Podcast Episodes

POV: You've Escaped Every Prison in History | Documentary for Sleep

If you feel trapped in your own life tonight, tuck in with this pov sleep documentary, history's greatest prison escapes, and walk out of 11 prisons …

7 hours ago

Broicism Is Not Stoicism (Marcus Aurelius)

Tonight we sit down with the actual Marcus Aurelius. Not the marble bust. Not the supplement-bottle face. Not the quote-card version sold to angry yo…

3 days, 7 hours ago

POV: Your Drug Empire Is About To Go Global | Sleepy Biography

If you're tired of a dead-end Tuesday and need to feel alive tonight, fall asleep as a drug lord, build six empires from Escobar to El Chapo, take si…

6 days, 7 hours ago

Seneca's Evening Stoic Routine: A Historical Reconstruction for Modern Sleep

Two thousand years ago, the richest man in Rome did seven small things every night before sleep. We reconstructed the routine from his own hand, and …

1 week, 2 days ago

What It Was Like To Be The World's Most Famous Exotic Dancer | Sleepy Biography

If you're lying awake at 50 wondering whether it's too late to reinvent yourself, fall asleep to Mata Hari's life told as a bedtime story, 12 soldier…

1 week, 5 days ago

Fall Asleep Learning 7 Modern Problems That Ancient People Already Solved

Seven wounds the modern world thinks it invented: Loneliness. Burnout. Meaninglessness. Addiction. Identity. Fear of change. Toxic masculinity.

Tonig…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Your Life As a Samurai (Miyamoto Musashi)

He killed his first man at thirteen. He fought in sixty-one duels and lost none of them. He died in a cave, sitting upright, with a brush in his hand…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

The ENTIRE Lost Wisdoms of History's Greatest Islamic Philosopher (Al-Ghazali)

He was the most famous intellectual in the Islamic world. He lectured to 300 students at the largest university of the medieval age. And then, one mo…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

What It Was Like To Be The First To Cross The Amazon | Documentary for Sleep

In 1541, fifty Spanish soldiers boarded a small wooden brigantine on the Coca River, in the eastern foothills of what is now Ecuador, and pushed off …

3 weeks, 4 days ago

10 Lessons Learned the Hard Way in History | Sleepy Wisdom

Tonight, we meet 12 people who had every advantage, every warning, every reason to choose differently... and exposed themselves to ruin.

These are no…

1 month ago