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The NoSleep Podcast

S21 Ep8: NoSleep Podcast S21E08

The NoSleep Podcast

Creative Reason Media Inc.

Performing Arts, Fiction, Society & Culture, Science Fiction, Arts

4.613.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It’s Episode 08 of Season 21. Ride the Sleepless Express into tales about tragic tykes.

“The Ice Cream Man”
written by Gene Broadway (Story starts around 00:03:30)
TRIGGER WARNING!
Produced by: Phil Michalski
Cast: Narrator – David Cummings, Billy – Dan Zappulla, Ice Cream Man – Mike DelGaudio, Nicholas Fowler – Matthew Bradford

“Tommy”
written by 1000andonenites (Story starts around 00:27:20)
TRIGGER WARNING!
Produced & scored by: David Cummings
Cast: Narrator – Erin Lillis, Mary – Sarah Thomas, Mary’s Kid – Matthew Bradford, Anna – Nichole Goodnight

“Down the Slide”
written by Adryan Straver (Story starts around 00:33:25)
Produced by: Phil Michalski
Cast: Narrator – Kristen DiMercurio

“Walter”
written by Halle Harper (Story starts around 00:45:45)
TRIGGER WARNING!
Produced by: Jeff Clement
Cast: Narrator – Jeff Clement, Walter – Reagen Tacker, Dad – Jesse Cornett

“Blocks” written by Albert Ramirez (Story starts around 01:10:55)
TRIGGER WARNING!
Produced by: Jesse Cornett
Cast: Narrator – David Ault, Little Mikey – James Cleveland, Little Mikey’s Mother – Ash Millman, The Toy Man – Andy Cresswell, The Good Little Girl – Erika Sanderson, The Good Little Girl’s Mother – Penny Scott-Andrews

“Digging a Hole”
written by Jeff Wood (Story starts around 01:43:25)
TRIGGER WARNING!
Produced by: Phil Michalski
Cast: Don – Graham Rowat, Dena – Sarah Thomas, Kelly – Nichole Goodnight

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Executive Producer & Host: David Cummings
Musical score composed by: Brandon Boone
“Walter” illustration courtesy of Jen Tracy

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All aboard!

0:06.0

Tickets please.

0:07.0

Find your seats.

0:10.0

The train will be departing shortly.

0:14.0

Your aboard the sleepless Express,

0:18.0

a direct journey into the darkness of the night.

0:23.0

There are no... into the darkness of the night.

0:28.0

There are no sleeping cars available on this train.

0:38.0

On this journey, you will experience the horrors found within the dark landscapes and endless black tunnels. You will hear things which will leave you frightened and disturbed.

0:44.6

And remember, there will be no stops until the very end of the line. Brace yourself. The Line.

1:27.0

Brace yourself for the No Sleep Podcast. Oh, Welcome aboard the No Sleep Podcast. I'm your conductor, David Cummings. Horror writers will tell you one of the cardinal rules of horror storytelling.

1:32.0

You write about what scares you. A writer has a fear of

1:37.0

drowning. Here's a story about someone drowning. A writer is terrified

1:41.4

about walking alone at night and being attacked.

1:44.1

Well, here's their story about that.

1:46.7

And with a lot of horror writers being parents, you can imagine how terrifying it would be

1:52.1

to have your child harmed or killed.

1:55.0

Not sure there's much worse than that, right?

1:58.0

Well, that's why horror has so many stories in which children are in grave danger or end up being killed due to accident or malevolence.

2:07.0

Stories about harm coming to children will give all but the most heartless person, a disturbing experience.

2:14.3

And kids in horror aren't always the victims.

2:17.1

I'm sure you've seen movies or stories which feature the villains being young innocent

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