• Holiday food, fellowship, and Hollerbach’s holiday events
• Krampus vs. St. Nick wrestling and stoner-Santa jokes
• Photos with St. Nicholas, gifts for kids, German décor, holiday market, and Haribo talk
• Colette Fehr joins the Friday Free Show
• Thanksgiving camping recap and Giant Recreation World promos
• RV rentals, luxury setups, and modern RV color trends
• Jokes about Tom’s ancestry, DNA-test surprises, and secret-family discoveries
• Emotional impact of unexpected biological relatives
• Promotion of Colette’s book *The Cost of Quiet* and her packed launch schedule
• Challenges of book promotion, media spots, and hosting two podcasts
• Love Thy Neighbor podcast rankings and availability
• Book themes: expressing needs, avoiding self-abandonment, changing harsh self-talk
• Everyone—including therapists—struggles with self-doubt
• Colette’s appearance on a hostile debate podcast and the misogyny she witnessed
• Troll backlash toward her and OnlyFans creators on that show
• Silver lining: landing a Godmothers bookstore event
• Reality of non-celebrity book promotion and publisher expectations
• Idea for a behind-the-scenes radio-era book
• Inspiration for her book: 14 years of therapy work and personal divorce
• Traditional publishing gatekeeping and landing a Penguin Random House deal
• Traditional vs. self-publishing and the benefits of a major publisher
• Visiting the PRH building and joking about real penguins
• Upcoming podcast with her husband and his anxiety about it
• Couples therapy experience, communication work, and opposites-attract dynamics
• Remote recording setup (Winter Park vs. Dubai)
• Normalizing messy but functional marriages
• Critique of “too perfect” self-help gurus and Liver King deception
• Scandals rarely ending creators’ careers
• Ethics and the choice not to scam audiences
• Persona amplification online: wrestlers, radio hosts, trolls
• Perez Hilton’s shift away from aggressive trolling
• January 29 book-launch event details and book-purchase ticketing
• Purpose of the book: helping people communicate, not chasing fame
• Complaints about Tracy’s gift-bag photo incident
• Introduction of metal band Ousted and marijuana-card sponsors
• New Tom & Dan merch announcements
• Kids listening to the show and Elf on the Shelf traditions
• Increasingly elaborate elf setups and AI-generated elf videos
• Debate about AI “magic” vs. childhood imagination
• Ethical concerns about realistic Santa/elf AI footage
• Parents’ fear of lying, trust issues, and when kids learn the truth
• Commercial AI services selling holiday overlays
• Escalation worry: parents overextending the magic
• News about Frosty voice actor Jackie Vernon having secret families
• How secret families form, motives behind them, and emotional fallout
• DNA tests revealing hidden relatives and identity crises
• Debate on whether someone with two families can be a “good dad”
• Childhood memories of sneaking out and risky teen behavior
• Modern over-monitoring vs. allowing independence
• Phones as anxiety amplifiers, GPS glitches, and negative alerts
• Desire for unplugged family vacations
• Tromp family shared-delusion case and folie à plusieurs explanation
• Emotional contagion, fear contagion, cult-like dynamics
• Transition to therapy topics: clients falling for therapists and transference
• Therapists maintaining strict boundaries and ethical rules
• Reasons for firing clients and confidentiality limits in couples therapy
• Misconception that couples therapy is about “winning”
• Etiquette of seeing clients in public and HIPAA challenges
• Therapists declining gifts and the feelings that creates
• Colette wrapping up, promoting her book, and plans to return
• Show reminders about next Thursday’s episode and upcoming BDM show

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