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

  • 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.

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    205. It's Cool To Get A Letter

    September 25th, 2023  |  1 hr 8 mins
    diener, john

    Lords: Alex and John. We discuss spending four days fasting in the woods, having twins, the Zelda 1 second quest, and "Now the World has Gone to Bed" by Marvin.

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    204. Defrag My Colon

    September 18th, 2023  |  1 hr 10 mins
    chkf, johnb

    Lords: JohnB and CisHetKayFaber. We discuss the human body's similarity to shitty software, the origin of hiccups, books about video games that aren't strategy guides, untitled by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, and TV shows that have inspired original mathematics.

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    203. Only Girls Get Duck Combs For Christmas

    September 11th, 2023  |  1 hr 8 mins
    chkf, phone

    Lords: CisHetKayFaber and Phone. We discuss Metal Gear Solid, children being unable to enjoy things, this extremely specific list of danger signs, Bank Account by Louis Cole, and technical beliefs which may be regarded as superstition but are true to your experience.

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    202. Tim Was My Jim

    September 4th, 2023  |  1 hr 15 mins
    mark, shirley

    Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss why the city gets to decide what is a weed, learning to program as a cheat code for work, poop epidemiology, Insomnolence by Charles Rafferty, and buying food items labeled in a foreign language.