We're back for 2026.

This time:

• Manly Matt Dow "cuts 'em off at the pass", and answers the question "How was your Christmas Matt?" before anybody can ask him...
• And Dave Sim gets indelicate...
• Dave Sim discusses the latest Tales From the Wedding Present Annual he received from Lee Thacker
• Dave Sim talks about a historical photo of Ernest Hemingway from 1953
• Dave Sim got a Christmas card from David L. Russell.
• Dave Sim discusses Christoph McNeill's 2010 Bill Sienkiewicz commission of Cerebus
• author MJ Sewall has a question for Dave about...rulers?
• Larry Wooten has a question about a con sketch he acquired
• author MJ Sewall has a question about Denis Kitchen and his role in the publication of "Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend", Susan Alston's (so far as I can tell) unpublished book on her relationship with Dave Sim.
• And Manly Matt Dow reminds Everybody about his "relationship" with Denis Kitchen
•  @creative_fey  has comments on last month's Please Hold, and new questions. Dave Sim has answers.

All this and more or something. Honestly, just listen to the thing. You ain't busy...