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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Strickland”</title>
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  <title>326. A Dead Quarterback Can Still Score</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Cort and Ben. We discuss the Geek Code, a fun fact about your neighborhood, Every 5x6 Nonogram, The Calf Path, by Sam Foss, and Phillip Rivers.</itunes:subtitle>
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* Cort
* Ben
Topics:
* Oh man, remember the Geek Code?
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
* I discovered a fun fact about my neighborhood
* Every 5x6 Nonogram
  * https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram
* The Calf Path by Sam Foss
  * https://poets.org/poem/calf-path
* Phillip Rivers
Microtopics:
* Secret Playstation Things. 
* Transposing a matrix in SIMD.
* Reclaiming your plug. 
* Trying and failing to use Libby.
* Failing to check out library books from your toilet. 
* State-sanctioned piracy.
* The restaurant where you had the dinner for your wedding. 
* The "my wife" voice.
* Suddenly having nieces.
* Hadad and Barney on Black Square Day.
* The Talos Principal DLC.
* The Geek Code Era. 
* VMS or OS/2 as a defining feature of your personality. 
* Dilbert, Perl, Doom, and X-Files: all equally culturally relevant to this day. 
* The Natural Bears Classification System for Gay Men.
* The Human Code. 
* Your favorite grocery store's end-of-year recap.
* The story of a Venezuelan woman between age 30 and 55, and her top 2000 interests.
* Your favorite vowel in text messages you've sent this year.
* What they call that AE vowel. 
* Speedrunning your entire email history in a weekend. 
* The Miracle Mile, where all the tar pits are. 
* Noted monster Sean "Diddy" Combs.
* Two hip hop producers getting mad at each other.
* Putting a plaque at your hotel explaining that Jim Morrison did not die at this hotel. 
* Being the plaque you want to see in the world. 
* Whether the Museum of Jurassic Technology has reopened after the fire. 
* A very earnest museum about a history that never was.
* Wandering around dazed after every 5x5 nonogram is solved. 
* Doing your part to serve humanity by solving nonograms.
* Do you remember where you were when Every 5x5 Nonogram Section 303 was finished? 
* Why a dippy bird can't keep you online. 
* Gesturing at the idea of collectively solving a problem. 
* Why we haven't heard from Peter Molyneux in a while.
* What three digit numbers nonogram solvers think are interesting. 
* Sending 96 million solved nonograms into space as proof to alien life that humans are still capable of collective action. 
* Feeling bad about having installed an ad blocker and loading up a four hour block of ads from 80s TV.
* Being prosecuted for use of ad blockers. 
* Look at that smirk. That's a man who knows he's preaching but getting away with it. 
* Getting a deck of flash cards to learn all of the pentameters.
* Three iambs and a reverse iamb.
* Your favorite good poems and your favorite shitpost poems. 
* Tony Gang Flame War. 
* Refusing to tackle the 40 year old quarterback after his wallet falls out on the field and the photos of his ten children unfold.
* The median age of football players rising into retirement age as teenagers learn about the health risks and refuse to participate. 
* Using NBA 2K as a metaphor for the decline of civilization. 
* LA finally getting a football team again. (They have two now.)
* Whether they're still playing Starcraft.
* Broken 19 year olds who can't play Starcraft any more because their APMs are too low.
* The experience of attending a live e-Sports event.
* Whether they sell hot dogs and beer to the crowd at the live League of Legends event or if it's all GamerGrub and Feastables.
* A Youtube shitpost made in Garry's Mod.
* Channing Tatum playing the toilet in the Skibidi Toilet movie.
* Al Gore: still alive?
* Whether Wilford Brimley got plastic surgery to look that old. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Cort</li>
<li>Ben</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Oh man, remember the Geek Code?

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>I discovered a fun fact about my neighborhood</li>
<li>Every 5x6 Nonogram

<ul>
<li><a href="https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram" rel="nofollow">https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Calf Path by Sam Foss

<ul>
<li><a href="https://poets.org/poem/calf-path" rel="nofollow">https://poets.org/poem/calf-path</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Phillip Rivers</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Secret Playstation Things. </li>
<li>Transposing a matrix in SIMD.</li>
<li>Reclaiming your plug. </li>
<li>Trying and failing to use Libby.</li>
<li>Failing to check out library books from your toilet. </li>
<li>State-sanctioned piracy.</li>
<li>The restaurant where you had the dinner for your wedding. </li>
<li>The &quot;my wife&quot; voice.</li>
<li>Suddenly having nieces.</li>
<li>Hadad and Barney on Black Square Day.</li>
<li>The Talos Principal DLC.</li>
<li>The Geek Code Era. </li>
<li>VMS or OS/2 as a defining feature of your personality. </li>
<li>Dilbert, Perl, Doom, and X-Files: all equally culturally relevant to this day. </li>
<li>The Natural Bears Classification System for Gay Men.</li>
<li>The Human Code. </li>
<li>Your favorite grocery store&#39;s end-of-year recap.</li>
<li>The story of a Venezuelan woman between age 30 and 55, and her top 2000 interests.</li>
<li>Your favorite vowel in text messages you&#39;ve sent this year.</li>
<li>What they call that AE vowel. </li>
<li>Speedrunning your entire email history in a weekend. </li>
<li>The Miracle Mile, where all the tar pits are. </li>
<li>Noted monster Sean &quot;Diddy&quot; Combs.</li>
<li>Two hip hop producers getting mad at each other.</li>
<li>Putting a plaque at your hotel explaining that Jim Morrison did not die at this hotel. </li>
<li>Being the plaque you want to see in the world. </li>
<li>Whether the Museum of Jurassic Technology has reopened after the fire. </li>
<li>A very earnest museum about a history that never was.</li>
<li>Wandering around dazed after every 5x5 nonogram is solved. </li>
<li>Doing your part to serve humanity by solving nonograms.</li>
<li>Do you remember where you were when Every 5x5 Nonogram Section 303 was finished? </li>
<li>Why a dippy bird can&#39;t keep you online. </li>
<li>Gesturing at the idea of collectively solving a problem. </li>
<li>Why we haven&#39;t heard from Peter Molyneux in a while.</li>
<li>What three digit numbers nonogram solvers think are interesting. </li>
<li>Sending 96 million solved nonograms into space as proof to alien life that humans are still capable of collective action. </li>
<li>Feeling bad about having installed an ad blocker and loading up a four hour block of ads from 80s TV.</li>
<li>Being prosecuted for use of ad blockers. </li>
<li>Look at that smirk. That&#39;s a man who knows he&#39;s preaching but getting away with it. </li>
<li>Getting a deck of flash cards to learn all of the pentameters.</li>
<li>Three iambs and a reverse iamb.</li>
<li>Your favorite good poems and your favorite shitpost poems. </li>
<li>Tony Gang Flame War. </li>
<li>Refusing to tackle the 40 year old quarterback after his wallet falls out on the field and the photos of his ten children unfold.</li>
<li>The median age of football players rising into retirement age as teenagers learn about the health risks and refuse to participate. </li>
<li>Using NBA 2K as a metaphor for the decline of civilization. </li>
<li>LA finally getting a football team again. (They have two now.)</li>
<li>Whether they&#39;re still playing Starcraft.</li>
<li>Broken 19 year olds who can&#39;t play Starcraft any more because their APMs are too low.</li>
<li>The experience of attending a live e-Sports event.</li>
<li>Whether they sell hot dogs and beer to the crowd at the live League of Legends event or if it&#39;s all GamerGrub and Feastables.</li>
<li>A Youtube shitpost made in Garry&#39;s Mod.</li>
<li>Channing Tatum playing the toilet in the Skibidi Toilet movie.</li>
<li>Al Gore: still alive?</li>
<li>Whether Wilford Brimley got plastic surgery to look that old.</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>Cort</li>
<li>Ben</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Oh man, remember the Geek Code?

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>I discovered a fun fact about my neighborhood</li>
<li>Every 5x6 Nonogram

<ul>
<li><a href="https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram" rel="nofollow">https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Calf Path by Sam Foss

<ul>
<li><a href="https://poets.org/poem/calf-path" rel="nofollow">https://poets.org/poem/calf-path</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Phillip Rivers</li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Secret Playstation Things. </li>
<li>Transposing a matrix in SIMD.</li>
<li>Reclaiming your plug. </li>
<li>Trying and failing to use Libby.</li>
<li>Failing to check out library books from your toilet. </li>
<li>State-sanctioned piracy.</li>
<li>The restaurant where you had the dinner for your wedding. </li>
<li>The &quot;my wife&quot; voice.</li>
<li>Suddenly having nieces.</li>
<li>Hadad and Barney on Black Square Day.</li>
<li>The Talos Principal DLC.</li>
<li>The Geek Code Era. </li>
<li>VMS or OS/2 as a defining feature of your personality. </li>
<li>Dilbert, Perl, Doom, and X-Files: all equally culturally relevant to this day. </li>
<li>The Natural Bears Classification System for Gay Men.</li>
<li>The Human Code. </li>
<li>Your favorite grocery store&#39;s end-of-year recap.</li>
<li>The story of a Venezuelan woman between age 30 and 55, and her top 2000 interests.</li>
<li>Your favorite vowel in text messages you&#39;ve sent this year.</li>
<li>What they call that AE vowel. </li>
<li>Speedrunning your entire email history in a weekend. </li>
<li>The Miracle Mile, where all the tar pits are. </li>
<li>Noted monster Sean &quot;Diddy&quot; Combs.</li>
<li>Two hip hop producers getting mad at each other.</li>
<li>Putting a plaque at your hotel explaining that Jim Morrison did not die at this hotel. </li>
<li>Being the plaque you want to see in the world. </li>
<li>Whether the Museum of Jurassic Technology has reopened after the fire. </li>
<li>A very earnest museum about a history that never was.</li>
<li>Wandering around dazed after every 5x5 nonogram is solved. </li>
<li>Doing your part to serve humanity by solving nonograms.</li>
<li>Do you remember where you were when Every 5x5 Nonogram Section 303 was finished? </li>
<li>Why a dippy bird can&#39;t keep you online. </li>
<li>Gesturing at the idea of collectively solving a problem. </li>
<li>Why we haven&#39;t heard from Peter Molyneux in a while.</li>
<li>What three digit numbers nonogram solvers think are interesting. </li>
<li>Sending 96 million solved nonograms into space as proof to alien life that humans are still capable of collective action. </li>
<li>Feeling bad about having installed an ad blocker and loading up a four hour block of ads from 80s TV.</li>
<li>Being prosecuted for use of ad blockers. </li>
<li>Look at that smirk. That&#39;s a man who knows he&#39;s preaching but getting away with it. </li>
<li>Getting a deck of flash cards to learn all of the pentameters.</li>
<li>Three iambs and a reverse iamb.</li>
<li>Your favorite good poems and your favorite shitpost poems. </li>
<li>Tony Gang Flame War. </li>
<li>Refusing to tackle the 40 year old quarterback after his wallet falls out on the field and the photos of his ten children unfold.</li>
<li>The median age of football players rising into retirement age as teenagers learn about the health risks and refuse to participate. </li>
<li>Using NBA 2K as a metaphor for the decline of civilization. </li>
<li>LA finally getting a football team again. (They have two now.)</li>
<li>Whether they&#39;re still playing Starcraft.</li>
<li>Broken 19 year olds who can&#39;t play Starcraft any more because their APMs are too low.</li>
<li>The experience of attending a live e-Sports event.</li>
<li>Whether they sell hot dogs and beer to the crowd at the live League of Legends event or if it&#39;s all GamerGrub and Feastables.</li>
<li>A Youtube shitpost made in Garry&#39;s Mod.</li>
<li>Channing Tatum playing the toilet in the Skibidi Toilet movie.</li>
<li>Al Gore: still alive?</li>
<li>Whether Wilford Brimley got plastic surgery to look that old.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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