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TIH 371: David Cummings on The NoSleep Podcast, Local Ghost Stories, and Coping Mechanisms for Low Self-Confidence

  • October 30, 2020

  • 4 mins to read

In this podcast David Cummings talks about The NoSleep Podcast, local ghost stories, coping mechanisms for low self confidence, and much more.

About David Cummings

David Cummings—musician, voice actor, raconteur. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada over 50 years ago. In 2011, David rekindled his love of voice acting and audio horror storytelling with a new venture called, “The NoSleep Podcast”. Launched on June 13, 2011, he served as both host and producer. He continues to host the show while turning over the production to his talented team. David and his team of voice actors, producers, illustrators, and composer Brandon Boone have grown the show to become one of the preeminent audio horror storytelling podcasts in the world. Currently with over 300 episodes produced totaling over 500 hours of content, the podcast has been downloaded over 100 million times. It has been featured in such media as USA Today, Wired, Fangoria, Flavorwire, Popsugar, Bustle, Blumhouse and many more. The opportunity to voice act on many projects has been one of the highlights of his career, having performed not only on NoSleep but also Darkest Night, Deadly Manners, The Black Tapes, Smalltown Horror, Creepy, and Pseudopod, among others. Since August 2014 David has run the podcast full-time through his production company, Creative Reason Media, Inc.

Show notes

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[3:39] Conversation start/first experiences with story
[8:57] The close connection between comedy and horror
[11:02] Local ghost stories
[18:31] Vincent Price
[33:15] The Amityville Horror
[40:50] The NoSleep Podcast story order and what does and doesn’t go into the season pass
[45:04] Full time musician
[49:58] Serious horror persona to becoming more David Cummings
[1:01:03] Dealing with and coping mechanisms for low self confidence

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