1-16-26 Morning Rush - Baldoni Dishes Tea On Ex Co Host Partner Liz Plank & More Gaslighting From Trump Administration As A Protester Has Gone Blind
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Morning Rush Hour is packed with breaking updates and behind-the-scenes details you won't hear anywhere else. We dive into Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni, unpacking why Liz Plank wanted to go no-contact with Baldoni and sharing newly surfaced Baldoni deposition updates. Plus, Caroline Leavitt responds to mounting questions over ICE brutality, and we break down what her answers really mean. All that, the latest headlines, and so much more—your morning news, without the spin.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.9 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:15.3 | Happy Friday to you on this January 16th, 2026. |
| 0:19.0 | I have all your news for your rush hour ride to work. It's been a pretty |
| 0:22.7 | insane week, emotional draining. And we've got updates to not just the Blake lively versus |
| 0:29.0 | Justin Baldoni conversation, but then after that, we've got major podcaster Sean Ryan |
| 0:34.0 | really condemning the Trump administration. And this is a big deal because his audience is |
| 0:39.2 | primarily of the conservative variety. I'll share what he has to say, putting the Trump administration |
| 0:44.5 | on blast for their protection over who might be in the Epstein files. So we'll get into that on the |
| 0:50.9 | second half of the show. Plus we we have Caroline Levitt defending ice. |
| 0:55.3 | It's a real wild time out there. I got to say, I appreciate everyone for sticking around |
| 0:59.9 | to cover all of this craziness. From the world of politics, but first, the world of entertainment |
| 1:05.0 | news, we're going to cover Liz Plank. Now, it's been over a year since Liz Plank left the podcast she co-hosted with Justin Baldoni. |
| 1:13.1 | It was called Man Enough. And she has said that there'll be more of her story to share, but she hasn't shared anything. |
| 1:21.2 | What we're finding out now, though, is the deposition from Baldoni coming out, and he explains why Liz Plank wanted to go, no contact. |
| 1:29.2 | Now, I feel for journalistic purposes, it's important to let my audience know when I discuss |
| 1:34.2 | this that I have met Liz Plank before, very briefly at a friend's party, actually, you know, |
| 1:40.3 | days or weeks before the pandemic happened, and that's probably why I remember it. |
| 1:44.1 | So clearly, it was one of my last times out in weeks before the pandemic happened. And that's probably why I remember it. So clearly, |
| 1:44.5 | it was one of my last times out in public before getting locked down, right? Before there was a, |
| 1:49.9 | you know, a shortage of toilet paper. And we were all crossing our fingers when we had, you know, |
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