Happy New Year, dear listeners! We at Pleasant Conversations hope you all had a wonderful holiday season with your loved ones. Jasmine and Michael are still decompressing after the holidays and decided to start this month with a look back at the podcast’s inaugural season.

In our first Pleasant Conversations Rewind, we hop in our DeLorean to travel back to August 2025 for Jasmine’s Game Night Birthday celebration. In this two-parter, our hosts are joined by friends Cass, Lucas, and Zachary for a night of laughs as they play games on an audio podcast. Both episodes ARE included in this rewind, so make sure you stick around after part one.

So sit back in your favorite post-holiday-insanity-comfort-wear, make yourself a concoction to take off the winter chill, and join us for some pleasant conversations (Rewind Edition)!

It’s the final special episode for this holiday season! Jasmine and Michael hope you all had a wonderful time during the holidays with your loved ones and that you enjoyed our break from normal programming. We wanted to get more to you, but life had to life, and time ran thin.

But I digress.

This week, we want to wish all who celebrate a very happy Kwanzaa! And what better way to celebrate than to head back to Nickelodeon and discuss “A Rugrats Kwanzaa”. Admittedly, we would have gotten a little more if we had watched “The Proud Family” episode, but there’s always next year!

We implore you, dear listeners, to come in out of the rain, gather with your loved ones, break open an old scrapbook, make some peanut butter sandwiches (or a different butter if you’re allergic), and join us for a final holiday episode of “Pleasant Conversations”.

See you next year!

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!

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!

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.

Happy December 1st, dear listeners! Mariah Carey has emerged from her slumber, and it’s time for peppermint mochas, sugary treats, sleigh bells, and some of the best AND worst holiday movies and specials.

First up, our foul-mouthed bestie from Down Undah, Cass, joins us to discuss a holiday murder mystery brought to us courtesy of Lifetime. This movie has everything: snowy scenes in an old mansion, a distractingly handsome spirit with witty comebacks, a plucky female lead who questions her purpose, and a pocket watch that has NOTHING to do with the plot, even though it would have been the perfect device for the entire story.

So make yourself an Old Fashioned or five, get those chestnuts roaring in the dumpster fire, and join us for some spooky (?), holiday pleasant conversations!

Happy Turkey Day! We hope you are all enjoying time with your loved ones and “gobbling up” all the good food being offered. We also hope your gravy isn’t tainted with bigotry.

In this special episode, our hosts are discussing the 1995 chaotic classic, “Home for the Holidays”. Spoiler alert: Jasmine is not a fan. If you have a messy family, you’ll feel right at home. If not, come see how the other half live (and love, in their own f’ed up kind of way). So grab a bottle of wine, help yourself to a heaping pile of mashed potatoes, watch out for flying turkeys, and join us for this extra helping of our Thanksgiving pleasant conversations!

The holiday season is nigh, so Jasmine and Michael have decided to take a break from the normal programming structure to bring you some special episodes to keep you in the spirit while the world continues to burn around us.

On today’s episode, our hosts travel back to 1987 for a John Hughes Thanksgiving classic comedy. Buckle up because we are taking the longest three-day journey from Manhattan to Chicago! So pack your obnoxiously large trunk, request extra bath towels from room service, and don’t piss off the lady at the rental car stand on your way to join us for our special, holiday pleasant conversations!