You're listening to a Glassbox Media podcast.

Barclays ready-made investments. The clue's in the name. Not Barclays, where do I begin investments?

You can start from 50 pounds. That's why they're not difficult to get started investments either.

And you can choose your risk level.

So they're hardly in at the deep end investments.

So if you've got savings and you want to help grow your money over five years or more,

then search Barclays' ready-made investments.

Make money work for you.

Investing is not for everyone.

The value of investments can fall as well as rise and

you may get back less than you invest. T's and Cs apply. Welcome to a bonus episode of the I Can't

Sleep podcast, where I bore you to sleep with my soothing voice, one fact at a time. I'm your host,

Benjamin Boster. And tonight's episode is going to be a little different. Instead of using the typical

Wikipedia article readings, I thought I'd take a moment to share the fairly unexpected journey

that led to the I Can't Sleep podcast. It all started with an old app, a frustratingly soothing

voice, and an unexpected source of inspiration from the delightful TV show, Parks and Recreation.

So back in 2016, I remember discovering an app called Anchor.fm, which initially made it easy to record and share audio with other people.

I felt like it was trying to be something along the lines of an audio version of Twitter.

I love the idea of the app and what it was trying to accomplish.

I remember playing around with the app quite a bit, but it never felt like it was really going

somewhere.

And then months later, I learned that they were pivoting their

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