Podcast
Uncle Scott Reads
Hosted by Scott Bessenecker · EN
Having trouble setting aside the anxieties of the day or silencing the conversations in your head before bedtime? Uncle Scott Reads will help you relax while listening to a classic short story. Doctors agree; listening to this podcast is the equivalent of 6mg of Melatonin.
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Episode 26: Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriksi
May 14, 202200:40:31Tap to summarizeOn this final episode it is time to talk about anxiety over illness. We all suffer a bit of hypochondria and so it's time to deal with it. Then let's listen to another short story from the late 1800's about a high-born man's fascination with a trapeze artist, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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Episode 25: A Yellow Dog
May 14, 202200:40:17Tap to summarizeLet's talk about our kindred relationship with the animal kingdom as we drift to sleep. What about imagining peace and harmony with our favorite animal sleeping next to us? Then let me read A Yellow Dog by Bret Harte
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Episode 24: X: A Fabulous Child's Story
May 14, 202200:39:16Tap to summarizeDo you ever ask, "who am I?" Are we just the person our family and friends want us to be? Let me talk to you about the question of identity and belonging and then read to you a story by Louis Gould called X: A Fabulous Child's Story.
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Episode 23: The Wreck
May 14, 202200:40:04Tap to summarizeDo you notice how angry and vitriolic people's responses have become. What is this over-the-top anger that gets triggered in ourselves? If your anger or someone elses anger is keeping you awake, let me talk you to sleep and help you release the anger event that is keeping you awake. I'll read Guy de Maupassant's story The Wreck. It's romantic ... at least in that 1800's European sort of way.
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Episode 22: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
May 14, 202200:30:25Tap to summarizeA beautiful story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is recited after some thoughts about always pleasing others. It is impossible, so I spend some time helping you adjust your thoughts and expectations about the reality of disappointing others.
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Episode 21: The Undertaker
May 14, 202200:31:04Tap to summarizeThis podcast is designed to put you to sleep. Hopefully this story won't have the opposite effect. Alexander Pushkin writes about an undertaker. I've taken this opportunity to speak about death and grief - things that can keep us awake.
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Episode 20: The Telephone
May 1, 202200:27:21Tap to summarizeDorothy Parker wrote this story in 1928. In it she waits by the telephone for a man to call her. Let's explore the uncomfortable task of waiting and the challenge of unfulfilled longing. It's a good thing to wait. It can make us better people.
Transcribe →Episode 19: The Stranger
May 1, 202200:36:57Tap to summarizeLet me own the problem of patriarchy, apologize and then read you to sleep with a story by Katherine Mansfield called, The Stranger.
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Episode 18: The Rockpile
May 1, 202200:29:51Tap to summarizeLet me talk you down from your negative thoughts about your body while I read this classic short story from James Baldwin called The Rockpile.
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Episode 17: Hunter Quartermain's Story
May 1, 202200:57:41Tap to summarizeLet's talk about the illusion of control and our attempts to manipulate people and circumstances. We need to exercise grace, strength and even when other people's junk spills over onto us. Let me read Hunter Quartermain's Story, a character from King Solomon's Mines which influenced the Lost World genre, as well as the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and India Jones.
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