It’s that time of year again, when sites the web-over compile helpful holiday shopping lists to guide you into the deepest, darkest pits of retail with a map that will hopefully get you out alive. Here now, without further ado, is the 2019 FRED Holiday Shopping Guide…

Ken has another of his periodic chats with writer, deranged millionaire, minor television celebrity, PC, literary trivialist, judge, and performer, John Hodgman, about lingering, beloving, unasked questions, AfterThis, Blues Brothers fusion, Dan Aykroyd side missions, fan letters, Sisyphean twisters, judicial juggling, Daily memories, generational tastes, Star Wars promises, Galaxy’s Edging, Mandalorian madness, and starliner friends..

Ken Plume has another chat with the co-host of NO SUCH THING AS A FISH, Dan Schreiber, about Fish Tales, travel ills, Harkined, furious booksellers, malortified, Apatow cost, Ig Nobels, 21 seconds, looping pilots, vindication, curious museums, badger holes of ignorance, Gentlemen Adventurers, comedy education, New York nights, Chicargo, James Acaster, interstellar cockblocking, street-spotting, Neil Innes, Marxist memorabilia, signed books, big hands, and fact farewells..