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, on this Christmas Eve's Eve.

That's right, December 23rd, 2024.

And we have a lot to get into today. A bombshell story broke over the weekend involving Blake lively and her co-host and director Justin Baldoni,

where she sued him for sexual harassment. We've got a war breaking out. I'm going to share the

entire timeline of events,

including the response from his PR team whose text messages were leaked, or I guess they

were revealed in a subpoena. So that story's insane. Party City also shuts down party over there,

plus a deep dive into the NYPD commissioner who scolded people for how they reacted to the

assassination of healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. Also, an update on the massive strike happening

across Amazon locations. Uh, I think, look, with Christmas right around the corner,

most of us have bought from Amazon. And it's important to know what we're

buying. It's important to have that discussion about fair wages and equity and equality and all the

jazz, all the stuff we should hope for in this great country of ours. So we'll discuss all of those

stories and more. And it's all coming up next on The Rush. Well, we've got so much to get into. But before I get you going with the Blake

lively story, because it is wild, I'll warm me up with a couple seasonal topics. One of which is,

you know me, I love baking. If you didn't know that, I'm a big baker. Now, not the actual quality

of the cake that you're baking, but, you know, the presentation. I'm a big

performance arts guy. And so I decided on Christmas Eve this year tomorrow, I'm going to be doing

a bonfire. You know, it's going to be a nice thing. After dinner, we go out into the backyard,

and we got bundled up near the fire, and we roast s'mores. And I thought, well, let's do some seasonal s'mores, right? So I was like,

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