Lords:

• Alex


• Shannon

Topics:

• Japan in summer is too hot, but there's lots of cool festivals


• Why can't I have marzipan made by nuns in California?


• Podcast playlist problems


• Considering the Snail, by Thom Gunn
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52887/considering-the-snail
  
  

Microtopics:

• Traveling.


• If you need a lot of stuff, or if that stuff needs you.


• Real Topic Aficionados.


• Last Life and other lives.


• Watching a TV series you like and then going back and watching the same episodes again from a different character's perspective.


• Napping all day and seeing street festivals at night.


• Walking around with a tower of flaming candles on your head that keep getting tangled in power lines.


• Why aren't the modern World's Fairs as exciting as the ones from 150 years ago?


• Making a couple weeks vanish in lieu of a millennium and a half of leap days.


• Naming your baby Person Who Packs For Themselves.


• Naming your baby "Supplanter"


• The littlest bean that's currently born.


• Growing up enough to realize that everybody is named Luke now.


• How Bob used to be the funny fake name but now it's Jeremy.


• The Bob Emergency.


• The guy you call Baker because he's a baker.


• The canonical order of ore value in video games.


• Hacking your save file at home, just like in the good old days.


• Selling marzipan in a dark room with a turntable and a bell.


• Things you can eat in some parts of the world that you can't eat in others.


• San Diego's Best Seattle Burrito.


• The essence of fine Mexican foods.


• Australians telling candy companies "stop trying to make Halloween happen"


• That friend who has digestive issues eating salmon, but only in specific countries.


• The politics of buying Girl Scout cookies.


• The best place to sell a Girl Scout cookies on UCSD campus.


• Boy Scouts trying to sell popcorn, with seemingly no awareness that popcorn is not remotely as good as Girl Scout Cookies.


• Kobey's Swap Meet.


• Getting an old timey surgical mannequin at a swap meet so you can practice your surgery.


• Kids today trying to figure out how to operate a VCR like they're playing Myst.


• What happens if you put a VHS tape in backwards?


• Netflix's "continue watching" category, for movies you didn't like enough to finish.


• We don't want to hear your bra podcasts!


• The Stanford professor you're gardening for asking you what podcast you're listening to and now you have to explain your weird hobby to your employer.


• How to listen to podcasts without your boss sneaking up on you.


• The first time you've been to the dentist without headphones this millennium.


• Introvert Dentists.


• Tooth care advice that you forget immediately.


• Extremely symmetrical knots in a power cable.


• Climbing, sailing and caving knots.


• What is a snail's fury? Why is this snail so mad?


• A turtle that's decided it's go time.


• Getting really excited about the turtle races at the Renaissance Fair.


• Watching a carnival game where four people throw five spears each at targets attached to a wall of hay, and none of them manage to hit the wall.


• Axe throwing bars, where you have a beer and throw axes.


• Taking up axe throwing as a hobby because whenever someone gets killed with an axe, the police will be sad if they don't have any suspects.


• Axe throwing failure modes.


• Dominant javelin throwing strategies.


• Throwing a javelin further by spinning around like a discus thrower.


• Bullets: they go where they want.

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