12-17-25 Morning Rush - Breaking Down The Candace Owens/Erika Kirk Meeting & Trump Demands Venezuela's Oil

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Dave Neal

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Morning Rush — The Rush Hour Podcast

A jam-packed morning episode breaking down the biggest political and cultural flashpoints of the day. We unpack the highly anticipated Candace Owens–Erica Kirk rendezvous and what it revealed about the Charlie Kirk case, plus new and disturbing developments surrounding the death of Rob Reiner, as authorities have charged Nick Reiner in connection with the case. And on the global stage, we examine Donald Trump's escalating rhetoric and whether he's toying with a potential conflict with Venezuela.

Today's topics:

Candace Owens and Erica Kirk finally meet — what we learned
New details and revelations tied to the Charlie Kirk case
Rob Reiner death update: Nick Reiner charged, what happens next
Trump's Venezuela posturing and the risks of escalation

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0:00.0	Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride.
0:07.4	Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.
0:13.4	Good morning, everybody. Happy Hump Day to you. On this December 17th, 2025, I got all of your
0:19.2	stories for your rush hour ride to work. Candace Owens and Erica
0:23.6	Kirk had their meeting and Candice has now shared on her live stream what it entailed. We're going to
0:30.5	play a few clips and get down to that. I mean, depending on what you think of Candice, some people
0:35.5	think she caved to Erica and other people
0:38.3	think she's finding the truth. We'll get into it. Now we've also got Mick Foley, uh, breaking up
0:44.0	with the WWE. That's right. Legendary Wrestler says that Trump's latest tweet about Rob Reiner
0:51.2	was too far. So he's disassociating. And speaking of Rob Reiner, we've got more
0:56.0	updates on what went down that led up to the grizzly death. Real tragic story. And speaking of
1:01.6	tragedy, we might be at war with Venezuela starting tonight. Trump is set to have a speech he's
1:10.2	giving to the U.S.
1:11.5	It could be like a state of the union style speech.
1:14.0	It could be announcing an invasion into Venezuela.
1:16.5	I say that as he has posted on truth social, his plans as he's now surrounding them with our military, our tax dollars.
1:25.6	Boy, keeping it light, wild time to be alive. This
1:28.5	and more starts right now on The Rush. All right, so let's just kind of dive into what the
1:34.1	internet is saying about Candace Owens and Erica Kirk. They held their productive meeting
1:38.7	after their public spats. Erica Kirk was on, did that CBS special where town hall and it absolutely bombed.
1:48.9	Barry Weiss is the now like head of the news at CBS and they went for it and nobody watched it.
1:55.6	Well, I'm going to share some clips of what Candace says happened on this conversation.
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