Hey, it's your stepbrothers girlfriend, the one with the pet rat. What's up, it's Ali Ward. Welcome back another episode of Oligies.

Hi guys, I'm happy continued summer to all of our friends in the Northern Hemisphere, happy sweater weather to the Southern friends.

Boy, howdy. Do we have a special two-parter for you this week and next?

Mars, are you ready? Okay, so that orange orb in the night sky, it's fodder for science fiction and it's a place where billionaires ask themselves,

can we go there when we ruin the planet? We're on. It's kind of like a very dry rebound after we crash and burn our marriage with Earth.

So maybe you love Mars, maybe you maybe you don't know why people love Mars, maybe you're like me and until a few years ago, I was like, wait, is Mars a really hot?

Like firey one because it's red and stuff? I had no idea. So this week you're not only getting answers to the questions you feel too stupid to ask,

but also some in-depth knowledge of what's coming up next from one of the most chill but deeply enthusiastic oligists I've ever gotten to sit down with.

Okay, but first I'll be quick. So this show would not be made without the patrons at patreon.com slash allergies. You can join that club for as little as $1 a month, $25 a week.

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I'm recording in my closet and your reviews make my week. And then I read them such as Nikki the Nerd who titled her review.

I know you're reading this, Ali. She's not wrong. She said this podcast is full of awesome. Every week I now have new random

factoids to spit out a people in awkward situations. So thank you, Ali, for being a geek and giving your fellow nerds a place to geek out together.

I want to know how awkward your situations get. I told a hundred people over a PA system about getting my hands stuck in an escalator. And the story did not go as well as I thought.

Anyway, it happens. Okay, airyology. Let's get into it. So first off, Mars has a lot of iron in the soil, which makes it red, which makes it look like the solar system's big, bloody eyeball.

So hence, we named it after the God of War, Mars. So it's aries in Greek mythology. And if you want to know more about Romans ripping off Greeks, listen to the mythology episode.

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