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Sleep With Me

Using Dan Harmon's Story Structure for Feeling Nothing | Listener Fav #451

Sleep With Me

Silver Sleeper Productions LLC

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

4.417.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Scooter bakes a Story Mud Pie as Mr. Harmon helps us discover the secrets of structure, musical theatre, and nothing itself.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

from PRX.

0:06.3

Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

0:11.4

It's time for the podcaster who's running in circles or ovals or, uh, I know, again, I think I talked about it.

0:22.0

I think I used this already, it's like, it's ellipsies or elliptical,

0:25.8

you're the elliptical podcaster.

0:28.1

I don't podcast on an elliptical.

0:30.6

The nautil, like they say, oh boy, that nautil is shapes, good for working out.

0:35.3

I remember I heard that once, but, uh, it it may be good for a podcast. I mean, it may be good for a sleep podcast. Not positive about that either. This episode happens to be a journey into one song from a musical and Dan Harmon's story circle. I didn't realize this episode was from the

0:59.0

four hundreds. So it's really a deep dive. And there is like later in the episode some content

1:07.0

about post-earthly existence because it just is the words from the song and some like,

1:13.8

so this is like a PG-P-G-I-D-I-I don't even know if it's PG-13 episode.

1:20.6

But you could, there's always, that's why we have so many episodes and so many styles of episodes coming out.

1:26.9

So like, yeah, I hope you enjoy this episode.

1:32.0

But, yeah, if you listen, keep in mind, it is an older episode of Sleep Me,

1:36.6

so there's a little bit looser language.

1:40.2

But nothing too intense.

1:42.0

It's very sleepy, a journey into a song about nothing, oddly enough.

1:51.0

And yes, I'm glad you're here.

1:52.9

And we get like particularly this year, hopefully when you're hearing this,

1:57.6

we've really geared things up to make the podcast that puts you to sleep,

2:01.1

but that's something we do together.

2:03.0

All the people that are regular listeners, us doing it together, doesn't just benefit you.

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