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

  • 169. Topicless

    January 16th, 2023  |  1 hr 12 mins
    john, tim

    Lords: John and Tim. We discuss compartmentalization, Deus Ex: Revision, Napster pranks, The Last Titan, the Gros Michel banana, and making art even when AI does it better.

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    168. Take A Gasket, Leave A Gasket

    January 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 19 mins
    erica, jenni

    Lords: Erica and Jenni. We discuss Stronger with Stogner, what is and isn't ahegao, feeling old about anti-piracy measures, The Lanyard by Billy Collins, the WTF genre of narrative's often unsatisfying endings, and Ed O'Brien on Backing Vocals

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    167. Riker's Doing The Biting

    January 2nd, 2023  |  1 hr 5 mins
    akash, dannyb

    Lords: Danny and Akash. We discuss 100khz microphones, the town in Alaska that's all in one building, grainy magazine screen shot filters, Hitler is a Jerk, coming back to games after not playing them for a while, and what to call the Vampire Survivors genre.

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    166. There's Only One Best Topic

    December 26th, 2022  |  1 hr 11 mins
    erica, maxx

    Lords: Erica and Maxx. We discuss freesound.org, shutting down the FF2 ARG Twitter, leisure in the 70s, Snow by David Berman, the Some Potatoes diet, and plants that can see, sorta.

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    165. Spitting Wiggly Air

    December 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 11 mins
    mark, shirley

    Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss finding Shirley transformed into a puddle of water, aphasia, Dr. Icecreamwala, Eternal Champion - I Am The Hammer, Teen Censorship, and SCA stuff.

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    164. Dead Bodies Are Always In The First Place You Look

    December 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 12 mins
    nate, tyriq

    Lords: Nathan and Tyriq. Topics: octopodes, teaching your son to drive, breaking the RNG in The Colonel's Bequest, and fixing the camera in Mario Odyssey.

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    163. The Mean Horse Scenario

    December 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins
    laura, mitch

    Lords: Mitch and Laura. We discuss how to get around in the post apocalypse, Super Mario Wiki, the GTA San Andreas conversation system, Last Straw by George Starbuck, and the gradual inflation of Youtube video length.

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    162. The Best Lawyer On Fiverr

    November 28th, 2022  |  57 mins 4 secs
    maxx, quil

    Lords: Quil and Maxx. We discuss not liking apples, Opposite Costco, the Sweet Science, the Village and the Curious Hole, and Balu the best robot.

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    161. How Much Can This Dog Deadlift?

    November 21st, 2022  |  58 mins 8 secs
    avery, shannon

    Lords: Shannon and Avery. We discuss measure words, what even is color, and My Cat is Sad by Spenser Madsen.

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    160. Dracula Never Brushes His Teeth

    November 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins
    elena, shannon

    Lords: Elena and Shannon. We discuss going to Burning Man and not biting your nails, pros and cons of vampirism, twins conjoined at the brain, and "Gray cube, rectangular light," by Clarissa Darling's computer.

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    159. It's Beautiful That We Once Existed

    November 7th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins
    cort, kev

    Lords: Kev and Cort. We discuss losing all your memories around age 4, extreme "kids in trench coat" trope scenarios, Krista and Tatiana Hogan, "Autopsy" by Ross Sutherland, Neighbors overplaying the same playlist, and technology making creative expression easier.

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    158. Bark Mitzvah: Where Your Good Boy Becomes A Mensch

    October 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 9 mins
    erica, johnb

    Lords: Erica and John. We discuss the Nancy Drew point and click adventures, garbage food technology, the grunting American Airlines voice, The Cow by Oliver Herford, indie games of the late 90s and early 2000s, and the Some Potatoes Diet.

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    157. The Boy Who Cried ARG

    October 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 10 mins
    chall, tyriq

    Lords: Tyriq and Chris. We discuss Jim's Mario videos, enjoying worldbuilding but not storytelling, Bigger Luke, the Green Street Mortuary Marching Band, and phantom kangaroos.

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    156. Society Is Moving In A Direction

    October 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins
    alexicographic, jp

    Lords: Alex and JP. We discuss your gravestone audio clip, counting the beats in eenie-meenie, SoundCcan and the SoundScan Era, the scorched-earth strategy for Lowest Positive Unique Integer, and "leaving beautiful ruins" in a video game.

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    155. Do AI Researchers Know About Having Kids?

    October 10th, 2022  |  58 mins 20 secs
    jude, shepard

    Lords: Jude and Shepard. We discuss the attention schema model of consciousness, studying a children's picture book in academia because it was successfully banned out of existence, your favorite floor cocktail, Ode to Waluigi, whether generations used to be a thing, and remembering what the mnemonic is but not what it is supposed to remind you.

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    154. QWERTY In The Streets, Colemak In The Sheets

    October 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 17 mins
    stevie, tyriq

    Lords: Tyriq and Stevie. We discuss striped humans, teaching yourself to type in new horrible ways, where did I get these floppy disk poems, and how to give a tech talk.