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, October 27th, 2025.

I got all of your stories for your rush hour ride home. And great news. I'm back in my

home studio setup after several weeks with the mobile studio driving back from Florida.

I can tell you right now, I'm exhausted. But I've got no place I'd rather be than here with you.

And we have a lot to talk about a populist movement.

Tax the rich chance going on in New York City. What this means? This battle between policymakers and,

you know, real middle class salt of the earth people, our farmers, our cattle ranchers, our single

moms, families that need food stamps,

we're reaching a critical point where a revolution is happening with people fed up that

the system we all pay into is not paying us back, not working for us. So we're going to talk

about all of that. The ships being

blown out of the water, a possible war in Venezuela. Food stamps, the idea that the government's

going to hold that over your head as leverage to get the government turned back on. And again,

we have the Secretary of Treasury claiming to be a farmer, the 600 millionaire. Turns out he's just a landlord.

We'll get into that. But first, let's get into this. Zoran Mamdani running for mayor of New York,

the election is just over a week away. He already defeated the guy he's running against in the

primary. So the guy he's running against said, you know what? If I can't win as a Democrat, I'll run as an independent. Remember, they used to say vote blue no matter who, unless you

lose to Zoran Mamdani. And we also have Republicans trying to come up with a way to kick Zoran out of the

country, since he's an American citizen, but he wasn't born here. So I guess they're

looking for loopholes to kick him out of the country. It's like, come on, the city of New York

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