Downers

About Downers

DOWNERS: the definitive podcast about sadness, hosted by Jack, Kate, and Hao. Downers is a weekly podcast with an episode released every Wednesday and sometimes Thursday and sometimes, sigh, even Friday if work is really busy. Follow us on Twitter @downersradio. You can find archives of all our episodes online at http://downersradio.libsyn.com/. Stay safe out there.

Publisher

Jack, Kate, and Hao

Category

arts · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Mar 2017

Latest episode

8 Sept 2021

Latest episodes

229 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Sept 2021

   Kate's Big Quarantine!

   #229 – Our third to the last episode! In this installment of Downers, we answer listeners' emails and hear about Kate's big vacation! Kate's in quarantine, in Hong Kong, and has much to report about it. Also, along the way, we learn all about Jack's sofa grandfather (#sofagrandfather). Finally a look back: Jack's Composting Bin. For people who are just listening to Downers for the first time, Downers is a podcast about sadness and sometimes Korean food! (Editor's note: sorry this came out so late. OATS was sunsetting.) Plugs this week: (Hao) (Jack) (Kate) downersradio@gmail.com • /r/downersradio • @downersradio on instagram and twitter (https://twitter.com/downersradio) • https://hrf.org

2. 

   8 Aug 2021

   Packing Up and Moving Out

   #228 – As Kate and Hao pack up parts of, or all of, their lives in preparation for the next month of their lives, we check in with them to see how they pack and what they pack. Along the way, they hit on big-issue topics like wet clothes and ransom. As a brief aside, many of you who read the episode descriptions over these past four years may think that they are written by one of the hosts; but, in fact, they are written by me, Loam Quigley. I haven't always written podcast episode descriptions—no, I started my life as a street food vendor, selling seasoned slices of agave on the streets of Hyderabad. When dial-up internet became commonplace, I joined an internet forum of likeminded people, who were interested in writing pithy, concise descriptions of audio files. We didn't know it yet, but we were all honing our skills for the rise of podcasting, which would eventually take over our lives and rend our friendships apart. With Downers coming to an end, I'm not sure where the winds will take me next. The Summer Olympics is ending in Tokyo this week. Most athletes will go home, but some, a select few, will fall in love with the city and stay behind to forge new lives and loves. That community of expats will need well-traveled guides to aid them: someone to clean the house, someone to make spiced agave nectar. Someone to describe their podcast episodes. In the meantime, I bid you farewell, dear reader. I have trained a blockchain-based artificial intelligence agent on all 228 of my episode descriptions, and it will be taking over my duties. I hope we will meet again on some other RSS feed some other day. It's been a pleasure to serve you. My name is Loam Quigley, and I love Wednesdays and midnights. Plugs this week: Ransomware (Hao) Aloha Collections' splash-proof travel bags (Kate) downersradio@gmail.com • /r/downersradio • @downersradio on instagram and twitter (https://twitter.com/downersradio) • https://hrf.org

3. 

   14 Jul 2021

   UFOs are Real, and It is What It is

   #227 – With the U.S. government wholeheartedly endorsing the concept of unidentified flying objects, we thought it would be GREAT (content-wise) to, once again, turn our attention to these mysterious objects in the sky. Are they visitors from a distant civilization, and why haven't we tried shooting a missile at them? Then, in the second half, we talk about thought-terminating clichés (Lies of the devil, Now is not the time) and how they might lead to sudden divorce. Also, at the end, a Special Announcement about the future of Downers. Plugs this week: Spider window (Hao) Journey to the Microcosmos (Jack) F1 racecar driving (Kate) downersradio@gmail.com • /r/downersradio • @downersradio on instagram and twitter (https://twitter.com/downersradio) • https://hrf.org

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

9 ratings