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Jimmy Ahmahdoofous's New Year resolutions that include dog porn, my guest's experience as a harpy, your chance to be featured on the next episode- it's all here in this episode with Kris Keppeler, an actor, writer, narrator, and more.

If you were born in the previous century, you might remember noted writers Erma Bombeck or Andy Rooney. Enjoy Kris Keppeler's podcast Does This Happen To You? which has flavors of Bombeck and Rooney's narratives.

Seasonal mirth abounds when Boomer and Jimmy Ahmahdoofous exchange Holiday memories which include bad Christmas presents, Jimmy's time as a mall Santa, and the suspicious lyrics to some Christmas song classics. This is published four days early, just in case you need something to laugh at if you're snowbound in your house, a ditch, or, even worse, in your inlaw's house. You're ride over hill and dale (poor Dale) doesn't have to be boring.

How did we get from pelting cars with snowballs to shooting cars on the interstate with high powered rifles? Bob LeMent of Static Radio podcast discusses this and other fun holiday topics (parade massacres, nuclear station bombing, etc.) along with the wonders of living in the midwest. This is part two of the conversation.

Boomer's guest, Bob LeMent of the podcast Static Radio, agrees that midwest living is the way to go, that those on the coast can keep their wild fires and hurricanes to themselves. Gratitude for midwest values and for escaping lethal childhood ventures that include mechanized death are discussed in this episode.

Allegedly, Jesus told the Cubs organization, "Don't do anything until I get back." That's part of the conversation with Andy as he, Boomer, and Jimmy Ahmahdoofous talk about the rivalry between the Cubs and Cardinals baseball teams and Andy's first book "90 Days in the 90s: A Rock N Roll Time Travel Story." In addition to his new book, Frye has written articles for Rolling Stone, ESPN, and Forbes magazine.

Just in time for Halloween, Boomer and Jimmy take a break from interviewing people with interesting careers to hear the tale of terror from two grandparents in western Illinois that were kidnapped and held hostage in an attempt to extort money from them. Part I related their abduction. Part II brings you their escape from their kidnapper but not an escape from being victims as they struggle to find normalcy, to escape PTSD and the permanent scars left behind.

Remember the scene in one of the Lethal Weapon movies where Danny Glover's character is awakened in the middle of the night by criminals who use duct tape to restrain and silence him and his wife while threatening them and their children? It is a terrifying scene, even if it was enacted. But this scene REALLY HAPPENED to two grandparents outside a small town in western Illinois: Larry and Connie Van Oosten were similarly abducted and held hostage for 48 hours. Hear this story of evil and how they survived not only the initial terror, but the life changing after effects of this bizarre crime.

"Name dropping is really tacky. Paul McCartney told me so," quips James Alcroft as he shares stories about his decades long success as a comedian in the 1980s and 1990s. Having performed on the Tonight Show for both Carson and Leno and opened for Diana Ross, Jamie has a lot of names to be dropped, including Bob Saget who was his competition for the role of Danny Turner in Full House. Get inside stories on Saget, Paul Lynde, and others in this episode.

Between being jailed for marching for the legalization of marijuana and fathering current star singer Hayley Kiyoko (aka Lesbian Jesus), James Alcroft found his way onto the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, put together a dynamic comedy team and received a heart and liver transplant. His conversation with Boomer and Jimmy Ahmahdoofous is definitely funnier than a heart attack.

Bill Cushing has held many an instrument in his days: a shovel for digging ditches, a weapon for service in theNavy, an ohmmeter for working as an electrician. He now wields a pen as an award winning poet from Glendale, CA. Bill discusses the advantages of having a diverse life, about not being locked into aspects of your life, and of course more of his writing.