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Hey, Wowzer fans, Mindy here.
And before we start the show, I gotta let you know that this November, with a special new episode featuring our friends at Circle Round and Terrestrials on Radiolab for Kids,
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Woo!
Alright, let me just get this thing ready to play.
Oh yeah!
Mindy, what is happening?
Earthquake?
T-Rex?
That gang of raccoons I was laughing at the other day?
Oh no!
My gingerbread mansion is collapsing in on itself!
I should have used whole wheat flour!
Coming from Mindy?
I don't know.
Is it coming from Guy Raz's house?
Hmm.
Run, run, run, run, run, run.
Uh, hello?
Guy Raz?
That's not a necktie.
This is a necktie.
Guy Raz, wake up before you snore the whole neighborhood down.
You, sir, have insulted my honor.
What? you to a thumb war.
Guy Raz!
Guy Raz!
This is never gonna work.
Where's that emergency wake-up kit?
Ah, here it is.
Smelling salts, a pail of water.
Aha!
Air horn.
Perfect!
Sorry in advance, Guy Raz.
Where am I?
Is the queen okay?
Guy Raz, snap out of it!
Mindy, what are you doing in my room?
What I came over here to wake you up.
Wake me up?
Mindy, this is the first decent night's sleep I've had all week.
Really?
Man, you should get into Remy.
He's a lifesaver.
Remy?
Who's Remy?
Remy, the sleep coach.
He's been helping me get ready for the big competition tomorrow.
The big competition?
What are you talking about?
Oh!
Don't tell me you forgot about it.
Uh... The annual NPR three-point basketball competition?
Oh, right.
Of course.
And it's all going down tomorrow at dawn.
And this Remy guy is supposedly going to help you with this?
Yeah, he says a few extra hours in bed every night can help me sleep my way to victory.
Well...
That does make sense.
Uh-huh.
And this year, I know I'll win.
I'm going to give that Ira Glass the fight of his American life.
And this guy, Remy, is he the one to help you do it?
Yeah.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of him yet.
He's all over TV.
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Cigarette rise? a guy who's been helping me get ready for the three-point competition.
And I got to tell you, my sleep hygiene has never been better.
Sleep hygiene?
Yeah.
So sleep hygiene is really just a fancy pants way of saying a good night's sleep.
So I've been getting my eight hours, limiting my screen time before bed, and saying no to coffee.
The best part of waking up.
No coffee!
Uh-huh.
In fact, I was just getting ready to go see Remy for another session.
You want to come?
I don't know, Mindy.
It seems pretty late.
Okay, Zoodle, what's the time?
The Time, also known as Morris Day and The Time, an American musical group that was formed in Minneapolis in 1981.
No, no, no, Zoodle, what's the time now?
In Time.
An American dystopian science fiction action thriller film starring Justin Timberlake.
No, no, no, no, no.
Zoodle?
Guy Raz, it's 8.30.
8.30?
Mindy, it's the middle of the night.
For you.
Well, when's a better time to practice sleeping than the middle of the night?
I guess that's true.
So you'll come?
Sure.
I mean...
It couldn't hurt, right?
Let me just get my stuff together.
Posturpedic pillow, silk eye mask.
Mindy?
Yeah?
Could you pass me my dehumidifier and static noise generator?
Well, I think that's everything.
All right.
Let me just give Reggie a quick call.
I think he just got off of his goober shift.
He's driving for goober now?
Oh, yeah.
He needed the extra cash, so, you know.
Tough times, I guess.
Dial, dial, dial, dial, dial.
It's ringing.
Oh, hey, Reg.
How's it going?
Great.
Okay, so we need a favor.
I know, I know.
Yeah, we just need a quick lift.
Not far.
Surging?
Okay, fine.
Thanks, Reg.
See you soon.
He's on his way.
Perfect.
All right, can you help me carry all this stuff downstairs?
Sure.
Sure thing, Guy Raz.
Oh, wait.
I almost forgot my nightcap.
OK.
There we go.
Now.
Oh, hey, Reggie.
Reggie, over here.
Nice wheel.
All right, Guy Raz.
Hop on in.
Wait.
Reggie is driving a car for Goober?
Are you sure this car is safe?
I'm not sure it's safe, Guy Raz.
Now get in!
Well, okay.
Seatbelts on.
I like to wear all of them.
Okay, Reg, we're going to need you to take us to the sleep gym.
It's on the corner of Broken Dreams Boulevard and Memory Lane.
I really don't think this is necessary.
Neither is breathing, Guy Raz, and you do that all day long.
Y'all strapped in?
I think...
I think so.
Good, because here we go!
What a trip.
You gotta take us driving more often, Reg.
Remember to tip your driver, Guy Raz.
Okay, Reg, we gotta run.
Or sleep.
You know what I mean.
Catch you later.
Well, here we are, Guy Raz.
The sleep gym.
Oh, yeah, I can see the sign.
The sleep gym.
Plenty of rest so you can beat the best.
Ha!
You ready?
As I'll ever be.
All right, let's go, buddy.
Okay, you sleepyheads, are you ready for another set?
All right, you asked for it.
Now jump down and give me three cycles.
Ooh.
What is he talking about, Mindy?
Well, shh.
Sorry.
I think he's talking about sleep cycles.
You know, the different stages that your body goes through when you close your eyes.
Wait, you mean when I close my eyes and doze off, my body is still working out?
Yep.
That's why sleep is so important, Guy Raz.
And my ticket to winning that three-point basketball competition.
I don't know, Mindy.
I mean, all these people, they don't even look like they're sleeping their way to anything.
Well, it might not look like they're doing anything, Guy Raz, but there's actually a lot of important work happening inside your body when you go to sleep.
Okay, stage one.
Here we go.
So what are these stages of sleep?
Okay, so stage one is called light sleep, where you can still drift in and out of consciousness.
Right, and consciousness is a scientific term for being aware of what's going on around you.
Yeah, so in this stage of sleep, it's still super easy to wake people up.
Like I said, it's still very easy to wake people up at this stage.
Your eyes kind of move slowly from side to side under your eyelids and your muscles start to slow down.
Right, so what's next?
Coming up next is stage two.
We're about to enter stage two.
Are you ready?
Because here we go.
In stage two, your eyes stop moving and your brain waves start to slow down.
And brain waves are basically a measurement of how active your brain is, right?
Right.
So in stage two, your brain waves slow down, your body temperature drops...
And your heart rate slows down as your body prepares for deep sleep.
Deep sleep?
Yep.
Stage three.
Okay, everyone.
Let's get you into some deep sleep.
Oh, man.
I keep forgetting how loud deep sleep is, Guy Raz.
This must have been the stage you were in when I woke you up earlier.
You might be right, Mindy.
And in this It's very hard to wake people up.
Tell me about it.
You had to bust out the emergency air horn.
And it's the stage where sleepwalking or sleep talking can happen.
Go on.
Okay, so these very slow brain waves are called delta waves.
And some scientists believe that when you're in this state of sleep, your body goes into a sort of full-on recovery mode, releasing hormones.
And when you're in this state of sleep Which, by the way, are the chemicals in your brain that help you grow big and strong?
Anywho, it starts repairing your immune system, your body's inner defense system, and organizing all of the learning you did that day into a long-term storage in your brain.
Huh, so that's it?
Well, not exactly.
So after you reach stage three, your body starts to come back down through stage two.
Okay, sleepyheads, let's bring it back.
Stage two.
And stage one.
And stage one.
Good work, everybody.
Now for the most important part.
Wait a minute.
There's more?
Yep.
After cycling through all the different stages of sleep, your body goes through one more stage before starting it all up again.
And what is it?
Here we go.
Get ready for it.
It's called... REM sleep.
R-E-M sleep?
You know it, Guy Raz.
During this phase between cycles, your breathing speeds up, your heart rate goes up and so does your blood pressure.
And most importantly, your eyes begin to dart rapidly back and forth under your eyelids.
R-E-M sleep stands for rapid eye movement sleep.
And so that's it?
That's the sleep cycle?
That's it.
And then it starts all over again.
All right, good work, everyone.
Now who's ready for one more?
Okay, here we go.
So typically a person will go through about four or five of these cycles a night, with each cycle lasting about 90 minutes or so.
That's so fascinating, Mindy, but... Whew.
I think I'm going to see if I can catch a few Z's with this class before your big game.
Can you pass me that blanket over there?
Well, I still need to catch up on my sleep, too.
Well, like I was saying earlier Mindy, it turns out that sleeping is super important when it comes to athletic performance.
Really?
Really.
Check out this video for this new study out of Stanford University in California.
Just wake me up when you're done, okay?
Okay, Roz, I'm not just gonna... Ooh, popcorn!
Okay, let's see what this study is all about.
It says here on the tape, sleep and athletic performance in basketball players.
Hey there, I'm Remy from the world-famous Sleep Your Way to Victory Bootcamp.
Remy?
That's right.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
What's the science to back up all this news and success?
That is what I was thinking.
Well, lucky for you, my good friend, Guy Paz.
Thank you, but it's actually Roz.
Whatever.
My good friend, Guy Raz, will explain to you why you need my program, Mr. Gaz.
Well, hey there, sleepyheads.
Guy Raz, what are you doing in this video?
A group of scientists from Stanford University wanted to see what effect sleep had on basketball players.
So the first thing they did was to get a bunch of basketball players, on their regular amount of sleep to perform a bunch of drills like sprinting, shooting and reaction time.
Yeah, and then?
And then the scientists measured how well these athletes performed doing the same tasks, but with an extra few hours of bed rest.
And what did they find?
They found that the athletes had faster sprint times.
Their basketball shooting accuracy had improved by 9 from the free throw line and 92 when shooting three-pointers.
And the players showed much faster reaction times.
Think fast.
Ouch.
What?
Looks like this guy needs a couple more cycles.
Hey, join us next week when we... Okay, that's enough of you.
Thank you very much.
Right.
Now what?
Hey, look, the sunrise.
The three-point basketball competition.
Guy Raz, Guy Raz, wake up.
It's dawn.
We're going to miss the competition.
Come on.
Where am I?
We're at the sleep gym, but that's enough snoozing for you.
Buddy game to win a basketball game.
Oh yeah, the npr three-point shootout.
Sorry yeah, we better get a move on it if we want to make it there in time.
The court's just next door.
Come on.
Well, that's awfully convenient.
Okay, now i think it's right down this hall here.
Hey, by the way, i never knew you did videos for the sleep gym.
Well, i tried to tell you mindy, but you kept cutting me.
This is it.
Welcome everyone to the NPR three-point shooty hoops competition.
Now that we're all here, we can begin the trash-talking portion of this athletic pastime.
I'm ready to rumble.
Today on the program, Mindy gets her butt kicked and then has to go crying home to her mother, who is also sad that Mindy got her butt kicked.
Not this time, Ira.
All right, challengers, take your places when you're ready.
Is everyone ready?
Excellent.
In three, two, one, shoot baskets.
Mindy, you did it.
I guess all that sleep really did pay off.
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