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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Lesley”</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <description>Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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    <itunes:summary>Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
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  <title>207. Muppet Bird Generation Ship</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Lesley and Nathan. We discuss whether wilderness survival is a sport, variation in NextDoor posts, pastry arbitrage, The Light That Shines When Things End, wild takahe returning to New Zealand, and Boston Robotics.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Lords:
* Lesley
* Nathan
Topics:
* Thinking of survival shows like Alone, is "wilderness survival" a sport?
* Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor posts
* Pastry arbitrage
* The Light That Shines When Things End
  * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png
* Wild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of New Zealand
* How are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome our new robot overlords or not?
Microtopics:
* Hyper Light Breaker.
* Bumpy Grumpy.
* Recording a podcast from inside a toilet.
* Fishtank bubbling noises.
* Assigning a point value to eating reindeer lichen.
* Eating your belt because someone famous ate their belt once in the 19th century.
* Starving contests.
* Calling in an air drop for your favorite outdoor survivalists.
* The reality show where a guy is living alone in an apartment scouring thousands of magazines for offers of free stuff.
* The "it's a living" joke.
* Pez Guy.
* Trying to redeem Pepsi tokens for a fighter jet.
* A boiler room full of people tilting soda bottles.
* Weary cereal mascots.
* Hippies living in a canyon until Topanga emerges.
* Making a Nextdoor post about a guy peering in your window and the replies are like "it's cool it's just Window Peering Jim checking out your remodel."
* Making a Nextdoor post about finding a baby goat and what do I do and a reply saying "you need to call the Goat Goddess" and another reply saying "I'm the Goat Goddess and I can help you."
* Encouraging microcultures.
* Surfacing positive comments to the top of Youtube videos.
* Using technology to steer people away from being terrible.
* Writing a story about a guy with a sword.
* Writing a parody of bad fanfiction and building Minecraft worlds to support your world building.
* Whether jokes are funnier now or if old jokes are just out of fashion.
* Trying to relate to the kids by saying "I can has cheeseburger?"
* How art used to happen before copyright law fucked everything up.
* The dudes at the farmers market selling tomatoes that are obviously from the grocery store.
* The farm with a sign that says "come pick pumpkins at our pumpkin patch" but the pumpkins are just sitting on the ground and by pick they just meant "select."
* The Quasi-Authentic Experience.
* A pumpkin velcroed to a vine.
* A large hill. (Not a mountain.)
* Making the light a liar, at least until your mid-thirties. 
* Ruining an otherwise amazing moment.
* A Minority Report precog murder kind of situation.
* Whether the light has a bell too.
* A poem that's just a shower thought if you think about it.
* Taking the eggs to an incubation center.
* Muppet Bird flavor.
* Cutting open a cookie monster to reveal the cookie layers inside.
* Seeing the Cookie Monster's leg in the window of the butcher shop.
* The roast chicken saying "It's a living!" as you slice it up.
* Robots that sound like bees.
* Slipping on the ice and hearing the bees.
* Whether fun robots are even scarier than serious robots.
* Moxie the child companion robot.
* A dog named Spot and his SDK.
* Too loud, too scary, too many bees.
* People who can pollinate.
* If it's empty, fill it with bees.
* Memes that the kids don't think are old because they have fallen out of the cultural memory entirely.
* Still being on Twitter because you have games to sell. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Lesley</li>
<li>Nathan</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Thinking of survival shows like Alone, is &quot;wilderness survival&quot; a sport?</li>
<li>Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor posts</li>
<li>Pastry arbitrage</li>
<li>The Light That Shines When Things End

<ul>
<li><a href="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png" rel="nofollow">https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Wild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of New Zealand</li>
<li>How are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome our new robot overlords or not?</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Hyper Light Breaker.</li>
<li>Bumpy Grumpy.</li>
<li>Recording a podcast from inside a toilet.</li>
<li>Fishtank bubbling noises.</li>
<li>Assigning a point value to eating reindeer lichen.</li>
<li>Eating your belt because someone famous ate their belt once in the 19th century.</li>
<li>Starving contests.</li>
<li>Calling in an air drop for your favorite outdoor survivalists.</li>
<li>The reality show where a guy is living alone in an apartment scouring thousands of magazines for offers of free stuff.</li>
<li>The &quot;it&#39;s a living&quot; joke.</li>
<li>Pez Guy.</li>
<li>Trying to redeem Pepsi tokens for a fighter jet.</li>
<li>A boiler room full of people tilting soda bottles.</li>
<li>Weary cereal mascots.</li>
<li>Hippies living in a canyon until Topanga emerges.</li>
<li>Making a Nextdoor post about a guy peering in your window and the replies are like &quot;it&#39;s cool it&#39;s just Window Peering Jim checking out your remodel.&quot;</li>
<li>Making a Nextdoor post about finding a baby goat and what do I do and a reply saying &quot;you need to call the Goat Goddess&quot; and another reply saying &quot;I&#39;m the Goat Goddess and I can help you.&quot;</li>
<li>Encouraging microcultures.</li>
<li>Surfacing positive comments to the top of Youtube videos.</li>
<li>Using technology to steer people away from being terrible.</li>
<li>Writing a story about a guy with a sword.</li>
<li>Writing a parody of bad fanfiction and building Minecraft worlds to support your world building.</li>
<li>Whether jokes are funnier now or if old jokes are just out of fashion.</li>
<li>Trying to relate to the kids by saying &quot;I can has cheeseburger?&quot;</li>
<li>How art used to happen before copyright law fucked everything up.</li>
<li>The dudes at the farmers market selling tomatoes that are obviously from the grocery store.</li>
<li>The farm with a sign that says &quot;come pick pumpkins at our pumpkin patch&quot; but the pumpkins are just sitting on the ground and by pick they just meant &quot;select.&quot;</li>
<li>The Quasi-Authentic Experience.</li>
<li>A pumpkin velcroed to a vine.</li>
<li>A large hill. (Not a mountain.)</li>
<li>Making the light a liar, at least until your mid-thirties. </li>
<li>Ruining an otherwise amazing moment.</li>
<li>A Minority Report precog murder kind of situation.</li>
<li>Whether the light has a bell too.</li>
<li>A poem that&#39;s just a shower thought if you think about it.</li>
<li>Taking the eggs to an incubation center.</li>
<li>Muppet Bird flavor.</li>
<li>Cutting open a cookie monster to reveal the cookie layers inside.</li>
<li>Seeing the Cookie Monster&#39;s leg in the window of the butcher shop.</li>
<li>The roast chicken saying &quot;It&#39;s a living!&quot; as you slice it up.</li>
<li>Robots that sound like bees.</li>
<li>Slipping on the ice and hearing the bees.</li>
<li>Whether fun robots are even scarier than serious robots.</li>
<li>Moxie the child companion robot.</li>
<li>A dog named Spot and his SDK.</li>
<li>Too loud, too scary, too many bees.</li>
<li>People who can pollinate.</li>
<li>If it&#39;s empty, fill it with bees.</li>
<li>Memes that the kids don&#39;t think are old because they have fallen out of the cultural memory entirely.</li>
<li>Still being on Twitter because you have games to sell.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Lesley</li>
<li>Nathan</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Thinking of survival shows like Alone, is &quot;wilderness survival&quot; a sport?</li>
<li>Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor posts</li>
<li>Pastry arbitrage</li>
<li>The Light That Shines When Things End

<ul>
<li><a href="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png" rel="nofollow">https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Wild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of New Zealand</li>
<li>How are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome our new robot overlords or not?</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Hyper Light Breaker.</li>
<li>Bumpy Grumpy.</li>
<li>Recording a podcast from inside a toilet.</li>
<li>Fishtank bubbling noises.</li>
<li>Assigning a point value to eating reindeer lichen.</li>
<li>Eating your belt because someone famous ate their belt once in the 19th century.</li>
<li>Starving contests.</li>
<li>Calling in an air drop for your favorite outdoor survivalists.</li>
<li>The reality show where a guy is living alone in an apartment scouring thousands of magazines for offers of free stuff.</li>
<li>The &quot;it&#39;s a living&quot; joke.</li>
<li>Pez Guy.</li>
<li>Trying to redeem Pepsi tokens for a fighter jet.</li>
<li>A boiler room full of people tilting soda bottles.</li>
<li>Weary cereal mascots.</li>
<li>Hippies living in a canyon until Topanga emerges.</li>
<li>Making a Nextdoor post about a guy peering in your window and the replies are like &quot;it&#39;s cool it&#39;s just Window Peering Jim checking out your remodel.&quot;</li>
<li>Making a Nextdoor post about finding a baby goat and what do I do and a reply saying &quot;you need to call the Goat Goddess&quot; and another reply saying &quot;I&#39;m the Goat Goddess and I can help you.&quot;</li>
<li>Encouraging microcultures.</li>
<li>Surfacing positive comments to the top of Youtube videos.</li>
<li>Using technology to steer people away from being terrible.</li>
<li>Writing a story about a guy with a sword.</li>
<li>Writing a parody of bad fanfiction and building Minecraft worlds to support your world building.</li>
<li>Whether jokes are funnier now or if old jokes are just out of fashion.</li>
<li>Trying to relate to the kids by saying &quot;I can has cheeseburger?&quot;</li>
<li>How art used to happen before copyright law fucked everything up.</li>
<li>The dudes at the farmers market selling tomatoes that are obviously from the grocery store.</li>
<li>The farm with a sign that says &quot;come pick pumpkins at our pumpkin patch&quot; but the pumpkins are just sitting on the ground and by pick they just meant &quot;select.&quot;</li>
<li>The Quasi-Authentic Experience.</li>
<li>A pumpkin velcroed to a vine.</li>
<li>A large hill. (Not a mountain.)</li>
<li>Making the light a liar, at least until your mid-thirties. </li>
<li>Ruining an otherwise amazing moment.</li>
<li>A Minority Report precog murder kind of situation.</li>
<li>Whether the light has a bell too.</li>
<li>A poem that&#39;s just a shower thought if you think about it.</li>
<li>Taking the eggs to an incubation center.</li>
<li>Muppet Bird flavor.</li>
<li>Cutting open a cookie monster to reveal the cookie layers inside.</li>
<li>Seeing the Cookie Monster&#39;s leg in the window of the butcher shop.</li>
<li>The roast chicken saying &quot;It&#39;s a living!&quot; as you slice it up.</li>
<li>Robots that sound like bees.</li>
<li>Slipping on the ice and hearing the bees.</li>
<li>Whether fun robots are even scarier than serious robots.</li>
<li>Moxie the child companion robot.</li>
<li>A dog named Spot and his SDK.</li>
<li>Too loud, too scary, too many bees.</li>
<li>People who can pollinate.</li>
<li>If it&#39;s empty, fill it with bees.</li>
<li>Memes that the kids don&#39;t think are old because they have fallen out of the cultural memory entirely.</li>
<li>Still being on Twitter because you have games to sell.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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