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. It's the day after Christmas, Thursday, December 26th, 2024. And I've got all of your news here in one place to get you to work.

Maybe you've got the day off.

Lucky you.

I don't.

I'm here for you.

And these are the stories of the morning.

Alex Cooper, host of Call Her Daddy podcast, explains what it was like to buy her parents a home in California. I'm sure it's a very nice one.

I'll love that for you. Plus the lottery jackpot now over a billion dollars. I think it's up to

$1.15 billion. Maybe someone from our community will win. Join the Patreon. Plus Laura

Owens may have been busy on Christmas Day as a new bizarre article emerges praising

her. I'll read a quick clip from that. Plus Costco recall some eggs, what this means for your

Christmas cookie binge, and will there be a full out bird flu pandemic? I'll have your up-to-date

news on the outbreak. I've got all those

stories and so much more. Coming up next on The Rush. Well, I hope everyone had a fantastic

Christmas holiday. Maybe you're still enjoying it. You know, Christmas is one a hell of a way to

end the year. Our final week here in 2024 leaves a lot of people to

sort of getting in their feels. Did I accomplish enough? Did I work hard enough towards my goals?

Did I get a little lazy? What can I do better? How can I be a better version of myself?

You know the game. You know how it goes. But sadly, we actually have a tough story to cover from Bachelor

Nation. A friend of the program here, Kelly Flanagan from Peter Weber's season, lost her father

yesterday. She wrote a very sincere post on Instagram. He had been battling sickness and I guess he just

wasn't able to pull through, but she did share how

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