Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

	Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep(marfapublicradio.org)
	259 points by reaperducer 9 hours ago \| 73 comments
	tl;dr: Marfa Public Radio launched a sleep podcast called "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep" as part of its fall membership drive, where staff read aloud the dull operational documents (FCC compliance, NPR ethics codes, etc.) that keep the 24/7 station running. The goal is to lull listeners to sleep, then prompt them to donate when they wake up.
	HN Discussion: •Sharing personal sleep tricks and techniques unrelated to the podcast itself •Recommending alternative sleep-inducing podcasts or audio content ↑Praising Marfa as a town and tangentially endorsing the radio station ↑Enthusiastically endorsing the podcast concept as clever and effective ↓Disagreeing that the source material would actually be boring rather than engaging