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Episode 179: Why is Everything a Scam?

Episode 179: Why is Everything a Scam?

FromI'm Absolutely Fine! by The Midult


Episode 179: Why is Everything a Scam?

FromI'm Absolutely Fine! by The Midult

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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Nov 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Water. Water is meant to give us good skin, improved mental health and more energy. What does it actually give us? Pee. We all know we’re supposed to get eight hours sleep a night or - they tell us again and again - we may go mad and die. How many of us manage? How many times in the past week, month, year have you woken up at 2am, 3am, 4am and then started the useless, desperate process of trying to get back to sleep? Why is sleep such a scam? It turns out there are a lot of things that are scams in our lives: things that are supposed to be good for us but instead are brutal: like Christmas. And weekends. On the podcast this week we discuss these, why we are exhausted by life’s tiny dilemmas (let alone the big, hairy ones) and phrases we’d like to retire, such as, “I did a thing”. Anyway we did a thing, link in bio…
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Released:
Nov 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Do you feel like a fully-functional human person? Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan of The Midult look at all the glamour and indignity of being a grown-up, while rummaging through the handbags, emotional knicker drawers and lives of some extraordinary people.