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Warning, the following minisode includes discussion of brontosaurus'

fortune-telling, Larry King, the Flintstones, and America's

first licensed astrologer. It's also conveniently packaged in a list format. For listeners who

don't like their information presented in numerical order, please take care.

For anyone who listens, you know Skyline Drive isn't that political.

But there's sometimes a person just has to stand up for what is right. And during the course of our reporting, it occurred to us here that there aren't any famous astrologers

honored on U.S. postage stamps. There are, however, Brontosauruses, which were famously considered real when I was a kid, then were declared

not real when my cousins were kids, and then maybe they're real again? I really can't keep track.

Also, there are stamps with Confederate generals on them, which is confusing because why exactly

are we honoring a bunch of people who tried to overthrow the government, mostly

because they wanted to keep slaves?

But maybe most confusing of all, we have the Pony Express on Stamps.

This was a failed startup.

It barely lasted a year and a half, and it was never part of the U.S. postal system.

So it's kind of like Google issuing a Google

doodle to honor Alta Vista or Ask Jeeves or some other long-dead competitor. So unless you think

astrology is worse than fake dinosaurs, racist generals, and complete business failures,

I think it's okay to put an astrologer on a stamp. And if we're going to pick just one astrologer, I nominate Maxine Taylor.

From Kalytoscope, an I-Heart podcast, I'm Mungesh Hittikudur.

Welcome to Skyline Drive. Mini Sode 1.

Three reasons we should put Maxine Taylor on a stamp already.

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