Topic Lords

Jim Stormdancer
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Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.

  1. 2d ago

    366. OCD Knows No Logistics

    Lords: Jenni John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-yda9VTgYs Topics: It'd be nice if while you were dying time extended and you got to play out all the vacations from your anxiety dreams where the whole dream was being anxious in the airport then you woke up Discovering unwatched episodes of your comfort shows What does the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco want with me? The Purple Cow, by Gelett Burgess https://poets.org/poem/purple-cow Microtopics: Guest booking strategies for J names. People who live in LA who are always available to be on a talk show in a pinch. Guesting on Late Night with Conan O'Brien to ask if anyone's seen your lost cat. The 2025 revival of Chess the Musical. Events that you should've gone to when they were happening. Rap battles where they're just rapping chess moves at each other. The song from Chess the Musical that Whitney Houston covered. Slime Tutorials about all your favorite musicals. 2010 European chess suits. Remember when we ruined Slime Tutorials for everyone? The spontaneous generation theory explaining why there's pink slime in your ice maker. 3D-printing a pneumatic tube to go from your ice maker to your air fryer. Marrying a guy who worries about stuff. Reading about various OCD symptoms and coming away with lots of exciting things to obsess over. Being afraid that something scary might happen and you'd be scared by it. The They Might Be Giants song about Hitler standing right behind you. Going to get your Mouseketools. Goofy and Donald dying because you chose the wrong Mouseketool. Prepping for PiCoSteveMo. I put on clothes for this?? Almost buying Gerald's Game in Japanese before stopping yourself. Dr. Zevia: it doesn't taste very much like regular Dr. Pepper. I Enjoy a Fun Can. Stevia: it's not artificial, it just tastes like shit! F**k you! (tm) Nobody gets a Dr. Pepper because they're feeling happy about things. Travel Logistics Dreams. The power to stop a topic mid-topic. Having the bad moustache because you forgot your cute moustaches at home. Putting the twins in their little container and they sleep the whole flight. Playing the opening song from My Neighbor Totoro on loop. Dying in Wisconsin and waking up in real life. Tell me about your comfort shows and I'll tell you about my comfort shows. Reading a cue card filled with amusing lies about yourself. Putting on your headphones to manage your dopamine. David Mitchell's poshest moments. Watching Star Trek Voyager in the background while you do other things. How to watch the mpreg episode of Bluey. The episodes of Community and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that They don't want you to see. Trying to become the guy who's seen all of Seinfeld but you peter out after episode 2. Spine Transfers vs. Spine Transplant. Getting a Skateality by pushing Sub Zero's spine transfer button. Pogo Grapple Murderers, Just Murderers and Just Murderers: Havana Nights. Jim's game jam era. Calling your husband from every Consulate in San Francisco. Why now, brown cow? Which of Jim's friends would think it was funny to prank call him from the Chinese Consulate. Steve Stormfractions. Handing out business cards with your phone number on them and then realizing that there's no way you're ever going to answer the phone. A Memory and a Cadence. Finishing a poem with finger guns. Your boomer mom reading you a nonsensical poem and you're like "Wake up and smell the 90s, mom! Where's Clarissa to explain it all?" The Goops licking their knives. Whether Thomas Payne's political pamphlets were zines. Fleeing from Boston to San Francisco. San Francisco zine budgets getting out of control. Is your cryptocurrency doing everything it needs to for your cloud computing?! A billboard that makes you talk about the Metaverse on your Internet audio zine. Car gone? Call Sargon! Jesus died because porn wasn't good enough. Go to your web zone! Put in the digits! Telling Jim about the PiCoSteveMo game you're going to make so he'll invite you to the Topic Lords discord so you can be part of the PiCoSteveMo thread. The numeric value measuring how much people like you and respect what you say.

  2. Oct 19

    365. Repel Mode

    Lords: Merlin https://linktr.ee/alexglow Tyriq https://oddobject.zone/ Topics: Holograms for the eyes & ears (making holograms & immersive binaural recordings) Merlin's holography references: Process for creating Denisyuk holograms (single-beam reflection holograms): http://www.holography.ru/les1eng.htm More in-depth info (MIT Open Courseware): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mas-450-holographic-imaging-spring-2003/9668ed9d2cbf0b127b5c1d1a770b2275_ch16inlinereflectionh.pdf Or another explanation you may prefer: https://holographer.com/single-beam-reflection-holograms I also mentioned transmission holograms (which requires a laser beam of the same wavelength to reconstruct/view the hologram, but can achieve greater depth) Also might have mentioned the Litiholo kits – which provide a more instant, darkroom-less, "Polaroid-style" holography process. I made some of these, removed the plastic film with the recorded holo, and cut them up for use in jewelry: https://litiholo.com/ "Astropilot" Soviet arcade machine, ft. Pepper's ghost effect (NOT a hologram): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAShNzaj6s Josh Ellingson also does some cool Pepper's Ghost art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPt7oqunrbg I realized the term I was looking for, to define (IMO) a hologram, is PARALLAX! Where it looks different based on the viewing angle, and also creates the illusion of depth with binocular vision :) Immersive binaural stereo recording: Recordings I made with my old Hooke Audio binaural-mic earbuds... Resonant tunnel singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLV7SG-h4g Rain & crickets along Mystic River, MA: https://soundcloud.com/alexglow/rain-crickets-along-mystic-river-ma-spatial-audio Imogen Heap performing Hide and Seek inside a decommissioned nuclear reactor (during Music Tech Fest 2018): https://www.instagram.com/tv/BnbfFaPg6AB Reaktorhallen tour: https://www.instagram.com/tv/BnZiRqPg4fv More on the reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1_(nuclear_reactor) Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset = the set of recording earbuds I currently use: https://hifiplus.com/articles/sennheiser-ambeo-smart-headset-binaural-recording-earphones What it's like to fall in love for the first time at 36? Attract mode God is Change by Octavia Butler https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ Microtopics: The AAA studio making Scrubbin' Trubble 2. The Amnesia Fortnight kickstarter. Inviting the entire games industry to participate in PiCoSteveMo. What common English words have "merlin" in them. Custom circuit boards for changing your brain functions. In-season fruits. The partner who gets people to pay you. How hard is the "supposed to" supposed to? Going to jail for paying taxes incorrectly. An independent study in holography. Approaching the Altar to Holography and making sure all the inner tubes are evenly inflated. Stamped-foil holograms. Bertrand Fluffle. Head Related Transfer Function. 2D vs. 3D Pepper's Ghost. Hologram, or "complete writing" Whether Princess Leia is a hologram. Interference-based situations. The mall globe thingamajigs. Yelling at random people not to give you unsolicited advice. Fediverse like transmission reliability. Deciding to fall in love for anthropological purposes. Asking the person who just confessed love for you what you're supposed to do with this information. LOL. LMAO, even. Two people who think that the same Spanish words are cool. Thinking really hard about how to make your child be a good person. Relationship red flags and green flags. Liking yourself and thinking you're pretty cool. Getting some good art about your relationship situation. Slot machine attract modes. The three little pigs slot machine expanded universe. Snood on the iPod Touch. What does and doesn't count as attract mode. The UFO 50 text entry screen. The UFO 50 attract mode process. Who made the Ding Dong Dang backend? Whether attract mode should show high aspirational level play vs. poor play. Mobile game ads that show you the player being very bad at the game vs. mobile game ads that just show you something incredibly gross. Whiskey and Blue Whiskey. Whether your hair color comes across on audio. Everyone's attract mode is someone else's repel mode. Paying 25 cents to get the jukebox to play no music for three minutes. Countering the previous guy's jukebox selection by putting in a nega quarter that mutually dissolves the regular quarter. Arcade attract modes that are so annoying that you put in a quarter just to make them stop. Earthseed vs.Earthsea. The Serenity Prayer. Wherewithal, fortitude, chutzpah, stick-to-it-iveness. A two-poem show. Fascination with texts that are parsed in a non-religious way. The Tyriq tag. The Tags are Clean.

  3. Oct 12

    364. Boys Don't Know About Cassowary Man

    Lords: Maxx Avery Topics: False brochures https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/513415/Green-Oaks Owning the wrong game console https://desertstormcards.com/ The middle 90% principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 The God Abandons Antony, by C.P. Cavafy https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/the-canon/the-god-abandons-antony Microtopics: A person, in Seattle and on the Internet. Upcoming puppet shows. Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam. Portland Puppet People. Giant puppets made from shards of cardboard hanging from the ceiling. When people treat the puppet as real because the puppeteer did such a good job. Various tasks that would be challenging got moths. Girls go to university and boys go to cassowaryversity. Social Media! Spotify looking at your cover art and telling you "this would be better if it was AI-generated." A Swedish pop duo originally consisting of two Swedish people. A brochure that's slightly about your health. A picture in which everyone is smiling even though one of them is undergoing a medical procedure. Convincing elderly role-players to retire. Volunteering to DM at your local retirement home. Talking to your best friend, an emoji on a white orb. The part of the retirement home brochure about making a scene where it's like "if you can't think of anything to yell at your nurse here's some ideas" Growing old to become the dad from Frasier. A high school student making a horror film hiring a bunch of 30 year olds to play the teenagers. A brochure explaining what time is and different models of thinking about time. Handing about brochures about yourself in lieu of business cards. Marvel and DC comic book cards. Topps Operation Enduring Freedom collectible cards. The holographic Obama Bin Laden card. Sitting in class and contemplating why George W. Bush is touching the side of someone's head. Choosing to collect the Operation Desert Storm cards rather than the Operation Enduring Freedom series because it's more nostalgic. Trading some Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards for a mint condition Condoleeza Rice. Britain's Tony Blair: a Staunch Ally. Why you have that tattoo of Bonk on your stomach. Aphex Twin pressing play on his laptop and then just pacing back and forth on the stage looking angry as people dance. The Asylum Pictures of the video game industry. Kids in the neighborhood no longer coming over as soon as your neighbor gets a Super Nintendo. Nintendo localizing all the onigiri out of NES games. Kanye West's unfinished concept album about the Turbo Grafx 16. Freezing your credit card in a block of ice, but for children. A ten year old in the process of becoming a vegetarian. Running out of existential concerns before you turn ten and never developing any more. Japanese kids accepting Transformers at face value, like "of course this gun would turn into a guy" whereas American kids needed a Saturday morning cartoon to explain that it's because they're made of transformium and eat energon. Slightly malproportioned villain with a Shakespeare collar and a claw hand Going out to run errands in jeans, a t-shirt and a Shakespeare collar. How many pieces of s suit it is if you're just wearing sock garters that nobody can see. Custom colors for your Turbo Grafx?! Extremely serious Bombermans. The 90% parking principle. Calculating the approximate maximum height of a human based on having no information about humans. Mathematicians and philosophers yelling at their Windows Phones about this podcast. Trying a cup of coffee and saying "it needs more beans." Suddenly realizing that you might live to be 940. A poem who only writes about ancient Rome. Waking up to hear an invisible parade leaving Alexandria. Feeling the portents of the moment. A classic of Art Terrorism. Replacement-level mid-90s R&B. A 22 minute song including everything everyone likes best in a song. Every commercially-released Beatles song playing at once. A particular teacher who always enters the classroom in the same way. Every Topic Lords guest needing the same brand of squeaky rubber chicken A nickname that a radio DJ gave you when you were 15.

  4. Oct 12

    364B. Meat on the Chat Bones (I Could Chew That)

    This is the pre-show banter and topic negotiation for episode 364, ft. Maxx and Avery: Microtopics: Strumming a guitar on a Zoom call. A topic that's just a story. Cassowary Joe. Something rotten in Denver. Whether Carmen Sandiego is a pun on the city of San Diego. How the Diablo game series sounds to people who are not from the Bay Area. The mythical Kingdom of Bethesda, where you might go meet Liv Tyler. Whether you're from San Diego. (It's complicated.) In defense of the Murder Cassowary. The tiger climbing up your friend and stalking you throughout the zoo. Being the coolest kid in your apartment complex until somebody gets a Super Nintendo. Cargo Cult Entertainment Green Light. Offering a poem and immediately regretting it. The RSS feeds for individual Lords. The eight hour Avery-only episode. Reminding you buddy not to say goodbye to the Alexandria that you're losing. Pretty Wacky in Every Language. Getting excited when you have something to contribute to the video game discussion. Trying to turn your video game podcast into Topic Lords. The Idle Thumbs Steering Direction. Sharing a show on a radio station with your friend who only plays Ska and when they go to the bathroom you play Elliott Smith. Timeless Topics that Will Never Grow Old. Why is my computer automated?! The shop in your local mall in San Jose where you can rent videos that people home-taped in Japan and mailed to the shop. Gradually replacing all the water in your body with British game shows.

  5. Oct 5

    363. Cockroaches Who Won't Turn the Volume Down

    Lords: Avery https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/album/six-songs-for-lisa Chall https://www.youtube.com/@bonk-zoo/shorts Topics: Playing real games on my phone https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1900nip/mario_kart_64_taco_bell_toy_1997/ Jim, you're a video gamer nerd. Did I hallucinate that the second player in Atari's Bruce Lee game is a Minotaur? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBF7lBZWGw Semi-perfect pitch Bay Area Rapid Tankas by Bulian Jauer https://bart.short-edition.com/story/bay-area-rapid-tankas?ctlg=4386 Microtopics: Finally getting it wrong after seven years. Becoming a dad in two weeks. Biodegradable 3D printer filament. Printing your tax documents on your 3D printer. Printing a replica of a gun and also what you look like shooting it. Turning your body into tiny little wiggly plastic skeletons after you die. Whether Epic has ruined Bandcamp yet. The impossibility of finding good video games in phone app stores. Hypnospace Outlaw's phone port. Optimizing your phone controller clip for your BART commute. Cutting your phone in half hamburger-wise or hot dog-wise. ABXY-Lutely! Running an HTTP server on your phone. Asking the robot to do the settings. A Galaga the size of a credit card. Galaga-oriented phone solutions. The thing where you get a mattress in a tiny box and you open the box and the mattress inflates over 20 minutes, except it's a Galaga arcade cabinet on your BART commute. BART Anime Festival. A Taco Bell kids meal toy that's one of those plastic marble mazes except it's Mario Kart themed and has a replica of the middle fork of the N64 controller sticking out the bottom. The Tiger Electronics Marble Madness game, with the s****y d-pad styled to look like a trackball. The VR headset that played the same games as the regular Tiger hadhelds except you had to keep one eye closed or you get a headache. Boolean Jower. The first time you saw more than one computer in one place. Your best friend in grade school whose dad kept bringing home unfinished Atari 800 games. The blue minotaur in the Bruce Lee game for the Atari 800 whose special move was to moo. The two player mode that every single-player secretly has where the first player tries to play the game while the second player keeps poking them in the ribs and making mooing noises. The purple hugging guy in Kung Fu. The guy in the purple suit who kept trying to hug Bruce Lee. Hugging-adjacent martial arts. Nolan Bushnell founding Chuck E. Cheese. Living next to a Chuck E. Cheese and eating pizza every night. The COVID Chuck E. Cheese that only offers takeout. Reframing arcade games as being for children rather than just teen hooligans. The haunted animatronics movie where Nicholas Cage doesn't have any lines. Mockbuster versions of movies that can afford a real movie star but not enough for them to talk. A floppy disk: it's a kind of cartridge. Putting a spinning magnetic disk inside of an N64 cartridge casing. Fitting a minidisk player into an N64 cartridge so Tony Hawk's Pro Skater can finally have the CD-quality soundtrack. Mechanically-produced drum loops. What to call people who have absolute pitch except it's only accurate to within three or four semitones. The course of perfect pitch. Copium theories. The one person with perfect pitch in the a capella group trying to drag everyone else into tune. The sound of an orchestra tuning. Believing yourself to be a gifted musician and having the data to back it up. Hearing the tone that only teenagers are supposed to hear. All the teenagers that Japan is trying to scare away. The only person in the coffee shop who can hear the high pitched whine of the induction hot plate. (The owner.) A poem about the noises BART makes. Reading poems on bart.gov August Content. George Lucas probably getting the tie fighter sound from riding BART. That part of my life is over. (Two hours ago.) A recipe for not be being able to hear the teen-repellent noise. Why would anyone want to keep teenagers away from the mall? Whether malls are for teenagers any more. Why is the tofu always last to know when the mall closes? Hot Topic ghosts chasing you down as you desperately try to find the Manic Panic. A screensaver with a winner and a loser. Having a Turbo Grafx 16 while everyone else has a Super Nintendo. Your life's work in mp3 format.

  6. Sep 28

    362. It's Me, Your Own Guy

    Lords: Esper https://ourbroadcastday.com/ Mitch https://topiclords.com/tags/mitch Topics: Making a daily show https://www.youtube.com/@MagicEveryDaywEQ https://www.youtube.com/@Twinbeard_ Beatspell (Rhythm Heaven Groove) The Topic Lords IMDB page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30527870/episodes/ Dad are you at bus stop riding on a bus at work https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116884326841775088 Oops! 45% of tumblr users don't read the plaintext above a poll before participating in the poll https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mDCGI0uSScqGUNiSM82C3d6KK0Orkijj98qabIE8FTE/edit?gid=1797283451#gid=1797283451 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccEEQQsI_5El_rWwru7czngN34fgx3Gb9CVzUjyhtP7GXfWg/viewanalytics Microtopics: Plugging purposes. Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn. August 3rd until the end of linear time. If you like moving pixels entering your eyeballs, you'll love this Youtube series. Dulcet apple pie. The Super Mario Wiki Mario Awards. Everyone's second-least favorite Mario thing. Calling a thing mediocre when you don't want to admit that it's good Using a botnet to convince everyone that "dogshit" is a laudatory word. Words more laudatory than "perfect." Stealing an idea from someone who also stole it. Playing exactly one Mario level a day. Youtube banning a certain kind of video because it's too cool. Personally knowing everyone who watches your Youtube channel. How hard it is to get Youtube to show you channels with less than 20 views a day. Rhythm Heavens: there are five of them now! A rhythm roguelike where you fight enemies by dancing at them. How to play Rhythm Heaven if you don't have a Switch. The Rhythm Heaven Groove developers apologizing about latency issues and then doing nothing to fix them. Rhythm games with excellent lag calibration facilities. The screen reader robot getting morose and depressed when you turn it off. Blind people playing Rhythm Heaven Groove. Blind-accessible video games. Lesbian Beatspell lore. Dodging the time warp and ending up in the future. Making the show more lovable so listeners spontaneously do thankless rote data entry tasks. Explaining to grandma what a podcast is every time you see her. Shoutcast stations. Going to bat for vods. Incidental line breaks. A poem that's a poem in the same way that an open-faced sandwich is a sandwich. Come on, thankless Topic Subject! The 55% of Tumblr users that read a poll before answering it. Being on your way to go to a building. Explaining important context in tiny text. Maintaining a list of alternative titles of Mario games. Survey techniques that come off as condescending. Super Mario DVD menu games. Hiring people to localize your gimmick Mario survey into EFIGS. Mario the blunt object. The Paper Mario Sticker Star inflection point. Whether the Japanese Super Mario Portal would classify Fire Emblem as an RPG. Coming up with examples of things that aren't video games but also aren't funny to call a video game. The Choose Your Own Adventure Interactive DVD. Whether Black Mirror Bandersnatch is a video game. Whether mayonnaise is a video game. Quest for the Rings for the Odyssey 2. Asking someone to make you a sandwich without specifying what kind of sandwich. Deciding that you like video games and therefore video games that you don't like aren't actually video games. Smashing binaries. A film is something that has Freddie Krueger in it. Gamers vs. Moviegoers.

  7. Sep 21

    361. Making the Math Do Pretty Things

    Lords: Farbs https://farbs.org/ Hallie https://moveslow.info/ Topics: The only way to truly beat Dark Souls is to achieve enlightenment Writing is a serialization problem Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies was lead programmer on Space Station Silicon Valley for the Nintendo 64. Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Learning by copying Meandering thread of execution: https://mastodon.social/@Farbs/112679557654266096 Microtopics: Systems where people make meaning out of joy and suffering. Weighing in on whether video games will still exist a month from now. Linking the fire or not linking the fire. Video games that were popular when saving games was expensive. Who invented corpse runs? Finishing your whole life believing you're the hero. Whether the narrator of the Dark Souls trailer is a character in the game. Doing the thing you've already proven you can do. The three stages of grief: betrayal, anger, sense of victory. Secondhand lore. Seeking paleblood to transcend the hunt. Lounging Carl: he's just chillin'. Getting all the platinum trophies to achieve enlightenment. If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. It's worth 50 souls every time! A meter going up and a bell ringing and you're a better person now! Daoism Dives. Force Witches. Tedious and annoying programming problems. Taking a nebulous interconnected cloud of data and turning it into a stream of bytes, and vice versa. Metaphorical Kevin Bacon Game. Developing your serialization scheme iteratively. Sorting your evidence by persuasiveness. Working with data in different ways. Turning a video game into a sequence of experiences. Looking at the world as a set of events rather than as a set of objects. A video game series where you steal cars. Having just one good work in you and being proud that you made that one good work. Shipping a game that's not in the Grand Theft Auto series for the first time in decades. Clicking on the blog button and it just says "nope" and then clicking on the games button and there's a PHP error. Void Bastards printing sound effects on the doorways, just like Hunt the Wumpus. Making the math do pretty things. Plugging functions into each other. Doing all your level design by writing stacked modifiers in C code. Stacking up a bunch of quality of life features and that's it, that's your content authoring system. Forever panting and forever young. A sad sack with consumption, bullied by Lord Byron. Isn't it nice to not be subject to the passage of time? This urn is never going to catch its breath. Following your feelings and always being right. Poetry as form of lossy compression. Roger Ebert claiming that poetry can never be art. Rebuilding Zelda 1 in Voxatron. Pausing the whole game while a single important thing happens. Making games inside-out. How they made games before we killed GOTO. Trying to explain setjmp/longjmp to a non-programmer. Committing to the bit and refusing to work with anyone who isn't committed to the bit. Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Explaining to Tim how Jamestown could've had online multiplayer. Rowdy in Different Ways. Talking to every doctor in order to become a doctor. Finding a tutorial and deliberately following it wrong. Acquiring facility in translating between two domains.

  8. Sep 14

    360. The Screen Disapproves

    Lords: CisHetKayfaber Charles https://nohomework.website/ Topics: When your therapist introduces their own problems that you don't have Color as a separate sensory axis (deprioritized for some, assumption of color in black and white things, dreaming in black and white) One-handed triangle Many, Many Tekel Upharsin by Jacob Bacharach https://bsky.app/profile/jacobbacharach.bsky.social/post/3mruuexkb4k2c Screen time is a classist plot Microtopics: Ironic usernames. Bilingual global information security IT legal compliance. Knowing each other through the replies. Patrick Cosmos, L Ron Mexico and Senator Lemon Gogurt. Taking on a challenge to guest on more than one podcast per week. The legal comedy podcast ouevre. Riffing with your therapist. Your therapist getting really upset about political events and you have to calm them down and then they bill you for the hour. Finding your zen when things make you shouty. Your psychiatrist telling you you can't have a mental disorder because you've published papers. Staying with a therapist longer than is therapeutically useful. Doing your best to not worry about things you can't fix. Why everyone is to choosing to affront you, the protagonist of the universe. Surviving the chaos that being a parent introduces into your world. Therapy access in Japan. The development stage in which kids are unreasonable. Recalled image pastiche. Inability to perceive sunburn. How to tell if a light switch is working in a dream. People who can analyze that they like about music. Deprioritizing color information in the same way a color blind person would. Coming to reality with different axes of perception. Spending time around people who notice eye color. Self-describing phenomena. Converting to Catholicism so you can become white. A triangle that's not shaped like a triangle but it sounds like a triangle. Playing a triangle like a shaker. Touching the exposed bars so that it sounds like you're eating with chopsticks. The Triangle Tessitura. A one-man band on the boardwalk clapping cymbals with his knees. Not hating a thing because your emotional range just doesn't reach that far. Stomp Clap Hey Band. DannyB Fanfic. Trying to live forever via various peptides and also your son's blood. Using Jewish artifacts in a drunken reverie. Doing your own hair transplants at home. Hey buddy, can you get these peptides in Japan? The Ozymandias level of hubris that demands its own poem. Becoming a meme of yourself. Different kinds of screen time. Growing up with unlimited screen time and almost getting a PhD. Hyperpalatability. The attention economy. Not knowing about an Internet phenomenon. Developing agriculture and then it all goes to hell. Figuring out everything you have to do and then doing the easiest thing on the list. The Screen Disapproves. Taking the coping strategies that you can get. The best parenting strategy you can hope for without having infinite free time. Babe Ruth walking with choppy legs on his home run trot.

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Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.

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  • Creator
    Jim Stormdancer
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    368
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Jim Stormdancer
  • Show Website
    Topic Lords

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