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It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn, happy holidays to each and every one of you. It's a special holiday edition of the Sound of Young America podcast.

We've got an interview in just a second, then coming up after that, a brand new holiday sketch from our friends in Elephant Larry.

Solid night, holy night, Jingabas, Jingabas, walking in a window under land.

I was at for a fabulous Christmas Carol medley.

It's me, Peewee Herman, in case you didn't figure it out.

I'm here to just wish everybody the merrius, merrius, merrius of Christmas's happy new year and happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends.

It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn, my guests on the program are Brian Possein and Jerry Duggan.

They are the authors of the comic book, The Last Christmas, in which Santa Claus responds to the brutal murder of Mrs. Claus by murdering a lot of mutants, killing a lot of mutants, and saving Christmas essentially.

Well, first, he responds by murdering brain cells with whiskey and depression.

Only after he's forced to, does he head to San Francisco and see what's going on with the humans.

Brian, who you just heard is also a stand-up comic. You might see him on the Sarah Silverman program or on any of the many, many sitcoms on which he's appeared.

Jerry, a writer for G4TV's Attack of the Show. Gentlemen, welcome to the Sound of Young America.

Hey, thank you. It's great to be here.

Okay, so how did the two of you, let's start with this. How did the two of you meet each other?

My first job in Los Angeles 10 years ago was working at a comic shop on Melrose, and it was right near the studio where Mr. Show was.

And every Wednesday, a new comic book day, I'm going to see Brian, and we just got to talk, and we got to be friends.

And then one thing led to another, that thing probably was either a beer or a smokeable beer.

I started talking about how crazy it would be to have this idea to... I had an idea to put a gun in Santa's hand.

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