8-28-25 Morning Rush - How New Heights Podcast Shatters Records With Taylor Swift Effect, Updates On Missing Baby Emmanuel & Perez Hilton Fights Blake Lively!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Rush Hour Podcast:
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's surprise proposal has the internet in a frenzy, and we've got all the details breaking down how it happened, what it means for the power couple, and the wild reactions pouring in from fans and celebrities alike.
Meanwhile, Perez Hilton is firing back at Blake Lively as her contentious legal battle with Justin Baldoni heats up—sparking new questions about who's telling the truth and how the Hollywood PR machine is spinning the narrative.
Plus, we bring you the latest developments in the heartbreaking case of missing baby Emmanuel, with updates on the investigation and where things stand today.
It's a packed episode full of breaking headlines, drama, and stories you won't hear anywhere else.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and |
| 0:08.5 | enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. Good morning, everybody. Happy Thursday |
| 0:15.8 | to you on this August 28th, 2025, got all of your stories for your rush hour ride to work. If you are not a fan of |
| 0:22.2 | Taylor Swift, then this is a tough week for you because she is dominating the airwaves. We now hear |
| 0:27.0 | from Jason and Travis Kelsey, their first podcast after the record setting day that they had with |
| 0:34.6 | Taylor. Of course, 1.3 million streams on YouTube, the most streamed |
| 0:38.9 | podcast of all time. Also, it's the most watched Instagram video ever. So we'll get into |
| 0:44.6 | their thoughts on that, plus more on the proposal. Wedding engagement ring talk, as I guess |
| 0:52.6 | jewelers are saying the engagement ring might have been close to |
| 0:55.1 | half a million bucks hey I mean what are you going to do you know you can't skimp out on the |
| 0:59.6 | pop star do you love her or not right so we'll get into that and then more conversations on |
| 1:04.1 | justin baldoni versus Blake lively as Perez Hilton is now saying you know what he's going to be up to as he takes her on in court. And then we'll |
| 1:13.3 | get into an update on Emmanuel, the baby, who has been missing for a week, has been dominating |
| 1:18.1 | the news stories there. So a lot to get into. How about this? Let's discuss the video, |
| 1:24.4 | I should say the story that we covered yesterday, which is the nip-tuck actor Dylan Walsh. |
| 1:30.3 | He crashed his car. Well, now he's saying it was a stroke that led to the car crash, |
| 1:34.7 | according to his rep. We'll have to see if the sort of medical information backs that up. |
| 1:40.6 | Again, he was alleged to have had open containers of White Claw in his car. Does White Claw lead to strokes? |
| 1:47.9 | Well, I tell you what, white Claw, if you're driving, would lead to you driving your car into a pole. So either way, we wish him well. |
| 1:55.9 | Sad updates coming from this story of Baby Emanuel. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco gives an update, |
| 2:02.8 | and then I'm going to share what apparently is breaking news |
| 2:05.2 | that it looks like the father might be the one who did it. |
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