What happens when an eighty-four-year-old man wakes up on his birthday and decides not to spend the day looking forward—but looking back?

In this episode of Good Morning, John Q., a simple birthday reflection becomes something far more unexpected.

What begins with an old song, an old memory, and a little self-deprecating humor turns into a meditation on time, wealth, power, gratitude, and the strange distance between the America we remember and the America we see today.

Part memoir.

Part observation.

Part warning.

And occasionally very funny.

Without preaching, the episode asks a deceptively simple question:

What do we lose when we forget?

And what might we recover if we remember?

By the time it's over, you'll find yourself looking not only at where you've been, but where we're all headed.

A thoughtful, provocative, and deeply personal episode from The United States of Amnesia.

Listen carefully.

The story isn't really about one birthday.

It's about all of ours.

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