Welcome to Night Vale
Hosted by Cecil Baldwin and Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink · Night Vale Presents
4.8from 49,002 ratings
- 381
- Episodes
- 61
- Transcribed
- 49,002
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
- 29M
- YouTube views
About Welcome to Night Vale
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.
- Publisher
- Night Vale Presents
- Category
- fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jun 2012
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
61 of 381 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
294 - Revelations
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
293 - The Boys (1946)
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cecil and Kevin perform more from The Nudge, by Night Vale co-creator Joseph Fink
Inside a recent episode
294 - Revelations
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Inside was an invitation which said, the time has come. Before I get to that, let's check in with traffic. There are new pavement markings at the intersection of Earl and Desert Elm Drive. These are not the typical stop lines or directional arrows or inverted pentagrams of the transportation department, but puffy red welts rising from the surface of the asphalt. Some have erupted into fluid-filled boils, while others more closely resemble a scattering of hives or pox. The Night Vale Medical Board has agreed that this is most likely an allergy reaction or a stress response. It may be performance anxiety due to a rerouting of the elementary school pickup line that has caused an increase in activity through the intersection on weekday afternoons. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Cecil
- Kevin
- Jasika Nicole
- Meg Bashwiner
- Dana
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 29,092,598
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 26,647 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 22,355 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 47
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Questions about Welcome to Night Vale
Who hosts Welcome to Night Vale?
Cecil Baldwin and Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink host the show. Published by Night Vale Presents.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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