Ever been paid to be someone’s college friend? Or tried to evict birds with an airsoft gun? Welcome to the strange, sleep-deprived spiral that is Sugar Before Bed.

In this debut episode, I kick things off with a few chaotic life stories that have ruined my sleep cycle yet again. First, I reflect on my childhood best friend having a child and how it relates to helicopter parents, and the time someone paid me to hang out with their son.

Then it’s off to war - with birds nesting outside my bathroom window, turning my apartment into a feathery battleground. I talk about what happens when birds make their nest on my window sills, and my totally ineffective attempts at figuring out how to get rid of birds or how to get rid of bird nests.

In this week’s weird news article segment, we dive into the bizarre case of Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater being turned into soap (Dr. Squatch Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss) and question how many Guinness Book of World Records entries one man can earn with spoons stuck to his body.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

1:25 Helicopter Parents

11:22 Birds Are Back

18:00 Sydney Sweeney Bathwater Soap

27:42 Iranian Spoon Man

35:48 Closing

Topics covered include:

• Watching friends become new parents sends me into a spiral
• Getting paid $100 to hang out with someone’s kid in college
• Birds vs. moldy Chicago apartments
• Sydney Sweeney soap and the marketing of bathwater
• A man breaking his own Guinness World Record with 96 spoons stuck to him

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