Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, and welcome to this podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. Did I flub that line? Yes. Am I going to retake it? No, I am not.

Welcome to the pod broadcast. This is

stuff you should know, by the way. The far out edition. That's right. It's in stuff out there

in space. Yeah, and not just stuff in general. We're actually going to zero in on one specific piece of stuff that's out there in space.

A little planet called Saturn.

That's right.

The ringed beauty, as they like to say in the biz.

It is, yeah.

That's what the astrophysicists, I'll call it.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, or Saturn does have rings.

It's not the only planet with rings, as we'll see.

Or we can see now, I think Jupiter and Uranus and is it Mercury also that has rings,

but they're just, they don't hold a candle to Saturn's rings.

Hey, get that candle away from my anus.

Saturn's also a really ancient planet in that as far as human experience goes, for as long as we've been looking up in the night sky, we've seen Saturn.

Because it is the sixth planet from the sun, it's also the furthest planet away that you can see with the naked eye here on planet Earth.

You want to know something funny before we go any further?

Yeah, always.

Before we recorded, Emily was asking, as she sometimes does, what we're recording.

And I told her the two episodes. And she asked about Saturn, and I was like, not very interesting

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