You’re Not Alone in the Deep, Dark Night! What Listeners Are You Rooting For?

Sleep With Me

Silver Sleeper Productions LLC

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

4.4 • 17.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This isn’t a regular episode—it’s an honest minisode from Scooter. A reflection on healing, support, and how the show stays alive because of you. If you’re a superlistener, this is for you.

This is an invitation to send your kindness and support to other listeners across the deep, dark night.

Are you one of the 20,000 people who listen regularly, night after night?

We’re hoping 1,500 superlisteners will step up this summer to keep the podcast going strong. Right now, we’re not there yet.

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Thanks for being here,

—Scooter

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody scoots here. And this is kind of like one of these minisodes, right? But this will kind of be for everybody. But again, you only need to heed the request to supporting the show. But this will kind of include everyone. Because I've been trying to figure out what to do, right? And I want to start out by saying that I really appreciate all the kindness people
0:25.1	have been showing me.
0:27.6	And this will kind of fold into my story because it's been like I've just got a lot going
0:32.3	on personally.
0:33.9	And right now I'm recovering from something and I'll talk more about it.
0:36.8	But if you want to stop listening, this is more of a direct discussion versus this is an episode of sleep with me to put you to sleep, right?
0:46.5	So this is really a message going out to super listeners and people that are engaged with the show.
0:53.0	And if you're not engaged with the show or
0:56.3	you're new or you only listen occasionally or you're not interested you don't need to listen to
1:01.2	this or if you like don't like me delving into personal stuff uh or the values behind the podcast uh
1:08.2	you don't have to listen really like it you really do not have to listen at all.
1:12.8	Like, and so, and I'm not saying that in a past, like, just, just don't listen.
1:19.7	Like, because I'm really, it's really like a small segment of the show I'm looking to reach out to.
1:26.7	But this is an invitation for everybody,
1:30.6	beyond that a little bit. Because so I'm recovering from getting work done on my hand,
1:38.0	pretty major stuff. And they just recorded an intro. And I was like, man, I still got to do some sort of minnesota because what we've been doing is kind of been working, but not quite working as far as, like, sustainability of the podcast.
1:53.0	And I made this intro because last night was a rough one because of the work I had done and I have like a pretty extensive
2:05.7	thing in my arm. I can't sleep in my normal positions and there's a lot of discomfort.
2:14.6	And so, and there's like a lot of thoughts and feelings when there's a discomfort and then you can't sleep
2:21.8	so last night I was just up like for a while I fell asleep then I woke up but then I fell asleep
2:30.2	again and then around four I just couldn't get comfortable right and instead of getting up
2:37.2	and following the advice on the show putting on something to listen to or reading a book or just
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