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 Hump

day to you. It's Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, and I've got all of your pop culture news in one place.

On today's episode, a shocking semi-finally of Dancing with the Stars.

I'll share who is going to the finals, plus Jake Paul's first podcast interview with his brother

after the Mike Tyson fight.

We'll also share how there's over 100 million people tuned in to watch.

Unbelievable.

Plus, Bachelorette Maria claps back at the false story about her dating Pete Davidson.

More speculation about the underwater aliens.

And an appeal has officially been filed by Laura Owen's attorney against Bachelor Clayton Eckert.

Of course, he won the June 10th lawsuit. She owes some 150K. But their appeal may have some flaws.

All have an expert weigh in on what that might mean. So we got a lot of content to get to the

week's flying by. Stick around. We'll be back

with those stories and more next. We shared on yesterday's rush hour, the afternoon edition,

that Bachelor star Maria Georgius unequivocally denied dating Pete Davidson. Well, now she has an

update to this damning story from the sun. And again, you just

have to wonder, do these journalists have any consequences for flat out lying? Or did a source lie to

them? You know, I'm not really sure. But either way, this is why you get multiple sources.

So she said, never dated Pete, false rumor. I'm friends with his sister case closed, but what we

didn't share is what she said after that. Maria Georgia said, just spoke to Pete's sister. He's not in

rehab and has been sober for months. Can't believe this stuff. It's very insulting to his recovery

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