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[SomeStupidGuy]

Welcome, dear listeners, to Night Vale...

Welcome to Night Vale is a fine, criminally underknown, little twice-monthly podcast created by the fine folks at Commonplace Books.

All in all, it’s... rather difficult to describe. At its core, it’s a public radio station of a small desert town with a multitude of odd people, places and occurrences, most of which don’t seem to trouble a single person in the town, much less Cecil, the kindly voice over the radio giving a slightly skewed view into the town.

Despite the bizarre nature of most episodes, it has a surprisingly coherent(well, relatively coherent), if somewhat erratic(well, fairly erratic) plot taking place over each episodes. A plot involving a dog park(which is not to be entered, by man nor dog), hooded figures, angels(which certainly do not exist) and a (handsome, charming) scientist named Carlos... Lovely Carlos.

If this sort of insanity appeals to you, well, take a listen to the first episode and go on from there, it's not too horribly long. An average episode tends to be absurd, funny, surreal, and on occasion slightly creepy.

Head off to this blog if you’d like to look over a variety of excellent, but possibly spoiler-y fan works.

Here’s a wiki, in the case that you find yourself questioning the facts as they stand.

And, remember listeners, there is a thin, semantic line separating weird and beautiful. And that line is covered in jellyfish.

[Xantalos]

I fully intend to listen to this.

[SomeStupidGuy]

I fully intend to listen to this.

Stands to reason.
I mean, any discerning eldritch abomination would make his home in Night Vale, and hey, gotta get your local news, right?

[Xantalos]

Well, I live all over the place, but Night Vale is always a good place to stay for a week or so.

[penguinofhonor]

I may have finally found another podcast to subscribe to. I've been looking for one.

[MadMalkavian]

This is probably the wrong thread to ask in but how do I listen to one of these newfangled podcasts? This Night Vale seems interesting and I would like to listen to it but I don't know how to listen to a podcast on my computer.

[Fniff]

So, this is basically A Prairie Home Companion set in Innsmouth? Interesting.

[SomeStupidGuy]

This is probably the wrong thread to ask in but how do I listen to one of these newfangled podcasts? This Night Vale seems interesting and I would like to listen to it but I don't know how to listen to a podcast on my computer.

Well, you can pretty much just open 'em up on the feedburner page by hitting the little play now button.
I imagine that if you got itunes or something you could subscribe without actually having an apple device, but I dunno.

[MadMalkavian]

This is probably the wrong thread to ask in but how do I listen to one of these newfangled podcasts? This Night Vale seems interesting and I would like to listen to it but I don't know how to listen to a podcast on my computer.

Well, you can pretty much just open 'em up on the feedburner page by hitting the little play now button.
I imagine that if you got itunes or something you could subscribe without actually having an apple device, but I dunno.

I'll have to try that then, preferably when I'm not about to pass out at the keyboard as that might result in fun. Thank you kindly for this information.

[nenjin]

Listened a bit. It sounds less like a hometown radio news show and more like some very creepy guy expounding on conspiracy theories. When something odd is mentioned and the narrator repeatedly says "What does it mean?" it kind of steals the thunder IMO.

Put another way, I expected a little more normalcy to balance out the weirdness.

It's not bad, it just seems a little heavy-handed/being a bit too overt with the creepiness.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Well, at a certain point, it tends to show the weirdness in a more normal light.
Y'know, as in they think the town's usual events to be normal and all that.

But hey, I'm a bit of a fanboy, so y'know, take that with a grain of salt or two.

Though, it never really stops being fairly heavy-handed at points, so keep that in mind.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Thanks for linking this. ^^^ I listened to the first episode earlier and it sounds pretty good so far, but it'd be nice if there were more than 27 episodes to catch up on.

[EnigmaticHat]

Yeah, this is great.  My favorite episodes are the ones that mess with the format ("A story about you", or the "The Sandstorm").  Every now and again there's an episode where not much happens, but for every one of those there's 3 that do something crazy.  And there's always great lines that stand on their own as funny, creepy, or implying some larger story that will never be told.

"Friends, listeners, there's a real tarantula problem here in Night Vale! Many residents have called in to report illiteracy, unwanted pregnancy, and violent crime are on the rise in the tarantula communities."

The writers really understand something that so many writers don't, which is that having dark subject matter is not the same thing as having a dark tone.

[Capntastic]

Death to Desert Bluffs

[SeriousConcentrate]

Safe to say I unironically love this podcast after having caught up on it. The weather is always interesting in Night Vale. ^^^ Also...

Listened a bit. It sounds less like a hometown radio news show and more like some very creepy guy expounding on conspiracy theories. When something odd is mentioned and the narrator repeatedly says "What does it mean?" it kind of steals the thunder IMO.

Are we listening to the same podcast? Cecil never stops to repeatedly ask what something means (unless he did once in the first episode and I forgot by now). Most of the time he just accepts it at face value.