1396 - Braggin’ On Big Wagons | All Intros 965 - 968 for Thanksgiving

Sleep With Me

Silver Sleeper Productions LLC

Bedtime, Story, Insomnia, Sleep, Twd, Walking, Fairytale, Mental Health, Dead, The, Health & Fitness, Fairy, Tale

4.4 • 17.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

I’m asking the big questions while giving thanks. Questions like, “What ever happened to rocking chairs?” and “Who wouldn’t love to be cloaked in velvet?”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	Friends Beyond the Binary, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen,
0:13.5	role players everywhere.
0:16.6	All the world may be a stage or it may be a game.
0:22.5	Or, you know, it might be the, like you see, all the world may be,
0:27.4	may be, maybe hard for me to wrap up in one thing with one truism about the world being a stage or a game.
0:37.2	We all play our roles.
0:40.2	Even the rolemaker plays a role as the rolemaker.
0:44.8	And the person whose role is calling role like roll call.
0:50.1	Because it's time for me to make a roll call for anybody that wants to be put
0:54.3	asleep by some nonsense because it's time for sleep with me the podcast that puts you to
0:59.4	sleep hey everybody this is scoots we got the uh thanksgiving season here uh where i live and
1:07.2	i got a quick question for you if you listen to the show most nights, you fall asleep fast,
1:12.8	you listen to the show all night long, or you've been around for years, could you replace sleep
1:18.0	with me easily? Or would it be like showing up for someone's Thanksgiving and they don't have your
1:22.7	favorite dish, whether it's stuffing, mashed potatoes, Brussels, Brussels, sprouts, turkey? Like, what if they didn't, what if you love cranberry? They had no cranberry at all. No cranberry gel, no cranberry sauce, no cranberry cranberry. What if there's no beverages? He showed up to Thanksgiving. He was like, no, no, no, no, we're having a dry Thanksgiving. Oh, no alcohol? No, no, no beverages at beverages at all. Like, I don't think I can eat no gravy. No, no gravy. Gravy's a liquid. You're right. No gravy either. What about but, no, butter is, butter, butter is liquefied on Thanksgiving most of the time. So we're passing on that. All dry, we have a lot of dry stuff, a lot of crackers. Like which holiday dish or holiday experience is irreplaceable to you?
2:03.7	Is it the family?
2:04.7	Is it the laughter?
2:06.1	Is it the days off from work?
2:08.2	Is it the whole experience?
2:10.5	The lights, the winding down, they're getting cozy, the parades, the specials.
2:16.1	What makes your holiday season special?
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