Topic Lords
318 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsEvery week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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195. Persian Castle Day At The Climbing Gym
July 17, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBLords: * Alexicographic * Kev Topics: * Sports are good actually? Apparently? * Haunted articles of clothing * Burrito R&D * Casey at the Bat * https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ernest-lawrence-thayer/casey-at-the-bat/ * Becoming a vtuber after losing a bet * Getting a guided tour of a TV show Microtopics: * Streaming daily. * The Tears of the Kingdom thread in the Topic Lords discord. * A rigid self-conception as someone who does not like sports. * Roller derby. * Whether skateboarding is a...
194. How Good It Was, To Have A Toe
July 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBLords: * Danny * Danny Topics: * Most Song Lyrics are redundant * Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong * It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg * Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes * Oh yes * Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control * ZZT has achievements now Microtopics: * Which Danny should go first....
193. Pull Down Your Murphy Toilet
July 03, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBLords: * Elena * Quil Topics: * Human Pudding, and why popular media can't depict bad art, only bad taste * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHmctamVEA * https://www.notinhalloffame.com/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 * I got a van! * Corporate art: From industrial musicals of the 50s-70s to this Staples logo unveiling * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWUhqoAGsfk * https://philolexian.blogspot.com/2006/11/kilmer-2005.html Microtopics: * A very good New York Times cross...
192. The Prime Number Shitting Bear
June 26, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBLords * CisHetKayfaber * Charlie Topics: * Umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work * Articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower (futurevision) * I'm not sure what archipelago.gg is but if I read this paragraph aloud maybe we can figure it out together * https://archipelago.gg/ * A copypasta from this page: * https://www.followchain.org/best-copypastas/#3 * Why is a skill le...
191. Carbonated Cream Of Mushroom Latte
June 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBLords: * Chris * Wacy Topics: * Crafting little guys * Negotiating how to play Zelda together * Cream of mushroom latte * ChatGPT wrote a poem about zelda * Climbing real rocks Microtopics: * The Marble Hornets/Slender Man oeuvre. * Copying and pasting a video. * Sharing a movie you liked with a friend over IM by copying and pasting the title. * The turnip in Breath of the Wild. * Attempting and failing to enjoy wood carving. * Stabbing the Korok until it is less fuzzy. * A Snapchat filter th...
190. The Linguistic Eggplant-Dick Collapse
June 12, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBLords: * Tyriq * Hallie Topics: * The world needs more clues for secrets nearby * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXow3d3-b0 * How kids on tv used to hate leftovers * Smartphone sales declined 11% in 2022 while sales of flip phones doubled * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken * What will emoji look like in 100 years? * I have invented a conspiracy regarding the shape of hand-held supermarket baskets Microtopics: * Lumps. * Lumpy Space Princess. * The best Space...
189. If You Don't Know Who Your Wario Is, You're The Wario
June 05, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBLords: * Alexander * Yaros Topics: * Somewhat Dim Mirror * Unique and weird self-bootstrapping computer language - Forth * I've been getting emails from an Online Casino Guide offering analysis of the relative popularity of characters from the Mario Bros. movie. How did they get my email, and how did they know that this is the kind of thing I want to gamble on? * The Kraken, by Alfred Tennyson * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheKraken(poem) * NES dev scene and new games still being releas...
188. An Extremely Gendered Sniper Rifle
May 29, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBLords: * Maxx * Erica Topics: * Zines and Jam Games; stuff that's understood to be breakable * https://itch.io/c/689872/indiepocalypse * Birding in the pandemic * Itinerant Filmmakers * http://www.meltonbarker.org/ * Meditation on Capitalism * I found the tweet that the image came from, but still don't know the author of the poem: https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1100852286585221122 Microtopics: * The Bugzooka * Booms and busts of little insect invasions. * A little vacuum cham...
187. The Second-Best Whale Playground In Emeryville
May 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBLords: * Cort * Stephan * https://lonelystarsoftware.itch.io/playdapon Topics: * USB-C cables that only work in one orientation * http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/04/usb-c-and-plague-of-grackles.html * Playgrounds seem to have gotten really good again in the last ten years * Bedtime guitar update * Where the Wild Things Are * https://genius.com/Maurice-sendak-where-the-wild-things-are-annotated * Classic hardware has become a kind of fantasy console * https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/...
186. ADHD Shame Graveyard Of Browser Tabs
May 15, 2023 07:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBLords: * Tim * Ben * https://linktr.ee/zerofiftyone Topics: * My Thursday Night * The daunting thought of: there is so much music that exists now - it's more than likely that your favorite song in the world is out there and you'll never find it in your lifetime. * I've been working on a small game in my spare time and I never want to ship it. I just want to have friends playtest forever. * Fine Feather * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c646...
185. 2000-Year-Old Head, Again??
May 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBLords: * Danny * Kim Topics: * Animorphs * My keyboard is registering double inputs again help me * Youtube channels that summarize movies like Cliff's Notes * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXD1jAZBdZ4u0K-GLYC77Q/videos * https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2799 * CatGPT * M3gan; technology horror movies * You don't get points for coins in Super Mario World! Microtopics * A video game man. * The Animorphs train. * Children committing war crimes and having to live with the conse...
184. Times New Orange
May 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBLords: * Alexicographic * https://twitter.com/alexicographic * https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames * Andrew * https://kittenm4ster.neocities.org/ Topics: * The 3-food problem: what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together? * Talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion * Moon Mode on your phone camera is probably just pasting a good picture of the moon over your bad one. * https://in.mashable.com/tech/3114/are-the-moon-shots-from-the-huawei-p30-pr...
183. The Radioactive Scone Problem
April 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBLords: * John * Quil Topics: * Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to play a Legend of Zelda game before every aspect of it is documented on the internet * RCA's implementation of color television is one of the most impressive engineering feats of the 20th century * The guy next to me on BART talked to me the entire ride home from GDC. He made me play the phone game he was addicted to and compared my performance to the coworker he was also making play the game. He got a call from his wife ...
182. Baby Baby Mario
April 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBLords: * Jenni * https://intfiction.org/t/lets-play-cragne-manor/56472 * Chris * https://trustory.fm/cool-time-dice-hour/ Topics: * All the stuff we did in the 90s that is horrifying to modern parents now, like sleepovers and latchkey kids * The movie for Jurassic Park 2 is somehow worse than the book and the book is very bad. * The VR episode of Nowhere Man * I fucked up my car by running over a mattress on purpose * https://vhsviscera.tumblr.com/post/705867030403973120 * There was a s...
181. My Own Personal Kennedy Assassination
April 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBLords: * Avery * Tyriq Topics: * Adam, Father of all humankind, was maybe a giant * Heathcliff is still going and it's weird * I've heard a million novelty metal covers but still nobody's done Truly Scrumptious / Doll on a Music Box from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * "The Phone Call" by James Tate Microtopics: * Withholding all your best URLs until the end of the episode. * Using lowercase Ls in place of Is and seeing if anybody notices. * Leaving capitalizations to the whims of chaos. (Your fing...
180. We Are All Stardust Poop
April 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBLords: * Ichiro * Adam Topics: * I learned how to animate by watching cartoons as a child (and I'm curious what else folks absorbed as a child that impacted the kind of adult they became) * I created a Totally Human Rapper that can read up on a game and cut a rap video. * Frog Fractions is banned from AGDQ * "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper * Tiny Mass Games small games cycle. Microtopics: * One of the episodes with a cold open. * Live from New York, it's. * Using ocean water as a mix...
179. Get Bad
March 27, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBLords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * Reading music badly * Minigame: guess the animal from bad old-timey descriptions * How to pronounce "MacPaint" * https://www.tumblr.com/destinationtoast/708530541060816896 * Airport teleportation Microtopics: * Games that you should not play if you get addicted to games. * Roguelikes that take a reasonable amount of time to play if you are bad at them. * We're Not That Bad!™ * The Sunnyvale Singers. * Producing music with a piano. * Two guards, one who can't ...
178. The Lathe Of Kojima
March 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBLords: * CisHetKeyfaber * Phone Topics: * Calculus ruined incremental games for me * SFF PCs are ridiculous and hilarious * What's the deal with HDR? * Ode to Ice Cream by Vada Sultenfuss (from the movie My Girl) * Metal Gear Solid 2 is the most important game of 2023 Microtopics: * Appropriating wrestling culture. * Idle games vs. incremental games. * Trimps. * Physics and calculus educators each pretending the other field doesn't exist. * Jerk as a unit of measurement. * Ruining a child's m...
177. An Episode Your Landlord Should Not Listen To
March 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alicia * Ryan * Just type his name into google. Topics: * Seattle's reaction to snow vs the Bay Area's reaction to rain: who is more dramatic? * Would you rather fart bones once a month or have Goldeneye "big head mode" on in real life for a year? * Moral philosophy lessons from the California DMV * Nancy * https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/08/18/nancy/ * Common everyday items ...
176. A Diglett Slightly Tan
March 06, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Hallie * John B Topics: * Tabletop RPGs as educational platform * Flicky-likes * Etch A Sketch Animator 2000 * Poem: "My Brother's Head Should Be Replaced" by Jack Prelutsky * https://youtu.be/TYXJyxT7QN4?t=1330 * Buff Diglett Microtopics: * 471 very positive reviews. * Pizza Tower, the Tower of Pizza. * Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular. * Taking a drink of your Safeway brand Diet Co...
175. This Movie Has Marky Mark In It
February 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) 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...
174. Occam's Raccoon
February 20, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Chris * Alexander Topics: * Words with similar sounds/meanings but no relation to each other at all. * Virtual marble runs with guns * https://www.youtube.com/@mikan2d * The "broom method" of dealing with a hydrogen leak * https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/706885583716466688 * Poem by Dr. Seuss: “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and som...
173. How Much Anxiety Does Your Car Have?
February 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * Tyriq Topics: * Nancy and having a continuous tone for a hundred years * Recommendations * Adding trinkets to other people's time capsules * A Psalm for the Wild-Built https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/705362430786748416/guooey-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky Microtopics: * Looking down a lot while you're on a walk. * What is this Meta for? * Discovering that there is a clif...
172. Don't Apply Any Torque To This Bag
February 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * Incomprehensible PSAs (Remember to slip, slop, slap, seek and slide) * Games which use player ignorance as a major mechanic (Outer Wilds, Tunic) * Man out of Space Easiest * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE * Stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) * https://utopians.tumblr.com/post/659350035592609792/stepped-on-a-plum-overripe-plum-barefoot-it * Aus...
171. Reasons To Not Throw Your Phone In The Ocean
January 30, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * CisHetKayFaber * Kev Topics: * Food from dreams and nightmares * https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/man-dream-kings-hand-snack * Han Unification happened in Unicode and every time they add more emojis to the Unicode spec it literally hurts * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification * The Super Mega Crossword * https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/crosswords/super-m...
170. My Brain Likes The Things I Like
January 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * FourBitFriday in all the places * Cort * Leftover Pumpkin Pie Curry https://savethefood.com/recipes/leftover-pumpkin-pie-and-turkey-curry/ Topics: * Fantasy consoles * https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy * Tyriq's 80s homework * 80s homework playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0NtJp8szqsl4Ek0lZHqvHjaX * Tyriq's reaction: https://topiclords.com/ar...
169. Topicless
January 16, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John * robohunkx on Twitter, robohunk on most social media platforms * Tim * Jamestown+ * The Pathless * https://github.com/westquote/squidtasks Topics: * America's self-denying culture of compartmentalization * Deus Ex: Revision is a mod for Deus Ex that changes maps just enough that it feels like a new game without losing what made the original special. * Napster pranks and mo...
168. Take A Gasket, Leave A Gasket
January 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Jenni Topics: * Stronger with Stogner * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0MwD8dyko * What is & isn't ahegao, prescriptivistly * Wanna Feel Old? 10 Hilarious Examples Of Anti-Piracy Measures In Video Games * https://screenrant.com/anti-piracy-video-games-funny/ * The Lanyard by Billy Collins * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50975/the-lanyard * The "what the fuck" ...
167. Riker's Doing The Biting
January 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Danny * https://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/ * Akash * https://www.akashthakkar.com/ Topics: * 100KHz microphones * There's an entire town in Alaska that's contained entirely in one building - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/whittier-alaska-american-story/ * Tired: CRT filter in emulated video games. Wired: grainy magazine screenshot filter in emulated video games * http://...
166. There's Only One Best Topic
December 26, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Maxx Topics: * Freesound.org and the delight of sharing things without fame * https://freesound.org/people/Bram/sounds/15543/ * https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/369065/ * https://freesound.org/people/smokenweewALT/ * Shutting down the FF2 ARG Twitter account * Leisure in the 70s * Snow by David Berman * https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/snow-14 * The some p...
165. Spitting Wiggly Air
December 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mark * Shirley Topics: * What would you do if you came downstairs and all of my clothes and my glasses were on the floor in a heap in a puddle of water? * Aphasia: What doesn't it mean? * Dr. Icecreamwala * https://www.icecreamderm.com/ * Eternal Champion - I Am The Hammer * https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-hammer * Teen Censorship (what to restrict, if anything?)...
164. Dead Bodies Are Always In The First Place You Look
December 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 67 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Nathan * MommysBestGames on Twitter. * Tyriq * FourBitFriday everywhere. Topics: * Octopodes, continued * My wife and I are both teaching our son to drive, with separate lessons. It's going OK but with bumps. * The most widely-used crack for The Colonel's Bequest works by breaking the random number generator. This has wide-ranging effects on the gameplay. * https://www.benshoof.or...
163. The Mean Horse Scenario
December 05, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mitch * https://www.youtube.com/@HBMmaster * https://www.google.com/search?q=w * https://www.seximal.net/ * Laura * https://twitter.com/lmichet * https://cohost.org/lmichet Topics: * What vehicle would you use to get around in the post apocalypse? Are we talking live animals, internal combustion engine vehicles, bikes, skiis, etc? Why did you choose this? * The Super Mario Wik...
162. The Best Lawyer On Fiverr
November 28, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Quil * Maxx Topics: * Maybe I just don't like apples * Opposite Costco * The Sweet Science * The Village and the Curious Hole * http://thesciencesalon.blogspot.com/p/village-and-curious-hole.html * BALLU the best robot * https://youtu.be/EdSoUbXirVI * https://www.strandbeest.com/ * https://youtube.com/shorts/lbxJlwQ6-U8 Microtopics: * Making robots and video games in Seattle. * ...
161. How Much Can This Dog Deadlift?
November 21, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Shannon * Avery Topics: * Measure words * Is color even real? * https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/hdrdlt/poemmycatissadspencermadsen/ Microtopics: * Game Changer. * Why various albums aren't on Spotify. * During the American Revolution when the British were always quartering punk bands in colonial household. * The Bug Porn calendar that Shannon drew for the FF2 ARG. * A singular ...
160. Dracula Never Brushes His Teeth
November 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Elena * Shannon Topics: * I went to Burning Man and now maybe I don't bite my nails? * Pros and cons of vampirism * Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies. * "Gray cube, rectangular light" * https://codewriteplay.com/2019/09/10/legends-of-gamedev-clarissa-darling/ Microtopics: * Nominally saving everybody a big hass...
159. It's Beautiful That We Once Existed
November 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Kev * Cort * Cort's new album: https://postgoodism.bandcamp.com/album/tourism * The Frog Fractions vinyl: https://www.turtlepalstapes.com/product/frog-fractions-green * Monty Python's three-sided record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMontyPythonMatchingTieandHandkerchief * Locked grooves: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/locked-grooves-endless-fun-literally/ * The Most Want...
158. Bark Mitzvah: Where Your Good Boy Becomes A Mensch
October 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * The Real John B Topics: * The Nancy Drew Point and Click adventure series * Advances in garbage food technology * The mysterious grunting voice playing over the American Airlines intercom * https://waxy.org/2022/09/a-mysterious-voice-is-haunting-american-airlines-in-flight-announcements-and-nobody-knows-how/ * A poem I found: "The Cow" by Oliver Herford * https://twitter.co...
157. The Boy Who Cried ARG
October 24, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday * https://frror.bandcamp.com/ * Chall * https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall Topics: * The future/present of Jim's mario videos. * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3SbI8kec0Ntxnf9mof2tU-QZLQ0Mq6zd * Catatcomb Kids lore in the context of the fact that I like worldbuilding but find it hard to tell actual stories. * Bigger Luke * The Gre...
156. Society Is Moving In A Direction
October 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alex * https://twitter.com/alexicographic * https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames/ * JP * http://vectorpoem.com/ Topics: * Your gravestone has a button people can press to play a sound clip, 10 seconds or less. It can loop or be a one-shot, your preference. What sound clip does your gravestone play? * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u8Fd7EHYAg * Counting the beats in eenie-meeni...
155. Do AI Researchers Know About Having Kids?
October 10, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jude * https://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/jude-jackson-605680100/ * Shepard Topics: * The attention schema model of consciousness * https://books.google.com/books?id=Ta4eAAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 * Studying a children's picture book in academia because it was successfully banned out of existence * Your favorite floor cocktail * Ode to Waluigi * https...
154. QWERTY In The Streets, Colemak In The Sheets
October 03, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday * https://frror.bandcamp.com/ * Stevie * [email protected] Topics: * Striped humans * Alternative keyboard layouts: teaching yourself to type in new horrible ways * Where did I get these floppy disks? * The floppy disk poems * How do I give a tech talk? * https://vimeo.com/91436410 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hwI9Ae1qU * http...
153. I Can't Wait For My Cockroach Lipids
September 26, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * James * Avery Topics: * Stone paper * "The Flashing Blade" * The Number Ones * https://www.stereogum.com/category/columns/the-number-ones/ * https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/stanley-kunitz/king-of-the-river/ * BREAKING NON MAMMALIAN MILK NEWS!! Sorry mammals, cockroaches make milk and it is considered a complete food Microtopics: * The latest on whether or not you've been cancele...
152. National Butterscotch Pudding Day's Eve
September 19, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * Rebranding a Country * The single-celled dog * Joe Hart still hasn't cleared out the vampire dens * https://imgur.com/a/ODW4pBI * i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. * https://tooquirkytolose.tumblr.com/post/689145075338543104 * National Butterscotch Pudding Day (Sep 19) Microtopics: * Tying on the tiebreaker. *...
151. A Fantastic Way To Escape From Your Loved Ones
September 12, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mike * https://twitter.com/mikeambrogi * Adam * https://twitter.com/adamdeGrandis/ Topics: * Cooking is awesome * https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023147-tuna-crunch-sandwiches * Profound kid questions ("how do you like something?") * Mr. Jaws * https://youtu.be/JeYCOFblZRg * Distant Regard by Tony Hoagland * https://condofire.com/2018/12/16/poem-of-the-week-distant-regard...
150. Your Honking Monotoe
September 05, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jenni * https://twitter.com/horsewizrd * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday Topics: * Hot Topic * Toe picks * https://imgur.com/a/ARHZn5x * Topical medication * Groke asks: My friend (who is completely unaware of this podcast and did this apropos of nothing) emailed the Mars chocolate company to find out why the Topic candy bar has that name. "Dear Mr Smith, Thanks for gett...
149. Croc Nutz
August 29, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * David Topics: * A partnership between you and a tool * Schmalhausen and Vernadsky, my own personal ARG * Stop trying to make "a wedge is a machine" happen. It's not going to happen * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine * The Poetry Teacher, by Mary Oliver * https://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=2&poet=27&poem=5712 * Drinking vinegar * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
148. Dual-Wielding Ingresses
August 22, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * CisHetKayFaber * https://twitter.com/CisHetKayFaber/ * Phone Topic Lords: * Why are Japanese adult video titles so long and weird? * 3DS Street Pass * Service at Lou's Diner is incredible * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYnEmyq-0sA * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJb-czNC_ls * The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, by Gil Scott Heron. * https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-the-...
147. Part-Time Cryptids
August 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Laura * https://twitter.com/lmichet/ * Nick * http://nicknicknicknick.net/ Topics: * Can the biological function of expelling waste be improved in any way? Should humans expel waste differently? * The Hobbit: Dopesmoker Edition. (it's great) * Gato Gonzales and the Guts Pose * Nick at the Montreal Screwjob: https://imgur.com/a/45Opfxq * The Fish, by Elizabeth Bishop * https://po...
146. If You Can't Pay The Time, Don't Do The Feet Liking
August 08, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * http://false-panels.com/ * Nelson * https://twitter.com/WritNelson/ Topics: * How many random numbers you can dial before you contact someone who is expecting you * Pocket versions of your art. (Mini games, mini sculpture, mini songs?) * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaveMatthewsBandChicagoRiver_incident * https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer Microtopics: * Being no...