, I was on a cruise last year. Surprised my wife. Cause she was always afraid of cruises. We did a short one, uh, from, you know, long beach, uh, Los Angeles down to, uh, Encinitas, I believe just a couple of days and yeah, they, they, they'll do. They'll do these regular, um, scheduled, uh, rescue, uh, training sessions where they'll throw a dummy overboard.

Now look, it's a little easier to rescue someone in the daylight when you can see people, but if you've ever been on one of these ships, they are floating cities. So if you don't find this person and track them from the get go, it is just a real sad situation. But, and again, I hate to say this, but if someone was jumping to their death, they're And they were doing it voluntarily, maybe this is what they wanted.

I hate to say it. Maybe it's what they wanted. Obviously, it's very selfish and ruins the trip for everyone else and their family. And, you know, but, um, who knows, who knows the whole story? We'll say that, who knows? But I always wondered, like, there's no way you drunkenly fall off one of these cruise ships.

I mean, your center of gravity is below your waist. You'd have to be running really fast and jumping and actually, you know, there's just no way. So it looks like it was, um, you know, um, I'm, I'm guessing death by, Jumping off the boat. I mean, there's no other way to put it. Uh, we'll we'll have any updates as they come in tragic sad story All right.

Well in other news netflix has a new movie coming out called women of the hour I actually think it already is out and anna kendrick stars in it and she discussed how she took the role of Director along with star you got cast in it But then the director had to drop out because that's what happens in hollywood And at what point did you say?

Oh, hey, i'm gonna drop out Direct this. Yeah, so we were scrambling looking for a director and I just had like the most horrifying thought imaginable, which was, I think I want to do it and I think I'm going to pitch myself. So I was very much trying to throw my hat in the ring and also say, if this is a bad idea, I don't want to do it.

Like, I don't want. To do what's wrong for the movie. Everyone was basically like maybe tomorrow do like a real pitch and I just kind of like scrambled to put into words how I imagined the film and why it felt like This was the right film Move for me because I don't know there was something like really emotionally resonant for me in the script I mean good for her anna kendrick is she's a smart businesswoman great actor I mean, she's a five tool star so good for her to get into the world of directing now The movie woman of the hour is a 1970s.

Uh, a period piece in los angeles as a wave of murderers Make headlines a young woman aspiring to become an actress and a serial killer cross paths during an episode of a dating show That my friends is how you write a hell of a log line Now a log line is the elevator pitch for a movie and that that i'm sure they spent weeks working on what I just said But that is concise and it sounds really good.

I love a good period piece Uh, my wife hates horror. So it'll be a fantastic mix Uh, although it doesn't sound like a horror more like a sort of a scary mystery. Um, all right Well Uh, speaking of horrors, this is an absolute scary story here. This is a, uh, I guess, uh, uh, adult siblings discussing what it was like to find out their father had put himself 50, 000 in debt after donating to political campaigns, essentially put himself 50, 000 in debt after he had given them his life savings.

So you made more than a hundred donations in one day. So this is the saddest story I saw. This is, this is a man, he's obviously beginning, you know, the cognitive decline, suffering from dementia, and he gets these text messages we all get, Hey, we'd love for you to donate to my campaign. I'm not even going to play the part of the clip that shares that he actually thinks he's donating to Donald Trump.

But you know, you'll get, Hey, it's Pete Buttigieg. We could really love your donation. So when these people would text him, which clearly were like automated text messages, he thought they actually needed his specific help. And he donated his life savings and they didn't find out until after he had spent hundreds, uh, made hundreds of donations totaling, uh, you know, uh, whatever he had and then some, so real sad story.

I don't know how this is legal. Um, I, you know, It's one of my biggest worries, not, not necessarily of my parents, but just this idea that you get a little older and you stop being smart with your decisions, you start to lose your fastball, you start to not kind of, you know, know if you're getting duped because there's new technologies and this and that.

I mean, when I, when I went home to see my family, I had to tell them, Hey, just so you guys know, I'm never going to call you and ask for money. So if someone says, you know, because you could, you can use AI. To mask someone's name and, uh, the light, their likeness and sound like them. I mean, it is just absolutely scary out there and I don't mean to, uh, put fear in anybody, but, uh, you know, this is just something everyone out there with your parents, you should have these conversations to know what the protocol would be to make sure that you don't, uh, you know, deal with getting scammed in the modern world.

All right. Well, uh, we got, uh, we got a war breaking out. Between, uh, the political ideologies in our country, we're 12 days away. I guess, yeah, 12 days away till the election. Well, there was a, this is, this is a sort of lighthearted story. A news nation reported that there was a Texas Republican and a Texas Democrat sparring about a silly billboard.

I guess one person posted a billboard and then they posted one next to it. And anyway, the only person laughing here is the guy who owns the billboard. Laura Bray, a Democrat decided to put up this billboard saying vote Democratic. in a majority red county. Clint Voight saw the billboard above his business and decided to put up his own.

They put a f ing Vote Democrat sign right above the damn shop and that one right there is still available. You guys didn't plan this, right? You guys just now are figuring out that you know each other? No? Have you been surprised by the reaction? I've been very surprised by it. We've, we've gotten a lot of, of good coverage and some donations and some, uh, from across the nation.

So we're really, we're, we're excited about it. We did it because it was located above our business and, uh, we did it just to have fun back and we've. We've received a bunch of donations from all across the country too. I mean, look, this is good. This, this is friendly. Oh, my side versus your side. This is, I wish the country could be more friendly.

The problem is, I think, is you'll have lopsided counties. You'll have a red county where people People are afraid to share something blue and then you'll have a blue county where people are afraid to share something red. And I understand the rhetoric and people say, no, the election is too important. I get it.

You know, we should take this election seriously, but I also think we need to love our neighbor, right? We have to love our neighbor. Even if we don't like them, we have to treat people with kindness and live in a world where we respect each other. Now I got an interesting story here, caught red handed. So in place to tracking device on there.

Political campaign signs after they were being stolen. I'm going to play what went down next. Well, if you know me, you know, I love vigilante justice and Fox 2 now in St. Louis is reporting a story where a Missouri woman Not only recovered her stolen election sign but captured the confrontation with the alleged thief on video.

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Here you go liberals So, so, so the person goes, here you go, liberals. You can take them all. So what happened was the lady put a tracking device, probably like an AirPod tracker in the, in one of the signs. Now these were Kamala Harris, Tim wall signs. Uh, what happens next is the person freaks out. Who, of course, stole all of them and said, Oh, fine.

We were just having fun. Go take them. And they go, No, no. Each of these signs is worth 20. You've committed a felony. It's more than that, actually. No, it's not. It's so stupid. Just go vote. It's so stupid. Just go vote. Captured on video and viewed thousands of times. A confrontation between a Springfield woman and a man in Nixa.

After she says dozens of stolen Harris Wall signs were in his trunk. It's a bigger deal than you're making it out to be. I mean, obviously it's important or you wouldn't have taken your time to take these. No, I mean, honestly, it's just, I saw it on TikTok. I saw a guy that apparently he filled his house up with some buddies.

You know, I'm not saying it was right or anything. Laura McCaskill says they were only able to get that video because one of the signs had her partner's Apple AirTag still on it. I expected to find the AirTag, but not 59 signs. It was kind of like, Finding a dead body. It was like, Oh, are you kidding me?

McCaskill has filed a police report and says others in her roundtree neighborhood plan to do the same. Missouri law says stealing an election sign is a misdemeanor and could carry a 2, 500 fine, jail time or both. There it is. I mean, look, you know, you got to have a fair election. You're allowed to put a sign up in front of your business.

If you don't want to support that business because of their ideologies. That's fair too, but you can't be stealing signs that goes for all sides, right? That's that's that's my thought on that. But still I love a good air tag You know you put the air tag on you start following it to a car next thing, you know, you find 59 of these signs So yeah, it's getting pretty serious out there And you know i'm trying to do my best to calm the rhetoric down amongst my community And I hope you guys are doing the same Cops are preparing for polling site disruptions as the 2024 presidential election shapes up to be one of the most important in the country's history.

Law enforcement agencies are planning extra measures to ensure the security of polling places in the aftermath of the 2020 election. In the January 6th, uh, 2021, Capitol, riots, votes and poll workers in some states are now facing threats. Now, we know this because even in my state, my home state where I live now, of Tennessee in, uh, northern Tennessee or eastern Tennessee, there was a militia group from North Carolina that was surrounding who they thought to be were FEMA workers.

And look, this is what it comes down to, is there's already viral video saying, uh, there's election fraud happening when, when last election, none of it was proven. And those dominion voting booths, you know, Fox had to pay them like half a billion dollars or something in a defamation lawsuit. Let's let the system play out.

A lot of people are voting early. Those votes don't get tabulated right away. There will be States that don't know how many votes they're They have by the end of the night. It doesn't mean there's anything nefarious going on. So let's just do our job to make sure we calm down any of the rhetoric and we just let it all play out, trust in the judicial system.

And it might, you know, they, they warned us this last time. They said, you might not know who wins. The night of the election, because there's so many mail in ballots that just don't get counted till whenever, you know, and that's because states have agreed to doing it that way. So we'll have to see how it all plays out.

But like I said, I'm, I'm here to, uh, you know, just, um, try to cover it all. You know, it is, this might be one of those, you know, I just, I hate to sound sinister, but I feel as though I'm. Preparing to cover some pretty heavy and wild stories out there. So, uh, you know, my advice to people vote early. I already cast my vote two days ago, go vote early and love your neighbor and try to stay away from large crowds.

I mean, what else can you say? You know, don't, don't, uh, don't, uh, you know, get yourself in any sticky situations. Well, I know that sounds super sketchy to say, but we've obviously seen some violence play out and, um, you know, we don't need any excuse for a maniac to, to, to be a maniac. So, uh, if, and again, I sound so silly saying it, but if you see something, say something, if, if something looks fishy, You know, call your local law enforcement, but like, let, let the professionals handle it.

Right. All right. Jeez. I mean, boy, what a weird way to end this episode. Uh, Hey, did I, did I tell you this? I got a new Instagram account for the podcast. It's called the rush hour with Dave Neal, and I'm going to be posting clips on there. I'm going to be posting stories and other updates. Again, the rush hour with Dave Neal.

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10-23-24 Afternoon Rush - A Lady Went Missing On Taylor Swift Fan Cruise & Anna Kendrick Does 'Call Her Daddy' Podcast

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Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, good afternoon on the hump day folks, October 23rd, 2024. We got all the pop culture. Culture and entertainment news in one place. And on today, we've got a clip of Anna Kendrick on the call her daddy podcast, discussing texting etiquette.

We love a good millennial discussing how to text. And also Olivia Munn is going viral for her. Skims underwear campaign unapologetically featuring her mastectomy scars. Also McDonald's CEO breaks his silence on the possible E. coli outbreak and Jason Kelsey caught snoozing at a Taylor Swift concert. He defends himself in a clip from his podcast, new heights, which I will be sharing.

And sadly, tragedy strikes the Taylor Swift crews as a lady is now missing, went overboard. I'll share that sad story. Uh, and we've also got a preview for tonight's episode of Golden Bachelorette. So stick around. I got all those stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Justin Bieber upset that his business managers squandered a fortune.

He's considering legal action. He thinks it's way too late to say sorry when it comes to some of his former business managers here reported by TMZ, but thinks they grossly mismanaged his money and it could be time to take legal action. Listen, this is why I'm a one man shop. I don't trust anybody. No one's got your best interest.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ. Justin's been very upset for several years, claiming he's lost a ton of money as a result of terrible decisions made by business managers. We don't know how many managers, but we do know it's more than one. Yeah. Take your money and put it in the S and P 500. What's wrong with people?

Like you, that's all you got to do. It's going to give you 10 percent back right now. It's giving you a lot more than that, but put your money in a nice, boring mutual fund. Well, so. They don't know how much has been squandered, although they do say it's a huge amount. The argument against suing is that Justin went through a period where he was spending wildly.

Translation, he caused his own problem. Well, yeah, you can't do that. If your business managers are just not telling you not to buy things, that's how you know you're wealthy when you have to ask someone if you can afford something. Uh, you know, can I get this, uh, new electric Hummer vehicle? And the guy's like, do whatever the hell you want.

And you're like, all right, put it on the MX. Justin is not struggling financially. He sold his music catalog in January for 200 million. And before the sale sources say his net worth was around a hundred million. All right. Look, just like I said, what are we even talking about right here? All right. Well.

Patrick Mahomes Sr. is back in jail. As you know, a couple days ago, we shared the, uh, uh, arrest video from his DUI the night before the Super Bowl. This is Patrick Mahomes father. Well, he begins the sentence for the DUI, DWI conviction, I guess now. Uh, TMZ Sports has learned he's simply begun serving his sentence for his most recent DWI conviction.

A Smith County jail official says the father of the NFL superstar was booked on Tuesday afternoon at 4. 53 p. m., took a new mugshot, he's now not expected to be released until Halloween. Now look, I don't want to make light of the prison, uh, complex, uh, at all, uh, but if you had to go to jail for eight days, I mean That seems kind of not the worst case scenario.

Can you bring your own books? I mean, if you could bring movies, I would be getting, first of all, I haven't watched breaking bad or the wire. So I kind of feel like you could just watch episodes of breaking bad in the wire, and then that'll take you through the 10 days, but if you could just read a few books too, that would be nice.

Maybe catch up on a couple of Joe Rogan podcasts. Those are long. I don't know. Again, I'm not trying to make light of it. Look, you got to serve your time, you know, but I think more arrests should be short like this because it's like, look, the guy. And by the way, the fact that he even is serving time, um, I don't even know if I agree or disagree with that.

Couldn't they give him like community service or something? Isn't there something he could do that would be better off? You know, this is a complete side tangent, but do you guys watch those TikTok videos of people that are like power washing people's driveways? There's this one guy, he weed wax in most people's lawns and he does it for free.

Because he knows the videos will go viral and then he gets to make money off of that. And my thought was, how has Silicon Valley not monetize people cleaning up the streets? So lived in Los Angeles for 10 years. There's a lot of streets that are really dirty. Is there a way to set up a camera and videotape yourself cleaning and then those videos go viral and you make money that way?

I mean, how quickly would the world be a better place if we could capitalize on doing the right thing? I don't know. Just a thought. What do I know? Not much. Uh, well, uh, you know, if anyone wants some money, maybe this is how Justin Bieber squandered some of that money by buying expensive home run baseballs.

The Shohei Otani baseball, the 50 home run 50 stolen base baseball, the column, the 50, 50 ball sells for 4. 39 million. Now we've reported, I believe yesterday that the guy running the auction thought he was going to get 10 million for it, but Hey, it's still the most expensive ball Ever sold again, he might be the next babe Ruth, really this guy.

I mean, he's, he's the best of the best. And, uh, so that price tag, I guess is no surprise now to me, I just wouldn't have thought 50 home run 50 stolen bases was that big of a deal. You know, you know, you know what a big deal is to me, the home run record. That's a big deal, but stolen bases. It's like, no, one's trying to get the stolen base record.

That's the least sexy of all records out there. Well, I got a lot of Taylor Swift to talk about. We're going to get to that tragic story about the, uh, lady who I guess fell or jumped, who knows, off the cruise ship. We'll have that story in a minute, but first there's a photo going viral of Jason Kelsey, apparently sleeping as he listens to Taylor Swift.

I can really empathize, empathize with this guy. Okay. Look, maybe he just wanted to relax for a couple songs. You know what I mean? Close his eyes. Maybe he had a few drinks and he was just feeling the moment. Maybe he ate an edible. What do we know? Either way, of course, after this photo went viral, they decided to cover it on their popular podcast, new heights.

Again, this is Jason Kelsey defending himself, uh, with his co host and brother, Jason kills, uh, Travis Kelsey. You took a nap at the Arrows Tour. What is that all about Travis? You know, I didn't take a nap. I did not take a nap. This show is absolutely electric. It's the greatest show that's ever been on stage.

And you're over here falling asleep. Not only was it the greatest show, but this Miami show was incredible. It was like. On another level, I text you halfway through it. Like this rain is killing it. But back to this photo, I'm going to give a little background to this. We brought a bunch of people to the show and mom went for the first time.

And we're trying to figure out, we'll get a box. We'll make it happen so that everybody can come to the show. And. I want to be rich enough where I can say, we'll get a box. And I mean, a VIP box and not like, you know, a box of chicken wings. We go out there and I realized I'm in like the middle of the open.

Like it isn't like a box. It's like a close. I feel like I'm kind of in a fishbowl, like everybody's staring at me. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna sit down. I'm just like sitting here and I'm just like feeling it. And I'm tapping my thigh in the moment. And then all of a sudden I go on Twitter and I see this picture.

And I'm like, dude, what the f k? Like, I'm not even sleeping. And I can prove it to you. There is evidence in this photo that I'm not sleeping. You calling Bo Allen a liar? Bo didn't say I was sleeping. He just posted the picture. You were just feeling the groove. If you zoom in on my right hand, my hand is hovering.

You can't sleep with your hand hovering above your knee. It's impossible. And you know I play jazz. Sometimes when you close your eyes Dude, I'm Every jazz solo I ever saw you Yeah, who are we to judge how Jason Kelsey decides to absorb the musical delight known as Taylor Swift? You know what I mean? It's an immersive experience.

Now again, if he did decide to go take a nap, I wouldn't blame him. They got a box as the royalties like to put it, the VIP box. So they're going to be getting unlimited. Food, you know, me, I have a little bit of, uh, you know, some breaded chicken tenders and, uh, next thing, you know, the inflammation hits and I need to take a quick nap, you know, I might, I got a sugar, the glycemic index crashes my, whatever the heck is going on in.

Sometimes you just have to, uh, you know, catch a couple of Z's. I wouldn't blame them, but again, not the case here. I invite Bo Allen and then all of a sudden friendly fired. Like I'm nervous about all these other people getting pictures with me and Ellie and I'm trying to have a moment. And then all of a sudden I see this.

Betrayed by one of my best friends. That's not betrayal. That's just a good friend. All right. So there it is. Now, look, can you imagine how big the Taylor, uh, Taylor Swift effect is that Jason Kelsey retires again, a lineman, nobody outside of Philadelphia would know anything about, and then once he retired, now people, uh, Now he's a celebrity sighting at a Taylor Swift event because her ecosystem is just that big.

It's absolutely wild stuff. Okay, well coming up next is a sad Taylor Swift story. We'll take a quick break and we'll be back with that right after this. All right, not a story I wanted to report on. A Taylor Swift themed cruise has a woman who went overboard and is now missing. We reported on the cruise last episode.

It's a Royal Caribbean cruise and it's a themed cruise from Florida to the Bahamas. A rep for the U. S. Coast Guard tells TMZ the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, filled with Taylor Swifties, left the port of Miami Monday and it was about seven o'clock. 17 miles north of Nassau in the Bahamas when tragedy struck Tuesday night.

Look, if anyone's been on a cruise, you don't just fall off. I don't understand how this can happen. Uh, according to the spokesperson, the woman tumbled off the ship called Allure of the Seas plunging into the ocean at 9 40 PM. And I know, I know what people think. If you've never been on a cruise, you're like, yeah, well just, can you swim a little bit till they save you?

You're probably like knocked unconscious. The, the, the pull and rip in the waves created from the boat. I mean, it's, it's God. And then you're just completely invisible to them. So it just sounds, I mean, absolutely horrific. The Royal Bahamas defense force assisted by the U S coast guard responded and conducted search and rescue efforts using helicopters and airplanes.

But so far the woman has not been found and is considered missing. The cruise was supposed to be a fun get together attended by Taylor's most ardent fans to celebrate the pop star's career. But now it's turned into a nightmare as rescuers comb the waters to find the missing woman. It's unclear if she was part of the Swifties contingent or a separate group.

And should be noted that Taylor herself is not involved in the cruise. So, um, Yeah, Wild Stuff, I guess, uh, uh, uh, uh, Royal Caribbean announced, uh, their spokesperson said, Our crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort and is working with local authorities. We're also providing support and assistance to the guest's family during this difficult time.

To respect the privacy of our guest's family, we have no additional details to share. Well, by all means, I hope there's a happy end to this story, but I severely doubt it. I severely doubt it. Real sad stuff. All right. Well, I got some K pop news. I don't know much about K pop, uh, other than there are some very weird rules that they've got.

Well, BTS, which is kind of like the biggest K pop band of all time. They have a member named J Hope. They've all got these weird names. You know what I mean? Nothing's as it seems. The first pitch. So he threw out the first pitch at a Korean series baseball game after military discharge. Here's what I think is impressive, that BTS decided to literally disband like the biggest pop group in the world disbanded or at least put their careers on pause because he had to go serve military time.

I can't believe he's already done. Time flies. So, He was at the, um, uh, like I said, the Korean baseball series game. And, um, I guess it was his first time being in public or one of the first times being in public since he served his military service. So I don't know what that means. Do they just go back to being the band?

Are they still popular? The massively popular K pop group now has two members who have completed their military obligations with Jin handling business and getting out this past June. All right. So they have a total of seven members. So does that mean there's five more members? All right. Here's the info.

Jay Hope looks forward to getting back to what he does best and army will have to wait until at least 2025 until their boys are all reunited, but it'll be well worth the wait. I don't, I know these are words I'm saying out loud. I don't know what any of this means. Um, so they all have like, okay, I'll tell you my beef with K pop, K pop.

Is manufactured creativity by like producers, right? You know, they, they do these sort of, um, it's kind of like how, uh, some countries run the Olympics, these training programs, they do these training programs for pop stars. And then they, they see, of course, like looks is important, uh, talent. You got to have a good voice, but you also, they, they also don't want you to be unique.

You like, you have to almost fit into what a pop band wants, not a, not a Perform not a solo artist. And there's a Netflix special that kind of shows how this is all done. The making of a K pop band, it's very bizarre, but also you get like, in some cases, scolded, like, like I know in some of these K pop bands, you have to pretend like you're single.

Because it's supposed to be sort of this allure like the audiences are supposed to believe they have a shot with you So this was in the news today nbc news a k pop star was photographed kissing a woman again a male k pop star Photographed kissing a woman fans decided he should be fired for it. What the hell are we talking about?

Almost a year after photos of, uh, uh, Xinguan, Sheng, Shenggan kissing a woman led to his suspension from the boy band, R. I. Z. E, R I I Z E. His return was foiled by fans who expect their idols to have wholesome images. SCORNED IS THE MAN WHO KISSES SOMEBODY! See, in the culture that I grew up in. I mean, every culture is different, but I, I enjoy when someone's out there making out, you know, I want Olivia Rodrigo to find a man or a woman.

I want Chapel Rowan to find her partner. I don't want them to pretend like they're single. This reminds me of when my wife would lose followers when she was single. And, uh, she would post a photo with me. She would lose Instagram followers. Like what is wrong with people? Uh, so it all started with a kiss.

The K pop star was banished. For almost a year from his boy band, Rise, amid backlash over leaked photos showing him kissing a woman when he was a trainee, behavior considered unacceptable by some fans who expect their idols to remain single and have wholesome images. When the South Korean entertainment company behind the band, SM Entertainment, tried to bring him back to the band earlier this month, fans still weren't ready to forgive him, sending white funeral wreaths to the company's headquarters in Seoul and organizing online campaigns and protests.

Meanwhile, in the United States, we were letting our pop stars get out of limousines without their underwear on. And by the way, do whatever the hell you want. What do I care? It's just there, you know, they have a problem kissing someone. Katy Perry. You know, she's famous for kissing a girl. She liked it.

What are you going to do about it? That's not wholesome. I mean, you know, what's wholesome anyway. All right. Uh, wild, wild stuff. All right. Well, now that we're talking about music, let's go into, uh, the singer Zach Bryan. He has a new song he's been working on following his breakup from Brianna chicken fry.

We just covered this story, uh, earlier today, she released kind of a very tearful, uh, Instagram, uh, real. Uh, saying she was kind of blindsided when he announced the breakup. There's rumors that he was caught cheating on her rumors. He was on Raya. Who the hell knows? Maybe, uh, maybe they broke up a while back and just didn't announce it.

I don't really know. Either way, we've got a sort of clip of his new song. I'll play it for you. Um, again, Look, he's a country music star. I'm not saying he should be allowed to cheat by any means, but again, I'm not surprised. It's almost like one of those, hey look, you get what you sign up for. Like, you hope these guys could be single, but literally every single one of these rock stars is slinging dick and not apologizing for it, right?

Here he is. Alright,

you know what? I'm going to stop there. Why should I play his song when I can clearly hear that he's got the TV on in the background? These famous people, they can just get away with the worst production value. Either way, uh, Briana Chicken Fry. You dodged a bullet. The fact that, uh, it didn't work out with him.

I mean, look, go, go, I'm not saying go find an accountant with a boring life. No offense accountants. I'm not saying that, but you know, maybe, maybe someone who doesn't have bodies being thrown at them all day long when they perform and travel on the road, maybe find someone that has that. I don't know. Just a thought.

I'm not blaming you. I'm just saying. Uh, in other news, Anna Kendrick was on Call Her Daddy podcast and she says she does not return your phone call. Have a listen. If you need to get a hold of me, like, you're, you're gonna have to text me. If you want an email back, you're gonna have to wait like two weeks.

You might as well send me a postcard in the mail. I get it. You know, if someone doesn't leave me a voicemail, And I, you know, cause I have it set. So my voicemails will text me what was said. If you don't leave a voicemail, I'm not responding to your call. The last time I responded to someone's random call next thing, you know, I'm helping them move their apartment on a Saturday.

You know what I mean? Like, like, I need to, I need you to text me so I can formulate a response that is either an excuse as to why I don't want to do whatever you want me to do, or I can run it by my wife if it's like you wanted to go on to taco Tuesday, right? Uh, I'm sorry. My generation. There's so much anxiety from answering the phone back in the day because millennials are the last generation where you had to answer the family phone and you didn't know who the hell was calling.

You had that chatty aunt, you had a pollster, someone who's trying to sell you, you know, uh, you know, You know, cassette tapes, uh, you know, who knows, who knows what the, it was a real wild time back in the nineties. So my generation, yes, we are scarred. We will not return your phone call. We will not return your email.

Shoot us a text. Maybe you get a response. Maybe a don't period. That's it. You guys did this to us. Um, and you know, we were also scarred from cell phones. You know, when I, when I was, uh, when cell phones first came out, you, you You only had free minutes after 9 p. m. or on the weekends, right? So unless you called your friend at 9 p.

m. or on the weekends, you know, those are minutes you're using up. So you had to be very brief. You had to get to the point. And text messages were like a quarter a piece. So you never had text message conversations. You had the T9. There's no way you would burn a hole and you'd get blisters on your thumbs trying to text full on conversations.

We were quick, we were to the point, and that's how things were. Now these kids, I mean, they're sending voice notes, snapchats to each other. What are we even doing out there? The bandwidth is out of control. All right, look, I got a couple more stories to get to. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this.

Uh, well, uh, earlier I discussed shaken baby syndrome and that, uh, guy who was on death row, uh, For allegedly killing his baby and he has maintained his innocence for over 20 years. Well, I got an email from someone So they said hi Dave I feel compelled to reach out to you over your comments about shaken baby syndrome as a pediatric nurse and child care health consultant and Educator I believe you need to be really careful about the way you share both information in your opinion about the diagnosis Calling SPS or alternatively known as abusive head trauma junk science quack science or pseudoscience is incredibly misleading You The medical condition is a very real, very horrific, very traumatic injury or end to a little one's life.

I think where things get murky is when the origin of the trauma is being proved or disproved. Okay, so that's exactly the point I was trying to make. Yeah, no, of course these things are real. It's just like concussions are real. Just the idea that you can use that to then, you know, Immediately say someone committed that crime is very, it's very tough because what if like your kid falls down the stairs and then all of a sudden you're being charged with murder.

So they go on to continue. Perhaps you feel you inferred that or you assume others would know that. But I had to say something. I cared for too many little guys. Who lives were taken by this condition to not ask for you to publicly clarify. Thanks. So I do, I really appreciate when I get feedback like this.

So thank you so much for that. And of course, um, you know, shaken baby syndrome, which was diagnosed, uh, when doctors detected, uh, a triad of syndrome, uh, symptoms, unexplained bleeding on the brain, bleeding behind the retinas and brain swelling. Uh, Dr. Norman Guth, Kelch, a British pediatric neurosurgeon, is credited with first connecting these symptoms with shaking a baby in a 1971 paper.

So look, by all means, I think, I totally agree that like, we need to know that, that, that, you know, we gotta look after kids. We gotta look after to see where there's abuse and not, but at the same time, just because Shaken baby syndrome is a term that does exist and it is real. I feel like that doesn't mean you can just convict people for that.

But I totally understand what that pediatric nurse is saying. And I just love that we have pediatric nurses out there giving us their wisdom. So thank you so much. All right. Well, let's go to McDonald's. We covered that there was an E. coli outbreak in their onions. Here's what the CEO has to say. The onset dates for this disease are between at this point, September 27th and October 11th.

If there has been a contaminated product within our supply chain, it's very likely worked itself through that supply chain already. What's important today is that we've taken the action to protect the American public and promote public health. So what he's trying to say is don't stop going to McDonald's.

That's what, listen, if they could, you know, if they could respond just as quickly to fixing the, uh, ice cream machine, maybe, uh, you know, uh, I don't know, maybe we'd be in a better situation with McDonald's, but either way, the, you know, the, uh, don't eat any McDonald's, I guess, with the, with the onions right now.

Now he's saying, Oh, they worked it through the supply chain. Sure. Okay. Are you covering the E. coli bills when we get them? All right. Olivia Munn is making news here on the today show discussing, uh, uh, taking a photo and doing a photo shoot, uh, showing off her mastectomy scars, uh, photo shoot for skims.

Have a listen. When Skims approached me to do this campaign, um, it was just to do their shapewear and their new leggings and it wasn't about my scar at all. And then I was looking in the mirror and I just thought, I'm done being insecure about my scars. And so I went to the team of Skims and I said, what do you guys think about showing my scars in this campaign?

And they were so amazing and thoughtful and wonderful. And we talked it out and then we decided to do it and that's the result of it. And it, it was really. It's scary, but I feel like this is something I've been hiding for a long time now, and it just feels like like I can You know, breathe a little bit more.

I think this is fantastic. I love that we're starting to trend into a society where we not just normalize, um, the fact that we're all different, but we celebrate it. We saw Pam Anderson's not wearing makeup anymore, where, you know, people are showing off the sort of, uh, I would say, I mean, the scar tissue from a traumatic time, and it's a reminder to, you know, get tested.

It's a reminder, uh, that we're all going through battles that might not be seen by the naked eye. You know, so good on her. And, um, you know, that's, that's the world I think we need to live in. Not in the over Photoshop world where everyone looks perfect, but let's show our battle wounds. I think that is very brave of her.

And I know that term brave is overused in today's world, but I think that's a Brave move in a world where everyone's trying to hold onto their youth and hold onto this image of perfection. Olivia's out here saying, this is who I am a good on her. And I think that's a real great way to end this episode.

That's going to be it for me. We'll be back in the morning. Can you believe we're already halfway through this work week? I hope you got home safe. We'll see you tomorrow. 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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10-23-24 Morning Rush - Dancing WIth The Stars Recap & Obama Raps To 'Lose Yourself' & Brianna Chickenfry Addresses 'Blindsided' Breakup From Zach Bryan

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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's the hump day, morning rush, October 23rd, 2024. I got all of your Wednesday morning, pop culture and entertainment news in one place.

And this morning we've got a record breaking moment as LeBron James and his. together for the first time ever in the NBA, plus a dramatic breakup between Brianna chicken fry and country musician, Zach Brian. I'll share what she has to say, her thoughts going viral. And I've got my thoughts on the new hit Netflix show.

Nobody wants this. And plus an update on the death row inmate who was just saved from execution in Texas. Also Obama. And Eminem rock out in Michigan. I'll share what Obama had to say in what he had to rap. Plus my thoughts on last night's episode of dancing with the stars. I got all this and more coming up next.

Well, it was a special night last night for LeBron James and his son. Son, Brawny James, the first father son duo to play together in the NBA. Here's the moment they took the court history tonight. The first father son duo to play together in an NBA game.

And there they are. Their family's watching. They clock in together. Now, there's been a lot of hype over LeBron James son, but, uh, you know, I mean, LeBron James got like five inches on him. He's not as like athletically, I would say gifted as far as height goes, but hey, we'll see if he can make a name for himself in the NBA.

It must be terribly difficult to follow in your father's footsteps like that. Well, here's a story that was making its rounds last night. Brianna LaPaglia, a. k. a. Chicken Fry, said that her Country musician boyfriend Zach Bryan discarded her, didn't know he'd be posting a breakup announcement. Here's what went down.

She posted this status before she responded with video and she said this, Hey guys, I'm feeling really blindsided right now, gonna hop off social media for a while and attempt to heal privately when I'm ready. I'll be back and ready to talk. I love you guys so much. Thank you for all of your kind words.

Remember you are so loved and everything's always going to be okay. Whenever anyone has a post like that, you know, they're kind of speaking to themselves when everyone's like, everything's going to be okay. It's like, well, do you believe that? Well, I guess this is because she broke up with Zach, um, uh, Brian, and I guess they did not coordinate their breakup post.

Now, look, I don't know what the turnaround was. Did they break up? Quickly the night before, did he have a side chick he wanted to see? So we had to get the post up before that, you know, who knows either way. Here's what she had to say in her response video to, uh, I guess, uh, the internet finding out, uh, that they are no longer together for a little while, but I just woke up to, um, Zach posting on his Instagram.

That we broke up. And, um, And by the way, uh, for those of you that don't know, she's a podcaster on Barstool. She has the Plan Bree Uncut. She's a pretty big name out there. I had no idea that post was going up. Uh, he didn't text me. He didn't call me. Um, I just woke up to a bunch of texts being like, are you okay?

And I'm like, Did my fucking dad die? Um, and yeah, so I'm like completely blindsided by that. But look, I mean, it's not like she woke up to the news that she was dumped. So, uh, I understand it's like, at what point in a breakup do you owe it to your partner to announce it? I guess it depends on how.

Contentious the breakup was, uh, and you know, that's why you like a listers. They always have those PR people work on these joint statements. Cause it's like, if you don't do a joint statement, it's going to be a, he said, she said, it's going to get ugly. We've seen that play out. I also genuinely feel like I haven't, like, you see how I've been swollen my faces, I've been crying for like five days straight.

How can you give someone everything and like love them so unconditionally? Like through stuff that you shouldn't, um, because you just love them and you want them, like you see the good in them. Um, like how can you, ah, this is so embarrassing. Um, I don't give a fuck. How can you like give every ounce of yourself to someone and then like be discarded of in a few days?

Um, it's really. Really heartbreaking. Now look, breakups suck, but she said she's been crying for five days. Does that mean they broke up five days ago? I mean, eventually they're gonna have to get their breakup post out. I'm not taking his side. I don't know Zach Bryan. I wouldn't be able to spot him in a lineup.

Same thing with chicken fry. Uh, but you know, it sucks regardless. Um, and it's uh, clearly, this is the, this is the messy response you get when you don't kind of Do it together, uh, in the public eye like that, but also, you know, we don't know anything that went into why it all went down well. I'll tell you what I love.

Nothing more than Rob Gronkowski and getting into the mind of Rob Gronkowski. He's like, what? One of five brothers. They're upstate New York legends. One of the greatest football players of all time. And here he is talking about, I guess, spending all of his money on a hot tub. I mean, I absolutely love this guy.

I had no money in college because my brother and I, we put all our money together. I was left in our bank account. We bought a hot tub. The first three weeks we were at the university of Arizona. What a New York, like upstate accent. We bought a hot tub. We had no money left. We were eating chicken wings in our hot tub.

And we drained our bank accounts. They were at 0. All I needed was 15 bucks a week. And I was satisfied. It got the job done. What did it get you? It got me a 30 pack and it got me lunch. That's all I needed. That's all I needed for. And look, here's what I'm saying. And I stand by this and I believe this.

Gronkowski is rich. Okay. He's worth 50 to a hundred million dollars, whatever he's worth. He is absolutely rich, but he was happy when he was broke with a hot tub in his dorm room. You know what I mean? You got to choose happiness on whatever terms you're at today. I truthfully mean this. If you think money is going to change you for the better.

No, you need to live in the reality you want today. No, I'm not saying you're not going to have whatever medical dad or whatever other issues that exist out there. I empathize with that been there, right? I'm just saying you make the choice. You get to decide, is this a friendly world or an unfriendly world?

And, you know, sadly, and again, I'm not here to, um, I don't want to bash Gronkowski's, uh, IQ here. Uh, but you know, It's almost sometimes though that the smarter people, the more realistic, like smart people get in their own way and sometimes you'll just see these dumb, you know, not, not that he's dumb here, but people be like, you know, I just do my good work and the good Lord supplies.

And then now all of a sudden they get there and it's like, get out of your own way, get out of your way and just let the world. Conspire to provide that's what it wants to do. Just do the work. Anyhow, um, boy, if I could go back in time, maybe a hot tub time machine to Rob Gronkowski and be partying with them in the Arizona state hot tub.

Although I have to say, there's probably no amount of chlorine in the world that could clean that thing up. I'll tell you that much. Well, let's stick on the football talk. We covered a few days ago, uh, to a Tagliavoa, Tagliavoa. Probably pronouncing that wrong. He's the quarterback for the Dolphins who's had multiple concussions.

He refuses to wear the new Skull cap that they have it's called the Guardian cap. It goes on top of the helmet and is supposed to provide better padding Well, here's Ocho Cinco saying F that These things probably don't even work, which I think a lot of scientists disagree with but here is his take I mean, no disrespect.

I mean, no disrespect. Um, the brain itself, Chad, y'all stay with me. The brain itself, it sits in a ball, a ball of fluid, right? Mm hmm. No amount of extra padding externally, which is the guardian cap, can fully protect from concussions, especially if they've already had them multiple concussions. So, I mean, look, I disagree with him and again, I'm not a scientist, but if you think about the hardness factor, when, when you're, when you have a helmet on a helmet on helmet, Collision is happening at a very specific place because it's two hard objects hitting each other.

Almost like, you know, the way two rocks would hit each other and cause a spark. When you have this outer sort of cloth padding that they have that they're bringing out now, it would almost dampen. It's basically like why you would. Why you would wear a glove to catch a baseball versus doing a bare hand because the glove absorbs the, the momentum of the ball.

And so anyhow, I, I kind of think we need to do a little bit more. Um, you know, I, I don't like what, that I see a lot of people in the NFL making fun of the guardian cap, thinking it's a bad thing. This might be the type of thing that saves somebody's life. And it's really crazy that Tua, a quarterback who honestly, you, If you were wearing a football helmet, you would not even know that these things are on your head.

You know what I mean? They weigh probably close to nothing and they don't mess with your eyesight or anything like that. It's like, how come the whole league's not wearing these things? I don't know. I don't know. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, there's only a couple of players in the NFL wearing them, but they're just a little extra padding that goes on top of the helmet.

I think a lot of people are wearing, wearing them now in preseason. And some people say, no, they don't even work, but it's like, I mean, they're not going to make the situation worse in that situation, being the CTE, the head trauma that exists out there. So sadly you got this guy to a, who's like, no, I live or die by football.

And it's like, are you going to feel that way when you're 50 and you can't remember your kids names because you've been hitting the head too many times tragedy folks. All right. We got a lot of content to get to. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more right after this. Well, it's a wild week for McDonald's.

I guess there's an E. coli breakout. One dead, 49 injured, and it's due to the quarter pounders. Let's have a listen to what David Muir said over here at, uh, uh, ABC News. Good evening and we begin tonight here with the news coming in. The CDC investigating a deadly E. coli outbreak involving McDonald's. The outbreak has been linked to quarter pounders.

The warning from the CDC just in, one ingredient they're now looking into. the sliced onions used for those quarter pounders, but they have not said for sure that that was the culprit. At least 49 people sickened in 10 states. At least 10 people have been hospitalized. One person has died, but the CDC says the outbreak may go beyond these states.

McDonald's said in a statement late today, the initial investigation linked to a single supplier that serves three distribution centers. For now, the company has stopped using fresh sliced onions and they're pulling quarter pounders in the affected states. I mean, imagine that. The only thing fresh in all of McDonald's, and they got E.

coli all over it. The burgers are like, hey, no E. coli on us. Even the bacteria doesn't want to eat the burgers. Um, but, uh, yeah, that's a little scary story. Hey, how about this? Let's not go to McDonald's. Oh, do what you want. You know what I mean? They'll be fine either way. Um, all right. Well, uh, dancing with the stars last night was pretty fascinating.

Some of my favorite people were in the bottom three. They had Jen Tran. Of course, Bachelorette, and, uh, Steven Nadorozik, for the, uh, the Pommel Horse Prince, we call him, over there, and, um, and then we had Phaedra Parks. She ended up going home, which is too bad. I mean, they're at that stage where just about everyone who's left is a good dancer.

Steven Dorozic can be way better. He's obviously like as, as an Olympian, he's got that muscle memory and that work ethic, but he doesn't have sort of that Riz as the kids call it. Now look, bachelor Joey, he's shirtless. He's dancing to Tarzan. I mean, Oh, you know, uh, that's, that's where Kelsey's at. All right, folks.

Is that was my Tarzan voice. It's late at night when I'm recording this. I don't want to wake the baby up, but I would have been shocked if Jen Tran went home because she's also picking up steam. Danny Amendola is looking good, but yeah, Steven Nadorzik, he's still my favorite. He's not the best by all means, but I just love his story so much as this like pommel horse specialist.

Now he's making Tik Toks with his dancing partner. They just seem that they just seem to be living. The absolute dream. He's just, he, he kind of rushes through it. I'm sure the adrenaline kicks in and he gets a little ahead of the count, but I'm telling you one of these days, it's all going to click for him.

And I, Oh, when that happens, you better watch out. He's going to be on top of his game. Uh, who will win? I mean, you know, if it's based on talent, it should be Chandler McKinney. I mean, she's absolutely unstoppable. She's the best out there by a country mile, but bachelor Joey, he might do it. I mean, he's got the fan base, he's got the relevancy, uh, and he's got the moves.

So those hips don't lie. All right. We're going to go to a more serious topic. It's about the convicted killer whose death sentence was blocked last week. We've been covering this as an absolute wild story. Uh, his name's Robert Roberson and he was convicted of killing his baby due to shaken baby syndrome, which was a quack science they don't even use anymore.

And now everyone's saying, no, no, no, let's get him a new trial. Have a listen. A convicted killer whose death sentence was blocked last week was prevented from telling his story to the state legislature yesterday. Robert Robertson is challenging his conviction disputing scientific testimony that blamed his daughter's death on shaken baby syndrome.

Now, an autopsy found that she died from complications of pneumonia. Robert Robertson's execution was delayed last week after a group of bipartisan state lawmakers reconsidering the lawfulness of his conviction issued a subpoena for him to testify at the 11th hour. On Monday, he was scheduled to give testimony during a hearing about the so called junk science that led to his conviction and the 2002 death of his daughter.

But Robertson didn't appear, his legal team and the lawmakers wanted him to appear in person, but the state attorney general refused to let him citing security concerns. Absolutely ridiculous. Can you believe this nightmare of a scenario? Your poor baby passes away and for 22 years you're in prison awaiting death.

Unbelievable. And then at the last moment, literally the 11th hour, moments before he's supposed to be killed. Uh, executed, uh, they stop it. And would you believe it or not? Somehow Dr. Phil is involved. He gave a testify in the hearing about shaken baby syndrome. And a lot of people say, Oh, he's a quack doctor.

Well, apparently he used to give, uh, I guess, um, he consulted in jury trials since he does hold a doctorate in clinical psychology, whatever that has to do with this. I'm not sure, but let's have a listen. Professional opinion is that this is not a man with malice. This is not someone that hurt this child.

What I can tell you that goes beyond opinion, after examining the record in this case, the trial transcript in this case, the medical records in this case, is not This man has not had due process, this man has not had a fair trial, and if we start executing people in Texas absent due process, absent fair trial, we are going down a really dangerous road.

That is not something that I can support, and I know that has not happened. As I say, it's a very high standard to take someone's life. We must have the courage to make choices that matter at times that count, and it is always the right time to do the right thing. Wow. Pretty powerful statements there by Dr.

Phil. And look, he's right. I mean, to take somebody's life. Uh, can you even estimate how many people may have been executed wrongfully? Based on quack science, pseudoscience, or before there was DNA testing. All so that a DA or somebody could just say they got the bad guy. Unbelievable, unbelievable, yikes. Uh, well, uh, Will, I mean, this guy's, I mean, you can't even, you can't, I can't even put into words to how disturbing this is.

You know, uh, you know, now that I'm a father of a baby to think of, you know, such a tragedy. And then. And then he has the system let him down. So, uh, so ridiculously like that. And again, he's an example of somebody who, uh, I guess may, may have a better ending than the alternative only because a bunch of brave people got in the way and said, no, we can't be letting this, this slide.

Alright, well, I've got a interesting survivor accusation. You know, uh, the winner of season one of Survivor, Richard Hatch, is from my hometown. He served jail time, didn't he? For not paying his taxes? Um, well, I guess they're speaking out, saying that there was a cast member on season one that was accused of cheating.

Have a listen to this. This is from Dark Side of Reality, which is a TV show. Season one, episode seven. I was laying by the fire and the producer handed food to Kelly and I watched it happen. He threw a power bar on the ground, like right at my feet, and Richard saw it. I think it was a power bar, but if you're talking about that calorie deficit, that's enough to make you really, you know, kick some ass.

So then Richard raises up a big stink to, you know, Mark Burnett and the other producers, and then You know, then he starts claiming that, you know, people are leaving me food everywhere. And I explained to him that I caught producers cheating and that she'd been eating, etc. It's all a bullsh game. And supposedly, at this point, is when Mark said to Richard, Hey, if you hold this sh together and you end up winning this thing, I'll pay your taxes.

All right. So it's super interesting. I don't know if that was an annoying, very loud background music they had there. But so Mark says to Richard, Hey, if you, if you keep this between us, I'll pay your taxes. Now we know Richard ended up not paying his taxes and went to jail. So I don't know how much of that story is true, how much of it isn't, but juicy stuff on season one of survivor.

No, look, I did a game show once and let me tell you something, whenever you're giving away money in a competition, you got to be on the straight and narrow. That's why with Dancing with the Stars, they're very strict with their scoring because they are, they're, they're, they're competing for a prize.

There's money involved, maybe not in Dancing with the Stars with the mirror ball trophy, but if they, you know, they get paid for, you know, how long they can stay on the show. And with Survivor, it's no different. You can't just be Throwing people power bars, wild stuff out there. All right. Well, I've got Eminem and I've got Obama.

Let's go to Obama rapping. We'll have that story for you next. Well Michigan's got some real winners in the music world, Kid Rock and Eminem. You had Kid Rock endorsing Trump. We covered that. And now you've got Eminem endorsing Kamala Harris. Well, in this case, last night, Eminem introduced Obama, who then, uh, I guess returned the favor with a little rapping himself.

Have a listen. A lot of rallies, so I don't usually get nervous, but I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem.

And I noticed my palms are sweaty. Knees weak, arms are heavy, vomit on my sweater already, mom's spaghetti, I'm nervous but on the surface I look calm and ready to drop bombs, but I keep on forgetting. That's me with the music.

Who doesn't love some Eminem? I got the song on in the background. Doesn't this just make you want to run through a brick wall right when this part comes in? Kick it. Let's go. Let's go. Hump day. Oh yeah. You got one shot rush hour podcast to hit the subscribe button and share us with your friends one opportunity.

Don't lose this moment, everything. Use everything you can and listen to this episode.

And don't forget to share us with your friends. Okay. I'm going to say, okay. Sorry. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I lost 17 years. I'm sorry. I can't stop myself. I literally can't stop myself. I just, once I play some music, I just, uh, you know, me bad rapping. That's all I want to do. Well, Netflix co CEO says nobody else wanted the show.

Nobody wants this. I just finished it last night. This is the show. Look. It's a, it's a pretty good show. It, of course, stars, um, uh, what's her name? Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. Adam Brody from the OC, Kristen Bell, of course, from everything. What is she in? Frozen and a whole bunch of things. She's married to, uh, Dax Shepard, the podcaster.

Uh, the movie, the show itself is pretty good, but everyone else, I guess, was turning it down. Here's what the co CEO had to say about the show. The show, Nobody Wants Us, was passed everywhere. We were the last show. It got pitched at Hulu, ABC, Freeform, Amazon, Apple, everywhere. And our team saw something in it.

Why did they, why did they, I mean, sorry, we'll go off and have another half hour conversation, but why did they say no to it? Were they worried about the, the setup? Um, I, I mean, I, again, I don't, I think somebody, you see something in it that that's somebody else that everyone else didn't, um, for us, for me, I think it was a little bit of.

Um, I, Erin and, and Sarah Foster, this was Erin's creation. I, I kind of knew her story and knew her voice and the fact that she captured her voice so perfectly in this pilot script was so impressive. But also, again, these shows not being exactly what they were when they came in because it came to Netflix.

We got Kristen Bell and Kristen Bell insisted on Adam Brody as soon as Right, right on the way in. So the show became what it is because it was on Netflix. Yeah. It may not have been that show if it was somewhere else. So it's, again, part of that kismet, and a lot of it is, like, When I say we care about the customer, we think about the members every day.

Will our members love this? Alright, there it is. Will our members love this? And will the members cousins who steal their password love this? I tell you what, it was good. I mean, I think it was, you know, a lot of people were like, Oh, it's a great show, 10 episodes, goes really quick, good humor. It's about a female podcaster who can't find love, and then she finds this like charming rabbi, and um, she's not Jewish, so they have that whole storyline.

I thought it was fun, you know, good stuff. Alright, well, hey, can you believe it? Look, if that's not a good omen for the day, I don't know what is. We just flew through the morning. We had a lot of stuff to get to. We didn't, so we'll have to save it for the afternoon. Uh, but, uh, I'll probably have a good couple of videos for you today.

And, um, I don't know. It's one of those days where I'm feeling like we're due for some breaking news. I don't have any yet, but I'm just feeling like I'm feeling like it's somewhere. In the near future. They always say there's an October surprise. Well, we got the, we're in the last week of October. What's the surprise going to be?

We're ready for it. All right. Have a fantastic day, everybody. I thank you for. Taking the time to listen to my ramblings. It means a lot to have you in my community and I'll see you this afternoon. As always, 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.

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10-22-24 Afternoon Rush - Taylor Swift Cruise Sets Sail & Kristin Cavallari Issues Comments On Ex Jay Cutler's DUI & Golden Bachelorette Dodges Questions About Passionate Kiss

 Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey everybody, welcome to the Afternoon Rush. Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024. I got all your pop culture entertainment news in one place. Starts on a sad note.

A legendary Baywatch cast member has passed away due to Parkinson's disease. Plus, Pam Anderson explains the joy of going makeup free as she was interviewed by Drew Barrymore, who also was makeup free. And we've got the star of Malcolm in the Middle becoming a NASCAR driver. Full time Abercrombie and Fitch.

Ex CEO is facing Diddy like charges. Pretty, uh, bad omen for him. And Kristen Cavallari comments on her ex Jay Cutler's DUI arrest. Plus the Swifties invade a cruise ship. Nothing but friendship bracelets and buffets. All these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, we've got a quick update on the DUI arrest from Jay Cutler, former Quarterback and also partner to Kristen Cavallari.

She offers a quick statement on her podcast, wishing him nothing but the best. Here's what she had to say. Really quickly, just before we get into the episode, I wanted to hop on here and just let you guys know that this episode was recorded right before a very public incident happened last week with my ex husband.

So just keep that in mind as you're listening. I will not be commenting. On what happened, I do, of course, wish Jay nothing but the best, and I do hope that he gets the help that he needs. But that's the only thing I will be saying about it publicly. There is your, I'm commenting to tell you I'm not commenting, comment, hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.

Uh, so, in other sports news, Paul George says he wants the media out of the locker rooms. You guys might remember, uh, presidential candidate and former president Trump mentioned Arnold Palmer's, uh, Package size, uh, and I guess there's an issue with reporters, uh, checking out the different players. You know, they gotta interview these players, but the players have to shower and get on with their day.

And, um, you know, you can imagine these jocks and, you know, it's the only world where reporters and athletes mix, right? You got the jocks and the people that, I guess, report on the jocks. And, uh, anyway, here's what Paul George had to say. Moving on, P, I'm unsure if you see this. But the NFL PA is actively calling for media members to be removed from the locker room and for practice interviews to be conducted elsewhere.

And the PA released this statement. And I quote, players feel that the locker room interviews invade their privacy and are uncomfortable. This isn't about limiting media access, but about respecting players, privacy and dignity. What do you think about that? Um, I didn't see that, but I agree. So P other players timed in with some very, very interesting tweets.

And, uh, one former wide receiver, Tori Smith tweeted. And I quote, Pause if only y'all knew how awkward some of the male reporters act. Straight meat watchers. I mean, it's one of those things, it's like, can you blame them? You know, you're, you know, uh, a lot of athletes are the peak of athletic prowess. Like, are you telling me, let's be quite honest, if I am in the urinal next to Tom Brady.

Are you telling me I'm not gonna, I don't know, see, see what's going on, you know what I mean? Does he wear the, uh, no Tom, no Tom, I was only seeing if you had your Super Bowl rings on, that's all it was. I was, I was checking out your Rolex. Tom's like, I'm not wearing a watch. Well, now I know that, I didn't know before, I had to go look.

Alright, no, but seriously, like, uh, yeah, there should be a little bit more respect there. You'd think that the Players Association could, uh, maybe create a, place to be interviewed when they're not, uh, you know, say, uh, putting a little gold bond powder on the old balls. You know what I mean? All right. In other weird news, Abercrombie and Fitch ex CEO is facing Diddy esque charges.

That's according to TMZ. Prostitutes and sex trafficking. Ex CEO is mirroring the lifestyle Diddy allegedly lived, at least according to the feds. Who've now secured an indictment against Michael Jeffries for very similar crimes. The grand jury hit Jeffries, who was Abercrombie's CEO from 92 to 2014, with 15 counts of interstate prostitution and one count of sex trafficking.

The indictment includes Jeffries BF Matthew Smith and James Jacobson, who allegedly recruited men for sex events and made them have sex with him in tryouts. Okay, that's Messed up. Now look, as far as sex workers are concerned, I think we should live in a world where everything's regulated. I think that would provide a lot more safety.

Like, so much is done behind the closed doors, and that's where a lot of abuse happens. Now, obviously, this would be done behind closed doors either way, but I just think, um, by criminalizing the act, the consensual act at the very least, you're making it hard to monitor, you know, to make sure everyone's on the same page.

Uh, but again What's illegal is illegal, uh, as far as maybe the semantics of Sex trafficking is it because they cross state lines or like what's the deal with that? I'm not really sure but clearly, clearly, um, If he's doing something and people are doing something that they're not comfortable with against their wishes, of course, You would think that they would come down with a heavy, uh, heavy indictment.

Speaking of which, we don't have any public updates in the Batchelor Clayton Eckerd vs. Laura Owens scandal. We know that she's, you know, working on an appeal that will probably be presented, I don't know, sometime in December. And then Clayton's side will have a chance, I guess, to look at it. And I don't really know how that all works.

But, we also know that the investigators for the county prosecutors are also looking into her case. And we really don't know what's going to happen, uh, as far as will she be indicted? How often do they put investigators on somebody and not indict them? We just don't know, but we know that the, the feds, you know, when they do indict someone, it's because they had, they're at a very high probability of winning or at the very least, uh, getting a plea agreement.

Now, what kind of plea would she make? Would she ever admit to what she's doing or would she, uh, not admit to it and then have to go to trial? It's one thing. No, God bless. Clayton's attorney, Greg Woodnick, you know, but it's one thing to use whatever funds and resources that we have here as private citizens.

And it's another to use taxpayer funded money. Let me tell you something. The federal government can, they can pull any file they want. I mean, they can do anything in their resources to To go after somebody and that's apparently what's going on. I mean, I don't think it's lip service, put it that way. I don't think it's lip service that Rachel Mitchell, the County prosecutor says they're investigating this.

I think, I think they, if there's any County in the country that wants to make an example out of somebody, it might be Rachel Mitchell. She seems to be somebody you don't want to mess with. And I guess. In a turn of fate for Clayton and Mike and Greg and maybe Matt and maybe Sean for all these other men that are out there, it may be that the one piece of luck that they have is that their county prosecutor is a bad person.

Mofo, who's coming after people and coming after them hard because they've always said perjury is illegal. And then when you pretty much have evidence that someone's changing their story on the witness stand and having contradictory things that they say in an affidavit and flat out lying about not faking cancers and this and that, you go, well, if this isn't a case where we hold people accountable.

Then what is in it? Like I said before, in the world of artificial intelligence, in that world, that's coming out, people will be able to make their own realities. And if we don't do a better job as a country, holding people accountable when they're not telling the truth, then I don't know. Uh, I don't know what direction we're all going to go in to be quite frank.

All right. Well, in speaking of retribution. Uh, Cardi B is slamming a CPS prank caller for reporting her kids in danger. This is so sad. As we know, there's been accusations in other cases we've covered where people have used CPS as a way to target others. I have personally alerted the sheriffs in my county that I am a target for things like this.

Uh, just in, in the off chance that anyone would do something like that. I would use my power to do that. You know, really make sure that any prank callers, if they ever did that, or swatted me or things like that would be held accountable. Like I'm not somebody to be messed with. I'm just putting that out there right now.

I would spend money and resources to make sure somebody paid for, you know, any reckless abuse of the system. Calling CPS should be a good thing. You should be able to call a CPS if you see somebody mistreating their kids, but when it's used as a prank, that is just wrong. Here's what Cardi B had to say. A little fucking prank call.

What is a CPS? Child Protective Services. Services for Child Protective Services to come to my fucking house, not my house, my gated mansion at 11 p. m. while my children are sleeping because there's an anonymous call that there's been going on. That my kids have been getting abused and beaten. So she actually went on Instagram live from the hospital bed.

So she wasn't even home. She was in the hospital under the weather. And of course, you know, as a protective mother, she she's irate. She shared her frustration that. Um, they showed up, you know, she's got three kids and accusations that are being made. And it's like, look, what's CPS supposed to do? They're supposed to follow leads.

I just think, you know, you got to be careful. I mean, there was that documentary about that kid in Florida who essentially CPS or whatever the protective service agency was, took the kids from the mom. The mom ended up killing her. So it was a wild story that exists out there. And you just, you know, that's why when you're, when you're people like Cardi B and I hate to relate myself to her, but when you're somebody.

Who can have the system used against you. I mean, look, we've seen swatting situations where people get shot and killed because someone else swatted them. And I've had the FBI called on me in all these cases. So I'm just here to say, I'm not messing around with this type of stuff. I'm not messing around whatsoever.

Any amount of resources used. In the wrong direction need to be pursued and those people like I, I know a lot of these are anonymous phone calls, but I hope they can track down who did that and say, look, if you didn't have any credible evidence that she was committing a crime, like you need to, you need to be held accountable.

That's what it's all about. Really? Right? It's accountability. All right. Well, we got Taylor Swift updates and we'll get to those right after a quick word from our sponsor. All right, I've got a few Baywatch stories. The first one, kind of sad. Baywatch star Michael Newman, dead at 68. This is the guy who was like sort of balding.

He was in great shape. Turns out he was like a real life, um, uh, competitive athlete and lifeguard. He competed in like the lifeguard global competition and won a bunch of awards and then he was, uh, if you remember my interview with the director Matthew Felker of the latest Baywatch documentary. We interviewed him a few weeks ago.

Uh, he said Michael Newman was supposed to be like, uh, sort of, uh, the expert on set, but they cast him. Known for his role as lifeguard Mike Newmy Newman on Baywatch. So he played himself. He died from heart complications Sunday night, surrounded by family and friends. With the tragic news confirmed Tuesday by his friend Matt Felker, who helmed Hulu's recent Baywatch documentary.

Matt told People, I got to see Mike the last time he was conscious, and he looked at me and in typical Mike fashion said, You're just in time. Felker posted a lengthy tribute to Michael on his Instagram. He was a staple on the iconic 90s California beach show, appearing in 150 episodes. He was the only cast member who was a real life lifeguard.

He also worked as a firefighter, juggling both jobs while starring on the show. After Baywatch wrapped up in 2001, he went back to firefighting full time until his retirement. So, sounds like a great guy. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age 50. And his journey was highlighted in Felker's After Baywatch moment in The Sun.

Yeah, you can go watch that documentary on Hulu. It's out now. Baywatch News, the one notable person who wasn't in that documentary, was Pam Anderson. Well, she's making sort of, sort of a resurgence out there in the, in the world where she's now going makeup free. Now, you might say, Dave, why the hell is this a story?

But it is. It's a bold statement, uh, as you age to say, you know what? I'm just going to show you Who I am now doesn't mean she hasn't had work done like a lot of people have not no judgment there But she actually was able to be interviewed by drew barrymore drew barrymore took out her own Extensions and went makeup free and they had a great chat doing this for a couple years now I really think you own this space I think you're the pioneer of What we're certainly doing here today, it's a big honor of, I think, your choices.

Now, what a wild world where you have to have a, you know, applause break for not wearing makeup. But, you know, I get it. I get it. You know, because look, whether it's You know, uh, look, Tom Brady, right? He, he wears makeup when he goes on to be, when he's a news reporter, men, women that you go in the makeup chair before you're on live TV.

Now, do I wear makeup on the recap here or the podcast? No, I just wear pantyhose, but that's not for any aesthetic reason. It just, it, it, it makes me feel like I'm my best version of myself when I do this podcast.

And I feel free. I mean, it's taken a while to, I've had my little journey with it, but I'm just like, yeah. We all are our own worst critics. When did you really start, like, embracing it? Like, really feeling comfortable with it? Well, it was at Paris Fashion Week, and I decided I was just going to a fashion show.

I didn't need to compete with anybody. Like, why am I wasting three hours in a makeup chair when I have these beautiful Vivienne Westwood clothes on? And, like, I didn't realize anyone would even notice. So then, then when people started coming up to me and talking about it, I thought, well, this is a great idea.

You know, this is to really peel it back and find out who I was again. I wanted to remember who I was. I found I played characters my whole life. I always wanted to be, you know, I was painfully shy. And, um, doing, even doing Playboy, for instance, was a huge leap of faith for me. It just, you know, I was physically sick doing it, but I didn't want to be shy anymore.

And then I became, you know, I just thought, Oh, this is what my fantasy of what a model is, or a playmate is, or a rock star wife is, or what anything is. I'm going to do it the best. And I've been playing these characters along the way, and it just hit me a couple years ago, and I was like, You know, just shaking my head going, who am I?

You know, and that's when I went home into my garden and started, you know, planting things and getting into nature and going back to the trees that knew me since birth. I bought my grandmother's property and renovated it and I just started taking it all back and then started peeking out without makeup.

And then I started realizing. Oh, I feel great You know, this is great. I I love that. She she tried to not wear makeup as sort of, you know Not wanting to play the whole game and then hollywood almost picked up on that because it was a little counter Uh counter to what you see in culture. It's just natural to see everyone in a full face of makeup, even though It's not realistic to people at home, you know, so what a fun story.

And, uh, you know, I love that. She said she found the trees that knew her from birth. I mean, how poetic of her, very happy for her. Well, Taylor Swift, always in the news, Swifties start their cruise era. Maiden voyage sets sail. Taylor fans are hitting the high seas. A cruise full of Swifties just set sail in their.

Celebrating Taylor all the way from Florida to the Bahamas. The Taylor themed cruise embarked Monday from the port of Miami. Team Z has photos of what it's like on board, plus we got our hands on the itinerary. Yeah, I bet you if you're a guy on this cruise, you're cleaning up. I mean, it's probably 99 percent women and there's just a couple single guys being like, Well, this is pretty nice, you know.

Hey, I look like Travis Kelce, you know. Well, it's a role play. The sailing Swifties are calling themselves the In My Cruise Era. The Taylor fans call it that. cruise group. Some of the planned events include friendship, bracelet swapping, Taylor trivia, dance parties, karaoke, and a ship wide scavenger hunt, a door decorating contest in nightly era outfit themes.

What they don't say is the whole ship's going to get diarrhea because that's what happens on a cruise ship, you know, 24 hour buffet, uh, meet with, uh, you know, a viral disease. And, uh, it can be a rough one on the boat in no time, but we're hoping the best for them. Well, Bill Maher is no stranger to lawsuits.

Uh, he got sued a few years ago because I think he made a joke about Trump, uh, not being born. He made a joke saying he thought Trump needs to show his birth certificate to prove that he wasn't born from an orangutan, whatever the joke was, it was a joke, but he got sued over it. I think it's settled. Well, now he's slapped with a defamation lawsuit for saying Trump banged Laura Loomer.

Bill Maher just got dinged by one of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters. He's being. sued for a whopping 150 million by Laura Loomer for saying on national TV that she slept with the 45th president. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ, Loomer named Marr and HBO as defendants in her suit. Phil filed in Sumter County, Florida, claiming that the real time with Bill Marr host besmirched her good name on his HBO show.

Oh, you never want to besmirch somebody's good name. You know, that is not something you want to do. Here's what. uh, caused this very expensive lawsuit. My question, because she said, Laura Loomer said Taylor Swift, she believes is in an arranged relationship with Travis Kelsey to influence the 2024 election.

I think maybe Laura Loomer's in an arranged relationship to affect the election because she's very close to Trump. She's 31. Looks like his type. Uh, We did an editorial here a few years ago. Who? Um, you're remembering it already. It was basically, Who's Trump fucking? Because I said, you know, It's not nobody.

He's been a dog for too long. And it's not Melania. I think we may have our answer this week. I think it might be Laura Loomer. I'm just saying. Now, I'm no lawyer, but somebody speculating, I think he's banging her. I don't know about that. I'd love to know what other lawyers have to say. My initial thought in the little I know about defamation is that Bill Maher would have to make a claim saying, he did this with her.

And then, you know, and then she would have to prove that he knows that's not true. This will get thrown out if you ask me. Um, Loomer says Maher does not have a shred of evidence to prove his allegations and has no basis for making this false claim. She says Maher simply fabricated the story to get attention and notoriety while also trying to profit off his lies, along with his employer, HBO, which she says acted in concert with Bill.

A week after Maher made his controversial comments, Trump weighed in on his true social platform, calling Billy befuddled mess and his show boring among other horrible things. Loomer is asking for more than 150 million in damages. We'll just have to see what the court says So no word back from Bill Maher Interesting story.

I'll give all the updates on that, but we got a couple more stories to get to We'll round it up right after a quick word from our sponsor A Malcolm in the Middle update. Frankie Munez announces he's becoming a full time driver in the 2025 NASCAR Craftman truck series. He said, I don't want to say it's a long time coming, but this has been a dream of mine for forever.

I think that's so funny. So he's going to be driving in a truck series. I wonder how that differs from the car series. I don't want anyone to DM me and give me a Seven page. Well, this technically is this way, but, uh, cool. Good for him. That's really great. This is what you get. You know, he made a ton of money when he was younger and he can pursue other things.

He's 38 years old. Can you believe this? Malcolm and who, who feels old at that? He's 38 years old. Began racing in 2004, started his professional career in 2006. He's joining Rome brothers racing as a full time driver of the number 33 F one 50. Uh, so he said, I started with doing the open wheel route, I thought I was going to go IndyCar, kind of the Formula 1 route, but I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to try NASCAR.

I wanted to do it, I grew up watching NASCAR, I was a huge fan, but it's not something I necessarily thought that I'd ever get the opportunity to do. Well, congratulations to Frankie, we'll be following him down the road. Alright, uh, I guess we're down to like one of our final stories. Joan was, uh, interviewed by Billy Bush.

She's on tomorrow night's episode of Golden Bachelorette. Here's what she had to say about kissing and telling, or not. Some serious hot lips connection with Chalk. Yeah, I don't need to expand. I don't need to talk anymore about kissing now. My kids are going to be mortified already. I've got every dollar on this guy.

You do? I've got every dollar on this guy. Oh, so she's quickly avoiding the topic of kissing men. I mean, why? Come on, you're the golden bachelorette. You're going all in, huh? Every dollar. Chalk's a good candidate. Yeah. Tall. Yeah. Good hair. Mm hmm. Blue eyes. Mm hmm. Uh, just adores you. And, like, Midwest, nice guy, good person, little bit of a kind of cute accent, yeah, he's a really good guy.

He's a good choice. I have a lot of good guys. When he left, and he had to leave the show, you could relate. It was like deja vu. He loses his mother. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. But. How sad were you when he left? I was really sad because I had just kind of been that person in the Golden Bachelor season. And I knew that I had planned, like, had hoped to come back.

Didn't really plan it, but thought, you know, there's a, a, you know, a world that I could get everything straightened at home and then come back and this won't be over. And that literally never happened. And so even though he said to me, I'm coming back, I'm coming back, I thought, uh, you don't know what's going to happen at home.

You don't know that you're going to be able to come back. You don't know. And of course he did come back and, uh, the season's only got a couple more episodes, so we'll find out if chalk's the one, but either way, uh, we're, we're wishing her the best. Now you might remember we covered the Otani, uh, home run ball.

It was a home run ball that got him to 50 home runs and he's the first. An only player to ever get 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases and now ken golden is saying it could fetch 10 million 10 million dollars, of course, I guess this is the guy who's brokering the Uh, the the bidding of it all he's I think they were initially they were going to open the bidding at like A million and then in like do like an all in price.

Like if you pay this amount, we don't even have to do the auction. But again, his his whole job is to hype up the sale of the ball. Who's who's got the money to buy these things? Who's buying a ten million dollar home run ball? Is Otani the next Babe Ruth? You know what I mean? And some people are saying he's the best to ever play the game.

So I don't know. Maybe let's have a listen. Well, so this right now, as we sit here, with like a week left on the auction, is somewhere around 2. 1 million dollars for that baseball. If the baseball's only at 2. 5 million, I'll put in an offer, but I'm not going a buck over. The bid right now, including buyer's premium, is a hair under 2.

1 million, which makes it the second most valuable baseball of all time. And the 62nd home run ball hit by Aaron Judge, we sold, uh, two years ago. And the only baseball hire was sold all the way back in 1998. And it was Mark McGuire's 70th home run ball bought by famous comic book artists, uh, and creator, uh, Todd McFarlane, my expectation, you know, with a week to go and knowing that most of these things take off the final day is that this will end.

The auction being the most valuable baseball of all time. All right. So he's saying 10 million. We'll have to see. My guess is you buy the baseball and then you get it insured. And then it's a way to move money. You know what I mean? I kind of feel like this like art dealers. Do they really want these 50 million paintings?

There's a different way to kind of hide your money when you're super wealthy. What do I know? You got to dodge taxes one way or another. I get, I'm not doing that. I've got an accountant. Don't come after me, but I'm just saying those that do. Okie dokie. Well, I've got no balls I'm selling over here, although I will auction off.

I'll lock. My shoes right now, if anyone wants to buy them, everything's for sale in this economy. Uh, but that's going to do it for us. We'll be back in the morning. We're, we're just beginning to heat it up. We're going to end 2024 really strongly. We got a lot going on. So double check that you're subscribed.

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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. Oh, right. Good morning. Buckle up indeed. And if you're looking for codes to what I mean, you know, there's a code 22nd, Tuesday morning. 2024 and I got all your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

Do you feel good? You got that morning coffee flowing. Maybe you threw a couple extra packets of sugar in there. You dirty dog. Let's do it on the morning ride We've got bachelorette star jason tartik host of trading secrets podcast addressing his breakup from kat stickler Plus what's the crossover with him in the jersey shortcast i'll catch you up On that story.

Plus crazy news, a surfer dies by swordfish attack. Another reason to never go in the ocean. I'll also get an update on the astronauts stuck in space and how they will be long distance voting. Speaking of voting more info on the County in Wisconsin that may decide the election. I got all those stories and so much more coming up next on the rush.

All right. Like I said, we're jam packed today. We're going to have a lot of YouTube content, real busy Tuesday here in the end of October, preparing ourselves for a freaky Halloween, Halloween election season. Uh, it's just a full out melee is approaching us. That's all I can say. And we've got bachelorette, Jason Tartick, uh, sort of, sort of addressing his recent breakup this past week from cat stickler.

Here's what he had to say on the trading secrets podcast. Past week's been tough. Yeah, I mean, there's just no way to kind of beat around the bush. Tough week. Breakups suck. If you're in a situation where you're not feeling okay, just know that's okay. And I had a speaking engagement that I committed to months ago that I had to fulfill this week.

So powered through there. And weirdly enough, it was like, I felt like it was one of the better speeches I ever gave. And it was what I was dreading the most. Yeah, it's gotta be tough. Imagine that you break up and then you got to go speak in public. They're like, why do you have a gallon of ice cream at the podium?

It's like, don't worry about it. And why are you watching marathoning episodes of OC? Because I, this is my soft space. Okay. Me and Seth, we got to deal with this. And they're like, why are you here? He's like giving a speech about the economics of being a sort of influencer. And he's like, and never date an influencer who lives in a state you don't want to move to.

I feel like I was in a head space to do it, but if anyone's not feeling okay now, I guess some productive ideas, some that have helped me is really leaning in, you know, when you feel as though, you know, you're off balance or you're losing, you're not centered, or you're just in a state of confusion, just In your head, right?

Like everything to get grounded again, and I think leaning into the people that matter most to mom, dad, for me, brother to best friends. Um, some other things I've been doing is meditation. I mean, look, all joking aside, he offers great advice for moving on. I listen every time I've gone through a breakup, I was relatively poor.

And, and I, and I hope I don't go through a breakup. I don't anticipate that happening here. Uh, but I do have to say when I think of Jason Tartick going through a breakup, I think, wow, imagine being still pretty young, worth a lot of money and having like a lot of career opportunities. You can travel all over the world.

He can take his work anywhere he wants to go. He's essentially the boss of his career. Company. I mean, I, I know I get it. Break, break up suck, but the world is your oyster. My guy. Well, okay. I guess we'll get into this. It's It's, it's, it's a big Jason Tartick day for us. All right. There's a lot of Jason Tartick in the news.

He was on the, I guess recent season of Jersey shore. Now you're thinking, what are you talking about? They still film Jersey short. Well, they do like reunion, you know, and by the way, a fraternity brother of mine's, uh, wife, I believe actually produces, I think the Jersey store. So I should get her on the show.

Uh, but either way, There's, there's a, there's a conversation happening between members of the Jersey Shore cast talking about Jason Tartick and his ex, Kaitlin Bristow. Now I'm going to play it for you and I'll pause where it might get a little confusing.

Jason, he used to date Joey's friend. Joey is my Alright, Joey is my Joey is Snooki's, hold on. Joey is Snooki's gay bestie. Joey used to be friends with Caitlin Bristow and Jason Tartick, but there was like a falling out and here that's where they pick it up. Joey is my gay bestie. So I definitely trust his opinion I just don't want her to get hurt by this guy because I know some things that Joey said So now that's Angelica Angelica Angela Angela Angela I guess is sliding into the DMS with Jason Tartik.

Again, this is all for the TV show. Maybe this is completely made up. You know what I mean? It's like scripted reality, whatever the hell you want to call it. So I guess, and I'll break this down more on YouTube because it is quite complicated, but I guess Jason in this, the timestamps of this would have happened before he dated Kat Stickler.

So he was single, but I guess Angela had a thing going on with Jason. Maybe it was just flirty. And at the same time, Snooki was saying, Hey, my gay best friend. Has some weird things to say about him. Well, we actually have an update, believe it or not, from the gay best friend on their podcast. Because, you know, they shoot these episodes months earlier, then they realize, oh my gosh, I shouldn't have said what I said.

So, I guess Snooki and Joey have a podcast called It's Happening. Here's what he had to say about the, you know, the clip going around. About him saying, I don't know about Jason. The whole Jason thing, Jason is a good guy and I, I, I don't want to just, you know, come across like I'm talking shit about him, but just, you know, gossip happens, relationships happen, things, you know, things, things go on.

I mean, I have no bad feelings toward him and I think he's a great guy and I, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not, nobody's butting my nose in people's business. But, you know, it was just no, yeah. So that's his way of saying, no, he's fine. But in the moment, it seems as though Joey was siding more with Caitlin Bristow.

Again, we're going in the weeds. Like I said, I don't think that makes Jason Tartick a bad guy. He's dating people in the influencer world, the bachelor world. And when it doesn't work out, everyone's got a platform, everyone's talking like, what can you do? All right. Well, that's it. On NFL on Fox, they posted a clip of the Dolphins quarterback to a tell of tell of Aloha.

See, I always mess his name up, uh, saying he will play Sunday versus the Cardinals. Now, why is that interesting? Well, he's had a handful of concussions, literally the doctor who invented the term CTE and learned about the serious brain damage that exists. Spoke about him. The more concussions you have, the easier it is to have concussions.

He actually gave a lot of answers to a did about why he's deciding to come back and play after a lot of people thought he would never play again.

Personal choice. So the question was, would you wear a guardian cap? And that is an external cap that goes on the outside of the helmet. You might've seen these around. They look a little silly, but honestly, if they help. Prevent concussions by, you know, minimizing the blow. Then why wouldn't you wear one?

Maybe he just doesn't believe in it But aesthetically when you're wearing the helmet, you don't it doesn't make a difference What do your family say about you coming back and how how deep was that discussion? nobody nobody uh no one's sort of advice had affected anything that I thought in terms of returning So no one had an effect on it.

Um, had some conversations with my wife, but that was, that was it. A lot of people out there legitimately worried about your health and making sure that you're okay. What would you say to those that are worried that, that you might get hurt again? And this is something that's going to continue. I appreciate your concern.

I really do. Um, I love this game and I love it to the death of me. That's it.

It's documented with each concussion, the chance of getting one is exponentially more. Has that ever been discussed with you by doctors, not this time and the last few times, because this is the third documented one since you've been with Adolphus. Yeah. Has that been discussed and is that even, you ask questions about that?

It's been discussed with me and the doctors. Okay. And I've asked questions about it. All of that. He then goes on to talk about the risks that they take when they sign up to play football. Well, how much risk do we take when we get up in the morning to go, to go, uh, drive, drive to work? Uh, get into a car crash maybe?

I don't know. I mean, I think that's a foolish way to put it because, you know, I've driven for 25 years, I've been in several small crashes in my brain. I've never had a concussion. You know what I mean? Uh, maybe it's more like the risk you take driving a motorcycle without a helmet because you know you are gonna crash.

You know, statistically, you know, that's, that's way more dangerous to drive a motorcycle versus a car, right? Or an ATV, whatever. So I think that's a bad comparison. And I guess, you know, people are looking out for them. You know, the symptoms of CTE include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control, aggression, depression, anxiety, suicidality, Parkinsonism, and eventually progressive dementia.

And here are these athletes in their twenties saying, I live and die by football. I get it. It's sad. It's sad. It's scary. We'll be back with more content right after this. I don't know too much about the pay discrepancy and the pay gap between female professional athletes and male professional athletes, but to, uh, he's probably, I mean, who knows he's making 10, 20 million a year, right?

I'm just a guessing. And then you had Deshaun Watson, who's. Got the highest guaranteed contract of all time. And he just snaps his Achilles. And now you've got angel Reese. And she says my 73, 000 WNBA salary can't cover my bills. I'm living beyond my means. Now, a lot of WNBA female basketball players will play abroad in the off season just to, you know, get by again.

I don't know what, what percentage. Uh, revenue pay they get, like it should be, it should be equitable across the sports, right? So if in the NBA, 60 percent of revenue goes to the players, then it should be the same in the WNBA. I honestly don't know how that works. It could be that they're operating at a loss.

I have no idea, but Angel Reese may be one of the faces of the WNBA. Her time on the court hardly pays the bills. The Chicago sky's all star rookie last week revealed that her 73, 000 salary isn't anywhere close to enough to help her make ends meet. She said, I just hope y'all know that WNBA don't pay my bills at all.

Um, she said on Instagram Live, I don't even think that pays one of my bills. She said her monthly rent payment is 8, 000, meaning that a year's housing costs her 96k, more than she earns in a full season. I'm living beyond my means, she joked. Well, look, I mean, I guess you're not owed anything. Like I said before, I don't even mean to make this Controversial.

I don't know what the books are. I don't know how much money is coming in versus how much is going, you know, going to all of them. I don't, I don't believe, I believe in a social democracy, but I don't believe in socialism, and they're very different, right? In socialism, you might take the pay from the multi millionaires and spread it out evenly, but hey, Tom Brady sells Tom Brady.

tickets, right? Uh, and by the way, Caitlin Clark does two of the WNBA. I have no idea where she's getting paid. So it's not a gender issue. It's are you filling seats and are you bringing in revenue? That's really what it comes down to. And again, I don't have the answer to that, but at the very least, I think it is good that these conversations are happening and pay transparency is sort of a new idea that I believe in.

Well, Speaking of pay transparency, Hugh Hefner's son, Cooper, offers a 100 million cash to buy iconic Playboy brand, my family's legacy. And I didn't know that the Playboy wasn't owned by the Hefner family anymore, but imagine that 100 million. He said, the opportunity to acquire Playboy is deeply personal for me.

This brand is woven into my family's legacy, and I've seen firsthand its cultural impact over the decade, Playboy over the decades. Playboy represents more than just a business. It's a platform for creativity, freedom of expression and storytelling. Perfect. All right, go easy. Professionally. I see immense potential to restore the brand to its roots while innovating for the future and unlocking significant untapped value for investors.

Uh, in 2019 Cooper, who previously served as the chief of global partnerships at Playboy enterprise is now a managing partner at VC firm, venture capitalist firm, Hefner capital. He left the company to launch his own digital media platform, Hefner Media Corporation. In 2020, Cooper launched an ultimately unsuccessful bid for state senate seat in California.

Alright, well look, uh, I'll give Cooper some advice, if Cooper Hefner is listening. Don't pay a hundred million dollars for Playboy. Instagram exists, OnlyFans exists, people can release their own content on Patreon. Like, Existed when there was gatekeeping between audience and You know, people that wanted to, you know, live in a world that I guess was taboo at the time, you know, being in a topless photo, she was a little more taboo.

I believe in the past than it is now. Now it's kind of like normalize, go get your money. Everyone do it, do whatever the hell you want, as long as you're okay with it. You know what I mean? So anyway. I don't think it's worth a hundred million. Wait five years and buy it for 5 million. Like who's, who bought a playboy?

Who who's out there? I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old. You know what I mean? Please tell us. Well, in other sad news, surfer Julia Manfrini is dead at 36. Speared by a swordfish. I mean, this is a wild story. The tragic incident happened earlier this month in Massacut, Island a popular spot for surfers when a swordfish jumped out of the water and struck her in her chest It was a wound a few inches deep and she was taken to a nearby clinic and she did not survive So real tragic story.

She uh, you know is uh, she's a surfer and an influencer and um, you know Absolute freak accident never heard of it before. All right Uh, in other news, uh, we've got one more Jason Tartick story. It's actually more Kelsey Anderson. Of course, she was on, uh, the last season of the bachelor and she's with Joey, who's on dancing with the stars, which has an episode tonight.

Joey's doing a fantastic job, but Kelsey keeps get asked, getting, getting asked the same question, which is like, are you okay with the dancing and how it works and all of that? And obviously. It's, it's almost like at this point, it's not the dancing, like the intimacy that Joey's having with his dancer.

That's a problem. It's the unlimited supply of people online judging her for not, you know, caring or, you know what I mean? Or should I be being like, Oh, I would never let my man do that. And she's like, what live his dreams. And, you know, in the end, if Kelsey and Joey do work out the best thing for them as a couple is, you know, To enlarge their platforms, it's going to help them with whatever they want to do moving forward.

So Kelsey has to be supportive and hopefully Joey is cognizant. He seems to be to know, to keep, you know, make sure he makes time for his fiance. Here's what Kelsey had to say again, back on Jason Tartick's trading secrets podcast. I mean, obviously like I'm reading all these comments, like, Oh my gosh, Kelsey, like, like why is she touching him like this?

And I'm like, Oh, am I seeing something that Like, am I not seeing something that everyone else is? Yeah, and I'm like questioning myself. And like, but I just, like, I'm able to bring it up to Joey, and he reassures me or like talks to me in a way. Like, oh, like, You know, that's this or this is that or like Jenna feels this way or like we have to do this for this or yeah So when after the dance is done, you always see the dancers holding their partner Next to the host in this, you know And and then they get the scores and they do the interview and it always looks way more intimate but I think the dancers are trained to sort of um Corral their partner to make sure that they're in a tight shot.

So when the camera is a closeup, it gets both of them in frame. When you think of the technical side of these things, it's like, Oh no, she's not just holding my man. She's on live TV. Let's not make this about me. Or, you know, like they're doing the rumba coming up and that is a more like sensual dance or whatever.

But it's like, that is the way that the dance has to be. Um, the choreography has to be in a way, so I'm not worried about it. Like he spends four. Hours about practicing every day at this point. Um, but then like he spends all of the other 20 hours with me. It's waited out. I would love a season where Kelsey gets to go on dancing with the stars and do the rumbo with one of these guys.

And then we can watch Joey sweat it out. Jenna needs to stop touching my man. By the way, wouldn't, they should play into this. They should do a Paso Doble where it starts with. You know, with, uh, Kelsey and Joey and then maybe Jenna comes in and Kelsey gets mad and she's a part of it. Kind of tell a novella style, come on up the, uh, performance aspect of it.

But by the way, dancing with the stars has been having a knockout season. It's not too late to catch up if you're not watching. Oh, I, I think it's funny to be, people are like, Oh my gosh, they're like, why is she touching Joey like that? Or why is she touching Joey? And I'm like, they have to touch each other to dance.

It's sad. And I think that Joey, you know, is just so reassuring in our relationship that I don't need to wonder or guess or I've always been in relationships where I fully trust the guy that I'm with and Joey is just the most amazing person. And well, look, here's I'm going to pause right there and I want my audience to know I'm declaring today.

The beginning of my Kelsey Anderson fan club. Uh, you know, I like to sort of almost psychotically, uh, endorse certain people in bachelor nation. Kelsey Anderson's great. She's got that rare combination of beauty, but, um, IQ level to like know where she's at in life. Uh, she's overcome great hurdles in adversity, losing her mom to breast cancer.

She gets to share with her father now that he just spent his time on golden bachelorette. Heck her father might be the next golden bachelor. Of course, there's no spoilers. They haven't cast that, but he's in the running for all I know. And we just get to see what appears to be a healthy relationship here.

Now. There are times when a couple breaks up in Bachelor Nation and some people are like, oh my gosh I'm so sad and then other times you're like, yeah, whatever. This is one of those couples. I Sincerely root for I wish them the best. All right. Well, we're just flying through the day I don't know if you knew this.

This is a good omen guys. We got a good omen You are gonna crank it out. You're gonna sell some Something at work today. You're going to get hit on by the person in HR that was making eyes at you. You're going to have to sign one of those waivers that you're going to start banging on your brakes or whatever the heck you do.

It's going to be a good one, folks. I can feel it. And by the way, how about this? I'm planning on bringing back the voicemail line for the podcast. Do you guys like that? Wouldn't that be fun? Bring back the old voicemail line for you guys. Let me know, shoot me a message on Instagram. Do we want to do that?

All right. We'll be back with more right after this. I almost forgot to mention that we have another Dancing with the Stars story. Haley Erbert, do you remember her? She's the wife to, uh, Dancing with the Stars former professional dancer and judge Derek Hough. Well, she reveals that she has a medical team around when she's dancing after her emergency.

She was in the middle of her and her husband's Derek Hough's Symphony of Dance tour when she was rushed to the hospital for a brain bleed in December of 2023. They called it an all out miracle that not only she survived, but can dance and kind of enjoy life again. And, um, she says, I just listened to my body.

Uh, being a dancer, I feel like I'm really in tune with my body. I do have a medical team still around. And of course that's because like she said, she had a cranial hematoma characterized by blood collecting in the skull. She underwent an emergency craniectomy. Uh, and that happened while she was supposed to be performing one of her dances with Derrick Hough.

He found out live on stage that she was not doing well. I mean, nightmare, nightmare scenario. And to think that they've made it back from that. I can't imagine. I mean, look, sadly, I remember when we had to bring our dog in for like emergency surgery and he survived. And I just remember that night when we took our dog in and thinking, we're going to get a phone call from this doctor.

You know, they made us go home. They were like, all right, he's in surgery. And he had a, um, uh, flipped stomach and it's something that happens to dogs and it, it really kills them if they can't fix it in time. And I was like, the next phone call we get. He's either surviving or he's not, and gosh darn it, if I tell you every phone call we got for the next five hours, we got a phone call every hour that was better and better and better, and he made it through, and it was hell of expensive, but he survived another three years till he passed several months ago, and, um Anyway, I use that as an example to say as much love as we have for a dog, I cannot imagine what it would be like to go through a life threatening situation with your partner.

Now, I know members of our audience have shared with me, you know, losing their partner. We've, we've got a big audience here and we've heard a lot of grief and how people handle it. And I'm just here to tell you guys, all of you that made it to the other side, You're a strong person. You're a strong person out there.

So don't let any of this small stuff get in the way. Don't let any of this small stuff get in the way of how brave you are to handle that. And Derek Hough can now, you know, relate to the fact. And of course, obviously, obviously his wife, she was the real fighter, but she woke up going, Hey, what happened?

What are we doing here? And he's like, are you kidding me? You know what I mean? You almost didn't make it. So just a incredible story that they've got. And we're just so, so happy for them. All right, quick, a couple of stories left. We've got two, uh, outer space astronauts. How are they going to vote? You know, those two astronauts that are stuck in space for months, they'll be voting in the presidential election from 250 miles above earth.

So how is that possible? American astronauts, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stuck on the international space station since June and won't be able to come home until around February, 2025. That means they'll. They promised their chance to vote in the election on November 5th on Earth, but thanks to a bill that was passed in Texas in 1997, they can cast their votes from space.

Astronauts fill out their absentee ballots on their computers and send them in an encrypted email, which then gets sent to Earth in the same way most data is transmitted between the space station and mission control. Once NASA gets the ballot, it's then forwarded to the astronaut's home county clerk, and their vote is recorded much like a regular absentee ballot.

The only difference is their address will be listed as low Earth orbit. Sunny and Butch said they're excited to In this year's election and no, they have not revealed who they're voting for. Oh, they should. I want, I wonder if they're on the same page. Can you imagine getting in an argument with somebody and then, you know, like, 'cause you're not voting for the same candidate and then you can't go anywhere 'cause you're in low orbit.

Can you imagine that? Oh boy. They're stealing votes from the low orbit. They're just reigning them in from the. Stratosphere folks. Well, of course I promised you I would have the updates when it came to the Butch and Sonny story that, uh, you know, these astronauts just are not getting enough attention.

Well finally, we mentioned this, uh, yesterday, 60 minutes stumbled across a rare place in America where family and community outrank party loyalty. This is a conversation about door County, the County that may decide the election. We found a place in America where family and community outrank party loyalty.

In this divisive election season, we came to America's ultimate battleground, except there was no battle. As they say here with pride, we live above the tension line. What's your sense of how the tone in Door County compares to the tone nationally? You don't want to alienate your neighbors. You don't want to alienate your fellow business owners.

You all come together. Do you have family members that are gonna vote differently from you? Oh, absolutely. Everyone invited to Thanksgiving regardless? Absolutely. Politics is, uh, you know, if we can't talk about it, that means it's gone way too far in the wrong direction. You recognize that's not necessarily the vibe in the country at large.

Hey, we're a little different in Wisconsin. I guess we got that Midwest nice going on. Well, listen, I don't know. I've been to some places in the Midwest where they don't have that nice going on, but Hey, power to them. Can I have conversations with my relatives at the dinner table during Thanksgiving? No.

You know why? Cause I'm stuffing my face full of biscuits and gra and cranberry sauce. But even if they weren't stuffed full that I wouldn't be having those conversations anyway. It's like, let's leave it on Facebook. We're. Where our pitchforks belong in real life. We don't talk politics, not at the dinner table and not what people you disagree with the least.

All right. Well, that's going to do it for me. I got a lot coming to you today. Um, I'm not going to be revealing much on the Patrion as far as my buckle up hint goes, but just know stay buckled up. That's all I can say about that. So much going on. So we'll see you on Patrion. And then again, I'll be back tomorrow to, uh, I'll be back later this afternoon as I am always with another episode of 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, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Monday. It's the Afternoon Rush on this October 21st, 2024. You made it. You made it. This was a tough Monday, but you made it.

I'm so proud of you guys. It's not Christmas season. It's not summer. It's just kind of that little middle ground area where the sun starts to set earlier and earlier, but you did it, you worked hard. And here we are to enjoy the afternoon. And today we've got a lot to get into. Kmart closes for good. Plus the new Elon Musk outrage as he's been accused of playing.

excuse me, paying people to vote. It's more complicated than that, but we'll get into it. Plus bachelor star, Kelsey discusses quitting her job and life post bachelor while on the trading secrets podcast. Then we have updates on what the toxicology report said about Liam Payne, the one direction singer who just passed plus Chapel Rhone fires her manager.

And it's created a swarm of people wanting to work with her. And also is Ryan Seacrest regretting taking over a wheel of fortune? Sources say, yes. I've got those stories and so much more all coming up next on The Afternoon Rush. I guess they're calling it buyer's remorse for uh, Ryan Seacrest. I mean look, the guy's got too many jobs.

He is single handedly inflating, uh, the jobs report out there. You know, he's got like 19 jobs. He's reeling with regret after taking over Wheel of Fortune from Pat Sajak. It's a dumpster fire of fan hatred. Again, this is a report on Radar Online. Who knows how true this is, but the source said that he's feeling the pressure and wondering.

Well, what he's probably learning is that people might have loved the show because of the sort of reliability they got with the host and not exactly because they like watching, uh, you know, people win weird prizes on a wheel. Uh, it's kind of like if you watch a baseball, uh, team and you have a favorite announcer.

It's like you, you became friends with that person. I totally understand. Well, Tom, I meant to cover this yesterday. We ran out of time. Tom Sandoval and Victoria Lee Robinson are moving in together. Who cares? Nobody! But here we are. They said we're pretty serious. So, uh, I guess, um, they're, they spoke to an outlet.

Tom said how much Victoria has helped him since B since getting together. You're with somebody that inspires you to be a certain way. That's what makes it amazing. He said a lot of love, a lot of fun, a lot of support, a lot of great memories. Already. We compliment each other very well. We're both very adventurous and spontaneous.

Uh, and I think spontaneity is what got him into these problems in the first place. Right? Don't go in a hot tub with somebody you're not dating, at least alone, and don't hook up with them. That being Raquel Levis, Rachel Levis. Well, she had her podcast, Rachel goes rogue, which I think I, she, yes, she had said that it, uh, it is run its course and it's over.

So that's the end of that. And speaking about the ending of relationships, we've got, I guess, chapel Roan firing her manager. And now all the managers want her. Why wouldn't they? She's a huge pop star. Have a listen. Chapel Roan just fired her manager. And. Austin City Limits, the festival yesterday, it was like Hunger Games.

All these managers flew in to try to see her. She didn't see anybody, by the way. But like, it was, that's an industry open secret, and everybody's sort of trying to position themselves to, Um, to climb up the ladder and try to work with her. Now, I'm not gonna claim that I discovered Chapel Rone, but I will say I think I was in the early adopters of how badass she is.

So again, uh, she's gonna have her Pickens for who she wants to work with her. I just hope she picks. A manager that protects her from a lot of the chaos that's out there. You really need a good system around you. And I'm not saying that One Direction didn't have a good system around them. I have no idea.

But they found their fame very early on in life. And of course we covered Liam Payne, the singer who leapt to his death in Argentina last week. Well, toxicology tests now reveal he had pink cocaine in his system. Which, by the way, I have no idea what that is. Uh, the toxicolo Toxicology results for the late one director singer say he has cocaine and crack in his body when he fell to his death from a third floor balcony at a Buenos Aires, Argentina hotel.

So again, I don't know if he did it on purpose or, I mean, obviously if you have drugs in your system, you're not thinking in your right mind in the first place. Forensic examiners are told found crystal in his blood, which is the Argentinian version of methamphetamine. ABC News first reported the discovery.

The news adding that ketamine ecstasy and pink cocaine were also part of the drug cocktail in the system. All right. That's a hell. That's a hell of a concoction. They're unbelievable stuff and really sad too. You know, people are coming forward and saying, Hey, you know, we didn't, we didn't think that he had a problem, but you know, I, I, you, you, you can't blame.

Those that are around people that have these issues in the end, it's like, it's your battle and you can only help somebody so much. So I have no idea what his support system was like, but I will say so like batch, um, excuse me, um, you know, NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, like those boy bands existed before social media.

And you have to wonder if social media plays a part into the daily grind and the daily search for love and dopamine that's out there. Here's A. G. McLean. Uh, from Backstreet Boys, uh, addressing Liam's passing at LAX. These are one of the original boy bands, right? Um, and, you know, we just saw, we just, we just saw, we just saw the passing of, uh, of Liam Payne.

Yeah. Right? Another boy band. Obviously you guys have never lost a member, but how close do you guys get on the road? And how hard must it be for the remaining members of One Direction to kind of, you know, I can't. I can't even fathom. Uh, you know, we are family. We've been together for 31 years. Um, we've been through ups and downs together, but, um, you know, Liam was a friend.

Uh, he's a friend of yours. I mean, we just finished filming a TV show together and we spent six weeks together. Um, and, uh, you know, it's absolutely tragic. So I mean, you know, tragedy, it's like, look, you, you, you might go, what is, what is one direction having common with backstreet boys. They're from a different.

different era, but of course it's their boy bands and they go through probably a lot of the same rigmarole. So he actually said that he and Liam became friends while working on building the band, a music competition series where singers get a chance to build the next great pop group. He worked along with Liam and Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland.

So I guess that'll be coming out, which is wildly tragic because like, you know, uh, knowing what we know. Now, no, it's just a sad, sad ending. Well, in baseball news, the world series is locked in and it'll be Dodgers verse Yankees. I mean, LA versus New York, baby. It doesn't get any bigger than this. Unless my Boston Red Sox were in, but my new England sports dreams are on hold.

I just rewatched things from 15 years ago when we had our glory days. Uh, well, it's expensive. If you want to go to the world series, a thousand dollars for cheap seats. Although I have to say, uh, if you're a New York Yankee fan, Take, uh, it's take after me. And, and, um, if you get an early lead on the Dodgers, LA fans will not show up.

Uh, when the Red Sox were playing the Dodgers in the world series, I got world series tickets day of for 200 a piece, which by the way, is not bad. You know, maybe they were even cheaper. Maybe it was like 300 for two, either way. I got, I went to game five. I think the Red Sox ended up winning in game six. I get winning at all, you know, best of seven.

So either way, cheap seats right now are going for a thousand bucks. But, uh, like I said, if the, if the, uh, Yankees get, uh, maybe a couple of game lead, you'll probably be able to get cheap seats, uh, but that might not happen. You've got. What many are considering the greatest baseball player of all time, Otani against Aaron Judge.

It's a battle of the ballers out there, LA and New York. Okie dokie. Well, speaking about ballers that are no longer Diddy was slapped with new lawsuits and other celebrities are involved. I'll have that story coming for you after a quick word from our sponsor. Well, I'm not trying to give too many updates on Diddy because it's just a sad story, but he's being slapped with flood of new lawsuits citing other celebrities.

Diddy's facing five additional federal suits, which were filed by Texas attorney, Tony Busby on behalf of his clients who claimed Diddy sexually assaulted them in separate attacks between 2000 and 2022. Two more cases were filed Sunday night in state court in New York. And according to these documents, uh, the accuser listed as Jane Doe, um, uh, I guess.

There was in one case, a 13 year old who claims that Diddy, along with other celebrities, um, I guess drugged and assaulted her. So incredibly sad stories, if these accusations are true. And, um, you know, it's going to be a long time, but before I guess he. Uh, you know, all these stories kind of go through the court system.

So when there's any big news, I guess at this point, it's like people are really curious who these other celebrities are, who was complicit in these acts, you know, you know, did he worked with hundreds of a listers. So like, no one knows. And, um, you know, I, I think it's important not to speculate until, you know, more information comes out.

Well. Also, uh, Jenna Fisher from The Office, one of our favorite characters, uh, uh, gotta love The Office, says life is beautiful after her cancer battle. So here's some inspiration for those fighting adversity. I called my husband and I said, Lee, I think it's cancer. And I was like, but what? I don't know what it means.

And so, so it began. It was crazy because I went in for my routine mammogram. It's that annoying appointment that I'd been putting off. Three weeks later, they said, there were a few spots that were difficult to see. You have very dense tissue. We would recommend that you do another mammogram and maybe follow up with a breast ultrasound.

So was that for you an alarming thing, or was it an eye roll? It was a total eye roll. This is why I would put this off because now I have to go back again after the ultrasound. They said, Well, we found something we're gonna need to do a biopsy. So did you worry when they said that? Not really. Not really.

When I was getting the biopsy, the mood changed, and that's when I got nervous. So this is one of those weird things that you're refreshing a portal? Yeah. Constantly? Yeah, for like two days. Okay, now. Can you imagine refreshing a portal to find out if you have it or not? So either way. A brave story by Jenna Fisher to talk about the battle and, you know, share very human emotions, which is, this is why I put this stuff off.

I'd rather not know it's all BS, blah, blah, blah. But of course it comes back not so, but she's in recovery. So good for her. While Donald Trump is being sued by the Central Park Five, they are ripping him for debate lies. They say we never pled guilty. So he's getting called out in court for allegedly lying in the middle of the last debate.

Presidential debate, the only one he did with Kamala, that is the five men who were wrongly accused of a violent series of attacks in Central Park back in 1989 are taking issue with something Trump said on September 10th in Philly during the debate with Harris. If you recall, Harris brought up Trump calling for the execution of the Central Park five, something he did in a full page ad in multiple newspapers, including the New York Times, after they'd been arrested in 1989.

In the debate, Trump responded to Harris by defending his ad, saying they admitted, they said they pled guilty, and I said, well, if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person, ultimately. Well, they have a problem with Trump's remarks. In federal court, they pointed out no one was killed in the attack, and more importantly, they never pled guilty to the crimes.

They pled not guilty, and were ultimately found guilty. Fully exonerated. So there they are. We'll let you know what comes of that lawsuit. Uh, and do you remember the guy who was fixing celebrities? Kids, um, uh, college admissions, the college admissions scandal. Well, he's saying parents are so desperate that they are still asking him for help.

Here's what he had to say on good morning, America. Responsibility for everything I did. I am wrong. 100 percent wrong. Even on the days after the scandal broke, Singer says parents continued to text him. And I got 93 texts. I'd just been on national TV, they got everybody in my face, right? Within an hour. 93 texts.

Are you guys still coming this week? Is that where you thought, I can do this again, and again, and again, and make money? The money thing had nothing to do with it. Because the money thing, we didn't make, we didn't make money on it. I never ever thought I bribed anybody. I never even ever used that word. It never even entered my mind.

It was a donation. But if they needed to raise 250, 000 or 500, 000 For the program, they would call me and say, Hey, I have a spot. Do you have a family that would like to come here? Do you fully believe, though, that that spot wasn't important to somebody else that really wanted to wear that jersey? Doesn't matter.

To play for their school. Doesn't matter. It's up to the coach. You say you've taken responsibility for what has been done. You still view this as a victimless crime. Yes, ma'am. I actually, I don't want to say I agree with him, but if you remember this story, everyone, like college is so shady. I played baseball with a guy who he made the team and I didn't, like we were part of the fall team and he made the spring team and I didn't.

And his parents, I think, put the scoreboard. You know, bought the scoreboard for the stadium. You know what I mean? Like when you're not, if you're not like one of the top, top tier star athletes, there's a lot of college sports that, you know, it's everyone's neck and neck with each other and they can cherry pick who they want that's going to give them the funding.

And this guy just placed, you know, people with that demand. It is wrong by all means, but the whole process is wrong. It's so subjective. Who gets into what college? It's like. Not just based on test scores and not just, you know, it's, it's all hogwash. So the real issue I have is with parents not wanting their kids to face adversity.

That's what it comes down to. Now, look, I get it. My kid's only five weeks old, months old, but there'll be times when my son will try to roll over. And he'll get like his arm kind of stuck. Now I could move his arm for him so that he rolls over just fine. But why don't I give him 10 seconds to try to figure it out, figure it the F out and parents need to do a better job of it.

letting their kids figure it out. And if they messed around and didn't get good enough school scores to go to a school, learn about the consequences of that. Learn about the rewards of hard work, overcoming adversity. As I've talked about before, the main indicator of success in the world is grit, which is a combination of perseverance.

It's hard work, and it's like a don't take no for an answer attitude, and if your parents are there cleaning up your mess, you get to see sort of the golden handcuffs of privilege. And that's why so many people that come from parents that have money, They find a way to mess that up. They just do. You know, I interviewed over the weekend, Kalani, the ghost hunter.

We had a great conversation. So many people, maybe you guys listened to it. So many people wrote in and said, that was an amazing conversation. He came from lower middle class. He came from a poor family. Now he's a hardworking dude who goes in ghost hunting tours and he's got an incredible work ethic. Now, look, as parents, you can provide your kids opportunities to succeed, but you can't walk them over the finish line.

And that's the big problem there. And I hear this from teachers too, not to sound like an old cranky man, but in today's world, you hear that parents are more willing to take the side of their kids than they are the teachers. And sometimes it's like, who's disciplining who out here? That's the question.

All right. And again, there might be scenarios where you got to stick up for your kid, of course, but that's why I don't necessarily want to coach my son. I want him to learn how to take a direction. And instructions from other people and to respect authority in other ways and work really hard in this and that.

I got a, I got a long time before I need to figure it out. All right. Well, what we're figuring out is who the hell is going to win this election? Well, 60 minutes says it's going to come down to door County. What? What's door County. It's a small County. Inside of Wisconsin, whoever wins Pennsylvania and or North Carolina and or Wisconsin will have a heavy chance of winning the whole election.

So I guess, I guess historically this one county decides the election. Uh, let's have a listen to what the experts have to say. Whoever wins door County on election day probably wins the state of Wisconsin. Yet again, you say whoever wins door County likely wins Wisconsin. You also just said whoever wins Wisconsin likely wins the national election.

Not an exaggeration. Well, historically the case, whoever wins in Door County is probably the next president of the United States. All right. Can we get a call from somebody in Door County, Wisconsin as technically we must have at least one listener there. Any power listeners, any rushes there in Door County?

I hate to say it. Can we go back to the popular vote for F sake or not go back to it? Can we go to the popular vote? What are we doing where one county is like the deciding vote and a whole, okay, I get it. You know, you want representation. Everyone wants to have a voice, but it's like, come on already. Uh, I cannot wait for this thing to be over.

And speaking of things that are over, ladies and gentlemen, we say goodbye to the fabulous, although kind of dingy Kmart over the weekend. You may have heard the last full size Kmart superstar. Closed forever. Goodbye, blue light specials. Hello, empty parking lots. Hello, that sad outline of the giant red K that used to hang on buildings all over America.

There used to be more than 2, 000 K marts in America. Used to be, but what I mean, look, you can't compete with the internet. I'm sorry. I wish we lived in a world where we went, we, we went back to brick and mortars because you know, the internet, you know, like I had to buy Q tips the other day. I bought like a 750 pack, um, on Amazon.

There were 4. Then I was walking through Walgreens and there were 7 and 15 cents. What you cannot compete with the internet. Now, what, what if Amazon, like it's not going away, right. They need to find a way to be more environmentally, you know, savvy. They need to find a way to be more green with their packaging.

They need to find a way to pay their employees a livable wage. If they can do all that, I understand the autumn, the automation that like, you can't beat that. You can't beat that. Like a brick and mortar has to, Pay for its air conditioning and its employees that are effing around and all of this products that aren't selling and you just can't beat the, um, you can't beat the, uh, business model that Amazon has.

We just need to find a way to make it livable for everybody. So it's not just like the cheapest stuff in the world. I don't know. Just, just a thought, not trying to get political. I'll save that for after the break. All right, I've got a story of Elon Musk paying random people a million dollars, but before we get into that story, here's Kelsey Anderson talking about career moves while on Jason Tartick's Trading Secrets podcast.

I don't know. It's like with these opportunities now, Joey and I are both like wanting to embrace it. I think anybody in this situation would be happy. Totally like want to dive in and, you know, see what there is to offer and, and, you know, make the most of it. I think that we're really lucky because of like the support we have and all the people that, you know, love us, that we're able to do these things and, um, make like good money.

So I think that we're trying to focus on maybe building something else, building to something else, um, whether that's a business, whether that's a coffee shop, something that, you know, even when all this fades, like we can still have like a consistent, you know, stream of income with something else. Sure.

Sure. Um, but yeah, I don't know. I, I'm, I paused school for a second. I'm back in it now. Um, but still trying to get, you know, my degree in project management. Um, it just things were so crazy for a second. I had to pause and I, I like went to part time with my job and I had to quit because I, you can't juggle all this.

It's, it's a lot. And I think people don't realize, um, like the behind the scenes of a lot of this stuff. Now we'll cover this more on tomorrow's YouTube, but I, I, I don't, and I don't get this too much from Kelsey, but a lot of alumni are very apologetic when they talk about why they quit their job and why they're doing whatever.

It's like, look, you got a great opportunity. You got all this equity. You have a much bigger platform. Do with it what you want, you know, promote shampoo products and travel the world. Who the hell cares? There is, you don't owe it to anybody to explain like, If you've diverted your plans, I know everyone's asking Jen Drain, are you going to go back to PA school?

Yeah, who cares? You know what I mean? Uh, do whatever the hell you want. And I'll tell you what, Elon Musk is doing whatever the hell he wants. He actually is offering a million dollars to random people to, I guess, go vote. And people are saying, ah, I don't think you're allowed to do this. Have a listen.

We're going to be awarding a million dollars to randomly, to people who have signed the petition. Every day, from now until the election. You are a former attorney general? So now they're speaking to, uh, the governor of Pennsylvania, Governor Shapiro. Is this legal? I think there are real questions with how he is spending money.

Uh, in this race, how the dark money is flowing, uh, not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians. Now, look, I agree. I don't know what, what people had to sign the petition for and what's the contingency for the million dollars, because if it's not, you know, if you can still vote for whoever you want to vote for, it's like, all right, do whatever the hell you want.

My issue is more so that he. Literally bought a platform, a large one, said he wasn't gonna get into politics and then expressly got into voting, you know, pushing one side. Now look, I'm allowed to have an opinion. I don't own a platform. But when you own a platform, there's a responsibility to that. And that's kind of like, you know, newspapers, they do have a bias that, you know, biases exist, sure.

But just outward say, outwardly saying, this is why you should vote in this direction. I think that's dangerous. That is deeply concerning. Look, Musk obviously has a right to be able to express his views. He's made it very, very clear that he supports Donald Trump. I don't, obviously we have a difference of opinion.

Uh, I, I don't deny him that right. But when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think it raises serious questions. Yeah. I mean, but for all, by all means, you got to at least look into it. Here's what, uh, excuse me. Here's what, uh, Gavin Newsom, governor of California had to say. I've known Elon for over 20, 25 years, one of America's great entrepreneurs and innovators, but this is not the person I knew even two years ago.

And I, with respect to Elon, um, I just don't have the confidence that there's other things that he's not up to, uh, behind the scenes, not just again, what he's expressing quite publicly. And I'm very concerned about a country where people like Elon Musk, others that are sucking up to Donald Trump. Uh, that will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations, undoubtedly get massive, even larger, uh, federal contracts.

I mean, it is an American oligarchy that can, uh, be formed here. It's again, very, very serious. I hope people are paying attention, seeing this from Elon Musk breaks my heart a little bit again, as someone that really admires. Uh, his entrepreneurial and innovative tendencies. I mean, look, I have a Tesla, like I, I think he's, like, what he is done with rockets in Tesla and like in so many different ways is really genius.

But Ima imagine, you know, somebody who's not even from the United States, he's from South Africa. Imagine someone coming in here. Kind of taking advantage of all the opportunities to innovate here. And then like, like Gavin Newsom says, I mean, right now, like I got a tax incentive, I got a 7, 500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle because Tesla lived up to all of the requirements, you know, uh, you know, as far as how they mine for their lithium and all of the environmental requirements, if those go away, I mean, it's, it's, it's ugly out there.

So yeah, you can understand like, what's, why somebody so Interested in the outcome of this race. Now, again, Mark Cuban, also a billionaire, he had a take on Elon Musk. Here's what he had to say. Let's talk about Elon Musk. Uh, he's been critical of you. You've been critical of him. What do you make in particular of, uh, this weekend's, uh, new effort to get people to the polls that he is using a million dollars a day?

He's, uh, offering up, uh, for those who effectively sign his petition and register to vote. I mean, it's innovative and it's desperate. You know, you only do that because you think you have to, but you know, using a sweepstakes is not a bad idea. Um, whether or not it'll work is a whole nother thing. It just as easily could backfire, but you don't know until you try.

Do you think it's legal? I mean, I actually looked into it. I initially thought it might not have been, but as a sweepstakes, it looks like it may be. But from a FEC perspective, I have no idea. All right. Well, I think that gives you a fair perspective of whether it's legal or not, you know, it's funny from the standpoint of politics, I've gotten shit from the left for owning a Tesla.

And I, I personally, just because Elon's like a, a bigger than life figure is like, who, who, who's the CEO of. Ford. Who's a Toyota? What are they doing? You know, that's so great. So I don't, I don't know the answers to that, but I don't put like my sort of putting my money into electric cars. I don't really put that on Elon.

He makes a better car than all the other electric cars. They don't have the infrastructure to charge across the country. That's just point blank. How it is right now. They're getting there. They will, but he built something that was good. And I'm, I don't, I don't hold that against him when it comes to like wondering, well, I have different political thoughts, so I'm not going to support it by everyone vote with your dollar, do whatever the hell you want.

But I think it just goes to show, like, I try to be a free thinker. I try to do what's right for me, for my family. And I can also share my opinion and you guys can listen to that. You can agree or disagree. Isn't that a fantastic world we live in? We absolutely love that. Well, We're a little long today, but I wanted to get to this 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 standup comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you out there. It's October 21st. 2024, and we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place.

And on today's Monday morning rush, we've got bachelor Joey discussing intimacy with his dance partner, how they tackled the topic with his fiance, plus some Monday morning quarterbacking a story of a kicker plucked from obscurity in capitalizing on a second chance at success. And Deshaun Watson snapped his Achilles ruptured in a gruesome non contact injury.

We'll discuss why some fans. We're booing him after that happened. Plus Vanderpump bad boy, Tom Sandoval is moving in with his new girlfriend. And did we discover possible life on Mars? I bet you want to know. We got all those stories and more coming up next on the rash. You know, one thing I like to relate to you guys out there is whenever I see a good project, be it a movie or TV show online, I need to let you guys know.

And I found Anatomy of Lies to be absolutely wild. It's about a woman who faked cancer. And it sounds like a plot line on Grey's Anatomy, but it's actually because it was a writer on Grey's Anatomy. It's the wild true story of a TV writer who not just faked cancer, she sort of adopted or co opted a lot of people's tragedies as her own.

She said, She was there with her friend during a tragic, um, uh, mass shooting, which actually she wasn't there and it wasn't even her friend. All these stories were exposed. It's an absolutely wild documentary on Peacock and, uh, of course it's similar in scope to the Laura Owens, uh, fiasco surrounding Clayton Eckerd.

The only difference is in this film. Docu series, Anatomy of Lies. There's really no evidence of her lying, like they catch her in a lie, but that's just it. As opposed to the Laura Owen scandal, where there's fake ultrasounds, fake HCG, you know, fake ovarian cancer emails, I mean, the whole thing's bananas.

So, it's very interesting, but, I mean, It really goes to show, as far as proof of concept goes, that there is a thirst for people to see chaos. Really, people just like to expose grifters and expose liars. I think that's, I think that's kind of like, uh, just what we like in society. It makes us feel, you know, I mean, you know, because if I think most of us live in a general Contract, a universal contract where we try to tell the truth and be the best we can.

And when people, uh, when people violate that we want, we want to call them out on it. Right. I kind of feel like that's why it's so popular. And speaking of popular Deadpool and Wolverine surpasses Barbie as 12th biggest film in domestic box office history. I got to be honest when Barbie came out, it was kind of like a cultural phenomenon.

I haven't heard. anything about Deadpool and Wolverine. I I'm shocked it's this big. Marvel's Deadpool and Wolverine added another 679, 000 as Disney brought the film back to 1500 theaters over the weekend, boosting its North American total to 636 million. Those ticket sales were enough to ever so slightly surpass Barbie as the 12th highest grossing release ever.

ever at the domestic box office. All right. Well, I guess it means the nerds like to spend money. And you know, what, what can you do good for them? Uh, I tell you what, uh, I teased it in the opening, but, uh, it looks like they may have found signs of life on Mars. Let's have a listen. Mars rover Perseverance may have just found the first real evidence of life on the red planet.

Since February 2021, the rover has been rolling around an ancient Mars river delta looking for hints of microbial life. And just last month, it found an unusual veined boulder that put astrobiologists on the edge of their seats. The 1m by 60cm rock seems to contain carbon based organic material. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Lori Leshin said it's the kind of discovery you hope for, where mind bending observations make your heart beat just a little faster.

In a statement, NASA revealed the rock found exhibits chemical signatures and structures that could possibly have been formed by life billions of years ago, when the area being explored by the rover contained running water. Alright, so it's billion year old microbes. That's all it is, folks. What did you expect?

There'd be a guy playing Xbox on Mars or something? I don't know. I mean, hey, it's something, right? I don't know. I kind of want something a little more interesting. Well, we got, we got some interesting stories coming out of the NFL. And no, not my New England Patriots. They are terrible. Just god awful. I quit on the season.

Uh, but here we have the story of that wide receiver that was shot and he finally, uh, might make his first catch. Now to a homecoming of sorts for San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, 50 days after being shot in the chest during an attempted armed robbery. This week the rookie has been seen practicing with the team and tonight he's on the field ready to make his debut.

Here's ABC's Melissa Dawn. Tonight, just seven weeks after a dramatic shooting in downtown San Francisco that left 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall fighting for his life. Miraculously, he's back on the field moments ago, back on the field, making his exit. NFL debut against the Kansas City Chiefs fans erupting before the game as the 24-year-old took the field for warmups.

I mean, it was an absolute wild story. The video of him actually getting shot showed him walking to the ambulance. That's wild. I think the bullet went right through him. They missed all vital organs. Well, we can report that last night at the game that the Kansas City Chiefs won. Ricky Piersall makes his first NFL catch.

Unbelievable stuff. 50 days after getting shot in the chest, there it is.

And that's the crowd there cheering him on. So congratulations. Look, we love stories of perseverance. We love stories where people overcome all obstacles to find success. And we have another one of those coming out of the NFL, that being a Detroit Lions kicker. He actually explains how he thought his.

Sort of, uh, you know, uh, his dreams of being a kicker had ended after getting cut last year, but I'm going to play for you guys a little bit of the montage of the come up of this young kicker. And it'll set the stage for Jake Bates, who was a soccer player at Central Arkansas and then became a kickoff specialist at Texas State and Arkansas, was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Houston Texans last year, released her in the preseason and then made his name in the UFL with those.

Booming 60 yard kicks hit three of them including a game winning 64 yarder At Ford Field against the St. Louis battle hawks to that point He had only attempted and missed one kick in an organized game. That was all the way back in high school Incredible story He went 21 of 28 in the ufl earned a two year deal after michael badgeley tore his hamstring In july, he's hit a game time 32 yarder against the Rams late in the fourth quarter.

He is nine for nine. So at this point, he's nine for nine. He had never played in college. He was a soccer player. He had only attempted one kick in high school, and now his Detroit Lions are down 28 to 29, fourth and 14, 19 seconds left in the game. Can you believe this? This guy comes plucked out of obscurity.

in his NFL career, but this one, the most weighty kick of his life.

For the lead! I am love. Bates has delivered! Alright, so, the Football goes through the upright and he wins the game. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a heroic story. The guy with an, a great powerful leg who just played soccer and now all of a sudden he's back in the pros. It's absolutely amazing. 18 months ago, he said he thought he was done with football.

He was working as a brick salesman. Here's what he had to say after the game. I thought I was done with football. I was working as a brick salesman in Houston. I thought that I thought the dream was dead. It also makes me look back and think of how good the Lord's been in my life and the doors he's opened and closed for me to lead me here and to lead me in such a great situation with this coaching staff and this front office and these teammates, um, you know, it's definitely something that's like, I couldn't even have dreamt of this.

Like this moment is so cool. I'm, you know, I'm taking it in stride and I'm having fun with it. He said he couldn't even have dreamt of this moment. So how exciting. Listen, I mean, this is why we love the NFL or any sport really, because we get to see people overcome all odds. This is a guy I've never heard of in my life.

And then we get to hear a story where, you know, I guess, uh, it was just faith, faith in himself. That, uh, you know, if given the chance he could capitalize on it and so far he's perfect out there. Wild stuff. All right. How's that for some Monday motivation? I got a lot of content to get to. So stick around.

We'll be back with more right after this. Bachelor. Joey was on the scrubbing in podcast, uh, which of course is a former bachelor contestant, uh, Becca Tilly show. And he discussed sort of the, I guess. I'm called. I'm like, to make sure that my partner, Kelsey Anderson, doesn't feel left out now that he's dancing with his dancing partner.

And you know, these dances have quite a bit of intimacy, any strong relationship can get over them. But you know, a lot of these relationships are, you know, very fresh off the boat as it were. Here's what he had to say. I have personally. would have a really hard time watching my girlfriend be in this environment.

And it's so intimate and you're like with this person and you're doing these sexy dances. We're kind of desensitized as dancers to it because this is just our work and we do this year after year with somebody and our end goal is to make the best dance possible. There's no other motive. Beginning at the season of the season with Joey, I kind of said to him like the more open We can be and involve Kelsey and make her feel part of it.

So there's nothing like hidden. Right. I think the better. And I'll be the first to admit that I'm still figuring it out. Because I'm trying my best to be open, to share everything like she said. But it still is hard that I'm not able to be with Kelsey as much as I would like to because it's such a time restriction that we're putting in.

I think the hardest part about this truthfully is ignoring the outside. Um, It's just social media has turned into its own beast nowadays and it doesn't take anything other than one person to have a strong opinion and that can go viral and that feels like it's everyone's opinion but it's not. We have to be confident in what we're doing, we have to be confident in what we are doing, and then we have to let the outside be noise because we know what we're doing.

And that's not easy to do, but we're trying our best and just each week trying to get more confidence in it because we feel great where we're at and I know I'm great where I'm at with Kelsey too. Yeah. There it is. I mean, strong answer, but of course it's really, you know, Kelsey, who's got to feel that as well.

It sounds, it sounds so, I don't know, trivial to, to, to discuss like, what do you mean she wouldn't be happy for him, but it's going to be very challenging because I mean, you know, I, I don't want to trivialize it and say, Oh, it's just someone bumping and grinding with another partner, but there is a lot of time spent with another woman.

So you got to understand even, even someone, a confident person still Probably could use a good amount of reassuring as it were. Um, and you know, Joey speaks about how toxic social media can be. I just saw an article that jelly roll, uh, said he, he went back on Twitter X and he was like, Oh my gosh, it's so bad.

It's so bad out there, folks. Oh my gosh. Why are we torturing ourselves the way we are? Well, pod save America actually discussed how a tick tock executive explained why tick tock is so addictive. One unnamed TikTok executive put it in stark terms, saying the reason kids watch TikTok is because the power of the app's algorithm keeps them from, quote, sleep and eating and moving around the room and looking at someone in the eyes.

Yes! Yes! How do you as a TikTok executive write that sentence down and then say I'm doing a great job at work. I'm really, I'm really benefiting humanity. Documents also show that they went so far as to tweak the algorithm to reduce the visibility of people it deemed not very attractive, and quote, took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their young users.

Oh. I didn't even know you could do that with an algorithm. Sure, they can do whatever they want. This like radicalized me. Really? Even more against TikTok. How so? Just thinking about my kids. Yeah. And I'm just like, I don't, I don't want them to have the phone and to have this on the phone and like, you're just going to lose them.

Is it more knowing the danger from the platform or is it knowing that TikTok knows that it's dangerous for them? It's that. And it's, well, that just makes me mad. That's right. The, the idea of it makes me scared. The idea of them having it makes me scared. Right. This makes me mad. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, imagine if you, you don't want to give your kid a cell phone or TikTok or whatever, but all of their friends have it.

It's just scary out there. Now, to be quite honest, and we'll have to see how this goes, but, you know, I got a five month old son. I think this issue will be resolved by the time his generation gets a cell phone, whether it be somewhere between the age of 10 and 16. I think we're going to be able to resolve this issue because I think it's such a big issue that we're finally just starting to look at it.

As, as a problem, you know, it's almost like if we all just found brownies and thought brownies were so good. And after five years of eating brownies, our teeth start to fall out and we're like, maybe we should tone it down on the brownies. Well, that's what Tik TOK is. We should tone it down. And look, I mean, I use Tik TOK as one of my primary ways to source content for you guys.

The algorithm is so dang good. It knows exactly what the viral content is. Uh, but you just, you know, you, I guess you have to be able to cope with how am I going to use this and know if I've taken things too far. We've all done it, where we wake up in the morning and get online or if we go to, you know, I'm supposed to go to bed at midnight, next thing you know it's 1.

30 in the morning and I'm doom scrolling. What are we doing out there? I'll be the first to say, I don't think podcasting is as bad because in the podcast world, you're like listening to somebody. It's, it doesn't have that same reward dopamine dump that scrolling does. That seems to be the big problem.

It's not like if you were just watching TV all day, it's, it's actually way worse than that. Anyhow, um, I'm going to get off my high horse here. I think I've approved my point. I'm grumpy towards TikTok, uh, but also please like help me go viral. Uh, well, uh, we have a new job out there for president or former president Trump.

Uh, he's. I guess spent the weekend working at McDonald's. Now they shut the McDonald's down, whether it was for safety reasons or whatnot. So he wasn't actually working for real customers. I guess they had a bunch of supporters doing drive through runs and he was whipping, uh, whipping, uh, French fries at him.

But Hey, nonetheless, it's a, it's a dirty job. And, uh, listen, I can say that. As a fact, I actually worked at McDonald's only for a few hours, but I worked at a live McDonald's in New England once back in the day, I did advertising for McDonald's and we had to go there just to learn the ropes. And I have to say, you leave there with your shoes sliding around, you know, there's a lot of grease.

I feel like you're just covered in canola oil when it's all said and done. But, uh, here he is the former president, uh, I guess working the friolator. That's former president Trump in battleground, Pennsylvania at a McDonald's learning from a. Fry guy, the secret to making McDonald's legendary French fries.

Let's listen in. Yeah. I think each location is a little different.

All right. So there he is working the fry later. And I got to say, look, I'm not saying it's a low intelligence job working at McDonald's. I think every job you do, whether it's McDonald's or building rockets, uh, comes with, uh, you know, it comes with, there's a value to working. Uh, but with that said, I think you can learn how to work the machine within five minutes.

Uh, there's a lot of multitasking and, and, and, and buttons going off and blinkers and things, but it's pretty automated, but either way, that's, that's what he spent, I guess, the weekend doing. Uh, of course, you know, Pennsylvania is a big state, uh, you know, whoever's going to win this, you know, Pennsylvania, Georgia, these, these states, I mean, every single poll out there says they are just dead set.

A 50 50 split, but, you know, and again, it might just be my, my tick tock algorithm. There's a lot of pollsters that are saying, Hey, look, the polls are saying 50 50, but people still believe it could be a bloodbath in either direction. That's how close it is out there. I don't know. Uh, wild stuff. And it was a wild weekend.

Like I said, not just McDonald's, Donald Trump has a. thing going on with Arnold Palmer. He was in the news. I guess he discussed, uh, how Arnold Palmer's, uh, an American hero, uh, below the belt as it were the GOP presidential candidate. Trump said he ad libbed something Saturday night in Pennsylvania. Here's what he said.

Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that it all due respect to women. And I love women. But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. They said, Oh my God, that's unbelievable.

I mean, what the actual flip, you know what I'm saying? Oh, what are you going to do? I think love them or hate him. There is. Truly nobody like him. That's all I can say about that. Uh, well, look, we got, you know, I've been meaning to cover this story for so long, uh, that being selling sunset. I actually have a few selling sunset stories.

Here is Chris shell on the status of whether she'll come back for season nine. If you don't remember, she said, if Nicole goes back, she won't. She gave the producers a hard ultimatum. She may be backtracking on that. Have a listen. Okay. Here's what I will say about that. And this is actually the first time I've answered this question, but I will say at the end of the day, I mean, obviously I have very strong feelings about her that I stand 10 toes down and I don't take any of that back.

By the way, what, what white girl BS is this? At the end of the day, I stand 10 toes down. It's like, what are you even saying? Believe every bit of it. However, I'm also a business woman and you can, I, I always will be to change my mind. If you add a zero, so listen, I hate her, but if you're going to pay me a ton of money to go say it to her face.

Write the check, I guess. There it is. I mean, that's economics, right? Show me the money, is what Kerschel says. Show me the money. And speaking of Selling Sunset, I've got Selling Sunset's Chelsea and her husband, uh, I guess are asking the judge to end the marriage because they can't reach a settlement. I'll have that for you next.

Yeah, pretty messy world out there for Selling Sunset. Chelsea and her estranged husband, Jeff, need the judge to legally end their marriage because they can't come to terms on their settlement. Of course, it was in this past season of Selling Sunset that, uh, I guess one of the cast members said they caught him canoodling with a different woman in their atrium of a, you know, an apartment building or whatnot.

Hey, what can you do out there, right? Uh, cheater's gonna cheat. Um, well, uh, From that failed relationship to a success story, unlike any other. Bill Belichick, 72, again, one of the most winning coaches in the world, and girlfriend Jordan Hudson, 24, yes, that's right, I said the name right, they are heading for marriage, a source claims.

He wants to be with her all the time. I mean, look, I mean, by the time she's 40, he'll most likely be dead. Do you know what I mean? In 16 years, he'll be 88. I mean, the odds of him. I mean, you guys get the point. I'm not trying to be morose here. I'm just saying their age gap is in saying in the membrane, what can you do?

The 48 year age difference between Bill and Jordan doesn't seem to bother the shocking couple. According to a source, the former New England Patriots coach has had to decide if he wants to continue his football career or put time into his romance with the cheerleader. Listen, don't go back to football, right?

You're in your seventies, make TikToks with her. Enjoy being retired. Now, now on a selfish note, I wanted him to go back to the NFL because I wanted him to get the all time winning, uh, coach, uh, you know, winning record. But it's like, dude, you're, you're dating a 24 year old that counts as a victory. I mean, it's creepy.

Sure. But it's like, you know, do what you got to do. All right. Well, I already shared a couple political stories. We are just over two weeks away. What is that? 15 days away from the election. So we are getting there and here we have Fox news. Fact checking Trump on the dogs and cats thing. Uh, it's the guys this is we live in a wild time Okay, an absolute wild time that this is a real clip from a real news station Have a listen your famous line about springfield, ohio, and I I take your point that 15 to 20 000 Legal haitian immigrants settling in that area causes a lot of friction But when you said and you know, it's gone viral, they're eating the dogs.

They're eating the cats You say you're just reporting what had been said But why not say now? Well, look, that turned out not to be true. I don't know if it's my board of, I don't know if it's true or not true. I read something eating the pets. You don't know if it's true or not true. It's been debunked by the officials.

Well, what about the goose, the geese? What? What about the goose, about the geese? What happened there? They, they were all missing. I don't, it was one Howie, two geese, howing. I have no idea. And this is me talking to my parents. This is what it is. You know, hey, they debunked it. What about the ghosts? The geese?

They're missing all the geese. There was a flock of geese. They were flying south. Now they're gone. They're stealing the geese. There's a net. They used a net. They used a net. They were supposed to be cleaning the pools. The migrants, they were supposed to be cleaning the pools. They're coming for your jobs.

And they stole the geese. They grabbed the net and they swooped up and the geese are gone. What can you do? Sir, that's been debunked. What do I know? That's what I was told. Okay, alright. This is the world we live in, folks. Those are the, these are the choices you have to make. And I say, hey, do whatever you want with these choices.

You know what I mean? It's yours, it's your choice to make out there, folks. Alright, well, boy, where do we go from here? I mean, it's a real question we have to ask. Where the hell do we go from here? I won't steal your geese. I promise you that. Uh, okay, you know what? Let's end on this interesting story, okay?

We have a Company in, I guess, Peekskill, New York. Every Election season, they make cookies with the Democrat nominee and the Republican nominee on the cookies. And now, they're getting a lot of hate for that. For every presidential election campaign since 1996, this family owned business has sold cookies featuring a photo of each candidate.

This year, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, they say the reaction is different. You're disgusting, and why are you doing this, and we're not going to come there anymore. State Senator Pete Harkin got wind of the blowback, posting this on Facebook. I know that we're divided, I know we're polarized, but cookies?

Really? Threatening a bakery is not a productive way to help your candidate. The bakery vows to continue as customers cast their ballots at the register. I got one of each. I happen to get a Donald Trump one and I got a Kamala Harris one. Well there it is folks. Yeah, I mean, we've reached peak madness. You know what I mean?

Vote with your dollar. If you don't want to eat the Kamala Harris cookie, don't eat the cookie or vice versa. Who the hell cares? It's madness out there folks. And we got 15 days to the election. I don't know what's going to happen. I really, really do. I mean, I'm telling you, I don't know. My guess. Can I, can I, can I make a guess?

And I'm not encouraging this whatsoever. Please. I'm not encouraging this. I think there's going to be violence. I truly do, and I'm not trying to wish that into, into, uh, into being. I, I think there will be some sort of militia coup. I don't think it'll be big, but I think, I mean, look, we already have, I live in Tennessee now.

In Eastern Tennessee, there was a militia that surrounded who they thought were FEMA workers. If they're willing to surround FEMA workers, imagine if one gun shot goes off, it's a blood bath out there. I don't condone this at all, but I'm telling you right now. I hate to say it, but I, I feel like I'm gonna be glued to the TV.

And I just, I honestly, I just really hope that's not the case and I, I think we have 15 days and I'm going to use my platform and I hope everyone else uses theirs that we, we stay, we, we stay clear, level headed and just, you know, know what our realities are. I mean, I don't even know what else to say, but, um, it's going to be a very, very interesting, uh, Next month.

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10-18-24 Afternoon Rush - Tampa's Lieutenant Dan Arrested! & A Golden Bachelorette Joan Late Night Clip & My New 'Cold Heart' Merch Drops

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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. We made it to the Friday afternoon episode of the Rush Hour podcast, October 18th, 2024. And on Today's Afternoon Rush, we've got a sportscaster in Boston issuing an apology for using a racial slur, as he puts it, accidentally.

Plus, Lieutenant Dan was arrested in Tampa. I'll have that story. And Jimmy Kimmel reveals that Golden Bachelorette Joan was an extra in the movie St. Elmo Fire. And while the story of Patrick Mahomes father getting a DUI the night before the Super Bowl is old news, the cop's body cam footage has come out.

We'll share it. Very interesting stuff. Plus, I'll share a couple of clips from the Al Smith charity dinner, which, of course, is a dinner where politicians roast each other. So I'll have all of those stories, and we can end this week on a laugh, hopefully. All those stories and more coming up next on The Rush.

Well, we've been covering Lieutenant Dan here, who's taken over TikTok since Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, uh, he rode out the storm. Well, now he's arrested in Florida over a boat issue. They said, move it or lose it, buddy. The viral sailor who braved Hurricane Milton on his tiny boat in Tampa is behind bars.

It appears it's all because of an issue with where he was keeping his vessel. Joseph Malinowski, better known as Lieutenant Dan on TikTok, was arrested first thing Friday morning in Tampa and hauled off to jail. Cops tell us Dan is charged with two outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court and one misdemeanor charge of trespassing in a city park after warning.

Okay, first of all, those seem like kind of lame things to get him on. Tampa police say officers met with Lieutenant Dan at Bayshore Linear Park in Dock Thursday and police say Dan told them he did not have an accessible marine sanitation device aboard his boat and didn't have a record of proper disposal of waste.

Oh, they're getting them for not having a working toilet. I gotta tell you, look, I, I know this guy is seemingly a bad guy now. Everyone loved him at first and then they said he's a bad guy. Listen, he went from being unhoused, he was probably pooping in the streets, now he's got a boat. I mean, the guy's trying his best.

Other than, of course, some of the drama going on in the livestream world, is he harming anybody? No, no. Your answer might be, yeah, he tried to light a woman on fire. Listen, I'm not saying he's a good guy. I'm not defending him. I'm just saying, boy, when the attention's on you, they'll get you for anything.

Cops say the alleged conditions on Dan's boat created a public health hazard, and he was instructed to move his boat out of Bayshore Linear Park. Officers say he was still there Friday morning, despite numerous warnings. So he was arrested and hauled off to jail. Uh, Lieutenant Dan's rep. Oh, he's got his own lawyer now.

Brandon Gilchrist tells TMZ his team is working to bail him out. Lieutenant Dan's viral fame is actually noted on his booking info. His occupation is listed as. Tick tock star. All right. Listen, I don't think there's a real winner in this story. Just ugly stuff. And from one cop story to another Jay Cutler busted for DUI and gun possession after a 5 PM car accident.

Well, it's five o'clock somewhere. Just don't be behind the wheels when it hits. Uh, they've obtained the arrest report in which cops claim they responded to a call at 5 p. m. Thursday about a white Ram that had allegedly rear ended a car and had attempted to pay off the other driver with two grand so they wouldn't call the police.

When they arrived, they say they found Jay Cutler staggering around, slurring his speech and smelling of alcohol. Oh boy, I mean, well, it looks like he just didn't pay off enough. I mean, at some point, listen, if someone rear ends me And, uh, they want to pay me 10, 20 grand. Now, I guess depending on the value of your car, you know, you might just want to get insurance involved when they arrived.

They say they found Jay Cutler staggering, slurring a speech and smelling of alcohol. Officers say Cutler claimed he hadn't had anything to drink. Before amending his statement and saying he had a little. Cops say he turned down the field sobriety test. At that point, the officers arrested him. Well, first of all, you're supposed to turn down the field sobriety test, you know?

Uh, you're just, you're not supposed to, because apparently, inherently, it's like quack science and it can be used against you even if you are sober. But with that said, it sounds like he was loaded. He had a loaded Glock handgun in his center console, and he's got a court date set for January of 2025. All right, yeah, you can't get in car accidents.

And, uh, try to pay people off and be drunk. You can't do that. And speaking of things you can't do, Brooke Muller, Miller, says she's being extorted by her former drug dealer. She's turning to the L. A. County Sheriff's Department for help. Yeah, that's gotta be tough, right? That's gotta be tough when you have some issues with your drug dealer because like, what are you supposed to do?

I honestly don't know. What do you do in that scenario? Okay, any lawyers? Can you help me? Uh, law enforcement sources tell TMZ Charlie Sheen's ex wife says she's being blackmailed by a former drug dealer who claims to have videos of her buying drugs and other compromising actions. We're told the dealer told Brooke he'd go to the media or make the videos public to ruin her if she did not pay him off.

Law enforcement sources say Brooke had already tried to keep him quiet with gifts and money, totaling tens of thousands of dollars. A source close to Brooke says she has never given him a dime. We're told this went on for months until Brooke finally decided it was time to call the authorities. Yeah, you know, I don't know.

See, this is why you need to legalize drugs. I'm sorry. I, I really believe that drugs need to be legal because I don't, I just think there's more harm than, and then good that can come from the seedy underworld of drugs. You know what I mean? I'm just saying now there should be rules and regulations around them.

I just think, I think other countries have shown that if you legalize them, people can actually get the help and not resort to cheaper drugs, you know, whatever, whatever, you know, I'm not, I'm not a big pro drug guy. I'm just, uh, I'm just an anti, you know, the prison system, uh, being, you know, effective. Well, Corey Feldman has responded to the Diddy issues that are existing out there, because there is a lot happening in the world of Diddy getting arrested.

Corey Feldman, of course, Has spoken out for years about predators in Hollywood and literally no one believed him and now we're seeing that he's actually just a gigantic victim. He's been a victim for a very long time and he needs his justice. Do you have any comments on the pediatric situation? Have you been to his parties before?

To his parties? No, I never went to his parties. No? No, man. You never got invited to go to his parties? I think I was a little old. No, you're not old, man. You look young. No, I think I was a little old to be invited is my point. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I've never been to any of his parties. I've never met the guy.

I don't know any of those people. But, it's disgusting and I'm so grateful that justice is being served. And I really hope that there's a continuation of this. And all of these scumbags get taken down because children need to be protected. So there, he said children need to be protected. In truer words, I've never been spoken.

So, again, whatever comes of the Diddy case, we'll be here to report it. Well, a radio host, uh, I guess said a slur on air. And now he has apologized for that slur. I actually listen to Boston Sports Talk Radio, but I don't listen to this specific channel. I listen to a different one. And I know another channel that I listen to, Boston Sports Talk Radio, A few years ago, said a slur or made fun of an Asian guy's accent.

Uh, and now we've got radio host, Tony Maserati apologizing for muttering an Asian slur, here's what he had to say in response. I did want to address this because during yesterday's show, while we were discussing baseball's gold glove awards, the voting and the data that went into it, uh, I made reference to Tyler Milliken and people his age and their reliance on some of the metrics and how I didn't believe in them.

Um, and in so doing, I used a derogatory term that. Was unbeknownst to me. I didn't know that this term had a derogatory connotation, but I used it in reference to Milliken and his Gen Z brethren, for lack of a better term. I have since come to the realization that historically, there is some, you know, some derogatory context for that term, which I assure you, I did not know.

Nonetheless, in so doing. If you are among those who I offended, I apologize for that. It was not my intent, I can assure you of that. I had no idea that the word had that meaning. Uh, as such, I won't use it again. You'll never hear me use it again, on the air or off. And, I don't know what else to say. I mean, you know, uh, On one level, we've all got like a dad who says something he doesn't know is bad and, you know, it's, it's like you can empathize to that degree, but it's also so reckless to be someone who just randomly will call someone something.

So he said the Z word. Um, head, you guys understand this word, right? And if you don't know, I mean, I had to look it up cause I, I kind of knew what it meant, but I also had to look it up. It's um, it's terrible. It's a term that was used from the Korean and then popularized in the Vietnamese war, uh, that describes enemies who were shot in the head with high powered rifles and they experienced injuries resulting in their heads splitting as if having been unzipped.

I mean, it's, if, if that's just, it's, it's disgusting. It's, it's horrifying and um, you know, at least, you know, good on him or I shouldn't even say good on him, but at least it's good that people are getting educated on terms they should know have very painful past. And this just isn't in anyone's drunk uncle saying it was, you know, live on a radio show that goes out to a huge market, weird stuff.

And um, look, I don't think someone should get fired necessarily over that if they don't have any malicious intent. And I like the idea of people educating themselves. Moving forward and being better. I think that's, I think that's the proper way for progress. If you ask me versus someone who might just be continuously reckless and, and that that's a different scenario.

But anyway, uh, we got a couple other stories to get to. I've got, um, what Trump said and what Jim Gaffigan said. I've got, uh, Jim Gaffigan hosted the dinner that was all about roasting each other. So I'll have those stories for you. Plus a couple others coming your way next. Quick update on the Liam Payne death, uh, the member, former member of One Direction.

He was dropped by his record label, Universal Music, just days before his death, says the report. Liam's advance was massive and he didn't recoup it, the insider claimed. Out of all of the One Direction boys, Liam was on the wrong path musically. Uh, which is so sad because I'm sure he had a, I'm sure he was still worth a ton of money.

It just goes to show it's never enough when you have a mental health issue or drug or substance abuse issue like the fame, the fortune. It's never enough, uh, you know, and, and what we, what we do. To try to, um, Outwardly solve problems that we need to fix inward just repeatedly goes to show it's not enough.

Uh, the strip that Downsinger signed with Capitol Records owned by Universal Music in 2016 after One Direction announced its infinite hiatus. The Daily Mail reported Payne's publicity team resigned earlier in October. So clearly, you know, this is what these record labels do. They give you a whole bunch of money.

And then they invest in you, becoming this machine, and when it doesn't pay off, you know, they get to write it off as a loss. His legacy will live on, they said, through his music and the countless fans he inspired and who adorned him. We send our deepest condolences to Liam's family and loved ones. All right.

And by the way, TMZ has been roundly criticized for the way they handled the article. They actually shared, uh, An image of his body and then quietly deleted it when they received a lot of backlash. And, uh, a lot of people are saying, you know, that was really, really messed up. Uh, well, I mean, what can you do?

Uh, you know, TMZ is doing TMZ things. If you don't like it, don't, don't watch them. They're there. I mean, look, sure. Yeah. They're there. It's smart. Uh, so here's, uh, the golden bachelorette. He re, uh, revealed. She would swap any of the bachelors for Rob Lowe. She worked as an extra in St. Elmo fire. Here she is on Jimmy Kimmel.

You were in the movie St. Elmo's fire. I was an extra. You were an extra on some. Well, but you were in the movie. We have the evidence right here. My God, that's so funny. That's you on the bicycle. Did you get to meet Rob Lowe on the set of St. Elmo's fire? I did get to meet him. And since then I've had like this.

Like huge celebrity crush. Would you trade in, would you trade in whoever you selected on the Golden Bachelor for Rob Lowe? Like in one second. Wow, there it is, there it is. I mean, Gary Turner, you can't compete with Rob Lowe. What are you doing out there? So she was an extra on St. Elmo for Rob Lowe. Fire.

How fun. I dare tell you guys, I have never seen St. Elmo fire, but the old, the Gen Xers are going to get mad at me. How dare you not know what that is? Well, I'll tell you what I do know. I know Min Mobile is a good deal. They're today's sponsor 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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His, uh, he dropped his son's name during his DWI stop. He tried to use his son's name to get out of his DWI earlier this year. Police video was finally obtained by TMZ sports. Have a listen. Mr. Mooney. Yes, sir. Can I say one thing? You may. My son is getting ready to play in the f ing Superbowl. Okay. No, just listen to me.

I am not drunk. I promise you. Okay, so I mean so far he's not really sounding drunk You know and you have to empathize knowing this is gonna become a national story, but at the same time safety safety, right? I've had some drinks. Oh boy, but he can't have this right now. Okay, this can't, listen, this son?

Patrick Mahomes. Okay. And, and, and he can't have that right now. I mean, I don't care what, I mean, I could have somebody come get me and take me home, but this right now is not the right time for that. I promise you, I, listen, I don't, I don't say a lot of stuff about nothing. I've had a couple of drinks. Yes, I have, but I am not drunk.

Okay. Okay. I mean, I would probably blow over the legal limit, but. Dude, seriously. Well, I mean, the legal limit is set so that you don't go over it. You know what I mean? Now, there are different scales of how drunk you are. And, hey, I appreciate his honesty. It almost feels like the police officer might not have known who Patrick Mahomes was.

He should have clarified and said, you know, he's gonna be in, you know, he's the starting quarterback. I'll get you tickets! Nah, I know you can't bribe a police officer. Uh, but anyway, he doesn't sound smashed. He's smashed. But he admits he was over the limit. Why do we live in a world where cars don't all have a breathalyzer test?

So we can just figure it out. You're almost left to guess if you're drunk or not. Now I understand if you're not sure, don't drive. I understand that. But at the same time, wouldn't it, you know, we buy these vehicles, they're, they're 20, 30, 50, 000. Can't we put a 20 breathalyzer into the dashboard? I mean, we don't have stars.

From around here. He's from White House. I'm, I'm very, very knowledgeable and capable. Dude, I can get somebody to come get me. I mean, we just can't have this. Give me just a few minutes. I'll come back and talk to you. Please. All right. So anyway, it didn't exactly go that way. And you have to understand the cops also on camera.

They can't extorted and all that too, right? I don't know. I mean, I feel bad. I feel bad for the guy. Because he doesn't seem smashed, but what the hell do I know, you know? Uh, all right. So we've got a couple clips of the al smith dinner. That is where uh, Presidential candidates go to roast each other. I've got trump roasting Uh, uh, well, um, somebody.

And then I've got Jim Gaffigan roasting Trump. So let's play the Trump one first. Here he is. I don't even know who he's roasting. I haven't played it yet. Have a listen. There's a group called White Dudes for Harris. Have you seen this? White Dudes for Harris. Anybody know it? Are some of you here? White Dudes for Harris.

Doesn't sound like it. But I'm not worried about them at all because Their wives and their wives lovers are all voting for me. Hey look, say what you want. I can take a joke. I can take a joke. I think, I've said this before, time and time again, I think one of Trump's biggest strong suits as a candidate is his humor and I think it cuts through a lot of people and is very endearing to them, to be quite honest.

Maybe not you, but that's, that's a lot of people it cuts through. Okay, I've also got a clip from Jim Gaffigan and boy, I mean look, I've done stand up shows with Jim Gaffigan, he certainly wouldn't know who I am. But he's a fantastic joke writer. I actually think his wife also writes his jokes for him, but here's a joke he wrote, uh, coming up next.

Alright, as promised, here's Jim Gaffigan, he hosted the Al Smith charity dinner, which I guess is a charity for Catholic organizations, so they do this to win over the Catholic vote. Uh, but either way, here's his takedown of Donald Trump. And by the way, he also made plenty of jokes about Kamala, we'll try to find one of those too, just so everyone feels like it's even Stevens.

You know, during the first and only debate, President Trump talked about migrants taking cats and eating them. You know, if you're keeping track at home, this is the second time grabbing a kitty has been part of a campaign issue. Awww. Alright, I mean, look, say what you want about the merits of the joke, but as far as the, uh, uh, you know, as far as the actual structure of the joke, it was, it was sound.

Alright, let's go to Jim Gaffigan making fun of Kamala, dare I get another one star review from some of you snowflakes out there, we gotta keep it all equal, everyone gets a piece of the candy bar. Yeah, this has been an interesting presidential campaign. The Democrats have been telling us Trump, Trump's re election is a threat to democracy.

In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true. All right. I don't know. I thought that was. Okay. It wasn't as funny, you know, maybe it's because it's a talking point.

We've heard, you know, maybe it's kind of a slow hanging fruit. Uh, but either way, those are, those are your clips from the Al Smith dinner. So there it is now. Kamala didn't go, but she did do a video with Molly Shannon. I think she should have gone. I think, I think, you know, it's one of those things you kind of have to do if, uh, your political opponent's going to go, you have to go kind of like how they both need to agree to, uh, you know, do more debates, even though they're not that those are my thoughts.

Trump went on Fox, I don't know if this is Fox and Friends or one of the Fox shows, and spoke about defunding school programs. We're going to take the Department of Education, close it. I'm going to close it. We'll have one person, could be you if you decide to retire. Okay, Mr. President, here's what bothers me about that.

So let's say you have a liberal city, let's say it's Los Angeles, San Diego, and they just decide they, Oh, we're going to get rid of that history. We got new history. This is America built off the backs of slaves on stolen land and that curriculum comes in. Then we don't send them money. We would save half of our budget.

Okay. So I guess the idea is, and this is where it becomes, this is where being in control of certain budgets can become dangerous because then people can say, I won't send you money. Like if I don't believe in your state's policies, you won't get, I don't know, uh, relief if there's a wildfire or a hurricane, or if you teach up a history that I disagree with, we're not going to fund you.

I mean, it gets very dangerous dangling a carrot in front of states with federal money. Um, that's probably not the best way. Way to handle the budget if you ask me. Uh, but anyway, no one did ask me. I guess here's an interesting clip of us just, you know, pulling apart some of the hypocrisy of the hate that exists.

And again, I will say this, it does, it does exist in both ways. Like you'll find many people on the left saying, oh, Donald Trump's not funny. And I could just say, well, first of all, you might think of that as an opinion. But the fact is he's, he's got a, he's got his pulse on some oddities that exist and will say funny things, whether.

He, whether they come off well, because they're offensive is a different story. Uh, and likewise, there's a lot of hypocrisy with people that are fans of one side versus the other here is the good liars, tick tock channel, exposing that hypocrisy. What do you think about Taylor Swift? I can't stand her. I think she should just mind her own business and sing songs.

What do you think about Kid Rock? I like Kid Rock. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's a great, uh, American. Kid Rock has a song where he says fuck you to AOC and Nancy Pelosi. I wish more people would sing that song. But he's not minding his own business. Yeah, but they're assholes. There it is, folks. The other side's just a holes, you know what I mean?

Now, yesterday, Bret Baier actually had to Uh, issue an apology on Fox News. I'm not gonna play it, but essentially he tried to, in his interview, have a gotcha moment with Kamala Harris and he misrepresented the clip he was playing, that went viral, and then he was forced to apologize. So, it's a wild week.

Uh, we are It's so close, uh, two and a half weeks away from this election, and then we can have something else to talk about. But as promised, I'm giving you, I'm giving you 20 plus minutes each episode of nonpolitical content, but it's hard. It's hard because everything's in the political world right now.

It's all there. So we'll see. We're here to cover it. That's what we're doing. Um, yeah, I mean, it was a wild week. I want to thank everyone who came to my YouTube live stream today and shared a lot of positivity. I actually created a new merch shirt. Uh, you guys might remember I was called a heartless human being.

What was I called? Uh, I was called a horrible heartless human being. And because of that, we created, um, a, uh, a, uh, what's it called? No, uh, I already forgot the name of the merch that we created. We created merchandise called cold heart. Hot tea, uh, because we're, I guess, cold hearted. So that's what we are.

So if you want to go check that out, I'll have it on Instagram. You can, uh, you can, uh, you know, buy some merchandise if you need a new mug or something. Well, I got to go to an apple orchard to go. I found a fresh apple orchard in my neighborhood that is selling homemade, um, apple, or I should say apple cider donuts.

So I feel like it's my duty to go. Make sure that they're good. I don't want bad apple cider donuts being sold in my town. Not on my watch, folks. So keep pursuing that good life. And like every other Friday, we like to kick the doors down, walk out of there, double middle fingers and tell our boss to go F themself.

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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 Friday to you on this October 18th, 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. We've got a bachelor in paradise star getting engaged.

I'll share that for you. Plus fire festival, two tickets go on sale. No longer using FEMA tents to host house people. They've got palapas going for about a million bucks. I'll share the details if you dare. And Travis Kelsey discusses the relationship he's got with Taylor Swift and he calls it unfathomable.

Plus a judge in Texas halts an execution at the 11th hour in a wild viral story and selling Sunset Star Chris shell discusses whether she will return or not on the next season plus a manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian accused of massive drug trafficking. I'll share in a His story from the powdery slopes to rails of the old Booga Sugar, a perfect way to start our Friday as we blow off steam and milk the clock to victory.

I'm here for you like I am every day, these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Well, I got to wonder, I don't know if you guys are in for it today. Are you ready? Are you feeling naughty? How about naughty by nature? Hello? Hip hip hip hop. Hooray. How about that? To get the day started today. Cause we've got a wild story to jump into coming from, uh, the Canadian Olympics.

Snowboarder Ryan Wedding is wanted by the FBI for running cocaine ring. All right, let's jump right into it. Cause I can't legally play this music, but I thought it would be fun. Now let's cook it a little longer. Come on, let's go. Let's party. You guys getting paid today or what? You're going to have a good one.

Everyone's going to go out there and have a little happy hour. Hard to have a happy hour when you work from home. Start in the morning, why not? Let's go. So max out what feels now. The deal is that we're real, so we still around. Don't lay em with a frown. Alright, I might as well get into this first story, cause, uh, you know, we have a lot to cover.

So, uh, I wouldn't want to just blast music the whole episode. I got stuff to do. Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! Here we go! Okay, I got it. Okay, so. Seriously, they're gonna take me down. Alright, well, this story is interesting and, uh, let's, let's lead off with the good one here. Tonight, a manhunt now underway for a former Olympic athlete accused of running a billion dollar international drug ring.

Federal prosecutors say Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian snowboarder, shipped tons of cocaine into the U. S. and Canada for more than a decade. A dozen other suspects are already in custody tonight. Well, here's my thought. Okay. So, and by the way, this does count as an Olympic story. So when we have the Olympic story, we need the Olympic music.

How about this with the, Hey, Hey, Oh, okay. That's enough. That's enough. That's just lost to 50 people. All right. But Hey, maybe he wasn't trying to import cocaine. Maybe he was just trying to recreate. The slopes, maybe he was trying to get some snowboarding practice in and his snow was melting. So he did the booger sugar.

Who knows? Either way. Fantastic story. Canadian Olympic snowboarder, Ryan wedding accused of running a massive and violent drug trafficking operation, routinely shipping hundreds of kilos of Coke and ordering people to be killed in the process. Well, now he's wanted by the FBI, Martin Estrada, the U S attorney for the central district of California.

Said on Thursday, wedding and 15 others have been charged in a 16 count indictment. 43 year old wedding who uses aliases like El Jefe giant and public enemy and his accomplices are being accused of conspiring to ship huge quantities of Coke from Columbia to Mexico and through stash houses in the LA area, delivering it to couriers to be taken to Canada via semi trucks to see their operation through a wedding and an associate allegedly ordered violent.

Crimes, including two murders of family members in Ontario, Canada, and in retaliation for an intercepted drug shipment that was passing through SoCal. Uh, wow. That's some pretty crazy stuff. As part of the investigation, official sees more than one ton of blow. Quarter million dollars in us currency, 3 million in crypto firearms and ammunition.

Oh boy. There they, they got people buying Coke with crypto. What's more insufferable than a guy. Telling you about crypto is a guy on Coke telling you about crypto. Okay. So anyway, we're done here. Let's carry on with the story. So that's kind of stuff. Oh, you know, it's from cocaine. Oh, geez. We got a lot of drugs in the news today from cocaine to the, uh, devil's lettuce here.

Snoop dog decided to give his weather report. Uh, on the today show, I guess he was just going to tell you the weather in every town that has something to do with Mary Jane. Have a listen. Oh wow. It's 57 degrees in Mary Jane Falls, Nevada, and then I heard it was going to be 56 degrees in Stoner, Colorado.

That's right. But my favorite is when it's nice, hot and misty outside, 84 degrees in Blunt, South Dakota. I ain't sliding no down to this area right here. Above the average highs, 70 degrees in Roche, Missouri. And over here, you know, I love, you know, we stay lucky in Kentucky. It's going to be 60 as we blaze in blaze, Kentucky.

So there it is. You dig, you got the answers. That's all you needed. Listen, if marijuana is a gateway drug, I want it. If snoops got it. Okay. And the truth is I don't, I'm, I'm a, I'm a very light edible type of guy. And, and, uh, you know, I can't be doing that stuff with the baby. Now I, you know, I used to have, you know, it w it would help with my, uh, my joints.

That's like my whole verse of it. I didn't inhale no officers for my joints, uh, either way. Very interesting way to start the day. Giselle bunch in declines, invite to return to runway says no thanks. Victoria secret. Of course, they just had their fashion show that came came back after several years away.

Listen, I get it. Why, why would she want to be in lingerie? You know, when I go on a family vacation by the third day, I'm so bloated. I don't even want to go shirtless by the pool. So I can understand if she's got any hesitation to, uh, I don't know, making it, uh, making it out there. I mean, because it's a lot, I mean the, and by the way, the stress of the wings on the back, that would just really make me need to pop an edible for my, I, like I said, neck pain there.

Um, well, we got some fascinating stuff to get to bachelor and paradise star, Carly Waddell is engaged. She said yes. And guess what? He said, yes. She posted this on Instagram, a little thing happened in Costa Rica. Many of y'all have been wondering why Todd wears a ring on his hand. And it is actually because I asked him last Halloween to marry me first.

I'll give you way more of this story soon, but spoiler alert. He said yes, even though, to be honest, he was so shocked it was hard for him to speak. Then also, spoiler alert, he has to meet this October, and also I said yes. Now, of course, we know that Carly was married to Evan, uh, following their stint on Bachelor in Paradise.

Uh, good for, good for her. You know, it's always a happy day when someone in bachelor nation, uh, finds love, right? We're very happy for her. And where do we even go from here? So much to get into. Uh, what's, you know, what are they going to do, uh, to celebrate their engagement in Costa Rica? How about some cocaine?

I don't know. No. Okay. You're like, all right, jokes over Dave. All right. So, uh, you know, I'm going to have a kid and, uh, I guess the one thing you are, I'm going to, I have a kid. No, sorry. No, we're not pregnant again. We're not pregnant again. We just have a child. We have one beautiful. Beautiful five month old son.

We love him to death. He's so amazing. Uh, but you know, you want to, you, you have these questions you ask when you have a kid, like, how am I going to teach him to. To like, you know, navigate this world we live in. And I think, I think the answer is you, you want to raise your kid to question things in life.

And now maybe this is just, maybe we're going to regret this because it's like, you know, I'm sure he's going to have a question every two minutes. Daddy, why do we do this? Daddy, why do we do that? Daddy, why did, why is your belly bigger? Because we're on vacation and I ate too many carbs, you know what I mean?

You're just gonna have to answer these questions Uh, but here we have a discussion about the tooth fairy in a clip by james corden where he interviews American astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson have a listen to this Scientific with the facts or do you go with myths like the tooth fairy? No, no So when their teeth start coming out, right, what do you do?

So we're not gonna lie to because the universe is amazing enough To have to invent stuff just to keep kids entertained. So what we said was, We heard that if you put your tooth under the pillow, a tooth fairy comes. We're not sure, we just heard. They put the tooth under the pillow, we swapped it out. And they said, look, mommy, daddy, the tooth fairy came.

We said, how do you know it was the tooth fairy? And then she thought about it. There's my daughter. She said, oh, no, I don't know. I just know that there's money here. So she started setting up booby traps for the tooth. Like, Crinkly aluminum foil on the ground, so she would wake up, walk in. She had one of these dream catchers, hoping she could catch the fairy in the dream catcher.

Didn't work. At school, she got together with her friends and said, We think it might be our parents who are doing this. If it is, whoever's tooth comes out at school, don't tell your parents. Put that tooth under the pillow and see what happens the next day. And it stayed a tooth. So they performed the experiment to demonstrate that the parents are the tooth fairy.

And I'm just thinking, this is how adults should behave, okay? All right. We're cooking. We're rocking. We're rolling. It's a Friday. We got ads. We'll be back with more right after this. Well, as promised, I'm giving FireFest updates here. We have Billy McFarland giving an update on the housing at FireFest two.

Hey, what's up guys. I have a fire update. The team is on the island and it is safe to say things are already looking better than fire one. Unfortunately, luxury palapas have replaced the white FEMA tents. So I've been getting a lot of questions about the ticket packages. Let's start from the top with Prometheus.

Prometheus literally stole fire from the gods and shared it with civilization. For those of you who believe that life is meant to be lived, the Fire Prometheus Pass takes you pretty damn close to the sun. The Prometheus Pass comes with eight tickets, your entire group will be flown to the island privately, and you'll have your own yacht in the artist marina.

But most importantly, Oh, so they have an artist marina. Wasn't this what I was saying, which is if they just brought boats to the island, you wouldn't have to worry about housing. So this Prometheus, like I said, it comes with eight tickets. It's a measly 1. 1 million. So I'm thinking maybe we should go.

Should, does anyone, do I have any, Billionaires in my audience. No, look, I, people will go to this. This will happen. Uh, as we've reported yesterday, Billy McFarlane owes 26 million still to people. But look, I say this double down, Billy, this is your thing. You are the fire fest guy. And the only way, and I'm like half kidding and I'm half not, but the only way for him to not be the guy with the failed fire fest is to make fire fest successful.

I'll watch the documentary either way. Yeah. I don't expect them getting many investors. I really honestly think the only thing they needed last time, and again, maybe I'm wrong here, but last time they were just operating against time. They didn't realize how many people that have to pay off and how slow it would be to get equipment to a, you know, deserted Island in the middle of the Bahamas and all of that.

But like I said, all they got to do is pull up a cruise ship to the Island, throw a party on the Island, and then tender everyone back to the cruise ship. Bingo, bingo, dunzo. The Prometheus pass gives you access to everything. It will make fire the most memorable weekend of your entire life. You and the artists will be bouncing around on seaplanes to neighboring islands, catching lobster, and coming together at night for intimate performances on your yacht, in remote cenotes, and even at this underwater bar, where you have to free dive and hold your breath to get to it.

Ticket applications are live right now at firefestival2. com. All right. There it is. 1. 1 million. So again, they're not a sponsor of mine. I just find it fascinating. Listen, I need to know who the artist is first. If it's an artist, I don't like, it's not going to be, I mean, if it's Kenny Chesney and we can just chill out, sure.

But you know, catching lobsters, I don't know. I'm not sold on lobsters. I've said this before. I'm from Utah. Coastal New England. I'm just not a lobster guy. I don't like animals that have exoskeleton. It's just a line I draw in the sand. Well, to a more serious story, ABC world news is reporting on the judge who is pausing the execution of a Texas man in the shaken baby syndrome case.

It's absolutely fantastic. Listen to, I mean, this is good news to the extent that he's not being killed. Uh, but bad news in the sense that it's been years that he's been behind bars when he has been literally guilty of nothing other than his baby passing away. It's so, it's so tragic headline from Texas at this hour.

Just in the execution of a prisoner set for 7 p. m. Eastern has suddenly been halted for now. That prisoner on death row, a father convicted of shaken baby syndrome more than 20 years ago. ABC's Barea Villarreal from Texas. Tonight, a stunning reprieve just hours before he was set to be put to death. A Texas judge halting the execution of Robert Roberson, the first person scheduled to die by lethal injection in a case of shaken baby syndrome.

I can't tell you what happened to her, because I don't know. Roberson was convicted of murdering his two year old daughter Nikki in 2002. For more UN videos visit www. un. org He said he woke to find her unresponsive after she fell off the bed, but a doctor said there were signs of shaken baby syndrome.

The detective who helped convict Roberson now believes he's innocent. He's a special man and I am, I'm ashamed that I missed that 20 years ago. We were looking for an offender. And we labeled him as such, and we made it stick. See, this is the problem with prosecutors sometimes, is they want somebody so they can say they did their job.

And they had quack science. Apparently all this shaken baby syndrome stuff was all quack science. And like, God forbid this guy, this guy loses his child and then has to spend 20 years behind bars. I mean, can you think, can you think of a greater hell? Just unbelievable stuff. So, get him out of jail and f And fix this monster of an issue.

All right. I know it's a heavy story, but it's wildly fascinating. All right. Now we have Travis Kelsey admitting that he can't fathom what his star studded life with Taylor Swift is like, listen, I saw a video from the other day, uh, dropping into a restaurant in New York city and the whole restaurant stops, everyone gets their phones out.

I mean, Taylor Swift really is larger than life and here he is some chump, some random tight end. Now, obviously he was good, but come on. He's a, he's a, he's Midwestern famous. Uh, now he's internationally known. Can't fathom what's going on, so it's just like a dream. You're just like, oh yeah, no, you're not surprised by, like, the next thing that comes in, or comes into your life, or the next person that walks into the door, yeah.

Travis Gelsie takes fans inside his very Hollywood lifestyle. On the newest episode of his and bro Jason Kelce's New Heights podcast, the NFL star dishes to guest Pat McAfee on some of the perks of fame amid his whirlwind romance with Taylor Swift. One of those perks, hanging out with some very Alright, so they go into the whole story.

And yeah, everyone's going to leech on to Travis Kelsey now that he's with Taylor Swift, because that's what you do. You leech on to successful people. And by the way, speaking of leeching, unbelievable, uh, commentary was written about me from the lawyer of the lady who claimed she was pregnant with Clayton Eckerd's twins.

You're not going to believe this. I'm going to cover this on today's YouTube. I'm going to have to go live. I don't know around 11 a. m. Central time. I'll let you know exactly what time I'm going live. But this guy calls me a horrible. Heartless human being because of this people have come out of the woodworks to say no Dave's community donates money to single moms They donate money to teachers.

We we we lift people up in all of this, but either way I'm not taking offense to what he wants to label me as I'm gonna let my actions speak louder than his words It's just absolutely wild. I guess he's upset that I've been making money making YouTube videos calling out his client But look that's that's the fact she entered my world of Bachelor Nation, and we weren't going to let her lie, even though she, of course, and by the way, for those that haven't kept up with it, I mean, she lied to me with medical fraud.

She admitted to faking evidence, faking medical documents, to convince me she was pregnant when she didn't have the numbers that, you know, were believable. I mean, a lot of people think she wore a prosthetic belly into the courtroom, for God's sakes. It's absolutely wild. So for him to call me a horrible, heartless human being, he's more worried about his client who lied.

I'm more worried about the families of the men who were accused of very wild things and had their lives upended. So since they can't come after me for anything else, they're just calling me names at this point. Well, I've got something to say about that, and I will be doing it live today. So check it, check in on the YouTube for that.

Just wild stuff. Again, I'm, and it's so bizarre because he wants to make it out like we're arch enemies. I don't, I don't give two shits about this guy. I'm living my life. I'm, I'm, I'm doing things that I love creatively. I'm writing standup and performing in New York and I'm, and traveling around and I'm, you know, enjoying my life with my beautiful wife and our, our just gorgeous baby, and I'm trying to fight for justice.

I feel absolutely, uh, wildly grateful for all of the abundance that's come into my life from just being me. I don't have any hate and I don't want to harbor any hate. For anybody else. I truly don't, you know, do I think he's disgusting for some of the things he did while my wife was pregnant to threaten to make us homeless and things like that?

Sure. I mean, that's despicable of him. I don't even, I don't live in a world where humans would ever act that way, but clearly he does. I mean, he's unapologetic for it, but as far as I'm concerned, no, I wouldn't know this guy exists. If you didn't keep saying my name. Uh, I guess there's only one question left to ask him.

How am I asking? Taste, uh, how my ass taste. I think that's the only question there. Uh, cause my world and the world I surround myself in, in all of you guys, we are not horrible, heartless human beings. We have a pulse on reality and, uh, and, and, and, and that's okay. And that's okay. Uh, it's just too bad. His.

Client, uh, is on the train tracks of justice and this momentum we have in pursuit of justice ain't slowing down for nobody Metaphorically speaking. I think he's just trying to piss me off to try to get me to do or say something I regret But hey, I don't really drink and I don't do drugs So unless there's some crazy canadian with a ton of cocaine coming into town.

No, so it's not it's not going to happen You know, i'm not volatile. Maybe there's a little projection happening from his end Uh, but we will Keep our focus on justice and no sort of retribution to him. He doesn't need to exist in my world. All right. Well, well, boy, I mean, look, what else can you say about that?

I got a throwback video. I'm going to play for you guys next or audio. I should say about Netflix. I'll have a fun Netflix story coming right after a quick word from our sponsor. And by the way, a lot of people. Dave, why do you even respond to this troll lawyer for calling you out? I'm dedicated to pursuing the justice for Clayton in, in I'm I'm dedicated to following the story into its fullest capacity.

So every single time they want to rewrite history or change the reality, I'm going to present logical, Cold hearted facts. So that's what I'm going to present. If that makes me a horrible guy. Well, I don't know what law school he went to, but I don't see it that way. All right. Netflix. If you're old enough, like me, if you're an old millennial, you remember when Netflix was just a company that was mailing you DVDs, have a listen to the founder discussing their crazy idea.

Netflix was pretty big. We had probably in our warehouse, several hundred thousand DVDs. And I remember one day we were, Reid and I were in the warehouse and looking at all these DVDs and going, it's such a shame all these DVDs are here in the warehouse where they're not doing anywhere any good. I wonder if there's a way to store them at our customers houses, let them keep them, and then when they're done, they mail it back, we'll just replace it.

And rather than having them have to. Pay each time they replace it. Let's just have a monthly fee, a subscription, and they can rent as often as they want. There's no due dates and no late fees. And it was a ridiculous idea, but when we tested it, it was that mythical product market fit. It, it worked. People loved it.

They couldn't get enough of it. I mean, look, I was in the fraternity when this was big. We would literally have 20 DVDs coming in and out every single day. I think Netflix single handedly kept the U. S. post office, uh, employed for a few years. If you're younger than 30 years old, you probably don't remember this world that existed, but I'm telling you, it was wild out there.

And then. And then Netflix finally got into the streaming service, but it was garbage. I mean, it was like worst and Hallmark quality movies because they didn't have the rights to anything. They had to slowly get the funding to create their own content and bet it all on house of cards and Wayne orange is a new black.

You know, I, you know, it's actually funny as my roommate in, when I lived in Harlem, a guy that I lived with. Um, got the pilot for orange is the new black and he became one of the stars of the show and his name is Matthew and he, and when I found out he was on a Netflix show, I was like, Oh, you're doing a web web series.

Cool. Whatever. And then it became a massive success. And I was like, Oh, you can make TV shows this way. This is absolutely wild. And of course, then there's red box, which. Red box still kind of exists. If you go to some random seven 11, you'll find a red box. I mean, talk about the pressure on a Friday afternoon of picking a movie on red box.

There's seven people breathing down your neck for you to make your selection. Red box, the Netflix ATM. All right. So anyhow, uh, those are some good nostalgic stories there. Uh, but what, but boy, I wanted to leave you with some, uh, happy visions, uh, to have, but before I get to those visions. I'm always big into self actualizing.

Let's do a little happy hour conversation, or should I say the end of happy hour? Sad news for happy hour. Gen Z doesn't even know what it is. Grabbing a drink with colleagues is on the decline, and it's all thanks to how remote work blurred the lines of when the workday actually ends. We've been doing the five at five o'clock for 13 years.

I've never gone. I've never seen a happy hour in my life. I mean, I can't even remember what it's like. Well, you know, the old saying, It's five o'clock somewhere, happy hours, whenever you want to be happy, do your thing. No, look, there's, there's pros and cons to working from home, but from the social element, there really is nothing better than the camaraderie of being with teammates after a big win, whether it be sports or your career.

Client success or whatever the hell it is. Uh, nothing beats that. Uh, but anyhow, uh, you know, it's a Friday, so we're not, we're not quite ready for happy hour just yet. Although I'll give you permission to throw some Bailey's into that coffee, whatever, do whatever you want. I mean, as long as you're not like, I don't know, a nanny or something, maybe you should be sober for that, but Hey, you got a corporate job.

They don't need you to be sober. You just got a couple interviews to do mail it in today. Here is why the universe actually wants to give you. Everything you desire. Have a listen. Your odds are better than you think. So ask, man, this universe is a, is a playground. It really wants to give everybody everything.

It doesn't feel that way. And that's the trick. It's all a mental game. It's called pronoia. It's the belief that. The universe is working in your favor. It's the opposite of paranoia. I believe in paranoia. I believe that the universe is conspiring to help me at all times. And now once I kind of shift my mindset into that and I go, wow, right now I could ask for anything.

Listen, I understand. Uh, I understand. And, and Billy McFarland's like, I did that and now I owe 26 million. The other, the Olympian from Canada is like, I did that too. And I got all this cocaine and nowhere to go. Uh, but listen, uh, it's Um, it's kind of hokey, but I believe it. And the mantra I like to say is, isn't it great that it's all working out?

Uh, just take actionable steps to whatever biggest dream you have in life and find the path as it emerges. Now, I interviewed a ghost hunter. Uh, yesterday, which is going to air tomorrow on Saturday, and we talked so much about content creation because he's a ghost hunter who's got hundreds of thousands of followers online, a million, multi millions views, and it all, it all happened for him because he believed in himself, and it's amazing the, the worlds that open up when you do that, so folks, Hanging out.

It's going to be a fun one today. I'm going to, I've got a live stream buckle it up. I am going to be throwing the fastballs straight down the middle and ain't nobody touching them. We'll see you then. And then of course, this afternoon, we'll wrap it up. We'll see you later. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush.

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