1-22-26 Morning Rush - Taylor Swift In Trouble In Baldoni Case! & Trump, Greenland & ICE Updates
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Rush Hour Podcast — Morning Edition
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Here's what we're breaking down today:
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Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni: New developments suggest Taylor Swift's involvement may be far deeper than previously reported, raising fresh questions about influence, loyalty, and behind-the-scenes power plays.
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Taylor Swift Factor: Why Swift's alleged role could shift public perception — and possibly the legal strategy — in the Lively–Baldoni saga.
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Greenland Update: Trump's tariff threats appear to have been quietly tacoed, with mixed messaging and international confusion following the latest walk-back.
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White House Spin: Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt is getting called out for continuing to push claims critics say are flat-out false — and why the fact-checks are piling up.
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Big Picture: What all of this says about celebrity leverage, geopolitical posturing, and credibility in American politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.4 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.5 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:14.8 | Happy Thursday to you on this January 22nd, 26. |
| 0:19.3 | I got all your news for your rush hour ride to work. |
| 0:22.2 | Of course, we will continue to talk Blake lively, Justin Baldoni. |
| 0:26.2 | And now what might be the glue that binds this whole mess together, Taylor Swift, |
| 0:31.7 | a lot of rumors out there regarding all of the text messages that are coming in from the unsealing of documents. |
| 0:37.1 | I'll share |
| 0:37.5 | how she might be behind the sham subpoena. That's right. End of response from Justin Baldoni's |
| 0:44.7 | attorney regarding what all of this new evidence means. Pretty wild stuff. And again, |
| 0:49.4 | I don't share any hyperbole here. I'm wearing my black leather jacket. And if you know anything about me, I only wear my black leather jacket when we're putting together an amazing episode. And we have that for you today. And by the way, we have so many crazy things going on. All of these stand-up show dates I'm going to be announcing soon. Going to be in Asheville. Anyone out there? Asheville, North, it's North Carolina, right? |
| 1:11.7 | And then we're going to zoom up the East Coast and make her way to Stanford, Connecticut. Stanford or Stanford? If you're in Connecticut, I'll figure it out. And Boston and hopefully some shows in Rhode Island. So we're going to have a lot coming up. Just stay tuned. I'll get you those dates. They'll all be in March. but in the meantime we're're going to dive into this. After we get into the Baldoni stuff, we'll go into the is Greenland for sale |
| 1:32.0 | conversation we've been having all week and the irreparable damage that has been done to the |
| 1:36.7 | world order. But before we can get to damage to the world order, how about damage to the |
| 1:41.1 | Swifty Nation? So we've already covered extensively how Blake |
| 1:45.3 | lively tried to save the Taylor Swift friendship. Did Tatee get the ick? And by the way, |
| 1:51.0 | Blake Lively apparently threatened to release the text messages that make Taylor Swift look bad. |
| 1:57.6 | Taylor Swift took that as being extorted, but maybe in some weird way Blake |
| 2:03.0 | Gly had a point in proving that Taylor Swift was the mastermind, the puppet, that got Blake |
| 2:08.0 | Glyvly into this whole mess to begin with. We never thought of that scenario. What if Blake |
| 2:12.3 | Lively is a victim of Taylor Swift? Now, I'm not going to go that far and, you know, catch her |
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