Dec 30, 2020
#199 – Jack's got a long list of parrots, and we're going to tell you the leadership qualities of each one. That's right: it's another hard-hitting episode of Downers, the only podcast about parrots and leadership qualities. We also dive into our FUNKY NEW WEARABLES that we got for Christmas. All this, and more; and,...
Dec 23, 2020
#198 – Well, the gifting season is upon us, or it was when we recorded this anyway. In this episode, we explore gifts you could be giving to your loves, or common archetypes from monomyth, this winter season. It's never too late to give a gift, or a bullet, to someone! That's the Downers motto.
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Dec 16, 2020
#197 – Downers is expanding! We're launching a slate of 10,000
other podcasts, and this episode will be the upfronts/previews for
all the content in our pipeline. Hear clips from your
soon-to-be-favorite shows like The United Nations and Sad Soups.
It's really good.
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Dec 9, 2020
#196 – Our friend Doug goes to many concerts, which is something that you can't quite do during COVID. Let's check in with him and see how he's feeling! In many way, Downers is an investigative journalism podcast, except our focus is emotions. Also on the docket: happy lamps, dinner concerts, someone's husband drank a...
Dec 2, 2020
#195 – This week, we talk about Benjamin Mako Hill's (possibly now a Dr. Benjamin Mako Hill's??) paper "Almost Wikipedia: Eight Early Encyclopedia Projects and the Mechanisms of Collective Action," which essays to explain why Wikipedia succeeded where other, similar projects did not. We also talk about using...