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I Can’t Sleep

Beatniks

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Beatniks: soft-spoken poets with a flair for jazz, turtlenecks, and late-night musings—perfect for sleep, relaxation, and winding down. Want More? Request a topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Listen ad-free & support the show: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop sleep-friendly stuff: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Beatnik, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia – Beatnik. Next Week on the I Can’t Sleep Podcast 🚚 Truck Driver – Long roads, longer yawns. 📚 Encyclopedia – All the knowledge, none of the pressure. 🐑 Sheep – Count on them to help you drift off. New episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12 AM. Until then… happy sleeping. 💤 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to a Glassbox Media podcast.

0:11.0

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0:26.3

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0:30.6

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0:32.8

Make money work for you.

0:34.3

Investing is not for everyone.

0:35.6

The value of investments can fall as well as rise and you may

0:37.8

get back less than you invest. T's and Cs apply. Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast where I bore you to

0:44.1

sleep one fact at a time. I'm your host Benjamin Boster. Thanks to Kari Tuna for sponsoring

0:53.2

tonight's episode about Beatniks.

0:56.0

Let's get started.

1:00.3

Beatniks were members of a social movement in the mid-20th century, who subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle.

1:08.6

They rejected the conformity and consumerism of mainstream American culture

1:13.6

and expressed themselves through various forms of art, such as literature, poetry, music, and painting.

1:20.6

The term Bidnick was coined by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Cain in 1958 as a derogatory

1:30.8

label for the followers of the Beat Generation, a group of influential writers and artists who

1:36.7

emerged during the era of the silent generations maturing, from as early as 1946 to as

1:43.9

1963.

1:45.0

But the subculture was at its most prevalent in the 1950s.

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