Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

(marfapublicradio.org)

78 points | by reaperducer 2 hours ago

12 comments

  • wxw 1 hour ago
    > It's a sleep podcast wherein we read you the boring documents essential to our jobs, in the hopes we might lull you into slumber.

    What a great idea, I feel li... zzz

  • jpmontez 33 minutes ago
    One of my greatest memories is performing at the Chinati Foundation. Marfa is such a gem with tons of cool people just being creative out in the desert.
    • dfee 1 minute ago
      agreed, it's a gem. wasn't familiar with Chianti, though!
  • greybox555 24 minutes ago
    fastsleep.app does kinda similar thing... but instead of long podcasts, you are given something to imagine at a time interval.

    Like if you hear "calm river", imagine that. If you hear "heavy rain over a tree", imagine that.

    In short → Close your eyes, listen & imagine.

  • chriscjcj 24 minutes ago
    "Do you lay awake wondering what FCC compliance entails?"

    I guessing FCC compliance doesn't involve knowing the difference between lay and lie. Or maybe they fell asleep in English class. X-p

  • fsckboy 7 minutes ago
    i want a sleep app that reads me things that will put me to sleep, but i need it to track when i may have gone to sleep, or more importantly when I have not, so i can restart the next night past the point i've listened to. but it needs to be some crazy simple UI, i don't want the light on my phone to turn on, i don't want to fiddle, just skip forward, skip back, that's about it

    there's all sorts of stuff that is dry but interesting that I'd like to plow through over time, a few paragraphs a day would suit me fine

    • scrapcode 2 minutes ago
      I think it'd be an outstanding feature on the iPhone to turn off audiobooks/podcasts at ~5 min into sleep or whatever. Seems like they already have the data via the Watch...
    • cauefcr 3 minutes ago
      audiobook software is almost there, I've used cozy like that myself
  • initramfs 1 hour ago
    clicks fingers instead of clapping.
  • zippyman55 1 hour ago
    I’d like to filter the offerings to get the most monotonic voice
  • roguequery-dev 1 hour ago
    What a brilliant idea. I’m here fo…zzz.
  • lostmsu 1 hour ago
    I am using https://www.youtube.com/@EpicNate for the same purpose. Works like a charm.
  • khimaros 32 minutes ago
    another is "Sleep With Me" by Dearest Scooter which are nonsensical steam of consciousness monologues.
  • alex1138 58 minutes ago
    Am I the only one that can't fall asleep to music? I need human voice rhythms, so podcasts, or whatever. The downside is not learning anything from the podcast because I'm asleep and it works its way into dreams sporadically
    • __MatrixMan__ 47 minutes ago
      I can't fall asleep to either. I can tolerate noise, like a thunderstorm, but even construction sounds are interesting enough to keep me up with questions like: "I wonder what tool makes that sound."