8-19-25 Afternoon Rush - Baldoni Responds To Isabela & Taylor Swift Tea & Newsom's Plan To Troll Trump Working?
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Rush Hour Podcast – Today's Top Stories
Strap in—today's episode is buzzing with headlines you can't miss:
🛰️ China unveils a spy drone the size of a mosquito—what does this mean for national security?
🍤 Radioactive shrimp recalled at Walmart—how did this even happen?
🎭 Justin Baldoni fires back at Isabel Farrer after her harassment claims.
🎶 A source reveals Taylor Swift has cut Blake Lively out of her exclusive Inner Circle album viewing party.
⚡ Gavin Newsom takes MAGA head-on with his boldest moves yet.
From international intrigue to pop culture shake-ups, we've got it all covered.
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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. |
| 0:13.7 | Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you on this August 19th, 2025. I got all your |
| 0:19.0 | stories for your rush hour ride home. Let's dive into some |
| 0:22.4 | of these interesting ones. We're going to have the new drone they're making in China, the size of |
| 0:26.9 | a mosquito. Vegas tourism is down. And of course, we'll get into Justin Baldoni responding to |
| 0:33.0 | Blake, excuse me, responding to Isabel Ferrer and her complaint, she's potentially ready to sue Justin. |
| 0:40.9 | Well, we'll share what his response is. It's a good one. And a little bit on Taylor Swift. |
| 0:45.9 | Taylor Swift and her ticket sales are being looked at by the FTC for, I guess, a third-party company, |
| 0:53.5 | jacking up prices. And then, of course, we'll discuss |
| 0:55.9 | Taylor Swift and the relationship with Blake lively that is no longer. So we'll dive into |
| 1:01.6 | those stories and more. It starts right now on the rush. The FDA has now warned of a possible |
| 1:06.6 | radioactive frozen shrimp sold at Walmart. Is this some sort of new Spider-Man-style action hero? |
| 1:14.2 | You know, you bite into one of these shrimp. Next thing, you know, you have this little exoskeleton |
| 1:18.5 | and you can just swim kind of laterally in the water. First of all, if you're eating shrimp from |
| 1:24.5 | Walmart, that's on you. That's on you. That's a loss on your end. |
| 1:28.5 | That is a risk you're willing to take. They sell sushi at Costco. I don't touch it. I don't care. |
| 1:34.3 | Not for me. Not in this world. Either way. If you start glowing, it's not from a, you're not from the food tasting good. |
| 1:41.6 | It could be from the radioactive containers that the shrimp came in. |
| 1:46.2 | So again, good luck out there eating any frozen fish from Walmart. Let's move it along. |
| 1:52.2 | Here we have Chinese military are creating mosquito drones. Here we are arguing over fluoride in the water, |
| 1:59.7 | and the Chinese are literally creating malaria |
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