8-27-25 Afternoon Rush - Taylor Swift Dominates News Cycle As Charlie Kirk Has Bizarre Rant About Her & Blake Lively Called Out In New Court Doc
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Rush Hour Podcast – Taylor Swift Engagement Fallout, Blake Lively Trial Drama & Burning Man Dust Storm
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Today's Rush Hour Podcast is packed with headlines you won't want to miss. We've got the latest updates on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement — and the bizarre advice rolling in from Charlie Kirk and Kirk Cameron, who are calling for Taylor to "submit" to her husband. Spoiler: it's as outdated as it sounds.
Plus, we break down the newest response in Blake Lively's looming trial, raising the question: does she actually have any evidence to back up her claims? And out in the desert, Burning Man faces a brutal dust storm that's putting festivalgoers to the test.
Buckle up for all that and more in today's ride through the headlines.
Tags: Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Blake Lively, Charlie Kirk, Kirk Cameron, Burning Man, celebrity news, pop culture, Rush Hour Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.0 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.0 | Good afternoon, everybody. Happy hump day to you on this Wednesday, August 27th, 2025. |
| 0:20.0 | Got all your stories for your rush hour right home. |
| 0:22.8 | We've got updates in the Taylor Swift bombshell proposal news as we've got the Kelsey brother, |
| 0:29.8 | Jason Kelsey, offering his congratulations. And the father, Kelsey, continues to spill the tea as he does a PR blitz. |
| 0:38.4 | I think he's just happy to be involved. |
| 0:40.3 | I mean, imagine if you have a kid, and then years later, that kid is now proposing to |
| 0:44.8 | the biggest pop star of our generation. |
| 0:47.2 | Wild time to be alive. |
| 0:48.5 | And Burning Man has a burning bush, or a dusty bush, I should say, as a dust storm has wreaked havoc in the desert we'll |
| 0:57.0 | share some updates from that then we've got kirk cameron what he and uh kirk uh what's the other kirk's |
| 1:03.9 | name charlie kirk kirk kerman and charley kirk both offer their opinions on taylor swift |
| 1:08.6 | charlie kirk says she hopes that that she submits to Travis Kelsey. |
| 1:14.8 | I'll love my update on that story. |
| 1:17.1 | So lots to get into. |
| 1:18.0 | Plus we have a Baldoni update as we have a response from one of the folks, one of the PR folks, |
| 1:24.8 | who is responding to Blake lively in what, you know, her, you know, her |
| 1:30.7 | attempt to receive information from him. He says, not too fast. You've got nothing. And that seems to be |
| 1:37.0 | the crux of the cases that Blake has nothing. So we'll dive into that, all of the pretrial stuff |
| 1:42.2 | that's going on. It seems like it's a daily update, but it's the biggest, you know, pop culture lawsuit in the world. So we'll be here to cover it. This and more starts right now on the rush. I wanted to let you guys know this. I am not going to overly promote what I'm about to share with you. So listen closely. I've had so many people ask me to do some sort of course |
| 2:03.5 | or seminar about how to grow your YouTube channel or social media. I got to ask this all the time. |
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