1-26-26 Morning Rush - Super Bowl Update, Why Taylor Swift Ghosted Blake & Minnesota Shooting Updates
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Rush Hour – Morning Episode
• Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni explodes as new PR around Taylor Swift raises eyebrows
• Reports suggest Travis Kelce helped convince Taylor that Blake wasn't being a good friend
• Behind-the-scenes texts and strategy fuel the growing Hollywood fallout
• Tragic shooting in Minnesota leaves a community shaken and searching for answers
• Super Bowl matchup is set — who's heading to the big game and what to expect
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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. Happy Monday to you on this January 26th, 20206. I have all of your news for your rush hour ride to work. And on this episode, |
| 0:22.9 | we'll be diving into the PR spin being presented to us by Taylor Swift following the Blake |
| 0:28.7 | lively friendship fallout. We'll kind of, you know, and this is kind of the world we live in, |
| 0:33.2 | right, where celebrities jockeying for being in control of the narrative. |
| 0:38.1 | And speaking of the narrative, the narrative has unwinding in Minnesota, |
| 0:42.2 | another tragic shooting over the weekend, a tragic death and innocent man's life was lost. |
| 0:47.6 | And we'll share really what everyone's saying, from the mayor, the governor, |
| 0:52.7 | to those that are saying, you know what, it was a legal thing to do. I mean, it's just an absolute wild time. So before we get into all of that, and before we get into Baldoni, how about that? My New England Patriots, we'll be playing the Seahawks in the Super Bowl in two weeks. That's right. My Patriots squeaked by. It's been an ugly postseason, but I think |
| 1:11.6 | they're the first team to beat three out of the top five defenses. So they say defenses win |
| 1:16.6 | championships, I guess unless you're playing the Patriots. But again, knock on wood, they've got a long |
| 1:21.8 | road to go. So good luck to Seattle and everyone else out there. Maybe you'll just watch for the |
| 1:26.8 | Green Day concert or |
| 1:28.2 | Bad Bunny or you can come watch second year quarterback, Drake May try to lead the Patriots all the way. |
| 1:33.6 | But either way, for those covering celebrity Super Bowls, that being Baldoni versus Blake |
| 1:39.9 | lively, kind of an interesting twist in turn over the weekend, or I think it was on Friday, |
| 1:45.9 | I interviewed Ashley Browna Eve. Great conversation if you didn't listen. She's kind of a PR expert |
| 1:50.2 | and talks about a lot of the search engine optimization and what branding and PR folks would do |
| 1:55.7 | in order to really control what's being said and what's being searched online. So how about this? Page 6 is reporting |
| 2:02.0 | how Travis Kelsey encouraged Taylor Swift to confront Blake lively about their friendship shift. |
| 2:08.8 | Now, this may be true, you know, but whether it's true or not, it's about the sources revealing |
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