Ruin My Life

Sarah Sheppard returns to the podcast and leads Jason and Kelsey on a magical adventure into the fairy-tale world of The 10th Kingdom. Also: Kelsey makes her pitch for The 11th Kingdom and Jason spins a tale of youthful infatuation.

To celebrate the first year of Ruin My Life, Jason and Kelsey flash back to how it all began (again) and explore how their shared love of Carly Rae Jepsen helped forge an unbreakable bond.

Jason takes Kelsey on a tour of Randy Newman's long and varied career, with an emphasis on his brilliant and troubling 1974 album, 'Good Old Boys.'

Listen to Jason's playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213136479/playlist/0BKASeDFpg8hdWFw6i3yHa

Julie Goldman (a.k.a. "Kelsey's Mom") visits our digital space to spread the gospel of the UK Wildcats. Also: Kelsey makes an unsettling discovery about her co-host and Jason finally learns what a basketball is.

Kelsey puts her love of art history to good use and explains why Jason should care about 'The Raft Of The Medusa' by the French Romantic painter Théodore Géricault. Jason sits down, is humble.

'The Raft Of The Medusa': https://d32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net/bzu8zL8aWfe_lIdZmcB5TQ/larger.jpg

'Liberty Leading The People' by Eugène Delacroix: http://www.eugene-delacroix.com/images/paintings/liberty-leading-the-people.jpg

'The Death Of Socrates' by Jacques Louis David: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_31.45.jpg

In a Very Special Episode of Ruin My Life, Jason and Kelsey examine the ongoing dadaist art collective surrounding Please Retweet, a web series about censorship, creativity, and one very good picture of Mario's friend, Toad.

Experience Please Retweet, Join Us on this journey: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT7oyDiebtdh7NGkUyDHQW20

Jason's father-in-law Charlie Sheppard shares his lifelong love for the films of John Wayne, focusing on The Quiet Man, Chisum and The Cowboys. Also: a boy dies and Kelsey cries.

Jason's Journal. June 23rd, 2017:

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. Totally gross, major bummer. Almost threw up right there on the street. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are like nose of the face and the gutters are like the eyes. No, wait, maybe the manhole covers are the eyes, and the subway is the mouth. But then what are the buildings? Are they, like, hair? What was I talking about? Oh, right. The accumulated filth of sex and murder. Well, ANYWAY, to make a long story short, eventually it's all gonna foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, "save us," and I'll ... I'll ...

... okay, I'll be honest. I did throw up earlier, when I saw that dead dog. And I cried a little, too.

Kelsey ruins Jason's life with the emo-piano-pop-punk-alt-rock stylings of Andrew McMahon and his many musical projects. Also: Jason process some feelings about a recent Coheed & Cambria concert and Kelsey offers up a full-throated defense of Smash: The Musical: The TV Show.

You can listen to the Andrew McMahon playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/125972916/playlist/1RIFETIySi32BpoFsH8vCP

Alicia Harder visits the podcast to discuss D.E.B.S., an early-2000's spy-movie spoof/delightfully queer love story. Also: Jason makes a bold statement of inclusion re: weird sex anime, Kelsey explains the difference between textual and canonical bisexuality, and the original #DEButantes lead a movement to jump-start the D.E.B.C.U.