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Delight overload AGAIN! Great work everyone, Totally helped make my Christmas Eve top notch.

Loved Jon 4000, Garrison Keillor and BCB sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo so much.

I couldn't help noticing that this entire episode was magnificent. It doesn't get much better than El Chupacabra in conversation with Jesse Ventura.

I was standing semi-crouched in mud alongside a house swinging a sledge hammer to bang a peg into the earth while setting up piles for a retaining wall when I heard Cake Boss say "Baking a plain cake?" and heard one of the greatest tracks of all time kick in.

Cake Boss was fun as usual but for me the most magical part was the opening story of Christmas and George Ben Washington and years-long scavenger hunts and Curly's gold and snake parties and baby kidnappings. That delicious nonsense filled my heart with so much joy it exploded and I'm writing this from hospital and I'm very happy about it.

Really, really great episode, I'm with Steve and Phil. It's always cool to hear stories of The Journey. The only web comic I read is Penny Arcade (I couldn't help wondering if they're some of the despicable a**holes he was talking about - what a dirty tease) and I'd never heard of Joel's before this but I checked it out and hot damn, it's good. Now I read two web comics. Also, I don't know if I've mentioned it on the Earwolf boards but I thought your chat with Caleb on Gentlemen's Club was a really good episode of that show too.

This episode is incredible. Kyle Kinane is so, so funny and so, so right about so many things, especially about how peeps are fooled into thinking all this easy-listening indie mope-rock means anything. And Ku-ku and Wie-wie are magnificent.

What a goddamn treat and a halph getting this episode with its bonus Adam Scott content! Some of the jams, with the striving for tension and release on a grand scale reminded me of what John Butler does with his one man jam "Ocean" which he plays differently at every show -

"They call me Mr Stoppit" stopped me in my tracks so I could bend double with laughter. Then after I'd recovered came "I'm not technically allowed on the school grounds" and again spasms of laughter overtook me. Then "Down there they call me The Tiger". Then "I was running a child fighting ring". Then everything else. I haven't listened to Superego for a while but this episode reminded me of why I was a fool to let it drift away. This was one of the most consistently hilarious CBB characters of 2011 and Patton played along beautifully too. A+.

Astrology seems like bollocks to me too, but, being stout of heart and possessed of a Sir Edmund Hillary-esque tenacity, I powered through and it was totally, Totally worth it.

I was right. So much delight. This entire episode should be released in video on YouTube.

Told y'all Caleb was top notch - fun, funny, suave, sensual, a little bit mischievious - get that guy a guest spot on CBB or Who Charted asap. Good job everybody, especially Jeff. I'm thankful you decided to hit record on this puppy.

Uh oh, I anticipate delight overload. From our delight overlords. (I know this doesn't make any sense but I just misread my own first sentence and, y'know ... went there.)

Holy shit, you got Caleb in there, that's fricken great. I stumbled on his podcast a few months ago (I think because Hot Saucerman was his guest) and it turns out Caleb Bacon is a really good, funny host. Superduper looking forward to hearing this one.

Yeah vBulletin is one of the most user friendly things on the whole internet.

Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, nice try Boug but I don't think anyone's falling for that one.

Ooooh, so GOOD but so SHORT! What a tease. Also, it's funny when you say "... twentieth fucking ..." and then you look down as if you need to read your notes to confirm what it's the 20th of because the whole idea of Michelle Dugger (sp?) is so ludicrous you can barely believe what you're saying. Even though I know in real(ity) life it was to reach for the sound board I'm going to keep on pretending it was to check the notes.

To be clear, of course CDR/CBB has often had a music element. That's why I didn't say it's the music as a whole which breaks the mood for me, it's the EARNEST music. I could listen to Scottrick play Sarah Silverman and FOTC and Reggie tunes till the cows come home. (I wish I knew how to make italics on this forum. Capitalisation just feels so uncivilised and yet I feel I MUST emphazize my points once in a WHILE.) And to make it clearer to Brian, I can dig your vibe but I know many creative mofos (including myself) who WANT (constructive) feedback of all kinds. They/we DESIRE it. They/we HUNGER for it. Like the GREAT Mathew "Matt" Besser said during the Earwolf Challenge, when you're making radio/podcasts it's the written feedback which is analogous to the crowd feedback we performers want/desire/hunger for on stage. It doesn't mean you bend to the whim of each listener, but it's almost always interesting and helpful to see how one's art is perceived by the more respectful (and may I add, suave) members of the audience. Ironically the one artist who BUCKS this trend is the world famous Scottabot, an artist possessed of such steely belief in his own vision that all of our ramblings here are like water off a duck's back. And that duck is greased from head to (webbed) toe. But I like to hear myself talk so much I'm saying it anyway.

When Dov asked/warned permission to ejaculate, and then ejaculated, my heart was flying - nay, soaring. Adomian's just that GOOD. But I gotta be honest, I've fast forwarded all recent live musical stuff* since the FOD merger apart from Nick Lowe. Even Mathew Sweet, whose Girlfriend album is one of my favourites from the 90s. It's not that I'm anti any of the performers, it's purely that, like Ben V, I'm just not in the mood for anything that's at all earnest when I'm trucking along to the comedic stylings of Hot Saucerman and whacky pals, no matter how pretty the melodies nor how honeyed the voices. On the other hand a bunch of fans seem to really dig it and Scott clearly does too so I can live with riding the ff button here and there knowing that others are delighted. I'm just that magnanimus** of a son-of-a-bitch. * I exclude the rap battles and the improvised songs (this ep's was aces) though. Those are CBB things I'm fully in the mood for. ** I don't really know what "magnanimus" means but I've heard smart people use it something like this.

The naysayers are mistaken - this entire episode was nothing short of stupendous.

He really could do anything.

The only low point in your show is when it finishes.

Lame. I like adult women.

It was in the way at the start so it's awesome that it's not there anymore. If it comes back it should be at the end of the show. Please.

I still love you Harris.