Why sleep matters more than you think
In this episode of The Healthy Sleep Podcast, John and David Grove dive into the essentials of building the ideal sleep environment. From mattresses and pillows to lighting, temperature, and even white noise, the brothers break down what really makes your bedroom the most peaceful place in your home.
They cover everything from choosing the right mattress and pillow to why clean sheets matter to how blackout curtains and white noise apps can make the difference between tossing and turning and sleeping soundly. With their trademark mix of humor and practical advice, John and David share the small tweaks that add up to big improvements in your nightly rest.
Key Takeaways
- Sleep deprivation doesn’t just make you tired — it affects relationships, work, and health.
- Being slumpy (sleep-deprived + grumpy) is worse than being hangry.
- Deep sleep is when your brain cleans itself, boosting memory and focus.
- Micro-sleeps are dangerous — your brain will shut down if you don’t get rest.
- Long-term sleep deprivation raises risks of sickness, weight gain, and even chronic disease.
- Consistent sleep and wake times help your body naturally reset.
- A good mattress is the foundation, but daily sleep habits make all the difference.
Actionable Sleep Tips from this Episode
- Watch for signs of being “slumpy” — irritability, forgetfulness, or lack of focus.
- Stick to a consistent wake-up time to train your body’s natural rhythm.
- Prioritize 8 hours of sleep as a non-negotiable investment in your health.
- Create a sleep environment you love — your mattress, space, and habits all matter.
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Transcript
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When you are hungry and you're grumpy at
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the same time, nobody wants to be told
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that they are grumpy.
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Welcome back
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to the Healthy Sleep Podcast by MattressGrove.
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I'm David Grove.
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This is John Grove.
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We're your hosts.
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We are owners of MattressGrove and our
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family business is driven to support you and
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help you get a healthy night's sleep.
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It is.
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Yes, it is.
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Absolutely.
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How are you doing today?
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Man, I'm doing great.
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-Yeah?
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Fantastic.
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Did you get some good sleep?
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I got great sleep.
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What did you do special?
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Anything special?
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You know, I woke up yesterday at the
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right time, went to bed when my body
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felt like going to bed, and guess what?
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I got eight hours of sleep.
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So this morning I was up at 5:24 am.
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Oh, that's perfect, right?
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Didn't even have to wait for your alarm.
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Didn't even have to wait.
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I was like, oh, wait a minute.
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Let me just turn that off.
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That's awesome.
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How about yourself?
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Yeah, heck yeah.
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No, I, uh, yeah, pretty much same this
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morning.
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My alarm did get me, but I woke
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up before about 10 minutes before and all
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of a sudden, boom, but I was on
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the floor and I was up at five.
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So I got up a little bit earlier
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than you.
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You know, I got to get out there
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and, you know, get some water in my
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system.
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So today's episode, we're going to talk about
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why sleep matters more than you actually think.
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And we talk about all the time, but
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it's so important to our everyday life.
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It's not only about not being groggy,
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-it's about not being slumpy.
-Slumpy.
-Slumpy.
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And we'll talk more about being slumpy a
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little later.
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We'd like to thank everybody for tuning in.
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Um, we appreciate you guys.
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And, uh, if you like what you hear,
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um, if you don't like what you hear,
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go and like us anyway.
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So we'll start with the, uh, hidden costs,
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the things that, uh, that we don't even
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realize, right?
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That's right.
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Yeah.
I mean, you know, cause it comes down
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to your relationships suffer, your work suffers, your
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health suffers.
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I mean, all those things. Big time, right?
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A hundred percent.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Definitely.
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And a lot of times we don't realize
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it because it kind of creeps up on
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us. Right?
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So we, you know, it builds or it
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builds in a negative way.
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All your day is affected.
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We just don't realize it.
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The one way you, I guess you can
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realize it is if you see how
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other people are reacting, or maybe you got
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called it, maybe you got to put on
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a PIP at work, whether it may, because
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you're sleep deprived, you're slumpy.
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Right. Yep.
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And usually it's, it's your relationships, your close
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relationships. You know, I rely on you to
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tell me when I'm being bad.
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-I do! Hey! You're being slumpy!
-(laughter)
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But yeah.
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And so, you know, you rely on your
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relationships to give you a little bit of
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input on that
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cause you, you typically don't know that you're,
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you know, you're, you feel groggy or whatever
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else, but that that's just like, "Oh, well,
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I just didn't sleep good last night."
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But if it's progressive and, and, and, you
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know, multiple weeks or days that you're feeling
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this, that, you know, the people in your
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life can say, "Hey, look, you know, you
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seem, something's not right."
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And you're just like, yeah, well, you know,
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kind of cast off, but that's, that's your
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first indicator.
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Second indicator would be your performance, you know,
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at work or whatever else, or, you know,
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when you get off work, are you not
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doing your chores around the house?
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Are you not doing the things that you
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really do?
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Cause you're tired.
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You know, your body's going to tell you
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what is going on when you're not getting
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that, that good sleep.
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The last thing that I noticed for myself
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is when my health starts to decline, when
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I get a cold or, you know, just
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different things start happening to my body.
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You know, usually I start drinking more coffee.
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So then I have acid reflux.
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And so those are indicators that I'm not
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sleeping good too.
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Usually people start telling me I'm grumpy or
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slumpy.
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Yeah.
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That's the first indicator for me.
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No question about it.
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So I know, you know, from a scientific
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point of view, you know, different levels of
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when we were sleeping, one of the key
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deep sleep keys is that the brain actually
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cleans itself.
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You know, it cleans the memory up so
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that it stores it and then it opens
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up your brain for the tomorrow.
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And if you don't get that, first of
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all, the memory goes away and you start
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forgetting simple things.
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You know, you know, somebody's name it's like,
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oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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And and so that means that your brain's
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not been cleaning correctly.
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So you think of it during part of
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that eight hours of sleep, we need to
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make sure that we're getting that good, good
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sleep or else we're not going to get
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it clean.
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And we need to clean.
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It's like cleaning our house.
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We got to clean it.
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How many times have you walked into the
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middle of a room and gone, why am
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I in this room?
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I've never done that.
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I was like, maybe it's my age.
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Well, no, I think it's because I wasn't
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sleeping good and that my brain wasn't resetting
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itself like it should.
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Yeah.
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And storing those memories like you're talking about,
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because that is, I mean, that's a big
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indicator again, you know, memory is a big
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thing for sleep.
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Huge recovery piece.
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No question about it.
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So if you're not feeling sharp in your
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meetings. You're not feeling sharp in the gym,
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you know, like golly, man, I used to,
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I mean, I could be used to bench
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press 225.
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And man, I mean, I just, today I
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can get 185.
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Maybe, I mean, it's probably, probably, you know,
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because I didn't sleep good.
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I didn't recover.
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Not because, hey, I lifted yesterday.
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It might be just because I didn't get
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any good night's sleep.
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Like I mentioned, deep sleep is just like
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kind of pushing the button on your brain.
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Time to clean, time to clean, time to
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get ready for tomorrow.
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Real quick, let's talk about being slumpy.
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We coined that term with, we had a
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round table, we might've been over a couple
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of drinks.
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It might just have been, you know, might
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not have.
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It was over some fun time.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But you know, there's the term, what do
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we call when we don't eat?
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I get hangry.
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Hangry.
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That's two words tied into one.
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That's two words tied into one.
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So we were trying to come up with
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a term because sleep deprivation, sleep deprived is,
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I mean, that's a great term, but that's
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not a fun term.
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It's not a, it means something to us,
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but maybe not to younger generation.
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And sleep is definitely important for the younger
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generation.
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We came up with slumpy.
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That's not getting enough sleep and you get
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-grumpy.
-Yeah.
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And, but we don't know that we're slumpy
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most of the time, unless you say,
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David tells me I'm slumpy all the time.
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When you are hungry and you're grumpy at
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the same time, nobody wants to be told
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that they are grumpy.
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But if you're, you know, hangry, somebody can
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joke around with that and say, hey, you're
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hangry.
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And you go, oh yeah, I am.
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That's right.
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Let me get something to eat.
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So you don't really want somebody to say
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you're grumpy because you can get enough sleep.
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Hey, you're slumpy.
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And everybody goes, oh, okay.
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Yeah. Maybe I am.
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Maybe I am.
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Maybe I need to get me a little
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bit of sleep.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Now I will say, now my six-year-old,
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if I tell him he's hangry, he gets
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angry, but you know, but he's six now,
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you know, you don't get mad when I
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say you're hangry.
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You know, the other thing is that you're
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talking about sleep deprivation and being slumpy versus
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hangry.
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Hangry is bad, but slumpy is terrible because,
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I mean, I don't know anybody that has
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ever been hangry that has crashed a plane,
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that has run a ship aground. Being hangry.
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No, you don't do that when you're hangry.
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Matter of fact, you may be more aware
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when you're hangry than when you are full.
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But if you're slumpy, sleep deprived, it's bad.
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That's how important sleep is.
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Absolutely.
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And they talk about the combination of, you
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know, sleep deprivation and intoxication through alcohol being
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very similar.
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-Yeah.
-So, yeah.
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I mean, you end up getting there just
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by not sleeping and you don't understand it.
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So you do need help recognizing it for
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sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, definitely.
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You know, and again, you know, you can
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cut corners with food, you can cut corners
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with exercise, you know, you don't have to
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work out every day, you don't have to
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eat well every day, but you better sleep
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well every day.
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I've got experiences to where, you know, I've,
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you know, gone times where I haven't slept
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well or didn't sleep just because I had
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things that had to get done and it
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didn't pay off.
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It would have been better for me just
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to not cram all that information and all
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that, all that into two days.
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It would have been better to take an
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extra day or just change my schedule around
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because I was less efficient every day.
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The first day was okay, the second day
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was worse, the third day was terrible, and
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the fourth day I might as well, yeah,
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might as well been drunk.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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And I was not this time.
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No, no.
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Well, drunk from not getting sleep.
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Exactly.
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Which was worse.
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You know, sleep is an investment.
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And I mean, one of the most common
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times in your life when you do experience
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sleep deprivation is when you have children.
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I mean, I know that, you know, my
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children as babies kept me awake all the
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time, whether they were crying or not.
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My brain was so tied up into whether
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they had been fed right, what was going
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on with them, the new experience with them.
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And so, you know, all of that changes
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your sleep habits.
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And so, I remember kind of not remembering
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a lot of stuff during that time just
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because I wasn't resetting my brain.
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And I know that a lot of women
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talk about that as well.
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And it's really a big thing.
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You know, sleep has its function in the
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brain.
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And like you mentioned, you get sick.
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Well, you'll be lucky only to be sick.
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Because if you stay in a sleep deprived
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or slumpy world long enough, you're going to
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get a disease.
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You can get diabetes, you can get, you
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know, overweight.
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It's 100% proven.
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And we'll have a sleep doctor come on
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and explain how that works as well.
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But that is how important sleep is.
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That you, we eventually will get sick, get
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the flu, get whatever, get a virus.
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And then we will go into something worse,
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maybe later down the road, or maybe very
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soon, just depends on how much you're not
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getting.
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-Right.
-Because the free radicals in your brain don't
0:10:14.380,0:10:16.060
get in your blood, don't get cleaned out.
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Guess what, they make more, and we're going
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to get sick, but let's recover.
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What do you first thing you do when
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a doctor said, go home and get drink
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water and sleep.
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Help get some rest.
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Exactly.
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Get some rest, get rest.
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But let's get rest before, let's be proactive
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and get rest before.
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And you know, the other thing too, that
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is important, I think to talk about is
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how our brains when we are slumpy, is
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our brain will put us to sleep.
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And there's a term called micro sleep, where
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your brain shuts your body off.
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And here's a way that I can relate
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to that.
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When I used to be on the road
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a lot, I would, towards the end of
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the day, you know, my eyes would get
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heavy.
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And I think everybody here probably can relate
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to that.
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You know, in the afternoon, your eyes are
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getting heavy.
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It's kind of like, ah, you know, I
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need to get some coffee.
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Well, sometime along the way, I realized that
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my eyes were open, but I don't know
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how I got for the last mile.
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Right.
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That was micro sleep.
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Your brain shuts you off.
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You're operating... not good.
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If somebody would have stopped in front of
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me, I'm sure I'll, you know, but that's
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how people go to sleep, right?
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Behind the wheel.
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And so it's so dangerous, that's so dangerous,
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because that micro sleep is going to happen.
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That's how powerful it is.
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Your brain is going to shut you down.
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So if you start feeling that, pull off,
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get you some coffee, get out, walk around,
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do some air squats, do touch your toes,
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do whatever, you know, that's hydrate.
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Hydrate's a big one.
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Hydrate. Chew some gum
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-til you get off.
-Yea, peppermint gum
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really wakes you up some.
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So, yeah, those are all things just to
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get to the next point.
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But, but again, if you get good sleep
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beforehand, you don't have to worry about that.
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Yeah, that's exactly right.
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-So, you know, that's the key.
-Exactly
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But your body is going to push you
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into those those areas.
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And, you know, yeah, we we can do
0:12:02.920,0:12:03.980
it's kind of like running a marathon.
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I go run a marathon today.
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It would hurt like crazy.
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But if I trained up for it, then
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it's no problem.
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Same thing for sleep.
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Practice good sleep habits, get good sleep, and
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then you don't have to worry about it.
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And the simple ones are, you know, go
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to sleep at the same time, or at
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least get up at the same time and
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you will get groggy and you'll get tired
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and then, you know, go to sleep.
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So if you get up at five, you
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need to be in bed at nine.
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Again, it's about your environment.
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So, you know, a good mattress, a good,
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good place, comfortable place to sleep is is
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what we really believe in. The rest of
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the process is up to you.
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-Yeah.
-You can get a good mattress.
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Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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And I mean, you know, again, we're you
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know, we're experts in the mattress business. Been
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here for, you know, been in the mattress
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business for a long time.
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-Yeah.
-Not goes out long, but it's been a
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long time.
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Love it.
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Because again, there's nothing better than helping people
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get a better night's sleep.
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-That's right.
-There's nothing better, you know, and that's why,
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again, you know, we want to share our
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experiences and other people's experiences here so that
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everybody can get a better night's sleep.
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We know about the mattress, we can help
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people with a mattress, no question about it.
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But how do we help?
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How do we help them with everything else?
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-Right.
-Because it's just that important.
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It's so important to everybody's life.
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And so, you know, if we can help
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if we can help one person, that's all
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we need.
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Yep.
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One person at a time.
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That's right.
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But yeah, so, you know, all of our
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mattresses at MattressGrove are handcrafted right here in
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North Carolina.
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When I mean handcrafted, truly handcrafted.
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We have the best artisans in the factory.
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If anybody has any questions about mattresses, I
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spoke to a lady this week, I spoke
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to two ladies this week, but one lady
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called and she liked another brand and she
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but she wanted to compare.
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Well, the brand she she liked.
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That was great.
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She liked it.
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And there was no reason for her to
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-change because it was a special type of
-That's right.
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product that we didn't make. I wouldn't dare change
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her idea of what she wanted.
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And so we I helped her make that
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decision.
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I asked her to please call back or,
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you know, let us know because if she
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doesn't like it, then maybe maybe she'll like
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ours.
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And I had another lady from Seattle, Washington
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call.
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And, you know, we spoke for a long
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time and, you know, about just mattresses.
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We're happy to help anybody as long as
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-they speak English or Spanish.
-Or we'll try
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to figure it out.
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-We'll figure it out.
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-We'll translate.
-You know, reach out to us, ask us
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questions.
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We're happy to do research if we don't
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know the answer.
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We'll share our experiences with you and our
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knowledge about any any brand, any any layer,
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any component of a mattress, you name it.
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We're here to learn, too.
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That's what we're doing.
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We're learning from you and hopefully you can
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learn something from us as well.
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And that's where we want you to call us.
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We're here to bring the knowledge to you
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guys that, you know, of how to get
0:14:55.780,0:14:57.020
better sleep, for sure.
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You know, every every every podcast we like
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to, you know, end with a sleep teep
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sleep tip of the week.
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It's hard for me to say.
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My mouth is a little... I need some
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water.
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But anyway.
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And, you know, this week is, you know,
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let's get let's make sure we focus and
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get eight hours.
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So, you know, let's go to bed on
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a consistent time and get up at consistent
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time.
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And again, I think that the key there
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is, is if you wake up at a
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certain time, then you'll go to bed.
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-So for me, that's what seems to work
-Yeah
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the best as opposed to trying to go
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to bed at a certain time.
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I'm better off if I wake up at
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a certain time, then my body says, hey,
0:15:34.820,0:15:37.060
-it's time to go to bed.
-And see
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if you can do it for a week.
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And then, you know, check, check your focus,
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check, check how your your memory, your all
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that.
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And yeah.
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And see, see how that that works for
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you.
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Hopefully, you know, you'll see a difference.
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And not hopefully I know you will
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-truly get a good night, get eight hours
-That's right
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of sleep consistently for at least a week.
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Now, if you do it for 21 days,
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you'll have a habit and that and then
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you'll be like on fire.
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You'll be on fire.
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You'll be, you know, on fire.
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And then we want to hear from you.
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Reach out to us and let us know
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how it's working.
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So again, we're collecting and we'll start answering
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those questions.
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DM us @mattressgrove
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on Instagram.
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So but we'll we'd love to share that.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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For sure.
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Awesome.
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Well, thank you guys again.
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Thanks everybody for tuning in.
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We appreciate you guys.
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And like I said, like us and follow
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us until next time.
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-Get better sleep.
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