Lords:
* Erica
* Casey
Topics:
* Isn't it great to have a coelom?
* Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problem
* Mammals learning to eat cephalopods
* https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/
* A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson
* https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096/
* Personal project retrospectives
Microtopics:
* That thing you just heard.
* Assigning your new hire an office.
* Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.
* The Topic Lords Promise.
* A bag that your organs sit in.
* Undifferentiated tissues.
* How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.
* Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.
* Organisms with high diseectability.
* The anti-coelom lobby.
* Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression.
* The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.
* Fluid things going on in the organism.
* A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.
* Good car ideas.
* A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.
* Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online.
* Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house.
* Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.
* Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.
* The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about.
* Serial Podcast Monogamy.
* Podcast guilt.
* Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness.
* Non-Stop Coelom Celebration.
* My own very special walking bag of guts.
* Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell.
* Losing your baby lips.
* What it's like to eat a planarian.
* Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals.
* The giant squid that have never been seen alive.
* The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.
* Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.
* Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.
* Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea.
* Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.
* Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.
* Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading.
* Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.
* It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!
* A polysexual attitude towards nature.
* Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme.
* Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia.
* Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong.
* Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing.
* Befunge.
* Clojure and other Lisps.
* Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better.
* A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game.
* Fine-grained tactical mistakes.
* Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.
* The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.
* Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.
* Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
* Modern Jim-Style Content.
* Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.
* A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."
* The George W. Bush childhood home.
* A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.
* The ethic of owning a shotgun.
* The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.
* Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns.
* An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.
* The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial.
* A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis.
* Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.
* An assassin of federal judges.
