8-15-25 Afternoon Rush - New Baldoni Evidence Drops! Juicy! & Gavin Newsom's Viral Campaign To Mock Trump
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
🎙 Rush Hour Podcast — Chaos, Confrontations & Confessions
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⚖️ Laura Owens vs. Mike Marraccini – Owens makes a bold move to extend her restraining order… and let's just say, all hell has officially broken loose.
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📱 Justin Baldoni's War Plan – Newly leaked texts show he was locked, loaded, and ready to battle Blake Lively.
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🇺🇸 Gavin Newsom Claps Back – California's governor fires shots at Donald Trump after Trump's eyebrow-raising visit with Vladimir Putin… in Alaska.
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🎤 Taylor Swift's Heartfelt Moment – We break down the most meaningful moments from Taylor's latest podcast episode and what she really meant.
💥 Politics, pop culture, and a pinch of chaos—your commute just got a lot more interesting.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.0 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.0 | Good afternoon to all of my friends out there on this Friday, August 15th, 2025. |
| 0:19.0 | I got all of your stories for your rush hour right home. |
| 0:22.2 | Some Friday afternoons, we mail it in. Not today. We are running through the finish line. |
| 0:27.9 | We've got new evidence, folks, text messages from Justin Baldoni. The response that he's got |
| 0:34.9 | to Blake Lively's amended complaint, They don't want to dismiss this. |
| 0:38.5 | They share new evidence and we will eat it up. We got that some thoughts on Taylor Swift. And then |
| 0:43.6 | Governor Gavin Newsom, America's governor, trolling the ever-living hell out of the president. |
| 0:50.1 | I'll share some of those tweets on the back half of the episode. We've also got the president |
| 0:54.2 | meeting with Vladimir Putin in Russia, aka Alaska. I can see Russia from my porch. We'll have |
| 1:01.3 | those updates. So much to get into all this and more starts right now. All right, before I |
| 1:05.8 | share these text messages with you, they're good, they're juicy. You're going to feast. |
| 1:10.5 | Before we get into that, |
| 1:11.6 | here's a good, wholesome update from audience that love what they saw with Taylor Swift. Of course, |
| 1:17.4 | it was a cultural moment Wednesday evening where Taylor Swift did the New Heights podcast. The podcast itself |
| 1:24.0 | gained 400,000 subscribers in that episode. |
| 1:28.2 | It's received hundreds of millions of views in plays throughout various platforms. |
| 1:33.1 | It was an iconic moment for our generation. |
| 1:36.5 | And here's what the ladies of the Taylor Watch have to say. |
| 1:40.1 | How do you feel after watching the pod? |
| 1:43.9 | Because I, like, can't really put it into words. |
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