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

  • 221. Fisher-Price My First Right Click Menu

    January 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 12 mins
    cornell, diener

    Lords: Chris and Alex. We discuss living without software updates, Cyberpunk 2077, arguing with people collecting signatures, and PIECE A SHIT by Sam Pink.

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    220. An Oral History Of Men Riding Cats

    January 8th, 2024  |  1 hr 8 mins
    abby, stearns

    Lords: Abby and Michael. We discuss when podcast ads don't play, Lobsang Rampa, recoloring your teeth, "I've Been Writing You A Poem," by Abby Denton, and rideable cats.

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    219. Jeff Bezos's Butthole Guy

    January 1st, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins
    jay, jenni

    Lords: Jay and Jenni. We discuss learning a skill on a message board, the Baldur's Gate 3 butthole chart, whether giving people ideas helps them, why configuring the thing is more enjoyable than using the thing, and knowing a place vs. having a guy.

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    218. Darmok And Jalad Go To White Castle

    December 25th, 2023  |  1 hr 3 mins
    avery, stevie

    Lords: Stevie and Avery. We discuss medieval musical instruments, the baseball cult who all looked like old-timey barbers, arguing about how needing to pee works, Avery's Non-Mammalian Milk Corner, and Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds

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    217. Rotate Your Plate Breakage

    December 18th, 2023  |  1 hr 7 mins
    maxx, nick

    Lords: Maxx and Nick. We discuss Puzzmo, tableware rotation strategy, Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, and "It Was A Coffin That Sang," by Olena Davis

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    216. I Forget What We Do But We're About To Do It

    December 11th, 2023  |  1 hr 13 mins
    jay, tyriq

    Lords: Tyriq and Jay. We discuss moving and having stuff, teaching a 3-year-old to use a mouse and keyboard, interface traps, Yelp! Review for God, and starting a Youtube channel for kids.

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    215. Taffy Arbitrage Tips

    December 4th, 2023  |  1 hr 3 mins
    ben, johnb

    Lords: Ben and JohnB. We discuss Game & Watch Gallery, Novemberween, square mattresses, Eight Line Poem by David Bowie, and sitting on a bench in Spider-Man 2.

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    214. Oh Shit! That Guy's Got Horse Legs!

    November 27th, 2023  |  1 hr 5 mins
    daniel, xander

    Lords: Daniel and Alexander. We discuss octopus dreams, perception of memory, hike on 58, World of Warcraft over the years, mathematicians not capitalizing your name, polywater, and involuntary trochaic trimeter recognition.

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    213. Urine-Based Interactions With The Scientific Community

    November 20th, 2023  |  1 hr 23 mins
    erica, ryan

    Lords: Erica and Ryan. We discuss dog bone facts, going to Cuba, Candidatos Desulforudis audaxviator, Avoid the Noid by Florence P. Wordsmith, canceling Texas, and shielding an avid gamer from the Final Fantasy 7 spoiler.

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    212. Back In My Day, Kids Actually Crossied The Road

    November 13th, 2023  |  1 hr 10 mins
    andrew, mitch

    Lords: Mitch and Andrew. We discuss how many Super Mario games there are now, owning the domain emailfordogs.com, whether the DMV is hiring kids to jump in front of your car, Love in the Age of Google, the Burrito Run, and storytelling in the WarioWare series.

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    211. Window-Peering Jim Checking Out Your Cats

    November 6th, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins
    cort, elena

    Lords: Cort and Elena. We discuss your baby being due tomorrow, Dogme 95 for web development, visits from neighborhood cats, Potato by Jane Kenyon, the difficulty of designing cooperative board games, and building a conlang generator.

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    210. Good Ideas For Sam Barlow

    October 30th, 2023  |  1 hr 13 mins
    dicey, kate

    Lords: Andrew and Kate. We discuss british food, learning new things, lightswitch abstraction limits, Un Petit D'un Petit, The Old Timey Computer Show, trying to get your friends to play a game that sucks to learn, and watching just the end of movies.

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    209. Do Caterpillars Anticipate?

    October 23rd, 2023  |  1 hr 20 mins
    chall, will

    Lords: Will, Chris. We discuss canoes, blowing soap bubbles with your hands and other party tricks, nissan.com, Nothing Is Too Small Not To Be Wondered About, by Mary Oliver, zombies pretending to not be zombies, and magic.

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    208. E.T. Shot First

    October 16th, 2023  |  1 hr 1 min
    hallie, tyriq

    Lords: Hallie and Tyriq. We discuss not really caring for potatoes, wearing shorts, why ants are on my desk, the go-getters of pre-dawn gym, non-feathered dinosaurs in the public imagination, and McPop.

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    207. Muppet Bird Generation Ship

    October 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 11 mins
    lesley, nathan

    Lords: Lesley and Nathan. We discuss whether wilderness survival is a sport, variation in NextDoor posts, pastry arbitrage, The Light That Shines When Things End, wild takahe returning to New Zealand, and Boston Robotics.

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    206. Waiting Around For Laundry To Be Invented

    October 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 21 mins
    jp, styger

    Lords: JP and Styger. We discuss Super Mario Bros. Wonder, souls departing, using a spacer with inhalers, revisiting the Cosmic Crisp, how to learn to play piano, and teaching our children to pirate.