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