Downers

EPISODE 59 // It's another philosophy episode! We devote Act II of our podcast to David Chapman, the philosopher who wrote meaningness.com (an online book) and has dedicated his life to figuring how to live life with purpose and all sorts of other good stuff. Along the way we talk eternalism and nihilism; like a high-school student angry at his chemistry teacher, we are striking a balance. Also we do a special Clare (April) Corner in Act I. So that's cool too.

Plugs this week:

• Allbirds shoes (Kate)
• Thai curry paste (Hao)
• Buddhism for Vampires (Jack)

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EPISODE 58 // Kate has big news! To find out what it is, you'll have to tune in!

Plugs this week:

• Wes Anderson's ISLE OF DOGS (Hao)
• Essential oils are bad for cats (Kate)
• Pet pigs (Jack)

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EPISODE 58 // Kate has big news! To find out what it is, you'll have to tune in!

Plugs this week:

• Wes Anderson's ISLE OF DOGS (Hao)
• Essential oils are bad for cats (Kate)
• Pet pigs (Jack)

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Episode 57 // It's time once again to pick up our sadness brooms and whisk away items on the list of terrible things. These are items that by themselves would not make a great episode BUT, put together into a single compendium of all things terrible, makes for one corker of an episode. Homophobia! Transphobia! Arachnophobia?? All that and more.

Plugs this week:

• "Packing for Mars" by Marcy Roach (Kate)
• Sombra nerf anti-plug (Hao)
• Hyori's Bed and Breakfast (Jack)

[email protected] // @downersradio // everybody has to be a sexual being before they can understand the subject

Episode 57 // It's time once again to pick up our sadness brooms and whisk away items on the list of terrible things. These are items that by themselves would not make a great episode BUT, put together into a single compendium of all things terrible, makes for one corker of an episode. Homophobia! Transphobia! Arachnophobia?? All that and more.

Plugs this week:

• "Packing for Mars" by Marcy Roach (Kate)
• Sombra nerf anti-plug (Hao)
• Hyori's Bed and Breakfast (Jack)

[email protected] // @downersradio // everybody has to be a sexual being before they can understand the subject

EPISODE 56 // Once again we have traveled the world to bring you tall and fantastical tales of lands far away, far away from the United States that is, oh her in her glorious amber majesty. What is it about travel that makes us both joyous and nostalgic, sweet yet bitter? Who knows... who knows...

Plugs this week: Fitzyhere on Twitch (Hao) and double proxy hatch Zerg, the 2017 movie Maineland (Kate), CryptoHeads on Twitch (Jack).

[email protected] // @downersradio // which places have you been to

EPISODE 56 // Once again we have traveled the world to bring you tall and fantastical tales of lands far away, far away from the United States that is, oh her in her glorious amber majesty. What is it about travel that makes us both joyous and nostalgic, sweet yet bitter? Who knows... who knows...

Plugs this week: Fitzyhere on Twitch (Hao) and double proxy hatch Zerg, the 2017 movie Maineland (Kate), CryptoHeads on Twitch (Jack).

[email protected] // @downersradio // which places have you been to

EPISODE 55 // Spring is here and with it is the pressure to be Clean™. Join us as we run through a series of terrible things on Jack's list. Certain things we could not figure out how to build an entire episode around, and so we're going to read all of them out in this episode and talk about each other very briefly. How many will we run through? Which ones are we going to be pin for later? Just who precisely is Mammon? All this and more.

Plugs this week

• The musician Dan Reeder (Hao)
• RachelAntonoff.com the uterus weatshirt (Kate)
• Downers (Jack)

[email protected] // @downersradio the tweet machine

EPISODE 55 // Spring is here and with it is the pressure to be Clean™. Join us as we run through a series of terrible things on Jack’s list. Certain things we could not figure out how to build an entire episode around, and so we’re going to read all of them out in this episode and talk about each other very briefly. How many will we run through? Which ones are we going to be pin for later? Just who precisely is Mammon? All this and more.

Plugs this week

• The musician Dan Reeder (Hao)
• RachelAntonoff.com the uterus weatshirt (Kate)
• Downers (Jack)

[email protected] // @downersradio the tweet machine

EPISODE 54 // We don't much about Virtual Reality but we can still be pessimistic about it! This week, we promise to come up with UNIQUE and DYSTOPIC scenarios for VR. We are challenging ourselves to go above and beyond, say, the plot of a BLACK MIRROR episode. Yes you might be tied to a VR pleasure machine forever; yes human interaction might all cease. We. Are. Not. Interested. In Those. Scenarios. What if VR made you vomit in a good way? What if VR lets you get married, but there are strippers at your wedding? What if a dolphin let gas loose into your face? All that, and more, on this episode of Downersssssss.

Plugs this week:

• Jaron Lanier's DAWN OF THE NEW EVERYTHING (Jack) [a book on Virtual Reality]
• Seedboxes (Hao) [for pirates] #thenavyiscoming
• Spotify's Jazz Vibes playlist (Kate)

[email protected] // @downersradio // sorry the episode has been late two weeks in a row, work is stressing me out