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Bonus: What's your sign? (Vanessa has no clue) · Math Therapy

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  Hello Math therapy listeners.
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  It's David, Vanessa's producer, and I'm back with another bonus episode and some big news for the podcast.
• 0:12
  It's been a year since we wrapped up season six, and it's been six months since we shared a few bonus episodes around Vanessa's book launch last fall.
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  Now, this may come as a surprise, but Vanessa doesn't actually like to brag about accomplishments, so I'll do it for her.
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  Math Therapy the book has had an incredible response, and I can tell that it's just getting started.
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  Teachers all over the map have been implementing her strategies in the classroom, and she keeps hearing about book clubs discussing Math Therapy, which is something she never expected.
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  Now, if you were listening back in season five, you'll recall a bonus episode I put together featuring all of Vanessa's awkward interview endings.
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  That was the year she somehow forgot how to say goodbye at the end of an episode.
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  I'll link that in this episode description if you want to re-listen, because it was hilarious.
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  So many listeners loved that episode that when we started recording interviews for season six, Vanessa decided that she was now the producer, and that the end of season bonus episode was going to be a compilation of her guessing everyone's astrological signs.
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  And if you've listened to any of this podcast, I'm sure that none of that sentence will come as a surprise to you.
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  Long story short, I never got around to release sifting through them, but we randomly recorded a couple interviews recently that we're going to share this month.
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  So I thought this was a good time to revisit, and I discovered that they were pretty amusing, mostly because she was rarely correct.
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  And finally, whether you're a longtime listener or a new follower, if you've wondered why we aren't popping up in your feed every week, well Vanessa is going to have some exciting news to share about that this month as well.
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  Until then, here is Vanessa trying often quite loudly and unsuccessfully to guess some star signs.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I mean, normally I would save this for the end, but I kind of want to start by guessing your astrological sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Should I wait?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm going to wait.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm going to wait.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: No, because I'm not, I'm not certain yet, but I just, I'm feeling such a good vibe from you.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: this is not relevant at all.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So I'm going to wait and it's going to come to me.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, let us begin.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I really, really love this idea.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: And I completely lost my train of thought.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So what was it?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Hold on.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Hold on.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I was like ready to ask you a question, but I got distracted because I decided you were a Capricorn.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Am I right?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you a Capricorn?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Don't tell me.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I get the rest of the podcast.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Wow.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: This has been so, I could talk to you forever, This has just been such a lovely, hopeful talk.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: And I think I know your astrological sign now.
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  Pamela Seda: I don't think so but go ahead
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Pisces.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You're a Pisces.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You're a Pisces.
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  Pamela Seda: Nope
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  Vanessa Vakharia: you a Gemini?
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  Pamela Seda: Nope.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you a Cancer?
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  Pamela Seda: No.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What are you?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: A Libra?
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  Pamela Seda: No!
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Oh my god, and now, this is really bad.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm not guessing anymore.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm almost halfway.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Tell me.
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  Pamela Seda: Taurus.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: No way.
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  Pamela Seda: I'm the bull.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: David's a Taurus.
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  David Kochberg: I
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  Vanessa Vakharia: could tell.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I could tell.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Could you?
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  Pamela Seda: You were never gonna guess.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I was not going to get to Taurus.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I was not going to get there.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, well, you know what?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You win some, you lose most.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Final two questions of the podcast
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  Howie Hua: like, you can't divide by seven mentally really well.
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  Howie Hua: Like, you can't tell if a number is divisible by seven readily versus, like, all of the other single digit divisibility rules are so easy.
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  Howie Hua: Seven's just way too hard to do mentally,
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I've never thought about it this way.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You're looking at like the functionality of the number.
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  Howie Hua: Yeah
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm looking at like the aesthetic of the number.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Like, seven is like a fucking wild ride.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Oh my god, this reminds me that I'm going to guess your sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Because I was about to be like, I feel seven is a very Gemini number.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Don't make a facial expression.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You're already doing it! What sign are you?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What sign are you?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, just don't tell me.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You hate seven.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I love seven.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I don't feel like you're a Gemini, but now I'm like, are you a Gemini?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Don't say anything.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you an air sign?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you a water sign?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You're not an earth sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: You're not a fire sign, in my opinion.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I think you're an air sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I think you're a Gemini.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you a Gemini?
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  Howie Hua: Do you want me to answer?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Yes
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  Howie Hua: No, I'm not a gemini.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Yeah.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Hold on.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Hold on.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you an Aquarius?
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  Howie Hua: No.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you a Libra?
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  Howie Hua: I'm not a Libra.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What the fuck, Howie?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What are you?
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  Howie Hua: I'm a Leo.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: No, you're not.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I don't know what to say.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I did not see this coming, literally at all.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: okay, fine.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I mean, I think Gemini, I think a 7 is a very Gemini number, and I feel like, what do you like, an 8?
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  Howie Hua: What number do I like?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Yeah
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  Howie Hua: 8?
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  Howie Hua: 8's nice.
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  Howie Hua: out of like, any number, I think 16 or 24.
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  Howie Hua: I really like even numbers.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So 8, but multiples of 8?
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  Howie Hua: Yeah.
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  Howie Hua: I would say that.
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  Howie Hua: I'm an August birthday, so 8 is nice.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: That's what I'm saying, and the Leo card, the Leo tarot card is an 8.
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  Howie Hua: Oh, okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Would you let me read your birth chart?
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  Zak Champagne: Okay.
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  Zak Champagne: I, I'm going to show my cards here.
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  Zak Champagne: I don't know what a birth chart is.
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  Zak Champagne: What, what is that?
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  Zak Champagne: Can
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Do you know your exact time of birth?
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  Zak Champagne: Uh, I can think, I think, I think my
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So a birth chart is like the astrological snapshot of where the planets were at the moment you were born and it actually is like your personality or like with the predictions if you believed in astrology, so when you're like, I'm a Leo, I'm like Zak whatever, you're a Leo Sun.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: The Sun was in Leo when you were born, but where was your moon?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Where was Mercury?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Where was Pluto?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What your Ascendant?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Where is your Chiron?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: It's like the full picture of who you are astrologically and all I'm saying is Crystal let me read hers.
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  Zak Champagne: Yeah.
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  Zak Champagne: She's better than me.
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  Zak Champagne: I get it.
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  Zak Champagne: I believe I agree.
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  Zak Champagne: And I agree with you.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, you ever want a reading though, let me know.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm happy to do it.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I need to practice more on people.
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  Zak Champagne: Ok.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I think that's probably so relatable to teachers.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: And like, sorry, just pause.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Kyle, are you an Aries?
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  Kyle Pearce: No, I'm a Pisces.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Huh.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So my question is when you're like in there and you're like, okay.
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  Kyle Pearce: Interesting.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Like,
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  Kyle Pearce: Now I'm like going to start Googling.
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  Kyle Pearce: I'm a fact finder too.
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  Kyle Pearce: So I'm going to try to figure out why the response there, what
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So, so,
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  Kyle Pearce: I love it.
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  Kyle Pearce: I didn't know that about me.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Well, now you know that about yourself, the Aries Pisces.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, so before we get off, let's guess Jon sign just so you don't feel left out.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I am, it's a tough one.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm getting, I'm getting maybe earth sign vibes from you, but I, I actually really don't know.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I don't know what you are, but I'm going to, I'm going to go on a limb and I'm going to guess Taurus.
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  Jon Orr: That's correct.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Fuck off.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Yes.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So 50%.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: That was loud.
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  Kyle Pearce: That is amazing.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Thank you so much.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm, I'm
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  Kyle Pearce: I have to go read my horoscope now.
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  Kyle Pearce: Cause I'm like, I'm like, I don't know what it means
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Well, Pisces is like, super flowy, really easy going, likes to try new things, like, Jon's a little more like, slow and steady, like, takes some time to come to it, you
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  Jon Orr: You've described us.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, well, we'll talk about this more later.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I have to guess.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Are you a Leo?
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  Dr. India White: No.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Wait, then hold on.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I have one more guess.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I have one more guess.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Aries.
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  Dr. India White: Gemini.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: No way! So am I!
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  Dr. India White: Really?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: A fellow Gemini.
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  Dr. India White: yes, yes.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I didn't see it.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Wow.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Dr. India White: It's interesting you saw Leo, I didn't see that.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Because your sun sign is like your core essence, like, do you, do you have a birth chart?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Like, have you ever looked into this?
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  Dr. India White: I haven't looked into it.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I would bet, do you know your exact birth time?
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  Dr. India White: Nine o'clock a.
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  Dr. India White: m.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Can I look right now?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I bet you your rising sign is, it's Leo or Aries, like I, I, I just, I want to see your rising sign is how you present to the world.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So your sun sign is like what you know, like your Gemini, it's like your core thing, but your rising sign is how you present.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So hold on.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Free birth chart.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I just, I need to look this up.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Cause I need to know.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I really need to.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So birth chart.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: So India.
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  David Kochberg: We do have another interview coming up.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Hold on, we're almost done.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm not, I just want to see your rising sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, here we go.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: What?! Hold on everyone.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I need to like just give me a second.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: We do have time!
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  David Kochberg: We actually don't.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: When's the next interview?
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  David Kochberg: In 20 minutes.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: 20 minutes.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Fuck.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Hold on one second.
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  David Kochberg: And I gotta make sure that this uploads.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: We will, we will I just I really want to see where what we're where just i'm so close to look to seeing the circle of the chart.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Just one sec Just one sec India i'm so sorry.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I know you have to okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Here it is.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Here it is.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Here it is was right! I was right! Leo Rising! I knew it! Very excited for you
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  Dr. India White: Rock star.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: This is a huge deal! Okay, fine, you can go.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Love you! Do you believe in astrology?
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Do you believe in destiny?
• 9:10
  Dan Finkel: I do not.
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  Dan Finkel: But,
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  Vanessa Vakharia: oh, okay.
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  Dan Finkel: but that's okay.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay, but I'm gonna guess your sign anyway.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm guessing by the way we're interacting,
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  Dan Finkel: Uh huh.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I want to say Libra or Aquarius.
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  Dan Finkel: Pisces.
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  Dan Finkel: But good good guesses.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: I'm not shocked.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Like if you were like, a Virgo, I'd be like, no you're not.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Okay.
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  Dan Finkel: Water sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Yeah, water sign.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Pisces is like one of my favorite signs.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: They're just go with the flow.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: They are, Pisces are always up for anything.
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  Dan Finkel: Oh, good.
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  Dan Finkel: Well, there we are.
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  Dan Finkel: That fits.
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  Pamela Seda: I wrote a dissertation and I still hate writing.
• 9:48
  Pamela Seda: the only thing I like to write is my name on the back of a cheque.
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  Pamela Seda: I don't mind.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: that is the most Taurus thing you could have said, by the way.
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  Vanessa Vakharia: Taurus ruled by Venus, money, okay.