Episode Archive

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

  • 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.

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    112. Getting A Lot Of Vengabus Vibes From This

    December 13th, 2021  |  52 mins 17 secs
    johnb, jp

    Lords this week: JP and John B. We discuss seeing Akira and believing that that's what all anime is like, doppelganger/parodies who exist in the same world as their progenitors, the Tonkachi Editor, and There was an Old Man of St. Bees, by W.S. Gilbert.

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    111. Put It In A Vice And Squish It

    December 6th, 2021  |  1 hr 6 mins
    abby, erica

    Lords: Erica and Abby. We discuss scale modeling hacks, why nobody should live here, anal sampling mechanism, The Emperor of Ice Cream, and Andrei Tarkovsky: game designer.

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    110. There Will Be A Last Tweet

    November 29th, 2021  |  58 mins 43 secs
    james, tyriq

    Lords: James and Tyriq. We discuss nostalgia and how to avoid it, nonogram puzzles, everyone cool leaving the internet, The Village of Reason, and journaling on your phone.

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    109. Ultra Rare Cheeto Shaped Like Batman Crying

    November 22nd, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins
    avery, stevie

    Lords: Stevie and Avery. We discuss collectible Cheetos on Ebay, Japanese websites stuck in the 90s, Medieval European and ancient Egyptian philosophy, denatured alcohol, and the unusual puzzles of Star Tropics.

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    108. Sitting And Being Angry At Your Phone

    November 15th, 2021  |  1 hr 21 mins
    mark, shirley

    Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss neuroscience, fertility tracking, when it turns out that a character in a movie is movie-star hot because it's a plot point, Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon, and Tiktok food trends that are more about elaborate assembly than flavors.

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    107. 27 Kilobytes Of Pure Magic

    November 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    jenni, ryan

    Lords: Ryan and Jenni. We discuss video games providing an illusion of competency and how jarring it is when they don't, carcinization, manualism, and playing "AR games" with your own imagination.

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    106. Hearses For Snakes

    November 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 1 min
    alex, shannon

    Lords: Alex and Shannon. We discuss corn mazes vs. hedge mazes, projectable Halloween decoration animations, Dave Mustaine's chair sleeping incident, Rob Zombie - Dragula, and interactive Halloween costumes.

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    105. Ficus On A Leash

    October 25th, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins
    chall, tyriq

    Lords: Tyriq and Chris. We discuss how cars age vs. how people age, learning the wrong lessons from chilldren's media, BOFH: Servers Under Siege, Korn - Freak on a Leash, whether dreams are boring, and how running is just like walking but faster.

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    104. Truck Nut, Singular

    October 18th, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins
    elena, nova

    Lords: Elena and Nova. We discuss being a professional matchmaker, The Mother Of All Demos, the wine-dark sea, Starlight Brigade, and challenges in scaling community organizing.

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    103. The 303 Beethoven Used

    October 11th, 2021  |  1 hr 13 mins
    avery, jay

    Lords this week: Avery and Jay. We discuss Kowloon Walled City, internet communities gaining a reputation and then changing over time as members mature, the moral cost of the 303 Devilfish clone, KLF's Justified and Ancient, and Cyber Nexus internet cafe in Lakeland Florida and late 1990s internet cafes in general.

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    102. I Wouldn't Touch That With A 3.048 Meter Pole

    October 4th, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins
    nathan, tyriq

    Lords this week: Nathan and Tyriq. We discuss the length of poles with which to not touch things, how bands make money, why the Doom plasma rifle is like that, Yeasayer's Ambling Alp, and why the Metaverse looks so bland.

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    101. Flatty The Flat Globe

    September 27th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins
    greg, nick

    Lords: Nick and Greg. We discuss anthropomorphized inanimate objects, Quaker names, why car doors get shitty shut, Go West - Call Me, what's on the grill if you're "grillin up some 'good boys,'" and overly complicated navel-gazing plots in video games.

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    100. Cold Brew Ham

    September 20th, 2021  |  59 mins 23 secs
    chris, jenni

    Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss Lord Chumley, edgelord teens, Lordosis behavior, Lordi - The Riff, Lord Dunsany the metalhead rewilding his estate, and Time Lords.

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    99. I Want You To Never Show Me This

    September 13th, 2021  |  1 hr 1 min
    mitch, xander

    Lords: Mitch and Xander. We discuss what qualifies as a Mario game, spectrum of porcupine tunings by eigenmonzos, the Letter C, finding the light switch in this bed and breakfast, the bizarre CD-ROM game Monty Python made in the 90s, and how Tumblr is almost good.

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    98. That's Content, Baby!

    September 6th, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins
    christine, hallie

    Lords: Hallie and Christine. We discuss where you lost your glasses, nighttime as the time of abstract possibility and imagination, this huge tub of homemade toum, Turn Down For What, and modern TV re-discovering the episodic format.