When Joseph and I first started hanging out regularly, back in 2010, we bonded over a few things - books, theater, a similar sense of humor - but the thing we talked the most about was podcasts.
In retrospect, the world of podcasts in 2010 seems impossibly small, but at the time, it felt huge. There seemed to be a podcast for everything imaginable, and we found and shared our favori...
2021-06-15 16:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode #190 - Listeners
They know. They all know.
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They know. They all know.
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2021-06-01 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Megan Wallaby is missing.
This episode was written by Brie Williams
Weather: “Asenweg 16“ by Laura Theis, https://badasssnowwhite.bandcamp.com/
The voice of Michelle Nguyen is Kate Jones.
The voice of Tamika Flynn is Symphony Sanders.
The voice of Megan Wallaby is Janet Varney.
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2021-06-01 04:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostThis episode is by frequent Night Vale guest writer Brie Williams. Brie has taken to reviving characters we haven’t talked about in a bit. First with Josh Crayton in the episode “The Waterfall”, and now with Megan Wallaby here.
I hadn’t thought about Megan Wallaby in some years. She was a creation of another guest writer, Zack Parsons, and doing a quick search on our transcript si...
2021-06-01 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all! It's been too long! This is my fault. I'm Jeffrey writing this, btw. That's me. I'm the one who delayed this process. For this I am sorry. But.. BUT! Joseph and I will be back on Zoom next Wednesday, June 2 at 6:00 PM ET / 3:00 PM PT! And we'd love for you to join us again. It's always a great time with great questions and great people.
We'll talk Night Vale, and things that ar...
2021-05-24 16:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Night Vale crew - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (writers), Meg Bashwiner (actor, tour mananger), and Jon Bernstein (Disparition) - talk about how to make music, tour, and put together this show.
Thank you again, Patreon. We hope to see you all again on the road soon. Miss you!
The Night Vale crew - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (writers), Meg Bashwiner (actor, tour mananger), and Jon Bernstein (Disparition) - talk about how to make music, tour, and put together this show.
Thank you again, Patreon. We hope to see you all again on the road soon. Miss you!
Welcome to "Before They Were Night Vale", our feature in which Night Vale creators Jeffrey and Joseph share writing from before their Welcome to Night Vale collaboration, along with commentary. Come explore their early writing, both good and bad
I have a folder on my computer where I keep all the music I write. Most of it is unfinished, or scraps of ideas.
My father was a p...
2021-05-20 16:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this sure is an episode.
I’ve had the idea for this one for a bit. In the original version, it would just start as one of our normal intros, but the intro would never stop and it would turn into the episode. Because our dynamic ad insertion breaks up the intro from the main body of the episode, that format didn’t quite make sense. So instead I did this version, in which a placeh...
2021-05-17 20:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Let’s go behind the scenes and answer some questions from listeners.
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2021-05-17 13:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Let’s go behind the scenes and answer some questions from listeners.
Weather: “Hey“ by Standpoint feat. Lady Daisy River, https://soundcloud.com/standpoint-1
The voice of Lucy in Claremont was Julia Morizawa.
Transcript available at 2021-05-15 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favorite painters is Pieter Bruegel, he of the 16thCentury Flemish Renaissance landscapes. Bruegel’s works were notable for fine details, many grotesque and comical. There was so much to see in each of his works. It wasn’t just about the technique, nor the wholeness of the image, but about the people within them. Every painting told a story.
Bruegel painted several versions ...
2021-05-04 20:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post
A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner, chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both sides.
There are two sides to every love story.
Between meters 183 and 207 of the Brown Stone Spire, artist Saad Ibrahim chisels ancient verses in long-forgotten alphabets.
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2021-05-01 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Between meters 183 and 207 of the Brown Stone Spire, artist Saad Ibrahim chisels ancient verses in long-forgotten alphabets.
Weather: “Eurydice“ by HEATHERS, https://heathers-mtl.bandcamp.com/
Transcript available at http://welc...
2021-05-01 04:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt's perfectly fine for a story to be pointless. I think this is what is meant by the word "sketch," which is just a short metaphorical doodle of an idea. Working with the Neo-Futurists gave me a chance to play around and see what works.
The play "ding" was just an attempt at repetitive physical comedy. It seemed to work okay. The audience laughed and participated. When you read it,...
2021-04-27 19:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner, chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both sides.
There are two sides to every love story.
Good day from the rainy and cold woods. We had sun and warmth for a week or so, just long enough to make the trees prematurely spring into action, only for it to swing back to the 40s. It’s going to be time to get my sun lamp back out of storage, isn’t it?
Today we return to the story of Frank Chen. I have a plan for episodes on this subject through to next November, which is the dead...
2021-04-15 19:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Frank Chen is back. Good as new!
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Frank Chen is back. Good as new!
The voice of Melony is Molly Quinn
Weather: “Movie Night“ by Jonah Myers, https://jonahmyers.bandcamp.com/
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale.com/transcripts
Pre-orde...
2021-04-15 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJoseph and I will be back on Zoom this Wednesday, April 14 at 6:00 PM ET / 3:00 PM PT. And we'd love for you to join us again. It's always a great time with great questions and great people.
We'll talk Night Vale, and things that are not Night Vale, and take your questions live. Just hop on into the zoom chat with us. The hang out is open to all Patreon members who have a Weird Scout or h...
2021-04-12 17:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to "Before They Were Night Vale", our feature in which Night Vale creators Jeffrey and Joseph share writing from before their Welcome to Night Vale collaboration, along with commentary. Come explore their early writing, both good and bad
Joseph: Shortly before starting work on Night Vale, I wrote a surreal novel that I never ended up doing anything with. ...
2021-04-08 19:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The librarians have escaped during the first annual Book Fair.
Listen to the episode here.
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2021-04-01 15:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Spring all! The 10% discount code for all merchandise bought from TopatoCo in April is: INTERN411
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2021-04-01 15:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostTo be honest, I think there's a good chance Jonathan Franzen doesn't own any music. It was probably a little presumptuous of us to write that he's against the concept of it entirely.
I don't know Jonathan Franzen. There's a better than zero chance that he's a perfectly nice fellow who just happens to have a "Get Off My Literary Lawn" public persona. So I try to be careful with him o...
2021-04-01 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The librarians have escaped during the first annual Book Fair.
Weather: “I Will” by Emischramm https://emischramm.bandcamp.com/
The voice of Tamika Flynn is Symphony Sanders.
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale...
2021-04-01 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back on zoom to hang out with y'all. Joseph is on a short vacation this week, so joining Jeffrey on Thursday is the voice of Tamika Flynn and co-host of Good Morning Night Vale Symphony Sanders!
We'll talk about vampires, tiktok, and treating the zillow app like it's tindr for houses. It's gonna be fun. So pop onto zoom with Jeffrey & Symphony on Thursd...
2021-03-30 16:23:57 +0000 UTC View Post