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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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Oct 31, 2018

EPISODE 87 // Seamless: we’ve all used it (maybe). But what’s it like in Hong Kong? And what are other things that we have here like in Hong Kong? And what’s all this kerfuffle about Goober Eats I mean Uber Eats? All this, and lumber, on this episode of Downers. Also Jack’s out so we do a quick segment called...


Oct 24, 2018

EPISODE 86 // We devote the hour to the sexual and brutal nature of Nature. We talk violence! We talk sex in advertising! We talk about Kate's brand new apartment! Also we have a very good follow-up on the whole deal with Hong Kong. All that... and more!

 

Plugs this week:

  • Peacoats (Hao)
  • Painting a wall (Kate)
  • tcpdump...


Oct 17, 2018

EpIsODe 85 // HaS LaTEncY proBleMs ahem has latency problems. We discuss people we would send to meet the president! We nominate subcultures to take over America! In many ways our podcast is reflective of the country it came out of – America. Also we struggle with a laggy internet connection!

 

Plugs this week:

  • Tote...


Oct 10, 2018

EPISODE 84 // With minimum wage back in the news both overseas and at home, we devote the hour to minimum wage! What other minimum wages should we be allotted? Also: Hong Kong update! Follow-Ups! And we play a brand new game: What are Gray Lips?

 

Plugs this week:

  • Short fiction (Hao)
  • Pulling teeth (Jack)
  • Take Taxi...


Oct 3, 2018

EPISODE 83 // Kate's in Hong Kong, and Jack the Ministry has questions! Hao forgot about the record and couldn't make it. :( We find about the experience of reading U.S. news on a 12-hour offset, how aggressively available Apple Pay is, and Sunday Scaries.

 

Plugs this week:

  • Visiting Hong Kong (Kate)
  • THE INTERNATIONAL,...