At long last, Giving Up returns for a fifth (!) season delivering the millennial-coded and restaurant-adjacient content you crave. To celebrate the premier, our crew ditches the usual episode format in favor of a robust lore update.

Consumption:

Alex: The Ministry of Time

Youngmi: Too Much

JdB: Unshrunk

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This is the way season four ends, not with a bang but with a "weirdly ok." Alex John and Youngmi discuss the emotions that are topping them this week before discussing the topic of memory.

Consumption:

Alex: Last of Us Finale

Youngmi: "Bad Influence"

JdB: Oreo Mega Stuff and Hostess Strawberry Cupcakes

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On this, the penultimate episode of season 4, the crew explores a listener-submitted question about an all-too common occurence in hospitality spaces: when customers feel entitled to comment on—and touch—workers' bodies.

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Consumption:

Youngmi: Boyfriend Forever

Alex: Waitress the Musical

JdB: Underworld and Robin Tran

In what is sure to be a therapeutic episode for many, Youngmi, Alex, and John discuss their restaurant pet peeves!

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Consumption:

Alex: Brown and Friends

JdB: Jurassic World Dominion

Youngmi: My Big Fat G--y Wedding

The aftershocks of Mic Noise Gate continue to reverberate as the crew tackles the very chill and uncontreversial topic of RELIGON.

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Consumption:

Alex: Parable of the Sower

JdB: Mickey 17

Youngmi: Stop Kiss

Giving Up returns for the second half of the fourth season with a new timeslot: Friday! This week's topic is ANGER.

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Consumption:

Alex: Katy Perry going to space

JdB: The Last of Us Season 2

Youngmi: Dream Scenario

We've given up! (For a week.) Welcome to the mid-season finale of Giving Up, where the crew takles such topics as John's iced tea-induced insomnia and the way that the changing media landscape has affected restaurants, particularly in the context of Youngmi starting a TikTok account for Mission Chinese Food.

No episode next week. But as always, please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our IG profile, email them to [email protected] or send anonymously.

Consumption:

Alex: White Lotus

JdB: Gummi Bears & Chocolate Chips (and the Alien films)

Youngmi: Care and Feeding

This week's top emotion segment features a harrowing tale of an almost-sucessful phishing attempt before the crew discusses the recent book review of two restaurant-centric memoirs.

Then they tackle the topic of patrons stealing items from restaurants. Don't do it!

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Consumption:

Alex - Adolescence

JdB - Seinfeld

Youngmi - Din Tai Fung (derogatory)

With all the pieces in place, episode three finally debuts the show's new format in full.

Starting with a mildly homoerotic Top Emotion segement before getting into the episode's main topic: DRUGS.

The advice question has the crew tackling the nuanced etiquite for bringing children to "nice" restaurants.

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Consumption:

JdB - The Terminator Sequels

Youngmi - Trader Joseon

Alex - [censored]

Like the inexorable march of time, season 4 marches on as the crew talks about ~personal branding~ in the age of social media before tackling this epsiode's main topic: skin care, and how a lot of it is actually BS.

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Consuming:

Alex - The X-Files

JdB - Survivor Season 48

Youngmi - Mint Tea