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. Hey folks, Dave Neal here. Hope you had a

fantastic Valentine's Day. I've got a bonus episode for you. So much Baldoni versus Blake lively content to get

to. I can't possibly cram it into my twice daily pop culture podcast, The Rush Hour. So I figured when,

you know, when times like this happen where we've got so much on our plate, let's just carboload,

baby. So I'm going to share with you guys the compilation of all of the text messages that Baldoni sent to the different people on his team that reveal the desperation that they had once Blake lively started unfollowing them.

Ryan Reynolds blocked him and they kind of knew this was a ticking time bomb.

So I'm going to get into all of that.

A couple updates from the trial, the pretrial conference they had. They had like a settlement

negotiation. It didn't really lead to anything so far. But, you know, who knows, maybe it will.

So we're going to get into all of some more starts right now on the rush. And if you do appreciate

the bonus content, I'm letting you know things have been so wild on the channel the last month or so,

really 2026. Last year we saw our channel double in size. And in this year, it's even going more,

I don't know, it's to the moon. It's insane. I want to thank you guys all so much. So much gratitude for the people that have left nice comments and hit the like button. There's always going to be drama out there in the world of content creating. But I have to say, I just feel like I feel like I'm the luckiest guy alive. So again, just some Sunday, you know, gratitude for you guys. Thank you so much. All right, so let's dive

into it. I'm going to share, like I said, the text messages, but before we get to those, this is pretty

wild, a story that's kind of picking up more steam than I thought. Blake Lively reportedly had her

Majong set delivered to court amid Justin Baldoni legal war. Now, I've played mahjong and people are saying,

oh, she's sponsoring it. It's sponsored content. I don't know if that's true. I don't know if she's

getting an affiliate deal from the mahjong she's selling. Mahjong's a board game. I want to be

honest with you, just in case you guys want to know if I'm the type of content you know, content creator for you. I hate board games. It's not that I don't like the board game itself. I just, and maybe it's, maybe it's the people I've played with. I just, maybe it's my ADHD. I have no idea. I don't do board games well. I tried Mahjong. My wife begged me to try it and I'd rather go to the, I'd literally rather go to the dentist and have all of my teeth pulled out. I just would. So if, anyway, that's my sales pitch for Mahjong. It's, it's, and again, maybe my IQ is just so low that I couldn't, uh, it's complicated. It's a complicated game. And, you know, no wonder the Chinese are so much better at math than we are, because I'm looking at it going, I'll just watch TikTok. I just can't do it. So there she was. She got a lot of hate for having the, you know, her mahjong set delivered by her chauffeur. But again, look, I'll be fair. If I'm, if I've got a chauffeur on the clock, I'm going to have them send me in and out burger.

You know what I mean? It's like, I'm paying for him. So there it is. But she did, they did link to the Mahjong set, which makes me feel like she probably, like Blake doesn't do anything if it doesn't involve some kickback. She's trying to be that like Ryan Reynolds, like, you know, I don't know,

not influencer, but they have a lot of ownership, equity and things, which of course is what they wanted to get. And it ends with us, which has led to where we are today. So anyway,

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