222. Barkley In Retrograde
January 22nd, 2024
1 hr 13 mins 23 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Chris
 - Esper
 
Topics:
- Geocaching
 - The Miyoo Mini and other handheld emulation consoles
 - I still think I could've made it as a highly paid Super Mario Bros. 35 coach. I should've gone for it.
 - There's Not a Person Alive by David Donihue
 - The strange semiparasocial relationship between a podcast editor and the people on the podcast
 - Struggling to relearn high school Spanish
 
Microtopics:
- The editor of a podcast.
 - The #1 podcast for topic fans.
 - Chopping at some audio until it becomes a podcast.
 - Editing a recording into a podcast that's nothing but ums, mouth smacking noises and uncomfortable silence.
 - Zoom dynamically sensing when you're saying something dumb or boring and muting you.
 - Saying yes with the Sonic ring noise and no with the Sonic taking damage noise.
 - A cozy pleasant show full of fun facts.
 - Prepping for a paradigm.
 - How to put audio on film.
 - Going on a web forum and receiving a quest to find a magnetic box stuck underneath a metal staircase.
 - Geocaching on the Moon.
 - Geocaching vs. Geohashing.
 - A French pun for your board game night that nobody can remember because it's in French.
 - c:geo.
 - Finding a geocache by climbing a tree and pulling a paperclip attached to a fake piece of bark.
 - What to do if you're the one who picks up a travel bug.
 - Fake bolts where the center unscrews and it's hollow inside.
 - Developing a sense for when a geocache is nearby and always being wrong.
 - Miyoo Mini Plus.
 - Custom firmware that fixes your terrible handheld game system.
 - The Dream of the Playdate.
 - The Anbernic R something something letters numbers.
 - C-ctrl.
 - Going back to the Tekken 3 well.
 - A video game bar in Japan that only has Americans in it.
 - A very reasonable number of video games to flip through.
 - Emulators with daily runs.
 - Multi Bowl.
 - A game that legally can not exist.
 - Johann Sebastian Joust and its meta.
 - Getting one point in Rampage.
 - Advice that can literally no longer be helpful for anybody.
 - How to be an effective Goomba.
 - Looking at Jim's win/loss ratio and being inspired.
 - As Garfield said, "nothing good can stay."
 - A stainless soul lying inspired.
 - Bad experiences shared by every human.
 - A very smooth-brained day
 - Rampant poetry plagiarism on TikTok.
 - A food ASMR video where someone is repeatedly stabbing chicken with a fork.
 - Videos of hamsters running in wheels while listening to Dragula by Rob Zombie.
 - Whether the fish enjoys playing Pokemon.
 - A sweet 16 bracket of Best Kinds of Shark.
 - Rerecording the Topic Lords jingle with a swarm of bees.
 - The qualifications required for the person who designs electric car backing up noises.
 - Which apps to use to help you remember Spanish.
 - Speedrunning High School Spanish.
 - Learning Japanese from anime.
 - A 24/7 Livestream of digital cats lying around the house.
 - Hallucinating new languages around the house.
 - 52 Pickup with Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffee, about the most important comic book series of this century.