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Hello, I'm Jessica Mernan, and this is Inside and Outside a Nature and Pop Culture podcast. I'm a horticultural therapy practitioner who is obsessed with nature and equally obsessed with pop culture. Today, my

guest is Cass Marquettos. She is a compost expert and artist and the author of the new book, Compost

after reading. And before she became the Compost Queen,

she was Kickstarter's first employee and she worked for Obama's White House. You know how much I love

a career pivot and it was so exciting to talk to her. In this episode, we talk all things

composting, which you might be thinking, and stink stank, and just have zero interest in it,

but stay with us. I promise you'll learn something fun. You'll learn something new.

And then we dive into her inside pick, which you already know what it is because it's in the title of the podcast,

but it's tech and finance bros being obsessed with aliens.

And then she answers the very important question, do aliens compost?

One note before we get started, we recorded this conversation before our administration began

a war with Iran.

We touched briefly on politics and no doubt this would have come up

if we would have had the same conversation today. We wanted you to know we weren't oblivious

to this situation. We didn't know about it yet. So I'll just even give you a break from

thinking about that and thinking about the news and stop talking about it

and let you get to the conversation with casts. Everything that we discuss will be in the show

notes at bascargartens.com and on my website you can find ways that we can work together with

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