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Lords:
* Erica
* The Real John B
Topics:
* The Nancy Drew Point and Click adventure series
* Advances in garbage food technology
* The mysterious grunting voice playing over the American Airlines intercom
* https://waxy.org/2022/09/a-mysterious-voice-is-haunting-american-airlines-in-flight-announcements-and-nobody-knows-how/
* A poem I found: "The Cow" by Oliver Herford
* https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo/status/1053873522823446528
* Klik, freeware and indie games in the late 90s and early 2000s
* http://freegames.org/GameHippo
Microtopics:
* Other topic podcasts biting Jim's steeze.
* Spending the next hour blushing.
* Holding a Bark Mitzvah to watch your Good Boy become a mensch.
* Releasing a director's cut from beyond the grave.
* Bad games that you can't get enough of.
* Adventure games that make you feel like when grandma would visit and bring you donuts.
* Secret Fandoms.
* The new Nancy Drew series where Nancy Drew is an airhead and nobody likes her.
* A 70 year old woman playing a teenager.
* Whether game designers play anything other than World of Warcraft.
* Why the Nancy Drew adventure games are not on phones.
* Putting Nancy Drew in Fortnite.
* Friend of the show, Dropsy.
* You don't have to be an American to eat a garbage diet, but it sure helps.
* Food color technology over time.
* When Froot Loops added the fourth color.
* Speaking truth to power about the little silver disc that you microwave pizza on.
* The starchy packet that helps the noodles cook.
* A job that requires the skill sets of both a chef and a materials engineer.
* Things that come out of boxes nowadays.
* Watching meat substitutes grow up.
* Plastic golems living in your body.
* Getting your first reading glasses at your Old Mitzvah and giving a speech starting with "now I am an old."
* The second person this hour who has admitted to the pharmacist that they need reading glasses.
* The baby technology section at Walmart.
* Snot removers that'd also be great for insect collection.
* A sock that measures blood oxygenation.
* Earwitness accounts.
* Working on the American Airlines announcement system and adding strange grunting noises to the playlist.
* Electrical noise that is being interpreted by a system intended to transmit the human voice.
* The guy who does all the grunt voices.
* A sound that is like audio from a music album.
* An incredible technical smartass who got annoyed at luggage fees.
* A fridge full of snacks in the middle of the plane.
* Every passenger getting up and going to the snack pit.
* Wrestling for Cheez-Its.
* All the folks who are into weird pranks and technical glitches making a pilgrimage to the American Airlines flight with the weird grunting.
* Nancy-likes.
* The Three Investigators, presented by Alfred Hitchcock.
* Joining the discord for more on the ukulele plane.
* Back in 1901 when they worried about Peak Cow.
* Milk punch.
* Eggless egg nog.
* Celebrating all the positive ways cows influence our lives, and also we eat them.
* Whether scientists knew extinctions were possible in 1901.
* Looking for free games on the internet in 1999.
* Letting the Game Hippo domain lapse and a domain squatter picks it up and the rest is history.
* Dink Smallwood.
* A multidirectional shooter with a cool perspective trick.
* All the search engines they had before google.
* The Williams College MUD that you could log in to and visit Williams College in the MUD.
* Graal Online.
* Receiving a box of shareware from your mom's coworker.
* PC games from before developers realized that computers would get faster.
* Typing swim fast enough that you don't drown.
* Please Copy That Floppy!
