Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride.

Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

Good afternoon, everybody, on this hump day, January 28th, 2026.

I got all of your news for your rush hour ride home.

I'm actually a little late uploading this. My son had an early nap. My wife had to get her nails done. You know how it is. We had to switch some things around. You've got to be flexible out here, folks. But I'm telling you, I got an episode for you guys today. This isn't clickbait, buckle up. We're covering everything on the bingo card today. We got Ryan Reynolds. He's finally got a statement

out through his representatives as to why he sent mean text messages and why he confronted Baldoni

and all of that. Then we've got an update from the Laura Owens case as the attorney of hers that

was arrested for DUI is speaking out about why, I guess he doesn't want people sharing his

DUI body cam video.

And then there's a conspiracy that Elon Omar actually fabricated the scenario where she was

sprayed with a brown liquid.

And then we've also got ice being boycotted in Milan ahead of the Olympics.

That's right.

I don't know why we're sending our domestic ice over to Italy, but they're like, no, grazie, and then we got it Colton Underwood. He's back in the news. So much going on there. All this and more starts right now on the rush. All right, so let's do this. I'm going to dive into the Ryan Reynolds stuff first, but stick around for the rest of the conversation. And if you

stay to the end of the episode, I'll tell you who I'll be interviewing tomorrow that'll be on our

Friday episode of The Rush. It's one of your favorite podcaster slash lawyers that's covering

the Blake lively Justin Baldoni case. So stick around for that. Here it is, as reported, I think initially in Puck News.

Just supporting Blake with Baldoni text messages, says Ryan Reynolds.

Ryan's camp is defending his unsealed text from Blake Clively and Justin Baldoni's legal war.

And their position is he's a good husband sticking up for his wife.

Now, on one end, you could make that same claim if you were Taylor Swift. Again, this would be the claim you would have made over a year ago when you might not have known the full story. And I know what you're saying, Dave, what are you talking about? Ryan's in on it. I'm not disagreeing that. I'm just saying there's many cases in which a husband sticks up for his wife, even if his wife

might have provoked an issue again, but again, not to this level, all right? I'm not defending

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