Downers

#189 – Do we mostly remember the good parts of our life, or the shitty parts of our life? Why is it that we gravitate toward keeping the memories that the unhealthiest for us to remember, if that makes sense? We attempt to tackle this tricky question within an hour's worth of podcasts. We also play another rousing game of What Things are Actually Two Things?

UPDATE: I uploaded a version with better sound quality.

#188 – Following on the heels of our extremely successful SOLIDS DRAFT and LIQUIDS DRAFT, we fly into the sun on waxed wings in this episode with our GAS DRAFT. We have a special Correspondents Corner from Aaron to kick the episode off, and then we dive right into thinking of gases. There are just so many gases to choose from! We also discuss what it is like to fall in love.

Plugs this week:

• Buying a black T-shirt (Jack)
• iPad's Smart Keyboard Folio (Hao)
• Friends to Lovers (Kate)

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#187 – We felt bad for you in a good way, and other topics! on this week's episode of DOWNERS. This week, we have our friend Michelle read our podcast's tarot cards. Michelle tells the history of tarot reading. Death is frequently the best card in the deck, cups are good, and other surprising facts!

Plugs this week:

• Electronic recycling (Hao)
• Smitten Kitchen's mom's applecake recipe (Kate), and you don't need a bundt pan for this, if that's what you're thinking
• Nalgene's 48oz water bottle (Michelle)
• Combination locks (Jack), the ones that you rotate, not the ones with three numbers on them

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#186 – If you sell glass bottles, you should be forced to take them back, just like in the old days. This, and other topics, come under the microscope that is this podcast, Downers. Hao's calling in from Vermont, Kate's recording from an active construction site, and we. are. pulling through. My apartment smells like olive oil because I cooked with it tonight. We have a returning guest this week! We check in with Michelle's life, which now includes foods that are both sweet and savory. Check out Michelle's new Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/u/michelleartbear

Plugs this week:

• Driving on the highway (Hao)
• No-knead bread (Jack)

#185 – Jack's on wuwei this week, which means he's consumed no content for the entire week. What's he been up to instead?? We also take a trip through our Gmail inbox, because Hao responded to every email we've ever gotten. Then: it was Daughters Day this week, so: would you pay $10000 to set the gender of your child??? We find out, by proxy, through our own opinions.

Plugs this week:

• Mitchell and Webb (Jack)
• An apple for dinner (Hao)
• IUDs, which are hard to find in Hong Kong (Kate)

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#184 – Hot on the heels of our enormously successful Liquids Draft episode, we are proud to present to you our SOLIDS DRAFT. What team of solids will everybody form? What types of currency are allowed, and what is currency anyway? We also discuss boiled wings, leaf miners, zucchini flowers, squash blossoms, goat cheese, and the Slate parenting podcast.

Plugs this week:

• Netflix's MIDNIGHT GOSPEL (Hao)
• Puzzle feeders (for cats) (Kate)
• BBC Two's SECRETS OF THE CASTLE (Jack)

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#183 – Jobs: some of them are good, some of them are evil, and some of them shouldn't exist. It's onto the third category that we aim our sights in this episode of Downers, as we devote a special BOOK CLUB to anthropologist David Graeber's critique of useless societal work. What is it about us that leads us to create jobs that might not need to exist, and what does it mean for the common assertion of an efficient market? We don't know! That's why it's a podcast.

(Also, what is Brooklyn 99 going to do about next season?)

Plugs this week:

• Don't put your elbows into your ears (Hao)
• Michelle's art @michelleartbear (Jack)
• Washing your face (Kate)

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#182 – (Not 183) – Plants! They're all around us, forming the flora to our fauna. We take a good, long, hard look at our amateur attempts at gardening, and discuss common household remedies to the problems of aphids, horny caterpillars, spider mites, and leaf miners. Also, Kate's gross air-conditioner cleaning story!

Plugs this week:

• Yoga with Adriene (Kate)
• Raisins (Jack)
• Exposé of Area Yoga owners Brooks-Church and Gendville (Hao)

EDITOR UPDATE: I had to fix Hao's audio track, so this might trigger a redownload of this episode.

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#181 – What if you could hire someone to work a fulltime job? What would they do? Kate, Hao, and Jack send their employees out on missions in this episode, and we learn that Jack would essentially emancipate someone from the capitalist labor-for-wages system. Also: Sleeveless Club, Orange County Disease, and being partially ameliorated.

Plugs this week:

• Non-Amazon Kindle (Kate)
• 10-pack of USB-to-Lightning cables (Hao)
• Jeff (Jack)

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#180 – Lots of stuff to catch up on this week, including cat bonding, yoga, and Governor's Island. Then we talk about FIBER INTERNET, which Kate has but none of us do. We express our jealousy, and then we talk about what we would do if we had symmetric upload and download rates. We also play a brand new game: What Things are Actually Two Things? Also, what's the second best coffee country?

Plugs this week:

• Townscaper (Kate)
• Bike phone mount, public housing (Hao)
• Marble runs, real-life racing (Jack)

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