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Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.

Your weekly reminder that when bad things are happening, there's people trying to do good things.

And sometimes the things that they do is invent things in the middle of a crisis.

I'm your host, Margaret Kiltrane. And my guest today is invent things in the middle of a crisis. I'm your host, Marger Kiltrue.

And my guest today is the one and only Mangesh Hadicoder, who brought the world mental floss and is the host of the show part-time genius and runs the production company, Collidoscope.

And I just learned right before we started recording did a podcast on astrology that I have to hear.

It's called Skyline Drive. I highly recommend it. I got told that you wouldn't tell me what it was

about ahead of time. But now we're on air, so you have to. You can give the elevator pitch,

mango. I was just really curious, and so this is a good way to pressure you into it. Hi, welcome to my show.

The whole thing for me was growing up Indian.

You know, astrology was such a joke in the U.S. in a sense, but in India it's taken so seriously.

And for me, the idea was like, I don't believe in astrology, but it keeps happening to me in the fact that, like,

my parents, they were introduced to each other as, you know, in arranged marriage. And so they were

given lots of options. They were only introduced to one another because their charts matched up.

And so, like, my mom couldn't have a mother-in-law because, like, her chart basically, like,

would indicate bad health for the mother-in-law. like her chart basically like would indicate bad health for

the mother-in-law and my dad his mom passed away when he was like one or something and so like that's part

of the reason and the other elements of the chart match up too but it's one of these things that whether

or not you believe in astrology there's so many other people that believe in astrology that the world

is affected by it. And so it was

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