We're drinking New Belgium's Snow Day beer this episode, and not just because it's a Winter Wonderland outside in Flagstaff, Arizona.  This is a deliciously hoppy beer with a "keep you warm on a Winter's day" 6.2% alcohol content by volume.

We begin by talking about HBO's 24/7 series, this time focusing on the coming NHL Winter Classic starring the Philadelphia Flyers and some loser team from New York.  We attempt to clean up the podcast in the spirit of the Holiday Season and fail miserably.  The failure begins with our discussion of "pornaments," adult themed holiday decorations.

The Flagstaff Christmas Parade is mentioned next, as Zen lived out his dreams of being a Mascot.  We also talk about "Real Man" Christmas trees, with orange extension cords and generators in tow.

Zen shares his childhood Christmas wish of getting a Star Wars AT-AT, much like Ralphie's wish to get a Red Ryder BB gun in "A Christmas Story."  Ray can't remember ever wanting much of anything around Christmastime.

The Legend of Sancho Claus, sung by Chuy D last year, is replayed for your pleasure, and then Zen tells the story of the feud he's having with a local homeless man.  He unveils his new song, "Bum bum bum bum bum," sung to the tune of "The Little Drummer Boy."

Enjoy this holiday themed episode, and please share!

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Infomercials that confound and confuse and yet make us want their products so badly are the focus of this show.  I guess it makes sense being this close to Christmas that the spirit of Wanting is upon us.

We're drinking the banquet beer, Coors, this show.  Although we try to talk it up, what is there to say about Coors?  It's been around forever and is a trusted American brand.  We start the show watching this vid which was shared with us by Robert Mesa.  Do as he advised us, which is stick around to the end.  It starts out a little hippieish but ends with what can only be described as a series of unbelievable moves.

We play a new game next, called Hollywood or Porno.  Biscuit Ray must decide if an audio clip is from the Hollywood version or the Porno version of Ironman.  We discuss why porn shoots don't shell out the bucks for better effects or production value, and then compare a porn producer's budget to the budget that must have existed to put out this awesome youtube clip:

Next we tackle various informecials, commercials and such.

We close out the show with Boobtube.  Enjoy!

Christmas is almost upon us, but before you plunge into your gifts with unabridled avarice, please take a moment to reflect on the carnage that was Black Friday 2011.  We talk about an unfortunate incident here in Arizona where police bloody and bruise and then handcuff a poor old grandpa who was only trying to protect his grandson during a Black Friday Free for All.  The video proof is below.  Police say that they used standard police procedure, which included "sweeping the leg."  Looks like someone trained at Cobra Kai Dojo.

The album art for this episode if you look at your iPod or media player is the sensai from Cobra Kai.  But if you look to the right here, you'll see that our blog post picture is a lovely soccer mom.  Yup, here is the picture we promised of this episode's Soccer Mom, in all her pharmaceutical glory.  Gaze upon her.

Sorry this ep was so late in getting out.  We at the Double D work for the Coastal Nervous as you know, and this is our busiest time of year.  Please accept our apologies and enjoy this show!

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