Thanksgiving and Faster to the Fun's return!

In this episode

It's a cozy, just-the-two-of-us Thanksgiving-week show as Trevor and Tom talk turkey — literally. Faster to the Fun sails back on December 1 (to Trevor's freshly-minted platinum indifference), the boys read Carnival's holiday main-dining menu aloud with all its speech-to-text glory, and a Betty voicemail threatens Tom's hard-won peace. Reese may be absent, but he phones in a devastatingly ironic 90-second history lesson from afar.

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Moments worth the wait

• The dueling intros — Trevor opens on Christmas jazz, Tom demands an alternate, and gets a blaring "bad boys of podcasting" read for his trouble.

  "That's the second time you've done that. Good Lord, I want to vomit."

• Platinum-for-five-minutes energy — Trevor greets the return of Faster to the Fun with a shrug that Tom immediately weaponizes by posting the whole text thread to Facebook.

  "Big whoop, who cares. They should have done away with the program."

• Tom's inbox apocalypse — 29 missed calls, 111 texts, and "131,000 emails" unanswered, mostly people trying to buy his late uncle's house. Trevor's solution is refreshingly simple.

  "Just sell them the house and have them give you the money."

• Menu typos, read aloud — John Heald's speech-to-text Thanksgiving menu delivers "bourbon honey yaks and gravy."

  "I assumed he killed a yak and they were cooking it."

• Irony on the High Seas — Reese calls in a 90-second history segment: the Titanic's legacy lifeboat rules doomed the SS Eastland in 1915, which capsized under the weight of its extra lifeboats.

  "In the words of Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Nadine Morissette: isn't this ironic? Yes, yes it is."

• Betty won't be restrained — Betty calls to whisk Mr. Kennedy off cruising, and Tom shuts it down cold.

  "Betty, I hate cruising. And I'll never go on a cruise."