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lIl-IIIltoday at 5:31 AM5 repliesview on HN

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.


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ycombinetetoday at 5:46 AM

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)

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nikhilgktoday at 6:38 AM

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.

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Utileratoday at 2:44 PM

That's the funny trap with a lot of "boring" material: the moment it's old, technical or oddly specific, it becomes interesting again

atmosxtoday at 12:44 PM

> 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.

crypttalestoday at 12:57 PM

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