8-12-25 Morning Rush - Taylor Swift Announces New Album & NEW Justin Baldoni Texts Revealed & Blake Lively Deposition Tea
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
🚨 Rush Hour Podcast – Tuesday's Breaking Stories 🚨
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🎶 Taylor Swift Surprise – The pop queen just dropped a bombshell: her new album is on the way! She revealed it in a teaser for the New Heights podcast, and Swifties are already losing their minds.
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📱 Justin Baldoni Cleared? – Newly released text messages show no evidence of a smear campaign against Blake Lively, shaking up the case and proving Baldoni's side of the story.
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💰 The Greatest Grift Ever – Donald Trump's latest move might just be the boldest con in political history. We break down the jaw-dropping details.
🎧 All this and more on Rush Hour – your front-row seat to the day's biggest stories.
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Tags: Taylor Swift, New Heights Podcast, Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, Donald Trump, political scandal, pop culture news, celebrity drama, breaking news
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. |
| 0:13.6 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you on this August 12th, 2025. I have all of your |
| 0:20.1 | stories for your rush hour ride to work. |
| 0:22.7 | And we've got some bombshell breaking news coming from the Taylor Swift Camp, |
| 0:27.6 | announcing her new album in a promo for her podcast she's doing with her boyfriend, |
| 0:33.2 | Travis Kelsey. We'll get into that. She's a wild time to be alive. And speaking of her |
| 0:37.1 | former friend Blake |
| 0:38.2 | lively, we've got some unredacted moments from her deposition and more from the Blake |
| 0:44.5 | Lively trial as we've got some unsealed text messages being shared by Justin Baldoni's team |
| 0:52.2 | that may prove there was no smear campaign. So we'll get |
| 0:55.0 | into that. And so much more, so much to talk about. It all starts right now on the rush. Before we go, |
| 1:01.3 | Taylor Swift, check this out. This is for all of us weekend warriors out there. Just a reminder, |
| 1:06.8 | sometimes you've got to pack it in. Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer of all time here, |
| 1:12.7 | scene playing the outfield, tries to catch a pop fly, pops his Achilles tendon. |
| 1:19.0 | Again, you know, you just live long enough to see your heroes fall. That's all that is. |
| 1:24.1 | So thoughts and prayers to any Yankees fans out there. Let's dive into Taylor Swift. |
| 1:28.9 | There is a post, several posts, and one that just came out as I was recording this, which |
| 1:34.6 | breaks some big news. But here's Taylor, the reveal that she'll be on the next episode of the |
| 1:39.2 | Kelsey Brothers podcast. Have a listen. Such a nice color on you. Yes, I know. It's the color of your eyes, sweetie. |
| 1:47.5 | That's why we match so well. |
| 1:49.2 | We're not a new podcast. |
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