"The What Principle?"
Giving Up
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 in favor of a robust lore update. Consumption: Alex: Youngmi: JdB: Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or .
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"Weirdly ok"
Giving Up
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. Consumption: Youngmi: JdB: and Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or .
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Restaurant Bodies As Objects
Giving Up
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 touch—workers' bodies. Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or . Consumption: Youngmi: Alex: JdB: and
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Ecosystem Management
Giving Up
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 via our , email them to or . Consumption: Alex: JdB: Youngmi:
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Let It Rip
Giving Up
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 a voice note via our , email them to or . Consumption: Alex: JdB: Youngmi:
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Knitter's Chest
Giving Up
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 suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or . Consumption: Alex: JdB: Youngmi:
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Straight Meh
Giving Up
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 affected restaurants, particularly in the context of Youngmi starting a . No episode next week. But as always, please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or . Consumption: Alex: JdB: Gummi Bears & Chocolate Chips (and ) Youngmi:
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The Golden Age of Restaurants
Giving Up
This week's top emotion segment features a harrowing tale of an almost-sucessful phishing attempt before the crew discusses of two restaurant-centric memoirs. Then they tackle the topic of patrons stealing items from restaurants. Don't do it! Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or . Consumption: Alex - JdB - Youngmi - Din Tai Fung (derogatory)
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Breasting Boobily
Giving Up
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. The advice question has the crew tackling the nuanced etiquite for bringing children to "nice" restaurants. Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or . Consumption: JdB - Youngmi - Alex - [censored]
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We Heart Flukeman
Giving Up
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 is actually BS. Please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our , email them to or . Consuming: Alex - JdB - Youngmi -
info_outlineWe'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 affected restaurants, particularly in the context of Youngmi starting a TikTok account for Mission Chinese Food.
No episode next week. But as always, please send us your advice questions! And topic suggestions! Send us a voice note via our IG profile, email them to [email protected] or send anonymously.
Consumption:
Alex: White Lotus
JdB: Gummi Bears & Chocolate Chips (and the Alien films)
Youngmi: Care and Feeding