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And we're back from our US Thanksgiving break in more ways than one! Mike rejoins the podcast -- and he's sporting both a new, slightly more underground bunker as well as a brand spankin' new pimped-out 2016 MacBook Pro with touchbar! We'll look more into Mike's new machine next episode, but we did get initial impressions, and this week we discover he's already hacking it! The rest of the show is mostly grim news as befits the turn of the season, we suppose: unsafe counterfeit Apple chargers being sold through legitimate sites like Amazon, defective iPhone 6s batteries that may fail early (but will be replaced free), graphic glitches in the new MacBook Pros (not a hardware problem, just Adobe needing to get its act together), blown-out speakers due to bad Windows drivers in Boot Camp (will again be fixed free), Apple racing to fix a "calendar spamming" issue, Pebble allegedly being killed off by Fitbit, and a new Android malware that can grab all your Google data. Charles and Mike also take a look at a recent proposal to force (or bribe) Apple to do some iPhone manufacturing (or more likely, final assembly) in the United States, explore how to add an external GPU to the new MBP (it ain't pretty), and in a desperate attempt to find something good to say this week, we also celebrate the Plex Media Server for Mac, which is now free (but there's a bit of a catch). All this and a lot of laughs and more -- so buckle up, cadets, 2016 is almost over but it ain't dead yet (unlike all those celebrities and notable figures who didn't survive its wrath ...), and there's two more episodes of Space Javelin yet to go before the year's out!