229. This Show Now Available On Cockroach DNA
March 11th, 2024
54 mins 40 secs
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Lords:
- Megan
- Lexi
Topics:
- Erik Satie's performance indications
- Instant food from other cultures (why isn't everyone eating maggi noodles??)
- Seasonal decorations
- Delhi Metro
- Becoming Immortal by being predictable
- Living in different climates (e.g. my experiences with the harsh winters of Chicago vs sweltering Austin TX summers)
Microtopics:
- Music implementation for The Lamplighters League.
- Watching a streamer play games and asking them for a turn at the controls.
- How to pronounce "Erik Satie."
- How to pronounce "Gymnopedies."
- Finding 100 umbrellas in your dead friend's apartment.
- A list of Satie's performance indications.
- Grandly forgetting the present.
- With your bones dry and distant.
- Playing music with your forehead.
- Doing something to a piano.
- Your boss sending a memo asking you to work with a shy piety.
- Pizzicato vs. Bartok pizzicato.
- Adding the hamburger so it's not just Helper.
- What instant foods are missing from your food vocabulary.
- Adding heavy cream to ramen broth.
- Getting an apron so you can have a little costume when you cook.
- Realizing that when you wear the apron you don't get food on your shirt.
- A big bib for Big Jim.
- Normalizing scoop bibs.
- Kraft Dinner.
- Halal certified instant stir fry noodles.
- Ramen in a cup or ramen where you provide your own container.
- Insurance Mac.
- Canned cheeseburgers.
- A boring house with nothing on it.
- Movable feasts.
- Keeping those 12-foot skeletons in your yard and decorating it seasonally.
- The beetles that clean bones for you.
- Recreational Explosives Day.
- A Zachtronics programming puzzle for every holiday.
- A movable feast where you don't eat.
- Decorating your house to celebrate Toyotathon.
- Falling for strangers and their blue hair.
- A poem that is long if you read it but short if you recite it.
- Taking public transit as an act of defiance.
- A gift that is impossible to give yourself on purpose.
- Inventing a shower proof phone so nobody ever has shower thoughts again.
- Putting your phone in a Ziploc bag and watching movies underwater.
- Sitting down at your computer and getting stuck.
- Hacking your executive function by adding friction in the right places.
- Whether Wellbutrin gives everyone tinnitus or just you.
- Death hacks for staying mentally connected to your dead relatives.
- A service that puts your podcast on vinyl.
- Using CRISPR to infect the cockroach population with 229 episodes of Topic Lords.
- Moving to a land where your snot doesn't freeze.
- Not trusting your own weather opinions.
- Surprising yourself by enjoying seasons.
- Driving in icy conditions.
- Standing under the heated lamps like a lizard.
- Waiting for the bus in the dark.
- Learning to drive after you move to a city with public transit.
- Not driving with kids.
- Getting rid of all the bots.
- Sgt. Pepper Bot.