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Lords:
* JohnB
* https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo
* Jesse
Topics:
* Wario64
* We need to bring back Dogme 95
* Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name Again
* https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/
* This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams
* https://poets.org/poem/just-say
* Whatever happened to outdoor pop machines?
* https://lovepittsburghshop.com/blogs/love-pittsburgh/may-the-pop-machine-be-with-you
* Godzilla
Microtopics:
* A Link's Awakening speedrun that may surprise you.
* Lord clouds.
* What's the deal with Wario 64?
* Asking Webster's Dictionary to define Wario 64.
* Your source for video game deals.
* How Wario64 feels about Chris Pratt voicing Mario.
* Geralt in the bathtub.
* Wario World for the GameCube.
* The hidden origins of Wario64.
* Ten rules for how to make a movie.
* Lars von Trier being traumatized by a dolly shot and inventing Dogme 95.
* Unintentional Dogme 95 movies.
* Unboxing a Criterion Collection DVD live on the show and there's just a DVD in there.
* Creative freedom, the worst constraint.
* A recipe for the worst movies in the fucking world.
* Dogme 95 drinking game.
* Making a flag in the bucket.
* The Adventure 2600 continuity.
* Bats that can steal things that shouldn't be able to be stolen.
* A video game quest that was very difficult and obscure until someone wrote a FAQ.
* The ludonarrative consonance of following your self-destructive obsession at the same time your character follows their self-destructive obsession.
* Being confused about a story beat in a video game and having to seek out a lore genius on the internet.
* The Random House Annotated Fallen London.
* Becoming St. Gawain's Candle.
* How the icebox plums poem became a meme.
* Learning about poutine on social media.
* Satirical poetry in the 1960s.
* Things that are Ira Glass's fault.
* Extreme meminess.
* Wanting a god damn plum right now.
* Pictures of normal people that are considered heresy.
* Deliberately making your podcast guest's audio sound bad.
* Continuing to read poetry even though you're terrible at it.
* Asking Siri to get you a substantial raise.
* Checking the change return slots on the mobile phone bank for quarters, to do your part to sustain the soda vending machine economy.
* The cost of a 510 ml bottle of pop these days.
* The fastest pop machine in the world.
* Joking about the day we record the show when it comes out weeks later and none of the listeners have any idea what you're talking about.
* Applying the sugar tax to beverages sweetened with aspartame.
* The Godzilla movie with Inspector Gadget in it.
* Redheaded Stepzilla.
* The three Godzilla movies that are out of print in the US. (But not on archive.org)
* Having to license all the Kaiju separately.
* Movies that are in the public domain because they were not explicitly labeled as copyrighted.
* Public Domain Day.
* The personality traits of Sherlock Holmes that are and aren't copyrighted.
* The Beast at 20,000 Fathoms.
* Messing up a slow-motion shot by undercranking the camera rather than overcranking, but it has to go into the movie like that because it was your only take.
* Making a movie where you can do as many takes as you want but they all have to go in the finished film.
* Godzilla taking some much needed time off.
* Invasion of Astro-Monster.
* Watching the entire Godzilla series and learning why people think Avengers: Endgame is good.
* A latchkey kid in 1960s Japan overcoming his bullies by imagining that Godzilla is his friend.
* A dinosaur falling in love with a lighthouse.
* Empathizing with the dinosaur who is completely misunderstanding the situation.
* Why the English speakers in Japanese or Korean films are such bad actors.
* An island protector of these native people brought to society for reasons of Capitalism.
