Director’s Notes: 239 – Sister Cities: Vermillion Falls
Added 2023-12-01 14:00:02 +0000 UTCI am a big fan of the podcast app, Podcast Addict. I've used it for years, and it's one of the main reasons I still won't move to an iPhone despite my wife really wanting me to. Podcast Addict is only available on android and there just doesn't seem to be a podcast app even close to as good available over on the Apple side of things.
One of Podcast Addicts features, which I don't use very often, is a random podcast button. Pushing it gives you a list of a few of the podcasts available in the world, randomly selected. I did this once and subscribed to one or two that looked interesting. One of the podcasts I subscribed to this way, was The Mischke Roadshow, a show by long time Midwestern AM radio personality TD Mischke. I had never heard of Mischke, but I was instantly enthralled by his rambling stories about...well about whatever he wanted to talk to that day. Peppered throughout the podcast were ads for local businesses that were so specific that I genuinely could not tell if they were supposed to be jokes or not.
Mischke had two equally interesting registers: a more personal, storytelling style, and then a slick radio voice style, and he was able to switch between the two whenever he needed. It was the kind of performance that made me instantly excited to write for him. So, I reached out, saying basically "hey, you don't know me but I write this podcast and I'd like you to perform an entire episode of it". And Mischke said: "sure!"
When titling this, I decided to give it a series name, "Sister Cities" because I wanted to leave open the possibility of exploring other cities in the Night Vale universe, with other interesting voices I come across. Because sometimes you just want to open your favorite podcast app, push the random button, and see what people are making out there.
-Joseph Fink
Comments
That is a wildly Desert Bluffs kind of take. Why so cynical?
MaryAnn Miner
2023-12-17 01:49:41 +0000 UTCI love this episode and would be thrilled to hear more from Vermillion Falls (spin off perhaps?) and other Sister Cities
MaryAnn Miner
2023-12-17 01:43:56 +0000 UTCThis was awesome. Thank you for continuing to surprise us!
Peter Wilsnack
2023-12-06 19:26:25 +0000 UTCI love this new concept and voice actor!
Leah Tedesco
2023-12-03 04:41:51 +0000 UTCWhile I like the ongoing stories I've realised that I really love these standalone episodes
Calum Millican
2023-12-02 18:05:20 +0000 UTCI love this story! ❤️
Danica N
2023-12-01 22:40:37 +0000 UTCYay, another Podcast Addict addict! It's truly an amazing app
Marko Filipović
2023-12-01 19:41:38 +0000 UTCThe segments were just uploaded in the wrong order, sorry about that. Thanks for letting us know. I'm unclear what benefit you think we would get from this mistake. - Joseph
Welcome to Night Vale
2023-12-01 15:11:27 +0000 UTCI loved this epidose so much. I am absolutely the George in all of this.
Corintha Hull
2023-12-01 14:54:47 +0000 UTCThis was a really fun departure from the norm, and I'd love to hear more from Vermillion Falls. But if anyone from WtNV is actually reading this: don't put the closing credits at the beginning of the episode without warning us that you're doing it. I heard Meg's voice at the beginning and assumed that it was a download problem, so I deleted the episode and tried again. Then I thought it was my app so I went to another. And another. It comes across as a cheap trick to get some extra clicks, and you're better than that.
Jeff B
2023-12-01 14:45:34 +0000 UTC
