62. A Real Egg Hobbyist

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Lords:
* Mark plugs Ravening Iron
* Shirley plugs a silicone reusable popcorn maker
Topics:
* The trend of positive media (Great British Baking Show, etc.)
* What is your favorite magic paradigm? Related: Space Wizards: What happened??
* Transitioning from being able to cook a dish to being able to cook a meal
* Larry asks "Yearbooks. Do you still have them? Have you ever actually used one? Is it full of signatures and stuff like that?"
* "Dude, maybe Jim can give us parenting advice" is what I just said out loud, what do you think of that, Jim?
Microtopics:
* Whether Ravening Iron slaps.
* The life-changing silicone popcorn maker.
* A cup that says "tea" on it that's filled with bourbon.
* Dirty Harry except he's shooting the mishandling of evidence in the face.
* Dirty Harry except instead of shooting perps in the face he takes a bath.
* Watching Joker (2019) and thinking "finally, the IPs of my youth are real art now"
* A slow motion replay of a lady forgetting to put ice cream back in the fridge.
* Choosing the biggest burliest man you can find who is moved to tears at the drop of a hat to judge your reality show.
* Being moved to tears because a jug is unexpectedly light.
* A manual of non-toxic masculinity.
* Men Feeling Feelings.
* Collecting magic paradigms.
* Staying up all night studying your book of magic and then the next day you can cast one (1) fireball.
* Studying magic for years and then having spells in your head that you never cast.
* All the spells in a wizard's head going off at once when the wizard dies, like that fireworks show in San Diego.
* Accidentally learning the spell that will unmake reality.
* Learning the magic words and swizzling a wand.
* Teaching children that magic is an inherent ability that you either have or don't have.
* Why there are so few space wizards.
* Waking up in the middle of a night with a great story idea and in the morning you realize it's Star Wars.
* Doctor Who explaining the science behind space vampires.
* What if Marty McFly's photo of his brother was an actual person and his body parts started to vanish.
* Battle mages carrying around notepads and calligraphy pens and battling by writing notes at each other.
* Magical inscriptions all over your body rendering you invulnerable to physical harm everywhere except your face because your retail job doesn't allow face tattoos.
* Recognizing Rise of the Skywalker as bad but still basically enjoying it because you just don't care that much any more.
* The plot of a long running movie franchise suddenly hinging on the protagonist needing to find a bathroom when they've never been depicted as pooping even once.
* Growing out of hating art.
* Loving this topic.
* Breakfast being easier to cook than other meals because it's okay to just make one dish and call it breakfast.
* Breakfast being easier to cook than other meals because it uses a smaller set of potential ingredients.
* Learning to look at a set of available ingredients and plan a meal out of them.
* Learning how to cook to learn about process and flexibility.
* Following a recipe but ultimately having to make the decision yourself that the food you're making is ready to be taken off the heat and served.
* Skimming a recipe to get the gist and then just being able to make the thing because you know how food works.
* The canonical flavor pairings of breakfast.
* Figuring out your flavor profile and then your main protein and working outwards to the sides.
* Learning to make scrambled eggs and realizing now you can just have scrambled eggs any time.
* A Real Egg Hobbyist
* Leaving behind audio logs for future civilizations.
* A paint pigment made out of mummies, and more generally how every pigment is made from some different weird thing.
* Every ingredient in your kitchen coming from a different weird and often horrifying animal or plant process.
* Humans possibly developing larger brains because we invented cooking.
* Raw food enthusiasts just enjoying digesting harder than the rest of us.
* Measuring the calories in a food by making the food explode.
* The millennia-long development of corn as a staple crop.
* Posing with a crazy hat because your yearbook editors didn't have enough photos of Crazy Hat Day.
* Falsifying the historical record.
* Seeing a yearbook on a friend's bookshelf and offering to sign it.
* Paying extra to get your high school yearbook pre-signed.
* Seeing your parent's yearbook and realizing for the first time that they had hobbies once.
* A nice kid who is always doing their best.
* Seeing your high school teacher in street clothes at the grocery store and realizing that he is just a few years older than you.
* How a task seems impossible until you have a strong enough incentive to do it.
* The switch that flips in your brain once you have a kid where it becomes unthinkable to not have a kid or want to have a kid.
* Childbirth lawyers.
* Having an extra plug.

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

Lords:

Mark plugs Ravening Iron
Shirley plugs a silicone reusable popcorn maker

Topics:

The trend of positive media (Great British Baking Show, etc.)
What is your favorite magic paradigm? Related: Space Wizards: What happened??
Transitioning from being able to cook a dish to being able to cook a meal
Larry asks "Yearbooks. Do you still have them? Have you ever actually used one? Is it full of signatures and stuff like that?"
"Dude, maybe Jim can give us parenting advice" is what I just said out loud, what do you think of that, Jim?

Microtopics:

Whether Ravening Iron slaps.
The life-changing silicone popcorn maker.
A cup that says "tea" on it that's filled with bourbon.
Dirty Harry except he's shooting the mishandling of evidence in the face.
Dirty Harry except instead of shooting perps in the face he takes a bath.
Watching Joker (2019) and thinking "finally, the IPs of my youth are real art now"
A slow motion replay of a lady forgetting to put ice cream back in the fridge.
Choosing the biggest burliest man you can find who is moved to tears at the drop of a hat to judge your reality show.
Being moved to tears because a jug is unexpectedly light.
A manual of non-toxic masculinity.
Men Feeling Feelings.
Collecting magic paradigms.
Staying up all night studying your book of magic and then the next day you can cast one (1) fireball.
Studying magic for years and then having spells in your head that you never cast.
All the spells in a wizard's head going off at once when the wizard dies, like that fireworks show in San Diego.
Accidentally learning the spell that will unmake reality.
Learning the magic words and swizzling a wand.
Teaching children that magic is an inherent ability that you either have or don't have.
Why there are so few space wizards.
Waking up in the middle of a night with a great story idea and in the morning you realize it's Star Wars.
Doctor Who explaining the science behind space vampires.
What if Marty McFly's photo of his brother was an actual person and his body parts started to vanish.
Battle mages carrying around notepads and calligraphy pens and battling by writing notes at each other.
Magical inscriptions all over your body rendering you invulnerable to physical harm everywhere except your face because your retail job doesn't allow face tattoos.
Recognizing Rise of the Skywalker as bad but still basically enjoying it because you just don't care that much any more.
The plot of a long running movie franchise suddenly hinging on the protagonist needing to find a bathroom when they've never been depicted as pooping even once.
Growing out of hating art.
Loving this topic.
Breakfast being easier to cook than other meals because it's okay to just make one dish and call it breakfast.
Breakfast being easier to cook than other meals because it uses a smaller set of potential ingredients.
Learning to look at a set of available ingredients and plan a meal out of them.
Learning how to cook to learn about process and flexibility.
Following a recipe but ultimately having to make the decision yourself that the food you're making is ready to be taken off the heat and served.
Skimming a recipe to get the gist and then just being able to make the thing because you know how food works.
The canonical flavor pairings of breakfast.
Figuring out your flavor profile and then your main protein and working outwards to the sides.
Learning to make scrambled eggs and realizing now you can just have scrambled eggs any time.
A Real Egg Hobbyist
Leaving behind audio logs for future civilizations.
A paint pigment made out of mummies, and more generally how every pigment is made from some different weird thing.
Every ingredient in your kitchen coming from a different weird and often horrifying animal or plant process.
Humans possibly developing larger brains because we invented cooking.
Raw food enthusiasts just enjoying digesting harder than the rest of us.
Measuring the calories in a food by making the food explode.
The millennia-long development of corn as a staple crop.
Posing with a crazy hat because your yearbook editors didn't have enough photos of Crazy Hat Day.
Falsifying the historical record.
Seeing a yearbook on a friend's bookshelf and offering to sign it.
Paying extra to get your high school yearbook pre-signed.
Seeing your parent's yearbook and realizing for the first time that they had hobbies once.
A nice kid who is always doing their best.
Seeing your high school teacher in street clothes at the grocery store and realizing that he is just a few years older than you.
How a task seems impossible until you have a strong enough incentive to do it.
The switch that flips in your brain once you have a kid where it becomes unthinkable to not have a kid or want to have a kid.
Childbirth lawyers.
Having an extra plug.

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