Chapter 1: What is the significance of Groundhog Day in the podcast?
And most of all, you help us keep our show going. If you've been thinking about joining, try it out. Go to thisamericanlife.org slash lifepartners. That link is also in the show notes. All right. Thanks. It's a little ritual that Parker invented for herself. And it's always the same, every year. Around this time of year. February 2nd, to be exact.
Chapter 2: How does a birthday tradition connect to Groundhog Day?
February 2nd, which is Groundhog Day. At 10.30 at night, I turn on the movie Groundhog Day. Rita, I'm reliving the same day over and over. Groundhog Day.
Chapter 3: What is the game 'pinch and punch' and its emotional importance?
Chapter 4: How does repetition affect our lives and experiences?
And most of all, you help us keep our show going. If you've been thinking about joining, try it out. Go to thisamericanlife.org slash lifepartners. That link is also in the show notes. All right. Thanks. It's a little ritual that Parker invented for herself. And it's always the same, every year. Around this time of year. February 2nd, to be exact.
February 2nd, which is Groundhog Day. At 10.30 at night, I turn on the movie Groundhog Day. Rita, I'm reliving the same day over and over. Groundhog Day.
Chapter 5: What are the challenges of maintaining connections over distance?
Chapter 6: How does Groundhog Day relate to personal growth?
Chapter 7: What lessons can we learn from repeated experiences?
And most of all, you help us keep our show going. If you've been thinking about joining, try it out. Go to thisamericanlife.org slash lifepartners. That link is also in the show notes. All right. Thanks. It's a little ritual that Parker invented for herself. And it's always the same, every year. Around this time of year. February 2nd, to be exact.
February 2nd, which is Groundhog Day. At 10.30 at night, I turn on the movie Groundhog Day. Rita, I'm reliving the same day over and over. Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day, of course, is the 1993 Bill Murray comedy about a self-centered weatherman who gets trapped in time, repeating the same day, again and again. A day where he covers a Groundhog Day ceremony on local TV.
Once a year, the eyes of the nation turn to this tiny hamlet in western Pennsylvania to watch a master at work. The master? Punxsutawney Phil, the world's most famous weatherman, the Groundhog, who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring storm
Bill Murray spends the whole film repeating February 2nd.
Well, it's Groundhog Day. Again?
Until, finally, at the end of the film, he unsticks himself in time and wakes up on the next day. Again, here's Parker.
I time it up so that when it's around midnight, when it's February 3rd in the world, it's February 3rd in the movie. So when it's February 3rd in the movie, it becomes February 3rd in the world, which is my birthday. So I do it as like I call it like I'm slowly boiling myself into my birthday.
Barker says she's not a big birthday person, but this is a little thing she's done for herself to mark the day ever since she was 22. I first saw Groundhog Day in a film class.
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