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Beth Mallow

Beth Mallow

Dr. Beth Malow, MD, MS is a neurologist and sleep medicine specialist — Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Division.

Jul 22, 2026

20:42
What do you know that we don't know?
20:45
Okay, so standard time is what we're on November through March.
20:50
And that's the most natural time.
20:52
That's why it's called standard time.
20:54
It's when we get our light in the morning.
20:58
And you might say, why is morning light important? Because it aligns our brains and bodies with the outside world.
21:07
It gets us more sleep.

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28:31
All our phones do it automatically anyway, so what's the big deal?
6:17
But we think it can start from the ground up with our own little actions that can make a difference.
6:24
Yeah.
6:25
I just wanted to add and maybe elaborate on your specific question, Zach, about the idea that when we protest or resist, that it can add an element of that anger and that contempt that can then cause others on the other side maybe to react and then you start getting into this us versus them.
6:55
I definitely view myself as predominantly a bridge builder, as does Doug, and I think that really motivated us to write this book.
7:03
However, I've learned through my interactions with a lot of different people since the book came out, and being a liberal myself, leaning more to the left, I definitely see the The anger, and I think it's important for bridge builders like us to realize that it's hard when people feel that the world is on fire, right? That the world is burning down.
7:36
To understand the work we're doing and embrace some of what Doug is saying and what you write about so eloquently in your book and what I truly believe in my heart.
7:51
which is that if we're going to get the fire to go out, if we're going to stop the fire, we need to start with hope.

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13:12
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