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Hey folks, happy Wednesday to you on this January 21st, 2026. I have all of your news for your rush hour right to work and buckle up indeed.

The culmination of a year's worth of conversations regarding Blake lively versus Justin

Baldoni has reached its critical.

I mean, this is absolute insanity what we're watching happen right now.

The judge has ruled for the unsealing of

text messages and other documents. And I'm telling you, this is critical levels of tea we're going to

get into it. I don't know how else to explain it. We've got the biggest pop star in the world,

Taylor Swift, and no wonder she didn't want to be a part of it. She does not look good. There might be more

information to come out, but from what we've seen right now, it's looking as though she's

defending her bestie Blake lively at all costs, at least she was at the time. Maybe she thought

Baldoni was a creep. Maybe she thought they were doing the right thing to catch a predator. I have

no idea, but we're going to

dive into it. Unbelievable stuff. Back into the episode, we'll cover more of what's going on in the

world. But here, what's going on in pop culture? It's the greatest messiest. And by the way,

this is why you settle these things. You settle these court cases because it's never pretty when

things come out. I'm going to share

text messages from Baldoni. 3 a.m. text messages to his creative partner of Wayfair, Jamie Heath.

You know, they're sort of at odds over how to deal with her. They want like to control the

uncontrollable. It's wild, wild stuff. We're not going to be able to get through

all of it. I already know this. So hit the subscribe button. We'll continue to talk about this all week long.

And by the way, I'm here in Middle Tennessee, and there's supposed to be like a centuries,

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