It's barely November and stores are already pushing Christmas goods, so we thought it was about time to sort out how to handle the holidays. Pretty simple... or is it? Along the way we sling trees, experiment with gift giving, charge you too much for a home delivery Thanksgiving meal, join Sylvester Stallone on his greatest adventure, take your house by force, leave early, skip Black Friday, and go all Manchurian Candidate after watching A Christmas Story.

Talking Points:

• Eggnog and chocolate chips! (00:00)
• A Very Rambo Christmas! (03:04)
• Mr. Treeson's Christmas Tree Farm! (04:42)
• Gift goofs! (08:22)
• Adam's bold move! (16:38)
• Real v. fake trees! (19:16)
• Boxgiving! (26:10)
• Personal party space! (29:52)
• Food follies/Settlers of Catan! (35:21)
• When to leave the party! (38:52)
• Black Friday (41:21)
• Holiday movie sleeper agent! (44:04)
• Patreon push! (54:26)

As always, a huge thanks to Laura Hammond for the art, Bensound.com for the outro music, this week's contributors for contributing, and you the listener for sticking with us! Please share this with your friends!