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But today on our program for Groundhog Day, the power of repetition, how it can be utterly devastating to do something you love dozens of times or hundreds of times. You can rob it of all feeling. You can turn it into drudgery. But repetition can also do the opposite. The more you do something, the more you can find in it and live in it.

But today on our program for Groundhog Day, the power of repetition, how it can be utterly devastating to do something you love dozens of times or hundreds of times. You can rob it of all feeling. You can turn it into drudgery. But repetition can also do the opposite. The more you do something, the more you can find in it and live in it.

I've said these next few words hundreds of times, and I said them today, excited for what is to come this hour. From WBEZ Chicago, this is American Life. I'm Ira Glass. Stay with us. This is American Life, Act One. Will you still slug me tomorrow? Sometimes, choosing to repeat the same moment over and over again is an act of love. Aviva de Kornfeld has his true life example.

I've said these next few words hundreds of times, and I said them today, excited for what is to come this hour. From WBEZ Chicago, this is American Life. I'm Ira Glass. Stay with us. This is American Life, Act One. Will you still slug me tomorrow? Sometimes, choosing to repeat the same moment over and over again is an act of love. Aviva de Kornfeld has his true life example.

Aviva de Kornfeld is a producer on our show. F2, I'll repeat the question. So our show today is about Groundhog Day and what repeating the same thing over and over can accomplish or reveal. And I don't want to say much about this next item before it starts, except to say that it is a common thing when radio reporters sit down to interview somebody, we have to set the record volume properly.

Aviva de Kornfeld is a producer on our show. F2, I'll repeat the question. So our show today is about Groundhog Day and what repeating the same thing over and over can accomplish or reveal. And I don't want to say much about this next item before it starts, except to say that it is a common thing when radio reporters sit down to interview somebody, we have to set the record volume properly.

So we need the interviewee to just say some words about something while we set recording levels. And so we'll ask them some kind of, you know, neutral question to describe the route they took to work that morning or what they had for breakfast. This comes from radio producer Talia Ugisteres.

So we need the interviewee to just say some words about something while we set recording levels. And so we'll ask them some kind of, you know, neutral question to describe the route they took to work that morning or what they had for breakfast. This comes from radio producer Talia Ugisteres.

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That story from Talia Ougastetis. She's the creator of the podcast Unreality. She first produced the story for Shortcuts, a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Act three, Raiders of the Lost Chard. Sometimes the repeating situation that you find yourself stuck in every day is something you do not like and you want it to end.

That story from Talia Ougastetis. She's the creator of the podcast Unreality. She first produced the story for Shortcuts, a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Act three, Raiders of the Lost Chard. Sometimes the repeating situation that you find yourself stuck in every day is something you do not like and you want it to end.

And I guess like Bill Murray, who is caught on repeat in that old movie, you have to strategize and figure out how to minimize the unpleasantness. David Kestenbaum has this story about that.

And I guess like Bill Murray, who is caught on repeat in that old movie, you have to strategize and figure out how to minimize the unpleasantness. David Kestenbaum has this story about that.

David Kestenbaum is our show's senior editor. Coming up, one man combats the chaos of the world on a narrow block in Brooklyn, week after week, every Tuesday and Thursday. That's in a minute. Chicago Public Radio, when our program continues. It's This American Life from Ira Glass. Today's program, Groundhog Day. Have you ever had a day that just seems to repeat again and again?

David Kestenbaum is our show's senior editor. Coming up, one man combats the chaos of the world on a narrow block in Brooklyn, week after week, every Tuesday and Thursday. That's in a minute. Chicago Public Radio, when our program continues. It's This American Life from Ira Glass. Today's program, Groundhog Day. Have you ever had a day that just seems to repeat again and again?

It's This American Life from Ira Glass. Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. It's This American Life from Ira Glass. Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. It's This American Life from Ira Glass.

It's This American Life from Ira Glass. Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. It's This American Life from Ira Glass. Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. It's This American Life from Ira Glass.

Each week on our program, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, Fiasco. Today on our program, 24 Hours at the Golden Apple. Today on our program, a story of race and politics in America, the story of Harold Washington.

Each week on our program, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, Fiasco. Today on our program, 24 Hours at the Golden Apple. Today on our program, a story of race and politics in America, the story of Harold Washington.