13: The Golden Toad Mystery, All the Things we Left on the Moon, and the Oldest Bar Joke
Episode description
What happened to the golden toad? How many things did we leave on the moon, and what are they? And what is the oldest recorded bar joke?
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We also learn about: The World Wildlife Fund/World Wresting Federation, Agatha Christie’s Mystery of the Golden Toad, publication smackdowns, the amphibian apocalypse, outside my jurisdiction, double callback, the african clawed frog (from ep 5!), on this podcast we stan… Michael Collins, moon poop, moon scalpels, 4 undetonated grenades, moonquakes, no on vomitted on the moon, rating moon items, sneaking things on the moon, dogs in sumerian bars only want to open one thing and it’s disgusting, how many likes did that tablet have? reading sumerian proverbs, the dog understands take it, but it does not understand put it down.
Sources:
Thirty Years After the Last Golden Toad Sighting, What Have We Learned?
Crump, Apparent decline of the golden toad: underground or extinct?
Pounds and Fogden, Conservation of the golden toad: a brief history
Global Warming Didn't Kill the Golden Toad
First Mammal Killed by Global Warming
Stopping the Next Amphibian Apocalypse
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WSJ Article of Things we've left on the Moon
Nasa Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon
Audio Recording of Almost Forgetting to Drop Symbolic Items
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