In today’s Pod Life, Ernst Thälmann is drafted and everyone wishes he hadn’t been.

Last Mean Tweets before Christmas coming to you live at 9:30PM EST tonight! We'll be talking drones as we celebrate the season. Here's a taste of last week's show:
New Mean Tweets tonight at 9:30 PM EST! Watch us live on our BasedComic channels on X, Rumble or YT. Join us as we go over the stories that drove social media discourse during the first week of the new year.
Where does the American graduate go where the H-1B Visa won't take it away from him? Importing indentured servants from other countries has flattened the salaries of American engineers since 2012. No one is happier about it than the average tech company.
Naturally when I bring up the average tech company who should pop up but Bobby Cujo—but that’s for next time.
And then there’s Friday’s comic in case you missed it:
The California fires continue to rage.
We’re on tonight at our usual time, 9:30 PM EST on X, Rumble, Twitch and YouTube. Join us live and we will give you a shoutout!
We’re back from our hiatus on new comics! A new Pod Life came out a few weeks ago and we’re working on the next. We spent Christmas refreshing as a family and we also bought some new equipment for the podcast.
There was a Mean Tweets last week though most people were still on vacation—I suspect our listeners tune in at work
More coming now that 2025 is underway!
Every year the radio plays that John Lennon song that ends in a parenthesis. War is over (if you want it). Unfortunately both parties have to want it, and it seems both parties are intent on war. Odd that I haven't heard this song play on the radio this year.
I got this nice note from SESpider on X:
That sums up why we started Based Comic in the first place. If this reminder that Jesus won the war is helpful at all, may it bless you and yours this Christmas. We’ll see you next week!