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 Friday to you on this May 9th, 2025. I have all of these stories for your rush hour ride to work. And boy,

is this going to be a good one? I've got a deep dive on the new Pope. Pope Leo, that's right,

from Chicago. Trump said he was going to be bringing jobs back to the United States,

and I guess we got Pope, right? But what does this mean? That's the big question. We're going to dive into it. Plus, Nick Viol, a podcaster,

a former bachelor, and host of the Vial Files show, takes a victory lap over the sort of new

update from Clayton Eckerd and Laura Owens. I'll get into that. It's leaving some fans

frustrated that he thinks he had anything to do with it. And then a spat of legal variety

between Justin Baldoni's lawyers and Blake Lively's lawyers. Baldoni's lawyer said,

let's live stream your testimony in front of Madison Square Garden. That's exactly,

that's what he said. And Blake Lively said, we do plan on testifying. So what does this all mean

as a jockey for

PR position? We'll share it. Plus, Sir David Attenborough turned 99 years young. Can you believe that?

And he's got a dire warning for our world and what he thinks we need to do to come together to make it a

better place. We all should be listening. And then we have Tim Wals

clapping back at some of the policy movement happening in our country as the resistance

continues to raise questions as to the direction of sort of policy and morality. A lot to get

into. You're going to love this one. Stick around. All this and more

happening right now on The Rush. Well, we have a new Pope Pope Leo, but how about this TikTok?

It aged very well from the Wall Street Journal. This is from April 24th where they said, look,

imagining an American Pope is hard, but Vatican watchers say if there is anyone who can overcome having a U.S. passport, it's this guy and they actually called it right. Have a listen to this.

Here's why most Vatican watchers say an American Pope isn't likely.

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