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Sleep With Me

689 - Mars, Moranis & Curry Seltzer - Pitching Roman

Sleep With Me

Silver Sleeper Productions LLC

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

4.5 • 17.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Like the sweet sounds of melodious butter, this story should melt comfortable in your sleepy ears. A real conversation with Roman Mars about bedtime stories leads down a meandering road to me pitching my challenge coin belt on a seltzer movie.

For hardcore 99pi fans you can skip to the story, if you like, at about 19 minutes. Also note- this episode contains a fictionalized version of a personified Roman Mars challenge coin belt.

Roman Mars is the host and creator of 99% Invisible, a short radio show about design and architecture. With nearly 300 million downloads, the 99% Invisible podcast is one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Fast Company named him one of the 100 Most Creative People in 2013. He was a TED main stage speaker in 2015. It is currently the most popular TED Talk about design with over 5 million views. His crowd funding campaigns have raised over $4 million and he's the highest-funded journalist in Kickstarter history. He is also a co-founder of Radiotopia, a collective of ground-breaking independent podcasts.

Transcript

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0:00.0

from PRX.

0:06.5

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and friends beyond the binary,

0:10.3

it's time for the podcaster who ideally will aerate your dreams and not your water

0:16.5

or aerate your thoughts so you can dream

0:20.9

or who will later be looking up the word aerate.

0:24.0

Why?

0:25.5

Well, it's time for sleep with me.

0:27.3

The podcast is here to put you to sleep.

0:30.5

And when you hand it to Fritz tomorrow, don't forget these ways we keep the show going.

0:35.5

Hey, everybody, scoots here.

0:37.0

You know, sleep, the whole purpose of sleep with me is not just to put you to sleep,

0:41.3

but to let you know that you're not alone in the deep dark night to keep you company in the deep dark night.

0:47.0

And I have to ask you, do you feel less alone in the deep dark night because of the show?

0:51.3

And if you say yes, can you do me a favor and either support the show right now or set a reminder in your phone?

0:57.8

Can you take a minute or two?

0:59.3

And if you're in a position where you can afford to support the show at five, ten or twenty dollars a month,

1:04.3

or support it annually and save a little bit money on your subscription, please don't wait.

1:08.3

Set a reminder right now and just ask yourself, does the podcast put me to sleep on a regular basis?

1:13.8

Or does it make me feel less alone in the deep dark night?

1:17.3

Is the show there for me?

1:18.8

Because if you're in a position to support the show, if only if you can afford to, and that resonates with you,

1:24.3

and I need you to support the show, I got to get through to this percentage of people that are willing to support the show,

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