28. Stealing The Dead Skunk Back And Forth Forever
May 4th, 2020
54 mins 1 sec
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Lords:
- April is a beast lord and Jim's wife. @AprilSaur
- Ryan is somehow also Jim's wife? @RyanIkeComposer
Topics:
- 3:56 The "spigot question" Jim keeps avoiding.
- https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/hugin-and-munin/
- A second person may be "cured" of HIV. https://www.vox.com/2019/3/5/18249607/hiv-cure-2019
- 13:05 New Decade reading resolution.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanan_McGuire
- http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub
- I personally recommend starting with "Introductory Antimemetics," which is a good intro to the concepts, then everything starting at "Case Colourless Green," which is the main storyline.
- https://shadesofmagic.fandom.com/wiki/A_Darker_Shade_of_Magic
- 22:54 What does the Nakatomi corporation do?
- 31:07 Favorite zoo animal.
- 40:07 What sandwiches are better suited to a straight or diagonal cut?
- 44:28 I stayed in a hotel in Florence in 2009 where our room had a private bidet but the whole floor shared a toilet.
Microtopics:
- Making a good dad joke on twitter.
- The ravens that have been building a nest behind your corpyard at work.
- The squabbling raven couple next door.
- Being the neighbor who didn't call animal control.
- Trying to remember the names of Odin's ravens.
- Distributing podcast episodes in a post-internet wasteland.
- The kid in middle school who guessed you were from New York because of how you say "basketball."
- Why Jim is such a coward.
- Reaching deep into the topic bucket and pulling out a black ichorous monster.
- A garden hose spigot installed in your butt such that poop sprays forward instead of down.
- Bodily fluids canceling each other out when you miss the toilet and so you just end up with a wet wall.
- Liking ketchup so much you CRISPR a biological ketchup dispenser into your elbow.
- Accidentally triggering your ketchup hands when you're icing a cake.
- Putting a cap on your ketchup elbow so you don't drip ketchup everywhere.
- Whether your new dispenser is a squishy flesh hose or a brass steampunk spigot.
- Reframing your fleshy protuberance that shoots someone else's blood to sound scary and eldritch.
- A spigot that shoots liquid money.
- Making up for your horrifying blood pranks by giving blood.
- Whipping blood into stiff peaks.
- Carnivorous merengue.
- Using science to make human blood safe to eat.
- Letting the listeners hear the good podcast juice.
- Falling down on your New Year's resolution starting in March.
- Watching the Witcher show and then reading the Witcher short stories it was based on and knowing exactly what's going to happen.
- Alchemy and math and words.
- Whether or not reading on a screen still counts.
- Reading your driver's license every night before you go to bed.
- Getting hungry immediately after the body spigot discussion.
- Being over your meal by the time you're done cooking it.
- Assembling duck a l'orange ingredient by ingredient in your tummy and by the time you finish cooking it you're like "I've already eaten this."
- Something standing right in front of you that you can't perceive.
- Deciding not to read scary stories to your wife right before bed.
- Getting ready for prose form, motherfuckers.
- Trying to remember someone's name and only remembering that they have initials.
- Medieval fantasy Londons and their relationships to magic.
- Reading ahead in the tabletop adventure book.
- A vault with 8 different kinds of locks on it, filled with non-negotiable bearer bonds.
- A regular bearer bond except you can't negotiate for it.
- A non-negotiable bond except you can hold it.
- The database documenting the contents of the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Manufacturing tiny toy guns and not being able to fight back against terrorists because your guns are too small.
- Explaining why your tiny gun manufacturer has a money basement.
- Tiny toy guns using only the tiniest gunpowder.
- Writing the first season of your mystery show with the certainty that it'll be canceled after one season.
- Having to figure out what polar bears are after your show gets renewed.
- When a duck decides to start whispering its quacks.
- The most convenient jaguar.
- Biting each other in the face and having a good Bear Time.
- Bats' closest relatives being humans because all their other relatives died.
- Delaying gestation until everyone's pregnant at once.
- Bats all giving birth at the same time and overwhelming the health care system.
- A zoo except for the sea.
- Watching a jellyfish enclosure and asking "what are they doing in there?"
- Plastic bags floating around in the sea except they're alive and they'll still be alive after you're dead.
- The universe being a big stupid donut.
- Nobody giving a shit that you read Great Expectations.
- Garfield being the great literature of the coming era.
- Allegorical lasagna.
- Caramelizing all your onions at once.
- Cutting your sandwich into a pair of rhombuses.
- Sitting on a stack of the most prestigious award in the country.
- Figuring out what axis you can cut a hamburger on diagonally.
- When the burrito guy folds your burrito wrong and the first bite is entirely sour cream.
- Burrito Gaia, filled with loam, mantle and magma.
- Naming your next kid after your least-favorite burrito.
- The food dictator making you a cup of Crispix when all you wanted was grilled cheese.
- The puzzle with the farmer trying to get a hen, fox and grain across the river except it's your butt, your poop, and a jet of water.
- Taking it to squirts-town.
- Building a hotel before they invented the combination toilet/bidet.
- The french word for when you take a dump in somebody's bidet.
- Hygiene strategies if a bird poops on your butthole.
- The nose being an evolutionary strategy to protect our mouths from bird poop.
- Dunking your whole ass in the ass-height sink.
- Just making zoo noises until you've reached the required minimum podcast length.