Episode Archive
235 episodes of Topic Lords since the first episode, which aired on October 28th, 2019.
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59. 1-800-Ask-A-Harpsichord.com
December 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
amanda, xander
Lords this week: Amanda and Xander. We discuss the care and feeding of harpsichords, shareware floppies in grocery stores, the outlandish economic world of Neopets, and running a Beanie Baby empire on 30 minutes of screen time/day.
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58. Sparkles On Top Of The Brain
November 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
elena, tyriq
Lords this week: Elena and Tyriq. We discuss becoming the old person you want to be, reborrowings, peak dad experience, textual dialects, and the tone deafness test.
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57. A Rationale For Mountains
November 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
aaron, jonah
Lords: Aaron and Jonah. We discuss graffitti-based arguments, unphysical physically-motivated procedural content generation, the inventor of "None Pizza With Left Beef" and "Young Sheldon," the hobo code, and designing a game around semantic prime theory.
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56. Ethical Snorlax Pasture
November 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
jp, laura
Lords this week: Laura and JP. We discusss the least horny sport, the best task-tracking software, driving around with a photo of yourself on your vehicle, gaskets, Pokemon-proofing your house, and sending a film back to 1960.
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55. Burger Crimes
November 9th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
april, freddie
Lords: April and Freddie. We discuss burger opinions, replaying Breath of the Wild, changing your chronotype via taking care of a small child, and Vtubers.
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54. Stab 'Em Into Place
November 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
adina, diener
Lords this week: Adina and Alex. We discuss anarcho-communism, learning to stick with a project, poorly-understood algorithms, the hidden worlds of each person's living space, and learning all the crafts.
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53. Pedialyte Teargas
October 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
alexicographic, dannyb
Lords this week: Danny and Alexander. We discuss invisible walls in games, BluBlockers, bees taking their lives into their hands every time they get thirsty, being afraid of dogs that wear people clothes, every response to "thank you" being rude and the multivarious ways being a child genius can screw you.
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52. Speak Moistly And Carry A Wet Stick
October 19th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
chris, jenni
Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss: mirror galaxy doppelgangers, blaseball, ways to interact with dishwashers, the inventor of roller skates, the cool s again, and every toxic animal in Arizona.
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51. I Don't Want To Eat This Bug, Obviously
October 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 44 secs
ben, north
Lords: Ben and Ryan. We discuss: cooking from muscle memory, remembering your mistakes, what we'd have in common with intelligent aliens, the worst thing you've put in your mouth, Nintendo Labo, long anticipated events eventually happening, and accidentally becoming the top resources for earlobe cysts.
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50. Big Jesus Retouch Energy
October 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
chall, kev
Lords: Kev and Chall. We discuss Rick Astley's Youtube Channel, adjusting for sensory deficiencies, food photography hoaxes, number sizes in game design, and Michael Jackson writing the Sonic 3 soundtrack.
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49. A Very Wet Hell
September 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
april, john
Lords: April and John. Topics: climate-aware architecture, focusing on characters vs. story, why we say "ahh" after drinking, perpetual stew and laws and customs differing in different places.
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48. Long Furby
September 21st, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
abby, johnb
Lords: Abby and John. We discuss A-Life and V-Pets, San Diego, Bloodlust Software, and a found-footage style web series depicting a creature lurking at the edge of the frame in a series of porn videos.
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47. Santa Barbarella
September 14th, 2020 | 58 mins 52 secs
beek, rimbo
Lords: Chris and Jimmy. We discuss what Obispo means, Starflight, drums you play standing up, tweeting Fred Flintstone's frozen carcass before you dig in, and the failure of CD audio.
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46. Fetch Me A Renaissance Italy Nostalgia!
September 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
elena, kappa
Lords: Elena and Kappa. We discuss Lilite Satanist Narnia, the Super Monkey Ball narrator, reconstructing the lost ZZT source code, Kuai Kuai culture, and Bug reports and changelogs from video games that are just close enough to real life to be surreal
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45. Remember To Pronounce The Apostrophe
August 31st, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
johnb, nick
Lords: John B and Nick. We discuss micro game jams, human knowledge as grist for comedy, Roblox as the most popular game platform, things unexpectedly named after people, becoming a film nerd, and Barkley 2.
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44. Oops! All Biogel
August 24th, 2020 | 58 mins 1 sec
jenni, maxx
Lords: Jenni and Maxx. We discuss having a good time duplicating thought work, the Japanese crop microbiome, the PXL-2000 camcorder, embedding a movie in the Wikipedia page about the movie, pooping the shape of what you ate, and discovering that you love writing dialog trees.