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
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89. Pope Hat Guy Covers You With A Towel
July 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
chall, shorts
Lords: Nathan and Chris. We discuss whether to start your whodunit with a spoiler, strange things that come with apartments, Monster Island, No Tengo Dinero, and procrastination techniques.
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88. The Horned Lizard's Final Defense
June 28th, 2021 | 1 hr 12 mins
ryan, tyriq
Lords: Tyriq and Ryan. We discuss whether animals know things and how to find out, invisibility's place on the superpower totem pole, fixing concert videos where the audience claps on 1 and 3, Toxic by Britney Spears, and replacing your least favorite mundane tool or technology.
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87. Fraudl With An Umlaut
June 21st, 2021 | 52 mins 56 secs
chrism, sam
Lords: Sam and Chris. We discuss our inability to think about space-time, non-transitive dice, the court ruling that X-Men aren't human, learning English by talking about diarrhea, and figuring out how to talk to neurotypical people.
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86. Dad Boy Prime And The Shadow of Grung
June 14th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
brayton, gary
Lords: Gary and Brayton. We discuss the Spirit Halloween Youtube channel, drugs we don't want to try, a list of people's favorite mugs, Devo - Theme from Doctor Detroit, undocumented game mechanics, and undead goals.
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85. Corsets For Snakes
June 7th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
alex, shannon
Lords: Alex and Shannon. We discuss playing escape rooms remotely, the best and worst parts of camping, shutting off the PC speaker as a service, Call Me By Your Name, and whether "The Birds" is the first genre zombie film.
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84. Whirling Away Into The Unhearable
May 31st, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
erica, micah
Lords: Erica, Micah. We discuss hidden object games, redesigning the human body, excusing yourself, Beastie Boys - Sabotage, Ryan Reynolds and the Deadpool Cinematic Universe, and watching Shakespeare.
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83. The Wide World Of Pores
May 24th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
avery, stevie
Lords: Stevie and Avery. We discuss fish milk, boats, Angle Grinder Man, the Safety Dance, music generated by food, and the sad Greek tragedy of Ron and Leo Gallagher.
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82. Breadless French Toast a la Dig Dug
May 17th, 2021 | 59 mins 29 secs
cornell, hallie
Lords: Chris and Hallie. We discuss Sylveon, savory French toast, briefcases, Detective Pikachu, and the ethics of making a robot daughter.
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81. The Pianist-Oboist War
May 10th, 2021 | 50 mins 1 sec
amanda, xander
Lords: Alexander and Amanda. We discuss sci-fi stories that are just reskins of stuff that already happens, ancient bitcoin, that time Wienerschnitzel actually served schnitzel, first encountering a song through parody, and bad habits that adventure games teach you.
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80. Xenogears Disc 3 For Smash
May 3rd, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
jp, styger
Lords: Styger and JP. We discuss food as fan fiction, the most unexpected CD to be launched from the face of the Cenobite from Hellraiser 3 that launches CDs out of his face, mandolin slicers, Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr., the oldest food you've eaten, why pigeons love nacho cheese, and a list of every move in every Mario game.
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79. Loose Meat Krispie Treats
April 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 16 mins
diener, john
Lords: John and Alex. We discuss Blaseball: the Musical, keeping the spirit of invention alive, mixing things into ground turkey, As Slow As Possible, existing outside the school system, and the experience of getting glasses.
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78. Uvula Hadouken
April 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
april, brendon, laura
Lords: Laura and Brendon and special guest April. Topics: Home Depot Battle Royale, improving teeth, workshopping a joke about a cat's name, Chickens turn into crocodiles, how to fix queueing in Westworld, and your new pandemic skills.
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77. A Vocal Quirk Of Your Mind (For Other People)
April 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
chall, tyriq
Lords: Tyriq, Chris. We discuss revisiting Game Maker, our anime/JRPG vocal quirks, electric showers, the music video for "Someday" by Weval, and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
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76. The Validity Of Converting Songs To Buildings
April 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 12 mins
aaron, maxx
Lords: Maxx and Aaron. We discuss emotionally correct magic logic, our favorite captchas, AI-remastered Rick Astley, Kegel-based video games, and responsible creativity.
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75. Just Yawn It Out, Brah
March 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
alicia, ryan
Lords: Ryan and Alicia. We discuss throw pillows, why yawning is considered a sign of boredom, art packs/music disks, trying to play every CRPG in chronological order, and whether listening to an audio book is "reading."
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74. The Beef Bar
March 22nd, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
avery, stevie
Lords: Avery and Stevie. We discuss bad public art, the purpose of t-rex arms, Doom 1.0's proto-VR mode, and philosophical questions and concepts you independently discovered as a child regardless of how well-equipped you may or may not have been to explore them in depth.