It’s perhaps a very good thing that Don has never spawned offspring and is not in charge of the “self-care” industry in any way. David tries to guide this self-professed “guy from the eighties” in the softer, gentler age of letting children destroy any peace of mind parents have and bragging about therapy and anxiety as badges of inclusion.

Turns out Don is the corner of the table you bump your funny bone on (according to David) in a bit of a therapy turnaround with the Chimps psychoanalyzing the guy “from the eighties.” David moves on with his rage at the gun culture in America and they close things out with David’s “Nine Levels of Offense”.

David believes Woody Allen is a child molester; Don does not. This one gets ugly.

David and Katie throw Harry his third birthday and then, mid-episode, have to deal with life in a cell with a three-year old. D&D reminisce about birthdays they can barely remember then dive in to the latest POLITICO poll of Americans and the extreme margins that aren’t really that relevant.

In a discussion about the (not) cancelling of six Dr. Seuss books and the cancel culture that may (or may not) exist in the world, Don antagonizes David as the gadfly in his soup.

Apparently, working from home with no place to go in Chicago is finally getting to Himmel as he can’t seem to understand basic conversation. In the stranger or already strange conversations, Don finally loses his shit and then they talk about the NYT article about Smith College which David seems to think is fine.

Himmel stepped into a pile of his own digital crap this week and, apparently, the Chicago Storytelling Community is up to its old gossipy, bitchy tricks. Don calls Alvin Las a Class A Cunt and David makes fun of the rest. Brilliant, bitchy fun about life on the digital freeway.

In a rare occurrence, Don records a bit drunk and it just gets worse as the podcast continues. Somehow David manages to engage in a conversation about culture, David’s bizarre coat, and a discussion of the cancelling of Gina Carrano by Disney.

Turns out that Don is just one year younger than Abraham Lincoln was when he was shot and that David is getting older by the day because his child is almost three and living in a pandemic.

David takes parenting advice from the least qualified source in history and then the boys settle in on the ups and downs of being a writer for a living. Also WARNING: Complete spoiler alert for the Netflix film The Vanishing featuring a fat Jason Patric and a nonexistent child disappearance. Oops. Sorry.

Last week’s events have thrown the boys off. Reactions to the breach of the Capitol, a bizarre truncated BUGHOUSE! Debate about whether Congress should impeach the Donald again and if there’s any point to it, plus David plays Capitol Police to Harry’s MAGA Traitor (except Harry vacuums instead of takes a selfie at Pelosi’s desk).

The Apes have ten predictions for the coming (happy or relieved) new year. Do you agree with them? Are they completely cracked? Welcome to 2021 (which sounds like 2020 Won)!

Harry wants to watch the iPad but the battery is dead. His two-year old existential angst is a metaphor for 2020 and the Chimps in Charge break down their hopes for the coming year.

After a group text when a trusted intellectual lowers the conspiracy-boom on both the Apes, the boys chat about how to square the circle and not simply shun their friend. Also, Don is leaving his work as a casino manager to work remotely and wonders what big life-changing risks are worth it?

David has hit what we call a “writer’s Block” and the two Apes do nothing whatsoever to help him. That and some deviations into the similarities of the Extreme Left and Right, whether Dan Brown is a worse writer than the broad who wrote “Fifty Shades of Gray,” and the stupidity of replacing vowels with the letter ‘x’.

Would David rather have his son blow a load in face or sneeze in it? Can David tell an appropriately funny Parkinson’s Disease joke? What exactly is the Sack Pack? What is truly the root of evil if there is even such a thing?

Both happy liberals, Don and David muse where they were when they heard Biden had been anointed, a brief interlude as Harry imitates a losing Trump, and our assessment of why the Left needs to do some serious self reflection in preparation for 2022.