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I Can’t Sleep

I Can’t Sleep

By: Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media
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Summary

Trouble sleeping? You could count sheep, or let I Can’t Sleep do the heavy yawning for you. Host Benjamin Boster reads slow-paced, fact-filled content on science, history, and everyday oddities with zero plot twists and even less urgency. It’s calm. It’s consistent. And yes, you might accidentally learn something. So get comfy, press play, and let your brain wander off without you.Benjamin Boster Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Disc Golf | Educational Sleep Podcast
    May 15 2026
    Disc golf turns a simple flying disc into a surprisingly structured sport with rules, strategy, and plenty of trees waiting to ruin your plans. In this episode, we follow the basics of the game, how courses are designed, what different discs are used for, and why players obsess over angles, distance, and putting into metal chains. It’s steady and consistent, with no whispering and no sudden changes, just enough to give your mind something to follow as you wind down. Happy sleeping! Ad-free episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/Have a topic in mind? https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Read with permission from Disc golf, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_golf), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • Language | Can’t Sleep? Learn How Humans Learned to Talk
    May 13 2026
    Human language may have started with gestures, sounds, and early attempts to cooperate long before written history existed. This episode explores theories about how humans learned to communicate, how spoken language evolved alongside civilization, and why every culture developed its own unique way of speaking. Benjamin talks about the long history of humans trying to organize thoughts into something another person could actually understand. It turns out language is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, built mostly by people trying to explain where the food was or whose goat escaped again. It’s steady and consistent, with no whispering and no sudden changes, just enough to give your mind something to follow as you wind down. Happy sleeping! Ad-free episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/Have a topic in mind? https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Read with permission from Language, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 mins
  • Shenandoah National Park | Sleep Podcast for Insomnia
    May 11 2026
    Shenandoah National Park stretches along the Blue Ridge Mountains with a road that was basically built for people who like scenic views without leaving their car. This episode walks through the park’s creation, its famous Skyline Drive, the mix of forests and wildlife, and why it became one of the most visited national parks on the East Coast. Along the way, you’ll get a simple, steady overview of how the land was formed, how people have used it over time, and what makes it quietly distinctive compared to bigger, flashier parks out west. It’s steady and consistent, with no whispering and no sudden changes, just enough to give your mind something to follow as you wind down. Happy sleeping! Ad-free episodes: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/Have a topic in mind? https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Read with permission from Shenandoah National Park, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_National_Park), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
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Amazing pod i was. Bored got to sleep for one hour and I can never get to sleep thanks for your time we can now sleep and not worried about getting no

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