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EPISODE 109 // In honor of our new subreddit, and the concept of spring, we devote the episode to relationship advice! Specifically, sad and funny relationship questions from the digital frontier we know as /r/relationships. Is it OK to barge into your sister-in-law's bedroom? Is it OK to time-shift your baby's milestones? We. Find. Out.

Plugs this week:

• Wildflowers (Jack)
• Stainless steel dish-drying rack (Hao)
• Natural deodorant (Kate)

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EPISODE 108 is here and it's kind of scary, no big deal, wait come back. It's about CHILDHOOD FEARS – the irrational bogeymen that plagued us as wee little ones. The ghosts that hid beneath beds and the darkness at the edges of the room. The way a tree tapped the window as the wind blows. The wet kiss of a banshee on your neck, which at first surprises you but then you like it.

Plugs this week:

1. The Eastern Parkway renovation (Hao)
2. Say Good Night to Insomnia (Jack)
3. How to Grill Everything (Kate)

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EPISODE 108 is here and it's kind of scary, no big deal, wait come back. It's about CHILDHOOD FEARS – the irrational bogeymen that plagued us as wee little ones. The ghosts that hid beneath beds and the darkness at the edges of the room. The way a tree tapped the window as the wind blows. The wet kiss of a banshee on your neck, which at first surprises you but then you like it.

Plugs this week:

1. The Eastern Parkway renovation (Hao)
2. Say Good Night to Insomnia (Jack)
3. How to Grill Everything (Kate)

[email protected] // @downersradio on twitter

EPISODE 107 // We bring Ian back to talk WOODWORKING and to give an update on HAVING SIBLINGS (see our award-winning episode 3). What's happened in the intervening two years?? We find out.

The great expanse of life stretches before us and we must traverse it together.

Plugs this week:

• Sustainable clothing (Hao)
• Rugs (Kate)
• John Mulaney (Jack)
• 2017's doc TOO FUNNY TO FAIL (Ian)

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EPISODE 107 // We bring Ian back to talk WOODWORKING and to give an update on HAVING SIBLINGS (see our award-winning episode 3). What's happened in the intervening two years?? We find out.

The great expanse of life stretches before us and we must traverse it together.

Plugs this week:

• Sustainable clothing (Hao)
• Rugs (Kate)
• John Mulaney (Jack)
• 2017’s doc TOO FUNNY TO FAIL (Ian)

@downersradio // [email protected]

EPISODE 106 // How you read as a child can be very different from how you read as an adult. The quality of reading is different – the books you used to like no longer hold their charm, perhaps, or the act of reading like something you have to purposefully carve out time for. We talk about all this, and more! ON DOWNERS

Plugs this week:

• Documentary Now! (Hao)
• Sarah J. Maas's A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES (Kate)

[email protected] // @downersradio

EPISODE 106 // How you read as a child can be very different from how you read as an adult. The quality of reading is different – the books you used to like no longer hold their charm, perhaps, or the act of reading like something you have to purposefully carve out time for. We talk about all this, and more! ON DOWNERS

Plugs this week:

• Documentary Now! (Hao)
• Sarah J. Maas's A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES (Kate)

[email protected] // @downersradio

EPISODE 105 // Kate's out and Jack's got some thoughts about ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS on the old brain. What is consciousness anyway? There's a slight echo for Jack's voice up until minute seven. SKIP PAST IT IF IT BOTHERS YOU. SORRY. Audio engineering is AN ART (?).

Plugs this week:

• Dolphins are people too (Jack)
• Putting salt on the sidewalk (Hao)

Our Twitter is @downersradio and hey that happens to be our Gmail too.

EPISODE 105 // Kate's out and Jack's got some thoughts about ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS on the old brain. What is consciousness anyway? There's a slight echo for Jack's voice up until minute seven. SKIP PAST IT IF IT BOTHERS YOU. SORRY. Audio engineering is AN ART (?).

Plugs this week:

• Dolphins are people too (Jack)
• Putting salt on the sidewalk (Hao)

Our Twitter is @downersradio and hey that happens to be our Gmail too.

EPISODE 104 // Kate went to an onsen in (温泉) in Japan and she's here to talk about some of the SADNESS involved in these Japanese nude spas. We talk about childrearing! We talk about the vote for public advocate in NYC, which happened on Tuesday!

Plugs this week:

• 0.7mm gel pens (Hao)
• New York Times mini crosswords (Kate)
• Ceiling fans (Jack)

@downersradio // [email protected]