Giving Up
John deBary, Youngmi Mayer, Alex Pemoulié
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S5E1 "The What Principle?"
At long last, Giving Up returns for a fifth (!) season delivering the millennial-coded and restaurant-adjacient content you crave. To celebrate the premier, our crew ditches the usual episode format…
S4E10 "Weirdly ok"
This is the way season four ends, not with a bang but with a "weirdly ok." Alex John and Youngmi discuss the emotions that are topping them this week before discussing the topic of memory.…
S4E9 Restaurant Bodies As Objects
On this, the penultimate episode of season 4, the crew explores a listener-submitted question about an all-too common occurence in hospitality spaces: when customers feel entitled to comment on—and…
S4E8 Ecosystem Management
In what is sure to be a therapeutic episode for many, Youngmi, Alex, and John discuss their restaurant pet peeves! Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note…
S4E7 Let It Rip
The aftershocks of Mic Noise Gate continue to reverberate as the crew tackles the very chill and uncontreversial topic of RELIGON. Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us…
S4E6 Knitter's Chest
Giving Up returns for the second half of the fourth season with a new timeslot: Friday! This week's topic is ANGER. And speaking of anger, please send us your advice questions! And topic…
S4E5 Straight Meh
We've given up! (For a week.) Welcome to the mid-season finale of Giving Up, where the crew takles such topics as John's iced tea-induced insomnia and the way that the changing media landscape has…
S4E4 The Golden Age of Restaurants
This week's top emotion segment features a harrowing tale of an almost-sucessful phishing attempt before the crew discusses the recent book review of two restaurant-centric memoirs. Then they…
S4E3 Breasting Boobily
With all the pieces in place, episode three finally debuts the show's new format in full. Starting with a mildly homoerotic Top Emotion segement before getting into the episode's main topic: DRUGS. …
S4E2 We Heart Flukeman
Like the inexorable march of time, season 4 marches on as the crew talks about ~personal branding~ in the age of social media before tackling this epsiode's main topic: skin care, and how a lot of it…
S4E1 "What's Severance?"
We're baa~ack! At long last, the crew has dusted off their mics and re-learned how to make podcasts. Season 4 starts with a somewhat free-from episode where a new format for the season takes place…
S3E10 Giving Up Returns! ...For The Finale
After taking a few weeks off, the crew triumphantly returns to record the final episode of season 3. Starting off with a robust discussion of everyone's current gripes before adressing an advice…
S3E9 We're Still Alive
The first post-election episode discusses the aftermath of the most recent election before going into a more on-topic restaurant subject. Media: JdB - The Boyfriend Alex - Extremely American…
S3E8 Tis the (Election) Season
The crew comiserates about the upcoming election and Alex's recovery from Covid before diving into the Simu Liu Boba Tea controversy. The advice section discusses a common fear among the dining…
S3E7 Confessions of a Sink Vomiter
The tables have turned! This episode features confessions from John, Youngmi, and Alex about the times they were the embarrasing restaurant guests. Media: JdB - Ariana Grande's SNL Episode…
S3E6 We Can Get Angry About Cake
The usual segments are largely abandoned in favor of a deep dive of the recent TikTok-based cake controversy where an amateur cake maker accused an NYC restaurant of pilfering uneaten cake. Media:…
S3E5 Silent Generation Pause
The crew kicks off by trying to figure out who exactly the "Silent Generation" is that segues into a discussion of World War 2. The Thunderdome yields a discussion of Lana Del Rey's new husband and…
S3E4 Customization Culture
This episode starts with an exploration of self image and then John talks about how he's sad and mad about a tree. The Thunderdome make its triumphant return and features a discussion of Priya…
S3E3 Just Lie
The crew starts out talking about the humiliations of job interviews and then about how people talk about punctuality online. The Thunderdome is waived (gasp) in order to give proper time to an…
S3E2 The Beach That Makes You Old
The crew somewhat flinches on their commitment to talking more about restaurants by spending the episode discussing aging, perimenipaus and ambivalently critiquing astrology. However, and advice…
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Giving Up has published 52 episodes since October 2023, covering topics in Comedy, Society & Culture.
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