Episode Archive
274 episodes of Topic Lords since the first episode, which aired on October 28th, 2019.
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34. We Don't Talk About Poop Stonehenge
June 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
elena, shannon
Lords this week: Elena and Shannon. We discuss lucid or recurring dreams, the eight kinds of fun, our favorite Dewey Decimal System classification, being the guy with hats just in case you go bald, and plants.
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33. Two-Grass Of The Face
June 8th, 2020 | 59 mins 6 secs
craig, strucci
Lords this week: Shannon and Craig. We discuss desirable collaborator attributes, Tok Pisin, TempleOS, our first memories of a computer, faking your own non-existence, whether or not guilty pleasures exist, and daytime soaps somehow producing 250 episodes a year.
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32. Tandem CPAP
June 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
laura, rachel
Lords this week: Rachel and Laura. We discuss wooden clothes hangers, anthropomorphic food, breathing soup in your sleep, sliding doors, magically acquiring useless skills, trying to interpret stories from hundreds of years ago, and Multi-Mario races.
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31. seedhutch.horse
May 25th, 2020 | 54 mins 57 secs
chris, jenni
Lords this week: Jenni and Chris. We discuss anxiety and OCD as culturally adaptive behaviors, asking your employer to pay you in Nook Miles, Animal Crossing speed runs, printing toilet paper at home, protecting your floppy disks from magnets, apocalypse gardening, Amazon taking Murder She Wrote away from us, and winding up with more social obligations than you had before quarantine.
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30. Century Of The Fruitbat
May 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
chall, cornell
Lords this week: Chris and Chris. We discuss Wikipedia descriptions of plots, the modern thank you note, writing a book about anything, Tom Nook, melodicas, Ursula Vernon, and skateboard culture.
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29. Respect The Hustler, Not The Hustle
May 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
gary, jenni
Lords this week: Jenni and Gary. We discuss deciding to eat vegetables, Stephen King writing about boners, airplane respiration strategies, resourcefulness when you don't have the right tool, becoming aware of your mortality, the MT-80s MIDI boom box, doing things because you assume it's what other adults do, and being cursed to listen to only one song for eternity.
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28. Stealing The Dead Skunk Back And Forth Forever
May 4th, 2020 | 54 mins 1 sec
april, ryan
Lords this week: April and Ryan. We discuss the spigot question Jim keeps avoiding, reading in the new decade, what the Nakatomi corporation does, favorite zoo animals, cutting sandwiches diagonally, and having a private bidet but not a private toilet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.