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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.© 2026 Jim Stormdancer Kunst
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  • 364B. Meat on the Chat Bones (I Could Chew That)

    364B. Meat on the Chat Bones (I Could Chew That)
    Oct 12 2026

    This is the pre-show banter and topic negotiation for episode 364, ft. Maxx and Avery:

    Microtopics:

    • Strumming a guitar on a Zoom call.
    • A topic that's just a story.
    • Cassowary Joe.
    • Something rotten in Denver.
    • Whether Carmen Sandiego is a pun on the city of San Diego.
    • How the Diablo game series sounds to people who are not from the Bay Area.
    • The mythical Kingdom of Bethesda, where you might go meet Liv Tyler.
    • Whether you're from San Diego. (It's complicated.)
    • In defense of the Murder Cassowary.
    • The tiger climbing up your friend and stalking you throughout the zoo.
    • Being the coolest kid in your apartment complex until somebody gets a Super Nintendo.
    • Cargo Cult Entertainment Green Light.
    • Offering a poem and immediately regretting it.
    • The RSS feeds for individual Lords.
    • The eight hour Avery-only episode.
    • Reminding you buddy not to say goodbye to the Alexandria that you're losing.
    • Pretty Wacky in Every Language.
    • Getting excited when you have something to contribute to the video game discussion.
    • Trying to turn your video game podcast into Topic Lords.
    • The Idle Thumbs Steering Direction.
    • Sharing a show on a radio station with your friend who only plays Ska and when they go to the bathroom you play Elliott Smith.
    • Timeless Topics that Will Never Grow Old.
    • Why is my computer automated?!
    • The shop in your local mall in San Jose where you can rent videos that people home-taped in Japan and mailed to the shop.
    • Gradually replacing all the water in your body with British game shows.
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    20 Min.
  • 364. Boys Don't Know About Cassowary Man

    364. Boys Don't Know About Cassowary Man
    Oct 12 2026
    Lords: MaxxAvery Topics: False brochures https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/513415/Green-OaksOwning the wrong game console https://desertstormcards.com/The middle 90% principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08The God Abandons Antony, by C.P. Cavafy https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/the-canon/the-god-abandons-antony Microtopics: A person, in Seattle and on the Internet.Upcoming puppet shows.Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam.Portland Puppet People.Giant puppets made from shards of cardboard hanging from the ceiling.When people treat the puppet as real because the puppeteer did such a good job.Various tasks that would be challenging got moths.Girls go to university and boys go to cassowaryversity.Social Media!Spotify looking at your cover art and telling you "this would be better if it was AI-generated."A Swedish pop duo originally consisting of two Swedish people.A brochure that's slightly about your health.A picture in which everyone is smiling even though one of them is undergoing a medical procedure.Convincing elderly role-players to retire.Volunteering to DM at your local retirement home.Talking to your best friend, an emoji on a white orb.The part of the retirement home brochure about making a scene where it's like "if you can't think of anything to yell at your nurse here's some ideas"Growing old to become the dad from Frasier.A high school student making a horror film hiring a bunch of 30 year olds to play the teenagers.A brochure explaining what time is and different models of thinking about time.Handing about brochures about yourself in lieu of business cards.Marvel and DC comic book cards.Topps Operation Enduring Freedom collectible cards.The holographic Obama Bin Laden card.Sitting in class and contemplating why George W. Bush is touching the side of someone's head.Choosing to collect the Operation Desert Storm cards rather than the Operation Enduring Freedom series because it's more nostalgic.Trading some Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards for a mint condition Condoleeza Rice.Britain's Tony Blair: a Staunch Ally.Why you have that tattoo of Bonk on your stomach.Aphex Twin pressing play on his laptop and then just pacing back and forth on the stage looking angry as people dance.The Asylum Pictures of the video game industry.Kids in the neighborhood no longer coming over as soon as your neighbor gets a Super Nintendo.Nintendo localizing all the onigiri out of NES games.Kanye West's unfinished concept album about the Turbo Grafx 16.Freezing your credit card in a block of ice, but for children.A ten year old in the process of becoming a vegetarian.Running out of existential concerns before you turn ten and never developing any more.Japanese kids accepting Transformers at face value, like "of course this gun would turn into a guy" whereas American kids needed a Saturday morning cartoon to explain that it's because they're made of transformium and eat energon.Slightly malproportioned villain with a Shakespeare collar and a claw handGoing out to run errands in jeans, a t-shirt and a Shakespeare collar.How many pieces of s suit it is if you're just wearing sock garters that nobody can see.Custom colors for your Turbo Grafx?!Extremely serious Bombermans.The 90% parking principle.Calculating the approximate maximum height of a human based on having no information about humans.Mathematicians and philosophers yelling at their Windows Phones about this podcast.Trying a cup of coffee and saying "it needs more beans."Suddenly realizing that you might live to be 940.A poem who only writes about ancient Rome.Waking up to hear an invisible parade leaving Alexandria.Feeling the portents of the moment.A classic of Art Terrorism.Replacement-level mid-90s R&B.A 22 minute song including everything everyone likes best in a song.Every commercially-released Beatles song playing at once.A particular teacher who always enters the classroom in the same way.Every Topic Lords guest needing the same brand of squeaky rubber chickenA nickname that a radio DJ gave you when you were 15.
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    1 Std. und 5 Min.
  • 363. Cockroaches Who Won't Turn the Volume Down

    363. Cockroaches Who Won't Turn the Volume Down
    Oct 5 2026
    Lords: Avery https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/album/six-songs-for-lisaChall https://www.youtube.com/@bonk-zoo/shorts Topics: Playing real games on my phone https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1900nip/mario_kart_64_taco_bell_toy_1997/Jim, you're a video gamer nerd. Did I hallucinate that the second player in Atari's Bruce Lee game is a Minotaur? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBF7lBZWGwSemi-perfect pitchBay Area Rapid Tankas by Bulian Jauer https://bart.short-edition.com/story/bay-area-rapid-tankas?ctlg=4386 Microtopics: Finally getting it wrong after seven years.Becoming a dad in two weeks.Biodegradable 3D printer filament.Printing your tax documents on your 3D printer.Printing a replica of a gun and also what you look like shooting it.Turning your body into tiny little wiggly plastic skeletons after you die.Whether Epic has ruined Bandcamp yet.The impossibility of finding good video games in phone app stores.Hypnospace Outlaw's phone port.Optimizing your phone controller clip for your BART commute.Cutting your phone in half hamburger-wise or hot dog-wise.ABXY-Lutely!Running an HTTP server on your phone.Asking the robot to do the settings.A Galaga the size of a credit card.Galaga-oriented phone solutions.The thing where you get a mattress in a tiny box and you open the box and the mattress inflates over 20 minutes, except it's a Galaga arcade cabinet on your BART commute.BART Anime Festival.A Taco Bell kids meal toy that's one of those plastic marble mazes except it's Mario Kart themed and has a replica of the middle fork of the N64 controller sticking out the bottom.The Tiger Electronics Marble Madness game, with the shitty d-pad styled to look like a trackball.The VR headset that played the same games as the regular Tiger hadhelds except you had to keep one eye closed or you get a headache.Boolean Jower.The first time you saw more than one computer in one place.Your best friend in grade school whose dad kept bringing home unfinished Atari 800 games.The blue minotaur in the Bruce Lee game for the Atari 800 whose special move was to moo.The two player mode that every single-player secretly has where the first player tries to play the game while the second player keeps poking them in the ribs and making mooing noises.The purple hugging guy in Kung Fu.The guy in the purple suit who kept trying to hug Bruce Lee.Hugging-adjacent martial arts.Nolan Bushnell founding Chuck E. Cheese.Living next to a Chuck E. Cheese and eating pizza every night.The COVID Chuck E. Cheese that only offers takeout.Reframing arcade games as being for children rather than just teen hooligans.The haunted animatronics movie where Nicholas Cage doesn't have any lines.Mockbuster versions of movies that can afford a real movie star but not enough for them to talk.A floppy disk: it's a kind of cartridge.Putting a spinning magnetic disk inside of an N64 cartridge casing.Fitting a minidisk player into an N64 cartridge so Tony Hawk's Pro Skater can finally have the CD-quality soundtrack.Mechanically-produced drum loops.What to call people who have absolute pitch except it's only accurate to within three or four semitones.The course of perfect pitch.Copium theories.The one person with perfect pitch in the a capella group trying to drag everyone else into tune.The sound of an orchestra tuning.Believing yourself to be a gifted musician and having the data to back it up.Hearing the tone that only teenagers are supposed to hear.All the teenagers that Japan is trying to scare away.The only person in the coffee shop who can hear the high pitched whine of the induction hot plate. (The owner.)A poem about the noises BART makes.Reading poems on bart.govAugust Content.George Lucas probably getting the tie fighter sound from riding BART.That part of my life is over. (Two hours ago.)A recipe for not be being able to hear the teen-repellent noise.Why would anyone want to keep teenagers away from the mall?Whether malls are for teenagers any more.Why is the tofu always last to know when the mall closes?Hot Topic ghosts chasing you down as you desperately try to find the Manic Panic.A screensaver with a winner and a loser.Having a Turbo Grafx 16 while everyone else has a Super Nintendo.Your life's work in mp3 format.
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    1 Std. und 6 Min.
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