4-15-26 Morning Rush - Blake Lively Gets Legally Dissed In New Filing & Katy Perry Allegation Updates & Happy Tax Day!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Tax Day is here, and we're diving into what it really means for everyday Americans versus the ultra-wealthy—and why the conversation around taxing billionaires has never been more heated. Should the richest Americans be paying a higher share, or is the system already working as designed?
We also break down the latest developments in the ongoing saga between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, including new chatter, shifting narratives, and what could come next as the situation continues to evolve.
Plus, new updates surrounding Katy Perry after serious allegations surfaced—Perry has now issued a public statement firmly denying any wrongdoing, escalating public debate and online reaction.
All that and more as we kick off the morning with sharp takes, breaking updates, and the stories everyone will be talking about today.
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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 hump day to you. It's Tax Day, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026. |
| 0:20.5 | I have all of your news for your rush hour ride to work. |
| 0:22.9 | And we have a legal diss happening here in the Blake lively world. I think this is why they tell you to settle cases because your dirty laundry gets aired publicly and either side of the argument gets to insert a couple of jabs in the legal paperwork. I'm going to |
| 0:39.5 | share some of that pros with you guys. It's pretty brutal if you ask me. Listen, the last thing |
| 0:45.3 | actors want is to be mocked, right? They put their work out there. They're thespians. They wear |
| 0:50.4 | turtlenecks. And then all of a they get dissed for making a movie where you |
| 0:54.2 | you know get beached on a rock and the uh you know the sharks and the seagulls come after you right |
| 0:59.6 | well how about this blake lively eviscerated i'm going to share with you guys what baldone's |
| 1:05.2 | legal argument is right now and also we're going to get into the Katie Perry story. Very interesting accusations |
| 1:11.9 | made against Katie Perry and a few other stories to get to. Mike Vrable, the Patriots football |
| 1:18.1 | head coach in hot water as a possible rendezvous with a reporter leads to her having to resign. |
| 1:26.7 | I know, folks. Life's not fair. We'll get into all this |
| 1:29.8 | and more starts right now on the rush. All right. So here, thanks to the it ends with lawsuit |
| 1:34.1 | subreddit, we've got highlights from Wayfair's do is it daubert motion or daubber. I don't know if |
| 1:40.8 | they pronounce the T. Don't come at me lawyers. I try my best. And for those of us that are not legal geniuses, a dauber motion is a pretrial request used to exclude or limit an opponent's expert witness testimony based on Dober versus Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, which asks the judge to act as a gatekeeper to ensure the expert's testimony |
| 2:01.7 | is both relevant and scientifically reliable rather than junk science. Now, there's always |
| 2:08.3 | junk science, right? There's so much junk science that has led to people getting wrongfully |
| 2:13.3 | imprisoned, but what can we do, right? In this case, we'll see if the junk science makes its way in |
| 2:20.3 | or not. Here's what was said by Justin Baldoni's side, Garofalo. She's kind of known here for |
| 2:28.4 | laying the smackdown on her opponents. She is Baldonies or one of Baldoni's lawyers. So I'll read some of these |
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