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Lords:
* Wacy
* https://www.youtube.com/@WacyandChris
* Chris
* https://twitter.com/mrchrislhall
Topics:
* Difficulties with long term traveling
* Norway
* Why don't they have novelty whipped cream
* The Dirt Man Song, by Carter Vail
* https://genius.com/Carter-vail-dirt-man-lyrics
Microtopics:
* Specialty pour over filter coffee.
* A very deep rabbit hole of discovery of flavors.
* Drink the Machine: a Clean Metallic Flavor.
* Wacy and Chris.
* Chris or sounds like Chris.
* Living near your friends and family and being able to see them any time you want.
* Spot-it.
* Explaining what "on air" means to someone who has never listened to the radio.
* Why are flickering lights creepy?
* Getting Winston ready for swim class.
* The pressure to hyper-optimize.
* Being in the place where you are all the time.
* The world: it's really big and really full of stuff.
* How to exist in a city where you don't speak the language.
* Things you don't feel like maximizing.
* Grocery store bagged salads.
* Countries that are known for salads.
* Eating nothing but pickled fish and salty licorice during your trip even though you hate both.
* Being delighted by mediocre sushi.
* How many times Topic Lords has been downloaded in Osaka.
* Modern New-Age Scandinavian Food.
* Gas station hot dogs in Norway.
* Ordering a big slab of My Girlfriend is Not Hungry.
* Ways Norway is familiar to Americans.
* Walking around kicking the glaciers.
* Bikepackers.
* Giant highway ferries with six lanes of traffic.
* Brown Cheese Waffles.
* Daylight all night long.
* Normal people going outside and walking their dogs at 1am.
* The song that plays with the baby raccoon spinning in a circle.
* A country that is extremely serious about tunnels.
* Opening up your windows to let the cave air in.
* Visiting the Arctic circle in the winter.
* Good ideas, like Pesto Whipped Cream.
* Orange Cream Whipped Cream.
* The toothpaste tubes with the colored wedges.
* Birthday Cake Coffee Creamer.
* Guava-flavored beer foam.
* Coffee creamer except for beer.
* Chefs seeking out the worst food so they can understand exactly why it's bad.
* The Friendly's Cone Head.
* The Bad-Interesting Food Spectrum.
* Sleep regression, or more generally how you don't always keep forward progress.
* Why kids become picky eaters.
* Replicating the texture of uncooked hot dog in a novelty whipped cream.
* What whippets are for.
* Original flavorless N2O tanks.
* Using the word for amyl nitrite that signifies that you are a VCR owner and not a drug user.
* How to not become dirt in the dirt lair.
* The dirt man's tithe.
* Lying to your kid about cosmology.
* Pretending to believe the little lies as practice for believing big lies.
* Reminding your mom to make a leprechaun trap.
* Making fake boot prints to convince your kids that god is real.
* Reindeer food. (It's just hay.)
* All the years you didn't keep dirt under your pillow.
* The dirt man's dirt man taking you even deeper down.
* Lots of great places where the dirt man can be found.