7-2-25 Morning Rush - Travis Kelce Describes The Taylor Swift Fame & Blake Lively Subpoenas Candace Owens & Trump Versus Musk Reignites!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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🎙 Rush Hour Podcast: Travis Kelsey Talks Taylor, Karen Reed Sells Story, Blake Lively's Legal Bombshell & More!
In today's packed episode of The Rush Hour with Dave Neal, we break down the hottest headlines shaking pop culture and politics:
✅ Travis Kelsey Opens Up — Hear what the NFL star revealed on the Bussin' With The Boys podcast about life in the Taylor Swift spotlight.
✅ Karen Reed's Shocking Move — Karen Reed has sold the rights to her controversial story. What does this mean for the ongoing media frenzy?
✅ Blake Lively Targets Big Names — Blake Lively subpoenas none other than Perez Hilton and Candace Owens in a stunning twist to her legal saga.
✅ Big Beautiful Bill Passes — The landmark legislation clears Congress. We unpack what's in it, and why it's dividing America.
✅ Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump: Round 2 — The titans of tech and politics reignite their war of words. Is this personal, political, or both?
Buckle up — it's all here on The Rush Hour, your go-to source for the stories everyone will be talking about tomorrow.
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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 morning, everybody. Happy Wednesday to you on this hump day, July 2nd, 2025. |
| 0:20.0 | I've got all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work. |
| 0:23.4 | And after several weeks of being on the road on my mobile studio setup, dealing with my |
| 0:29.8 | phantom illness, which I'm glad to be recovering from and seeing a bunch of supporters out there |
| 0:37.1 | at stand-up shows, I am back at my Nashville |
| 0:39.7 | studio. Happy to be here. On today's episode, we'll be discussing Taylor Swift as Travis Kelsey |
| 0:45.5 | does the podcast rounds and discusses his new level of fame. And then speaking of fame, |
| 0:50.3 | Karen Reid has signed a movie deal to tell her story. She signed her rights away and we'll |
| 0:56.9 | talk about kind of strategies. Hey, you know, make money. Do what you got to do. Then Blake |
| 1:01.6 | lively is sending subpoenas to content creators. I haven't gotten one yet. Although I haven't |
| 1:07.3 | checked my mail. We'll have to see, but I'll name who has and we'll give their |
| 1:11.6 | reaction. And then the big beautiful bill passes, the Senate at least, and it is leaving so many people |
| 1:18.4 | upset. Some studies claim it might kill as many as 50,000 people a year. How is this even possible |
| 1:25.8 | with this self-inflicting wound? Well, I'll describe it. |
| 1:28.9 | And speaking of the self-inflicting wound, we've got more Elon versus Donald Trump, as these |
| 1:34.4 | lovers cannot quit quarreling. So we'll get into that. No, this is not a repeat. They are back |
| 1:40.5 | yelling at each other online. I hate to see it, or do you? All right, all |
| 1:44.9 | these stories and more. It all starts right now on The Rush. Well, we open with a relatively |
| 1:50.4 | clickbait bachelor title, Problems in Paradise. Bachelor and Paradise producers make big |
| 1:55.6 | change ahead of new season to avoid safety scare with contestants. The big changes, the fact that they're now going to be |
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