Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 110 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing how to handle assholes and trolls with

Aaron James, author of the book Assholes a Theory.

But first up we've got an interview with actor Cecil Baldwin, voice of the wildly popular

podcast Welcome to Night Vale, written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor.

Cecil plays Cecil Palmer, a radio host who reports on the strange goings on in Night Vale,

a desert community where monsters and conspiracies are just daily occurrences. And now here's our interview with Cecil Baldwin.

All right, so we're here with Cecil Baldwin.

Welcome to the show.

Hi, thank you for having me.

Okay, so why don't you just start out and tell us how you first got involved with Welcome to Night Vale?

Well, I am working for a theater company called the New York Neo Futurists and we do a weekly show in the East Village called

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. And I had written a short play in which I was commiserating not being able to find any voice over work even though people have told me pretty much my entire adult life that I have a radio announcer voice and there was a writer who is a friend of

mine who was in the audience that day and he was like yes you do have a great voice.

Maybe I will utilize that in some way.

That was Joseph Fink, and he went on to create Welcome to Night Vale

and asked me after he'd written the pilot episode if I would like to record it.

And I said yes.

So I mean, yeah, you do have a great voice.

So why did you, why were you not finding work doing voice overs? Well I find that I have

a relatively old fashioned voice. It's very 1960s radio announcer,

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