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 Thursday to you on this January 29th, 2026. I got all your news for your rush hour ride to work. Our featured story of the day,

first thing up, we'll discuss Candace Owens. Two episodes in a row of her show, she has released

both audio and video of Erica Kirk in the weeks after Charlie Kirk's death. We're going to dive

into that, share my opinions. You know, look, as we cover

pop culture, it's really one of the biggest stories of the year, definitely one of the saddest stories.

It's had a ton of conspiracy to go with it. Candace is very divisive with what people think about her,

but I am going to share my opinion regarding how one should react or shouldn't react following

the death of their spouse.

It's kind of a heavy conversation, especially for the morning rush.

I try to give you guys, like I remember the sweet old days where we just covered, you know,

drone alien videos or bachelor content.

And boy, it's just, we're just not in that moment, right? We're meeting

the moment, which is an absolute insane world that we live in, really in our country. I mean,

things have just been turned upside down. And on the second half of this episode, we're going to talk

about ICE, specifically the detention centers that are housing a lot of the people that have been apprehended

by ice either awaiting due process or not receiving it at all some have been in these camps

for eight months some with their five year old kids specifically we're going to talk about

liam ramos he was the five-year-old who had the, you know, he had the nice winter hat on and the

Spider-Man backpack. And he went super viral last week after getting detained with his father.

They are not illegal here. They were here seeking asylum. And it's an absolute heartbreaking story.

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