The Old Guard

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A new study may shed light on why teenagers sleep late while grandparents are often up at the crack of dawn. Fifty years ago, psychologist Frederick Snyder proposed that animals who live in groups stay vigilant during sleep, by having some stay awake while others rest. However, no one had tested this sentinel hypothesis in humans until now. Jeff and Anthony discuss the findings and test the theory in their own lives.

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0:00.0	If you're enjoying the show and you'd like to get more, maybe you want to get bonus episodes,
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0:09.2	Jeff and other fans of the show. The way to find out how to do that is to go to patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:30.0	I had a quarter of a billion dollars in advance. We could do some cool stuff. There's nothing I couldn't do.
0:41.2	Nothing I couldn't do. I can't wait for Valerian. This is we have concerns. Hey Jeff cannot.
0:47.1	Anthony Carbony. Hello concerned citizens. Anthony, let me ask you a question.
0:52.3	You feel like your sleep pattern has changed as you've gotten older. No, I've always been an
0:59.2	insomniac. Is that true? Yeah, it runs in my family. So you haven't you don't sleep differently now
1:04.4	than you did when you were in high school. I might sleep a little better depending on the night.
1:09.5	You sleep different hours? Do you sleep? Do you sleep in or wake up earlier? Well, we've discussed
1:14.9	we've discussed before that I have forced myself to be an early riser. Right. I am not an early
1:19.2	riser by nature and I have forced myself to be so. But you don't think that progression in your life
1:24.2	was natural. You think it was intentional and forced. Hard to say. I do know that as we get older,
1:32.8	we sleep less and less. Yeah. And at different times we tend to become early risers. We tend to
1:38.5	become night owls. Right. And we tend to only sleep in the deepest darkest of night. That's
1:44.7	certainly been my experience that I was a notorious among my family. Notorious sleeper inner. I
1:51.7	mean, I would and right after I graduated from college, it was like I'd wake up at one o'clock in
1:56.5	the afternoon sometimes. Yeah. Stay up till three o'clock in the morning. Oh, and in high school,
2:01.6	I you know, I wouldn't sleep all week. And then when I did sleep, I would sleep for like 14 hours
2:06.0	at a time. And you know, my mother would be like, you can't do this. And I would like being the person
2:11.1	that I am. I was like, no, you don't understand how sleep works. Yeah. I was like, this is what's
2:15.0	happening to me during the week. And this is why I need this on the weekend. And this is the
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