Can You Be Bored to Death? & Why Thrill Seekers Seek Thrills
Something You Should Know
Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:04.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:08.4 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. |
| 0:11.8 | And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:16.3 | How can a 101-year- old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:23.7 | Listen to heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.5 | Today on something you should know, you really can convince yourself you're not tired, even if you are. |
| 0:40.0 | Then, why do we get bored? |
| 0:42.3 | What is boredom and what's it trying to tell us? |
| 0:45.5 | There's two words that I think are most commonly expressed by people when they report being |
| 0:49.0 | bored, and that's agitation and restlessness. |
| 0:51.6 | And that gets back to this idea that when you're bored, you want to be doing something. |
| 0:55.0 | It's not being apathetic or lazy. You want something, but you just can't figure out what that is. |
| 1:00.0 | Also, the problem with being a perfectionist and the toll it takes on your health. |
| 1:06.0 | And daredevils, thrill seekers, why do they do what they do? I think a lot of people think of thrill-seeking as something a person does, |
| 1:14.6 | but I think of it as who a person is. |
| 1:17.6 | It can affect their work, it can affect the foods they like, the things they do for fun, |
| 1:22.6 | and what kind of traveling they like to do. |
| 1:25.6 | All this today on Something You Should Know. |
| 1:31.0 | Hi there, Fred Greenhalj here, director of audio dramas like DC high-volume Batman and Star Trek Con. |
| 1:36.8 | However, my one true love remains all things spooky, and I'm excited to say there's a new season of my horror podcast, Undertoe. |
| 1:43.2 | This season is called Familiar Haunts, |
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