8-18-25 Afternoon Rush - Sydney Sweeney Movie Bombs & Lawyers Pissed At Lil Blake's Legal Strategy & Trump Wants To Ban Mail In Voting
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Today on the Rush Hour Podcast
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⚖️ Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively Trial — tempers flare in the courtroom as lawyers grow frustrated with Isabel Ferrer and her team's controversial legal strategy.
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💸 Laura Owens Bankruptcy Saga — how the case is rippling through her entire family and reshaping the ongoing drama.
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🪄 Harry Potter Prequel First Look — the internet reacts to the very first sighting from the highly anticipated film.
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🎬 Sidney Sweeney Movie Bombs — what went wrong at the box office, and what this means for her career momentum.
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🏛️ Gavin Newsom's Conservative Breakthrough — how the California governor is piercing conservative media circles while Donald Trump pushes yet another attempt at voter suppression.
🔥 A packed episode of headlines, drama, and sharp takes — don't miss it.
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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 afternoon, everybody. On this Monday, August 18th, 2025, I've got all of your stories for your rush hour ride home. We've got a Harry Potter |
| 0:24.2 | citing in the UK. We'll share the first look at the filming of the new prequel. And then we have |
| 0:31.2 | reactions to the Baldoni v. Lively case as lawyers weigh in on the ridiculous accusations made by Isabel Ferrer's legal team. |
| 0:42.4 | You'd love to hear what these lawyers have to say because us plebeians, we don't know what's |
| 0:46.9 | salacious and what's not, but apparently their jaws are dropped on these new legal documents |
| 0:52.7 | we just received. And then we've got some, |
| 0:55.4 | you know, commentators discussing Gavin Newsom, governor of California's approach to handling |
| 1:01.6 | Donald Trump and all of the media that he's receiving for his sort of brash new style. |
| 1:07.9 | We've got that. And then today's the big day where Ukrainian president Zelensky is meeting |
| 1:13.2 | with Trump in Washington, D.C. following Trump's meeting in Alaska with Putin. So lots to get into |
| 1:21.2 | these stories and more. It all starts right now on the rush. So let's dive into Harry Potter. |
| 1:26.7 | If you're anything like my wife, you |
| 1:28.4 | love Harry Potter. I don't know. I'm just a plain old Hufflepuff trying to do good in this world, |
| 1:34.1 | but this would probably make your inner child smile. Here we have, is it Hagrid? Is that the guy's |
| 1:40.1 | name? Anyway, the bearded guy? I just, you know, in some ways it kind of just looks like uh new york city |
| 1:46.1 | right you just have some kid walking around like it's home alone seven uh and of course that would be |
| 1:50.9 | harry potter they've got the you know uh you know period style cars there um you know very british |
| 1:58.4 | this is a very british scene so, it's going to be probably a |
| 2:01.9 | couple of years before we see any of this project. But there's your first look. We're going to |
| 2:07.8 | share a little bit more about the Laura Owens bankruptcy, the family bankruptcy. How about this wild |
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