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Welcome to Night Vale

139 - The Birthday of Lee Marvin

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🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Night Vale's most local and legendary local legend celebrates his 30th birthday.

The voice of Lee Marvin was TL Thompson.

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Dane Terry is joining our world tour of A Spy In The Desert as “the Weather” in the U.S., and will be opening the show with a special live performance of his new podcast, Dreamboy! Tickets available now.
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Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.
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To air is human. To forgive is also human. The possibilities of human action are multitude.

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Welcome to Nightfail.

1:27.6

Today is a very special day listeners. Yes, for once your calendars are not deceiving you.

1:34.0

Today is the 30th birthday of longtime Nightfail resident and Hollywood legend,

1:40.8

Lee Marvin. Mr. Marvin is on break from the filming of the Rise of the Hobbits Part 4,

1:46.9

the anticipated next chapter in Peter Jackson's eight part film series based on the copyright

1:53.4

page of the Hobbit. The town is declared the birthday a civic holiday and are holding a fair

1:59.9

in honor of Mr. Marvin in Grove Park. The man himself is set to speak later today, but head over

2:06.9

now to play fun carnival games and eat local snacks. John Peters, you know, the farmer,

2:13.2

will be there selling boiled imaginary corn dipped in theoretical butter, a tasty and extremely

2:19.9

healthy snack containing practically no calories at all. More on these birthday celebrations

2:26.8

as there continues to be a birthday to celebrate. I'm just so excited! I'm sorry, I really get

2:33.2

into birthdays. Always have. I just I wish I could remember when mine is. But first, some important

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