467 – The Blithedale Romance

Sleepy

Otis Gray

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, my name's Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.
0:09.5	A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.
0:20.1	Tonight's, um, have a really great story for you.
0:24.7	Now that spooky October is over,
0:27.3	and we can move back to some of our more romantic, wistful stories,
0:34.3	and slow down and, um, move away from the spookiness and into kind of a more
0:40.4	fally autumn holiday vibe so that's what we're going to do tonight with one of our favorite
0:47.5	authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and before we get to the bedtime reading I just want to take a moment to thank all of our brand new patrons on patreon.com, which is a website where you can go on pledge a couple bucks for an ad-free version of sleepy.
1:07.5	So this week's incredible new patrons.
1:12.1	Trinity Chaos.
1:14.5	Richard Gagnon.
1:16.4	Diane Kedge.
1:18.3	Cheryl.
1:19.8	January Lynn Martin.
1:22.4	And Peggy.
1:24.7	Thank you all so, so much for being a part of making the show.
1:29.1	It really, really means a lot.
1:31.4	So thank you.
1:33.3	And if you're hearing this, and you have no idea what these names are that I just read,
1:39.1	these are all brand new supporters of sleepy on patreon.com,
1:48.6	which is a website that allows you to directly support the people who make this stuff that you like. So if you like sleepy, maybe it's helped you
1:54.1	get a better night's rest and maybe you want to just be directly a part of making it. You can do
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