Astrology and the Government, Chapter One: The Myanmar Move

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Astrology! To true believers, this genre of divination provides deep inside to the secret mechanicisms of the Heavens and the Earth. To skeptics, it's bunk -- another mistaken set of beliefs best left to benighted empires of old. And yet, as Ben, Matt and Noel discover in the first part of this special two-part series, astrology still can play a massive role in the modern world. In Chapter One, the guys explore the origins of astrology before traveling to Myanmar, where multiple rulers made extreme decisions based on what they believed was guidance from the stars.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.9	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.1	My name is Matt.
0:26.6	My name is Noel.
0:27.7	They call me, Ben.
0:29.0	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:33.4	Most importantly, you are you.
0:35.6	You are here.
0:36.4	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:40.3	And quick question, fellow conspiracy realist.
0:44.2	What's your sign?
0:45.2	You know, he's flirting with me.
0:48.0	I'm always, always negotiating.
0:51.4	We're doing it.
0:52.2	We're doing it tonight, folks.
0:53.7	Look at us. A pride of Leo's, as Western
0:56.4	astrology says, doing, believe it or not, an astrology episode. Now, for a lot of us in the
1:02.5	crowd tonight, when you hear the word astrology, it instantly conjures up images of
1:07.4	Western astrology. So maybe we make some space. Do you guys want to talk about your
1:14.1	own experiences with astrology? Do you have any meaningful ones? Well, being that we're all
1:18.7	Leo's, Ben, didn't you pull a horoscope for the three of us? Yes, we are recording on February
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