web01.fireside.fm Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:44:10 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Danny” https://topiclords.com/tags/danny Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. en-us episodic The only place on the internet you can hear topics discussed! Jim Stormdancer Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week. yes Jim Stormdancer jim@goombas.org 282. Check Out My Feetbook! https://topiclords.com/check-out-my-feetbook c0d14253-140e-41bb-b27f-b2c7370e315c Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Jeff and Danny. We discuss what's happening on Bluesky, using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places you've lived, and Dad Talk: what do we do about porn? 1:11:01 yes Lords: * Jeff * https://dopeassvideogames.com/ * Danny * https://www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs Topics: * What's happening on Bluesky. * Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived * Dad talk: what do we do about porn? Microtopics: * The Good Morning America series finale. * Covering video games online. * Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites. * Nintendo Disasters. * Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011. * The Sega Master System catalog. * Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before. * A Weird Slop of People. * The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken. * The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo. * Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned. * A hardware Pico-8 solution. * Explaining how to and how not to reply. * Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage. * An Eternal September Situation. * Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago. * An oral history of Bluesky users. * Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch. * The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead. * Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores. * What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm. * Having goats and not even posting pictures of them. * Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates. * Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again? * Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go. * Jumping in a train car full of refined materials. * Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London. * A warped melting representation of your childhood memories. * An emotional VR moment. * Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you. * That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View. * Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more. * The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil. * Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead? * Three year olds who know how to use a remote control. * Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for. * Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there. * What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with. * Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music? * Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else * Beavis and Butthead trading cards. * Scintillating pizza delivery. * Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that. * Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer. * Encountering boys who play Minecraft. * Deploying new words to the wrong people. * Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down. * An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things. * Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children. * Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult. * Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco. * Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over. * A poem that somebody else will read. * Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers. Lords:

Topics:

  • What's happening on Bluesky.
  • Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
  • Dad talk: what do we do about porn?

Microtopics:

  • The Good Morning America series finale.
  • Covering video games online.
  • Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
  • Nintendo Disasters.
  • Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011.
  • The Sega Master System catalog.
  • Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before.
  • A Weird Slop of People.
  • The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken.
  • The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo.
  • Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned.
  • A hardware Pico-8 solution.
  • Explaining how to and how not to reply.
  • Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage.
  • An Eternal September Situation.
  • Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago.
  • An oral history of Bluesky users.
  • Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch.
  • The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead.
  • Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores.
  • What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm.
  • Having goats and not even posting pictures of them.
  • Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates.
  • Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again?
  • Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go.
  • Jumping in a train car full of refined materials.
  • Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London.
  • A warped melting representation of your childhood memories.
  • An emotional VR moment.
  • Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you.
  • That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View.
  • Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more.
  • The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil.
  • Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead?
  • Three year olds who know how to use a remote control.
  • Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for.
  • Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there.
  • What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with.
  • Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music?
  • Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else
  • Beavis and Butthead trading cards.
  • Scintillating pizza delivery.
  • Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that.
  • Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer.
  • Encountering boys who play Minecraft.
  • Deploying new words to the wrong people.
  • Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down.
  • An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things.
  • Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children.
  • Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult.
  • Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco.
  • Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over.
  • A poem that somebody else will read.
  • Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers.

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Topics:

  • What's happening on Bluesky.
  • Using Google Earth and YouTube to rid myself of Nostalgia of Places I've lived
  • Dad talk: what do we do about porn?

Microtopics:

  • The Good Morning America series finale.
  • Covering video games online.
  • Getting married and feeling safe from people who run dating sites.
  • Nintendo Disasters.
  • Reviewing every individual version of FIFA 2011.
  • The Sega Master System catalog.
  • Choosing not to do something because someone else has done it before.
  • A Weird Slop of People.
  • The CD-32 version of Alfred Chicken.
  • The Noclip documentary about PiCoSteveMo.
  • Blood and Fear and Nolf and Shogo and Condemned.
  • A hardware Pico-8 solution.
  • Explaining how to and how not to reply.
  • Enjoying social media because you need a place to type your garbage.
  • An Eternal September Situation.
  • Repeating Daily Show jokes from five years ago.
  • An oral history of Bluesky users.
  • Jimmy Fallon posting a picture of himself holding a Nintendo Switch.
  • The Ford vs. Chevy argument over and over again until we're all dead.
  • Laying your employees off based on their Klout scores.
  • What aspects of social media you can leave behind once you get a goat farm.
  • Having goats and not even posting pictures of them.
  • Goats as a gateway drug to other ungulates.
  • Did I get drunk and order 20 snakes again?
  • Boxcars: Where the Hobos Go.
  • Jumping in a train car full of refined materials.
  • Reminiscing about the time you lived in London and remembering everything that sucks about living in London.
  • A warped melting representation of your childhood memories.
  • An emotional VR moment.
  • Floating in space and hearing a cacophony of national anthems screaming up at you.
  • That time they added your uncle's farm to Google Street View.
  • Looking back on previous eras of your life and remembering why you don't want that kind of life any more.
  • The guy you know who mined bitcoins on his CPU and then spent it on black market Provigil.
  • Why do something that's going to make money when you can do ridiculous bullshit instead?
  • Three year olds who know how to use a remote control.
  • Areas of human interaction that you are just not prepared for.
  • Just putting your Zip disk in the file server and grabbing whatever's there.
  • What kind of porn the owner of the video rental place is personally obsessed with.
  • Why do you never see porn scored with tracker music?
  • Deep appreciation of porn that is made for somebody else
  • Beavis and Butthead trading cards.
  • Scintillating pizza delivery.
  • Explaining to your child that porn is fictional, not a documentary, and leaving it at that.
  • Your daughter asking you questions about Sonic the Hedgehog that you're not prepared to answer.
  • Encountering boys who play Minecraft.
  • Deploying new words to the wrong people.
  • Laying in bed and cursing at ghosts to calm yourself down.
  • An entire generation who goes to the gym and doesn't just watch CKY2K and break things.
  • Doing all the drugs so that you can explain what drugs are like to your children.
  • Learning how to fall as a child so you can fall safely as an adult.
  • Smoking Ice and waking up in San Francisco.
  • Pulling over, opening the hood, and punching the engine block over and over.
  • A poem that somebody else will read.
  • Whether the money has changed the Dwarf Fortress developers.

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]]> 194. How Good It Was, To Have a Toe https://topiclords.com/how-good-it-was-to-have-a-toe 96a5fc09-5f39-4497-808b-5732a965e01c Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Danny and Danny. We discuss redundancy of song lyrics, renaming perfect fourths and fifths, Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer," Upon Julia's Clothes, Oh yes, celebrity deaths getting out of control, and ZZT achievements. 1:19:15 yes Lords: * Danny * Danny Topics: * Most Song Lyrics are redundant * Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong * It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg * Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes * Oh yes * Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control * ZZT has achievements now Microtopics: * Which Danny should go first. * The Noclip Archive. * Night Brunch. * Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness. * Whatever happened to MySpace. * The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with. * Stop making weird things! * Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message. * Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later. * The native language of rock and roll. * Prisencolinensinainciusol. * Irish rap. * All the ways music is redundant. * A very inefficient way to communicate factual information. * The Mentos jingle. * Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons. * Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed. * Teaching kids to love it. * What's perfect about a perfect fifth. * Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison." * Lydian to Locrian. * An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device. * Trying to bring up topics out in the wild. * Even majorer then major. * What it means to be far from A. * A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego. * Keyjazzing. * Weirdos making weirdo outsider art. * The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument. * Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head. * Something to watch. * Economy of movement. * Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space. * The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages. * Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts. * Smutty poetry. * Whether singer songwriters have parentheses. * The Diamond Fleece. * Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word. * Brave Vibrations. * What people thought was sexy in the 1600s. * Talking about a topic because people can hear you. * The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if" * America's Whitest City. * A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said. * Investigating the Cool S for ten years. * Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria. * People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed. * The first celebrity. * Increasing numbers of celebrities. * Industrialized celebrity. * Adopting a future grief machine. * Practicing grief. * Several generations of digital fish. * Trugoy the Dove. * Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music. * Downsides of everyone living forever. * This is a mistake. (Here I go.) * Pre-dead. * Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics. * Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call. * What a time to not want to be alive! * Doing squats so you can get out of a chair. * Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma. * Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames. * ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive. * Caverns of Kroz. * An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups. * Retro Achievements. * Modding emulators to add achievements to old games. * Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F. * Achievements as a ludological device. * Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for. * Citizen Game. * A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not. Lords:

  • Danny
  • Danny

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Which Danny should go first.
  • The Noclip Archive.
  • Night Brunch.
  • Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness.
  • Whatever happened to MySpace.
  • The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with.
  • Stop making weird things!
  • Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message.
  • Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later.
  • The native language of rock and roll.
  • Prisencolinensinainciusol.
  • Irish rap.
  • All the ways music is redundant.
  • A very inefficient way to communicate factual information.
  • The Mentos jingle.
  • Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons.
  • Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed.
  • Teaching kids to love it.
  • What's perfect about a perfect fifth.
  • Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison."
  • Lydian to Locrian.
  • An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device.
  • Trying to bring up topics out in the wild.
  • Even majorer then major.
  • What it means to be far from A.
  • A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego.
  • Keyjazzing.
  • Weirdos making weirdo outsider art.
  • The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument.
  • Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head.
  • Something to watch.
  • Economy of movement.
  • Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space.
  • The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages.
  • Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts.
  • Smutty poetry.
  • Whether singer songwriters have parentheses.
  • The Diamond Fleece.
  • Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word.
  • Brave Vibrations.
  • What people thought was sexy in the 1600s.
  • Talking about a topic because people can hear you.
  • The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if"
  • America's Whitest City.
  • A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said.
  • Investigating the Cool S for ten years.
  • Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria.
  • People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed.
  • The first celebrity.
  • Increasing numbers of celebrities.
  • Industrialized celebrity.
  • Adopting a future grief machine.
  • Practicing grief.
  • Several generations of digital fish.
  • Trugoy the Dove.
  • Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music.
  • Downsides of everyone living forever.
  • This is a mistake. (Here I go.)
  • Pre-dead.
  • Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics.
  • Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call.
  • What a time to not want to be alive!
  • Doing squats so you can get out of a chair.
  • Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma.
  • Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames.
  • ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive.
  • Caverns of Kroz.
  • An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups.
  • Retro Achievements.
  • Modding emulators to add achievements to old games.
  • Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Achievements as a ludological device.
  • Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for.
  • Citizen Game.
  • A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.

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  • Danny
  • Danny

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Which Danny should go first.
  • The Noclip Archive.
  • Night Brunch.
  • Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness.
  • Whatever happened to MySpace.
  • The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with.
  • Stop making weird things!
  • Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message.
  • Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later.
  • The native language of rock and roll.
  • Prisencolinensinainciusol.
  • Irish rap.
  • All the ways music is redundant.
  • A very inefficient way to communicate factual information.
  • The Mentos jingle.
  • Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons.
  • Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed.
  • Teaching kids to love it.
  • What's perfect about a perfect fifth.
  • Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison."
  • Lydian to Locrian.
  • An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device.
  • Trying to bring up topics out in the wild.
  • Even majorer then major.
  • What it means to be far from A.
  • A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego.
  • Keyjazzing.
  • Weirdos making weirdo outsider art.
  • The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument.
  • Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head.
  • Something to watch.
  • Economy of movement.
  • Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space.
  • The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages.
  • Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts.
  • Smutty poetry.
  • Whether singer songwriters have parentheses.
  • The Diamond Fleece.
  • Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word.
  • Brave Vibrations.
  • What people thought was sexy in the 1600s.
  • Talking about a topic because people can hear you.
  • The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if"
  • America's Whitest City.
  • A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said.
  • Investigating the Cool S for ten years.
  • Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria.
  • People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed.
  • The first celebrity.
  • Increasing numbers of celebrities.
  • Industrialized celebrity.
  • Adopting a future grief machine.
  • Practicing grief.
  • Several generations of digital fish.
  • Trugoy the Dove.
  • Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music.
  • Downsides of everyone living forever.
  • This is a mistake. (Here I go.)
  • Pre-dead.
  • Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics.
  • Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call.
  • What a time to not want to be alive!
  • Doing squats so you can get out of a chair.
  • Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma.
  • Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames.
  • ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive.
  • Caverns of Kroz.
  • An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups.
  • Retro Achievements.
  • Modding emulators to add achievements to old games.
  • Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Achievements as a ludological device.
  • Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for.
  • Citizen Game.
  • A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.

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]]> 113. Only You in Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires https://topiclords.com/only-you-in-particular-can-prevent-forest-fires f899a0a1-5152-49c0-8190-24cca06e8517 Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: April and Danny. We discuss favorite desserts when it's hot out, the horror of almost being older than Princess Diana, Abraham Lincolnland, "I Would Like To Describe" by Zbigniew Herbert, Irish surnames as American girl names, words you misunderstood as a child, and Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone. 1:07:08 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Danny * https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/ * April * https://twitter.com/aprilsaur Topics: * Favorite desserts for when it's hot out * The horror of almost being older than Princess Diana * The developer of Abraham Lincolnland has gone on to run a business selling shirts with Vaporwave Abraham Lincoln's Face on them. * http://www.lincolnsoft.com/games/all/ * https://lincolnapparel.com/ * I Would Like to Describe by Zbigniew Herbert * https://poets.org/poem/i-would-describe * Irish surnames as American girl names * Words that you misunderstood as a child and how that affected your life * Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone * https://jordanmechner.com/archive/#2009-11-rainbo Microtopics: * Priming with a prompt. * Using the Inception noise too much so Christopher Nolan angrily accosts you and you can get his autograph. * A selection of nice suits. * The swirl of the chocolate and vanilla duo. * So classy but also so messy. * The counter with fifty different ice creams in buckets. * 99. * A stick of flaky wispy chocolate that you stick into your ice cream. * The two biggest KLF fans in America. * Mid-Atlantic Podcast Time. * Ordering a hot latte in the middle of Summer. * Realizing it's winter and going back into the coffee shop and asking the barista to put your iced coffee in the microwave. * The treat that you would least like to have in the summer. * Hanging your Christmas Pudding from a clothesline. * Hollywood Pudding. * The Devil's Sandwich. * A fancy lad who eats nothing but olives and fig newtons. * Morbid Distance Markers. * Royalophilia. * One princess dies and TV becomes useless for days * The ethical considerations of faking a news segment. * The last time you'll ever think about Princess Diana. * All your dead relatives living in your head. * Never saying your child's name on the internet. * What body part is touching the poison oak in this metaphor. * Refusing to go outside without an EpiPen. * Abraham Lincoln fighting Nazis in the cyberpunk future. * Bringing back beards for presidents. * A 60-page readme about how to run this game in various driver configurations. * Sitemaps. * Selling shirts with Abraham Lincoln's face on them at Milwaukee Marker Fair. * Going full neon. * Covering the entire surface of the shirt with a garish vaporwave pattern. * Describing courage without involving a dusty lion. * Drawing a single original word from your breast, like a rib. * Falling asleep with your hand in a mound of planets. * A fleeting moment of recognition that is often very centering. * Standing at the limits of language. * Word tattoos. * Mostly salt up top. * Describing a moment or a feeling or a concept that is unrelenting in your mind. * Using a trembling glass of water emoji but nobody knows whether you mean anxiety or an approaching T-Rex. * His and Hers Mound of Planets Tattoos. * The Irish guy in the room. * Paying respect to your Irish heritage by naming your daughter "McPhee." * 8 out of the top 10 baby names of 2020. * Having a reaction that nobody else is having. * Don't Start Fires mascots. * Thinking that Smokey the Bear is instructing you to start forest fires because you don't know what "prevent" means. * Only you in particular can prevent forest fires. * Whatever flips your boat. * One of those weird European psychological horrors. * Ha-Ha Hollywood. * Wanting information and figuring out how to get it. * John Romero still having the Apple 2's memory layout memorized 40 years later. * Trying to remember if you've done a podcast. * A cat trying to get you to come to bed. * Only grace tweets. * Overwatch boops. * Overwatch: Global Offensive. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Priming with a prompt.
  • Using the Inception noise too much so Christopher Nolan angrily accosts you and you can get his autograph.
  • A selection of nice suits.
  • The swirl of the chocolate and vanilla duo.
  • So classy but also so messy.
  • The counter with fifty different ice creams in buckets.
  • 99.
  • A stick of flaky wispy chocolate that you stick into your ice cream.
  • The two biggest KLF fans in America.
  • Mid-Atlantic Podcast Time.
  • Ordering a hot latte in the middle of Summer.
  • Realizing it's winter and going back into the coffee shop and asking the barista to put your iced coffee in the microwave.
  • The treat that you would least like to have in the summer.
  • Hanging your Christmas Pudding from a clothesline.
  • Hollywood Pudding.
  • The Devil's Sandwich.
  • A fancy lad who eats nothing but olives and fig newtons.
  • Morbid Distance Markers.
  • Royalophilia.
  • One princess dies and TV becomes useless for days
  • The ethical considerations of faking a news segment.
  • The last time you'll ever think about Princess Diana.
  • All your dead relatives living in your head.
  • Never saying your child's name on the internet.
  • What body part is touching the poison oak in this metaphor.
  • Refusing to go outside without an EpiPen.
  • Abraham Lincoln fighting Nazis in the cyberpunk future.
  • Bringing back beards for presidents.
  • A 60-page readme about how to run this game in various driver configurations.
  • Sitemaps.
  • Selling shirts with Abraham Lincoln's face on them at Milwaukee Marker Fair.
  • Going full neon.
  • Covering the entire surface of the shirt with a garish vaporwave pattern.
  • Describing courage without involving a dusty lion.
  • Drawing a single original word from your breast, like a rib.
  • Falling asleep with your hand in a mound of planets.
  • A fleeting moment of recognition that is often very centering.
  • Standing at the limits of language.
  • Word tattoos.
  • Mostly salt up top.
  • Describing a moment or a feeling or a concept that is unrelenting in your mind.
  • Using a trembling glass of water emoji but nobody knows whether you mean anxiety or an approaching T-Rex.
  • His and Hers Mound of Planets Tattoos.
  • The Irish guy in the room.
  • Paying respect to your Irish heritage by naming your daughter "McPhee."
  • 8 out of the top 10 baby names of 2020.
  • Having a reaction that nobody else is having.
  • Don't Start Fires mascots.
  • Thinking that Smokey the Bear is instructing you to start forest fires because you don't know what "prevent" means.
  • Only you in particular can prevent forest fires.
  • Whatever flips your boat.
  • One of those weird European psychological horrors.
  • Ha-Ha Hollywood.
  • Wanting information and figuring out how to get it.
  • John Romero still having the Apple 2's memory layout memorized 40 years later.
  • Trying to remember if you've done a podcast.
  • A cat trying to get you to come to bed.
  • Only grace tweets.
  • Overwatch boops.
  • Overwatch: Global Offensive.

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Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Priming with a prompt.
  • Using the Inception noise too much so Christopher Nolan angrily accosts you and you can get his autograph.
  • A selection of nice suits.
  • The swirl of the chocolate and vanilla duo.
  • So classy but also so messy.
  • The counter with fifty different ice creams in buckets.
  • 99.
  • A stick of flaky wispy chocolate that you stick into your ice cream.
  • The two biggest KLF fans in America.
  • Mid-Atlantic Podcast Time.
  • Ordering a hot latte in the middle of Summer.
  • Realizing it's winter and going back into the coffee shop and asking the barista to put your iced coffee in the microwave.
  • The treat that you would least like to have in the summer.
  • Hanging your Christmas Pudding from a clothesline.
  • Hollywood Pudding.
  • The Devil's Sandwich.
  • A fancy lad who eats nothing but olives and fig newtons.
  • Morbid Distance Markers.
  • Royalophilia.
  • One princess dies and TV becomes useless for days
  • The ethical considerations of faking a news segment.
  • The last time you'll ever think about Princess Diana.
  • All your dead relatives living in your head.
  • Never saying your child's name on the internet.
  • What body part is touching the poison oak in this metaphor.
  • Refusing to go outside without an EpiPen.
  • Abraham Lincoln fighting Nazis in the cyberpunk future.
  • Bringing back beards for presidents.
  • A 60-page readme about how to run this game in various driver configurations.
  • Sitemaps.
  • Selling shirts with Abraham Lincoln's face on them at Milwaukee Marker Fair.
  • Going full neon.
  • Covering the entire surface of the shirt with a garish vaporwave pattern.
  • Describing courage without involving a dusty lion.
  • Drawing a single original word from your breast, like a rib.
  • Falling asleep with your hand in a mound of planets.
  • A fleeting moment of recognition that is often very centering.
  • Standing at the limits of language.
  • Word tattoos.
  • Mostly salt up top.
  • Describing a moment or a feeling or a concept that is unrelenting in your mind.
  • Using a trembling glass of water emoji but nobody knows whether you mean anxiety or an approaching T-Rex.
  • His and Hers Mound of Planets Tattoos.
  • The Irish guy in the room.
  • Paying respect to your Irish heritage by naming your daughter "McPhee."
  • 8 out of the top 10 baby names of 2020.
  • Having a reaction that nobody else is having.
  • Don't Start Fires mascots.
  • Thinking that Smokey the Bear is instructing you to start forest fires because you don't know what "prevent" means.
  • Only you in particular can prevent forest fires.
  • Whatever flips your boat.
  • One of those weird European psychological horrors.
  • Ha-Ha Hollywood.
  • Wanting information and figuring out how to get it.
  • John Romero still having the Apple 2's memory layout memorized 40 years later.
  • Trying to remember if you've done a podcast.
  • A cat trying to get you to come to bed.
  • Only grace tweets.
  • Overwatch boops.
  • Overwatch: Global Offensive.

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]]> 14. Dad is a Cenobite https://topiclords.com/dad-is-a-cenobite 98ad7633-ab05-4753-8b3d-8e4e32506f0e Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:00:00 -0800 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords this week: April and Danny. We discuss teaching your child the wrong word for something, harbinger households, men's wallets, choosing a new name, the ubiquity of Shen Yun ads, and growing up an extremely unimaginative kid. 1:05:17 yes Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * April is a park ranger at @aprilsaur. * Danny makes video game documentaries at https://noclip.website/ and is on Twitter at @dannyodwyer. Topics: * 4:26 Intentionally teaching your child the wrong word for something. * Dogtooth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth(film) * It turns out the kid's mom was talking to him in English at the same time -- a bilingual household. https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13011269/klingon-as-a-second-language * The "I Can Eat Glass" project. https://www.oocities.org/nodotus/hbglass.html * 14:44 Harbinger households. * https://boingboing.net/2019/12/03/harbringer-of-doom.html * 21:29 Men's wallets. * 31:45 Quill asks: "I've been planning to change my name recently. The first name that I came up with is 'Quill,' but I can't think of a good last name to go with it. Could you give me some suggestions, or some advice on how to come up with cool names?" * We used Hitch Switch to change our names and it saved us a lot of work. (It still involved a lot of work.) https://www.hitchswitch.com/ * The Aphantasia study. https://www.eugencpopa.ro/wp-content/uploads/Afantazia-.pdf * 41:17 Shen Yun commercials are literally everywhere. * Shen Yun 2019 official trailer. https://youtu.be/7H-kYoczCp0 * Shen Yun is "essentially, religious-political propaganda—or, more generously, an extremely elaborate commercial for Falun Dafa’s spiritual teachings and its plight vis-à-vis the Chinese Communist regime." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun * How to use an abacus. https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/intro.html * How to use a slide rule. https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/SRCourse.htm * Baby friendly movie theaters. https://babyfriendlyamerica.com/2016/06/movies/ * 49:50 Woodpeckers can withstand impacts of 100gs. * Woodpecker eating. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPhzGpSspSHx1cA1O-FAAtsFu34MZbg-t * A weasel riding a woodpecker. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/3/150303-weasels-woodpeckers-animals-science-weaselpecker-photos/ * The best source I could find describing the mechanism of any self sharpening maw: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.201001546 * 57:24 Being an extremely unimaginative kid. Microtopics: * Reading numbers off of a list because topics haven't been invented yet. * Giving someone a funny look where the funny part is that you're not looking at them. * Cows that are so cute you want to want to put them in your mouth, which would surely kill them. * The fuzzy cows only being fuzzy because it's winter. * Falling off a cliff being the only way to hurt yourself in Ireland. * The song they teach Irish children about American tourists falling off cliffs. * Age differences being insignificant when you're millions of years old. * Knowing two people but calling them both the same thing because one of their names is too hard to say. * Which animals are close enough to a dog to call "dog." * A perfect 1960s household but the dad is a cenobite. * Not being sure if you have bad luck or if you're just a bad person. * Product researchers studying what you like because everything you like fails. * Lying to researchers so companies will still make products you like. * Eating banana flavored corn flakes while you watch Milli Vanilli music videos on your Betamax player and Ralph Nader is the mayor. * Moving to a zip code where all your neighbors have your same contrary taste in products. * A wallet the size of four king-sized Snickers bars. * Finding paradise in the wrong gender's department at Target. * Feeling the thrill of being free of a giant heavy brick. * Having to buy an expensive, fashionable watch because otherwise your peers won't take you seriously. * Taking a photo of your ID and just showing the cop your Instagram. * Getting a non-folding wallet so your dollar bills won't have creases. * Explaining to the barista that the last guy put the crease in the dollar bill, not you. * Promising the barista you won't fold the coffee either. * Getting a note press so this sort of thing won't happen again. * Getting to say your cool last name into a walkie talkie at work. * Technically not appropriating anything because you're just using culture that's already been appropriated by someone else. * A day full of mostly making people happy, for a change. * Changing your last name to Ass and owing royalties to Ass owners. * An opportunity for some serious synergy. * Radio listeners celebrating other radio listeners. * Deciding to throw the blue checkmark people in with gen pop. * Waiting until you're on your deathbed to watch something to maximize anticipation. * The last thing you see before they turn off the dialysis machine. * Missing out on pop culture because you always click "skip ad" as soon as possible. * Advertising your audience into submission. * Trying to explain a slide rule without understanding what a slide rule is. * Watching Alien in the theater with a baby strapped to your chest. * Evolving to not kill yourself when you head butt a tree. * Having an incredibly fancy tongue. * Squirrels eating every single bulb from your string lights to humiliate you. * A peregrine falcon drowning a songbird in a creek while looking you in the eye. * Always being sure to catch the woodpecker with the beak facing away from you. * Letting the other kids on the playground do the imagining for you. * Deciding whether it's actually "great" to "e-meet" you. Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

  • April is a park ranger at @aprilsaur.
  • Danny makes video game documentaries at https://noclip.website/ and is on Twitter at @dannyodwyer.

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Reading numbers off of a list because topics haven't been invented yet.
  • Giving someone a funny look where the funny part is that you're not looking at them.
  • Cows that are so cute you want to want to put them in your mouth, which would surely kill them.
  • The fuzzy cows only being fuzzy because it's winter.
  • Falling off a cliff being the only way to hurt yourself in Ireland.
  • The song they teach Irish children about American tourists falling off cliffs.
  • Age differences being insignificant when you're millions of years old.
  • Knowing two people but calling them both the same thing because one of their names is too hard to say.
  • Which animals are close enough to a dog to call "dog."
  • A perfect 1960s household but the dad is a cenobite.
  • Not being sure if you have bad luck or if you're just a bad person.
  • Product researchers studying what you like because everything you like fails.
  • Lying to researchers so companies will still make products you like.
  • Eating banana flavored corn flakes while you watch Milli Vanilli music videos on your Betamax player and Ralph Nader is the mayor.
  • Moving to a zip code where all your neighbors have your same contrary taste in products.
  • A wallet the size of four king-sized Snickers bars.
  • Finding paradise in the wrong gender's department at Target.
  • Feeling the thrill of being free of a giant heavy brick.
  • Having to buy an expensive, fashionable watch because otherwise your peers won't take you seriously.
  • Taking a photo of your ID and just showing the cop your Instagram.
  • Getting a non-folding wallet so your dollar bills won't have creases.
  • Explaining to the barista that the last guy put the crease in the dollar bill, not you.
  • Promising the barista you won't fold the coffee either.
  • Getting a note press so this sort of thing won't happen again.
  • Getting to say your cool last name into a walkie talkie at work.
  • Technically not appropriating anything because you're just using culture that's already been appropriated by someone else.
  • A day full of mostly making people happy, for a change.
  • Changing your last name to Ass and owing royalties to Ass owners.
  • An opportunity for some serious synergy.
  • Radio listeners celebrating other radio listeners.
  • Deciding to throw the blue checkmark people in with gen pop.
  • Waiting until you're on your deathbed to watch something to maximize anticipation.
  • The last thing you see before they turn off the dialysis machine.
  • Missing out on pop culture because you always click "skip ad" as soon as possible.
  • Advertising your audience into submission.
  • Trying to explain a slide rule without understanding what a slide rule is.
  • Watching Alien in the theater with a baby strapped to your chest.
  • Evolving to not kill yourself when you head butt a tree.
  • Having an incredibly fancy tongue.
  • Squirrels eating every single bulb from your string lights to humiliate you.
  • A peregrine falcon drowning a songbird in a creek while looking you in the eye.
  • Always being sure to catch the woodpecker with the beak facing away from you.
  • Letting the other kids on the playground do the imagining for you.
  • Deciding whether it's actually "great" to "e-meet" you.

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]]> Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early!

Lords:

  • April is a park ranger at @aprilsaur.
  • Danny makes video game documentaries at https://noclip.website/ and is on Twitter at @dannyodwyer.

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Reading numbers off of a list because topics haven't been invented yet.
  • Giving someone a funny look where the funny part is that you're not looking at them.
  • Cows that are so cute you want to want to put them in your mouth, which would surely kill them.
  • The fuzzy cows only being fuzzy because it's winter.
  • Falling off a cliff being the only way to hurt yourself in Ireland.
  • The song they teach Irish children about American tourists falling off cliffs.
  • Age differences being insignificant when you're millions of years old.
  • Knowing two people but calling them both the same thing because one of their names is too hard to say.
  • Which animals are close enough to a dog to call "dog."
  • A perfect 1960s household but the dad is a cenobite.
  • Not being sure if you have bad luck or if you're just a bad person.
  • Product researchers studying what you like because everything you like fails.
  • Lying to researchers so companies will still make products you like.
  • Eating banana flavored corn flakes while you watch Milli Vanilli music videos on your Betamax player and Ralph Nader is the mayor.
  • Moving to a zip code where all your neighbors have your same contrary taste in products.
  • A wallet the size of four king-sized Snickers bars.
  • Finding paradise in the wrong gender's department at Target.
  • Feeling the thrill of being free of a giant heavy brick.
  • Having to buy an expensive, fashionable watch because otherwise your peers won't take you seriously.
  • Taking a photo of your ID and just showing the cop your Instagram.
  • Getting a non-folding wallet so your dollar bills won't have creases.
  • Explaining to the barista that the last guy put the crease in the dollar bill, not you.
  • Promising the barista you won't fold the coffee either.
  • Getting a note press so this sort of thing won't happen again.
  • Getting to say your cool last name into a walkie talkie at work.
  • Technically not appropriating anything because you're just using culture that's already been appropriated by someone else.
  • A day full of mostly making people happy, for a change.
  • Changing your last name to Ass and owing royalties to Ass owners.
  • An opportunity for some serious synergy.
  • Radio listeners celebrating other radio listeners.
  • Deciding to throw the blue checkmark people in with gen pop.
  • Waiting until you're on your deathbed to watch something to maximize anticipation.
  • The last thing you see before they turn off the dialysis machine.
  • Missing out on pop culture because you always click "skip ad" as soon as possible.
  • Advertising your audience into submission.
  • Trying to explain a slide rule without understanding what a slide rule is.
  • Watching Alien in the theater with a baby strapped to your chest.
  • Evolving to not kill yourself when you head butt a tree.
  • Having an incredibly fancy tongue.
  • Squirrels eating every single bulb from your string lights to humiliate you.
  • A peregrine falcon drowning a songbird in a creek while looking you in the eye.
  • Always being sure to catch the woodpecker with the beak facing away from you.
  • Letting the other kids on the playground do the imagining for you.
  • Deciding whether it's actually "great" to "e-meet" you.

Support Topic Lords

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