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Welcome to Night Vale

223 - Big Rico's Pizza Band

Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.8 • 29K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Night Vale has a few different ways that we pay our actors and writers and dispersion

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for original music and sound editing and Joella who runs all the business stuff you never

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see and many more people who help make this show.

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We have ads, obviously, and those help a lot.

0:18.4

We have our live shows, which honestly margins are pretty tight on, but our backbone, the

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thing that we can rely on and that means we can plan out this show with the knowledge

0:26.9

that we're going to be able to keep making it is our Patreon.

0:32.1

Members of our Patreon get fun bonuses.

0:34.9

Every episode comes with a behind-the-scenes essay written by that episode's writer.

0:39.3

We do bonus episodes that are only on Patreon, like Steve Karlsberg's visit to the

0:44.2

whispering woods or Deb the sentient patch of Hases True Crime podcast.

0:50.5

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0:53.6

and you will get to influence the writing of the podcast that has happened in the past.

0:58.1

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1:03.8

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1:06.7

But the most important thing is that you allow this show to keep happening.

1:11.4

If there is no Patreon, there is no Night Vale, as simple as that.

1:15.8

So if you love this show, please consider signing up at whatever level works for you.

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Any amount of money helps us pay everyone and make this show for you.

1:26.9

We are very grateful to get to do that.

1:30.6

As a little welcome bonus, we do Zoom Patreon Hangouts with higher level patrons every

1:35.7

month, but this month we will be doing it with all of our patrons.

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