Lords:
* Lesley
* Nathan
Topics:
* Thinking of survival shows like Alone, is "wilderness survival" a sport?
* Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor posts
* Pastry arbitrage
* The Light That Shines When Things End
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.png
* Wild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of New Zealand
* How are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome our new robot overlords or not?
Microtopics:
* Hyper Light Breaker.
* Bumpy Grumpy.
* Recording a podcast from inside a toilet.
* Fishtank bubbling noises.
* Assigning a point value to eating reindeer lichen.
* Eating your belt because someone famous ate their belt once in the 19th century.
* Starving contests.
* Calling in an air drop for your favorite outdoor survivalists.
* The reality show where a guy is living alone in an apartment scouring thousands of magazines for offers of free stuff.
* The "it's a living" joke.
* Pez Guy.
* Trying to redeem Pepsi tokens for a fighter jet.
* A boiler room full of people tilting soda bottles.
* Weary cereal mascots.
* Hippies living in a canyon until Topanga emerges.
* Making a Nextdoor post about a guy peering in your window and the replies are like "it's cool it's just Window Peering Jim checking out your remodel."
* Making a Nextdoor post about finding a baby goat and what do I do and a reply saying "you need to call the Goat Goddess" and another reply saying "I'm the Goat Goddess and I can help you."
* Encouraging microcultures.
* Surfacing positive comments to the top of Youtube videos.
* Using technology to steer people away from being terrible.
* Writing a story about a guy with a sword.
* Writing a parody of bad fanfiction and building Minecraft worlds to support your world building.
* Whether jokes are funnier now or if old jokes are just out of fashion.
* Trying to relate to the kids by saying "I can has cheeseburger?"
* How art used to happen before copyright law fucked everything up.
* The dudes at the farmers market selling tomatoes that are obviously from the grocery store.
* The farm with a sign that says "come pick pumpkins at our pumpkin patch" but the pumpkins are just sitting on the ground and by pick they just meant "select."
* The Quasi-Authentic Experience.
* A pumpkin velcroed to a vine.
* A large hill. (Not a mountain.)
* Making the light a liar, at least until your mid-thirties.
* Ruining an otherwise amazing moment.
* A Minority Report precog murder kind of situation.
* Whether the light has a bell too.
* A poem that's just a shower thought if you think about it.
* Taking the eggs to an incubation center.
* Muppet Bird flavor.
* Cutting open a cookie monster to reveal the cookie layers inside.
* Seeing the Cookie Monster's leg in the window of the butcher shop.
* The roast chicken saying "It's a living!" as you slice it up.
* Robots that sound like bees.
* Slipping on the ice and hearing the bees.
* Whether fun robots are even scarier than serious robots.
* Moxie the child companion robot.
* A dog named Spot and his SDK.
* Too loud, too scary, too many bees.
* People who can pollinate.
* If it's empty, fill it with bees.
* Memes that the kids don't think are old because they have fallen out of the cultural memory entirely.
* Still being on Twitter because you have games to sell.
