Hey, thank you so much for pressing play. My name is Ryan, and this is the Sleeping at Last podcast where I have the absolute honor and privilege of telling you how my songs came to be.

Thank you so much for being curious. I am so excited to be talking to you.

Today's episode is all about my new Atlas 3 song, Time Lies, Ludus.

I'm so excited to tell you about it.

Before I dive into that, I did want to also quickly let you know about a few other things that I've put into the world since the last episode.

First is a new acoustic version of my song

Some Kind of Heaven, which is out everywhere now. I'll put a link to it in the show notes. This song

was written as part of my mother collection of songs, which I wrote shortly after my mom passed.

And these songs will forever mean the world to me. They help me grieve.

They help me honor my mom's beautiful life.

And so it means a whole lot to get to share a new version of this song.

So this is a bit of some kind of heaven acoustic.

Please help me remember the voice of my mother

reminded me everything's okay

She deeply believed it Just a little longer, everything will make sense.

Broken things will be remade.

Also, I just put out a brand new song in my astronomy series of music, which is music inspired by astronomical events and discoveries.

This one is called April 17, 2025, Hint of Life, K2-18B.

It was inspired by the recent news that Cambridge team of scientists discovered promising hints of life on the planet K218B, which researchers are saying is the strongest evidence yet that there is possibly life out there.

And of course, as with all things like this, the definitive proof will probably never be found in our lifetime.

I do think this is incredibly exciting and is kind of a one step closer to answering the

question of, is there life elsewhere?

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