This week, we bring you an over-budget and utterly unfeasible episode as we examine the wildest and weirdest news we could find, including news that NASA is cancelling its mission to retrieve samples collected by a rover on Mars, the unusual comet 3i/atlas has NOT actually exploded this week, meat from cloned animals may soon be for sale in Canada, and we explore the facts about a new whiskey that has been aged in the icy frosts of Antarctica. All of this and then, after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Beware of the Woods," by Tony Urban.

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Notes:
- 3i/Atlas has not exploded
https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/no-comet-3i-atlas-hasnt-exploded-and-no-that-doesnt-mean-its-an-alien-spaceship
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/us-news/nasa-to-release-best-quality-images-of-manhattan-sized-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-next-week/
- NASA cancelling mission to retrieve Mars samples
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-scraps-11b-mars-mission-as-potential-alien-life-evidence-stranded/ar-AA1QelcG
- Clone meat now OK'd for general sale in Canada
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15289311/cloned-meat-enters-Canadas-food-supply-shocked-Americans-nasty-surprise.html
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=4142120&page=1
- New whiskey aged in Antarctica
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/antarctica-s-chill-world-s-first-frozen-whisky/ar-AA1QrDtU
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Wignall/publication/301658453/figure/fig1/AS:365935488716801@1464257227318/Location-map-of-Seymour-Island-a-Modern-Southern-Hemisphere-geography-showing.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marambio_Base
- Beware of the Woods
https://www.amazon.com/Beware-Woods-Stories-Unexplained-Encounters/dp/B0C63RJ77H
- Raven's Soundscapes:
https://www.youtube.com/@UnpollishedSoundscapesbyRaven
- Sangria Starliner:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVlvMe4uOH9BB3OSg47EaMg
Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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