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Lords:
* Quil
* Maxx
Topics:
* Maybe I just don't like apples
* Opposite Costco
* The Sweet Science
* The Village and the Curious Hole
* http://thesciencesalon.blogspot.com/p/village-and-curious-hole.html
* BALLU the best robot
* https://youtu.be/EdSoUbXirVI
* https://www.strandbeest.com/
* https://youtube.com/shorts/lbxJlwQ6-U8
Microtopics:
* Making robots and video games in Seattle.
* Cohost dot org.
* Tumblr without Tumblr's weird nesting.
* Finding interesting people to follow in 2005.
* Cohost's discovery apparatus.
* Making bad music on the internet that's not very enjoyable.
* The worst fruit. (Apples.)
* The enormous gulf between the audiovisual experience of watching someone eat an apple and eating that apple yourself.
* The world's most apple growing place.
* "Extra honey" apples.
* Upgrading your teeth so that you can eat stone fruit without pitting them.
* Installing a machine in your mouth that you can pour wheat into and it extrudes noodles right into your throat.
* What wheat becomes if you chew it.
* Pasta-flavored gum.
* Vaguely salty orange chewing gum.
* Installing an app to play a "biting an apple" ringtone into whenever you bite any fruit.
* Japan's canonical fruit ranking with melon at the top, as seen in Pac-Man.
* The way in which the B-tier melons are substandard.
* The most cherries per slot machine.
* Pivoting to chewing gum after San Francisco bans your gambling machines.
* Buying just one leaf of parsley from Opposite Costco.
* Naming your company after the idea of charging for things.
* Buying hundreds of jigsaw puzzle pieces in bulk.
* Tito Beverage.
* You win stun, you lose stun.
* Doug Bowser's Heel Turn.
* Inaptronyms.
* Punching somebody and all their honey comes out.
* Preferring to punch people who bruise extremely precisely.
* Hypothesizing that you are about to be punched in the face and setting up a control group.
* Using science in an interesting way in 1832.
* Little Alchemy and other combine-'em-ups.
* What to play if you like adventure game inventory puzzles but not the rest of the adventure game.
* The phone number you could call as part of the Frog Fractions ARG.
* Investigating where the wind knocked over the fox shrine.
* Finding an infinitely deep hole and dumping all your garbage in it until you realize you can use it to solve the housing crisis.
* The deepest man-made hole.
* The town that is permanently on fire.
* An extremely plausible hellmouth.
* Thanks, Hellmouth!
* Inventing Hell in the 1970s.
* A video that you can silently play in the background.
* A robot that is just a large helium balloon.
* A robot that is neutrally buoyant.
* Strandbeests.
* Making the goofiest lil guy.
* The exploded cell phone ghosts.
* A traffic cone skateboarding with ska playing in the background.
* The Topic Lords startup incubator.
* Cony Hawk.
