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Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by duxup »

gullywhumper wrote: post #77

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous. I listen to it during the day too. I’m very tempted to score some of the games, but I’m a little worried I’d find holes like only 2 outs in an inning or missing innings in a game. https://www.sleepbaseball.co…

I found the voice doing the play by play more aggravating than anything else. I don't know why. Very interesting.

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by driverdan »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #119
colemannerd wrote: post #24

Marfa is an amazing little town. I was there 3 months ago; while it is out of the way, even as a visitor, everyone is nice and genuinely there to provide an amazing artistic experience. If you ever want to experience the actual weird, southwestern, cowboy country, go to Marfa. And have a drink outside this public radio station. It's quite a nice getaway.

We went there a few years ago, while we were in Fort Davis, to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing! But at the same time, we also saw a Space X launch, including seeing the flash of the 1st stage separation. It was an amazingly cool experience. While waiting for sunset, we also took a drive out of town to the southwest toward Mexico. It started as a nice paved road, but after an hour or so…

> to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing!

They're car headlights, which are indeed a real thing.

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by rockdiesel »

gullywhumper wrote: post #77

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous. I listen to it during the day too. I’m very tempted to score some of the games, but I’m a little worried I’d find holes like only 2 outs in an inning or missing innings in a game. https://www.sleepbaseball.co…

Northwoods is actually a very real collegiate summer baseball league.

https://northwoodsleague.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwoods_League

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by CWuestefeld »

driverdan wrote: post #123
CWuestefeld wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We went there a few years ago, while we were in Fort Davis, to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing! But at the same time, we also saw a Space X launch, including seeing the flash of the 1st stage separation. It was an amazingly cool experience. While waiting for sunset, we also took a drive out of town to the southwest toward Mexico. It started as a nice paved road, but after an hour or so…

> to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing! They're car headlights, which are indeed a real thing.

There are no cars - or roads - where the lights can be seen.

I'm aware that there's widespread support for the idea that there's some odd atmospheric effect with refraction or something, that displaces the apparent location of real headlights. But even granting that, it doesn't change that it's a pretty weird thing.

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by swhitt »

gullywhumper wrote: post #77

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous. I listen to it during the day too. I’m very tempted to score some of the games, but I’m a little worried I’d find holes like only 2 outs in an inning or missing innings in a game. https://www.sleepbaseball.co…

I love this, and I wanted to use it when I was suffering from a bit of sleeplessness in the past month or so. Unfortunately, my brain gets stuck in a loop trying to figure out when the audience noise loops. There's one guy who makes the same holler every N seconds.

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by pseudohadamard »

gullywhumper wrote: post #77

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous. I listen to it during the day too. I’m very tempted to score some of the games, but I’m a little worried I’d find holes like only 2 outs in an inning or missing innings in a game. https://www.sleepbaseball.co…

For me it's Sunn O))) Live at the Mayan. I've never made it past the first note before falling asleep.

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by pseudohadamard »

lIl-IIIl wrote: post #32

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 bo…

If you're in the UK you've already got the shipping forecast, no need for some custom podcast to fall asleep to. Here's twelve hours of it for your enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j6KlkVUseI

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by pseudohadamard »

lIl-IIIl wrote: post #32

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 bo…

I like the idea of B-B-B but unfortunately the reader has the voice of a heavy smoker, it's just not that relaxing for me.

Re: Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by pseudohadamard »

kuboble wrote: post #46
nikhilgk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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?

A two-hour-long recording released every 24 hours with the graphics being AI slop? It's AI.
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