You're Getting Sleepy Podcast Recommendations

You're Getting Sleepy: Podcast Recommendations💤

December 25, 2022

Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

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You're Getting Sleepy💤

CuratorChris Mancini (he/him), creator of The Quiet Journeys of Professor Atwood

Why did you choose this theme?

Sometimes you just want to relax, wind down, and get out of your own head. Maybe you want to sleep, maybe you don't. Maybe you just want a calming story to lower anxiety and reduce stress without constantly being told how to breathe.These are some podcasts that do just that.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

The Quiet Journeys of Professor AtwoodThe Christmas ConundrumThe Quiet Journeys of Professor Atwood is a hybrid relaxation / storytelling / comedy / science / adventure podcast in which scientist and explorer Jonathan Peter Atwood (voiced by EarBuds curator Chris Mancini) tells stories about his adventures all over the world and beyond. This episode is a good entry-point listen, in which Professor Atwood solves a problem with a missing Christmas Star that powers the town.

Nothing Much HappensClosing Up ShopIn each soothing episode of Nothing Much Happens, yoga and meditation teacher Kathryn Nicolai tells a bedtime story in which nothing much happens — and then repeats it. EarBuds curator Chris Mancini feels that there's nothing more soothing or comforting than being in a bookstore, which is where this episode takes place. 

Sleep With MeNorth Pole Park Train TourThe granddaddy of sleep podcasts, Sleep With Me features the delightfully placid tones of Drew Ackerman, who hits all the right notes to help you chill and go to sleep. This episode is about a theme park in the North Pole and is a great listen for around Christmas time. 

Welcome to Night ValeA Story About YouWelcome to Night Vale is where you can tune in to twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Sure, it can be creepy and weird, but the narration is so soothing and the music is so pitch-perfect, you'll find yourself lulled into a relaxing meditative state.

Get SleepyFlying Over MarsGet Sleepy takes you everywhere from a night carnival to a pirate ship, but this episode, about a trip to outer space, is a stand-out. The narrator's voice is comforting and he sounds like he's a veteran Mars tour guide as you learn all about terraforming and slowly drift off to sleep.

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This week on our podcast...(Click on Chris to listen)Chris is sharing podcasts that'll make you relax, wind down, or fall asleep. He (and his alter ego) is on the show this week to tell us about his recommendations. ALSO: We've got a voice clip from one of the co-hosts of this week's Spotlight pick, Undetermined, a podcast about the death of Jessica E. Durning.Subscribe

COMMUNITY:

🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: Iranian women have been banned from Azadi, Iran’s national soccer stadium, for 40 years. In four pieces, 30 for 30's Pink Card tells a multi-perspective story from the revolution that started it all, to the recent protests that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini. 🎙️NPR's 2023 Student Podcast Challenge will open for submissions on January 6, 2023. Students from around the country are invited to create a podcast and compete for a chance to have their work featured on NPR. Students from 5th grade through college are eligible to participate.🎁The holiday season is upon us, but not everyone is being good. In Live, Laugh, Larceny's holiday-themed episode "The Pettiest Season," we find that crime takes no holiday.

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💼Join Eman Ismail on her podcast, Mistakes That Made Me, as she chats with some of the smartest minds in business about how to push through failure and accept it as a necessary part of growth. It turns out, your biggest business mistake often leads to your biggest lessons.🎭Play On Podcasts released the first episode of The Winter's Tale on Friday, December 23. It's a podcast that translates Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" into modern verse. 

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Undetermined

dives into why, more than three years later, Jessica Easterly Durning’s death is still “undetermined” —  a term coroners use to describe the cause or manner of death when there’s insufficient evidence to give it a more specific classification.

Durning went missing from her New Orleans home and her body was found days later, just two and a half blocks away.

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