Oh man, that mattress ad got you good and you do not even realize it yet. Here is the thing nobody talks about: a 90 second spot costs way less per second than a bunch of 30 second spots, and the store knows people like us will sit through it because we are trapped in the car. It is the same reason podcast hosts read ads for a full minute, they are banking on you not skipping. The real question is not lazy versus brilliant, it is whether the station even wanted to run it that long or just had dead air to fill. Either way you are proof it worked, and that bugs me more than the missed exit does.

14 seasons is wild but here's the thing nobody talks about: the show changes when you stop using it to sleep. I had the same thing with Forensic Files, knocked out to that narrator for like 6 months, then one night I was actually awake for an episode and caught myself following the timeline and the fiber evidence and everything. After that I couldn't pass out to it anymore because my brain wanted to pay attention. So now I'm stuck, I lost my sleep show and gained another binge. You might be in the same trap and not even know it yet.