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267. Unburying The Duck

267. Unburying The Duck

Update: 2024-12-02
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Lords:




  • John

  • Erica



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Microtopics:




  • The waiting list to get into the Topic Lords discord.

  • What goes on the lords-only channel.

  • The first rule of being a lord.

  • It's the end of the show somewhere in the world.

  • Frog Fractions Royalty.

  • Topic Lords Con East.

  • Choosing pairs of lords.

  • What lords have been on the show least recently.

  • Mystery with a B.

  • Responsibility to the lords.

  • ARG goings-on.

  • Maze of Games.

  • Rubber hose ARG solving

  • Digging up the golden owl and replacing it with a duck.

  • The minimum number of golden owls you are allowed to cast in France.

  • The History of the Owl Stuff.

  • Commemorating your love of the Golden Owl by purchasing this commemorative Golden Owl.

  • The Mystery of the Golden Owl that nobody wanted solved.

  • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

  • Going and burying a duck

  • Unburying the Duck and putting the Owl back.

  • Looking through the Heart of France.

  • Another cursed treasure hunt in the can.

  • Ancient alternatives to zip files.

  • Re-scoping your puzzle hunt on the fly.

  • Telling twins apart using phrenology.

  • Twin identification strategies.

  • Let me see your flecks!

  • Checking your placental mammals for belly buttons.

  • Platypodes.

  • Jock twin/nerd twin.

  • Having children as a way to practice solving problems together.

  • Who forgot to take a nap today? (Everyone on the show.)

  • Flailing limbs kicking your bedmate all night.

  • Rocking your kid to sleep and then depositing them in the crib like Indy swapping out the golden idol.

  • How to teach babies to sleep.

  • Wearing children until the children no longer tolerate it.

  • A good selection of kid-friendly music.

  • A guy with a soothing British voice saying interesting things for ten minutes.

  • How much coffee to give a six year old right before bed.

  • Waiting for your kid to realize that when it's 1am he doesn't have to ask you if he can watch TV.

  • Just show me the byte order marker!

  • Adding tabs to Notepad.

  • Everyone agreeing to go back to WordStar.

  • What software developers do once a program is finished and perfect.

  • Loading CSV files into R.

  • Accidentally updating Excel.

  • The kind of person who is passionate about the latest cutting edge version of all software, who works in tech and is in charge of all update systems.

  • Adobe Premiere updates that ruin your team's entire workflow.

  • Why JWZ is no longer rich.

  • Seeing all the trailing spaces at the end of the line.

  • Jobs that require you to be able to distinguish between a tab character and the equivalent number of spaces.

  • How Unity handles upgrades and versioning.

  • The 75th anniversary of Goodnight Moon.

  • Why the New York Times's list of most borrowed children's library books of all time doesn't contain Goodnight Moon.

  • When Goodnight Moon says "Goodnight Nobody" and you immediately assume that the old lady died.

  • The calming effect of going over an inventory of really nice soothing things.

  • The Margaret Wise Brown ouevre.

  • Goodnight Dune.

  • Good night, shai-hulud bursting out of the dune.

  • Good night, Bene Gesserit witch whispering "they tried and died."

  • Too much of every character giving their internal monologue in italics.

  • Virginia Facebook's extremely cheap antiques.

  • Floating in the No-Room.

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267. Unburying The Duck

267. Unburying The Duck

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