Deficit and Daylight

A Boise balcony turns into an absurd self-made press conference celebrating a rare nine-hour sleep milestone, complete with imagined crowds, traffic chaos, and a Justin Bieber cameo. The episode then unpacks how voice isolation on modern phones can erase background noise so effectively that a moment can seem far louder in real life than it does on recording.

Show Notes

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