The new calendars may say 2012 but in episode 228 it's still totally the 80s. We have an exclusive sneak peek at the new Van Halen tour, we uncover the subtle racism in a classic song from Starship and we rely on Hall and Oates to save us from ourselves on more than one occasion. 

Our annual Christmas spectacular includes phone calls from Santa Claus himself as well as Steven Hawking's girlfriend and we countdown some of the naughtiest christmas songs ever. Also, Ben Huh from icanhazcheezburger.com joins us with a warning about what lawmakers are threatening to do that could change the internet forever.

A very serious butter shortage in Norway suddenly gets hilarious as Norwegians take their anger to Youtube blaming Americans for eating too much butter. Meantime, if the butter consumption doesn't kill him the neti pot will certainly bring about Jeremy's untimely death. 

For generations it's been a holiday tradition to watch the Christmas classic, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. An equally grand tradition returns as Aaron explains once again the REAL reason they wouldn't let Rudolph play in any reindeer games. In completely unrelated news what does it say about Aaron and Jeremy that they were such big fans of Wham in the 80s?

Threatening to wipe out his entire family, Jeremy battles a ferocious case of the flu and lives to tell the story. Also, find out why you should always wash brand new clothes before wearing them for the first time. These are just a couple of the hard hitting issues discussed on the latest TSRP while we pound a few of our favorite winter beers.

Just 24 hours before show time Jeremy experiences the most frightening 3 minutes of his life. Find out what happened that almost changed his life forever. Also, Aaron joins the rest of America by being sick of Adele.

Stacy loses her car for the second time in one week. This time Jeremy is with her and they are trying to get home after a night at a local beer festival. Obviously, this can't end well. Also, Aaron drags his family to the new Muppet movie. Find out why he was certain that someone would kick him and his kids out of their seats.

Thanksgiving as we know it almost ended in a fiery catastrophe while Jeremy continued to stuff his face with molasses cookies. Aaron's holiday was ruined by black friday greed...does that make him racist? Also, despite being a new dad Jeremy finds time to watch a lot of football with a lot of his dude friends and makes parenting look easy again...or so he thinks.

It's Jeremy's first Christmas as a dad and his hunt for the perfect gift leads him to a disturbing discovery at Toys R Us. Meanwhile, he and Stacy are jealous of Aaron for not having a TV because they can't stop watching theirs. Also, listeners are traumatized by recent episodes. Find out why by listening to this one!

Aaron sides with police who pepper spray peaceful protesters on the campus where he got both of his fancy master's degrees. Sheryl fills in for Stacy and tells the horrific tale of getting pepper sprayed herself...sort of. Also a werewolf is caught masturbating in a department store. Find out how he damaged hundreds of dollars worth of sweaters in the process.