Welcome back to another side of the LanceScurv experience: Night Chat Bedtime Stories. This is where I take you down some of the winding roads of my life and tell you stories that probably couldn’t be made up if I tried. These are rambling tales from growing up in New York City, working different jobs, dealing with relationships, watching people reveal who they really are, spending years in Orlando, Florida, and eventually finding my way to Ghana. Some stories are funny, some are heartbreaking, some are downright unbelievable, and some will have you shaking your head at the strange things people do when they think nobody is watching.
Don’t expect polished fairy tales or neatly packaged bedtime stories here. These are real stories from a very real life, told the way I remember them and the way I experienced them. I’ve seen human nature from the funniest corners to some of its darkest places, and after more than six decades of living, working, observing, traveling, loving, losing, laughing, and simply paying attention, I’ve accumulated quite a collection of stories. Some involve the streets of New York, some involve the people I’ve crossed paths with through the many jobs and chapters of my life, and others come from relationships, friendships, family, unexpected encounters, and those moments when life suddenly becomes stranger than fiction.
Most episodes will run around thirty minutes and may contain three different stories, although you never quite know where one story will take us. Night Chat Bedtime Stories is uncensored, unpredictable, and unapologetically human. There may be adult stories, embarrassing moments, painful memories, observations about relationships, hilarious situations, tragedies, and those strange little encounters that stay with you for decades. The idea isn’t to bore you to sleep. It’s to give your mind something satisfying to chew on while you wind down for the night—stories that might make you laugh, make you think, remind you of something from your own life, or leave you lying there wondering, “How the hell did that really happen?”
So get comfortable, turn the lights down, put on your headphones, and come hang out with me for a while. I’m bringing you the stories that don’t always fit neatly into my other work—the stories behind the storyteller. From New York City to Orlando to Ghana, from the ridiculous to the profound, from the hilarious to the heartbreaking, anything goes when the night gets quiet and the stories begin. Welcome to Night Chat Bedtime Stories. I have a lot to tell you.
