10-3-24 Afternoon Rush - Taylor Swift Donates To More Food Banks & Toilet Paper Hysteria Caused By Port Strike & SNL Beef Explained & Will Cheryl Hines Divorce RFK?

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good afternoon everybody, it's Dave Neal. It's the Thursday episode of the Rush Hour on October 3rd, 2024. And on today's Afternoon Rush, we've got good news for billionaire Powerball winner Ed Castro, plus the Saturday Night Live beef everyone is talking about, and a source tells Us Magazine that there's also a beef, a feud between Denzel Washington and Diddy that happened at one of his infamous parties.

And actress Sheryl Hines can Considers a divorce from RFK Jr. And the toilet paper shortage that's happening right now. It's not being caused by the port strike, but just by idiot Americans. I'll explain all that. And also an update speaking of idiot Americans, we'll have an update on the fire fest too.

Yes. You heard that right in the crazy bank of America glitch has been fixed. It left a lot of people panicked yesterday. I'll have all these stories and more coming up next on the rush. All right. We have a feel good story here. You know, we all, we all like think we could win the lottery one day and we go, what would you do with the money?

Well, I would do this. I would do that. Well, Powerball winner, Edwin Castro's first thing he did with the money, the 2 billion is he had to go to a lawsuit. There was a lawsuit from a guy who said, Hey, he stole the ticket from me. Well, the judge rules who cares it's finders keepers. Now there was clearly no case there.

The person who sued him probably just wanted a quick and easy settlement, you know, cause look, if I want 2 billion and some guy was. I'd be, to be quite honest, I'd be like, here's a hundred grand now, shut up. You know what I mean? Either way. So now, now the money's officially his. And you know what, but after taxes, it's really just like a billion dollars.

Can you even survive? Well, according to Ed, he's living the lap of luxury. As reported, Edwin dropped a cool 76 million on three homes, including one in Bel Air and one in the Hollywood Hills. He purchased a fleet of exotic cars and he's got a new model girlfriend. Uh, yeah, no. Trust me though, the model girlfriend loves him for his personality.

That's what it is. It's not the three 25 million model homes each. All right. Well, I teased this story on last episode and we ran out of time. Here is why Colin Jost is no longer speaking to Pete Davidson. A Saturday night live beef. Headline that ran in the sun. It's about Colin Jost and Pete Davidson. It reads Colin Jost ends friendship with Pete Davidson after 10 years.

And refuses to be in the same room as him. A lot of people have been asking about this. I reached out to somebody and this is what they had to say. Well, first of all, they said that, I mean, this is like common sense. The headline was a little dramatic. According to my source, a big falling out is not accurate at all.

It was more of like a sooner or later. Virtually everyone who has ever been close to Pete winds up putting some distance between them and Pete. Because he's just a lot to handle and has a lot going on emotionally. This is not to say that Pete is in a bad place right now. Colin is far more grounded and consistent.

There was no big dramatic blow up or Pete Davidson. Didn't do anything horrible to Colin Jost. It sounds like Pete's, you know, more like living, outliving his life, and Colin's become more of like a family man. Colin Johansson moved to my hometown, which was like 13 miles north of New York City. And it's like really quaint.

I heard they joined the country club, which was shocking to me. And I think that sometimes just happens when friends, you know, go on different life paths and like one gets married and has kids and the other one's single and out doing their thing. And again, to say Pete Davidson's just out doing his thing.

I mean, you know, to be fair, he's got a lot of issues, you know, he's, he's got, he's had a lot of issues. Um, and you know, he's the son of a guy. His dad died in nine 11 as a firefighter, you know, and look, you should stand by your friends and all that. Absolutely. And everyone, I'm sure everybody wants Pete Davidson to get all the help and get on the right page.

But at the same time, you got to put your own happiness ahead. And I kind of feel like that's a good point. When you're calling Jost, you get married yet you then you have to then protect your partner from your toxic friends. Now, does that mean, is Pete Davidson toxic? Well, I mean from a lot of accounts from different people, it seems that way, at least volatile.

I don't know. Well, speaking of toxic, we now know Diddy is pretty toxic. Quite toxic. Uh, the cat's out of the bag. We have an update. Um, uh, Denzel Washington confronted Diddy and stormed out after an all night party in 2003. Yes, this is a 21 year old story, but it's just coming out now. A source who was friendly with Diddy in the early 2000s, latest issue of Us Weekly that Oscar winner Denzel Washington and the music mogul got into it during an all night gathering.

Denzel screamed, you don't respect anyone, the insider recalled. And Denzel and his wife Pauletta had been partying until dawn with Diddy and they had seen something and stormed out. So who knows what it is, but again, because everyone's dead. taking their virtual victory lap around Diddy right now. These are the types of stories that are coming out.

And in the other bizarre story, we've been covering RFK jr. Of course, presidential candidate, RFK jr. Uh, independently running, uh, I guess was having FaceTime, uh, romance to sanitize that topic with a lady named Olivia Nuzzi. Olivia Nuzzi was a reporter who covered him. Uh, Olivia Nuzzi's, uh, now has a stay away order, I guess that's like a protective order, against her ex fiancé, because she said he kind of blackmailed her and exposed this whole story.

Well, now Sheryl Hines, who's married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., uh, might be considering a divorce. The Curb Your Enthusiasm actor adored being a member of the Kennedy family, but his family, Thoroughly embarrassed and furious about his alleged affair and friends believe she wants out. Kennedy's biographer writes Oh, he's got a biographer.

Cheryl Hines has reportedly reached the limits of her marriage to the ego maniacal and politically polarizing RFK Jr And is considering a divorce. The limits have been reached following revelations of Kennedy's allegedly bizarre Sexting relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, a much younger political journalist.

All right, so we'll have to see what happens from that I mean, it's bizarre It's bizarre to say the least, we'll cover it. Uh, Taylor Swift feeds over 900 people with generous Food Bank donation, leaving employees incredibly grateful. Now, this story you could rewrite every week, because she continues to do this at every, uh, stop on her Eros tour.

The team at Welsh charity Cardiff Food Bank said they're grateful to Swift for Shining a light on the global issue of poverty. She's 34, of course, and is currently on a break from her heiress tour until mid October when she heads to Miami to perform at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday, October 18th. Uh, but she reportedly made multiple food bank donations during her UK show earlier this year.

Yeah, Taylor Swift must have like a philanthropy chair that just does all this for her. So good for her. The BBC reported Swift's donations to the food bank provided 925 people with emergency food parcels with the charity confirming it had managed to buy one and a half articulated lorries full of food.

Oh, a lorry full of food. All right, so we're happy. We're happy that there is some good news going around because this next story involves crop dusting of the butt variety. Men in Black director says Will Smith is a farter. One fart was so bad we evacuated the stage for about three hours and that's incredible.

Um, let's have a listen to Barry Sonnenfeld and he is the movie director from Men in Black. Here's what he had to say about Will's flatulence. We were getting ready to shoot. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and Tommy does not suffer fools, I'll tell you that. And, uh, although he loved Will and Will loved Tommy, they just thought each other was hilarious.

So anyway, they have to be put in this device, which is the inside of their car that transforms into a hypercar, right? And they're gonna go through the Midtown Tunnel upside down. So we have to bring a ladder over, you know, on wheels. Like it's like the old days when, you know, you would get on airplanes from the tarmac.

And we get them up there and we put them in the thing and we turn it upside down and we're ready to shoot. And they're hermetically sealed in this space. And there, there are locks to prevent it from opening and falling. I say, roll camera. And I hear Will Smith go, Oh Jesus. So sorry, Tommy. So sorry, Baz, get the ladder.

And you hear Tommy saying, that's fine. Will, no worries. Will. Don't worry, Will. Anyway, I don't know what's gone on, right, so we race the ladder over. Tommy, like, reaches his leg out as the ladder is coming over, races down the stairs, and what happened was, Will Smith is a farter. It's just some people aren't.

And you really don't want to be inside a very small, hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart. You don't even want to be sitting next to him at the Disney Ranch. When you release them from the Uh, did the, did, did the stench emit out? Like, were you able, were you able to smell it? We evacuated the stage for about three hours.

And that's incredible. No, he's, you know, lovely guy. Just, he farts. There it is, folks. Will Smith is a farter. So when he said we evacuated the stage for three hours, that, that came off to me as a joke. And when I first saw the story, I thought, wow, you must have really bad gas to, uh, to evacuate a whole stage.

But as it turns out, I mean, look, they were in a small, submersible, like, you know, sealed container. I mean, any, any amount of fart far it could do damage in that environment. And, you know, to, to, you know, maybe, maybe Will Smith, you know, there's a craft services, maybe they were presenting a new dish that day, maybe a cheese plate, something that his body just wasn't prepared for.

Either way. I wonder if they were able to use the neuralyzer on Tommy Lee and able to make it so that he forgets it. You like that reference. All right, folks got a lot of content to get to. We're having fun. We're cooking. We'll be back with more right after this. All right. We've been talking about the port strike and how it's going to affect people.

And of course, dumb Americans, everyone's deciding to go buy toilet paper, thinking that's going to be the one thing they need because of this strike. Well, here's a tick tocker named best wallet hacks, Jim Wang, giving us some advice on what to do for, to, you know, to prepare for this strike. So this port strike, who knows how it's going to be, but it'll last for a long time, it's going to affect some products and not others don't need to buy toilet paper.

Because most of it, some believe around 90 percent are produced in domestic factories. And the rest come from Canada or Mexico, which means they don't have to pass through a port on the east coast. The things that you do have to think about, if this worries you, are products that have a shorter shelf life that come internationally.

One common category is fruit, bananas. Most of them come from outside the United States by container ship, so they will be affected. Since it is a shorter shelf life, the time between cutting down a banana from the tree and getting it to your plate, It's only a couple of weeks. Another thing to worry about is seafood.

Seafood when it's imported has to come frozen by container ships and if it's not being unloaded, it's going to thaw. It's going to be gross and you're not going to have it anymore. It's just in the food category. If you think of canned goods, a lot of the products internationally, they also come by boat.

If what else is in a can, beer, imported beer, whiskey, scotch, all that stuff. That's going to be affected too. So if you're going to hoard things, which I do not recommend, please don't hoard things unnecessarily. You can always wait until this thing is over. It's not like the pandemic. It's not somewhere where you don't know the ends in sight.

The end will occur at some point. And if you don't have your favorite bottle of scotch, while that would make me sad and probably make you sad. It's not the end of the world. All right. So there it is. So the, so, oh, he's not finished. He says, don't go to Costco. Dude, don't go to Costco, Walmart, Target, and start hoarding paper supplies and water.

Yeah. I mean, that's what the issue is, is, and, you know, psychologically speaking, I've, I've heard some thoughts on why during the pandemic people were hoarding, uh, toilet paper. And it really came down to a mass panic. And if you think about it, imagine if you bought a dozen cans of tuna fish, nobody would notice.

You know, 12 cans of tuna fish, uh, you know, just, it's, it's small, it's whatever. But imagine if you bought a 12 packs of toilet paper, it's large. So if you walk into a store and you see someone buying 12 packs of toilet paper, you might say, I want to buy 12 packs of toilet paper. And the next thing you know, they're like, The toilet paper aisles empty, and then that photo goes viral.

Oh my gosh, they're buying all the toilet paper. And you can just see how that rush and hysteria can formulate. So here we have an example where they're saying, look, this port strike is going to affect you like products coming from Europe, idiot. It's not going to, and maybe the West coast too. I'm not really sure.

It's not going to affect certain things, but you know, um, you just get, you just get to see how easily the grid can be fried in any direction. With, you know, what's going on out there. And by the way, I do want to let you guys know, we are looking at, uh, different charities that are existing in the Carolinas that we can, uh, promote to help out the relief of what's going on there.

There's just, there's a lot happening and I don't want us to necessarily get in the way of the immediate cleanup of the hurricane. So it's one of those things. For all my friends out in the Carolinas or in Georgia or places that have been affected, we're not forgetting about you. If there's any, uh, any of our specific audience members with your own GoFundMes or things that you can use, uh, for help, please let us know.

Uh, but separate from the port strike is the, the effect that we want to make sure everyone's safe and, and healthy and, and, you know, we can work on that rebuilding process for our friends and family. Well, back to the port. Here's what transport transport. Excuse me, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had to say about the strike.

He said it could be ending today. Look, this strike can be ended today. And what that's going to take is the parties coming to terms. Uh, the companies need to put forward an offer that's going to get the workers to the table. And again, uh, such an offer would be absolutely compatible with the company's remaining profitable.

Remember, we're talking about an industry that got Unbelievable profits. There was a single year where this shipping sector took 220 billion in profits around the world. And you've got these ocean carriers, their ownership, foreign ownership. Uh, but we've been engaging them both at the global level and at the North America level, uh, you know, they are certainly in a position.

To be able to include workers to participate in this profitability, they could end this tomorrow. Now, another thing I do have concerns about is many of them have filed the paperwork to be able to introduce surcharges, uh, related to the strike. And if they were to do that, While those surchargers would, you know, in the first instance, be slapped on whoever's shipping cargo, uh, the stores, retailers, whoever it might be, uh, that would trickle down to the consumer.

And I've sent a message, uh, saying that, uh, these ocean carriers should not be doing that, should not be taking advantage of this situation. Again, they've already seen enormous windfalls, frankly, as a result of situations that hurt American consumers, uh, the scarcity, the supply chain crunches that we've seen in the past.

Uh, it is time for that profitability to be shared with workers. Hey, look, you want it to be shared. It's just not fair what's going on out there. And again, I hate to say it. I'm, I'm of the belief where I don't, I'm not saying I like to see things burn metaphorically. I just, I like to see courses get corrected.

So if there's something that is exploiting people out there, I'm just of the belief where I want to see people, I want to see people be, you know, held accountable for that. And not just held accountable, but like systemic changes go down. Uh, you know, and I think most people are there, you know, you get the kind of like the sort of be all end all capitalists that are going, no, they own the ships.

They're allowed to do with it what they want. Well, that's it. Go find some people to unload those ships. You know, you need the manpower and that those jobs, absolutely, absolutely. Those jobs could go away to automation. And these workers know that. And for the first time, they're able to get together and say, no, enough is enough.

We won't let that fly. So I think that's a good thing. All right. Here's a bizarre story, which is no surprise, but finally the tragedy that is the movie rust, the movie that Alec Baldwin was producing and starring in, which featured, um, sadly the tragic death of the onset cinematographer, Helena Hutchins.

Well, rust is to make world premiere at Cameron. Camera Image Film Festival without Alec Baldwin. The indie western will be unveiled before the public three years after the tragic onset death of Helena Hutchins. Its star and producer will not be in attendance. Yeah, this is one of those things, it's like, do you finish the film?

I mean, people were invested in it, people put money into it. Would the cinematographer wanted the film finished? You know, you have to like weigh all these things out. My guess is the cinematographer would want it finished if, you know, it's, you know, Beautifully shot. It's almost like an homage to the work that they do even though, you know, She tragically died through an accident and through gross negligence Three years after the tragic death.

Helena hudgens alec baldwin's indie western rust will finally be revealed to the public The movie has been selected to make its world premiere in late november at poland's camera image International Film Festival, a respected specialty event focused on achievements in cinematography. The festival said Thursday that it plans to hold a panel discussion after Russ first screening to honor Hutchins memory.

Yeah, I mean it's a wild story unlike anything else really in film and I think at the very least it'll be interesting to people, just a curiosity factor to see how this all plays out. All right, well, yesterday Bank of America had a crazy glitch. A lot of people went onto their app and realized there was no money in their bank account.

All my comedian friends are saying, well, that's what we expected. We're broke. Uh, either way, here's what was said on CBS morning about this unfortunate glitch. Bank of America is very frightening online glitch that panicked thousands of customers yesterday. This morning, the bank says the problems have all been fixed.

There were more than 20, 000 individual reports of customers having trouble with their accounts. Many of them say that the bank's website showed they had a zero balance. Yikes. Imagine that for just a second. The online issues began around noon Eastern time and spiked about one hour later, bank of America has since apologized to the customers for any inconvenience.

It is still unclear what caused the outages. All right. I mean, look, this is the way the world ends, right? Is there like some sort of terrorist glitch that wipes out everyone's bank accounts? Workers are on strike. Everyone's running to Costco to pay cash so they can wipe their ass. I mean, this is no bueno folks.

I don't want to be an alarm. They were able to fix the glitch. I'm sure they have systems in place to back it up. You would hope, I don't know. Um, well, speaking of gross incompetence, uh, the FireFest guy, Billy McFarland is planning a FireFest 2. 0. I mean, he had literally went to prison because the, you know, version one was so bad.

Here's what he had to say. Hey guys, quick fire update. I just left a meeting with my partners. And we've assembled the dream team to build fire too. I'm about to send them all to live on the island for the next six months. But before we do, we definitely need a new fire duck. Comment your best idea for a title, and I'll pick a winner to come to fire to for free.

All right. No offense. Yeah, I wouldn't mind going to Fyre Fest, too, as long as there's some sort of insurance company that, like, got your money back. If things don't go well, I actually enjoy the idea of like fake it till you make it. You know, it's just in his case, it didn't work out. Uh, I think one way they could fix this is if they got a cruise ship involved.

So cruise ships already have all of the dining and lodging, right? So what you do is you get an island in the Caribbean, you put the festival there, you know, you bring drinks, you bring, you know, like accoutrements or whatever onto the island, but then you just, you just, you know, Boat people back to their cruise ship when it's all said and done.

Is that not the smartest way ever, Billy McFarland? I think you should, uh, let me onto the Fyre Fest 2. 0. Uh, you know, my wife won't come. She will not be happy if, oh my gosh, I cannot think of a greater hell in me having to listen to my wife complain. The food's soggy. Yeah, I know. It's a bad thing. Okay, look, we got a couple more stories to get to, so stick around.

We'll be back with more right after this. So we've talked earlier about the idea of collective bargaining when it comes to strikes and speaking up for the working class. Well, here's an interesting clip that is titled, Gen Z are the worst at working. And it was Tim Dillon, comedian, talking about how Gen Z works.

Have a listen. This younger generation aren't apparently working themselves to death. Some of them have figured out that the country's a scam. And here's the good news. They're not wrong. And when, when you figured out the country is a scam, you can approach it the way a con artist or a scammer would approach it, which is what a lot of them do.

They invent mental health ailments they don't have. They take days off on end. They terrify their superiors into respecting their mediocre shoddy quality of work. This is something that Gen Z has latched on to. This is something that I fully support. This is their way of rising through the ranks. They're taking advantage of people that they work with, making them tolerate less and less work and work of a lower and lower quality because they've realized that a lot of this is bullshit.

So they're like, why shouldn't I get in on it? You know, I don't disagree. I would frame it this way. I think because of Technology and pay transparency and understanding how the whole system works. I think the younger generation understands how ripped off they're getting. You know, I always say this, like when I worked a minimum wage job, you're not getting the version of me that as a business degree, you're getting the version of me that is working a minimum wage job.

I'm not going to go above and beyond. And I've talked with like my mother in law about this and she's like, no, you have to go above and beyond. And I go, no, no, you don't. You save that energy for your own passion projects, for your own equity. You do what the job entails. Cause if you go above and beyond, they're going to expect that tomorrow.

And I don't know. So that's just kind of my way of thinking about it all. And I think Gen Z for the most part realizes that like the carrot that was dangled in front of us is now so far away because prices are so high, you know, for, for cost of goods, housing prices are so crazy and credit card debt just keeps rising that you, the carrots too far away to entice them to want to run in that direction.

That's, that's the way I see it. And how do you fix that? Well, I don't know, maybe finding a system where you give, uh, equity and ownership to, to employees. I think that would help them want to work harder to build something. Uh, you know, okay, I got a, I got a thought about negative rumination. The idea that, uh, we constantly think of what can go wrong and don't think of what can go right.

So I wanted to share this with you for a little motivation to end the day. Have a listen. We never overthink about positive outcomes. When you're overthinking, you're overthinking because you're running endless negative scenarios. You are never running endless positive scenarios. You never wake up going, my company is going to make too much money.

Oh my gosh, my relationship's going to go too well. We're never overwhelmed by positive scenarios. We're always overwhelmed by negative scenarios. And here's what happens. We fall into negative patterns, but we have to move into positive. You do not fall into positive patterns. You do not fall into positive thoughts.

You have to move into positive things. You have to move into positive behavior. I know, I know. No one hates the bad soundtrack more than I do. But it's a, it's a truth. It's like, as, as humans, we're more so on the defensive. We're always looking for the trap we could fall into. The guy that could rob us. All these different hazards that might exist on the road.

Which, you know, it's good. To in survival terms, be aware of that. But what if we are now aware of all the things that can happen that are good? I, you know, I have a mantra I like to share with people. That's it. That's that's this, isn't it great that everything's working out. And use that energy, use that energy of positivity to say, I can't believe it.

I'm working hard on all these things. And there's so much payoff that's coming my way. Even if you don't see that payoff right now, just know that that time energy, that way that you're teaching yourself and informing yourself and all that hard work you're putting in, it is working out and isn't that great.

That's your thought for the day. Uh, and, uh, Hey, my podcast is doing so well. We're going to be featured in fire fest 2. 0. Isn't that amazing? They are setting that up right now. All right, folks. Uh, we'll, uh, we'll talk to you tomorrow as always. Have a good one. We'll see in the morning. I'm Dave Neal. This is the rush.

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