The Mystery of the Sleepy Sickness

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Back in the early 1900s, a new pandemic happened out of nowhere with odd symptoms, that was never solved or cured. It just went away. Which means it's right up our alley.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.1	Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast.
0:08.1	Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only, Madonna.
0:12.2	When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was held up at gunpoint.
0:17.4	I was robbed.
0:18.3	Always horrendous things happened to me.
0:20.1	I had such an unhappy childhood that whatever happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood
0:21.8	that whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was, so I'm not going back.
0:27.8	Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:35.1	People called them murderers. Ten years later, they were gods.
0:39.3	Today, no one knows their names.
0:42.3	A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment
0:45.3	who risked everything to invent open heart surgery.
0:49.3	Welcome to the Wild West of American Medicine.
0:51.3	I'm Chris Pine and this is Cardiac Cowboys.
0:55.3	If you like medical dramas, if you like heart-pounding thrillers, you will love cardiac
0:59.6	cowboys.
1:00.7	Listen on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:04.7	Sponsored by Jasper, AI Build for Marketers.
1:09.1	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:18.8	Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
1:20.6	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too.
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