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 afternoon, everybody. Happy Thursday to you on this special pre-holiday episode of the Rush Hour

podcast, July 3rd, 2025. Maybe you're working today.

Maybe you mailed it in all summer. I don't really know. Maybe Doge Cut you. Who knows? Who cares?

We're here for it, folks. I got all of your stories for your ride home. We'll be talking about Diddy.

He was denied bail. He sits in jail. Oh, look, I arrived. And then Batcham Paradise,

the conversation continues as we prepare for the premiere. As you guys know, I'll be covering that show,

as I always do. So stick around for those recaps. And then the house flips. The house flips on this

big, beautiful build. There were five holdouts. And now there's only one. Only one person on the Republican side decided not to vote for this bill, which is going to, you know, shut down hospitals and get rid of park services and take away your food stamps. I mean, it is a disaster of epic proportion. We'll talk about that. And the health care, you know, what we could be doing

with our time and money and energy and what we're not doing. But hey, there's always time for a change.

So a lot to get into all those stories and more. They start right now on the rush. And as we dive

into it, oh boy, let's start with a nice seasonal story. Pita is about to protest the hot dog eating contest.

Buns steamed over Nathan's contest. They're planning to crash the event. And I'm sure Nathan's is like,

hey, listen, why are you crashing our event? We don't even know if there's meat in these hot dogs.

PETA knows what's in these hot dogs? I certainly don't. It's processed, you know, who knows what? We don't

want to know how the sausage is made. We just want to eat it and have a good time. But either way,

that's where they'll be. Where will I be? I'll be on the road. I'll be driving today, or maybe I

shouldn't say when, but I'll be driving to visit family. We were only home for two days, but tomorrow, I've got a

special episode for you, whether you catch it tomorrow or this weekend. I've got a Q&A. I've seen

all of the questions you guys have. I mean, some of them are really ridiculous. Some of them I can't

read out loud. I mean, they'll make a, they'll make you a blush, but I've got all your questions I'll be getting to on that episode.

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