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.

Dave Neal here, stand-up comic and host of the Rush Hour podcast with your Tuesday morning rush on this June 3rd, 2025. We have a special

episode for you. This is filmed on my mobile studio setup with Reality Steve. He's a podcaster,

blogger. If you don't know Reality Steve's story, it's actually quite interesting. He got started

covering Bachelor Nation just by

emailing his friends. I've always said, I think you could do a biopic about reality, Steve.

You're going to find this fascinating. If there's anyone out there looking to do creative content

but don't know where to start, reality Steve is a good indicator that when you leap,

the net will appear. So he actually had this background

doing sports broadcasting, and he kind of applied that into his coverage of The Bachelor with his

unique point of view. We all have a unique point of view, right? We all have the ability

to see the world through a very unique, maybe subtle, but unique perspective. And because of that,

he developed this huge audience. And on his 40th birthday, 10 years ago, he decided to do a fan

appreciation event. We're going to talk about that. It's the 10-year anniversary of that. He just

turned 50. While we recorded this from his suite in Mandalay Bay was the day after that he had his big fan

appreciation event, which a lot of my audience also came to, a shout out to the kind

soul who got me this little Taylor Swift style friendship bracelet, says rush hour on it.

Either way, you're going to love this chat.

We talk Bachelor in Paradise.

We talk Bachelor Clayton Eckerd and Laura Owens, share some information you might not

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