Topic Lords

203. Only Girls Get Duck Combs For Christmas

September 11th, 2023  |  1 hr 8 mins

chkf, phone

Lords: CisHetKayFaber and Phone. We discuss Metal Gear Solid, children being unable to enjoy things, this extremely specific list of danger signs, Bank Account by Louis Cole, and technical beliefs which may be regarded as superstition but are true to your experience.

202. Tim Was My Jim

September 4th, 2023  |  1 hr 15 mins

mark, shirley

Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss why the city gets to decide what is a weed, learning to program as a cheat code for work, poop epidemiology, Insomnolence by Charles Rafferty, and buying food items labeled in a foreign language.

201. Don't Be Distressed, It's Just Australia

August 28th, 2023  |  1 hr 5 mins

alex, shannon

Lords: Alex and Shannon. We discuss tree law, Tax Heaven 3000, the trick where you hold two fingers in front of your face and hallucinate a disembodied third finger, Outbreaks by Kitchen McKeown, and the best food byproducts.

200. My Banana Has Bones

August 21st, 2023  |  1 hr 7 mins

jenni, tyriq

Lords: Jenni and Tyriq. We discuss King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, Nervous Subject, Subject Zero, On the Subject of Poetry By W. S. Merwin, royal subjects, and Subject 13.

199. The Hum Of The Universe Sounded Like A Bug Zapper

August 14th, 2023  |  1 hr 17 mins

april, ryan

Lords: April and Ryan. We discuss puzzle games you don't understand, rotating food by 90 degrees before eating it, The Shaggs, Instructions for Traveling West, and songs where we ignore how weird they are because they're famous already.

198. I'm Not Leaving Until Someone Sequences This Cup Of Spit

August 7th, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins

avery, maxx

Lords: Maxx and Avery. We discuss change ringing, the differences between American and Japanese robotics teams, the internet rug, Look What We Found in the Park in the Dark, and grandma giving you a world's best grandma mug.

197. It's No Moist Shit, But I'll Eat It

July 31st, 2023  |  58 mins 24 secs

diana, mikel

Lords: Mikel and Diana. We discuss banishment as a legal punishment, why it's so hard for apes to admit they're wrong, Minesweeper speed running, Sometime During Eternity, marsupial reproduction, Venture Bros., and the origin of dungeons.

196. Active Time Battle Internet Relay Chat

July 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 11 mins

john, johnb

Lords: John and John. We discuss juxtaposition, farewell to Cheap Bots Done Quick, the Temple of Apshai manual, "Seen and Not Seen" by Talking Heads, and the new Zelda game several weeks in.

195. Persian Castle Day At The Climbing Gym

July 17th, 2023  |  52 mins 5 secs

alexicographic, kev

Lords: Alexicographic and Kev. We discuss whether sports are good, haunted articles of clothing, burrito R&D, Casey at the Bat, becoming a VTuber after losing a bet, and TV show mixtapes

194. How Good It Was, To Have A Toe

July 10th, 2023  |  1 hr 19 mins

danny, dwaley

Lords: Danny and Danny. We discuss redundancy of song lyrics, renaming perfect fourths and fifths, Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer," Upon Julia's Clothes, Oh yes, celebrity deaths getting out of control, and ZZT achievements.

193. Pull Down Your Murphy Toilet

July 3rd, 2023  |  58 mins 13 secs

elena, quil

Lords: Elena and Quil. We discuss Human Pudding, and why popular media can't depict bad art, only bad taste, getting a van, corporate art, and Lamentation Upon Surveying the Destruction of a Battlefield by Everett Patterson.

192. The Prime Number Shitting Bear

June 26th, 2023  |  1 hr 6 mins

charlie, chkf

Lords: CisHetKayfaber and Charlie. We discuss umbrellas, siphons, and other physical things that seem like hacky bullshit but actually work,
articulating the shape of your internal cause-and-effect network and applying it as a learning superpower, archipelago.gg, and why a skill is less valued the more we love it

191. Carbonated Cream Of Mushroom Latte

June 19th, 2023  |  1 hr 3 mins

chall, wacy

Lords: Chris and Wacy. We discuss crafting little guys, negotiating how to play Zelda together, cream of mushroom latte, ChatGPT's poem about Zelda, and climbing real rocks.

190. The Linguistic Eggplant-Dick Collapse

June 12th, 2023  |  56 mins 11 secs

hallie, tyriq

Lords: Tyriq and Hallie. We discuss clues for secrets nearby, kids on TV hating leftovers, smartphone sales declining 11% in 2022 while sales of flip phones double, The Road Not Taken, what will emoji look like in 100 years?, and a conspiracy regarding the shape of hand-held supermarket baskets.

189. If You Don't Know Who Your Wario Is, You're The Wario

June 5th, 2023  |  55 mins 44 secs

188. An Extremely Gendered Sniper Rifle

May 29th, 2023  |  57 mins 47 secs

erica, maxx

Lords: Maxx and Erica. We discuss zines and jam games, birding in the pandemic, itinerant filmmakers, and "Meditation on Capitalism."