251. Organs Experiencing Red Shift
August 12th, 2024
1 hr 11 mins 19 secs
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Lords:
- Erica
- Casey
Topics:
- Isn't it great to have a coelom?
- Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problem
- Mammals learning to eat cephalopods
- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson
- Personal project retrospectives
Microtopics:
- That thing you just heard.
- Assigning your new hire an office.
- Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.
- The Topic Lords Promise.
- A bag that your organs sit in.
- Undifferentiated tissues.
- How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.
- Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.
- Organisms with high diseectability.
- The anti-coelom lobby.
- Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression.
- The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.
- Fluid things going on in the organism.
- A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.
- Good car ideas.
- A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.
- Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online.
- Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house.
- Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.
- Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.
- The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about.
- Serial Podcast Monogamy.
- Podcast guilt.
- Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness.
- Non-Stop Coelom Celebration.
- My own very special walking bag of guts.
- Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell.
- Losing your baby lips.
- What it's like to eat a planarian.
- Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals.
- The giant squid that have never been seen alive.
- The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.
- Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.
- Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.
- Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea.
- Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.
- Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.
- Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading.
- Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.
- It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!
- A polysexual attitude towards nature.
- Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme.
- Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia.
- Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong.
- Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing.
- Befunge.
- Clojure and other Lisps.
- Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better.
- A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game.
- Fine-grained tactical mistakes.
- Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.
- The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.
- Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.
- Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
- Modern Jim-Style Content.
- Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.
- A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."
- The George W. Bush childhood home.
- A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.
- The ethic of owning a shotgun.
- The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.
- Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns.
- An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.
- The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial.
- A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis.
- Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.
- An assassin of federal judges.