Numbers don't lie.

But humans using numbers lie all the time.

Good morning, no matter what time a day it is to all of you.

My name is Meg, and I am one of your tri-hosts on this lovely podcast.

I play Deb, a sentient patch of Hayes.

And I'm Hal.

I'm another tri-host, and I play Steve Carlsberg.

That's what's different.

And it's a me, Symphony.

And I play Tamika Flynn on Welcome to Nightvale.

And we are here to talk to you about every episode of Welcome to Nightvale.

Not all in this one episode, though.

You know, we go painstakingly one by one and break down the stories, some backstage info,

and our personal perspectives because we are cast members,

bringing you the real juice. And today is April 28th. It's a Wednesday, a hump day.

Should we talk about this episode? Yes. Here's the original description of episode 87, the trial of Hiram McDaniels.

It's the trial of the century.

That really described it.

Yep. You don't need to bring sand to the beach, you know?

Really. I mean, this trial is wild.

It starts out wild and ends wild.

I was not expecting it to end.

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