No Soap Radio

Well, will you look at that? Just in time for Christmas, it’s another No Soap Radio. Yes, it’s true: we’re givers. We’re filled with the holiday spirit tonight as we play a little Springsteen and discuss such things as Chuck nearly having his truck impounded for expired registration and parking tickets, Beth dressing our pets up in Christmas costumes, Beth’s new washer and dryer, Chuck’s 1-item Christmas Wish List (hint: it’s a Harley), all the gift wrapping still left to do, Beth’s upcoming Boxing Day Lexus shopping spree, and a very special holiday “Fuck You” to all the asshats who want to make people say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays.

Check it out: Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town!

And as promised in the show, here’s a picture of Beth and Suki being amazed by the new washing machine. Beth’s only regret is that it doesn’t have an internal light. Fortunately, she had a flashlight:

 

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Chuck apologizes for the quality of the audio in the “…And Christmas Was Ruined” episode. We used real mics — expensive ones! — and a mixing board and headphones and cables and everything … and Chuck fucked up and forgot to plug it all into the laptop. End result: it recorded with the cheap-ass built-in laptop mic rather than all our state-of-the-art equipment, but it sounded just fine to us as we recorded because everything was working correctly right up ’til that final air-gap. Unfortunately, it sounds like complete shit for you. Sorry about that…

We really, really, really need an engineer up in this podcast. Take a drink.

Join us for tales of lost and cancelled credit cards, dog-pods, the prizes are in the mail, customer disservice, cat poop shaped dog food, top load vs front load washer/dryers, Mac vs PC and going over to the dark side, snarfling dogs, and assorted other stories.

But most of all, find out how Christmas was ruined.

 

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As promised in the last show, here are some photos of Oliver, the cat who doesn’t know he’s supposed to be dying.

This is how he says “hi” every time Death drops by for a visit

And here he is demonstrating the Dead Cat Bounce. If this cat is dying, I want some of whatever he’s having.

And while I’m at it with the pictures, here’s one of Zoe tucked into bed with her cat Nina:

And if you’ve ever listened to our show, then you’ve heard the dogs barking in the background. Here’s what they’re usually barking at:

I “rescued” this one from Sammy just the other night. It’s bigger than she is.

We’re back on the air after a slight delay getting this show out. Look, we put out a new show every three days or so, and we pick which days those are — and they’re not necessarily in sequence. So shows will appear to be late every once in awhile. To you. To us, they’re right on time.

So. We’re all over the map again tonight, and the show ran long to boot. Some of what we covered tonight is:

• The Jesus Christ contest is over! Winners are NakedJen and Mr. CWise and we play their entries
• WTF is Jamocha?
• 938 things to hate about Mac
• Honorable Mention in the JCC goes to Lucian at Acorns & Merlot for the cottage cheese comedy bit
• Don’t call Beth “ma’am”
• Voicemail from a listener in Scotland who thinks Chuck is an ass
• Santa’s days are numbered
• Chuck goes off on a rant about airport (in)security
• Beth wishes Ben Affleck had done a Jennifer dating trifecta — Lopez, Aniston, Garner — and Chuck turns it into a four-way
• Our dog Sammy is still humping her ball
• Hotel room towel rack placement — Chuck keeps dropping towels in the toilet and Beth thinks he’s an idiot for not learning from it

Check it out, Jesus is just all right.

 

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