web01.fireside.fm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:55:36 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Walker” https://topiclords.com/tags/walker Mon, 13 Oct 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 312. Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers https://topiclords.com/rubber-baby-knopfler-romplers 96139945-4d54-4741-83f3-18c8d1107469 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Jim Stormdancer full Jim Stormdancer Lords: Danny and Walker. We discuss "You Probably Think This Song is About You," a tour of r/crappymusic archetypes, sample-based film scores in the 80s, Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Clare Harner, and being a video game noob in your 40s 1:21:23 yes Lords: * Danny * https://nightbrunchband.com/ * Walker * https://nightbrunchband.com/ Topics: * You Probably Think This Song is About You * The Perfect r/crappymusic Post: An audio tour of Archetypes * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0291r0zf.jpg * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk * Sample-based film scores in the 80s * https://www.tumblr.com/mogwaipoet/786937779224461312/terminator-2-1991-and-the-princess-bride-1987 * Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, by Clare Harner actually * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotStandatMyGraveand_Weep * Being a Video Game Newb in Your 40s Microtopics: * Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter? * Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords. * Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady? * Night Brunch. * Wearing your own band's t-shirt. * A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen. * Hi Cindy! * Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing. * Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist. * A Touch of Grandiosity. * How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day? * Continuing to discover music from the 1970s. * It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords." * Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens. * All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey. * Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else. * Canadian Actor Dave Coulier. * Tuesday at 3:01pm. * Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar. * Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song. * Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch. * What art is for and what art should be for. * Fun is our only reward. * The objective best pitch wheel range. * The Funky Worm preset. * Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone. * Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000. * thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com * In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend. * Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up. * Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board. * Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments. * The All Topic Fakeouts episode. * The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received. * A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience. * Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip. * Piling onto propaganda music. * Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity. * Graffiti with immaculate copyediting. * With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong. * Only the best crappy music. * Promoting your music in r/crappymusic. * Tori the Clown Rap Gal. * The audacity of extreme autotune. * All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks. * Singing the comments on your last video. * Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world. * Obscure Music That Slaps. * Serbian Kolos. * The Ketron Event Chrom. * The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread. * All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack. * Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker. * Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars. * It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys. * That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses. * Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk. * The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering. * Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers. * All the things you are after you die. * The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.) * Making art about how trauma used to exist. * Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.) * Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR? * Shepherding noobs. * Play Any Video Game Day. * Complicated goose controls. * Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game. * Learning video games vs. learning board games. * Trying to get into video game series that don't change. * Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image. * Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds. * Jumping on and off of buildings. * Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs. * Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn. * Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff. * Spelling brunch the secret way. Lords:

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter?
  • Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords.
  • Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady?
  • Night Brunch.
  • Wearing your own band's t-shirt.
  • A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen.
  • Hi Cindy!
  • Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing.
  • Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist.
  • A Touch of Grandiosity.
  • How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day?
  • Continuing to discover music from the 1970s.
  • It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords."
  • Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens.
  • All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey.
  • Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else.
  • Canadian Actor Dave Coulier.
  • Tuesday at 3:01pm.
  • Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar.
  • Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song.
  • Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch.
  • What art is for and what art should be for.
  • Fun is our only reward.
  • The objective best pitch wheel range.
  • The Funky Worm preset.
  • Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone.
  • Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000.
  • thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com
  • In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend.
  • Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up.
  • Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board.
  • Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments.
  • The All Topic Fakeouts episode.
  • The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received.
  • A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience.
  • Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip.
  • Piling onto propaganda music.
  • Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity.
  • Graffiti with immaculate copyediting.
  • With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong.
  • Only the best crappy music.
  • Promoting your music in r/crappymusic.
  • Tori the Clown Rap Gal.
  • The audacity of extreme autotune.
  • All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks.
  • Singing the comments on your last video.
  • Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world.
  • Obscure Music That Slaps.
  • Serbian Kolos.
  • The Ketron Event Chrom.
  • The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread.
  • All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
  • Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker.
  • Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars.
  • It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys.
  • That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses.
  • Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk.
  • The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering.
  • Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers.
  • All the things you are after you die.
  • The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.)
  • Making art about how trauma used to exist.
  • Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.)
  • Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR?
  • Shepherding noobs.
  • Play Any Video Game Day.
  • Complicated goose controls.
  • Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game.
  • Learning video games vs. learning board games.
  • Trying to get into video game series that don't change.
  • Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image.
  • Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds.
  • Jumping on and off of buildings.
  • Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs.
  • Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn.
  • Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff.
  • Spelling brunch the secret way.

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Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Is it a Topic or is it Just Banter?
  • Cleaning Lords, Lunch Lords and Cat Lords.
  • Have you heard the good word about the Gaylady?
  • Night Brunch.
  • Wearing your own band's t-shirt.
  • A thing that could happen for a while and then was no longer able to happen.
  • Hi Cindy!
  • Motivating yourself to work harder via self loathing.
  • Feeling the need to act all angsty so that people take you seriously as an artist.
  • A Touch of Grandiosity.
  • How many tracks get uploaded to SoundCloud every day?
  • Continuing to discover music from the 1970s.
  • It's called "Topic Lords," not "Correct Lords."
  • Once it becomes impossible to make new music, and we go back and start listening to all the SoundCloud uploads with 0 listens.
  • All the kids at Rock & Roll Camp getting excited about Lofey.
  • Pretending a topic is about one thing when it's actually about something else.
  • Canadian Actor Dave Coulier.
  • Tuesday at 3:01pm.
  • Learning a new chord on your Electric Tenor Guitar.
  • Bringing Pokemon Puzzle League characters into your love song.
  • Having a whole week to dial in that wub wub patch.
  • What art is for and what art should be for.
  • Fun is our only reward.
  • The objective best pitch wheel range.
  • The Funky Worm preset.
  • Synthesizers that can save and load patches but only when plugged into your phone.
  • Coming up with a Rube Goldberg machine to upload patches from a web server to your CZ-5000.
  • thisdx7cartridgedoesnotexist.com
  • In a convex optimization problem, there is no gradient to descend.
  • Fiddling with the synthesizer sliders until you reach a corner of the parameter space that doesn't make any noise and giving up.
  • Camp Counselor Grant hastily drawing all the synthesizer waves on the board.
  • Ask any Geometer, the triangle has three sides. Love triangles are actually just two love segments.
  • The All Topic Fakeouts episode.
  • The gulf between how an artist thinks they're presenting themselves and how they're being received.
  • A Beautiful Rainbow of the Human Experience.
  • Elderly rappers with excellent flow but terrible drip.
  • Piling onto propaganda music.
  • Someone doing their own thing with confidence and authenticity.
  • Graffiti with immaculate copyediting.
  • With improved access to art tools, taste is one of the only things left to get wrong.
  • Only the best crappy music.
  • Promoting your music in r/crappymusic.
  • Tori the Clown Rap Gal.
  • The audacity of extreme autotune.
  • All Youtube thumbnails converging on the same cognitive attention hacks.
  • Singing the comments on your last video.
  • Situations where echo chamber amplification is fun and good for the world.
  • Obscure Music That Slaps.
  • Serbian Kolos.
  • The Ketron Event Chrom.
  • The Nightmare Klaxon that Represents Dread.
  • All the Fairlight CMI presets used in the Terminator 2 soundtrack.
  • Growing up playing samples at every possible speed in Impulse Tracker.
  • Slowly sucking dog food out of a can to simulate the sound of a mimetic polyalloy passing through steel bars.
  • It's been a long day and you're ready to go home but you need to slam 1000 more inverted glasses into bowls of yogurt, let's hurry it up guys.
  • That one sample library squeaking metal door sound that everyone uses.
  • Calling out comb filtering whenever you hear someone exhale deeply while sitting down at a desk.
  • The sound guy instructing all the actors when to breathe to minimize comb filtering.
  • Rubber Baby Knopfler Romplers.
  • All the things you are after you die.
  • The purpose of suffering. (So we can write cool poems about it.)
  • Making art about how trauma used to exist.
  • Why wireheading will not solve our problems. (Because everything uses bluetooth now.)
  • Who needs trauma when we have CRISPR?
  • Shepherding noobs.
  • Play Any Video Game Day.
  • Complicated goose controls.
  • Trying to play Portal as your first 3D game.
  • Learning video games vs. learning board games.
  • Trying to get into video game series that don't change.
  • Looking at the screen and/or ants until it coalesces into an image.
  • Video games filled with really gross blood squirt sounds.
  • Jumping on and off of buildings.
  • Playing Breath of the Wild and just collecting mushrooms and herbs.
  • Grass simulation in Breath of the Wild vs. in Horizon Zero Dawn.
  • Putting yourself in the head-space of the protagonist in order to do protagonist stuff.
  • Spelling brunch the secret way.

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