98. That's Content, Baby!
September 6th, 2021
1 hr 2 mins 58 secs
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Lords:
- Hallie
- Christine
Topics:
- Where are my glasses?
- Nighttime is the time of abstract possibility and imagination because the world is gone.
- This huge tub of homemade toum
- Turn Down For What
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
- Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Q9oXE3ibmmM
- Modern TV re-discovering the episodic format
Microtopics:
- Mining the pre-show banter for a clip.
- Dreaming of producing content every second of your life.
- Getting hooked up to the content matrix and spewing content out of every orifice.
- Burnt Notice.
- Watercresstine.
- Looking upon Burn Notice as your weird uncle who lives in your basement.
- A podcast about discussing episodes of a podcast discussing episodes of Burn Notice.
- Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa you keep the money.
- Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa, it goes to getting Doctor Who back on the air.
- We Are The Timelords.
- Doctor In Distress.
- Needing to stop making a podcast before your listeners can beg you to come back.
- How locals pronounce "Los Angeles."
- Not knowing how to look for your glasses in an apartment because your normally live in a farmhouse.
- How nobody in LA owns more than one chair.
- Whether Hallie's glasses were in the fridge.
- Posting photos of your apartment to the internet so people can help you find your glasses.
- Whether Winston answers the phone at a Korean BBQ restaurant in LA.
- Being awake during the day: terrible.
- The most concrete time of day.
- Going to preschool and answering phones for a Korean barbecue restaurant until daddy picks you up at 4.
- Loving 2am but being in bed by 9:30pm.
- Like a tree but shorter, louder with stickier hands.
- No responsibility except what you make for yourself.
- An emulsion like mayonnaise except instead of tasting like mayonnaise it tastes like garlic.
- Vampires hating garlic because they don't like the taste.
- Whether you can have the vampire gene but not be a vampire.
- Vampirism as a collection of traits that often manifest together, and you're only diagnosed with vampirism if these traits interfere with your ability to do your job.
- How many marshmallows go in fudge.
- Converting from marshmallows when the recipe calls for mini marshmallows.
- Using marshmallows as bait to catch God when everyone knows God hates marshmallows.
- Videos that love to start with a black screen that goes on a little too long when you're watching at one quarter speed.
- A man in a blue hoodie jiggling as something is taking him over.
- Shattering furniture with the power of your raw sexuality.
- The Scully stand-in who is extremely skeptical about how horny this guy is.
- St. Vitus' Dry Hump.
- Could I be a fish doing push-ups?
- Whether there is a Hitmonchan in this bra, and whether it's evolving, and whether we should push B.
- The relief of consuming media and not feeling the need to form any reaction whatsoever.
- Spiking the punch with LSD.
- A cop whose face melts because he doesn't know what you'd turn down for.
- Contracting a bad case of Original Sin and being very angry about it.
- A straight man who stole Elton John's sunglasses.
- Whether DJ Snake looks like a douchebag or just looks French.
- Characters who grow hornier and hornier as over the course of eight seasons.
- The 1943 Watchmen TV series.
- The Veronica Mars model of serialization.
- Whether the Columbo renaissance implies a Murder She Wrote renaissance.
- Whether that's content, baby.
- A character in a romantic comedy who makes web sites for everyone but who can't make a web site for herself.