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🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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0:00.0 | This model through ground presents horror, which is frightening and disturbing. |
0:11.0 | You let us into your mind at your own risk. |
0:16.0 | As the sunlight fades to darkness, the frightful tales creep into your mind. |
0:29.0 | It's time to give it to fear, because tonight there will be no sleep. |
0:39.0 | Break yourself for the No Sleep Podcast. |
0:59.0 | It's the No Sleep Podcast. I'm David Cummings. Thanks for joining us. |
1:08.0 | On the show this week we have five tales about fellows, both friendly and fiendish. |
1:15.0 | Before we jump into this week's stories, I want to tell you a bit about next week's show. |
1:20.0 | It's a rather unique episode in which we'll celebrate horror stories from authors who are a valued part of our community. |
1:28.0 | But before I do that, I want to address an issue which a small number of listeners have voiced concerns about. |
1:34.0 | It has to do with our stories with same sex couples. |
1:38.0 | For reasons which I find hard to fathom in 2018, there are some people who take offense of a story features people from the LGBTQ community. |
1:48.0 | No matter if the character's sexuality has nothing to do with the plot itself. |
1:53.0 | Some feel we're trying to make a political statement by including characters who represent a real group of people in our society. |
2:01.0 | Of the hundreds of stories we adapt for audio each year, only a tiny fraction of them feature LGBTQ characters, a percentage much smaller than the percentage of LGBTQ people in our society. |
2:14.0 | If anything, I need to be chided for under representing that community. |
2:19.0 | So I'd like to make this perfectly clear to all our listeners. |
2:22.0 | The No Sleep team and extended family is made up of many wonderful and talented members of the LGBTQ community. |
2:30.0 | As a straight man, I am honored to work alongside them and call them friends. |
2:35.0 | The No Sleep podcast embraces the LGBTQ community as creators, performers, and characters. |
2:43.0 | Our team, our stories, and everything about the show will continue to ensure a creative space for anyone who shares a love of the horror genre. |
2:53.0 | It is not political to include in our creative team a group of people who have been marginalized for far too long. |
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