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Lords:
* April is a Park Ranger and a Beast Lord and Jim's wife
* Ryan Ike Composer is a topic bucket at https://twitter.com/RyanIkeComposer/
Topics:
* 4:58 Inventing secular rituals for children
* 19:25 Playing a Tabletop RPG can make you a better person
* 33:02 Which key is most fun to jam in, on the piano?
* The Strong Songs episode about "I Wish," by Stevie Wonder. http://strongsongspodcast.com/i-wish-by-stevie-wonder
* "I Wish," by Stevie Wonder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0
* Perfect Pitch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutepitch
* A=432 tuning. https://attunedvibrations.com/432hz-healing/
* Patent: Vibrating toilet seat. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4920583A/en
* 40:30 The Muddler asks: "What would happen if we outlawed moss, botanically and culturally?"
* Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone. https://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q
* 47:27 Monster Kabinett is a robot-hell you can pay to go to in Berlin, why don't we have these here? https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monster-kabinett
* The cliffs of Dún Aonghasa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAnAonghasa
* Oneonta falls. https://www.whentobewhere.com/travel-listing/oneonta-gorge-lower-oneonta-falls
* 58:18 "Dance Monkey," by The Tones and I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q
Microtopics:
* Taking the beast lord before someone else does.
* Being the bucket.
* Being rooted to the ground and going down with the ship.
* Brains autocorrecting puns out of existence.
* Vouching for a deer prancing across a beach.
* Not marrying someone born in the early 2000s.
* Getting into that bucket.
* Getting to sing in a room that's made for singing in.
* A cat wanting to get into the recording studio really bad.
* A cask of amontillado situation except the cask is the entire world outside the recording studio.
* Choosing to consciously develop rituals for your son.
* Throwing all of spirituality out with the bathwater.
* Going to Hell even though you tried your best.
* Being a steward of the land.
* Recoiling from going out in public because social media has drained all your life energy.
* Calling a dog a good dog when they're just being a dog.
* Having a quiet reflection about the Solstice in the middle of a labyrinth.
* Changing your real name because your pseudonym is better.
* The murder squad rolling out.
* Giving polygons the business and feeling bad for them.
* Figuring out how to be a good person even though you're literally a monster.
* The laws of physics demanding that you torture a goblin.
* Turning into a grouse and being like "peace out, losers."
* Creating an even worse relationship dynamic but at least this one isn't racist.
* Rolling up a CVS middle manager for your D&D one-shot.
* Working to become blind but always knowing you could work harder.
* Meeting someone who won't admit that they like fun shapes.
* Your local goth park ranger with a tattoo covered in flowers.
* A toilet seat that vibrates at the brown note.
* Knowing from experience that eventually you run out of poop.
* Clicking random grids while you think about moss being illegal.
* Outlawing Kate Moss as an unintentional side-effect of your moss legislation.
* Being the moss lord.
* Being the moss beast.
* Muddling your mimosa because you're ahead of the curve.
* Not drinking, but knowing so much about it that it'd be dangerous if you did.
* Moss turning out to be the linchpin to global biological harmony.
* Taking the time you used to spend itching and spending it reproducing.
* Everybody being everything.
* A Delightful Nightmare.
* Having to wait because Mother is not ready yet.
* Mother being ready now.
* Mother turning out to be a free-roaming robotic spider about the size of a smart car.
* Mother malfunctioning and kicking an aluminum folding chair across the room.
* Mother vibrating out of the way like a cheap hotel bed.
* A robot sticking out of the wall with crazy proboscis lips.
* A robot that knows how to use chopsticks.
* A flesh robot playing German industrial metal while you try to escape.
* Mother remembering you and wanting to drink your blood.
* Guessing sweaters until the beast lord tells you to stop.
* A tourist attraction with a bunch of signs saying "don't come here"
* Not wanting to die but on the other hand wanting a cool inscrutable death.
* Having an animated gif of your cool death on your tombstone.
* Joanna Newsom doing Aretha Franklin.
* Not wanting to admit whether you're a doctor.
* Playing a miniature game of snake in the spreadsheet that only you can perceive.
* Still not having a catchphrase.
* Being the beast bucket.
