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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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EPISODE 38 is a weird one and it's about the theory of post-scarcity economy, when most goods can be produced so efficiently that most goods are cheap and freely available. It's not today but it might be tomorrow! This is "a future potential terrible maybe great thing," and that's straight from the horse's mouth... if Jack were a horse! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Plugs this week: sleeping on a foam mattress (Hao), buying winter clothing from labor-friendly companies like Everlane (Kate, even though she hasn't received her order yet), being a mom and working out with mom fitness videos on YouTube (Jack).

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EPISODE 38 is a weird one and it's about the theory of post-scarcity economy, when most goods can be produced so efficiently that most goods are cheap and freely available. It's not today but it might be tomorrow! This is "a future potential terrible maybe great thing," and that's straight from the horse's mouth... if Jack were a horse! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Plugs this week: sleeping on a foam mattress (Hao), buying winter clothing from labor-friendly companies like Everlane (Kate, even though she hasn't received her order yet), being a mom and working out with mom fitness videos on YouTube (Jack).

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EPISODE 37 // The Downers gang is back and they've got things to say and the things they say are going into your ears. This episode: Follow-Ups ("What Happens If China Makes First Contact?"), Korean Corner (How to Make Bibimbap), and The Sadness of Antibacterial Soap. It's a grab bag of an episode and it was definitely uploaded at the correct time.

Plugs this week: municipal elections (Hao), Cook Serve Delicious 2 (Kate), DJ Qbert (Jack).

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EPISODE 37 // The Downers gang is back and they've got things to say and the things they say are going into your ears. This episode: Follow-Ups ("What Happens If China Makes First Contact?"), Korean Corner (How to Make Bibimbap), and The Sadness of Antibacterial Soap. It's a grab bag of an episode and it was definitely uploaded at the correct time.

Plugs this week: municipal elections (Hao), Cook Serve Delicious 2 (Kate), DJ Qbert (Jack).

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EPISODE 36 // A lot to cover this episode, which was recorded at night. We have a special never-before-done Follow-Ups: Updates Corner where we check in with Hao's two cubic feet of soil AND a Mailbox Corner from our friend Bradley. Then we plunge into the sadness of breakfasts.

Plugs this week: meeting a witch (Jack), the 2017 movie THE SQUARE (Hao), and Deb Perelman's Smitten Kitchen Every Day (Kate).

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EPISODE 36 // A lot to cover this episode, which was recorded at night. We have a special never-before-done Follow-Ups: Updates Corner where we check in with Hao's two cubic feet of soil AND a Mailbox Corner from our friend Bradley. Then we plunge into the sadness of breakfasts. 

Plugs this week: meeting a witch (Jack), the 2017 movie THE SQUARE (Hao), and Deb Perelman's Smitten Kitchen Every Day (Kate).

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EPISODE 35 // Bing bang boom. Bing bong bung. We discuss mental health off of the List of Terrible Things. Kate recounts her trip to Hong Kong: food, mass transit, mistranslations, and more.

Plugs this week: Jeff Speck's Walkable City (Hao), Disney Tsum Tsum plushies (Kate), and coffee (Jack).

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EPISODE 35 // Bing bang boom. Bing bong bung. We discuss mental health off of the List of Terrible Things. Kate recounts her trip to Hong Kong: food, mass transit, mistranslations, and more.

Plugs this week: Jeff Speck's Walkable City (Hao), Disney Tsum Tsum plushies (Kate), and coffee (Jack).

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Episode 34 // Back, by popular demand (we assume), it's TEENAGE WRITINGS II. We have a romantic poem from Jack, a modern take on a fairy tale by Kate, and some weird violent nonsense by Hao. This episode got put up very late because I was trying to replace the power supply unit on my computer at 1 AM and I didn't finish until 4 AM. The audio should at the very least sound less compressed than usual.

Plugs this week! Ann Hui's 2017 "Our Time Will Come" (Hao), maybe you know if you're in California don't set off fireworks (Jack), the Ask Polly advice column on THE CUT (Kate).

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