Do you ever suffer from the cursed birthday blues? This episode has you covered as we comprehensively cover everything about your day of birth and why there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye.
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Sponsors
(2:10) Birthday boy in the house
(4:25) The significance of a birthday
(6:30) First birthday as a father
(7:35) A brief history of birthdays
(13:15) Human drive to celebrate
(14:35) Celebrate birth, but not death?
(19:10) Mourning
(19:50) People hating their birthday
(24:00) Are they overrated?
(27:25) Should you avoid celebrating?
(28:45) Birthday sadness is real
(30:00) The passage of time
(35:00) Reflections
(38:00) What is a good birthday?
(40:30) What is a bad birthday?
(42:30) Outro
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