5-19-26 Morning Rush - Blake Lively Loses Support & Trump Taco's In Iran
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Morning Rush Hour is packed with celebrity fallout, political warfare, and the culture battles shaping the internet in real time. We break down the escalating feud between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the growing list of celebrities quietly distancing themselves, and what this latest chapter says about the future of the Me Too movement in Hollywood. Is the public starting to rethink media narratives, or are we watching another coordinated celebrity collapse unfold in real time?
Plus, Donald Trump continues his political pressure campaign against Thomas Massie as the MAGA civil war heats up in Kentucky. We cover the strategy, the backlash, and why the anti-war wing of the Republican base is becoming impossible to ignore.
Also in today's episode:
- Celebrity unfollows and Hollywood loyalty tests
- The changing public perception of Me Too-era accusations
- Why independent creators are reshaping political commentary
- Trump's loyalty-first strategy inside the GOP
- Kentucky voters pushing back against establishment pressure
- Media spin, online narratives, and internet culture wars
- The comedy of living through absolute chaos
Rush Hour is your daily dose of politics, pop culture, internet insanity, and unfiltered commentary from a comedian trying to make sense of it all.
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. |
| 0:13.7 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you on this May 19th. |
| 0:17.3 | 2026. I've got all of your news for your rush hour ride to work. We'll be discussing Blake |
| 0:22.7 | lively and the fallout after her trial with Justin Baldoni, which actors from It Ends |
| 0:28.6 | with us no longer publicly support her. It's kind of an interesting story as we watch the |
| 0:33.8 | dust settle on that whole fiasco. And sort of adjacent to that story, we'll be discussing |
| 0:40.1 | what Kate Blanchett had to say about the Me Too movement. Some people are wondering, |
| 0:44.2 | will this Blake lively story affect if people are believed in the workplace? And honestly, |
| 0:49.2 | I don't think it should affect anything. I've said this all along. I feel like every situation |
| 0:53.4 | should be dealt with and |
| 0:54.8 | handled based on the facts of that situation and none other. So we'll get into that. And then we have a |
| 1:00.3 | big election today in Kentucky and also more information on insider trading. The Trump administration |
| 1:07.4 | had, I guess, several thousand transactions that went through and made him a lot of |
| 1:12.1 | money. So we'll get into that story. Plus, Pete Hagseth is now, I guess, in Kentucky for this election, |
| 1:18.0 | even though we're fighting a war. The war, as of the taping right now, the war is postponed, I guess, |
| 1:24.1 | or the ceasefire continues after Qatar and Saudi Arabia are like, can you not, can we not do this anymore? Everyone's got like, uh, oil's going. Uh, we're running out of oil. Uh, so we'll get into these stories and more starts right now on the rush. If you live in Nashville, my show May 29th has tickets on sale. Go to rush hour with Dave.com. This show is in East Nashville. |
| 1:45.9 | That's where all the cool kids live. I don't live there. But it's a good, good place for a show. |
| 1:50.0 | It's a great wine bar. You can come out and have laugh May 29th. That's next Friday. |
| 1:55.7 | All right, let's get into the Blake Lively stuff. So Brendan Sclanar quietly deletes his posts supporting Blake |
| 2:02.1 | Lively and cast and has removed all traces of It Ends with us from his Instagram. |
| 2:08.2 | This is just a good example of how, you know, Hollywood, in probably a lot of industries, |
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