9-27-24 Morning Rush - Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe & Jason Tartick's Awkward Red Carpet & Hurricane Helene Hits Home!

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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 standup comedian, Dave Neal. Hello everybody. Good morning to you on this Friday, September 27th. 2024. I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place on this morning's episode.How pod save America hosts, John Lovett got cast on survivor and what dancing with the stars pro Ezra actually thinks about Anna Delvey's work ethic. Plus we've got hurricane updates and why Sidney Sweeney green lit. Breast jokes on SNL. Also, Diddy tried to break up and sink. Hear what Lance Bass had to say about that.And Bachelorette, Caitlin Bristow had a close encounter with her ex Trading Secrets podcaster, Jason Tartick. And speaking of close encounters, we've got Mitt Romney commenting on the latest possible alien scare. I've got all these stories on a Freaky Friday and so much more coming up next on The Rush.All right. I'm going to give an update on the hurricane making landfall in Florida right now. It's a category four hurricane, but just remember I've recorded this podcast a couple hours early. So obviously take care of yourself, get your up to date weather notifications, and I hope everyone's staying safe and inside.Here's an update from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Providing an update on Hurricane Helene. It is currently making landfall. In Taylor County, uh, in the Big Bend section of Florida, Dekel Beach, uh, it is a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. It is moving north, northeast at 24 mile per hour.Hurricane force winds are extending up to 60 miles. from the center of the storm and tropical storm force winds are extending 300 miles from the center of the storm. I'm joined here, of course, by Kevin Guthrie, the Division of Emergency Management executive director, as well as Dave Kerner, executive director of the Florida Highway Patrol.We have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Uh, car driving on I 4 near Ybor City in Tampa, uh, was hit when a sign fell. Uh, onto, onto the highway. So that just shows you that it's very dangerous conditions out there. All right. So this isn't one of those hurricanes where you go, Oh no, I'm going to ride it out.Just be careful out there, folks. Be careful. You know, and, and, uh, I guess there's a scenario where this hurricane goes right up the pipe, straight to Tennessee. Where We're expected to get some fallout from the hurricane. I'm charging my car to a hundred percent. I've got a storm shelter. I am prepared to podcast from the vehicle folks.I'm here for you guys, but I will be giving you updates throughout the day. Again, please stay safe out there. What a weird Friday. Well. You know, every once in a while I find a podcast clip that just hits me so close to home. Here's a podcast clip from the Great Company podcast, and it's called, Do Funny People Have Sad Parents?Alain de Botton reveals why children can turn to humor during difficult childhoods. Have a listen to this. People who are very funny often grew up in circumstances that were not funny at all. That's interesting you say that because I remember Jimmy Carr saying, people always ask me if I'm depressed.That's why I'm a comedian. But actually you should ask if my parents were depressed. Perfect. Yep. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, very often the wit, the wit of the child is there to ward off the parent's depression. Really? Children come into the world, And all of us are honed by nature to figure out what do I need to do here to survive.In some families, you need to excel academically. In some families, you need to fail academically. In some families, you need to be very witty. In some families, you need to be invisible. Why would you need to fail in some families? Well, the classic one is parental envy. Some parents are hugely envious of their own children, and they cannot bear that their child, who they've put on the earth, should be happier than they've managed to be.Interesting stuff, folks. Interesting stuff. I mean, I fall into the, I had to be funny growing up, you know, dealing with a mom and a sister who, you know, didn't get along. Both of them Introverted, quiet, not happy, you know, you know, not every day, but enough where, you know, when you're the younger son, you just gotta, you gotta try to dance.You gotta try to break the tension with something interesting as it were. All right. Well, speaking of breaking the tension, Boeing Yang went on a podcast to discuss the behind the scenes at Saturday night live and said Sydney Sweeney was practically begging Saturday night live to make fun of her boobs.Here he is on the. Fly on the wall podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade. Go the other way so easily. Totally. I think she's an example of a host who came in and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already. Like, she came in and she was like, please everyone make jokes about my boobs.Like, she was practically begging everybody to write Say no more. Say no more. Like, uh, and then, and then she, um, like it went down, uh, went down her dressing room on Thursday, right before the tape, I was like, just so you know, like we're getting an intimacy coordinator. And uh, if you're at any point uncomfortable.Um, you know, you can tap out like if, you know, if we make out and you hate it, no problem. We can cut it. And she goes, Bowen, I'm on you for you. But then she also said, but then she also said, um, she goes, you're, you're, you're, you're living every gay man's dream by like having sex with me. And I'm like, how do you know that?Like, she knows that like. She's so, she's so raw sexual power that like anyone would be thrilled to like simulate sex with her. There it is. I mean, coming from Bowen Yang. So yeah, I like behind the scenes of how it works at Saturday night live and how they put these shows together. It's, you know, I guess, uh, kind of fun when they have a host who's aware of, uh, punchlines shall be.All right. Well, we've covered, uh, uh, P Diddy. Can I just call him Sean Combs at this point? I feel stupid calling him Diddy. So everyone's got clips coming out sharing their Diddy thoughts. Here is Lance Bass from NSYNC on Watch What Happens Live talking about the time Diddy tried to poach JT from the group.Diddy opened for NSYNC? For your final tour? What do you make of all this stuff? Did you ever go to a Diddy party? No, I never had time to go to a Diddy party. Diddy. I forgot he had opened up in our last tour until all this kind of came about. Uh, but, uh, yeah, it's, it's kind of horrible, but I never kind of liked him because the very last show, I'll say this, in Orlando, I overheard him talking to Justin being like, you need to drop these, these effers, you know, you need to go solo, you need to drop these.And I was like. I don't like you anymore, Diddy. Yeah. Oh, wow. I know, I'm like, At my own show? What the hell? Yeah. Whoa. I mean, you know, some people don't like the truth, but I think Diddy was right there. Look, he might be a bad guy, but he knows a thing or two about music, and JT was much better off without NSYNC.I mean, as far as, you know, he could go out on his own and, you know, I don't know. They should have said bye bye bye to Diddy. Well, that's a, you know, maybe the judge will say that. Uh, we'll see how they rule, uh, in the upcoming trial there. All right. Well look, I mean, we've got some survivor news. Should we jump right into it?John? Love. It was on this season of survivor, but it was voted off week one. I'm sorry. Look, it's. It's two weeks old. It's not a spoiler now. If you're not caught up, you gotta stay caught up on the show. So John Lovett is sort of a famous guy in the podcasting world. He's got his podcast Pod Save America.He was a, you know, a speechwriter for Obama. Kind of a big deal. Here's how, uh, he got cast. John Lovett getting on the show is a funny story. Our head of casting, Jesse Tannenbaum, was at the gym. He had a buddy, Patrick Gomez, calls and says, Hey, my, my husband's boss wants to be on Survivor. And Jesse said, great, tell him to apply.You know how to do it. And he goes, no, it's John Lovett. He goes, Jesse said the, Comedian from SNL? And Jesse said no his friend said no, that's Lovett's this is John Lovett the podcaster Jesse didn't know John Lovett never heard pod saves america. He goes. Okay. Well have him apply And he he told me he goes I went home and i'm looked I looked him up and I said, oh He was on Kimmel last night and, oh, he wrote for Obama.Okay. Hang on. But he, we knew he was interesting, but he still went through the exact same casting process. I think there should be a season of Survivor where every single cast member is a podcaster and I think I should be on it. What do you think? Can we get me on that show? Now I could bear to use it, lose a few pounds here.I've got that dad weight that I put on, but I think that would be interesting. Just get podcasters of all shapes and sizes from different niches. I mean, how annoying would that be? That would, that might be actually my worst nightmare is to, you know, see people like me. Gross. All right. Well, uh, as far as survivor goes, he was voted off, but some people think, Hey, this is so dumb.They voted him off. This would have been great to keep him along. Here's a, here's a viral Tik TOK about a strategy. If they would have kept him along. voted off survivor is so stupid and this is the problem with new era survivor. They're just thinking in terms of like resume and strategy and being so strong.Um, okay, what happens when Andy annoys the shit out of you? What happens when you guys merge and he decides that he doesn't like you and other people coax him to their side and he betrays you? What happens then? Their first mistake was not knowing who John Lovett was. I think Sam's mistake is not trying to do like a guy alliance because I I do think the girls will eventually turn on Sam.They have that sort of like Black Widow energy vibe. And John Lovett is the perfect person to have alongside you because he doesn't need the million dollars. And the more people he gets to know and the more people who realize who he is, no one's going to vote for him at the end. He's the perfect person to bring along with you in an alliance because you know, at the end, if it's the two of you,Isn't it interesting that podcasters are kind of like celebrities? Now, I'm not talking about me, but you know, the big guys, you know, there's the hundred million dollar contracts. It's very, very interesting. So look, uh, you know, Survivor's funny, right? Because the first season, Richard Hatch, the winner, is actually from my hometown in Newport, Rhode Island.And he ended up going to jail, I think, for tax evasion from his earnings. So, uh, But you know, what's crazy is in the early two thousands, the million dollars, you know, the prize money hasn't changed. The equivalent prize money in today's world should be over 1. 8 million due to inflation. So it's kind of funny.It's like, Oh, you're going to win a million dollars. Wow. Maybe I'll pay off some of my student loan debt. Big whoop. You know? All right. I'll go buy a couple bags of groceries at Walmart. Ooh. Uh, so what I'm trying to say is. Uh, they need to, they need to up the ante to 2 million. Okay. I'll be back with more content.Speaking of making money. I got to play some ads. I'll be back with more right after this. I personally would love a all celebrity season of survivor. Hey, maybe you could have Sydney Sweeney on the show. And speaking of losing a few pounds on survivor, James Corden could give it a try here. He is speaking about trying Ozempic and why it didn't work.But if we accept for a moment that it is real, and it's a substance that's very, very, very hard to give up if you have an addictive personality, then the world suddenly makes sense. The government here spend a fortune, I'm sure they do in the States, saying, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables and stuff like that.And you think, yeah, we know. Yeah, well that's We know how to eat properly. Well, that's what's interesting. I tried Ozempic. Oh, really? And this won't be surprising to you when you look at me now that it didn't really work. I tried it for a bit and then what I realized was I was like, oh, no, no. It's true.Nothing about my eating has anything to do with being hungry. Yeah, all of this does is make you feel not hungry, but it's, I'm very rarely eating. Oh, I can eat through hunger. Yeah, you're looking at someone who's eaten a king size. And when I say king size, I mean like one, you give someone for Christmas dairy milk.In a carwash. None of that was like, Oh, I'm so hungry. It's not that it's something else. You know, I'm, I'm the same way. I don't know if it's growing up with a single mom, lower middle class. I don't know what it is, but my reward sensors are all about food. Like, like. Like take last night, which is tonight, as I record this podcast around midnight, I had two shows and I went to both of them.And then on the way home, I was like, I'm going to go to Wendy's. And I swung by Wendy's drive thru. I had to wait like 30 minutes in the drive thru because, you know, with the hurricanes coming, it's raining, people are just acting kind of weird. And I just got food. I was like, I don't even need food, but I just wanted to reward myself.That was my way. Like, I don't really drink much anymore. So like just food, food is a thing for me. And it's. You know, the healthy thing would be, and that's, what's kind of funny too, is like, you make a few bucks, you can now afford to eat food, but you shouldn't because it's like, you know, you just end up eating because you know, you had a boredom and just, uh, you know, I don't know.I don't know. I know this is such a first world problem to talk about, but, uh, you know, we're all messed up in different ways. Some of us, Eat, some drink and some smoke our problems away. Uh, if I smoke, then I'm definitely going to eat my problems away. That's a whole nother story. All right. Well, um, you know, it's a wild weekend out there and people are talking about aliens.Now do I think there's an alien spaceship in the eye or the hurricane? No, but that would be a pretty cool movie. Here's a clip of Senator Mitt Romney. Remember him? He had that binder full of women, uh, talking about the foreign, uh, objects that are out in the sky. The Director of National Intelligence just a few days ago released a new report on 144 sightings of what they call unidentified aerial phenomena.Virtually all of them remain unexplained. Whatever these are, they appear to not only be technology that the United States does not have, but technology that we cannot even explain. I know a lot of people joke about this, but you're a national security hawk. How concerned are you about these objects, and where do you think they come from?Well, I don't believe they're coming from foreign adversaries, uh, if they were, why that would suggest that they have a technology which is in a whole different sphere than anything we understand, uh, and, uh, and frankly, China and Russia just aren't there, uh, and either are we, by the way. So I'm not worried about it from a national security standpoint.If for some reason these came from another, uh, system, if you will, another alien society, which I frankly would find hard to believe, but. I guess all things are possible, uh, that would be fascinating. Uh, interesting. I know there are, uh, they say trillions of galaxies out there. So, uh, who knows what might've developed somewhere else.Uh, but that would make me, uh, um, more fascinated, not fearful. And, uh, I guess I also think that we have a lot more significant challenges ahead of us right here and now than worrying about those things. Uh, the emergence of China as the dominant player in the world, that Gives me concern. All right. So he's like basically saying, I'm not scared of the aliens because they've got better technology than us.And if they want to do something to us or with us, they can have at it. We can't stop them. We don't know what these things are capable of. If there's any aliens out there and you want to subscribe to the podcast and learn a little bit more about American culture, may I recommend the rush hour with Dave Neal, just, you know, subscribe from a safe distance, give us a five star review.Uh, and, uh, share us with your galaxy. All right. Well. Speaking of pop culture, Americana, we've got Anna Delvey. I mean, she's been voted off. She's, she's probably the most talked about person ever voted off in the first round of Dancing with the Stars. Here's what her partner has to say about her work ethic on the show.What work ethic does she have? She has pretty good work ethic. I would say not like, it's pretty in the middle. Obviously, like, it's, it's hard, it was hard for me at first to get her to get into it, like to get into like four hour rehearsal because she honestly did not, I don't think she knew what she got herself into.Look, I don't get it, right? Anna Delvey, she was in jail. She, she was in In, in prison, you'd think getting a new lot on life to dance for four hours would be a dream. I'm being fully transparent, but like every single day she was kind of like, she was kind of like, I don't want to do it, but now she's here and obviously she doesn't want to like, make herself look like a fool, so she's really putting in the work now.What do you think her strongest style of dance is? All right, so anyway, they go in, this is before she was actually canned, so she didn't even want to be there. She probably did it for the hundred thousand dollars. Uh, you know, hey, you know, some people fail upwards, I guess is what it comes down to. Some people fail upwards.Uh, like our good pal, Haley Welch from talk to it. Now I wouldn't say she fails upwards, but Haley Welch, of course, the famous now podcaster, all because she had that hawk to a joke, uh, that she told there on Broadway in Nashville. And now she's interviewing one of our friends, Caitlin Bristow. She asks her a question.Uh, she asked Caitlin, Hey, what's your go to move with guys in the bed? Here's what Caitlyn has to say. Move in bed that makes a man go crazy. I'm like thinking of all my 10 moves that I'm going through. Okay. 10 moves? Who's got 10 moves? I mean, it's like, I have as many sex moves as I have dance moves.There's two and they both involve me snapping my fingers. You know what it is? It's the corkscrew. You gotta elaborate on that. So a good old fashioned hand job. Don't underestimate a good old fashioned hand job. That's not at all what I was thinking. And the corkscrew is. So you hit the top and go down to the bottom.Caitlin, come on. It's a family show. That's brilliant. Where'd you come up with that? Like I'm 39 She goes i'm 39 we learned about this in the 90s, what are you talking about? Yeah, these kids, uh hailey welch, you know, she's a young 20s They try to be all fancy out there and caitlin bristow says you ever just want to throw a fastball down the middle It's called the old fashion.All right in speaking of caitlin bristow. Uh, she was at a country Music awards show last night and was on the red carpet being interviewed, not 10 feet away from her ex Jason Tartick, uh, which I thought was very interesting. They, yeah, I'm sure they exchanged pleasantries. What are you going to do? You know, you see your, uh, Ex partner on the red carpet.You're trying to, uh, you know, uh, you know, be an influencer. You're going to cross paths. This is, this is the life you chose there, old Katie. All right. Well, I got a couple more good stories to get into. We are just rocking and rolling on a Friday morning and we'll be back with more right after this. All right.I'm always looking for new ways to inspire you guys to stay creative and trust your intuition. And sometimes I feel like we get in our own way for what is supposed to be in life. And this is an interesting example. Uh, the band, uh, walk the moon discussing their song, shut up and dance and how it almost was never made.Have a listen. When we wrote Shut Up and Dance, it almost never came out. I'm not even sure I'm supposed to play this, but it's been 10 years. So this is the original version.We hated it. We actually stopped writing it and we made like an 80s hair metal song instead.Two weeks later, I listened back to Your Love Is Safe With Me and I'm like, wait, is this actually good? So I called Ben and I'm like, dude, the lyrics are trash, but it could be good if we just rewrote everything. And he was like, let's do it. We got back into rewrite. Nick starts telling us the story of how he was at a club literally the night before.We're at the bar trying to get a drink and it was taking forever and I was getting frustrated and I was like not having fun. fun. And his girlfriend grabbed him and goes, just shut up and dance with me. And there it is. I mean, look, sometimes we get in our own way. Right. And, uh, I like to look at it this way, you know, for me with standup comedy, I'll write a bit out and use the part of my brain.That's kind of like the blogger part of my brain, but then sometimes like the lyrics and what I'm trying to say. They just, they just aren't the path of least resistance. And then you'll get on stage. You'll ditch 80 percent of what you wrote, but the theme is still there. And I like to say that it's almost like lightning lightning knows how to go from the sky to the closest path to the ground.Right. And that's what creativity is. But. But in order to get lightning in, in order to get that bolt of creativity, you need to do the work of getting other things out there. You need to create the wrong in order to get to the right. If that makes sense. So with everyone out there today, whether you're doing something creative or, you know, have a side project or a passion, I just want to find new and innovative ways to.To, to, to help push you not even in the right direction, because that's what the thing is. You know, the, the, the, the idea with creativity is you don't even need to be pushed into the right direction. You just need to be pushed. You need to go, you need to get out there. You need to do the thing. And that doesn't mean having all the right answers.Sometimes, sometimes, that just means getting out there and dancing.So good on them for having the hunch that they had a jam on them. I mean, it's got 1. 8 billion views on Spotify at this point. So clearly they were on to something. My question for you out there in the audience, in the podcast sphere. Are you on to something? Are you closer to a goal than you actually think?Are you afraid of what success might look like? Don't be afraid of it. Just shut the fuck up and dance already. Come on.And by the way, while you're at it, don't forget to subscribe. Forget the other thing you need to do on this Friday, which we tell you every Friday is to not just shut up and dance, but tell your boss to go fuck themselves. I'm Dave Neal. We'll see you this afternoon. Be safe out there. Enjoy the rush hour.The rush hour is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride. So join Dave as he covers the top news stories of the day. Don't be caught clueless at the water cooler. The Rush Hour with Dave Neal features all the viral TikToks and podcast clips you need to hear.Plus, feel good stories and some motivational stuff too. 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