There's nothing like slipping between cool fresh sheets on a soft bed. You sink in and you feel the stress slip away, right?

But what were our beds like a hundred, five hundred or even a thousand or more years ago?

I'm Patty Steele, the real kind of skeevy meaning of hit the hay.

Next on the backstory.

Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much.

Like easy listening, but for fiction.

If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness and everyday life are all around you.

I'm Catherine Nikolai, and you might know me from the Bedtime Story Podcast, nothing much happens happens I'm an architect of Cozy and I invite

you to come spend some time where everyone is welcome and kindness is the default.

When you tune in you'll hear stories about bakeries and

walks in the woods, a favorite booth at the diner on a blustry autumn day. Cats and

dogs and rescued goats and donkeys.

Old houses, book shops, beaches where kites fly and pretty stones are found.

I have so many stories to tell you and they are all designed to help you feel good and feel connected to what is good in the world.

Listen, relax, enjoy.

Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much on the IHeart Radio app, Apple

Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

When Walter Isacinth set out to write his biography of Elon Musk, he believed he was taking

on a world-changing figure.

That night he was deciding whether or not to allow Starlink to be enabled to allow a sneak

attack on Crimea.

What he got was a subject who also sowed chaos in conspiracy.

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