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.

Good afternoon, everybody, on this Wednesday, January 14th, 2026.

I got all of your news for your rush hour ride home. And we've got big updates on

Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni. That's going to be our lead story today. Specifically,

the accusations that Baldoni was verbally abusive, completely debunked. I'm going to share

why and how we really have to cross our T's and dot our eyes. If you're going to make these sorts of claims about people, we've got to look at them and really dive into that. And that's what Baldoni's doing right now, is he's kind of forced to untangle all these Christmas lights here of all this chaos. Then we've got Joe Rogan speaking out against Donald Trump saying, what are we going to be the Gestapo who just, you know, stops everyone on the streets for their papers. Well, that's what they're doing in Minnesota. They're under siege. We'll get into that. And Trump's been called up to his face. He flicks a guy off at a car factory. And then Christy No it looks like they're they're really moving forward with

impeaching her all these stories and more starts right now on the rush so several months ago we

actually covered this this was back in october the audio came out from baldoni's head honcho

billionaire steve sarowitz he was secretly recorded by cla Ayub. Claire Ayub was being financed.

She was directing a film that was being financed by Baldoni's team. It's supposed to be $2 million,

went up to $5 million, maybe more. The conversation I'm going to share with you about what actually

went down is wild. Baldoni as her boss was basically saying,

I'm at him, we can't give you any more money. If other investors are going to come in,

you have to give up a percentage of the profits you'll make at the same level. We're going to

give up our percentage. Totally standard stuff. As someone who has worked in entertainment

and knowing what it's like to try to

get money to finance a film, the level of privilege coming from Claire, according to this

deposition, will blow your socks off. But just a reminder, here's the audio clip that was

recorded from Claire Ayub, and she did this illegally. I don't think she'll face, I don't think they're going to come after her for it, but have a listen. It's just, it's so tricky, especially, yeah, I don't know, I don't know, because I, again, I wasn't there, so I don't know what it was like. I was. You were there. Was it bad? No. Justin Eberra Justin never has a bad set. Yes, it was the worst set he's ever been on, but no, it wasn't bad. I was there on set. It was, you know, Justin is really kind and loving, and he's like, imagine rain's running a set. It's just, it's a Baha'i set. It's never going to be like that. No, it was just everything

was made up. It was manufactured. And it was, it was manufactured on purpose in order to take

Justin down. Look, I mean, look at that. Literally, when he doesn't know he's being recorded,

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