The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep

Episode twenty-nine of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called When Carrots Receive Compliments, and it is exactly as uneventful as it sounds. Over the course of this deeply unhurried episode, we explore the surprisingly long and thoroughly unexciting history of the carrot, from its purple and white wild ancestors in ancient Afghanistan, through the Arab world and Persia, all...

Episode twenty-eight of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is titled The Transition from Awake to Asleep, and it is exactly as uneventful as it sounds. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a podcast to help you fall asleep, something to listen to when your mind needs to slow down, or simply a long, calm, meandering voice to drift off to, this episode was made with you in mind. O...

Episode twenty-seven of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is here, and it is called Boring Finds at Airport Security. If you have ever found yourself wide awake and in need of something deeply, profoundly, almost aggressively uneventful to listen to, this is the episode for you. We spend a long, unhurried, and thoroughly unspectacular amount of time exploring the world of airport...

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep, Episode twenty-six: The Alphabet's Order - A Deep Exploration of Why B Comes After A. If you are looking for something to help you fall asleep, something slow and meandering and completely safe to miss if you drift off mid-sentence, you have found exactly the right place. In this episode, we spend a deeply unhurried amount of time exploring one o...

Episode twenty-five of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is entirely about mathematics, and it is every bit as soporific as that sounds. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a bedtime podcast, or simply something deeply monotone to drift off to, this episode will do the job with the quiet efficiency of a very reliable calculator. We cover the history of mathematics from the Leb...

Episode twenty-four of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is titled Everything You Don't Need to Know About Drying Paint, and it delivers exactly what it promises: a slow, warm, thoroughly unhurried journey through the world of paint, drying, and everything loosely connected to it. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a bedtime podcast, or something to listen to when you want yo...

Episode twenty-three of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called If the World Were Made of Candy, and it is exactly as uneventful as it sounds. Over the course of this episode, we explore in painstaking and thoroughly unhurried detail what a world made of candy might actually look like - the geology, the weather, the architecture, the oceans, the fauna, and the quiet daily life...

Episode twenty-two of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is here, and it is everything you hoped it would be, which is to say, very nearly nothing at all. This week's topic is how broccoli grows, and we cover it in the most thorough, unhurried, and deeply soporific way imaginable. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a bedtime podcast, a podcast to fall asleep to, or simply some...

Episode twenty one of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is here, and the topic is indoor climate. That's right. Not outdoor climate. Not climate change. Indoor climate. The temperature of rooms. The humidity of corridors. The ventilation rates of spaces you have spent time in without ever once thinking about their ventilation rates. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a podcas...

Episode twenty of The World's Most Boring Podcast, Bore Me to Sleep, is here, and it is about folding clothes. That is it. That is the whole thing. If you were hoping for drama, tension, or anything that could reasonably be described as a plot, this is not your episode. But if you are looking for something calm, unhurried, and deeply monotonous to help you fall asleep, you have found exactly the r...

Episode nineteen of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is entirely about soap. Yes, soap. The bar on the edge of your sink. The one with the hair on it. Over the course of this slow, unhurried, and thoroughly uneventful episode, we cover the chemistry of saponification, the ancient history of soap in Babylon and Egypt, the notorious English soap tax that lasted two hundred and elev...

Episode eighteen of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called The Life of a Shoe, and it is exactly as uneventful as it sounds. Over sixteen gently meandering segments, we follow the complete and thoroughly unhurried life of a shoe - from raw materials and ancient sandals to rubber soles, shoelaces, aglets, cobblers, and a pair of moon boots that left footprints on the lunar sur...

Episode seventeen of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called An Epic Tale of the Time I Waited for the Bus for a Perfectly Normal Amount of Time, and it is exactly what it sounds like. Over the course of this slow, meandering, deeply uneventful episode, we wait for the number forty-seven bus for eleven minutes, and we describe every single unremarkable moment of it in as much...

Episode sixteen of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called A Guided Tour Through the Mysteries of the Refrigerator, and it is exactly as uneventful as it sounds. Over the course of this long, slow, gently wandering episode, we explore the refrigerator in exhaustive and thoroughly unhurried detail - its history, its shelves, its hum, its light that may or may not be on when the...

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep presents episode fifteen: The Life of a Fish. If you are lying awake tonight, staring at the ceiling, unable to quiet your thoughts, or if you simply enjoy falling asleep to slow, monotone talk about something it is perfectly fine to miss entirely, this episode was made for you. We spend a long, unhurried, thoroughly uneventful hour exploring the...

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep, Episode fourteen: A Detailed Description of a Tree That Is Growing. If you have been searching for something to help you fall asleep, something slow and calm and completely safe to miss if you doze off halfway through, this is it. In this episode, we spend a great deal of time describing a tree. Not a famous tree. Not a tree that won any awards o...

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep returns with episode thirteen: The World's Most Obvious Life Hacks. If you've been lying awake hoping someone would slowly and unhurriedly talk you through advice you already know and have definitely already forgotten to follow, this is the episode you didn't know you needed and probably won't remember hearing because you'll be asleep before it's...

Episode twelve of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called Completely Normal Conversations, and it is exactly as uneventful as that title promises. Over the course of this long, slow, gently wandering episode, we explore the full, deeply unremarkable landscape of everyday human conversation. Not the dramatic kind. Not the kind that changes lives or appears in films. The ordinar...

Episode eleven of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is called Fourteen Boring Tips for Getting Rich, and it is exactly as thrilling as that title suggests. Over the course of this episode, your host walks you through fourteen thoroughly unexciting personal finance principles, including compound interest, index funds, emergency funds, diversification, and the importance of defining...

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep returns with episode ten, and this time we are going deep into the soothing, deeply unremarkable world of water and ice. The episode is called The Difference Between Ice and Water, and Why Water Is So Wet, and it delivers exactly what it promises: a long, calm, gently meandering exploration of one of the most familiar and quietly strange substance...

How to Boil Water - A Thorough Investigation is episode nine of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep, and it does exactly what it promises: it takes the single most ordinary thing you do in a kitchen and examines it so slowly, so gently, and so completely that you will be asleep long before the water reaches one hundred degrees Celsius.

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep, Episode Eight: The Life of a Sock. If you have been searching for something to help you fall asleep and you are tired of sleep meditations that try too hard, white noise that makes you feel like you are inside a vacuum cleaner, or bedtime stories that are actually quite interesting and therefore completely useless, then you have arrived at the ri...

A Comprehensive Guide to Watching Paint Dry - Episode 7 - The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Episode Six: The Art of Queueing. Queue here for the most deliberately dull, deeply soothing, and thoroughly unhurried exploration of waiting in line you will ever have the pleasure of not quite finishing before you fall asleep. In this episode, your AI host takes you on a slow, meandering, and increasingly drowsy journey through the history, psychology, mathemati...

The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep presents episode five: Things You Wish You Didn't Know About Snow. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a bedtime story for adults, or simply something deeply monotone to listen to while you drift off, you have found the right place. This episode covers everything you never urgently needed to know about snow, including how snowflakes form aroun...