A Christmas Story | Tale of Tape (from the Vault #476)
Sleep With Me
Silver Sleeper Productions LLC
4.4 • 17.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What is more reliable, Scoots’ memory of watching “A Christmas Story” on VHS or the actual movie? Does Ralphie or Mikey want a fun machine for Christmas? What year is it? Sleep as this is more swirly and less surly, like a loosely defined treat.
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| 0:00.0 | from PRX |
| 0:03.4 | Friends beyond the binary ladies and gentlemen boys and girls |
| 0:11.6 | people who wish they were winning like I can't even remember prize if you'd like to win a prize if you'd like to win a prize |
| 0:20.2 | so would I and And so we share that |
| 0:24.3 | desire together. It can't even remember. This is a movie about me. This is an episode about me |
| 0:30.8 | not being able to remember the movie of Christmas story or trying to remember it. And now in trying to remember how to open a podcast about me trying to remember the plot |
| 0:42.0 | of a Christmas story, I forgot one of the biggest lines or jokes in the movie. |
| 0:49.8 | And that's totally okay because I'm not here to be like accurate uh or I'm here to keep you |
| 0:56.2 | company to take your mind off stuff this is a classic episode of sleep with me tail of the tape |
| 1:00.6 | we're running these uh so you have something to listen to during this uh holiday season uh that's |
| 1:05.9 | somewhat seasonal so I'll be trying to recap Ralphie's adventures with his family, all to keep you company |
| 1:13.0 | and take your mind off of stuff. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm really glad you're here whether you're coming back at time after time after time |
| 1:17.9 | or you're brand new. |
| 1:20.3 | This show's here to be your friend in the deep dark night and just keep you company. |
| 1:24.9 | It's a bit different. |
| 1:25.7 | It does take some getting used to. |
| 1:27.0 | So give it two or |
| 1:27.6 | three tries and uh i'll explain the structure showing everything but we got support coming up uh that's |
| 1:33.5 | uh for the people that benefit from the most from the podcast so if you only listen occasionally or |
| 1:37.8 | you're new don't worry about it and then after that is a long meandering introment to ease you into |
| 1:42.9 | bedtime and then we'll talk about a Christmas story. |
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