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Enjoy. Enjoy. Happy New Year, Weirdos.

Zimmerman here.

It's January.

Time to dust off the old Hopes and Dreams checklist and see where we stand.

There comes a time when there's always next year is an uncomfortable welcome mat beneath our feet.

Unresolved conflicts neglected goals forgotten plans all before us like bright yellow

posted notes tacked to the door. And which notes shall we take

with us into the new year? And which will we let fall to the earth with the last leaves of winter. But what if you didn't have to cross that

threshold? What if you could go back and resolve those conflicts, achieve those goals.

What if you could leave less post it standing

between you and tomorrow?

What would you trade for that opportunity.

Happy old year by Tim Pratt considers that very question. We originally published the story for episode 308,

way back in 2013. You remember 2013? A grand old year.

Let's see there was the Boston Marathon bombing.

Edward Snowden revealed the government was tracking all our text messages.

It was a time of Duck Dynasty and Candy Crush,

which Facebook patrons paid over a million dollars a day to play.

Sophie was the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year,

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