Constant Wonder
Hosted by Marcus Smith and Tennery Taylor · BYUradio
4.6from 353 ratings
- 389
- Episodes
- 69
- Transcribed
- 353
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 585K
- YouTube views
About Constant Wonder
Stay in tune with our phenomenal world. Join us for explorations of science, art, history, and more. We're on a quest to find awe and wonder in all nature—human or wild, vast or small. Encounters that move us beyond words. Hosted by Marcus Smith, Constant Wonder is a production of BYUradio.
- Publisher
- BYUradio
- Category
- history · religion & spirituality · science · science · science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Dec 2021
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
69 of 389 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why the World Throws Parties for the Dead
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Young Man and the Sea: George Forster’s Travels and Travails
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Climbing Giant Trees: How Time In The Canopy Inspires Awe
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Why the World Throws Parties for the Dead
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So now break this scene down for me a little bit more. Madagascar, you're there in the middle of this celebration. There's a corpse, and your head just kind of got in the way of things. If I showed you the video, it would make perfect sense. Oh, there's video of this? Oh, yeah, yeah. I have an Instagram account called This Party's Dead where I uploaded it. so many videos. But yes, I was in a crowd at a death festival called the Turning of the Bones. And they would take the corpses out of the crypt, rewrap them in a fresh shroud, then put them on their shoulders and dance around. And everyone's drunk and everyone's dancing and happy. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Erica Buist
- Andrea Wulf
- Tim Kovar
- Lea Korsgaard
- Burkhard Bilger
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 585,054
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 273 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 80 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Constant Wonder?
Marcus Smith and Tennery Taylor host the show. Published by BYUradio.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Constant Wonder take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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