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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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It’s December 28, 2022. And Nora McInerny is 40 years old. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll get when you join us on TTFA Premium. For $8 a month, you can support our show AND get ad-free episodes and bonus content — including mailbag episodes like this one. Sign up today at TTFA.org/Premium. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, it's Nora McEnery. This is an episode of our podcast that is available in
0:05.2	its entirety over at TTFA Premium. TTFA Premium is our subscribers only feed where we put bonus
0:12.8	content where we put ad free episodes where we put some full-length guest interviews. It is a way
0:19.0	to financially support our show. And if that is something that you're interested in doing and
0:24.0	able to do, it is a couple bucks a month and you can sign up at ttfa.org slash premiums ttfa.org slash
0:31.6	premium. Thank you and enjoy.
0:54.4	40 is considered a milestone birthday. If you're lucky, you're at the halfway point of your life. If
1:00.5	you're unlucky, you're going to be one of those people who lives to be like 112 and has their photo
1:07.2	on the today show or is it good morning America? A daily show where millions of people across the nation
1:15.5	briefly and anonymously wish you a happy birthday because everyone you know and love is probably dead.
1:20.4	I do not want to live to 112 or 110 even 100 double digits is enough for me seriously. I do not
1:29.6	want the extended warranty. We're good with the original terms of service. I don't dread being
1:38.3	40 at all. What's strange to me is that even standing on the cusp of it it just doesn't feel like a
1:46.3	thing. Maybe because like pretty much every age 40 felt old until I got there at 25 I would be
1:56.4	at shows and think man, how did all these people in their 40s even hear of this band as though
2:03.5	they existed on another planet and another internet altogether one where we weren't all finding
2:08.7	bands through my space and pitchfork. At 18 my 25 year old sister felt like a second mother. She had
2:17.6	an apartment, she had a geo prism, she had a job in marketing. I truly felt like she was my parents
2:22.8	age. As a second grader I looked at the eighth graders in our school and I thought that they 14
2:28.6	year olds were legitimate adults maybe even with children of their own. Alex Loosebrook I'm talking
2:35.0	about you. Even in sixth grade the eighth graders seemed like they were just on some higher
2:41.7	plane of consciousness like they knew something I didn't. One of my main worries as a kid
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