11-27-25 Thanksgiving Rush - What I'm Thankful For This Year
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Thanksgiving Day Special – The Rush Hour Podcast
Sponsored by Quince. Go to quince.com/RushHour for free shipping and 365 day returns.
In this special Thanksgiving Day episode, Dave Neal slows things down to reflect on gratitude—family, friends, comedy, community, and the wild year that's brought us all here. From personal stories to unexpected silver linings, Dave shares the moments he's truly thankful for.
Then, in the spirit of the holiday, Dave reads George Washington's original Thanksgiving Proclamation, a powerful reminder of unity, humility, and the roots of this American tradition.
A warm, reflective, and meaningful holiday episode for listeners old and new.
tags: thanksgiving, gratitude, george washington, holiday special, reflection, community
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.7 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.8 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:15.7 | Happy Thanksgiving to you this November 27th, 2025. |
| 0:20.2 | Normally I share all of the stories for you for your |
| 0:23.4 | rush hour of ride to work, but the Thanksgiving episode is actually for me. That's right. |
| 0:28.5 | It's an episode where I get to give thanks. You know, one thing I love about Thanksgiving and my |
| 0:33.2 | family is we go around the table and everyone says something they're thankful for. It usually |
| 0:37.9 | ends with an awe to crying. That's just the way it works. Why do people cry? Because it's not every |
| 0:43.3 | day that we openly and blatantly share the things that we're grateful for. I'm going to share |
| 0:49.1 | with you guys why that's so important, the neuroscience behind it. But then I'm just going to |
| 0:53.7 | tell you guys what I'm |
| 0:54.9 | thankful for this year, which I guess in short would be a combination of all of the opportunities |
| 1:00.1 | that have been provided to me, really because of you, because of having an audience here willing to |
| 1:05.9 | listen. Now, here I am in a tattered sweatshirt. My baby just went down for a snap. So there's drool marks on my |
| 1:12.8 | chest. What a beautiful time to be alive. I knew being a father would change things. But I guess even |
| 1:21.2 | though I knew the reality of my life being flipped upside down, I wasn't prepared for actually |
| 1:27.0 | how my heart would feel rewired. |
| 1:29.5 | I say my heart because, you know, the heart is that, that, you know, on a physical level, |
| 1:34.5 | it just pumps blood to the body, right? |
| 1:36.4 | But we use that heart as a symbol for the soul because the soul, it exists somehow or another, |
| 1:42.8 | but there's nothing tangible to it. It's not our brain. It's not our |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 10 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dave Neal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dave Neal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.