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“Pluto’s Back, Baby!” w. Chani Nicholas

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Hysteria

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive into a shocking Propublica piece that exposes states for sitting on $5.2 billion in welfare funds while needy families struggle to survive. Plus, we celebrate the USWNT’s legal victory as they fight for equal pay. Then, astrologer Chani Nicholas joins to discuss the rising popularity of astrology, its historical and political significance and why America’s Pluto Return is so goddamn scary! Finally, Chani reads Erin and Alyssa’s birth charts, and it’s pretty much like sitting in on someone’s therapy session.




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Show Notes:


Learn more about Chani Nicholas:

https://chaninicholas.com/


Chani: Your Astrology Guide

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chani-app/id1532791252


Her book→ You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062840639


Propublica piece:

https://www.propublica.org/article/states-are-hoarding-52-billion-in-welfare-funds-even-as-the-need-for-aid-grows

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Alyssa Master Monaco.

0:14.0

I'm Erin Ryan and I'm Alyssa Mastromonico. Melissa, what are you superstitious about?

0:16.0

Like what's something that you know isn't true,

0:18.0

but you do it anyway?

0:20.0

I mean, I think I'm so superstitious do I know it's not true? You know what I mean I think I'm so superstitious do I know it's not true you know what I mean I

0:25.7

Erin I will never ever ever lie about being sick like any level of malady. My

0:34.4

oma was like, if you lie about being sick, I think old ethnic

0:39.4

grandparents are a real root of superstition.

0:42.8

And so she was like, if you ever lie about getting sick,

0:46.4

you're gonna get 10 times sicker

0:47.6

than what you said you were.

0:48.8

So I can tell any employer or friend listening.

0:51.9

I have never

0:53.0

fucking lied about being sick and this includes when I have to nod to my IBS

0:58.0

I think that's just good practice but I can see how it goes into the the 10 times

1:05.3

sicker thing yeah 10 times sicker I'm sicker I have two and one is that it's another one

1:11.6

around not lying but I never ever lie about

1:15.2

compliments I never compliment someone in a in a fake way because I feel like it

1:21.9

would fill me with doubt about any nice thing that people say to me if I am putting that kind of energy out into the world.

1:28.2

Okay, that's a good one.

1:29.4

But here's my one that I know is not true. I still avoid stepping on cracks on the sidewalk.

1:36.1

I do too. I avoid the cracks and it I do too. I remember when I learned that superstition and I was like you know what best be on the

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