Somebody quickly look up what kind of holiday it's going to be this Wednesday.

What weird holiday is.

What weird holiday is going to be this Wednesday.

And then we'll just like intro as if it was a normal episode.

Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker podcast for Wednesday, February 28th. Today is National Sleeping in Public Day.

Yeah, I believe.

Let's all of that.

With me as always are Mike Montgomery and Benueeda happy to be here.

How's it going? So this episode might sound a little weird and that's because it was kind of done impromptu at

workbench con. Yeah. Tell us a public sleeping story Ben. So when I was in

grad school I finagled a travel grant to go to Japan for like two months with one of my best

friends and we had to write these like 30-page really extensive research agendas for how we're going to use

some corn else money to like better the world. I think I was trying to study the

same ability across different cultural periods in the places that have like limited growth because of the island and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

Basically, we used it as a cowman and just got hammered for like, yeah.

And we worked for two days to make sure. as like, child mine just got hammered for like, yeah.

And we worked for two days to make sure

Cornell was OK with it.

There's this place in Japan called Ropungi,

which would be just like, we're all,

in Tokyo it's like, we're all the nightclubs, and there's a lot of foreigners and

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