Before contemplating the holidays, Mike and Anth spin social networking and social media, inspiration, motivation, music, and sprinkle it all with a tinselling of aliens in this holiday episode.
We're talking holiday television, food, service, movies, and more conversation than you could shake a pointed stick at... or unpointed for that matter.
Wherein Mike and Anth talk sabbaticals, "retro", pregnant pauses, wildlife, smart meters, Quora, and Occupying Wall Street.
Mike gets endlessly diverted from wanting to talk Cherry Coke by Anth who wants him to be a Pepper.
In which Mike is bedazzled and Anth is befuddled and the topics range from anti-sports to nuts.
A polyphonic feast of foetid farce, furrowed brow and flights of fancy.
Anth arrives back on the scene to find an atrophied Mike having sat lonely behind a microphone for three weeks.
Mike and Anth discuss transitions and moving toward the future.
In which Mike and Anth talk about loss, expectation, and "getting involved in the democratic process".
Where Mike and Anth talk taxation to torment to television to treble clef tribulations.