2020-02-28

Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 851 – Insomnia Free President’s Day | All Intros

Dr. Breezy puts the V05 dull oil in bedtime not as a gunky gimmick. Intros from 695–698 and 700 (699 was an all-intro episode!)

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 853 – Did I Read It? Ludlum Edition

A bedtime bookwish is granted as Scoots scrolls back through time and tomes and serves it up as a sleepy bookwich.

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 854 – Syrup Sweet Park | Get Besos S3 E3

This parade should rein in your thoughts and lead you off on a meandering march to dreamland.

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Reaction Post: Start With This: Honesty

What does it mean to tell your story honestly?

Consume: Moonface by James Kim

Create: Take a moment in your life in which you remember exactly how you felt. Think through all the details of your feelings. How did the feelings start? How did they develop? What happened to those feelings? Tell that story. Except: change every other factual detail. Create a fictional story about someone who is not you, doing something you weren’t doing. It could be a member of a biker gang in the 50s or an alien in some distant future world. But keep the honest details of your feelings there. See how the honesty of your feeling affects the otherwise fictional story.

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Reaction Post: Conversations With People Who Hate Me: Episode 34: Peloton Husband

When a Peloton commercial went viral, countless people shared their thoughts online. In this episode, Dylan connects Sean, an actor in that commercial with Tom, a man who called him a loser.

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Reaction Post: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text: Persistence: The Cave (Bk 6, Ch 26)

Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Persistence in chapter twenty-six of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week we discuss Voldemort's fatal flaws, Harry's great strengths, and the imminent loss of Dumbledore will all its implications. Throughout the episode we consider the question: when do you know that you should persist on someone else's behalf?

Thanks to Katherine for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter twenty-seven, The Lightning-Struck Tower, through the theme of Earnestness.


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Reaction Post: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text: Earnestness: The Lightning-Struck Tower

Earnestness: The Lightning-Struck Tower (Bk 6, Ch 27)

Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Earnestness in the much-dreaded chapter twenty-seven of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week we celebrate Dumbledore's humanity, sympathize with Draco's impossible situation, and discuss why Vanessa doesn't like death bed confessions. Throughout the episode we consider the question: When is earnestness actually naiveté?

Thanks to Diana for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter twenty-eight, Flight of the Prince, through the theme of Perfection with our friend Dr. Matt Potts.

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