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Lords:
* Avery
* Jesse
Topics:
* Laserdisc
* Tracing the lineage of racehorses on Wikipedia
* Bread is too wide to fit in toasters
* https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/1335354217335148546/photo/1
* Variants of bowling, now mostly lost to history, are like glimpses into possible worlds metaphysically close to our own
Microtopics:
* How to sound like a douchebag if you are a programmer who lives in Oakland.
* A Social Security Number that has way too many sixes in it.
* A disc that is the same size as an LP but looks like a CD and has a movie on it.
* Arcade games breaking whenever you transport them.
* Laserdiscs rusting.
* Integrating the likely degradation of the viewing medium into the piece itself.
* The Matrix on Betamax.
* The guy who owns all the Betamax players in your province.
* The canonical paths to becoming a Laserdisc collector.
* All the criteria used to curate the Criterion Collection.
* The advantages and disadvantages of CAV discs over CLV.
* Getting off the couch to flip the disc over halfway through the movie.
* Asking your robot butler to flip the Laserdisc over.
* Potoooooooo.
* Seeing the name of the Wii for the first time and wondering if it's a typo for World War 2 or if it's a typo for WiFi.
* Finding the They Live sunglasses and finally being able to read the Snickers ads.
* The three racehorses that all thoroughbred racehorses are descended from.
* Knowing more about the history of racehorses than about your own family tree, because racehorses are worth more than people.
* War booty from the battle of Vienna.
* The General Studbook.
* Going blind in one eye from staying up for three days straight doing logarithms.
* Bell Right Hooks and Cuban Menstrual Crisis.
* Whether the clown face registry still exists for juggalos.
* Nothing Sweet About Bees.
* What happened to bread?
* Your basic 4:3 bread vs. 4K ultra-wide bread.
* Your favorite toaster from the 1940s.
* A four slice toaster kind of day.
* Making food better with science and it's going to be way better than nature because it's science.
* Convincing Mr. Smeg not to put his name on the toasters his company manufactures.
* What market research firm decided that podcast listeners want underwear and mattresses.
* Constant angular velocity: the only way to rewind a movie.
* A magnetic poetry set that includes the word "Kafkaesque."
* How Kafkaesque the miscreant insects are.
* Whether Jim has ever touched any other human being.
* How Zoomers don't know about Graggle Simpson.
* A possible scenario that is metaphysically close to our own.
* How metaphysically close Canada is to the United States.
* Getting up at 4pm every day and bowling.
* A 3D model recreation of five-pin bowling.
* The amount of data visualization competence that went into dimensions.com.
* Candlepin and Duckpin bowling.
* The dimensions of various famous bowlers.
* Getting a parakeet and finding out how much water it displaces.
* Making a flask out of a parakeet so people think you just brought your pet parakeet to work and aren't drinking on the job.
* Buying a propane tank to use as a water bottle.
* What's wrong with Jim's listeners?
* Karate tournaments in the 80s and 90s.
* Assuming Avery's identity and looking in the mirror.
* To Mock A Mockingbird.
* Certified Bird Mockers.
