Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.

Don't breathe, don't breathe, don't breathe, don't breathe, don't breathe.

Good morning, night fail. Hello, I'm Hal Lublin,

purveyor of Fine Steve Carlsbergs.

And I'm Symphony Sanders, your Tamika Flynn, Shapoopoo-Beepee.

I am Meg Bashwinner, your Deborah, a sentient patch of haze, or fog, if you're all the way caught up on Welcome to Nightfail. And we're doing the show. I forgot that I had the next thing to say because this happens every time.

It's always a surprise, even though we were literally working off of a script, a script that I wrote.

We do this show called Good Morning Night Vale, where we recap every episode of the popular cult podcast, welcome to Night Vale, because we think it's fun and interesting.

And there's a beautiful community that exists in the world of Night Vale, and this is our fun way to engage with them and each other.

Also, I will just say for posterity purposes, currently it is Tuesday, March the 16th, at 7.06 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Should something happen before this episode is released that we don't address, understand

that it hasn't happened to us yet.

And the description for this episode is, the town of Desert Bluffs is no more. Plus, an update from

Paul Birmingham, a look at traffic, and changes afoot at the Ralphs.

Let's talk about it.

And talk about it, we shall.

Yeah, what an episode.

This is a, this one, I think Joseph describes it in the intro as like part New York

Times op-ed, part Nightfail episode.

Because he felt very, very called to write about, you know, refugee crises and kind of putting that in the world of Night Vale and having his art speak to what was happening at the time.

Which was, this was a March of 2016.

So this was, yeah, I feel like those things were the Syrian

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