4-9-26 Afternoon Rush - Joe Rogan Turns On Trump! & Explaining The Pentagon's Beef With The Pope!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Rush Hour Podcast – Afternoon Episode
- Joe Rogan appears to turn on Donald Trump, raising eyebrows with sharp criticism and shifting tone
- Rogan suggests the Epstein files may be a driving force behind Trump's latest war moves — a claim that's lighting up debate across media and political circles
- We break down Rogan's credibility here — and why his involvement in a UFC event hosted at the White House complicates his "outsider" stance
- Is Rogan exposing the system… or still playing inside it? We connect the dots
- J. D. Vance enters the conversation as tensions grow between government leadership and religious institutions
- The escalating clash between political power and the Catholic Church — what's really behind it, and why now?
- Bigger picture: media figures, political influence, and the narratives shaping public opinion during wartime
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| 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 afternoon, everybody, on this Thursday, April 9th, 2026. I have all of your news for your |
| 0:19.4 | rush hour ride home. And we have Joe Rogan beginning |
| 0:22.7 | to turn on Trump, essentially admitting in his latest episode that Donald Trump used the Iranian |
| 0:29.5 | war to divert attention away from the Epstein files. You'll hear it from Joe Rogan's mouth. |
| 0:35.1 | We'll play that. Plus, why I'm calling on Joe Rogan to boycott the UFC event at the White House. We've got that. |
| 0:42.3 | Plus, speaking of fighting, we've also got Alan Richardson, Jack Reacher, who is, I guess, fighting back. Bodycam footage came out of him after he pummeled a neighbor. |
| 0:52.9 | Turns out the neighbor started it and he's been |
| 0:55.6 | let off the hook. So we'll share that body cam footage. And speaking of fighting, it seems as though |
| 1:00.8 | the United States government has picked a fight with the Catholic Church. I know it sounds |
| 1:04.8 | stranger than fiction. Does that make Donald Trump the Antichrist? Some are saying, I mean, kind of |
| 1:09.6 | textbook it does. So we'll get into all of this and more. |
| 1:12.8 | It starts right now on the rush. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay, so lots to talk about, let's lead off with Arsenio Hall. |
| 1:19.6 | You might remember Arsenio Hall from Late Night TV, stand-up comedian. |
| 1:23.8 | So he goes on Rogan and talks about all of the misdirection going on. |
| 1:27.8 | And Rogan nearly immediately relates it back to the Epstein files. |
| 1:31.9 | So Joe Rogan, of course, endorsed Donald Trump, had him on his platform. |
| 1:36.6 | He's got one of the largest, if not the largest podcast platforms in the world. |
| 1:41.2 | And at what point will Joe Rogan put his little foot down and finally stand up |
| 1:46.8 | against this tyrannical government? We are starting to see the cracks in the armor. Have a listen. |
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