S4 Ep342: The Mysterious Sleeping Town of Kalachi & Things to Stop Caring About in Your 30s

An Acquired Taste Podcast

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True Crime, Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Stop trying to get your money’s worth at an open bar! Kathleen has had it up to HERE with worrying about certain things and she’s sharing that list with you! There’s only so much time in a day to launch your puka shell necklace empire, right? Then, is that a fridge on the ceiling? Did you just take a plane ride without remembering it? Bethany is talking about a bizarre “Sleep Sickness” that struck two small villages in Kazakhstan where people would fall asleep for days! What do you think caused it? Plus, Bethany has THOUGHTS about denim...

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What We Talked About

Things to Stop Caring About in Your 30s - 14:13
The Mysterious Sleeping Town of Kalachi - 42:38

Kathleen's Jeans from the Gap: https://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=440582#pdp-page-content

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BETHANY’S SOURCES:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahatopol/a-week-in-the-mysterious-sleeping-villages-of-kazakhstan?utm_term=.vvBpbo5Va#.auBORALQb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw5QDCCfeqc

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kazakhstan/comments/nsqs39/sleep_hollow_kalachi/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/17/mystery-kazakhstan-sleeping-sickness-solved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_hollow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalachi,_Kazakhstan

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84543/mystery-behind-kazakh-towns-sleeping-sickness

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-science-behind-the-mysterious-town-where-residents-fell-asleep-for-days-at-a-time/all/

https://www.newstatesman.com/node/192370

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/mystery-kazakhstani-sleeping-sickness/

KATHLEEN’S SOURCES:

https://www.popsugar.com/smart-living/Things-You-Stop-Worrying-About-Your-30s-37912918
https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/6/13838268/chip-joanna-gaines-buzzfeed-gay-fixer-upper

Transcript

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0:00.0	Stop laughing, this is erotic.
0:02.0	I'm on a new medication and you think it's making me lose me?
0:06.0	I would have been a Ted Bundy victim.
0:08.0	Yeah, I had no idea that so many people out there felt the same way.
0:12.0	I died.
0:14.0	Now I want a peanut colada.
0:16.0	An acquired taste.
0:18.0	This is an acquired taste podcast.
0:20.0	I'm Bethany Watson.
0:22.0	You're homemade iced coffee drinking,
0:24.0	baseball loving,
0:26.0	the current denim trends are ugly
0:28.0	and make every body type look terrible,
0:30.0	so I refuse to follow them, friend.
0:32.0	And I'm Kathleen Heaney-Yore,
0:36.0	Ted Lasso watching.
0:38.0	I've decided that I don't like cold brew.
0:40.0	I'm going broke because of my favorite creamy lemonade ice pops, friend.
0:44.0	Woohoo!
0:46.0	And every way Kathleen and I get together to discuss our lives
0:48.0	and what's weird in the world.
0:50.0	And we invite you to join us.
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