Ruin My Life

In their (potentially) annual holiday spectacular, Jason and Kelsey explore the origins of Secular Christmas and Religious Hanukkah, then ruin each other's lives with some of their favorite holiday traditions. Also: Kelsey gets real Jewish with it and Jason learns what the United Kingdom is.

This week Jason forces Kelsey to endure three Exorcist films -- ruining her life in three very different ways. Featuring: rants about inaccurate depictions of the healthcare system and The Exorcist IV: Morning Breaks.

The hosts are joined by a close friend. Jason has a magical first encounter with an early-00's comedy classic. Several innocuous comments are curdled by the passage of time into bitterly ironic prophecies. Everyone's just doing their best.

"HOT. SAUCE." - Jason Edwards

"You're an asshole." - Kelsey Goldman

Things get a little too real when Kelsey tries Taco Bell for the first time. Also, Jason explains mankind's triumph over God and Kelsey goes on a lettuce rant.

Kelsey introduces Jason to Minneapolitan indie rapper Dessa, yielding some fruitful critical discussion before they both get distracted and start talking about Taylor Swift and the Chronicles of Narnia.

Jason introduces Kelsey to America's favorite heavy-metal folk singer/simian-obsessed songwriter/amateur sandwich enthusiast, Warren Zevon.

If you have Spotify, you can listen to the playlist Jason made for Kelsey at: https://play.spotify.com/user/1213136479/playlist/6z1WAZSoLpEnGiM8cq7hKC. If you don't have Spotify, you'll just have to do the work for yourself.

Jason introduces Kelsey to the writing of David Foster Wallace and extolls the virtues of being a pretentious white man. Kelsey offers an enthusiastic dissent.

NOTE: the sound quality in this episode is not the best and we're very sorry.

Kelsey introduces Jason to the anglophilic joy of PEAKY BLINDERS, and Jason thoughtfully responds by not doing as many awful accents as he could have.