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Witty Historian

Witty Historian

Witty Historian is a sleep-focused history podcast featuring calm, immersive storytelling designed to help you fall asleep.Each episode explores unusual and often unsettling historical topics — including drug history, human behavior, and forgotten events — told in a slow, steady voice for relaxation and sleep.Perfect for listeners looking for sleep stories, relaxing podcasts, or quiet background narration to unwind at night.

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99 episodes

  1. Why 1970s America Had a Drug for Every Occasion 1:45:28
  2. How People Used Weed to Fall Asleep for Centuries 2:07:48
  3. What Getting High Was Like in Medieval Times 2:11:29
  4. How Hash Became the Soul of 1970s Counterculture 2:12:48
  5. Why Opium Dens Became Notorious in Victorian London 1:52:27
  6. How Valium Sedated 70s American Housewives 2:06:44
  7. The Spice That Got People HIGH for Centuries (2-Hour History for Sleep) 2:03:45
  8. Can’t Sleep? Here’s the Entire History of Sleeping Pills 2:08:05
  9. The Evolution of Designer Drugs Explained (2-Hour History for Sleep) 2:09:49
  10. How Anti-Drug Campaigns Took Over 1980s America 1:34:16
  11. What Getting Drunk & High Really Meant to the Vikings 1:50:55
  12. How 90s Ravers Reinvented the Psychedelic Experience 1:38:05
  13. The Strange History of American Weed: From Reefer Madness to 420 2:07:06
  14. How Ecstasy Changed From the 1990s to Today 1:41:50
  15. Why Was Getting High So Normal in Victorian England? 1:50:04
  16. How a Village Healer Became the Face of Magic Mushrooms 1:54:24
  17. The Legendary Weed of the 1970s Explained 1:34:16
  18. How Amsterdam Became the Weed Capital of the World 1:42:22
  19. The Psychedelics Iceberg Explained 2:00:21
  20. Old Weed vs New Weed: What Actually Changed? 1:26:09
  21. Was Hitler’s Drug Use Actually Insane by 1930s Standards? 2:08:10
  22. The OPIOID That Treats OPIOID Addiction | History For Sleep 1:52:09
  23. Welcome To Witty Historian 1:59
  24. Inside the Most Extreme Drug Experiences 1:48:43
  25. Why a Drug Called Dragonfly Cost People Their Arms and Legs 2:04:08
  26. What Was Really on That Blotter Paper? (It Wasn’t LSD) 1:54:45
  27. The Most Terrifying Psychedelic That Came After Salvia 1:54:02
  28. The Secret Chemistry Of Truth Serums: From Ancient Datura To Cold War Barbiturates 1:43:35
  29. How One Drug Turned Parkinson’s Patients Into Compulsive Gamblers 1:41:24
  30. The Forgotten Psychedelic That Terrified the 1960s 2:01:33
  31. Serotonin Storms: The Untold Dark Side of the SSRI Prescription Boom 1:57:16
  32. Every Way Humans Have Tried to Get High 2:12:53
  33. How a Soviet Anxiety Drug Became an Internet Addiction 1:43:39
  34. Vioxx: The Rise and Fall of Medicine’s Miracle Painkiller 1:43:36
  35. The 7 Levels of Drug Addiction: A Journey Through History 1:53:57
  36. The 4,000 Year History of Opioids 1:59:01
  37. Every Drug Ranked by How Quickly It Destroys You 1:52:22
  38. How One Man Turned Amphetamines Into a Superpower 1:54:03
  39. The Forgotten History of Quaaludes (America's Favorite Sedative) 1:42:37
  40. We Need to Talk About Cocaine (Again) 1:54:25
  41. The Craziest Drugs You’ve NEVER Heard Of 2:04:29
  42. Why Millions Took a Cough Medicine to Leave Their Own Mind 1:51:22
  43. Fentanyl Was Just the Beginning 2:03:19
  44. How Gas Station Heroin Became an Addiction Nightmare 2:13:34
  45. A Miracle Drug That Wasn't a Miracle at All 2:08:20
  46. The Most Unpleasant Deliriants in History 2:14:39
  47. Why Nobody Trusted Their Drink in 1900s Chicago 1:37:28
  48. Mephedrone: The Drug That Took Over an Entire Generation 2:12:51
  49. How Victorians Turned Anesthesia Into Entertainment 2:01:02
  50. What Happened When America Banned Alcohol 2:17:11