23: The 3:45 a.m. Episode (Day 25/30 sober)

Nate wields his insomnia as a tool for good as he talks about killing the momentum of his novel by discussing it, staying busy to dodge depression, the importance of having goals to make life bearable, being slow to realize that the world doesn’t revolve around him, his absolute earliest memories, “The Paddle” in public school back in the day, getting spanked by Dad, kids’ eyes being magnetically drawn to the TV whenever something they shouldn’t watch comes on, doing the same dumb thing 1,000 f***ing times and never learning from it, and cancel culture’s two latest casualties: six of Dr. Seuss’s books and the Amazon Shopping app’s “Hitler” icon... Emoji credit: Copyright 2018 Twitter, Inc and other contributors Graphics licensed under CC-BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/