6-19-25 Afternoon Rush - HUGE WIN FOR BALDONI As Judge Denies A Big Blake Lively Request & Karen Read Addresses The Crowd After Her Win & More On Iran War Hypocrisy
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ The Rush Hour Podcast — Today's Top Stories: Power, Justice & Hypocrisy
In today’s episode of The Rush Hour Podcast:
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🎉 Justin Baldoni Scores a Legal Win — A judge denies Blake Lively’s motion, keeping key Taylor Swift text messages in play.
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🗣️ Karen Read Breaks Her Silence — Hear what she had to say after her stunning not guilty verdict.
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🪖 Donald Trump’s Wartime Hypocrisy Exposed — As he stokes conflict abroad, we take a closer look at his contradictory past on war.
All that plus the latest in pop culture, politics, and legal drama — delivered with sharp takes and zero fluff.
🎧 Stream now and stay informed during your rush hour.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello everybody. Happy Thursday to you. June 19th, 2025. I have all of your stories for your rush hour ride home. |
| 0:21.1 | Updates from the Karen Reid trial. |
| 0:22.9 | She was acquitted of murder, murder, as they say there in New England. |
| 0:27.3 | And now we hear what she has to say and the live reaction from the crowd. |
| 0:31.5 | You can hear them cheering as they read the verdict. |
| 0:34.4 | If you wanted the full recap of the Karen Reid Retrial, we had that on this morning's |
| 0:39.3 | episode, so go check that out already up. And then we've got the big win, the big win for Justin |
| 0:44.9 | Baldoni. Blake lively, of course, last week had a massive win when Justin Baldoni's $400 million |
| 0:51.1 | defamation suit was dismissed by the judge. But now the judge denies Blake's attempt to |
| 0:58.3 | keep Taylor Swift out of this. Blake said, can we shake it off? The judge said, I don't think so. |
| 1:03.9 | And there it is. We're going to have all of these updates. It is big. Plus an update on the AI |
| 1:08.1 | proposal. You know, there's a guy who I guess is two-time in with |
| 1:13.1 | his wife and an AI. I mean, isn't one lady enough? Now he's got an AI, you know, he's talking to |
| 1:18.7 | saying, when are you going to get home from work? It's like, you know, who's got the time, right? |
| 1:22.0 | And then more on the war hypocrisy going on as we are being pulled into a senseless war. Nobody, and I mean nobody asked for. |
| 1:29.8 | So we'll get into that, of course, talking about the war between Israel and Iran. |
| 1:34.3 | Will we be a full-blown part of it as they are considering these bunker-busting bombs on the |
| 1:42.0 | big old aircrafts we have? It's our tax dollars and it's being put to work. |
| 1:47.4 | That's for sure. Not everyone approves of that. Anyway, I got all these stores and more. It's all starting |
| 1:52.0 | right now on the rush. Big news for Lakers fans as Jeannie Buss and family agree to sell the Lakers |
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