253. A Unified Theory Of Hot Dog Preference
August 26th, 2024
1 hr 3 mins 44 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
Topics:
- Difficulties with long term traveling
- Norway
- Why don't they have novelty whipped cream
- The Dirt Man Song, by Carter Vail
Microtopics:
- Specialty pour over filter coffee.
- A very deep rabbit hole of discovery of flavors.
- Drink the Machine: a Clean Metallic Flavor.
- Wacy and Chris.
- Chris or sounds like Chris.
- Living near your friends and family and being able to see them any time you want.
- Spot-it.
- Explaining what "on air" means to someone who has never listened to the radio.
- Why are flickering lights creepy?
- Getting Winston ready for swim class.
- The pressure to hyper-optimize.
- Being in the place where you are all the time.
- The world: it's really big and really full of stuff.
- How to exist in a city where you don't speak the language.
- Things you don't feel like maximizing.
- Grocery store bagged salads.
- Countries that are known for salads.
- Eating nothing but pickled fish and salty licorice during your trip even though you hate both.
- Being delighted by mediocre sushi.
- How many times Topic Lords has been downloaded in Osaka.
- Modern New-Age Scandinavian Food.
- Gas station hot dogs in Norway.
- Ordering a big slab of My Girlfriend is Not Hungry.
- Ways Norway is familiar to Americans.
- Walking around kicking the glaciers.
- Bikepackers.
- Giant highway ferries with six lanes of traffic.
- Brown Cheese Waffles.
- Daylight all night long.
- Normal people going outside and walking their dogs at 1am.
- The song that plays with the baby raccoon spinning in a circle.
- A country that is extremely serious about tunnels.
- Opening up your windows to let the cave air in.
- Visiting the Arctic circle in the winter.
- Good ideas, like Pesto Whipped Cream.
- Orange Cream Whipped Cream.
- The toothpaste tubes with the colored wedges.
- Birthday Cake Coffee Creamer.
- Guava-flavored beer foam.
- Coffee creamer except for beer.
- Chefs seeking out the worst food so they can understand exactly why it's bad.
- The Friendly's Cone Head.
- The Bad-Interesting Food Spectrum.
- Sleep regression, or more generally how you don't always keep forward progress.
- Why kids become picky eaters.
- Replicating the texture of uncooked hot dog in a novelty whipped cream.
- What whippets are for.
- Original flavorless N2O tanks.
- Using the word for amyl nitrite that signifies that you are a VCR owner and not a drug user.
- How to not become dirt in the dirt lair.
- The dirt man's tithe.
- Lying to your kid about cosmology.
- Pretending to believe the little lies as practice for believing big lies.
- Reminding your mom to make a leprechaun trap.
- Making fake boot prints to convince your kids that god is real.
- Reindeer food. (It's just hay.)
- All the years you didn't keep dirt under your pillow.
- The dirt man's dirt man taking you even deeper down.
- Lots of great places where the dirt man can be found.