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Welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we continue reading from the classic ancient Chinese text, San Zi Jing, or Three Character Classic, in Mandarin with English translation. The Three Character Classic was written around the 13th century, and mainly attributed to Confucian scholar, Wang Ying Lin. Read and recited in couplets of three characters, the whole "poem" is under...

Welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, in honour of Asian Heritage Month around the world I would like to pay tribute to Asian cultures being celebrated during the month of May in many Western democratic nations, by highlighting the historic Academy Award winning Chinese filmmaker, Chloe Zhao for winning Best Picture and Best Director. Chloe Zhao became only the second woman...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, as you dance the nocturnal ballet of sleep, odds are, you will begin the dream. Some dreams will make sense, others surreal, some you will remember, others forgotten... and maybe if you're lucky, you'll become self aware and lucid dream. What could these dreams mean? Well, your favourite Austrian neurologist and daddy o...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, it is March fourteenth, the fourteenth day of the 3rd month, 3/14, which is recognized internationally as Pi Day. A day in celebration of one of the most important mathematical constants, 3.14159 non repeating or Pi, by eating dessert pie or pizza, a happy coincidence. Pi, is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumfer...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we will be revisiting Webster's Unabridged Dictionary from 1913, with the Letter G. A great letter at the front of many gargantuan words but with many meanings by itself. G, when used as a description of money, refers to one thousand dollars or a grand. It can also describe a unit of weight, for example, when used in a...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, cryptocurrency has thrust itself to the forefront of global finance and technology with Bitcoin recently topping $58,000 USD and has become the first cryptocurrency to reach $1 trillion market capitalization. With the dramatic gains and losses of a volatile cryptocurrency marketplace, the potential of this technology ha...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Today, is Valentine's Day, love is in the air, and what better way to celebrate the evening... than by sleeping with Josh as I read The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana translated from it's original Sanskrit text, in seven parts. Contrary to popular belief, the Kama Sutra is not just a manual for sexual positions, it is more of a guide...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, as we come to the end of a crazy few weeks in the stock market, where meme stonks have taken over the internet and the world financial system, the dramatic, coordinated short squeeze implemented by the subreddit, #wallstreetbets, caused massive spikes in the price of stock in Gamestop, AMC, Nokia, etc. This wild specula...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, in honor of the start of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. 4 year term as President of the United States, I want to revisit Plato's Socratic dialogue, "The Republic". Written around 375 BC, in the cradle of western democracy, Athens, Greece, it focused on justice, the order and character of a just city-state, and the "just man...

Good evening and welcome back to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we return to the soothing act of gardening, and what better way to start such a meditating hobby, than to read the "Manual of Gardening" by L.H. Bailey. Second Edition, published in 1910. Sometimes it's nice to stop and smell the roses... well... how about falling asleep listening to some guy read a 100 year old ma...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, a new year means a new set of intellectual property now entering the public domain, yes, this is my life now... which is why we are returning to the OG of Sleep with Josh podcasts, the Canadian Copyright Act of 1921. I feel like these days we all need a reminder of good ol fashion... laws. Now sit back, relax, and close...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we are already over a week into the first new year with the Sleep... with Josh, and there is no better way to commemorate the beginning of this new year, than to read the calendar. All 365 days of the year 2021, every day is an opportunity, a gift, and one more day away from the dreaded year that was 2020. Now sit back,...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight is our last episode of 2020 (recorded prior to Dec. 31st), a year that will go down in the medical history books... so it feels appropriate to end off with another medical book, Gray's Anatomy, first published in 1858 by British anatomist and surgeon, Henry Gray. Hopefully, this episode will be so boring, it will help yo...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, is Christmas Eve, and to celebrate the holidays, I will read first, the well known Christmas poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore, an American poet from the 1800s. The poem is more well known as The Night Before Christmas. Now sit back, relax, close your eyes, and imagine waking up to a white Christ...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, in the dead of winter, I will be reading the weather of the capital cities in the sunny, warm, islands of the Caribbean. I'm sure we would all enjoy spending a few days on the beach to escape the quarantine lockdowns of the world right now... but the best I can do, is read you the weather there for today, December 22nd,...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we will be revisiting Webster's Unabridged Dictionary from 1913, with the Letter F. Warning, listener's discretion is advised. This episode will include many F-words: long F-words, short F-words, some F-words you've heard before, and other F-words that will be new. ... You have been f**king warned. Now sit back, close y...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, I will be embarking upon a journey into the dry, dry, topic of economics by reading well known pieces of economic theory and literature from famous economists. A good place to start is in book, The Wealth of Nations, which was published in 1776 by the Scottish economist and moral philosopher, Adam Smith. It is a fundame...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, with the resurgence of popularity for the timeless game known as Chess, due in large part to Netflix's very popular and excellent original series, The Queen's Gambit, I've decided to start playing chess... again. But this time, I might as well take the time to actually learn it through the words of great chess players i...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we return to the wonderful world of food and cheese with the Complete Book of Cheese by Bob Brown. Trust me, it'll be an un-brie-vable time... I apologize. Now sit back, relax, and close your eyes because you'll get tired of this podcast... guaranteed.  Ambie White Noise App - Microsoft Store: Download Link Focus, study...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, due to the recent announcement by Instagram that they will be updating their Terms of Use agreement with their users on December 20th, 2020, I decided that now would be the appropriate time to review it. Instagram, a photo sharing app owned by Facebook, has over 1 billion active monthly users and as a platform, has spaw...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, as political tensions continue to escalate in the United States as President Trump refuses to conceded to President Elect Joe Biden, I want to revisit Plato's a Socratic dialogue, "The Republic". Written around 375 BC, in the cradle of western democracy, Athens, Greece, it focused on justice, the order and character of...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, since it is November 11th, in honor and respect of veterans and active armed service members on this day, Remembrance Day in Canada and other Commonwealth nations, as well as Veteran's Day in the United States, I will be reading the classic poem, "In Flander's Fields", written by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, we return to another episode of Gray's Anatomy, the medical human anatomy textbook first published in 1858 by British anatomist and surgeon, Henry Gray. There will be no life and death situations, there will be no love triangles, and there will be no unrealistically attractive doctors and nurses in this podcast... just...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, as we all stress about the U.S. Presidential election results, let's take a step back and learn about the meditating act of gardening. I will continue reading the "Manual of Gardening" by L.H. Bailey. Second Edition, published in 1910. Gardening is a quiet, calming activity and requires significantly less vote count sta...

Good evening and welcome to the podcast where you Sleep... with Josh. Tonight, in the spirit of All Hallow's Eve festivities, I will be reading one of the most well known poems of horror from the great American writer and poet, Edgar Allen Poe., The Master of the Macabre, the Notorious EAP, the original TPOT, "That Poe Over There". Now sit back, close your eyes and steady your beating heart becaus...