Thank you for NOT smoking | Big Foot lives | Why do we sleep?

04/25/22 • 21 min

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Smoking or non-smoking? Until the late 1990’s, this was the question at restaurants, bowling alleys, and on airplanes. Why did the smoking option go away? And we examine one town in America actually trying to completely eliminate smoking.

The Patterson-Gimlin film has been the definitive Big Foot documentation since 1967. It didn’t take long, though, for the two men to disagree on just what they saw. (+ Dave has a plan for he and Jay to join a Big Foot expedition.)

For 7-8 hours per night we do nothing ... or do we? What happens while we sleep, and is lack of sleep really more dangerous than terrorism?!
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https://time.com/6126252/brookline-tobacco-free-generation-law/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban?wprov=sfti1
https://allthatsinteresting.com/patterson-gimlin-film
https://www.sleepadvisor.org/sleep-statistics/

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https://web.archive.org/web/20150316002706/http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-et-c1-franklin-leonard-black-list-20141215-story.html
https://files.blcklst.com/files/2021_black_list_v4.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/07/04/how-joey-chestnut-ate-a-record-76-hot-dogs-at-nathans-contest/

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