Hey, folks, welcome. Believe it or not, this is the 298th episode of the Dark Horse

Podcast live stream. It is not prime. I'm not saying that other podcasts are not on a prime

number this week, but we are not. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.

You are Dr. Heather Heying.

It is, well, it is the very latest part of the very earliest stage of the Cartesian crisis,

so I hope that's going well for everyone.

Also autumn.

Also autumn.

Actually, we're kind of a little bit towards late now, aren't we?

No.

Wait a second.

It should have started September 20th-ish.

22nd, as it turns out.

20, okay, so it started a little late.

One day.

And it is October.

I know that.

22nd.

So that does make it, oh, wait, no. That makes it still the end of the first third. Just like you were saying about the vacation crisis. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Here we are. Assuming everything we understand about the calendar is right. It is the end of the first third. I've written this and talked about this before, but, you know, as you are well aware, the astronomical realities are what they are and the biological responses to the astronomical realities are what they are. Our overlaying on those biological and astronomical realities seasons of set length and indeed of equal length to one another is a social construct. Because in my mind, summer and winter are more periods of stability,

and autumn and spring are periods of transition, and generally periods of stability,

we tend to think of lasting longer. And yet we have

three months summers, three month autums, three month winters, three month springs. And so also,

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