Downers

EPISODE 99 is all about EPISODE 100, which comes out next week! This week we give you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how an episode comes together as we generate a minute-by-minute schedule for episode 100. This episode is a MUST LISTEN if you want to understand EPISODE ONE HUNDRED.

Plugs this week:

• SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE (Jack, who is so tired he doesn't even know)
• Oat milk flat whites (Kate)
• The theory of differential forms (Hao)
• LACTAID™ milk (Jack)

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EPISODE 98 is structured around a thesis: Everybody likes blogging, but Jack has problems with it. What kinds of problems? You'll Have to Tune In to Find Out.

We talk about RSS readers and the act of reading a blog, the reason some websites that might be blogs just don't feel like blogs, and the blogs we recommend to people. We talk about the act of blogging, which is more often than not writing for an unknown, silent, possibly zero audience.

Plugs this week:

• Ramen (Hao)
• TIDYING UP WITH MARIE KONDO (Kate)
• Awesome Games Done Quick (Jack)

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EPISODE 98 is structured around a thesis: Everybody likes blogging, but Jack has problems with it. What kinds of problems? You'll Have to Tune In to Find Out.

We talk about RSS readers and the act of reading a blog, the reason some websites that might be blogs just don't feel like blogs, and the blogs we recommend to people. We talk about the act of blogging, which is more often than not writing for an unknown, silent, possibly zero audience.

Plugs this week:

• Ramen (Hao)
• TIDYING UP WITH MARIE KONDO (Kate)
• Awesome Games Done Quick (Jack)

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EPISODE 97 is here and it's about RESOLUTIONS. We go over the resolutions we made on last year's podcast and, hey you know what?, we make some more. We talk meditation and dot journaling; we talk media consoles. We do a weird quick dive into Elizabeth Anderson's 1999 paper "What is the Point of Equality?"

Plugs this week:

• Jeremy Graves and Matthew Immergut's THE MIND ILLUMINATED (Jack)
• Rachel Wilkerson Miller's DOT JOURNALING (Jack)
• https://falseknees.com (Hao)

[email protected] // @downersradio

EPISODE 97 is here and it's about RESOLUTIONS. We go over the resolutions we made on last year's podcast and, hey you know what?, we make some more. We talk meditation and dot journaling; we talk media consoles. We do a weird quick dive into Elizabeth Anderson's 1999 paper "What is the Point of Equality?"

Plugs this week:

• Jeremy Graves and Matthew Immergut's THE MIND ILLUMINATED (Jack)
• Rachel Wilkerson Miller's DOT JOURNALING (Jack)
• https://falseknees.com (Hao)

[email protected] // @downersradio

EPISODE 96 // If you live in a country and you listen to Downers, you're probably wondering… why haven't the hosts ever said hi to me??? We rectify that mistake in this episode! We have a list of 16 countries that listen to Downers and we're going to say a special message to each one.

Also we discuss changing the motto of the podcast so that Kate can get a job.

~plugs:

• Barry Jenkin's IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018)
• Michelle Obama's new memoir BECOMING

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EPISODE 96 // If you live in a country and you listen to Downers, you’re probably wondering… why haven’t the hosts ever said hi to me??? We rectify that mistake in this episode! We have a list of 16 countries that listen to Downers and we’re going to say a special message to each one.

Also we discuss changing the motto of the podcast so that Kate can get a job.

~plugs:

• Barry Jenkin’s IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018)
• Michelle Obama’s new memoir BECOMING

[email protected] // @downersradio on the twittersphere

EPISODE 95 // Enough about Christmas, Enough about Hanukkah, I Want to Know More about BOXING DAY. What is Boxing Day? And what might an unboxing day look like? We find out on this episode! In addition we talk about the nature of servitude (and blogging); in addition addition, some special carolers drop by during the act break.

Plugs this week:

• Bathubs (Jack)
• Vince Guaraldi's A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS ALBUM // Christmas Party with Eddie G. (Kate)
• New York's very own Hong Kong Supermarket (Hao)

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EPISODE 95 // Enough about Christmas, Enough about Hanukkah, I Want to Know More about BOXING DAY. What is Boxing Day? And what might an unboxing day look like? We find out on this episode! In addition we talk about the nature of servitude (and blogging); in addition addition, some special carolers drop by during the act break.

Plugs this week:

• Bathubs (Jack)
• Vince Guaraldi's A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS ALBUM // Christmas Party with Eddie G. (Kate)
• New York's very own Hong Kong Supermarket (Hao)

[email protected] // tell us what your presents were, don't be shy // @downersradio

EPISODE 94 ("I think that's dystopia, a little") // We devote this episode to a popular mantra – I have enough, I do enough, I am enough. First taught to Kate and Hao in a yoga class, we now dissect this sentence together. We talk nihilism vs. pseudonihlism; we explore the process of breaking hard news to close friends via not one but TWO role plays; we talk sports medicine in Act I for some reason.

Plugs this week:

• Little Bao, a restaurant in Hong Kong (Kate)
• Kate's many quilts (Hao)
• Cash (Jack)

[email protected] // @downersradio