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249 - Rifts

Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale

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

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mother Lauren begins a city-wide cleanup.

Weather: “Freak Flip“ by Lafayette The Artist

The voice of Tamika Flynn is Symphony Sanders

Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth

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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 & Brie Williams

Narrated by Cecil Baldwin

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Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com

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0:00.0

Hey Jeffrey Cranner here, happy June. Both the month and you, the person named June,

0:09.6

who is listening to this and who just so happens to be happy. A couple of quick things. We have videos

0:14.6

of our 2020 and 2021 live streams available on our Patreon store, only five bucks each. There's

0:20.3

The Sandstorm, The Librarian, Ghost stories, all smiles even many more available,

0:24.8

featuring Cecil Baldwin of course, and many other guests like Kevin are Freee,

0:28.9

Symphony Sanders, Dylan Marin, Mara Wilson, Desiree Birch, Jessica Nicole, Molly Quinn,

0:34.4

Hal Lublin, Meg Bash winner, and of course, live music by the very handsome and mysterious

0:40.0

desperation. Those live streams are all at Patreon.com slash Welcome to Night Vale.

0:44.9

Click on Shop. Or if you like your purchases to be things you can touch and wear and carry about,

0:50.0

we have some great new items in our merch store. brand new leggings designed by Dev O'Reilly,

0:54.7

a new Freaky Chicken shirt from Jessica Hayworth, retro art shirts by Dave Watt,

0:59.5

not to mention water bottles and beach towels and tote bags for your summer trip to Ash Beach. and So if you haven't looked at it in a while, it's probably different now. So go look at it again.

1:16.0

Look at it. Or you know, whatever. Just go to welcome to nightville.com and click on store. And hey, thanks.

1:24.0

Thanks.

1:25.0

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

1:30.0

Without you, darkness would shroud the earth leading to the mass extinction of all life as we know it.

1:37.0

Please don't take my sunshine away.

1:40.0

Welcome to Night Vale. Wow, it's a beautiful day out there, isn't it, listeners? I'm not talking about the weather, obviously it's not time to talk about the weather yet. I'm talking about the town cleansing project that's been underway for the last week or so.

2:17.0

A citywide cleanup event sponsored by our very own Mother Lauren. Our strange benefactress who slid through the portal from the desert

2:27.1

other world one day and started changing hearts and minds literally rearranging the cellular content of our most vital organs using beams of amber-tented light shooting from the tips of her fingers.

2:40.0

As well as toppling our buildings and raising entire city blocks that were no longer serving us.

2:47.0

Establishments that had outlived their purpose, places that were not sparking joy.

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