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 morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday to you. It's November 19th, 2024. We got all of your pop culture in one place. Sir Richard Branson unveils his new space

balloon open for commercial travel. Talk about that. Plus, McDonald's tries to rebound from its

E. coliol break. A wild Bachelor Nation story involving Maria Georges and Pete Davidson,

although it was published in The Sun. So the question

is, is it true? I've got some insider information that'll give you that answer. And Bibles are back

in school in Oklahoma, but it's coming with a lot of pushback. I love the details on that story.

Plus, more commentary on the Mike Tyson fight, and Netflix will be streaming its first football game on Christmas Day.

It includes a Beyonce performance and probable buffering, because apparently Netflix can't do a live show without buffering.

But we'll get into those stories.

I got all that and so

much more coming up next on The Rush. I've got billionaire Sir Richard Branson co-piloting the

world's first commercial space balloon and I guess they're going to be selling some tickets,

125,000 a seat. You want to go? Here's the story. So Richard Branson is set to co-pilot the world's

first commercial space balloon that will fly to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere for a hundred and

twenty-five thousand dollars a seat. The spaceship Neptune will take him and seven other passengers

20 miles into the stratosphere above Earth. The luxury capsule designed by Florida-based company Space Perspective

features a window-filled cabin, luxury chairs, fine dining, cocktails, a space bar and even on-board

Wi-Fi.

The total trip time is six hours, two hours ascending to the maximum height, two hours for

passengers to look out of the capsule at the curvature of the Earth, and two hours ascending to the maximum height, two hours for passengers to look out of the

capsule at the curvature of the earth, and two hours descent. And you don't even need to worry

about being physically fit as an astronaut, as the company have said, the six-hour flight

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