Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale
Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#1Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale
Posted: 11/1/13 at 12:01pm
Lately, I cannot get enough of both of these podcasts.
Thrilling Adventure Hour is a comedic take on old-time radio shows with a suspense show (Beyond Belief), space westerns (Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars and Cactoid Jim), and superhero capers (Captain Laserbeams). I love them all, particularly Beyond Belief, where Paul F. Tompkins and Paget Brewster play booze-loving supernatural investigators (kinda) from Park Avenue.
Welcome to Night Vale is also fun. The podcasts are a radio dj's news show about Night Vale, a town with supernatural dog parks and a glow cloud. In every episode, the "weather report" is a random real indie band's song.
Any other fans of them?
#2Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale
Posted: 11/2/13 at 4:12pmI've heard much buzz around Thrilling Adventure Hour but haven't explored it yet, but I've been on the Night Vale train for about a month now and find it fills a podcast niche I hadn't known I needed filled but love. The level of craft in the writing is sometimes inconsistent but often brilliant. And, of course, Cecil Baldwin is a fantastic narrator.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#2Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale
Posted: 11/2/13 at 10:07pm
Cecil is really, really great
Do check out Thrilling eventually. Just the other day, I went through the Sparks Nevada podcasts in order, and I cannot wait until the next installment. I think I prefer Beyond Belief, as it is more like the classic radio shows, but Sparks's stories are a continuous narrative whereas Beyond's stories can be listened to individually.
Also, luxe radio shows are also available through multiple podcasts. It really is incredible to listen to the actual Cecil b. DeMille talk about war bonds and know that it's World War 2.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale
Posted: 1/23/14 at 12:02pm
Great news for you both! Thrilling Adventure Hour & Welcome to Night Vale are teaming up for a Seattle show during Emerald City Comicon weekend in March!
http://multiversitycomics.com/news/thrilling-adventure-hour-and-welcome-to-night-vale-team-up-during-eccc-2014/
Tix for combo show at The Moore
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