Part One: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death
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What is the story behind Australia's 'Dr. Sleep'?
Call zone media. Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history. I'm Robert Evans, and those of you watching this will notice, those of you listening shouldn't notice shit, that I'm recording in a different location today. Instead of being in my dank basement in Portland, Oregon, I am in a house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the city that never sleeps, the Big Apple. Anyway, here to not be in New Orleans with me, but here to podcast with me, the great Gabe Dunn. Welcome to the show, Gabe. Thank you. As I said before, I'm so excited, probably too excited. I am a big fan of you guys. I would listen to you overnight at my warehouse job for hours and hours.
And then I would get home and realize that I had only heard your voices for eight hours. Well, that actually happens to Sophie and I sometimes, too. Yeah, I was like, sometimes when I made this, I said this is a joke to somebody the other day, and then I realized it wasn't a joke. Sometimes I'll think things, but instead of it being in my voice, it's in Robert's. Wow, you've melted. Yeah. Yeah. And when I'm at a party and someone's like, hey, Robert, do you want to shoot this mystery powder into your veins? And I'll be like, I'll hear Sophie's voice saying, yes, Robert, I think you should. Don't test it. Don't test it at all. Don't take any precautions. Just inject anything you find into your body. That does sound very well in New Orleans.
That's going to be good for you in New Orleans. It is. It is. I mean, you know, Sophie's motto is live moss. Taco Bell actually stole it from her. The lawsuit is ongoing. Wow. Yeah. I believe it. Low-key would love to sue. You want to plug things here at the top? Sorry, Sophie. I was going to say, I would love to sue Taco Bell. If somebody can give me a reason, it just sounds fun. For stealing live moss from you? Mm-hmm. But I think what Robert was saying is, Gabe, do you have any pluggables you want to plug up top here? Want to let the audience know who you are? Because this is your first time on Bastards. It is. Believe me. If I had been on it before, I would have been like, I can't come back because my life has peaked.
I am a writer. I am an activist out of L.A. So I do a lot of anti-ice on the ground stuff. My life got taken over by it in June when the National Guard invaded L.A. So that, and then I do a fun time show called Best Gabe Ever, which is a spinoff of Just Between Us, the show I've been doing for like 12 years. And then I have a sub stack called A Thousand Natural Shocks and a related podcast called A Thousand Natural Shocks that used to be called Bad With Money. But then the world, financial advice became even more irrelevant than it already was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think the best thing to do is, I don't know, try to have money. Do your best. Yeah, I mean, truly. I like tried to girl boss my way to whatever.
How did Dr. Harry Bailey's career begin?
And then it just ended up being, I don't know, buried in the ground. Turn it into gold blocks. I don't know how to help you. You're talking about anti-ice activism in L.A. And I've been thinking about that. surface level aspect of this for a while which is in seattle and to a lesser extent in oregon during the 2020 protests a major symbol of like the protests in those cities were especially seattle was the use of umbrellas and it was kind of a significant thing because even though it rains all the time in the pnw people don't use umbrellas here like the fastest way to tell someone is not from here um or and is not a resident is that they're using a fucking umbrella and And so there was all sorts of like graffiti in Seattle during, you know, the height of the protest that was like, we never needed umbrellas before because we never saw a real storm.
And anyway, I think there's something there's some there's some good bit in like Los Angeles never had to deal with ice before because it's L.A. So now we have to figure out something. We also well, they they have those signs that are like California melts ice. You know, right.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the story behind Australia's 'Dr. Sleep'?
0:00–3:08
2
How did Dr. Harry Bailey's career begin?
3:08–7:19
3
What controversial practices did Dr. Bailey employ in his treatments?
7:19–10:49
4
What were the risks associated with deep sleep therapy?
10:49–14:04
5
How did Dr. Bailey's methods impact his patients?
14:04–17:37
6
What ethical concerns arose from Bailey's practices?
17:37–21:13
7
How did societal views on mental health influence treatment methods?
21:13–24:25
8
What ultimately led to the downfall of Dr. Bailey's practices?
24:25–1:24:33