312. Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers
October 13th, 2025
1 hr 21 mins 23 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Danny
- Walker
Topics:
- You Probably Think This Song is About You
- The Perfect r/crappymusic Post: An audio tour of Archetypes
- Sample-based film scores in the 80s
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Clare Harner actually
- Being a Video Game Newb in Your 40s
Microtopics:
- Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter?
- Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords.
- Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady?
- Night Brunch.
- Wearing your own band's t-shirt.
- A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen.
- Hi Cindy!
- Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing.
- Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist.
- A Touch of Grandiosity.
- How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day?
- Continuing to discover music from the 1970s.
- It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords."
- Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens.
- All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey.
- Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else.
- Canadian Actor Dave Coulier.
- Tuesday at 3:01pm.
- Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar.
- Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song.
- Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch.
- What art is for and what art should be for.
- Fun is our only reward.
- The objective best pitch wheel range.
- The Funky Worm preset.
- Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone.
- Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000.
- thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com
- In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend.
- Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up.
- Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board.
- Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments.
- The All Topic Fakeouts episode.
- The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received.
- A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience.
- Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip.
- Piling onto propaganda music.
- Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity.
- Graffiti with immaculate copyediting.
- With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong.
- Only the best crappy music.
- Promoting your music in r/crappymusic.
- Tori the Clown Rap Gal.
- The audacity of extreme autotune.
- All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks.
- Singing the comments on your last video.
- Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world.
- Obscure Music That Slaps.
- Serbian Kolos.
- The Ketron Event Chrom.
- The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread.
- All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
- Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker.
- Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars.
- It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys.
- That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses.
- Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk.
- The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering.
- Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers.
- All the things you are after you die.
- The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.)
- Making art about how trauma used to exist.
- Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.)
- Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR?
- Shepherding noobs.
- Play Any Video Game Day.
- Complicated goose controls.
- Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game.
- Learning video games vs. learning board games.
- Trying to get into video game series that don't change.
- Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image.
- Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds.
- Jumping on and off of buildings.
- Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs.
- Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn.
- Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff.
- Spelling brunch the secret way.