9-27-24 Afternoon Rush - Hurricane Helene Updates & Chappell Roan Cancels Shows For Mental Health Reasons & Has Megyn Kelly Lost It?

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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 to my fans. fellow rushies out there. Hope you're staying dry on this afternoon rush, Friday, September 27th, 2024. I've got all your pop culture and entertainment news in one place.

And on the afternoon rush, we bid adieu to an acting legend. Plus bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe reacts to running into her ex Jason Tartick on the red carpet. We'll have her honest reaction. Not, you know, we've, we've never had anything less. Than her honesty. Uh, plus some selling Sunset Stories. Rumors cleared up as Mary joins the Vial Files podcast to tell all it's raining cats and dogs here in Nashville.

And no, the Haitians don't have anything to do with it, but in China there's a blown sewage pipe in its raining. particles there, and they are calling it, and I quote, a poop volcano. Speaking of waste product, Megan Kelly may have lost her mind. Uh, is it Maybelline or is it Ozempic? I think her brain might be fried.

I'm going to share a clip of her bashing a country musician and the Taylor Swift hate continues. Not on my watch folks. I'm not here to wage war on Megan Kelly, but I will not let her be smart. Good names have won. Tay Tay. Peace. Is that a name? Swifts? It's a Friday, I'm allowed to mess up. We're gonna keep it in.

Alright folks, we got all these stories and more coming up next on the Afternoon Rush. Alright, well listen, here in Nashville we have a lot of rain, uh, due to the Hurricane Helene. Is that how they're pronouncing it? Helene? Uh, why couldn't they go with Helen? Alright, Helene's fine. Hurricane Helen Hunt, uh, it's a twister.

Uh, but either way, it was a cat four. It was a big deal and I hope everyone's okay out there. Let's go to Fox weather for their update. Uh, the region ravaged, but, uh, yeah, I, I, I think, uh, the worst has already happened. Flash flood emergency that we're tracking tornado warnings in South Carolina and hurricane force wind gusts in Augusta, Georgia power outages.

And that's just the last hour, by the way. Yeah, it's crazy. The scope of this, it's unfortunately, it's dishing out exactly How we thought it would go, what the forecast was calling for. It's all coming to fruition. Some of the wind gusts out of Savannah, which you just showed 57 MPH gusts there, Britta. And how many times have we seen those 50 MPH gusts?

Uh, not only over the past hour, but over the past couple of past day or so. Yeah, actually, my my Sister in law's out of power. So she won't be listening to the podcast and not that she listened anyway. Uh, but now she has a good excuse, uh, three dead in Florida, sadly. Um, and hopefully, hopefully that's it.

Uh, but yeah, whenever you're talking about these storms, you know, uh, it's just, you know, you're always going to have stories of obvious sort of, um, you know, tragedy, but then you're going to have stories of heroicism. Meteorologists saved woman from flood, helps her out of car and carries her to safety. A Fox News meteorologist got more involved in his subject than he originally planned, dragging a woman from her car on a flooded Georgia street to safety.

Bob Van Dylan, who is down in Georgia covering Hurricane Helene, joined Fox and friends Friday morning for a live report on the floods currently plaguing Atlanta. Now let's check in with Fox weather reporter Bob Van Dylan, who went in that water. Saved that lady from her submerged car in Atlanta. Bob, you are a hero.

You were live on the air. You were, we could hear her screaming and you said, guys, I can't continue this live shot. I've got to go into the water and, and get this lady and rescue her. What did she say to you? She, she, she was, she was panicking. She really wasn't making too much sense. And she was still strapped into her, her car seat.

She was still had the seat buckle on. And, uh, She had a window about this much down and she's trying to talk to me through that. So I'm trying to open up the door, Ainsley, and the water pressure wasn't allowing me to do it. So I said, roll your window down. So she rolls it down and that allowed the more water to get in.

But yeah, and it allowed me to open the door. You could still see the windshield wipers are slapping time right there. Right? So the battery is still alive and kicking in that car. In fact, I think the engine is still on, but. It's amazing. It, the water itself is relatively warm. The water temperature is about 80 degrees.

I mean, like you gotta be an absolute lunatic to be a meteorologist because they always slap some galoshes on you and send you into the worst conditions possible, but good to see that there is some positivity there with regard to saving, potentially saving a life. And, uh, here's a sad story. story, but one that lived a full life.

Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89. Actress Dame Maggie Smith known for the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey has died at the age of 89. Her family has said she's a legend of British stage and screen. Won two Oscars during her career for the prime of miss Jean Brody in 1970 in California suite in 1979.

Um, you know, you know, She's been in everything. She's literally been in everything. I can think of a literal million projects she's been in. Here's a clip of her in Harry Potter. That was bloody brilliant. Oh, thank you for that assessment, Mr. Weasley. Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr.

Potter and yourself into a pocket watch. That we, one of you might be on time. I mean, she's great. She's fantastic. The first movie I remember Maggie Smith from was hook from 1991, the Steven Spielberg masterpiece. If you ask me, Maggie Smith was only 56 years old at the time of filming and was aged by makeup 92 year old granny Wendy.

Now, uh, some of you guys might not have seen it. Scene hook. I, I don't know why. I don't know what you're waiting for. I mean, this is the moment where Maggie Smith's character tells Robin Williams' character, you are Peter Pan. Peter. Don't you know who you are?

And then he gets to go kiss Julia Roberts, who plays Tinkerbell. I mean, what a, you got Dustin Hoffman in it. What? I mean it is a good, it is a good movie. Did I ever tell you this story? When I lived in Los Angeles, I was at a party probably like a decade ago. And there was a guy there and I knew who it was.

And I said, I went up to this guy and he said, I hate to do this to you. I was like, I know what, you know, I was like, you know what I'm about to do. And he's like, I know. And I said, Are you the guy that played Rufio in Hook? And he goes, that's me. It was Rufio, Rufio, Rufio, Rufio. That's right. Dante, I believe is his name.

Nice guy. We talked for a while. I was like, what was that? I was like, you know, I'm sure you get the same five questions, but what's that like? You're, you're like a teenager. And next thing you know, you're You're training, you know, stunts with the lost boys, Robin Williams, Spielberg. I mean, just an absolute wonderful movie.

So Maggie Smith, uh, gone, but not forgotten lived quite, quite the life. If you ask me. All right. Well, we've got a romance. here for Lana Del Rey. She marries alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufresne in Louisiana wedding. All right, that's the most Louisiana story I've ever heard, getting married in the old bayou.

Uh, so if you've got like a normal blue collar job wrestling reptiles, you too can get a pop star. The Born to Die singer, 39, and the Alligator tour guide tied the knot in Louisiana on Thursday, September 26th. Uh, I don't know how they met. Maybe, you know, maybe she enjoyed, uh, the, uh, sort of, uh, cut of his jib?

Is that how it's pronounced? What's the Phrase? Anyway, I don't know. Uh, so we got, we got marriages, we got breakups. Kaitlyn Bristow, of course, last year broke up with her now ex, Jason Tartick. We covered this story this morning. She was at the People's Choice Country Awards red carpet and she was asked, cause he was literally like 10 feet away from her, so she was asked what it's like to share a red carpet with your ex.

Here's what Kaitlyn Bristow had to say.

I'm buzzing on this carpet right now because Nashville's an incredibly small town. Small. You know, people who shall not be named just walked at the carpet like that. This has got to be f ing weird. I honestly, I actually don't find it weird. I, a year ago, I wouldn't, but like, it's been a minute. Yeah. And at this point in my life, I'm like, I just want everybody to be happy.

I'm in a good place and I just am like, yeah, I wave. Like, it's, it's all good. I feel like other people care more than I do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like, you were like, it's fine. Like, it's everyone on the internet. We can, cause that's what's going on.

They're going to be reporting this on the popular rush hour podcast, throw, throw me a lifeline. Kaylin. This is so awkward. This isn't the first time we've been in the same room. So it's really not weird. Like maybe like six months ago, my heart would have been in my butt, but like it's chilling. Alright, there it is.

Kaitlyn Bristow's heart not in her butt. She is chilling. Alright, well I'll get to your selling Sunset stories. We really do have a lot to get into here, and I know you want to know about that Chinese poop volcano, so we'll have all that and more coming up after a quick word from our sponsor. I guess the question we're all asking is, do politics make us crazy?

Now, I personally think I can share my opinion and not absolutely lose my mind when someone has a different opinion, but what I can't tell with Megan Kelly, if she actually believes the nutty things she says, I mean, she's a loose cannon and look, this is somebody who I believe was a practicing lawyer.

Had a very sizable payout from NBC after, you know, was kind of normal. But again, I don't know if it's the lead paint. Maybe there was lead painted toys. She licked as a kid. I don't know if it's, you know, a Zempig rewiring or brain. I really don't know what her issue is, but she's got so much rage and hatred.

So she's about to go off on Zach Brian. because he apologized to Taylor Swift. Of course, Zach Brian is a country musician who drunkenly said he thinks Kanye's better than Taylor, which it's like, all right, fine, whatever. But also if you're a country musician, maybe don't, don't rag on Taylor Swift. You know, she's got a very sizable fan base.

Uh, Megyn Kelly here, of course, has her own YouTube show, SiriusXM show. Here's what she had to say about Zach Brian, not being a real man. Poured his heart out apparently hoping to stop the swifty mob from their hideous attacks. Look at this one I wasn't coming for Taylor the other night. I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong I know there's a lot of stuff that clouds around yay, and I was speaking purely musically.

I love Taylor's music And pray you guys know I'm human, and tweet stupid things often. By the way, we covered this story like a week ago, so why Megyn Kelly's getting to it now, is because it's a slow news day and she needs some, some rage blood to drink just to keep the show moving. Hope one day I can explain this to her.

Twitter gets me in trouble too much, and I'd say it's best I stay off of it. I'm sorry to any Taylor fans I pissed off or let down. Love you guys. And I'm trying my best. Oh my God. I have secondhand embarrassment. Bring back our men. That wasn't it. He was bring back our men says Megan Kelly. Bring back our men.

We lost a lot of good men out there on Twitter. What is she talking about? Wasn't done. He continued. It just came off as rude and desensitized to Taylor. I respect her so much as a musician that the last thing I want is people thinking I don't appreciate and love what she has done as a musician. He wrote before closing it out with, don't drink and tweet.

Oh my God. I'm sorry, Zach. Brian, where are your balls? Mankind would like to know. That's the lesson, Zach. Don't drink and tweet. Sure. Here's another, if you're thinking of daring to say that you prefer someone else's, especially somebody who's endorsed Trump music more. See why, why does she bring Trump into it?

Does she get paid a bonus for bringing Trump into things? This is the issue. Some people have that are, that they, they turn everything into, Like into a culture war and they turn everything into politics, right? It's like, no, there's, there was nothing political about the fact that Taylor Swift has a large audience.

And there's obviously a beef between Kanye and Taylor because Kanye treated Taylor horribly. And Megan just wants to turn it into, oh, Kanye likes Trump. So this is why he's, no, come on. More than Taylor Swift's? Well, Oh, you can't say that. Oh, wait, this is America. This is America. Where did our men go? Where are their balls?

Megan Kelly, where are their balls? Now, as you know, like I'm not, I'm not here to just like trash talk Megan. I got nothing against her. I actually, I actually like Megan Kelly or it did, but she's just lost her dang mind. You know, she's railing on so many, whenever people rail on the culture or issues, I just go like, what are you even talking about?

What are we talking about here? You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know, folks. Look, I tried to, we were, we were really close to getting on her show, uh, for the Clayton Eckerd issue. So I'm not bitter. It's not, it's not like a bitterness. I just was kind of playing nice with her because we were trying to get publicity that we needed for Clayton Eckerd.

And I thought, well, if anyone's gonna, uh, you know, really, you know, speak their mind about Laura Owens. It'll be Megan Kelly, but even then we couldn't do it right. Um, as we were trying to get that, I mean, it was close. We had, I think, uh, I don't know if Megan Kelly's producer spoke with Clayton Eckerd, um, on the phone, but we had probably sent eight messages back and forth and we, and then we could just tell that they were going to bail on the story.

And, and, and I, you know, they were like, we're going to. Do the story after our summer break, and this is in June, and then they were like, well, the election's coming. I was like, shit or get off the pot, Megan. Are you going to take this story or not? You know what I mean? Anyway, that's just some behind the scenes info for you.

But, um, I don't know. My balls are still attached as far as I can tell Megan Kelly, but. Uh, you know, that, that, and that's just kind of one of those problems that when you talk about toxic masculinity, it's people like Megan Kelly that give people a bad name because it's her saying, Oh, grow a pair. Why?

Because the guy has a vested business interest to apologize so he doesn't have to deal with bullshit. You know what I mean? Very strange stuff. Uh, and look, yeah, politics has made people crazy. I mean, you know, Hey, look, like I said, I'm willing to share my opinion, but I'm not going to lose my mind over it.

Now, sadly, chapel Roan has had to Cancel a couple of shows. You guys know I've become a Chapel Rowan fan page over here. Here's what she posted online. I apologize to people who have been waiting to see me in New York City and DC this weekend of at all things go, but I am unable to perform. Things have gotten overwhelming over the past few weeks and I'm really feeling it.

I feel pressures to prioritize a lot of things right now, and I need a few days to prioritize my health. I want to be present when I perform and give the best shows possible. Thank you for understanding. Be back soon. X O X now this sucks. I'm sure people, you know, bought hotel rooms and flew in and are, we're excited to see her perform.

She's a gosh dang pop star. But what happened was, and I'm going to do my best to summarize this. What happened was she said, I'm not endorsing any candidates. And what she said was, I have lots of reasons to criticize the Republican party, and I also have lots of reasons to criticize the Democratic party.

Uh, but what she said was I am voting for Kamala Harris, but even saying she's voting for Kamala Harris, but not endorsing her made people go crazy. And this is kind of an issue I think that exists on the left, which is you need, you need, you can never live up to certain people's standards. Now, the problem with Chapel Rowan is she needs to realize.

Most of our audience is probably just happy that she's who she is and taking care of herself and Chapel Rowan's doing a lot for the LGBTQ plus movement. Um, as a queer performer, she's, uh, you know, preaches love on stage. She's bringing people together. She's bringing dads and daughters to get, she's really just doing great things.

And yet because there's just a toxic group of people on the internet Demanding demanding more from her. She's got she's clearly got like a little bit of a mental health thing going on Which is too bad. I hope I hope someone can can help show Chapel Rowan that the masses love her And you'll never be able to please a certain type of people and that's okay Squeaky wheel gets the greased.

They may be the loudest out there, but your audience is diverse and and I look I get it She's she's from like the middle mid mid mid west. I was gonna say middle west. She's from the middle west and you know It's it's probably tough as a celebrity to pick a side in And I think it's like she, she basically said, look, I picked a side, but I also have a lot wrong with the democratic party.

And I've said this all along as an independent, progressive minded person. You can't pretend like Nancy Pelosi is not making a ton of money in the stocks. You can't pretend like the DNC didn't, uh, absolutely collude to keep Bernie Sanders. You know what I mean? Like you can't deny all these things exist.

it's kind of just like, well, you got to vote for the lesser of two evils and that hope they live up to everything you want them to do. But don't get mad at folks like Chapel Roan. If they are not exactly energized because every election they say it's the biggest election. It's this versus that. And it's like, well, can we just get some sensible people in there?

And who knows, maybe, I mean, you know, I, I feel for chapel and I hope she, uh, I hope she's able to just, You have someone take her phone away from her and realize that in her reality, in her real life, these, these nutso people don't need to exist and she doesn't owe anybody to say anything more than get out and vote.

I mean, that's what we should be promoting, right? Getting everybody to vote and doing your research and really learning about the issues. I have a lot of faith. If people look at policy issues from both sides, that they'll make the right decision. I don't need to tell people who to vote for. I mean, you know who I'm voting for, but I don't need to tell you that that does a disservice to you.

And I respect my audience enough to tell them, you know, just keep educating yourselves. And I think this will head in the right direction. All right, we're heading in the right direction. As we work our way to the end of the day, I've got Mary on vile files. I'll have that clip for you next. As promised, there was a crazy rumor floating around on this last season of Selling Sunset.

Mary, who I guess is probably the most successful realtor on the show, went on the Vile Files podcast with former Bachelor star Nick Vial, and she discussed the rumor that Emma was a homewrecker. Truth to it. Can you say anything about it? Because I know some of the girls came to Emma's defense saying, or I think it was Chelsea saying that it was complete bullshit.

Okay. There, there was. An element of truth to where that came from. Okay, and and amanda and I were there I had no idea what she was talking about because it was like Not an issue, like, so, so the rumor was started by Nicole, who's like the villain on the show. And once, uh, you know, once, um, uh, people watched the screeners, people got very upset and they said, I'm gonna never be on the show again if, you know, because they thought it was such a toxic rumor.

And I guess the question is, well, is there truth to it or not? Like we, we heard it and I was like, I don't know anything about that, but I think Jin said something like, and. My memory's like shit. So, um, but it was something along the lines of, um, Hey, do you like him? Uh, and I was like, yeah, I do. She's sweet.

And she's like, Oh, I heard like, she was, um, like talking to my best friend's like husband. They just got separated. And she was talking to him. And I was like, So that's what it was. I was like, Oh, I don't know anything about that. Right. That was it. Well, okay. Can you talk to someone if they're separated? I guess it depends how far separated they are.

Are they Brandon Jones has a engagement ring thrown at them separated? Are they, you know, they're not living together, but they haven't finalized the paperwork. You know, I wouldn't consider that a home wrecker. Their home seems to already have been wrecked if they're separated, right? Right. And so, but it comes to, he was trying to buy a house because they separated and he was trying to get a house and he did flirt with her from my understanding, but she shut it down.

She's like, I approve of that. I shut it down. She's like. No, I like, we can, you're cool, we can be friends, but, um, like, and went back to this stuff. So this is my understanding. So if there, if there were, if that's all there was to the story, then Nicole is a real piece of garbage for sharing such a damaging rumor.

Who knows? Really? Who cares? I don't know who cares. Uh, Disneyland. Uh, there is an arrest here. Mom was booted in a viral video. Seeking revenge. She's suing the mouse house. She was arrested 26-year-old. Yesenia Diaz was booted and arrested this week after she allegedly snuck her two daughters into the Southern California park by claiming they were two years old to get in for free when the kids are more likely around the age of six, authorities said adding it was allegedly her fourth gate crash in two months.

Okay, here's my thought with this. Now that now that I got a kid, if you can get your kid through the gate. You can't get arrested. You know, this isn't an arrestable offense. You can't be handcuffing them. If they weren't caught at the gate, then you let them in. That's, that's on, that's on the gate person, right?

I don't know. But to get arrested and dragged out, Hey, who knows? Maybe she'll have a suit on her hands. I don't know. Is that, is that cuff worthy guys? Disney makes so much money. Tickets cost hundreds of dollars. So she sneaks a couple of kids in she's buying them overpriced. churros and salty turkey legs and whatnot.

I think it's okay. Well, I guess, I guess, as I promised it, I can get to my final story of the day, which is the Chinese poop volcano. Sewage eruption sends poop flying splatters, cars, and people poop rain down on cars and pedestrians on a busy street in China when sewage pipes carrying human waste exploded and sent doo doo way up in the air in what's being dubbed a poo Kano raw footage.

of the Southern Jiangxi region of China shows excrement exploding from a street under construction rising into the air like a volcanic eruption. All right. So you thought you had a bad work week. Well, unless you struck a sewage line with your. dump truck or whatever the heck happened here and sent poonado everywhere.

Your week was just not the worst week. Okay. Cars and pedestrians pass by as the crap spouts 30 feet high like old faithful and then gravity takes over and the discharge comes crashing down on everyone below. You know who I would hate to be in this scenario, the, the, the carwash. The closest car wash.

He's like, why is everyone's car covered in shit? What's going on over there? It's like, I haven't seen shit spewed that high since I watched Megan Kelly's last rant. You know what I mean? Okay, well, look, we've made it. Can you believe it or not? We have made it to the end of the episode. I got a fun one for you tomorrow.

Um, it's not a driving with Dave. It's a zoom with Dave, but I have a fun interview. So make sure you check in this weekend to catch that. I hope everyone stays safe and dry out there, uh, with regards to. Hurricane Helene Hunt, and, um, again, pour one out for Maggie Smith, go watch hook or Titanic. She was in Titanic too, right?

She played the sweet old lady in like literally every movie. Uh, so if there's any new sweet old ladies out there, there is a job opening for you and guys, I appreciate the support. We had a fantastic week, lots of fun stories and, uh, uh, thank you again. If you haven't already, please take the time to leave us a nice five star review, rate us, share us with a friend.

It helps the channel grow. And I'm going to recharge and get back out there Tuesday night. I'm in New York city, October 1st, I got a standup show. And then October 11th, I'll be in Rhode Island for a standup, uh, comedy festival. So if you want to get tickets to those, I've got the link in my Instagram or send me a DM and I'll point you in the right direction.

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