Sep 30, 2020

#186 – If you sell glass bottles, you should be forced to take them back, just like in the old days. This, and other topics, come under the microscope that is this podcast, Downers. Hao's calling in from Vermont, Kate's recording from an active construction site, and we. are. pulling through. My apartment smells like...

Sep 23, 2020

#185 – Jack's on wuwei this week, which means he's consumed no content for the entire week. What's he been up to instead?? We also take a trip through our Gmail inbox, because Hao responded to every email we've ever gotten. Then: it was Daughters Day this week, so: would you pay $10000 to set the gender of your...

Sep 16, 2020

#184 – Hot on the heels of our enormously successful Liquids Draft episode, we are proud to present to you our SOLIDS DRAFT. What team of solids will everybody form? What types of currency are allowed, and what is currency anyway? We also discuss boiled wings, leaf miners, zucchini flowers, squash blossoms, goat...

Sep 9, 2020

#183 – Jobs: some of them are good, some of them are evil, and some of them shouldn't exist. It's onto the third category that we aim our sights in this episode of Downers, as we devote a special BOOK CLUB to anthropologist David Graeber's critique of useless societal work. What is it about us that leads us to create...

Sep 2, 2020

#182 – (Not 183) – Plants! They're all around us, forming the flora to our fauna. We take a good, long, hard look at our amateur attempts at gardening, and discuss common household remedies to the problems of aphids, horny caterpillars, spider mites, and leaf miners. Also, Kate's gross air-conditioner cleaning...