1402 - A Christmas Carol, Part 2 | Read With Me

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

4.4 • 17.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It’s a dozen of one or one-tenth of another any way you look at it, but this episode will surely be meandering as Scrooge learns about business, fiber optics, and which kind of elf has the most holiday cheer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	Friends beyond the binary
0:09.0	Ladies and gentlemen
0:10.8	Boys and Girls
0:12.1	If you skip holiday spirits like I do
0:15.2	But you get the spirit of the holidays
0:17.3	Or if you enjoy all kinds of holiday spirits
0:20.8	That's cool too Or if say, I pass on all that.
0:25.9	But I wouldn't mind you misreading and paraphrasing through a famous story. So if any of those, or if
0:34.4	you're new, you'd say, I thought this was a sleep podcast or a reading of a
0:38.2	Christmas Carol. And I'd say, well, it's a little bit of both. Welcome to sleep with me. The podcast
0:42.6	that's here to put you to sleep by keeping your company and taking your mind off of stuff,
0:48.6	or in this case, kind of reading to you, but where your friend makes commentaries throughout
0:53.3	the reading or changes it around
0:55.0	and make it more sleepy. So it'll be part of a familiar tale, but actually, especially in this
1:01.6	episode, there was a couple things that stuck out to me that I didn't never noticed before
1:05.9	in other versions of a Christmas carol. So yeah, this will be part two of our reading of a Christmas carol,
1:13.6	and then next year we'll keep going with this if people enjoy it.
1:17.6	So let me know what you think if you're a regular listener or if you're new.
1:21.6	This show is to be here for you in the deep dark night.
1:24.6	Keep you company. We're all rooting for you.
1:30.3	We're all sharing something here together.
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