Podcast
Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever
Hosted by iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope · EN
Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Mental_Floss) dives into the booming business of living forever—meeting the scientists, biopunks, and entrepreneurs trying to turn immortality into reality, and framing death as a choice. But the more he learns about an immortal future, the more he finds himself drawn to the people he loves…and wondering if an endless life can be a meaningful one.
Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever is the follow up to the beloved Skyline Drive (season 1), named a “Series Essential” — an Apple Podcasts honor for top-tier narrative podcasts — and highlighted on several Best of Year lists including NYMag, Guardian, and others.
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New from Kaleidoscope: Mind Games - Episode 1. The Guru's Guru.
Feb 2500:42:52Tap to summarizeWhat if someone told you that you could skip years of therapy with a few mental tricks? It sounded impossible… until we found Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is a form of hypnosis beloved by everyone from sex cults to the U.S. military to fortune 500 companies–yet almost no one knows it exists. Long before she co-founded NXIVM, hypnotist Nancy Salzman encountered NLP as a radical method for reprogramming the mind. Her story leads us to its inventor, Richard Bandler, a volatile, self-made guru. As we dig into how it took hold in so many places, we face an unsettling possibility: NLP might actually work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Homecoming
Feb 28, 202300:35:06Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. In this final episode, Mangesh makes some trips to an old family home, a seaside town in South Goa, and visits with a Tantric astrologer (it's not what you think!), as he tries to get closure. We made you a mixtape. Listen to Sounds from Skyline Drive Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Chalta Hai
Feb 21, 202301:01:24Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. Mangesh travels to India to find a horoscope written about him centuries ago and waiting for him in a shop in rural Tamil Nadu... but it isn't long before everything starts going wrong! Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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George and the Experience Treadmill
Jan 26, 202300:43:33Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. As George navigates the Los Angeles dating scene, one thing keeps derailing his relationships: every girl he’s into is "too into astrology." Plus, Mangesh’s mom tells him about a bizarre curse that’s been plaguing his family for generations, and we discuss why your astrologer might ask you to get married to a tree. Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A Little More Asian Than I Thought
Jan 17, 202300:46:04Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. As Annie attempts to clean out her parents’ garage and sort their finances, she has an unusual question for our astrologer. Meanwhile, Mangesh learns how astrology is affecting the world of C-sections, discusses reading babies' palms in utero, and hears a surprising story from his sister. PLEASE NOTE: there are explicit lyrics and curses in this episode. (Keep your hands over your kiddos’ ears! Or hit pause until they walk out of the room.) Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Minisode 2: Sam
Jan 10, 202300:14:43Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. As a child preacher in a Baptist church, Sam grew up believing that astrology was a sin. Then a chance encounter in a bookstore made him see things differently. Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Minisode 1: The Newsroom Astrologer
Jan 3, 202300:17:57Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. In this week's mini-episode, Mangesh spends time with Maxine Taylor, CNN's first astrologer, and proposes putting her on a postage stamp. Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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BTS Grandpas
Dec 20, 202200:48:48Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. Michelle’s friends are desperate to get her a reading. But all she wants is a peek into her favorite band BTS’ future. Plus, we dig into baseball astrology, and discover why you might consider trading in your emeralds for bananas. LINKS: Janelle Belgrave: our wonderful house astrologer for this series. You can reach her here. Dr. Divya: a caring numerologist who determines how your numbers match up with the stars and picks the ideal days for you to work, rest, and launch shows on (we have been following her timings!) Contact her here. To learn more about our baseball astrologers, you can read and listen to Andrea Mallis here and Cesar Love here. Dr. Rakesh Kumar: the astrologer who predicted my dad’s illness with eerie accuracy. Made another visit to him last week. Reach him here. For Alap Momin’s music label, check out Internet&Weed Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Trickle-down Astrology
Dec 13, 202200:38:58Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. Mangesh and Mary dig into the bizarre astrology scandal that rocked Ronald Reagan’s final year in office. Plus, they mine through old Johnny Carson clips and read way too many Presidential biographies. Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Truth According to Jean
Dec 6, 202200:39:40Tap to summarizeSkyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time. Meet Jean, a 74-year old romantic who decides she's finally open to astrology as she works to rebuild her life. Meanwhile, NYC astrologer Janelle Belgrave joins the team to offer some much-needed counsel; we interview a midwestern therapist who secretly uses astrology to better understand her clients, and Mangesh and his family hold on to hope in the face of some alarming news. Listen to the Skyline Drive mixtape Vol 1 and Vol 2. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Instagram and Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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