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Donna tells us about the exorcism of Joan Vollmer. Joan had a history of mental illness and the chilling story of her death during a makeshift ritual raised questions about faith, mental health, and the line between belief and brutality.  Kerri tells the story of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, whose mysterious death in 2010 left Memphis reeling. What starts as a missing persons case soon unravels into a wild tale of money, betrayal, and a murder-for-hire plot straight out of a true crime thriller.   This episode is sponsored by SelectQuote. For the right life insurance, head to www.selectquote.com/creep to save.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Actor and comedian Lamorne Morris enters TigerBelly. Bobby opens with a song, then spirals into Raya jealousy, and Khalyla joins with spam musubi. We talk etched abs, red light therapy, Ambien paranoia, losing out on New Girl, first-class fart trauma, sour balls, Coachella scarves and Spider-Man: Noir. Start paying rent through Bilt and take advantage of your Neighborhood Benefits™ by going to www.joinbilt.com/belly. That’s www.joinbilt.com/belly. Make sure to use our URL so they know we sent you: www.joinbilt.com/belly to sign up for Bilt today. Nothing makes you more of a legend than a little Bluechew. Discover your options at www.bluechew.com!

Kerri takes us back to Amarillo two weeks in a row to cover the story of Robin Bledsoe Spielbauer. She was found murdered on a lonely stretch of Texas road and suspicion quickly turned toward those closest to her. Police quickly learned of a love triangle that led to murder.  Donna takes us to Nebraska for the Museum of Shadows. The museum claims to house some of the most haunted objects in the world. From dolls that move on their own to unexplained voices in the dark, this paranormal hotspot is not for the faint of heart. This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. To sleep at the perfect temperature, head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off and if you use promo code CREEP at checkout, you will get an additional 20% off and a free 3-piece towel set.  This episode is sponsored by goPure. If you want to tighten, lift, and restore elasticity in your neck, head to www.gopurebeauty.com and use the promo code APC for 25% off. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri takes us back to Amarillo two weeks in a row to cover the story of Robin Bledsoe Spielbauer. She was found murdered on a lonely stretch of Texas road and suspicion quickly turned toward those closest to her. Police quickly learned of a love triangle that led to murder.  Donna takes us to Nebraska for the Museum of Shadows. The museum claims to house some of the most haunted objects in the world. From dolls that move on their own to unexplained voices in the dark, this paranormal hotspot is not for the faint of heart. This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. To sleep at the perfect temperature, head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off and if you use promo code CREEP at checkout, you will get an additional 20% off and a free 3-piece towel set.  This episode is sponsored by goPure. If you want to tighten, lift, and restore elasticity in your neck, head to www.gopurebeauty.com and use the promo code APC for 25% off. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna tells us the story of Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. A historic tavern dating back to 1716, was famously immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Tales of a Wayside Inn. Known as the oldest operating inn in the United States, it's rich with colonial history, literary legacy, and ghostly legends. Kerri covers the murder of Brian Deneke, a 19-year-old punk rocker, who was run down and killed by a high school football player. This story takes place in Amarillo, Texas and the brutal act that exposed deep divides in the community.  This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.  For 10% off your first month, head to www.betterhelp.com/apc to start today. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. For a better night sleep, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep for 40% off.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna tells us the story of Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. A historic tavern dating back to 1716, was famously immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Tales of a Wayside Inn. Known as the oldest operating inn in the United States, it's rich with colonial history, literary legacy, and ghostly legends. Kerri covers the murder of Brian Deneke, a 19-year-old punk rocker, who was run down and killed by a high school football player. This story takes place in Amarillo, Texas and the brutal act that exposed deep divides in the community.  This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.  For 10% off your first month, head to www.betterhelp.com/apc to start today. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. For a better night sleep, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep for 40% off.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

[Rerun] Dr Kirk Honda talks with Dr Robert Grubbs about psychopharmacology, Ambien, truth serum, methadone, and over-prescribing. (Intro)This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month.Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZWV1DRtHtpP2H48S7iiw/joinBecome a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattleEmail: https://www.psychologyinseattle.com/contactWebsite: https://www.psychologyinseattle.comMerch: https://psychologyinseattle-shop.fourthwall.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychologyinseattle/Facebook Official Page: https://www.facebook.com/PsychologyInSeattle/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kirk.hondaOctober 12, 2016The Psychology In Seattle Podcast ®Trigger Warning: This episode may include topics such as assault, trauma, and discrimination. If necessary, listeners are encouraged to refrain from listening and care for their safety and well-being.Disclaimer: The content provided is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. Nothing here constitutes personal or professional consultation, therapy, diagnosis, or creates a counselor-client relationship. Topics discussed may generate differing points of view. If you participate (by being a guest, submitting a question, or commenting) you must do so with the knowledge that we cannot control reactions or responses from others, which may not agree with you or feel unfair. Your participation on this site is at your own risk, accepting full responsibility for any liability or harm that may result. Anything you write here may be used for discussion or endorsement of the podcast. Opinions and views expressed by the host and guest hosts are personal views. Although, we take precautions and fact check, they should not be considered facts and the opinions may change. Opinions posted by participants (such as comments) are not those of the hosts. Readers should not rely on any information found here and should perform due diligence before taking any action. For a more extensive description of factors for you to consider, please see www.psychologyinseattle.com

Kerri covers a really tough story this week. She tells the kidnapping story of Colleen Stan. While hitchhiking to a friend's house, she was picked up by Cameron and Janice Hooker. The two had a child with them so she trusted it enough to get in the car. Little did she know it would lead to her kidnapping and torture for many years. This week, Donna dives into the eerie legend of Pigman Road in Angola, New York—a tale of ghostly figures, mysterious disappearances, and a half-man, half-pig creature said to haunt the woods. Buckle up for a creepy ride down one of Western New York's most chilling urban legends. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri covers a really tough story this week. She tells the kidnapping story of Colleen Stan. While hitchhiking to a friend's house, she was picked up by Cameron and Janice Hooker. The two had a child with them so she trusted it enough to get in the car. Little did she know it would lead to her kidnapping and torture for many years. This week, Donna dives into the eerie legend of Pigman Road in Angola, New York—a tale of ghostly figures, mysterious disappearances, and a half-man, half-pig creature said to haunt the woods. Buckle up for a creepy ride down one of Western New York's most chilling urban legends. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

In this heartfelt episode of The Surviving Siblings Podcast, host Maya Roffler welcomes Jessica Meyer, a bereaved sibling who lost her younger sister, Jen, to fentanyl addiction in 2021. Jessica opens up about the deep bond they shared growing up in a tight-knit Mexican-Jewish family and how addiction slowly dismantled their lives. Jen was so much more than her addiction—an empathetic, talented athlete and the life of every room she entered. Jessica walks us through Jen's undiagnosed Tourette's and ADHD, how she began self-medicating with Ambien as a teenager, and how this evolved into decades of addiction, multiple rehabs, and painful relapses. Jen later found purpose helping others through recovery—but her battle with addiction continued in secret. Jessica shares the heartbreaking story of Jen's final days, her passing just 48 hours after her daughter left for college, and the raw aftermath of losing her lifelong best friend. She also reveals the shocking discovery of a drug trafficking ring tied to Jen's death, her fight for justice, and the family's grief journey that followed. This powerful episode is an unflinching look at sibling loss through addiction and the devastating reality of fentanyl-related deaths. Jessica's vulnerability, courage, and passion to honor Jen's legacy through her jewelry brand, Bullet Girl, is a tribute to both pain and purpose. In This Episode: (00:01:00) – Jessica & Jen's Bond Jessica shares their close-knit childhood, imaginative games, and growing up inseparable in a loving family. (00:03:00) – Early Signs: Tourette's, ADHD & Ambien Use Jen's tics and impulsivity went undiagnosed for years. Ambien use in her teens became the beginning of her addiction journey. (00:08:00) – The Beginnings of Addiction Jessica reflects on Jen's coping mechanisms, her early experimentation, and how recreational use escalated. (00:12:00) – College, Trauma, and First Rehab Jen's assault trauma, college struggles, and introduction to harder drugs like crystal meth and cocaine are revealed. (00:19:00) – Marriage, Motherhood, and Addiction's Grip Despite marrying and becoming a mom, Jen's addiction deepened—leading to lost custody and deteriorating health. (00:24:00) – Boundaries, Guilt, and Tough Love Jessica painfully discusses the limits she had to set and the guilt of choosing distance the week before Jen passed. (00:28:00) – Jen's Role Helping Others in Recovery Jen found strength in working at a rehab center—offering guidance to others, even as she privately relapsed. (00:33:00) – The Day Jen Passed Jessica walks us through the traumatic discovery of Jen's body, the heartbreaking final hug, and the unanswered questions. (00:41:00) – Toxicology, Fentanyl, and Black Tar Heroin Jessica shares her detective work uncovering her sister's fentanyl use, her dealer's identity, and how evidence led nowhere. (00:49:00) – Justice Denied: The Aftermath Despite a paper trail and drug dealer identification, no legal justice has been served for Jen's death—fueling the family's heartbreak. (00:56:00) – Shame, Stigma, and Speaking Out Jessica talks about the stigma of fentanyl deaths, public silence, and the pain of people not seeing Jen beyond her addiction. (01:01:00) – Bullet Girl Jewelry & The Beautiful Struggle Jessica shares the story behind her jewelry line, the letter Jen wrote her, and the upcoming tribute collection called The Beautiful Struggle. (01:07:00) – Advice for Grieving Siblings Jessica urges listeners to give themselves grace, avoid shame, and stay grounded in love—not fear—through the grief journey This episode is sponsored by Bullet Girl Jewelry  Connect with Jessica:  Email: info@bulletgirl.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bulletgirljewelry/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bulletgirl111/ Connect with Maya: Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/survivingsiblingspodcast/ Maya's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mayaroffler/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@survivingsiblingspodcast Twitter: https://x.com/survivingsibpod Website: thesurvivingsiblings.com Facebook Group: The Surviving Siblings Podcast YouTube: The Surviving Siblings Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheSurvivingSiblingsPodcast  

Episode Highlights: Paula Kengg, 67, shares her powerful transformation from a "take it or leave it" drinker to alcohol addiction in her mid-50s, and her ultimate freedom through faith-based recovery. After battling chronic insomnia for 8.5 years and following doctors' advice to drink wine as a sleep aid, Paula found herself addicted to alcohol—keeping a wine bottle by her bedside instead of sleeping pills.Key Topics Discussed:How chronic insomnia led to alcohol dependencyWhy AA and traditional recovery programs didn't work for PaulaThe role of trauma in addiction (Paula's father was murdered when she was 14)Combining neuroscience with biblical principles for lasting sobrietyThe Heart of Addiction Bible study by Mark ShawOvercoming shame around addiction in Christian communitiesEMDR therapy and trauma healingNeuroplasticity and brain recovery in sobrietyDaily spiritual practices for maintaining sobrietyPaula's Sobriety Tools:Daily Bible study, prayer, and meditationJournaling (she's kept journals since age 14)Exercise and proper nutritionSelf-compassion and reparenting workServing others in recovery communityNear-Death Experience: Paula shares her harrowing story of nearly bleeding to death after mixing Jack Daniels with Ambien, emphasizing how addiction progressed despite life-threatening consequences.Resources Mentioned:Spirit-Led Sobriety book by Paula KingThis Naked Mind by Annie GraceAndrew Huberman Podcast Episode 86Heart of Addiction Bible studyEMDR therapyCognitive Behavioral TherapyConnect with Paula:Newsletter: spiritledsobriety.comInstagram: @spiritledsobriety2Facebook: Spirit-Led Sobriety (private group)Email: spiritledsobriety@gmail.comEpisode Takeaways: Recovery isn't one-size-fits-all. Paula's journey shows that combining scientific understanding of addiction with spiritual transformation can create lasting change. Her story demonstrates the importance of not giving up on yourself, even after years of failed attempts.Support the showSupport the showOh, and by the way, if you didn't know, my remote Neurofeedback Therapy program is up and running. Learn more here! If you aren't part of the Confident Sober Women Facebook group, it's a great place to be. There are over a thousand other sober women there building lives they don't want to escape from. Come on over and join us.And if you haven't read my memoir, grab a copy today and maybe a second one for a friend. There is so much hope in recovery, and I shared my story so raw and vulnerable so that others would know they aren't alone and that there is a way to live well, manage relationships, parent your kids, and have a healthy body, all while staying sober. Grab a copy of Recovering in Recovery: The Life-Changing Joy of Sobriety wherever books are sold.

Donna takes us to Michigan where bright, pulsating lights were spotted on more than one occasion. This became a national story and eventually the lights were determined to be swamp gas which thoroughly angered people as they felt they were being gas lit...see what we did there? Kerri covers the case of Terry Lee King's murder. Initially police were concerned for Terry's two children, Alex and Derek King. As the investigation continued, they realized the young boys may not be missing because they are in danger, but because they are the perpetrators. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. To get 40% off, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo CREEP at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. For 10% off your first month, head to www.betterhelp.com/APC.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories!

Today we have Natalie. She is 55 years old from Palmdale, CA and took her last drink on June 4th, 2023.   This episode brought to you by: Better Help – 10% off of your first month #sponsored Café RE – THE social app for sober people   [02:28] Thoughts from Paul:   This week's intro is about acceptance. We may wish we were a little bit taller, we may wish we were a baller, and we may wish that alcohol wasn't marketed as being good for us when it's a class one carcinogen. We may also wish that we could drink normally, but many of us cannot.   The thing about acceptance is that it is not about giving up, it's about waking up to the fact that that's just the way it is. When we finally stop wishing against reality and stop bleeding energy into a fantasy world of how things should be then we can start working with what actually is.   Acceptance is not about admitting defeat or giving up, it is acknowledging the truth which doesn't care about your feelings, but it will set you free.   When you accept that alcohol isn't your friend and that you can't drink normally, that's not rock bottom, that's solid ground and something real to stand on. Life isn't waiting for you to figure out how to drink responsibly. It's waiting for you to square your shoulders and start accepting that you're exactly where you are right now.   [07:36] Paul introduces Natalie:   Natalie is 55 years old and lives in Palmdale, CA. She says her most important job is being a mom to her autistic 15-year-old son. She enjoys spending time and going on adventures with him. Recently she has started volunteer work at a food bank and being of service in AA.   Natalie didn't enjoy alcohol when she first tried it and says that she was mostly a social drinker for many years. In her mid-30's, she sought help with her sleep issues. She was prescribed Ambien and really liked the idea that she could take something and check out quickly. Over time it progressed to where she was drinking and taking the drug. Natalie began to rely on Ambien more and more as she travelled frequently for work.   Life got very stressful for Natalie after her son turned two and they realized he didn't have speech. That began a year of doctors, assessments and therapy and her reliance increased. Natalie would doctor shop to try and get more of the drug and resorted to her ordering it online and getting mass quantities in order to feed her habit.   Natalie started attending NA and after she had about 60 days, she received the diagnosis that her son was autistic.   When the COVID lockdown happened, she realized that she would have a hard time getting Ambien and she says that she changed from being an addict to an alcoholic. Natalie quickly became a daily drinker, often starting in the mornings. After her son was able to return to school, Natalie began a routine of dropping him off and then getting and drinking two bottles of wine before passing out until it was time to pick him up.   Moderation was something Natalie struggled with. Her husband we getting increasingly upset with her and she would make attempts for a few days to cut back. Her husband, who is a normal drinker, ended up quitting to try and help her make the decision to quit as well.   After a rock bottom trip in Las Vegas, Natalie decided it was time to quit. She found an AA meeting that she could attend right after dropping her son off at school. Natalie started attending daily and got a sponsor. She feels her relationships with family and friends has improved and even just day to day interactions with strangers are better.   Natalie says “when you leave the rooms of AA, there are people that you will never meet and that you do not know that will be better off for you having been in a meeting that morning. That their day and their life is actually better because you took care of yourself in that way.”       Recovery Elevator Rule 22. Let's lighten up and not take ourselves too seriously. I love you guys.   RE on Instagram Recovery Elevator YouTube Sobriety Tracker iTunes       

Donna takes us to Michigan where bright, pulsating lights were spotted on more than one occasion. This became a national story and eventually the lights were determined to be swamp gas which thoroughly angered people as they felt they were being gas lit...see what we did there? Kerri covers the case of Terry Lee King's murder. Initially police were concerned for Terry's two children, Alex and Derek King. As the investigation continued, they realized the young boys may not be missing because they are in danger, but because they are the perpetrators. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. To get 40% off, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo CREEP at checkout. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. For 10% off your first month, head to www.betterhelp.com/APC.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories!

Kerri covers a recommendation from the discord about Kaylee Sawyer. After coming home from a bachelorette party, Kaylee went missing leading police on a multi-state chase of her killer. Donna tells us about Aradale Lunatic Asylum. Located in Victoria, Australia, it was one of the country's largest psychiatric hospitals. Known for its grim history and ghostly reputation, it housed thousands of patients and is now a hotspot for paranormal investigations. This episode is sponsored by goPure. If you want to tighten, lift, and restore elasticity in your neck, head to www.gopurebeauty.com and use the promo code APC for 25% off.  This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. To sleep at the perfect temperature, head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off and if you use promo code CREEP at checkout, you will get an additional 20% off and a free 3-piece towel set.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri covers a recommendation from the discord about Kaylee Sawyer. After coming home from a bachelorette party, Kaylee went missing leading police on a multi-state chase of her killer. Donna tells us about Aradale Lunatic Asylum. Located in Victoria, Australia, it was one of the country's largest psychiatric hospitals. Known for its grim history and ghostly reputation, it housed thousands of patients and is now a hotspot for paranormal investigations. This episode is sponsored by goPure. If you want to tighten, lift, and restore elasticity in your neck, head to www.gopurebeauty.com and use the promo code APC for 25% off.  This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. To sleep at the perfect temperature, head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off and if you use promo code CREEP at checkout, you will get an additional 20% off and a free 3-piece towel set.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

My conversation with Matthew Walker, PhD on faculty at UC Berkeley where he is a professor of neuroscience and psychology, the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, and has a long history of seminal contributions on sleep science and health. Audio File (also downloadable at Apple Podcast and Spotify)“Sleep is a non-negotiablebiological state required for the maintenance of human life . . . our needsfor sleep parallel those for air, food, and water.”—Grandner and FernandezEric Topol (00:07):Hello, it's Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I am really delighted to welcome Matt Walker, who I believe has had more impact on sleep health than anyone I know. It's reflected by the fact that he is a Professor at UC Berkeley, heads up the center that he originated for Human Sleep Science. He wrote a remarkable book back in 2017, Why We Sleep, and also we'll link to that as well as the TED Talk of 2019. Sleep is Your Superpower with 24 million views. That's a lot of views here.Matt Walker:Striking, isn't it?Eric Topol:Wow. I think does reflect the kind of impact, you were onto the sleep story sooner, earlier than anyone I know. And what I wanted to do today was get to the updates because you taught us a lot back then and a lot of things have been happening in these years since. You're on it, of course, I think you have a podcast Sleep Diplomat, and you're obviously continued working on the science of sleep. But maybe the first thing I'd ask you about is in the last few years, what do you think has been, are there been any real changes or breakthroughs in the field?What Is New?Matt Walker (01:27):Yeah, I think there has been changes, and maybe we'll speak about one of them, which is the emergence of this brain cleansing system called the glymphatic system, but spreading that aside for potential future discussion. I would say that there are maybe at least two fascinating areas. The first is the broader impact of sleep on much more complex human social interactions. We think of sleep at maybe the level of the cell or systems or whole scale biology or even the entire organism. We forget that a lack of sleep, or at least the evidence suggests a lack of sleep will dislocate each other, one from the other. And there's been some great work by Dr. Eti Ben Simon for example, demonstrating that when you are sleep deprived, you become more asocial. So you basically become socially repellent. You want to withdraw, you become lonely. And what's also fascinating is that other people, even they don't know that you sleep deprived, they rate you as being less socially sort of attractive to engage with.Matt Walker (02:35):And after interacting with you, the sleep deprived individual, even though they don't know you're sleep deprived, they themselves walk away feeling more lonely themselves. So there is a social loneliness contagion that happens that a sleep deprived lonely individual can have almost a viral knock on effect that causes loneliness in another well-rested individual. And then that work spanned out and it started to demonstrate that another impact of a lack of sleep socially is that we stop wanting to help other people. And you think, well, helping behavior that's not really very impactful. Try to tell me of any major civilization that has not risen up through human cooperation and helping. There just isn't one. Human cooperative behavior is one of our innate traits as homo sapiens. And what they discovered is that when you are insufficiently slept, firstly, you don't wish to help other people. And you can see that at the individual level.Matt Walker (03:41):You can see it in groups. And then there was a great study again by Dr. Eti Ben Simon that demonstrated this at a national level because what she did was she looked at this wonderful manipulation of one hour of sleep that happens twice a year to 1.6 billion people. It's called daylight savings time at spring. Yeah, when you lose one hour of sleep opportunity. She looked at donations across the nation and sure enough, there was this big dent in donation giving in the sleepy Monday and Tuesday after the clock change. Because of that sleep, we become less willing to empathetically and selflessly help other individuals. And so, to me I think it's just a fascinating area. And then the other area I think is great, and I'm sorry I'm racing forward because I get so excited. But this work now looking at what we call genetic short sleepers and sort of idiots like me have been out there touting the importance of somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep.Matt Walker (04:48):And once you get less than that, and we'll perhaps speak about that, you can see biological changes. But there is a subset of individuals who, and we've identified at least two different genes. One of them is what we call the DEC2 gene. And it seems to allow individuals to sleep about five hours, maybe even a little bit less and show no impairment whatsoever. Now we haven't tracked these individuals across the lifespan to truly understand does it lead to a higher mortality risk. But so far, they don't implode like you perhaps or I would do when you are limited to this anemic diet of five hours of sleep. They hang in there just fine. And I think philosophically what that tells me, and by the way, for people who are listening thinking, gosh, I think I'm probably one of those people. Statistically, I think you are more likely to be struck by lightning in your lifetime than you are to have the DEC2 gene. Think about what tells us, Eric. It tells us that there is a moment in biology in the evolution of this thing called the sleep physiological need that has changed such that mother nature has found a genetic way to ZIP file sleep.Matt Walker (06:14):You can essentially compress sleep from seven to nine hour need, down to five to six hour need. To me, that is absolutely fascinating. So now the race is on, what are the mechanisms that control this? How do we understand them? I'm sure much to my chagrin, society would like to then say, okay, is there a pill that I can take to basically ZIP file my own sleep and then it becomes an arms race in my mind, which is then all of a sudden six hours becomes the new eight hours and then everyone is saying, well, six hours is my need. Well I'll go to four hours and then it's this arms race of de-escalation of sleep. Anyway, I'm going on and on, does that help give you a sense of two of the what I feel the more fascinating areas?Eric Topol (07:01):Absolutely. When I saw the other recent report on the short sleep gene variant and thought about what the potential of that would be with respect to potential drug development or could you imagine genome editing early in life that you don't need any sleep? I mean crazy stuff.Matt Walker (07:19):It was amazing.Glymphatics and Deep Sleepfor more, see previous Ground Truths on this topic Eric Topol (07:22):No, the mechanism of course we have to work out and also what you mentioned regarding the social and the behavior engagement, all that sort of thing, it was just fascinating stuff. Now we touched on one thing early on to come back to the glymphatics these channels to get rid of the waste metabolites from the brain each night that might be considered toxic metabolites. We've learned a lot about those and of course there's some controversy about it. What are your thoughts?Matt Walker (07:55):Yeah, I think there's really quite comprehensive evidence suggesting that the brain has this cleansing system like the body has one the lymphatic system, the brain has one the glymphatic system named after these glial cells that make it up. And I think there's been evidence from multiple groups across multiple different species types, from mouse models all the way up to human models suggesting that there is a state dependent control of the brain cleansing system, which is a fancy way of saying if you are awake in light NREM, deep NREM or perhaps you're just quiet and you are resting in your wakefulness, the glymphatic system is not switched on at the same rate across all of those different brain states. And I think the overwhelming evidence so far using different techniques in different species from different groups is that sleep is a preferential time. It's not an exclusive time, it's a preferential time when that brain cleansing system kicks into gear because as some people have, I think argued, and you could say it's hyperbolic, but wakefulness is low level from a biochemicals perspective, it's low level brain damage and sleep is therefore your sanitary salvation that combat that biochemical cascade.Matt Walker (09:15):So in other words, a better way of putting it would be, sleep is the price that you pay for wakefulness in some ways. And I think there was a recent controversial study that came out in 2022 or 2023, and they actually suggested quite the opposite. They said using their specific imaging methods, they found that the sort of clearance, the amount of cerebral spinal fluid, which is what washes through the brain to cleanse the toxins, the rate of that flow of cerebral spinal fluid was highest during wakefulness and lowest during deep NREM sleep, the exact opposite of what others have found. Now, I think the defendants of the glymphatic sleep dependent hypothesis pushed back and said, well, if you look at the imaging methods. Firstly, they're nonstandard. Secondly, they were measuring the cerebral spinal flow in an artificial way because they were actually perfusing solutions through the brain rather than naturally letting it flow and therefore the artificial forcing of fluid changed the prototypical result you would get.Matt Walker (10:27):And they also argued that the essentially kind of the sampling rate, so how quickly are you taking snapshots of the cerebral spinal fluid flow. Those were different and they were probably missing some of the sleep dependent slow oscillations that seemed to sort of drive that pulsatile flow. Honestly, I think that paper was still very well done, and I still think there is right now, I would still cleave to the majority of overwhelming evidence considering it's not just from one group in one species, but across multiple species, multiple groups. And I think it's nevertheless a weight of burden that has pushed back. And my sense right now, I used to think and cleaves to the notion that it was a sleep expressly selective process. Now I don't think that that's the case anymore. I think that the glymphatic system is a dynamic system, but it's always looking for the opportunity to go into cleansing mode. And you can kind of go into almost like a low battery mode when you are awake, but in quiet rest. And I think that can drive some already early clearance from the brain and then when you go into sleep, it's like powering your phone off entirely. It truly gets the chance to cleanse and reboot the biochemical system. But I think it's really interesting. I think there's a lot of work still yet to be done. It's not quite as case closed as we used to think.Eric Topol (12:03):Yeah, I mean first of all, it's great that you straighten out the controversy because that's exactly what I was referring to. And secondly, as you also pointed out, the weight of the evidence is that it's a sleep dependent phenomena, particularly during flow wave deep sleep is at least what I've seen.Matt Walker (12:21):Yes.Eric Topol (12:22):What's also interesting, your point about it being dynamic, which fascinating, there was a paper in my field of cardiology, people with atrial fibrillation had less active glymphatic, less clearance which was really interesting. And then the other finding that's also noteworthy was that Ambien made things worse. What do you think about that?We Are An Embodied OrganismMatt Walker (12:45):I think it's really interesting, and just to come back to your point about the AFib paper, what we know is that this cleansing system in the brain does seem to track the big slow brainwaves of deep slow wave sleep, but it's not only tracking the big slow brainwaves. If anything, there's something to do with the cardiorespiratory cycle, the respiration rate and the cardiac signal that may actually sink with the brainwaves. And it's essentially a cardiorespiratory neurophysiological coupling, which is a lot of ways, which is to say heart, lungs and brain coupled together. And it's the coupling of the cardiorespiratory slow oscillations that drive these pulsatile fluid mechanical, it's literally a hydro mechanical, hydro meaning cerebral spinal fluid push and pull in and out of the system drawing those metabolites out. So ago, if you have a disrupted either cardiac or respiratory or neurophysiological signal, no wonder the glymphatic system isn't going to work as efficiently.Matt Walker (14:00):I think that's a beautiful demonstration of the hemineglect that people like me who study sleep largely from the neck upwards would miss. But if you think about sleep is not just for the brain, it's for the body and it's not just for the body, it's for the brain. And we're an embodied organism. We study the organism in silos, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, respiratory, but they all interact. And so, I think what's lovely about your example is the reminder that if you don't study the body in this study of the glymphatic system, you could miss out a profound explanation that possibly accounts for the head scratching, I don't know why we're getting this result. So that's a long way to come back to it. But the same group that was the pioneer in the discovery of the glymphatic system led by Maiken Nedergaard at the University of Rochester.In SUPER AGERS, p. 57. SRI-sleep regulatory indexSleep MedicationsMatt Walker (15:01):She has gone on to then look to say, well, if this is a sleep dependent process of brain cleansing during deep sleep, what about sleeping pills because so many people are either taking or are addicted to sleeping pills. And we've gone through, we're in the era of web 3.0 with sleeping pills, we started off web 1.0 which were the benzos, the kind of temazepam, diazepam, lorazepam. Then we went to web 2.0, which was sort of the Ambien (zolpidem), Lunesta, Sonata. And what was common about those two classes of drugs is that they both went after something called the GABA receptor in the brain, which is this major inhibitory receptor in the brain. And essentially, they were called sedative hypnotics because they sedated your cortex. And when you take an Ambien and not going to argue you're awake. You're clearly not awake, but to argue you're a naturalistic sleep, if you look at this, physiology is an equal fallacy.Matt Walker (16:01):They made this interesting experimental hypothesis that when you take Ambien, you sleep longer and based on how you score deep sleep, it would seem as though Ambien increases the amount of minutes that you spend in deep sleep. But if you look at the electrical signature during that “increased deep sleep” it's not the same. Ambien takes a big bite. There's a big dent out of the very slowest of the slow brainwaves, and it's the slowest of the slow brainwaves that drive the glymphatic system. So what they found was that when you take Ambien or you give mice Ambien. Yes, they sleep longer, they seem to have more deep sleep, but the brain cleansing mechanism seem to be reduced by anywhere between 30-40%, which is counterintuitive. If you are sleeping more and you're getting more deep sleep and the glymphatic system is active during deep sleep, you should get greater cleansing of the brain.Matt Walker (17:05):Here they found, yes, the drug increased sleep, particularly deep sleep, but it empowered the cleansing of the brain system. Now, have we got evidence of that in humans yet? No, we don't. I don't think it's far away though, because there was a counter study that brings us onto web 3.0. There's a new class of sleep medications. It's the first class of medications that have actually been publicly advocating for, they're called the DORAs drugs, and they are a class of drugs and there's three of them that are FDA approved right now. DORA stands for dual orexin receptor antagonists, which means that these drugs go in there and they block the action of a chemical called orexin. What is orexin? Orexin is the volume button for wakefulness. It dials at wakefulness, but these drugs come into your system and unlike the sedative sort of baseball bat to the cortex, which is Ambien, these drugs are much more elegant.Matt Walker (18:11):They go down towards the brainstem and they just dial down the volume on wakefulness and then they step back, and they allow the antithesis of wakefulness to come in its place, which is this thing called naturalistic sleep. And people sleep longer. So as a scientist, you and I perhaps skeptics would then say, well, so you increase sleep, and I have four words for you. Yes, and so what. Just because you increase sleep, it doesn't mean that it's functional sleep. It could just be like the old notion of junk DNA, that it's epiphenomenal sleep. It's not functional sleep. There was a study out of WashU and they took 85-year olds and above and they gave them one of these DORAs drugs. It's a drug called Belsomra, it's a play on good sleep or beautiful sleep, chemical named suvorexant and randomized placebo control. What they found is that when they took the drug, yes, these older adults slept longer, they had more deep sleep, but then what they did was clever. Before and after the night of sleep, they drew blood because we can now measure markers of β-amyloid and tau protein circulating in the bloodstream, which are these two markers of Alzheimer's disease.Matt Walker (19:28):Why is that relevant to the glymphatic system? It's relevant because two of the pieces of metabolic detritus that the cleansing system washes away at night, β-amyloid and tau. I'm sure enough of what they found was that not only did the adults sleep longer with these sleeping medications, they also had a greater clearance of β-amyloid and tau within the bloodstream. So this was the exact opposite of the Ambien study, which was where they were seeing an impairment in the glymphatic activity. Here in humans was a study with the web 3.0 sleep medications. Suvorexant, not only did it increase sleep, but it seemed to increase. Well, the assumption was that it was increasing glymphatic clearance because at least as the end outcome product, there was greater clearance of β-amyloid and tau protein in the blood. It wasn't just junk sleep, it was functional sleep. So for the first time I'd seen a sleeping medication that increased sleep more naturalistically, but that increased sleep made you the organism function better the next day as a consequence. Does that make any sense?Eric Topol (20:38):Absolutely. And it's interesting that we may have a sleep medicine finally or a class that actually is doing what is desired. This is one of the other things I was going to ask you about is that as you pointed out, this is an interaction throughout the organism, throughout the human being, and we've seen studies about how sleep disrupts metabolism and through that of course, and even separately, can take down our immune system or disrupt that as well. And so, one of the questions I guess is your thoughts about these other effects because you mentioned of course the potential of looking at things like p-Tau217 markers or other markers that would denote the status of your ultimate risk for moving on to Alzheimer's disease. But there's these other factors that also play a role with lack of adequate sleep and perhaps particularly sleep quality. I wonder if you could just comment about this because there's so many different systems of the body that are integrated here, and so the sanitary effect that you just described with the ability to potentially see less, at least biomarkers for what would be considered risks to ultimately develop Alzheimer's, there's also these other very important effects when we talk about high quality sleep, I guess, right? And maybe you could comment about that.Matt Walker (22:21):Yeah, I think quantity is what we've been talking about in some ways, but quality has also come onto the radar as absolutely essential. And what we find is that the quality of your sleep is as if not more predictive of both all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, metabolic mortality, and in some regards, cancer mortality as well. And when I say quality of sleep, what we're really referring to here is at least one of two things. One is the continuity of your sleep. So you could be sleeping for eight and a half hours according to your sleep tracker, but maybe you are getting eight and a half hours by spending ten hours of time in bed because you are awake so much throughout the night and your sleep is very sort of punctured and littered with all of these awakenings across the night. That's sufficient quantity of sleep eight and a half hours, but it's poor quality of sleep because you are spending too much time awake.Matt Walker (23:30):And so, our measure of quality of sleep typically is what we call sleep efficiency. Of the time that you are in bed, what percent of that time are you asleep? And we like to see some measure of at least 85% or above because once you get less than 85% in terms of your sleep quality or your sleep efficiency, then you start to see many of these unfolding system-wide impairments. You seem to have high risk of diabetes, high risk obesity, high risk, as we said, cardiovascular disease. Also, hormonal changes both in men and in women. We see upstairs in the brain with poor quality of sleep, much more so than quantity of sleep. Poor quality of sleep is a more powerful predictor of mood disturbances and psychiatric conditions. And in fact, I think if you look at the data, at least in my center in the past 23 years, we've not been able to discover a single psychiatric condition in which sleep is normal, which to me is a stunning revelation. And what that tells us is that in many of those conditions they do seem to be getting not too bad of quantity of sleep. What is the marker of psychiatric sleep disturbance is not short quantity, it's poor quality of sleep. So I think it's a wonderful important point that I don't think we pay enough attention to, which is the quality.Eric Topol (25:05):Yes. And the other thing that you've emphasized, and I just want to reiterate to people listening or watching that is the regularity story, just like you said with quality. The data and I'll put the figure in that shows the link between regularity and cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, cancer, that regularity thing. A lot of people don't understand how important that is as well.Matt Walker (25:30):Stunning study from data from the UK Biobank, and this is across thousands and thousands of individuals and they tracked quantity and they tracked regularity and they split people up into the quartiles, those who were most regular and those who were least regular. And as you'll see in those sort of the figure that you flash up, those people who were in the upper quartile of regularity, de-risk all-cause mortality, cancer mortality, cardiovascular mortality, it was stunning. And then they did a cute little experiment of a statistical test where they took quantity because they had it in these individuals and regularity and they kind of put them in the same statistical bucket and did a sort of a Coke Pepsi challenge to see which one won out. And what it seemed to be was that regularity almost beat out quantity in terms of predicting all-cause mortality. Now that's not to say that you can get away with saying, well, I sleep four hours a night, but I sleep very regularly, consistently four hours a night. No, you need both, but regularity. I was someone who based on my remarkably vanilla and pedestrian personality, I've always been quite regular in my regard. But goodness me, even when I read that paper, I thought I'm doubling down on regularity. It's so important. That tells us, I think something that is in some ways a story not about sleep. It's a story about your circadian rhythm.Matt Walker (27:02):We speak a lot, or I speak a lot about sleep, and I think I've probably done a mis service to the other aspect of the sleep wake rhythmicity, which is called your 24 hours circadian rhythm. Now your sleep pressure, the drive to sleep is independent of your circadian rhythm, but they often work beautifully in harmony with each other, and you fall asleep, and you stay asleep. But I think the circadian system is critical because, excuse me, and what the circadian rhythm also regulates, sneezing right at the inopportune moment when you are recording a podcast. But nevertheless, what that tells me is that when you feed your brain signals of wake sleep consistency, which is to say wake, sleep, timing, regularity, there is something about feeding the brain signals of regularity that anchor your 24-hour circadian rhythm and as a consequence, it improves the quantity and the quality of your sleep. They're intertwined.What About Sleep Trackers?Eric Topol (28:09):That's a terrific explanation for what I think a lot of people don't appreciate it's importance. Now, last topic about tracking. Now we understand how important sleep is. It is the superpower I am with you on that really brought that to light in so many ways. But of course, now we can track it with rings with smart watches and we get these readouts things like efficiency as part of the Oura score and other rings and deep sleep or NREM, REM, the works, you can see your awake times that you didn't know you're awake and the whole bit. Do you recommend for people that aren't getting great sleep quality beyond that they should try to establish a regular schedule that they should track to try to improve it and of course how would they improve it? Or are these things like having a cold mattress temperature that is controlled? What are the tricks that you would suggest for trying to improve your sleep through tracking? Or do you think tracking shouldn't be done?Matt Walker (29:16):Oh gosh, it's such a wonderful question and as with wonderful questions, the answer is usually it's complicated and I have to be careful because for someone who's currently wearing three different sleep trackers, it's going to be hard for me to answer this question completely in the negative. And there are three different sleep trackers. But I would say that for the most part, I like the idea of sleep tracking if you are sleeping well, meaning if as long as you're not suffering from insomnia. The reason is because sleep unlike those two other critical of health, which is diet and exercise, is very difficult to subjectively estimate. So if I were to ask you, Eric, how many times have you worked out in the past week, you'd be able to tell me how cleanly or how poorly have you been eating in the past week. You could tell me.Matt Walker (30:09):But if I was to say to you, Eric, how much deep sleep did you get last Tuesday? And if you don't have a sleep tracker, you'd say, I don't know. And so, there's something useful about tracking, especially a non-conscious process that I think is meaningful to many. And often medicine we say what gets measured gets managed, and there is that trite sort of statement. I do think that that's still true for sleep. So many people I've spoken to have, for example, markedly reduced the amount of alcohol consumption because they've been seeing the huge impact that the alcohol consumption in the evening has on their ring smart ring data as a consequence. So overall, I think they're pretty good. When people ask me what's the best sleep tracker, I usually say it's the one that you wear most frequently because if I come up with a band, headband, chest straps, all sorts of different things and it's a hundred percent accurate, but after three uses of it, you stop using it, that's a useless sleep tracker. So I like to think about sleep trackers that are low friction and no friction. When we go to sleep, we take things off, we don't put things on. That's why I liked things like the ring. For example, I think that's a non-intrusive way. I think the mattress may be as if not better because it's a completely friction less device. You don't have to remember to charge it. You don't have to put it on, you just fall into bed, and it tracks your sleep.Matt Walker (31:40):One form factor, I like to think about sleep trackers is the form factor itself. But then the other is accuracy. And I think right now if you look at the data, probably Oura is winning the ring kind of wars. If you look at all wristband wars, I think it's probably the most accurate relative to something like Fitbit or Apple Watch or the Whoop Band. But they're all pretty close. I think Oura is probably the leader in class right now at least. Keep in mind that I used to be an advisor for Oura. I want to make that very clear. So take what I say with a grain of salt in that regard. I think to your question, well, I'll come back to mattresses in just one second.Matt Walker (32:34):For people who are struggling with sleep, I think you've got to be very, very careful with sleep trackers because they can have the counterproductive effect where I gave you the example of alcohol or eating too late. And these sleep trackers help you modify your behaviors to improve your sleep. Well, there are places where these trackers can actually do you a disservice. When you get so hyper focused on your data and your data not looking good each and every day, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of a negative spiral. And we now have a condition in sleep medicine called orthosomnia. So ortho in medicine typically means straightened. So you've heard of orthodontic straightening teeth, orthopedic straightening bones, orthosomnia is about getting so obsessed with getting your sleep perfect and your sleep straight that it causes an insomnia like syndrome. Now, I don't know, I think the press has made more of this than there is.Matt Walker (33:30):It probably is about 5-7% of the population. I would say at that moment in time, do one of two things. Either take the ring off entirely and just say, I'm going to get my sea legs back underneath me, get some cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. And when I'm confident I'll put the ring back on. Or don't throw the baby out with the bath water, keep wearing the ring. Try to say to yourself only on let's say a Sunday afternoon, will I open up the app and look historically what's been happening during the past week so that you keep getting your data, but you don't get the angiogenic daily sort of repetition of reinforcement of I'm not sleeping well. I should also note by the way that I think sleep trackers are not a substitute for either a sleep recording laboratory, but also, they're not a substitute for ultimately telling you entirely how good your sleep is.Matt Walker (34:24):Don't forget, you should always keep in mind how do I feel the next day? Because I think a lot of people will see their readiness score as 92 and they feel miserable. They just feel rough. And then another day, my readiness score was 62 and I just went out and I just ran my fastest five mile that I've done in the past six months. So don't forget that subjective sense of sleep is just as important as objective measures of sleep. The final thing I would say to your point about the mattresses, I actually do think that they are a really great vehicle for sleep augmentation because these smart mattresses, they're filled with sensors, things like Eight Sleep, and they will assess your physiology, they will track your sleep just like a sleep tracking ring. But what's also good is that because they can manipulate temperature and your sleep is so thermoregulatory sensitive that they create this kind, it's almost like this bent arc of thermal story throughout the night because you have to warm up at the surface to cool down at the core to fall asleep, then you have to stay cool to stay asleep, then you have to warm up to wake up and they take you through that natural change.Matt Walker (35:41):But they do it intelligently because they're measuring your sleep minute to minute. And then they're saying, I'm tweaking temperature a little bit. Has sleep improved? Has it become worse? Oh, it's become better. Let's lean into that. Let's get them even colder. Oh, wait a second, it's getting worse. Let's warm it back up a little bit. It's like a staircase method, like a Richter shock. And gradually they find your sweet spot and I think that is a really elegant system. And now they're measuring snoring. Snoring perturbations, and they can augment the bed and raise the angle of the bed up just a little bit so that the gravity doesn't have as much of a hold on your airway because when you're lying on your back, the airway wants to collapse down to gravity, and when you raise back up again, it will change that. And so, I think that there's lots of new advantages in, I think mattress technology that we'll see coming out into the future. I think it's a great vehicle for sleep augmentation.Eric Topol (36:37):That's terrific. Well, this has been for me, very educational, as I would've predicted, if anybody's up on everything in this area, it would be you. So thank you, Matt. It's a really brilliant discussion, really enlightening. We could talk some more hours, but I think we've encapsulated some of the big things. And before we finish up, is there anything else you wanted to say?Matt Walker (37:05):No, I think just to thank you for both your work in general in terms of science communication, your offer here specifically to allow me to try to be a very poorly communicated voice of sleep, and also just what you've done in general for I think the accuracy of science communication out into the public. Please never stop, continue to be a shining light for all of us. You are remarkable. Thank you, Eric.Eric Topol (37:31):Oh, you're very kind. And I look forward to the next chance we get to visit in person. It's been too long, Matt. And all the best to you. Thanks for joining today.************************************************A quick pollI cover much about sleep and healthy aging in SUPER AGERS, which has been on the NYT Bestseller list for 3 weeks. 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Send us a textWelcome to your daily dose of blunt-force intel. On this episode of Ones Ready, Peaches breaks down the 12 June Ops Brief with the same energy as a pissed-off NCO finding unbloused boots. From nuclear microreactors to E-7 program death rattles, and shady F-35 budget slashings, this rundown covers everything the Pentagon tried to slip under the radar.Oh, and did we mention Air Force One is getting a facelift from Qatar... and no one will say what it costs?This one's for the operators, the policy nerds, and the junior troops trying to make sense of senior leader decisions that sound like they were made during an Ambien trip.From partisan posturing to microreactor hype, this episode has one foot in the future and the other on a Congressional landmine. Grab your coffee and prep for turbulence.

Donna and Kerri both highlight Pride Month this episode. Donna tells us the story about Cafe Lafitte in Exile in New Orleans, Louisiana. Patrons of this gay bar report seeing the ghosts of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote. Kerri covers a tough story that highlights the plight people in the LGBTQ community still experience. The murder of Latisha King is a heartbreaking story of a 15 year old who faced constant bullying, ultimately ending in muder.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna and Kerri both highlight Pride Month this episode. Donna tells us the story about Cafe Lafitte in Exile in New Orleans, Louisiana. Patrons of this gay bar report seeing the ghosts of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote. Kerri covers a tough story that highlights the plight people in the LGBTQ community still experience. The murder of Latisha King is a heartbreaking story of a 15 year old who faced constant bullying, ultimately ending in muder.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri tells the story about Cynthia "Cindy" Dunn, a mother of two, who went missing. Per her husband, she went to drop off a donation and never returned. But police were a bit skeptical about his story and uncovered a heartbreaking case of domestic violence.  Donna covers Baleroy Mansion, located in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood. It is often called "the most haunted house in America" due to numerous reports of paranormal activity, including a cursed chair said to kill anyone who sits in it. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. For up to 40% off, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo code CREEP at checkout. This episode is sponsored by Select Quote. To find the insurance policy just for you, head to www.selectquote.com/creep.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri tells the story about Cynthia "Cindy" Dunn, a mother of two, who went missing. Per her husband, she went to drop off a donation and never returned. But police were a bit skeptical about his story and uncovered a heartbreaking case of domestic violence.  Donna covers Baleroy Mansion, located in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood. It is often called "the most haunted house in America" due to numerous reports of paranormal activity, including a cursed chair said to kill anyone who sits in it. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. For up to 40% off, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo code CREEP at checkout. This episode is sponsored by Select Quote. To find the insurance policy just for you, head to www.selectquote.com/creep.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna tells us about Shaker's Cigar Bar, a haunted cigar bar in Milwaukee, WI (don't ask Kerri that state abbreviation). A bar that has been many things in the past, including a brothel, has now been deemed the most haunted cigar bar in the country. Kerri covers a heartbreaking case that is a bit different that what she usually covers. Anatoly Moskvin, a cemetery expert in Russia, began creating dolls and was eventually dubbed the Corpse Dollmaker. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna tells us about Shaker's Cigar Bar, a haunted cigar bar in Milwaukee, WI (don't ask Kerri that state abbreviation). A bar that has been many things in the past, including a brothel, has now been deemed the most haunted cigar bar in the country. Kerri covers a heartbreaking case that is a bit different that what she usually covers. Anatoly Moskvin, a cemetery expert in Russia, began creating dolls and was eventually dubbed the Corpse Dollmaker. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri tells us about the heartbreaking story of Amber Hagerman, a 9 year old who vanished in broad daylight with one eyewitness. From this awful story came about the AMBER Alert system, which has saved over 1200 children.  Donna covers Sailor's Snug Harbor located on Staten Island.  In the 1800s, Robert Richard Randall willed his property to become a retirement community for all sailors. But, this wouldn't be one of Donna's stories without some hauntings.  This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Head on to www.trymiracle.com/creep and use promo code CREEP to get 40% off with an additional 20% off AND free three-piece towel set with the code at checkout.  This episode is sponsored by GoPure. For 25% off, go to www.gopurebeauty.com/apc and use promo code APC at checkout.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri tells us about the heartbreaking story of Amber Hagerman, a 9 year old who vanished in broad daylight with one eyewitness. From this awful story came about the AMBER Alert system, which has saved over 1200 children.  Donna covers Sailor's Snug Harbor located on Staten Island.  In the 1800s, Robert Richard Randall willed his property to become a retirement community for all sailors. But, this wouldn't be one of Donna's stories without some hauntings.  This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Head on to www.trymiracle.com/creep and use promo code CREEP to get 40% off with an additional 20% off AND free three-piece towel set with the code at checkout.  This episode is sponsored by GoPure. For 25% off, go to www.gopurebeauty.com/apc and use promo code APC at checkout.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna giving us another UFO story. Elizabeth Klarer claimed she saw a UFO in 1917 that lead to the ultimate "love" story. Not to give too much away but there was love, a birth, and travel to another galaxy.  Kerri covers a really heartbreaking familicide of the Bamber family. This case has many twists and turns that lead Jeremy Bamber into prison. Now, some believe he is guilty and some believe he is innocent.   This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit www.betterhelp.com/apc for 10% off your first month.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna giving us another UFO story. Elizabeth Klarer claimed she saw a UFO in 1917 that lead to the ultimate "love" story. Not to give too much away but there was love, a birth, and travel to another galaxy.  Kerri covers a really heartbreaking familicide of the Bamber family. This case has many twists and turns that lead Jeremy Bamber into prison. Now, some believe he is guilty and some believe he is innocent.   This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit www.betterhelp.com/apc for 10% off your first month.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

     Slam the Gavel welcomes Heather Bendl to the podcast. Heather is originally from Round Lake, Illinois but now resides in the Daytona, Florida area.     She has four children ages 18, 17, 13, and 8. She was married to their father Justin Serlick from 2003 to 2013. Upon her divorce she was awarded sole custody of the oldest three. Justin Serlick refused to move out of Heather's home with her children after the divorce and he continued to emotionally and physically abuse the children and Heather.      In 2017 Heather had her fourth child with Justin, this was not a planned pregnancy. In fact, she was in school full-time working on her Bachelor's of Science Degree at UW-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Justin was taking advantage of Heather after she would take her Ambien to sleep. Heather had tried over the years to get Justin to move out of her home but his mother had threatened Heather over the years that if she removed Justin from the home she would make sure Heather never saw her children again......Non-Profit Email Address:JusticefortheSerlickChildren@gmail.comNon-Profit YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@JusticefortheSerlickChildrenNon-Profit FB Page:https://www.facebook.com/JusticefortheSerlickChildrenSupportshow(https://www.buymeacoffee.com/maryannpetri)Maryann Petri: dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.comhttps://www.tiktok.com/@maryannpetriFacebook:  https://www.youtube.com/@slamthegavelpodcasthostmar5536Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guitarpeace/Pinterest: Slam The Gavel Podcast/@guitarpeaceLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryann-petri-62a46b1ab/  YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@slamthegavelpodcasthostmar5536  Twitter https://x.com/PetriMaryannEzlegalsuit.comhttps://ko-fi.com/maryannpetri*DISCLAIMER* The use of this information is at the viewer/user's own risk. Not financial, medical nor legal advice as the content on this podcast does not constitute legal, financial, medical or any other professional advice. Viewer/user's should consult with the relevant professionals. Reproduction, distribution, performing, publicly displaying and making a derivative of the work is explicitly prohibited without permission from content creator. Podcast is protected by owner. The content creator maintains the exclusive right and any unauthorized copyright infringement is subject to legal prosecution. Support the showSupportshow(https://www.buymeacoffee.com/maryannpetri)http://www.dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.com/

Kerri covers the story of Elsie Paroubek. In 1911, Elsie was kidnapped off the street in broad daylight. The investigation focused on the Romani camps nearby based on fears versus actual evidence.  Donna tells us about Anna Anderson who, in the early 1920s, claimed to be Anastasia Tschaikovsky. People, to this day, still debate if Anna was actually Anastasia.  This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off PLUS use CREEP at checkout for an additional 20% off and a FREE 3-piece towel set.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri covers the story of Elsie Paroubek. In 1911, Elsie was kidnapped off the street in broad daylight. The investigation focused on the Romani camps nearby based on fears versus actual evidence.  Donna tells us about Anna Anderson who, in the early 1920s, claimed to be Anastasia Tschaikovsky. People, to this day, still debate if Anna was actually Anastasia.  This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off PLUS use CREEP at checkout for an additional 20% off and a FREE 3-piece towel set.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Oh hello De-Influencers!!Happy Thursday! Who's ready for some spiritual warfare mixed with some pop culture and a dash of postpartum anxiety? I mean what can we say, we really like to cover all our bases.Plus, Dani's seen the "Hat Man" and also a demon girl tickled her toes?? Yeah... it's safe to say you'll wanna buckle up for this episode.We hope you enjoy this episode and we gave you some good laughs this Thursday! We scored some great deals with a few of our favorite brands for our listeners: So whether you're looking to plan a trip or build a business planning trips - visitforatravel.com/dani and let them know you came from DANI to learn what it means to travel, upgraded.  The Nanit baby monitor is changing parenthood for the better! It's the one baby item we can't live without. And of course, we have a special offer just for our listeners! Get TWENTY PERCENT off your first order with code BABY20. That's B-A-B-Y-20 at Nanit.com NOW! N-A-N-I-T.com. Nanit. Parenthood looks different here. Give all the "moms" in your life a unique, heartfelt gift you'll all cherish for years-StoryWorth! Right now, save $10 on your first purchase when you go to StoryWorth.com/DANI! Looking for a formula and want to try Bobbie? Bobbie has an exclusive offer just for De-Influenced listeners. First, visit www.hibobbie.com to find the recipe that fits your journey. Then, apply promo code DANI to get an additional 10% off on your first purchase. Get 40% off with my code DANI AND - Special Offer! To celebrate Moms everywhere, this weekend only, May 2-4, Cozy Earth is giving my listeners a special promo: Buy One, Get One Free bamboo pajamas!! Use code DANIBOGO to take advantage of this! She deserves the best! cozyearth.com. Make sure you're subscribed to our official channel on YouTube, @deinfluencedpodcast, and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your De-Influenced fix!  Stay connected with us on Instagram and TikTok @deinfluencedpodcast, and as always thank you for being a part of this journey.  We'll see you next time! XOXOD+J

Donna covers P. T. Barnum who made the "freakshow" famous while stretching the truth and even outright lying for entertainment purposes.  Kerri tells the story of Jodi Huisentruit- a beautiful, smart, and talented news anchor. One day she never showed up for work mere hours after a coworker spoke with her as she was late. Unfortunately, police are still trying to find out what happened to Jodi.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna covers P. T. Barnum who made the "freakshow" famous while stretching the truth and even outright lying for entertainment purposes.  Kerri tells the story of Jodi Huisentruit- a beautiful, smart, and talented news anchor. One day she never showed up for work mere hours after a coworker spoke with her as she was late. Unfortunately, police are still trying to find out what happened to Jodi.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

In hour two, Hoch makes another questionable late night Ambien induced purchase. Crowder expects Shedeur Sanders to drop in the draft tonight and Solana claims the Heat smelled blood in the water last night. After, Miami Dolphins columnist Omar Kelly explains the irony behind the Dolphins needing to save their roster through the draft after ignoring the NFL draft for years.

Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 734 How is poor sleep quietly sabotaging your health, performance, and relationships? Dr. Kirk Parsley, Performance Enhancement Physician + former SEAL, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 734, to uncover the shocking truth about mainstream sleep drugs and how they hijack natural processes like GABA without delivering true rest, how high-stress lifestyles demand recovery strategies, and why optimizing your sleep might just be the missing key to a better life, stronger communication, and lasting emotional resilience. "When you don't sleep very well, you're choosing to age faster. If you stay up for 20 hours, you've added 4 hours of damage, which means your brain is aging 25% faster. If you do this regularly, you will get neurological decline." - Dr. Kirk Parsley Get 20% Off Dr. Parsley's Sleep Remedy Sleep Remedy is designed to enhance the quality of your sleep, helping you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Sleep experts meticulously formulated this product to naturally align with your body's sleep mechanisms, providing a non-habit-forming solution to improve nightly rest. Dr. Kirk Parsley's Sleep Remedy works by supplementing your body's own production of sleep-inducing molecules like melatonin, magnesium, and a special blend of amino acids. 20% OFF WITH CODE "JOSH20" In This Episode, Kirk Parsley MD Uncovers: [01:05] The Dangers of Sleep Drugs Kirk Parsley MD 125 Dr. Kirk Parsley – Sleep To Win 256 Navigating Transitions In Relationships, Health, and Wealth: Dr. Kirk Parsley & Krisstina Wise How the pharmaceutical industry formulates sleep products. Why Benzodiazepines are 100X stronger than GABA. How sleep has nothing to do with GABA, but pharmaceuticals mainly focus on GABA. Why sleep drugs can cause anomalistic behavior. How alcohol decreases deep sleep and REM sleep. [08:20] Sleep Quality Directly Impacts Performance Why success can't be predicted but failure can. How millions are spent on Navy SEAL trainings. Why none of the SEALs complain about sleep, even though they barely get any during their training. How Kirk made the SEALs test 98 blood markers to find out why they were not performing to their full potential. How he discovered that Ambien was negatively impacting their sleep and performance. How he gave the SEALs sleep supplements to improve their sleep. Why sleep impacts all other aspects of well-being and performance. [23:15] Modern Lifestyle Changed How We Sleep How Kirk's work translated from the Navy SEALs to all people. Why he became a private health consultant. How stress ages us. Why the Industrial Age affected our sleep quality. [27:35] Super Sleeper Genes Why wearable data is not actionable. How we can't change what we don't measure. Why our genes define whether or not we suffer when we get less than 8 hours of sleep. How to treat insomnia using non-sleep deep rest. Why we need to mimic what our ancestors did to sleep well. The importance of creating a list of our worries. [39:05] The Science of Sleep 591 Dr. John Lieurance | Biohacking Big Souls: How UFC Fighters + Big Wave Surfers Holistically Heal Why parents lose 6 months of sleep during the first 2 years of their baby's life. How we can recover from long-term lack of sleep. Why it takes 8 hours to recover from being awake for 16 hours. How we clean the waste inside of our body through sleep. What happens in the body when we go to sleep. Why our body creates inflammation when we don't manage to get rid of the waste product. How calcified plaque is created in the body. [44:55] Chronic Sleep Deprivation = Neurological Decline? How psychiatric illnesses are highly impacted by sleep. What chronobiology has discovered about psychiatric patients and their mental health in relation to circadian rhythm. Why being awake is catabolic and being asleep is anabolic. How we repair our stress levels while we sleep. Why immediately after working out we are weaker and we need to repair during our sleep. How aging affects our capacity to repair our body. Why long-term lack of sleep makes us age faster. How releasing stress hormones can help us repair if we don't get enough sleep. Why we're the only stress-deprived species on Earth. [54:20] How to Navigate Sleep Deprivation As a Parent Why co-sleeping with our children is not essential. How each child has different sleep needs. Why Kirk repressed a lot of his childhood anger and trauma. How he used to pull all-nighters when he was studying, working, and raising his children. Why sleeping 4 to 5 hours a day for several years caused Kirk's health to decline. How he was helping the SEALs with their health issues but wasn't helping himself. [01:07:55] Sleep Affects Your Relationships The role that sleep played in the issues in Kirk's first marriage. William Dement How research proved that couples who don't get enough sleep perceive each other more negatively. The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal MD Why stress causes impulsive behavior and lack of emotional control. How sleep deprivation is used as a torture technique in interrogation. [01:14:20] Good Communication Starts with Good Sleep Why brain function is essential for communication. How the brain holds on to arguments even after it has ended. The role of emotional categorization. How good quality sleep rebalances our hormone levels. Why hormones impact how we show up. [01:21:10] Are You Good At Suffering? What makes some people exceptionally good at suffering. Why our genetics influence our ability to endure suffering. What led Kirk to believe that suffering is a choice. Why he doesn't suffer even though he's suffering. [01:26:50] Fear Is For The Weak Why Kirk grew up fearful because he lived in a dangerous environment. What made him decide that being fearful is weak. Why he's happy with everything that's happened in his life. How fear only takes us out of enjoyment. Why everything that matters to Kirk is driven by love. [01:32:20] The Journey Back to God How Kirk defines his faith in God. Why we only have control of how we react to what's happening around us. How he asks God to show him the path every morning. Why psilocybin made him face darkness. How the psilocybin experience changed how he perceives fear. Why love and fear are the only emotions, but only love is real. [01:44:15] The End of Suffering Why Kirk used to believe that we need to choose to suffer for a reason. 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream How he always wanted to raise his children to be able to handle as much as him. Why the consequence of suffering was that he got tired of suffering. Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Power Quotes From The Show Lack of Sleep = Threat? "The only animal on this planet that sleep deprives itself on purpose is us. It makes evolutionary sense that our brains perceive lack of sleep as famine or threat because there's some kind of stressor going on. That is why people who don't sleep well or don't sleep enough have higher amygdala tone and higher stress hormones." - Dr. Kirk Parsley Benefits of Sleep "It takes 8 hours to recover from being awake for 16 hours. The benefit of sleep is the hormone production, the repair, the acceleration of your immune system, the consolidation of memories, the categorization of emotional events." - Dr. Kirk Parsley Your Brain Creates Waste Products "When you go to sleep, the neurons that hold the structure of the brain contract about 30% and they create little channels for the cerebral spinal fluid to flow through. There are ways for it to clear and get outside of the blood brain barrier and get rid of your waste products. If you don't clear that, it's toxic. It's a waste product. It'd be like if you leave feces in your living room, you don't get rid of it, it's toxic. And what happens is that your brain or your body attacks it. It's like a foreign object. So it's an inflammatory response." - Dr. Kirk Parsley Links From Today's Show  Kirk Parsley MD 125 Dr. Kirk Parsley – Sleep To Win 256 Navigating Transitions In Relationships, Health, and Wealth: Dr. Kirk Parsley & Krisstina Wise 591 Dr. John Lieurance | Biohacking Big Souls: How UFC Fighters + Big Wave Surfers Holistically Heal William Dement The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal MD 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream   Josh's Trusted Products | Up To 40% Off Shop All Products Biohacking⁠ MANNA Vitality - Save 20% with code JOSH20 HigherDOSE - 15% off with the code JOSH15 PLUNGE - $150 off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE Pulsetto - Save 20% with code "JOSH" SaunaSpace - 10% off with discount code JOSH10 Ultrahuman Ring Air - 10% off with code JOSH Wellness Test Kits Choose Joi - Save 50% on all Lab Tests with JOSH Blokes - Save 50% on all Lab Tests with JOSH FertilityWize Test by Clockwize - Save 10% with code JOSH Tiny Health Gut Tests - $20 off with discount code JOSH20 VIVOO Health Tests - Save 30% off with code JOSH SiPhox Health Blood Test - Save 15% off with code JOSH Nutrition + Gut Health Organifi - 20% off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE SEED Synbiotic - 25% off with the code 25JOSHTRENT Paleovalley -  Save 15% off here! 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He dedicates a significant portion of his time to advising non-profit organizations that support the SEAL community and providing healthcare guidance and treatment to veterans. Operating his practice and supplement business from Austin, Texas, Kirk is an avid outdoorsman and fitness enthusiast. His philosophy is straightforward: our bodies are built on a 100,000+ year-old model, and we perform best by emulating the lifestyle we evolved to live, as closely as possible, striving to approximate the health metrics of our 25-30-year-old selves (the physiologic peak of most humans). Kirk firmly believes that 80% of health is derived from focusing on Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise, and Stress mitigation, with a strong emphasis on Sleep. Website Instagram Facebook  

Kerri tells the story of Leonarda Cianciulli, an Italian serial killer who was known as the Soap Maker of Correggio.  Donna covers Dublin Hellfire Club that was built as a hunting lodge but....allegedly practiced satanic rituals. This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off PLUS use CREEP at checkout for an additional 20% off and a FREE 3-piece towel set.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri tells the story of Leonarda Cianciulli, an Italian serial killer who was known as the Soap Maker of Correggio.  Donna covers Dublin Hellfire Club that was built as a hunting lodge but....allegedly practiced satanic rituals. This episode is sponsored by Miracle Made. Head to www.trymiracle.com/creep for 40% off PLUS use CREEP at checkout for an additional 20% off and a FREE 3-piece towel set.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Mark Consuelos and Kristin Chenoweth sit down for Kelly's Rapid Fire Round 4! Mark and Kristin join Kelly for a hilarious round of questions that reveal WAY more than what we expected! Mark tells all from his aspirations of being a race car driver, to the thing he can't leave home without (which annoys Kelly to no end), to what he thought when he first laid eyes on his co-host in life and love! Kristin tells us why her first client while performing as a singing telegram left her gobsmacked and how she inadvertently reverse harassed a famed Hollywood producer. She also shares a cautionary tale of tweeting on Ambien that could have left her jobless! And remember to stick around as Kelly answers listener's questions in a brand new, Ask Kelly. 

Donna covers the Rendlesham Forest incident UFO encounter.In December of 1980, on a military base, a UFO was spotted causing military members to question did they really see what they thought they saw?? Kerri covers the murder of Ray Green. Ray's wife, Dani, calls Ray's mom to tell her Ray was attacked by the dog and killed...but this was the first of a few stories Dani told friends and police.  This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Head to www.betterhelp.com/apc for 10% off your first month.  This episode is sponsored by Acorns. Head to www.acorns.com/creep or download to Acorns app to get started. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Donna covers the Rendlesham Forest incident UFO encounter.In December of 1980, on a military base, a UFO was spotted causing military members to question did they really see what they thought they saw?? Kerri covers the murder of Ray Green. Ray's wife, Dani, calls Ray's mom to tell her Ray was attacked by the dog and killed...but this was the first of a few stories Dani told friends and police.  This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Head to www.betterhelp.com/apc for 10% off your first month.  This episode is sponsored by Acorns. Head to www.acorns.com/creep or download to Acorns app to get started. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri discusses the heartbreaking case of Terri Weed and how she was murdered by someone she thought loved her.  She was only 15 years old when her life was taken away from her by Wade Willis. Donna tells us about the VanLandingham family who moved to a large home in Wynne, Arkansas.  It was their dream house until it became their nightmare when spirits started attacking their daughters. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast  This episode is sponsored by Lume. Head to www.lumedeodorant.com and use promo code CREEP for 15% off your first purchase!  And if you combine the 15% off with the already discounted starter pack, that equals over 40% off their Starter Pack! This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. Head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo code CREEP at checkout for up to 40% off.

Donna changes things up this week and covers a story that while it is not supernatural, it is definitely a story that makes you go..whaaaat? Adam Rainer is the only man in history to go from a little person to a giant. Kerri's story SHOULD have had a content warning at the top, but in true Kerri form- she forgot. But, content warning because this story deals with children; both the victims and the killer. Amarjeet Sada becomes the world's youngest serial killer.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

View the Show Notes Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter Ashley Mason is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor at UCSF, where she leads the Sleep, Eating, and Affect (SEA) Laboratory. In this episode, Ashley provides a masterclass on cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), detailing techniques like time in bed restriction, stimulus control, and cognitive restructuring to improve sleep. She explains how to manage racing thoughts and anxiety, optimize sleep environments, and use practical tools like sleep diaries to track progress. She also offers detailed guidance on sleep hygiene; explores the impact of temperature regulation, blue light exposure, and bedtime routines; and offers guidance on finding a CBT-I therapist, along with sharing practical steps you can take on your own before seeking professional help. We discuss: Defining insomnia: diagnosis, prevalence, and misconceptions [3:00]; How insomnia develops, and breaking the cycle with cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) [7:45]; The different types of insomnia, and the impact of anxiety, hydration, temperature, and more on sleep [11:45]; The core principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and how CBT-I is used to treat insomnia [20:00]; Implementing CBT-I: time in bed restriction, sleep scheduling, and the effect of napping [29:45]; Navigating family and partner sleep schedules, falling asleep on the couch, sleep chronotypes, and more [39:45]; Key aspects of sleep hygiene: temperature, light exposure, and circadian rhythm disruptions [44:45]; Blue light and mental stimulation before bed, and the utility of A-B testing sleep habits [52:45]; Other simple interventions that may improve sleep [57:30]; Ashley's view on relaxation techniques and mindfulness-based practices [1:02:30]; The effectiveness of CBT-I, the role of sleep trackers, and best practices for managing nighttime awakenings [1:04:15]; Guidance on intake of food and alcohol for good sleep [1:16:30]; Reframing thoughts and nighttime anxiety to reduce sleep disruptions [1:18:45]; Ashley's take on sleep supplements like melatonin [1:21:45]; How to safely taper off sleep medications like benzos and Ambien [1:26:00]; Sleep problems that need to be addressed before CBT-I can be implemented [1:38:30]; The importance of prioritizing a consistent wake-up time over a fixed bedtime for better sleep regulation [1:40:15]; Process S and Process C: the science of sleep pressure and circadian rhythms [1:45:15]; How exercise too close to bedtime may impact sleep [1:47:45]; The structure and variability of CBT-I, Ashley's approach, and tips for finding a therapist [1:50:30]; The effect of sauna and cold plunge before bed on sleep quality [1:56:00]; Key takeaways on CBT-I, and why no one should have to suffer from insomnia [1:58:15]; and More. Connect With Peter on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

Kerri covers the story about olympic skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich Jr. He was a well known skier who broke into the scene in Aspen when he met Claudine Longet- a Hollywood elite most known for marrying Andy Williams.  Donna covers Edgar Cayce, a clairvoyant who struggled with his gift as he was a devout Christian. Through hypnosis, he was able to diagnose and cure other's ailments.  This episode is sponsored by goPure. For better-looking skin- look no further. Head over to www.gopurebeauty.com/APC and use promo code APC for 25% off. This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. For better sleep, head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo code CREEP for 40% off.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Jesse and Jordan read you comforting subreddits chosen by you! Every day during MaxFunDrive 2025 9:30am PST, March 17th - March 28th (except weekends). Our second livestream is reading entries from r/funnyanesthesia.It's MaxFunDrive 2025, become a new or upgrading member today! Live Jordan, Jesse, Go! in Chicago at Sleeping Village on April 11th! MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Jesse and Jordan read you comforting subreddits chosen by you! Every day during MaxFunDrive 2025 9:30am PST, March 17th - March 28th (except weekends). Our kickoff livestream is reading entries from r/Ambien.It's MaxFunDrive 2025, become a new or upgrading member today! Live Jordan, Jesse, Go! in Chicago at Sleeping Village on April 11th!  MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Donna covers the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The devastation is long lasting as the infrastructure in some areas was completely destroyed. But the personal and spiritual devastation continues as well.  Kerri goes way back to the 1700s for the story about Anna Zwanzinger. There are varying accounts of her life and crimes but the trail of murder left behind is not a tall tale.  This episode is sponsored by Beam Dream Powder. Head to www.shopbeam.com/creep and use promo code CREEP at checkout for up to 40% off. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit www.betterhelp.com/apc for 10% off your first month.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast 

Kerri tells the heartbreaking story of the murder of Hajna Piller who married Geza de Kaplany. Due to jealousy, de Kaplany committed what some call the worst single murder in history.  Donna covers the Dancing Plague of 1518. Frau Troffea began dancing in the street without music and it led to many, many others joining with no explanation.  This episode is sponsored by Select Quote. Head to www.selectquote.com/creep to find the best life insurance for you. They shop so you save.  If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast