922 - Sleepy Adventures in Reading
Sleep With Me
Silver Sleeper Productions LLC
4.5 • 17.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
A meandering look at a textbook from my youth. Because the textbook is seriously dated here’s a couple of looks at expanding the readings, if you have more articles or ideas please share them with me!
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/19/08/hooked-classics
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/19/08/reloading-canon
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | from PRX. |
| 0:07.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and friends beyond the binary. |
| 0:15.0 | It's time for the podcaster who's going to try to bring you some textbook laws and pointless me |
| 0:20.1 | anders, even though I didn't write the textbook on laws and pointless me anders, it may have misplaced it |
| 0:26.1 | or put it under a leg of a chair or said, wait a second, oh no, that's a different textbook. |
| 0:32.1 | Just felt like that. |
| 0:34.1 | Anyway, if I'm confusing you already, then you're in the right place because it's time for sleep with me. |
| 0:40.1 | The podcast I put you to sleep. |
| 0:42.1 | And hey, before we go on here, I just want to say that this show is really built to create a safe place for you to fall asleep. |
| 0:49.1 | Because I know how it feels because I try to look at things and say, well, let me put myself in the listener's shoes. |
| 0:56.1 | As they've said, that also comes with the responsibility of saying, hey, you're important. |
| 1:00.1 | When I say that, I mean it. |
| 1:02.1 | So there's resources if you're having a tough time right now. |
| 1:05.1 | If you need some extra support right now with your mental health, there's links to organizations that you could reach out to right now. |
| 1:11.1 | There's also links that we have a new sponsor that can help you. |
| 1:14.1 | If you're looking for a more long-term relationship with a therapist, we have a new sponsor you could check out. |
| 1:19.1 | And then it also means that the mental health of our members of our community matter. |
| 1:24.1 | In black mental health matters, black lives matter. |
| 1:27.1 | And what happened in Philadelphia to Walter Wallace just isn't okay. |
| 1:31.1 | We really have to look at how we respond to mental health crises and how we as a society want to respond to that. |
| 1:38.1 | So I have some links in the show notes to address that in a couple of different levels. |
| 1:42.1 | And you can just think about it. |
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