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Lords:
* John is excited to be a Topic Lord
* JP does stuff at http://vectorpoem.com/
Topics:
* 1:36 Horses will climb stairs but can't get back down again.
* http://www.firecritic.com/2009/08/18/fire-pole-or-sliding-chute/
* CLOP: http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html
* 12:13 Do you get enough sleep? If so, how?
* 21:36 The ad for a movie sequel that was the entirety of the previous movie in the series.
* The Wendy's tabletop RPG: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/dd-licious-wendys-now-has-a-tabletop-rpg-and-the-villain-is-frozen-beef/
* Too Many Cooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
* Bandersnatch, the semi-interactive Black Mirror thing on Netflix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackMirror%3ABandersnatch
* Adaptation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation(film)
* The weird trailer for Identity that preceded Adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8fjyxM7DgU
* 35:34 How much work would it take to insert a fictional person into the historical record?
* Fall; or, Dodge in Hell - A novel by Neal Stephenson about near-future technological advancements like uploading your consciousness to the cloud and curating your online existence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;or,Dodgein_Hell
* 49:18 John's recurring dream about seeing the wrong image and ending all levels of reality
Microtopics:
* Lord enthusiasm.
* Thinking of Ghostbusters because you can't imagine a firefighter.
* Foraging for oats on the top floor of a fire station.
* Installing a pole because your infant son can't descend stairs.
* Finding a horse in a tree.
* Playing CLOP to learn empathy for the descending horse.
* Replacing a spiral staircase with a normal staircase.
* The entire city burning down because the firefighters can't get past the horse that's stuck on the landing.
* Becoming a morning person because of your government job.
* Your child possibly loving the daycare lady more than he loves you.
* Taking melatonin because you don't have the discipline for not looking at screens before bed.
* The shitty dreams of melatonin boot camp.
* Gnawing on the melatonin and leaving it on the nightstand for next time.
* Your body getting stuck on a particular sleep schedule long past its relevance.
* Hypothesizing how much long-lasting damage you did with your teenage sleep habits.
* Focusing better because everyone else is asleep.
* Working until 4am because you're being so productive.
* Not knowing how ads work because you have an ad-blocker installed.
* Finding about how ads work from an 11 year old.
* Your alternate reality self who enjoys a good advertisement now and again.
* Maintaining the pace of film trailers for over an hour.
* Mistaking the trailer before the movie as being part of the movie.
* Nobody being fooled by your fake trailer because people don't watch movies in theaters any more.
* Avoiding watching Bandersnatch because you're a completionist.
* The technical difficulties of adding late choice points to an otherwise linear film.
* Being nostalgic for old UIs of web services.
* Finding a web page that hasn't changed in 15 years.
* Finding a web page that looks 15 years old but also has a mobile style sheet.
* Editing an innocuous fact on Wikipedia that nobody will bother to fact-check.
* Asking to view a historical document and sneaking in a quill pen and inkwell to modify it.
* Citing your doctored document on Wikipedia.
* Befriending a history professor and asking them to mention your fake Kansas senator in a published paper.
* Falsifying movie running times just because you can get away with it.
* Citing an obscure magazine as your source on Wikipedia because nobody will bother to check.
* Clinging to the scraps of the past that you've salvaged from eBay and garage sale VHS tapes.
* Poor documentation of pop culture leading to compelling mysteries.
* Drowning true information with false information.
* The downside of having a unique Google string.
* Having repercussions on all levels of nested reality.
* Dreams as really lazy storytelling.
* Remembering facts without remembering their origin.
* Getting stuck opening a door to mask dream loading time.
* Making up any old bullshit and being convinced it's a Beatles rarity.
* Desperately fleeing from the "The End" title card.
* Realizing your dream is actually just the plot of The Neverending Story.
