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Today's Topic

Today's Topic

By: Today's Topic Productions
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What happens when friends start recording their conversations? You get Today's Topic. Join us as we pretend we aren't being recorded, attempting to not dox ourselves while maintaining some arbitrary level of authenticity. We don't claim to have any answers at all and we welcome any feedback about what we talk about in these sessions. We're the perfect soundtrack for your commute, that long car line, or finally getting to that gardening you've been putting off. We might be biased but we think you will enjoy the audio and we know your ears will thank you. So what will Today's Topic be? You know you want to find out. Find us at todaystopic.productions for more information, email us at admin@todaystopic.productions, and be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.Copyright 2026 Today's Topic Productions Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Checking on the Old Bag After a Night of Candy Corn and Old English
    Mar 30 2026
    Episode Overview

    In this episode, we talk about the "Big Three" of Human existence. We disregard careers, relationships, and hobbies to focus on eating garbage, sleeping, and the sheer euphoria of a good bathroom break. Plus, we explore the reality of an aging gut.

    Key Discussion Points
    • The "Big Three" Fundamentals: Why eating, sleeping, and taking a dump are the only things that truly matter. Why do we spend our entire lives trying to get back to doing what we did as babies?
    • The Old Person Diet: Why retirement is basically just giving up and surviving on Little Debbie cupcakes, Tootsie Rolls, and candy corn until the end.
    • The Colostomy Bag Dilemma: A deeply unnecessary and visceral debate about whether having a colostomy bag is a tragic medical condition or the ultimate life hack for skipping the toilet. Why is a satisfying trip to the porcelain throne is the only true victory left in adulthood?

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    14 mins
  • The Etsy Economy Runs on Rocktopi and Prayers You Can Buy
    Mar 23 2026

    In this episode, one of us attempts to diagnose 3D-prints as the physical version of AI "slop." We explore how Etsy has devolved into an unregulated gray market flooded with articulated dragons, Bob the sponge holders, and people literally selling prayers.

    1. The 3D-Printed Slop Economy: How affordable 3D printers have created a physical equivalent to AI brain-rot, flooding the world with cheap, mass-produced plastic artifacts.
    2. Laundering Copyrights: We question the legality of selling bootleg K-Pop Demon Hunters and "Bob the Sponge" holders, and why no one is stopping it. How tweaking a 3D print file by 5% is basically the physical version of Jack Black slightly bending a note to avoid copyright infringement.
    3. Purchasable Prayers: A look back at the bizarre era of Etsy where the platform pivoted from handmade jewelry to people selling on-demand prayers and magic spells.


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    14 mins
  • Looksmaxxing Won't Save Vampires From Being Dusty Try-Hards
    Mar 16 2026
    Episode Overview

    In this episode, we tackle the "whimsical hallucinations" of human history and rank the best and worst mythical creatures. We dive into why humans would rather invent a Pegasus than face a boring day tilling the fields and explore how ancient "propaganda" turned greedy landlords into blood-sucking Vampires. From the maritime terror of the Kraken to the local legend of a ghost dog named Stiffy Green, we explore the "old man hobby" pipeline of the supernatural.

    Key Discussion Points
    1. The Phoenix Obsession: Why the cycle of rebirth makes the Phoenix the undisputed GOAT of the imagination.
    2. Harry Potter Lore vs. Actual Myth: How much of our modern understanding of beasts is just residual memories of 2000s cinema?.
    3. The Centaur Theory: Were Centaurs just the result of a confused peasant seeing a Mongolian horseman for the first time?.
    4. Whale Blubber & Fossil Fuels: A brief tangent on how we used to power the world with "Chef's Kiss" quality blubber before dinosaurs took over.
    5. The Legend of Stiffy Green: The heartwarming and slightly terrifying story of the dog who waited in a mausoleum until he became a local ghost legend.
    6. The "Scaly Magpie" Problem: Why Dragons are objectively cool but suffering from a serious "overuse" problem in modern media.
    7. Vampires vs. Fairies: A deep dive into why Vampires are overcompensating "dead guys" who can't compete with the raw "pixie dust" energy of Fairies.
    8. Vampires as Propaganda: Why the myth of the blood-sucking aristocrat might have just been the earliest form of "Eat the Rich".

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    22 mins
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