12-4-24 Morning Rush - Podcast Studio Provides PROOF (here) That Laura Owens Lied & UFO's Hover Over Trump Golf Course! & Mr. Beast Responds On Theo Von's Podcast About Company Allegations!

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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. Uh, we've got so much to get into on this hump day, December 4th, 2024. Uh, all of your pop culture news in one place. An asteroid has just been spotted heading for Earth.

No worries. It's a million miles off, but I'll share that story anyway. And UFOs are dancing in the sky above Trump's golf course with mainstream media reporting on it and an update on the South Korean Marshall law fiasco, whatever you want to call that. And if you didn't think the Clayton. Eckerd Laura Owen scandal could get any crazier.

We've got new updates surrounding the bizarre attempt to smear a small female owned podcast studio. They've actually commented, shared my content and are now promoting free services to any of Laura's victims. Wild turn of events. I'm going to get into that story and all of this plus so much more. It's coming up next on The Rush.

Well, there's some stories we can save for the end of the podcast, but I feel like asteroids barreling to earth needs to be covered at the top of the podcast. Have a listen. Astronomers tracking two asteroids tonight, one on a collision course with earth. The first asteroid about the size of the empire state building, it'll come within 1.

3 million miles of earth overnight and a much smaller asteroid burning up in the atmosphere over Siberia today, just about 27 inches wide. Discover just hours before it lit up the sky right there. All right. So yeah, no worries. 1. 3 million miles away. I don't start worrying about asteroids until they're within the 1 million mile range, you know?

Uh, but still, I mean, what are we going to have to get Armageddon, uh, the cast of Armageddon together to blow up a big rock. We'll do whatever we need to do. You know what I mean? We're here for it. All right. Well, from asteroids to UFOs, uh, you know, me, it's. This isn't just me. They're reporting these UFOs are everywhere.

They don't know what the hell they are. Uh, they're called UAP drones. Well, now they're being reported in New Jersey of all places. Have a listen. Hey, Ernie and Candace. The FAA has placed a temporary restriction on drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal and over Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster.

When these drones were first spotted two weeks ago, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said that they posed no known threat to public safety. But people want to know. What the heck are they? And what are they doing? It's normal to see red and green lights in December, unless they're coming from mysterious drones in the night sky.

It's kind of unsettling. They're not up for 15 minutes, they're up for hours. Some are very big, probably. Mike Walsh says he's seen hundreds of them over the past two weeks from his Randolph backyard. Alright, so they don't know what these things are, but I have to say, if I'm a, if I'm like a nefarious drone, maybe I would turn the red blinking lights off.

You know what I mean? Like, maybe it's not that big of a deal. What do I know? When I'm flying my drone, it's You know, within FAA guidelines, uh, sometimes I like to spy on the neighbors, see how that pool construction's going on, nothing too creepy. Uh, but, uh, but yeah, we'll, uh, well, are we going to find any green aliens or, I don't know, I don't know.

Well, uh. Pretty interesting story coming from South Korea yesterday, as there was political uncertainty surrounding the president declaring martial law in a surprise late night address on Tuesday. Here's an update from a reporter on the scene. If you're confused about what's going on in South Korea, you are not alone.

All we know is the president was under huge political pressure and all of a sudden he declared martial law, which meant that all political activities were banned. The military tried to force their way into parliament. to stop operating, but before they could get into the chamber, Parliament voted to lift martial law.

No one quite knows whether or not martial law is in place or not right now, but protests are kicking off outside. Yeah, I guess that's the problem. Martial law, it's like, is it valid? And again, this is, this is what was so scary. About like an election denialism, which is, you know, if you're the military, what do you do a coup?

Who do you trust? What do you, what's going on? When there's this type of uncertainty, this is when governments get toppled. And the idea that you could just declare martial law because you're under some political issues, not a good look, not a good look. All right. Uh, well, let's go over to football. Let's move off of the heavy stuff and go down to football here.

So I've been talking about this Trevor Lawrence hit from Sunday, the player that hit him, got a three game suspension. Now he has had some pretty like brutal hits before. So that was what led to a heavier suspension with no pay. But the deal is when you're the quarterback, the new rules are you can't like tackle them like a normal player, especially if they slide feet.

First, that's their way of giving themselves up. The only problem is quarterbacks are learning to slide feet first at like the last possible second. So I'm sorry, I'd not to take a victory lap on this, but my intuition was that he slid feet first kind of late and it was more of a bang, bang play. Well, as it turns out the greatest quarterback of all time, Tom Brady actually agrees with me.

The only aspect that I think is very challenging, and certainly for Trevor Lawrence, nobody wants to see anybody get hurt, but it is also the reality of a very physical sport that we play. Defensive players have to be aggressive. That's their nature. I always try to be aggressive on offense, we try to block aggressively, and at the same time, the defense tries to tackle aggressively.

So, there's more designed runs for quarterbacks ever! Now, then in the history of the NFL, so are we really trying to protect quarterbacks? Because if you are trying to do it through the rules, then why are the offensive coordinators not protecting their quarterbacks by keeping them in the pocket and not designing as many quarterback runs?

So, you know, maybe they find or penalize a quarterback for sliding late. You know, and say, look, we, if we don't want these hits to take place, we've got to penalize the offense and the defense rather than just penalize a defensive player for every single play that happens when there's a hit on a quarterback.

You know, it's very interesting because it's like. On one end, is it kind of victim blaming to say, Oh, it's the quarterback's fault. But, you know, it's like, you know, F around and find out if you slide really late, you've got a defensive player running at full speed to come knock you out. Uh, we actually have other people agreeing with that.

Take former professionals. Okay. Then let's stop letting quarterbacks run with the football because that's a designed run call on a second down at seven. You get him outside the pocket. He is a runner at that point. He is a runner who is unprotected. And all of a sudden there's a, yeah, there's a late slide.

I mean, if you look at it, like what is Al Shire supposed to do? Like you're sitting there, you're going, okay, here it is. I'm defending the first down. He's going at the top of the numbers right here. He's still a runner. He's still a runner. What do you want me to do now? Just let him get the first down. Is that what I'm supposed to do as a defender?

No. And so all of a sudden you're saying, okay, I'm committed. Then he starts to slide late. Like to me, the quarterback brings that on himself and then you see right there. Yeah, it is pretty funny that we give quarterbacks different rules. And I understand the reasoning why, but whenever you put a rule out, people will exploit it.

All right. Maybe you care about that. Maybe you don't. I just found it interesting that a lot of former players are saying, no, I mean, look, what do you want? What do you want the guy to do? They're playing. They're playing an adult game. All right. I'm going to share with you the bizarre updates to the Clayton Eckerd.

Story in the podcast studio that I guess is fans of our program. Maybe they love our crystal clear audio. I'm going to have that story come in for you next. Well, I have some pretty bizarre updates in the bachelor Clayton Eckerd v. Laura Owens, paternity scandal. While Clayton essentially won in court, it is now in the court of appeals.

Uh, there is the court of public opinion, which I actually. I actually almost feel bad for Laura Owens because it is abysmal. She, she is just being guided down so many wrong paths here. Her lawyer tweeted out how bad the audio was on their podcast. They've recorded several weeks ago. They paid for studio time in a professional studio.

They used professional microphones and a full setup. And as it turns out. Uh, she didn't like the quality of the work. So said she wasn't going to release the episode. Now we know the episode wasn't being released probably because she probably didn't even believe her own takes that she was giving there.

She probably regretted it and, uh, and bailed on it because, uh, how quickly, you know, uh, Time moves on and anything they were sharing was probably not even relevant anymore. Well, what, what, what happened, which we've already shared was that she reached out to the attorney general and better business bureau to sort of punish, uh, this podcast studio, uh, and in doing so claimed that the studios.

Audio was unusable. Her attorney said this, Laura asked me to share this short clip from our recent unreleased interview gone wrong. The audio was so bad. It was unusable as if the mics were off. So the second was echoey and captured the whole room. Oh, excuse me. The sound was echoey, which would have been painful to listen to, uh, for over two plus hours.

And I don't disagree based on this seven seconds. Have a listen. Oh, okay. Okay. So it's picking up from all angles. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. And you guys sound good. So that's the bad audio. Now generally how it works is audio devices are attached to the cameras and then you have professional sound quality. I'll share this all on YouTube.

Because I want to show you guys what I'm talking about, but the way you get crystal clear audio here and take the audio from the camera is that you will end up syncing it by matching the sound files and then only using the professional audio, not the bad. Audio from the camera. This is like editing one Oh one.

It's really simple stuff. Well, after they called out the podcast studio, who's by the way, their Instagram is PS creatives studios. Uh, I gotta tell you, they're not going down quietly. They posted a photo of them watching my video, Laura targets, female loan studio, and wrote this talk about craziness, our side from us.

Coming soon enough is enough. No business deserves to be attacked by a customer through digital warfare. And I don't disagree literally a podcast studio. It's like going into a hotel and saying they have bedbugs or a restaurant and saying there's hair in the food. It's like a podcast studio lives or dies by their good audio.

That's all they've got. Well, now they're saying this, if any victims of Laura Owens would like to use. Creative studios for a podcast of your own, consider it paid for, including the editing services, Laura was too cheap to pay for. So here, so if there's anyone from Greg to Clayton or Mike, or maybe Sean, or even myself want to get over there now, I would.

Be happy to support a small studio and pay them for their time. But I appreciate what they're trying to do. If anyone's in the Scottsdale area, or if you just want to follow for a good time, PS creative studios on Instagram. So they ended up posting the audio files on their Instagram sharing that it was actually good quality.

Uh, they said we record audio files separate from video. You have to layer them together. That's what we do when we edit. And of course, Laura didn't pay for the editing and they, and then they posted these two clips. This, they have two different audio clips. They have the female and the male, which is Laura Owens and her attorney.

Here's a clip one. Super. So we're all, we're all good to go. Check one, two. Hello. Definitely be closer. Welcome. So that's her audio. It sounds pretty good to me. And here's his, yeah. Okay. Check one, two, check, check noise. I mean, look, that's good audio. That's a professional microphone. I don't know what else you can say there.

So yeah, that's where they stand. One of their members said it's okay to say you don't know how to sync audio. I found a video for you here. You can use the microphone audio files with the video files that we provided on your hard drive and on Dropbox. It's gonna work. So anyway, uh, nothing like. Getting a great response from the podcast studio.

You might, you might think this is very tit for tat, but what you have to understand is like I said before, uh, Laura, by filing and sharing sort of negative commentary about the podcast studio here, she, no, she could say, oh, they were a holes to me. Okay. Whatever. Was the audio good or not? And it sounds to me like the audio was perfectly good.

Exactly what you would expect from professional microphones in a sound treated podcast studio. So anyhow, uh, just another case of professionals. Getting stuck in the tornado path of Laura Owens. That's what it comes down to. Now you could say, well, maybe Laura didn't understand how it all worked. Well, wouldn't you think she would reach out to the company she was getting services from to let them help her troubleshoot it before maybe filing something with the attorneys general or with the better business bureau.

How crazy of a story. So we'll be covering a little bit more of that, but, um, uh, the, uh, I guess creator of PS studios actually spoke briefly to Lauren on YouTube. Uh, here's what she had to say. But here's the thing with the attorney general, we've got all the receipts. We've got the screenshots. We put all of that into one document.

That links back to Dropbox links. Hey, why don't you decide if these files are unusable, A. G.? Here they are. Go ahead, listen to them, watch them. You make the determination. You don't have to believe us. But you got what you paid for. You paid for studio time. You got your files. We owe you nothing. Right. Right.

We owe you nothing. So again, that's on Lauren 90s YouTube channel where she had PS studios there. I think we're going to get PS studios to come chat with us and just give us a rundown of this bizarre set of claims against their sound quality. Listen, as a podcaster, as a YouTuber, you come for me, you tell me I have a shrill voice.

You tell me I ramble about nothing or you hate my political takes, but how dare you ever come for my audio. And speaking of podcasts, uh, I wanted to play a clip of Bobby Althoff. Maybe you are considering starting a podcast in 2025 or other content creation. I got to tell you, leap and the net will appear.

Bobby Althoff, uh, decided to graduate from her Tik TOK and social media preference, start a podcast. She wanted to get some of that money, that cheddar. Well now, I mean, look, she went from broke. to having a net worth of 4 million all in the last year. Here's how she described the process to Forbes. April. I saw a video of this girl talking about how she makes a lot of money on her podcast.

I was like, I should make a podcast. I can make a lot of money because I was tired of making TikToks every day and doing brand deals. And it wasn't making. It wasn't climbing. I was making a steady paycheck, but it wasn't climbing and I wanted to do something that could make me more money. What was your idea for the podcast?

So my favorite podcast is How I Built This with Guy Raz. Yeah, that's one of my favorites too. I love that. So I would listen to every episode. Because I've always wanted to do something and I just love listening to founder stories So I knew I could never be an interviewer like him, but I was since I loved that podcast It was inspired by it, but it was supposed to be a parody of it So it was just I knew I could never do it as well as he does it So it was gonna be called so you're rich And I was going to interview rich people and just figure out how they got rich so I could become rich too.

But really early on, I was like, I know I wanted to interview celebrities and I was like, what celebrities are going to do? So you're rich. And, um, my very first interview got sent to my, my team at the time and they accidentally sent me an email thread that was not meant to be seen by me where they were just talking about how horrible my podcast was and how I would never go anywhere and I should just be myself and not be.

And this character was a character like it's obviously you're, you're obviously famous for your sarcasm, deadpan. Was it that sort of thing? Yeah. They thought that was so stupid. Was that a character? Kind of. It was just an exaggerated version of me, I guess. Okay. So yeah, but it was a character. I would, as soon as the cameras go off, it's just a normal conversation between me and the person, but then cameras go on and I would like.

I have this idea that sometimes people hide the reason why they want to do a podcast. Like she says it's just for money, but no one does anything just for money. You must still want to get your voice out and enter a new creative space and whatnot. I would argue no one should ever start a podcast because they want to make money.

In this case, Bobby Althoff had already racked up. Probably millions of followers on Tik TOK. If you're someone like me with no social media presence at the time and want to get into something, I always say, do what you love. Like really enjoy the process. Cause I don't know if you guys know how this works for me, but I'm hustling like mad to make this happen.

And sometimes it's like we go cool hand Luke and all, but just so you guys know, I got a seven month old baby. It's 1208. AM as I'm recording this right now, and I ain't going to be done for a long time. Uh, you know, not to, not to ruin the allure that I'm here with you at 7 AM or whatever, when you're listening to this, but we work dang hard for our money over here at the, uh, the Dave Neal empire here, but no, Hey, look, everyone's got a different path than if you come from having a big social media following that doesn't entitle you to a podcast audience.

Plenty of people from the bachelor world start a podcast or start a YouTube channel. And you know what they, they crash and don't do it more than three months. We saw that just happen. And I don't want to call out anyone, but we saw a former lead literally just launched her podcast. If she's. Gigantic former lead finalist on dancing with the stars podcast.

Doesn't even last like three weeks. So we see it all the time. You got to have grit, perseverance, and determination, uh, to get through it all because the downloads aren't always going to be there. You got to find your voice. All right. Hey, that's, that's my, you know, up that's my sort of, uh, I don't know. Uh, advice to anyone listening.

Cause you know, I get a family all the time. Dude, I want to start a pocket. Okay, good. Join the, join the lineup of hundreds of thousands of people that start a podcast. What do you have to say? That's going to keep people listening. And, and, uh, and what are you going to do to make that happen? And most podcasts fail before they hit seven episodes.

That's just how it works. Uh, we've made it past that we do 11 episodes. A week. And, uh, starting in 2025, we will be providing a video element with the podcast. Uh, I'm going to be getting a neon lights. I'm going to be getting, uh, that's my advice. You want a successful podcast. You need neon lights. That's all you need.

You don't have to be good at podcasting. Just get yourself a good neon light and the rest is history. All right. More content coming your way right after this. Well, speaking of gigantic content creator personalities, there's no one in the world bigger than Mr. Beast. I follow this guy for a long time. I've actually used a lot of his techniques to help with my YouTube channel.

While I was working a minimum wage job at my lunch break, I'd be in an El Pollo Loco, uh, warming up from the cold air and, uh, watching Mr. Beast videos. Uh, the guy knows how to get. Clicks. He also has had a lot of allegations about his company recently. He hired a firm to do an audit of their practices.

And there's been a lot of people trying to take him down. He went on Theo Vance podcast, and this is what he had to say. Been, um, recently, like in the news and stuff, I'm not as abreast on it, but there was like, uh, they were trying, it seemed like they were trying to like guys's company and stuff. But a lot of it, um.

Like there were, I don't know if there was like, uh, different allegations and stuff again, I don't know if it was against you or your company, but none of it, from what I've seen, there was never, there was never any like, uh, validity to it, right? Do you believe that there was actually something going on at your company that was bad?

Thing is, again, I have hundreds of employees that I employ full time, but I've also hired hundreds of people in the past. And sometimes. Like, uh, you know, sometimes we have hundreds of contractors just working on singular videos because the sets are so big. So we work with lots of people. It's impossible for there never to be anything negative.

You know, that's why you have HR and things like that. So, um, no, I mean, it would, it'd be, uh, crazy to say there's never been any issues where no one that's ever worked for me has ever been unhappier or, you know, one employees never said anything, you know, dumb to some other employee that made them want to complain or things like that.

So. Um, but I think the thing is, it's just obviously completely blown out of proportion. Like, that's not a thing that's just particular to us. Any company with hundreds of employees, obviously there's going to occasionally be something someone says is something that's inappropriate or something that's not ideal.

But that's where, when we're made aware of it. We obviously have HR look into it, or if it's something serious, we'll bring in an outside third party, have them look into it and just tell us what to do. Now, my thoughts, they might be very generous here of Mr. Beast, uh, is that he's a guy in his early twenties, like I said, with hundreds of employees and he didn't even have an HR company until recently.

Maybe that's a product of getting. Famous too fast or growing your business too fast. But there seems to be a little bit of, um, of a, sort of an adjustment curve there towards him learning that it's not just about you working with your boys. Now, apparently a YouTuber that's got a bone to pick with him says, Oh, they've got.

All these DMS from their discord. Yeah. I mean, it's like, you gotta be careful when you own a company, how you speak, uh, even in private with your employees. Right. So it's not just you making, uh, videos with your boys anymore. There's, there's something bigger going on out there, but I don't want to say he's Teflon, but he's really big and.

Uh, my thought is this, uh, with, you know, what we said before about cancel culture, which is if he's pledging to do better and be better and get HR and make sure they follow the policies and have audits with the company, I think that's a good thing, but the bigger you get, you're just going to become a target the way Joe Rogan is the way Logan Paul is.

I mean, this is just the world they live in. If my channel were bigger, people would try to come at me for different things, you know? I'm just at a, yeah, I mean, I don't employ anybody, but boy, wouldn't it be nice to have the payroll of a hundred people? I would love to have that on my taxes. But instead, it's just me over here doing my thing.

And yet we still get crystal clear audio. No, but look, it's, uh, we'll be, we'll be continuing to follow MrBeast. It's a, Pretty good case study over. I mean, I don't know if you guys watch his videos. Uh, I would, I used to watch them in Los Angeles when I would be charging my car because you'd have to go to a charging station and usually it would take about 25 minutes at the charging station.

And that's the perfect time to watch a Mr. Beast video. But the guy makes good things. The guy, you know, I just wish, um, you know, I wish I had a, does that, does anyone out there have a. A way I could contact Mr. Beast. I have an idea for a movie for him, which I think he should produce. He spends all these money, all this money on these 20 minute videos.

It's like, dude, you could be making feature films. So if anyone, I mean, I'm, and by the way, I'm not kidding. It's a great movie idea that I think he could produce and actually have a small role in it. If anyone knows Mr. Beast, Jimmy, let me know and hook me up with them. I know that's probably, I'm sure it's harder to get in touch with him than it is the president, but, uh, a boy can dream nonetheless.

And look, I love to share. Inspiring stories with you, whether it's Bobby Althoff making 4 million on podcast or Mr. Beast becoming a hundred millionaire, uh, just because he was making fun videos with his friends. I love the idea that if you have a fun idea, if you love what you do, your world can change, you know, uh, Last night I was putting my Christmas tree together and I couldn't help but think when, when my wife and I were just dating and we lived in a 550 square foot studio apartment, we couldn't afford a full tree.

We had no space for it. It had to go sit on the table in the corner, you know, with, and now, and now we just bought, you know, we have a 10 and a half foot tree and we're so. Proud of the growth and the abundance and all of the love we've received in this short four years, since things have taken off. And I just have to tell you guys, I'm all about not gatekeeping.

I'm all about sharing the process and telling people, Hey, if you have a fun idea or you want to work hard and build some equity in your own company and use content. Uh, you'd be a content creator in the process. It's a, it's a great world out there full of kind people. So as I always say, I've said it before and I'll say it again, leap and the net will appear.

If anyone has any questions, DM me, I'd love to share them on the podcast. If there's ways I can help anyone grow or share some thoughts about the process, you know, there's, there's so many great tips out there. There is no reason. In today's world that you cannot be ready to, uh, to take that leap unless the podcast studio you hire has bad audio, which is not the case in Scottsdale PS studios.

We know that's not the case. All right. Uh, that's going to do it for me. I'm done. We'll have some great videos today. Buckle up, stick around for those. There'll be very interesting. And then we'll be back this afternoon as always. I'm Dave Neal. This. The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by stand up comedian Dave Neal.

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