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Guaranteed Human.

Hey there, podcast listeners.

It's Mango here.

And over the next few weekends, we are revisiting season one of my show, Skyline Drive.

And today, we are up to episode two.

So in this episode, I'm going to introduce you to Gene, who is one of the coolest people I've ever met.

And I say that as someone who's met a ton of cool people.

Gene has this fascinating life growing up in Brooklyn.

Her parents were communists.

She gets out of a bad marriage.

And now she's in her 70s and she has decided to turn to astrology

for some help with romance. She really is so wonderful. And I actually connected her with an

astrologer named Janelle, who, spoiler alert, kind of blew her mind. We also talk in this

episode to an anonymous therapist who secretly uses astrology

in her practice, which is insane to me, but also kind of incredible. I really hope you enjoy it,

and I hope you stay tuned for episode three next Sunday. Warning. The following show includes discussion of escorts, drugs, septuagenarian Tinder,

eclipses, star-powered therapy, and Donald Trump's former, former lawyer. For listeners with Victorian sensibilities, please keep a fan and smelling salts nearby.

So I guess my biggest question is, am I ever going to have sex with somebody again?

We're sitting in Jean Lebeck's third floor apartment right off the 93rd Street stop in Bay Ridge.

Gene is a former teacher, just like my mom, roughly the same age, 74, but Gene's a New York 74.

She's got that city girl edge. My name is Jean Ann Lebec, and I am a storyteller.

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