Episode Archive
274 episodes of Topic Lords since the first episode, which aired on October 28th, 2019.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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189. If You Don't Know Who Your Wario Is, You're The Wario
June 5th, 2023 | 55 mins 44 secs
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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."
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187. The Second-Best Whale Playground In Emeryville
May 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 8 mins
cort, stephan
Lords: Cort and Stephan. We discuss asymmetrical USB-C cables, playground improvement over the last decade, bedtime guitar, Where the Wild Things Are, classic game hardware as a kind of virtual console, and constructing a computing environment as a nested series of cages for a child to escape
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186. ADHD Shame Graveyard Of Browser Tabs
May 15th, 2023 | 59 mins 54 secs
benwilson, tim
Lords: Tim and Ben. We discuss Thursday Night, finding your favorite music, never shipping a game and just playtesting forever, Fine Feather, having lots of browser tabs open, and secrets in Super Mario World
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185. 2000-Year-Old Head, Again??
May 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 33 secs
dannyb, kim
Lords: Danny and Kim. We discuss Animorphs, Danny's tech support needs, Youtube channels that summarize movies like Cliff's Notes, CatGPT, M3gan/technology horror movies, and not getting points in Super Mario World
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184. Times New Orange
May 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
alexicographic, andrew
Lords: Alexicographic and Andrew. We discuss what 3 foods are pairwise good but bad all together, talking loudly during movie trailers as an act of anticapitalist subversion, the truth about Moon Mode, The Orange by Wendy Cope, learning Italian from a cartoon dog, being able to identify McElroy fans by how they complement my woodworking, and List of Video Games Considered Artistic
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183. The Radioactive Scone Problem
April 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
john, quil
Lords: John and Quil. We discuss playing a Zelda game before it's spoiled on the internet, RCA's implementation of color TV, the guy next to Jim on BART, 1961 by Robert Lowell, and every civilization independently inventing dumplings.
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182. Baby Baby Mario
April 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
chris, jenni
Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss sleepovers and latchkey kids, the movie adaptation of Jurassic Park 2, the VR episode of Nowhere Man, the space battle over Nuremberg in 1561, &c.
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181. My Own Personal Kennedy Assassination
April 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
avery, tyriq
Lords: Avery and Tyriq. We discuss Adam the Giant, Heathcliff, novelty metal covers about Truly Scrumptious / Doll on a Music Box, and The Phone Call by James Tate.
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180. We Are All Stardust Poop
April 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 1 sec
adam, ichiro
Lords: Ichiro and Adam. We discuss leaning to animate by watching cartoons, Totally Human Rapper, Frog Fractions banned from AGDQ, "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper, and Tiny Mass Games small games cycle.
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179. Get Bad
March 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
alex, shannon
Lords: Alex and Shannon. We discuss reading music badly, guessing the animal from bad old-timey description, how to pronounce "MacPaint," a poem in the options of a Tumblr poll, and airport teleportation.