100th Episode - Happy Equinox!

Published: March 15, 2022, 12:21 a.m.

b"Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com\\n\\xa0\\nS3E10 TRANSCRIPT: Read the rest of this entry \\xbb\\n----more----\\nMark: Welcome back to the wonder science-based paganism. I'm your host Mark. And this is our hundredth episode. We are so excited. We have been, uh, talking with you and, uh, presenting our ideas and kicking them around between ourselves now for a hundred episodes, which is. a tremendous amount of talking. We're kind of shocked actually.\\xa0\\nYucca: Yeah. And it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't feel like that long on the other hand it really does feel like that long, but a hundred episodes.\\nMark: Yeah.\\naveraging about 40 minutes a piece. So, you know, that's 4,000 minutes of, of a conversation and that is a long time. Uh, we'd have to do the math to figure out how many hours that is, but oh my God, that's, that's a lot of, that's a lot of talking.\\xa0\\nYucca: I had just under 67 hours.\\xa0\\nMark: Jeez.\\xa0\\nYucca: Yeah. So almost three days straight.\\nMark: Yep of continual conversations. So that's, that's a lot of time. We are so grateful to you, our listeners for continuing to listen to the podcast, and I'm glad that you're getting something out of it and hope that you continue to and we really appreciate those that have, uh, kind of bumped the podcast to others and encouraged them to check it out.\\nWe get new listeners all the time and it's just very encouraging. We have new members of the community that come in having first heard of, uh, these ideas and atheopagan ism and non-obvious, science-based paganism through this podcast. So, we're just really gratified at how well it's resonated once we started to do this.\\xa0\\nYucca: Yeah, thank you so much, everyone. And, and also thank you for the reviews and comments on platforms like iTunes, because that helps it get to more ears. We're not super concerned about, oh, how many stars did we get? But the more stars that we do get, the more people I get a chance to listen to it. And so we really appreciate all of those reviews that you have left us.\\nSo thank you.\\nMark: Uh, call out to feed spot, which keeps ranking us in the top 10 pagan podcasts.\\xa0\\nYucca: Yes.\\nMark: In our first year, we were number nine in the top 10. And then in our second year we were number eight in the top 10. So we're, we're very excited about that and really appreciate the, uh, the publicity.\\xa0\\nYucca: Uh, number seven at the moment\\xa0\\nMark: Are we\\xa0\\nYucca: we are. Yes. I don't think that will ever make it past, say drew to cast or anything like that. But, uh, yeah, there's some podcasts that's been that have been going for a long time, but it's amazing to think that, wow, we're in our third year of this.\\nMark: Right, right. Yeah. And we don't have as, as crazy good. A name as three pagans in a cat.\\xa0\\nYucca: Yes. Plenty of cats actually.\\xa0\\nMark: we do, yes. Yes. We have plenty of cats, but uh, but we didn't put it in the name of,\\nour podcast.\\xa0\\nYucca: yeah.\\nMark: There you go anyway. Thank you everyone. This is a real milestone for us. When we started this, it was this great idea that Yucca had had.\\nAnd I had been hoping to create a podcast for a long time. And when Yucca approached me. And floated this idea. I said, well, Hey, how about if we do this as a partnership? And it's just turned as it turned out to be a great way of producing a, a recorded piece or recorded channel?\\xa0\\nYucca: Yeah. And thank you. We've become really good friends over the last few years. I look forward to this every week. This is one of the highlights of my week is just to get out, to get to hang out and talk with mark about these cool topics and, and share with all of you guys.\\nMark: I really feel the same way. So thank you so much, Yucca. Okay. Well that said it's coming up on Equinox time and that is the topic for today's. Uh, podcast is, uh, the spring Equinox. And, uh,\\xa0\\nYucca: here we are.\\nMark: here we are, again, once again, this is our third episode to talk about the spring Equinox, uh, becaus"