Topic Lords

27. The Great Mongolian Potato Sack Yak Race

April 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 3 mins

avery, jesse

Lords this week: Jesse and Avery. We discuss unsolved math problems, Mr. Potatohead's accomplishments, managing a tedious job, auto-antonyms, humans driving the evolution of cuter and cuter birds, and the "Please Call Stella" accent database.

26. The Double Equilibrium Point Of Water (For Fish)

April 20th, 2020  |  1 hr 11 mins

john, nelson

Lords this week: John and Nelson. We discuss falling into the sky, lonely kaiju, this cool Arkanoid TAS, warming up to doing creative work, a sentient dog digging up a graveyard, and experiencing FOMO about things you don't want to do.

25. Which One Is Eggteen?

April 13th, 2020  |  54 mins 17 secs

chall, rusty

Lords this week: Rusty and Chris. We discuss games as work, photos of people and cats that do not exist, doing a job machines are already better at, hexadecimal naming systems, folk games, recording rigs for podcasting, and jokes as a mnemonic device.

24. So Horrible And Yet So Tiny

April 6th, 2020  |  1 hr 1 min

jenni, tyriq

Lords this week: Tyriq and Jenni. We discuss Hot Topic, toe picks, topical medication, Topic (the candy bar), Test Of Proficiency In Korean, and Topic Records.

23. Purpleface's Face Isn't Purple

March 30th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

daniel, lauren

Lords this week: Danny and Lauren. We discuss Tetris piece personalities, smell-memory associations, convincing my son sleep is a good thing, making art for money vs. for its own sake, a raven being like a writing desk, and the best things that happened to you this week.

22. Abstinent Train Polycule

March 23rd, 2020  |  1 hr 15 mins

ryan, xander

Lords this week: Ryan and Alexander. Topics: creativity from a seed vs. from a box, using Hall of the Mountain King in comedy trailers, HDMI ports in your feet, yak shaving, the Abstinence Train, and multi-lingual animals.

21. Strip Laser Tag

March 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 7 mins

elena, josh

Lords this week: Elena and Josh. We discuss procrastination as a coping mechanism, Newcomb's problem, celebrating Christmas by saying you have a machine gun, the fear that other podcasts might start discussing topics, McMaster-Carr, conlanging with toddlers, and preserving old software.

20. The Bowerbird's Apprentice

March 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

mark, shirley

Lords this week: Mark and Shirley. We discuss the Third Culture Kid experience, camgirl life, why most animals don't need to walk, what bones we've broken, and hypnagogic hallucination.

19. A Pickled Egg Christmas

March 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 1 min

jeff, joe

Lords this week: Jeff and Joe. We discuss finding the time to be a geek, the difficulty of ordering pickled eggs, raising kids, art you made as a kid, etymology, and only getting 80% good at things.

18. Yelling Sweater

February 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 20 secs

james, jay

Lords this week: Jay and James. We discuss old references making jokes inaccessible, how four year olds perceive legos, realizing stylish people can also be skilled, cheap musical instruments, timberwolf jaws, losing touch with popular aesthetics, and growing a Santa beard in spite of your CPAP machine.

17. A Buzzsaw Made Of Bananas

February 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 11 mins

april, john

Lords this week: April and John. We discuss creating D&D characters, being friends with people older/younger than you, when a head nod is appropriate, where to find the Big Mike banana, mind palaces, migrating your files from one computer to the next, and making great salads.

16. I Don't Want To Be Skin Dad

February 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 8 mins

kole, tim

Lords this week: Tim and Kole. We discuss cat trees for humans, non-analytical storytelling, AI Dungeon, whether programmers are worse than they used to be, sonder, what inanimate objects get a proper name, and fruity cheezma.

15. More Real Than Tower Records

February 3rd, 2020  |  1 hr 8 mins

avery, tyriq

Lords this week: Tyriq and Avery. We discuss reading non-religious texts as scripture, what "pitched battle" secretly means, practical usage of carrier pigeons, what ship is the best ship, doing a thing in one way or the other way, and ancient Greeks doing sports clothed and then deciding naked is better.

14. Dad Is A Cenobite

January 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

april, danny

Lords this week: April and Danny. We discuss teaching your child the wrong word for something, harbinger households, men's wallets, choosing a new name, the ubiquity of Shen Yun ads, and growing up an extremely unimaginative kid.

13. Kurt Cobain Vocaloid

January 20th, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

jp, strucci

Lords this week: Shannon Strucci and JP LeBreton.

We discuss monetizing hobbies vs. just having hobbies, inventing a 5 acre island in the remote south Pacific, level design lessons from Hawaii, the Oakland Athletics adopting "Movin' Like Bernie," fictions containing themselves as a gag, the first time you've tried your favorite foods, and Time Trap and creating mysteries from the outside in.

12. The Charisma And The Loneliness Of The Moth Man

January 13th, 2020  |  58 mins 47 secs

laura, nelson

Lords this week: Laura Michet and Xalavier Nelson, Jr. We discuss Moth Man, surprisingly limited chair options, peeing a thimbleful while pregnant, the trustworthiness of dogs vs. cats, whether wild animals ever lead good, happy lives, and the pros and cons of various book bindings.