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, on this hump day. It's Wednesday, December 11th,

2024. Two weeks till Christmas, but we got all your news here in one place.

I've got an update on the missing kayaker who police say faked his own death. He's back in the

U.S. He's in Wisconsin. He's in jail. All of that story. Plus Elton John named Times icon of the

year. And Travis Kelsey dishes about going to Taylor Swift's final show on her

arrows tour on his new Heights podcast. I'll share a clip of that. And breaking news, sadly,

Golden Bachelor Gary Turner has cancer. We'll discuss all he had to say in why they may have

sped up the divorce. Plus, of course, more updates on suspected assassin Luigi Mangione.

Partial fingerprints place him at the crime scene.

So says detectives.

Meanwhile, his attorney still says,

we have not seen any evidence that he is guilty.

Not to mention hypocrisy will be shared of Joe Rogan.

Based on his thoughts on the shooting,

what he has to say about the American health care system. And while it doesn't really line up with some other things he endorses, plus a wild Clayton Eckerd case update, his accuser's attorney,

doubling down, causing more issues for his client i've got that story

and so much more and it's all coming up next on the rush so we covered this story a few weeks

back a kayaker was thought to be dead uh ended up turning up in a like eastern european country

and then a video evidence showed him being interviewed

by a YouTuber claiming that he was prepared to fake his own death and leave his family to go

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