168. Take A Gasket, Leave A Gasket

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Lords:

• Erica
• Jenni

Topics:

• Stronger with Stogner
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0MwD8dyko
• What is & isn't ahegao, prescriptivistly
• Wanna Feel Old? 10 Hilarious Examples Of Anti-Piracy Measures In Video Games
  • https://screenrant.com/anti-piracy-video-games-funny/
• The Lanyard by Billy Collins
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50975/the-lanyard
• The "what the fuck" genre of narrative & why it frequently has an unsatisfying ending
• Ed O'Brien on backing vocals
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWuAn6C8Mfc
  • https://floodmagazine.com/44288/ed-from-radiohead-sing-his-own-name/

Microtopics:

• Fighting for credit.
• The discord: it's fun in there.
• Forgetting an entire lord.
• A lot of work to get twice as many views.
• A convenient thing you can put old food in so it doesn't go bad as quickly.
• Gaskets: there's a name for them.
• The British vs. the American conception of a frown.
• Frowning with your face gaskets.
• Doing a cartwheel to feel happier.
• Alan Snape.
• Doing a racy political ad on top of a 40-foot pumpjack.
• What the Texas Railroad Commission does.
• Getting the idea for OPEC from Texas.
• A political ad using the Sugar Hill Gang cover of Apache as a soundtrack.
• The suburban Texan mom solving the climate crisis single-handedly.
• Twerking at the sunrise.
• Field-dressing a moose.
• Fantasy-footballing a female running mate for Theodore Roosevelt even though they didn't have women back then.
• Getting so annoyed at an ad that you have to log back into Twitter.
• Scrolling social media and getting angry by yourself.
• The crucial elements that comprise the ahegao face.
• Electronic Girl.
• The phylogeny of the e-girl.
• Is it Soup?
• Looking at Zelda's face and thinking "okay, that's soup."
• Whether ahegao or Betty Boop are sexy.
• A face that people make to indicate horniness.
• The Betty Boop ahegao: it's bad, folks.
• What is otaku's plan for us?
• Project Lords.
• A web site with JavaScript implementations of video game code wheels of various 90s video games.
• Everybody playing the free version of chess for thousands of years when the paid version is a way better game.
• Why there is no Casio Loopy emulator.
• Finding a tiny blood reservoir for the smallest blood sacrifices.
• Who wrote the Vagina Monologues?
• Moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano.
• What a lanyard is and what it's for.
• How to repay your mom for all the things that she's given you.
• God's Eyes.
• Replacing your son's butt-gasket.
• Being old enough to remember when it was normal for schoolchildren to make their parents an ashtray.
• Making a gumball dispenser in wood shop and using it to convince your mom to buy you a big bag of gumballs.
• 1899.
• A sequence of mysterious things happening.
• A mysterious TV show that ends when you overwater all of your boyfriend's plants.
• The final episode of Lost, where the giant panda shows up and explains that "I'm god and you're in my dream!"
• Comedy typing directly into the Topic Bucket.
• What makes a good ending to a mystery-focused story.
• Mystery as marketing hook.
• How to end a mystery-focused story in a satisfying way without solving the mystery.
• The most normal-looking guy in Radiohead.
• The one guy in Radiohead who doesn't have any fans.
• From the Basement in Rainbows.
• A super chill guy keeping time with his leg.
• Does Ed from Radiohead only sing his own name?
• A Pokemon Named Ed.
• Idiosyncratic ways to describe your favorite band member, that unlock your unique adoration.
• The only member of the band who smiles.
• Absorbing it all as the luckiest person alive playing with your pals in a huge venue.
• The kind of Radiohead fan whose imagination is so powerful that you can't safely let them into Radiohead concerts because they might imagine a bomb.
• The kind of Topic Lord who listens to the show.
• Having some delightful chats in Texas.
• Posing on the pumpjack where nobody will ever see you.