Chinese Zodiac: Superstition, Economics & Destiny

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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As we celebrate Chinese New Year and enter the year of the fire monkey, join Robert and Joe for a Stuff to Blow Your Mind exploration of the Chinese zodiac and some interesting studies related to its impact on birth rates, economics and individual destiny

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:03.3	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.
0:18.7	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
0:20.5	My name is Robert Lamb.
0:21.4	And I'm Joe McCormack.
0:22.9	So, Robert.
0:23.6	Yes.
0:24.1	A horse, a rat, a dragon, and a metal pig walk into a bar.
0:29.7	Okay.
0:30.2	The dragon says, I'm a dragon, everybody else leave, and they do, because he's a dragon.
0:36.7	Well, that would make sense.
0:38.1	We're, of course, talking about the Chinese zodiac here, and you basically just described my family
0:43.0	to a certain extent.
0:44.1	Oh, really?
0:44.6	Yeah, yeah, because I am, my zodiac sign, the Chinese zodiac is horse.
0:48.8	My sons is dragon.
0:51.2	And my wife's is actually pig, but for the longest, she thought she was a rat.
0:58.0	How can you be confused?
0:59.3	I thought it was just the year you were born.
1:02.2	It's easy to make that mistake, especially if, you know, you're just sort of going on a
1:05.6	surface level understanding of it, particularly if the surface in question, is a placement at a Chinese
1:11.6	restaurant from the 1980s.
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