About
Mic Check Stories is a sleep podcast. Each episode, Brett Thorson opens a book to a page chosen by dice or by a listener, and reads it aloud, slowly, without having seen it first.
The books are old catalogs, field manuals, government bulletins, and handbooks. Interesting enough to quiet a busy mind. Dull enough to let it go.
New here? Start with Page 0, the 8-minute introduction to the show.
The series
- The Catalog
- The Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971)
- Bulletins
- USDA Farmers' Bulletins
- Fly Me to Sleep
- FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
- Declassified Bedtime
- Declassified U.S. government documents
The voice
Brett Thorson is a voice actor, the voice behind SirVoiceALot. He's also an instrument-rated pilot. That explains the FAA handbooks. And he once worked at a three-letter agency, which is why the bedtime stories include sabotage manuals.
Custom bedtime readings are under Choose a page. Narration and voice-over work are booked through SirVoiceALot.
Rights and credits
Public-domain works are read in full. Licensed works are read with the rights holder's permission, and credited on each episode.
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