166. There's Only One Best Topic

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Lords:

• Erica
• Maxx

Topics:

• Freesound.org and the delight of sharing things without fame
  • https://freesound.org/people/Bram/sounds/15543/
  • https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/369065/
  • https://freesound.org/people/smokenweewALT/
• Shutting down the FF2 ARG Twitter account
• Leisure in the 70s
• Snow by David Berman
  • https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/snow-14
• The some potatoes diet
• Plants that can see sorta?
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/

Microtopics:

• The Topic Lords discord.
• Meeting friends in the Kingdom of Loathing chat.
• A virtual birthday party crashing app.
• Piranesi.
• A website where people post sound.
• Wav laundering.
• Purchasing a lion sound effect from an off-Broadway sound effect shop.
• Sending over the can crushing noises that you selected.
• Someone's friend pretending to be a bird.
• Having a roommate named Phil all of whose passwords were “Phil”
• AAA games with Freesound user names in the credits.
• Recognizing Brick Drop 5 from Dope Dragon 69's Freesound portfolio.
• Officer, I was just making a video game!
• The psychology of why no Freesound user has uploaded a good pneumatic tube delivery sound.
• The bank teller watching you and registering your surprise at being delivered a tube.
• The bank tellers noticing that you are shitting into the pneumatic delivery tube and lifting the Gallagher tarp in front of their faces.
• Getting ready for bed and then suddenly recording an episode of Topic Lords.
• SmokenweewALT recording water flowing sounds in Flushing, Queens.
• The best Wikipedia pages.
• Toe Cleavage.
• Cats who have jobs.
• Finding things on Wikipedia that are not directly related to one another.
• Tweeting your disappointment that a weird thing turns out to be part of the Frog Fractions ARG.
• The alternate reality where Frog Fractions 2 launched but nobody ever found it.
• The final unsolved (and now unsolvable) FF2 ARG puzzle.
• Who was solving things?
• New ways to not be at work.
• Another word for having a good time.
• Choosing photos to represent the concept of leisure.
• Phil relaxing on the couch next to his toilet paper.
• Someone who doesn't have a bed but does have two lanterns.
• The guy who has spent fifteen years uploading pictures of his foreskin to Wikipedia just in case someone needs a picture of foreskin.
• Spending so long thinking about someone that you're unsure whether they're notorious to anyone but you.
• A foreskin in repose.
• Believing that genes are immortal survival machines that use our disposable bodies to endlessly replicate themselves.
• The concept of leisure as a human right.
• Serious vs. casual leisure.
• Project-based leisure projects.
• A poem stapled to the wall in a laundromat in Massachusetts.
• Voices hanging close in the new acoustics.
• Explaining to your little brother that the snow angels are angel corpses that a nearby farmer murdered.
• Lying to your child just a little bit, as a treat.
• The Seattle Space Noodle.
• The last Burger King in Amsterdam.
• The most normal person you know.
• Running an impromptu experiment on the internet by asking strangers to eat nothing but potatoes and report back.
• Trying the all-potatoes diet for thirty years.
• Eating 40 potatoes a day.
• Game designer and science communicator Nicky Case.
• Halftato.
• Overdosing on potassium.
• Doctors telling you to cool it with the potassium.
• Why doctors don't know how much chemotherapy to give obese people.
• The doctor from the phrenology department measuring your neck to see if you have sleep apnea.
• Parasitic plants imitating the host plant's leaves.
• Recognizing silhouettes of birds from an 8x8 monochrome image.
• Rapidly changing the hydraulics of your leaves.
• A forest of Max mimicry.