1446 – Underbelly of Clouds | All Intros 983 – 986 for Memorial Day

Episode 1446 – Underbelly of Clouds | All Intros 983 – 986 for Memorial Day

 

SCOOTER: Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and anyone rolling that 20-sided die called life…sometimes…I don't even think my dice has twenty sides most days. Most days I’m dealing with one of those…maybe…is…most days…I guess this is true 'cause I have a lot of all-or-nothing thinking. That would be a coin flip, right? But my coin would be weighted towards the…I’d say, well, which all-or-nothing should we use? Because that’s how we’ll know which side this…'cause it can’t…'cause sometimes it’s all not great and sometimes it’s nothing great. I say, which…? But this podcast is here to take your mind off of that stuff. I’m just saying that because I’ve been there, and I’m hoping…20-sided die, I’m hoping to put you in a place where it’s a poofy…a poofy poofer that’s rolling, like a loofa. Maybe I’ll invent a game called The Loofa…where you say, well, we're rolling loofas because we're in bed sleeping. It’s called the Loofa Roll. We took off those loop-de-loos that you use to hang it from the…oh, whoops, I’m trying to start a pod…time for Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep.

 

Intro: Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing? Trouble getting to sleep? Trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it with a bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights, and press Play. I’m gonna do the rest. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever is keeping you awake. It could be thoughts, you know, things on your mind, whatever you’re thinking about, you know; the past, present, future. So, thoughts, feelings, anything you’re experiencing emotionally that’s coming up for you. Or I say, well, I don’t know, I got a vague sense of discomfort. You say, whoa boy, I’ve been there.

 

It could be physical sensations, it could be changes in time or temperature or routine, or just something. Whatever it is that’s keeping you awake, I’m here to take your mind off of that. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place. Maybe I already said that. The way…I’m gonna smooth…I got this safe place set aside here for you. I’m gonna smooth it, I’m gonna pat it, I’m gonna rub it down. I’m actually…there’s…this is the first time that I can remember…I know loofahs have probably come up. Also, I don’t know if that’s an international term. The loofah may not be internationally known or known to rock a microphone because it’s a loofah. It wouldn’t…it would say I’m just a loofah; I’m not there for that. I’m just a loofah.

 

That’s something…I say, what’s one step…what’s…you know Eeyore from that thingamajig, those cartoons and stuff? You say, you mean Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh? I say, thank you for getting that right. Yeah, Eeyore. I feel like Eeyore but…oh, you feel like a loofah, then. Yeah, exactly. That’s how I’m feeling. Okay, well, I’m here to help. What I’m gonna do is I’m gonna send my voice across the deep, dark night. Wait a second, do you feel like a new loofah or, you know, a…a loofah in use or a previously-used loofah? Never thought about it. Okay, well, let’s just start with a brand-new, shiny loofah. Okay. Okay, well, I’m gonna send my voice across the deep, dark night. I’m gonna use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, superfluous tangents.

 

I’m gonna go off-topic and get mixed up, all to take your mind off of stuff so you can fall asleep. Now, a couple things as close to the beginning as I can tell you that you should note; not everybody likes this podcast, and that’s okay. Even the people that are regular listeners at first were like, I’m not so sure about this. They were skeptical, they were doubtful, or they were just like, hm, I’m not sure of this flavor. I don’t know if this is within my palate. I’d say yeah, that’s totally normal. That’s why I tell people to give the show a few tries, because it just takes a couple tries to realize, oh…even though I’ll tell you these things now, it takes a couple tries still because it’s a little bit counter-intuitive. Of course you’ll be skeptical.

 

Anything related to sleep and solutions you’re gonna meet with skepticism because we’ve experienced a lot of letdowns in that department. You say oh, this is…this works for my nana all the time. Well, how many hours a day does your nana sleep? Maybe sixteen hours a day. Yeah, she also…she cuts lumber four hours a day, lives life to the fullest, and then sleeps. Does not…that sounds nothing like my nana. That would be a inside joke for regular listeners. Okay, but…so, this podcast is a little bit different. That’s one reason why it takes a few tries. It’s a podcast you don’t really listen to. You know, most podcasts you listen to. Sleep With Me is the kinda podcast you barely listen to.

 

You say okay, I was promised loofah talk and he never even got…he used the word ‘loofah’ a few times, but he didn’t get to…he was gonna reinvent loofah games, and he didn’t do that until…I don’t know, ‘cause it was at like minute five or six. He was still talking his way around loofahs. At least I know what tonight’s episode is gonna be about. It was gonna be about one thing; now I know it’s gonna be Great Loofah Games. That’s what we’ll be talking about tonight. But so, this is a podcast you don’t really listen to. Kinda just barely pay attention, a little bit like you’re watching a cloud float by and it doesn’t really look like anything and you don’t want to force it, so you say well, it looks like a cloud. It’s just floating by. I’m kinda looking at it, but not totally. Mostly just enjoying the cloud going by.

 

That’s kinda how you listen to this podcast. You say huh, doesn’t look like anything. A little bit lumpy and…but it’s floating. It’s poofy in spots, or in my case creaky and dulcet, which would say yeah, it’s got some darker clouds on the underside, on the old underbelly. The underbelly of clouds. There’s something that doesn’t get any…you say, how come no film noir has been done about the underside of clouds? And of course, the cloud underworld. You say, where do clouds go when they…the clouds that don’t make it into the heavens to fly above us, the cloud underworld? You’d say well, I guess that would make sense if clouds were sentient beings and we’re basing our value system on whatever Scoots’ imaginary value system is. You say, yeah, well, who’s…Orpheus is down there, I think, with a bunch of clouds.

 

Orpheus in the Cloud Underworld; that was one of my…if I knew any…what that book was about, I would say that’s one of my favorite pieces of fanfiction that Scoots barely made up. Okay, so anyway, so, this is a podcast you don’t really listen to. The other thing is it really doesn’t put you to sleep. It’s here while you fall asleep. It’s here to keep you company as you drift off, and that’s a little bit different too, is the fact that, yeah, I’m here to be at your side, to be your bore-friend, and to be talking, but not really to put you to sleep. I’m a distraction. But the thing is, if you can’t sleep, I’m gonna be here, too. That’s why the shows are about an hour. You just fall asleep as you wish. But I’ll be here, so…and if you wake up, you could put me back on. Some people listen all night.

 

The Patreon’s a little bit better for that. But yeah, some people…I’ll talk more about the structure of the show right now because that’s a good segue. So, another thing that could throw new listeners off naturally is the structure of the show because it’s also different than anything that would be considered normal. Then I’ll try to explain what a loofah is if I’m gonna do an entire episode about loofahs, ‘cause I honestly didn’t know what a loofah was ‘til at least…somewhere between age nineteen and twenty-four. I think they were probably invented right around then. I don’t know when the loofah was…the artificial loofah. That could be a Devo cover band, don’t you think? Artificial Loofah. What the heck? What do you…? Yeah, we’re a Devo cover band.

 

You say, that cut is so deep, I don’t even know if it has anything to do with Devo. You say, not directly it doesn’t. It just should be obvious. Scoots, can you name any Devo songs? Way to put me on the spot. Okay, so anyway, moving on. Artificial Loofah; is that not on a…? That was on a live album, I think, on one of those super deluxe…ultra deluxe…okay, so this podcast doesn’t really put you to sleep. It’s more here to keep you company while you drift off. You don’t really listen to it. Oh, and the structure of the show…so, the show starts off with a greeting so you know you’re welcome here. Then there’s listener support and business. That’s how we’re able to bring you the podcast twice a week for free. That’s a few minutes.

 

Then from around minute six to minute twenty or so is the intro, which goes on and on and on. Some people’s…but it serves a purpose; it introduces new people to the podcast, but it gives long-term or regular listeners the opportunity to ease into bedtime. So, it introduces the podcast to new people, and then for everyone else, it’s what eases them into bedtime. Some people fall asleep during the intro, some people get ready for bed, and some people are doing their bedtime routine, some people listen during the day for a little bit of a break, and about two percent of people skip the intro. A few thousand patrons listen to story-only episodes, but they don’t…sometimes they make a lot of playlists. That’s an adaptable thing. So, that’s the intro. Then there’s business.

 

That’s how podcast structure works, is to have the business in a place called the mid-roll. So, there’s business, then there will be a story. Tonight I guess there will be a story about the Great Loofah Games in our world of Cloud Tower. So, that’ll be barely…kinda barely interesting enough to put you to sleep. So, that’s…oh, so yeah, and then there’s thank-yous at the end of the show. So, that’s the structure of the show. More importantly, what’s a loofah? And tell me…oh, Scoots, can you tell me…? I’d say, Google…there’s probably a Mental Floss article on it that’s way better than what I could tell you. So, I can’t do that, unfortunately, no. But what I can do is…I don’t know. Oh, what can I do, is I can be here…now I got mixed up. Oh, what’s a loofah? That’s what I was gonna say.

 

Okay, like I said earlier, I only became aware of loofahs at…oh, so a loofah is like a washcloth. I think it was eventually…at some point a sponge and loofah…they’re not interchangeable. I’m just a little distracted because the first time I used a loofah, my mind was absolutely blown. So, I probably lived a few years in the loofah era. I think it’s L-O-O-F-A. Oh, what is it? It’s a plastic thing that looks a bit like a sponge, but it’s made from little plastic threads. I’m doing a terrible job of explaining it, ‘cause it just looks like a loofah. It kind of…so, okay, let’s say…let’s break down what it does. Who, what, why, where, and when? Who? Me. I’m telling you what a loofah is. What is a loofah? What does it do? It’s part of your cleaning, usually your showering or your bathing. Some people use a washcloth.

 

Some people use a sponge. Some people use their hands, I guess, and…or just water, and then some people use a loofah. Now, loofahs became famous in the great exfoliation marketing terminology of the 19…late 90s, I would say, or early 90s when they said, oh boy, you know what’s gonna solve it all? Exfoliation. Those…the ways you’re doing it just aren’t working, so you need a loofah. But loofahs…unfortunately for the marketers, loofahs are very inexpensive and pretty resilient. I don’t know how long the recommended age of a loofah is. I gotta get one. I haven’t used one and it’s been a while, a long while, since I’ve had a relationship with a loofah. I remember my last loofah just fell apart. It fell apart in the middle and I had to say goodbye to it.

 

It was beautiful, though, because it looked…it turned into a long, pink ribbon. It was a pink loofah; yes, it was. But so, it’s like a sponge but it’s made from plastic. Those petroleum companies, come on, they need our support in any way possible. The sponges probably said, thank goodness for those loofahs. But so, I don’t know, I can’t really do a good job of describing it other than it’s something plastic and poofy. Oh, but what blew my mind was…I guess…so, I was loofah-curious, as I had seen loofahs before. You know how it is in locker rooms when we’re chasing each other around with loofahs. But I said, well, I don’t have a loofah of my own. This was at university or whatever. I think that’s probably the first time I saw one. I don’t think I used one, but I may have.

 

It would have made sense to have a loofah ‘cause it’s…oh, ‘cause it’s very efficient. So, what you do is you get your loofah wet and then you rub it on wet soap. Oh boy, does it bubble up. It really does not use a lot of soap and you get a lot of bubbles. Then supposedly, it exfoliates. So, the first time I saw it, I said, I can’t believe how much bubbles this thing…not good for bubble bathing; just good for cleaning. Like, as opposed to a washcloth…a washcloth will have soap in it, and it’s pretty good. I think a washcloth’s probably great for exfoliation as well. But the other things are…so the loofah generates much more bubbles, much less soap. Then you just wash it off and it’s plastic. It’s very porous, but it doesn’t retain any moisture.

 

It catches the soap somehow, but it doesn’t hold a lot of water like a sponge or…what is that thing called? A washcloth would. Another thing that makes it perfect for college-type environments or shared bathrooms. Then…or a soap shortage. You say whoa boy, we’re low on soap. Get a loofah, man. You’re gonna stretch your soap so much further. These are pro tips, I guess, that I had to learn on my own. I think that’s it. Those are the important points about a loofah; it generates a lot of bubbles, pretty…I don’t have one currently, but I’ll get one. Loofahs; pretty darn great. Still, I don’t know if tech…what a use of technology, or where technology meets mother nature. There’s probably some huge problematic or downside to loofahs I’m not seeing. Change your loofahs on a regular basis.

 

Don’t be like Scoots was, where he wore his loofah down ‘til it just gave up. So, yeah, so that’s a loofah. I don’t know how…it’s a nice thing to say. This podcast is a bit like a loofah. It’s porous. It can…it has a lot of soap…something similar to soapy bubbles, serves a purpose. I’m trying to exfoliate the things that are keeping you up at night and take your mind off of stuff. So, hopefully I’m efficient. Well, I guess I’m not efficient. But yeah, I’m here. I’m here to keep you company. So, I guess that’s it. The reason I make the show is because I’ve been there, tossing and turning, mind racing, trouble getting to sleep, but also because you deserve a good night’s sleep.

 

You deserve a place where you could get some rest and some comfort so you could live your life tomorrow and get…you deserve sleep on a regular basis. So, if I can do that, I’d really be happy to. Now, like I said, this podcast does not work for everybody, but for the people it works for, they did…most…I’d say 90% of our regular listeners listened two or three times and they said, oh, okay, I get it; it doesn’t make any sense at all. So, give it a few tries. I really, honestly hope I can help, ‘cause I know how it feels, obviously. This is the kinda stuff that goes through my brain at nighttime, too, except not in this calm voice. For me, it would be…the first thing would be I’d get comfortable and say, what are you doing? I say, what do you mean, what am I doing? With cleaning yourself. Well, I don’t know.

 

Wait, you said it in a…yeah. Why don’t you have a loofah? You haven’t had a loofah in four years. You’re doing it wrong. What kind of person does…? Oh yeah, you’re right. So then, that’s…I don’t know if you could relate to that. So, I’m here to say hey, we’re all just doing the best we can. Let’s keep the loofahs in the bathroom and no S-H-A-M-E about loofahs, okay? Yeah, we’re all here to try to help. So, that’s…and I’m glad you’re here. I work really hard, I yearn and I strive. I really want to help you fall asleep. Thanks again for coming by, and here’s a couple ways I’m able to do this for you free twice a week.

 

Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing? Trouble getting to sleep? Trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it with a bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights, and press Play. I’m gonna do the rest. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever’s keeping you awake. It could be thoughts on your mind, thoughts about the present, past, or future, so anything you’re thinking about, feelings, anything coming up for you emotionally; maybe it’s related to the thoughts, maybe it’s related to your feelings or physical sensations, maybe they’re just there. You’re feeling them. That’s good, though.

 

That’s a really good thing that you’re feeling your feelings, but I’m here to kinda slowly let those drift into the background. It could be physical sensations, could be changes in your routine or your work schedule or something situational, you may work the second or third shift, you might…there might be something…you could have weather-related…have I ever talked about this, weather-related…WRAs, weather-related annoyances? I don’t know if I’ve listed those kinda things. You say, wind…this is my personal opinion, but…and it’s actually my personal opinion. I said, wind chimes are great except when it’s really windy, and then…’cause where my…I don’t know, this is…wow, I’ve talked about my wind chime before, I think. I only have one.

 

It’s no longer chiming, but I had to take it…because when it was windy, I could hear it. You say, well, okay, wind chimes are great in theory or in a non-bed…you know, it became a weather-related annoyance for me, just I think ‘cause where it was. For a lot of us, a really unpredictable noise can keep us up. But let me get back to that if I remember to, ‘cause I want to…oh, first I gotta explain more about how the podcast works. So, whatever’s keeping you awake, I’d like to take your mind off of that. What I propose to do is send my voice across the deep, dark night. I’m gonna use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, superfluous tangents — you’ve witnessed a few already — meaning I’m gonna get confused and go off-topic and kinda go nowhere, all to keep you company while you fall asleep.

 

Now, if you’re new, there’s a few pieces of information I want to give you to make you feel more comfortable. One, you might not be comfortable now, because you say, what is this? This is something new and different and strange. You may even be skeptical, and I’d say that those are totally sensible places to be. This podcast, yes, it is a bit different, it is a bit strange. So, if you’re not sure about it, I can totally understand that, especially if you’ve tried other stuff to put you to sleep, and you say nothing’s worked for me. That makes a lot of sense. So, most regular listeners say give this podcast a few tries. It takes a few tries to stop listening to this podcast as a listener. Usually it only takes five minutes to stop listening to it as a non-listener, but just give it a few tries, ‘cause we really have nothing to lose here.

 

I’m just here to help take your mind off of stuff. In that spirit, this is really a podcast you don’t really listen to. You just barely pay attention. It’s also a podcast that doesn’t put you to sleep. I’m here to keep you company. I’m applying for the role of bore-friend, bore-bud, bore-bae, bore-bestie, bore-bruh, bore-bor, you know, bore…your bore-best…oh, bore-bestie, bore-bud. I said all those. Your friend that repeats things. So, I’m really here to take your mind off of stuff while you fall asleep. That’s why these shows are over an hour, so you have plenty of time to drift off. You say, okay, I don’t got to worry about it. I got over an hour to fall asleep. Then, what was the other part? Oh, so, no pressure to fall asleep.

 

Oh, also, if you can’t sleep, I’m gonna be here to the very end. So, if you can’t sleep situationally or you’re going through something or you just can’t sleep normally, I’m here to keep you company as much as I am to put you to sleep. Those kind of things work in sync somehow. So, those are two things to know if you’re new. The other things to know that can throw you off…regular listeners, I already forgot what I was gonna go back and talk about. Now I can’t think of it. I know I went off-topic earlier, but alls I have in my brain…I have an empty bucket or pail in my mind. I said, what was I talking about earlier that I was gonna try to talk about again? Oh, my wind chime. Hopefully I’ll remember, but regular…but, you know, our regular listeners know sometimes I remember stuff, sometimes I forget.

 

But if you’re new, structure of the show is the next thing you want to know about, because this show does not have any kind of…it does have structure, but it’s a bit different. So, the show starts off with a greeting; friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. That’s a serious part…it’s funny. Sometimes I say something mildly funny, but that part is important so you feel seen and welcome, that this podcast is here for you to help if it can. So, that’s the greeting. Then there’s listener support and support for the show, so you know if you need some extra support right now, there’s resources. Then there’s the resources so we can be here for you free. Then there’s the intro, which is the main thing that can throw new people off, ‘cause the intro is somewhere around twelve to twenty minutes long.

 

For some people, they feel like it’s part of the…I don’t know. I guess if you…hopefully you don’t listen to it, but if you don’t listen to it…if you don’t listen to it while listening to it, that’s one thing, but I think some people skip through it or fast-forward a bit waiting for me to get to some sort of tangible point, and then they say, what is this intro? It just goes on and on and on like an advertisement. I say, no, this is a show within a show. It does serve a purpose, or two purposes. One is to introduce you to the show. I just do that in a very ineffective and inefficient way, because the second purpose is to ease you into bedtime. Now, you can skip it. I just went on a podcast and the person said, yeah, I start the show at like, twenty or thirty minutes in. I say, that’s great. That’s about three percent of listeners.

 

Some people…if you listen…if you like just story-only or intro-only or you listen all night, you might be…those people are on Patreon. But you could also do it with this. Whatever works for you. But those are smaller slices of the listenership. Most people, they listen to Sleep With Me and the intro is part of their wind-down routine or their getting-comfortable routine. So, there you are, my regular listeners; you’re in bed waiting for me to talk about or see if I…once again, I can’t remember. I had it and then I forgot. I said, oh, I was gonna talk about my wind chime, which I just almost called a bird chime because it is a bird. So, the intro kinda goes on and on and on to give you some distance from the day so you can get comfortable.

 

Whether you’re doing it as part of your getting-ready for bed routine or your wind-down routine or you’re in bed getting cozy, it gives us some distance and lets us come in for a landing. So, that’s why it takes twelve to twenty minutes, ‘cause that’s about what I’ve found over the years how long it takes to ease…’cause, I don’t know, in other situations…and I’ve been in this, where I’m in a hurry to go to bed, and that just never works. I say, okay, I don’t have time for any of that bedtime stuff. I gotta get to sleep. I can hear some sort of cackling as soon as I say, that, like knowing…a knowing cackle. I say, well, but I gotta get to sleep now because I gotta get up for that thing. I was messing around before and now I gotta get to bed, and that just…so, for the most part if I can, I want to ease you into bedtime.

 

So, that’s why the intro’s so long and pointless for you, and also my natural ability. Then there’s business between the intro and the show. That’s just where some of the sponsors like their business as people are just getting ready to turn in, and then there’s our episode. Our bedtime story tonight will be a very special new…a return to a character in a new season. So, it’ll be just a nice little bedtime story. It takes…this episode tonight takes place at a bed and breakfast. What better place for a bedtime story than a bedtime storyteller at a bed and breakfast? Then there will be thank-yous at the end. So, that’s the structure of the show. The reason I make the show…well, the reason I make the show is twofold. One, you deserve a good night’s sleep, because you do.

 

You deserve some rest and you deserve to be rested tomorrow so you can live your life. The other side of it is I’ve been there, speaking of this wind chime. So, this wind chime, I have talked about it before, I think, ‘cause when I moved…my daughter and I moved a few years ago to a new apartment. I said well, what are we gonna get as a housewarming gift? I let her pick out a wind chime, ‘cause finally we had a place to put a wind chime, ‘cause we have a deck. So, she picked out one, and it was bamboo chimes on a carved piece of wood that was an owl. I said, wow. Now, this wind chime…and it had rope or string instead of…I don’t know what else they put on wind chimes. But our first year here…it gets a lot of wind, this wind chime, and so, it fell apart.

 

Each year in the spring…this sounds like the beginning of a Epcot Center video. Each year in the spring we rehabilitate the wind chime with fishing line that I bought. We replace…we put all the bamboo…I think there was one piece of bamboo that did fly away last winter, or one of the winters that we’ve been here. But the other thing is that when it does make it through the winter, the parts of the winter it’s making it through successfully…my window just happens to be below the deck, so it is…that thing is…like, I say, what in the heck? So, even if I close my window, I can still hear it. I say, as much as I love you, your chiming…you’re driving me chimes. You’re making me chimey. You’re chiming me nuts. So, I have to take it down.

 

I just noticed that yesterday, ‘cause when I’m recording this, it’s the end of March and spring is kinda springing. So, I was trying to clean up the deck, and I said, hey, there’s the wind chime there on the ground. Said, how are you doing? It said, I’d like to chime. I say, well, maybe two more weeks. We’re expecting a little more rain and wind here, and I don’t want to over-commit. Plus, it’s like, that’s the worst time if it’s raining and windy to have to go back upstairs, find something to step on to reach the hook that it’s on.

 

But this is the person that makes the podcast, the person that does…I think there’s people that just fall asleep and they’re…they don’t have W…whatever, weather-related annoyances ‘cause they’re snoring through it or whatever, but I’m not that person. So, that’s why I make this show, because I can relate to how it feels whether it’s weather-related noise or something else that’s keeping you awake, and I’d like to help. I really appreciate you coming by. I really work hard on this show, believe it or not, but…because…not just because I work hard on it; because I yearn and I strive to help you fall asleep, and here’s a couple ways I’m able to do it for you for free twice a week.

 

Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing? Trouble getting to sleep? Trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it with a bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights, and press Play. I’m gonna do the rest. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever’s keeping you awake, whether it’s thoughts you’re thinking about from the past, the present, or the future, feelings, anything emotionally coming up for you, physical sensations, changes in schedule or time, schedule…changes in schedule or time or temperature, routine, somebody could be…could have…whatever’s going on, whatever’s keeping you awake, I’d like to take your mind off of that and help you fall asleep.

 

What I’m gonna…what I plan to or attempt to do is create a safe place. I’m gonna smooth it, I’m gonna pat it, I’m gonna rub it down, I’m gonna say safe place. I’m gonna try to send my voice across the deep, dark night here, use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, superfluous tangents, I’m gonna go off-topic, I’m gonna get mixed up, then I’m gonna go back. I’m gonna say, wait a second. All to take your mind off of stuff so you could fall asleep. Now, if you’re a regular listener, I’m so glad you’re here again. I’m so happy to keep you company, be your bore-friend, your bore-bae, your bore-cuz, your bore-sib, your bore-bestie. If you surf those tasty waves…don’t taste the waves, by the way. I learned that the hard way.

 

But if you surf those tasty waves, I could be your bore-bruh. Because you say, well, I taste the wave not when I was…I wasn’t surfing in the tasty wave. The wave kinda came up and said, hey, let me give you a kiss. Then I said, oh, actually, I like the…here’s the thing, waves; I like how you taste, but probably not the best idea to be tasting you on a regular basis. If you’re new, I’m glad you’re here. Let me give you some information, because this podcast is very different and the first time, the second time, even the third time you listen to it, it could really throw you off because it’s so different. So, a couple things to know; one, this is a podcast you don’t really listen to. You just kinda barely observe it, kinda like waves coming in. Like, sometimes you’re at the beach or you’re watching a wave-based video.

 

Wave-based video…wave…WBV or wave-centric video or just a video of waves, VOW, man. Or a video with waves. Whatever waves…however you consume your waves, most of the time it’s a passive or somewhat-passive consumption. There’s people out there…if you’re swimming or in the waves, that’s different, or if you’re in some sort of profession, science-based or ecology-based or bio-based, because that’s science; those are sciences, but…or you work on the shoreline or your boat…yeah, of course, everybody working in the sea, you may be observing this…the waves in a different way. If you just happen to be a sentient breakwater, you say, Scoots, yeah, my relationship with waves is much different. I say, well, it’s…by the way, it’s great to have a sentient breakwater listening to the show.

 

I think I’ve achieved my life’s purpose keeping you…I mean, you’re breaking the water. It doesn’t get tougher than that, but…oh, so just kinda…just like if you’re watching the waves, sometimes you’re watching them pretty closely, but a lot of times you’re just chilling. You know what I’m saying. This podcast is like that. You say well, I’m kinda bare…I’m kinda paying attention to what Scoots is saying, but I’m also not really paying attention. So, that’s one thing. This is also a podcast that doesn’t really put you to sleep. It keeps you company while you fall asleep. What I mean by that is that I’m here to take your mind off of stuff and barely keep you engaged while you fall asleep. That’s why the shows are over an hour, to give you plenty of time to drift off.

 

But if you can’t sleep or you wake up in the middle of the night or whatever it is, I’m gonna be here to the very end. So, if you have some sort of reason you can’t fall asleep, I’ll be here to keep you company whether you’re awake or asleep. You don’t need to listen. You just could listen if you need to, right? It’s kind of a reverse…don’t need to listen, but if you need to, I’ll be here. So, those are two new things for new listeners. Regular listeners, hello again. All the fishes out there…how about a shout out to sentient breakwaters? If there’s any sentient docks or pylons, other things in the water…light…I’d love to hear from you. Sentient lighthouses, send me a message unless you’re a sentient lighthouse from a Jeff VanderMeer novel. Then don’t reach out to me, please. Definitely don’t.

 

Or buoys…holy cow, would I love to hear from some buoys, ‘cause then I could say…then I could do a…I guess that could be a segment if I had a sentient pod…this is a podcast for sentient objects in the sea. What would we call that? It wouldn’t be Sea Cast. Scriptnotes, the podcast about screenwriting and things interesting to screenwriters. Buoy Cast would be the podcast about being a buoy and things interesting to buoys or buoy workers. But then I could say, buoy, buoy, oh buoy, how many ways could I say I love thee? Even though that doesn’t exactly go with the song. I’d say, oh buoy, buoy. I love saying that. Has there ever been a cartoon about someone who lives in a buoy under the sea? I mean, you’d say, well, I was…I’m not a buoy anymore. I’m a artificial reef now. Oh, okay.

 

Sorry, new listeners. This is where I go…new listeners or nude listeners; either way. I say, I have a tendency to go off-topic. Oh, I was trying to tell you…so, the other things that could throw people off…so, it’s a podcast you don’t really listen to, doesn’t really put you to sleep. Give us the good news. Oh, the structure’s also very different. Show starts off with a greeting; friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, so hopefully buoys and sentient sea beings, inanimate objects that have become animate in my mind, I just…so you feel seen and welcome. Then there’s support for listeners, then there’s support for the show for Patreon and our sponsors, then there’s the intro. So, around eight minutes into the show, the intro starts. The intro goes around ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty minutes.

 

It just depends on how long it takes me to introduce the concept of the podcast. But it’s basically a show within a show. Sometimes…this is not about you, new listener, but some new listeners give up on it too early or they fast-forward through it because it is so different. So, I’d say kinda ride it out just like a buoy rides out…whether it’s calm or…or try to, because what you might discover is that only three percent of regular listeners skip the intro, and then a few thousand regular listeners that support the show on Patreon, they listen in different ways, like all-night playlists or story-only playlists, or all-intro playlists. But the rest of listeners are happy to just kinda listen as it unfolds because, one, they can…they get to listen for free and whenever they want, but two, because the structure of the show eases you into bedtime instead of just putting you to sleep right away.

 

Just like a lighthouse; ideally, you see it far out. You say okay, that’s a lighthouse, so I know that’s coming up eventually. That’s what this podcast does, is…the intro goes on and on and on. So, most regular listeners — though there’s no right or wrong way to do it — they might be in bed getting comfortable, doing something relaxing, or they might be getting ready for bed, or they might just be in their room or another room doing something to unwind and is playing it on their phone speaker or their smart speaker or their headphones or whatever. That just gives you some distance between the daytime and when you’re going to sleep, ‘cause for me there’s never been an instant sleep solution.

 

What I found from feedback is that most people, yeah, it takes fifteen, twenty minutes for us to get wound down and ready…the last part of getting ready for bed, to drift off. Or you could just be cozy in bed listening for fifteen or twenty minutes. Hopefully that’s a lot less than whatever you were dealing with before the show. For me, I’d say, wow, if I could just lie in bed and listen to something nice for fifteen minutes to thirty minutes, that’s way better than what it was like before. So, that’s the intro. Then there’s business between the intro and the story. That’s just how we keep it free and podcast structure works. Then there’s our story. Tonight it’ll be a look at a Star Trek TNG, The Next Generation, episode. But you don’t need to have listened or seen Star Trek to be familiar.

 

I’ll tell you it in a nice bedtime story way. So, that’s…what else do you need to know? Structure of the show…oh, the reason I make the show. The reason I make the show is twofold. One is I’ve been there, tossing, turning, mind racing, trouble getting to sleep, trouble staying asleep. I know how it feels. It’s not pleasant. If I can help you with something I know how it feels that doesn’t feel good, that’s nice. But what’s even nicer is the fact that you deserve a good night’s sleep. If I can help with that, that would be my honor, right? Because our world will be a better place. If you’re rested tomorrow, your life is better. Even if it’s incrementally better or…then if you could start to get rest on a regular basis, the rest you need and deserve, maybe you could be out there flourishing.

 

But even a little bit rested, our world’s gonna be a better place to live in, because I want you to get the rest you need. Whether it’s through this show or you find out Sleep With Me doesn’t work for you, you could check out our sleepwithmepodcast.com/nothankyou. But I mean, that’s my main message. I’m really glad you’re here. Give the show a few tries. That’s what hundreds of thousands of people have said; hey, it takes two or three tries to get used to. So, give it a few tries. I really hope it can help. I really appreciate you coming by and checking out the podcast. I really hope, I yearn and I strive. I really want to help you fall asleep. Thanks again for coming by, and here’s a couple ways I’m able to be here for you free on a regular basis. Thanks.

 

Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing? Trouble getting to sleep? Trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it with a bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights, and press Play. I’m gonna do the rest. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever’s keeping you awake. Could be thoughts, things on your mind, could be feelings, some…so, things about the past, present, or future, or emotions related to thoughts, emotions that are just there, emotions…feelings, physical sensations, or it could be something else.

 

It could be changes in time, temperature, schedule, someone else’s schedule, whatever, you got changing…it could be humid…I mean, it definitely…there’s a high percentage of chance that sometimes parts of the year, it could be humidity-related. Maybe sometimes…that would be something…you say, well, I didn’t even realize that. Gives me another something else to think about, of what percentage of humidity is in my place when it’s not humid, but to check that…what is…but is it always humid? Most places…depends on how you define humid. Well, that’s a great thing to wonder about later. Hopefully I’ll come back to that, ‘cause I’m sure there is a standard. Of course, probably they say, well, in the US you picked your own standard. Everywhere else in the world, yes, it’s base one.

 

We measure it with the metric system, just so you know, except in the empire. You have the imperial system, the colonialist system, and the rest of the world uses the metric system. I’m just being lighthearted, but I bet…and they say, yeah, everywhere else, this is how we measure humidity. That’s not a barometer, right? Barometer measures barometric pressure. Holy cow, my brain just remembered something on the first try. Oh, sorry though, I’m here doing a intro for a sleep podcast. So, let me refocus. So, whatever’s keeping you awake, I’d like to take your mind off of that. Barometric pressure; that could be something that…you say, well, yeah, I feel…I’m feeling that barometric pressure. I’m sure some people are sensitive to that. I’m not even kidding, either.

 

I mean, you hear those things about people saying…their body parts are…they say, well, wind’s coming soon. I can feel it in my elbow. Is that why you’re dipping your elbow in milk? No, that’s ‘cause that person on the sleep podcast invented that as a way of self-soothing. Then he even said, yeah, don’t throw out your cereal milk. Well, one, most people drink it but, two, I’ll dip my elbow in it later. You say, pop, no. If you want to live with us, you can’t do that, because then you just leave…there’s bowls of uncovered milk in the…cereal milk in the refrigerator. No, that’s elbow milk for dipping elbows. It’s so good. You could…everybody can feel good about it when you dip your elbows in…and they say, is that why you started doing yoga, pop? Because…?

 

Yep, I wanted to be able to do a Downward Dog into dipping my kneecaps into milk. Yeah, you could use a milk alternative, of course. But why, pop? Because, well, ‘cause it feels nice. But it got on my…okay, well, you’re right. We do have to work towards a solution. I understand that I got some milk on your rug, and I apologize. Wow, we just had a breakthrough here live on what was supposed to be the…oh, so, what I’m gonna try to do…how did…? I mean, elbow milk has come up on this podcast before. Was that a solution that came up for barometric…if you’re feeling pressured by the barometrics? What if that’s…? Well, that could be someone…you say, well, that…yeah, that was my life with a third-rate glam-rock band, Pressured by the…it was all about peer pressure from the barometrics. So, okay, so where am I here?

 

Oh, whatever’s keeping you awake, I’m gonna take your mind off of that. I’m gonna try to create a safe place. Yo, did you see that? That was a kind of safe place. There was a…I guess that somewhere in my mind there is a…it sounds like a daughter and a father thing. Maybe my mind working out future…my subconscious trying to work out future problems, then ten years from now they’ll tell me those things at night and I won’t…I’ll say, I don’t need this for another twenty years or thirty years. They say, well, I’d start thinking about it right now, ‘cause we’ve been processing it for ten years. But whatever’s keeping you awake, what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna send my voice across the deep, dark night. I’m gonna use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones. Oh, these tones are…oh, so creaky are these tones.

 

Some people say, why are they creaky? Or, a lot of reviews lately have said, yeah, I didn’t really think…I don’t know why the creaky, dulcet…and neither do I. That’s what I would say. They work because…I don’t know. There is something…here’s…whoa boy, we’re gonna go way far afield. So, if you’re new…if you’re a regular listener, you’re in for a real factoid, ‘cause listeners love when I reveal stuff and this is something I haven’t talked about. So, if you’re a regular listener, I’m gonna go on a tangent and then I’ll try to introduce the podcast. But this is what happens anyway every single episode. This is not backed up by science. But so, I used to have this way I would self-soothe.

 

So, regular listeners or new listeners…and it’s indirectly related to creaky, dulcet tones, but it comes from the same vibration that I can feel and hopefully you could feel in your ears right now where I’m trying to comfort you. It’s almost like trying to create a audio safe place that has this physical aspect. I mean, that’s one of my goals, right? I did have this way of self-soothing. My poor roommate…’cause it was…particularly if I had…back in my day when I was out there, as they say, and I was imbibing too much, particularly, though I would do it even when I wasn’t imbibing too much, but only if I did not feel good. I would do the same vibration right now that I’m using the creaky, dulcet tones. You could feel that, right? That vibration right there? But I would just make noises, which…I can’t do it now.

 

You could e-mail me and I’ll try to record something. Just, ‘cause if I do it right now and then someone’s listening to episode after episode and they hear me kinda groaning, it’s a bit like that, though. That would be the closest I could do without it being…waking somebody up and they say, what is that? Why is Scooter groaning? I used to do that in bed. My roommate Chris, he was my roommate for three different years, this poor, poor young man, a great person. He was the one that had to deal with it the most. I would lie there and I would sometime…and it would just soothe me, particularly if I had too much to drink and then I started not feeling good, or if I had so much that I was like, full limbic. Like, I was…I don’t know what the full limbic means, but I was so relaxed I would just make this noise.

 

Or if times…other times I did not feel good. It wasn’t just a groaning; it was something much more subconscious, even though I was aware of it. Not like a groan. A groan comes from more of your upper palate. This comes from the creaky, dulcet zone, which is in the back of the throat. You can feel it, right? It’s comforting. So, that’s kinda where the counter-intuitiveness of the creaky, dulcet tones is. The creaky, dulcet tones you could feel. That’s the main thing. I want you to feel something like comfort or distraction. So, I don’t know, I could talk about it more at some point. But anyway, new listeners, sorry, that was a little behind the…BTS, as they say. But not BTS the supergroup or the group that’s super.

 

Okay, so, if you’re new, a couple things to know; one — you’ve already figured this out, though — this podcast is very different and it is not for everybody. But please give it a few tries for your sake, not for mine. I only want you to listen if the podcast is gonna work for you, but the majority of people’s experience is it takes two or three tries. They say, oh, okay, I get the creaky…I get that I don’t listen to him. So, see how it goes. But if you’re skeptical or doubtful, that makes total sense, or even if you’re like, I don’t think I like this but I’m not sure yet, just see how it goes. So, that’s that. What else? Oh, so give it a few tries, it doesn’t work for everybody, I hope it works for you, it’s a podcast you don’t really listen to. You just kinda barely pay attention.

 

So you say hm, okay…just like that, you…just like other times where you could get called out for pretending to listen. Here you just kinda actively do it. You say, holy cow, I just went full creaky. I think I over-creaked my creaky dulcets. So, you could just…you say, uh-huh, okay, mm-hm, yeah. So, you groaned in bed, eh? Mm-hm. Wow. So, just kinda pretend to listen. Also, this podcast does not really put you to sleep. It’s more here to keep you company as you fall asleep versus putting you to sleep, which is why the shows are over an hour, so you don’t have any tension. You say, oh, they’re over an hour. I got plenty of time to fall asleep. Oh, I don’t have to worry about it, and if I can’t sleep, Scoots is gonna be there to keep me company.

 

That’s really my job, to keep you company as you fall asleep, or if you can’t sleep or if you wake up, I’m here. There’s plenty of people that listen that aren’t asleep right now, and they’re here with us kinda sitting around, feeling those creaky dulcets. So, they’re keeping us company, too, which is pretty nice, or we’re keeping one another company across the deep, dark night, across the globe. There is this strange solidarity. That’s why I call it the deep, dark night. So, whether you’re awake or asleep…that’s the other important thing, is yeah, if you can’t sleep, I’m here. If you can and you’re not listening, I’m here for you to not listen to. Great little deal. So, it’s a podcast that doesn’t put you to sleep, you don’t really listen to it, so tell us the good parts.

 

Well, let me tell you more of the stuff that’s harder to get used to other than that…we’re already ten minutes into the show, which goes into the structure of the show, which also can evoke really strong feelings, particularly with regular podcast listeners because it doesn’t follow a normal structure. The show starts off with a greeting; friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, so everybody’s welcome, kinda like a greeter that says, hey, come on in. We’re glad you’re here. Then there’s…oh, then there’s stuff to support listeners, then there’s business, so that’s kinda interdependent of stuff. I want to support you, and the show needs support to stay free. So, there’s the business. That takes about six minutes or so, maybe eight or whatever.

 

Then there’s somewhere around fourteen to twenty-four minutes of me introducing the podcast and the introduction as you hear here, where I go off-topic and go on tangents or think about humidity and never go back to it, and then explain what creaky, dulcet tones are and then try to explain what the podcast is. So, for a new person or some person that doesn’t like the intro, the good thing is you could just skip the intro or most of it. If you start the show at twenty minutes, you might have to listen to a few minutes of intro and business, but you get to do that for free, or patrons, a couple thousand patrons, listen to all-in…or all…story-only episodes. Believe it or not though, there’s even more patrons that listen to intro-only episodes.

 

So, if you’re new, just kinda…the main reason is to try it out, is to kinda see how it goes. But, oh, the reason the intro goes on and on and on is ‘cause I don’t know if you’re like a lot of listeners. Like, two percent skip the intro, but for most people, we need a way to ease into bedtime and get some distance and quiet things down so that we can get to sleep. If it was as simple as closing a door or turning a switch, you might not be listening to this podcast, anyway. So, the intro serves as a…to be a part of your bed town…bed town routine. Your bed…your wind-down routine or your bed-down routine. So, if you’re getting ready for bed or you’re in bed or you’re doing something calming and comforting, it could be a part of that routine. Part of that routine is you’re drifting away slowly.

 

Yeah, it’s to get some distance from whatever keeps you awake, and kinda almost to sneak into bedtime in some sense, to sneak past those threshold guardians that…at least for me, that get in the way. So, that’s why the intro really goes on and on and on, is it’s just what we’ve seen work over time, is this little method. Then it really becomes something…a lot of people grow out of listening to the podcast in this beautiful way because they built a bedtime routine with Sleep With Me and then they realize, oh, the other parts of my bedtime routine work just fine. Now I know Sleep With Me will be there if I have something going on, but otherwise I don’t need it anymore. I mean that for me, listeners graduating from the show, that’s awesome. I know that just like everybody, there’s seasons of life.

 

So, maybe they’ll come back, maybe they won’t. Maybe they’ll just tell somebody else about it. It’s not a big deal. I’m here to help you and keep you company when you…while you need it. So, that’s why the intro goes on and on and on. But yeah, if you have strong feelings about it, again, just see how it goes, because it really serves a purpose, and the purpose is to give you some distance from daytime and bedtime, and then the business is to keep it free. So, yeah, then after the intro is more business. That’s just how podcast structure works, then there will be a story. Tonight will be a real treat. We got Bernie the butterfly coming by to tell us a story with a pretty long setup.

 

A little bit of story, a whole lot of setup about a water strider and a lily pad, which seems to be Bernie’s favorite subject matter as of late, so that’ll be nice. Then there’s thank-yous at the end. So, that’s the structure of the show. The other thing to know that’s important is that you are important. The reason I make the show is because you deserve a good night’s sleep. You deserve a place of respite where you could get a little space and a little break, and that’s why I make the show, is because our world will be a better place if your world’s a better place. Even if…ideally you get into a place where you’re flourishing, but if you just get a little rest, it’s gonna be a little bit nicer.

 

The other reason is because I know how it feels on the other side when it’s not so nice, and it’s tossing, turning, mind racing, trouble getting to sleep, trouble staying asleep. I got all those, thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, so for me to help you when I know how it feels in the deep, dark night, the feelings and all that, it’s my honor. I think that’s it. I’m glad you’re here. I really hope I can help you. I really work hard, I yearn and I strive. Again, I hope I can help you fall asleep. Thanks again for coming by, and when your hand hits the fridge tomorrow, remember, here’s a couple of ways I’m able to bring this podcast to you twice a week.

 

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All Intro

 

Loofah

https://luffagardens.com/blogs/all/history-of-the-luffa-loofah-loofa-loufa-loofa-lufa-luf-sponge

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/magazine/who-made-that-loofah-mitt.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78661/what-are-loofahs-made

 

EPCOT

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/revisiting-epcot-center-on-its-30th-birthday-59799078/

https://allears.net/2020/04/19/the-history-of-disneys-epcot-from-city-of-tomorrow-to-the-eternal-worlds-fair/

https://wdwnt.com/2022/09/walt-disney-world-reveals-timeline-of-epcot-history-ahead-of-40th-anniversary/

 

Breakwater

https://www.surfertoday.com/environment/what-are-the-differences-between-breakwaters-groins-jetties-and-seawalls

https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/metadata/adaptation-options/groynes-breakwaters-and-artificial-reefs

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/how-do-breakwaters-protect-the-shoreline.html

 

Body parts reflecting barometric pressure

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/whats-people-feel-weather-bones/

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/feeling-your-bones

https://www.directorthocare.com/does-temperature-and-barometric-pressure-affect-joints/

 

DOWN TO BUSINESS

Rolling the 20-sided die called life

 

PLUGS

Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline

 

SPONSORS

Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Coyuchi

 

INTRO

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A Vague Sense of Discomfort

Is the Loofah an international term?

Eeyore Chat

Feeling like Eeyore but as a Loofah

A brand new, shiny loofah

This works for my Nana

Nana sleeps 16 hours a day, cuts lumber for 4, and lives life to the fullest 4 hours

I was promised Loofah Talk

Don’t force it in cloud-watching

The underbelly of clouds

The Cloud Underworld (Film Noir)

Orpheus and the Cloud Underworld

What exactly is a loofah?

I didn’t know what a loofah was until between the ages of 19 and 24

Artificial Loofah (Devo Cover Band)

Scooter refuses to say if he knows any Devo songs

The Great Loofah Games

Scooter’s mindblowing first loofah experience

The 5 W’s of Loofah

The Great Exfoliation Marketing Terminology Push of the Early 90s

The Recommended Age of a Loofah

Minimal soap, maximum bubbles

Loofah-Curious

Pro Loofah Tips

Where Technology meets Mother Nature

Some Unforeseen Problematic Nature of Loofahs

This podcast is like a loofah

 

STORY

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It’s good that you’re feeling your feelings

Situational

Weather-Related Annoyances (WRAs)

Scooter’s Wind Chime

Wind Chimes are Great in Theory, but not when it’s actually windy

You might not be comfortable right now

Don’t Listen as a Listener

An Empty Pail in My Mind

People Think This Intro is some kind of … ad

An Ineffective, Inefficient Introduction

Bird Chime

A Knowing Cackle

A return to an old character

Taking place at a bed and breakfast

Scooter has talked about this windchime before

The story of Scooter’s Wind Chime

Bamboo Chimes on a carved piece of wood that was an owl

Some bamboo parts have flown away in the winter

The Beginning of an EPCOT Center Video

Making it through the winter

Rehabilitating the windchime

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Don’t taste the waves

The Tasty Wave

Just take it in like you’re watching some waves

Wave-Based Video (WBV)

Video of Waves (VOW)

A Sentient Breakwater

Shoutout to Sentient Lighthouses, unless they’re from a Jeff Vandermeer Novel

Sentient Sea Objects

I’d love to hear from some buoys

Buoy-Cast, a podcast

An ode to Buoys

New Listeners or Nude Listeners

I’ve never had an instant sleep solution

Podcast as Lighthouse

Flourishing

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Emotions are that are just there

It could be Humidity-Related

How do you define Humid?

The US Standard of Humidity

What does a barometer measure?

Barometric Pressure

Body parts reflecting barometric pressure

Dipping your elbow in milk

Pop, you can’t just leave uncovered bowls of elbow milk in the fridge

Wow, we just had an accidental breakthrough here

Elbow Milk

The Barometrics (Band)

Maybe I’m trying to work through some father/daughter stuff subconsciously

My old self-soothing methods

The Vibration of a Creaky, Dulcet Tone

Email Scoots for some Vibrational Groaning

Poor Chris, Scooter’s old roommate

Full Limbic

This came from the Creaky Dulcet Zone

I just went full creaky

You went get called out here for fake listening

We’re keeping each other company

Some of us need some space between the day and sleep

Bed Town Routine

Bernie the Butterfly is coming down

 

SUMMARY:

Episode: 1446

Title: Underbelly of Clouds | All Intros 983 – 986 for Memorial Day

Plugs: Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline

Sponsors: Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Coyuchi

Notable Language:

• 983
• Loofah
• Previously Used Loofah
• Loofah Talk
• The Underbelly of Clouds
• The Great Exfoliation Marketing Terminology Push of the Early 90s
• Loofah-Curious
• 984
• Weather-Related Annoyances (WRAs)
• Wind Chime
• Bird Chime
• A Knowing Cackle
• 985
• The Tasty Wave
• Wave-Based Video (WBV)
• Video of Waves (VOW)
• 986
• Humidity-Related
• Barometric Pressure
• Elbow Milk
• Imbibe
• Full Limbic
• Creaky Dulcet Zone
• Bed Town Routine

 

Notable Culture:

• • 983
  • Eeyore / Winnie the Pooh
  • The Cloud Underworld (Film Noir)
  • Orpheus and the Cloud Underworld

• Artificial Loofah (Devo Cover Band)

• • Olympics
  • Mental Floss
  • 984
  • Patreon

• Lady Witchbeard

• • 985
  • Jeff Vandermeer
  • Buoy-Cast, a podcast

• Scriptnotes podcast

• • “Louie Louie”

• Spongebob Squarepants

• Star Trek: The Next Generation

• 986

• Metric System

• • Imperial System of Measurements
  • The Barometrics (Band)

• Pressured By the Barometrics: My Life with a Third-Rate Rock Band

• Bernie the Butterfly

 

Notable Talking Points:

• 983
• A Vague Sense of Discomfort
• Is the Loofah an international term?
• Eeyore Chat
• Feeling like Eeyore but as a Loofah
• A brand new, shiny loofah
• This works for my Nana
• Nana sleeps 16 hours a day, cuts lumber for 4, and lives life to the fullest 4 hours
• I was promised Loofah Talk
• Don’t force it in cloud-watching
• The underbelly of clouds
• The Cloud Underworld (Film Noir)
• Orpheus and the Cloud Underworld
• What exactly is a loofah?
• I didn’t know what a loofah was until between the ages of 19 and 24
• Artificial Loofah (Devo Cover Band)
• Scooter refuses to say if he knows any Devo songs
• The Great Loofah Games
• Scooter’s mindblowing first loofah experience
• The 5 W’s of Loofah
• The Great Exfoliation Marketing Terminology Push of the Early 90s
• The Recommended Age of a Loofah
• Minimal soap, maximum bubbles
• Loofah-Curious
• Pro Loofah Tips
• Where Technology meets Mother Nature
• Some Unforeseen Problematic Nature of Loofahs
• This podcast is like a loofah
• 984
• It’s good that you’re feeling your feelings
• Situational
• Weather-Related Annoyances (WRAs)
• Scooter’s Wind Chime
• Wind Chimes are Great in Theory, but not when it’s actually windy
• You might not be comfortable right now
• Don’t Listen as a Listener
• An Empty Pail in My Mind
• People Think This Intro is some kind of … ad
• An Ineffective, Inefficient Introduction
• Bird Chime
• A Knowing Cackle
• A return to an old character
• Taking place at a bed and breakfast
• Scooter has talked about this windchime before
• The story of Scooter’s Wind Chime
• Bamboo Chimes on a carved piece of wood that was an owl
• Some bamboo parts have flown away in the winter
• The Beginning of an EPCOT Center Video
• Making it through the winter
• Rehabilitating the windchime
• 985
• Don’t taste the waves
• The Tasty Wave
• Just take it in like you’re watching some waves
• Wave-Based Video (WBV)
• Video of Waves (VOW)
• A Sentient Breakwater
• Shoutout to Sentient Lighthouses, unless they’re from a Jeff Vandermeer Novel
• Sentient Sea Objects
• I’d love to hear from some buoys
• Buoy-Cast, a podcast
• An ode to Buoys
• New Listeners or Nude Listeners
• I’ve never had an instant sleep solution
• Podcast as Lighthouse
• Flourishing
• 986
• Emotions are that are just there
• It could be Humidity-Related
• How do you define Humid?
• The US Standard of Humidity
• What does a barometer measure?
• Barometric Pressure
• Body parts reflecting barometric pressure
• Dipping your elbow in milk
• Pop, you can’t just leave uncovered bowls of elbow milk in the fridge
• Wow, we just had an accidental breakthrough here
• Elbow Milk
• The Barometrics (Band)
• Maybe I’m trying to work through some father/daughter stuff subconsciously
• My old self-soothing methods
• The Vibration of a Creaky, Dulcet Tone
• Email Scoots for some Vibrational Groaning
• Poor Chris, Scooter’s old roommate
• Full Limbic
• This came from the Creaky Dulcet Zone
• I just went full creaky
• You went get called out here for fake listening
• We’re keeping each other company
• Some of us need some space between the day and sleep
• Bed Town Routine
• Bernie the Butterfly is coming down