7-21-25 Morning Rush - Astronomer CEO RESIGNS & Backstreet Boys Blues & Blake Lively Updates & Epstein Files Talk
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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🎙️ Rush Hour Podcast – July 21
Strap in for another wild one 👊🔥 We're serving hot takes, legal beefs, political spin, and Hollywood chaos in today’s rundown:
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🏖️ Backstreet's back—in court! Brian Littrell is suing trespassers on his private beach and it’s turning into a legal boy band showdown.
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🧾 Blake Lively subpoena saga update — more receipts are being pulled, and it looks like she’s doubling down on her digital witch hunt.
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🚪 CEO of Astronomer resigns amid internal turmoil and external pressure. Silicon Valley’s latest shakeup has people asking: “Who’s next?”
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🗳️ Gerrymandering battle explodes as Dems and Republicans throw punches over district lines while…
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🕵️ The Trump administration plays distraction trying to deflect from the Epstein Files conspiracy that just won’t die.
📲 Stream now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your headlines with a side of truth bombs.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:14.0 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you on this July 21st, 2025. I hope you had a great weekend. I've got all your stories for your rush |
| 0:24.1 | hour ride to work. We're going to be discussing the astronomer CEO, or should I say former CEO, |
| 0:30.8 | the guy caught him the kiss cam while he's now looking for a new job. Polish up the old LinkedIn. |
| 0:35.7 | You'll be fine. Then some more information on Laura |
| 0:38.9 | Owens, the fraudster who faked a pregnancy. And then we've got more info on the Blake Lively |
| 0:45.7 | subpoena. Oh, we have it all. From Laura Owens to Blake Lively to Jeffrey Epstein, all of our |
| 0:51.6 | favorite characters. We'll be discussing Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:55.2 | And the government's real, real solid attempts to get people to shift focus away from that story, |
| 1:02.9 | they're now wanting to lock up former President Obama. What? That's right. They want to have |
| 1:08.0 | him investigated. We'll share that. And then the Democrats aren't |
| 1:12.0 | going down without a fight discussing gerrymandering from Texas to California. It's about to get crazy out |
| 1:19.9 | there. All these stories and more starts right now on The Rush. All right, why don't we dive into |
| 1:25.6 | the astronomer CEO? They released a statement on Saturday. |
| 1:29.3 | This is the guy who was caught canoodling with his HR executive. |
| 1:34.3 | Here's what Astronomer had to say. |
| 1:36.3 | Again, billion dollar company. |
| 1:37.3 | As stated previously, Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. |
| 1:48.1 | Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently that standard was not met. Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the board of |
| 1:54.0 | directors has accepted. The board will begin a search for our new chief executive as co-founder |
| 1:59.1 | and chief product officer Pete DeJoy continues |
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