9-24-25 Afternoon Rush - Theo Von Exposes Government & Howard Stern Praises Kimmel & Baldoni v Lively Update & Epstein Files Gets New Life!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Rush Hour Podcast – Afternoon Edition 🚦
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Buckle up, fam — today's episode is stacked with drama, hot tea, and a lil' chaos. Here's what we're diving into:
✨ Today's Hot Topics:
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🎤 Theo Von vs. Uncle Sam → Theo is DONE being used as government propaganda. He's calling them out straight-up, no filter.
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📺 Howard Stern Claps Back → Stern weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's epic late-night comeback. Is it support… or shade? 👀
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💄 Blake vs. Baldoni → The plot thickens! A makeup artist is now dragged into the feud and officially deposed. The tea is SCALDING. 🍵
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🏛️ Corruption Watch → Politicians doing what they do best: getting caught in real time.
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📂 Epstein Files Incoming? → We may be closer than ever to the release of files they never wanted us to see. 🔥
💡 Pop culture meets politics with zero chill.
🎧 Tap in, laugh, rage, and ride the Rush Hour wave with us.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:13.9 | Good afternoon, everybody, on this hump day, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. |
| 0:19.5 | I got all your stories for your rush hour ride home. We'll discuss |
| 0:22.6 | Jimmy Kimmel's ratings, what Howard Stern had to say, and others after his massive return to |
| 0:29.6 | ABC's late night hosting duties. And then we're also going to cover Justin Baldoni versus Blake |
| 0:35.9 | lively as we're getting information of who is getting deposed next. |
| 0:40.4 | It is Blake Lively's assistant, I believe. We'll double check on that. |
| 0:45.3 | And her makeup artist, which is going to be very, very interesting. |
| 0:49.7 | And then we'll get into some more political news as the Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein statue that was built |
| 0:57.0 | and put at the National Mall has now been toppled. It was not, I guess, approved by the Trump |
| 1:02.6 | administration. And the Trump administration also sends massive shade to President Joe Biden |
| 1:08.7 | in a new gallery of presidential photos. It's absolutely ridiculous what I'm |
| 1:14.1 | going to share with you. All of these stories and more, they start right now on the rush. So before |
| 1:19.5 | we jump into Baldoni, which we have three Baldoni stories. How about this? Jimmy Kimball's |
| 1:24.4 | return breaks his YouTube record. Most watched monologue ever. I have to tell you, |
| 1:30.6 | from where I am abroad, I watched the monologue. I was standing up. I couldn't believe it. |
| 1:36.7 | As someone who is a champion for free speech enjoys comedy and speaking truth to power, |
| 1:42.3 | it was a perfect storm of why comedy exists. Kimball's emotional |
| 1:47.4 | and highly anticipated return to ABC very quickly became the most popular Jimmy Kimball Live |
| 1:53.2 | monologue on YouTube. You talk about the Streisand effect? This is a little bit different, but |
| 1:57.7 | the effect of trying to silence one of the few remaining late-night |
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