The Summer of Night Vale Presents, Part 1

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4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Summer of Night Vale Presents, a celebration and sampling of some of the shows across our network. This week: a look at two of our non-fiction shows, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats and Conversations with People Who Hate Me.

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats is a show about what it means to be an artist, to be a fan, and as many people are, both at once. Our first season found Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink in conversation with John Darnielle, singer and songwriter of the Mountain Goats, about their album All Hail West Texas. You’ll hear an excerpt from episode 9, “The Mess Inside,” which shows how these conversations wander through topics in unexpected ways.

Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a show where Dylan Marron, whom you may know as Carlos the Scientist on Welcome to Night Vale, takes contentious online conversations and moves them offline. This year, Dylan has been moderating conversations between people who have exchanged their own online negativity. You’ll hear the entirety of episode 12, “Burned at the Stake,” featuring a woman who wrote about why the TV show The Office doesn’t hold up to today’s standards and a man who told her she should be burned at the stake.

Find out more about these shows, and all of the shows on our network, by visiting nightvalepresents.com.

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0:00.0	Hey there.
0:01.4	As usual, welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus for the month of July.
0:06.3	Before bursting back in August with new episodes, plus a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
0:11.2	I'm very excited about.
0:13.3	During this month off we are doing something we're calling the Summer of Night Vale Presents.
0:18.9	Every Friday during this July we will be celebrating and sampling some of the other amazing work
0:24.4	being done on the Night Vale Presents Network.
0:27.0	Obviously we are known for our fiction podcasting, but in this first part of our Summer of Night
0:32.3	Vale Presents celebration we are looking at some of our nonfiction work.
0:36.9	First off we're going to start with a short excerpt from a podcast I made last year called
0:42.0	I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats.
0:44.2	It is a show in which I sit down with one of my artistic heroes, John D'Arneal, singer
0:49.1	and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, and talk about his songs, about art, and
0:53.8	about whatever the hell we wanted to talk about.
0:56.6	You don't have to know anything about my work or even his work.
1:00.1	It's not just for fans of The Mountain Goats.
1:02.8	It's a long form experiment in what it means to be a fan, to be an artist, and as many
1:09.0	of us are, to be both at once.
1:11.6	Vulture named it one of their best podcasts of the year, saying that it is, quote, a sensational
1:17.7	and spirited idea surpassed only by the wonder of its execution.
1:22.6	Here is a bit of our conversation from the episode discussing John's song The Mess Inside
1:28.8	that gives, I think, some sense of how these conversations wandered through topics in ways
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