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Velvet · 529 episodes with transcripts

Welcome to Boring History to Sleep — the only show where falling asleep in the middle is not only allowed… it’s encouraged.

Spoken has transcripts of 529 Boring History for Sleep episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 20, 2026.

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The Entire History of Humanity 🌍⏳ | From the First Humans to the Modern World | Boring History for Sleep

October 20, 2026

Velvet (0:00)

Hey there, Wanderers. Tonight we're telling the whole story of humanity, from the first sharpened stone to the first empire. Three million years ago, somebody hit a rock with another rock until it had an edge. 4,300 years ago, a man named Sargon ruled the first empire on Earth. Everything in between was built by…

And why did farming appear only after 300,000 years of nobody bothering, then show up in seven places at once, like the whole species got the same group message? No lost civilizations, no aliens with a strange love of heavy blocks, only dated finds, DNA, and bones. So dim the lights and get comfortable. Hit like if…

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