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.

Hey folks, happy Tuesday afternoon, August 26, 2025. I'm Dave here with all of your stories for your rush hour right home. I had all these

things I was planning on talking about, but we have breaking news that came out seconds ago.

I mean seconds ago. We're going to jump into that right now. Ladies and gentlemen,

breaking news, maybe you saw it from the title of this podcast episode. Taylor Swift and

Travis Kelsey are engaged. We're going to get it. We're

going to go go dive right into this story. I'm also going to cover Cracker Barrel, Crumble the

cookie store. Justin Baldoni, we've got Andy Signore responding to Blake lively with some pretty

bombshell information. And then we've got Donald Trump possibly, you know, joining the Mount Rushmore,

getting chiseled into stone. That's not targets for people. I don't know what is.

We'll get into all these stories. So much to cover all this and more right now on the rush.

Let's dive into Taylor Swift. She posted this eight minutes ago. It's already got over a million

likes,

of course. Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married. So there it is.

So she posted this photo, very floral, lots of florals. Ladies love the florals here.

We've got Travis Kelsey down on one knee, Taylor Swift holding his face. I'm assuming she said, she said yes. She said yes. You guys know me. We like to be, I've always wanted to be the person who sees an engagement. And then, you know, because when you see someone propose, there's a lot of like tears and cry. And it's like, well, what did she say? Everyone's like, what did she, you know, the cooks from the kitchen are looking at? Did she, what did she say? And then I, with a good view of the thing, because I'm nosy, go, she said yes. She said yes. It's just, yeah. And that's the one, that's the one issue I have. You know, when I, when I proposed to my wife, I got down on a knee on a private beach. There was no onlookers. I couldn't tell everyone.

She said yes.

I think she's, I think my wife said yes. We have a kid now. I think that counts. So there it is. There it is the iconic couple. And I mean, this is a big deal, whether you are a fan of Taylor Swift or not. Okay. That looks like a little six-carat cushion cut four Cs. I don't know. What's the clarity like on that ring? Maybe it's more than six carrots. What I love about Taylor Swift is she's so wealthy. She doesn't have to do one of those stupid people magazine things where it's like, well, it's a lab-grown diamond from, you know, she doesn't have to sponsor

anything. She's just wealthy. So there it is. I think I'm assuming my guess is they proposed before,

my guess is they proposed before that podcast episode, which was going to be one of my featured

stories, podcast episodes, excuse me here,

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