Chris and I went over to Scott Hanselman's house a few days ago to work on a couple nerd projects. While over there, I got roped into doing an episode of Scott's podcast: Hanselminutes.

Normally, Scott's podcast is profoundly - almost offensively - boring. Many people like to engage in a little holiday charity, and this was my holiday charity equivalent of feeding homeless people at a soup kitchen while wearing a Santa hat. My charity was to make the show interesting.

To be fair to Scott, when I say that his show is horribly boring, I haven't actually listened to any other episodes. While I don't think it's necessary to gauge the value of something based on knowledge or experience, some of you might see things differently, so this disclaimer is for you.

Scott isn't quite as enamored of the episode as I am (emphasis mine):

Chris Sells and Rory Blyth come over to Scott's house and proceed to record a horrible episode of Hanselminutes. Consider this a Holiday episode that is devoid of content.

Contrary to what Scott feels, this is clearly the best episode of Hanselminutes ever made. Based entirely on my Awesome Factor of Infinity-99, it would be impossible for this show to be any more awesomer.

Honestly, I think Scott feels threatened. It's only a matter of time before Carl fires him and brings me in as the new host of Hanselminutes.

If you also think this is the best episode of Hanselminutes ever made - and remember that you don't have to have listened to a single episode (not even this one) to experience this clarity of thought - then head over to the post and leave a comment expressing just how much less suckage this show has over the others. I'd say that there was zero suckage, but Scott did talk in it.

But, for reals, how could something not be made better by involving this guy:

Is this the new Hanselminutes host?

Let the rumors begin.

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- Heather Hamilton - Heather has got's herself all, "Vacation is hard," and I agree with her. Whiles I was working at the MICROSOFT company, I experienced the pressure to not use vacation days. Then, when I did use the occasional day (like when I had my nervous breakdown and took six weeks of vacation), I felt pressured to continue working. Even when I was nuts, I felt like I had to check email. And even though I was repeatedly told not to worry about anything, the insane American/Microsoft work ethic of we're-so-tough-we-don't-need-vacation-and-to-prove-how-dedicated-to-our-jobs-we-are-we're-going-to-run-ourselves-into-the-ground was rattling around inside my head. In America, we have the absolute worst attitude toward vacation of any other first world nation. Take your effing vacation time my fellow 'Mericans - and expect to go through similar issues as Heather's. 'Mericans just don't know how to do vacation.