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Topic Lords

Topic Lords

De: Jim Stormdancer
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Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.© 2025 Jim Stormdancer Arte
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  • 299. Skin Fortress With Armed Idiot
    Jul 14 2025
    Lords: * Jenni * Robb Topics: * The phenomenon where multiple people respond with the same mystifying emoji * Skin Fort dream and image both provided by WiL: https://stale-meme.itch.io/ * Lately I've engaged in pretend play with my 4 year old nephew by pretending we stole a crate of "Toxic Waste" candy and lying to the cops about it. As actual parents, is this healthy for the child? * It turns out you don't want to rent a Playstation * Hints * https://x.com/jensbest/status/413105300535668736 * I would be happy to talk about what having an operation to get an Osia 2 bone anchored hearing aid is like. Microtopics: * The Stanley Parable New Edition. * Cyberganked. * Wishing for games using the Steam wishlist system and the Steam Monkey's Paw curls. * CRPG blobbers. * 25 years of Hugo. * Recognizing a Windows program from 1996. * Back when malware pretended to be a little guy. * The origins of Skinfort. * Hapsburg Jaw. * Angry Cry Laughing. * Meta-channels and meta-meta-channels. * Medicinal Dock Spiders. * This Spider Pays Taxes. * The weakest Great Lake of all. * The good Mexican restaurant in Fond du Lac. * Fish pouches. * Whether you have to refrigerate Big League Chew. * Putting tuna on dry toast. * Four year olds who want to impress people with how sour s candy they can eat. * The amount of toxic waste you are allowed to feed a child. * Having a milkshake and being in bed by 8:30. * Doing improv with your four year old nephew about invoking the fifth amendment. * The Cocomelon video about never talking to the police. * I'm not sad; I'm just on a triangle. * French mice asking to buy your armpit cheese. * A kid who just plain needs to be lied to. * Renting a child so you can make cheese in their armpits. * Did Jim finally rent the Playstation? * Going to the place to rent a Playstation and they immediately ask for your Social Security Number. * It's hot inside the Playstation, and the bugs are cold. * Just doing the poem about Data's cat Spot every episode. * The warlock dominatrix Harley Quinn voice that you make everybody listen to. * Oh I'm sorry, I thought the ceiling was your ass. * Telling your friends about the guy who said he thought the ceiling was your ass and asking them what it means and they just respond with the grapes emoji. * Games that have both Booty and The Wizard. * The scrawny wizard from Zwackery. * Whether chewing your food is a spell. * Listening to Topic Lords for all the mouth sounds. * Constantly rehydrating this child so that he can make the whole house wet. * Starving zombie apocalypse survivors taking the child seats out of a car so they can turn them upside down and shake all the gummy bears out. * A poem with a pangram rhyme scheme. * Bone-anchored hearing aids. * Bringing a topic list to a first date. * Waiting until your last day of insurance and bursting into the OR like the Kool-Aid Man. * Your surgeon quitting the industry immediately after seeing the inside of your head. * Performatively pressing your hearing aid's nonfunctional volume button. * Your wife violating HIPAA to tell you a hilarious work story. * Accidentally installing Bonzi Buddy on your hearing aid. * Marrying an audiologist to get the best possible hearing aid. * Going to zoom.ca to rev up your savings. * Performance Acura North Mississauga. * Adapting Eliza into a game where you're trying to trick Smaug into giving up his hoard. * Making a joke about a banana slug actually bring a plantain slug. * It is the 90s and there is time for Rifftrax.
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    1 h y 4 m
  • 298. Rawdogging Life
    Jul 7 2025
    Lords: * Mark * https://wyrmburden.bandcamp.com/album/strange-sorcerous * Shirley * https://shop.naturmacht.com/sorcerot-merch/sorceroet-rotten-magick-vinyl-crowdfunding-lim Topics: * Music League * Shaping the Head Like a Japanese Watermelon * Kugelmugel * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelmugel * Welcome to Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley * https://www.emilyperlkingsley.com/welcome-to-holland * Using drugs in 2025 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UStimeline.Drugsinvolvedinoverdosedeaths.jpg Microtopics: * Wyrm Burden. * Metal bands running out of cool word combinations. * Checking Metal Archives. * Canadian atmospheric sludge metal. * Sorcerot. * Crowdfunding a vinyl pressing because your label refuses to pay for it. * Music that is not on Spotify. * How many Music Leagues you're part of right now. * A competition to see who has the best taste in music. * A song about a horse. * Adversarial Music League. * Posting on the internet with the goal of getting the same number of upvotes and downvotes. * Benign Hypotonia and the Floppy Baby. * Wearing a helmet 23 hours a day to adjust the shape of your skull. * Heads that smell like feet. * A very head-shaped head. * Babies that look like the Gary Oldman character in The Fifth Element. * A cone-shaped otter. * Zorg and Zord. * What kind of gear is this baby on? * Eat clen, tren hard. * Collecting as many physical therapists as possible. * A sweet little guy who's having a great time. * Putting on your resume your first word and the age you first walked. * Parent influencers with bad takes. * A baby that expands to the size of its container, so they'll stay baby sized forever unless you move into a bigger house. * Listen, have you ever evaluated anything? It's not easy. * Vibes-Based Medicine. * Declaring your metal sphere a micronation. * Closing the borders of your 8 meter micronation during COVID. * Building a house that looks like a ball. * Declaring your new house a micronation after the city refuses to grant you a building permit. * Antifascism Square. * Declaring your baby paddock a micronation. * A very good basically-a-poem. * Disabilities that are worse than going to Holland. * Trying to figure out how to live with the life you have. * Making peace with the fact that you didn't achieve all your dreams. * Divisive takes about sleep training. * Outcomes associated with prolonged cortisol exposure. * Category One Squawking. * Spending six years figuring out how to get your kid to fall asleep. * The term they invented to remind parents that just because things are good now, that doesn't mean they stay good forever, which is true for everything, but for children sleeping they have a specific term for it. * Getting real sad and going home. * Trying to take any drug except for fentanyl. * Fentanyl test strips from reliable suppliers. * If Coolio isn't safe, who is? * Narcan vending machines. * Walking down the street like you have Narcan in your pocket. * The terrifying gray line that dominates the entire graph. * A credible threat to a lot of recreational drug users. * Finally inventing the nightmare drug that DARE wanted you to be terrified of. * Nostalgia for street heroin. * The role that dopamine plays in human behavior. * A dogshit drug even from a drug enjoyer's perspective. * The only internet you even like any more.
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    1 h y 23 m
  • 297. Grimace Exploded, Covering 70,000 People
    Jun 30 2025
    Lords: * Erica * Judy * https://www.tiktok.com/@diluftmensch * https://www.tumblr.com/diluftmensch * https://bsky.app/profile/diluftmensch.bsky.social Topics: * The Pantone college experience * Why is everyone with superpowers a crime fighter or a criminal * Sell me on metal utensils * Grand Avenue, by Ron Koertge * https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2014%252F10%252F19.html * Abridged version: https://allpoetry.com/poem/14373111-Grand-Avenue-by-Ronald-Koertge * Toothpaste is traditionally spicy Microtopics: * Just Judy. * Telling your friends you love them. * Taking a break from the Internet and staring at the ceiling. * Realizing you need to take a break and then trying to figure out what you need to take a break from. * Doing absolutely nothing for ten minutes. * People who enjoy meditation explaining that you just need to meditate harder. * Taking a depressing game and remaking it, reframing it as relaxing. * Tetromino Chill. * Asking "do I have the flu?" in French. * Clicking on a wav file of Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny and thinking "computer music is cool" * Your college's particular shade of purple. * The proliferation of this exact shade of purple now that Pantone has made it possible to exactly reproduce a color. * The reason why can't we tell who's buff and sexy any more. * Going to college to get sick of a particular color. * Whether any place is as intensely branded as a college campus. * What the founding fathers would think of this college campus' branding. * James Madison inventing the signature duplicator. * James Madison insisting that his entire family sleep sitting up. * Colors that you can't use until you really mean it. * Colors that are not allowed in the bathroom. * Pantone inventing a way to pee any known color. * Boom Box Guy. * The professor with the glasses with two different color lenses who is constantly complaining about JMU Purple. * Having jaws strong enough to eat bones and eating way more bones than you used to. * Topics that have been in the bucket since the inception of the bucket. * Unlimited energy. (Not limited energy.) * Why isn't Superman using his x-ray vision to watch TV better than anyone? * Lois Lane wearing superman's shirt. * Using your x-ray vision to make sure ant colonies aren't siphoning money out of bank vaults. * Advising strangers on the street that they have an untreated medical condition and they're like "go away creep" * The spoon doing a catapult move because the handle is too heavy, and flinging chili everywhere. * Plastic utensils for adults. * Hitting the age when doctors start saying things like "let's see if we can get a couple more good years out of you" * Whether the fork ever touches your tongue. * Ceramic spoons. * Melamine, the plastic material manufactured on Alf's home planet. * Handsome Korean wooden spoons. * Just slurping down a whole bowl of guacamole. * Everyday Carry Forks. * Metal utensils: so good, you carry them around. * Trying to eat a leaf of lettuce with an extremely heavy fork. * Eating a meal with a pickaxe and a pronged shovel. * Turning the corner by Señor Fish. * Different ways to kil for somebody. * A punch-line that was not set up in the descriptive part of the poem. * A poem that is a subset of another poem. * Where is the wacky misunderstanding that I was promised? * A bumper sticker reading "you just got passed by a bad driver (AI)" * Slapping the "artificial intelligence" label on everything you write so people blame AI. * Cinnamon toothpaste and ginger toothpaste. * Conventionally spicy toothpaste. * Toothpaste that doesn't taste like anything. (You know, for cats!) * Spicy tuna toothpaste and black pepper toothpaste. * Rinsing your mouth with lemon cleanser so your mouth can feel lemon fresh. * Pure Piperin. * Tubes: they're for squeezing. * Phosphoric acid toothpaste.
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    1 h
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