2-17-26 Morning Rush - Proof Lawyer Threatened Me & Olympics Updates & ICE BUSTED For Fraud?
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Rush Hour – Morning Episode
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Today on the show:
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The lawyer who threatened me is back with new developments, and I'm breaking down what this means, what was said, and what happens next.
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More fraud uncovered inside for-profit detention centers, where taxpayer money keeps flowing and oversight keeps disappearing.
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ICE policies drawing international ridicule as global media questions what exactly America is doing.
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Olympics updates, controversy brewing, and the latest athlete headlines you won't hear spun anywhere else.
Buckle up — we've got receipts, context, and a whole lot to unpack.
Rush Hour Podcast, ICE news, detention center fraud, Olympics controversy, political commentary
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:13.9 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you on this February 17th, 2026. I got all your news for your rush hour ride to work. Boy, we have some |
| 0:22.4 | classics for you today. I have been threatened by a lawyer. No, it didn't happen recently, but the |
| 0:29.4 | lawyer actually admitted to it on a YouTube. I'm going to share some clips from that. It's the lawyer |
| 0:34.9 | that represented the lady who we got charged with 14 felony |
| 0:39.2 | accounts. There's a reason why I'm a witness for the state of Arizona. It's because we uncovered |
| 0:44.1 | massive, massive fraud. And I think when my name's spoken out into the ethers, it deserves my |
| 0:50.8 | response. So I'll share my thoughts on that. And then we have some more Olympics talk. |
| 0:55.2 | That's right. We have some amazing Olympic stories to get to. Of course, it's week two of the Olympics. |
| 1:01.2 | We've got the women's, the coveted women's skating begins tonight. Very excited to cover that. |
| 1:06.6 | And then we have some more on the iced attention centers. That's right. Turns out one is a massive money laundering scheme, allegedly, which could be funneling money to the Russians. I know, I know, wait, I'll share the receipts. That fraud, it's crazy. I mean, they've got an iced detention center going up in the town that I live in. And I plan on going there tonight and I'll be doing some interviews. So lots to get into all of this and more. It starts right now on the rush. All right, so here it is. It's the Justice for Clayton Eckerd's story, right? There's a, if you don't know much about this, maybe you follow me from Baldoni or Candice or any one of these other stories. I'm telling you, you got to get on board. |
| 1:45.0 | It's not too late. There will be a professional podcast coming out just in a few weeks that |
| 1:50.1 | dives really into the trenches of this story. But just so you guys know, I was one of the first |
| 1:55.6 | people to cover it because I was existing primarily in the Bachelor world. I kind of carved out my niche there, creating YouTube videos every day. |
| 2:04.1 | Two to three videos, sometimes up to seven. |
| 2:06.3 | I've said a couple records, some high watermark videos every day covering random Bachelor stories. |
| 2:11.6 | And of course, we received one that was the Bachelor was being accused of being the father of some ladies' unborn twins. |
| 2:17.2 | Well, simple enough, |
| 2:18.0 | right? They're either his or they weren't. Turns out they never were because she was never |
| 2:22.1 | pregnant. And it wasn't the first or second or possibly not even the third time that she has done |
| 2:26.8 | one of these sort of acts of faking pregnancies. And for what? Well, to create TED talks and |
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