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DOWNERS: the definitive podcast about sadness and sometimes Korean food, hosted by Jack, Kate, and Hao. It's released every Wednesday and sometimes Thursday and sometimes, sigh, even Friday if work is really busy.

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Feb 28, 2018

EPISODE 52 marks the one-year anniversary of our podcast! Our intros have evolved and so has the audio quality; it's all been possible thanks to our lovely listeners. We wanted to use the 52-episode mark to do a MIXED BAG on birthdays, and as always the episode quickly devolves into a surreal mix of etiquette...


Feb 21, 2018

Welcome back to the Marx Podcast, where we're just doing it one step at a time. THIS WEEK we pick a Terrible Thing: mental illness! And we also talk about one thing that's causing mental illness, which is techno-determinism. Hao's sorry about his terrible mic technique in this episode -- he was trying to make eye...


Feb 14, 2018

EPISODE 50 IS ABOUT ANARCHY

TYPES OF ANARCHY

ANARCHY AS ILLUSTRATED IN URSULA LE GUIN's THE DISPOSSESSED

IN HONOR OF ANARCHY THIS EPISODE DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN STRIPPED DOWN TO ITS BARE MINIMUM

and not because its author is in a hurry to go to work

  • Plugs this week: Eccentric Ape in Julian, CA (Jack), the 2018 Winter...


Feb 7, 2018

Episode #49 is dedicated to the practice of YOGA and MEDITATION and, possibly, other so-called "Eastern practices." All three of us are dabblers! But we've never talked for a whole hour about it. It's the first in a possibly infinite series we call MIXED BAGS. When something's good... AND bad. We're courageous to even...


Feb 1, 2018

EPISODE 48 is one day late but that's OK because it's chock full of good content, that most elusive all content. In this special episode Kate reports in from our San Diego West Coast Division. We pick Terrible Thing #11 and it's The Widening Political Divide in America. We talk empathy! We talk Zuckerberg! We talk mass...