The hit serial fiction podcast Welcome to Night Vale was first released in June 2012. A year into its production, the podcast blew up in popularity, changing the medium forever.
The podcast follows the endevours of a small desert community called Night Vale. The town is extremely weird; time doesn’t work, and they have some interesting residents like a flying glow cloud that rains dead animals instead of water. (ALL HAIL!)
The idea of this show is amazing. The language the writers Jeffery Craner and Joeseph Fink use is beautiful. The entire narrative is delivered by a radio show host named Cecil Palmer. He may be unreliable at times, but listeners can’t help but love and support him.
One quirky segment of each show is the weather section. At the climax of each show, right when whatever protagonist of the episode is taking control, Palmer will take his listeners to the weather.
Instead of listening to the predicted temperature and precipitation, however,…
