72. Gaseous Iron And The Hot Jupiters

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• Ben
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• Michelle
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Topics:

• Dora the Explorer and the City of Gold was a delightful surprise
• We're about to land another rover on Mars and that is super way cool
  • Michelle: "Just clarifying that most discarded rocket stages don't end up in low-Earth orbit forever, they're designed to deorbit and burn up on atmospheric reentry. Sometimes things just go a bit awry."
• Scratch-off Donkey Kong
  • http://catfish.it.cx/trsrockin/trsrockin.com/dkcards.html
• Ville asks "Tangential to dishwasher salmon, there are multiple coffee maker cookbooks, including a Finnish one that includes recipes like lamb and carrots in balsamic dressing, and wild mushroom risotto."
• Do you want to ask me stuff about exoplanets
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball_planet
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Jupiter

Microtopics:

• Growing your own mushrooms.
• Aliens growing out of your mycelium.
• Growing your own toxic mushrooms from murder mushroom kits.
• The incredible mushroom picking season that COVID facilitated.
• One of those styrofoam boxes from the fruit shop.
• When a teenager says "ok boomer" to you and you're like "dude I'm thirty."
• Signing up for the free trial of Amazon Prime so you can watch the live action Dora the Explorer movie.
• Looking at the camera and asking the viewer "Can you say 'deadly neurotoxin?'"
• Accidentally getting boxed in a crate and sent to the jungle.
• A CG animated fox voiced by Benicio del Toro.
• The nerd character getting beaten up in the background as the protagonist walks away.
• Singing the poo song and burying your poo with the poo shovel while everybody else is fleeing from the hail of arrows.
• Why Diego exists. (Because American audiences couldn't handle boys watching a show about a girl.)
• How to stop Swyper from swiping.
• ABC, the Australian analog of the BBC.
• Percy the Perseverance Robot.
• Whether it would be more exciting for the Mars Rover to land safely or explode in a fireball.
• How to transfer between two different orbits.
• Making a beeline for Mars.
• Attaching a broom to Perseverance to sweep the dust off of Opportunity's solar panels.
• Returning a soil sample from Mars.
• Returning a rock sample from an asteroid.
• Not being able to tell the difference between water and just a different colored dirt.
• Signs of ancient microbes.
• Choosing which way you want Mario to go and then scratching off a silver oval to see what happens.
• Choosable Path Adventures.
• ChooseCo is preparing to sue you right now.
• Writing the novelization of Super Mario Bros. when all you have for reference is the instruction manual.
• Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf.
• A story from Jim's youth.
• A little cardboard door that you open to see if you won a prize.
• How children were so starved for entertainment in the 80s that scratch off Donkey Kong seemed cool.
• Shrinking down a full size comic to fit in a cereal box so you need to read it with a microscope.
• Magazines that are printed with that red/blue 3D effect that doesn't quite work.
• A sponge pen with reactive ink in it that you brush against the seemingly blank page to reveal clues.
• How the "Yes & Know" invisible ink puzzle books have a completely different atrocious pun for a title in Australia, "Mr. Mystery."
• Knowing your parents really like you if you get a Scrooge McDuck comic.
• How to find a drip coffee maker in Australia.
• Going to a McDonald's in the 1980s to try out your novelty lamb and carrots in the drip coffee maker recipe, because there's nowhere else to find a drip coffee maker in Australia.
• Someone giving you a drip coffee machine as a gift and you're like "what the hell am I gonna do with this" and then you remember that wild mushroom risotto coffee machine recipe.
• Comparing your "no and" current guest to the guest who tried microwaving Coca Cola during the episode.
• An American lady on TikTok showing you all the wrong ways to make common British food.
• The best exoplanet.
• Eyeball planets.
• Tidally locked planets possibly being habitable at The Terminator.
• Using our scientific expertise to turn the moon into an eyeball.
• Detecting exoplanets via periodic dimming of stars.
• A weird little ice world.
• An exoplanet named "Steve" that has wronged you in some way.
• Exoplanet naming conventions.
• Tasking Reddit with naming all 4,300 known exoplanets.
• Hundreds of hypothetical dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt.
• Taking a two year break from Twitter and feeling much better.
• Rescuing greyhounds.