Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride.

Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

Good afternoon, everybody. Dave Neal here with your Rush Hour podcast this afternoon, Wednesday, January 8th, 2025.

Here are all the stories we have on the rush hour podcast.

We've got updates regarding the massive fires breaking out all over Southern California.

I'll share some bittersweet stories as the influencer in celebrity world collides with a once-in-a-century tragedy.

Plus a big victory for a small business battling

Laura Owen's frivolous fraud. So there's some good news we're going to get to today. Plus,

Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay finally settles her divorce from chiropractor Brian Abasolo. What does this

mean? We'll break it down. Plus, Ryan Reynolds speaks for the first time since the Christmas lawsuits have been exchanged.

What he has to say about women in Hollywood will be reading between the lines. I got all those stories and so much more. It's all coming up next on The Rush.

As we continue to cover the raging wildfires throughout Los Angeles County, I'd be remiss if I didn't, you know,

discuss the cultural impact of short-form content and how it interacts with us parisocially, right?

As fans of different niche programs or influencers, we're watching, sadly, this sort of violent natural disaster as it unfolds in real time.

You know, we just had the, or honored the, what, 20 years since that great and tragic tsunami

that swept up people. And sure, there was news that was on the the scene but what we're watching in today's world

is we're basically in people's living rooms as we're watching so many emotional stories of

of families pets you know pets horses uh you know celebrities trying to survive and now that doesn't

mean a celebrity's home is any more valuable than

someone else's. But when you see someone you might recognize, it does put this level of empathy

together where you go, holy heck, this is real. So again, all the blogs are covering who's safe

and who's evacuating and whatnot. And I'm going to share some of those stories, some

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