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 Memorial Day to you on this Monday, May 26, 2025.

I normally have all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work,

although if you're in the United States, you are most likely on holiday taking the day off,

although we have an audience all over the place, so I'm here to give you guys content. We will

discuss Memorial Day along with that. I'm going to be talking about a few things we don't

normally talk about on the show,

a little bit of the meta analysis of the rush hour covering social media manager.

I've got one. What I'm paying them. How much the channel is made? We'll discuss that. Plus a

Justin versus Blake overview. I will talk about the trial. Nothing really new to break, although we will

talk a little bit about the questions people have about the judge having connections to Ryan

Reynolds, so we'll get into that. And then we'll talk about a possible stand-up tour this fall.

And what's coming up next for the show? So again, a lot of meta-analysis coming to you today.

And all of this and more,

it's starting right now on The Rush. Now, you might be thinking, Dave, is this a way to just

mail in an episode? Well, no, not exactly. I'm not trying to mail an episode in. I just like to find

these moments where the news is a little bit quieter to sort of sneak in for the real loyal audience, some updates of what's going on.

If you're a part of our Patreon community, you probably know a lot of this, but publicly on the rush hour,

we don't really discuss too much about the growth.

So for those reasons, I did want to talk about that.

But first, let's, you know, give a quick respect to Memorial Day for those that

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