After a week off to nurse their Thanksgiving food hangovers and Thanksgiving hangover hangovers, Ben and Chad return with a new Co-Main Event Podcast, and not a moment too soon. See, gentle listener, UFC 181 and its twin bill of title fights looms on Saturday night. How you gonna know what to expect/who to root for/what to think if the CME doesn’t swoop in to hand out them ass-whippings to their maximum effect? Don’t worry, though, we got you, troop. On this installment, your guys talk about Johny Hendricks returning from injury to defend his welterweight title in a rematch against Robbie Lawler and Anthony Pettis returning from injury to defend his lightweight title against Gilbert Melendez. Oh, and because you gave them a pass last week, they also circle back to go over Frankie Edgar’s victory over Cub Swanson as well. Deal? Deal.

All that, plus AYFKM, MasterTweet Theatre and Just Sayin’ Stuff.

SOUNDS: This week’s music comes to us from Canadian singer/songwriter Paul Federici, who mailed a copy of his new CD, “Now and Then” to the CME using the actual mails a few weeks ago. If you like what you hear you can check out more of his stuff at his website: http://www.paulfederici.ca/. He’s on Twitter at @pedmusic and Facebook, too: facebook.com/paulfedericimusic.

Direct downloaders can buy a piece of Wanderlei Silva’s life right here.