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Lords:
* April is @aprilsaur on Twitter.
* John remains a mystery.
Topics:
* Climate-aware architecture
* https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1013941701293928449
* https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
* On Dungeons & Dragons: focusing on the characters vs focusing on the story
* Why do people say "ahh" after taking a drink
* https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/special-shows/the-mystery-hour/human-body/why-do-people-say-ahh-after-finishing-a-drink/
* Miko asks: "Perpetual Stew, a food that instead of being cooked once and then eaten, continues to be cooked for up to five hundred years (while occasionally also being eaten, but not in its entirety)"
* That strange feeling when you move to a new state and the laws around plastic bags are different, and other weird differences between places
* The Afghan-Mexican fusion burrito shop in Albany that we didn't name on the podcast: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-hot-shop/Location?oid=1113434
* You want the "tropical" or the "cajun," depending on how spicy you like it.
Microtopics:
* Seasons that aren't summer and states that aren't California.
* John of the Commonwealth of Virginia Johns.
* Calling yourself a Commonwealther but not knowing all the deep Commonwealth cuts.
* Not having a city name because you're between cities and so calling yourself a "census designated place."
* An experience that you had that is in the past.
* Plugging a suspiciously expensive hat that players love.
* Not being able to have hobbies because you just bought a house.
* California, where it's sunny for hundreds of years and then suddenly a thunderstorm covers the entire state in tens of thousands of lightning strikes.
* Not having to get your home repairs done before people visit because nobody can ever visit.
* The good news is: podcasting.
* Not having had a basement in decades.
* Discovering that Virgina is a tiny piece of a giant land mass called North America.
* Buying the Frog Fractions hat DLC for all your friends.
* An extremely Californian form of hell.
* Architects forgetting that climate exists after air conditioning is invented.
* Fantasizing about winning the lottery when you never play the lottery.
* The downside of climate control via architecture.
* The feeling of tatami mats under your feet.
* Realizing that having bugs in your floor sometimes is just the price you pay for having floor mats that bugs like to live in.
* The tortilla mouse story.
* Discovering that a mouse is living in your bag of tortillas and signing a contract with the mouse that it will just eat the tortillas and not destroy the rest of your house or breed.
* Cats discovering extremely stale candy in the cabinet under the sink.
* A squirrel spinning a corn tortilla like a steering wheel and eating it from the outside in.
* A squirrel spinning a tortilla like a sign spinner.
* Joining a D&D campaign late.
* Knowing what your characters are about and creating situations where the characters have something to play against.
* Making sure your players have stakes in the story being told.
* A dope encounter on a luxury liner where you have to follow a bard with an anti-magic field.
* A D&D campaign where all the players just hang out and eat Doritos.
* Crafting a narrative by building outwards from a single dramatic moment.
* Not knowing anything about the company you own half of.
* The mystery of the Ultraviolet City.
* Collaboratively inventing a story with your friends.
* Having a beverage with you and being able to test a beverage hypothesis.
* The sensation of a little bit of cool air passing over the various nerve endings in the inner mouth area.
* Whether pooping is a social construct.
* A two year old fixating on the color of Pepsi.
* Tripping out on your own sensory experience.
* Some real good honest mischief.
* Taking a deeper breath so you can drink more.
* Getting out the whiteboard to teach your infant son how to drink and belch.
* A gentle sweet boy forcibly closing your laptop so you'll pay attention to him.
* Perpetual stool, which also hangs around for 500 years.
* Living for as long as you can keep the stew going.
* Being caretaker for a stew that is 300 years older than you.
* Making sure you eat all the meat out of your stew before it goes bad and spoils the rest of the stew.
* Filling your house with the smell of fresh baked bread.
* A bread recipe where you just put all the ingredients in a pan and then bake it.
* A gradient of cheese.
* Broccoli with horrible stinky cheese melted on top.
* Jumping on any excuse to make an elaborate ridiculous meal.
* Visiting your friends in Virginia but never talking to them because of COVID.
* Going ballistic whenever you see a deer.
* Making everyone sign an NDA before they can listen to this episode of your podcast.
* Some sort of palace of food.
* Two grocery bags being filled before you even realize what's happening.
* Stipulating that the burrito rant has occurred.
* Differing vehicle registration laws in Virginia and California.
* Running a bunch of stop signs because they don't write the word "stop" on the ground in Portland, they only have the red sign.
* How to proceed with the ARG when you believe you've solved the mystery of John's identity.
