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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Eitan”</title>
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  <title>118. The Dinosaur Poetry Gap</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Eitan and Xalavier. We discuss being sad nobody forces you to play sports, staring at someone until it gets weird, the spirituality of the right amount of reverb, a t-rex poem by Bill Watterson, untrue facts about human anatomy, things on your bucket list that you'll never do, and why cows have four stomachs but only one butthole.</itunes:subtitle>
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Lords:
* Eitan
  * https://www.firehosegames.com/
* Xalavier
  * https://twitter.com/WritNelson
Topics:
* When I was a kid I hated gym class. Now I'm kinda sad that no one forces me to play sports on a semi-regular basis
* How long is it polite to stare at a person before it gets weird for you, specifically (assuming they haven't seen you).
* When asked why some people find her music to be spiritual, Enya explained that "It's the amount of reverb we use."
* "Eighty Million Years Ago," by Bill Watterson
  * https://sites.google.com/site/mrkoofloradale/common-lessons/language/languagemorecalvinandhobbespoetry
* Untrue facts about human anatomy
* Things that have been on your "I'm gonna do it" list for 10+ years, that you will in fact probably never get around to doing
* Why do cows have four stomachs but only one butthole?
Microtopics:
* Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
* As many digits as you can imagine.
* The trope where you change costumes at a party to make people think you are more than one person.
* Your game's extremely long title breaking Steam's web site.
* Petting dogs using a different hand each time.
* A cat person who made a game about dogs.
* A giant person insisting that you go outside and play sports.
* When seagulls are full grown but they haven't realized they're adults yet so they're still begging other seagulls for food.
* A teenager realizing that they are now bigger than their parents and could beat the shit out of either of them at any time.
* Remembering that you enjoyed basketball in grade school and deciding to play basketball as an adult and realizing that the only adults who are still playing basketball are a thousand times better than you are.
* Observing and fearing that you will be observed in turn.
* Trying to predict who will decide you are a creep.
* Deciding whether you are a creep vs. letting others decide.
* Watching an elderly person for as long as they are still alive.
* Staring at someone forever in a nursing home and nobody gives a shit because there's no staring time limit in a nursing home.
* PvP for Perverts.
* Finding white papers to determine how long it's safe to stare at strangers under various conditions.
* Knowing everything you need to know about someone after seeing them for 1/10th of a second.
* Paying doppelgangers to do good deeds so people instinctively associate your appearance with good deeds.
* The Serious Batmans.
* A guy who is the Penguin who was raised by penguins.
* Figuring out how to make everybody feel every emotion all the time.
* Your own voice being very small but the voices you hear being really big.
* Listening from inside the Gregorian chanter's mouth.
* Finding a dungeon in which to sacrifice your goats.
* The Church of Satan asking to put their goat on display.
* Picking the most terrifying name for your rationalist philosophy.
* A 10 year old putting the Transformers movie on hold at the local library.
* A 30 minute toy commercial that somehow got run on television.
* Watching Optimus Prime die.
* A surprisingly queer road trip impacting robot-kind through time and space.
* Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye.
* Chasing after a glowing cube that's going to give you power.
* Edison making documentary about electrocuting an elephant to prove that DC power is dangerous.
* Falling in love with a pigeon with laser eyes.
* The Christmas story where bloodthirsty reindeer are stalking Rudolph and he hides in a closet and they spot the light glowing under the door.
* Giving your child the talk about where Fortnite skins come from.
* The Santa FPS where your gun is all the reindeer and instead of muzzle flash Rudolph's nose glows.
* A ripped Santa Claus running over Peter Parker.
* Fore and aft serrations.
* Dawdling by the candy shop and being devoured.
* The terrible secret of Ragnasaurth's bones.
* Taking back the soul of the nation via Tyrannosaur poetry.
* TikTok? More like "tick tock it's time to write some dinosaur poetry."
* How neurotransmitters definitely don't work.
* The volunteer who proved that if you uncoil all the blood vessels in the human body they will reach the moon and back seven times.
* All your serotonin languishing under a heat lamp because whoever runs the diner in your brain is a real dick.
* How to convey facial expressions via sound effects in an audio medium.
* Gymnasts getting hiccups by rotating too much and having to rotate the other way to cure them.
* Not being old enough to have a bucket list.
* Fried butter.
* Waiting on tenterhooks for when it's ok to eat fried butter again.
* Deciding on your deathbed to take a bath in butter.
* Learning enough about tubes that you can hack the IV bag whenever you want to get more opiates.
* Two-socks McGillicuddy.
* Whether the guy's name is Fried Jesus or Fried Jesus.
* When you saw one set of footprints in the sand it was because you collapsed thirty miles back.
* Loss-leader churros.
* A really ethical company in a sea of Wal-marts.
* The pros and cons of having four stomachs in sequence vs. four stomachs in parallel.
* The cow not being impressed by the extra buttholes you installed at first, but later thanking you when it needs to propel itself around in microgravity.
* How much of your surface area needs to be butthole before you are yourself considered a butthole.
* A 76% butthole being.
* If the new butthole is shaped like a smiley face, does that mean the cow is happy?
* Professional with a capital p. 
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<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Eitan

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.firehosegames.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.firehosegames.com/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Xalavier

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/WritNelson" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/WritNelson</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>When I was a kid I hated gym class. Now I&#39;m kinda sad that no one forces me to play sports on a semi-regular basis</li>
<li>How long is it polite to stare at a person before it gets weird for you, specifically (assuming they haven&#39;t seen you).</li>
<li>When asked why some people find her music to be spiritual, Enya explained that &quot;It&#39;s the amount of reverb we use.&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;Eighty Million Years Ago,&quot; by Bill Watterson

<ul>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mrkoofloradale/common-lessons/language/languagemorecalvinandhobbespoetry" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/mrkoofloradale/common-lessons/language/languagemorecalvinandhobbespoetry</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Untrue facts about human anatomy</li>
<li>Things that have been on your &quot;I&#39;m gonna do it&quot; list for 10+ years, that you will in fact probably never get around to doing</li>
<li>Why do cows have four stomachs but only one butthole?</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.</li>
<li>As many digits as you can imagine.</li>
<li>The trope where you change costumes at a party to make people think you are more than one person.</li>
<li>Your game&#39;s extremely long title breaking Steam&#39;s web site.</li>
<li>Petting dogs using a different hand each time.</li>
<li>A cat person who made a game about dogs.</li>
<li>A giant person insisting that you go outside and play sports.</li>
<li>When seagulls are full grown but they haven&#39;t realized they&#39;re adults yet so they&#39;re still begging other seagulls for food.</li>
<li>A teenager realizing that they are now bigger than their parents and could beat the shit out of either of them at any time.</li>
<li>Remembering that you enjoyed basketball in grade school and deciding to play basketball as an adult and realizing that the only adults who are still playing basketball are a thousand times better than you are.</li>
<li>Observing and fearing that you will be observed in turn.</li>
<li>Trying to predict who will decide you are a creep.</li>
<li>Deciding whether you are a creep vs. letting others decide.</li>
<li>Watching an elderly person for as long as they are still alive.</li>
<li>Staring at someone forever in a nursing home and nobody gives a shit because there&#39;s no staring time limit in a nursing home.</li>
<li>PvP for Perverts.</li>
<li>Finding white papers to determine how long it&#39;s safe to stare at strangers under various conditions.</li>
<li>Knowing everything you need to know about someone after seeing them for 1/10th of a second.</li>
<li>Paying doppelgangers to do good deeds so people instinctively associate your appearance with good deeds.</li>
<li>The Serious Batmans.</li>
<li>A guy who is the Penguin who was raised by penguins.</li>
<li>Figuring out how to make everybody feel every emotion all the time.</li>
<li>Your own voice being very small but the voices you hear being really big.</li>
<li>Listening from inside the Gregorian chanter&#39;s mouth.</li>
<li>Finding a dungeon in which to sacrifice your goats.</li>
<li>The Church of Satan asking to put their goat on display.</li>
<li>Picking the most terrifying name for your rationalist philosophy.</li>
<li>A 10 year old putting the Transformers movie on hold at the local library.</li>
<li>A 30 minute toy commercial that somehow got run on television.</li>
<li>Watching Optimus Prime die.</li>
<li>A surprisingly queer road trip impacting robot-kind through time and space.</li>
<li>Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye.</li>
<li>Chasing after a glowing cube that&#39;s going to give you power.</li>
<li>Edison making documentary about electrocuting an elephant to prove that DC power is dangerous.</li>
<li>Falling in love with a pigeon with laser eyes.</li>
<li>The Christmas story where bloodthirsty reindeer are stalking Rudolph and he hides in a closet and they spot the light glowing under the door.</li>
<li>Giving your child the talk about where Fortnite skins come from.</li>
<li>The Santa FPS where your gun is all the reindeer and instead of muzzle flash Rudolph&#39;s nose glows.</li>
<li>A ripped Santa Claus running over Peter Parker.</li>
<li>Fore and aft serrations.</li>
<li>Dawdling by the candy shop and being devoured.</li>
<li>The terrible secret of Ragnasaurth&#39;s bones.</li>
<li>Taking back the soul of the nation via Tyrannosaur poetry.</li>
<li>TikTok? More like &quot;tick tock it&#39;s time to write some dinosaur poetry.&quot;</li>
<li>How neurotransmitters definitely don&#39;t work.</li>
<li>The volunteer who proved that if you uncoil all the blood vessels in the human body they will reach the moon and back seven times.</li>
<li>All your serotonin languishing under a heat lamp because whoever runs the diner in your brain is a real dick.</li>
<li>How to convey facial expressions via sound effects in an audio medium.</li>
<li>Gymnasts getting hiccups by rotating too much and having to rotate the other way to cure them.</li>
<li>Not being old enough to have a bucket list.</li>
<li>Fried butter.</li>
<li>Waiting on tenterhooks for when it&#39;s ok to eat fried butter again.</li>
<li>Deciding on your deathbed to take a bath in butter.</li>
<li>Learning enough about tubes that you can hack the IV bag whenever you want to get more opiates.</li>
<li>Two-socks McGillicuddy.</li>
<li>Whether the guy&#39;s name is Fried Jesus or Fried Jesus.</li>
<li>When you saw one set of footprints in the sand it was because you collapsed thirty miles back.</li>
<li>Loss-leader churros.</li>
<li>A really ethical company in a sea of Wal-marts.</li>
<li>The pros and cons of having four stomachs in sequence vs. four stomachs in parallel.</li>
<li>The cow not being impressed by the extra buttholes you installed at first, but later thanking you when it needs to propel itself around in microgravity.</li>
<li>How much of your surface area needs to be butthole before you are yourself considered a butthole.</li>
<li>A 76% butthole being.</li>
<li>If the new butthole is shaped like a smiley face, does that mean the cow is happy?</li>
<li>Professional with a capital p.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Eitan

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.firehosegames.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.firehosegames.com/</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Xalavier

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/WritNelson" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/WritNelson</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>When I was a kid I hated gym class. Now I&#39;m kinda sad that no one forces me to play sports on a semi-regular basis</li>
<li>How long is it polite to stare at a person before it gets weird for you, specifically (assuming they haven&#39;t seen you).</li>
<li>When asked why some people find her music to be spiritual, Enya explained that &quot;It&#39;s the amount of reverb we use.&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;Eighty Million Years Ago,&quot; by Bill Watterson

<ul>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mrkoofloradale/common-lessons/language/languagemorecalvinandhobbespoetry" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/mrkoofloradale/common-lessons/language/languagemorecalvinandhobbespoetry</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Untrue facts about human anatomy</li>
<li>Things that have been on your &quot;I&#39;m gonna do it&quot; list for 10+ years, that you will in fact probably never get around to doing</li>
<li>Why do cows have four stomachs but only one butthole?</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.</li>
<li>As many digits as you can imagine.</li>
<li>The trope where you change costumes at a party to make people think you are more than one person.</li>
<li>Your game&#39;s extremely long title breaking Steam&#39;s web site.</li>
<li>Petting dogs using a different hand each time.</li>
<li>A cat person who made a game about dogs.</li>
<li>A giant person insisting that you go outside and play sports.</li>
<li>When seagulls are full grown but they haven&#39;t realized they&#39;re adults yet so they&#39;re still begging other seagulls for food.</li>
<li>A teenager realizing that they are now bigger than their parents and could beat the shit out of either of them at any time.</li>
<li>Remembering that you enjoyed basketball in grade school and deciding to play basketball as an adult and realizing that the only adults who are still playing basketball are a thousand times better than you are.</li>
<li>Observing and fearing that you will be observed in turn.</li>
<li>Trying to predict who will decide you are a creep.</li>
<li>Deciding whether you are a creep vs. letting others decide.</li>
<li>Watching an elderly person for as long as they are still alive.</li>
<li>Staring at someone forever in a nursing home and nobody gives a shit because there&#39;s no staring time limit in a nursing home.</li>
<li>PvP for Perverts.</li>
<li>Finding white papers to determine how long it&#39;s safe to stare at strangers under various conditions.</li>
<li>Knowing everything you need to know about someone after seeing them for 1/10th of a second.</li>
<li>Paying doppelgangers to do good deeds so people instinctively associate your appearance with good deeds.</li>
<li>The Serious Batmans.</li>
<li>A guy who is the Penguin who was raised by penguins.</li>
<li>Figuring out how to make everybody feel every emotion all the time.</li>
<li>Your own voice being very small but the voices you hear being really big.</li>
<li>Listening from inside the Gregorian chanter&#39;s mouth.</li>
<li>Finding a dungeon in which to sacrifice your goats.</li>
<li>The Church of Satan asking to put their goat on display.</li>
<li>Picking the most terrifying name for your rationalist philosophy.</li>
<li>A 10 year old putting the Transformers movie on hold at the local library.</li>
<li>A 30 minute toy commercial that somehow got run on television.</li>
<li>Watching Optimus Prime die.</li>
<li>A surprisingly queer road trip impacting robot-kind through time and space.</li>
<li>Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye.</li>
<li>Chasing after a glowing cube that&#39;s going to give you power.</li>
<li>Edison making documentary about electrocuting an elephant to prove that DC power is dangerous.</li>
<li>Falling in love with a pigeon with laser eyes.</li>
<li>The Christmas story where bloodthirsty reindeer are stalking Rudolph and he hides in a closet and they spot the light glowing under the door.</li>
<li>Giving your child the talk about where Fortnite skins come from.</li>
<li>The Santa FPS where your gun is all the reindeer and instead of muzzle flash Rudolph&#39;s nose glows.</li>
<li>A ripped Santa Claus running over Peter Parker.</li>
<li>Fore and aft serrations.</li>
<li>Dawdling by the candy shop and being devoured.</li>
<li>The terrible secret of Ragnasaurth&#39;s bones.</li>
<li>Taking back the soul of the nation via Tyrannosaur poetry.</li>
<li>TikTok? More like &quot;tick tock it&#39;s time to write some dinosaur poetry.&quot;</li>
<li>How neurotransmitters definitely don&#39;t work.</li>
<li>The volunteer who proved that if you uncoil all the blood vessels in the human body they will reach the moon and back seven times.</li>
<li>All your serotonin languishing under a heat lamp because whoever runs the diner in your brain is a real dick.</li>
<li>How to convey facial expressions via sound effects in an audio medium.</li>
<li>Gymnasts getting hiccups by rotating too much and having to rotate the other way to cure them.</li>
<li>Not being old enough to have a bucket list.</li>
<li>Fried butter.</li>
<li>Waiting on tenterhooks for when it&#39;s ok to eat fried butter again.</li>
<li>Deciding on your deathbed to take a bath in butter.</li>
<li>Learning enough about tubes that you can hack the IV bag whenever you want to get more opiates.</li>
<li>Two-socks McGillicuddy.</li>
<li>Whether the guy&#39;s name is Fried Jesus or Fried Jesus.</li>
<li>When you saw one set of footprints in the sand it was because you collapsed thirty miles back.</li>
<li>Loss-leader churros.</li>
<li>A really ethical company in a sea of Wal-marts.</li>
<li>The pros and cons of having four stomachs in sequence vs. four stomachs in parallel.</li>
<li>The cow not being impressed by the extra buttholes you installed at first, but later thanking you when it needs to propel itself around in microgravity.</li>
<li>How much of your surface area needs to be butthole before you are yourself considered a butthole.</li>
<li>A 76% butthole being.</li>
<li>If the new butthole is shaped like a smiley face, does that mean the cow is happy?</li>
<li>Professional with a capital p.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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