8-4-25 Afternoon Rush - Blake Lively Wants To Hide Her Deposition & Trump Fangirls Over Sydney Sweeney & The Texas Gerrymandering Scandal Explained!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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🎙️ Rush Hour Podcast – Monday Madness Edition
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Buckle up, we've got a wild one today:
💄 Donald Trump praises Sydney Sweeney, calling the Euphoria star a "total knockout" and blaming the woke mob for trying to cancel her. We unpack why he's suddenly in her corner—and what it says about his pop culture playbook.
🔒 Blake Lively's deposition drama – The actress is reportedly scrambling to keep her legal testimony sealed. We dig into the latest court moves and what she might be hiding.
🗳️ Gerrymandering alert: Texas is at it again with illegal redistricting, and now New York might be following suit. We explain what's at stake and how it could shake up the 2024 election map.
Tune in for a fast, funny, and furious breakdown of today's top stories.
#Politics #PopCulture #BlakeLively #TrumpNews #SydneySweeney #Gerrymandering #RushHourPod #LegalDrama #TexasPolitics
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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. |
| 0:13.7 | Good afternoon, everybody. |
| 0:15.3 | Happy Monday to you, August 4th, 2025. |
| 0:17.9 | I got all your stories for your rush hour ride home. |
| 0:20.3 | We're going to be discussing a lot here. More on Blake |
| 0:23.1 | Lively's deposition. That'll be our featured story of the day. I'm going to give my quick thoughts on the season |
| 0:28.1 | three of Perfect Match, starring our favorite bachelor, Clayton Eckerd. And then Sidney Sweeney, |
| 0:34.1 | I've avoided covering this cultural moment because it's pure culture war BS, but now that the |
| 0:39.3 | president has commented on Sydney Sweeney, we'll discuss that. |
| 0:42.3 | And yeah, the Blake's deposition is getting interested as Blake Lively side is now wants the whole deposition struck from the records. |
| 0:50.3 | I believe that's what they're asking for. |
| 0:52.3 | So that cannot be a good thing. And then we'll get into the |
| 0:55.2 | redistricting battle happening in Texas, which now is going to happen in New York or California. F around |
| 1:00.7 | and find out. We'll get into that. And it looks like the federal government is trying to ban protests. |
| 1:06.8 | Now, yeah, that's right. They're going to try to take aid away from states that allow peaceful |
| 1:12.4 | protesting. What a wild time to be alive. All these stories and more starts right now on The Rush. |
| 1:18.0 | So again, big thanks to everyone who's been donating to our teacher wish list. Ruby is our afternoon |
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