Jordan Harbinger

Today we're talking about the moon, which has been blamed for everything from crime sprees to bad haircuts to why your barista was acting sus this morning.

So the question is, is the moon actually influencing human behavior at all?

Moods, actions, chaos, or are we just telling ourselves old lunar legends?

The moon has always had a grip on us.

It's right there.

It's up there.

You can see it.

It shows up on a schedule.

It changes shape.

It feels important somehow.

It has gravity, if you will.

So what's actually going on up there?

Joining me to help separate real lunar effects from folklore is writer and researcher Jessica Wynn.

So, Jessica, it seems like whenever something goes sideways, you get a bad mood, you get bad luck, you get a weird night, eventually someone shrugs and goes, well, it is a full moon.

Like, that explains it.

Right.

It's a waxing gibbous, so, you know.

And everyone suddenly becomes extremely confident about the moon's effects.

They don't study it, but, you know, they somehow they know.

So it's kind of confirmation bias, too, right?