The following episode contains adult language, discussion of miracles, arranged marriages,

Channing Tatum, and disclosure of at least one Bible-approved stoning.

Considerative listeners, take care.

So here's the confession I'm going to make, right at the top of the show.

I don't believe in astrology, but astrology keeps happening to me.

Now everyone says podcasting is the most visual medium, so I made you a slideshow to try to explain.

This is the real skyline drive. It's in Delaware and growing up when I couldn't sleep,

it's one of the many places I would drive to look at the stars.

This is the moon. It rules our emotions.

This is Mercury in retrograde. You know it because it makes life miserable.

This is Rahu and Ketu. They're important and mischievous nodes in Vedic astrology.

They're prominent in Donald Trump's horoscope, and they're also responsible for Paris-Silton.

This is me, I was born May 1st, 1979. This is the sky at the time I was born.

In Western astrology, it makes me a Taurus. These are some other Tauruses.

Pol Pot, Itola Comeni, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Barbara Streisen.

The fact that we're all Tauruses has made me doubt astrology for a very long time.

These are my parents. They've been hitched 51 years, and every morning, my dad makes my mom a cup of tea,

and then they sit and do the spelling bee and pencil. It's adorable, right?

These are my parents calling in the middle of this recording.

This is India. When I was growing up, words like yoga, and meditation, and turmeric,

and astrology, these are words that were part of my Indian life, but they weren't a part of my

going to school, fitting into America one. But now, now everyone has an opinion about it.

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