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Lords:
* Erica
* Jenni
Topics:
* Stronger with Stogner
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0MwD8dyko
* What is & isn't ahegao, prescriptivistly
* Wanna Feel Old? 10 Hilarious Examples Of Anti-Piracy Measures In Video Games
* https://screenrant.com/anti-piracy-video-games-funny/
* The Lanyard by Billy Collins
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50975/the-lanyard
* The "what the fuck" genre of narrative & why it frequently has an unsatisfying ending
* Ed O'Brien on backing vocals
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWuAn6C8Mfc
* https://floodmagazine.com/44288/ed-from-radiohead-sing-his-own-name/
Microtopics:
* Fighting for credit.
* The discord: it's fun in there.
* Forgetting an entire lord.
* A lot of work to get twice as many views.
* A convenient thing you can put old food in so it doesn't go bad as quickly.
* Gaskets: there's a name for them.
* The British vs. the American conception of a frown.
* Frowning with your face gaskets.
* Doing a cartwheel to feel happier.
* Alan Snape.
* Doing a racy political ad on top of a 40-foot pumpjack.
* What the Texas Railroad Commission does.
* Getting the idea for OPEC from Texas.
* A political ad using the Sugar Hill Gang cover of Apache as a soundtrack.
* The suburban Texan mom solving the climate crisis single-handedly.
* Twerking at the sunrise.
* Field-dressing a moose.
* Fantasy-footballing a female running mate for Theodore Roosevelt even though they didn't have women back then.
* Getting so annoyed at an ad that you have to log back into Twitter.
* Scrolling social media and getting angry by yourself.
* The crucial elements that comprise the ahegao face.
* Electronic Girl.
* The phylogeny of the e-girl.
* Is it Soup?
* Looking at Zelda's face and thinking "okay, that's soup."
* Whether ahegao or Betty Boop are sexy.
* A face that people make to indicate horniness.
* The Betty Boop ahegao: it's bad, folks.
* What is otaku's plan for us?
* Project Lords.
* A web site with JavaScript implementations of video game code wheels of various 90s video games.
* Everybody playing the free version of chess for thousands of years when the paid version is a way better game.
* Why there is no Casio Loopy emulator.
* Finding a tiny blood reservoir for the smallest blood sacrifices.
* Who wrote the Vagina Monologues?
* Moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano.
* What a lanyard is and what it's for.
* How to repay your mom for all the things that she's given you.
* God's Eyes.
* Replacing your son's butt-gasket.
* Being old enough to remember when it was normal for schoolchildren to make their parents an ashtray.
* Making a gumball dispenser in wood shop and using it to convince your mom to buy you a big bag of gumballs.
* 1899.
* A sequence of mysterious things happening.
* A mysterious TV show that ends when you overwater all of your boyfriend's plants.
* The final episode of Lost, where the giant panda shows up and explains that "I'm god and you're in my dream!"
* Comedy typing directly into the Topic Bucket.
* What makes a good ending to a mystery-focused story.
* Mystery as marketing hook.
* How to end a mystery-focused story in a satisfying way without solving the mystery.
* The most normal-looking guy in Radiohead.
* The one guy in Radiohead who doesn't have any fans.
* From the Basement in Rainbows.
* A super chill guy keeping time with his leg.
* Does Ed from Radiohead only sing his own name?
* A Pokemon Named Ed.
* Idiosyncratic ways to describe your favorite band member, that unlock your unique adoration.
* The only member of the band who smiles.
* Absorbing it all as the luckiest person alive playing with your pals in a huge venue.
* The kind of Radiohead fan whose imagination is so powerful that you can't safely let them into Radiohead concerts because they might imagine a bomb.
* The kind of Topic Lord who listens to the show.
* Having some delightful chats in Texas.
* Posing on the pumpjack where nobody will ever see you.
