Things That Keep Me Up at Night
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Things That Keep Me Up at Night
The podcast that asks the question: What keeps you up at night? Hosts Brooke and Olivia discuss a variety of topics from cults to genocides to conspiracies to plagues. Are you interested in learning more about corporate greed, human exploitation, and the many, many things that can kill you? Do you w...
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Naptime Nightmares #067 - DON'T GO IN THE FOREST (featuring Lex Mooney)
After you hear friend-of-the-show Lex Mooney share these stories of mysterious disappearance, law enforcement incompetence, and the occasional prevent...
Naptime Nightmares #066 - The Gay Deceivers (1969)
Happy Pride Month! We're kicking it off with a review of an LGBTQ cult classic. The Gay Deceivers (1969) was one of the first American films to portra...
Naptime Nightmares #065 - Watermelon Man (1970)
Huge thanks to Behind the Slate Podcast for turning us on to this underexposed gem - give 'em a listen and follow them on Tiktok (which is where we sa...
Naptime Nightmares #064 - Do What You Can
Folks, we could all use a little good news. But instead of a Gong Noise episode, we decided to find a new direction: Historical acts of kindness. Thou...
Naptime Nightmares #063 - Gwyneth Paltrow's in the News, Let's Make Fun of GOOP
While Olivia and Brooke work up the data to present something decent on the RESTRICT Act, we decided to take Gwyneth Paltrow's moment in the media cyc...
Naptime Nightmares #062 - The Red Pill (2016)
Ok so we watched this movie in 2016 and had this incredible plan to revisit it, listen to our old review, and compare it with our current opinions. Bu...
Episode #063 - Who's to Blame for Child Beauty Pageants?
The deep dive into child beauty pageants is finally complete. The big question: Why do parents still engage with these pageants when they're a.) so de...
Naptime Nightmares #061 - From Justin to Kelly (2003)
We've had a WEEK (read: we are very tired), so instead of an emotionally-draining heavy hitter we've opted for another terrible movie to lift our spir...
Naptime Nightmares #060 - The Delicate Balance of Family Toxicity in Comedy
To give you a break from real-life family toxicity in the pageant world, we're diving deep into... fictional family toxicity! Hooray!
For the fi...
Episode #062 - Child Beauty Pageants Are Worse Than We Thought
Disclaimer: We had some audio issues on Brooke's recording this week - it's a little annoying, but still listenable, and we really hope it doesn't aff...
Naptime Nightmares #049 - The Postman (1997)
THIS MOVIE BAD.
Idk what we expected from a movie that won like 5 Razzies, but we are at a loss, folks. This rivals My Boss's Daughter in badnes...
Episode #061 - Toddlers & Tiaras... & Trauma?
Brooke's only familiarity with child pageants was with Toddlers & Tiaras when she was in high school--but how accurate was that to the real life effec...
Naptime Nightmares #058 - Cam (2018)
Brooke stalling for time is the perfect excuse to get into the spooky spirit with a good-ole-fashioned horror movie review! And this one's a treat - i...
Naptime Nightmares #057 - Killer Bean Forever (2009)
Huge thanks to our Patron, Danica, for recommending this to us in our Discord server!
It sure is a movie... sort of! A meme that Olivia and Broo...
Episode #060 - That's Just Child Trafficking!
I don't know what else to say! If the last two parts of this massive series were bad, this one is truly a nightmare. Olivia wraps up her deep dive int...
Naptime Nightmares #056 - So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
Woman! Woe-man! Whoaaaaaa man! It's a weird 90s romantic comedy as a palette cleanser before Olivia's last episode on the adoption and foster industry...
Episode #059 - Can You Foster Children Ethically?
Spoiler Alert: Of course you can, it's just way more complicated than we originally thought.
Olivia delves into the foster system in part 2 of...
Episode #058 - The Child Industry
We're back in the saddle, friends, and this time we're starting ROUGH with a new series aaaall about kids. It's always the kids.
In our first-ev...
Naptime Nightmares #055 - Mini Heavy Hitters: Getting Old and Hating Women
It's the last episode of the season! For our season finale, we're giving you two mini heavy hitters each - two subjects that keep us up at night but c...
Episode #057 - Cyclical Trauma and Why We Justify Nukes
TRIGGER WARNING: this episode presents topics such as war, gore/violence, body horror, child death and suffering, firsthand accounts of nuclear detona...
Honored to be Her Mother - featuring Ignorance was Bliss and Debbie Heater
If you thought one of your loved ones was the victim of murder, foul play, a cover-up, or simple lack of attention... how far would you go to get answ...
Naptime Nightmares #054 - Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
This movie did something that we haven't experienced since The Cat in the Hat: Olivia and I disagreed!! Is Jared and Jerusha Hess's 2009 quirk-fest an...
Episode #056 - How Do You Start a Nuclear War?
Most folks are aware of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan - but how much do we know about how it got to that point? Part I o...
Naptime Nightmares #053 - My Boss's Daughter (2003)
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of graphic scenes depicting racism, sexism, sexual assault and abuse, ableism, homophobia, transph...
Naptime Nightmares #052 - That's Not Very Labor Shortage of You
Recent media coverage of the Antiwork movement and the ongoing Great Resignation would have you believe that the working class is simply lazy and unap...
Naptime Nightmares #051 - Campfire Horror Stories 3!!!
Y'all, we are so excited to get back in front of the fire with our sleeping bags and cans of beans to tell scary stories to our favorite listeners. An...
Episode #055 - Psychological Fallout of Surviving Chernobyl (Part II)
We'll be honest, this was an extremely hard episode to record. We've seen a lot of suffering in our lifetime, but nothing we've experienced comes clos...
Episode #054 - The Comic-Book Evil That Destroyed Chernobyl (Part I)
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode doesn't get into the worst of it, but we're still talking about a nuclear meltdown that destroyed an entire ecosystem an...
Naptime Nightmares #050 - Old (2021)
Remember how we said The Happening was the worst feature film we'd ever seen? We can't say that anymore! Everything about Old (2021) is bad, and all t...
Naptime Nightmares #049 - Gong Noise 6: I've Run Out of Sequel Jokes
We'd nearly forgotten about this show's one source of mood rehabilitation! We're bringing the good news train back into the station by sharing the pos...
Naptime Nightmares #048 - Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses the life and death of Pocahontas, which includes potentially-triggering topics such as rape and sexual abuse,...
Episode #053 - REWIND: Gettin' Back to Those Sweet Butter Churns
I'm so excited bro I can't even express how excited I am because guess what! My (Brooke's) first ever episode was on the Salem Witch Trials, and it wa...
Minisode #047 - Opposite Day Footloose
What do a chemical explosion and a dancing plague have in common? Nothing! Except that they're both subjects in this latest installment of our Freak A...
Episode #052 - Steve Drain Walk Into Lava Challenge (Part II)
We're wrapping up Olivia's two-part episode on the Westboro Baptist Church - this time with a healthy dose of... empathy? Is that empathy I feel? Wuh...
Episode #051 - REWIND: Revisiting the Most Hated Family in America (Part I)
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone fit in neat little boxes? It certainly would be easier to say the Westboro Baptist Church and its members were born ev...
Naptime Nightmares #046 - Kamillions (1990)
Literally someone's penis turns into a monster. It's time for a terrible-movie-minisode, courtesy of Noodle on YouTube, where we review the most sense...
Episode #050 - Intersecting Capitalism and Christianity
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This topic was admittedly a beast, and there are a million o...
Naptime Nightmares #045 - Leprechaun (1993)
Look, I get that it's supposed to be a campy, bad horror movie, but that won't stop us from complaining loudly about it. Because Leprechaun, starring...
Episode #049 - Christianity Isn't What You Think It Is
Welcome to our first two-parter ever! In addressing Capitalism in Christianity, Brooke lays the groundwork by covering the basis of Christianity in a...
Naptime Nightmares #044 - Murder Among the Mormons (2021)
Jared Hess and Tyler Measom's new hit documentary Murder Among the Mormons has unearthed the "black eye" on the Mormon Church, and boy howdy - it's a...