Downers

EPISODE 24 // We take a trip to Future Earth to revisit our old friends Oxy and Gilgamesh. This is part two of our ongoing mini-tabletop RPG game. In this entry you will hear tales of electrical sound equipment being safely set up, speeches (multiple speeches) delivered to teenagers, and feats of great bravery and dexterity. All this and Ooga Chaka, here on Downers.

Plugs this week: Twitter poll results (Kate), sweet gherkin pickles w/ sandwiches (Jack), and Mbubar (sp? Hao).

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EPISODE 23 // We devote this entire hour to sandwiches: veggies, spread, meat, and bread. What do these marvelous snack packs have to say about who we are? In What's Up, birds interact with Jack's pajamas.

Plugs this week: time.is (Jack), sprouts (Jack), book clubs (Kate), librarian scientist Melvil Dewey (Hao).

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EPISODE 23 // We devote this entire hour to sandwiches: veggies, spread, meat, and bread. What do these marvelous snack packs have to say about who we are? In What's Up, birds interact with Jack's pajamas.

Plugs this week: time.is (Jack), sprouts (Jack), book clubs (Kate), librarian scientist Melvil Dewey (Hao).

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EPISODE 22 // We take a foray into YouTube Live's chat boards (people still say chat boards, right?). We ask people what their age, sex, and location are. We talk about people talking about drugs. We listen to Simpsonwave through an iPhone speaker because Hao forgot to match the mono output with the mono input. All this and more!

Plugs this week include: David Sedaris' essay entries Theft by Finding (Hao), a nameless clay/plastic-bag/itchy-plastic-casing heating pad I bought from CVS this morning (Kate) oh and by the way you have to use it with a towel because it is very itchy, and the YouTube video "Sunday School" and the song "Teen Pregnancy" (Jack).

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EPISODE 22 // We take a foray into YouTube Live's chat boards (people still say chat boards, right?). We ask people what their age, sex, and location are. We talk about people talking about drugs. We listen to Simpsonwave through an iPhone speaker because Hao forgot to match the mono output with the mono input. All this and more!

Plugs this week include: David Sedaris' essay entries Theft by Finding (Hao), a nameless clay/plastic-bag/itchy-plastic-casing heating pad I bought from CVS this morning (Kate) oh and by the way you have to use it with a towel because it is very itchy, and the YouTube video "Sunday School" and the song "Teen Pregnancy" (Jack).

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EPISODE 21 // The animals in San Diego are committing suicide and by gosh if we aren't going to say something about that. Work pants are making ampersands, and there might not be enough ramps. We pick a Terrible Thing and devote the back half of the episode to it: >.

Plugs this week: SEF.org (a public-access Unix system), making your voice heard and calling your representatives, and Ursula Le Guin.

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EPISODE 21 // The animals in San Diego are committing suicide and by gosh if we aren't going to say something about that. Work pants are making ampersands, and there might not be enough ramps. We pick a Terrible Thing and devote the back half of the episode to it: <>.

Plugs this week: SEF.org (a public-access Unix system), making your voice heard and calling your representatives, and Ursula Le Guin.

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EPISODE 20

This episode is our return to form. We dedicate this entire hour to KOREAN FOOD, a small but nonetheless important part of this podcast's premise we've long ignored. A handful of Korean restaurants are reviewed and then assigned white cabbage leaves. In Mail Corner we pore over news of Beatrice and corners. We also talk about cartography, extensively.

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EPISODE 20

This episode is our return to form. We dedicate this entire hour to KOREAN FOOD, a small but nonetheless important part of this podcast's premise we've long ignored. A handful of Korean restaurants are reviewed and then assigned white cabbage leaves. In Mail Corner we pore over news of Beatrice and corners. We also talk about cartography, extensively.

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EPISODE 19

In this episode we abandon the traditional format of the show to play a mini-tabletop RPG called MECHANICAL ORYX (by one Grant Howitt), winner of the 2017 200-Word RPG Challenge. Join Oxy (Kate) and Gilgamesh (Jack; no relation to the actual Gilgamesh) and Omniscient Impartial Narrator (Hao) as they journey through the ruins of a once-great Earth.

This episode of Downers is brought to you by random.org. Warning: This episode contains a light amount of body-shaming humor, but it is done in character and the emotional reactions it provokes are both sincere and honest. Also, at one point Kate reference-snipes Beyonce's Lemonade; it's great and it's my fault I didn't pick up on it.

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