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Welcome to Night Vale
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© 2016, Night Vale Presents
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Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.
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Science is illegal now. Good luck.
Weather: “Norman Vember“ by Triston James
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our newest podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
Councilmember Flynn tries a new approach.
Weather: “Rearview“ by Not Jupiter
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our newest podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
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Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
Dr. Jones would like a word… in private.
Weather: “When a Heart Breaks Slowly“ by Natasha Remi
The Voice of Dr. Janet Lubelle is Janet Varney
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our newest podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
Payments are long overdue.
Weather: “Crawling Home When the Morning Comes“ by Sweet and Lonely
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
It's contract renegotiation time at the station.
Weather: “Peculiar Little Town“ by Echoes of Aphelion
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
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Relax and unwind with a liminal spaces compilation.
Weather: “Through the Clouds“ by Checkpoints!
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
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Big Rico's Pizza has a new animatronic animal band.
Weather: “On a Journey“ by Theresa Ambat
This episode was written by Brie Williams
The voice of Steve Carlsberg is Hal Lublin
The voice of Big Rico is Mal Blum
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
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Date night… with more scientists than necessary.
Weather: “Be Careful What You Wish For“ by Human Barbie
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
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The University of What It Is takes a special interest in a certain glowing cloud.
Weather: “Blackeyeblue“ by Shotgun Marmalade
The voice of Dr. Janet Lubelle is Janet Varney.
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
Lonely missives from beyond the beyond.
Weather: “The Witch” by Indra
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
The traveling man will read your tarot for only $3.
Weather: “Long Way” by Bonfire Realm
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
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Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
Night Vale gift ideas!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
Unlicensed, the new show from Night Vale, has been out for two weeks, and today we are presenting the final free episode that will appear on this feed. After that, you will have to head over to audible.com/unlicensed and get that free trial going to hear all twelve episodes.
I cannot express what this show means to me, what a joy it was to make and how excited I am for you all to hear it. This episode, I should mention, features, along with Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, and TL Thompson, the voice of James Urbaniak, which you might recognize as Leonard Burton from Night Vale, or Dr. Venture from Venture Brothers, among many other roles.
All twelve episodes of the first season are available right now only on Audible. There is a free trial, so please do use that to listen to it at audible.com/unlicensed.
Unlicensed, the new show by me, Joseph, and my Night Vale co-creator Jeffrey Cranor has been out for a week. Thank you to everyone who listened.
We are presenting today the second episode “Lost Boy Found”, in its entirety. We didn’t write this series alone, by the way, we brought in some of our best Night Vale guest writers, including Brie Williams and Glen David Gold. This episode was written by Brie and it introduces the case that will become the main story for this season. And you might notice, along with the voices of Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, and TL Thompson, the voice of Dana on Night Vale and Keisha on Alice Isn’t Dead, Jasika Nicole.
All twelve episodes of the first season are available right now only on Audible. There is a free trial, so please do use that to listen to it at audible.com/unlicensed.
Citizens rise up against the University of What It Is
Weather: “Rotten“ by Missouri Surf Club
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Hot Night Vale merch!
FACELESS OLD WOMAN and THE HALLOWEEN MOON novels now available in paperback!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
Today we are proud to present the first fiction podcast created by me, Joseph Fink, and my Night Vale co-creator Jeffrey Cranor since Welcome to Night Vale. It is called Unlicensed and we are about to play you the first episode. This is a project that is very close to my heart, and one that we have been working on for years.
All twelve episodes of the first season are available right now only on Audible. There is a free trial, so feel free to use that to listen to it at audible.com/unlicensed.
That said, I have spent the last two years listening to Audible Originals and here are a few personal recommendations if you want to keep exploring once you’re there:
Hot White Heist - A very queer, very funny heist story that’s premise is too explicit for me to say here. Featuring more celebrity voices than I can list, it’s the kind of show where Tony Kushner shows up as himself to give a 5 minute monologue on how he thinks the story is going so far.
I Will Never Lie to You - A 70s road trip written by Brie Williams, frequent Night Vale writer and also writer on Unlicensed, along with James Urbaniak, of Venture Brothers and Night Vale, who also stars in it. A funny and sweet two hours of your time.
Romance Road Test - Two real Brooklyn women and their real husbands try out real romantic advice in their relationships and record what happens. Everyone involved is candid and charming, and it’s a lot of fun. I listened to this one in the car with my wife.
Hear all episodes of Unlicensed and a bunch of other cool shows at audible.com/unlicensed.
Moving offices really works up an appetite
Weather: "Find Out" by AGBAT
The voice of Joseph Fink is Joseph Fink
The voice of Deb is Meg Bashwiner
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
Our new podcast, UNLICENSED, coming Nov 10
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Hot Night Vale merch!
FACELESS OLD WOMAN and THE HALLOWEEN MOON novels now available in paperback!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
From Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, creators of the genre defining fiction podcast Welcome to Night Vale, comes the new LA noire Unlicensed, starring Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, and T.L Thompson.
Coming November 10, only to Audible. Subscribe now here: https://www.audible.com/Unlicensed
Unlicensed follows Molly Hatch (Quinn), recently divorced, two years sober, and completely lost on where to go next in her life. On a whim she answers an ad for an assistant to a PI, traveling to an unpromising strip mall on Citrus Avenue in Azusa, CA, where she meets Lou Rosen (Strus). Lou is a brilliant detective, but she’s also a completely disorganized mess, both in her physical space and within her own mind. She loses evidence, forgets what she’s already figured out, and she hasn’t even gotten it together to get her PI license.
Working illegally in the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the cul-de-sacs and strip malls sprawl into the desert, the only clients she can get are those who either can't afford anyone else or have cases that are too marginal for licensed PIs or the police to bother with.
When a teenage girl pleads for Lou and Molly to take the strangest case of their career, they find themselves involved in something much bigger than they were prepared for. This unlikely pair, with no resources and no back-up, follow a trail of seemingly unconnected cases, which leads them to a ransom, a murder, a mysterious wellness center, and a conspiracy that might go all the way to the governor.
Featuring guest appearances by Jason Segel, Janet Varney, James Urbaniak, Cecil Baldwin, Jasika Nicole, Mara Wilson, and more, Unlicensed is a deeply-human, captivating thriller set in the most uncool neighborhoods of America’s coolest city.
Locker room pep talks from Coach Steve.
Halftime Show: "Estrange Us" by Joseph Herbst Sextet
The voice of Steve Carlsberg is Hal Lublin
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
2023 US TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Hot Night Vale merch!
FACELESS OLD WOMAN and THE HALLOWEEN MOON novels now available in paperback!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
The University of What It Is takes a special interest in a certain community college dean.
Weather: "Gone" by Dymer
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
2022 EUROPE TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Hot Night Vale merch!
FACELESS OLD WOMAN and THE HALLOWEEN MOON novels now available in paperback!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
We're passing through the comet's tail. Only good things can happen.
The voice of John Peters is Mark Gagliardi
Weather: "I Could Feel You" by Evelyn Frances
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Read episode transcripts
2022 EUROPE TOUR DATES for “The Haunting of Night Vale”
Hot Night Vale merch!
FACELESS OLD WOMAN and THE HALLOWEEN MOON novels now available in paperback!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
"a word so possible, that it's vary possibly feels constricting"
Love the intro theremin-like music.
fuck you radio jerk but at least you have like 2 not bad quality
why does the description for bascket ball work so well
pathetic money person
epsilon paradox
I started listening to this pretty soon after finishing The Magnus Archives and it was such a switch I had to pause the episode and I simply just... stopped procrastinating for a few minutes. what the fuck lmfao
I was hoping we would never have to see Kevin again
I'll admit I would NOT have guessed THAT'S how the dragon sounded 🤣
Would be perfect without "the weather", It always wakes me up, otherwise a perfect creative podcast for sleep.
IT WASTHE PURPLE HEAD
fuck him
might be my new favorite episode. I love that the liminal spaces and backrooms have made an appearance in the world of nightvale.
These recent episodes do a good job of helping see the characters doubt about what they thought they know.
Okay, I officially hate the University of What It Is. This is devastating.
sesul is not wrong
those 2 but faces from the beginning will be boiled
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD RISE CHAOS RISE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THEY WILL BE HUNTED UNTIL THERE IS NO STREXCORP DOWN WITH THE ASSHOLES BURN THEM TO DEATH
I WILL FUCKING MURDER STREXCORP YOU BITCH I SWEAR I WILL DISASSEMBLE YOUR MOLIQUELS