This week on Binging With Benefits, we cover a lot of ground — from pop stardom to church events to Christmas movie chaos 🎄✨

We kick things off talking about Becca’s church Nativity event… where young girls are inexplicably dancing in carrol form. We have thoughts. Spoiler: we’re not fans. then pivot (hard) to the Taylor Swift documentary,

From there, we dive headfirst into the ultimate holiday debate: the top Christmas movie picks. The results? Truly shocking. Jess was floored by Becca’s choice, and Becca could not believe Jess’s pick — and honestly, you’ll probably take sides.

To wrap it all up, Jess shares this week’s benefit: a Craft of the Month subscription box that shows up monthly with a brand-new hobby to try. This month’s craft? Wood whittling, and she’s fully ready to embrace her crafty era. We end with a reminder we all need: do things because you love them, not because you’re good at them — whether that’s whittling, podcasting… or Becca attempting basketball 🏀

This week, we’re talking lighting choices—specifically, our lifelong refusal to turn on the Big Light. Because honestly, if we’re not living in Phantom-of-the-Opera, early-2000s-fangirl mood lighting at all times… what are we even doing? We’ve been on the dramatic-theatrical-candelabra train for decades, and the rest of you are just now catching up.

Then we dive into Jingle Bell Heist, which is basically Ocean’s 11 if it took place inside a TJ Maxx, was run by Hallmark, and everyone’s weapon of choice was holiday decor and sass.

And for the benefit of the week? We’re building the ultimate vision board—Pinterest-level aesthetic, quotes that punch you in the soul, a sprinkling of star-shaped confetti, and a thrift-store frame to finish it off. Because if your hopes and dreams aren’t lightly bedazzled, do they even count?

This week, we kick things off with the wild ride that is dating—and honestly, we need answers. Men… why? Just why. From red flags to walking ick-factories, we break down the moments that made us laugh, cringe, and question everything.

Then we take a hard left turn straight into Holiday Horror Stories, and oh boy… buckle up. There’s the nude Thanksgiving where someone’s boob took a tragic dip into the gravy (and yes, there were burns), and the uncle who got way too committed to charades—think shirt off, pants at the ankles, and a very enthusiastic shout of “STRIPPER!”

And of course, we wrap it all up with a Benefit—a Pinterest quote that hits right in the soul: “Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”

It’s chaotic, it’s unhinged, it’s heartfelt… it’s everything.