After a long absence and travels, Jim and Mickey are back, with a lament of how the entire week after Thanksgiving has turned into some sort of giant Retail Hannukah: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Whatever’s Left Wednesday and Stop Creating New Faux-lidays Thursday. We return to the relentless big-budget ominousness of HBO’s Westworld, mock the friendship-wrecking holiday gift ideas from Goop, the lifestyle site run by Gwenyth Paltrow -- more or less the official piñata of The Jim and Mickey Show – and conclude with a detailed dissection of the unnerving theological implications of Frosty the Snowman.

This week on #TJAMS Jim teaches us the hard lessons about barfing grade-schoolers from chaperoning a fourth-grade field trip to Jamestown, Virginia; Twin Peaks isn't the only book in town, J.K. Rowling’s attempt to branch out into new genres has mixed reviews; Late-night baseball, Early morning Football and how bad weather makes for great sports cities; Lindsey Lohan either tries a new accent or suffers a terrible head injury, and Your Trivial Tuesday answers about songs that sound completely different once you understand the lyrics.

This week on #TJAMS Jim teaches us the hard lessons about barfing grade-schoolers from chaperoning a fourth-grade field trip to Jamestown, Virginia; Twin Peaks isn't the only book in town, J.K. Rowling’s attempt to branch out into new genres has mixed reviews; Late-night baseball, Early morning Football and how bad weather makes for great sports cities; Lindsey Lohan either tries a new accent or suffers a terrible head injury, and Your Trivial Tuesday answers about songs that sound completely different once you understand the lyrics.

This week Jim and Mickey try to make sense of the NFL’s Krayola Kombat Antagonize-the-Color-Blind nights on Thursdays; the inanity of allowing Daylight Savings Time to louse up two weekends a year; Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Orgy; the biggest plot twists of all time and the ones that feel like a gut punch; and our listeners’ fondest Halloween memories.

This week Jim and Mickey try to make sense of the NFL’s Krayola Kombat Antagonize-the-Color-Blind nights on Thursdays; the inanity of allowing Daylight Savings Time to louse up two weekends a year; Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Orgy; the biggest plot twists of all time and the ones that feel like a gut punch; and our listeners’ fondest Halloween memories.

This week's #TJAMS has a lot to unpack. There’s actual non-vapid news involving Kim Kardashian: what the heck happened in that robbery of her in that Paris hotel? The NFL contemplates the decline in ratings and I contemplate the Jets’ imminent devastating loss to the Steelers; the early intrigue of HBO’s Westworld, what it means when a baby has three genetic parents, and remembering childhood crushes.

This week's #TJAMS has a lot to unpack. There’s actual non-vapid news involving Kim Kardashian: what the heck happened in that robbery of her in that Paris hotel? The NFL contemplates the decline in ratings and I contemplate the Jets’ imminent devastating loss to the Steelers; the early intrigue of HBO’s Westworld, what it means when a baby has three genetic parents, and remembering childhood crushes.

This week we ask whether NFL’s “Red Zone” channel of constant highlights makes watching a regular game less fun to watch. Jim experiences "Red Zone" in real life. South Park Teaches us even more. Mickey falls in love with NBC’s drama, “This Is Us”; We shudder at Halloween decorations that are already deemed too scary and the evolution of FX’s “American Horror Story,” and the worst spoiler alerts of all time.

This week we ask whether NFL’s “Red Zone” channel of constant highlights makes watching a regular game less fun to watch. Jim experiences "Red Zone" in real life. South Park Teaches us even more. Mickey falls in love with NBC’s drama, “This Is Us”; We shudder at Halloween decorations that are already deemed too scary and the evolution of FX’s “American Horror Story,” and the worst spoiler alerts of all time.

A different start to this week’s pop culture podcast, as Jim begins by spitting hot fire about the Twitter’s brief suspension of Glenn Reynolds, a.k.a., Instapundit. Mickey points out that this week’s South Park dealt with the phenomenon of people quitting Twitter in that show’s typically incisive satire. We also examine Post-Brangelina America, Survivor’s decision to pit the Millennials vs. Generation X, and some other fall television offerings like lawsuit-triggering Jon Benet documentaries and Minnie Driver’s Speechless.