Hey I'm Rachel Hampton.

And I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to I see why am I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today it is our birthday!

Woo! But like not right now as we speak to be clear. We are not actually born on the same day, neither were we born on this day specifically.

But what it is is our collective birth month. Somehow three of the four members of the ICYMI production team are March Pisces, me, Candace, and our beloved

Sierra Spragley Ricks.

And while ICYMI itself as a show was born on March 21st, which makes it an Aries.

Ugh, she's still on March girlie.

And she's turning three this year.

Can you believe it?

I know people have complicated feelings about

birthdays. I definitely do. Quite frankly, I had the worst birthday of my life last year. I'm not going to

lie. The day of, I was in the process of getting

ghosted by a white man with a J name, city girls were down. The day after, my grandfather died. City girls down horrendous. But that was last year. And it's in the past. This year has been pretty chill. The day passed uneventfully. No family members died. I went to dinner with some friends. I didn't even cry. So I would say 28 already off to a better start. But Candice how do you feel about

birthdays do you let people know what's your birthday are you a person who just

lets the day pass do you have any birthday rituals, what's your vibe?

So do you remember that episode of victorious where Torrey's sister was like, it's my birth week,

where's my present, it's my birth week, and Victoria Justice performs this like beautiful song for her but her sister's like okay great where's the present?

That's me. I love birthdays. I was always like the intern that went around the office on the first day, made a list of everyone's

birthdays. My friend Katie and I would make like spreadsheets with everyone's cake and ice cream

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