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Before Breakfast

Would you live today over again?

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

A little lesson from the Groundhog Day movie

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

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0:30.1

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.0

Good morning. This is Laura.

0:41.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.0

Today's tip involves improving your life by asking a deceptively simple question.

0:50.0

Would you choose to live today over again?

0:54.0

So I live in Pennsylvania, which is also the home of a famous groundhog known as Punctatani Phil.

1:01.0

And this episode is first airing shortly after February 2nd.

1:05.0

Each year, on that day, a huge crowd gathers to see if Phil will see his shadow or not.

1:12.0

This augurs whether there will be six more weeks of winter or something like that.

1:16.4

Groundhog Day is a rather silly holiday.

1:19.8

But a few decades ago it became the title of a movie based on a fascinating premise.

1:25.2

Phil Connors, a not terribly pleasant TV personality visiting the Groundhog Day

1:30.9

festivities, gets stuck living Groundhog Day over and over again.

1:35.8

At first he is defiant about the whole time warp, but eventually he decides that if this is the day

1:42.4

he has, he is going to live it right.

1:46.0

And this premise gets at an old existential question, how would we live?

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