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 Hump Day. It's March 12th, 2025. I'm Dave Neal, and I have all of your stories for your rush hour

ride to work, and a busy one we have for you today on this episode. We've got Southwest

CEO speaking up after the backlash following their announcement that they're axing the free

check bags. And then Scandival's two-year anniversary, what Tom Zandoval has to say,

two years flies by, doesn't it? And speaking of villains from the Bravo world, we've got Jacks

Taylor, a trailer for the upcoming season of the Valley where he gets served divorce papers.

I'll be quite honest with you. I'll be watching that. And then we've got the New York

Times tea. Yes, that's right. New Tea from the New York Times, kind of, you know, always delivering,

quenching our thirst in the Blake lively, Justin Baldoni universe, as some good Samaritans have

looked into the archives of the internet because you can't delete anything unless you're a Doge.

But you can, in the archives,'re a doge but you can in the archives they found

different subheadings written by the new york times what does this mean we're going to listen to a

tic-tok from a crisis PR expert and then we've got some updates on the old tariffs tariff talk

as a Canadian leader is now pausing the tariffs on some American states.

There's a 25% tariff on electricity that has been paused. So we'll have that. Also, is this the

death of the Department of Education? Give you all those updates and more happening right now on

the rush. All right, before we get into the serious topics of the

day, let's talk about some good stuff, the wildlife news of the day. I guess I'm a wildlife news

channel. The other day I reported about the mice that learned how to drive. And now we have not two,

but three eagolettes have emerged from the nest in the San Bernardino Mountains this past week.

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