Downers

EPISODE 44 is dedicated to New Years Resolutions, small and large, personal- and podcast-related, anti- and non-anti-. Happy New Years from Downers!

Hao's levels are too loud in the mix, and he apologizes. He should have figured out how to do levels by now but he hasn't. Don't... don't listen with earbuds I guess.

Plugs this week: future content (Hao), going to the Museum of Chinese in America (Kate), and Chinese names for roads (Jack). Also we debut a new segment in lieu of Final Words!

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EPISODE 43 tells the rise and downfall of A.V. Club (and its sister website The Dissolve) as shakily narrated by Hao. SOME people are saying that this is Hao's Terrible Things #1 but Hao feels that's too close to our original segment's title. He got Roger Ebert's death year wrong but mostly everything else is write not wrong. It's a LONGER story than you THINK it WOULD be. We also learn about what jackfruits are.

Plugs this week: Darn Tough wool socks (Kate); not wearing a top hat (Jack) -- what message are you really trying to say?; UCB Hell's Kitchen, a new theater (Hao).

SORRY THIS WAS POSTED LATE

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EPISODE 43 tells the rise and downfall of A.V. Club (and its sister website The Dissolve) as shakily narrated by Hao. SOME people are saying that this is Hao's Terrible Things #1 but Hao feels that's too close to our original segment's title.  He got Roger Ebert's death year wrong but mostly everything else is write not wrong. It's a LONGER story than you THINK it WOULD be. We also learn about what jackfruits are.

Plugs this week: Darn Tough wool socks (Kate); not wearing a top hat (Jack) -- what message are you really trying to say?; UCB Hell's Kitchen, a new theater (Hao).

SORRY THIS WAS POSTED LATE

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EPISODE 42 of Downers is all about winter holiday traditions! What if you picked up a snow globe and you were inside it? When did you figure out Santa Claus was a capitalist myth? How much risk of your house burning down are you willing to accept? What if we just threw a bunch of poems into a trash can? Pull up to the hearth and make a cup of cocoa -- it's podcast time baby.

Plugs this week: inthemoment.io (Kate), Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light (Jack), and Food Bank for NYC (Hao).

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EPISODE 42 of Downers is all about winter holiday traditions! What if you picked up a snow globe and you were inside it? When did you figure out Santa Claus was a capitalist myth? How much risk of your house burning down are you willing to accept? What if we just threw a bunch of poems into a trash can? Pull up to the hearth and make a cup of cocoa -- it's podcast time baby.

Plugs this week: inthemoment.io (Kate), Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light (Jack), and Food Bank for NYC (Hao).

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EPISODE 41 is a real corker and it's about The Sims video game franchise. We promised we would talk about it and now here it is. Expansion packs! Aspirations, needs! Grinding your career for the career object! Hot Date! The Sims 1 vs. The Sims 4! Hao mis-remembering how why Will Wright made The Sims (his house was in a California wildfire and he had to rebuild it -- look it up)! An ad we wrote!

Plugs this week: A Choy (Jack), poke bowls (Kate), and MoviePass (Hao).

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EPISODE 41 is a real corker and it's about The Sims video game franchise. We promised we would talk about it and now here it is. Expansion packs! Aspirations, needs! Grinding your career for the career object! Hot Date! The Sims 1 vs. The Sims 4! Hao mis-remembering how why Will Wright made The Sims (his house was in a California wildfire and he had to rebuild it -- look it up)! An ad we wrote!

Plugs this week: A Choy (Jack), poke bowls (Kate), and MoviePass (Hao).

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EPISODE 40 // We pick a terrible thing and it's cyberterrorism! Kate reveals to listeners her major in college! We do a follow-up on something we said previously! This truly is a mustn't-miss episode.

Plugs this week: "Atlanta" (Jack), the Library of America! (Hao), and Patagonia (Kate).

Reach us through the usual ways I uploaded this very late and now I'm off to bed.

EPISODE 40 // We pick a terrible thing and it's cyberterrorism! Kate reveals to listeners her major in college! We do a follow-up on something we said previously! This truly is a mustn't-miss episode.

Plugs this week: "Atlanta" (Jack), the Library of America! (Hao), and Patagonia (Kate).

Reach us through the usual ways I uploaded this very late and now I'm off to bed.

EPISODE 39 is a doozy and it's here and it's also an episode. In this episode we invent a new segment, Top of the Morning to You, which is suspiciously similar to our previous segment, What's Up. Then we travel to the distant future to revisit our friends Oxy and Gilgamesh in our ongoing tabletop RPG game. We meet Joey Thunder the City Gardener and Sharing Marbles, mysterious ex-wife of Phantom King. Oh and the Phantom King is there too!!

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