1-22-26 Afternoon Rush - Blake v Justin UPDATE As Judge Questions Lack Of Evidence & Jack Smith Torches Trump
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Rush Hour Podcast — Afternoon Update
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The Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni saga takes another turn as a judge openly questions the lack of hard evidence, raising eyebrows about where this case is actually headed. We break down what was said in court, what wasn't presented, and why this could be a major problem for one side moving forward.
Plus, Donald Trump escalates his war on reality by suing pollsters whose numbers he doesn't like, setting off alarm bells across the political spectrum. We dig into what this lawsuit really means, whether it has any legal legs, and how it fits into a broader pattern of attacking institutions that deliver inconvenient facts.
Also in today's episode:
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The latest political chaos flying under the radar
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Why polling, perception, and power are colliding ahead of 2026
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How media narratives are being reshaped in real time
Fast, unfiltered, and impossible to ignore — let's get into it.
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Good afternoon, everybody, on this Thursday, January 22nd, 2026, I got all of your news for your rush hour ride home. |
| 0:20.7 | It's been a wild week here in Middle Tennessee with a once-in-a-century storm coming. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm on the phone with Lowe's trying to locate a generator. |
| 0:29.1 | Does anyone in the Nashville area have a generator? |
| 0:31.7 | Could you send it over to your boy? |
| 0:33.2 | Otherwise, we might not be recording episodes for a couple of weeks if all this ice damage is what they are claiming it might be. |
| 0:39.5 | But in the meantime, speaking of damage, we've got Blake lively, Justin Baldoni. |
| 0:43.6 | We're going to continue covering this story. |
| 0:45.7 | I just interviewed a branding and PR expert named Ashley Brianna Eve. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm telling you right now, it's going to be such a good episode. |
| 0:53.6 | That's coming out tomorrow. |
| 0:55.3 | Make sure you're subscribed. |
| 0:56.8 | We talk about Taylor Swift and sort of the archetype that she's branded as and how that |
| 1:02.2 | might differ from the behind the scenes look of the mean girl energy we started to see |
| 1:06.2 | coming exposed from these files. |
| 1:07.8 | So we're going to get into all of that. |
| 1:09.3 | And speaking of mean girl energy, |
| 1:11.0 | we've got Donald Trump suing pollsters for negative polls. I'm going to share that and the |
| 1:16.7 | trending Jack Smith testimony that's been happening all day today live on the internet. If you |
| 1:22.3 | aren't following it, I'm going to sanitize it, clean it up for you and present to you my thoughts. |
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