Lords:
* JohnB
* Kevin
* JADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/
Topics:
* Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote
* The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MysteriesoftheUnknown
* https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distantastronomicalobjectsiceberg/
* https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon
* https://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming201809/page/n33/mode/2up
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0k
* Thomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phone
* Desiderata
* https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
* https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lessonimages/lesson372/PoloniusExcerpt.pdf
* Is pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine?
* https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-pinball-circus/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtVBb8rOok
* https://archive.org/details/TILTTheBattleToSavePinballDisc2Extras
Microtopics:
* Dog ownership.
* A living creature that just wanders around the house.
* Picking up warm soft weird thing.
* Cracking open a cold one.
* Computers flush with science data.
* The deepest images humans have ever taken.
* Finding distances to individual galaxies.
* Listicles you can peruse.
* Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself.
* Bug Mars 2.
* The Glass Universe.
* Hiring women and calling them computers.
* A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose.
* Some public domain books being more readable than others.
* Pun localization.
* North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas.
* How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic.
* Whether we respect English majors on this show.
* Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now.
* Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza.
* The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills.
* The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody.
* Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction.
* Don Coyote.
* Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make.
* The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read.
* The 80s resurgence of New Age thought.
* Mystic Places.
* The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library.
* Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library.
* The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide.
* Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool.
* The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
* The JWST iceberg.
* The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg.
* A tin can and a string with a battery attached.
* Hello, fellow phone owner.
* A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message.
* Funny ways to answer the phone.
* E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero.
* The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s.
* Nice things to do and be.
* Desiderata vs. Deteriorata.
* Advice giving poems.
* Skin cancer is mid.
* Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya.
* Avoiding loud and aggressive persons.
* Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century.
* Baffleball.
* Pinball features to make things easier for beginners.
* The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game.
* Tilt-sensing plum bobs.
* A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment.
* The Black Hole for Personal Reasons.
* A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball.
* Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball.
* Multidisc!
* Pinball tables by George Gomez.
* Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best.
* Free play skee-ball.
* Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique.
* Twitter forgiveness.
