• Wacy
• Chris

Topics:

• Mysterious BART smell between 12th st. Oakland and West Oakland
• Glucose monitor
• Winston has been playing Minecraft. Have you heard about this game? Kids love it I guess.
• The Earth Wants You
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Microtopics:

• Knowing so many Chrises that you refuse to call yourself Chris.
• Not knowing what just happened for the past how, but now there's an hour-long M4A file with your voice in it.
• A whole range of thought experiments that might bear interesting fruit.
• A scrap of papyrus containing a transcript of the first episode of Topic Lords.
• Trash-adjacent smells.
• Whether power substations smell like anything.
• A smell worth seeking out for its own experience.
• A smell for smell connoisseurs.
• A tiny BART Easter egg for your nose.
• A huge amount of substance that is replenishing the smell particles.
• Checking your apps for indescribable smells.
• Closing some Tupperware in a stinky room to preserve the smell forever.
• A rat kingdom living under the BART tracks.
• Where to talk about unsolved mysteries now that Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack went off the air.
• Reintroducing mystery to the world like replenishing a lake with trout.
• What is the goo under the BART 12th Street Tunnel?
• Mystery caches.
• An extremely achievable local mystery.
• Your body surfacing issues you were previously unaware of.
• The full spectrum of diabetes.
• Disposable glucose monitors.
• What type of food are you eating that spikes your blood sugar, and by how much?
• Glucose Curious.
• Sports enthusiasts needing to checking their pulse as they watch the big game.
• Going for a walk right after eating.
• Continuing walking until your blood sugar is back within tolerances.
• Having a bad habit for a few months vs. having a bad habit for your whole life.
• Learning to spot blood glucose meters in the wild.
• Measuring your blood glucose for a month to learn how your body reacts to various foods.
• Getting funneled into videos of a douchebag with spiked hair breaking shit with a hammer.
• Figuring out how to survive the first night in Minecraft with a six year old.
• A game that lets you do lots of different things but doesn't suggest any of them so you have to figure out what you can do and why you would want to do it.
• Java edition mods vs. Bedrock edition mods.
• Mods: they have they mod problem.
• Why they added copper to Minecraft.
• Purposeful exploration.
• Laying down a bunch of the stone that makes The Warden spawn so you can meet your new Warden pal.
• Exploring The End and getting your wings.
• Dragon Quest Builders.
• The Terraria tutorial.
• A weird person to be.
• Vampire Survivors: not the first Vampire Survivors-like.
• Getting to the poem before it's too late.
• Looking through your photos of graffiti
• A cat mermaid playing a violin as if it's a guitar.
• The Earth Wants You To Be Die.
• Emitting a series of tones that insert an image in the listener's mind.
• If you can't handle me at my fish, you don't deserve me at my cat.
• Missing some sleep and some teeth.
• Trying to refute an idea without exposing your audience to the original idea.
• Videos continuing to appear on your travel vlog long after you've finished traveling.

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• Wacy
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• Chris
  • https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall

Topics:

• Difficulties with long term traveling
• Norway
• Why don't they have novelty whipped cream
• The Dirt Man Song, by Carter Vail
  • https://genius.com/Carter-vail-dirt-man-lyrics

Microtopics:

• Specialty pour over filter coffee.
• A very deep rabbit hole of discovery of flavors.
• Drink the Machine: a Clean Metallic Flavor.
• Wacy and Chris.
• Chris or sounds like Chris.
• Living near your friends and family and being able to see them any time you want.
• Spot-it.
• Explaining what "on air" means to someone who has never listened to the radio.
• Why are flickering lights creepy?
• Getting Winston ready for swim class.
• The pressure to hyper-optimize.
• Being in the place where you are all the time.
• The world: it's really big and really full of stuff.
• How to exist in a city where you don't speak the language.
• Things you don't feel like maximizing.
• Grocery store bagged salads.
• Countries that are known for salads.
• Eating nothing but pickled fish and salty licorice during your trip even though you hate both.
• Being delighted by mediocre sushi.
• How many times Topic Lords has been downloaded in Osaka.
• Modern New-Age Scandinavian Food.
• Gas station hot dogs in Norway.
• Ordering a big slab of My Girlfriend is Not Hungry.
• Ways Norway is familiar to Americans.
• Walking around kicking the glaciers.
• Bikepackers.
• Giant highway ferries with six lanes of traffic.
• Brown Cheese Waffles.
• Daylight all night long.
• Normal people going outside and walking their dogs at 1am.
• The song that plays with the baby raccoon spinning in a circle.
• A country that is extremely serious about tunnels.
• Opening up your windows to let the cave air in.
• Visiting the Arctic circle in the winter.
• Good ideas, like Pesto Whipped Cream.
• Orange Cream Whipped Cream.
• The toothpaste tubes with the colored wedges.
• Birthday Cake Coffee Creamer.
• Guava-flavored beer foam.
• Coffee creamer except for beer.
• Chefs seeking out the worst food so they can understand exactly why it's bad.
• The Friendly's Cone Head.
• The Bad-Interesting Food Spectrum.
• Sleep regression, or more generally how you don't always keep forward progress.
• Why kids become picky eaters.
• Replicating the texture of uncooked hot dog in a novelty whipped cream.
• What whippets are for.
• Original flavorless N2O tanks.
• Using the word for amyl nitrite that signifies that you are a VCR owner and not a drug user.
• How to not become dirt in the dirt lair.
• The dirt man's tithe.
• Lying to your kid about cosmology.
• Pretending to believe the little lies as practice for believing big lies.
• Reminding your mom to make a leprechaun trap.
• Making fake boot prints to convince your kids that god is real.
• Reindeer food. (It's just hay.)
• All the years you didn't keep dirt under your pillow.
• The dirt man's dirt man taking you even deeper down.
• Lots of great places where the dirt man can be found.

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• Chris
• Wacy

Topics:

• Crafting little guys
• Negotiating how to play Zelda together
• Cream of mushroom latte
• ChatGPT wrote a poem about zelda
• Climbing real rocks

Microtopics:

• The Marble Hornets/Slender Man oeuvre.
• Copying and pasting a video.
• Sharing a movie you liked with a friend over IM by copying and pasting the title.
• The turnip in Breath of the Wild.
• Attempting and failing to enjoy wood carving.
• Stabbing the Korok until it is less fuzzy.
• A Snapchat filter that makes it look like you're made of felt.
• Losing your needle-felted Lorax and getting upset.
• Kirby eating Halo.
• Hobbies that double as fidget toys.
• Carving a stick into a squirrel.
• Finding polymer clay out in the woods.
• Naturally-occurring fission reactors.
• Nature with really good graphic design.
• Sharing a Zelda save with your life partner and learning a lot about each other.
• Finding every turnip.
• Learning spoilers at an interesting space.
• The huge thing.
• Target's 30-day return policy.
• What Switch games support local wireless multiplayer.
• Playing halfway through a video game before you figure out the most of the systems.
• Stirring until the lumps go away.
• Kombucha milk.
• An incredibly cheap gas.
• The Sus Engineering DIY carbonation guide.
• Cream of Cow Latte.
• Target getting out the UV light to detect traces of cream of mushroom soup on the espresso machine you're trying to return.
• Frothy oily coffees.
• Inventing a culinary taxonomy in which mushrooms and cheese are both fruit.
• Sweet cheese and savory fruit.
• Sweet cheesus!
• Making a yes or no answer incredibly long.
• Rewriting each paragraph until it ends with a word on a line by itself.
• Rapping about Zelda in 1980s.
• Finding plot holes in this poem about the Legend of Zelda.
• Using video games to ignore that you're on a plane for six hours.
• Horror poems.
• "A Crow Looked at Me" by Mt. Eerie.
• Knowing why someone wrote an album but not why people listen to it.
• Bad Two-Sentence Horror.
• Whether Poe's The Raven counts as horror.
• Businesses named after the thing that the building they're in used to be used for.
• Berkeley Bowl's produce section.
• Climbing a boulder that is not labeled with its difficulty level.
• Difficulty inflation at the climbing gym.
• How rocks are shaped.
• A lump that you pinch with your whole hand.
• Reading about a weird thing in Harry Potter and not knowing if it's weird because it's a magical kingdom or if that's how England does things.
• What camping is like in England.
• Taking a four year old to a parkour gym.
• Being a kid and looking forward to finally growing tall enough to skate on the power lines.
• A table full of rock obstacle courses.
• The standards body that certifies what playground equipment is safe to install.
• Old Enough.
• Achieving the Milk Task.
• Not teaching children cursive.
• Having a name because your mom liked it.

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