Live Show from August 2018 | SWM+ Sneak Peek
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Title: Live Show from August 2018 | SWM+ Sneak Peek
Dr. Demento
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/644173/dr-demento-ruled-radio
https://www.npr.org/2010/06/22/127989850/dr-demento-off-the-air-but-still-happily-deranged
https://www.cbr.com/dr-demento-true-story-weird-the-al-yankovic-story/
Perms
https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-history-of-perms/
https://coffeepresschs.com/4881/features/the-history-of-perms/
Self Soothing
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/click-here-for-happiness/202302/5-self-soothing-techniques
Children of the Corn
https://screenrant.com/children-corn-stephen-king-true-story-inspiration/
https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/children-of-the-corn-review-1235537079/
https://stephenking.com/works/movie/children-of-the-corn.html
Plugs: Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Rusty Biscuit Links; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline
Sponsors: Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Quince; Mint Mobile
Summary:
- Down to business
- Thank you to Patricia for hosting us
- I’ll be keeping time on a pink rubber clock
- Story
- Thoughts about 6th grade
- A lot of Uh’s and extra words
- What made me want to start a sleep podcast?
- Consuming copious amounts of articles but not on news sites
- Once upon a time there was a little boy named Andy
- Sleep just left Little Andy’s life
- Adults tried to help Little Andy but it didn’t help
- Breathing and warm milk didn’t help
- All it did was make LIttle Andy feel more alone
- An endless plane to walk alone at night
- The old schoolyard geodesic dome
- Dr. Demento on Sunday nights
- The Dr. Demento nighttime community
- He didn’t fall asleep but he felt better
- Then he grew up and forgot about Dr. Demento
- And the sleeplessness came back
- Then he started to call himself Drew, not Little Andy
- Drew would tell Little Andy to let go of Dr. Demento
- Then one day, Drew had a daughter
- And his daughter had a hard time sleeping
- One day he walked by himself in the mirror
- A tired, haggard reflection
- Wanting to empower his daughter
- Walking the walk and talking the talk
- What am I going to regret?
- Little Andy reemerges
- Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups
- This inner dialogue with Little Andy continued for years
- Eventually I returned to it
- A sleepy Dr. Demento
- Then I started making the show
- We’re not alone in the deep dark night
- Let me take your mind off of stuff
- Sometimes we just want a distraction
- You can go back and revisit your past self with softness
- I don’t have human hair
- More akin to fur
- I had a bowl cut as a child
- So straight and so thin
- Teenage Hair Introspection
- A forced middle part
- A failed experiment at greasing my hair
- Nothing ever worked
- Going to Frank the Barber
- Most of my friends and siblings had good hair
- The Definition of Haircut Insanity
- The haircut would never work
- Frank was a very demonstrative barber and would say my hair was impossible
- Franks’s attempted fatherly role
- A shared delusion
- One time, Frank suggested a perm
- Even I knew this was a bad idea
- Pitching this perm
- The voice of reason kept me from getting a perm
- A perm in a parallel universe
- What would my life be like if I’d gotten that perm
- Perms are out of style
- But a lot of perms are still sold
- The Unique Perm Smell
- Exploring the Universe to get a perm
- Theoretical Physicists said this was a bad idea
- I met with women stirring eye of newt
- But they said it portended bad things
- I stuck my head in a cauldron and a particle accelerator
- Journeying Into Imagination
- Going back and healing something
- The first time I had trouble in school
- First grade with Sister Iron
- They called me Mr. Messy
- Making flashcards
- I exploded a sandwich bag like a sonic boom
- Sister Iron had the shock of her life
- A feverish berating of me
- My punishment was to put the bag back together
- What if I could go back there with a perm?
- The Power of the Podcast took me back
- Carrying me back to the classroom
- Be quiet, Sister’s talking
- Feeling my giant locks of curly hair
- I blew up the bag and popped it
- Sister yells at me
- I twirl my hair curl and feel calmer
- Talking calmly with Sister Iron
- You can’t yell at me like this, Sister
- Take five, classmate
- Well, let me poke a few holes in your argument, Sister
- I’m sorry, class
- Take a breath, Sister
- Owning up and apologizing with confidence
- That Clean School Desk Smell
- Caught in this memory
- Sitting in the yard, poofing my curls
- There’s a lot of yelling going on at this school
- These older kids want me to speak assertively with their teachers
- All I said was, “Please stop yelling.”
- I don’t have the words to describe self-soothing
- The whole school comes to me
- Wait, I’m not going to end school!
- I’m just trying to maintain boundaries
- Uh oh, this is some butterfly wing stuff
- We’re marching on Burger King
- All the teachers are looking at me and pointing
- The kids take over the Burger King and throw all the adults out
- A Pre-Internet Meme
- Kids across Syracuse starting walking out of school and taking over Burger Kings
- By the end of the day, all American students were living in Burger Kings
- They need a scapegoat
- Reasonably talking with Burger King franchisee owners
- Adults just keep escalating, which I don’t
- A pretty civilized version of anarchy
- It wasn’t the healthiest, but it was okay
- The kids are fine!
- I have no demands
- My curls comfort me
- The National Guard is called
- Let’s mediate through a neutral party
- The Children of the Corn
- Mediating in an RV
- Back when Burger Kings had greenhouses
- Sister Iron enters the RV
- She had Transition lenses version 1.0
- Mutual apologies with Sister Iron
- What kind of child is allowed to chemically alter their hair in first grade?
- Something ominous in my perm
- And then she goes off again
- So I left because I didn’t want to be treated like that
- My hair and I are not evil
- I go back to the BK
- How can we fix this?
- The kids don’t want to go home
- Clinging to my curls
- The kids had burgled home perm kits so they can be like me
- Please don’t give yourself perms, kids
- I took a walk to think
- It felt so good to finally twang a curl
- I heard a man’s weeping
- This man has lost everything
- He’s a 55 year old guy with a bowlcut
- I’ve never seen a worse haircut
- That’s Frank the Barber!
- He had an awful interaction with a customer…who happened to be a nun
- Frank used to be so confident and then something changed in the last 3 days
- Come back with me to the Burger King, Frank
- Give Frank 20 cc’s of vanilla, stat
- All the kids had given each other perms
- Some of the perms had turned green
- Oh boy I’m gonna be in even more trouble
- A roomful of kid perms is not a good look
- It’s like the cast of Annie
- We have to go home, kids
- Think about what you miss that’s at home
- We do have to go to school
- Everyone run your hands through your curls
- Curls are Potential Energy
- I touched hairs with Frank
- Frank started to spiral and spin inside of my curls
- We returned to our proper places with our own hairs
- I could feel the power of those lost curls
- And that power still resided in me
- Then I was back in school the next day
- I was touching my fur, pretending my curls were Slinkies
- Then I saw Sister Iron
- Sister Iron left
- Then Frank emerged and winked at me
- Lesson #1: Perms are powerful things
- Sometimes you can go back and ponder the past
- You can’t totally change things but you can make a little bit of a difference
- That’s the end of the story
- Thanks for coming by tonight
- We can do a quick Q and A
- Sister Iron is real
- I can email you a copy of the show
- What made me get started?
- I’ll regret not trying this
- How much is scripted or riffed?
- Probably a third is made up on the spot
- A crossover with Sleep Whispers
- Talking about the voice and intention
- What’s my favorite episode?
- When I’m totally surprised
- Birdbath was a great one
- Genny the Username Generator
- I do love Stan and Nuns in Space
- Testing out material on my family
- The listener gratitude is humbling and keeps me going
- A non-therapeutic relationship
- The Relatability of the Freaking Human Condition
- Learning to podcast
- The supportive podcasting community
- Full Time Daydreamer
- A secret T Shirt Message
- Stay Strange
- Shoutout to the Bright Sessions
- No further questions
Notable Language:
- Story
- More akin to fur
- A shared delusion
- The Unique Perm Smell
- Sister Iron
- That Clean School Desk Smell
- Puffing my curls
- The Relatability of the Freaking Human Condition
- Full Time Daydreamer
Notable Culture:
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- Story
- Dr. Demento
- Weird Al
- Butterfly Effect
- Burger King
- Children of the Corn
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- Transition Lenses
- Annie
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- Slinkey
- Bright Sessions podcast
Notable Talking Points:
- Down to business
- Thank you to Patricia for hosting us
- I’ll be keeping time on a pink rubber clock
- Story
- Thoughts about 6th grade
- A lot of Uh’s and extra words
- What made me want to start a sleep podcast?
- Consuming copious amounts of articles but not on news sites
- Once upon a time there was a little boy named Andy
- Sleep just left Little Andy’s life
- Adults tried to help Little Andy but it didn’t help
- Breathing and warm milk didn’t help
- All it did was make LIttle Andy feel more alone
- An endless plane to walk alone at night
- The old schoolyard geodesic dome
- Dr. Demento on Sunday nights
- The Dr. Demento nighttime community
- He didn’t fall asleep but he felt better
- Then he grew up and forgot about Dr. Demento
- And the sleeplessness came back
- Then he started to call himself Drew, not Little Andy
- Drew would tell Little Andy to let go of Dr. Demento
- Then one day, Drew had a daughter
- And his daughter had a hard time sleeping
- One day he walked by himself in the mirror
- A tired, haggard reflection
- Wanting to empower his daughter
- Walking the walk and talking the talk
- What am I going to regret?
- Little Andy reemerges
- Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups
- This inner dialogue with Little Andy continued for years
- Eventually I returned to it
- A sleepy Dr. Demento
- Then I started making the show
- We’re not alone in the deep dark night
- Let me take your mind off of stuff
- Sometimes we just want a distraction
- You can go back and revisit your past self with softness
- I don’t have human hair
- More akin to fur
- I had a bowl cut as a child
- So straight and so thin
- Teenage Hair Introspection
- A forced middle part
- A failed experiment at greasing my hair
- Nothing ever worked
- Going to Frank the Barber
- Most of my friends and siblings had good hair
- The Definition of Haircut Insanity
- The haircut would never work
- Frank was a very demonstrative barber and would say my hair was impossible
- Franks’s attempted fatherly role
- A shared delusion
- One time, Frank suggested a perm
- Even I knew this was a bad idea
- Pitching this perm
- The voice of reason kept me from getting a perm
- A perm in a parallel universe
- What would my life be like if I’d gotten that perm
- Perms are out of style
- But a lot of perms are still sold
- The Unique Perm Smell
- Exploring the Universe to get a perm
- Theoretical Physicists said this was a bad idea
- I met with women stirring eye of newt
- But they said it portended bad things
- I stuck my head in a cauldron and a particle accelerator
- Journeying Into Imagination
- Going back and healing something
- The first time I had trouble in school
- First grade with Sister Iron
- They called me Mr. Messy
- Making flashcards
- I exploded a sandwich bag like a sonic boom
- Sister Iron had the shock of her life
- A feverish berating of me
- My punishment was to put the bag back together
- What if I could go back there with a perm?
- The Power of the Podcast took me back
- Carrying me back to the classroom
- Be quiet, Sister’s talking
- Feeling my giant locks of curly hair
- I blew up the bag and popped it
- Sister yells at me
- I twirl my hair curl and feel calmer
- Talking calmly with Sister Iron
- You can’t yell at me like this, Sister
- Take five, classmate
- Well, let me poke a few holes in your argument, Sister
- I’m sorry, class
- Take a breath, Sister
- Owning up and apologizing with confidence
- That Clean School Desk Smell
- Caught in this memory
- Sitting in the yard, poofing my curls
- There’s a lot of yelling going on at this school
- These older kids want me to speak assertively with their teachers
- All I said was, “Please stop yelling.”
- I don’t have the words to describe self-soothing
- The whole school comes to me
- Wait, I’m not going to end school!
- I’m just trying to maintain boundaries
- Uh oh, this is some butterfly wing stuff
- We’re marching on Burger King
- All the teachers are looking at me and pointing
- The kids take over the Burger King and throw all the adults out
- A Pre-Internet Meme
- Kids across Syracuse starting walking out of school and taking over Burger Kings
- By the end of the day, all American students were living in Burger Kings
- They need a scapegoat
- Reasonably talking with Burger King franchisee owners
- Adults just keep escalating, which I don’t
- A pretty civilized version of anarchy
- It wasn’t the healthiest, but it was okay
- The kids are fine!
- I have no demands
- My curls comfort me
- The National Guard is called
- Let’s mediate through a neutral party
- The Children of the Corn
- Mediating in an RV
- Back when Burger Kings had greenhouses
- Sister Iron enters the RV
- She had Transition lenses version 1.0
- Mutual apologies with Sister Iron
- What kind of child is allowed to chemically alter their hair in first grade?
- Something ominous in my perm
- And then she goes off again
- So I left because I didn’t want to be treated like that
- My hair and I are not evil
- I go back to the BK
- How can we fix this?
- The kids don’t want to go home
- Clinging to my curls
- The kids had burgled home perm kits so they can be like me
- Please don’t give yourself perms, kids
- I took a walk to think
- It felt so good to finally twang a curl
- I heard a man’s weeping
- This man has lost everything
- He’s a 55 year old guy with a bowlcut
- I’ve never seen a worse haircut
- That’s Frank the Barber!
- He had an awful interaction with a customer…who happened to be a nun
- Frank used to be so confident and then something changed in the last 3 days
- Come back with me to the Burger King, Frank
- Give Frank 20 cc’s of vanilla, stat
- All the kids had given each other perms
- Some of the perms had turned green
- Oh boy I’m gonna be in even more trouble
- A roomful of kid perms is not a good look
- It’s like the cast of Annie
- We have to go home, kids
- Think about what you miss that’s at home
- We do have to go to school
- Everyone run your hands through your curls
- Curls are Potential Energy
- I touched hairs with Frank
- Frank started to spiral and spin inside of my curls
- We returned to our proper places with our own hairs
- I could feel the power of those lost curls
- And that power still resided in me
- Then I was back in school the next day
- I was touching my fur, pretending my curls were Slinkies
- Then I saw Sister Iron
- Sister Iron left
- Then Frank emerged and winked at me
- Lesson #1: Perms are powerful things
- Sometimes you can go back and ponder the past
- You can’t totally change things but you can make a little bit of a difference
- That’s the end of the story
- Thanks for coming by tonight
- We can do a quick Q and A
- Sister Iron is real
- I can email you a copy of the show
- What made me get started?
- I’ll regret not trying this
- How much is scripted or riffed?
- Probably a third is made up on the spot
- A crossover with Sleep Whispers
- Talking about the voice and intention
- What’s my favorite episode?
- When I’m totally surprised
- Birdbath was a great one
- Genny the Username Generator
- I do love Stan and Nuns in Space
- Testing out material on my family
- The listener gratitude is humbling and keeps me going
- A non-therapeutic relationship
- The Relatability of the Freaking Human Condition
- Learning to podcast
- The supportive podcasting community
- Full Time Daydreamer
- A secret T Shirt Message
- Stay Strange
- Shoutout to the Bright Sessions
- No further questions
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