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Lords:
* Kev
* Cort
* Cort's new album: https://postgoodism.bandcamp.com/album/tourism
* The Frog Fractions vinyl: https://www.turtlepalstapes.com/product/frog-fractions-green
* Monty Python's three-sided record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMontyPythonMatchingTieandHandkerchief
* Locked grooves: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/locked-grooves-endless-fun-literally/
* The Most Wanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jId-qaEwuvI
* The Most Unwanted Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
Topics:
* Before age ~4 you don't really make long-term memories, but you can develop long-term habits. How to best exploit this.
* Spark : The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/B08RZD6D4Z
* Extreme "kids in trench coat" trope scenarios
* Necrophilic landscape http://2dcloud.com/the-necrophilic-landscape
* Artist Morgan Vogel https://www.tcj.com/morgan-vogel-1986-2020/
* Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies.
* "Autopsy" by Ross Sutherland
* I can't find a text transcript online, just a few records of Ross performing the poem. Nor does Ross himself have a "home page" per se. Here's a link to his podcast, it's great: https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/
* Neighbors overplaying the same playlist
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrettyWoman(soundtrack)
* https://www.worstideaofalltime.com/
* Is it unambiguously good that technology makes creative expression easier?
Microtopics:
* Mic on, pants off.
* The inherent meaningless of "limited editions" in a finite universe ultimately bound for a slow heat death.
* Vinyl record Easter eggs.
* A big ol' spiral cut into the vinyl.
* Limited characteristics of a physical process.
* Mental models of what it means to master an album.
* Novelty vinyl colors.
* Jim's burgeoning record collection.
* The most glorious twenty minute act of art terrorism.
* Losing access to your old memories because your brain changed formats.
* How to erase medical debt by just not paying it.
* Borrowing money from your toddler.
* Spark: the revolution of exercise or some other subtitle.
* Mollusks eating their own nervous systems.
* Eating your own childhood to launch yourself into adulthood.
* Upping the emotional stakes with large animals and near-death experiences.
* Putting your girlfriend in mortal danger so that she's more likely to want to marry you.
* Getting pigeonholed as a really good butt.
* Getting surgically separated so you can disguise yourself as two kids in a trench coat.
* The hemispheres of the brain as independent entities which happen to share a body.
* Lumps of biology.
* Every person's unique inability to speak to other people's interiority.
* Walkie-talkie telepathy vs. "perfect mutual understanding" telepathy.
* One mind with two faces.
* Superhuman limb/vocal cord coordination.
* Segue Week.
* Burroughs cut-ups.
* Vigorous grandparenting with a face of terror.
* A modern-day television quiz show phoenix.
* The impenetrable free-form rhymes of a heart attack in October.
* The greets.
* Tracker music instrument names as cut-up poetry generators.
* Super Obituaries!
* The potentially transformative effect of reading your own obituary.
* The perverse incentives behind soliciting reviews of unfinished games.
* The awesome power of knowing that your feedback will be considered.
* The neighbor who only listens to Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits over and over again.
* Listening to entire albums until you're so sick of them that you underflow and love them again.
* The song you have to listen to to get to Roxette's It Must Have Been Love.
* Bad podcast ideas.
* Novelty t-shirts whose joke is only funny once, but you still wear it once a week
* The shirt with the Fight Club and the cognitive science reference on it.
* Shirts/tattoos as pop culture dog whistles.
* Getting a tattoo of the Colossus' weak points so that you can meet the people who stab you there.
* Naming your game's public alpha something innocent so it doesn't arouse suspicion when your friends see you playing it.
* The hazards of wearing a shirt promoting a pop culture reference you know nothing about.
* Wearing a shirt that makes people try to talk to you about a video game you've never played.
* All the people you disappointed in high school.
* NPCs in Thief Deadly Shadows talking about how hard it is to get a job making games.
* A bright future where nobody can make a living making video games.
* A bright future where AIs curate collections of AI-generated content.
* A case for the 1991 film "Super Mario Brothers" as the pinnacle of entertainment.
* Charles Martinet doing the Mario voice as he leaps to his death from a roof in "The Game."
