Ep. #127 - What If You Didn't Sleep? (Deprivation, Insomnia, Randy Gardener)

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We're all a little tired. Studies say most folks (at least in the US) are chronically underslept. The interesting piece arrives in the space between tired and truly sleep deprived. The world of sleep loss is a big one, and hallucinations, wild thoughts, and intrigue creep in when the eyelids stay open.

This week, we talk about insomnia, sleep deprivation in doses big and small, and the case of Randy Gardener who set one of the world records for most time spent awake consecutively - and what happened to him in the process of simply staying awake for far too long.

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0:00.0	You just got to get the beer crack on the snare and then no one will notice.
0:06.3	Yeah, can you make a full beat just straight up out of like...
0:09.5	Yes.
0:11.3	I know the right answer is yes, but I'm trying to get you to make a beat that's just out of us, like, cracking open bottles or cans.
0:21.4	Or, like, you can weave in, like, your own belch as the base if you want.
0:25.9	Right, right, right. Yeah.
0:26.5	You know, just beer drinking beat.
0:28.6	I might have to get, like, a keg or something involved to get, like, a kick drum.
0:31.7	Like a thump.
0:32.6	I need something bigger.
0:33.5	Yeah.
0:33.6	You need a real thump.
0:34.8	Mm-hmm. real thump. I mean, I think we have everything we need to be able to make this happen.
0:38.7	Lighter flick high hats or something.
0:41.1	Just for good measure.
0:41.9	Now you're changing chemicals, though.
0:44.4	That'll work.
0:45.4	Yeah.
0:48.4	You guys hear that?
0:49.4	I was about to start doing a cotton eye Joe.
0:53.2	Da-ing,
0:53.5	do-ting,
	...

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