I'm Munga Shatekler and it turns out astrology is way more widespread than any of us want

to believe.

You can find it in major league baseball, international banks, kpop groups, even the White House.

But just when I thought I had a handle on this subject, something completely unbelievable

happened to me and my whole view on astrology changed.

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, give me a few minutes because I think your ideas

are about to change too.

Listen to Skyline Drive on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

podcasts.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hey welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam and I'm Joe McCormick and

today we're going to be talking about an interesting observation and cognitive psychology

that deals with language that starts off as kind of just a funny little quirk about

the way we process certain kinds of sentences but ends up having some broader and more interesting

implications about knowledge and language and thought.

But I thought the best way to start here would just be to illustrate the prime example

of the effect we're going to be talking about.

To do that, I think we need to do a bit of Bible trivia.

Are you ready to go to Sunday school?

Let's do it, let's go to Sunday school.

Okay, I'm going to ask you a few questions about the Bible.

If you get one wrong, you are going to get a paddling.

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