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Pleasant Conversations

Pleasant Conversations

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Ever feel like you are begrudgingly trying to find joy in your life? You’re not alone. The news, doom scrolling, your nana casually flying a flag promoting a hate group we all thought died out decades ago…it’s a rough world out there. No matter how hard it gets, we all have to find the positivity happening in this hellscape called Earth. Let us do the dirty work to prove that even though we’re all secretly hoping that deadly asteroid arrives sooner rather than later, we can still find our community, gather around the dumpster fire, and have some Pleasant Conversations.Pleasant Conversations Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Sleigh, Not Slay *Snap* S-L-A-Y
    Dec 22 2025

    Merry Christmas and look out for those pesky flying mammals pulling a fat guy in a sleigh! This week, Jasmine and Michael are joined by the pod’s personal guru, Lucas!


    Randy Brooks wrote a song that incensed grandmothers for decades and then Time Warner made an animated special about it! That’s right, your Christmas gift from the pod is a discussion about “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”.


    Grab your eggnog and reindeer nip, don’t forget to take your meds, watch out for those misguided sleds, and join us for another holiday pleasant conversation!

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • We Originated Guilt in Cartoons
    Dec 15 2025

    Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!


    This week’s episode, we dive into an animated classic telling of the “Meanie of Chanukah” and are joined by an extra-special, first-time guest, Melissa! As this is the first time Michael is joined in his “studio” with a guest, the sound is different, but the laughs are still the same.


    Join Jasmine, Michael, and Melissa as they discuss an episode of the Nickelodeon animated series “Rugrats”, which tells the story of Hanukkah through the eyes of the precocious, titular toddlers.


    Grab your dreidel and gelt for some unregulated gambling in bubbe’s basement while the adults fry up latkes and toast with Manischewitz, and we all have some pleasant conversations!

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    43 mins
  • “Believe That Now Your Best is Yet to Come…”
    Dec 8 2025

    Jasmine and Michael are plugging along with their holiday movie reviews with a modern classic musical adventure. Take a journey with our hosts as they travel to a Dickensian English village of a different timeline, filled with whimsical inventors, plucky kids, magical toys, randy postwomen, and the legendary Phylicia Rashad. Spoiler alert: they loved this movie!


    So dust off your magic robots and twirl your evil mustaches as we solve the “Square Root of Possible” and have some pleasant conversations.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
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