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- 0:08Speaker 1: The following show includes stories of soundbaths, ketamine, Pittsburgh, improv, comedy, dating,
- 0:15Speaker 1: and a snake curse. If any of that defriends you,
- 0:19Speaker 1: if you're faint of heart, simply switch this off and
- 0:22Speaker 1: fire up one of my many fine films instead. Might
- 0:25Speaker 1: I suggest Jurassic Part.
- 0:37Speaker 2: So I'm guessing you figure this out? But that wasn't
- 0:40Speaker 2: Jeff Goldblum.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Hi, I'm George Eva Lotus and I'm a comedian actor
- 0:46Speaker 3: nightmare La multi Hyphenett.
- 0:48Speaker 2: George is smart and funny and pulls off a great
- 0:52Speaker 2: Jeff Goldblum, not just because he sounds like him, but
- 0:55Speaker 2: he's also wiry and handsome, with dark features in a
- 0:59Speaker 2: young Goldblm. Like most comedians, George is also pretty neurotic,
- 1:04Speaker 2: and one of the ways he channels that neurosis is
- 1:07Speaker 2: by tracking everything.
- 1:10Speaker 3: I write anything down that resonates with me, Like my
- 1:12Speaker 3: notes on my phone are like a compulsive compendium. Like
- 1:15Speaker 3: if I read a book, I transcribe every passage that
- 1:20Speaker 3: matters to me. I do believe in like building your
- 1:24Speaker 3: own meaning.
- 1:25Speaker 2: His notes are meticulous lists of every book he's read,
- 1:29Speaker 2: recipes he's tried, quote stats down to minute details from conversations.
- 1:35Speaker 2: So while I could keep trying to paint a picture
- 1:37Speaker 2: of George's personality, instead I'm going to let him read
- 1:41Speaker 2: the results of just a few of the BuzzFeed quizzes
- 1:43Speaker 2: he's taken.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Yeah, I am C three po because I'm neurotic and
- 1:50Speaker 3: people pleaser, Sex and the City. I'm a Charlotte. I'm romantic,
- 1:54Speaker 3: annoyingly moral, literary character. You are holding call field highly
- 1:58Speaker 3: intelligent and sensitive, but also very so. If you don't
- 2:01Speaker 3: get it together, you might have an emotional breakdown.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Can you even imagine keeping crack of every online personality
- 2:08Speaker 2: quiz you've ever taken?
- 2:09Speaker 3: Harry Potter, I'm a hufflepuff. I'm loyal, honest and kind dog.
- 2:14Speaker 3: I sometimes get accused of being aloof, but I'm just
- 2:16Speaker 3: picking perks and rec rob Lowe's character. Your positivity can
- 2:19Speaker 3: be off putting, but it's a good and.
- 2:21Speaker 2: He's got more he can keep going.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Maybe I should just cut two muppets Doctor Bunsen Honeydew,
- 2:28Speaker 3: Doctor Bunsen Honey.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Do here at Muppet Labs where the future is being
- 2:32Speaker 2: made today.
- 2:33Speaker 3: You're smart, inventive and stylish.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Sat up those time consuming repairs. Yes, George, sees bits
- 2:40Speaker 2: of himself in each of these quizzes, like he does
- 2:43Speaker 2: love science what can be proven backed up. But in La,
- 2:47Speaker 2: in the scene he's in, every person he meets is
- 2:50Speaker 2: obsessed with crystals and psychics and human potential and stars.
- 2:54Speaker 3: I would say that of the dates I've been on
- 2:58Speaker 3: in LA, that will come up like, oh, you're a Gemini. Ugh,
- 3:03Speaker 3: aren't you guys crazy?
- 3:04Speaker 2: It's just been one dating disaster over and over.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Like on our third date, she said, I wonder what
- 3:11Speaker 3: you'd be like if you move through the world with confidence.
- 3:14Speaker 3: My ex was really confident. He was often on cocaine,
- 3:18Speaker 3: but it was incredible how he would walk in a
- 3:20Speaker 3: room and just charm everyone.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Or the woman who read his stars and insisted you
- 3:25Speaker 2: have the same chart as Obama, which is interesting because
- 3:28Speaker 2: you're not very presidential. So anytime he falls for a girl,
- 3:32Speaker 2: the astrology thing always seems to be a roadblock.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Truly, every time a friend would ask, I'd be like,
- 3:38Speaker 3: it's wonderful. She's wonderful except for this one thing. She
- 3:43Speaker 3: really really believes in astrology.
- 3:46Speaker 2: From Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcast, I'm Mongish Heartigular Welcome the
- 3:52Speaker 2: Skyline Drive Chapter one easy target. Back when I started
- 4:36Speaker 2: working on this show and ask people what they thought
- 4:38Speaker 2: about astrology, everyone immediately wanted to talk about dating. When
- 4:43Speaker 2: astrology shows up in a date, you can kind of
- 4:46Speaker 2: feel like a slowdown.
- 4:48Speaker 3: In traffic, like should.
- 4:50Speaker 1: I be looking for ways around us? Or is it
- 4:53Speaker 1: going to be quicker or are we just going to.
- 4:55Speaker 4: Be sitting here for hours?
- 4:56Speaker 2: I think if you make it seriously, I'm kind of
- 5:00Speaker 2: putting you in the Mary Anne Williamson anti vaxer camp.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Just a little bit.
- 5:06Speaker 3: I'm talking to some.
- 5:07Speaker 5: Like random person, and really, because I'm a Sagittarius, i
- 5:14Speaker 5: am bitch.
- 5:15Speaker 6: And it's like, I don't know if that's why your bitch.
- 5:17Speaker 5: Actually I do am misch and I'm not a Sagittarius.
- 5:23Speaker 2: And truthfully, I'm guessing a lot of you were waiting
- 5:26Speaker 2: for our big dating episode. It's not that we didn't
- 5:29Speaker 2: do the interviews.
- 5:31Speaker 7: I only care about astrology when it relates to love.
- 5:34Speaker 4: I mean, I've been on dates where people ask my
- 5:36Speaker 4: sign and the problem and maybe this is why I
- 5:39Speaker 4: am not so into astrology is that I think I'm
- 5:42Speaker 4: the most universally reviled sign, which is Gemini.
- 5:47Speaker 7: I use it more for the signs I shouldn't date,
- 5:49Speaker 7: which is like Sagittarius not great Gemini, no way, never
- 5:55Speaker 7: a deal breaker.
- 5:57Speaker 4: We get a lot of uh haters, And here I
- 5:59Speaker 4: am a defying as a we even though I just
- 6:01Speaker 4: said a second, I don't believe in it. But nonetheless,
- 6:03Speaker 4: there's a lot of Gemini haters out there.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Who will say, oh, so you're a duplicitous.
- 6:07Speaker 4: Liar, and I'm like, look, I don't even want to
- 6:09Speaker 4: try to defend myself against that because it doesn't make
- 6:12Speaker 4: any sense in the first place.
- 6:14Speaker 7: I asked him what his stosign was and he said Aquarius,
- 6:17Speaker 7: and I sent like the ghost face emoji, and he
- 6:21Speaker 7: was like, what's the problem.
- 6:26Speaker 2: But as I listened to more and more stories about
- 6:28Speaker 2: how my friends were interacting with astrology, I realized I
- 6:31Speaker 2: wasn't doing a good job of articulating part of what
- 6:33Speaker 2: I wanted from this show. Like I was trying to
- 6:36Speaker 2: get out how astrology is just this ambient presence in
- 6:39Speaker 2: Indian life, this ever present hum that exists in the background.
- 6:45Speaker 2: So I asked my friend NUMBERDA about it.
- 6:47Speaker 8: In India, the relationship with astrology is like it's like smoking,
- 6:51Speaker 8: Like you might not smoke but like you're going to
- 6:54Speaker 8: get secondhand astrology anyway.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Number of those parents are diplomats, and whether they were
- 6:59Speaker 2: posting Russia or Canada or Poland or wherever, she was
- 7:02Speaker 2: always teaching new friends about Indian culture, from how to
- 7:06Speaker 2: celebrate the vali to why a cup of child pairs
- 7:09Speaker 2: so nicely with a chili cheese toast. Her family's whole
- 7:13Speaker 2: story is interesting to me. Her parents actually met as
- 7:16Speaker 2: students training to join the Foreign service, and.
- 7:19Speaker 8: So they were doing all of their training together. And
- 7:21Speaker 8: the way that my mom tells the story is, she
- 7:24Speaker 8: might kill me a little bit, but that's such a
- 7:26Speaker 8: cute story.
- 7:27Speaker 2: When her dad met her mom and witnessed her brilliance
- 7:29Speaker 2: in classes, he just couldn't get her out of his head.
- 7:32Speaker 2: So with each posting he would conveniently figure out a
- 7:35Speaker 2: way to be close by.
- 7:37Speaker 8: So I think he chased her all around India until
- 7:39Speaker 8: she married him. He's stubborn a Taurus and worked.
- 7:44Speaker 9: Out for him.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Her parents are from very different backgrounds.
- 7:48Speaker 8: My mother comes from a Punjabi sick family from New Delhi.
- 7:52Speaker 8: My father is from Hindu Uriya family, and so no
- 7:58Speaker 8: one would ever arrange their marriage because there are different religions,
- 8:01Speaker 8: different languages, different parts of India.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Often when you're getting an arranged marriage, families are looking
- 8:05Speaker 2: for matches from the same community. So there's little chance
- 8:08Speaker 2: that these two would have ever been paired up. But
- 8:11Speaker 2: once they fell in love, they just ignored astrology. They
- 8:16Speaker 2: found their partner and they didn't need it. But as
- 8:20Speaker 2: much as Numbertha has kind of avoided astrology for most
- 8:22Speaker 2: of her life, or at least not actively interacted with
- 8:26Speaker 2: it as a newly single person, she's found the topic unavoidable.
- 8:31Speaker 8: I can stretch your metaphor to death. It did feel
- 8:34Speaker 8: like when you'd go to a party and you'd like,
- 8:35Speaker 8: you're not a smoke bluestand I was like, just so
- 8:37Speaker 8: you could be part of the conversation, hang out and
- 8:40Speaker 8: have this moment and like now it'll be like, oh
- 8:42Speaker 8: my gosh, like mercury is in retrograde again, and everyone's like,
- 8:45Speaker 8: I'm telling you, and then you can start chatting about
- 8:47Speaker 8: the weird shit that's happening in your life.
- 8:49Speaker 2: In America, astrology tends to be easy shorthand for young romantics,
- 8:54Speaker 2: and it's often a crude sorting system.
- 8:56Speaker 8: People will just volunteer it for no reason. It'll just
- 8:59Speaker 8: be like, here's how how tall I am and I'm
- 9:01Speaker 8: a Scorpio, and you're like, wow, that's all I need
- 9:03Speaker 8: to know.
- 9:04Speaker 2: It's this persistent stereotype that trails you around, allowing people
- 9:08Speaker 2: to judge you based on which thirty days you were born,
- 9:11Speaker 2: and everyone born in that period is treated like they're
- 9:13Speaker 2: exactly the same. But it's funny how even number that
- 9:18Speaker 2: gets dragged into this line of thinking.
- 9:20Speaker 8: I don't think I'm going into it being like so
- 9:23Speaker 8: and so is a Libra and so of course it's
- 9:25Speaker 8: never going to work.
- 9:25Speaker 9: I don't actually know what that would mean.
- 9:27Speaker 8: But I will also do the thing where I'll be like, oh, yeah,
- 9:30Speaker 8: of course, another Aquarius. For some reason, I keep dating them.
- 9:32Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 9:33Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.
- 9:34Speaker 8: I'm trying go, why are you asking you these questions?
- 9:40Speaker 2: I guess maybe we should have done a dating episode,
- 9:42Speaker 2: but instead I kept coming back to trees. Well, people
- 9:48Speaker 2: who have to marry trees. Let me explain. In India,
- 9:56Speaker 2: there's an astrological sign called a munglic. The word literally
- 10:00Speaker 2: means Mars cursed. That is, you have Mars occupying your
- 10:04Speaker 2: house of love and marriage and that curse will supposedly
- 10:07Speaker 2: cause a spouse to die early. Being a Munglic is
- 10:12Speaker 2: treated with incredible seriousness. In some cultures, Munglicks are only
- 10:16Speaker 2: allowed to marry other Munglics. Luckily, there's a workaround, since
- 10:20Speaker 2: the curse only affects your first marriage. A Munglick will
- 10:23Speaker 2: often have a first marriage to like a clay pot
- 10:26Speaker 2: which you can break afterwards to transfer the curse away.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Or some people marry like I mentioned a tree. Once
- 10:35Speaker 2: there was a tree and shame loved a little boy.
- 10:39Speaker 2: You would climb up a trunk swing. This is way
- 10:43Speaker 2: more intense than the giving tree, though there's a full
- 10:46Speaker 2: ceremony in everything. This is obviously highly controversial because what
- 10:53Speaker 2: does it mean that in a very modern and progressive
- 10:56Speaker 2: country individuals end up having to undergo these weddings to
- 10:59Speaker 2: satis by a superstition, And because it mostly affects women,
- 11:04Speaker 2: or is perceived to the whole thing is seen as
- 11:07Speaker 2: anti feminist. Take Eischwe Rai for example. Rai is one
- 11:12Speaker 2: of India's most famous celebs, a Bollywood star, former Miss World.
- 11:17Speaker 8: I'm not good enough for your mother, and you think
- 11:20Speaker 8: I'd want to leave my family for you? After you've
- 11:22Speaker 8: ruined my sister's life.
- 11:24Speaker 2: She's a Mongolic, and there are media reports that she
- 11:26Speaker 2: actually married two trees before she could marry another Indian star.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Her father in law, the Bollywood legend Amitab Buttchen, has
- 11:34Speaker 2: actually scolded the press saying, where is the tree? Show
- 11:37Speaker 2: me the tree, you know, kind of denying the rumors.
- 11:41Speaker 2: But it's hard to know what the truth is. Rye's
- 11:44Speaker 2: family comes from a culture of steeped and animist in
- 11:46Speaker 2: the tradition, but as one of India's most watched celebrities,
- 11:50Speaker 2: she's also under intense pressure as a feminist and has
- 11:53Speaker 2: a role model for Indian values. So if a tree
- 11:58Speaker 2: gets married in the forest, who really knows?
- 12:00Speaker 3: Right?
- 12:02Speaker 2: Anyway, That's the kind of astrology I wanted to explore
- 12:05Speaker 2: in this series, the strange and fantastic places the stars
- 12:09Speaker 2: can take you if you believe in it. But that's
- 12:13Speaker 2: not exactly what happened either. Astrology just kept happening to me.
- 12:20Speaker 2: It didn't matter whether I believed.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Or not.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Chapter two, You're a good.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Snake, May May.
- 12:53Speaker 2: There is no question that George is a romantic, but
- 12:56Speaker 2: as he and I talked about dating and love, our
- 13:00Speaker 2: conversations just kept getting pulled towards this question.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Of belief I was a skeptic from like grade school.
- 13:08Speaker 2: George just can't stop questioning things. It's been something innate
- 13:12Speaker 2: since his childhood in Pittsburgh, when he was dragged to
- 13:15Speaker 2: his family's Greek Orthodox church every week.
- 13:18Speaker 3: I was like, this old man in the sky is
- 13:20Speaker 3: telling us how to dress. Why does he care what
- 13:23Speaker 3: we wear? It's really weird he sees through our clothes.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Doesn't make any sense. My dad would be like, just
- 13:29Speaker 3: put on a suit.
- 13:31Speaker 2: He always felt like kind of a black sheep. He
- 13:34Speaker 2: told me he was bullied for being a quote space
- 13:37Speaker 2: cadet poet artist even at art school. The competitive nature
- 13:41Speaker 2: made him feel like an outcast. And now that he
- 13:43Speaker 2: has all these wonderful friends who he really identifies with,
- 13:48Speaker 2: except when it comes to New Age beliefs, maybe it's
- 13:51Speaker 2: just that he doesn't want to feel left out again.
- 13:54Speaker 3: You know, I really wish I believed in this stuff
- 13:57Speaker 3: because you and your friends, the spiritual friends, are so
- 14:01Speaker 3: much happier, and they have really open hearts too as
- 14:04Speaker 3: a result, because they really trust the universe.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Which is something I can relate to. My parents had
- 14:10Speaker 2: such deep convictions about spirituality and as a kid, I
- 14:13Speaker 2: just assumed that the things my parents believed would one
- 14:16Speaker 2: day makes sense to me, like on my eighteenth birthday
- 14:19Speaker 2: or whatever. I just have this understanding that would snap
- 14:22Speaker 2: into place, and until then I just keep going through
- 14:26Speaker 2: the motions. But despite claiming he believes in nothing, George
- 14:31Speaker 2: seemingly tried everything part of its curiosity. But also he
- 14:36Speaker 2: seems particularly amenable whenever a cute.
- 14:39Speaker 3: Girl is involved. Like we went to a sound bath.
- 14:41Speaker 3: I had friends through Kara reading friends, have you done
- 14:44Speaker 3: your human design charge? I was really in touch with
- 14:46Speaker 3: this psychic thing called the acasion record this language. She
- 14:50Speaker 3: just had a cold read on me.
- 14:52Speaker 2: George is engaged with countless experiments of belief. He just
- 14:56Speaker 2: can't get off the experienced treadmill. So when another date
- 14:59Speaker 2: told him maybe he should try ketamine to counter his
- 15:02Speaker 2: depression because it had helped her, of course he tried it.
- 15:06Speaker 3: So I found this therapist and she was like, Yeah,
- 15:10Speaker 3: ketamine is not what i'd recommend for your what you're
- 15:12Speaker 3: going through. You have really negative stories about yourself and
- 15:16Speaker 3: a lot of trauma, and you need to sever the
- 15:18Speaker 3: ties with those beliefs, and for that, I'd recommend five MEODMT,
- 15:24Speaker 3: or the poison of the Sonoran desert toad.
- 15:28Speaker 2: To many people inhaling desert toad poison to heal yourself
- 15:32Speaker 2: might also seem a little new agy, but because it
- 15:35Speaker 2: was presented to George in this scientific way, he was
- 15:39Speaker 2: much more comfortable with it, and as the experience grew
- 15:43Speaker 2: more intense, George was drawn into this recent memory.
- 15:47Speaker 3: My friend and I were on a hike and this
- 15:49Speaker 3: garter snake slid across the hiking path really fast, and
- 15:52Speaker 3: she jumped back like, oh my God, really scared, like
- 15:56Speaker 3: definitely scared. And I was like, immediately I saw I
- 15:59Speaker 3: was a garter snake, and I thought, oh, it's harmless.
- 16:01Speaker 3: And then while I was tripping, I thought, why do
- 16:04Speaker 3: I hurt myself with words and self hate and this depression.
- 16:10Speaker 3: I'm so cruel to myself. I wouldn't even hurt a snake.
- 16:13Speaker 3: And I don't even like snakes. I feel nothing for them.
- 16:17Speaker 3: And I started laughing while I was tripping, and this
- 16:19Speaker 3: phrase popped up, which was you're a good snake. And
- 16:23Speaker 3: I kept saying, you're a good snake. You're allowed to
- 16:25Speaker 3: be here, You're a good snake, You're allowed to be here.
- 16:29Speaker 2: All this talk of snakes and shaman and belief and skepticism.
- 16:33Speaker 2: It makes me think of this story my mom told
- 16:35Speaker 2: me when I interviewed her for this show. Tell me
- 16:39Speaker 2: a little bit about pregnancies and bert, you guys had
- 16:42Speaker 2: a hard time having me. Was there anything that indicated
- 16:46Speaker 2: that you would have a child or wouldn't have a child.
- 16:48Speaker 9: No, they didn't read that far, at least they didn't
- 16:52Speaker 9: tell us. Yeah.
- 16:53Speaker 2: One of the things I don't often talk about is
- 16:55Speaker 2: the miracle of my own birth. For a number of years,
- 16:59Speaker 2: my parents had one miss carriage after another. They couldn't
- 17:02Speaker 2: carry a baby to term. I think my mom ended
- 17:04Speaker 2: up in the hospital two or three times, and they
- 17:07Speaker 2: had five or six miscarriages. And then when my mom
- 17:11Speaker 2: was pregnant with me, my grandfather tried something different. Here's
- 17:16Speaker 2: my mom telling the story.
- 17:18Speaker 9: He went to the temple in Goa and he lit
- 17:22Speaker 9: a lamp and had the priests like a lamp every
- 17:25Speaker 9: day for you in your own before you were born.
- 17:28Speaker 2: They prayed, they kept the flame going continuously for nine months,
- 17:32Speaker 2: and when I was finally born, my parents named me
- 17:35Speaker 2: Mungash after that temple in Goa. And so that's one story.
- 17:41Speaker 2: The other part is the science part. It's less magical,
- 17:44Speaker 2: but equally miraculous. The pregnancy was so high risk that
- 17:50Speaker 2: the doctor put my mom on intense bedrest.
- 17:53Speaker 9: I was in bed for nine months. Seventh month, he
- 17:56Speaker 9: said it could take a little easier. I could sit down,
- 17:59Speaker 9: but not walk too much.
- 18:00Speaker 2: So why were you high risk?
- 18:03Speaker 9: Because they said that my own body wouldn't love the
- 18:06Speaker 9: features to grow it, so they had to fool it.
- 18:09Speaker 9: And that's what they did.
- 18:10Speaker 2: The way my mom explains it, they had to trick
- 18:12Speaker 2: her body with thyroid pills and barbituates, and only once
- 18:16Speaker 2: they heard my heartbeat they let her get up and
- 18:19Speaker 2: start taking baths, but only baths.
- 18:23Speaker 9: No shirt, it's no standing up to Wow, pre precious muggiche.
- 18:30Speaker 2: These are stories I know, stories I've always known. But
- 18:33Speaker 2: as I chatted with my mom, another story cropped up,
- 18:37Speaker 2: another possible reason for the miscarriages, and this one I
- 18:42Speaker 2: definitely hadn't heard before.
- 18:44Speaker 9: Once I got my toomage, they say the curse was
- 18:46Speaker 9: on the Hutkuld the family, and it came on to
- 18:49Speaker 9: me because I was bringing the progeny in.
- 18:52Speaker 2: What's the curse of the hetique of their family?
- 18:54Speaker 9: It's something to do with the snakes what.
- 18:57Speaker 2: You haven't told me about the suburb before.
- 19:02Speaker 9: Every time I got pregnant, I'd see the snake chasing
- 19:06Speaker 9: me everywhere.
- 19:07Speaker 2: During every miscarriage where they'd often lose the child right
- 19:11Speaker 2: before the three month mark, my mom would have these
- 19:13Speaker 2: horrible nightmares about snakes.
- 19:16Speaker 9: Grew up always in the country with lots of land around.
- 19:20Speaker 2: My mom's dad was a chief of forestry, so often
- 19:22Speaker 2: they were posted on the edges of jungles where there
- 19:25Speaker 2: was no shortage of snakes. They would come into the
- 19:28Speaker 2: house to escape the heat and hide in the rolled
- 19:30Speaker 2: up carpets. And when the staff would unroll the carpets
- 19:33Speaker 2: in the evening to set the home up for big
- 19:36Speaker 2: dinners and events, the snakes would try to slither.
- 19:39Speaker 9: Out, and then one someone will call another, and then
- 19:43Speaker 9: Molly the gardener would come in three and four would
- 19:45Speaker 9: come with his mix staffs and the MiG sticks and
- 19:48Speaker 9: just hack it to death.
- 19:50Speaker 2: My mom, like George, finds real solace in nature. She
- 19:55Speaker 2: can identify most flowers and trees, and she is crazy
- 19:58Speaker 2: about animals, so of course she couldn't stomach the way
- 20:02Speaker 2: these snakes were being treated.
- 20:04Speaker 9: The poor poor little thing, so I'm always thought that
- 20:07Speaker 9: my psyche had worked on it because little and I
- 20:10Speaker 9: felt sorry because of an animal lover that I felt
- 20:13Speaker 9: sorry for the snake.
- 20:14Speaker 2: So my mom assumed these dreams were just psychological. But
- 20:18Speaker 2: when my dad's family was like, oh no, we actually
- 20:20Speaker 2: have this long standing snake curse in our family because
- 20:24Speaker 2: we killed some snakes clearing our land generations ago or
- 20:27Speaker 2: whatever the story was. And believe me, I know how
- 20:31Speaker 2: crazy this sounds. They clarified, your nightmares are probably coming
- 20:35Speaker 2: from that. That's what my dad's sister, Indeka stepped into help.
- 20:41Speaker 9: Indaka took us to a guy, a holy man.
- 20:44Speaker 2: He performed a ceremony for them, but also he gave me.
- 20:48Speaker 9: A month trout to sing and every day I to
- 20:52Speaker 9: recite it, and so had domash, And slowly the fear
- 20:55Speaker 9: of the snake's kind of abated, and I saw Chanta
- 21:01Speaker 9: Dugo in my dreams.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Chanta Derga is one of our family's patron deities, a
- 21:06Speaker 2: goddess of light and wisdom and oddly enough fertility.
- 21:11Speaker 9: But she had four arms. That's so they depict her energy.
- 21:15Speaker 2: As many times as I've been to the Shanta Derga temple,
- 21:17Speaker 2: which is also in Goa or stared at illustrations of
- 21:20Speaker 2: Chantaderga on family altars. Sure, I've noticed the goddess's four arms,
- 21:25Speaker 2: but also she has like three giant hooded cobra sitting
- 21:30Speaker 2: at her feet, just facing you. So before my mom
- 21:34Speaker 2: said this, if you gave me a pop quiz and
- 21:36Speaker 2: asked me how many snakes is Shanta Doorga holding, I'm
- 21:39Speaker 2: not sure I would have known the answer, but the
- 21:42Speaker 2: answer is too. Two of her hands are in these
- 21:44Speaker 2: madras or poses that indicate divine protection and granting your wishes,
- 21:50Speaker 2: and her other two hands hold these tiny cobras. So
- 21:54Speaker 2: when Chantaderga came to my mom in a dream and
- 21:56Speaker 2: my mom noticed the snakes in her.
- 21:58Speaker 9: Hands, to brute you know it, lose all faith in
- 22:02Speaker 9: you and said no, no, She said I can protect
- 22:05Speaker 9: you as well as the snakes, and the two should
- 22:07Speaker 9: never meet.
- 22:08Speaker 2: And then my mom, the lit major the NBA, the
- 22:11Speaker 2: modern woman who had stayed on bed rest for the
- 22:14Speaker 2: full term of my pregnancy, with a little bit of
- 22:17Speaker 2: sitting up at seven months, finally had me. But it's
- 22:21Speaker 2: so crazy, right, because it's not like our family is
- 22:24Speaker 2: steeped in superstition, and so why do we put faith
- 22:28Speaker 2: in things like a curse of a serpent.
- 22:33Speaker 9: I think anything works when you're desperate. Boy, it doesn't
- 22:36Speaker 9: cost you very much, right to go ahead and do
- 22:38Speaker 9: whate would they tell you to do, and you feel
- 22:41Speaker 9: like you're giving it your best. That's the main thing, yeah.
- 22:46Speaker 2: Is that you're feeling about astrology?
- 22:48Speaker 9: Yes, I think so.
- 22:52Speaker 2: I keep mulling my mom's words over my head. How
- 22:55Speaker 2: anything works when you're desperate, How it doesn't cost you
- 22:59Speaker 2: very much to do whatever they tell you to do.
- 23:02Speaker 2: How you want to feel like you're giving it your best.
- 23:05Speaker 2: And I guess that's true whether you're trying to find
- 23:08Speaker 2: love or unpacked trauma or have a child when you
- 23:13Speaker 2: think you can't. There can be comfort in the trying
- 23:18Speaker 2: and beauty and the wanting to believe even when it
- 23:22Speaker 2: defies reason. Parni in the chapter three this is always
- 23:32Speaker 2: going to be a theme in your life, so trust me.
- 23:36Speaker 2: We all get the irony of this. But today George
- 23:41Speaker 2: is about to talk to an astrologer to find out.
- 23:44Speaker 3: Will I ever believe in anything or will I remain
- 23:47Speaker 3: a hardened skeptic alone in the universe.
- 23:51Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear what Janelle thinks about how philosophical
- 23:54Speaker 2: his mind is and whether his skepticism shows up in
- 23:58Speaker 2: his birth chart. And because George is so open and witty,
- 24:02Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear him react in real time.
- 24:07Speaker 2: But something has changed since the last time George and
- 24:09Speaker 2: I spoke. When he logs onto the video call, I
- 24:12Speaker 2: can see that his foot is in the cast. He's
- 24:14Speaker 2: stuck on a couch, reaching awkwardly to grab things from
- 24:17Speaker 2: a table nearby, and he's subdued and clearly a little distracted.
- 24:22Speaker 3: Well, I broke my foot last week, and my whole
- 24:26Speaker 3: next six to eight weeks is completely different.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Now this isn't the same George I met earlier, and
- 24:31Speaker 2: I'm worried. I mean, what was I thinking bringing a
- 24:35Speaker 2: total skeptic who stops dating people when he finds out
- 24:38Speaker 2: they believe in astrology to an astrologer? Why did I
- 24:43Speaker 2: think this would work? Okay, from the moment I hit record,
- 24:50Speaker 2: it doesn't go well.
- 24:51Speaker 5: Can you guys hear me? Are we all good?
- 24:54Speaker 2: During the taping, Janelle keeps asking if George is still there?
- 24:58Speaker 3: Did I lose you again? No?
- 25:00Speaker 5: Okay, okay, all right, any questions about that?
- 25:05Speaker 3: No?
- 25:06Speaker 2: But Janelle proceeds unfazed.
- 25:08Speaker 5: Career is a big part of your life and your focus.
- 25:11Speaker 2: This mar says, I really want to achieve something you have.
- 25:14Speaker 5: Saturn in the House of Publishing, television, radio, film for
- 25:18Speaker 5: Jupiter is king of the Castle, and Jupiter as a
- 25:20Speaker 5: planet is all about faith. It's all about the things
- 25:23Speaker 5: that are fanned.
- 25:24Speaker 2: Our mind, banned our our minds.
- 25:26Speaker 5: And still coming out of this dark fan.
- 25:28Speaker 2: Folks, you're supposed to be hopeful.
- 25:30Speaker 5: Dreaming about fo weird next for yourself. Meaning so, Saturn
- 25:34Speaker 5: in the Ninth House says, I have a lot of
- 25:35Speaker 5: fear around these things. Find faith and belief and religion.
- 25:39Speaker 5: But did I lose you again?
- 25:40Speaker 2: For all the readings we've done so far, no one
- 25:42Speaker 2: is as deeply unresponsive as Georgie's. In fact, he barely
- 25:46Speaker 2: says anything. For someone trained in improv he is not yes,
- 25:50Speaker 2: ending the situation in the slightest.
- 25:55Speaker 3: Actually, now I forget uh sure, yeah, Romance, what's going on?
- 26:01Speaker 3: H a lot to think about it.
- 26:04Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. I mean, she's explaining all
- 26:07Speaker 2: these things he said he wanted to know about.
- 26:09Speaker 5: All right, So are there questions in particular that can
- 26:12Speaker 5: help you with regarding this. How else can I help you?
- 26:15Speaker 3: I don't know what would be an example of a question.
- 26:18Speaker 2: Finally, there is one moment where he starts to open
- 26:21Speaker 2: up a little. Janelle is pushing George on his skepticism,
- 26:24Speaker 2: and he tells her he just can't believe in anything
- 26:27Speaker 2: he can't quantify.
- 26:29Speaker 3: That skepticism continues with all things unmeasurable.
- 26:34Speaker 2: And Janelle assures him that that's also a part of
- 26:37Speaker 2: who he is.
- 26:38Speaker 5: That's the point of Gemini energy, Like, discernment is always
- 26:42Speaker 5: going to be your friend, right, I wouldn't worry too
- 26:45Speaker 5: much about it, but I do think this is always
- 26:47Speaker 5: going to be a feme in your life. Enjoy the
- 26:49Speaker 5: process of discovery versus feeling like skepticism means I can't
- 26:53Speaker 5: learn and everything's going to be wrong. She's like, how
- 26:55Speaker 5: will you know unless you ask?
- 26:58Speaker 2: That's cool, not entirely a success, that is, until I
- 27:03Speaker 2: actually talked to George again. Chapter four, How is this working?
- 27:19Speaker 2: I've been waiting to catch up with George to find
- 27:21Speaker 2: out why he was so distant during this reading, why
- 27:24Speaker 2: he wasn't engaged. When I email him to find the time,
- 27:28Speaker 2: he says he's busy with work. He has a big
- 27:31Speaker 2: audition and he's apologetic, but it takes us a little
- 27:34Speaker 2: while to connect your auditions.
- 27:40Speaker 4: Oh good, I just got a call back, Soter, So
- 27:46Speaker 4: tell me what do you think about the reading?
- 27:50Speaker 3: Really interesting?
- 27:52Speaker 10: Interesting isn't the word I was expecting him to use,
- 27:56Speaker 10: you know, out the gate. It was so accurate. I
- 27:59Speaker 10: was like, this is a dead ringer for my life.
- 28:02Speaker 10: But how is this working? You know, as part of
- 28:05Speaker 10: me was like, there's no way this isn't a trick.
- 28:08Speaker 2: But I was surprised because like I couldn't tell how
- 28:12Speaker 2: you were responding.
- 28:13Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 28:14Speaker 3: Yeah. Even if something was really on the nose, I'd
- 28:17Speaker 3: be like, hmm, there's something suspicious about that, you know,
- 28:24Speaker 3: Like when she said like something really big was the
- 28:26Speaker 3: language of like the new Moon and something big happened
- 28:31Speaker 3: for you in May Night twenty nineteen, it was like, yeah, Yeah,
- 28:35Speaker 3: the biggest career thing that's ever happened was May twenty nineteen.
- 28:40Speaker 2: George is playing it cool, but I'm kind of blown away.
- 28:44Speaker 2: In the summer of twenty nineteen, George was named a
- 28:47Speaker 2: new Face of Comedy by the prestigious Just for Last Festival,
- 28:51Speaker 2: And it's the kind of thing that makes Hollywood notice
- 28:53Speaker 2: and launch his careers. Yeah, it's huge.
- 28:56Speaker 3: It was for me a huge deal. It was like
- 28:59Speaker 3: the first time I got a big thumbs up from,
- 29:01Speaker 3: you know, the gods of comedy. Her opening was so
- 29:04Speaker 3: dead on for my life, like sort of the family
- 29:08Speaker 3: of origin and breaking out of like doing your own thing.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Like my grandfather drove me past a photographer's art studio
- 29:17Speaker 3: and it was just dilapidated, very depressing building in Pittsburgh,
- 29:22Speaker 3: and he goes, that's going to be you. This would
- 29:25Speaker 3: be your life. But like, as much as I'm a skeptic,
- 29:29Speaker 3: I feel like I'm such.
- 29:30Speaker 2: A Gemini, I'm fascinated by George's push pull, so I
- 29:34Speaker 2: ask him a little more about it.
- 29:36Speaker 3: I have trouble when people say, you know, you deserve this,
- 29:39Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, we are a random organism spinning
- 29:42Speaker 3: on a rock. I don't know that humans deserve anything
- 29:46Speaker 3: other than like the basic biological package of like love, community, shelter, water, sunlight,
- 29:57Speaker 3: Like that's that's you deserve that for sure, But like,
- 30:00Speaker 3: did I deserve the part of that show come on.
- 30:03Speaker 2: During the reading, what I assumed was this dismissive, unengaged
- 30:07Speaker 2: behavior where George was looking down and mumbling these one
- 30:10Speaker 2: word responses. It was, in fact him taking detailed notes
- 30:15Speaker 2: on everything Janelle was saying.
- 30:17Speaker 3: I mean it wrote down a lot of what she said, like,
- 30:20Speaker 3: choose people who are limitless with your growth, who are
- 30:22Speaker 3: joyous of your discovery. Your belief system is changing, You're
- 30:25Speaker 3: going to attract new people. I have all my notes
- 30:28Speaker 3: highly categorized, so I have like it'll be like therapy, recipes, comedy.
- 30:32Speaker 3: I didn't even think about this. I put the astrology
- 30:34Speaker 3: reading into therapy.
- 30:36Speaker 2: I'm relieved that he got something from the experience, a
- 30:39Speaker 2: phone full of notes, it turns out. But as we
- 30:41Speaker 2: wrap up, I ask about his foot. He sounded so
- 30:46Speaker 2: despondent about it the last time we chatted. I'm curious
- 30:49Speaker 2: how he's doing. But instead of telling me how he
- 30:51Speaker 2: broke it while camping, he tells me how it immediately
- 30:54Speaker 2: led to some funny slash disappointing experiences.
- 30:58Speaker 3: After I got back from the EO with my broken foot,
- 31:01Speaker 3: my friend was like, I'm going to cook you the
- 31:03Speaker 3: most delicious dinner steak, keen mall salad. It's gonna like,
- 31:07Speaker 3: don't worry.
- 31:07Speaker 2: He gets promised this delicious campfire meal, but then when
- 31:12Speaker 2: they're about to start prepping, they realize.
- 31:15Speaker 3: A bear was next to our campsite. All of our
- 31:17Speaker 3: food was gone. The bear had eaten everything, And I
- 31:23Speaker 3: was like, I just immediately started laughing because I was like,
- 31:25Speaker 3: that's perfect.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Horrible experiences are gold for George.
- 31:29Speaker 3: The worse the experience, the better the story. Like I
- 31:33Speaker 3: was just joking that I had a really wonderful date,
- 31:36Speaker 3: and I was telling my friend, I'm sorry, I have
- 31:37Speaker 3: nothing to tell you other then we laughed, we made dinner,
- 31:41Speaker 3: we had great sex. You don't need any details. But
- 31:45Speaker 3: like the other date that week that was really weird
- 31:48Speaker 3: and twisty and strange, We're gonna talk about that for
- 31:50Speaker 3: two hours.
- 31:51Speaker 2: So of course it's perfect that a bear ate his meal.
- 31:55Speaker 2: But when he's skeptical about love, I was.
- 31:58Speaker 3: Like, George, you have to be okay with the fact
- 32:00Speaker 3: that you might never find that. It is like hitting the.
- 32:03Speaker 2: Lottery to get it, or his career.
- 32:06Speaker 3: I have to be okay with not getting that in
- 32:08Speaker 3: the same way that I'm okay with maybe never being
- 32:10Speaker 3: in a Taikeo Whitt movie or like Wes Anderson. I
- 32:13Speaker 3: would love that. I would love that. I think I
- 32:15Speaker 3: do well, but they may never happen.
- 32:19Speaker 2: I wonder if these stories are just to entertain others too,
- 32:24Speaker 2: because George is a performer, a really good performer, but
- 32:28Speaker 2: he actually believes in love. It's why he goes on dates,
- 32:31Speaker 2: and he believes in his talent. It's why he keeps
- 32:35Speaker 2: putting himself out there. And as much as he doesn't
- 32:37Speaker 2: want to tell himself he's a believer, all of his
- 32:40Speaker 2: actions betray his incredible faith. There is so much hope
- 32:45Speaker 2: in his tone.
- 32:47Speaker 3: Do you remember apple jacks? Okay, the commercials in the nineties,
- 32:53Speaker 3: there was always a couple of kids eating apple jacks.
- 32:55Speaker 3: As usually the dad would come in and they'd like,
- 32:57Speaker 3: take a bite, and they'd be like, he doesn't even
- 32:59Speaker 3: taste like apples. And the kids would be like, we
- 33:02Speaker 3: eat what we like.
- 33:05Speaker 11: You just do.
- 33:12Speaker 3: And I love that.
- 33:16Speaker 2: What George is seeking I realize now it isn't a
- 33:19Speaker 2: reason to believe so much as another reminder to be
- 33:22Speaker 2: nicer to himself. It's okay to eat what he likes,
- 33:25Speaker 2: to build his own meaning, to be present. He just
- 33:30Speaker 2: needs another reminder that.
- 33:32Speaker 3: You're a good snake.
- 33:33Speaker 2: He's a good snake.
- 33:34Speaker 1: You're a good snake.
- 33:35Speaker 2: He's allowed to be here.
- 33:37Speaker 3: You're a good snake.
- 33:37Speaker 2: He's a good snake.
- 33:38Speaker 3: You're a good snake. You're allowed to be.
- 33:40Speaker 6: Here, ol Friends, Chapter five.
- 33:56Speaker 2: It doesn't cost you much. I'm thinking about my mom's
- 34:03Speaker 2: comment about why she chanted those mantras to get rid
- 34:06Speaker 2: of the snake curse.
- 34:08Speaker 9: I think anything works when you're desperate. Boy, it doesn't
- 34:12Speaker 9: cost you very much. Right.
- 34:14Speaker 2: There's actually a study that illustrates this effect in the
- 34:17Speaker 2: nineteen eighties, and Australian psychologist Graham Tyson determined that the
- 34:21Speaker 2: same people who don't believe in astrology in low stress
- 34:24Speaker 2: situations suddenly are very open to it in high stress situations,
- 34:30Speaker 2: kind of like agnostics on a plane when the turbulence hits.
- 34:34Speaker 2: But I think that hints to something true about a
- 34:37Speaker 2: lot of us. How there's a reluctance to admit that
- 34:39Speaker 2: you might believe. Like I saw this Pew study about India,
- 34:44Speaker 2: where astrology is clearly infused in the culture, and it
- 34:47Speaker 2: showed that while only forty four percent of Indians admit
- 34:50Speaker 2: to believing in astrology, eighty three percent use astrology to
- 34:54Speaker 2: plan important events. But I guess that's what I admire
- 34:59Speaker 2: about jo Or Like he says he doesn't believe, but
- 35:03Speaker 2: he keeps trying, keeps putting himself out there, and our
- 35:07Speaker 2: actions often reveal way more about ourselves than our stated beliefs.
- 35:13Speaker 2: On this show, over and over, I've said I'm a skeptic,
- 35:17Speaker 2: that I don't believe in astrology, and that is true.
- 35:20Speaker 2: But unlike George, I've been reluctant to test my faith.
- 35:24Speaker 2: I mean, sure, I pressed a banana to my palm
- 35:26Speaker 2: on Wednesdays, but I treated that as a comedy bit.
- 35:30Speaker 2: And yeah, I got some readings. But even as I
- 35:33Speaker 2: witnessed this miracle of astrology, this eerily accurate prediction of
- 35:38Speaker 2: how my dad would fall ill and struggle to make
- 35:41Speaker 2: it through the year.
- 35:43Speaker 5: The situation doesn't look good for father.
- 35:45Speaker 9: That is risks to father.
- 35:47Speaker 2: I borrowed myself in disbelief. I stayed aloof I taped
- 35:52Speaker 2: other people getting readings. To tell me how you feel
- 35:55Speaker 2: coming into this.
- 35:57Speaker 3: There's so much to hear that I would you suggest
- 36:00Speaker 3: this experience.
- 36:02Speaker 2: I tried to see if astrology could work for them,
- 36:05Speaker 2: tried to keep myself busy, tried to keep myself distracted
- 36:08Speaker 2: from processing my own grief, and I've kept trying to
- 36:11Speaker 2: push the story away from myself, but it is so
- 36:15Speaker 2: clear that I can't. Every episode starts light and ends
- 36:20Speaker 2: with some bittersweet moment, not because I intend to, but
- 36:25Speaker 2: because that's where everything always leads me. There's this thing
- 36:34Speaker 2: I've tried not to think about too much, this supposed
- 36:37Speaker 2: answer to all my problems, a wholy astrological graile of sorts.
- 36:41Speaker 2: And I've been so angry at astrology in a way
- 36:44Speaker 2: for being so right about my dad, that I haven't
- 36:47Speaker 2: wanted to lean into it. I first heard about it
- 36:50Speaker 2: from a friend right after college, and then my cousin
- 36:53Speaker 2: mentioned it, then Pete the astrologer from The Walkman, and
- 36:57Speaker 2: even doctor Kumar.
- 36:59Speaker 3: The future of every man born on earth is already.
- 37:03Speaker 2: There are these little shops in India. They're hard to locate,
- 37:06Speaker 2: and it's hard to find an authentic one. Pete tells
- 37:10Speaker 2: me there's.
- 37:11Speaker 8: All sorts of scam artists, right like there's all these
- 37:13Speaker 8: vague ones.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Like these shops hold all the secrets of your life,
- 37:19Speaker 2: your past and present and future. The day that you
- 37:24Speaker 2: show up, everything will change thereafter, Because, as the legend goes,
- 37:29Speaker 2: your fortune was etched onto this petrified leaf hundreds of
- 37:32Speaker 2: years ago in tiny script and then bound in a
- 37:36Speaker 2: collection of fortunes. And if you give your thumbprint and
- 37:40Speaker 2: tell them the day you were born, it's just waiting
- 37:43Speaker 2: for you on a shelf, waiting for you to discover it.
- 37:48Speaker 4: The thing pound leaves in tiny u writing the world
- 37:51Speaker 4: like one inch by ten inch or something.
- 37:53Speaker 3: So if your leaf is phone, the everything about you.
- 37:57Speaker 5: Your name is Mangish, your father's name is this, your
- 38:00Speaker 5: mother's name is this.
- 38:01Speaker 3: You have so many brothers, sisters, you're.
- 38:03Speaker 12: Not married yet, and you're now forty two years awage.
- 38:06Speaker 3: Now that you come to hear your future, even for
- 38:09Speaker 3: you to know your future is predetermined.
- 38:11Speaker 5: And guess what, No matter which space with religion you're from,
- 38:14Speaker 5: you're Muslim or Christian, your father's name, your mother's name
- 38:17Speaker 5: hasband name, wife name.
- 38:18Speaker 9: What greater validation you want than that?
- 38:21Speaker 2: As much as I've tried to ignore it, somehow I
- 38:24Speaker 2: can't get the idea of these little shops in India
- 38:26Speaker 2: out of my head because I don't know what I'm doing,
- 38:31Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to be doing, And what if written
- 38:34Speaker 2: on those scrolls is an answer I need. As improbable
- 38:39Speaker 2: as it sounds, I'd love to know who's the person
- 38:42Speaker 2: I meant to be, especially in this moment when I
- 38:45Speaker 2: feel so onnoored. Going to India where I can hear
- 38:49Speaker 2: my mother tongue again and feel the love and warmth
- 38:53Speaker 2: of my dad's family, that also feels like a good thing.
- 38:58Speaker 2: And honestly, if I can dwell in this tiny sense
- 39:02Speaker 2: of hope, if I can ask enough people and actually
- 39:05Speaker 2: find these ancient leaves, maybe it don't stop me from spinning.
- 39:14Speaker 2: Maybe they'll offer some direction, and maybe they'll tell me
- 39:20Speaker 2: what happens next.
- 39:26Speaker 12: Goshoot, you MoU just let it all go.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Figure, Thank you so much for listening to Skyline Drive,
- 39:47Speaker 2: a production of Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcast. This show is
- 39:50Speaker 2: hosted and written by Me mongaish heartigular. But I could
- 39:54Speaker 2: not make this show without my incredible team. Mary Philip
- 39:57Speaker 2: Sandy is our supervising producer and even the so she
- 40:00Speaker 2: refused to drink mango fruity and dance of Hollywood songs
- 40:02Speaker 2: with me and the rest of us, she is still incredible.
- 40:06Speaker 2: Mitra Banshaihi is our wonderful producer who's been taking recording
- 40:09Speaker 2: equipment to every single party she goes to this month.
- 40:12Speaker 2: Mark Lotto is our incredible story editor and might be
- 40:16Speaker 2: the only person I know in Brooklyn who loves paratas
- 40:18Speaker 2: and coffee in the morning more than me. This episode
- 40:22Speaker 2: was also produced and mixed by the insanely talented Anna Rubinova,
- 40:25Speaker 2: who worked overtime on this episode because I was so
- 40:29Speaker 2: behind on it, Anna, I really can't thank you enough.
- 40:32Speaker 2: The gorgeous scoring and theme song comes from Botany. Special
- 40:35Speaker 2: thanks to my Palace Himanchu Sori for hyping the show
- 40:38Speaker 2: and Pete and Jay for Motor Sales for their beautiful,
- 40:41Speaker 2: beautiful music. Thank you to Number the three, but the
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- 40:51Speaker 2: children love it. Additional production and research support from the
- 40:55Speaker 2: wonderful through Shivarrao, Lizzie Jacobs, my long suffering why if
- 41:00Speaker 2: someone Buckshi, Argent Bukshi, anyone named Buckshi?
- 41:03Speaker 3: Really?
- 41:04Speaker 2: This show is executive produced from iHeart or my good
- 41:07Speaker 2: pals Niki Etour and Katrina Norvel. Also thank you to
- 41:11Speaker 2: my partners at Kaleidoscope, Oz, Kate Costas and Viny You
- 41:15Speaker 2: know how much I love you all. Special thanks to
- 41:18Speaker 2: Ali Nathan Connell Will and Bob at iHeart for getting
- 41:21Speaker 2: behind the show and as always, a big thank you
- 41:24Speaker 2: to my Amma, my dad, Lalita and Umeshatiku Dur who
- 41:28Speaker 2: I thank my lucky stars for. George Avio lotis an
- 41:32Speaker 2: incredible comedian in person. He was so kind to share
- 41:36Speaker 2: a story with us. If you haven't checked out his impressions,
- 41:38Speaker 2: go do that now, including my favorite this one. Your
- 41:41Speaker 2: college boyfriend who took one Shakespeare class.
- 41:45Speaker 11: So long as man can breathe and Oz can see,
- 41:51Speaker 11: so long lives this and this gives life to thie.
- 41:58Speaker 3: Gee.
- 42:01Speaker 1: Yeah you're different.
- 42:01Speaker 11: You're different.
- 42:02Speaker 3: I like you. You're not like other girls. Yeah you
- 42:05Speaker 3: got something different.
- 42:08Speaker 2: I mean all of you out there are different. Thank
- 42:11Speaker 2: you so much for lending us your ears.
- 42:20Speaker 12: Sweet so now I can't wait to get you.
- 42:26Speaker 3: Restless.
- 42:29Speaker 12: Locac Tuesday Last Days tis the NAT