Jul 31, 2019
#126 – Just Jack and Kate this week, on a special episode of Downers. Whether it's depression, anxiety, or a general funk, we all get experience emotional valleys (or maybe craters) from time to time. We devote the hour to the actual topic of SADNESS on our sadness podcast. All that, and more, on Downers!
(Hao's...
Jul 24, 2019
#125 — Hello from the road! As I type, the trees of Los Angeles fly past me. We are plunging our way to the airport, and we miss the beautiful house we stayed at. Parting is bittersweet, as ever. This week, on the show, we discuss late-late capitalism AND the Japanese practice of public radio calisthenics....
Jul 17, 2019
#124 – Cat allergies? A party game called FORTUNATELY, UNFORTUNATELY?? What a content-packed episode! This episode was recorded during the Manhattan power outage of 2019, which gives it a spooky, dystopic tone.
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Jul 10, 2019
#123 – Microdosing psychedelic drugs is all the rage, maybe, these days, but what OTHER things should we be microdosing? Dust, perhaps?? We devote the hour to weighing in on this important topic!
Also, we do a new segment called OVERHEARD IN THE CITY
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Jul 3, 2019
#122 – Kate and Hao pore over /r/relationships, answering thorny questions such as "What do I do if my mom won't let me go outside?" and "Is my boyfriend a drug dealer?" There is something fundamentally human about the stories on /r/relationships, which often start as one mistake or misunderstanding that then...