Hey everybody, Michael Gunger here.

I'm Science Mike.

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Literature's Podcast.

You probably found us on Google.

Maybe you were searching about the Enneagram,

or you were searching, wondering if God exists at all,

and we're afraid to ask anyone to ask a giant anonymous machine, and it sent you to us.

Maybe you were trying to figure out how the church should relate to LGBTQ people,

or you were wrestling with all of the racial tension and animosity that undergirds American politics and society.

Whatever happened, somehow you ended up here.

Either through Google or on the email recommendation of a friend,

where maybe neither of you would admit publicly that you're talking about us.

The Literature's Podcast has been downloaded over 100 million times,

and this marks our 100th episode.

This show has a complete and absolutely total focus on you, the things you're wrestling with in your life.

And that means we don't talk a lot about how we got here, or where we're going.

So we thought for this episode it would be helpful to turn back, look at the rear view mirror,

and see how these 100 episodes came to be and why.

So we can also pay a picture for you about what the next 100 episodes could look like.

So I was a Christian worship leader.

Well, I was an atheist Christian worship leader.

And was in a really strange time of my life.

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