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The Station Wagon Podcast: Exploring Mindfulness and Sibling Rivalry

Siblings Marc Shecter and Julie Kinn give you a close look at the science and history of the things we take for granted. Then they give up the topic for a couple of weeks and tell you how it goes!

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Episode 18: Giving up Shaving

Episode 18: Giving up Shaving

In this episode, we gave up shaving. Marc gave up shaving his face, and you'll have to listen to find out what Julie gav... Read more

6 Apr 2016

47mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 26: Giving up Touching

Episode 26: Giving up Touching

Julie and Marc are from Indiana where each person depends on a 36-inch circumference of personal space to maintain sanit... Read more

10 Dec 2016

52mins

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Episode 24: Giving up the Snooze Button

Episode 24: Giving up the Snooze Button

How many times do you hit your snooze button in the morning? One? Four? 23? What about ZERO? That's how much we used it ... Read more

25 Sep 2016

37mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 25: Giving up Peanuts

Episode 25: Giving up Peanuts

Millions of Americans are allergic to peanuts. We gave up eating peanuts to try and walk a bit in their shoes and find o... Read more

4 Nov 2016

49mins

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Episode 28: Giving up Killing Time with Screen Time

Episode 28: Giving up Killing Time with Screen Time

We explored the history and science of screen-time and then tried giving it up for two weeks.What's that mean? We gave u... Read more

9 Feb 2017

53mins

Ranked #6

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Mini Ep 28.5: Killing Time in Airplanes

Mini Ep 28.5: Killing Time in Airplanes

Here's a mini episode with more observations about putting down our phones during "down time." This time we benefit from... Read more

5 Mar 2017

3mins

Ranked #7

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Epsiode 22: Happy One Year Anniversary

Epsiode 22: Happy One Year Anniversary

We are a happy, cooing, gurgling one year old baby podcast! In this episode, we talk about our favorite episodes and the... Read more

11 Aug 2016

12mins

Ranked #8

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Ep 44: Cash vs. Credit

Ep 44: Cash vs. Credit

When is cash better than credit, and vice versa? Learn the history and science of how we pay for stuff, and find out wha... Read more

26 Jul 2018

29mins

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Ep 45: Gossip

Ep 45: Gossip

We become much better people by giving up gossip. Sort of. Tune in to learn all about the science and history of gossip ... Read more

8 Sep 2018

35mins

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Bonus: Marc Gives Julie Advice

Bonus: Marc Gives Julie Advice

Julie seeks advice from Marc on how to handle people who are seriously into medical treatments that have no scientific b... Read more

3 Aug 2018

5mins

Ranked #11

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Ep 46: Sleep Deprivation

Ep 46: Sleep Deprivation

How much sleep do we actually need? We dive into the science and history of sleep, and then try to reduce our sleep for ... Read more

9 Nov 2018

33mins

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Episode 27: Giving up Caffeine

Episode 27: Giving up Caffeine

"Caffeine. The gateway drug." --Eddie Vedder Congratulations to us, we gave up caffeine and we are still alive. Marc did... Read more

30 Dec 2016

47mins

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Episode 23: Giving up Pants

Episode 23: Giving up Pants

Yup. We gave up wearing pants. For some reason fans wanted us to do this, so we did. Not such a big deal for Julie excep... Read more

28 Aug 2016

56mins

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Ep 43: Photography and Taking Pictures

Ep 43: Photography and Taking Pictures

We dig deep into the reasons why modern Westerners take pictures, and we find out what happens when we give up photograp... Read more

9 Jul 2018

43mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 30: Water

Episode 30: Water

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.” - Benjamin Franklin In this episode do ... Read more

22 Apr 2017

53mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 29: Giving up Humor

Episode 29: Giving up Humor

"Humor is just another defense against the universe" - Mel Brooks So check it out. In this episode we give up humor, our... Read more

25 Mar 2017

39mins

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Episode 17: Giving Up Excess Calories

Episode 17: Giving Up Excess Calories

In this episode of the Station Wagon podcast, Marc and Julie give up eating excess calories. Spoiler alert: One of us lo... Read more

22 Mar 2016

43mins

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Episode 21: Giving up Making Garbage

Episode 21: Giving up Making Garbage

Please stop what you are doing and give your garbage collector a big hug; leave them an unopened packet of Sprees or M&a... Read more

29 Jul 2016

47mins

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Episode 20: Giving up Interrupting

Episode 20: Giving up Interrupting

In this episode we gave up interrupting. We stopped, as best we could, throwing our conversation partners off their thou... Read more

17 May 2016

47mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 19: Giving up Unsafe Driving

Episode 19: Giving up Unsafe Driving

“Sometimes when I'm driving... on the road at night... I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden i... Read more

23 Apr 2016

45mins

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