About the show

Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.

Episodes

  • 121. A Delicious Treat For Your Brain's Ass

    February 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins
    chall, ryan

    Lords: Ryan and Chris. We discuss what position you sleep in and when you're going to die, the power of limes, why we have fingernails, and a poem about garlic bread.

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    120. The Mouse Is For Hippies And Slackers

    February 7th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min
    daniel, jonah

    Lords: Daniel and Jonah. We discuss the energy of Chop Socky, the Resident Evil series, Flettner airplanes, Ogden Nash's poetry, Indonesia, and watching movies without finding out anything about them first.

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    119. Book 'Em, Dildano

    January 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins
    chris, jenni

    Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss Wordle metagamers, obscure fantasy niches, using up all the ink in a ball-point pen, The Tiger by Nael Age 6, Wizard's failure to make D&D fun at high levels, and compare and contrast: Barbarella's energy vs. Zardoz's energy.

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    118. The Dinosaur Poetry Gap

    January 24th, 2022  |  59 mins 41 secs
    eitan, nelson

    Lords: Eitan and Xalavier. We discuss being sad nobody forces you to play sports, staring at someone until it gets weird, the spirituality of the right amount of reverb, a t-rex poem by Bill Watterson, untrue facts about human anatomy, things on your bucket list that you'll never do, and why cows have four stomachs but only one butthole.

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    117. Your Self-Inflicted Artistic Purgatory

    January 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins
    brad, quil

    Lords: Brad and Quil. We discuss what superpowers like shrinking suggests about how we conceptualize reality, how to call your work "art" and not feel bad about it, Stinky Meat and Stinky Feet, Hope is a Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson, visual novels, and the cortical homunculus.

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    116. I Don't Trust Toilets Any More

    January 10th, 2022  |  58 mins 57 secs
    laura, rachel

    Lords: Laura and Rachel. We discuss what to replace your hand with, how to hang out with friends long distance, fake childhood impressions, A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, deleting a food, and soda flavors that should be.

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    115. Intrusive Thought Simulator

    January 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 19 mins
    cishetkayfaber, devonin

    Lords: CisHetKayFaber and Dan. We discuss not understanding the theory behind what you're doing, realizing that nobody cares about the things that make you unique, Shrek's 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, cursed connectors and adapters, the efficiency of vacationing alone, and Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name.

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    114. Memento Maury Povich

    December 27th, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins
    elena, maxx

    Lords: Maxx and Elena. We discuss Celeste and conflict with oneself vs. acceptance of oneself, the Museum of Jurassic Technology and when it's okay to lie to your audience, human jaw shrinkage, Feeding the Worms, and Linguistics of Swearing and Taboo.

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    113. Only You In Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires

    December 20th, 2021  |  1 hr 7 mins
    april, danny

    Lords: April and Danny. We discuss favorite desserts when it's hot out, the horror of almost being older than Princess Diana, Abraham Lincolnland, "I Would Like To Describe" by Zbigniew Herbert, Irish surnames as American girl names, words you misunderstood as a child, and Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone.

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    112. Getting A Lot Of Vengabus Vibes From This

    December 13th, 2021  |  52 mins 17 secs
    johnb, jp

    Lords this week: JP and John B. We discuss seeing Akira and believing that that's what all anime is like, doppelganger/parodies who exist in the same world as their progenitors, the Tonkachi Editor, and There was an Old Man of St. Bees, by W.S. Gilbert.

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    111. Put It In A Vice And Squish It

    December 6th, 2021  |  1 hr 6 mins
    abby, erica

    Lords: Erica and Abby. We discuss scale modeling hacks, why nobody should live here, anal sampling mechanism, The Emperor of Ice Cream, and Andrei Tarkovsky: game designer.

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    110. There Will Be A Last Tweet

    November 29th, 2021  |  58 mins 43 secs
    james, tyriq

    Lords: James and Tyriq. We discuss nostalgia and how to avoid it, nonogram puzzles, everyone cool leaving the internet, The Village of Reason, and journaling on your phone.

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    109. Ultra Rare Cheeto Shaped Like Batman Crying

    November 22nd, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins
    avery, stevie

    Lords: Stevie and Avery. We discuss collectible Cheetos on Ebay, Japanese websites stuck in the 90s, Medieval European and ancient Egyptian philosophy, denatured alcohol, and the unusual puzzles of Star Tropics.

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    108. Sitting And Being Angry At Your Phone

    November 15th, 2021  |  1 hr 21 mins
    mark, shirley

    Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss neuroscience, fertility tracking, when it turns out that a character in a movie is movie-star hot because it's a plot point, Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon, and Tiktok food trends that are more about elaborate assembly than flavors.

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    107. 27 Kilobytes Of Pure Magic

    November 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    jenni, ryan

    Lords: Ryan and Jenni. We discuss video games providing an illusion of competency and how jarring it is when they don't, carcinization, manualism, and playing "AR games" with your own imagination.

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    106. Hearses For Snakes

    November 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 1 min
    alex, shannon

    Lords: Alex and Shannon. We discuss corn mazes vs. hedge mazes, projectable Halloween decoration animations, Dave Mustaine's chair sleeping incident, Rob Zombie - Dragula, and interactive Halloween costumes.