9-25-24 Afternoon Rush - Former Bachelor Producer Alanna Noel Stops By To Drop Bombshell Tea! & Preview Of Tonight's Golden Bachelorette

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 Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Hello everybody, happy hump day to you. It's the Afternoon Rush on September 25th, 2024. And on today's episode, we have NFL legend Brett Favre opening up about his Parkinson's diagnosis.

Also, Whoopi Goldberg tells haters they can't blame Taylor Swift for travesty. Kelsey's performance and then a recap of the bombshell podcast by former bachelor producer, Alana Noel, calling out the toxic bachelor relationships. Trust me, you're going to want to hear that conversation. And I've also got a quick preview for tonight's episode of the golden bachelorette and so much more.

We're going to get into all of that next on the rush. So, before I get into my conversation with Alana Noel, who had the bombshell podcast episode revealing some of the darkest secrets of Bachelor Nation, before I get into all of that, let's cover some other entertainment news. And in the sports world, Brett Favre is opening up about his Parkinson's diagnosis.

Of course, NFL legend Brett Favre, uh, who was revealed yesterday has Parkinson's, which immediately I start to think is due to his head trauma, uh, at being an NFL quarterback. Here's what he had to say. I saw five specialists. All five said, first of all, it doesn't matter where you got it. You got it. It ain't going away.

If you want to know, they all said the same thing. If it's not in your family and there's none on either side of my family, then the first thing we looked at is head trauma. Well, hell, I wrote the book on head trauma. Um, like January 3rd, I got the diagnosis. I had very minor symptoms. In fact, the doctor I went saw was like, what made you come in?

You know, I know you said you had symptoms, but I see people far worse that when they decide to come in, they're in, you know, the second half of, you know, of their life or, or, or the, the diagnosis. And so. Um, I, I had two, two symptoms and they went on for about a year and I would consider minor. So I would, I would be doing something and my right arm, I'd notice it was just stuck right there.

How scary. So he goes on to describe the symptoms he had and look, you know, I'm sure a lot of people catch their diagnosis late. But if you've been like an NFL quarterback or in the NFL with all the talk of CTE and the, you know, results of kind of the abuse to the body, the head trauma, you can only imagine that you're almost a ticking time bomb waiting to see if anything went wrong.

So just real terrible to hear. And we're going to follow any updates that he has regarding his Parkinson's. In another news, tonight is week two of the Golden Bachelorette Jones season. Here's a quick trailer of what to expect on the episode tonight. So many people out there giving up on love. I was one of them.

Rooting for a good love story doesn't age. It's something everybody hopes for. I want that perfect feeling again. I'm 61 and my heart is healed. It's time for me to seek more happiness.

The risk is worth the risk. That's tonight, 8, 7 central on the, on the ABC and tomorrow on Hulu. Look, they don't pay me for these promos here. They really don't. But I think it's an interesting, you know, uh, sort of experiment having a version of The Bachelor that's not fueled off of, um, shitty drama. You know, it's fueled off of the hope, the hope that you can find love in the later part or the last couple of episodes.

Act of your life, you know, if you look at life as three acts, you've got, yeah, you know, it's like zero to 30, you know, you're just learning how to be an adult 30 to 60. Hopefully, you know, those are the years you're learning to be a parent. And then after that 60 to 60 plus, it's like you're kind of retirement.

You're either retired or you're going in that direction. But so often I think entertainment, the entertainment world writes off that third act. And I think there's a huge thirst for watching these love stories play out. So we're very interested to see if Joan can find love. And speaking of finding love, Travis Kelsey found love with Taylor Swift, but he's had a slow start to his football season.

And folks are blaming Taylor Swift because he jet setted with her on the off season. Here's what Whoopi Goldberg has to say. NFL superstar Travis Kelce is off to a slow start this season and some of the Chiefs fans are accusing his girlfriend Taylor Swift for taking his mind off the game, but they Apparently forgot that they won the Super Bowl last year with him and they were just as tight Then as they are now, what is going on?

Yeah, it's very misogynistic to blame Taylor Swift here. And by the way, if Travis goes to her concerts, that's three hours of cardio. He's dancing. He's building friendship bracelets. He's working hard. They win both games again. They won all three games. They've played three and they've won all three. And they're projected to be the Super Bowl champions.

I mean, I don't know what has changed, but she wasn't even at the game. Is she supposed to play the game, too? She lives inside of here. If I may put on my sports analyst hat, as I understand it, football is a team sport, so just because he's not making touchdowns doesn't mean he's not contributing to the success of the team.

I love the view! Just because he's not Making touchdowns. Uh, how was your game, honey? I made three touchdowns. Oh, very nice. Yeah. It's a, it's a dumb story. Anything to get Taylor Swift in the news and they will cover it. Uh, that's for sure. Well, I've got a lot of stories I wanted to get to, but, uh, they are superseded by an interview I just had with Alana Noel, Alana Noel is.

Or was a bachelor producer. She also worked on like one of the Kardashian shows. She's a creative producer, um, which means she, you know, is there to help guide the contestants to maximize drama. Well, she also dated a fellow bachelor producer. And she had a bombshell podcast that she released earlier this year, kind of calling him out for a lot of the craziness that existed.

Alanis got a podcast called Recipe for Crazy. This morning, she released a 90 minute episode where she did a really good job of describing what it was like dating a fellow bachelor producer as women from the season were flashing him, you know, while they were on Clayton Eckerd season and hitting on him.

And he was hooking up with one of the contestants from Clayton season of the bachelor while she was with him still like crazy stories. But so far it all kind of lines up whether you believe her or not is up to you. But I have to tell you, I found the podcast episode super interesting on the heels of Bachelor in Paradise star Brandon Jones going on Clayton Eckerd's podcast to discuss his breakup with Serene.

It opened up some wounds and Alana felt the need to share her side of the story because she was friends with Serene and Brandon. And she saw text messages that showed that Serene, before she was dating Brandon, was You know, canoodling and getting close with and sending photos to her, a boyfriend at the time, now ex boyfriend, the Bachelor producer.

She's also pretty critical of Brandon as well. I found the whole interview interesting. You know, I asked Alana, I said, Hey, you want to jump on for five minutes and just share some additional thoughts? And then we ended up talking for about 15. So I'm going to play that. Uh, entire conversation I just had with Alana Noel for you right after a quick word from our sponsor.

So as I teased, I made like a 35 minute video today, breaking down the podcast episode from Alana Noel called recipe for crazy. And that's the podcast and there'll be a link in the comment section below if you guys want to listen to it. I highly encourage that. Uh, but I just found it very fascinating and had a couple more questions I wanted to ask about, uh, you know, her overall.

Thoughts of whether or not there was emotional cheating and you know, just the toxicity of that relationship as it broke down. Well, we got the answers we asked for. Here's my chat with Alana Noel. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited today to be talking with podcast hosts from recipe for crazy former bachelor producer, Alana Noel.

How are you? Hey Dave, I'm good. How are you doing? Good. I had to blow you up because I just listened to your 90 minute podcast episode you dropped. I'm so sorry. It was so interesting. I was literally just, I was in the shower getting ready, just blasting it. And, uh, you basically, You're going too far. You, uh, you basically were sharing your side of the story after hearing what happened between the breakup with Brandon, and then.

And serene from bachelor in paradise. You as a producer had some intimate knowledge about serene because she was sort of, you know, maybe had eyes on your man who was also a bachelor producer. This is a crazy story to, to, to like have as a pair parallel story to the bachelor world. Yeah. It's very, Uh, it's very weird.

I've talked about this story before. It's crazy that it's coming up again because it has been so long, but my relationship and the relationship between Brandon and Serene are so intertwined that it goes beyond the show. It really has nothing even to do with the show. Just coincidentally, we all happen to work on it and it's so weird.

Obviously very inappropriate, all the things that happened, but yeah. Yeah, and I just want to, and I need people to listen to your full episode because you do a good job. You do a really good job with your storytelling, and I really mean that. And I also think you're really funny, just as a side note, with some of the quips you have.

I just think it's very underrated. But I can really pump in my tires. Thank you. I'm here to, I mean, I'm inflating you, baby. So, but my, one of the things that Brandon talked about was these, these recorded conversations that he said Serene had, and you knew about these before he talked about this on his podcast with Clayton Eckerd.

So what do you believe is like the context of these mysterious conversations that were used, I guess, as blackmail to, to try to. Tell Brandon. Hey, I'll, I'll expose you. Like, what was that? What was all that about? So what I know to be true prior to hearing that podcast, prior to anything I ever said on a podcast, when Serene and I had, we're on speaking terms after I found out about what her relationship really was like with my now ex boyfriend, but when we were dating and throughout that whole time, her and I, at one point, were friendly and she was giving me all the information, all the things I didn't know during the relationship that happened.

Um, and after, so when her and I were speaking at this point, this must have been last, uh, I want to say it was August, September, October around then we were speaking on the phone and all those things. And she And an attempt to relate to me and everything I was going through was telling me what happened with her and Brandon.

And she told me explicitly that she did have many videos of their fights between her and Brandon that she secretly recorded and that if she wanted to, she could ruin him. Yeah. And I guess technically she isn't legally allowed to share that if it's in California. I think you need permission to record people.

Yeah, it's a two, I forgot what the word is, but yeah, two parties have to consent. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, you're a crazy bitch when you know the rules of consent when it comes to recording secret conversations. I gotta know these things. I record, I mean, shockingly, I didn't record anything between me and my ex boyfriend.

But I do know now. Well, you know, your, your podcast is called recipe for crazy. You don't sound crazy at all. You don't sound crazy at all. You sound, you sound like crazy enough to tell the truth is what it sounds like. Okay. Let me tell you something, Dave. I'm so glad you just said that because. Brandon and I have since spoke since I listened to his podcast prior to me recording mine.

And he told me when my episode came out talking about Serene's relationship with my ex boyfriend that Serene told him, don't listen to it. She's crazy, blah, blah, blah. And that's the entire reason why my podcast is called recipe for crazy. Because There's many things I am that you can call me crazy, all these things, but one thing I am not is a liar, and I think anyone who is brave enough to tell the truth, the hard truth about things that happened, people, it's so easy to say that person's crazy.

They're crazy. But no, I am crazy. Don't tempt me with a good time, but I, you have to like bring me to that point. Yeah. I mean, you're not just some random person. They peeled off a bourbon street. You were on, you were, you were a producer on the show. You've got a, you've got a lot of credibility here. And what I found interesting after you released your podcast is.

And I don't know if this was a PR strategy, but nobody commented on it. None of the subreddits are talking about it. No one's commented on it. And I think they were just hoping it would go away. And now you come out with an episode, obviously, because Brandon speaking is peace. My question for you is when it, you know, what you, your intuition of Serene was that she had eyes on your man.

But at what point do you find like the damning text messages? Was it when you're. Your iPads was synced up to his. And is that where you found the photos that she had sent to your boyfriend at the time? So I, there are two times. So the first time I saw her sending pictures to him and all those things, it was before, uh, she knew Brandon.

It was right after Clayton season. And that was in the early stages of my relationship, but I didn't know. that it ever went further than that until I want to say it was, it was around August 12th, August 13th, something like that. I was tipped off that there is, there were things that I did not know that my ex boyfriend was doing at the time.

And he and I were, he was secretly back in the house. We were seeing each other again. So I took it upon myself to go onto, Our iPad that was in the house that I had the password to that was synced to his iCloud, and I went and saw all the text messages between he and Serene and many other people, but specifically with Serene.

What I saw there was everything that happened after we broke up. I didn't see the text messages before we broke up. Literally after the same week, I want to say, and this was at the same time, because I broke up with him and literally the next day, Dave, he reached out to Serene Genevieve and other people and at the same time was seeing these people and within those text messages between my ex boyfriend and Serene, she explicitly says that You know, she, it was always him that she wanted to be with, not Clayton.

She's always been attracted to him. Now they can finally talk because you know, the show's over. He's not, she's not with Brandon anymore and they can pick up whatever, where they left off type of, that was the general sentiment. And do you think she was never there for Clayton? She, and like I said, in the podcast, she had a producer dismissed from the show, her producer.

And specifically asked for my boyfriend to be her producer. It was never because she felt comfortable with him. She never had a relationship with him. She just. Was interested in him. She did not like Clayton. She always liked my boyfriend. She did not like Brandon She always liked him So there's no hard evidence of her sending these messages while she was with Brandon But you're saying that there was clear like clearly she was into this guy into this guy being your boyfriend at the time Correct.

I don't have any I have not seen any of the text messages while she was with Brandon All I saw was after and her admitting All of her emotions and feelings during the time she was with Brandon It's a fascinating. I mean, it's really fascinating. I mean, do you ever, are you ever afraid of like legal ramifications for talking about this?

Of course. I mean, I don't know what they'd get from, from, from me, because I don't have anything. However, if they were, if anyone was defamation of character, number one could be from any of the number of the people I'm discussing, but in order to win a defamation case, You would have to prove that I'm lying and nothing I have said is a lie, and I have evidence to back up everything I said.

And other than the facts that I have discussed, it's pure opinion and anyone is entitled to express their opinion on people. Um, but from the show specifically, of course, there's always that fear that they could come after me. However, everything I'm discussing really has nothing to do with the show and everything to do with my relationship.

Um, with this person that we happen to be working on the show and the extracurricular activities he decided to engage in with contestants on the show, which is wildly inappropriate. In addition to that, there are so many things that happened on that show that are that this show has done to me that I think if they came for me, there could easily be a counter suit.

And it would just go off and listen, my mom just passed away. She was, uh, in the, she was a paralegal and there are many lawyers out there that want to make sure I'm okay. So I actually, if anyone wants to come for me. I say, come on, come on at me and by the way, I'm sorry to hear about your mom and the way you speak about her just, you know, speaks volumes that, you know, I know it's been a tough year for you and I know you don't need any of this drama.

It's just really, you know, it's cliche when people say I'm sharing my truth, but you do have a lot of truth to share. And, you know, the show didn't exactly Do your right. Um, and you know, so I, I kind of feel like they, they're, they're trying to play kind by leaving you alone because, because of info that you might have on them.

Now, my last, and I think, yeah, there is a mutual, almost like almost a mutual respect in a way. Like, there are a lot of things that have not said, and I think they could probably feel bad. Um, but they're probably like, if you, you know, step two at a line. Well, yeah, you've got, I mean, and look, you've got, you've got a podcast here and that's the, that's the safest way to protect yourself, which I've learned is to keep sharing your truth and know that they can't threaten you.

They can't threaten you with a good time. Um, now you're my last thought was Brandon in the, in the podcast with Clayton mentioned that Serene wanted to be seen. Um, and have her moment. And I didn't really understand what, what he meant, but I think now it is that they were dating before they went on the show and serene and he didn't want to go on the show, but she did.

So I guess they, they, they must've like sort of lied about that. Like what, what do you know about that, about what they were before the show and why they, they kind of wanted to, you know, pitch their relationship to the, on the show. Right. So that As far as the show is concerned, they had no idea about any pre existing relationship, but there, but there was something going on and they had seen each other before the show started.

And I think anything more to that is really Brandon or Serene's story to tell, um, about how far they want to go into that publicly. But the show had no idea. I don't, they probably didn't even know until now, uh, That there was something that was going on before but you know a lot of people do that and just never speak on it but the reason I said something is because I really don't.

A lot of people do say Brandon is a love bomber, and I do not believe that to be true at all. Because a love bomber is somebody, like I said, the podcast who manipulates someone emotionally without to take advantage of them, where Brandon has every intent on following through with everything he says has said to those women on the shows.

Um, he's a lover boy. And also going into Bachelor in Paradise, he already had a preexisting relationship with her. So it probably seemed like, Oh, he's moving so fast, but no, it was already started before the show began. And, you know, knowing how fabricated some of the aspects of the show are, I don't blame, I wouldn't even blame either one of them for, for wanting to like, sort of tell a white lie and then, and then like have this show, you know, I don't, I don't blame him for that.

But that's the thing. I really think it's like, why wouldn't you want, you do want a love story. That's why you go on the show. So I'm not even trying to like, You know bash anyone for doing that. It's like if you just are starting a relationship and you want to go on the show and have it Captured. I think that's beautiful.

Whatever. You know, I don't see the issue with that. I also, I also don't, I'm not surprised that Brandon wanted to finally speak out because you know, what a lot of people don't realize is the constant DMs you get from haters. And he's probably all along, he said he never cheated on her. He said this 11 months ago in a statement.

statement. And now he's finally saying, look, I didn't cheat on her. We weren't together. She threw the ring at me. It, you know, it doesn't mean he was perfect in the relationship. And I think in your podcast episode, beyond create beyond insanity on recipe for crazy, I think you do a good job of kind of holding him to account as well.

Um, but you know, very interesting stuff. And I know my audience is going to run over to your podcast to go listen to the full episode. Are you going to be talking more about this? Or did you, did you just have to get this off your chest? I just had to get it off my chest. I don't think there's really anything else that needs to be said unless.

Someone else says something and I have a response. But as of now, I've said everything I need to say. The last thing is, you know, in terms of Brandon cheating on Serene, just like a similar situation with Susie and Justin recently, it's like they broke up prior to ever announcing it publicly. When you're in the public eye and having a relationship, you, oh, many times these people break up way before anyone knows.

And like I said, in the podcast, Brandon and Serene had issues from day one. So they were. They were broken up whenever that video was taken. One last thing that you mentioned was Brandon mentioned that he would be on the phone with Serene for hours, you know, trying to like, even after they broke up, trying to like, you know, help her out.

But she was also calling your boyfriend in, in, in what you mentioned in the podcast is that he would mute the phone, go in the other room and make a sandwich and come back and she'd still be talking. So those, both those stories kind of line up, which is very interesting. Oh, when I heard him say that I was, I did not doubt that for one single second at all.

Yeah. They should get like a mint mobile partnership here. They can make some money. Uh, you know, when you've got long distance phone calls to make use mint mobile. Well, listen, Alana, I'm going to send people over to your show. I'll post a link in the comment section, but thanks again. And you know, call in anytime you want to talk.

Cause I always find you very interesting and you might be crazy, but I, I believe you. Fun crazy. Thanks for having me, Dave. All right. Take care. All right. If that doesn't encourage you to go listen to her full episode, I don't know what will. I got a couple more stories to get to. We might run long for a few minutes, but I'll be back with more right after a quick word from our sponsor.

Have you been watching Dancing with the Stars? We have some tea to share. It looks like Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko have been caught kissing, canoodling backstage at Dancing with the Stars. They were dancing around their chemistry. Everyone said, oh, she's a, you know, Gorgeous model and he's a beautiful dancer.

They're going to do great together. Well, whether it's a showmance or whether there's tread on the tire post a ballroom, who knows? But if you're watching this season, you have new reasons to watch, which is the starting of a new relationship. And by the way, there are relationships that come out of the dancers and their celebrities that have, you know, stood the test of time.

This may be one of them. Well. Don't expect to receive any fan mail from the Menendez brothers. If your name is Ryan Murphy, Ryan Murphy has a new project out about the Menendez brothers. Uh, the Menendez brothers say that they feared for their lives after they threatened to expose their father. And that was kind of the reason why they killed their parents.

The prosecution argued that the murders were motivated by greed. And that they killed their parents to avoid a dis inheritance. What the truth is, I don't think we'll ever know. But, um, a lot of people find it interesting that the Menendez brothers are upset at Ryan Murphy for the way he told the story.

Here's a clip of and you guys know what I'm talking about, right? The Menendez brothers? I mean, they're, they're like iconic, um, you know, sadly, in, uh, in, uh, you know, uh, uh, the world of True crime. Anyway, here's what Ryan Murphy had to say. His brothers have been disappointed in the representation. What do you say to their backlash?

I have many things to say about that. I think it's interesting that he's issued a statement without having seen the show. It's really, really hard, if it's your life, to see your life up on screen. The thing that I find interesting that he doesn't mention in his quote is if you watch the show, I would say 60 to 65 percent of our show in the scripts and in the film form center around the abuse and what they claim happened to them.

And we do it very carefully and we give them their day in court and they talk openly about it. In this age where people can really talk about sexual abuse, talking about it and writing about it and writing about all points of view can be controversial. It's a Rashomon kind of approach, where there were four people involved in that, two of them are dead.

What about the parents? We had an obligation as storytellers to also try and, But in their perspective, based on our research, which we did. People have been outspoken about this romantic relationship between the brothers. If you watch the show, what the show is doing is presenting the points of view and theories from so many people who were involved in the case.

Dominic Dunn wrote several articles talking about that theory. We are presenting his point of view just as we present Leslie Abramson's point of view. And we had an obligation to show all of that, and we did. You know, so there were, he's receiving a lot of criticism because I guess people are defending the Menendez brothers saying, well, the parents were savages, they were abusing them, this and that.

I don't really know the truth, but I find this conversation very interesting, um, on the heels of the new show coming out. And whenever there's a show, a fictitious, like, retelling of what went down, they're gonna try their best to get the information right, but There's so many unknowns. So anyhow, you'll have to let me know what you guys think about that.

And in our final news story of the day, just to give you guys a little slice of what we're expecting in the last month and a half of election season. Here's James Carville giving a rather ominous prediction of surprises that are yet to come. So what do you think the next 43 days are like, in terms of craziness, like?

So this entire cycle, things have happened that we couldn't imagine. That we, how many times did we start the day, uh, start, uh, start, you start the news at night? Who could have thought this was going to happen? Something tells me something else is going to happen. I don't know what it is, but the idea we've got 42 days to go, six weeks, this is a sprint to the finish.

I think there's another plot twist coming here. Yeah, something always weird, you know, something weird always happens. right before the election, whether it be on purpose as a way to get voters to get out there and vote, or whether it's just a sinister nature of, uh, the whole world waiting to see what happens, we'll be here to cover it.

That's all I can say. I, you know, you'd have to, you're a liar if you say, you know how it's all going to turn out. It's crazy. Uh, it's looking like it's going to be one of the closest selections of all time. So we'll have to see folks. Well, anyway, that's going to do it for me again. A lot of tea coming out today.

I've got so many more stories to get to, but we'll have to wait for tomorrow morning. 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. 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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