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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145. A Visceral Tobacco Consumption Experience
August 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Hallie * https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000/ * John * https://twitter.com/robohunkx Topics: * Finding value in shared imagined spaces and worlds outside of religious contexts * Final Fantasy Challenge: Zero Story; and other vaporware games & mods of which no record exists on the internet * Youtube streams movies now, and they have comments * Canterbury Tales General Prologue, by Geoffr...
144. Vultures Who Know The Difference (Between Sugar And Aspartame)
July 25, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * JohnB * https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo * Jesse Topics: * Wario64 * We need to bring back Dogme 95 * Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name Again * https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/ * This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams * https://poets.org/poem/just-say * Whatever happened to outdoor pop machines? * https://lovepittsburghshop.com/blogs/love-pittsburgh/may-the-pop-machine-be-with-...
143. Your Face Is Looking A Little Impact Resistant
July 18, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Chall * https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall * Jenni * https://twitter.com/horsewizrd Topics: * Frogs evolved leaping before they evolved landing and a couple species haven't figured out the "landing" part yet. * https://defector.com/why-is-this-tiny-frog-so-awful-at-jumping/ * https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horrifying-sculpture-depicts-human-evolved-survive-car-crash-180...
142. Threatjazz
July 11, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Ben * https://twitter.com/KosmologyB * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday Topics: * Which real life occupations are the closest thing to actual Adventuring? And would you want to do any of them? * Getting a tattoo has somehow motivated me to be healthier * It's weird that some instruments you play with your hands and others you put in your mouth * The Mushroom Hunters * htt...
141. Toast In Its Original Format
July 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Avery * Jesse Topics: * Laserdisc * Tracing the lineage of racehorses on Wikipedia * Bread is too wide to fit in toasters * https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/1335354217335148546/photo/1 * Variants of bowling, now mostly lost to history, are like glimpses into possible worlds metaphysically close to our own Microtopics: * How to sound like a douchebag if you are a programmer who liv...
140. The Most Edible Petrochemical
June 27, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Kevin * https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ or http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/nircam/ * https://youtu.be/in6RZzdGki8 * https://youtu.be/lrY04VPDg8I * John Topics: * Reading the other headlines/articles on newspapers in films that flash on screen solely for the headline * http://www.chess-in-the-cinema.de/ * The Game Boy Camera/revisiting the PXL-2000 topic and other toy cameras/tech * Be...
139. She Died As A Space Racist
June 20, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Dan * https://strangecurrencies.org/ * https://twitter.com/SCReviewsDan * Shepard * They are known as Earthnova in the Discord and has one published work: http://thelitmag.com/2021-edition/this-story-has-a-ghost-in-it/ Topics: * Only playing narrative/story-driven video games once * Sometimes life is like an adventure game, a skill or item that's useless when you get it is needed ...
138. From Infracheddar To Ultrableu
June 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Elena * Alexander plugs https://www.constantpodcast.com/ Topics: * Hosting a party is way better than going to a party * The Pearl Jam Liner Notes method of writing first drafts * Lagrange Point Lasagna * Jonathan Swift, "Ode on the Longitude" * https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/TheWorksoftheRev.JonathanSwift/Volume17/OdeontheLongitude * The theory of spontaneous generation * It turns ou...
137. Burying The Machete (So Nobody Can Open The Coconuts)
June 06, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John * https://twitter.com/robohunkx * https://twitter.com/AshbyBrewery/ * April * https://www.instagram.com/midnightgardenstitchery/ Topics: * Playing Grand Theft Auto 5 because I miss hiking in California * Embroidery * Jokes that three year olds tell * Moondrop's Tale * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6h1_gLGH7hDy3uhWpLtqapbpRqVFkawAbQ1ywVEu4E/edit * Skeleton Jelly: ht...
136. Thanks For Inventing Dengue Fever, Mark Rosewater
May 30, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica plugs increasing optional mask compliance by farting * Jenni plugs birds * Jim plugs metaplugs repeating plugs Topics: * The System, and by extension, The Talenti Cup System * Decentralizing social media is gonna be real good for people not yelling at each other & kinda bad for sharing specialized information * We just taught Winston about "peeing in the woods" when we were going ...
135. I've Been A Bad, Bad French
May 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Nate * http://mommysbestgames.com/ * https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames/ * Fred * https://twitter.com/brobbeh Topics: * Why do rice cookers play music but not microwaves? * https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1516205625662836739 * If all your needs are met in a utopian society will we still need sports and competition? * Hot Ice, Cool Sounds * Goblin Time by Emma * htt...
134. A Bad Case Of Footmouse
May 16, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * [email protected] * Michael * https://www.instagram.com/softseabunny/ * https://www.tiktok.com/@creative.rabbit Topics: * "World's greatest author Chuck Tingle" * Way of making moving easier, collective tips? * https://overmental.com/content/the-beautiful-zelda-artwork-of-katsuya-terada-7898 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand * Melatonin parenting decisions ...
133. Every Tumbleweed Is An Antique
May 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Duncan * http://duncanrobson.com/ * https://twitter.com/dunkr * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8V6QtlRbro * Avery * https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases Topics: * Judging by the selection on eBay, the 1960's and 1970's seems to have been the golden age of belt buckles. * https://www.filfre.net/2019/07/chief-gates-comes-to-oakhurst-a-cop-drama/ * The time a parent of my k...
132. A Miserable Pile Of Knuckles
May 02, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Cort * https://twitter.com/postgoodism * Jenni * https://twitter.com/horsewizrd/ Topics: * Novel uses for hundreds of surplus ceramic clown statues * Thinking about household stuff as a system you can design to meet your needs instead of a cultural lifestyle obligation * Sidetalkin' * https://sidetalkin.com/ * Big Black Elephant * https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/18tpkl8q/big-b...
131. GDC Santa Rides Again
April 25, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mike * Kev * http://www.radcade.com/ Topics * Embracing creative chaos is very hard but paradoxically extremely common? * Thanatosensitivity * GDC happened this year! They really did it * Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy By Thomas Lux * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48483/tarantulas-on-the-lifebuoy * Being left handed in a right handed world Microtopics: * Wanting to learn to pro...
130. Gilding The Lemur
April 18, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 67 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 * https://www.hryx.net Topics: * Watching TAS videos and wondering how much of what is happening is necessary vs flourish * If Jeff Bezos wanted to recreate Jurassic Park * Chocolate-dipped fruit has such an enormous gulf between perceived effort and actual effort that as a gift giver or potluck atten...
129. Yet Another Country Where They Don't Pee
April 11, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Alex * Shannon Topics: * Regional Trash animals * Dynamic water features * The Pee Pee Dance is nowhere to be found on Wikipedia * The Bells, by Edgar Allen Poe * https://poets.org/poem/bells * Recipe essentialism * Sei Shonagon's Hateful Things are relatable * https://www.basicincome.com/bp/hatefulthings.htm Microtopics: * Striving to sound like a motor that has just been switched ...
128. Intermittent Fasting Kirby
April 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jenni * Chris * https://imgur.com/a/t34TMw8 Topics: * Every tree in this desert is a bean * The statute of limitations on spoilers implies a social contract where we agree to consume media as soon as it's available instead of consuming it at the right time for ourselves * This list of words that men know but women don't, and vice versa * https://link.springer.com/article/10....
127. Let's e e cummings This Up
March 28, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Cort * https://twitter.com/postgoodism * Fabian * https://twitter.com/rygorous Topics: * Black Square Day (inventing holidays and subsequently forgetting everything about them) * Nostalgia for old computers isn't because they were good, but because they sucked in ways that were simple to understand * The Dirtywave M8 tracker * Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost ...
126. Toast Is A Fruit
March 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * David * Erica * https://https://twitter.com/YerrikTRB/ Topics: * Two plant families for the apocalypse * I choose you, Marine Phytoplankton! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton#Diversity * I choose you, Apiaceae! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae * I choose you, Poaceae! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae * I choose you, Fabaceae! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
125. Your Mom Won't Cry
March 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Danielle * https://www.twitch.tv/damaplaysgames * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Fq8V-L5rfNvGa-DAQBPsg * Alexander * https://twitter.com/adlleong Topics: * Learning to figure skate as an adult * Cursed mnemonics we never question * What was the first thing you remember buying online? * "Chi dara fine al gran dolore? L’ore" from House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski * My daug...
124. Call Me Da5id; Da4id Was My Father
March 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday * Xander Topics: * The year was 1998, and choosing a name with numbers in it was a completely normal thing to do. * http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802xerox-workcentresareswitchingwrittennumberswhenscanning * How do you overcome the inertia of old familiar tools when trying to learn new ways to do the same thing? * I confused Daniel ...
123. Go Up, You Bald Head!
February 28, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Hallie * https://twitter.com/Hallie_9000/ * https://twitter.com/watchyourrass * https://twitter.com/HouseRulesCast * Chris Topics: * Playing card finishes * Esper Quinn adds: "As a decades long Magic: the Gathering player, card condition, handling and protection is something I've actually spent a lot of time thinking about. There's a guy on YouTube whose whole claim to fame is tha...
122. If You're Cold, Your Oatmeal Is Cold
February 21, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * https://mechcem.itch.io/ * https://www.instagram.com/maxxyamasaki/ * Ananda * https://www.instagram.com/a__gabo/ Topics: * Rare videos of European Hamsters. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf06WJQ4FnE * Would you rather eat: the last dragon or a human being? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu * What happened in the editor culture that made medical and mathematical W...
121. A Delicious Treat For Your Brain's Ass
February 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Ryan * https://twitter.com/ryanikecomposer/ * https://www.instagram.com/ryanikeaudio * Chall * https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall/ Topics: * What position do you sleep in and based on that which of us on the podcast is going to die first? * Are limes overpowered? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrustaxonomy#/media/File:Citrusterncbsimplified_1.svg * Why do we have fingernails? S...
120. The Mouse Is For Hippies And Slackers
February 07, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Daniel * https://twitter.com/dmullinsgames * Jonah * https://works.rip/ Topics: * Chop socky – when are we gonna get that energy back into the world media producing environment? Also listening to movies instead of watching them. * The Resident Evil series * Flettner airplanes * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmvHfIAszo * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk * Double fea...
119. Book 'Em, Dildano
January 31, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jenni * @horsewizrd * Chris Topics: * The coming schism between Wordle purists & Wordle metagamers * Amazon kindle fantasy best-sellers is ruled by niches that nobody outside of kindle or Royal Road users have heard of * https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football * In high school I knew a guy who, one time, managed to use up all the ink in a ball-point pen. The ink tube in there was ...
118. The Dinosaur Poetry Gap
January 24, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Eitan * https://www.firehosegames.com/ * Xalavier * https://twitter.com/WritNelson Topics: * When I was a kid I hated gym class. Now I'm kinda sad that no one forces me to play sports on a semi-regular basis * How long is it polite to stare at a person before it gets weird for you, specifically (assuming they haven't seen you). * When asked why some people find her music to be spiri...
117. Your Self-Inflicted Artistic Purgatory
January 17, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Brad * @bradspendlove on Twitter * Check out https://twitter.com/so_writing, especially episode 6 * Quil Topics: * What superpowers like shrinking and invisibility suggest about how we conceptualize reality * Is there a point where you can call the silly things you make "art" and not feel like an absolute tool about it? Not a debate about what is vs is not art. But I feel weird if I...
116. I Don't Trust Toilets Any More
January 10, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Laura * https://twitter.com/lmichet/ * https://lauramichet.itch.io/tallbagel2 * Rachel * https://twitter.com/rachel_sala/ * http://wildhonesty.com/ Topics: * You are walking down the street one day when your hand transforms into a stapler! For the next 60 minutes, your hand is a stapler from the wrist up. The next day, at the same time, your hand transforms into a stack of post-...
115. Intrusive Thought Simulator
January 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * CisHetKayFaber * https://twitter.com/CisHetKayFaber * https://www.upturnedtable.com/weekly-podcast-2/ * Dan * https://strangecurrencies.org/ * https://twitter.com/SCReviewsDan Topics: * Learning something by doing, so you don't understand the theory behind it * The lonely realization that most people don't really care that much about the things that make you unique (not depressi...
114. Memento Maury Povich
December 27, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Maxx * [email protected] * Elena * https://propinquity.me/ Topics: * Been playing Celeste recently and I'm real into the themes of conflict with oneself vs acceptance of oneself * The museum of Jurassic Technology and when it's okay to lie to your audience * Human jaw shrinkage * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanjawshrinkage * Feeding the Worms, by Danusha Lameris * ht...
113. Only You In Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires
December 20, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Danny * https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/ * April * https://twitter.com/aprilsaur Topics: * Favorite desserts for when it's hot out * The horror of almost being older than Princess Diana * The developer of Abraham Lincolnland has gone on to run a business selling shirts with Vaporwave Abraham Lincoln's Face on them. * http://www.lincolnsoft.com/games/all/ * https://lincolnapparel...
112. Getting A Lot Of Vengabus Vibes From This
December 13, 2021 16:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * JP * John B * https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo * https://twitter.com/vs_everyone Topics: * Showing "Akira" to someone who has never seen any anime before and telling them, "this is what all anime is like" * https://twitter.com/kbonds420/status/1378850398665125892 * Bizarro, Dan Hibiki, Homsar, and other not-quite-doppelgangers/parodies who exist in the same world as their progeni...
111. Put It In A Vice And Squish It
December 06, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * Abby Topics: * Scale modeling hacks for broke hobbyists * Nobody should live here redux: nobody should live here either * Anal Sampling Mechanism * Wallace Stevens - The Emperor of Ice Cream * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream * Andrei Tarkovsky, game designer * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyzFSsNQYoXBo4zjmTmncoA * https://www.you...
110. There Will Be A Last Tweet
November 29, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * James * https://twitter.com/triplefox * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday Topics: * Nostalgia is a curse * https://bluerenga.blog/tag/adventure-500/?order=ASC * Nonogram puzzles * https://www.kesiev.com/stampadia/ * As the exodus continues, all that will be left of the public-facing internet will increasingly be the people too hard-headed or hard-hearted to burn out. ...
109. Ultra Rare Cheeto Shaped Like Batman Crying
November 22, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Stevie * Avery * https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/ Topics: * Collectable cheetos on Ebay * https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=rare+cheeto * Japanese websites are stuck in the 90s. Any theories? * https://search.marginalia.nu/ * Medieval European and ancient Egyptian philosophy. * Brad asks "Denatured alcohol: alcohol that has poison added to it to prevent people drinking it. What...
108. Sitting And Being Angry At Your Phone
November 15, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mark * Shirley Topics: * Neuroscience! * Fertility tracking is more complicated than I realized. * When it turns out that a character in a movie is movie-star hot because it's a plot point, rather than because they're portrayed by a movie star, and I guess then the audience is supposed to pretend all the other characters, also played by movie stars, just look like regular schlubs. * Imm...
107. 27 Kilobytes Of Pure Magic
November 08, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Ryan * https://twitter.com/ryanikecomposer/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldtX4d5qanA * Jenni * https://twitter.com/horsewizrd/ Topics: * Video games providing an illusion of competency & how jarring it is when they don't * Carcinization * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation * Manualism * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwxvOKuLUQ0 * Did you ever play "AR games" wi...
106. Hearses For Snakes
November 01, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Shannon * Alex Topics: * Corn maze vs hedge maze: which one is better? What's the best maze material? * World Record Corn Maze in Dixon CA: https://www.coolpatchpumpkins.com/ * Projectable Halloween Decoration Animations * https://vimeo.com/465549120 * For the halloween season: the spookiest story I know, about Dave Mustaine sleeping on a chair. * Rob Zombie - Dragula * https://w...
105. Ficus On A Leash
October 25, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * FourBitFriday everywhere. * https://www.ckgame.net/ * Chall * @MrChrisLHall Topics: * How cars age vs how people age * Learning the wrong lesson from childrens media (due to being an incompetent child) * BOFH: Servers Under Siege * https://www.old-games.com/download/1796/bastard-operator-from-hell-servers * Korn - Freak on a Leash * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGr...
104. Truck Nut, Singular
October 18, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Elena * https://www.propinquity.me/ * Nova * https://novalinium.com/ Topics: * Things I have learned about myself from being a professional matchmaker * The Mother of All Demos * The wine-dark sea * TWRP - Starlight Brigade * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug * Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/VsFcnzBJlt4 * Challenges in scaling community organizing *...
103. The 303 Beethoven Used
October 11, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Avery * https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases * Jay * https://twitter.com/jaytholen Topics: * Kowloon Walled City * Internet communities gaining a reputation and then changing over time as members mature. * The moral cost of the 303 Devilfish clone * Justified and Ancient * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg * Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Peeo6xZq...
102. I Wouldn't Touch That With A 3.048 Meter Pole
October 04, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Nathan * https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames/ * http://www.mommysbestgames.com/ * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday/ * https://www.ckgame.net/ Topics: * The length of poles with which to not touch things as a measure of repulsion * Weezer just released a new album. You can already listen to it, on demand, for free on youtube. How do they, or any band make money today? * ...
101. Flatty The Flat Globe
September 27, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Nick * https://twitter.com/NickPancakes * Greg * https://twitter.com/simgreed * https://store.steampowered.com/app/945490/LittleSquareThings/ Topics: * Anthropomorphized inanimate objects * Quaker Names * https://zeugmalitotes.tumblr.com/post/656465316855119872/fishpilled-these-guys-were-onto-something-i-think * Why do car doors get Shitty Shut * Go West - Call Me * https://ww...
100. Cold Brew Ham
September 20, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jenni * https://twitter.com/horsewizrd/ * Chris Topics: * Lord Chumley * Topic Lords editor Esper Quinn weighs in on Transformer lore: "The second ever podcast I really worked on was called Sound.wav, a read-along Transformers comics podcast. I knew nothing about Transformers, and my friend Nell knew everything about them. We stuck to the IDW canon, but my understanding is, Transfor...
99. I Want You To Never Show Me This
September 13, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mitch * https://twitter.com/hbmmaster/ * https://www.youtube.com/user/HBMmaster8472 * Xander Topics: * The title "Super Smash Brothers for Nintendo 3DS" is the first two lines of a haiku * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejJ6PzPtEw * Spectrum of porcupine tunings by eigenmonzos * The Letter C * Finding the light switch in this bed and breakfast * https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet...
98. That's Content, Baby!
September 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Hallie * https://twitter.com/hallie_9000 * Christine * http://thechrischerry.com * https://twitter.com/chriscereza Topics: * Where are my glasses? * Nighttime is the time of abstract possibility and imagination because the world is gone. * This huge tub of homemade toum * Turn Down For What * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU * Unedited (syncable) commentary: https:/...
97. A Clearly Marked Hellhole
August 30, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tina * https://twitter.com/Teanah/ * Slothy * https://twitter.com/jonshiring Topics: * What do Indie devs imagine AAA is like * My cousin is an astronaut * Finding an ad for a medicare scam in my drafts folder * Brad asks "The '30 days hath...' rhyme sucks as a mnemonic because so many months rhyme. Everyone should just use the knuckle mnemonic instead." * https://en.m.wikipedia.o...
96. Get Down With Some Bugs
August 23, 2021 15:00 - 51 minutes - 48 MBSupport Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords * Kev * https://twitter.com/kevzettler * Quil * Whisper your secret to a snail. Topics * Ephemeral digital music * Being a guest on a podcast that you normally listen to is a weird experience because it feels like you're not supposed to talk * An update on Bug Mars * Dancing in the Street * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HasaQvHCv4w * Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu...