325. Men, Explain Things To Me!

January 12th, 2026

1 hr 6 mins 28 secs

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  • Being finished with horrible shit.
  • Being in the middle of things forever.
  • The Minutes of the Intermittent Meetings of the Society of Apocryphal Gentlefolk, by Dark Art
  • Coming down from the high of PiCoSteveMo.
  • Explaining PiCoSteveMo to someone like it's their first time at Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • Two things I'm willing to sacrifice to play PiCoSteveMo games.
  • Putting your PICO-8 game in a CRT filter.
  • Lawnmower Man, based on the title by Stephen King.
  • Developing a field system in Puerto Rico.
  • Winston's face appearing to the extent that Zoom thinks it's part of my chest.
  • A deafening hospital siren playing while you're trying to have a good time at the beach.
  • Pirate-themed massage.
  • Stealing the windsurfing gear and going for a ride.
  • Walking past the site of a pirate massage and fatal accident holding a solo cup.
  • Getting pushed off the road by seven full-sized Coca Cola trucks led by a Santa Sleigh and followed by a party truck with a giant octagonal speaker spreading holiday cheer.
  • Charging more for a well-traveled Coca Cola.
  • Holiday-Branded Traffic Jams.
  • Shipping your worst wine to India and it turns out that the sea voyage turns it into your best wine.
  • Spanish Milk.
  • Visiting Puerto Rico during linear time.
  • The Puerto Rican version of Sleep No More in which Bad Bunny might pull you into a dark corner for a one-on-one and it's not clear whether he works for the event or if he's just another attendee.
  • Day 57 of chopping chives on Reddit.
  • Drawing airplanes crashing into the chives that are too long.
  • Working with (and living with) the Chive Lord.
  • Comparing Day 1 chives with day 55 chives.
  • Finding Yoshi in a pile of chopped chives.
  • A job that exists. (But not one you get paid for.)
  • Asking the robot to add heart shapes to your food processor chives.
  • These are the Days of our Chives.
  • Each Sale I Drink a Glass of Water.
  • Self-hosting memes and Turing-complete memes.
  • Phase canceling your tinnitus.
  • Not wanting to look it up because then you'd know.
  • Curing tinnitus with extremely specific grenades.
  • A party where everyone is constantly singing their personal tinnitus tones.
  • Why don't we get bass tinnitus?
  • Can you cure bass tinnitus with snail caviar?
  • The native word for white people who are doing poorly in Alaska.
  • The ice worms wriggling their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow.
  • Pine trees cracking like little guns in the silence of the wood.
  • Prankster Bill dying with his arms and legs outstretched so that he won't fit in his coffin.
  • Poems that demand to be performed with a banjo.
  • Whether they have banjos in Alaska.
  • Having fun with the way words sound.
  • I'm not gonna make it – but I can be an X shape.
  • The Cremation of Sam McGee.
  • Burning your house down to get the insurance money to buy a telescope.
  • Making bad art until it becomes good.
  • Tremors 3: Back to Perfection.
  • A giant worm monster drilling up out of the ground in order to slice chives.
  • Really dwelling on how much you don't have in common with other people.
  • Six topics (and Shrieker Island)
  • A dollmaker on the run after making farcical plays about Hitler.
  • The Saved by the Bell themed music video featuring the same actors as the Final Destination movie it's promoting.
  • Would you take 90 minutes off of your life to have not seen Final Destination 4?
  • The replacement for the 1 to 10 pain scale where you decide which Final Destination movie you'd be willing to watch to take the pain away.
  • Low pain awareness.
  • Chess boxing win/loss ratios.
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