The Count’s Bedtime Castle
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Count Von Count
Alan Muraoka
Tanya Alexander-Henderson
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Alan Muraoka
00:00
Hi there. It's me
Alan
from Sesame Street
and you're listening to "Goodnight, World!" A sleep-cast where your friends at Sesame Street
and Headspace
studios help you get ready for bed.Share
Count Von Count
00:14
Goodnight World. Goodnight World. Goodnight World. Goodnight World. Goodnight World. Goodnight World. Goodnight World.
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Alan Muraoka
00:25
Tonight's episode is:
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Count Von Count
00:28
The Count's
Bedtime Castle.Share
Alan Muraoka
00:35
Oh, I'm very glad you're here. It's me
Alan
and I'm on my way to visit a friend. It's so nice that you're joining me. I'm here at The Count's
Castle. I love visiting The Count's
Castle and knocking on his great big door. It makes such a fun sound, and since I'm visiting The Count
I'd like to count the knocks too. A-one knock, two knocks-Share
Count Von Count
01:07
Three knocks. Ah ah ah.
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01:11
Ah, thank you for those three knocks my friend. You know how I love to count them.
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Alan Muraoka
01:20
Oh, I hope I didn't wake you up because I see you're wearing your pajamas
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Count Von Count
01:25
Oh not at all, not at all. I am hosting a pajama party tonight for all of my little nieces and nephews.
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Alan Muraoka
01:33
Oh, I can hear that.
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Count Von Count
01:35
They do love having sleepovers here. There is so much to count at their uncle
Count's
Castle.Share
Alan Muraoka
01:42
I can believe that.
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Count Von Count
01:43
Ah yes, so much to count. Let me see there are 41 rooms, 27 chandeliers, 91 doors, 31 closets, 126 windows, oh, and 14 stairways with a total of 301 stairs.
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Alan Muraoka
02:05
Wow!
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Count Von Count
02:05
Ah, plus the 32 sofas, 27 easy chairs, oh, also 72,000 bathroom tiles and 22 soap dishes and one, count it, one fang brush.
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Alan Muraoka
02:20
Whoa! This is going to be one, one very number filled pajama party. Oh and by the way I do love your pajamas with those cute little black cats on them, and that little blanket you're carrying with those cute little black bats. Wait a minute
Count
, is that a sheep I hear? It is a sheep.Share
Count Von Count
02:45
Well of course it is
Alan
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Alan Muraoka
02:49
Now there are two, no three of them.
Count
, why are there's so many sheep here in the castle?Share
Count Von Count
02:56
Ah, perhaps you did not know. Bo Peep lets me borrow her sheep from time to time.
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Alan Muraoka
03:03
Ah let me guess. You like to count them, right?
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Count Von Count
03:07
Exactly, counting sheep when it is almost bedtime always makes me very, sleepy. Here. I will show you
Alan
. Little sheepy, will you and your friends help me to demonstrate?Share
03:23
One, one sheep. Two, two sheep. Three, three sleepy sheep. What what what what what what? Perhaps I'd better not count too many sheep right now. It is bedtime for my nieces and nephews, but not quite bedtime for me,
The Count
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Alan Muraoka
03:52
Well, it sounds like this will be a very sleepy castle tonight.
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Count Von Count
03:57
For everyone else, yes
Alan
, but I think that I will have a very, very hard time getting to sleep tonight.Share
Alan Muraoka
04:05
Oh, why's that Count? You sounded pretty sleepy a minute ago.
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Count Von Count
04:10
Yes, but that was because I was counting those soft wooly sheep. And tonight. Well I am letting all of my little nephews count the sheep, and I am letting all of my little nieces count my batty bats!
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Alan Muraoka
04:27
Oh, now I see. It's very kind of you
Count
, to let them count all the bats and sheep, but that doesn't leave any bats and sheep for you to count.Share
Count Von Count
04:39
Well, I would not like to wake up all the bats and sheep just so that I can count them.
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Alan Muraoka
04:46
In that case I have an idea that may help. You can count your batty bats or sheep, whatever you like, in your imagination.
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Count Von Count
04:58
My imagination.
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Alan Muraoka
05:00
Yes. Sometimes I count things in my imagination too, right at bedtime, that helps me get to sleep.
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Count Von Count
05:09
It does?
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Alan Muraoka
05:11
Yes, and I bet it'll work for you. Maybe even better since you're such an expert at counting.
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Count Von Count
05:18
Why, that is extraordinary! I can count whatever I like, even bedtime sheep, in my imagination? Now I just wonder-
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Alan Muraoka
05:32
What,
Count
?Share
Count Von Count
05:34
I wonder how high I can count in my imagination? Oh, I cannot wait to try it, but first I must say nighty-night to my nieces and nephews. They will be asleep before you know it.
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Alan Muraoka
05:49
Tell them I wish them sweet dreams too.
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Count Von Count
05:52
Oh, I will
Alan
and then I will be back to imagine some bed time counting with you.Share
06:10
The pajama partiers are asleep now
Alan
. The bats and the sheep are also asleep, so I am very, very glad that we will be able to count some more in our imaginations.Share
Alan Muraoka
06:24
I'm happy you're excited for us to count in our imaginations
Count
, but before we do let's take some belly breaths, and we can use counting to help us focus and get us ready to imagine together.Share
Count Von Count
06:39
That is another wonderful idea
Alan
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Alan Muraoka
06:43
Good. So let's breathe slowly in through our noses, then slowly breathe out through our mouths.
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06:57
This next time, after we blow our breaths out, let's slowly count to three before we breathe in again. We'll do this three times
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Count Von Count
07:08
Three is a very nice number
Alan
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Alan Muraoka
07:11
Yes it is.
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Count Von Count
07:13
Oh I would like to try. I think that I will count to three out loud
Alan
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Alan Muraoka
07:19
That's a great idea
Count
, so let's breathe slowly in through our noses, then slowly breathe out through our mouths and count.Share
Count Von Count
07:35
One, two, three.
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Alan Muraoka
07:41
Now let's take our second belly breath. Let's breathe slowly in through our noses, and slowly breathe out.
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Count Von Count
07:55
One, two, three.
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Alan Muraoka
08:02
Now The third and last belly breath. Let's breathe slowly in through our noses, then slowly breathe out through our mouths and count
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Count Von Count
08:20
One, two, and that was three. Three breaths.
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Alan Muraoka
08:29
Oh that was good counting
Count
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Count Von Count
08:31
And do you know what
Alan
?Share
Alan Muraoka
08:34
What?
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Count Von Count
08:35
I think that I am too sleepy for my usual "ah ah ah" so I think I will just ahh instead.
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Alan Muraoka
08:49
And do you know what
Count
?Share
Count Von Count
08:53
Mmm?
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Alan Muraoka
08:54
When you yawn, it makes me want a yawn too.
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09:06
And now we can begin to imagine all the wonderful things to count in your castle.
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Count Von Count
09:13
That is wonderful.
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Tanya Alexander-Henderson
09:28
Let's imagine we're visiting
The Count
at his castle. The Count's
Castle is a big stone building with many windows, full of friendly bats and cuddly black cats. A path leads through the garden to the front of the castle where there is a gate that is wide open to welcome all of The Count's
good friends.Share
10:05
Past the gate there is a little bridge over dark blue water. The water goes all the way around the whole castle. The water sparkles in the moonlight. Softly quacking ducks float slowly along the water, round and round the castle. There's a soft breeze in the air and it makes small ripples in the water. We walk across the little bridge through the front door which is open too.
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10:57
We enter the castle where we step up, up, up the stairs that wind up, up, up to
The Count's
bedroom. His bedroom is at the very tippy-top of the tallest tower in the castle. There are many windows in The Count's
bedroom and the glass is colored red, green, blue, pink and purple. Oh, so many colors in all kinds of beautiful patterns.Share
11:43
We hear rain beginning to fall outside as
The Count
lies down on his big fluffy bed. Ready to count many favorite things to help him fall asleep. First, The Count
looks around at three paintings on his bedroom walls. These are pictures of his family, friendly faces that he loves. He sees them smiling out from the pictures, seeing his smiling family all around makes The Count
feel happy and calm.Share
12:35
He counts the pictures: one, two, three. There are three family pictures in his bedroom, three family pictures all together. After
The Count
has counted his family pictures, he looks up and sees four friendly black bats flying in a circle high over his bed.Share
13:10
The bats are
The Count's
little friends here in his castle. Their wings make a quiet flap, flap, flap sound as they fly happily round and round. The Count
smiles up at them and begins to count his four batty bat friends. One, two, three, four. Four bats flying high over his bed, four bats all together. The Count's
little bats fly off to their cave, it's their bedtime too.Share
14:07
The Count
is getting sleepy now. The rain falls pitter-pat so gently against the tower windows. The Count
hears the low rumble of thunder far away in the distance. He loves the sound of quiet thunder, far off, when he's cozy inside his castle, and The Count
hears the rain falling, ever so gently, and ever so quietly. He decides to count the windows next. The six colorful windows in his room.Share
15:01
He counts them: one window, two windows, three windows, four windows, five windows, six windows. There are six windows all together and they are each a different beautiful color. Some are pink, some are purple, some are blue and some are many different colors all together.
The Count
finishes counting his colorful windows.Share
15:46
Next, seven little black kittens jump softly onto
The Count's
bed. They swish their tails back and forth as they curl up on some fluffy pillows. The Count
counts the seven kittens, one by one. He counts: one, two, three kittens. He keeps counting: four, five, six kittens. He pets the last little kitten: seven, seven kittens all together.Share
16:42
Tip tap, tip tap. In the quiet castle
The Count
hears the little feet of Bo Peep's friendly sheep. They are tip-tapping up the stairs so that he can count them. Bo Peep knows how much The Count
loves to count sheep. Soon, small fluffy sheep leap over The Count's
bed, one by one, they baa-baa quietly as he counts the eight leaping sheep.Share
17:26
One, two, three, four. Four sheep leap high in a row like fluffy little clouds.
The Count
keeps counting: five, six, seven, eight. Eight sheep all together. Eight small fluffy sheep hop over his bed, baa-baa. Then quietly the sheep tip-tap away back down the stairs, back home to Bo Peep and the rain continues its gentle song on the colorful glass windows.Share
18:31
The Count
is so very sleepy now. He has been counting all his favorite things. Family portraits, bats and cats and soft fluffy sheep. The Count
turns to rest his sleepy head on his fluffiest pillow and watches the rain roll slowly down the windows.Share
19:11
The Count
wants to count one last thing before he goes to bed. He decides to count the raindrops falling down the window closest to his bed. There are so many soft, round raindrops rolling down the window. He counts: one raindrop, two raindrops, three raindrops, four raindrops, five raindrops.Share
19:50
The Count
is getting very, very sleepy now as he continues counting: six raindrops, seven raindrops, eight raindrops, nine raindrops, ten raindrops. The Count
closes his sleepy eyes. Ah, so many raindrops!Share
20:23
There is nothing as quiet and calm as counting your favorite things to help you fall asleep.
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Count Von Count
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