3-25-26 Morning Rush - Bachelorette Taylor Frankie Paul NEW INVESTIGATIONS? & Cuba Crisis Explained
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Is The Bachelorette officially dead? We break down the chaos.
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New allegations surrounding Taylor Frankie Paul continue to rock Bachelor Nation as more details emerge and the fallout gets worse by the day. With her season already canceled before it even aired, the big question now is—can this franchise survive?
Former leads Rachel Lindsay and Nick Viall weigh in, and their reactions are brutal. Rachel says the franchise may be "completely destroyed," while Nick claims producers were blindsided by what they didn't know. So… is this the end of The Bachelorette as we know it?
Plus, we zoom out to the bigger picture—breaking down the growing crisis in Cuba, the escalating tensions in the Iran conflict, and how it all connects to the global uncertainty we're seeing right now.
It's messy, it's serious, and it's all happening at once.
Taylor Frankie Paul, Rachel Lindsay, Nick Viall, The Bachelorette, Bachelor Nation, Cuba crisis, Iran war, breaking news, pop culture, reality TV drama
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.7 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.7 | Good morning, everybody. Happy hump day to you on this Wednesday, March 25th, 2026. |
| 0:19.4 | I have all of your news for your rush hour ride to work. And there is |
| 0:23.3 | breaking news being reported by NBC that Taylor, Frankie Paul, is under investigation in connection |
| 0:29.4 | with allegations of a third violent incident. I'm going to get into this story. Plus, we have |
| 0:35.9 | former bachelor at Rachel Lindsay, what she has to say about why they shouldn't |
| 0:40.5 | have cast Taylor Frankie Paul in the first place. |
| 0:44.0 | And then we're also going to get into Nick Vile, the Bachelor, who took credit for casting |
| 0:49.8 | her. |
| 0:50.2 | And now he's saying, gosh, didn't they do their due diligence on this one? |
| 0:54.3 | All right, so we have all these stories. |
| 0:55.6 | Plus, we'll be covering the crisis happening in Cuba, the war in Iran, and the two different |
| 1:01.3 | elections that happened yesterday where seats were flipped from red to blue, a story you're |
| 1:06.9 | hearing a lot of this year. |
| 1:08.0 | We'll have all of this and more. |
| 1:09.0 | It starts right now on the rush. |
| 1:11.3 | All right. So let's dive into this main story. Fascinating stuff. Just came out as I'm recording |
| 1:16.3 | this video, Taylor Frankie Paul, under investigation in connection with allegation of third domestic |
| 1:21.8 | incident. Police in Utah said they are investigating an allegation from a 2024 incident that Dakota Mortensen made |
| 1:30.2 | against Paul last month. Now, this seems to be different from the one we saw on our TV screens, |
| 1:36.3 | again, that they shared in the pilot episode of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. And again, |
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