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Sunday night, heroes. Lights Out: the quietest mission of the whole week.

You know the one rule: Lights Out only begins when you are already in bed. Pyjamas on, teeth done, lights down low.

Tonight's goodnight story is a true one: how Pvt. Jeff, the Squad's head chef, closes the busiest, warmest kitchen on the whole base. Three things, every night, in the same order: the long wooden bench wiped until it shines, tomorrow's bread tucked under its cloth to rise slowly in the dark, and the big water jug set ready by the door. The dough rests, and resting IS its work. Tonight, hero, resting is your work too.

One good thing held up like a little lantern, the Sky Breath with Pvt. Sky, a whispered bonne nuit from the chef himself, and then nothing at all: no teaser, no outro, just sleep. And the Ace beat, whispered. Same mission. Your way.

Tick Sunday's box on your free Squad Mission Chart at scrubbingsquadpodcast.com before we get sleepy: it's the last busy thing of the whole week.

Little missions. Big heroes. Heroes start here.

Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero

Saturday, heroes: training day. Hero Training is the show you do not listen to: the show you DO.

This week, the very first drill of the morning: the Wake Drill, led by Uncle Jamie himself. Four stations, same order every morning: Eyes and Breath, Sit and Feet, Stand and Light, and the Duvet. Two and a half minutes, the audio is the clock, and at every station you answer with the same word: AWAKE.

Your dinner-table fact: astronauts on the International Space Station see sixteen sunrises every single day, so they cannot trust the sun to tell them when morning is. They trust the drill. If astronauts run a wake drill, heroes, you are in elite company.

Every wake-up counts: the alarm wake, the two-hero parent-assisted wake, the movement-first wake and the slow version. And every mission comes with the Ace Mode version. Same mission. Your way.

The Drill Cut lives above this episode, ready for every single morning. That is not a podcast, heroes. That is equipment.

Follow free wherever you listen, and print your free Squad Mission Chart at scrubbingsquadpodcast.com - tick Saturday's box, hero, and watch what you become.

Little missions. Big heroes. Heroes start here.

Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero

Fall in, heroes: it's Friday, and that means camp day. First visit of the season: Discovery Camp, the camp where heroes learn how to learn.

Today the briefing belongs to Pvt. Ace, and it's the one he was born to give. School said he couldn't remember anything. Then he found the hooks. Three of them, tested live:

1: The Story Method (your brain is terrible at lists and BRILLIANT at stories)

2: The Memory Palace (over two thousand years old, invented in ancient Greece, and still the exact trick world memory champions use today),

3: Chunking (nobody remembers eleven things, everybody remembers three groups).

Pvt. Claire adds the hook nobody puts on the list, Sgt. Peck opens his clipboard for the Chair's Minute, and Auntie Ellie keeps the part worth keeping: nobody has a bad memory, only memories nobody has shown the right hooks yet.

Your Mission of the Week: make a silly story out of three things you must not forget tomorrow, and tell it back at breakfast.

And every mission comes with the Ace Mode version. Same mission. Your way.

Follow free wherever you listen, and print your free Squad Mission Chart and Squad Roster at scrubbingsquadpodcast.com - tick Friday's box, hero, and tick Discovery Camp on your Roster. First camp of the season, done RIGHT.

Little missions. Big heroes. Heroes start here.