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.

Hello, everybody. Merry Christmas to you out there. It is December 25th, 2024. Now, normally during the week, I have a episode for you that has

all of the entertainment, pop culture news in one place. I share multimedia clips of the inner workings

of what's going on out there, inspirational voices and whatnot, right? But today's a little different.

It's Christmas, right? But that doesn't

mean we don't have an episode for you. We do have a lot of original content. Actually, I was on my pal's

podcast behind the velvet rope, David, and it was going so well, I decided I wanted to share it with

you guys. Literally about three quarters of the way through the

episode as you're about to listen, I was like, dude, do you mind if I share this with my audience too?

Because, you know, not everyone cross-pollinates. And he was like, yeah, absolutely, go for it.

Like, you know, it's always good to get our voices out to new people. So I'm going to get a chunk of that. But first, we have some wild entertainment news.

I can't believe this. This broke literally hours ago. And it's Justin Baldoni, of course,

being sued for sexual harassment from Blake lively following that smear campaign that was

on earth. And there was all these questions as to like, how do they get all the information about this? Well, now we know more. His ex-publicist is

suing his crisis PR team, saying they tried to take her down too. Now, this might sound complicated,

but Justin and Baldoni's publicist worked for a bigger company. And as it turns out, that bigger company

had no idea what they were doing. The bigger celebrity publicist is Stephanie Jones. She reps people

like Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Venus Williams, and Justin Baldoni up until this year.

So she filed this lawsuit. She's suing for defamation,

breach of contract, all these other things. Jones says her ex-employee, Jennifer Abel, was assigned

to handle Baldoni's publicity. It was Jennifer Abel's decision to hire Melissa Nathan, the crisis

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