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. Happy Friday to you. It's Dave Neal here with a rush hour podcast on this January 31st, 2025.

Here are all the stories we're going to be getting into today for your drive home.

I've got a funny clip to play from an influencer about why you shouldn't date male influencers,

this having to do with the Rachel Kirkconnell, Matt James, breakup.

Also, a 100,000 subscriber review.

I want to discuss with you guys what this means to me, my channel, my family, and kind of break that fourth wall where I just take a little Friday afternoon time to share the state of the

union when it comes to what we have going on. Also, the negative impact of going viral. You get your

content shared with a lot of people. Not all of them agree with you. And that's fine. And it's worth

the tradeoff. But we'll discuss that. Also, an update to Clayton Eckert's court case. There's an

appellant's reply brief. We'll just give a quick skim over Clayton's accuser saying, you know, trying to rewrite history,

I guess. I don't really know. And then updates on the air traffic control issue that led to the

tragic incident this week with the plane crash. So I've got all those stories and some more coming up

next on the rush. Well, here's a PSA for all the ladies out there just say no to male

influencers boy that should be a t-shirt let's have a listen maybe some of you are not going to agree

with me on this but the facts are that you can't trust a man that grows a beard out like this

as soon as it gets to the point where it's like puffy and it's like stringy at the ends, absolutely not.

It's like this is attention seeking.

Having a beard like this is attention seeking behavior.

Now on Matt James side, he grew the beard out after the whole world was mad at him for sticking with his lover after the issue that they had with the Rachel Kirkconnell.

You know, there was a lot of reasons why he might have put that beard on. But hey, if it was, I mean,

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