Lords:
* John
* Avery
* Jay
Topics:
* Being known for one thing and trying to do a different thing
* https://jtholen.bandcamp.com/album/new-active-object
* Finding instruments on the street
* Accidentally arguing with sauna guy
Microtopics:
* Many-Time Topic Lord John Mystery.
* Talking the plunge into the Topic Lords discord.
* An unspoken constant presence like Seymour Glass in the Glass Family novels.
* The Once and Future Musician.
* Putting a formant filter on your organ so you can play the organ on Zoom.
* Why pouring hot water sounds different from pouring cold water.
* The sound of boiling hot urine.
* The top rated coffee shop in San Francisco on Yelp for seven months in a row.
* Remaining your coffee shop after Mark Zuckerberg in hopes that he'll show up in person.
* Trying to open up a coffee shop in late 90s San Francisco and only realizing too late that it's 2016.
* ADA compliant seating.
* Four-person episodes of Topic Lords.
* A 6'5" guy trying to barter a half-used spray paint can for a cup of coffee.
* The Menacing Barterer.
* Aggressive Wimpy gladly paying you tomorrow for a hamburger today or else.
* Aggressive Wimpy throwing a shoe at your espresso machine.
* Your car accidentally becoming an art car.
* Letting people spray paint your car until it's nothing but spray paint.
* Calling 911 and explaining that the guy menacing you needs marijuana.
* Being detained by Mark Zuckerberg's private security force.
* Living near Mark Zuckerberg's house so you can do whatever your fixation with Mark Zuckerberg is.
* Aggressive Barter Guy trying to barter a Porsche for a cup of coffee.
* The $6 Porsche.
* Tholen or Tholen.
* A prog album constructed from Klik n Play samples.
* When someone who does I've things decides to do something else.
* The Mountain Goats novelizations.
* Leonard Cohen's terrible poetry.
* Thinking a song is deeply meaningful until you read the lyrics.
* New Active Object.
* Lunch Music.
* Doing a thing for a long time and getting good at it.
* Who has time to read a novel?
* Having Game Boys Advance but still reading books sometimes.
* Telling your teacher that you need to go to your job at NASA and they're like "oh you must be doing something important over there"
* Working in the waterslide industry.
* The Joy of Being the Secrets Guy.
* Reading too much into it is the next Frog Fractions game.
* Admitting to your wife that you found a digital piano on the curb.
* The digital piano in the background of the Frog Fractions 2 pitch video.
* Walking by a theremin at a party and it chirps at you like a proximity car alarm.
* The Moog Etherwave.
* Staring at your broken Omnichord.
* A toddler whose first word is "mandolin."
* Living Out Yonder.
* The Roland Space Echo.
* A cassette tape except there isn't any cassette, the tape is just kind of wriggling around in there.
* Buying synthesizers from thrift shops that don't know how to tell whether synthesizers are broken.
* The Two Organs Behind Me.
* Ukelins.
* Zither-esques.
* Dulcimers vs. hammered dulcimers.
* Looping your song and picking the notes that kind of sound like they belong.
* A Xylophone For Jandek.
* Feeling like you're taking to extremely accomplished people and you're just a weird little guy.
* Who Is Sauna Guy??
* Stuck debating sauna guy while the venerated author with similar interests to yours is holding court in the next room.
* Physics Philosophy guy talking about physics and philosophy.
* An hour into the conversation, telling Sauna Guy that you don't even like being warm and he just stares at you.
* The new way to joke about forum URLs.
* Back when the Internet was full of exciting possibilities.
* What topics turn you into Sauna Guy.
* David Byrne sitting alone at the David Byrne art exhibit in Palo Alto.
* We're All Sauna Guy Now.
* Voting each other off the podcast.
* Lightning round sudden death topics.
* When the sunscreen finally makes it onto your cornea.
* Not having a home page again but meaning to someday.
