Topic Lords
Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.
Episodes
January 5, 2026 • 78 mins
Lords:
* Andrew
* Kate
Topics:
* The strange and alienating experience of learning to drive at 40
* The mottos of the livery companies of London
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofmottosandhallsoftheliverycompanies
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofmottos
* Independent They Stand!
* https://archive.org/details/computer-games-magazine-issue-115-june-2000/page/n83/mode/2up?view=theater
* Leda and the Swan, by William But...
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December 29, 2025 • 73 mins
Lords:
* Ryan
* CisHetKayfaber
Topics:
* My vocal stims are getting out of control now that I don't have pets.
* Training to become a Tetris Grandmaster
* https://www.youtube.com/@cishetkayfaber/videos
* Switching to not-bifocals
* Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nntd2fgMUYw
Microtopics:
* Introducing yourself or plugging something.
* Going to Cape Town for Playtopia.
* Enemies to enemies to ...
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December 22, 2025 • 57 mins
Lords:
* Maxx
* Michael
Topics:
* Reinventing pants
* Plortonomics (the economy in the game Slime Rancher)
* The Leaning American
* Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, by E. E. Cummings
* https://poets.org/poem/maggie-and-milly-and-molly-and-may
Microtopics:
* Rabbits and writing.
* Buying the lede (but thankfully the rabbits dug it up)
* Lord Veterans
* Ancillary Justice, or The Imperial Radch.
* Rabbits who want nothing more t...
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December 15, 2025 • 67 mins
Lords:
* Linker
* Alexa
Topics:
* Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol
* Anthropomorphism/Connection in media
* Get a free burger when you join my rewards
* Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas
* What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble
* Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of the 1970s as shown ...
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December 8, 2025 • 75 mins
Lords:
* Hallie
* Peter
* https://www.paschaefer.com/
Topics:
* Do you know where all your things are?
* How education doesn't melt
* Bebop Bytes Back
* Augustus Gloop by Roald Dahl
* https://allpoetry.com/-Augustus-Gloop...-
Microtopics:
* The Directrix of Cybernetic Security.
* Unity licensing from Unity as Unity.
* Fantasy Book of the Month. (FBOM)
* Part zombie, part ghost.
* Accidentally GenMoing your WriMo.
* A house with...
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December 1, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Esper
* Cort
Topics:
* Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately
* Stateless procedural music
* Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files
* Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin
* https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/
Microtopics:
* Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive.
* Puzzled Pint.
* Oh man, this one's a real quart!
* Puzzled Pint get...
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November 24, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Mitch
* Kory
Topics:
* The Nintendo 64DD
* Wristwatch repair videos
* How to switch to Linux??
* Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan
* The ICZN's recommended method of determining the Latin grammatical gender of a word that isn't Latin
Microtopics:
* Being a fledgling your whole life.
* Mitch from the Super Mario Wiki.
* The episode of Topic Lords where we sp...
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November 17, 2025 • 69 mins
Lords:
* Danny
* https://linktr.ee/dannyBstyleband
* Josh
* https://www.bonusstage.ca/
* Vitor
* https://vitoramado.framer.website/
Topics:
* Games you love that nobody else knows exist
* I keep losing my sunglasses. How do I fix this?
* Homebrewing
* When did Bush stop hiding the facts??
* Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
* https://allpoetry.com/mad-girl%27s-love-song
* I didn't actually have four poems in mind that ...
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November 10, 2025 • 75 mins
Lords:
* Jenni
* Felicia
Topics:
* The Mr. T cartoon
* A hyper-specific comedy roast where it's just a couple giving each other shit for doing the dishes wrong
* The poem that wasn't on Yuji Naka's wall
* Sprouts, by Loryn Brantz
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0V0RfSkz.jpg
* The phenomenon where you're convinced you could do way better at the TV competition s...
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November 3, 2025 • 80 mins
Lords:
* John
* Kevin
* https://www.youtube.com/@kevin_hainline
Topics:
* Asking for help / Dealing with the slightest criticism/suggestions/etc
* Roger Rabbit and Marvel vs. Capcom were big deals. How long until multiverse & crossover shit is exciting again?
* Update on media that makes me feel things vs. media that doesn't
* "Bell's Theorem"", a poem that I wrote, and then, at a poetry reading someone suggested the next poem a...
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October 27, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* Elena
* Joël
Topics:
* The Luck Factor:
* http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/TheLuckFactor.pdf
* Dual pilgrim certificate
* The return of PicoSteveMo
* https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3
* Every poem, by every human
* https://www.tumblr.com/nextworldover/793694487879827456/animatedamerican-atamascolily
Microtopics:
* Packing cubes.
* The Rolling Method.
* Modular backpacks.
* Camera people: a different type o...
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October 20, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Daniel
* https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/
* Chris
Topics:
* Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
* Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan
* Figwit
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit
* Sudo-Ku
* https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html
* Game Design: The form is arbitrary and not worth much thought. What's interesting is how you play in...
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October 13, 2025 • 81 mins
Lords:
* Danny
* https://nightbrunchband.com/
* Walker
* https://nightbrunchband.com/
Topics:
* You Probably Think This Song is About You
* The Perfect r/crappymusic Post: An audio tour of Archetypes
* https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/0291r0zf.jpg
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk
* Sample-based film scores in the 80s
* https://www.tumblr.com/...
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October 6, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* John
* Fif
Topics:
* Accidentally exploring a bunch of related subjects and/or media
* The excellent progression system of Blues' Clues ABCs (1995)
* https://archive.org/details/blues-clues-blues-abc-time-activities-pc-cd-rom
* Salty Licorice is the sixth taste
* https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-sixth-sense-of-taste-salty-licorice/
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice
* The Cubivore...
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September 29, 2025 • 63 mins
Lords
* Alexander
* Kev
Topics:
* "Floaty movement" in games
* The power to give people clutter that they can't throw away
* https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/palweb/week12/palwk12.htm
* https://www.anabuzzalino.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/book-of-kells.jpg
* Dunning Kruger got debunked!
* https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/
* With or Without Witnesses, by...
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September 22, 2025 • 72 mins
Lords:
* Megan
* https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/
* Austin
* https://austinmwav.com/
Topics:
* Going for a super long walk is amazing
* "Elevated" horror is a sham
* I was there when Every 5x5 Nonogram section 303 finished
* NPC Dialog Test by Nintendo Europe #NintendoEurope
* https://x.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1863976914349621280
* My breakfast dogma
* Not bringing my shitpost music/mashup ideas to life because I'm afraid ...
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September 15, 2025 • 68 mins
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 Mus...
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September 15, 2025 • 28 mins
This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??
Microtopics:
* The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.
* All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.
* The seam in the fish video.
* Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.
* How to texture a limestone chunk.
* Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deli...
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September 8, 2025 • 64 mins
Lords:
* Ben
* Avery
Topics:
* The Mishima Incident, in which one of the most famous authors in Japan created his own private militia of young men, attempted to overthrow the government and, upon failing, committed ritual suicide.
* City-wide game of hide and seek
* How to stick it to bad Bluetooth actors
* The Carrotman's Lament, by E.L. Hubert
* https://x.com/sweetstench/status/1724958011754504568
* Esper says: "Avery’s anecd...
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September 1, 2025 • 66 mins
Lords:
* Xalavier
* https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139570/CoopKaijuHorror_Cooking/
* Cort
Topics:
* What's the coolest instrument to give a child?
* What happened to sound lasers?
* Appearing Canes
* https://www.amazon.com/Healifty-Retractable-Collapsible-Professional-Accessories/dp/B093G7J6JG
* The Story of Mel
* http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
* https://melsloop.com/docs/the-story-of-mel/pages/mel-k...
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