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 everybody, happy Friday. It's August 1st, 2025.

I've got a special episode for your rush hour ride home. I speak with Lauren

Knighty, our good pal. We met covering the Bachelor Clayton Eckard case. She's a psych evaluator and

offers a great insight into these court cases. Of course, if you aren't familiar, she was

subpoenaed by Blake Lively. So there's actually multiple

cases to talk about. We will be discussing the Blake Lively case against Justin Baldoni,

what her subpoena means, and all that entails. And then we'll be discussing, I mean,

unbelievable, the family tree of cases from Laura Owens. We'll be discussing the Clayton

Eckerd case, the Mike Maruccini case, and the David Jingris case, as he is now, you know, got arrested for DUI. All of this spawning from the Bachelor Clayton scenario. So if you aren't familiar with those stories, they're fascinating and they all sort of tie together. I don't care if you follow us

for Clayton, Candace, Blake, or someone in between. We've got it all. You're going to enjoy

this conversation happening right now with our good pal, Lauren. Ladies and gentlemen,

so excited for a fan favorite, not just of my program, but seemingly of the internet. It's

Lauren Knighty, are you? I'm good, Dave. How are you? It's like seeing someone who's taking

the training wheels off of their bicycle. You're just Tour de France style right here. You're getting

press. You've been subpoenaed by A-list or Blake lively. What is life? I don't know. I'm very confused. I mean, you gave me the training wheels and now here we are. I mean, yeah, you've got it all. I'll be the person you can blame here. We've gone from small ball family court to one of the biggest celebrity cases, quite literally, of all time. Yeah, that's weird. Should we just do the roller decks? Where do you want to start? You want to start on Blake lively or do you want to start on Clayton Eckerd? We'll start with Clayton. We'll start with Clayton Eckard stars in the season three of perfect match on Netflix. I've never seen perfect match. Are you going to be watching it? Yeah, I actually haven't either, but I'm definitely going to watch Clayton's season, just because why wouldn't I, you know? You know, Clayton and Rachel Rechia had this makeout scene on a dock on The Bachelor, and I needed to have a cigarette break afterwards. I was like, I was like, Rachel's going to win. They had such good chemistry. I'm still holding out hope that there's something between the two of them. But we really, we really just want Clayton to be happy at this point. I thought they had the best chemistry, to be honest, on his season. But we only see parts of the, you know, we don't see everything, obviously. I would pay if we could. I would,

I've always said we could do some sort of bachelor only fans. I'm, I'm, I'm in. Is that crazy?

I mean, there's an idea. I'm not the only one. There's a business model. It might be financially

wise. So we stumbled on you, probably a year ago, right? We stumbled on you as a psych evaluator.

You started to, you decided to hit record on a couple of videos in the bachelor community after

Clayton Eckerd was accused of being the father of someone's unborn twins. I need to preface this

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