9-30-24 Afternoon Rush - Bachelor Joey Gives Updates On His Relationship & Taylor Swift Guitar Smashed At Auction & Ariana Madix Gives Andy Cohen Props!

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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, everybody, on this Monday, September 30th, 2024, and I've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place. And on today's Afternoon Rush, we've got a bachelor baby arriving, Colton Underwood's, And a former contestant announces she is pregnant, plus a deranged man buys a Taylor Swift autographed guitar and smashes it to pieces with a hammer.

Cool, we'll have that update. And an update on Bachelor Joey's relationship as he enters his third week on Dancing with the Stars. What he said about wanting to dance with a married woman only. And Ariana Maddox dishes on what it's like to moderate a reunion, giving Andy Cohen props for how he handles those toxic situations.

I'll share what Vanderpump alum, Ariana Maddox has to say about that. And also a Tegan and Sarah pop duo. They weigh in on the chapel Rowan situation. Uh, maybe we can all learn a thing or two about boundaries. Uh, but I don't have any boundaries here. I appreciate you letting me be a part of your rush hour drive home.

And we'll have all those stories coming up next on the rush. Our first story of the day is Netflix co CEO in why the company cracked down on password sharing. Here's what he had to say. It was a couple of problems. One was revenue, but the other part of it was we, with this personalization, helping you find something to watch works better.

Um, if you don't have five or six different people using your account. So for us, it was a really, a way to really hone in with the personalization technology, but also a way to kind of test the value proposition. Sure. If you've got, uh, our average members are watching about two hours of Netflix every day.

Uh, so basically when you go back out to people and say, Hey, you know that thing that you're using for two hours a day and not paying for, we'd like you to get your own account. And what's turned out nicely about that is most people say, Yeah, that's well worth it for me to do that. Yeah, look. Netflix, I say this as somebody who has never had my own Netflix account.

I get it. They want people to pay their fair share. Netflix cracking down on password sharing is what the U S government should be doing on people who don't pay their fair share of taxes. Do you know what I mean? I'm not trying to make this political. I'm just saying if you're a millionaire out there and you hide your money in offshore accounts or Depreciate, you know, use loopholes to avoid it.

I just think everyone it's like, it's almost like this. Netflix could probably lower their prices if they, if nobody shared passwords, right? If everyone just paid their fair share, I don't know, five bucks a month, it would be fine. But you know, you've got a Netflix account with 17 different people using it.

And, um, we actually, we've, we've been borrowing from my mom. Uh, thank the, what have you ever done for me, mom? Well, you've let me use your Netflix account. We've been borrowing for her from her for years now. And my in laws were in town and they signed out of my mom's account so that they could sign in on their daughter's account.

Cause they were stealing from their daughter. I was stealing from my mom. It's a whole real, um, real ethical situation here. And now I can't sign back in. So I no longer have Netflix. At home. Will somebody pray for me? We'll go. Will somebody help me out there now? I don't need your DM saying, Oh, you can use my account.

I appreciate that. But I might just foot the bill and get my own Netflix because I'm sick of wondering what my dad thinks when he sees that all I watch are gold rush shows. It's like, why is Dave only watch gold rush reality TV, you know, but I love that Ted Sarandos here or whatever his name is, makes 50 million a year.

And he's going, well, we want. We want to crack down on the password sharing because we want to use our purse, our person, uh, what does he say? Personality experience. What the hell does he call it? Either way. It's like his personalization technology. That's what he called it. It's like, no bro, you want to maximize profits.

And I get that. He's right. Look, you watch a lot of it. You might as well pay for it. I understand begrudgingly. We will finally have to do that. Alright, well, I've got Bachelor Joey in the news. I made a YouTube video about this today. He had one request for Dancing With The Stars, a partner, a partner who was in a healthy relationship.

He said, I wanted to be in a situation where I was comfortable that I didn't have to worry about a lot of this noise. And again, you might say, well, what noise is he talking about? Is he talking about flirting with a single person? No, no, no. I think what he's talking about is not wanting to deal, deal with people.

Bachelor Nation and or the speculation that he's having a showmance with his partner. He said, you know what? I want my partner to be in a happy relationship. I'll be in a happy relationship and then we can actually treat this dance like what it is. Uh, so it's not that he doesn't have trust in himself.

It's just that he doesn't want to have to deal with people like me spec, although I was never one to speculate on that, but you got a lot of people out there going, well, but do you see the way he touched her lower back? Whoa, it's like, okay, grandpa, chill out. You know what I mean? It's, you know, like we can.

We can touch people consensually. All right. So here's what he had to say on the almost famous podcast about his communication with his fiance, Kelsey Anderson. I did asking her how her day was, how was her workout? How was this meeting that she walked to? Like all those little things of trying to just have the open communication.

Um, But then feeling each other out to like, I want to make sure that she's feeling comfortable. And if we need to have a chill night, she'll understand that. But then if she really wants to go out and go to this party, because it's an opportunity for her to meet more people, I got to suck it up and go to that party.

But. It's been good so far. I can obviously always be better. I'm not going to act like I'm a master at this, but I think that we've been doing really well at the communication and not letting things fester if there is any type of issue. So I'm just trusting and leaning on her. She's happy, I'm happy, and we're just trying to have as much fun as we can with this awesome opportunity that came my way.

Sounds like you're doing it right. I've been married for three years. It's, uh, I would love to sit here and be like, no, this is how you should do it. I don't know. Just, you'll do your best. Uh, if you love her, you'll figure it out. Uh, Jenna, uh, Kelsey has said that you've been a support. Uh, you know, obviously your relationship with her is important too.

You've done this for 10 years. As you've said, you're not shocked, you know, by the fans reactions and these comments. What are some ways that you've kind of found to support Kelsey through this journey or just give some insight into what to expect? Yeah, um, I think it was really important right away as soon as Joey and I had met each other we were like, Let's get you guys over to our house.

I want her to meet me. I want to meet you. I want her to meet Val, meet our son, you know, just already established that relationship together too. So she felt really part of it and comfortable in this partnership because she's part of it. Um, so yeah, we did that right away before we were announced on Good Morning America as partners.

Um, they'd come over to our house. We had dinner, which was so much fun. And then she's been our like social media queen. She sends us all sorts of audios and ideas. All right. So there you can see that Kelsey Anderson is fitting in just right with the dancing world. I think, I think it's great for her. Like, like I said, they get to live in And I think they live in the grove.

I think that's where they put it. Contestants. I could be wrong. Um, you know, I don't know where it is, but you know, you're working for ABC Disney, they put you up in a nice place. They're paying Joey, you know, a hundred thousand dollars. And if he makes it through the first month, he'll get another hundred thousand or whatever it is.

So you're making a fortune. I mean, if I'm Joey, I'm like, Kelsey, go shopping, meet some friends, have fun, and let me win this thing. And, uh, so we're, we're rooting them on this week. There is no dancing with the stars as their normal time Tuesday. I believe, do I have this right? It's being skipped because of the vice presidential debate, which is Tuesday night.

I won't be watching the debate live at least because I have a standup show in New York City. Uh, again, that's tomorrow, October 1st. You can still get tickets to the show if you're in town. It's in a great location at the Midtown location of the New York Comedy Club, a 7 p. m. show. So come to the show, have a couple laughs, have a nice cold beverage, and then you can hang out with me afterwards.

Um, it's going to, I'm always so stressed when I, when I have to travel and now that I do the podcast twice a day and have a baby, it's a little wild, uh, but, um, we already flu once with the baby. So, you know, if you guys, if you guys don't know, it's, it's, um, making content on the road sucks. Uh, but New York city, it's just a whole nother ballgame because the, the, the hotels are tiny and you know, it's like 400 bucks a night.

So I'm T I take a huge loss when I go to New York, but I think it's worth it to just to get a, just to, just to really absorb that culture every once in a while. And, uh, but my setup and I'll show a photo to you guys is I use an ironing board as my desk, because they don't give you a desk normally that they have like a tiny bed, a tiny couch, and now we're going to have a tiny crib.

I don't know how they're going to do that. And I'm going to be making my personal bed. Podcast. So you'll know when I'm in New York, when the podcast sounds nice and quiet, that's because there'll be a baby sleeping next to me. Uh, but, uh, the show must go on as they say, and as the show must go on, I will continue this podcast coming up next.

Ariana Maddox explains why she has a newfound appreciation for Andy Cohen. I'll have that store story for you after a quick word from our sponsor. As we know, Arianna Maddox, star of Vanderpump Rules, is also having a career resurgence following Scandaval. Uh, she's been the host of Love Island Is it called Love Island?

USA, season six, which she described as very intense. Well, now she thanks Andy Cohen for some of the tips he gave her, uh, to moderate. Uh, a contentious cast. She said, and he gave me the best advice beforehand. He said, don't be afraid to go out there and to be you and put your own stamp on it. He's literally like the king of it.

So it was really amazing to be able to get some advice from him before doing it. She said about her at Love Island. USA season six reunion. It was a dream dual role for the former bartender who told page six, that Love Island is still her favorite show. But unlike watching the Peacock dating a competition series from the comfort of her couch where she can freely vocalize her opinions, she admitted that she absolutely had to show some restraint while in front of the cameras.

Yeah, that's what's gotta be tough. You can't just be like, that guy's an idiot. As host, there is leeway for you to feel how you feel and have a bit of your own opinion, but at the same time, you do have to be as impartial as you can, she explained. It's tough sometimes because you're watching all these things happening, and you're rooting for everyone to find love.

And you're rooting for everyone to be treated properly, but of course, life happens. So anyway, I mean, what a world for Ariana Maddix that she was, you know, been able to flourish post cheating scandal. Very happy for her. And speaking of scandal, we've discussed Chapel Roan, maybe ad nauseum by this point, because everyone has an opinion on her, the pop star who, you know, She wanted to set boundaries and say, don't come up to me if I'm walking alone.

Don't, you know, give me, give me a chance to live my normal life. And the lecturers fans have said, no, you asked for this, you signed up for this. And so she, you know, of course, had some fallout for her political opinion, which was. While I might be voting for one side over the other, I think both sides have a lot of work to do, and I'm not going to endorse anyone.

That's essentially what she said. Um, people didn't like that. Oh, you think this is just as bad as that? I mean, people are just so ready to fight with others. Well, now we have Tegan and Sarah. They are discussing Chapel Roan, setting boundaries with fans. Fun fact about Tegan and Sarah, I had no idea who they were, but I do believe they're the ones who sang Everything is Awesome, which is the Lego song.

Everything is awesome. Is that, do I have that right? Anyway. Tegan and Sarah were in my Uber several years ago when I was still driving Uber and we got to chatting and they were like, do you know who we are? And I was like, I'm sorry, I don't. And they said, we're Tegan and Sarah. And then they told me what, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.

They were so kind. I drove them, you know, from West Hollywood To downtown LA. I remember very specifically, I let them out and they were very nice to me and actually took a selfie with me and posted on their Twitter. Uh, they were, they, they, they clearly were comfortable in their celebrity, but again, Tegan and Sarah, not Chapel Rowan, like they're not getting recognized.

They have probably a little bit more of a niche celebrity fandom. Here's their thoughts on what, uh, on why it's good. Chapel Rowan is setting boundaries with their fans. While I think it is exciting and empowering to see an artist like Chapel Rowan say something that we were really afraid to say, um, all these years, I also think that there is a responsibility, not just on the fans and the artists.

It is the industry around us, the industry that makes money on turning us into celebrity endorsers and content creation and selling pictures and videos of people having their walk from the courthouse after they just filed divorce papers. Papers or whatever, like we are an industry obsessed with celebrity, you know, people make money off of this stuff And so we we can't we can't exactly like yell I mean we can fans shouldn't behave this way the way that Chapel Rowan is talking about that is inappropriate But it's not so different from the way that the paparazzi acts So if we see adults behaving this way to other adults and making money and getting rich off of it How can we expect our fans to not think that that behavior is cool?

Like, you know? And you know, it's not cool, but it's an interesting conversation. And a lot of celebrities will say, yeah, I would talk to you, but I'm with my family. And you have to realize, if you're at the airport and you're Brad Pitt, um, maybe he's a bad example. If you're at the airport and you're, I don't know, Dax Shepard, and you know, I could use any of these examples, and someone wants to come up to you, it's like, okay, you talk to that person.

But then, Then, then you start to see this commotion happening and then the next person wants to talk to you and then it just becomes people tearing you down. Now, I, I know nothing like that level of celebrity, but I will say it's interesting. I was back in my hometown in Rhode Island and there was somebody in line at brunch and they go, are you Dave Neal?

I was like, yeah, I'm Dave. And they're like, yeah, I heard your voice. Um, you know, I'm a fan, you know, watch, listen to your podcast. And it was like, really cool. Now the person behind them was like, who are you? And then they were interested in talking because they were like, oh, you're somebody I should check you out.

It was a. normal, fine conversation, but I had my baby with me and I, and at that moment I had to make sure my baby was okay. And by the way, it was a very pleasant situation. They were, they were all really nice people, but I've had to start to look at a boundary setting for my family in a way that I haven't had to worry about for myself.

And, you know, as I've got my show in New York tomorrow night, I'm asking people to come talk to me. I've got, we've got audience coming from India. We've got audience coming from different parts of the country that are, that are going to be in New York for the show. So they're going to come out and I always say.

Come take a photo, hang out, like, you know, but I'm also not at that stage where that involves 20, 000 people coming up to you and analyzing this and that. So you can only imagine it works and you have to harvest that parasocial relationship with your audience until it affects you to the point of, you just can't do that any longer.

And so I think sadly what Chaperone will realize is. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube and she's just going to have to do a better way of, I mean, I hate to say it, but living in a world where she can be more obscure. And a lot of times that's why people live in Los Angeles or New York, because you can kind of get away with dressing in your street clothes and blend in in a way that you wouldn't in other towns.

I don't know if that makes sense. Uh, but either way, I keep on coming back to talking about this because there's this entitlement that we have as audiences. That we're, that, um, that someone owes us something in return. And it's like, you don't, Chapel Rowan doesn't owe anybody anything. You enjoyed her music.

That's the exchange done period. You know, whenever I get in a riff, you know, tiff with someone online, I've been supporting you forever. Okay, first of all, thank you. But also you've gotten a hell of a lot of content from me. So I'm not going to go to bed feeling guilty that, uh, for whatever reason, you feel like you're entitled to a piece of me that you're not, you know?

Um, I just think I don't see a scenario where enough of the audiences can be educated on this because, Bieber days and the Britney Spears days. So with that said, I just think. Sadly, it's more on Chapel Rhone to learn how to navigate that, that journey. All right. Green day is in the news band from a Las Vegas radio station after Billy Joe Armstrong calls the city a shithole.

We're breaking up with green day, completely shared one sin city station. Oh, how brave of this radio station. Come on. Listen, green, green day can call. Me shitty. And I'm still going to love green day. You know what I mean? The front man was performing a show at San Fran's Oracle park this month when he expresses disapproval that his hometown baseball team, the Oakland A's are moving to Vegas, taking shots at the team's owner, according to San Fran Bay area news station, KRON four, the punk rock singer said, we don't take shit from people like effing John Fisher.

I hate Las Vegas. It's the worst shithole in America. First of all, I think there are way worse cities in Vegas, but I will say, I mean, Vegas is so fake that it's like, I don't know. I personally don't love it, but I like going back for two nights a year. I go back for reality. Steve's event that he has every year.

And by the way, his next one, I think is going to be his 50th birthday party. It's going to be a big one. So I always go back, but it's like 48 hours in Vegas and then get. The hell out KOMP 92. 3 has pulled any and all green day from our playlist. It's not us, Billy. It's you hashtag Vegas forever. It's like, Oh, shut up.

Shut. We love green day. Come on. He was just upset that his baseball team was getting sold. Another Vegas radio station was upset by Billy's comments writing. Well, sin city heard him loud and clear and. X107. 5 is not having it. In response to Armstrong's inflammatory comments, the station is banning all Green Day music, effective immediately.

Considering he played a pop up show at Fremont Country Club last year, we're surprised at his comments. The show is spectacular. But now, Armstrong has crossed a line with Vegas locals, so we're breaking up with Green Day completely. Okay, this is, it's kind of like when the Dixie Chicks were in Europe and they were like, man, F Texas or whatever they said, right?

This is what you do when you're in one city, you're, you're Do you say the other city sucks when a guy, when I go to New York, I'll be like, yeah, Philly people suck. Right. And when I'm in Philly, I'm gonna be like those crazy New Yorkers. Am I right? You're just pandering to the audience. Uh, so I'm sure Green Day will be just fine.

And speaking of being just fine, I got another connection for you. The house buyers for George Clooney's mansion have been revealed. I know one of them, or at least. I used to know one of them. I'll have this story coming up next. How Christian McCaffrey and Olivia Culpo put down quite a chunk of money for George Clooney's LA mansion.

We'll have that coming up next. Over a decade ago, I made a sketch comedy called caving, which was about a cave man drawing illicit. Images of his genitalia on a cave woman's cave wall. Now I know this sounds really pervy and that was the point. It was kind of to show how bad it would be to receive an unsolicited DP back in the stone age time.

And we actually shot it at a cave. We dressed up in cave costumes. I'm telling you this, it was actually, I think it was a really funny sketch. Uh, but the, the, uh, the woman who starred in that was a young, uh, lady named Olivia. And, you know, while she probably wishes this, uh, sketch comedy doesn't exist, it's somewhere online.

Olivia was the, um, She was, she, she was about to compete for Miss Rhode Island in the Miss USA pageant. Well, she did that and she won. And then she competed in the Miss USA pageant. And believe it or not, she won and that was crazy. And then she competed in the Miss University pageant and she won! And since then she's been a star.

Style icon, a fashion icon. Now, would she ever return my phone call? Probably not. But I'm sure if I was in the room with her, I'd be like, remember that sketch we did? And I'm sure she's like, please don't ever talk about that again. But either way, I'm happy for her to say the least. She's got a new home she's moving into.

She's married to Christian McCaffrey. I believe he's actually on injured reserve, San Francisco 49ers football player. And they just bought George Clooney's home. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ the model and her football team. of the Miss Universe in 49ers cash to scoop up the Fryman Canyon home.

The estate, uh, was Clooney's, um, six bedroom home and it was listed, uh, just over 14 million. Nearly 30 years ago, he bought it from singer Stevie Nicks for 2. 2 million. George's wife, Amal, called the house, their private oasis back in 2018. And it's pretty secluded, totally surrounded by trees. I mean, unbelievable stuff.

And by the way, I love Fryman Canyon. It's so close to Hollywood, but it's really secluded. Culpo and Christian McRaffrey said I do at ocean house in Westerly, Rhode Island back in June. And they attend attended by several of, uh, fellow sports illustrator, swimsuit model colleagues, and some of his 49ers.

teammates. Um, so anyway, good for them. Good for them to find a nice home like that. Now I don't, I wasn't in the market for it. I'm not exactly in the, um, range to buy a 14 million home, but very happy for them. Well, in sad news, basketball icon, one of the greatest defensive players of all time, Dikembe Mutombo has passed away.

He died after a battle with cancer at the age of 58. You might remember him, Dikembe Mutombo was always blocking people's shots and then he would kind of showcase that bony finger and say, no, no, no. Dikembe Mutombo was simply larger than life, says NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. On the court, he was one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players in the history of the NBA.

So very happy for him. I actually have a couple stories. I'm not going to get to today. Now that I'm looking, we've run a little long. So I'm going to save the Colton Underwood, um, story for the next episode tomorrow morning, uh, because we do have that to cover. So we'll hold off on that. We'll get that for you in the morning.

Uh, but also we've got this story. We'll end on some of America's stupidity, Taylor Swift. I guess a man bought a car. Her guitar at auction, an autographed guitar, and then smashed it with a hammer. So they say this, there's a whole load of teardrops on one of Taylor Swift's old guitars after a man bought her prize instrument at auction, only to immediately smash it to smithereens.

Have a listen. The guy's approaching the guitar with the hammer. Here it comes.

There it is. I mean, look, he paid four grand just to, just to show, I guess he doesn't like her politics. I'm assuming that's what it is. The footage is going viral, showing a white haired dude, grabbing a hammer and going full demolition mode on the autograph for his guitar after dropping 4, 000 on the instrument.

How in the hell did he not throw it over his head and say, smash it down like an axe. Hitting a guitar with a hammer is not the way to destroy a guitar. This is the least rockstar like way to ever destroy a guitar. He might as well have just taken like a nail gun to it. What are you doing? Smash it over your head.

Come on. Anyhow, we'll, we'll see if any Vegas people want to buy Billy, uh, Armstrong's Green Day guitar and do the same. So he was giggling like a kid in a candy store, relishing the chaos. And again, this is a guy, you know, who's Who knows, maybe he's super wealthy, but I'm sure he's got kids that are like, um, dad, we've got student loans.

We got to pay off. Can you not spend 4, 000, uh, buying a guitar that you just want to smash? Can't you spend 50 bucks and go to a rage room? People are speculating. It might be tied to politics, especially since Taylor endorsed Kamala Harris for president. Uh, but either way, look, you're allowed to do what you want with the guitar you just bought.

I would first though, if I was at the auction, make sure he paid in cash. I want, I would make sure that check. cleared before doing that. The world's deranged is what I'm trying to get at. There's a lot of mental illness out there. And, um, boy, I mean, look, there was one story that I talked about on today's YouTube channel.

A comedian I know attacked another comedian I know in Los Angeles and the district attorney apparently isn't pressing charges, even though there's video of the comic approaching a male comic approaching a female comic after outside of a comedy venue Dumped water on her and then hit her upside the head with his metal canteen.

So, um, I've posted about this on YouTube and I definitely think something needs to be done about it. And, uh, if, if anyone wants to, they can contact the LA district attorney's office to say, Hey, I don't care if you think this is a misdemeanor, this guy. Uh, he did this, it's on camera, and then he sped off and sideswiped a bunch of cars.

On behalf of the comedy community, comedy should be a place in an art where we celebrate, uh, the oddities of life, not where we are worried about, um, assault. So, um, I'll give you guys updates as they come in, but I'm really hoping that Comedian is charged. At the very least, he's been banned from about every comedy club you can imagine.

I can't imagine he's ever going to have a show he goes to where he doesn't, um, you know, Deal with some form of protest or getting canceled. I mean, no one's going to, no one's going to want to deal with the, with, with a guy who's violent like that. So again, I'll give updates as they come in, uh, because the story is developing, but I covered it all on my YouTube today and we'll have a lot to cover tomorrow morning.

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Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you on this September 30th, 2024. That's right. We are wrapping up September on a Monday. And on this Monday morning rush hour, we'll go over which movie bombed at the box office this weekend.

Also the fallout Chapel Roan is facing after canceling her headlining gigs over the weekend, but. Plus a major Hollywood breakup as Kristen Cavallari parts ways with a young Buck boyfriend. And we've got Anna Delvey on Tori Spelling's podcast explaining what it was like to be on Dancing with the Stars.

She also says that the show exploited her. And also I've got a good news story as a hospital. receives an unexpected visit from captain Jack Sparrow. And we'll also have some updates over these real tragic fallout from this hurricane that we all experienced this past weekend. All right, folks, I've got all these stories and more coming up next on the rush.

Look, I'd be remiss if I didn't open, uh, on, on this episode, talking about the hurricane Helene, uh, the flooding has stranded hundreds of North Carolina residents as storms death toll reaches 95. Sadly, we know that toll is going to go up. There's a lot of people missing. Uh, I've got to actually, my sister in law, they are sick.

But they are still without power and I know there's plenty of people that need help. I don't know if there's anyone in our community that needs help in any way whatsoever. Let me know, send me a DM and we'll see if there's a way we can help in whatever way possible, but it's going to be a long time repairing for some of these communities in North Carolina.

And even where I'm in, in Tennessee, there was actually some rescues. My family, we stayed safe. It was nothing but a bunch of rainfall here. So we were very lucky, but thanks. To everybody for, you know, those that checked in, uh, and, uh, again, anyone in our community, if, if there's a way we can help you, please let me know, uh, in good news, uh, cause we have to cleanse the pallet there.

Cause it's really been a, a rough one. Johnny Depp surprised a bunch of kids at a hospital in Spain with visit in his pirates of the Caribbean costume. The actor arrived as captain Jack Sparrow at Donna seat, uh, Donna university hospital. Uh, ready to delight the young children and apparently stayed in character the whole time.

So a bunch of kids, uh, that are in the hospital for reasons out of their control had a moment to take off from, you know, dealing with, you know, issues that kids just shouldn't have to deal with. Right. So. Good to hear that Johnny Depp is doing his part. I guess, at least here to bring some joy to some kids now over the box office.

We, the box office weekend did not provide much joy to people out there. Megalopolis crumbled with a 4 million opening. You guys remember we talked about this film. They thought, Oh no, it might only make 5 million. Well, it only made 4 million. This was a film self financed by Francis Ford Coppola. They're saying he spent 120 million.

It's like, look. I mean, do whatever you got to do. That's a lot of money to lose on a film. I'm actually wanting to watch it now just to see what the, what the, uh, with, with all the commotions all about after premiered at the Cannes film festival, no one wanted to distribute it. And, uh, so I guess eventually it was distributed and, um, not to not many fans, so we'll have to see, uh, has anyone seen it anyway?

I mean, it's kind of weird Megalopolis. I don't know. There's a, there's a lot going on in that title, but, um, I guess I'll wait till it's on Netflix. Well, Chapel Roan, like I said, has been in the news. Uh, pop star Chapel Roan canceled a few shows for mental health reasons. And everyone's saying, oh, this is the most Gen Z thing that you can't show up to your show, and this and that.

Look, clearly, the I don't know if a pop star's ever rose to fame faster than Chapel Roan has. And, you know, she's been arguing back and forth with people. She tried to give a nuanced take on her past. Politics and people shredded it. And, you know, it's almost like, it's almost like you can't even win at this point if you're her, uh, you know, to the point where I've gotten emails from people telling me, no, I got it all wrong about her.

Look, my, my first thought is don't take political advice from a 26 year old, let alone if they're a pop star, that's my first thought, do the same thing with Taylor Swift, take it with a grain of salt. But secondly, you know, it's like, you know, nobody knows what it's like to be in her position. Well, here's Gabby Windy explaining her thoughts on the Chapel Rowan situation.

She's got a great take. And I support Chapel Rowan and all her rights and wrongs. I feel terrible for the people who are traveling for the concert on the plane, finding out in real time, but this is a diva. We haven't seen one in a while. She was born to be this way. This relationship is unpredictable. We don't know how we're gonna feel after encounter.

It's a gamble. It's exciting. She's giving us something to talk about. People are like, where's her PR? Her PR is no PR. And it's working. I love an unhinged. And I think if someone is doing this in the name of mental health, what can we do? So the internet is ablaze with opinions about Chaperone. People saying, well, when Katy Perry found out she was getting divorced, she still went on stage that same day.

And it's like, all right, look, I don't know what's going on with Chaperone. Um, you know, and it does suck for the people that bought tickets to see her perform at the festival that she was at, but at the same time, you know, like she's just taking an absolute beating out there and I think what she should do is disengage with their fans.

I actually found this really great take online, uh, kind of about that, that the bigger you get, you have to stop engaging with so many people. It's almost like your brain can't handle it. Listen to this. I did see this news about Chapel and, um, yeah, I, I've read her statement. Basically, she said the reason she is canceling her appearance is because she's feeling overwhelmed.

And I believe that. I believe she's feeling overwhelmed. First of all, she's had a meteoric rise, um, just like an unprecedented level of fame so quickly. And also, She, she has crashed out a bit, um, over the last few days. And all of that I'm sure is overwhelming. And you know, anyone who follows me knows my favorite artists, two of my favorite artists are Beyonce and Taylor.

And one thing that I certainly have noticed, I'm sure all of us as, as fans have noticed is that both of them over the course of their careers, Beyonce more so than Taylor, but both of them have decreased the amount of access they give. to their fans by a lot. Like I said, Beyonce more so, like Beyonce barely talks to us these days, but even Taylor too has decreased how accessible she is to her fans.

And I think there's a big reason for that because I think, I wouldn't know, I'm not famous, but I think fame is Is extremely difficult and so she goes into this great point about how you just can't possibly communicate with that many people And I got to tell you like like like this, uh tiktoker I I can't imagine what it's like But I know say if I have a stand up show Where I might have 25 to 30 people that come to see me maybe 50 people that come to see me That could take me two hours of meeting greets after the show till the point where I my my voice is gone So, can you imagine on the level of Taylor Swift with, you know, 80, 000 people coming to a show every single night.

And then you've got, you know, I mean, I mean, you hate to even say it, but imagine how many of your fans have, you know, a terminal illness and you can't possibly say hi to every single person. You know, you're, you're, you're literally just, uh, just a one person there. So I feel like with Chapel Rhone, she's used to this parasocial, parasocial relationship she's had for the last decade, uh, through her come up and at one point or another, and maybe it's happened to you.

Right now she's gonna have to realize she can't be the thing. She always aspired to be the performer, the entertainer, while also being the friend. And I know that pisses off a lot of fans. I mean, I know I've had people say, oh Dave, you've changed. You're this and you're that. And it's like, well look.

There's just no proper way to handle communicating with more than a couple dozen people. Like, that's all you get in life. A couple dozen people, you know, you see these bride zillas, right? That's what they call the term for a bride when she's having a wedding. It's like, all right, so she's planning a wedding for 80 people and it's driving her crazy.

Imagine being a pop star. Okay. You know, it's not like your, your body builds extra ability to handle things. You know, you've only got so much in your limbic system. So I completely empathize with Chapel Rhone. And I really hope she's going to be okay. Uh, you know, what I did recently was, um, one of the devices, one of the apps that was giving me a lot of pain in my life, I deleted from my phone.

So I can still go to the website that that is that app, but I have to do it from my computer when I'm at work during business hours, so I've compartmentalized. Uh, the, the type of access I'm giving myself to people that are starting to demand things of me. And again, I'm, I'm, I'm a nobody. I'm just a comedian with a podcast.

You know what I mean? But I've got people demanding. I make certain content demanding. I respond to their questions, demand, and you know what, you know what I've done? I've just ignored them so I can continue with my own mental health. And to be quite honest, it's worked out quite well for me. It's worked out quite well for me because what I've realized it's kind of like the giving tree, right?

You'll just be you'll just be whittled down to a stump If you let people just continue to rip your branches off. And I know, I know on an individual level, people, they go, Oh, well, no, we were, we're here just to support you. I get that. And at some level, the best way to support is from, I don't want to say a far, but from a distance where you let the creator create and let Chappelle Rhone do her thing.

And if she's really going to burn out, you'd hate to see that. It was because she couldn't manage so many people loving her. Take the love and. Set boundaries so that you don't owe them anything in return. That's what it, that's what it comes down to. Everyone thinks they're entitled to something in return.

We helped build you. You don't. Nope, nope, nope, nope. That's not how it works because if she gave every person a piece of her, she'd have nothing left. That's that's the stump at the end of the giving tree. And I don't care what they say. That's not a healthy relationship. Okay. I got a lot of content to get to.

We're going to have to barrel through it. We have a busy, busy day ahead. We'll be back with more right after this. I wanted to support Anna Delvey or Anna Sorokin, whatever her name is. Uh, I wanted to support her on Dancing with the Stars. She was the first one eliminated, but she's just so dang unlikable.

So now she's explaining the remark that she made during her exit, where They said, what have you learned from the experience? And she goes, nothing. Well, now she says the judge's advice didn't help. So she learned nothing. Now, look, you know, just because you're telling the truth doesn't mean it's not an a hole thing to say.

Uh, here's what she had to say on Tori Spelling's misspelling podcast. And for me, like he would extend his hand when we were walking around set and for me to take his hand and go forward and I'm like, Oh no, no, no, no, no. I like to follow, wait, which doesn't make sense. But I like, yeah. And you never know where the pros is like, obviously they're being trained about like how to treat you and like, you never know what's sincere and what's just a job.

And that was kind of like my main issue with, um, Being on the show, not my main issue. One of the issues, but you like Ezra. I do. Yeah. Yeah. He's a very sweet person. It was his first season. Yeah. And, uh, imagine like his first season and he gets Anna Delvey. Like, he's probably like, Oh my gosh, it's a blessing and a curse at the same time.

Right. Yeah. I mean, I think it, uh, still ended up well for him because, yup. Yeah. It's like either scenario. He wins. If I do well, he does well. If I do badly, it's my fault because he's a new one and I'm so bad and just negative. And, uh, I don't know what she's talking about. No, you know, he didn't win. Nobody, nobody wants to be paired with Anna Delvey.

Uh, that's just, uh, you know, it's, it's radioactive. I know. And again, like I said, I was rooting for her. Uh, but she also slammed Dancing with the Stars for explosive. her for attention and said it was predatory. Anna, you got paid a hundred thousand dollars. She said, I feel that the show so obviously used me to drive up the ratings that they never had any plans to give me any chance to grow and only cared about exploiting me for attention.

Listen, if they wanted to exploit her, they would have kept her on longer. They gave her fair. They actually, they actually gave her a better scores than she deserved and said, Pretty nice things about her. And then when the audience didn't cheer for her, they kind of said, Hey guys, give her, give her, give her a shot.

So they actually treated her better than I think they're normal contestants. It just so happens the public didn't want to vote for her. And I know she's been in the United States for a couple of years now. Believe it or not, we have a democracy. Some will call it a Republic either way. You're right. Your vote counts and nobody voted for Anna Delvey.

So what, what else can you say about that? That's, that's just how it is. Um, so Anna Delvey is not the only one dealing with departure right now. Uh, Taylor Swift skipped Travis Kelsey's second straight chiefs game amid criticism over tight ends performance. Now this is really messed up. Like. I, you know, do I have to become a guy who's defending all the female pop stars out here?

Uh, because this is just ridiculous that we're going to pretend like Travis Kelsey, a grown man, a professional athletes, uh, game is going to be changed because Taylor Swift is in attendance. Now I know she comes with a bit, a lot of attention there, you know, they're, they, they really milked the Taylor Swift card, the NFL did, but Travis Kelsey is a hall of Fame worthy, tight end.

He's going to be okay. Sure. Did he, you know, go to a bunch of her shows in the off season? Yeah, I'm sure he did his workouts too. You know, I just, I just think it's absolutely wild out there that she's now feeling the pressure to not go while he kind of works out his early season. I don't know, folks, the world's getting a little crazy.

Well, you know what it comes down to? It comes down to this and this goes back to Chapel Roan and Taylor Swift. Audiences like to build a sandcastle so then they can kick it down. That's exactly what happens. And with Chapel Rhone, they built her up, they loved her, and then she got too big and they lost control, almost like the blimp on a windy day at the Thanksgiving day parade and all the little guys with the rope holding onto the blimp could no longer hold on.

That's how fans feel sometimes and how entitled they might feel. So, you know, I'd say to Travis and Taylor, go live your life. Now, speaking of like influencers and superstars, Logan Paul and Nina Agdal, I mean, they're as big as they come. Of course, he's one of the biggest YouTubers ever. And now their future, uh, YouTuber, uh, has arrived.

That's right. They had a baby. They welcomed their first child this month and shared some sweet shots of their little girl. They announced the birth of their daughter, daughter. a Saturday morning, sharing the news along with a sweet pick of the trio sitting together soon after her birth. Listen, I don't know a thing or two about Logan Paul, but these, these Paul brothers kind of came off ridiculous.

You know, just kids from the Midwest living their dream. But I mean, talk about, I mean, they are, they are worth, I mean, hundreds of millions. No, I mean, prime is the biggest energy drink out there. So, uh, to go from just some random kids in the Midwest to professional boxers, professional YouTubers, and a hundred millionaires, I mean, uh, what, what a wild ride.

It is right? Okay. Uh, what else do we got in the news here? We got, oh, this was the big story. We got the big story of the weekend. I was actually surprised to hear this. Kristen Cavallari. You know, this is my, this is my, uh, super bowl called it quits with Mark Estes after seven months. I like it when people share when they're excited about a new relationship.

And clearly the D was good as she said, so she really wanted to talk about it. But then when the thing ends, you know, people, you know, they go, Oh boy. So Kristen and Mark are done. So after seven months of dating sources close to the situation, tell TMZ, Kristen broke up with Mark this week. Because their relationship had run its course and was never intended to be forever.

On Friday, Kristen briefly mentioned the split to podcaster, Alex Cooper, while they chatted on stage during one of Cooper's unwell tour stops in Austin, Texas. So they first got together back in February and he's a lot younger. I don't have, oh, she's probably late thirties. Right. And he's like 25. And I know that might not sound like.

I don't know, uh, that, that serious, but, um, you know, I mean, you know, it's, it's an age gap. She's got a couple of kids and he's, you know, in a tick tock boy band, you know, clearly they come from a different worlds. Anyway, here's where they discussed, you know, what, you know, what they could possibly do moving forward.

What are my end goals with you and goal obviously would to be married and to have a happy life, have a baby. You can say, I mean, that's in there. Yeah, you can say it. I mean, it's in there. Yeah. I feel like that goes with being married and whatever, you know? Yeah. Okay. So there they are. I mean, look, I don't know if that's his end goal was with her.

I don't know if he's crushed, uh, but she, you know, she said it's run its course. So I guess that's what you got to do. She said it's over. What can you do? Uh, okay. Let's do an update on the astronauts. I know people have really, uh, you know, I'm not even saying this in jest. I've been fascinated by these two astronauts stranded in space.

Well, SpaceX says they're on their way. Rocket successfully lifts off to retrieve stranded astronauts. Now, after I read that title, I think, okay, well, they'll be back in a week, right? They'll be back in a couple of days. How long can it take? Well, they'll be back in February. SpaceX's Dragon is up and away.

Having just detached from the rocket, Crew 9 is expected to reach the International Space Station tomorrow and should return with Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the moon. Early next year. Okay. So it's not just an Uber pickup. They're clearly going to have to stick around for a little bit. Uh, so the mission, uh, blasted off Saturday and they're going to retrieve the astronauts.

I guess they're saying back in February, uh, of 2025, we'll have to see. I mean, can you imagine that? What a time? So, uh, and, and, and, you know, if I'm one of these astronauts, I mean, no offense, but wouldn't it be nice to just get picked up by NASA. Instead they got dropped off by Boeing. I mean, what kind of world do we live in?

They get dropped off by Boeing. And then now we've got Elon Musk, you know, uh, the guy who owns Twitter going to swing by on a rocket and pick you up. Oh, just wild stuff. Wild stuff. Indeed. Okay. Well, as promised, I got a couple more good stories to get to. So stick around. We'll be back with more right after this.

Oh, we have an update on the RFK story. Do you remember this one? RFK, I guess, was caught sexting with a journalist and now she's on leave. Well, who knows? This is from page six. com. So who knows if this is accurate, but they say RFK Jr. and star journalist, Olivia Nuzzi, had incredible FaceTime sex and said they loved each other, says a source.

Sources said that Nuzzi was at first disgusted by the Kennedy scion after he made a clumsy pass at her back in October. But after they began talking over texts, he love bombed her and she quickly fell so madly in love with him that she lived a double life for nearly a year, sharing long calls, endless texts and virtual sex with the former presidential candidate, all while engaged to her partner of almost a decade.

While technically he's not the former presidential candidate, he's a presidential candidate. In Nuzzy, even after Kennedy denied their affair in the press and even after he implied that he might sue her, is still in love with him. Oh boy. She's like, we got a clinger folks. Either way, Pete, look from reporters that I've heard from, they say she's like a respected journalist and they actually say the way she covered the presidential race was pretty good.

So I don't know. I mean, I guess you could be a respected journalist and still be a stage five clinger, or maybe that the whole story is made up and, you know, and they're just smearing her. What, what do I know really at this point? I don't know much about anything. Um, Uh, I'll tell you what I do know. I'll be, I'm going to be flying to New York city tomorrow, October 1st.

I've got a show at New York comedy club. I'll have links available. Send me a DM on Instagram if you want to know how to buy tickets. Uh, but it's going to be a good show. There's always like celebrity drop pins. I miss New York city. So if you're in New York city and want to come to that show, I've got that one on Tuesday and I think I'll have one on Thursday as well.

Um, but I, uh, dates on that later. And then in Rhode Island, I've got a show October 11th. That's a Friday night show at the rogue Island comedy festival. in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Can you believe that? So a lot of good things coming up. Very excited. Now, I was also excited this past weekend to watch SNL, uh, you know, just because I wanted to see, you know, they brought back some of the old timers.

Uh, Meyer Rudolph was back to play Kamala Harris and, uh, Jim Gaffigan played her VP and, you know, I mean, they, I mean, and they had, uh, what's the other guy? I mean, you just, when the show I'm not saying, you know, I think it's, It's tired, tiring to say, Oh, SNL is not good anymore. It's just, there's just so much competition out there.

There's so much good TV out there that no one's waiting for SNL to come on on a Saturday night. You know what I mean? But either way, it was good to see the legends, uh, kind of help open that show. And you know, it's, it's kind of become iconic to see who's going to play who and Maya, of course. I mean, how good for her career.

You know what I mean? I don't know. No offense to Maya Rudolph, but I don't think her. Phone's been ringing off the hook. I'm sure, you know, it's fine, but you know, now it's like she can play Kamala and Jim Gaffigan was there to play Tim Walz. Did I say that already? Uh, so crazy stuff indeed. Um, and, uh, as far as was the episode good, I don't know.

I mean, whatever, but Dana Carvey was there and that's all that matters. Oh, and Jelly Roll. So if you haven't caught that, you can catch that on Hulu. And the other thing that I watched, I'll say one more over the weekend, which I wasn't sure if I was going to like it or not, was the new Will Ferrell. In Harper Steel documentary, it's called Will and Harper.

Now, Will Ferrell, um, in Harper Steel, it's about his friend, Harper, who is transgender, and she was a man and was also one of SNL when they started years ago, so there's a lot of SNL that come into play here, Will Forte and Tina Fey and Molly Shannon and a whole bunch of people. Uh, and they all, Lauren Michaels, and they kind of discuss, you know, just the changes in the movie.

The documentary is them going across the country and just doing a road trip. And I, at first I was like, wow, this is kind of like insulting to people that don't live on the coast. Like, oh, they can't handle seeing a trans woman. But the truth is, is that when you're on a road trip, you're really rubbing elbows with people and they go to seedy bars and random like stock car rallies and things and I have to say, even though I was kind of like, Oh, is this movie going to be interesting?

Just driving across the country. I have to say some of the conversations they have. You know, with Will Ferrell being this, like, lovable celebrity and then sharing the comment section of people wondering who's this trans woman he's with. I actually found it pretty interesting and very emotional in a good way.

I think what it just goes to show and remind everyone is, when you get off the internet, when you get away from the mean people in the comment sections, people are genuinely, for the most part, Good people. Now. Yeah. Are there crazy people out there with road rage and issues? And yes, they're always going to exist.

But you know, like I've always said a million times, Einstein's favorite quote was the question you have to ask yourself, do I live in a friendly world or an unfriendly world? And it looks like Will Ferrell and Harper still live in a friendly world because, and I get it. Will Ferrell's a psycho. Celebrity.

So they had the benefit of having some celebrity status as they traveled across the country. But what I found interesting was this isn't the fear-based rhetoric. Oh, they're trying to turn your 7-year-old trans. This was just a man in his sixties, uh, that decided to transition into a woman because he felt that way all along.

Is that the craziest thing in the world? Is that the craziest thing in the world? No, I don't think so. And, but you know, not everyone's exposed to that type of story. So I think empathy is built when you get to see and witness new opportunities that you might not otherwise have known how you would react in.

And I think this movie does a really good job of just, Bringing people together. We need more of that in our worlds. Now, you know, you might think I'm polarizing with my political views, but the last thing in the world I ever want to do is, is push anybody away. In fact, all of my views are to bring people in, to help each other out, to, you know, be able to help moms out when they have kids or when someone gets sick, unexpectedly help them out, you know, help somebody so that they're not getting ripped off by their bosses.

I mean, that's all I want in life is for us to be able to help each other in a world where. Some people want us divided. How about more of that? All right. Well, we ran a little long, but that's okay. There's just so much to get into. We'll have to cover it all in the next episode this afternoon. In the meantime, I'll have some YouTube for you.

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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. Ladies and gentlemen, we're so excited today to have a reporter for Business Insider. Her name is Juliana Kaplan. How are you? I'm good. I'm good.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm genuinely so excited. Oh, how nice. Well, I loved your recent article called the bachelor election, how the reality TV show became the pivotal demographic in the 2024 election. Uh, I love when we combine the bachelor talk with real life. So tell me, are you a bachelor fan?

Is that why you put two and two together? Uh, yes, unfortunately, I'm actually wearing my pit dweller shirt today, um, for my gamer bros as friends. But, yes, I am a longtime reality TV watcher, much to, I think, my parents chagrin, um, and anyone who has to talk to me. But I am a huge bachelor nation fan. I think I started watching In high school early college.

So Right around the nick faya era. So yes, and i've been there ever since You know, and I love what you mentioned in your article that There are so many small niches in the world. You can have a content creator who just covers K pop or Netflix or Hulu, but The Bachelor is one of the last fully, like, known water cooler conversations.

So, um, that, that, that, it's kind of like withstood the, the, the world of streaming TV. It's like old school, uh, like old school TV that people still talk about. That's pretty rare in today's world. Yeah, a hundred percent. I feel like, for me, I remember a very distinct moment, like when I first started watching The Bachelor, I was also, and continue to be, a pretty big, like, fan of RuPaul's Drag Race, and at the time, that was, I think, obviously, like, a much more segmented fan base, um, in terms of, like, What you were seeing with The Bachelor, and I remember half of the fun of watching The Bachelor is like, you go on Twitter, you read all of the recaps, you read Ali's recap, like, over at Vulture, whatever, um, like, there's all these characters, there's all this, now all these TikToks, all these Instagrams about it, and it's kind of fun to feel like you're participating in this, like, wider cultural moment, right?

Like, I feel like, especially with the way Twitter has become segmented too, I've been thinking about this. A lot, but like it was and is the monoculture like all of these other little esoteric shows even the white lotus when it first began right there would be a very devoted like group of people tweeting about it or posting about it i love the only murders in the building subreddit like they're pretty robust but you could go about like your day to day life and never really encounter those right but like any social media platform you're gonna find like some bachelor influence some bachelor influencer You're gonna be talking about it.

I mean, my parents texted me actually about only murders in the building. They're like, they made a golden bachelorette joke when they were introducing Steve Martin and Martin short, like, It really is so baked into the culture. Yeah. Well, you know what it is, is we all know the premise. There's roses, there's breakups.

It's just like, it's so the brand awareness is so big, but like, yeah, like you mentioned, there are, there are shows like, um, I watched the show alone, which is like a survival show. They have their own spinoff podcast. And like, I went, I I'll always look at the different podcasts to see how many reviews they have, or like, are people watching this and.

Are they? No. I mean, it's hard to, it's hard to like build a big audience as a content creator with some of the niche shows, because even, even the Netflix shows like love is blind, it's a huge show, but they dump all the episodes out all at once. So it doesn't command In my eyes, the cultural conversation, the way The Bachelor does where you have six and a half days to discuss between episodes when there's something like hotbed happening.

Yeah, no, a hundred percent. And it's really, I don't know. It's really interesting to me too, because I think The Bachelor is such a holdover from like this early 2000s. kind of reality tv culture where reality tv was just and any television could be a lot more omnipresent like we're still talking about jersey shore to this day for instance like that's still a cultural reference we're making i also think there was a really interesting moment in reality tv when i was little i watched the tyra show like fairly religiously like in middle school which What that did to my psyche, who's to say, but there was this like era of reality TV in the two thousands where it's like, let's kind of like do experiments on humans.

Right. Like, uh, where you would be doing all these crazy things to people in the whole premises. Like what would happen if this thing, you know, if you were to pretend to be like, not the popular girl for the day, this is like a crazy tire show episode where somebody gets like facial prosthetics put on and goes to high school as like an ugly person.

Um, right. But there was this kind of like, Oh, we have this platform. We have this ability, like, let's do human experiments. And that's kind of like what the bachelor was born out of in a way. Like there is obviously the match show and there's like dating tradition, but the bachelor is like, let's take it one step further.

And it's funny now because we see it as kind of like the old stalwart, but like, because we have love is blind, too hot to handle, perfect match, all of these things. But at the time, like, this is kind of a crazy premise. Right? So I feel like, also because all of that other reality TV has kind of, it's ended, it's lost to the sands of time, whatever.

Um, but The Bachelor is still going pretty strong, and then, as we talked about in the article too, has been pretty good at like, courting. A new fan base, which so it's like such a cultural product. Um, yeah, I don't know. I think I lost the point That's the show for you, uh, but you're so right it's interesting because I think because the show is so sanitized You know, it's a disney show that yeah, they're talking about fantasy suites But there's so much context that that it remains up for interpretation That you really do see all the commentary spill out into the social media what I find interesting You Is that the show like any corporation is going to do its best to just maximize profits, right?

Corporations are psychopathic. They don't feel feelings. And I find that to be very interesting because that's what led to some of the issues. They know their audience is primarily white women and then they weren't. Providing diversity to tell new stories and possibly find new voices. Um, what I've noticed though, is with podcasting, I believe skews a little more liberal than maybe YouTube, which might be more centrist.

I'm progressive, but my audience is all over the map. The only thing they have in common is it's 92 percent women. So how do you think the show navigates the Ethical conversations of inclusion and equality and things like that with also trying to just be a show and stay on air. I'd love your take as an inequality reporter to, to look at where the bachelor was maybe five years ago versus where it is now with inclusivity of non white people on the show.

And what do you think it was that sort of forced that change? I think it was. almost as coalition between the contestants and the viewers. Um, I remember for instance, back in 2020, obviously, well, to back up a little, you know, in 2018, and we talk about this quite a bit in the article, there was sort of this first like political fissure.

And I think a lot of that was chalked up to the fact that Becca Cooper was like a pretty outspoken Hillary supporter, fairly liberal, um, which, you know, from a lead. We've definitely like had leads who have said a little bit about their political beliefs, but I think it was a little bit, you know, surprising, perhaps pleasantly so, because I think it's always nice to learn a little bit more about where people are coming from.

And then it became very clear that her front runner and eventual winner, Garrett, had very different political ideas. They were sort of on different ends of the spectrum. And I think that there was obviously a lot of criticism for him for the kind of content he was engaging in, but. It was still very rooted in like, are they going to be able to be a match, you know, because they're coming at it from very different angles, which as we read about is like a very American conundrum.

You're going to meet people who are not in your political bubble, but then in 2020, like, and that sort of set the groundwork for people, I think, to be really hyper vigilant about what's going on with contestants and what are they signaling from what they're posting and what they're liking. And who they're following.

These are all things we've seen come up in sort of like the fan communities at large. And then obviously, you know, in 2020, there's this sort of larger racial reckoning, and the Bachelor throws Matt James in as their first male black bachelor and I think the producers have talked about this too in the past that that was a season that I think had its own issues in terms of the support that they provided to him but this was also a really pivotal a really pivotal moment because That social media tracking like revealed some Even more serious things regarding his eventual winner.

Um, and I actually read his book. His thoughts on it are super interesting Like I highly recommend everybody read Matt James's book But it was the first time we had a contestant coming out and saying like what I did was wrong Like these things are wrong. It is due to these larger issues of inequity and racism baked into american life Like I didn't think it was basically like I didn't even know it was wrong when I did it.

And that's kind of a larger issue. And that, I think, was very representative of a lot of larger political sentiment at the time. You know, we saw the huge Black Lives Matter protests happening, and a lot of people, and also to your point, a lot of corporations, really being forced to publicly reckon with the ways that they had kind of upheld Those foundations of white supremacy and then there is the Chris Harrison of it all where the host who I think it was fairly beloved Um, it still seems to be like pretty good friends with quite a few people in bachelor nation Went on Rachel Lindsay's podcast at this point.

Rachel Lindsay is kind of like the designated speaker for all things race in The Bachelor, which is its own issue because if you cast a few people of color, then it all becomes one person's job and that's a fair burden to put on anybody. Um, and Chris Harrison, I think this is the first time like he's being sent as a representative of the show.

Right. And he gets pretty worked up about it. Like he is really defending these things that even the contestant herself, Rachel was not defending. And that kind of became this really pivotal moment. And at that time we suddenly see contestants from like past seasons. Like I think we see the women of Matt James's season, if I'm recalling correctly, like putting out a mass statement being like, we do not agree with this, we see.

The men, um, from, I think, like, Clay sha's season, from Claire and Tayshia's season, we see, like, these coalitions of, you know, the very few people of color who have been contestants on The Bachelor, and at the same time, there's sort of like this parasocial feeding into it of the fans being like, we support you, we support this, and then kind of like this ever iterating cycle.

And I think that having the reason that the bachelor works Ben Higgins talked about this with me is that people want to see themselves in the contestants on the screen. They like this relatability. We obviously see as Game of Grosses talks about parasocial players, who are the ones that have the biggest success afterwards.

Like somebody like Hannah Brown, who is immensely charming and fun and the whole point is like, she seems like somebody who you'd want to be. friends with, like, she's making all these funny TikToks of Tyler, will they, won't they, right? And so all of a sudden, like, the fans who've been identifying so strongly with this, and had also been kind of dictating the narrative in some ways with, like, forcing them to talk about Garrett on stage, all of a sudden they're like, if we band with the contestants, we can have this power to kind of rewrite that narrative.

And that, to me, I think was a really pivotal moment that was also very interestingly reflective of politics at large, because I think If we look at this moment in, like, the broader world right now, there's a lot of talk about, like, rolling back of DEI initiatives, that, you know, the DEI era is done, um, and so on, which, I don't know, a very interesting through line to me, but, Even with Jen's most recent season where like they did talk about having their first asian american bachelorette.

Jen was great. Um, Very randomly. I actually bumped into her while I was home in boston Um, and we had been at the same cycling class. She looked amazing I was like, I don't know how you did that but to that end like They're touting, it's this historic season. Obviously that season kind of like ends in this crazy ruins.

The men, you know, plenty of stuff out there on them. There was also, I think, a lot of people caught on that a few of the men said they were expecting to see a white lead and specific women from past like eras of the franchise. And at the same time that was still never confirmed. really addressed in like the absolute decimation of the season falling apart, right?

Like, I think I've seen a lot of fan discussion of how it always feels like women of color come in last compared to their white counterparts in dating. One of my friends was actually saying it feels as though The Bachelor has entered into its like, you know, Obama era where it was this idea of like, oh, we're in this post racial era Like we have an asian american bachelorette and that's so normal that we never really need to talk about race again um and then it's very interesting I was talking to two black girls one rose where Like we obviously like have a lead of color and there's still I don't know like the ways that some of the attacks on different women of color and women in the franchise um Also mimic those that people are making against uh, kamala harris Like, I mean, it's not an exact analog right now, but I think I've seen plenty of people very easily turning on Jen being like, she's in it for the clout.

She's in it for the dancing. Yeah, no, you're right there. Well, there was a sort of a tokenism that was, oh, you would never expect the, the, uh, contestant of color to get past the fifth round because it was kind of like, bring him in and here can be my seven final white choices. And that, that in part was due to the sort of.

Casting that wasn't being done. Like Rachel Lindsay said, they weren't, they didn't cast her season. They didn't cast black men that wanted to date a black woman. They were, you know, they weren't, they weren't kind of going to that next level of like finding the contestants that worked there. And that's why with Matt James and he was a.

He was, I mean, call it what it is. They, they rushed him to hire him as the lead during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. That to me doesn't deserve a pat on the back. That's like, we're fifth, we're 10 years too late. Let's just fix the problem now. And then with Jen. And people get very mad at me for saying this, but she's well known to be their third choice.

So they don't get like a cake from me that they, that they're finally having an Asian American lead when it wasn't even something that they were, they were literally like the day before going to have Daisy and Maria. Um, so it's like, I don't give them, you know, I don't give them ever any credit, but I think like you're saying, you have to, as an audience, you have to speak about these things because their change won't come unless the audience demands it.

And the change doesn't need to be superficial. It needs to be deeper and better, um, casting situations where you can really get people that live in these worlds of, of diversity and live in a world where they can see themselves dating somebody either Of their race or outside their race, like the conversation happens because of the lack that we see on the screen.

So it's not like, it's not like the audience is like, you know, cause some people will make it seem like, Oh boy, you know, you make everything about race and it's like, well, it doesn't have to be if the conversation is already happening, but it's just a response to the, to that lack that we see out there and, um, So when you talk about like DEI for, for people in the audience that might have a misconception of what it is, or, or just the idea behind it, the simple term people use is diversity higher, which takes away from any merits someone would have.

So what are your thoughts on DEI? And have you noticed that that's sort of incorporated into the casting process in a way that it wasn't before? Yeah, that's a good question, and I actually will say, what they're doing with the casting on Grant's season does make me feel a little bit optimistic, because I think, When we talk about DEI in the world outside of The Bachelor, like, so much of the issue of making workplaces, organizations, spaces, like, actually reflective of the diversity of the country and, like, who they're supposed to be speaking to and who they're supposed to be representing is that through, like, myriad systemic issues, there's just not that pipeline of candidates who might think, like, this is for me, or have historically been like, this is not a place for me, and kind of laying the groundwork to Make sure that those candidates are like in the pipeline and creating a robust pipeline because it's not going to be like and if you build it They will come situation which I think has been the bachelors excuse for a while like plenty of people of color I'm sure are watching the show and say like well, they only go for you know, white people who look a certain way And I think that starting the casting process really early for grant season and being really explicit like that people are applying for grant has been a really pleasant surprise to me actually in terms of like if we're thinking about broader DEI like creating a pipeline of like not only people who are really specifically excited to be there for grant but like giving yourself the time to actually like probably like talk and sift through more applications and talk to people Who maybe, you know, in a past year, like wouldn't have applied or do that outreach with him.

So I think that that's actually like a good example of something that you could be doing. And I think there's also, I mean, I was talking to my friends and I think, I think this made it into the final cut of the article. I'm actually not sure, but this season was the first time I've ever seen a conversation on screen about faith where neither faith was Christian or like based in Christianity.

I'm Jewish, and I think it's very interesting to see the show's relationship to religions outside of sort of this like vague Christianity. Um, but between Jeremy and Jen, we had a conversation where Jen is Buddhist, Jeremy is Jewish, and to like actually have a faith based conversation where neither faith was Christian was like, I love it.

To me, I was like, Oh, wow. I actually feel represented. I feel like I saw lots of comments about that as well. You know, and it's like, and it's like for the producers, don't be afraid to take those risks just because your audience might have the, the, the largest demographic might be in evangelical South. It doesn't mean your audience can't play up to the level of learning about Buddhist culture or learning about, uh, you know, what a Vietnamese meal looks like on a hometown day.

Like, like let's all. Play to that higher intelligence. But I love what you mentioned about DEI and the pipeline of casting. It's kind of like this. I always look at like the term DEI, which is a term they're probably going to have to rebrand because it's already been sort of weaponized. But I look at that as like, well, you're just trying to find out.

Like if you're going to do a race, you want to bring as many contestants to the starting line to find out who's the fastest person. If seven white guys win the gold medal, well, clearly, you know, we're not inviting everyone to the race. So it's not about like the equity of outcome wherever, or excuse me, it's not the equality of outcome where everyone, um, it, you know, it's, it's, it's predetermined.

It's the, it's the equity of opportunity. And when you take Grant What they basically did was they ruined the surprise of who the Bachelor is going to be in exchange for trying to get more people to want to submit to be on his season. So you, you burn the element of surprise and people go, Oh, why are they surprising us?

But then they're going to get 50, 000 new submissions and they really just need to find five. They need five great people. The rest are filler villains and this and that. So yeah, it's a little early to make our speculations, but. All signs point to they're finally, um, doing the work to cast better people for the lead.

We have to admit, I mean, Jen's, Jen's men were not cast for her. Who knows if it would have been different, but like, if they weren't there for her, You could almost understand the morale of the room was like not all hyped up in in the competitive juices weren't there for her So like that's not her fault if I if people were expecting grant and then they got me they'd be like We don't want this white podcaster guy.

We wanted the tall finance guy, you know, so it's really um It's really about them stepping up to like getting the best People there because the show is so dependent on the great characters Um, so When, so your mate, your article, we've talked about a bunch of different things, but your article talks about the election.

So make your case for how the bachelor could sway the election. Because I found that very interesting in an election that could be decided by tens of thousands of votes. Yeah, well, first of all, I mean, This is like, key programming for at least the Harris Falls campaign to be, uh, advertising against. And I'm very curious, I would love to actually hear from your viewers.

So here in New York, I don't think we saw any Harris Falls advertising. This makes sense, we are not a swing state. Um, But I know that they did a huge spend on the Golden Bachelorette. They did this huge spend, I think, on the End of Gen season. So clearly, like, somebody over there was like, this, you know, demographically is important to us.

I think it was the shows that they were targeting outside of, like, political programming. So, you know, outside of your Fox News, MSNBC, whatever, you know, it was like The Simpsons. The bachelorette and like love and hip hop Atlanta, which I thought was very interesting. Um, but I think to kind of like the larger point in terms of what this means for the election, a really interesting sort of shift to me was that I, at least my perception of bachelor contestants was they are conservative until proven.

That's why like a Becca Kufrin is a, uh, A pleasant surprise, right? Because that's somebody where you're like, oh, this is a person who's fairly outspoken about politics, which I think is also like still relatively new. Like a lot of them are very, you know, I think representative of the American electorate and that they're like people who are from, you know, maybe the South, more middle America, who are not super politically.

Engage, which is fine. I think that's just like a good chunk of the American electorate at large Um, but I always like a bachelor contestant is conservative until proven not And I actually do think that that has switched up a bit over the last few years like the Garrett thing was such a big deal because that was obviously like indirect conflict with Becca's stated politics, but If we think about, I can name at least a few contestants over the past season or two who have allegedly been liking some right wing posts.

Um, I saw a Reddit rumor that one person who had been liking right wing posts and following right wingers did go onto Kamala's page and like every single post on there within a few hours. I have not independently verified that. If that's true, I think that is a very funny thing to do, but I do think that that is telling, right?

Like that, It is, oh, like, there's always going to be conservatives on The Bachelor, but it used to be such a big, like, it became a big deal when somebody was actually vocally conservative, and now people are like, oh, we know this to be true about conservatives and people on The Bachelor who are conservative, but it is now given, I think, amongst at least the, a slim majority of the fanbase, that that is not something they Agree with yeah, you know you see you do see this like sort of cultural divide because to be fair garrett was kind of called out for Problematic things that I would say don't necessarily Align with conservative values.

They were just like asshole like you could call them racist anti immigration types of things which which by the way with the current rhetoric would line up with Uh political issues like there's a lot of political issues that are weaponized And I like I would like do you think Do you think of a contest?

Cause I'm, like I said, I actually live in Tennessee now. I've lived here just for this year. I was in Los Angeles and I was, um, up in, uh, you know, Hamilton Heights near Columbia, I think is where you went to school, right? I was up there on one 40th. Like I was in, Oh my God, I used to be at one 41st. No way.

We were probably going to the same, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, plantain guy that sold, uh, whatever I filed the street meet on the corner. Uh, but I love, I, but so I come, I've kind of like as an adult lived in very blue. cultures, uh, politically speaking, but I do look and I always try to look in the other direction of like, um, sort of like what's, what would be so wrong if someone was just standard conservative, like, it almost feels like the bachelor contestants are in hiding because I think a lot of conservative values have been hijacked by the MAGA movement.

So it's almost like, are you conservative or are you MAGA? Because there are different, you know, if so, you know, and again, I do think the, I do think the, the old school conservative party has been hijacked and is dead. If someone's conservative because they want to spend less money on foreign wars, it's like, okay, but that's not what the Republican party wants to do.

You know? So it, it, it is. There, there, there could be so many more rich conversations, but I think we're so quick to judge what someone's values are, especially these people are in their, you know, early twenties, where they probably still have like residual values left over from their parents in some of these cases, you know, so I just look at it and I go was, I mean, was Garrett a horrible person?

I'm sure not because Becca stuck with him for a little bit, but then you get that, but then you get that pressure to go, are you going to change? Are you going to be better? Are you going to learn? So someone like Rachel Kirk Connell goes, she gave the most honest answer, which was, I had no idea what my blind spots were.

And I think as bachelor nation has shown, when you let somebody, when you give somebody the room for growth and take away ego and defensiveness, they're going to come to the side of, yeah, no planting. Plantation parties were super racist and super whatever, but I just had no idea, you know, so like I do, I do love when bachelor audiences reward the contestants for get for having that space to grow.

But as we see, sometimes. The answer the response from a bachelor contestant is to double down on their ego and double down on whatever their toxic belief is so it definitely but it definitely creates a what side are you on conversation every year when that when that when they announced the contestants and and we have to know I guess.

We have to know the political leanings of the lead to know what kind of contestants are going to want to choose So do you think now they're asking these sorts of questions in casting like politically before they even get that far? Do you think they enjoy the fact that this kind of comes out dramatically during this during the seasons?

Yeah, so my understanding actually reporting the story is that they do ask that I think that they Are asking this already of contestants. I think they have been for A little while, I think, and this is based off, a little on what I've heard, I mean, I think that probably a lead could come in and say like, I don't want to date any Republicans, I don't want to date any leftists, I think it's a question of like, whether that statement will be completely I think it's completely true.

Abided to, right? Because we were saying like, maybe they'll cast five people who they're like, these are people who are probably politically in the same sphere as this person, very much third type from what they've told us, geographically convenient, right? And then maybe they'll like, cast a few people who think very differently, I think, that And as to your point, some of the politics have amplified around, you know, race or racist statements, for instance, like we saw at least one person on Rachel Lindsay's season who came in with some pretty bad, uh, racist comments earlier.

And I think that perhaps the next step would be the understanding that just, like, politics have become so heightened that casting somebody who is opposite politically from the lead will not just like create drama, but like actual trauma. Oh yeah. Especially when they're so far like opposite that they're literally saying racist things and posting.

Yeah. Like, like Lee's situation was like, obviously one that should always be avoided because there's no nuance in those like, Oh, are you for like small business? You know, there's no nuance there. Um, and I feel like in most cases, Audiences are pretty reasonable from like some like a contestant having said something nine years earlier and apologizing for it.

And versus like, what are your beliefs now? You know, when you, when you talk about the election, I, I, like I said, in Tennessee, I'm shocked when I, when I get a Kamala Harris ad, because this is like a deep red state, but even a deep red state is still 6535. Like it's not 100 zero. So. You know, I wonder, I wonder if the, if, uh, you know, even though a state might not swing in one direction or the other for the president, if they're just still trying to slowly chip away at the, at, at that base and slowly start to grow.

I know in Texas, the democratic party wasn't really investing much money in the races there, but now they're showing it's actually not a. foregone conclusion that it'll go red. It'll, it's like leaning red, but there's like a Senate race that's up in the air. And like you mentioned with, um, in Atlanta reality show, like that's, yeah, if you're the bachelor you, or if you're Kamala Harris, you want to be advertising on a show that's going to have a good niche audience in Georgia.

I mean, yeah, we're talking 10, 000 votes decided can decide the election. And, um, And for, I think in the article you mentioned that, uh, Joey Graziede was probably like, tell me about that. You think, you think Kamala's team used him as like a campaign like strategy? So this actually predated her being the candidate.

This is what's really interesting to me. So this was right after his season had aired. So it wasn't like a preseason promo, but it was still at this point, Biden was the presumptive nominee. Cause this is back over Valentine's day. Like it was a Valentine's day tie. And I actually will say, I do think that the current white house and especially now, like the Harris falls team has been really adept at using influencers, um, and online celebrities to make a dent and reach people.

Um, I mean, we saw there was like an influencer pen at the DNC, right? All these influencers. And I think that that's, uh, like, I think that's generally a very smart way to reach younger people. I know also, like, the Trump campaign has been doing this as well with, like, different podcasts, um, and doing different things with different influencers.

But the Joey thing, I can't stress this enough, happened before Kamala was, uh, The nominee. Like, he was at the White House basically doing, like, a cute Valentine's Day video, and I think there's such interesting resonance to that now, because he did the video with Doug, um, Hop, who I think has now kind of spawned his own parasocial following, and Doug is, like, asking him for pointers on presenting a rose, and Joey's like, you're doing great, and then he presents it to Kamala, and the fact that a Bachelor may have literally presented.

Arose to the future president of the United States is crazy, like, I don't know and it's funny too because one thing that actually inspired me to do this article is like, as people might be able to tell, I Followed the Bachelor subreddit and on the subreddit people were like, oh my god, this is so fun This is so cute.

Like go Joey Love this and then he posted on Instagram like he co posted I think with like the VP's office or whatever and all of the comments because Joey's following is I think more representative of perhaps like Bachelor viewers, the Redditors, shout out to all of you. I think there may be, um, people who are a little more invested and a little more like deep in the pit freaks.

Um, but like Joey's followers, it's like, oh, I watched The Bachelor. I think Joey's cute. I will follow him. And a lot of the comments on that were people posting like puke emojis, being like, Joey, I thought you were better than this. Um, and to me, I was like, what an interesting display of the ways that this, like, fandom is still torn, you know?

Oh, no, you're, I, I see it firsthand because like I said before, you're not going to meet someone more progressive than I am when it comes to the, the policies I want for our country and the sort of like base level. Minimum wage, social programs and everything else raised by single mom, like, like, think we all, you know, could use a helping hand.

The rich don't pay enough to help the poor. That's where I stand. And I also think Jesus would have stood the same way, which is why I always rail against religious people to go like, look, Jesus is on my side here or whatever religion people want, like the sides on helping helping your neighbor. But I see my audience.

As across the spectrum from pretty far, right? I mean, this year I teamed up with a very Right leaning lady journalist, uh, as we cover the Clayton Eckerd case, and it ruffled a lot of feathers of my audience on my left. And I always just say this, like, Chris Harrison, his whole scenario, like you said, kicked off a big sort of chain of events that has led to a lot of change in, in, in, um, in the Bachelor world.

But. I think and I disagree with what Chris Harrison said, but I think if he was doing a long form conversation and not a 12 minute extra TV interview that he wouldn't have been so rushed and he would have prosecuted his point better that he was trying to make, which is that times change even over the last couple of years, times have changed a lot from what was acceptable.

Uh, not necessarily to the, to, to certain groups, but, but like, we look at Perez Hilton. We look at like, we used to accept horrible treatment of Britney Spears from Barbara Walters. So like from 2020 down to Paris Hilton, uh, 2020, the program. Journalists. There was a lot of blood ethically on people's hands from the way things were treated.

So I understand what Chris Harrison was trying to say, but he didn't do a good job of that. And I think what we're seeing now is channels like mine, channels like Game of Roses, channels that can say, you know what, we'll take two hours to talk about this are having more success than the 22nd TikTok video of A Joey handing a rose over and then getting the puke emoji.

Rose puke emoji is not like deep conversation. So I do think it's easier to get along and exist with people. You may disagree with. Um, because look, in the world we live in, you got to go out to, like, I love Pete Buttigieg, a pretty blue guy, right? I love that he goes on Fox News. You have to go and talk to people that don't already have your vote.

And the bachelor has that opportunity because it does have. A following like we started talking about. That is monolithic. That is not just niched down into, you know, uh, you know, this love is blind might, you know, might be this way. Political leaning versus whatever it is across the spectrum, the show itself wants nothing to do with politics, right?

Because they want to capture as many audiences possible to the point where I think I was the only one calling this out. I don't think anyone else called this out. There was a big race topic and the show did not address it on the after the final rose to the point where I think it led to Michelle Young calling them out.

Then the show addressed it on their podcast. So the podcast leans left just like Reddit leans left. So this, the show was able to not, not ruffle feathers with their They're sort of like 8 p. m. Whoever watches it live conservative audience and then, and then let, let the podcasters speak to their audience, which I think is like spineless, but I'm not surprised.

So you just get to see, you get to see the different factions of audience that listen and watch from different bubbles. And I think. The longer you're willing to speak to the bigger audience, the more reasonable people are. But just like Joey had the puke emoji, I get it all the time. I mean, I, I was, I, I, um, I, I had some pretty progressive videos last month that really, I lost hundreds of followers over that.

And then at the same time, I have the re the subreddit thinking I'm some conservative. You know, whatever they want me to be. So like there is so much, um, weaponization on the far ends of like an inability to have a conversation. I try to reject that for the 90 percent that I think are reasonable enough, including my Republican friends that'll still hear me talk.

Maybe one day they'll say, you know what, Dave, you got a point, but I'm not writing them off. And I wish the audience wouldn't write off people that might disagree that they might disagree with and just give people a chance to educate each other. I don't know. Maybe, maybe that's. Way too optimistic to look at in the, in the heightened political world we live in.

What do you think? Yeah, I don't know. I think that when all of the Chris Harrison stuff went down, I think it did evoke sort of a wider Issue in like the US political and not even just like political but like day to day landscape because like everything is obviously inherently political where it's kind of like I think there was almost a sentiment among people, especially people who watch The Bachelor.

Again, white women, speaking as a member of the community myself, where it's like if you find the one person who has caused this stripe, we can make some sort of change. And I think that that You know, when you look at the Chris Harrison stuff, the show sent him out as a representative. He said the things that he said that I think were personally incredibly jarring to hear.

And then the show was like, we have fired Chris Harrison. And I think he's like spoken about this too, where it's like, Chris Harrison is the host of your show, you know? He is one person. He, in fact, does not actually like control. I think every single aspect of the casting process and the choices that you've made and who you've chosen to platform.

Right. And I think looking at that during that same era, I was talking to Chad about this from Game of Roses and he does some really interesting stuff, talking to his right leading family. Um, and talking about very like polar opposites and, um, Like that moment feeling very, and during like the Trump era, especially like everything feeling so dire politically, like to your point, obviously like the MAGA movement has continued.

I think that there was a sentiment in. The 2020 election, right? That if we got this one guy out of office, right? We're going to fix everything. Um, which is just not really how like, I think anything. That's using a bandaid to fix something where you need to like really fix it from the inside out. And just like you were saying, I mean, Chris Harrison, that's like not liking, uh, the Presidential policies and firing the, um, you know, the press secretary.

It's like, but by all means, it could significant, it could, it could imply further change, but I think it was, like you said, people thought they just got the, the, the, the bad thing. And, and then it took still a few more seasons where I think at some point they finally hired a, a black producer, uh, you know, that they didn't have, so they weren't, you know, telling the stories in the right way to even start in, you know, so yeah, it's a, it's a good point that like these These conversations require, um, you know, it doesn't end.

There's no, there's no finish line to the conversations and those that might find it exhausting. You know, they might just have the privilege where it doesn't affect them. You know, it might not affect them to have a conversation about something so simple as, you know, um, making sure there's Equity of opportunity within the show, but I do think it'll make for a better version of the show.

Um, we got to get you going here, but uh, where can people where can people find you? I've really enjoyed if anyone hasn't already check out your business insider article But um, you definitely should talk more about the bachelor nation As sort of you know as it parallels to the uh to the uh, sort of demographics But I can't wait to hear your thoughts after the election.

Yeah. Oh my gosh Oh boy. Um You Yeah. But where can people find me? Um, I think I'm technically still on Twitter. I'm like, I have to check. I mean, you can find me primarily on businessinsider. com, Giuliana Kaplan. And I think my Reddit handle is actually the same. You found me via my work Reddit. Um, so you'll see me asking people all the time if they want to chat.

Uh, so feel free to reach out to me there. If you think you have a story I should look into. And on Twitter, it's at Juliana M. Kaplan. Um, yeah, but read businessinsider. com. Just go on the website, click on every single story. Yeah, it could, and it could, you know, it could be that your article was, uh, the thing that changed the election.

It could be that close. We'll have to see. I hope, I hope it's not that close, but we'll have to see. But great. Oh my God. Yeah. Any predictions that you want to make on, on which way it's going to go? No, I actually, this is my grounding exercise and I hope that it provides perhaps some comfort to everyone else.

Which is that, you know, obviously as a reporter, keeping up with the polling, keeping up with what the sides are saying, covering all of that. Um, as a human who exists in the world, I have just been doing a go back four years. To this month or like this time and think about how crazy like things changed day to day, you know Because I remember going into the 2020 election season february 2020 bernie sanders is like the presumptive Democratic nominee, you know people are saying Oh, it seems like trump will probably win again and then famously some other stuff happened in march of 2020 and I would say that so many unprecedented things happened every single month that I'm just like If there is one thing I have learned from my last presidential election 2020 is I will make no predictions because untold chaos Will probably unspool before we actually get there and I actually think that this theory has really held up Because I was on vacation and there had been a lot of talk about biden potentially stepping down from being the nominee Which I was following I didn't have like a ton of inside lines on that or anything, but I was like, I'm pretty sure if he would, it would happen during this time while I was on vacation.

So I, like, messaged my editor and I was like, I bet he's gonna step down while I'm on vacation. And in fact, instead there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. So I was like, even when I have made my prediction about the crazy thing that I think is going to happen, something is I hadn't even imagined happen.

So no prediction. I think just think about where, how you felt in September of 2020 and then how that changed between then and November of 2020 because of the sheer number of things going on. And then maybe use that as your grounding exercise. Yeah, that sounds great. Uh, I really appreciate hearing your thoughts and we'll have to have you back after the election.

And, uh, thanks again for stopping by to chat with me today. Yeah. Thank you so much. I was so excited. I was actually like at a WNBA game when you emailed me with a bunch of my bachelor squad and I was like, guys, guys, Dave Neil, just email me. Well, I'm happy you responded. Thanks again. Have a good one. Okay.

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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.

And for, and don't forget, you might be new out there. We have a lot of new people. If you're new out there on Fridays, we, we walk out of our job. Put both middle fingers in the air. Like it's a poo Keno behind us. And we tell our boss to go fuck themselves. Have a good one. I'm Dave Neal. This is a twice daily pop culture and entertainment news podcast hosted by standup comedian, Dave Neal lives too short for a boring ride.

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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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9-26-24 Afternoon Rush - Golden Bachelorette Recap & NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks Following Bribery Charges & Diddy's Lawyer Says He Will Testify!

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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 Thursday afternoon to you on the Rush Hour. It's September 26th, 2024. I've got all of your pop culture in one place. On today's Afternoon Rush, Hoda Kotb announces she's leaving the Today Show.

Plus, Eric Adams speaks after being the first New York City mayor under federal indictment. Brad Favre thanks fans for his support after revealing he has Parkinson's disease and a Bizarre Dancing with the Stars Puff Daddy conspiracy. Plus, Diddy's lawyer says he expects Diddy to take the stand and testify during his trial.

And speaking of Diddy, Costco released a statement saying they don't Diddy's lawyer says he expects Diddy to take the stand and testify during his trial. carry baby oil. What a time to be alive. Plus I've got my thoughts on last night's heartfelt episode of golden bachelorette, all this and more coming up next on the rush.

Well, they can't all be winners. According to variety, Francis Ford Coppola's 120 million budgeted Megalopolis Could open to disappointing five million bucks. His sci fi epic Megalopolis, by the way, that's just the worst title. I can't even pronounce it. Uh, the director's self funded passion project is tracking to a disappointing 5 million to 7 million bucks off his debut.

What did he go to the Kevin Costner school of funding your own. The film, released by Lionsgate, is expected to play at 1, 700 North American theaters in its opening weekend. A single digit start would be underwhelming for a movie that cost above 100 million to make. It's got a lot riding on it because the 85 year old godfather and Apocalypse Now director ended up independently financing the film.

Uh, boy, after its Cannes Film Festival premiere, Lionsgate's production team mark of the movie in exchange for a distribution fee. So either way, is it good or not? We'll have to find out. I'll let you guys know, but you know, when it's getting pressed before it even comes out, that can't possibly be a good thing.

All right. Well, in other news, we've got, uh, Oh, this is interesting. We have an Olympic update here. We love a good Olympic update. Do you remember the viral Korean sharpshooter? Well, she, uh, she, you know, was, you know, memed as far as they loved how badass she looked shooting. Well, she took an Olympic, she took home Olympic silver medal for South Korea.

And now she's bringing her fierceness to the screen. That's right, she's set to star as an assassin in an upcoming series. I mean, that's kind of cool. After her stone cold expression went viral at the Paris Olympics, sharpshooter Kim Yee Ji will play the role of an actual assassin in an upcoming Korean series.

She was pegged by Korean entertainment company Asia Lab to star in a new multinational short form series called Crush. Alongside Indian actor Anushka Sen, Kim Kim will play an assassin in the story, a spinoff of the star studded Asia. Well, very interesting stuff there. Well, now we've got an update from Brett Favre.

As we announced, uh, the last couple of days, Brett Favre has announced that he has Parkinson's disease. He said it doesn't run in his family and he can only assume it is from head trauma from playing football. Well, he thanks fans for support. Here's what he had to say. It's Brett. I just want to thank everyone for your support.

After the news that I had Parkinson's when I was tested by him, uh, at Congress. Unbelievable show of support and I want you to know I truly appreciate it. Hopefully this will shed some light on concussions and, and head trauma and, and also Parkinson's. There's a lot of people that are out there with it.

Some know it, some don't know it. So, it can happen to anyone at any time. So again, thank you for your support. I really appreciate it. You know, it's wild stuff because Brett Favre, it's like, look, he threw his body on the line and you know, you, you, you see people that they have a bad knee or a bad hip, they limp, they're in their forties and they can barely walk.

You got. linemen that have broken every finger in their body, but when it comes to head trauma, I mean, that is the real deal. Well, not everybody believes in it, which this is the most idiotic take ever. Steve Austin, stone cold Steve Austin says, I'm not a CTE guy. Just don't believe in it. Now this is, this is what I hate about People, there's, there's some people that can just not have empathy for others unless it's happened to them.

You know, maybe they don't struggle with addiction. Maybe they don't know what it's like to have your heart broken, you know, and if it doesn't happen to them, it's just, it just can't possibly exist. So you might remember Chris Benoit. He was a wrestler who killed his wife. And his son and then himself in two thousand and seven.

Well, um, WWE instituted a wellness policy and Ben was brain was studied for science. CTE started to become more researched in the world of sports headed up by former pro wrestler, Chris Nowinski. Now also there was a case where I think it was junior say out, uh, had taken his own life, the football player, former Patriot.

And he. You know, uh, uh, you know, I guess I had CTE, you don't find out till afterwards in a lot of cases, uh, what that drop that, um, trauma actually looks like, well on Mr. McMahon, which I believe is the new, that new Netflix show coming out, Benoit's death was covered and Nowinski discussed the effects of CTE, Steve Austin gave his thoughts.

This is what Steve had to say. I worked for a long time. I got dropped on my head, uh, on time. I got concussed. Other than that, I can't remember having too many concussions in the business of pro wrestling. My take on that has always been, if you were just wrestling and you got a bunch of concussions, you're probably doing something wrong.

I'm not a CTE guy. Just don't believe in it. Yeah. Look, if you're playing football and you get hit in the head hard, You might be doing something wrong. It's called playing the sport. It happens. How ridiculous of a take. And like, he doesn't know if he has CTE or not. You know, it comes out with rage. It comes out with depression.

It's got all, you know, it's, it's like, it's the brain not being able to function the way it's supposed to. So, uh, luckily we don't really care what Steve Austin has to think or say about the matter. Let's hope that he doesn't have to suffer with some of the things that Brett Favre will be going through.

Alright, well, uh, an important update on Diddy, uh, he says I'm eating fine at chow time, no one is trying to poison me. I guess there was this thought that because he was in this specific prison, I guess they're calling it the MDC, uh, metropolitist jail. Metropolitan Detention Center, I'm guessing. I don't know if that's what it's called.

But a source close to Diddy says that he's eating okay, whereas multiple outlets reported Diddy stopped eating behind bars because he's paranoid about someone poisoning his food. While he's eating normal jailhouse food like any other inmate, the music mogul received no special treatment. Look, you know, Here's the thing.

I, I, I never want to go to prison. I don't think I've done anything illegal, but do they get streamers? I've always wondered this. If you, if, if they have TV in prison, I think I could survive the first year. Okay. Now hold me out. Hold on. I haven't seen breaking bad. I haven't seen the wire. Like there's a lot of TV.

I haven't gotten through yet. If the food's okay. And the screens, not too bad. Now, if my room has a window without the right curtains and there's like a reflection on the screen, that could be, that could be annoying, but you know, some of these, some of these low, uh, you know, these, uh, these prisons, they actually, I mean, I'm not calling it a spa day by any means.

I'm just saying, you know, uh, not to make light of the situation here, but if you got to be in prison, you might as well, like. Go to the gym, get your steps in, do a lot of pushups and, you know, eat the food. All right. Well, um, I mean, I mean, look, and I think Diddy should for sure pay for whatever crimes he does.

We'll be here to cover it all. Well, in a bizarre dancing with the stars, Diddy crossover, Reginald Ville Johnson, AKA Carl Winslow. from Family Matters, remember him, uh, responded to rumors that he was at some of these parties. Here's what he had to say. Hey, Mr. Bill Johnson, how you doing, sir? Bizarre story that's circulating about you and Diddy.

Some guy named Loose Cannon told this story about you and Diddy. That's all bullshit. I don't know that man. I haven't met him before. I wish him well, though. What's your message to those who are talking about it and actually think Get off the group. What's your message to him? Loose Cannon? Get a life. So his message To people talking is get a life.

So look, I mean, I'm not here to open up any wounds, but it's, it's almost like a wild goose hunt right now for. Celebrity entertainment news to catch who was at Diddy's parties, you know, Ashton Kutcher, uh, you know, there's rumors coming out that he's having a hard go at his relationship with Mila Kunis because he was at the parties and who really knows what's true.

Well, comedian Loose Cannon claimed he once stumbled onto a freak off sex romp where Diddy had Reginald, um, Urkel behind closed doors. That's what he said. That's what he said. Now, is there any validity to this? Let's just go ahead and take Reginald's word for it that he never met the guy and it was all just made up.

If, if there is ever a scenario where it is made up, it would be that one just because it was a comic trying to, you know, make some weird Steve Urkel joke. I don't know. It's bizarre. The story's going to be bizarre. We have an update from Costco regarding the Diddy story. We'll have that for you after a quick word from our sponsor.

All right, leave it to Costco to enter the ring here following Diddy's lawyer mentioning maybe the thousand bottles of lube came from Costco. He buys in bulk. Well, now Costco has responded. Uh, a spokesperson for Costco tells TMZ, none of the company's U. S. liquid locations carry baby oil, even though Diddy's attorney, Mark Agnefilo, told us the rap mogul might have bought the item in bulk at the members only warehouse retailer.

So I guess it wasn't the Costco's like, we don't want anything to do with it. They're like, we, you can buy muffins in bulk, but not baby oil. Uh, by the way, Costco. literally made me go broke. My wife cannot stop shopping there. The problem with Costco is every week they have new clothes. And look, I was the first one to say, I'm never buying clothes at Costco.

Now I get all my socks at Costco. Okay. So they're slowly creeping into my world. Some of my t shirts come from Costco and I just bought a Costco hoodie, um, and pant. Uh, uh, sweatshirt, sweatpant combo, which I plan on wearing on my, uh, airplane flight on Tuesday to New York city where I have a standup show October 1st, a New York comedy club.

You can come get tickets to that show. Hit me up on Instagram. I've also got shows October 11th. In Portsmouth, Rhode Island at the Rogue Island Comedy Festival, which I will be selling tickets to that too. You can get tickets on my Instagram bio, or just ask me where to buy tickets and I'll let you know.

So lots of shows coming up, you can catch me in my Costco outfits. Now, uh, to take a little bit more of a serious note here. There's an emotional clip being shared of Justin Bieber, who was mentored by Diddy, getting emotional when he said he vowed to protect Billie Eilish from industry. Now people have wondered, you know, how Justin's coped with all of this because, you know, I mean, in some ways, you know, Just from the videos that have unearthed from Diddy.

I mean, the guy, the guy was a monster in plain sight, right? I mean, in some ways, uh, you know, Bieber might not have been subjected to this, but he also came into the industry before there was a lot of protections for child stars. And he was the biggest pop star in the world at the time. Here's what he had to say as he got emotional thinking of how he wanted to protect others.

Yeah. Um,

did you feel protective of her? Yeah, I definitely feel protective of her. Um, It was hard for me being that young and being in the industry and not knowing where to turn. And everyone, you know, telling me they love me and, you know, just turn their back on you in a second. Um, so, yeah, it's, it's hard because I want her to know that, you know, she can count on me, but at the end of the day, I don't want to, I'm never going to force myself to be in a relationship with her.

It has to be natural, right? So I just kind of, you know, let her do her thing. And if she ever needs me, I'm going to be here for her. But, um, but yeah, just protecting those moments because people take for granted, uh, encounters and, um,

Yeah. So, um, yeah. I just, um, I just want to protect her, you know? So you just, you just see the collateral damage that comes from entertainment world and the pressures put on people, not just in their youth, but the pressures and the sort of, the sort of, the lecherous nature of Uh, who's a star and who can, you know, take from each other.

And Diddy was really good at putting himself in the right position to always be powerful. And when you have the wrong mindset behind that power, that's where, you know, it can get dangerous. But hey, he's gonna have his day in court. You know, he's going to have a chance to defend himself. Actually, his attorney spoke out and said he will testify in his criminal case.

I think we'll probably be live streaming this on YouTube. We'll probably be covering all this, assuming it'll be public information. But here's what his attorney had to say. I have interviewed a lot of people for this documentary and a lot of them have said game over after they saw the Cassie video.

Does this tell you to put him on the stand and explain it? I, I don't know that I could keep him off the stand. By the way, the Cassie video was a video that just recently emerged before he was, uh, actually indicted. And that video was a brutal. Surveillance video from a hotel of Diddy getting super violent kicking punching dragging.

I mean, it was I mean In the fact that this happened years ago, and he was able to keep this under wraps pretty scary stuff I think he is very eager to tell his story and I think he will tell every part of his story Including what you see on the video. So I expect it's gonna be explained by the both of us It's kind of breathtaking that what you're telling me is that Diddy is going to take the stand and he will be cross examined about this video, about the violence in the video, about the freak offs, about allegedly blowing up a car, all of those things.

That feels kind of dicey. He has his story and he has a story that I think only he can tell in the way he can tell it in real time. And it's a human story. It's a story of, of, of love. It's a story. I'm going to cut there. This is atrocious. I don't know what this lawyer is talking about, but you know, lawyers, they're paid to defend their client.

And we'll have to see what the heck he's talking about. Because from what we saw did, he's a monster. That's for that's from what we saw. All right, let's move into a brighter story. Hoda Kotb, one of my favorite rays of sunshine on the today show announced that she's going to be leaving her co hosting role.

Here's what she had to say. So, um, I was doing the math and I realized that I have spent 26 years at NBC. Um, cool. Be cool, be cool. 26 years at NBC, 16 years on the 10 and 7 years with you. And I just turned 60. And it was such a monumental moment for me when I turned 60 years old because I started thinking about that decade.

Like, what does that decade mean? What does it hold? What's it gonna have for me? And I realized that It was time for me to, um, turn the page at 60 and to try something new. And I think I realized it, this was so crazy, but remember our 60th birthday that we had outside, it was so, I can see it. And I remembered standing outside looking at this beautiful bunch of people with all these gorgeous signs.

And I thought like, This is what the top of the wave feels like for me, and I thought it can't get better and decided that this is, this is the right time for me to to kind of move on. And then I thought about. Obviously I had my kiddos late in life and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my of my time pie that I have.

I feel like we only have a finite amount of time. So look, good for her. I mean, for prioritizing family over work, it's a got to be a grueling job. I mean, they're probably up at like 4am getting ready, right? They're on air at what, six or seven, 7am. So absolutely wild stuff. So she took over for Matt Lauer when he was fired in 2017.

And of course has been with the today show. And, and, you know, with NBC for a long time before that. So interesting stuff, interesting. I just never understood why, like, you know, if you want to retire, I think that's great, but a lot of times people just don't want the grueling schedule. So why not just do two or three days a week?

Why does it have to be such a grueling five day a week schedule? I don't know. Just a thought. Um, all right. Well, anyhow, uh, in some other stories here, we've got a fight happening. From the, uh, home run ball hit by show. Hey, Oh, Tony, there's a new lawsuit. The home run ball was, uh, the home run. He hit where he got 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases where he made history.

He's being considered, uh, even a better, uh, one of he's, he's, he's now considered a better quite possibly the best baseball player of all time. And the starting bid for this home run ball, it's going to be 500, 000. The only problem is a new lawsuit reports that they're trying to stop the proceedings because a man says that the home run ball was ripped out of his hands.

Uh, the plaintiff is an 18 year old man named Max Mattis. He's convinced he's the rightful owner of the baseball. Mattis alleges in his suit, according to Roval, that he had full control of the ball before Chris Bielanski wrongfully stole it from him during a scrum. Now, I guess that brings into question, yeah, at what point when a home run ball's hit and the ball's dinkin around in the stands and people are kind of ripping it out of each other's hands, at what point does it count as possession?

And honestly, I really don't know the answer. If there's footage of him holding it with one or two hands firmly holding it, and the other guy rips it out of his hands, you could argue it's his ball. And the fact that it's going to go for over half a million dollars means this is going to be a big deal.

And I think at the very least they need to look at whatever footage they can to see. Who's the rightful owner of the ball. If there is no footage and you can't tell, then I'm sorry. It's kind of like a finders keepers moment. You know what I mean? Um, either way I would not mind. I mean, that's going to be a very nice payday.

So good for whoever rightfully owns, you know, owns it. But uh, yeah, if there is one video angle of that ball getting ripped out of his hand, you might, you might have a case there. So we'll have to see how it all goes. Okie dokie. Well, I've got updates on Eric Adams, the New York City mayor. Possibly disgraced mayor.

I'll have what he has to say regarding his indictment. We'll have that story for you next. All right. I'm going to play a clip of New York city mayor, Eric Adams, discussing all of the new charges that came down on him, the U S attorney's office unsealed the 57 page indictment and sent out an accompanying press release announcing they've charged the mayor with campaign finance bribery in conspiracy.

charges. According to the indictment, Damien Williams, the U. S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, claims Adams sought and accepted improper, valuable benefits from foreign business people and at least one government official from Turkey looking to gain influence over him. He said when Adams became mayor, he provided favorable treatment to those who gave him these alleged benefits.

Here's what Eric Adams had to say. I want to thank you for being here this morning. And I want to thank the supporters of all ethnic groups that are here, particularly the men and women of the clergy that's here that have joined me here today. And we are not surprised. We expected this. This is not surprising to us at all.

The actions that have unfolded over the last 10 months. The leaks, the commentary, the demonizing. This did not surprise us that we reached this day. And I ask New Yorkers to wait to hear our defense before making any judgments. I'll do that. I'll wait to hear the defense. Although, you know, one of their arguments is that, well, because we said there's an immigration problem here, now they're trying to oust us.

But, you know, who knows if that's the case because they were under investigation for a very long time. Uh, yeah. So again, I mean, money doesn't lie. Did they take money from Turkey? And if so, do they provide favorable treatment to, uh, the Turkey consulate or the embassy, like what, what, what, you know, there's a lot of kind of questions going around.

They raided the Gracie mansion, New York city's official residence for the city's mayor on the Upper East Side. Well, we'll have to see how that all plays out. Now, speaking of a smile not being wiped off anybody's face, last night was Golden Bachelorette. I already did my full recap on the YouTube channel, but I just wanted to say words, uh, you know, just to Continue to say it's looking good.

Joan is doing a great job connecting with these guys. We had Charles share a heartbreaking story about how he lost his wife, who was always healthy, but lost her to a brain aneurysm, and he's finally getting back out there. It was just so heartbreaking and touching to see stories of, uh, Kelsey. Remember Kelsey?

She's, uh, engaged to Joey Grazde. Her father's on the show. Mark, and he shared his story about, you know, uh, trying to find love again. And, you know, it's just one story after another, not just stories of Joan with the men, but there's something about the camaraderie that the men have together. Last season on Gary Turner's season of the bachelor golden bachelor.

We got to see that where the women built a bond together and now we're seeing these men, you know, in a lot of cases, I feel like the older you get, you become a dad. you know, you become a granddad, you're always like the one in charge. And that, that can probably get kind of lonely at the top. If you think about it, uh, where now you've got basically 25 different grandpas, men in their fifties, sixties, and they're grilling together.

They're, I mean, It looks like they're having the time of their life and I'm truly cherishing as I watch all of that. And I expect you guys are too, uh, the ratings for the first episode weren't that great, but it was airing on a new night. And I do think the word of mouth is going to give a little bit of a boost.

I'd love to know your thoughts on all of it. Golden bachelorette related. I think Jones doing it. Excellent, excellent job, and I find it so heartwarming to have a nice show to watch that doesn't have too much fabricated drama, just good vibes. That's, that's what I'm all about right now. We need that ending 2024.

There's enough chaos out there with indictments and Diddy and Costco. Just give me good vibes for once. I'm loving it. And speaking of good vibes, can you believe we've already made it to the end of Thursday? We got through the hard part of the week. We're on cruise control, baby. We'll catch you in the morning.

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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. Good morning, everybody. Happy Thursday to you on this September 26th, 2024. Let's get into all of your news. On today's morning rush, New York city mayor, Eric Adams was indicted by a federal grand jury.

I'll explain what that means. Plus a breakdown on how much money these celebrities make on dancing with the stars could be a good payday for bachelor Joey or bachelorette, uh, Jen Tran. Uh, they could be making upwards of 300, 000 plus Alfonso Ribeiro discusses Anna Delvey's unceremoniously short lived stint on the show.

Plus, Diddy's lawyers speak out about why he owned so much lube and, uh, who he is roomed with on prison, in prison, along with a lot more Diddy updates and also Bachelor in Paradise star Brandon Jones. Responds to the allegations that he abused his ex Serene. He's got an update. He gave directly to his Instagram followers.

I'll play part of that for you. We'll have that story in so much more coming up next on the rush. All right. This first story is pretty crazy. It broke kind of late last night. New York city mayor, Eric Adams indicted by federal grand jury. Now I'll be honest. When I first saw this story, I just assumed it had something to do with Diddy.

I don't know why. I just assumed that he's got tapes on somebody. Well, maybe not New York city mayor, Eric Adams facing federal. Criminal charges. He's now the first New York City mayor to ever be charged while in office and is planning to surrender Next week according to the New York Post. Isn't that nice?

You don't have to surrender right away You can just take a nice little break or something Hey, they say if you can't get criminally indicted in New York, you can't get it anywhere, right? Is that how the song goes? The charges which are currently sealed are in connection with a federal probe and the indictment is expected to be unsealed Thursday morning.

The historic grand jury indictment was first reported by New York Times, but with the case still sealed It's unclear exactly what the allegations are against him. So some people are saying that it's It's got to do with, uh, campaign finances, receiving money from maybe some foreign countries. New York post is reporting the case is connected to allegations.

The Turkish government illegally funneled money into his campaign. Interesting. Mayor Adams is being prosecuted by the same U S attorney's office. That's trying to nail Diddy, the Southern district of New York. Now, if you've watched any good television, you know that the Southern district of New York is prosecuted.

Probably what the most powerful district in the country when it comes to charging people. So how this works out with the mayor, I mean, who knows? Well, we have to take away his key to the city as well. And good news for Jenna and Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum. They finally have settled their divorce after six years.

Boy, you'd think they could step it up and get this thing accomplished. Uh, you like that joke there? Jenna and Channing can finally breathe a sigh of relief and move on with their lives. Their divorce has finally been settled. Six long years after the actress first filed. Details of the settlement aren't public, but TMZ obtained the binding agreement they've signed.

Jenna and Channing have hashed out their assets, decided who gets what, and even settled on a child support arrangement. Yeah, I think he was trying to, uh, she was claiming he was trying to hide money, uh, from her with regards to how much money he made on magic Mike. Uh, but, or, or, or something like that.

Who knows? Either way. I guess. It's a good so they can move on with their life. How exciting. Well, let's get into the cost breakdown of dancing with the stars. As you guys know, we love to follow the show. I always knew the celebrities got paid a six figure amount, but now we're finding out exactly what that tiered program is.

Let's have a listen. You didn't know dancing with the stars. Celebrities make three times as much as the pros. So apparently the celebrities make 125, 000 as a base salary just for signing up for the show. They rehearse for about 20 hours per week, so if they get eliminated that second week, they're walking away with an easy 125, 000.

But there is incentive for staying extra weeks. For example, if they make it to weeks three and four, then they get a bonus of 10, 000 per week. The weekly bonuses go up from there, and if they make the semifinals or the finals, the bonus goes up to 50, 000 a week. So if a celebrity stays all the way through the finale, they have potential to make over 300, 000 for an 11 week season.

Meanwhile, the pros are reported to only make 1, 600 per episode. Now, if this person is a season pro, it can be up to about 5, 200 per episode. But their final income is capped at 100, 000 regardless of how far they make it in the show. And we have to keep in mind that the pros are the ones doing the choreography.

They have group dances they have to memorize. They're putting in a lot more hours than just 20 hours a week like the celebrities are. Yeah, but you know what? No one remembers the pros names. Now, I hate to be all cynical here, but uh, that's why they have to entice celebrities to show up. The pros are good at this.

These celebrities, they have to make an ass out of themselves. No, I think I'm all for fair wages here, but you know, there is a base pay when it comes to the SAG after deal for live performing. And it sounds like that's what they pay the dancers, which, you know, stinks. They should be getting paid more than 1600 an episode, but kind of interesting when you think about how much money these.

celebrities can make. I mean, look, you got to get people to want to do the show and you can't, people can't just take off six weeks or eight weeks of their life. I mean, some can trust me and no offense to Jen Tran or Joey Grazia day. I'm sure their schedules are, you know, uh, wide open right now for this type of gig.

This is perfect for them. And speaking of having a wide open schedule, Anna Delvey, um, of course, uh, did not make it past week two. Uh, she, I guess has to go back to New York where she, I think waits a trial to find out if she's going to be deported or not. She's wearing an ankle bracelet, and she's had to deal with a considerable amount of hate, uh, for being on the show.

Alfonso Ribeiro, uh, spoke about Anna Delvey gaining nothing from the Dancing with the Stars. Here's what he had to say on the talk. She spent the entire time Getting destroyed on social media. Right. And so like, but by the way, just don't read it on days where I can tell there's a hate campaign against me because believe it or not, it happens.

Just try your best to not read it, delete the apps and just go on with your life and you won't even notice. Right. I guess it was, it was an honest answer. Like, what am I going to take away from this? Hurt, pain, right? Suffering, right? Like, I, I, I feel for her because I, I really recognize the difficulty of the situation.

That experience, as you know, is life changing. It changed my life, it healed me in ways I never expected it to, and she could have had that. Absolutely. And for her to get up there, and I know it's probably only been, like, you know, maybe three weeks, like a week with the partner before, maybe even longer.

Ezra is an incredible dancer, an incredible friend, and an incredible dance partner. Yes. Yes. And I can only imagine what he gave to her in the weeks that they worked together. A lot. I think it was a disgrace that she said she got nothing. Wow. Absolutely. I really do. I can't disagree, right? Because we do know the experience.

The experience is great. This is life changing me, my life changing for Alfonso. I mean, he was best known as playing Will Smith's cousin on fresh Prince of Bel Air, the Carlton. Right. We loved it. Right. I loved him. And then he kind of came back and had a real career resurgence was such a fan favorite on dancing with the stars to the point where he became a host of the show.

I mean, I think he also hosts another, doesn't he also host America's funniest home videos? I mean, good, good on him. Life has changed. Yes. Greatly from that experience on that show. I mean, my career is back because of that show. I owe everything to that show. And partner Whitney, like Alan, forever friend.

Went to dinner last night together after the show, right? Alan's a forever friend. No question. I just, you know, you, you, you have to take, you have to understand that obviously, you know, we went a long way. Right? And it's hard to be first. It's hard to be the, no matter Look at Alfonso Ribeiro bringing grace and kindness into his answer.

Uh, his stock is soaring in my book. Every person I've ever talked to who was eliminated first, it is the most difficult position. She still remains the villain, Alfonso. Absolutely. She still remains the villain. No, you, you, you are first, right. But remain grateful. All right. Well, easy to say, easy to say, you know, but either way, good on Alfonso for sticking up for Anna Delvey when no one else would, uh, you know, that, Hey, that, that takes some, uh, mirror balls.

If you ask me, all right, we'll be back with more content right after this. You know, speaking about Dancing with the Stars, it's so funny what the luck of the draw is, right? If you're a new dancer, you can only hope to be paired with somebody that has some chemistry that you can keep dancing with, and you just really have no idea who that might be.

Uh, in this case for Anna Delvey, her dance partner, Ezra, was new, I guess, you know, as far as being a featured dancer this year. Here's what he had to say after he was eliminated. What will you take away from this experience since your partner said nothing? What are you going to take away from this competition?

Nothing. I learned a lot dancing with Anna, but I also got to see, like, how she is on the inside. And, like, she's really misunderstood, and I, I really think that. I think that with the cameras on and everything, she kind of closed herself off. Even though our journey was cut short, I think if we kept on going, everyone would have seen that softer side of her.

Even though she shows like, kind of like, a red side of herself, she also has a lot of yellow and orange. Like, she has so much to her. I loved getting to know her. We were so emotional about reading those comments and how it affected Anna. She Was reading the comments. We couldn't find her. They finally found her in the bathroom.

She was crying I've never seen her like that and it broke my heart just seeing the day to day how much it affected her really affected me I felt like the more positive positivity sent her way the more she would have started opening up. I really hope She can really find joy within herself. You know, it kind of feels like she was bullied by America.

No, hold on. I understand. She literally came to America and defrauded people and lied to people. I get it. But you know, I mean, what, what's the difference between. Anna Delvey, like, this whole, like, uh, fake it till you make it. Now, again, I know, she went to jail. So my point is, like, didn't she pay her price and pay her time?

I don't know. I would have liked to see a scenario where she makes it four or five more episodes, and we do get to see a different side of her. Uh, not knowing what that side is, my curiosity was interested in that. All right, well, Do you guys ever watch the show Nashville? It was one of my favorite shows back in the day.

Hayden Panettiere was on it and she played, um, a country musician with a drinking problem. Well, as it turns out in real life, she's also an addict. And here she is with Billy Bush speaking on her addiction struggles and finally asking for help. So much. You're having a child. You're what, 25 years old or something, right?

So, you know. All of a sudden, you're a mom. Would that be the time, would you say, around the birth of your child, that it was like social drinking became sort of a necessary crutch? Well, living in Nashville, in general, it's what they do. They're drinkers. I'm living my life around, I'm scheduling it around, my cocktail, the first cocktail that I have.

And I can't sleep. I, I've had a drink and when you're thinking about it all day long, that's, I knew it was a problem. Took those four years off and I am proud to say and relieved to say that I feel great. Hey. better than I have in all, in a long time. Life is about getting up. That's the one thing. Life's about getting up.

Yep. Where everybody falls and we all have shame and things that are, you're supposed to, but getting up. What would you attribute getting up to? How did you get up? How'd I get up? I asked for help. I finally said, you know, this is getting out of control. I don't want my, I don't see my life like this. Slept a few times, finally stuck with it for, um, eight months.

And I got over the hump was what they call it. I found myself again. Good for her, we're happy to hear I mean, it was ugly, it was getting really ugly, and, you know, she was I think had her kids taken away, right? And, you know, video of her publicly fighting, and, you know, just talk about Christ for help, so, hey, it just goes to show, we're all on this green earth here for different reasons, and we all fight different addictions, like, for me, You know, alcohol is not one of those things.

I had a show last night at a weed and beer bar. And you know what I did? I had a Diet Coke, you know, I'm not even sober. I just don't really, I don't know, you know, you know what, you know, what's drastically made me stop wanting to drink is doing the podcast twice a day. I'm not kidding. If anyone out there has an addiction, try podcasting twice a day.

Cause I literally, what am I going to do? I've recorded these episodes. It's 1230 AM, right? I had a show. Tonight, you're listening to this in the morning, just to take you behind the scenes. This is in 7 a. m. I'm recording it before I go to bed. My wife's in the other room, breastfeeding the baby. We're going to go wake up four times tonight.

It's been rough. The last thing I need is a, is a cold beer, uh, that's going to give me more calories to burn off. I don't know. Just me. Is that relatable to anybody? I don't know. Maybe not. But again, uh, not to, not to not have empathy cause that's just not my addiction. You know what I mean? And everyone's got a different itch to scratch.

Well, speaking of freaky addictions, we have a couple of Diddy updates. Here is, uh, I guess, uh, ABC world news with David Muir explaining who Diddy is rooming with in prison. Tonight in New York City, Sean Diddy Combs is now sharing jail space with FTX founder Sam Bankman Freed. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges of being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

He's been moved into the same unit with Freed, who was convicted of stealing billions from clients. That is cryptocurrency exchange. Honestly, I don't even mean to make a joke out of this. There is literally nothing more annoying than listening to some bro discuss Bitcoin. Imagine going to jail and you get roomed with a Bitcoin bro.

And you're like, bro, I don't want to hear about aetherium anymore. You're just getting a bed sheet to break out of prison. Why are you breaking out of prison? Cause I'm sick of hearing of Bitcoin. That's why. All right, Diddy. Well, uh, we have more updates from Diddy. This is actually from his lawyer, uh, trying to explain why he had so much baby oil.

Freak offs. But, you know, back when I was a kid in the late 70s, they were called threesomes. If these are genuinely threesomes, how do you explain a thousand bottles of baby oil? I don't know where the number a thousand came. The U. S. attorney said it. I can't imagine it's thousands. I mean, you know, and I'm not really sure what the baby oil has to do with anything.

They're essentially saying it's a lubricant for an orgy. I guess. I don't know what you need a thousand. One bottle of baby oil goes a long way. Yeah, that's the point. I don't know what you need to need a thousand for. I mean, he has a big house. He buys in bulk, you know, I think they have Costco's in every place where he has a home.

All right. So he's blaming it on the wholesale. Well, you know, Diddy was on the show storage wars and you believe it or not, he bid on a storage container and it turns out I had a thousand bottles. I mean, they got a point, you know, baby oil can go a long way, but, uh, I think that's, I think that's the idea is that there was sex trafficking and people were there against.

There will at least these are the charges being being laid. And, and I guess, uh, you know, what, what, what the hell do I know now? As far as his attorneys go, that was only one of his attorney and I guess on NewsNation there was another attorney, I guess, you know, I mean, look, he's diddy, he's got lots of attorneys.

Here's his other attorney explaining why they thought it was wrong to hold him in jail when he had the means to post bail. Why is that not a fair outcome? What he did here is on a magnitude higher. Unlike anybody else you could imagine. A week after those public searches were televised, he gave us his passport.

His children gave us his passport. He then paid off the mortgage entirely on his Miami home. 18 million dollars. It's instructive that he's going to have a bail package ready so that if he was arrested, he would have something ready so that he could get out the next day and show the judge he's taking this very seriously, which he is, which is why 12 days ago, Chris, when we thought there's an indictment that may be coming, he said, He flew to New York the very next day.

Yeah. But my point is this, even though he put all the money aside to pay bail, if they think he's a flight risk and he can fly private, they're worried he's going to go join some of his, you know, friends over in Bali or wherever the hell people go when they're trying to avoid, uh, you know, uh, you know, uh, going to jail.

And that's an extraordinary move for a defendant who's been under investigation that he's been aware of for at least six months. He has done everything, everything somebody under investigation can do. I can't think of anything else that he could have done. He's fighting. He's fighting, he's innocent, and he's going to be able to show it.

Well, he'll be fine. I mean, he's hanging out with a Bitcoin bro in jail. I think he'll be okay. Right? Well, speaking of people wondering if they're going to be investigated, Donald Trump's former attorney, uh, Cohen is saying if Trump wins, he's going to have no choice, but to leave the country. I don't know if that's because he thinks he'll be politically prosecuted.

He already did serve time as Trump's quote unquote fixer. Here's what he had to say. What do you think happens to you if he wins? Well, I'm out of here. I mean, I'm already working on, um, a foreign passport with a completely different name. Um, I don't know how it's going to work as far as dealing with my wife and my children.

I certainly don't want them moving to where I'm looking to go. But I, I, I, and I don't think, you, yourself. Uh, the president of MSNBC, General Milley, um, you know, uh, Liz Cheney. How many people has he turned around and said that? This is that these are people that I intend to go after. Now, look, I understand he might want to go after Michael Cohen because that was his lawyer and whatever, but I don't think he's going to be going after media companies and things like that.

I mean, yeah, he did the whole locker up thing with Hillary Clinton, but nothing ever came of that. So I'm not saying this is overly panic. I mean, the guy already served jail time, so I'm not saying he's overly panicked. He's He probably is paranoid to hell, uh, because there are a lot of things that could happen to his family.

If I have the ability to, and the worst is the Supreme Court's recent decision that gave him immunity, presidential immunity. Now he thinks it's, not only is it, I can do whatever I want. But I can't even be prosecuted to get out of jail free card solely for the president. Well, I think they said you can do whatever you want as long as it's presidential duties.

I understand the gray area Well, well, there's your update from michael cohen because you know people go well if so and so doesn't get elected I'm moving to canada, but he's like no i've got a passport. I've got a new name So, you know if anyone if anyone can say they're they're leaving the country if he's elected It's him and who knows maybe milania, you know what I mean?

All right Well, I got a couple more stories to get to You We will cover Brandon Jones, what he had to say and a college quarterback calling it quits. We'll have that for you next. Well, there's always been this argument with college athletes that the person working at the concession stand of the football game is making more money than the person actually on the field.

And they've actually changed the laws to make it so that college athletes can make some money with their likeness. Well, this story's interesting. After an undefeated start, University of Nevada Las Vegas quarterback announces Sudden decision to quit team due to dispute over off field commitments. He says he was promised 100, 000 and now I guess the team is saying, we never put that in writing.

And he's like, all right, fine. I'm walking. He said, I have decided to utilize my red shirt year and will not be playing in any additional games this season. season. Uh, so I guess he'll be, he could be a fifth. I guess he could play again next year. Like this year just doesn't count. He said, I committed to UNLV based on certain representations that were made to me, which were not upheld after I enrolled.

Despite discussions, it became clear that these commitments would not be fulfilled in the future. I wish my teammates the best of luck this season and hope for the continued success of the program. I have no problem with him doing this. I mean, if you're not going to go pro and a lot of college athletes never get to play pro, they're just not good enough, you know?

Uh, then, you know, try to get the, whatever money you can, you know, the college coaches in most of these, uh, states are the highest paid, you know, government employee in that state. They make, they make an absolute fortune off the backs of these young men. Per the NCAA, a player can red shirt a season if they have played four or fewer games to give them an extra year of eligibility.

So I guess he could come back next year. Let's see if anyone's going to pay him. Um, he said, I, um, uh, since twos, since 2021. College athletes have been allowed to profit from their name, image, and likeness and receive money from endorsements, sponsorships, social media, and other forms of income. Yeah. You remember a few years back, there was a college kicker who was also a YouTuber.

And they essentially said, you have to stop doing YouTube videos. And you know what he did? He walked, he said, you know what? Kick rocks. So, you know, you, you hope to see that, you know, college, college sports can be big business. And if there's money to be made there, I say, you know, spread that wealth, right?

Those are my thoughts. Okay. Well, I've got the updates on Brandon Jones. He of course, has been, uh, in the Bachelor Nation news as far as, uh, he mentions that his ex serene claims to have blackmailed him and said, I'm gonna ruin your life by sharing all of the crazy videos. That she has on him. Well, now he's saying, look, those videos do exist.

It'd be illegal if she shared them. And he's basically saying, yeah, I was, I was a bad guy, but I was not physically abusive, which, you know, might sound like the bare minimum. Uh, but, but, you know, he was accused of being abusive by Serene's brother. So I think at the very least for him to clear the air, that's that, you know, not, not a bad idea for him to do.

Here's a clip of what he had to say. I knew we were going to talk about it. Let's get into it. Alright, I'm going to be as open, honest, and as transparent as possible. I need you guys to hear my words. I'm a terrible communicator sometimes. I've talked about this so much that I just want to touch every base, okay?

I am human. I am not perfect. As long as we get there. That out of the way, I'm going to be open and vulnerable about my lowest moment in my life. Okay, here we go. Let's talk about these videos. These videos were secret recordings of me. The fact that I have to talk about secretly recorded videos of me is crazy, but they're secretly recorders of me of that.

My significant other took, let me tell you how it started. It started as in fight, they would bring up a past fight. I'd be like, this is not how it went down. They would, would argue about how it went down. So they started secretly recording. In a fight so that if I ever got brought up again, they could go back, play, and they could say either I told you so, or not at all, you know, if that's not how it went down, it just wouldn't be brought up.

These videos were for me, I guess. And then they were for the therapist who managed to only see half of one in our entire span. And then they were for, again, their words, not mine. They were held over my head. So if I ever talked, um, they could ruin my life with them. So pretty wild stuff. He says, if I ever talked, they would be used to ruin his life.

Well, so he's kind of taking control of his life now and saying, yeah, it was a terrible time. It was terrible. I wasn't great, but he says I wasn't abusive physically at the very least. You know how to define emotionally abusive can be tough when we haven't even seen the tapes. Right. Uh, but, uh, again, Very interesting that this is all coming out now.

No word from Serene as we know it. Uh, maybe it could be him just de burdening or maybe it's him preparing for a greater release that was planned. Either way, I'm going to cover everything that he said. He keeps on going on. It's a pretty long, I'm going to cover it all on today's YouTube. So make sure to go check that out.

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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.

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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. Good morning, everybody. It's hump day, September 25th, 2024. And we've got all of your entertainment and pop culture news in one place on this morning's rush We hear from travis kelsey on why he's had an early season slump Is it taylor's fault plus deal hugely reacts to janet jackson shading kamala harris?

And Katie Bigger, winner of Zack's Season of the Bachelor, explains why she never wanted to become a full time influencer. Plus, an update on Disgraced Dancer Artem from Dancing with the Stars. He will not be charged with a crime. He has a statement released by the judge. by his lawyer, plus Chabalrone weighs in on why she won't be endorsing a political candidate and Diddy updates.

Some folks say they may, there may be political leaders involved in his mess. Oh yeah. And my thoughts on last night's week two episode of dancing with the stars, all those stories and more coming up next on the rush. All right. Why don't we start with a dancing with the stars update from last night's week two.

We said goodbye to Anna Delvey and also to Tori Spelling. It was a double elimination. Uh, but, uh, here is the, probably the best, or I should say, most real response you're ever going to hear from a celebrity. This is what Anna Delvey had to say after she was eliminated. She was, she was asked, what are you going to take away from this competition?

And she goes, nothing. Look, I mean, love her or hate her. And most people are going to say, hate her. Uh, she is a very unique personality and, uh, you know, I was talking to my wife about this. I don't even, I still don't know where Anna, Anna Delvey's from. I don't even think that's her real name. Is she a German heiress?

Is she Russian? I have no idea. But. I want to say she tried her best, but even that I'm not sure. Either way, she's gone. Tori Spelling, on the other hand, actually was doing pretty good, all things considered, but didn't get enough votes to stick around. And interestingly, Jen Tran, Bachelorette, got the first dance of the night.

Whenever someone's getting the first dance of the night, It's my opinion that it's one of the best dances. You know, they like to lead with a strong dance and she delivered a Joey grass a day, also crushed it. Bachelor Joey. They did fantastic. I'm a big fan of Steven and Doris, the pommel horse Prince. Uh, I want him to win.

Do I think that's going to happen? I don't know, but Hey, he's an Olympian. He's smart. He's hardworking. So that's who I'm rooting for. But all in all, it's a pretty good season. Um, and you know, these first four or five episodes. Probably not going to be too many surprises on who gets voted out. Uh, dark horse would be Damian and Dola.

He's not really good yet, but again, wide receiver pro athlete. He's going to figure it out. So there's my thoughts on dancing with the stars. And should we jump into the Artem story? I was going to cover this later, but why not? We're covering dancing with the stars. Artem Chigvintsev will not be charged in his domestic violence arrest.

So. As you guys know, we've been covering this. Uh, he was Caitlin Bristow's professional dancer. I believe, right. Caitlin's professional dancer when she won the mirror ball trophy several years back. Well, he was arrested by police because they showed up to his house and saw physical signs of injury. On his spouse.

She has since filed for divorce. He initially called 911 to say she was throwing shoes at him. Well, Artem will not be prosecuted after his arrest on suspicion of felony domestic violence. Napa County district attorney, Allison Haley announced. Tuesday, her office declined to file criminal charges against the Dancing with the Stars pro in connection with last month's arrest.

Prosecutors say they decided not to pursue criminal charges after reviewing the investigation and evaluating all the evidence. The district attorney says her office did not feel it would be able to prove. Beyond a reasonable doubt, Artem committed a crime, though prosecutors left the door open for possible criminal charges in the future if new facts or evidence become known.

Here's what Artem's attorney, Dmitry Gorin, had to say. Mr. Chevintsev, you're fired. Has maintained his innocence from the beginning. He is grateful that the district attorney accurately assessed what took place and determined he would not be charged. He enjoys tremendous support from the community and requests privacy for the pending divorce matter.

He loves his son, wants the best possible for him, and looks forward to the next chapter in his life professionally and as a father. Well, look, I'm as confused as anyone else's as to what actually went down there. It's really up to them to decide if they want to talk, but, uh, interesting stuff that that is the update.

Okay. Well, how about an update from Taylor Swift's boyfriend? You know, Travis Kelsey, he dabbles in professional football. He's one of the greatest Titans to ever play. And he's also been accused of having.

What's, what's going on in your head as the game is unfolding and, you know, Pat tried to go to you twice early on with some incompletions on the interception. And then. You only have one catch, like what's going on in your head as this game is unfolding? Well, there's a lot of things that have to go right for anybody to get the ball, you know, outside of our running back where you're literally just handing it to him.

If you, if you want to catch the football, one, it has to be the right play to, it has to be the right coverage. And three, it has to be, you know, everybody doing their job up front and, um, on the backend in terms of running the routes to, for everything to kind of match up and, and be in sync. And, you know, it's just, for whatever reason, these past two games, it hasn't, Gone that way for me and that's football man.

I'm not about to sit here and get frustrated about it I used to get really really pissed off and Almost lose my cool a lot of the time from not having that success knowing I demand that out of myself And I demand you know that I just like to play the game to the To such a high level of accountability that it's just, it's, it's tough for me to, to deal with being mediocre or having stats that represent that now, as you might remember last year, I believe during the playoffs or late in the season, he, he bum rushed was the Super Bowl.

He bum rushed his coach and yelled at him to the point where the coach fell over and they had a heated exchange. So yeah, I mean, your emotions can be can get the best of you. Taylor's advice, shake it off. Okay, folks, let's just move it on here. Uh, this is actually a sad story. This, this is the type of story you don't want to have to give.

Busta rhymes. The rapper, um, is speaking up on behalf of a man who he says was. potentially innocent, and he was, I guess, due to be executed in Missouri. Well, it's a wild story. Busta Rhymes is going to bat for a Missouri man who's scheduled to be executed later today. But hip hop's Dungeon Dragon insists the state's ignoring evidence as time runs out.

Here's what Busta had to say. Good day, everybody. This is Busta Rhymes. And I just wanted to do my part in making sure that this story, you know, this news story stays at the top of the news cycle. Boom. And if we keep shining a light on this case in Missouri, because a potentially innocent man named Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed in a couple of hours, there's new DNA, new evidence, and, um, just a string of just new presentation that are based on facts that confirm that this man is not linked to this crime and we have to make sure that the courts do their due diligence.

And just, you know, give this man an opportunity to not only be saved, but to prove his innocence. I mean, this is wild that we need celebrity endorsements for this type of thing. Kudos to Busta Rhymes for that. I actually remember meeting a man years ago who had a documentary about being wrongfully convicted.

He, uh, was serving a life sentence and was able to eventually get Get it overturned due to new technology, proving his innocence. I mean, imagine, imagine all of the crimes that took place before police body cam footage, as far as people being framed or people being arrested or, or abused or whatnot. Now imagine all of the death penalties.

that have existed in our country, the land of the free, which by the way, has the highest incarceration rate per capita, like more than any first world country. And how do we let this happen? Where possibly innocent men are I don't know if it's a murder, killed on death row. Well, here was your update. This video was from yesterday as a 5 15 PM Pacific time.

The state of Missouri followed through with the execution by lethal injection in Marcellus Williams was pronounced dead at 6 10 PM central time. I know it's a sad story, but it's not the only one all too often. It's like, what's going on here when nobody wants to see you? this to happen. So as was tweeted, the prosecutor asked for Marcellus Williams conviction to be vacated, but he is still scheduled to be executed next week.

Despite DNA evidence. I'm so tired of having to fight for innocent black lives, but I'm even more tired of losing them. That was from Angel Jones PhD from last week. And of course she lost them. The innocent project even spoke about, uh, this Missouri governor denies clemency to Marcellus Williams Williams.

Uh, Missouri Governor Parson denied clemency to Marcellus Williams and, um, the governor's decision ignores the widespread support for clemency based on serious doubts about the integrity of Marcellus conviction and death sentence. I mean, why? Like, what's the rush to To do this, if there is any doubt whatsoever, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected a request to cancel Marcellus's execution so that a lower court could make a new determination about the trial prosecutor's improper removal of black prospective jurors on the basis of their race.

The victim's families has made clear they oppose Marcellus's execution in the St. Louis County prosecutor moved to vacate his conviction. Well, sad story. Not much of a happy ending there, but I think it's worth discussing. And in other bizarre times, Kamala Harris's, uh, Arizona campaign office had gunfire damage last night.

One of Kamala Harris's campaign offices in Arizona was shot up overnight. The Harris campaign's Tempe office was damaged by gunfire. Just after midnight Tuesday, only days before the VP is scheduled to return to Arizona for a big rally. These are the times we live in folks. Okay. I've got some more stories.

Hopefully the mood can improve a little bit. We'll be back with more right after this. I've got your P Diddy update. Ashton Kutcher is grilled over Diddy's parties in a resurfaced interview. As you guys know, the floodgates are opening up for the, I guess, public trying to figure out who may have been at these P.

Diddy freak off parties. Well, Ashton Kutcher's friendship with Diddy is raising eyebrows after this old interview clip resurfaced where the actor expertly dodged questions about attending the rapper's notorious parties. Diddy party stories, they're our favorite genre of anecdote. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Wow. Okay. I've got a lot. I can't tell. So, um, I can't tell that one either. I mean, like actually cycling through them. All right. So whether, you know, there's any, um, complicit nature between celebrities, maybe some snitching might go down, who really knows, but I can tell you this. The. Former bodyguard of jailed rapper, uh, P Diddy, uh, says politicians are in taped freak offs and says this is bigger than Diddy.

Here's what he has to say. But all this is bigger than Diddy. It's bigger than Diddy, bro. Cause you know who else they was doing investigation on during that whole time period? It was the mayor and the politicians in New York City. They turn around, give him the city, the key to the city. All the mayor people that he brought on here in New York city are all resigning.

Yeah, you know what? Don't give the key to the city to guys who hold freak offs, you know? So either way, they're comparing a Diddy's story to possible like Jeffrey Epstein, where there might be a lot of evidence that incriminates a lot of people, uh, we'll have to see how it all plays out. Although I'll tell you this, uh, some folks think there's more to the story.

Al B. Shore is the name of the man who calls for an investigation into death of Diddy's ex, Kim Porter. Uh, so in a cryptic Instagram post the nineties Hit Maker and Former Flame of the Late Model actress suggests her death was not from natural call causes and cause for an investigation. So his given name is Albert Joseph Brown.

He goes by Al B Shore and he detailed what he says was the work of multiple individuals surrounding Porter at the time of her death from Lobar pneumonia in the four posts on Instagram, which featured images of the former couple and pages from her memoir. Browne refers to Porter's 2018 death as a tragic murder.

In a nutshell, Kimberly was allegedly taken from us because she was set on course to accomplish what Mrs. Cassie Ventura did by igniting the bonfire which brings us here today. In his call for a probe by authorities, Browne suggests that everyone who was around Porter's home could have been killed.

Particularly, any publicist should be questioned by law enforcement as he accuses them of a conspiracy to prevent Porter's book from being published. He alleges this involved swapping the pages of her manuscript with others so that inflammatory details were never published. Brown claims he learned of what Porter intended to include in her memoir from frequent and intimate conversations in her selfless attempts to save my life.

All right, I mean, who knows? She was found dead in her home in Toluca Lake in 2018 after days of flu like symptoms. Symptoms. The coroner initially listed porter's cause of death as deferred, but later changed it to Lobar pneumonia. Porter dated Combs sporadically through 2017. In addition to the three children, she and Comb shared Christian Combs and twins, Delilah and Jesse Combs.

Porter had a son, Quincy, John Brown with Brown. Okay, so I mean tragic stuff that she died. I didn't even know this part of the story. Will there be any link? I mean, I don't know how you can fake pneumonia or anything like that, but hey, this is what happens when you're in the hots. is that anything that might come off strange will be sort of analyzed.

And from the wild world of Diddy to the, uh, to the world of Bachelor Nation, we've got Katie Bigger. She won, uh, Bachelor Zach shall cross his season. And she talked about going back to her regular job after being on the show and, you know, taking influencer opportunities on the side. Here's what she had to say on the more than podcast.

My friends before the show were like, Katie, you're never going to have to work again, blah, blah, blah. Like all this stuff, you're going to be an influencer. And I looked at them. I was like, no, I worked too damn hard for my degree. I will be working. Sure. If I do some influencing, it's fun and I can make some fun with it.

Ultimately, like if I do make money as an influencer, I can help my mom out. I can help my brother out. I can pay for my school loans. I can get a safe car that's on the road. Like, it's not like, Oh yeah, I'm going to be an influencer. I can't wait to buy a Chanel bag and all this stuff. It's like, it's never was about that.

Like I am on this TV show to genuinely find love. And look, I mean, look, you know, it's kind of like a false dichotomy, right? I mean, you can be on it to find love and also cash in on the windfall of opportunities that come from having a bigger following. And I know she's not saying, I mean, she's, she loves what she does.

So do it. There's plenty of people like Michelle Young who were really burnt out from being a teacher and she was like, well, I don't want to go back to that. That's okay too. I really think. No matter what you go on the show for, it doesn't mean you're there for the wrong things if you decide to spin being on the show into other opportunities.

I mean, the people that work on the show from the sound guy to the producers to the PAs, they're all getting paid. So use that clout you earned from the show and do with it what you must. I don't care. Uh, I also don't care that Ellen DeGeneres has a new Netflix special out, although they're, the, the, the reviewers are not too kind of it.

Listen, stand up comedy's hard. Now, Ellen DeGeneres has been a stand up comedian for years, but I kind of feel like the more, the, the less stand up grind you're doing, the harder it is to be relatable. You know, comedy's all about relating to your audience. What does Ellen DeGeneres have that's relatable to her audience?

Anyhow. The title of this review says Ellen DeGeneres is unapologetic, unrelatable, and totally insufferable in her new Netflix special. So yeah, there's never been a stand up special more aptly named than Ellen DeGeneres four year approval, which dropped on Netflix. It's one of the weirder stand up shows in recent memory.

Half observational punchlines, half closing argument in a trial featuring Degeneres as her own defense attorney. Neither half works on its own. Taken as a whole, it's an exhausting mess. Yeah. Let me tell you something. You never want your comedy being referred to as an exhausting mess. I remember the days I used to always want to be on the Ellen Degeneres show.

I loved the energy she'd bring to the show. I I thought it was a blast, but the more you find out from people, she just wasn't kind to the people she worked with. In fact, you hear a lot about the same thing, uh, with regards to, um, James Corden, that they're so great on camera, but they're a real pill to work with.

Whereas, you know, Conan O'Brien. You know, people said he was hard to work with, but that's because he kind of demanded excellence. And I think that's a little different than maybe, maybe what was going on with Ellen, because of course, I mean, she was like soft canceled, like enough people spoke out and was like, no, she's really bad that she kind of like lost all of her opportunities, wild stuff.

Uh, indeed, uh, you can go watch. Her show or her new standup special on Netflix, if you want. Well, Chapel Roan has a meteoric rise to fame, and she's now clarifying her stance on not endorsing a presidential candidate. She said, actions speak louder than words and actions speak louder than an endorsement.

Here's what she had to say. People to use critical thinking skills, learn about what they're voting for, learn about who they're voting for and ask questions and it's being completely taken out of context. There is nuance to what I say in interviews, and I think it's important that people use critical thinking.

I think it's important for me to question authority, and question world leaders, and question myself. Question my algorithm, question if some person that tweeted something about someone else is even true. It's important to question because that's how I think we move forward. You know, I couldn't agree more with Chapel Roan here.

Uh, I could tell you who to vote for. I could tell you who I'm invo you know, vo and, and maybe I will, but none of that matters. Because in the end, it's not like, it's not really, like, you shouldn't listen to me. You know what I mean? You should listen to the skills that Chappell's talking about, critical thinking.

If I can ever teach my son anything, it's like, to, yeah, it is to question authority. It will be to wonder what someone's motivations are for what they're saying and tried, you know, like, I don't blame her at all. She sounds so exhausted by all of the interviews. I, you know, Chapel Rowan is reaching the Joe Rogan level of fame where anyone who can write something about her will, because that's, that's how.

I don't know, not just journalism, but that's how anything online works in this day and age. It's lecherous. So if I, if I, if I, Dave Neal were at the level of fame that Joe Rogan was or Matt Reif or Chapel Rhone, everything I say would turn into a headline. And it sounds exhausting. I know I am annoyed by in my own niche audience to the point where I'm just trying to become more insulated and protecting my mental health, because you just can't argue with all of the little hate that all the little wildfires that burn around you.

So I understand what she's saying. And if anything, if I could give advice to Chapel Rowan, maybe she's a listener here, in which case we love you, Chapel. Uh, but if I could tell her anything, it's just. Really have someone take your phone. Keep on being a creative. genius and worry about that because you're not going to be able to, uh, you're not going to be able to sway these, um, these, these haters.

They're, they're, they're on a different plane from you and you're a rocket shooting off to the moon. All right. We'll be back with more content right after this. All right, let's get into the beef that involves Janet Jackson. She made comments saying she heard that Kamala Harris actually had a white father, which, which of course is like, really easy to disprove that, that conspiracy.

Well, now people are saying they understand why she's got a bone to pick with Kamala Harris. It's because of the, uh, Michael Jackson trial comment. Now, this was from, uh, From a long while ago, uh, but Janet Jackson's issues with Kamala might go further back than the presidential campaign. The Democratic nominee's past commentary about Michael Jackson's child molestation trial is resurfacing.

Again, this is about a 20 year old clip here of Kamala Harris. In general, uh, the child will be able to. to recall and recollect with some detail the incident. And that is persuasive to a jury, even if it is the only testimony that is available. All right, there it is. And that's all we have for the clip there.

Uh, but that resurfaced. Now you have DL Hughley questioning the malicious intent behind Kamala Harris race question. Uh, Janet's race. Do you think with someone with the platform that Janet has, do you think it is irresponsible for, uh, Uh, someone of that caliber to repeat information that they have just heard.

Janice said, I just heard it somewhere. Is that dangerous? And is that your response? Well, I think the caveat is for me particularly, I just had to make an apology, uh, to the vice president at the DNC because I too was trucking in misinformation. Uh, and, uh, I think that it is very dangerous, but I think that it's more insidious than that.

I think it's easily provable to decide to determine whether her father is black or not. Interesting that he says it's insidious. Uh, and yeah, I mean, I think some people are woefully ignorant. You could call that insidious, or maybe there's a greater reason why Janet Jackson isn't willing to maybe be educated on the subject.

I mean, this is the same thing like Obama's birth certificate, the whole birther issues from years ago. It's like, look, this stuff has been, Proven time and again to be like just nothing but a, a vacuous conspiracy theory and D. L. Hughley at least had the gumption to go to the DNC and admit, hey, he was wrong.

He believed misinformation and he owned up to it. And I think that's good to be able to say, hey, I'm owning up to it. You know, there's a lot of powers to be out there that share a lot of stupid information online. You know, one of which is this new, uh, Artificial intelligence post. It's going around Instagram stories and Facebook stories.

Uh, whenever anyone shares these things of small piece of me dies inside, it's one of those like copy paste things that says like, I don't give Facebook the right to use AI, uh, to generate content off of my image and this post hereby, uh, allows you to know that, you know, and it's like, it's whole PS. It's all BS.

Whenever I see people do that, a small part of me dies. Uh, well. I'm really living today because it's hump day and we are halfway through the week. I have shows tonight and tomorrow night, and I think like the next three or four nights in Nashville. So go to my Instagram account, D Neal's to see those shows upcoming October 1st.

I've got a show in New York city at New York comedy club. That's going to be fun. I'll have the ticket link on my Instagram as well. And then October 11th in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. That's right. I've got shows. And. In my hometown of Rhode Island, I'll be in the Rogue Island comedy festival. And I've got a special discount code on my Instagram so you can buy tickets for that show.

And of course, um, you know, I get a kickback. I got a code Dave, all caps, which will allow you a discount on those tickets. All right. Well, I'll be with you guys on the Patreon this morning. We'll have a lot to talk about. Patreon. com slash Dave Neal. We'll see you then. Bye now. I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush.

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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 everyone, good afternoon on this Tuesday, September 24th, 2024. Got all your news for you right here in one place on this afternoon episode.

Bachelor at Caitlin Bristow explains why bachelor creator wasn't a fan of hers. Plus is Kat Williams, the modern day Nostradamus. He predicted the fall of Diddy and has more to say. Also, rapper T. I. receives a massive award of 71 million dollars in a intellectual property lawsuit, and Brett Favre announces he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Emily D. Baker reacts to the Bachelorette Devin restraining order while on the Vile Files podcast, what she thinks happened as a lawyer, plus a nostalgic update on the making of the movie Titanic. I got all these stories and more coming up next on The Rush. Alright, let's start with our most interesting and least important story.

That is, Kate Winslet reveals, The water in Titanic's infamous door scene was only waist high. Leo DiCaprio was kneeling down. Alright, I just ruined Titanic. You know, they did not film it in North, in the North Atlantic, in the cold water. It was in a pool, uh, which I'm sure most people already knew this, but it's still kind of like takes away that, uh, you know, feeling of being in the moment there.

She said, first of all, I was regularly like, can I just go for a pee? And then I get up, get off the door. Walk to the edge of the tank, sort of 20 feet away. And I literally have to fling my leg over and climb up and come and get back on the door again. It's terrible anyway. Yeah. So it was waist high Leo.

I'm afraid to say it was kneeling down. I shouldn't be saying anyways, Jimmy Cameron's going to be ringing me. Uh, actually the thing that was amazing about the edges of the tank was it was an infinity tank. So there was constant water rushing and you could hear the constant sounds of water. So I guess you would have to get up and go pee.

And in my. Thought with that is not to be kind of, you know, weird. 'cause I've never been in this situation where I've worked for James Cameron, but can you just pee in the pool? I mean, come on. Can you just pee in the tank? I don't know. What do I know? Um, you know, maybe I'll never be invited to a pool again.

Look, there's one thing if you don't pee in your neighbor's pool when you're swimming in it, but this is a giant tank, you think it would be fine, right? Uh, what do I know? You got to get the shot. Got to do anything you can to get the shot. You know, back in the day I was on a, uh, some TV show. I won't even say what it was.

And there was a flashback scene. You probably never even heard of the show. And I played a, like a skipper, like a, I don't even know what it's called. Someone who works on in a submarine, but it was like, you know, this is like a world war two, like era submarine. And we had to stand on top of the submarine.

And. And it was filmed on a green screen, but they have the wind blowing. And then the water, they have the rain blowing sideways. It was so freezing because even though the water itself wasn't cold, it would just, the, the wind, the wind machines would just blow it right off you anyway. Um, they always say never work with kids and never work with water when it comes to movies.

And now, you know why. All right. What do we, we got a lot of different stories to get to. Let's start with BMAC Jones, Brandon Jones. He explained. Uh, of course, why he went on Clayton Eckert's podcast. We already covered this on the YouTube today, but just to catch you guys up, he explained what took him so long to share his side of the story well over a year after his breakup.

Honestly, full transparency, because I was so angry and mad at what I heard to the point to where, you know, I just wanted to take a step back. And before I answered with aggression and anger, I wanted to just get my mind right. So. Continuous amounts of therapy, trusting in God, having the support system that I have.

Yeah. I wanted to handle something with that, with delicacy and care and respect. And so, you know, I just waited until I was able to do so. So yeah. Oh, and then the next question was, can you tell us about these videos? That being the videos she, his ex Serene claimed she would use against him. Yeah. We're going to take a poll.

Um, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, we'll take a poll. I hate it when people have music on in the background. It just kills my audio. Don't you know that Brandon? Turn your TV off. So he said he's going to take a poll about whether he should talk about the videos or not. And over 90 percent of people said talk about it.

And he said he'll have to get into it in another video. So we wait with bated breath to hear what Brandon has to say about these videos. All right. Here is a clip of Caitlin Bristow on the. Talking a big game podcast, discussing about how hard she had to fight to not only get on the bachelorette, but on dancing with the stars stars, but there was some drama that went along with that.

From what I understand, it was the man that created the bachelor franchise. I know he didn't like me from the get go and he made it very obvious and he didn't want me to be the bachelorette. And then the season did well, but it was a dream of mine to go on dancing with the stars. I just don't want, uh, people coming on my show who want fame.

He now look in defense of Caitlin. She is a unique personality to cast on the show. Now, in hindsight, she did great, right? But she is unique to use the Titanic metaphor. You know how they've got the upper class people that Dance the slow Viennese waltz and they are all dressed up and they're on one level.

And then Leo DiCaprio takes Kate Winslet to the fun people dancing on the tables, the Irish drunks that are in the lower level, having a good time. Caitlin Bristow rightfully. And I mean this respectfully belongs on the dancing on the tables with the Irish people. That's where she belongs. And Hey, that's more fun.

That's where you need to be. The show tries to portray this air of elegance. It's like they want some debutante and, uh, you know, some pageant queen who's going to be perfect. No offense, but kind of like a Hannah Brown type, but not that, um, I think that's of any offense. That's just the type that Hannah Brown is.

Um, well, although she did create a ton of tea, uh, from her season, but Caitlin, you know, she's, she's just a different choice. Always had this belief that I wanted to get famous from his show. This is another reason why I knew he didn't like me is because he's had like four of his past bachelors go on dancing with the stars.

I was. over the moon excited and then he took it away from me. So what does that mean when you say took it away from you? I said, dancing is a passion of mine. And he said, well, Sean should be your only passion right now, which is the guy that I chose to get engaged to off the show. And I asked him if he had more than one passion in life.

And he said, I'm not, he said, I'm not talking about this, Caitlin. And then he hung up on me. There it is. All right. But of course, Caitlin ended up going on Dancing with the Stars. It's just, it's too bad she had to go on the sort of pandemic season where there wasn't an audience. If there ever is an all star season, I fully expect she'll be a part of it.

And I look forward to that. All right. How about a little Diddy update? Kat Williams sends warning to Sean Diddy Combs inner circle after arrest. He's about to snitch on everybody. Now, Whenever there's some like real tea that involves the police and the arrests and things like that, that's the big question.

You know, you think of this when someone gets arrested politically, like will they rat other people out? Will they do a plea deal in order to receive less time? The problem with Sean Combs is like, I don't know how ratting anyone else out would help him. I mean, he's kind of like the top dog in the whole scenario.

What's very interesting with Cat Williams is listen, Cat Williams is an interesting guy. He's a. Absolutely hilarious stand up comedian. There's nobody else like him. And this all stemmed from a podcast that premiered January 3rd, 2024. It's got 75 plus million views on YouTube. It's probably the most watched podcast ever, to be quite honest.

It's the club Shay Shay podcast, where he goes on and, and describes how 2024 is going to be the year where people get Busted. And in hindsight, it's aged really, really well. Have a listen. I don't care nothing about the other side. Period. Period. All of these, uh, big deviance is all catching hell in 2024.

It's up for all of them. It don't matter if you diddy or whoever you is, TG Jakes, any of them, the, all, every, all lies will be exposed. That's all. And, and, and anyone who takes that the wrong way, know why they take it the wrong way. And then they take a sip of their whiskey. I mean, look, no, no lies spoken so far.

He says all the truth is going to surface and here we are. And it's like, all right, I guess we chose violence in 2024 and by violence, I mean, it's good that did he's being exposed. Now look, he'll have his day in court. If there's a way to hit for him to sort of, um, explain all of the things that went down.

So be it. But, you know, one. It's, it's, it's kind of, I mean, in its own way, cause you can't compare them because they're very different. It's kind of like a Weinstein scenario where once one person calls him out and kind of like a Cosby scenario, when one person calls him out, other people feel brave enough to come forward.

And, you know, I guess the cynical look is, Oh, are people doing this for money? But listen, that doesn't explain how heartbreaking it must be to have to relive your story, your trauma. And my guess is. That a lot of these accusations coming out about, did he have merit? They have merit because listen, this, I mean, from all that's come out again, innocent until proven guilty in the court.

But from all that's come out in the, in the court of public opinion, it ain't looking good for him. And in another Diddy report, I guess a lot of celebrities are afraid to speak out. Fox News posted this, Diddy sex trafficking probe. Hollywood stars are scared to death to speak out. Experts say Sean Combs was ordered held without bail after his arrest on multiple sex crime charges.

So just to see kind of how serious they're taking it, they're now comparing it to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, new reports are drawing comparisons between Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, who served time for trafficking dozens of young girls before his death. The New York Post quoting a DHS agent who helped search Combs Miami home as saying, in my opinion, he's as bad as Jeffrey Epstein.

And attorney David Gelman telling Fox News, quote, this. is this is like Epstein 2. 0. You have a guy who is extremely rich and extremely powerful, being charged with allegations that are inhumane. Now Combs is defense though, maintaining the rapper's innocence, calling his current jail conditions inhumane.

Watch this. The fight continues We're not we're we're not we're not giving up by a long shot. I told mr. Combs I'm gonna try and get his case to trial as quickly as possible I'm gonna try and minimize the amount of time he spends in very very difficult and I believe inhumane Housing conditions inhumane housing conditions.

All right, let's cut it off there. I mean look Is it like the Epstein case in that Epstein, I believe, had a lot of video evidence that a lot of powerful public people didn't want out there. And if this is a similar case, yeah. I mean, we'll have to see what other charges come, who else could be charged.

It's for sure going to be a story that exists on our radar for a long time. All right. We'll be back with more content right after this. Emily D. Baker is a lawyer and YouTuber and she was on Nick Viall's Viall Files podcast to discuss Bachelor at Star Devin and the restraining order that he had placed against him, at least a temporary restraining order.

And the question was, how could the Bachelor producers have let this all happen? And she offered some of her thoughts about, you know, how sometimes in family court, uh, records can get sealed. Like someone like Devin, could he have in any way influenced the difficulty of how something like this is searched or found?

Not necessarily. It really depends on how the court system itself reports it. Family courts can be difficult to get information out of because they deal with child custody. They deal a lot with child placement, kids that are taken out of the home. You can deal with very sensitive topics that you don't necessarily need to be searchable.

And then when court records are sealed, You can often see that something happened, but can't see what happened. So the fact that the affidavits even out there, even though it had been a sealed record, those are normally things you can't access and see the fact that there was a TRO and then it was dismissed should be something that you can see, but it really just depends on how that one jurisdiction reports it.

And if they report it, and how old it is, because some of the court systems weren't digital until very recently. I mean, it sounds so ridiculous, but having covered the Laura Owens Clayton Eckerd case, we, I realized that, yeah, court systems don't necessarily talk to each other. You need to almost know what you're looking for.

So, the fact that Bachelor producers didn't find anything on, uh, Devin, might not mean that they had sinister motivations or that they were sloppy. It might just mean that they didn't know where to look. And I'm, I'm kind of looking at background checks, kind of like credit checks where a credit check pulls your information based on different credit agencies.

And then, uh, companies like, uh, you know, that you have debt on will, will report if you, um, you know, were late on payments and whatnot, and it all kind of works together. Uh, but in the court system, yeah, every jurisdiction has a different way to do things. So it's really scary to think that someone could have been.

violent in the past, had it either expunged or sealed, uh, because it's in the family court. And that's just, that's just how it works sometimes. And then go on a show where they're supposed to be intimate and private with others. So pretty scary stuff, but also good to hear from a professional like Emily Baker discuss, um, in a more nuanced way, what might've gone down.

All right, Brett Favre. Uh, former Packers quarterback, who of course has had some off field issues, namely, uh, sending his, uh, dick photo. I don't know. I was going to call it a DP, a dick pic to a, who is now, you know, to a, um, a, I believe it jets. Um, uh, reporter, how did he not get canceled? That was probably like right before the me too movement kind of came about, but he was kind of on the, he was on the outs as far as, uh, no, I mean, listen, no one thought Brett Favre was a standup guy.

Well, now he says he has Parkinson's while discussing, um, uh, well, announcing it during a Capitol Hill hearing. Have a listen. Sadly, I also lost an investment in a company that I believed was developing a breakthrough concussion drug. I thought would help others and I'm sure you'll understand why it's too late for me because I've recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

This is also a cause dear to my heart. Recently, the doctor running the company pleaded guilty to taking TANF money for his own use. I believe that I got swept up in a civil lawsuit Shad White, an ambitious public official. who decided to tarnished my reputation to try to advance his own political career.

So this is really interesting. So he made a revelation that he had Parkinson's, which again, is very sad. But this story that he's talking about is one we discussed last year, Brett Favre in the Mississippi welfare case explained. Now, Mississippi is one of the worst States when it comes to welfare, you know, socialized help for people that need it.

There's a lot of poor people. Well, it's not. The Hall of Fame quarterback was one of 38 defendants named in a civil lawsuit filed by Mississippi Department of Human Resources seeking to recoup Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, TANF, TANF, funds that were diverted to the rich and powerful. So, Again, it's complicated, and I don't know if the case is still ongoing, but Brett Favre was paid 1.

1 million from TANF funds for speeches the auditor says Favre never made. He eventually paid the money back, but the auditor demanded he also pay 228, 000 in interest. Prevacus. A company developing a concussion drug in which Favre was the top outside investor and stockholder also received these funds.

So eight people were indicted, six of whom pled guilty for their involvement. Brett Favre also, look, he denied charges of wrongdoing and has not been criminally charged. A federal judge, a judge filed a suppression order limiting pretrial publicity until the case, which has 47 defendants, goes to trial. Or is resolved.

This was back from a year ago. I don't know what happened with the case, uh, you know, innocent till proven guilty, but at the same time, I guess at the very least, you get to see the inner workings of how money is spent between elites. So Brett Favre donated his own money to help raise funds for a new volleyball facility at his alma mater, university of Southern Mississippi.

But he also pushed state officials. to use funding during the time his daughter was on the team. The university's athletic foundation received 5 million in funds. Again, these are funds meant to help poor people and he helped them get a new stadium. So maybe he's not guilty of some of the other, uh, sort of charges, but in the very least just goes to show powerful people using their influence.

to help their own. Um, and, uh, that's not a good thing, but still with all that said, sad to hear Brett Favre is, or has Parkinson's. How much of it do we know about is due to the concussions he received. I mean, he took a lot of hits in his day. They call them a gun slinger, which is, you know, a term, you know, these old guys that just kept, I mean, if he played in today's world, he probably would have been benched half the time.

You know, now there's more concussion protocol. But even if you look at the Dolphins quarterback, uh, Tua Tagalovoa, we've discussed how he's had several really, really bad concussions and he's considering going to play again. He's only 25 years old. What's his body going to look like in 30 years when he's Brett Favre's age?

That's the problem with a lot of these brain injuries. It's not a big deal. the skin where you know something's broken. A lot of times like CTE, you don't even know you had it until you're dead. So they can open up the skull. So that's just a scary, scary thought. Well, uh, in other news here, we've got TI the rapper and tiny score a 71 million award in court.

And they say, don't steal our intellectual property. They were victorious in their lawsuit against toy company MGA Entertainment. If the award stands, the couple will be a whole lot richer as a result. Yeah, I mean, look, it's nice to get a 71 million, uh, award, but, uh, knowing what we know about the court system, does that mean the toy company can even afford to pay that?

Let's have a listen to what, um, Tiny had to say. We did this for the city. We did this for the culture. Um, you know, and, um, it was a fight, you know what I'm saying, it was a hell of a fight. This fight been started in, uh, 2020 and it's now 24. And so I guess what happened was the, the toy company misappropriated the name, image, and likeness of the all female group that ti in Tiny formed in 2009.

And, um, we couldn't be more happy. Man. I wanted to come on here. I honestly wanted to come on here to say we wanted to thank the jurors for like. Just seeing us through this, man, and just believing in what we said, and they, they heard our story, and they knew we wouldn't lie. Okay. So that's interesting. I mean, good for them.

I, I, I, I wouldn't be celebrating too much until the check clears, but either way, Uh, look, uh, yeah, intellectual property. This is going to be a big deal with AI, right? Using someone else's likeness, you know? So the, this toy company literally used, I guess, the images in seven different dolls that were identical to them.

And I guess you can't do that without permission. All right. I got some more stories to get to. We'll be back with more right after this. Oh, right. Bad news for my wife here. Um, marital mansion for Ben Affleck and JLo goes into escrow and in the final stages of hashing out the property settlement in their divorce, they almost had a lot of newfound cash to divide up because TMZ has learned their marital house.

had a buyer. You know, I was trying to buy this home for Tasha, you know, surprise her. Now that we're a big podcast, you know, I figured maybe the 64 million home, I figured maybe they would accept my offer of, uh, you know, that's 63, 700, 000 less than asking, but no, they did not take it. The source with direct knowledge told TMZ, a couple from New Jersey fell in love with the 38, 000 square foot Beverly Hills area home and made a 64 million offer, which was accepted.

The couple had a death in the family and pulled out of escrow, but sources say they are still interested in the property. At 64 million, Ben and J Lo are still underwater. They paid 61 million for the house back in May of 2023 and spent several million on renovations. They will have to pay a hefty fee to the realtors and then a 5.

25 percent mansion tax. Guys, look, a lot of people You know, go, Oh, California. They're too woke. They're too this, they're too, that are too liberal, but listen, I love that they have a mansion tax. I'm sorry. If you can afford a 64 million mansion, you can pay a 5. 25 percent mansion tax on it. If I can ever afford a 50 million mansion, don't let me complain about the 5 percent mansion tax.

There's so many people living on the streets that are just trying to get their life in order after maybe. pain meds addiction because pharmacies lied about what was addictive and not. So a lot of people fall on a lot of tough times out there. And if you can afford a 50 million mansion, I'm sorry. I take the stance that you can be taxed a little bit higher.

Oh, don't hate on me for that. And by the way, I got to tell you this. I don't even read the one star reviews that I get, but MAGA, some MAGA folks have started leaving me. I hate that my livelihood can be affected by some people that disagree with my opinion. Look, I share my opinions. I try to keep it fair.

I try my best. Of course, I'm going to have a bias. That's just the way it exists. Uh, but you don't have to give me a one star review, folks. You're taking food off my kid's plate. So anyway, if you enjoy what I do and haven't already, Make sure you're subscribed to the podcast. Share it with a like minded friend.

Tag me on Instagram and give it a five star review. So, Donald Trump was speaking about not liking Jimmy Fallon, and he demanded they bring back Johnny Carson, who, of course, is not alive. Here's what he had to say. That great. He's not very funny. Can you, that guy, those three guys, they're being blown away by Gutfeld, you know, Gutfeld totally.

And what he's referencing is late night TV. Um, Steve Colbert, Stephen Colbert, uh, Jimmy Fallon and, um, whoever the, I can't even remember who the other one is. Uh, but either way, and then you have on the conservative side, you really only have one late night option, which is Gutfeld. And I guess his ratings are better.

I don't watch any of it, to be honest. You remember that guy when I first ran? I was like 2015 thinking about running. I was gonna run. I went on his show, right? And he goes to tonight's show, which is dying. They're all dying. Where's Johnny Carson? Bring back Johnny. It made you appreciate, right Uncle Sam?

It made you appreciate the greatness of Johnny Carson and these guys. These three guys They're so bad, all three of them. Now, by the way, I'm sure Trump knew that Johnny Carson died 19 years ago. I'm sure he knew that. Um, uh, but hey, he was good at what he did. Uh, we live in a more niche down world. But I agree, you know, if you don't, if you have a certain political leaning, you know, and, you know, watch, watch whatever makes you happy.

You know what I mean? Vote for whoever makes you happy. Stop giving me one star reviews. And look, you can do whatever the hell you want, I just, I have so much respect for you that I wouldn't want to lie to you with my, my coverage and what I think, but I still try to be fair, you know, I still try my best.

All right, well, that takes us to the end today. Um, we got through Tuesday. We did it guys. Congratulations. Tomorrow's hump day. Next thing you know, it's Christmas, right? The season's over, right? Do your taxes and mail it in. That's all I can say. We'll be back in the morning. As always, I'm Dave Neal. This is The Rush.

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9-24-24 Morning Rush - Golden Bachelorette Welcomes Gerry?! & A Taylor Swift x Bachelor Nation Crossover! Plus Aliens May Be On The Way To Earth!?

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Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride, buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday. It is September 24th, 2024, and we got all your pop culture news in one place. On this episode, the golden bachelorette, Joan discusses her friendship with Gary Turner and why he stops by her season.

Thanks Plus, uh, Kansas city chiefs, a tight end. Travis Kelsey is accused of being out of shape due to his jet setting with Taylor Swift all off season and an amazing bachelor nation, Taylor Swift crossover story for you. Plus we have updates from our stranded astronaut friends, still no word on if they're.

listening to the rush hour podcast, but it's one way to kill time while they float in space. Just saying beam us up there, Scotty. Plus, speaking of space, we've gotten alien update and I'm telling you right now, it's out of this world. We'll have all these stories and more coming up next on the rush.

Dancing with stars. Episode two is back tonight and, uh, there'll be the first eliminations. Uh, it looks like if you had to ask me, Anna Delvey might be the one going home. I'm not sure she'll be winning over many voters here in the United States of America and a dancing with a star alum, Maxim Chermakovsky tends to agree.

He says she's not a good dancer. Again, she'll be dancing with her ankle monitor, but look in my eyes, it's not about being a good or bad dancer. It's about having good energy. And she kind of looks like she doesn't even want to be there, which I'm sure is just like sort of a fear based mentality. Maybe it's, um, you know, uh, imposter syndrome.

Although if anyone can fake it, it should be Anna. If you want an ankle brace and sort of like this, damn, this is going to draw attention. And you know, the scandalousness of it all and blah, blah, blah. I mean, man, there's so many other people that you could choose from. You're not a fan. Absolutely not. Who would you choose?

It doesn't matter. You don't, you know, to me, the job, AKA, was a professional liar. You're going to bring that person and say, here's a platform that a lot of people waited their entire actual career, you know, uh, to be a part of, to also get a moment of like a personal story. Here we can say. This is who I actually am.

You know, he's got a point. I mean, look, I've been interested in seeing Anna Delvey on dancing with the stars. Uh, not, not, not because she's a professional liar. I just thought it'd be a cool little redemption story. But when you look at it that way, as, as all of the stories of people that worked hard at their careers and could use the extra boost, all right, maybe we should get her off.

Will I believe anything that this lady says? Absolutely not. She wasn't great. She was very kind of standoffish in a lot of things. You can blame the nerves and say, Hey, everybody's human and this person is not used to that stage. Bullshit. Hold on a second. Didn't she con people into believing that she's like fully fashion this and Social like that and that takes a lot of guts.

It takes a lot of you know It takes a lot of self control to present yourself a certain way, even if you're so nervous I don't buy this. She was nervous stuff. She just, there it is shitty dancer. She just a shitty dancer. I mean, look, yeah, she's the queen of gaslighting, but Hey, we'll have to see. I don't think she's going to make it past tonight's episode.

And here's a good news story. You guys like good news stories here on your Tuesday morning. A missing 10 year old girl was found in. in the woods lost due to a thermal drone, a 10 year old girl vanished into the Louisiana woods. She's back home with her family. Thanks to a thermal imaging drone that tracked her down leading to her rescue.

Uh, you know, you guys know that my transformation into becoming a sucker is complete. Now that I have a child, it's not that I couldn't like feel empathy. Of course, I loved everybody, but. There's just something so scary to think your kid could literally just walk out the door sleepwalking. Like, what? Her name's Peyton.

And the dramatic footage shows the moment the drone locates her. Police say she went missing around 10 p. m. on September 14th after sleepwalking into the woods near her home in Shreveport. She was curled up on the forest floor and appeared to be sleeping when the drone swooped in and found her. With the help of the thermal tech, the drone relayed Peyton's position to police and a search party rescued her and reunited her with her family.

All right. I don't know who the sales guy is for these thermal drones, but, um, you know, when it comes to funding the police, I think more drones and less, you know, weapons of, uh, destruction, right? I mean, this is just crazy. Well, I'm very happy that this story did not end tragically in that she was found.

Uh, the sheriff says Peyton was missing for over 24 hours and was found in a dense area of woods, 300 yards from where she'd previously been spotted on a trail camera. Oh boy. I had these poor parents get them therapy. That sounds horrible to deal with, but good thing there's a happy ending. And speaking of other possible happy endings, a wild bull escaped from the pen.

I guess several wild bulls escaped and one is still on the loose. Listen, I'm all for it. If so, if, if an animal gets out, let them stay free, right? A group of bulls turns the tables on a Massachusetts rodeo. But, uh, Busting out of their pen and turning the parking lot into a thundering stampede, setting off a frantic chase that had everyone running for cover.

The scene was caught in camera in North Attleboro. Uh, maybe the bulls were just kind of heading to Dunkin Donuts kid. You know what I mean? Uh, they were going to swing by Cumbies, grab a Dunkies and head over to the Sox game and ruin them on. Uh, so either way, I hope that one bull is still gone. Go live your life.

Um, attention, Kmart shoppers, uh, the last full size Kmart in the mainland United States is closing and nobody cares. Anyone want to buy cheap luggage? That's going to break down, go to Kmart's last store. And in other news, California governor signs a law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores.

So if you need a plastic shopping bag, my wife has a stash of them in our closet. I, I, you know, for whatever reason, she likes to save things like that. I'm big in every relationship. One person saves the plastic bags and one person throws them out. So whenever she's not looking, I'll throw them out. She also likes to wash in.

This is going to sound crazy to you. Uh, she likes to wash. The recycling before she puts it in the recycling. Is that not insane? She goes, well, they're going to reject it. I go, they're going to reject a, and maybe someone will email me and go, well, actually, Dave, they will, they're going to reject my Coke zero can, because I didn't rinse it out first.

I reject the premise that they're going to reject it. Um, and we have an update. a new, I cannot wait for this documentary, a Vince McMahon documentary is coming out. He slams it as deceptive ahead of its release. He's not wasting time knocking the soon to be released docu series. It's called Mr. McMahon. Uh, it's a six part doc debuting on the streaming giants podcast.

platform later this week, September 25th, I'll be covering it. Oh, geez, that's tomorrow. I'll be covering it and let you know what I think. He said, I don't regret participating in this Netflix documentary. The producers had an opportunity to tell an objective story about my life and the incredible business I built, which were equally filled with excitement, drama, fun, and a fair amount of controversy and life lessons.

Uh, he said in a statement, look, they're going to make him look like a piece of trash, uh, cause you know, in a lot of ways he is, you know, When you start a business where I think a lot of the wrestlers are like freelancers, they don't get healthcare. So anyway, we'll have to see what's exposed in the documentary, but it'll be interesting regardless.

And in our daily Diddy update more unearthed footage of Diddy is coming out now that he's behind the bars in prison, waiting his trial. In 1999, Sean Diddy Combs spoke with entertainment tonight about the sort of parties he likes to throw. Here's what he had to say. Your parties are the hottest ticket around.

They won't even give me a permit for the parties, man. They don't want me to throw the parties no more. We ain't going to stop. We're going to keep on having fun, bringing people together from all walks of life. You're going to hear about my parties. They're going to be shutting them down. They're going to probably be arresting me.

Doing all types of crazy things just because we want to have a good time. You know. Whenever you bring up a different issue, element into people's environment, things that broaden people's horizon. People get intimidated. There's a lot of people out there that feel intimidated by it. It ain't nothing but, but, but break it down racial barriers, break it down generation barriers, people from all walks of life.

Ron Perlman talking to Jay Z, Jay Z talking to, you know what I'm saying? People are like just hoping, I mean, how many celebrities are hoping that they're not going to be mentioned here? It just goes on and on, you know, it's just, It's just like people from all walks of life connecting and getting together, yeah.

Your parties are the hottest ticket in town. I'm dying to get into your party. How does that make you feel? I mean, it's cool. You know, it doesn't make me feel any way special. It doesn't make me feel like a bigger person. It just, it just makes me feel like I know how to throw a party. Well, he certainly does.

A party is now being thrown in the cell block C. I mean, we'll have to see. I mean, uh, you know, innocent until proven guilty. But, uh, you know, you, you kind of wonder like, what are, what are all these charges? You know, they've already kind of presented them, but how much of these parties was just being thrown in.

Innocent people showing up, having a good time versus what they describe as like sex trafficking and whatnot. So it's going to be a wild trial. We, we will sure be covering it. All right. I got a lot of stories to get to. We'll have Joan, the bachelorette, golden bachelorette coming up next. Okay, before I get to Joan, the golden bachelorette, I just love the idea of the, a lot of the advice that's coming out on tick tock from the older generation saying what I would have done when I was 30, if I knew better.

And here's some advice from a 53 year old about what he wishes he did at 40. I'm 53. Here's advice I would give my 40 year old self. I remember turning 40 thinking, I'm old. It's over. The game is over. And I should be an expert at all this. And so I spent my 40s feeling old. What's funny is when I turned 50, it stopped.

I felt very young for my age. I was shocked at how active and great I felt at 50 and how excited I was about the world. So I would go back and say, no, no, no, no. Your fifties are going to be incredible. Spend your forties just like your thirties and your twenties preparing, like keep getting better and keep being excited about all the things that are going to happen to you.

Because I honestly feel like I'm 53 and I haven't peaked yet. I haven't peaked in my career. I haven't peaked as a husband. Hasn't haven't peaked as a dad. Haven't even peaked at the top of my physical fitness. I can still get better there. My advice at 40 would be, you're not, this isn't over. You're not old yet.

You're actually. quite young and keep going, keep preparing because you can easily peak in your 60s. There it is. I mean, look, maybe we all needed to hear that. Just the idea that, uh, age is a number and keep really, keep really taking advantage of life. You know, look, by all means, people can do whatever the hell they want, you know, when they retire.

But I think a lot of people inadvertently shut their brains off when they don't have a passion or anything. Sort of a reason for being anymore. And you hear Gary, uh, V talk about this all the time, which is that you're never too old. You know, even if you're in your fifties, sixties, seventies, heck, you're never too old.

If you want to pursue a new craft or tell a story or write a book, um, And, uh, and, and I just, I just love to relay that to our audience because there is this ageist idea. You know, I remember when I got into acting at the age of 23, I thought I was too old to get into acting because I missed the Disney teen year kind of thing.

And, you know, maybe when I'm 45, I'll think, wow, at 39, I had all the, you know, so there's always, um, going to be this hindsight view of what we wish we had done. So why not start today? And you know what? We are, we're approaching a Q4 of 2024. This is the time to start getting things in order for 2025. I know, believe it or not, it's right around the corner, but don't just randomly willy nilly put together your, uh, your new year's resolutions on January 1st, start taking those actionable decisions and make those changes.

That are going to be the best version of yourself. I promise you it will pay off. All right. Well, speaking of the best version of herself, this is Joan, the golden bachelorette in talking about Gary and his appearance he's going to make on her. You also, you know, we have a little teaser, Gary, he came back.

You sure did. What was that reunion like for you? Had you, had you seen him since the last season? I have seen him, um, we did Celebrity Family Feud. So I saw him at that. Um, I loved having him back. Like he and I are good friends. And so, you know, he was the original Golden Bachelor. He kind of wrote the rule book a little bit.

And, um, I loved having him back to talk through things. He's really, really, really. Gary wrote the rule book, which is get married and make it last for more than a month. He's a good friend and he, um, is a smart guy and he knows how to do this. Leaving it out there. I'm just gonna leave it at that. So you never know, he might get back into the running, maybe?

No, there's no, listen, I'm not saying, I don't know any spoilers, there's no way Gary's gonna be in the running. They do this every year, right? They'll bring somebody back and tease that they're gonna be, no. And again, I'm not saying this as knowing any spoilers, I'm just saying it's my opinion that Gary's gonna come back, offer her some advice, and that'll be it.

Now, of course, there was a lot of unfinished business the way Joan left Gary's season. As he said, he's like, you know, Joan said family comes first, and she was a big one in the running. I kind of feel like Gary Turner was going to pick Joan, to be quite honest, but now she's got her own choices to make. I cannot spill those beans.

The rest of the season, what can you tease? What can we expect coming up for the rest of the season? So, not a drama filled season. So, if you're looking for drama, you might be disappointed, but I don't think you're going to be, because it is filled with such genuine emotion and the, um, the way that we all kind of did it together.

Like, the 25 of us, the 24 guys and myself, like, helped each other through, like, these weird things that we didn't know that we'd be feeling, because you've got to imagine that whoever's there, Got there, you know, or in their fifties and sixties and single, not by things went perfectly in their life, you know, life doesn't go perfectly and something has happened that they are this age and single.

So like, we have those conversations and they're important and I, I hope they resonate, um, you know, outside of bachelor nation and bachelor outside of the mansion and people like, you know, get that it's, you know, it's hard dating at this age, but it's so worth it if you really want to find love that You know, it's worth the, you know, struggles that you go through.

There it is. It's worth the struggles that you go through. I think it's great advice from Joan, the golden bachelorette. Look, I mean, she says there's going to be little drama on this season. After all of the Devon stuff and the, and the serene and Brandon story. And it's like, I think I'm okay after the Clayton Eckerd bull and Crap.

I think I'm okay for a drama free season, especially leading into Christmas. I would like a drama free rest of the year. Well, the election six weeks away. So who knows if we're going to get that, but, um, yeah, we'll have to see. I mean, cause drama is kind of fear based, right? When there's drama, it's based on fear.

It's based on ego. Uh, it's based on the pecking order and the insecurities that exist. The best way to overcome, uh, the fear is to just live an abundant life. Here's a. Quick clip about abundance in removing fear in your life. What would you say is the common denominator for living in abundance? Releasing fear.

We, as humans have a common denominator of fear, fear that we don't have enough, that we're not good enough, that something's going to go wrong, that we're going to lose something. Every day we're cycling through fear. So the common denominator to live in abundance is not necessarily to go get something more.

We have it already. It's all around us. It's to release what's blocking us from it. And usually that block is fear. If you want to step into abundance, learn to release your cords of fear. You know, it's, I kind of look at it this way. When you're in a fear based mindset, you don't get a chance to win the lottery.

The lottery being, you know, the life of your dreams and have that abundance flow to you endlessly. So when you get rid of the fear, You know, like for every day that I'm stressed about something, I'm not able to self actualize the best version of me and what I want because I'm worried about the negative thing that could possibly happen, not keeping my heart open to the positive thing out there.

And I get it. I get it. I've been there before and I've, I've, I mean, working in Hollywood. Are you kidding me? The cynicism because the failure rate is so high. I, everything I've done in life is failure based from standup comedy to acting, to pitching. I mean, even that you're just getting shelled nonstop.

So I know how to take a loss, but I'm here to say, and I'm here to remind my audience. That if you just keep on pursuing life with love and gratitude for all that you have, I really do think you'll keep on receiving abundance. It's gonna be hard to find abundance for the stranded astronauts, but here is their update when they were asked the question, do you feel stranded and let down by Boeing?

Here's what they had to say. Do you feel let down by Boeing and Starliner and the fact that this is clearly not something you planned for your life? Let down? Absolutely not. Not, never entered my mind. Uh, I don't think Sonny's either. And until you mention it, it's a fair question. I get it. I can tell you, um, you know, I thought a lot about this press conference and what I might say what I wanted to convey, and there's no way to convey every single piece of information that needs to be said to understand a majority of the questions that we might get asked.

But I will say this, you know, Sonny's got this shirt on. It's got that nice a meatball. We call it on it, and that represents something that we stand for as an agency. We go beyond. We do things that are out of the ordinary. We send humans to space. And yeah, we're here today on the space station. Even today, this, this operation, this is not easy.

Uh, NASA does a great job, the people at NASA do a great job, of making a lot of things look easy. Going, you know, Sending probes beyond the edge of our solar system going and getting sample from asteroids humans in space And it's a very risky business and things do not always turn out the way you want before we launched We said that we're going to find things that is the nature of test every single test flight Especially a first flight of a spacecraft or an aircraft that has ever occurred has found issues.

That's things that you just cannot think about. So there it is. He's saying, no, I'm not upset at all. Well, cut to six months from now when they still haven't come to get him. Can you imagine his wife? When are you coming home? Honey, I'm stuck in space. Sure you are. Either way, speaking of NASA and speaking of Uh, space travel, according to the James Webb telescope, a city sized object, presumably a spaceship, correcting its course towards Earth.

I'll have this story for you next. All right. The James Webb telescope reportedly sees an object moving towards us. Listen to this. How confident are you that it's true that there is an object detected by James Webb that's headed towards Earth that is massive? Like, how? How confident are you in that not in that information you got from your source more than confident?

It's like I'm weary that this information is being passed around. I don't know if it's true. I know that it is being passed around that I'm confident of But I want to know their motive for talking about this and why it's being like Urgently communicated. Do you feel that information is being weaponized to some extent?

I don't know. It is possible. Is this tied to what Lou was saying on Matt's show? Yeah, it is. You think those two things are the same thing? Is that confirmed or you think it is? I asked and I didn't get a no. I gotta, I can't talk about it. That's so weird, man. Can you say who you asked, like Matt or Lou? Uh, no.

No. I can't say. I mean, it would have to be Lou. He's the only one to confirm or deny that. I mean, that whole conversation was just so weird. There's a whole group that knows about this, Patrick. It's not just them two. Alright, I kind of believed it more until I listened to this. This is a clip that's going viral.

I don't know, I guess there's an alien group chat. Can somebody get me into that group chat? I'm just, I'm not in any fun group chats. I'm in one with my family. It's just me. Boring. Uh, this alien group chat seems pretty lit though. If you ask me, all right. Oh, I promised this story. Let's get to it. This is a bachelor nation, Taylor Swift crossover story.

This is Becca Tilly, who is dating a pop star. Uh, she was in the closet at the time and her partner, uh, got her a chance to meet Taylor Swift. Listen to this. Can we talk about Taylor Swift? Becca's best friend. Taylor Swift knew about you and Hailey before anybody else did? This is actually such a crazy story.

So, my girlfriend Hailey, she's a singer. She was opening for Panic! at the Disco at the time. Taylor reached out and asked if she wanted to perform during her Reputation Tour. I was like, I'm flying out. What are you going to tell me today? When is this happening? And so I fly out there and She goes on stage, performs.

I'm in like the friends and family section with Mama Swift. Like I'm just like, this is the coolest thing ever. I'm like, this is so epic. Hayley and her mom go to Taylor's dressing room with Taylor and her mom. I'm in Hayley's green room. I'm looking at videos. I'm like, this is incredible. Yeah. And my mom texted me and she had known about Haley, like Haley's name, but she was like, do you like Haley more than a friend?

At the same time? On that night? Yes. So I'm like staring at my phone and Haley's security guard comes over and he's like, Hey, um, Taylor wants to say hi. So like, I go in with the most heavy feeling because I'm like, I'm about to meet My favorite celebrity ever and I have to come out to my mom tonight like it was just so this like crazy balance So crazy, she's so you've met her.

She's so She's the best normal. She's so like, um intentional like when she's having a conversation It's very like you're the person she's talking to she doesn't care what's going on And then I had to go on hayley's bus and have a very hard conversation with my mom Well, I guess it shouldn't be hard. I hope her mom was accepting of her, but either way, crazy story.

You know, I've got a funny story of meeting Nick Lachey and my wife and my wife's sister fangirled so hard. They got so nervous. It's the fun. It was the funniest I ever saw. Cause it's like, it's okay. It's Nick Lachey. It's not like, you know, it wasn't like a Taylor Swift level. It was like, all right, the guy from 98 degrees.

Whoa. Big deal. But either way, it's funny. You never know how you're going to act when you meet someone like famous or a celebrity. Yeah. I can only imagine that's how my listeners feel when they meet me. I'm kidding. Either way. Uh, you know, these meet and greets they do at the Taylor Swift shows, they get fine dining.

And now we have some people wondering if, you know, Travis Kelsey, uh, partied a little bit too hard in the off season and he might be out of shape. We're not allowed to say that he's out of shape, that he's been partying all off season. He's been jet setting around with his, the most famous person probably in the entire world.

So the coverage and the respect he gets is the same. The athlete is not now. Is he going to work himself into shape during the season? Yeah, I'm sure he will. He's he's unbelievable competitor. He's one of the best to ever do it. How funny is this? Can you, can you imagine Travis finds love an hour? You're wondering if he gained too much weight while he was hanging out with his girlfriend.

Hey, that's what happened. You get a girlfriend, you gain weight. That's just like the universe's way of saying you're no longer single. Put the six pack away. Not that I ever had one, but dad bought is in full effect. All right, folks. Well, we're going to have a lot to talk about today, so stick with me. I'll be on Patreon at patreon.

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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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9-23-24 Morning Rush - Bachelor In Paradise Star Brandon Jones Tells All & Some Fans Are Angry, Rachel Recchia Tells Women To Run From Bachelor Men & RFK Jr Bragged About Reporter Fling

A recap of the wild interview Brandon Jones did with Clayton Echard, claiming Serene threw her engagement ring at him, plus Rachel Recchia comments on how toxic Bachelor Nation men are. We also have an update on RFK Jr bragging about the intimate pix sent to him from the New York reporter, also Chappell roan explains her depression diagnosis, and Dancing with the stars bad boy Maxim Chmerkovskiy explains why he isn’t going to judge Artem yet on his arrest. Plus I watched the Pop Star Academy on Netflix and have some strong opinions I need to get off my chest. All this and more coming up next on the morning rush.

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TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Rush Hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your Rush Hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand up comedian, Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you, September 23rd. I got all your entertainment and pop culture news right here in one place on the morning rush.

I've got a recap of the wild interview Brandon Jones did with Clayton Echard claiming serene through her engagement ring at him. So that's great for some bachelor tea. And speaking of which, Bachelorette Rachel Rechia comments on how toxic bachelor nation men are. And we also have an update on RFK Jr.

bragging about the intimate moments. pictures he sent or sent to him from New York reporter. Uh, so speaking of toxic men and Chapel Roan explains her depression diagnosis and also dancing with a star bad boy. Maxim trimmer. Kofsky explains why he isn't going to judge Artem yet on his arrest. Plus I watched the pop star Academy, uh, on Netflix over the weekend, and I've got some strong opinions I need to get off my chest.

I've got all this and so much more coming up next on the morning rush. Well, you guys know me. I'm a big fan of Chappelle Roan. Well, she was diagnosed with severe depression after her meteoric rise to fame. Uh, she discussed it in an interview that just aired on Friday. She said, I went to a psychiatrist last week because I was like, I don't know what's going on.

She diagnosed me with severe depression, which I don't think, I didn't think I had because I'm not actually sick. Sad, the Pink Pony Club Songstress explained to the Guardian, but I have every symptom of someone who's severely depressed. Some of 26-year-old Ron's symptoms include brain fog, poor focus, forgetfulness, and as you put it, a very lackluster viewpoint.

Hey, look, I mean, this has gotta be very tough for performers, right? You receive such amazing highs from performing in front of audiences that just can't be sustainable. And of course, you know, we've. talked about her sort of reaction to the fame, uh, you know, telling fans to leave her alone and yelling at photographers.

I don't exactly hate, but I hate it. I hope she feels healthy, but I love that she's trying to set boundaries in a world that probably doesn't have, uh, that she doesn't have too much control over. We'll have more on pop news in a little bit as I'll talk about that new Netflix show But first married RFK jr.

Bragged about intimate photos. He had of reporter Olivia Nuzzi amid sexting scandal You know cuz I was wondering she got put on leave I guess for sending him photos after she had interviewed him I mean, but look she lives she works for the New York magazine in New York You just send nude photos to each other, right?

That's like how you say hello in New York, right? Forget about it You just send a DP. I don't know. Maybe not Well, according to the Daily Beast, the 70 year old politician told his close friends about the pictures the political correspondent sent him, which led to the scandal blowing up. Oh, so someone snitched on old RFK Jr.

She was confronted about the images by the magazine's editor in chief during a one on one meeting on September 13th. Um, she, uh, he He asked, uh, her chief asked, uh, for her to explain what went down. And he learned Kennedy had been talking about the photos and telling people he was in a romantic relationship with her.

Um, I guess, uh, we're gonna have to find out what his wife has to say about this. Uh, so a new article came out. RFK Jr. Once had 43 mistresses in his cell phone, including now wife, Cheryl Hines. Look, I think mistress is the wrong word. They were ladies. that he was pursuing. I mean, he's a gentleman, you know, he's it.

No, I'm not going to stand up for him here. Uh, but look, uh, this report is so funny that this is in the news for a presidential candidate. Uh, this all kind of came out after, you know, uh, the Olivia Nuzzi story. Uh, but they say he's got people in every state. He's got them with different last names, depending on where he met them.

One's named like Jill Plain. Um, so it said he has a, he has a woman in every city and at least five in Toronto. Oh, he's beautiful. Busy in Toronto, uh, one of the women had the note airplane after her name, while another was denoted with farm and a third with teacher. I love it. It's a man of the people. He wants to remember where he met somebody.

He met her on a farm, took her to a plane. Either way. Uh, don't think we have to worry about him becoming president, but, uh, still the Kennedy legacy. See, and this is the problem, right? You have the JFK and the older Kennedys. They worked hard for their family name. And then these younger Kennedys, they just get to do whatever the hell they want with it.

Kind of like Puff Diddy's kids, right? Well, here's Ray J. He said he hung out at Puff Daddy's soirees. And he, I guess, didn't have a problem. Ray J, of course, I guess was a rapper, right? It's been a while. He was, uh, also in that sex tape with Kim Kardashian, right? I don't think they made any money off of that.

She certainly did in the long run. Uh, but either way, here is what was said by Ray J. Uh, after, you know, the sort of cancelling of Diddy. What did you make of what you heard and what did you ever see for yourself that gave you an opinion about what he was about? Well, um, for myself and I think a lot of other people in this industry, I mean, it's all a shock because, you know, we've never seen Uh, the stuff that's being said and the stuff that people are finding out, like I've never been in rooms that people are talking about and I never knew they existed.

And a lot of people in the industry can, can agree with me on that sense. Like you all want it to go and have a good time. Listen, there's been plenty of parties I've been to where I wasn't in the cocaine room. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but I understand he's kind of like saying, Hey, I had no idea, but it's like, come on, you know, you don't buy a thousand bottles of lube for no one to know about it.

No. And you want it to be inspired. You want it to go out and have a good time. And then you want it to go the next day to work and you want it to work hard in this good vibe, you know? And so. To see where we are now, um, I just think everybody is still trying to digest it. And all right, well, either way, it's not like, uh, Diddy wasn't known for his parties.

Another unearthed video from, I believe 2002 is Diddy speaking with Conan O'Brien on late night with Conan O'Brien explaining what his parties were like party. What's the ingredient? What is, what do you do to make just an amazing killer party, cause mine, I put out the cheese whiz, I put on the Paul Anka, no one comes, wrong move.

See ya. Doing the wrong things. Wrong thing. Okay. This is what you need to do. Um, Beautiful women, of course.

Beautiful women. Beautiful men for the ladies, of course. We need, um, alcohols. Right. Alcohols. Right. Not just one alcohol. Alcohols. Right, just a different blend. You need the ladies, you need the booze. You need, um, some water. For watering plants? No, no, I don't know if guys have noticed this, like, a lot of ladies Drink water at parties.

They just, you know, so you have, if you don't have what they need, they're going to leave. Right. Got to keep them there. Right. You need locks on the doors. Okay, this is sounding kind of dangerous now. Yep. And 22 years later, I wonder if that'll make it to the, uh, court's paperwork. We'll have to see as Diddy's about to be tried for some very serious crimes.

Well, you know, Other folks in the pop were a lot of pop stories today. Janet Jackson, um, I guess, uh, was called out for perpetuating a wild conspiracy theory. She said Kamala Harris isn't black and her dad's actually white. She was pushing this theory, uh, parroting claims that Donald Trump made about the VP a couple of months ago, claiming she's not black.

The music legend sat down for a chat with the guardian. Oh, the guardian's getting all the crazies, right? In response, Janet Jackson replies that she heard Kamala isn't actually black and instead she's She's Indian. Well look, she's both, right? Her dad's from Jamaica. Don't even get, these things don't even warrant a response.

But like, why? I don't understand. Uh, why this is even a conversation we're having, but hey, this is the world we live in. All right, I got a serious story coming up next. It's Maxim Chumakovsky discussing his fellow dancer Artem and why he needs to hear more of the facts. I'll have this story for you right after a quick word from our sponsor.

Alright, um, Artem was arrested, and his wife filed for divorce, he was arrested for domestic violence. Um, but we haven't heard him say anything or anything from the court papers. Maxim Tremakovsky is probably the most famous male dancer ever from Dancing with the Stars, and here's what he has to say.

Obviously Dancing with the Stars has been in the news because of Artem's arrest, um, obviously super sad situation, and you guys worked together. Have you spoken to him? Were you surprised? What, what were your thoughts when, when we broke the story? I, I wrote to him. I, I, I, I. Like texted him? Had a, yeah, I texted him.

The man that I know, you know, I know to be a very soft, kind, kind person. You know, beautiful person to know. Autumn, everyone I know around him, loves him the same way. Um, you know, I What was your, uh, text to him? It was just stay strong and if this is something that, you know, is on you, that it's on you, you're responsible for your actions.

You know, I There's a bunch of scenarios that we can play in our head. None of us were there. I wasn't there. I have no idea I don't want to judge. I don't even want to pose my opinion. Like I said, I just know the person I also know Nikki, you know, I wish them all the best. They have a young kid. We all in the same group of Families that know each other we know each other very well in terms of like we very tight We try to hang out with Val and I had a show in Napa for three months I flew with Nikki back and forth nine ten times with in LA You We went out to dinners, the three couples, Val, me, and, and, you know, and Artem, and, and our girls, and, you know, we just know each other like that.

I also know that having kids is tough. A lot of people are talking about how Artem is not on this season, this current season. People are wondering if he'll ever be back to Dancing with the Stars, especially in light of everything going on with him and Nikki. Do you Listen, there's no way. There's no way he's going to come back unless, unless, you know, the, some story comes out that this was all, uh, made up, which we don't believe it to be, uh, look, you, if you're someone like, um, uh, Maxim here, you're in a tough place because, you know, can you have friends that do bad things?

Well, clearly, you know, you never know what's going to happen. going on behind closed doors and a lot of abuse victims, you know, and until they come out and say it, you wouldn't even know in some cases. Uh, so we really don't know. We really don't know. Um, but I do think I do understand his idea of saying, I'm just going to hold off judgment.

Like, well, like I'm not the judge. You know, he's gonna go to court, they're gonna figure it out, I'm just gonna wait. Because, why put your name to something? Why endorse something, or why be against something when you don't have all the facts? So I totally understand that. You know, which is very tough to do in Bachelor Nation.

A lot of times, we watch a show go down and we don't really know exactly how it ends. Obviously the Artem story is completely different. The stakes are way higher. We're just transitioning into the Clayton Eckert interview of Brandon Jones. Now what's interesting about this, I'm going to do a real deep dive on today's YouTube.

I won't do that here, but I will play a clip. Clayton interviews, Brandon Jones. This is a. You know, kind of out of the blue because Brandon, uh, was, uh, you know, on Michelle Young's season of Bachelorette. Um, she dumped him. He was heartbroken, big time fan favorite, goes on Bachelor in Paradise, has this real, what looked like, fairy tale ending with Serene Russell, and then, of course, they end up breaking up.

Uh, video and photos were leaked to Reality Steve of Brandon dancing with someone at a club. And it was thought that that happened while he was still engaged. He's here on Clayton's podcast to say, no, that's not true at all. We were not engaged at that point. But not only that, he goes really deep into the relationship.

Again, these scenarios are really a, he said, she said, uh, he's sharing his Died for the first time and she's actually already responded and I believe posted a, she posted on Instagram a Taylor Swift lyric, um, which, uh, was kind of in order to shade him. Fans, I think, are kind of split on this because. Well, while he sounds very convincing when he tells his story on Instagram, in the comment section, you actually had Serene's brother commenting saying, Hey, you were abusive.

Now what that means and what type and all of that, I have no idea. It, I feel like this story is not going to get much closure unless both of them really spill the beans. Uh, but he did mention Brandon did that. She had threatened him with releasing all these videos of their fight that he initially said she recorded to show their therapist, it's messy folks.

At the very least it's messy. Here's what he had to say about the moment they broke up. It's very underwhelming. It's a typical breakup fight. This house is a mess. Like, you know what I mean? Like, like, I just need your help in cleaning whatever I can do to help you do that to do so. And it went from like that and then it spiked into a whole nother conflict and spiked into a whole nother conflict to the point where like at the end, like I'm sitting on the couch, she's screaming at me and I'm like yelling at her and then the relationship's over.

And she's throwing the ring at me, and I have that, and it's just like, yo, like, like, that shit's tough, dude. I mean, it's, it's a wild conversation. Those that are criticizing Clayton are really upset that he would platform Brandon here. I've always kind of been interested in the term platforming because, first of all, Clayton's podcast has 629 subscribers, okay, on YouTube.

So, The idea that he's platforming. Brandon, Brandon's got a quarter million Instagram followers. He's already got a platform. Um, they're, you know, Clayton's idea of the show is to just interview other men about their mental health issues. I think it's a good thing to talk about mental health issues. I think it's, it's, uh, the, the problem I think when you get into the bachelor world is the collateral damage.

The collateral damage of Brandon discussing his relationship means people are going to then look at Serene differently. But, with that said, there have been some crazy things that have come out. We know former producer, I've been on her podcast, Alana Noel, she actually claims that Serene was sending text messages to a producer, like showing off what out, what gym outfits she was wearing.

Again, is this cheating? No, it's like Wild 2024 gray area. But if Brandon was dancing with someone, and again, it's a big if, if he was dancing with somebody. And he's single while that looks bad optics and then serene sending a photo to their producer and violating his trust. You can see how toxic this relationship was, regardless of who was on the right side.

Um, but I will say a lot of people commented on the Instagram reel, which had all of the edited versions of the conversation, and they were more hateful towards Clayton and more hateful towards Brandon. The YouTube comments are more. Uh, gracious towards Brandon, and it makes you wonder, is it because the full full context is more believable or is it just easier for people to hate on short form social media?

I re I really don't know, but I find it very interesting and we're gonna get down to the bottom of it. I mean, he said that. Uh, he said that she threatened to go on, um, Kaitlyn Bristow's podcast and expose him. So now it makes you wonder now that he's out here sharing his side, will she come out with anything uglier?

You have to think if you're Brandon Jones in And your ex had something on you, like really, if it was, you would have to think of it as really bad, you would never go public and share a story because of that, like nuclear, nuclear bomb, they could blow off here. So because of that, I don't know if Serene's going to do or say much, but I find it very interesting in a time where we have all of this crazy stuff around Devin and there's just a lot of other real tea seeping out.

It's just very, very interesting. And speaking of avoiding these. Here's what Rachel Rekia had to say on um, I believe the podcast was called After Curfew. I like need this to be known to the public. This is big. The girls are in this and they're so serious. And the girls want to find someone, they want to settle down.

The men, they think they are, and as soon as they get this little taste of like, the DMs, Because women are watching this show, men aren't DMing me and watching the show. Even if they really like who they're with, they're getting the taste of this like, Oh, I can have anyone. All these girls are in my DMs.

And they are in this situation, I feel like Devin, he's probably getting these DMs and he's realizing like, Why would I, why would I be with Jen when I can be with anyone? Why would I settle? And then, Uh, the next bachelorette season happens, no one remembers any of you, and then that's when they start to like, crawl back.

Get away! You thought you had all these options, and now you're crawling back into my friend's DMs. To this day, it's like, all the women, we all go through the same thing with these bachelor boys. How funny. And if you see the bachelor boys On your dating apps. Run. Run. I mean, I love it. First of all, talking about projection, God bless Rachel Rekia, she truly is one of my favorites.

You know, whenever you generalize, it's like, you're not going to get it all right. Of course. I love to generalize. I love to generalize. Those bachelor boys are this way. But come on, really? I mean, I don't know the stats on which, on, on who gets, um, who settles down faster. I do believe, for the most part, women are probably more mature at their given age than men are, just because men are idiots.

I do understand that, but the, the women of The Bachelor get, Um, they get fame too. They start podcasts, they monetize their channel. They do their get ready with me's with each other. I mean, they monetize it in an own way, in their own way. So like, if the guys are out there doing Tik Tok videos and it's Andrew Spencer and you know, whoever, uh, you know, whoever's out there, uh, Greg Ripple, they're, you know, they're doing do si do ing on Tik Tok.

It's like, all right, well, they're playing the game too. I don't know. But I do think, you know, some of these guys, yeah, it's like, sure. If they were on the bachelor, they probably can meet girls pretty easily, but you know, it's not hard to meet girls. These like, they're all good looking already. Like you tell me, Logan, he's walking into a bar, six foot three.

You tell me he's not going to have a bunch of girls looking at him. I I'd be looking at him. You know what I mean? So anyway, I kind of reject the premise. Uh, but, uh, either way, I love a strong take. I really do. All right. I got a lot of great stories coming your way. Stick around. We'll be back with more right after this.

All right. This is a tick tock. I'm going to share with you, which completely reflects everything I've always said, which is that people judge you on very basic standards. Have a listen. 82 percent of our impressions of people are based on two traits, warmth, It's not how attractive you are, it's not how tall you are, it's not how rich you are, it's not how successful you are.

It's literally how fast can you signal, I'm a friend, trust, and you can rely on me. Or, one of the other. If you're super competent, you don't have to be a friend. And if you're super friendly, you don't have to be competent, you know? It's like, if you can thread the needle and be both, you'll be good out there.

Whether it's As a content creator or just in your general job, show an air of confidence, which is what competence is, right? Someone who's confidence confident because they have competence. Um, and also, you know, you gotta be likable. That's the world we live in, you know, at any, there's so many jobs out there that it's like, you're almost.

Uh, you know, you're more often hired, uh, not because of your skill set, but because you can fit in with the company culture and my audience here, I hope our company culture is one that is pretty fun. I hope we're competent. At least, uh, you know, if we're not, we'll be likable, you know, who's likable. The ladies of pop star Academy.

Oh my gosh. This, I guess this show came out on Netflix a month ago, but my wife and I found it this weekend and you ever have this with your partner where you'll watch like the first 10 seconds of a show here. And then, so if I see a show that I know my wife, Tasha will like, I'll like pause it and I'll look at her and I'll go.

Clear your schedule. And then we'll just watch like eight episodes in a row. Uh, but anyhow, Popstar Academy is basically like the making of a band, K pop style, but that takes place in Los Angeles, but they have contestants from all over the world, a lady from Latvia and Belarus, Australia, uh, you know, uh, Korea, China, they're all, all over the place.

Um, and anyhow, the show is interesting, but it. What it does is it shows you what conformity looks like. So on the show, Popstar Academy, they want everyone to look the perfect part. They want everyone to hit the same exact dance moves. It's so It's so formulaic and it's just, it's really sad actually, because I kind of see like the United States as like a country where we embrace that rock star who tells their boss to go F themselves.

Like, we embrace the um, sort of individuality that we have here in our country with our first amendment rights and you know, just, you know, just the idea that we can be entrepreneurial and work for ourselves and this and that. But Popstar Academy. Goes to show the brick wall that the music industry will place around talent and that, and whoever is in control of the talent.

So you have all these girls that would be really great, probably as their own performers, really forced to just become, you know, spend two years, training and dancing, probably not even getting paid just so that they can audition for these kind of creepy men who run, you know, the world of K pop. That's exactly, I mean, that's what it is.

And, and they, and you can, and again, I don't blame the girls. They're like, they're like. 14 to 18. The old girl, the old girl that they throw out was 19. Anyway, I'm watching this back. It's fascinating, but it was also kind of made me really angry. I wanted to give everyone a hug and say like, it'll be okay.

You can start a YouTube channel and a Patrion. You can work for yourself. I mean, look at Chapel Rowan. She didn't make it right away. She worked for 10 years and finally at the old age of 26, she, no, I'm kidding. Uh, but so you see these people who their whole life is around. You know, trying to make it on Popstar Academy.

And it left me with a very weird taste in my mouth, but I also recommend watching it. You can actually see how this show evolves throughout the season. Um, and I guess they made a band called Cat's Eye, which I know nothing about because I'm old. I'm like twice the age of their target demographic. So what do I know?

Anyhow, um, what else can we get into? I mean, it's pretty. been a, it's going to be a busy one today. I guess, I guess here's some news for you. Donald Trump says he's not planning to run for president in 2028. Um, the 45th president sat down for an interview with Cheryl Atkins Atkison on full measure, where she asked him point blank, if he sees a 2028 run in the future.

He says, no, I don't. I think that will be it. I don't see that at all. Hopefully we're going to be successful. Yeah. So, um, if he is successful, I don't know how that works, but he can't have a second term cause he already had his first one. Right. Um, that would be interesting if you could get a term, if you took four years off, like you can do eight years and then four years off and then eight years again.

No, that's probably a bad idea. Uh, don't do that. Anyhow. Um, yeah, so it's now or never four year old Donald DJ. We'll have to see how that all plays out. It's only a month plus away. The day can't come soon enough. I'm so sick of the election season. Aren't you? Oh, it's so annoying. Anyhow. Um, trust me when I say I'll have a lot to get to today on the YouTube channel, I will be covering more of the Clayton Eckerd interview with Brandon Jones.

And we'll try to compare what he said to what she said on different podcasts. And we'll, we'll try to get our way to the truth of the story. Although I don't think we're going to get too close. And I wish all of you guys a very, very happy day. Go rock it at work. You know where to find me. I'll be back for the afternoon rush home.

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