Frank 12 | Read With Me | SWM+ Sneak Peek
4/6/202649 min
Let the sounds of plopping leaves carry you off to dreamland as Vic comes home and learns about joy tiredness.
This reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been sleepified as much as possible, but there are unavoidable references to the Big Farm, religion, and mental health. These topics may not be sleepy for all listeners.
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First 90 secondsJonathan Mann0:00
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Drew Ackerman· Host0:03
Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's time for a tale. Not sure if you could say it's gonna be tall, but it probably be long and pointless and full of meanders. Uh, you see, my ta-- You say, "Is it a tall tale?" I say more-- It's more like a swirly s-- One, one of those c-curly... What do they call them? Swirly straws or curly straws? If they don't call them swirly straws, they really missed out. I would assume they do because your drink swirls through them. My tall tales are swirly and whirly, and for some they feel churlly after, after listening. But it's time for Sleep With Me. Hopefully you won't feel that way. Also, FYI or F-FMEI, for my information, is churlly a word? I mean, we've all f-- I've felt, I've felt churlish many a times. Oh boy. Even if it's not a word, I hope it's like, you know... I feel like there's about, uh, thirty-three percent of the time I've got a churl going on, and when they see me walking down the street, they say, "There's a churl in that boy's step." Uh, anyway, it's time for Sleep With Me podcast to put you to sleep. Hey, everybody, this is Scoots here. I'm running through the yeses of people that should support the show after we already ran through the