Sleep with Me (podcast)

title	Sleep with Me
starring	"Dearest Scooter"
genre	Health, Comedy
format	Storytelling
creator	Drew Ackerman
updates	Sunday, Wednesday
length	c. 60 minutes
language	English
theme music composer	Christopher Postill
num episodes	1,000+
began	October 18, 2013
provider	Night Vale Presents
related shows	Sleep to Strange, Game of Drones
website	http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com

Sleep with Me is a twice-weekly podcast that began on October 18, 2013. It is hosted by "Dearest Scooter" as performed by Drew Ackerman.[1] Sleep with Me joined the Feral Audio podcast network in February 2017[2] and moved to Night Vale Presents on March 28, 2018.[3] The podcast's tagline is "The podcast that puts you to sleep".[4]

Premise and influences

Sleep with Me is meant to distract listeners, keeping their minds occupied when they experience insomnia, while gently lulling them to sleep.[5]

Recurring stories, characters and themes

After the Glass Slipper - "The story of Cinderella, her Fairy Godmother and her Stepmother after she became a princess."[17]

Bernie the Butterfly - "Bernie the Butterfly stops by the studio to set the record straight. He has a ton of stuff he needs to get off his chest. Who knew that there was so much repressed rage against humans."[18]

Big Farm P.I. - "This won't be your garden variety investigation, it will have more meanders."[19]

Claude Neon Reports - "Correspondent Claude Neon reports on the whereabouts of the new 'Santa', Roberta Claus."[20]

Game of Drones - Recaps Game of Thrones; also available as a separate podcast feed.[21]

Get Besos - Tells the fictional story of Richard Warren Sears and James Cash Penney, who return from limbo to take revenge on internet retailer "Jiff Besos".

Great British Bake You Off to Sleep - Scooter recaps episodes of The Great British Bake Off.[22]

Lady Witchbeard - Recounts the story of Scooter's friend, the pirate witch Lady Witchbeard.[23]

Metastasnooze - Recaps Metástasis, the Spanish-language version of Breaking Bad.

Nuns in Space - "An episodic series so you can start anywhere and be taken away to dreamland."[24]

Otter Things - A more family-friendly re-telling of the series Stranger Things set in a swamp in the early 90's, with all the characters re-imagined as "swamp-based beings" such as otters, frogs, beavers, porcupines, and muskrats. Told by the 8th-grader Emma Otter, niece to the famous musician Emmet Otter.

Ray Perkins - "A sweet upbeat old man" who talks about his visits to Disney parks and other Florida attractions.[25]

Real Time Recipes - "Fall asleep and learn to cook at the same time."[26]

Sleep with TNG - Recaps Star Trek: The Next Generation.[27]

Superdull - A superhero story.[28]

The Good Place - Scooter goes through each episode in detail.

The Adventures of Dr. Triangle and Isosceles - A post-apocalyptic fantasy series. Set in a "post-math world" under the influence of the dark goddess Discordia, the series stars two heroic, satirical performers and their mule, who wander the Midwest on a crusade to "restore the principles of mathematics" in the name of Seshat, goddess of math.

Trending Tuesdays - Scooter develops a story based on Twitter's trending topics.[29]

Doctor Who - Many episodes feature recaps of Doctor Who stories, sometimes with slightly spoofed titles such a "The Girl in the Franceplace."

Mandaborian on Mandelorian - Recap of The Mandalorian

Sleep with Me (podcast)

Premise and influences

Format and structure

Reactions and response

Recurring stories, characters and themes

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