GT039 - Dirtygus and the Mayan Equinox

Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids

Maria Calanchini

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🗓️ 24 September 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Dirtygus goes on a wild west adventure with Xcitabelle and ends up in the Yucatan, where he is not welcome. He must find his way out of the Yucatan and escape the Aluxes but strange things keep happening. He learns that things aren’t always what they seem. What will he have to do to get back home to Goop World?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Goop Tales, Episode 39, Dirty Gus, and the Mayan Equinox.
0:14.0	I'm Maria Kalanchini, and I'm the author of Goop Tales.
0:18.8	So, for those of you who listen regularly, you will know that I took a little break, but I'm back.
0:26.8	And during that break, not only did I get a lot of inspiration, but I got some really nice
0:34.1	emails from you.
0:35.5	And I just want to tell all of you who wrote into me or had your
0:40.7	wonderful mothers write into me how much I appreciate the emails and just the correspondence.
0:47.3	I love hearing from you guys. I love knowing what you love about the stories. and I just love knowing that you're listening.
0:55.3	So thank you so much for taking the time to write, and it really inspires me to keep on going with more goof tales.
1:04.1	So today's episode takes place in Mexico in the Yucatan, which is a peninsula down in southern Mexico that reaches all the way down to the Panama Canal.
1:19.3	And Dirty Gus ends up in Mexico. He's a little very dirty-faced goop.
1:26.4	So right now, as I'm recording this, it is mid-September,
1:31.6	which means that the autumn equinox is coming up. And the equinox, for those of you who aren't
1:38.6	quite sure what it is, it is when there is a geometrical alignment between the sun and the Earth, and the sun is right
1:48.5	above our planet's equator.
1:51.2	So it happens twice a year.
1:53.4	There's the autumn equinox and the spring equinox.
1:56.9	And it's when the seasons change, and the sun is, it's basically, there's exactly 12 hours of
2:03.8	sunlight and 12 hours of night for just that one day. And the word equinox, it comes from the Latin
2:11.9	word, which means equal night. And it only happens two days of the year. So it's happening September 22nd and we will
2:22.0	officially be in fall. So this story takes place in the Yucatan with Dirty Gus and it is going to
2:32.0	revolve around the Mayan equinox and a very special story that takes place.
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