Episode description
Lords:
* Tyriq
* Alex
Topics:
* Trying to superficially familiarize myself with every country
* The log burner fan
* https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S68d58689db54401f9a434456881cbdfcf/4-Blade-Heat-Powered-Stove-Fan-Log-Wood-Burner-Eco-Friendly-Quiet-Fireplace-Fan-WinterWarm.jpg
* Drilling this chair for ancient water
* Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, by Kenneth Koch
* https://allpoetry.com/Variations-On-A-Theme-By-William-Carlos-Williams
* Boichik bagels
* Boxfish skeletons are wilder than seahorse skeletons
Microtopics:
* Saya Gray.
* Least-favorite UFO 50 games.
* Treating the city you live in as if you're a tourist.
* Going to obscure corners of parking lots.
* A way to have an adventure in real life.
* The tiny squishy seal that's no longer in your back pocket.
* Web sites that are nothing but quizzes.
* Trying to name every country.
* This Sporcle quiz's opinion about which disputed territories count as countries.
* Feeling more worldly after you memorize the names of every country.
* Learning katakana and then being annoyed when signs do katakana wrong.
* The curse of perfect-pitch.
* Corrupted Pitch.
* Tuning your whole band to the same out of tune guitar.
* Hearing sounds in your head but only the sounds you're also hearing with your ears.
* State.gov hosting PDF reports of the US government's opinion of every country.
* Dear diary, today I did a cool fishing trade with Norway.
* The Four Guineas.
* The Place Across the Woods.
* A giant CPU heat sink in gunmetal black sitting on top of your wood burning stove.
* Devices powered by ambient temperature differentials.
* The spinning thing on the roof that looks like a macaroon.
* Putting googly eyes on your turbine roof vents.
* Whether Stirling Engines are useful for anything other than a demonstration of the principles of the Stirling Engine.
* Fluids moving through spaces of different sizes.
* Injection molded hollow chunky boys.
* Extremely mundane time capsules.
* A Chair for Scientists.
* A giant plastic-encased garbage ravioli.
* Entire ecosystems that have existed without light for thousands of years.
* Your FEMA-approved disaster preparedness chair.
* Sorting all the water molecules on earth from newest to oldest.
* Artists' depictions of the Hadean Earth.
* The biggest wettest comet in the universe.
* Don Quixote, the sopping wet comet.
* Free sharps, only used once!
* Writing a piece for prepared guitar after your kid fills the guitar with crayons.
* Unprepared Pianos.
* Juicy cold March wind.
* A fair-use parody.
* AI analysis of poetry that completely misses the point.
* Editing Wikipedia to say that Lil Jon went to Harvard.
* List of Rivers in Togo.
* What a Specific Guy!
* Registering an account to vandalize Wikipedia every few months for years.
* Supermarket bagels.
* Boiling round bread in water with crustaceans from the Bronx.
* Making your own water to make coffee with.
* Where to get food-grade lye.
* Pastrami lox.
* Seahorse skeletons.
* Every Platonic Solid Has a Fish.
* Where babies breathe from.
* Fish without ribcages.
* Caltrops arranged into a fish.
* Using a pufferfish skeleton as a fidget toy.
* The pufferfish at the center of our solar system.
* The kind of decoration you see in a lobster joint.
* Tropes of the open ocean.
* The guy preventing you from being able to find search results for the Atari game Toobin'.
* The loudest drinks in the world.
* The Toobin' zone in LEGO Dimensions.
* Chucking whole unopened cans of beer from your inner tube.