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Lords:
* Ben
* https://twitter.com/AussieBen
* Michelle
* https://twitter.com/riding_red
* https://www.sciencealert.com/
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/Eyeballplanet
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJupiter
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.
