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 Thursday to you on this October 9th, 2025.

I got all your stories for your rush hour ride home. Our lead story

today is Joe Rogan beefing with Gavin Newsom, or as Trump calls him, new scum. Interesting story,

Joe, of course, always preaches First Amendment and wanting to have conversations. Well,

Gavin Newsom is begging him to have a conversation following what Joe had to say.

It's kind of like this weird.

It's almost like when exes like trash talk each other, you know, and they're kind of exes.

Joe Rogan divorced California left there for Texas.

And we'll get into all of it.

I think it's an interesting conversation.

And, you know, with our podcast, we cover pop culture and politics and a little everything in between. But so much of it is intertwined right now, as we've got

the biggest podcaster in the world in a little fight with the fourth largest economy in the world,

that being Governor Gavin Newsom. So we're going to cover that first, then updates on Mark Sanchez,

how royally screwed he is following his arrest

and the charges against him for that fight he was in. But will there be any evidence on his

side? We'll break that down. Second half, we've got Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point

USA, now saying they're offering an alternative halftime show. They're going to be putting

on a halftime show for folks that don't want to participate in the bad bunny half time show.

Listen, I'm all about capitalism. People can do what they want. I just think it's hilarious that

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