9-23-24 Afternoon Rush - Golden Bachelorette Joan Shares A 'Non-Negotiable' On Trading Secrets Pod & More Fall Out From Bachelorette Brandon's Bombshell Interview!

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Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hey, hello everybody. Good afternoon. It's Monday, September 23rd, 2024, and I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture stories for your Rush Hour ride home.

I want to specifically shout you out, fellow rushy listener. You made it to the end of Monday, the worst day of the week, but Hey, it's football season. You can eat bad tonight as you watch some Monday night football. I'll be rooting on the Bengals as that's my wife's. Team as she's from Northern Kentucky, the Cincinnati area.

And since my Patriots are so bad, I'm desperately trying to root for any other team. Can I adopt anyone else's fan base? Can we get out there? Uh, but when the Patriots come back, I'll tell you what, I'll be a fair weather fan I'm right here for you. All right. On today's episode, we have more. Thoughts on the Brandon Jones interview with Clayton Eckerd.

Plus Jason Tartick interviews, Joan about becoming the golden bachelorette. Also, we've got some great tips on visualizing happiness. And, um, while Donald Trump blasts Oprah for her interview with Kamala Harris, we'll share what he had to say. And, uh, people are calling out his VP pick JD Vance for his Ivy league math skills and also Broadway goes dark with a salute.

To the late, great James Earl Jones. It's eclectic, baby. I got all of these thoughts and more coming up next on the afternoon rush. Well, as you guys know, we're no stranger to covering controversy here, whether it's in bachelor nation or elsewhere. And this Brandon Jones story, I mean, it really just fell out of nowhere as his breakup with Serene was well over a year ago.

And as we shared this morning on the rush, he's now speaking out in a Clayton Eckert interview. It's juicy as hell. There's a lot of questions people still have. So apparently Brandon Jones says, His ex Serene was secretly recording their fights and she had 80 recordings. Now, I don't know if that's just a number he pulled out of his ass or if that's the real, I mean, can you imagine 80 fights?

How long were they together for? Are they fighting five times a day? And also it's left a lot of people questioning. Well, she's not allowed to release the. Audio or video recording of those fights without his consent, you know, every state has different laws in, uh, Nevada and some other states you have one party consent, which means if I'm in Nevada, I can share a private phone call with, you know, publicly that I have with somebody else.

Whereas if you're in California, both parties would have to consent to that. So maybe that's why she hasn't shared these conversations, but. Either way, I cover, I had two videos today, both videos were like 24 minutes long, and I didn't even crack the surface of how complicated it is. But a lot of people said, Oh, why is he claiming, uh, he didn't cheat on her now?

Why didn't he claim this a year ago? But the truth is he did. And this is what I love about my YouTube channel is because we cover these stories so deeply, a lot of people, you know, they share them on their Instagram story and then they go away. Well, we have like such a robust archive of the last. Four years of bachelor nation.

And I mean, is it useless? Yes, it is useless. We're not going to be making it into the national museum records. I don't think unless, you know, it comes to find out that bachelor nation. No, I mean, how funny would this would not be a good thing, but. Imagine a world in which there's some sort of digital, um, Armageddon and all of the internet's wiped out and the only thing that survives, uh, you know, uh, centuries from now is a hard drive of my YouTube videos.

Everyone's going to be like, King Brandon in Queens. You know, it's like, just like how like heightened it is because in the grand scheme of things, this is a small audience. You know, it's not like there's some global story. It's just our bachelor niche. But what do you have to remember to Brandon and to anyone else who's been accused of cheating or any other issues in bachelor nation, it is their world.

It is their world. And sometimes. I guess after me, after maybe dealing with this for the last year or so, he might've just said, you know what? I'm sick of this narrative. You can say that I'm a bad fighter. You can say that there's a lot of toxicity. You can say I was emotionally abusive and I'm not putting words in his mouth.

And this is a hypothetical, but he might say, you know what? Enough is enough. Don't call me a cheater. I didn't cheat. And what we have seen here is no one really refuting that. We see Serene's brother saying, um, I've got receipts that he was abusive. And I guess it's like, look, share those receipts. If they're bad, you know, people will obviously condemn and be very upset at Brandon.

My, my, my overall thoughts, having no real knowledge, I've got no real tea, no inside source. My thoughts are, why would Brandon? Bring this all up. If there was something out there that would like hard cancel him. And I don't think that anyone would, unless they're idiotic and think that it's not going to happen, but anyhow, we'll have to see how it all plays out.

It's only Monday. This, um, I think this podcast came out Friday afternoon, uh, Clayton dropped it. So we haven't had too much time to dissect it all. It's only Monday. I'll tell you what we learned though. We learn in Bachelor Nation, uh, the modern rules of dating. Should you text, uh, X amount? Should you wait for the person to call back?

I mean, remember back in the old, for us older millennials, you used to, they used to say, get a phone number and wait at least two days before calling the person. Now we've stalked them before our Uber ride got home, right? So here's a question that was asked. Uh, on a podcast that Rachel Rekia did, uh, the, uh, after, what's it called after, uh, let me see what it's called here.

It's called After Curfew, After Curfew Podcast. The question about how much texting you should, should you do early on in a relationship? I hate texting before a date. Like I don't want to really know you. Like some people like to have the banter before to see if there's an initial vibe, which I get like don't waste your time.

Yeah, but for me, it's like, okay, I'm already physically attracted to you. Like I thought you were cute. Like we have maybe like one conversation, like let's just save it. Once you rely on like That type of communication with text you become so wired and like your day will go from like a hundred to zero if you don't get like the good morning text or you don't get like the evening like what how was your day it's like it's crazy how much that really does affect you like if we're all being so honest like when you get that like Text or he likes your story.

Like it's insane. You're like into the pillow And it's like maybe this is why it worked out so much more back then because like my mom was just like waiting for My dad to call her on the phone like she wasn't liking the instagram stories, you know, I think this is a great point by Rachel, and I'm sure Rachel will be the first to tell you she's a part of this modern dating that is toxic.

And again, I don't know if maybe, maybe she's not, but I'm assuming they all are, which is the anxious attachment style. Hey, did you get home? Okay. Oh, good morning. How are you? It's like. Okay. Okay. Those text messages are so useless other than they are there for you to make sure the other person remembers that you exist.

Right? And so when you think about the way it used to be, yeah, there was that day or two between dates or between communication where you had to go, Oh, I wonder what so and so is thinking. And it kind of took away a lot of that neediness that we now expect. So now you find out these fights where like, like even take Jen Tran and Devin.

Now, by all means, he's got bigger issues than the one I'm about to bring up. But there was this idea where she wanted some sort of emotional availability from him, but he would go like a full day without responding to a text message. I understand her point of view in today's world. It's almost like the dating contracts have changed.

Now, when you, when you get to my age, when you get to my like security level of my relationship, you can go a long while without like, if I know my wife's out with her sister or the friend or they're doing something, I'm not going to bother her. I know she's fine. I mean, But if you're early on in a relationship, that neediness might kind of creep in.

So very interesting to hear them talk about it. Uh, but you know, if you do strike up a conversation with someone before a date, it's like, don't write them off. Just, you know, just, you know, after the date's over. Stand by, you know, you said goodnight, you had a kiss, you smooched, go home and live your life.

Try to forget about that person for a little bit. And it's not necessarily to play a game to like, you know, Oh, you want to create this sort of bond. It's, it's just to, just to, you know, don't overinvest in anything because that neediness is kind of, you know, when people talk about the ick, what they're talking about is that neediness to go, okay, Oh, so and so is like a little too invested in you before you are in them.

And then you push away. It's like, all right, don't let. Don't let the, uh, the modern dating get in the way of a good thing. All right. Well, I always like to leave you with some self help and I don't mean leave you like the episodes over. We've got a lot more to get into, but here's a interesting clip about.

Kind of a good way to start your day. It's, uh, it's all about the abundant vibes, uh, and the positive energy. Have a listen. Whenever you wake up in the morning, today is going to be a great day. You have to nudge your brain, right? We have a conscious mind. We have an unconscious mind. We have a self image and your subconscious is paying attention to the words.

That the conscious mind is saying, and so if you're like, Oh, I don't want to get out of bed today is going to be a bad day. You're gonna have a bad day because you just programmed your subconscious mind. to do that. Every day when my feet hit the floor, today is going to be a great day. And then my favorite of all of them is when you go to bed at night.

And bed is so important because if you want to have a good day, it starts the night before, is what went well today. So when I go to bed, I say a prayer, and then I go what went well. And I go on a treasure hunt. Cause I'm purposefully looking for what are the right things that happened and I look for the micro moments, you know, like what's the smallest thing I've been doing this for years and it's so helpful.

Look, okay. I understand the music's kind of, um, you know, that spiritual stupid music they put behind it kind of makes people like yawn, but look, I, I I'm a full believer that, you know, the law of attraction works and just in a bunch of different ways. And that's the, that's the idea that whatever. Whatever is the highest level of frequency you can vibrate on as like sort of a radio broadcast, you're going to attract that high frequency.

You know, every so often, if I'm having kind of a rough day, I have to remember I'm on YouTube. 50, 000 people are going to watch this. I need to center myself and like, put away all of my bullshit and just fake it till you make it. Put on a brave face and try to be happy because I'm trying to, I'm trying to inspire and make people feel good, you know, and when you, when you kind of check yourself that way, you know, a lot of times they say, even just smiling will change your mood.

Even if you're faking it, you know, you just, it's all about trying to get out of that rut. And, you know, Monday, it's a good, it's a good time to play that clip because, you know, it's like, all right, we made it through Monday. I don't like my job. I don't like what I'm doing. Okay. Take inventory. Listen to your intuition about what you're doing.

Is working and not working rather than get mad at the things that aren't working. Breathe, love and happiness and gratitude into what is working. Expand that. And then by process of elimination, we'll get rid of some of that toxicity. Sound good. All right. I'll be back with more content right after this.

All right, we're covering the ongoing RFK Jr. scandal story. You know the story, right? Cheryl Hines amid news of husband RFK Jr. 's alleged personal relationship with reporter. The actress was photographed without the ring in Milan after news broke of the politician's relationship with Olivia Nuzzi. Now they put relationship into quotes because it wasn't anything physical.

I guess he was bragging to people that she was sending him nudies. Again, probably not recommended when you're in a relationship. I mean, Olivia Nuzzi, I think was engaged to somebody. So what, whatever sort of, um, I don't know, uh, you know, thing that they had going on, clearly there'll be some collateral damage and people are saying, look, Cheryl Hines is not going to accept this.

You know, she's a strong, independent women. She's got her own money. She doesn't need this. So, uh, we'll have to see. I mean, maybe right before the election, could you imagine divorce papers? That's, uh, you know. I mean, that's not what you want. I mean, you, I mean, is this the messiest ending to a presidential campaign?

And that's the question I have is like, and by the way, and by the way, I mean, how Kennedy is this, how Kennedy is this to interview, to get interviewed and then the reporter sending you nude photos. And the reason why you got busted was because you were bragging about it. Well, now that Cheryl Hines isn't wearing her wedding ring.

I've got a breaking news story about bachelor, uh, queen, uh, Christina Mandrell, not wearing her engagement ring. Have a listen to this. Okay, this is gonna sound satire because I look rough right now, but this is what just happened. Went to go get a spray tan. Um, it is setting in right now and I afterwards went to go get me a little treat, a treat yourself and was going through the drive thru and I was feeling like getting weird vibes from the, the guy, the barista man who was handing me my drink through the drive thru and it was kind of confirmed at the end when he handed it to me and was like, I hope to see you back.

And I was like, Got my coffee and drove off because like like that's nice, but also I realize we're young but like why don't you look at your hand? Like I'm a taken woman. I'm happily engaged and when I realized My ring is not on my hand. So we can't blame the man. Yeah, I mean give this guy credit. He shot, he was shooting his shot.

And by the way, what better way to shoot your shot than from a barista window? You've got literally people driving by, you make the hell out of a good coffee. I'm sure his bosses probably don't like him doing it, but he's like, hey, I got 25 percent off if you'll take me on a date. So, panic sets in. I must have left my ring at the spray tan place, so I'm like, panicking.

I book it there. I'm like, what do I call it? Do I call Neil Lane? Like, Neil Lane, what is the protocol right now? I'm freaking out. I mean, it had been a I'm sure Neil Lane has left a piece of jewelry at a tanning salon once or twice in his day. Good 30 minutes at this point. And, um, it's fine. We got it. All right.

So there it is. She has the ring. Ladies and gentlemen, Christina Mandrell has found the ring, which is very good information. We are very happy for Christina Mandrell. And also, I mean, it, how cool it does life sound. Yeah. You having a tough Monday, go to the drive thru, get hit on, go get a spray tan. I mean, I've never had a spray tan, but I've heard you just feel good after.

I don't know what it is. I used to, you know, I'll be honest, back in my day, my college years, it was kind of cool to go get yourself a tan at the salon. It costs like, you know, 20 bucks and you'd buy the 20 minute package, but they would always say, don't go in for 20 minutes. It's like, you're, it's expensive.

You know, you gotta like build it up. And, and, uh, but you know, I was a cheap kid, so I would go as long as I could. I would go to like, to sort of get fried. You know, if anyone's been in the tanning booth, you know what I'm talking about? You're, uh, you're, you're building up, you're sweating. You're starting to smell the smell of burnt skin.

I mean, not a good look, not a good look. And, uh, you know, the questions of, do I go nude? Do I, this, I mean, lots of, uh, you learn a lot about yourself in the process. Well, I have to tell you, it's been a long time since I've gone to a tanning bed, Boy, we could use a spray tan sponsor. Should I go? Can I get my wife and I and take the whole family to go to a spray tan with Christina and Brayden?

Maybe we could do it like a Groupon. Uh, we'll have to see if, uh, if she's down for that, we'll, uh, we'll get one of those little jewelry cases where we all put our jewelry in. But by the, I mean, do you take your wedding ring off when you go get a spray tan anyway? What do I, who do I know? I don't know. All right.

Well, Broadway has an update. Uh, theater is to dim their lights in memory of James Earl Jones, which reminds me of the song Broadway by the Goo Goo Dolls. Broadway is dark tonight. A little bit weaker than you used to be. Broadway is dark tonight. There it is. Put that in your head. You know, someone said, Oh, Dave, the songs you play get so stuck in my head.

I know, you know why? Because we're old. And if you know the songs, the lyrics to Broadway by the Goo Goo Dolls, Heck, if you just know who the Goo Goo Dolls are, You. Are. Old. Ha ha ha! Every time a cover band plays this, like, opening riff, All of us old 39 year olds, Realize how old we really are. Okay, I won't get into it.

I won't do it, folks. It's only a Monday. We have so much, uh, so, so, so many, uh, uh, days in the week to start playing nostalgic tunes. Uh, oh, speaking of which, apparently Puff Daddy's music, uh, is, uh, Is increasing after his arrest. They say, can't nobody hold him down. Oh, Oh, uh, his arrest and, uh, indictment have not deterred his fans from listening to his music.

He's seen a spike in streams in the wake of the controversy. Luminate, a data and analytics company claims the rap mogul's expansive music catalog has seen an over 18 percent crease increase in streams in the weeks since he was put in handcuffs in the park Hyatt in midnight, midtown Manhattan. And. Um, TMZ broke the story.

The bad boy records founder was arrested and his LA home was raided. All right. Well, look, I mean, it's the age old question. Um, when somebody gets like canceled, can you still listen to their music? I won't play R Kelly, but I'm not going to lie and say, I don't know every, you know, lyric to, um, the song, sing it.

Sippin on coconut. What? Sippin on coconut and rum? I was like, sippin on coke and rum. Oh boy, I'm really outing myself here. Uh, how did the lyrics go? Oh, it's called Ignition. The remix. Usually I don't do this, but uh, go ahead on breakin my heart. I'm not going to play it though. See, I told you, I'm not going to play it because I guess, I guess I don't think we're allowed to anymore.

I don't know. Uh, either way, uh, Puff Daddy's music, uh, Um, I'm not the sort of person in charge of whether or not you can play it, uh, while he's arrested. My guess is you're, what, maybe you're allowed to play it until he's actually been charged with something. So maybe that's, maybe, okay, that makes sense.

That's why, uh, people are playing his music now because they're just like, they know that in several weeks or a month, maybe this is stuff you can't play anymore. And by the way, this is Mason, big, uh, Notorious B. I. G., So, so many of, um, Diddy's songs involve other artists. So do you, do you have to cancel the producer or just the lyricist?

You know,

all right. It's not now by 19%. Okay, folks. Well, I'm going to try my best to stay on track here. We're kind of having a Monday. Am I allowed to have a Monday? Uh, look, let's take a quick break. We'll be back with some more stories right after this. All right, ladies and gentlemen, as promised, I've got a few more stories to get into today.

Uh, you can't hold me down. Not from the content, baby. I got it all day long. All right, so let's go into what we have here. Uh, I promised you I would get, we have so much to get to. It's almost like picking and choosing. I promised you I'd get to Jason Tartick's trading secrets podcast. Can you believe it or not?

I'm kind of feeling like, I mean, I don't mean to put him on blast here, but I kind of feel like, uh, they don't want to interview me anymore. Um, I don't know, folks, I'm not saying. Uh, but I'm, I'm, I'm here. You know where to find me. Here's there. I mean, I can't compete with the golden bachelorette here. So no surprises there.

They'll get to me one day, a boy can dream here. No, one's going to hold me down. Not even you, Jason. We love you. Anyway, here's what, uh, Joan Vasos had to say about becoming golden bachelorette. yesterday to maybe prevent or look different as to what tomorrow could look like. When you saw what happened with the first season of The Golden Bachelor with, with Gary and Teresa, did you have any second thoughts about maybe pursuing the lead role?

I didn't, but I, I kind of look at like why they're, their relationship ended and it was because of basically geography because I did witness them falling in love and so I saw that the journey really worked that Gary and Teresa ended up in a really good place at the end of the season and I think it fell apart um at least in my opinion was because of the geography no one could figure out how to move and I have a completely different view about that issue in you know forming a relationship and like it's my opinion is I'm never moving I or at least no time soon I have um Like multi generational responsibilities, and I have a mom and a mother in law who are still alive.

I have kids and I have grandchildren, and I don't want to leave them. And I say responsibility, but they're also the joy in my life. And I don't want to be without them. I don't want to be able, not be able to see my grandchildren several times a week. Look, this is so great for Joan. She's got such clear boundaries.

You know, no offense to Gary Turner. But when Gary won his season, it was kind of like, well, will we move here? Maybe we'll do this. We can go long distance. And then it was just like kind of fizzled. At least Joan knows. No, you come to me. I'm I'm multi generational. I got grandkids and moms. I got a PTA meetings.

I've got, uh, you know, uh, whatever. So. Good on her. And my hope is that these men were screened for that. Now, cause look, we understand how the bachelor franchise works. They pick people from all over. They don't really care. Everyone moves to Hollywood after, right? Uh, but this show, the golden bachelor could take a lesson from shows like love is blind, where they cast from local markets.

So I say good on them. All right. JD Vance is in trouble, I guess, for his math skills. He's scrambling to fix his latest awkward field trip. The politician is facing backlash over his claims about the cost of eggs under the Biden administration. The VP hopeful swings by grocery stores in Pennsylvania, where he laments to locals about the rise in egg costs in recent years.

Uh, but I guess he claims eggs are now 4 a dozen. And however, the footage that he shot the video in front of showed the egg prices were 2. 99 a dozen. Here's the problem, you know, inflation and the cost of goods change drastically. You guys might remember last year, there was a really big, um, I think bird flu epidemic at one of the facilities.

And they had to kill, like, they literally killed like millions of birds. It changed the price of eggs. The supply chain was all messed up. So not every issue that exists is politically motivated. My belief is most of the grocery issues that we have now are no longer because Gas is too high, so it jacked up the price of bread.

No, it's corporate greed. And we need to be able to educate people about what the actual issues are. So we don't stop blaming the wrong people. You know what I mean? Like that's how I feel about that. Um, but anyhow, um, you know, if you run your campaign on how expensive the eggs are, you got to be careful when the egg prices go back down to a normal level.

And if picking a fight with Taylor Swift wasn't enough, now we've got Donald Trump picking a fight with Oprah Winfrey. Uh, he blasts her over her Kamala Harris interview. Here's what he had to say. A long time ago, Oprah asked me to do her last network television show. The final week of her show was a big deal and it was my honor with my family to do it.

When I watched her interview yesterday with a woman who was destroying, through her complete and total incompetence, America, I couldn't help but think this isn't the real Oprah. This isn't a person that wants millions of people from prisons and mental institutions and terrorists, drug dealers and human traffickers, from all over the world, pouring into our country.

Kamala looked really foolish, couldn't answer the simplest of questions on inflation, the cost of goods, or a very porous and dangerous border. No leader there, and Oprah just wanted to crawl under a table. Comrade Kamala Harris is mentally unfit to be president. She knows it, and so does everyone else. All right.

I mean, that's where we are when it comes to the world of maybe, um, toning down the rhetoric, there we are. One former president calling the current VP. I don't know. We'll have to see how it all plays out, right? We've only got six more weeks. Boy, I wish I could freeze myself and wake up in six weeks. Maybe they could freeze me and then warm me up with the tanning salon.

I'll make sure to leave my wedding ring on. Well, that's going to do it for me. Everyone have a fantastic rest of your drive home. We'll see in the morning. I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush. The Rush Hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast. by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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