8-25-25 Morning Rush - Lawyer Loves Me? & Missing Baby Update & The Cracker Barrel Makeover Fiasco

The Rush Hour With Dave Neal

Dave Neal

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Rush Hour Podcast – Monday Morning Breakdown

Start your week with a wild Monday morning episode of the Rush Hour Podcast! Today we dive into:

⚖️ Smear Campaign? Laura Owens' lawyer takes shots at me after I received an ominous late-night email.
👶 The Missing Baby Case: Emmanuel's parents, already facing murder charges, return to a possible crime scene.
🎤 Bobby Althoff & Drake: Teasing a brand-new podcast collab that has everyone buzzing.
🎬 Sydney Sweeney's Struggles: Another box office flop has Hollywood asking big questions.
🥞 Cracker Barrel Controversy: Fans are not happy about the restaurant's rebrand—are they losing their southern soul?

It's news, pop culture, and drama—all in one fast-moving episode to start your week.

Tags: Laura Owens, Emmanuel missing baby case, Bobby Althoff, Drake, Sidney Sweeney, Cracker Barrel rebrand, pop culture news, true crime, entertainment updates, podcast drama

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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.
0:14.1	Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday to you on this August 25th, 2025.
0:20.5	I got all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work. Can you on this August 25th, 2025. I got all your stories for your rush hour right to work.
0:23.9	Can you believe this? It is the final Monday of the summer. I mean, does it get any better than this?
0:31.4	Pumpkin spice latte around the corner. Football, no more humidity. Oh, boy, this is fun, right? The kids go back to school so you and
0:40.1	your husband can start banging again. I don't know what's going on out there. All right, we got a lot to
0:44.3	get into. In this episode, Sidney Sweeney has a second movie in a row bomb at the box office.
0:49.5	Also, we'll discuss Cracker Barrel, possibly bombing with their new almost billion dollar rollout, which
0:56.2	nobody likes. And then smeared. Who got smeared? I got smeared. And I'll share what exactly
1:02.8	went down as a lawyer tried to call me out for, I guess, shoddy journalism, but we dunk in their
1:10.6	face and I'll share the receipts to all
1:13.4	the work that goes into verifying things when we report on them. And then Bobby Altof has a new
1:19.2	podcast out, the cantankerous conversationalist, Bobby Altoff, doing a podcast with Drake. The man who
1:27.1	was alleged was the person who broke up her
1:30.0	marriage but again i don't know if that was true and then after that we have an update on the
1:34.3	missing boy emmanuel parents charged with are arrested for murder and now uh the news is uh reporting
1:42.1	that they're actually in some fields uh looking for a site where the body was
1:49.3	discarded. I mean, it's a terrible story, but we'll get into that. All that and more starts right now on
1:53.5	the rush. Big thanks to everyone who came out in St. Louis. I had last minute shows, five shows in
1:59.6	St. Louis. I got to tell you, great audiences,
2:03.0	not all of them. Now, most of them were fantastic, did more stage time this weekend than I've done
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