In today\u2019s post I will be discussing the second episode of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, or WTNV. I listened to the first podcast a couple weeks ago, so I was worried that I would not be able to make an accurate comparison. However, listening to the second episode reminded me how random this podcast is. In the last post I talked about how none of the topics in the podcast seemed to align, and as a first time listener, I was incredibly confused. The second one was no less confusing, but somehow I began to hear a pattern. The title of the second episode was \u2018Glow Clouds,\u2019 so I figured that it would be mentioned once or twice in the story. Surprisingly, it was mentioned quite frequently. I learned from the first episode that WTNV jumps from one random topic to another in a matter of seconds, and almost always has a different topic. This episode was no different, but the theme of \u2018glowing clouds\u2019 was dispersed throughout the confusion. For example, the podcast began by talking about a tourist poster for the town of Night Vale. The poster was supposed to be for the Radon Canyon, which is where the glowing clouds were sighted. From there it jumps to talking about an Apache tracker, which caught me off guard. The Apache tracker story is then cut off by a sudden message from the \u2018sponsor.\u2019 Just to give you guys an idea of how unpredictable WTNV is, the sponsored message goes something like: \u201cbitter taste of unripe peaches\u2026 moon and the world is spinning\u2026 nutrition and alarm clocks\u2026 brought to you by Coca Cola.\u201d While the listener is still processing the puzzling sponsor message, the voice suddenly says that the glowing clouds are raining small creatures. It repeats this pattern multiple times, and I\u2019m excited to listen to more episodes to see if this is a pattern only in this episode or if all the episodes will have a pattern as well. I also found out what the narrator means when he says it is time for the \u2018weather.\u2019 Around \u2154 of the way into the podcast, the podcast always has a little music break, and the song is the \u2018weather\u2019 forecast. In this episode, the song was \u201cThe Bus is Late,\u201d by Satellite High. The title is completely self explanatory, and is of course just as odd as the rest of the podcast. The song breaks are a nice way to wake the listeners up from the fictional town of Night Vale, and I think it is nice to have a constant variable in midst of all the chaos. I also noticed that the podcast contains many oxymorons, to the point where everything they say contrasts against each other. An easy way to sum up this podcast would be to describe it as confusing, incohesive, and unpredictable. Honestly, trying to analyze this podcast seems impossible to me, but it makes me look forward to the challenge of listening to future episodes. I think that is the charm of Welcome to Night Vale working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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