Dec 30, 2017

EPISODE 43 tells the rise and downfall of A.V. Club (and its sister website The Dissolve) as shakily narrated by Hao. SOME people are saying that this is Hao's Terrible Things #1 but Hao feels that's too close to our original segment's title.  He got Roger Ebert's death year wrong but mostly everything else is write not...

Dec 20, 2017

EPISODE 42 of Downers is all about winter holiday traditions! What if you picked up a snow globe and you were inside it? When did you figure out Santa Claus was a capitalist myth? How much risk of your house burning down are you willing to accept? What if we just threw a bunch of poems into a trash can? Pull up to the...

Dec 13, 2017

EPISODE 41 is a real corker and it's about The Sims video game franchise. We promised we would talk about it and now here it is. Expansion packs! Aspirations, needs! Grinding your career for the career object! Hot Date! The Sims 1 vs. The Sims 4! Hao mis-remembering how why Will Wright made The Sims (his house was in a...

Dec 6, 2017

EPISODE 40 // We pick a terrible thing and it's cyberterrorism! Kate reveals to listeners her major in college! We do a follow-up on something we said previously! This truly is a mustn't-miss episode.

Plugs this week: "Atlanta" (Jack), the Library of America! (Hao), and Patagonia (Kate).

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