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 November 14th, 2025. I got all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work. We got a fantastic program for you today. I had a chat with Cliff Cash. He's a very funny stand-up comedian and activist. He's from the Carolinas, but he's been marching up to Washington, D.C. with several protests that he's been doing with a lot of very big voices.

You might have heard of them. If not, we have a great conversation about actually how Americans

are coming together. You know, this whole experiment, the Rush Hour podcast, it's really about

giving you the news that you need for your work week. What can I give you to get you to work

so that you don't feel like you're in the

dark? And we cover pop culture and politics and everything in between. But it is so hard to cover

one without the other in today's world of 24-hour news cycles, especially with this monstrous story,

this once in a generation, a hundred year story.

I wish it didn't exist.

But the conspiracy around the Epstein files has reached a fever pitch.

It's really a self-inflicted wound by the Trump administration.

You have to remember, they did these binders labeled Epstein files that Pam Bondi had printed out

at Kinkos and gave them to a bunch of right-leaning, you know, conservative podcasters,

not even really credible ones, ones that are called like libs of TikTok and random, you know,

quasi-famous people. They made a mockery out of it. And then they decided they weren't

going to press any charges and the case was closed. And at that point, the America says, hold on a second.

You know, the fact that the Trump administration thought that people would just roll over on this one

has been baffling. It's been the biggest self-owned that we've had. And, you know, while Trump's polling

and his ratings have been the lowest they've ever been for other reasons, namely the economy,

you know, immigration issues and, you know, I don't know, blowing up Venezuelan boats. But this

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