You can now have Optimus Prime learn you a bedtime story. This is just not a sentence I anticipated to write down at the moment, and but, it’s now an inescapable truth which you could go to mattress listening to the dulcet tones of the chief of the Autobots… as he describes the horrible wars that enveloped his dwelling planet Cybertron earlier than coming to Earth. Sweet desires!

To make clear, you’ll must have entry to the immensely common meditation/rest/sleep help app Calm—particularly, the Calm Kids iteration—to listen to Optimus narrate a “Sleep Story,” which the corporate describes as being “soothing tales that mix music, sound fx, and incredible voice talent to help you drift into dreamland.” The story is titled “History of the Transformers,” which doesn’t look like a story that might be straightforward to float off to provided that the overwhelming majority of it has to do with the countless wars between the Autobots and the Decepticons.

That stated, Optimus, as per the basic cartoons and trendy live-action motion pictures, is performed by Peter Cullen, whose deep, low, soothing voice appears completely tailored to lull nearly anybody to sleep, it doesn’t matter what he was studying. You can get a too-brief 30-second preview of the Sleep Story over at Calm, and listen to for your self.

The press launch provides, “This never-before-heard Transformers story tells the history of the Autobots and Decepticons, taking listeners deeper into the More-Than-Meets-the-Eye themes of the iconic franchise, exploring bravery, leadership, friendship, and STEM.” I’m very interested in how a lot significance shall be positioned on science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic within the recording, provided that 1) just about all the STEM in Transformers is made up, and a couple of) I don’t know a lot you’re going to study these sciences when you are actually falling asleep. There’s not an opportunity in hell that any truth I heard would stay in my thoughts come dawn, it doesn’t matter what robotic informed it to me

“History of the Transformers” is out there now within the Calm Kids app. If we’re fortunate, the subsequent launch shall be terrorist chief Cobra Commander studying a bedtime story in regards to the time he created an complete recreation present simply to make G.I. Joe really feel dumb.

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