Lords:

• Erica


• Casey

Topics:

• Isn't it great to have a coelom?


• Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problem


• Mammals learning to eat cephalopods
  
  
  
  
  • https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/
  
  


• A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinson
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096/
  
  


• Personal project retrospectives

Microtopics:

• That thing you just heard.


• Assigning your new hire an office.


• Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.


• The Topic Lords Promise.


• A bag that your organs sit in.


• Undifferentiated tissues.


• How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.


• Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.


• Organisms with high diseectability.


• The anti-coelom lobby.


• Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression.


• The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.


• Fluid things going on in the organism.


• A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.


• Good car ideas.


• A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.


• Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online.


• Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house.


• Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.


• Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.


• The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about.


• Serial Podcast Monogamy.


• Podcast guilt.


• Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness.


• Non-Stop Coelom Celebration.


• My own very special walking bag of guts.


• Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell.


• Losing your baby lips.


• What it's like to eat a planarian.


• Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals.


• The giant squid that have never been seen alive.


• The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.


• Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.


• Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.


• Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea.


• Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.


• Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.


• Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading.


• Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.


• It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!


• A polysexual attitude towards nature.


• Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme.


• Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia.


• Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong.


• Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing.


• Befunge.


• Clojure and other Lisps.


• Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better.


• A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game.


• Fine-grained tactical mistakes.


• Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.


• The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.


• Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.


• Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
  


• Modern Jim-Style Content.


• Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.


• A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."


• The George W. Bush childhood home.


• A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.


• The ethic of owning a shotgun.


• The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.


• Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns.


• An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.


• The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial.


• A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis.


• Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.


• An assassin of federal judges.

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