Giving Up

Welcome to Giving Up Season Two! We arbitrarily took a break for a few weeks so we could come back with a slew of of innovations—including a listener advice section! Did you miss us?

Our Media:

Youngmi: The Roast of Tom Brady

Alex: Physical 100 and Mary and George

John: The Idea of You

On this, the final episode of Season 1, the crew explores the joys of clinging to petty grievances while the Thunderdome yields a deep dive into Alex's past.

What We're Watching:

John: Civil War

Alex: It

Youngmi: Rango

In this episode we yearn for a new name for our generation besides "millenial" and then try to tackle a tricky trademark issue.

Yep, we finally talked about Barbie.

What We're Looking At:

John/Alex: 3 Body Problem

Youngmi: It's Perfectly Normal

The crew discusses the relative merits of negativity. The thunderdome yields an exploration of psychological inheritances.

What We're Looking At:

• John: The Hidden Spring
• Youngmi: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Alex: Lost Patients

The crew discusses the moral implications of continuing to post to twitter and the Thunderdome orders a ham and cheese on a roll.

The crew discusses if millenials were ever cool while also exploring the pros and cons of office life and wether or not American Psycho needs a girlboss reboot.

In a groundbreaking episode, Alex and John work though a mad-adjacent conversation about the core goal of the podcast and the balance between authenticity of topics and catering to an audience. The Thunderdome yields a discussion of how individuals navigate their sense of self within larger identity structures.

Youngmi triumphantly returns to talk about her cruise as it relates to the horrors of late-stage capitalism and the cheapness of commerical luxury. The crew also talk about dating as a teenager and wether or not it's normal to think that your loved ones are dead when you don't know where they are.

In a first-and-most-likely-last episode of its kind, John and Alex record a Youngmi-free episode where they talk about social media platforms they never got into, Survivor, and the deeply disturbing novel Tender Is the Flesh.