116: Steal Smoked Fish (Live)
I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
Night Vale Presents
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Our next season won’t be out until sometime next spring, so to hold you over, here’s a recording of our first ever live show at Thalia Hall in Chicago, featuring special guest Danny Schmidt covering “Steal Smoked Fish.” Special thanks to The Onion Comedy Festival for having us.
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Check out Joseph Fink’s other shows, Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead. His second novel with Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!, is out now, and you can pre-order his next novel, Alice Isn’t Dead, today.
Credits: Joseph Fink (host), John Darnielle (host), Christy Gressman (producer), Grant Stewart (editor), Vincent Cacchione (mixer), Rob Wilson (logo). Produced by Night Vale Presents in collaboration with Merge Records and the Mountain Goats.
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| 0:00.0 | Meanwhile, this summer, in a secret location in Brooklyn, New York, three months after the conclusion |
| 0:08.0 | to the first season of I Only Listen to the Mountain Goes. The thing I'd forgotten about concerts is they start so |
| 0:17.0 | late. Oh my god it's just worse every every year. She didn't go on until 1030 at |
| 0:21.3 | night and I'm just like oh this is why the olds go to their |
| 0:24.8 | fucking mid their amphitheater shows because those shows start at 730. |
| 0:28.8 | I would love that. All shows should start at 7. So here's the thing about that |
| 0:32.4 | we're recording right this is a good |
| 0:33.9 | conversation. Well yeah hold on let's make sure we're recording. You should keep this if we're going right? |
| 0:39.3 | Finn are we are we going? Yeah yes we were going the whole time? Good, yeah. |
| 0:43.4 | It's pro tools, they're always recording. |
| 0:45.4 | Because once again, I demanded that we track this to tape, |
| 0:49.3 | you know, to be the only podcast, recorded directly to two each tape. |
| 0:52.8 | I think orbiting human circus on nightfield presents records to vinyl. |
| 0:56.7 | And that's insane. |
| 0:57.7 | But there is a podcast, right, that records the tracks to tape, which would be the greatest thing. |
| 1:03.0 | Can you punch that in because you... |
| 1:05.0 | But anyway, yeah, everybody, you know, as you go to less shows, |
| 1:08.0 | and you get a little longer in your bones, |
| 1:10.0 | you want to go earlier, so you can enjoy the show so you're not |
| 1:13.2 | sitting there going well this would be good if I wasn't so tired you know if I hadn't |
| 1:17.0 | used up all my brain space during the day and I think actually the media |
| 1:19.3 | landscape has something to do with it but audiences won't give it up until it gets later. You play |
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