Episode Archive

272 episodes of Topic Lords since the first episode, which aired on October 28th, 2019.

  • 128. Intermittent Fasting Kirby

    April 4th, 2022  |  1 hr 7 mins
    chris, jenni

    Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss bean trees, the spoilers social contract, words that men know but women don't and vice versa, Ozymandias by Percy Shelley, chilling by yourself in the womb unless you're a twin, oldschool AD&D being hard to start but ultimately less video/board gamey, and Wordle speed runs.

  • 127. Let's e e cummings This Up

    March 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 13 mins
    cort, fabian

    Lords: Cort and Fabian. We discuss Black Square Day, why we have nostalgia for old computers even though they were terrible, the Dirtywave M8 tracker, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost.

  • 126. Toast Is A Fruit

    March 21st, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins
    david, erica

    Lords: David and Erica. We discuss choosing plant families for the apocalypse, alternation of generations, gaming your Fitbit, Ode to Spot, Stonecoin, and things that have not gone wrong yet.

  • 125. Your Mom Won't Cry

    March 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins
    alexicographic, danielle

    Lords: Danielle and Alexander. We discuss learning to figure skate as an adult, cursed mnemonics we never question, the first thing you remember buying online, a child's beliefs about the afterlife, learning how to speedrun without actually doing it, and receiving texts in your email.

  • 124. Call Me Da5id; Da4id Was My Father

    March 7th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min
    tyriq, xander

    Lords: Tyriq and Xander. We discuss choosing a name with numbers in it, overcoming the inertia of old tools, confusing two things that are not the same, Sweater Weather, by Sharon Bryan, making things that occupy real-world space, and Ithkuil: the inscrutable conlang that was co-opted by Russian Buddhist cultists.

  • 123. Go Up, You Bald Head!

    February 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins
    chris, hallie

    Lords this week: Hallie and Chris. We discuss playing card finishes, how we'd talk about religion and faith if those words didn't exist, Good Bones by Maggie Smith, and hair mayonnaise.

  • 122. If You're Cold, Your Oatmeal Is Cold

    February 21st, 2022  |  58 mins 33 secs
    ananda, maxx

    Lords: Maxx and Ananda. We discuss rare videos of European hamsters, eating the last dragon vs. eating a human being, what's wrong with math Wikipedia, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan, Diatomite and our weird relationship to tiny cursed skeletons, and making fermented foods.

  • 121. A Delicious Treat For Your Brain's Ass

    February 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins
    chall, ryan

    Lords: Ryan and Chris. We discuss what position you sleep in and when you're going to die, the power of limes, why we have fingernails, and a poem about garlic bread.

  • 120. The Mouse Is For Hippies And Slackers

    February 7th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min
    daniel, jonah

    Lords: Daniel and Jonah. We discuss the energy of Chop Socky, the Resident Evil series, Flettner airplanes, Ogden Nash's poetry, Indonesia, and watching movies without finding out anything about them first.

  • 119. Book 'Em, Dildano

    January 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins
    chris, jenni

    Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss Wordle metagamers, obscure fantasy niches, using up all the ink in a ball-point pen, The Tiger by Nael Age 6, Wizard's failure to make D&D fun at high levels, and compare and contrast: Barbarella's energy vs. Zardoz's energy.

  • 118. The Dinosaur Poetry Gap

    January 24th, 2022  |  59 mins 41 secs
    eitan, nelson

    Lords: Eitan and Xalavier. We discuss being sad nobody forces you to play sports, staring at someone until it gets weird, the spirituality of the right amount of reverb, a t-rex poem by Bill Watterson, untrue facts about human anatomy, things on your bucket list that you'll never do, and why cows have four stomachs but only one butthole.

  • 117. Your Self-Inflicted Artistic Purgatory

    January 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins
    brad, quil

    Lords: Brad and Quil. We discuss what superpowers like shrinking suggests about how we conceptualize reality, how to call your work "art" and not feel bad about it, Stinky Meat and Stinky Feet, Hope is a Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson, visual novels, and the cortical homunculus.

  • 116. I Don't Trust Toilets Any More

    January 10th, 2022  |  58 mins 57 secs
    laura, rachel

    Lords: Laura and Rachel. We discuss what to replace your hand with, how to hang out with friends long distance, fake childhood impressions, A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, deleting a food, and soda flavors that should be.

  • 115. Intrusive Thought Simulator

    January 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 19 mins
    cishetkayfaber, devonin

    Lords: CisHetKayFaber and Dan. We discuss not understanding the theory behind what you're doing, realizing that nobody cares about the things that make you unique, Shrek's 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, cursed connectors and adapters, the efficiency of vacationing alone, and Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name.

  • 114. Memento Maury Povich

    December 27th, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins
    elena, maxx

    Lords: Maxx and Elena. We discuss Celeste and 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, Feeding the Worms, and Linguistics of Swearing and Taboo.

  • 113. Only You In Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires

    December 20th, 2021  |  1 hr 7 mins
    april, danny

    Lords: April and Danny. We discuss favorite desserts when it's hot out, the horror of almost being older than Princess Diana, Abraham Lincolnland, "I Would Like To Describe" by Zbigniew Herbert, Irish surnames as American girl names, words you misunderstood as a child, and Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone.