Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 481 of the pocastiest podcast yet!!!

This week: plastics; most neurotic Christmas special; child psychiatrist; lottery town; invisible mom; so-so Sally; professional fan-fic; mind ghosts; let’s praise Shirley Jackson; but not Shirley; Chekhov’s penis; some things belong in the past; maybe read the script; but where’s Madea in Japan?; his bad; what is podcast; our too-typical life; a happy 25th to Happy Gilmore; unhappy Gilmore; residuals; principally for pleasure; master of your own destruction; bent reality; that’s not me; an intolerable person; who was that me?; work with the best; problematic problem; apropos of nothing; gangster friends; Native Americans and comedy; alternative traditional routes; Dork Shadows – stop fumfering; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; grueling school lit; euphemism man; Sparks of wrath; sobby Scots; deep in the freeze of Texas; pineapple Crush love; missing the Gentlemen; backtracking; week effort; a Southern thing; and, finally, a real-life Canadianism!

Thanks for listening.

Question of the week: What’s a book you love that you were forced to read?Sub-question: Tell us about a time you were present for a friend’s humiliation.Sub-sub-question (from R.J.): Name your favourite anachronistic drawing room murder mystery film?

Dept. of Clarifications:Why does Dave get confused with his page turnings during Dork Shadows? Well, the penny pincher likes to write on both sides of the page, but doesn’t like to rest his hands on the coil rings of the notebook so he flips the book around and writes from the bottom up on the reverse page. The problem? Remembering which way to turn the pages!