There is a similar podcast, "Boring Books for Bedtime": https://www.boringbookspod.com/episodes.
The problem with that podcast is that most of their selections are genuinely interesting - I even listened to them on long drives (e.g. "Origin of Species"). Even something I thought would boring like or "Farm Engines and how to Run" them turned out to be fascinating.
This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely boring. I couldn't get past the intro.
The Sleep With Me Podcast is very good. It helped my wife when she had a period of insomnia.
He has a number of tricks he uses from a monoto delivery, to meandering stories where the narrative constantly interrupts itself with. So you can’t really “follow along”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_with_Me_(podcast)
There's a real craft to making something feel safe, low-stakes and impossible to get invested in
Lifelong insomniac (racing thoughts, probably ADHD-related) and this podcast cured me.
To anyone who tries it, it's important to know upfront: there's nothing to "get." It's nonsense. It exhausts the brain without being interesting enough to keep it running.
Woke up too early this morning and tried it, after Mafra public radio did not work for me. This worked great, and now that I am listening to it again it is quite hilarious that I just cannot follow what he is talking about
Haha. Thats very well put!
My favourite episode (The Bear with a Comet on his Belly): https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/414/
I don’t need it now but this was a godsend a few years ago.
A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics. I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives. The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.
In the middle the YouTube Advertisements starts playing at a louder volume and you wake up :)
Amazes me how people in a tech industry paying six figures refuse to pay a tiny percentage of their income to get rid of adverts on something that consumes so much time.
Paying for YouTube does not get rid of ads. Only using sponsor block does.
I avoid sponsorship read outs by choosing the channels I spend my time on, especially if it’s mid roll. Those people are bypassing the built in ad system and deliberately placing the read out in a place where it’s annoying for you to skip.
There's a very emotional "I'm not paying for YouTube" feeling that some people have. They try and justify it with logic after the fact, but the underlying principal seems too simply be "I'm not gonna pay for YouTube, I deserve to get everything for free!" Like, you get paid at your job where you work, which gets you money. Paying other people money for their work, however, suddenly that's just not ok. Somehow.
Glad I'm able to amaze you.
I can't speak for other cheapskates, but I personally think it's more that YouTube is still so utterly inessential that if ads ever start managing to get past my ad blockers, I'll simply not watch.
I don't believe it to be ai generated voice. It's too good.
Or if it is - why e.g. automated voices reading nyt articles are so bad?
That's the funny trap with a lot of "boring" material: the moment it's old, technical or oddly specific, it becomes interesting again
> This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely boring. I couldn't get past the intro.
The professionals…
On a related note reading HN comments is a prime example of sleepy text. Gets me every time.
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