7-16-25 Morning Rush - Bachelor In Paradise Ratings Sink & Blake Lively's Plan Unfolds & New Epstein Coverup Info!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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🎙️ Rush Hour Podcast – July 16, 2025
On today’s Rush Hour, we’re diving into all the biggest stories shaking the internet:
💥 Blake Lively's legal battle continues to make headlines as more content creators speak out following her subpoena spree — what her real strategy might be, and how it connects to the broader media war.
🌴 Bachelor in Paradise is in free fall — ratings have plummeted, and execs are scrambling. We break down what went wrong and whether the franchise can bounce back.
🕵️♂️ New Jeffrey Epstein revelations emerge, including internal memos and whistleblower claims that are pushing more politicians — even MAGA loyalists — to publicly turn on Trump.
And we’ve got your full rundown of today’s viral news, wild headlines, and behind-the-scenes industry drama you won’t hear anywhere else.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:15.8 | Happy hump day to you on this Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. |
| 0:20.2 | I've got all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work. |
| 0:23.4 | Billy McFarland has a big update with Fire Fest. He put it up for auction. It was hoping for a |
| 0:29.3 | seven to eight figure deal and he received low six figures. I'll share the number and what he |
| 0:35.4 | has to say. And then ratings have come in for Bachelor |
| 0:38.3 | and Paradise. It's abysmal, but I'll explain why I'm not too worried about the show. And then more on |
| 0:44.1 | Blake lively, as we have new reporting about some motivations as to why she may have made claims about |
| 0:51.2 | assault. Well, now we may have sources coming to the light that explain |
| 0:57.1 | her weaponization of feminism. And then after that, we've got Epstein News. That's right. The story |
| 1:03.5 | that just won't die, uh, they have now found up to three minutes of missing footage in the |
| 1:10.3 | metadata of the surveillance video. |
| 1:13.5 | What does this mean? |
| 1:14.7 | I have no idea. |
| 1:15.5 | But we're going to get into that story and all of the different mega politicians and |
| 1:20.1 | podcasters that are flipping on Trump, or at least on the administration, what they have |
| 1:25.5 | to say about what is currently the biggest conspiracy |
| 1:28.8 | we've ever heard of. And we're going to get down to the bottom of it. A lot to get into all |
| 1:33.1 | these stories and more starts right now on The Rush. And first things first, if you know me, |
| 1:39.4 | you know I've been a sort of, I wouldn't say supporter of Billy McFarlane, but I've wanted a redemption story. |
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