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 Thursday, March 26th, 2026.

I have all of your news for your rush hour right home. And we've got an update on

Candace Owens versus Brigitte McCrone, Brigitte McCrone suing Candace Owens for defamation. And then we have a

whole other conversation about defamation as a comedian is being sued by the composer of the Lion King

for millions of dollars for misrepresenting in a joke what the lyrics of the circle of life actually are the language from the from south africa the zulu language where they sing that chant it's a it's a wild story i mean this is absolutely unreal then we'll have updates on the war and everything else going our world, all of this and more starts right now on the rush. All right. So I don't have trial

updates from Candace versus Brigitte, but I do have Candice clapping back on Brigitte as Brigitte

meets with Melania Trump. A real's who-who of the first wives of the world, right?

So Melania and Brigitte meeting in the White House.

And Brigitte actually saying that First Amendment should have some restrictions.

Well, isn't that the whole idea behind the First Amendment in that there are no restrictions?

You have the right to say something as long as it doesn't harm somebody else.

So like defamation, like you can't just defame people. And you also can't say anything that would provoke violence on somebody else. But everything else is pretty much up in the air of what you can

say. And whether you like it or not, it should be protected. That's what we should want in our country. It's what makes our country great, or at least, you know, the idea of that is we're seeing a lot of restrictions come in as people are targeted for blogs they wrote, you know, not being on the same side of history as somebody else. It's a whole mess, but we'll get into it. And the reason I speak about the First Amendment is I'm a

stand-up comedian. We have to like hold our ground when it comes to what is allowed and is protected to be

said. Now, if you want to listen to what I said in the New York Comedy Club, I've made this set

available to my Patreon community, a 35 minute or so long set that I did this past Thursday. I did this set hours after

the Bachelorette was canceled. So I talk about it a little bit. We have a little crowdwork in there.

And you can go to patreon.com slash Dave Neal if you want to watch the full thing. All right. So let's

dive into it. Here's Brigitte McCrone. She is translated here. And the translation, not my doing, is a man,

a man's translating. You know, we can have across, we can have a cross-gender translations.

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