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 Friday to you on this October 24th, 2025.

I got all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work. Can you believe

we made it to Friday the week before Halloween? Well, I got a sugar high for you of the pop culture

and political variety. So let's dig in. On this episode, we've got popcorn planet speaking out

through the court system and in response to Blake

lively. It appears as though Blake lively wants to know what the heck's going to be in his

documentary. And boy, do we have the Streisand in full effect. We'll get into that and a little bit more

on Blake's evidence or lack thereof with her discovery coming to a close.

Also, Gavin Newsom, really, I mean, he is just winning on social media.

We'll share the new knee pads he's selling, or I should say have sold out and why.

After that, we'll get into the ballroom budget, the of course ballroom we're all going to be invited to as taxpayers, right, to the people's house, the people's dancing with the stars live from the White House.

The ballroom has gone up in price. So we'll get into that a little bit more in the government shutdown as it's another pay period where about a million government employees are not being paid.

Lots to get into all these stories and more.

It starts right now on the rush.

Well, it's been a pretty wild week for Blake lively as she filed court documents,

essentially saying the reason she couldn't find more evidence to support her claims is because

all of the text messages

and audio messages were deleted, which is what the plan was going to be all along, which might

be true. But I don't think that really holds up in court to say, hey, Your Honor, the dog ate

my homework. That's why I couldn't do it. It's gone. The dog ate it. And that's what

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