The podcast that asks the question: What keeps you up at night? Hosts Brooke and Olivia discuss a variety of topics from cults to genocides to conspiracies to plagues. Are you interested in learning more about corporate greed, human exploitation, and the many, many things that can kill you? Do you want to leave feeling broken with a complete lack of faith in humanity but, like, in a funny way? Then welcome home, son.
Naptime Nightmares #055 - Mini Heavy Hitters: Getting Old and Hating Women
It's the last episode of the season! For our season finale, we're giving you two mini heavy hitters each - two subjects that keep us up at night but can't fill a whole episode. We'll give you teasers into what we know about men's strange hatred of women, the way we societally treat bad people, aging and death in America, and the U.S. retirement system. Enjoy, and see you in a few months! Featuring: reverse psychology, god complexes, and the Sisyphean task of retirement saving. SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/ttkmeup PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ttkmeup MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/things-that-keep-me-up-at-night?utm_campaign=8157&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Things%2BThat%2BKeep%2BMe%2BUp%2Bat%2BNight BLOG: https://ttkmeup.com/blog
5/1/2022 • 1 hour, 51 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode #057 - Cyclical Trauma and Why We Justify Nukes
TRIGGER WARNING: this episode presents topics such as war, gore/violence, body horror, child death and suffering, firsthand accounts of nuclear detonation, and discusses disturbing images and stories related to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Listener discretion is strongly advised. It's finally done. Brooke finally finished our Nuclear series with part II of her presentation on the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's absolutely the more disturbing of the two - follow us down the path of how we justify extreme violence (and how we may be able to get out of it). SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/ttkmeup PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ttkmeup MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/things-that-keep-me-up-at-night?utm_campaign=8157&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Things%2BThat%2BKeep%2BMe%2BUp%2Bat%2BNight BLOG: https://ttkmeup.com/blog
4/17/2022 • 1 hour, 55 minutes, 36 seconds
Honored to be Her Mother - featuring Ignorance was Bliss and Debbie Heater
If you thought one of your loved ones was the victim of murder, foul play, a cover-up, or simple lack of attention... how far would you go to get answers? https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-courtney-heater April Fool's!! This episode from Ignorance Was Bliss comes to you as part of Operation Switcheroo (established by Your Brain On Facts) - an April Fool's podcaster celebration where we switch RSS feeds for a day. You can check out more of Kate's show at the links below! Facebook group: The Asylum -- https://bit.ly/iwbasylum Discord server: Ignorance Was Bliss Satellite Campus -- https://bit.ly/iwbdiscord Merch: https://bit.ly/iwbpodcastmerch Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IWBpodcast TikTok (@iwbpodcast): Podcast Checklist Sponsor: Bath By Bex (code CBDkate for 15% off) Sponsor: InsPrana Yoga (code IWB25OFF for 25% off your first session)
4/1/2022 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode #056 - How Do You Start a Nuclear War?
Most folks are aware of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan - but how much do we know about how it got to that point? Part I of Brooke's Nuclear-series heavy hitter covers World War I, World War II, the discovery of nuclear fission, the Manhattan Project, and, at the end of it all, just how easy it is to justify atrocity. Featuring: unmitigated imperialism and nationalism, mythologizing cultures, and cereal. Note: this episode was written and recorded before the unfolding Russian attacks on Ukraine. There are a number of uncannily related pieces of commentary, but none of them are directly related to what's happening today. SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/ttkmeup PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ttkmeup MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/things-that-keep-me-up-at-night?utm_campaign=8157&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Things%2BThat%2BKeep%2BMe%2BUp%2Bat%2BNight BLOG: https://ttkmeup.com/blog
2/26/2022 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 39 seconds
Naptime Nightmares #052 - That's Not Very Labor Shortage of You
Recent media coverage of the Antiwork movement and the ongoing Great Resignation would have you believe that the working class is simply lazy and unappreciative - but how much of that theory holds water? Turns out, not very much! Learn more about the Antiwork movement and how it helps the working class across the political and social spectrum, how corporations and the ultra-rich manipulate public opinion about workers' rights, and what we all can do about it. Plus, some fun stories about Olivia and Brooke's time in the retail world. Featuring: the laughable notion of kindness, the right to relax, and knowing how to order a sandwich, thank you very much.
1/15/2022 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode #000 – Trailer
Introducing Things That Keep Me Up at Night, the podcast for pessimists to commiserate about everything that keeps us up at night. We will cover topics ranging from biological warfare, groupthink, government conspiracies, and everything in between. Join us June 22nd, 2018 to hear us talk about the worst famine in all of human history.
