13: The Golden Toad Mystery, All the Things we Left on the Moon, and the Oldest Bar Joke

Maximum Fun

24 March 2022

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? Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! 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:                 The Golden Toad Thirty Years After the Last Golden Toad Sighting, What Have We Learned? El Niño–Southern Oscillation 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 The Chytrid Fungus Stopping the Next Amphibian Apocalypse Hope for the Golden Toad --- List of Lunar Missions WSJ Article of Things we've left on the Moon Nasa Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon Lunar Retroreflectors Moonquakes Grenades on the Moon Correction on Moon Vomit Biomedical Results of Apollo Studying Moon Poop Family Photo on the Moon The Moon Museum PBS Moon Museum Investigation Audio Recording of Almost Forgetting to Drop Symbolic Items --- Images of the Tablets Sumerian Animal Proverbs and Fables: Collection Five AskHistorians Thread Proverbs from  Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature