I must stress this has nothing to do with being boring, what I’m interestedare folks who lulllyou to sleep through the smoothness and flow and safety you feel from their sustained speech independant from their content.

  1. If you had to pinpoint, what about their voice or schtick makes them so hypnotic…?

Maybe this is too obvious, but I’m surprised no one has said Joe Pera yet.

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“This is 99% Invisible, I’m Roman Mars”

Sebastian Lague does graphics/interactive programming with a good dose of poetry and has a very soothing voice. Some of his videos are absolutely fabulous

Matt O’Dowd on PBS Spacetime

The narrator from Fall of Civilization is very relaxing to listen to

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Yeah good call. I kinda forget he exists and then once every six months he pops up to deliver three hours of perfect storytelling

Seconded. It’s a very soothing show for being distracted enough to doze off.

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For me, it’s always been Phoebe Judge from the podcast Criminal.

And this is love!

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What is it about TrueCrimeTM that is so hypnotic as class? So weird, Law and Order used to be my Ambien haha

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VaatiVidya (FromSoft game lore videos) and Voices of the Past (narration of primary historical sources) for sure.

In Deep Geek on YouTube. Content on LotR, SoIaF, and other fantasy. He’s also read some stories as Audio books.

My bedtime listening ❤️

Art Bell. His voice is just buttery silk, the content is batshit crazy, and it was always a late-night show.

John Hopkins on Short History Of has the most beautiful soothing voice.

Drew Ackerman from the Sleep With Me podcast. This is in direct defiance of your post, though. He self describes as the world’s most boring person.

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avery truffleman omg she could read the phonebook and i’m in for it. love her voice

Sean Caroll - intonation and cadence. [subject matter awesome. must. stay. awake]

Stuff You Should Know podcast with Josh and Chuck. They do interesting talks, but their voices make me sleepy.

Also Joe Ressingtons voice from a variety of the Late Night Linux group of podcasts. Just good vocal tone, and British accent, as well as they make super clean studio audio. https://latenightlinux.com/

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