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15 - Street Cleaning Day

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Night Vale Presents

Night, Lovecraft, Commonplace, Radio, Science Fiction, Nightvaleradio, Welcome, Cecil, Fiction, Nightvale, Cranor, Vale, Neofuturists, Fink

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today is Street Cleaning Day, and the street cleaners will soon be upon us. Remain calm, and run away screaming. Plus, new music trends from Dark Owl Records, the crackdown on wheat & wheat by-product speakeasies, and we take a look at clouds.

Weather: “Absolute Lithops Effect” by Carrie Elkin
http://carrieelkin.com

Music: Disparition, disparition.info

Logo: Rob Wilson, silastom.com

Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

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0:51.2

Bananas are hardly that slippery, but watch your step anyway. Welcome to Nightfail.

1:22.2

Ladies, gentlemen, you today is street cleaning day. Please remain calm.

1:35.1

Street cleaners will be upon us quite soon. We have little time to prepare. Please remain calm.

1:43.4

The City Council has issued a statement in 20 point all caps type saying, run, run,

1:50.0

forget your children and leave behind the week, run. We have contacted those experts who have not

1:57.2

already gone underground or changed their identity and have been told that street cleaners focus

2:04.2

on heat and movement. And so the best strategy is to be dead already. Then the experts all swallowed

2:13.6

pills and fell, mouths frothing at my feet. If you have doors, lock them. If you have windows,

2:21.7

board them up. If you still have ears, cover them and crouch wherever you are. It is street cleaning

2:30.4

day. Please remain calm. John Peters, you know, the farmer. He reports finding an old

2:43.2

oak door standing unsupported by any other structure out in the scrubland. He says that he short

2:51.6

wasn't there yesterday or pretty sure anyway, as sure as he can be since the accident.

3:00.0

Apparently there is knocking from the door, as though there were someone from some other side

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