175. This Movie Has Marky Mark In It

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Lords:
* Erica
* Jesse
Topics:
* There's a Spanish word which officially cannot be written because the grammar and orthography conflict about how it should spelled/pronounced.
* My personal relationship with Disco Elysium
* Clue II: Murder in Disguise
* All of the Words on a Bottle of Rolling Rock Beer in a Different Order
* https://expatriotact.blogspot.com/2006/10/poets-corner-demetri-martin.html
* This year's beast of a Mystery Hunt
* Shareable alarms
Microtopics:
* Texans with nothing to plug.
* The Army Corp of Engineers coming to your town and kicking ass.
* No, and no.
* Fuck em, just get a laptop.
* Fact checking the dinner table conversation with your laptop.
* An interaction deemed normal.
* The Spanish double-L sound.
* Finally finding a way that spelling in English is more sensible than spelling in Spanish.
* Desperately avoiding hearing French spoken incorrectly.
* A place that is less like the rest of Canada than any part of the United States is like the United States.
* A good relaxing podcast that leads to substantial academic progress.
* Stormdancer Zero.
* Secret of Monkey Island with additional D&D stat checks and communism.
* Continents not connected to tectonic plates but instead freely floating in the mist.
* When your stats talk to you.
* Equipping a philosophical idea in your thought cabinet.
* Where the resource extraction happens.
* An alcoholic amnesiac video game protagonist.
* Finding the richest person in town to explain to you how the world works.
* Recreating all your characters from the ground up to be optimized for the game engine.
* Cheating past the final boss in Baldur's Gate because the alternative is starting from scratch with a viable build.
* Revising your thinking about the Gros Michel banana.
* Campy goofballs doing campy goofball shit except it's not Tim Curry this time.
* The guy whose name Jim can't remember who played Chuck on Better Call Saul.
* The VCR board game phenomenon.
* Scenes sort of adding up into a narrative if you squint.
* Seeing John Lithgow when nobody else sees him.
* How to get Michael Land to talk to you at CES.
* Out-of-work FMV actors.
* Specializing in loving horrible FMV games.
* The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
* DVD games vs. VCR games.
* A DVD arriving too late to save a drowning VCR game industry.
* The pride of seeing your topic grow up and take its place in the world.
* Panache, aplomb, and savoir-faire.
* Rolling, glass tanks of beverages that rocked that lined mountain.
* Women as the exception to implied maleness.
* A folk pop album featuring a disgraced CDC employee.
* 50 Cent rapping about going to prison for insider trading.
* The Topic Lords Guarantee.
* A series of interconnected puzzles that you solve as a team.
* Flavor text explaining why it's fun to solve this math problem.
* A beautiful puzzle hunt that is way too long.
* Assuming that being good at solving puzzles is the same skill as constructing puzzles.
* Waiting all year for a chocolate box that ends up being a marathon through Death Valley.
* How to test a 100-person puzzle hunt.
* Admonishing astronomers to "get good."
* Puzzles that are like tiny little gifts that open up and dance in front of you.
* A chip that controls a single light point on the wall.
* Doing something for free vs. doing it for a pittance.
* Losing your wedding ring but also your wedding ring screams once a day.
* Your screaming wedding ring following you from house to house.
* One o’clock: Time for Pants.
* Remembering that it's time for pants no matter what time zone you're in.
* The Playstation Vita's pants alarm.
* Playing a competitive minigame to see who can wake up fastest.
* Earning achievements for getting out of bed.
* The app that is the opposite of sex.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Erica
Jesse

Topics:

There's a Spanish word which officially cannot be written because the grammar and orthography conflict about how it should spelled/pronounced.
My personal relationship with Disco Elysium
Clue II: Murder in Disguise
All of the Words on a Bottle of Rolling Rock Beer in a Different Order

https://expatriotact.blogspot.com/2006/10/poets-corner-demetri-martin.html

This year's beast of a Mystery Hunt
Shareable alarms

Microtopics:

Texans with nothing to plug.
The Army Corp of Engineers coming to your town and kicking ass.
No, and no.
Fuck em, just get a laptop.
Fact checking the dinner table conversation with your laptop.
An interaction deemed normal.
The Spanish double-L sound.
Finally finding a way that spelling in English is more sensible than spelling in Spanish.
Desperately avoiding hearing French spoken incorrectly.
A place that is less like the rest of Canada than any part of the United States is like the United States.
A good relaxing podcast that leads to substantial academic progress.
Stormdancer Zero.
Secret of Monkey Island with additional D&D stat checks and communism.
Continents not connected to tectonic plates but instead freely floating in the mist.
When your stats talk to you.
Equipping a philosophical idea in your thought cabinet.
Where the resource extraction happens.
An alcoholic amnesiac video game protagonist.
Finding the richest person in town to explain to you how the world works.
Recreating all your characters from the ground up to be optimized for the game engine.
Cheating past the final boss in Baldur's Gate because the alternative is starting from scratch with a viable build.
Revising your thinking about the Gros Michel banana.
Campy goofballs doing campy goofball shit except it's not Tim Curry this time.
The guy whose name Jim can't remember who played Chuck on Better Call Saul.
The VCR board game phenomenon.
Scenes sort of adding up into a narrative if you squint.
Seeing John Lithgow when nobody else sees him.
How to get Michael Land to talk to you at CES.
Out-of-work FMV actors.
Specializing in loving horrible FMV games.
The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
DVD games vs. VCR games.
A DVD arriving too late to save a drowning VCR game industry.
The pride of seeing your topic grow up and take its place in the world.
Panache, aplomb, and savoir-faire.
Rolling, glass tanks of beverages that rocked that lined mountain.
Women as the exception to implied maleness.
A folk pop album featuring a disgraced CDC employee.
50 Cent rapping about going to prison for insider trading.
The Topic Lords Guarantee.
A series of interconnected puzzles that you solve as a team.
Flavor text explaining why it's fun to solve this math problem.
A beautiful puzzle hunt that is way too long.
Assuming that being good at solving puzzles is the same skill as constructing puzzles.
Waiting all year for a chocolate box that ends up being a marathon through Death Valley.
How to test a 100-person puzzle hunt.
Admonishing astronomers to "get good."
Puzzles that are like tiny little gifts that open up and dance in front of you.
A chip that controls a single light point on the wall.
Doing something for free vs. doing it for a pittance.
Losing your wedding ring but also your wedding ring screams once a day.
Your screaming wedding ring following you from house to house.
One o’clock: Time for Pants.
Remembering that it's time for pants no matter what time zone you're in.
The Playstation Vita's pants alarm.
Playing a competitive minigame to see who can wake up fastest.
Earning achievements for getting out of bed.
The app that is the opposite of sex.

Support Topic Lords