Since debuting two years ago, the quirky podcast Welcome to Night Vale has achieved staggering popularity, displacing This American Life in July 2013 as the top-ranked podcast on iTunes. This is all the more striking considering that the show is produced by three friends from New York using hobbyist-level equipment and resources. Actor Cecil Baldwin voices the show’s main character, Cecil Palmer, a community radio host who reports on the strange goings-on in the small desert town of Night Vale. You might think all the monsters and conspiracies would unsettle listeners, but actually the opposite seems to be true. […]

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