The Brown Menace
| The Brown Menace | |
| Number | 91 |
| Broadcast Date | March 5, 2013 |
| Episode Length | 1:18:50 |
| Hosts | Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood, Justin Robert Young |
Original three reunited again for this very special episode of the podcast! Andrew introduces a birthday question in honor of Justin’s 30th Name Day. A space pioneer wants to make a fly by around Mars but the price may be too high for some prospective adventurers. Or too low. Or too stank.
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Birthday Fun Times
The day of recording was Justin's 30th birthday and Andrew wanted to find out what everyone's dream gift would be. He proposes a scenario in which presented to each of the host is a 15" cube box that contains their dream present. Their gifts are:
- Justin - Untold wealth
- Brian - Portal Gun, a light saber, a phaser and various other sci-fi gadgets
- Andrew - Iron Man armor
Getting "more realistic", Andrew proposes a scenario in which Bill Gates calls them up and gives them anything that he can that will fit inside of the 15" cube box. The gifts they asked for were:
- Justin - The patents to Microsoft Office in a Word file.
- Brian - The box full of anti-matter
- Andrew - A ton of processors
500 Days to Mars
Amature Astronaut, Denis Tito, wants to send a married couple on a 500 day trip to do a flyby of Mars in 2018. Obviously there are still a ton of obstacles to overcome, not the least of which is cosmic radiation.
But there is one potential solution to the radiation problem: poop, or as Andrew put it, "butt boogers". The idea is that you would excrete your feces into a bag and line the walls of the capsule to help shield you from radiation. The guys had a lengthy discussion about whether or not this is a horrible idea. Brian thinks that 500 days in a small room surrounded by "butt bags" would be a better experience than the early Apollo missions in which astronauts sat around in a soiled diaper for a couple days. Andrew and Justin would prefer to have a dedicated septic system for their year and a half journey to Mars.
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Great Quotes
- Justin - "Listen, we're rollin' the dice on cancer here folks."
- Andrew - "Butt boogers."
Fun Facts
- Brian admitted that he would eat a bag of "butt boogers" in order to go to Mars.
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| Preceded by: "Smoking Crater" |
The Brown Menace |
Followed by: "Salacious Skype Schemes" |