Jan 30, 2019

• 00:00 -- brief explanation that this is based on downers episode 99, no more stuff
• minute 1: debut new downers theme song; 17s long, play it a few times, play it at different speeds
• minute 3: nonsensical banter; nonsense time; tangents
• minute 4: rogue car on kate's mic, we'll discuss
• (nonsense time through minute...

Jan 23, 2019

EPISODE 99 is all about EPISODE 100, which comes out next week! This week we give you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how an episode comes together as we generate a minute-by-minute schedule for episode 100. This episode is a MUST LISTEN if you want to understand EPISODE ONE HUNDRED.

Plugs this week:

• SHERLOCK...

Jan 16, 2019

EPISODE 98 is structured around a thesis: Everybody likes blogging, but Jack has problems with it. What kinds of problems? You'll Have to Tune In to Find Out.

We talk about RSS readers and the act of reading a blog, the reason some websites that might be blogs just don't feel like blogs, and the blogs we recommend to...

Jan 9, 2019

EPISODE 97 is here and it's about RESOLUTIONS. We go over the resolutions we made on last year's podcast and, hey you know what?, we make some more. We talk meditation and dot journaling; we talk media consoles. We do a weird quick dive into Elizabeth Anderson's 1999 paper "What is the Point of Equality?"

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Jan 2, 2019

EPISODE 96 // If you live in a country and you listen to Downers, you’re probably wondering… why haven’t the hosts ever said hi to me??? We rectify that mistake in this episode! We have a list of 16 countries that listen to Downers and we’re going to say a special message to each one.

Also we discuss changing...