157 - The Promise of Time

[@chaoticpotato6463]

He's never sounded more alive than when looking at the stock market

[@subtlefire7256]

I think he was riding a rollercoaster 😂

[@Bookdragon6660]

He really didn’t!

[@hannahl3381]

This is the second consecutive time that Cecil didn't say his thing at the end and I feel wrong

[@JP-mg5hy]

Believe in a smiling god.

[@shadedway5277]

As a single, female Scorpio who's siblings are unmarried and has no friends, it's great to hear that I'm such a good brother-in-law, husband, father and friend! Dunno about that last point, though.

[@RaysofLight98]

STREXCORP Kevin: We'll work you to death! CYBORGCORP Casper: See, we sorted out that limitation. *Prediction: This is probably how Cecil and Kevin become friends.

[@ylk4612]

"As the Smiling God said...." I KNEW IT I DON'T TRUST ANYONE PROMISING HAPPY LIFE IN THIS DESERT TOWN

[@echothenardier8053]

Casper: *has a nice, soothing voice* Me: Huh, he sounds familiar Casper: “...Smiling God...” Me: 0_0 Oh My Gooooooood!

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

Sounds like Steve Carlsberg is a Scorpio...

[@Carolina57685]

in one of the earlier episodes Cecil reads the horoscope and just insults Scorpio so this was a nice parallel

[@ari638]

In one of the early live shows, Cecil said Steve was a Scorpio

[@carolinemckee7009]

The downside about reading the comment section while still listening to the episode is that you begin dreading the ending that everyone is freaking out about without giving any details and questioning everyone's horoscope.

[@mushroomladyy]

as a left-handed Virgo, I'm slightly concerned about my horoscope

[@meama2000]

LemonsAndRoses I am a left handed Virgo as well 😭😭

[@politecat5314]

How did it work out

[@paulsandor3522]

Yeah, and I play guitar

[@amarilis5076]

I'm not a virgo but I'm left handed too.

[@cassandrastillman8796]

No... you can't end it like this. no. YOU CANNOT

[@rottenpeaches9146]

Aw Shit here we go again

[@TheSagaOfGregGetsRekt]

There are very few phrases that immediately instill fear in me. The ending of this episode contains one of them.

[@sliderkass]

Omg the stock market scared me a bit but it was hilarious Edit: Happy Halloween yall! I dressed up as Cecil this year and even got some sharpies and made tattoos!

[@njschulze514]

Hey same dude!

[@NickyFlowers]

shout out to night vale for including my song in this episode almost a year ago

[@thecoffeelama5821]

I haven't felt this anxious since hearing the desert bluffs jingle

[@largo778]

And Night Vale continues to be Night Vale... Oh Huntokar... Not the Smiling God... Is that a smile?

[@lavatoriii609]

NO NOT THE SMILING GOD AGAIN OH N O PLEASE IM SO SCARED wait does this mean Kevin

[@SoulQueenoD]

I love that Time Travelers are just a big part of Night Vale and that she just didn’t say that first. Also, the Weather slaps.

[@Rudero3]

That is the most appropriate weather song I've heard for a specific episode ever. Perfect. Loved it.

[@chillsahoy2640]

And now, a look at the stock market. [Cecil sounds like he's on the very fast descent section of a roller coaster.] Yep, sounds about right.

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

CASPER RHODES IS MAKING CYBERMEN???

[@samlueke2855]

.....delete

[@fluffyasmr7633]

Doctor!

[@TheGalaxyPanda96]

Yes! Someone shared my thought as soon as I heard it that's what popped into my head I only just started listening to Welcome to Night Vale last year so I'm a little bit behind the times lol

[@Tsukaimonofthesand]

Finally caught up yay!. Now to join the people waiting for new episodes every 2 weeks. appropriate that it happened during the "time is now a real concern" story. Grant me patience Huntokar

[@rowanvandenheuvel7823]

Oh, Cecil, Carlos, bless your souls and good luck..... that Smiling God is no laughing matter.

[@thething2723]

I love listening to this, although listening to the radio in my hometown is pretty much the same. I shall never escape the ominous proclamation of the meteorologist, Tom Miller.

[@elliot2331]

The Scorpio thing was about Steve and how Cecil won't be mean to him anymore and I couldn't be happier.

[@andromedadywn9090]

Happy Halloween Night Vale citizens

[@nathac41]

Wow, the cancer horoscope has never felt so true.

[@AD-yl4xs]

this feels like this is going to be the last night vale season and I really really hope not. I can't lose this and supernatural in the same year

[@dragonlady3852]

As a Leo I was quite relieved that my jail break will succeed thanks Cecil!!! Also really glad I'm not an Ares as I have arachnophobia.

[@saferoundhouse5910]

14:55 im listening to this in the middle of the night without headphones and on a pretty high volume and I'm pretty sure this woke up my parents and now they're probably thinking I'm watching some weird porn

[@theultimatedisappointment7059]

i know this is an old episode but that ending was such a good twist

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

I suspected Desert Bluffs from the second Casper showed up, but I couldn't see a reason! Night Vale, you never fail to amaze me. ❤

[@0therun1t21]

The weather is very cool today, and fits right in. I like it a lot.

[@rossrivera725]

As a Pisces I feel attacked lol.

[@Disciple_of_Cthulhu]

That was a great stock-market report.

[@kobayashi_oli]

funky weather we're having :)

[@yotengrad7159]

I feel like this whole time working properly plotline is a setup for the end of the series

[@polkarrty]

Theyve slowly been fixing everything wrong with night vale i think so too, With time,reality being fixed so far

[@rossrivera725]

Seems so, but man I don't want it to. I love the other podcast they make, but they don't hit home like Nightvale.

[@klltsun_2576]

Yeah I thought that too. Maybe at the end of the podcast, Night Vale is fully fixed and reattached to the rest of the world, and they can happily go on with the future that have a death rate that are seen as normal by the rest of the world. Maybe they will also remember Huntokar, and Night Vale will be a normal town with weird traditions... Or maybe they can get reattached and unbroken, but they still have some weird happenings that makes them known as the center of supernatural or just plain weird activity of the world. I don't want Night Vale to fully lose all the weird happenings...

[@polkarrty]

@@klltsun_2576 i honestly dont want them to connect to the real world because honestly minus the horrors everyone in town is great and accepting to whoever enters it,after a few weeks of shouting interloper of course,and they might get culture shock from the rest of the hateful world

[@saphcal]

I really hope not. World won't be the same without Night Vale :'(

[@eddyangstman]

gdi smiling god is back. and just after i threw away the last of my smiling god repellent!!! >:(

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodwa54]

i mean, you should really always keep a little. you really never know.

[@sophieh3233]

The sinister violin undertones in this make it So Much Better

[@WritingSch]

The weather was very fitting today

[@rainbowzebra361]

I think I'm with Carlos on this one. Oh no! They know my secret...AND IT'S BORING! Oh, Hiram McDaniels, I miss him. Lol the stock market was shocking. Oh crap!!! Smiling God!!!

[@boiledprawn99]

oh baby here we go edit: CASPER RHODES CAN GET THE FUCK OUTTA NIGHT VALE MMMM YEA NAH FUCK THAT GUY WHOLE LOTTA NOPE if anyone finishes this ep you know exactly what the fuck i mean

[@manda1958]

you have no idea how much i gasped and freaked out when i heard that ending! the smile that spread across my face would make our smiling god proud!

[@holicandy01]

Cant wait to meet my fellow libras. Tonight we will be the ones hunting.

[@otakuribo]

Hope Enzy (NZ?) decides to stick around in past Night Vale; he and Carlos would be great friends! They'd have so much to talk about and so much future history to unravel

[@nick1541]

As an Aries who is TERRIFIED of spiders, noooooooooooooooo

[@peteisgod66]

Same friend, hard same

[@jdng86]

The robots have even taken over the weather.

[@klltsun_2576]

Uhm, Cecil I'm an Aquarius I'm currently listening to the weather (very nice. The almost robotic style fits with the episode lol) and I just wanna say that I'm scared for Night Vale. Those people whose brains were stored better be brought back to their bodies and to life because then only a few Night Vale citizens would be left... Edit: AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *inhaaale* AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! *coughs* Will Desert Bluffs Too be involved? Will Kevin be involved again? Oooohhh will they help?

[@lh776]

The horoscopes are always great

[@piper56m35]

That was some cool weather 😎

[@birdmanbytheclaw]

Missed you nightvale

[@EvieOpal]

I'm seeing you in Eugene next week and I'm so excited, I could surgically remove my own organs and gift them to passing cars so they could also feel my excitement

[@glazelazer8857]

Never fall down the stairs!

[@IamParadoxic]

The future is now, and what is that? it is as terrible as it was yesterday. That can't be right. After all the future is now, and highly robotic and it is terrible

[@thistlefield24]

The stock market part hits differently after the game stop stock incident in 2021

[@carlinkag2525]

Excuse you, by secret is awesome

[@bubbleshock14]

HOLYYYYYYYYYYYY I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT

[@marighould]

*ALARMED YELLING*

[@threwthelookingglass7194]

hi... everyone i came from the glow. cloud... dont ask how. but yahh i from eposide 90.. somthing. sshhhhh its ok. it all about perspective of time.. thi k i wondered threw the dog park...i dont remeber.. i just remember going to sleep alone like always;(. then i woke thier....also alone... sometimes. its not always like that.. sometimes. i wish i can just stay alseep. where i wake up not alone....sigh

[@hannahl3381]

You came for the glow cloud? *ALL HAIL* how are you so lucky?!!?

[@thanewistrecords2630]

OMG if you saved "Drones" for this episode's weather it would have added deeply to the doom of the situation...

[@SilentBiscuit333]

Gone down the route of Dr. Who and the cyber men. Very nice episode, couldn't understand a single word of the weather

[@mariachandler8105]

Can anyone else hear the Weather singing???? Like I keep hearing help us save us and sometimes I feel good right now. I’m kinda creeped out.

[@smol_chilli_pepper]

Oh my god this episode gave me chills holy shit

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

Theory time: What if Casper's plan is something Kevin is against because it affects Carlos and we know Kevin has feelings for him? He might team up with Cecil to take down CYBORGCORP. 👀

[@klltsun_2576]

TheoTingles Kevin has Charles, but I guess he can still see Carlos as a good friend. I'm hoping Kevin gets involved too! But first he has to find out what's happening since he's in a different dimension lol

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

@@klltsun_2576 Dessert Bluffs in the otherworld... Hmm, I wonder if the doors will open again. 👀

[@klltsun_2576]

TheoTingles I know. The desert otherworld is in a different dimension/world/universe/reality/whatever, that has some connection to Night Vale's dimension/world/etc. Edit: Wait, was there supposed to be an "is" in your first sentence?

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

@@klltsun_2576 Nope, I was just musing to myself through text. ^^;

[@klltsun_2576]

TheoTingles Oh, whoops lol. I thought there was supposed to be an "is" there and you were telling me the location of Desert Bluffs 2 for some reason hahaha

[@IceQueen975]

Taurus is accurate.

[@Wayfaring-Gremlin]

As an aroace Capricorn who's always wanted to go to space, my horoscope sounds amazing! Also the stock market scared the hell out of me, and oh no not the smiling god again...

[@ShadowyKatz]

Hearing anything about the Smiling God actives my flight or fight.

[@Carolina57685]

i do only have 5 days to finish my assignment....

[@emilyneves6489]

Rip aquariuses

[@flareinc7413]

They're baaaack.... Awesome awesome episode

[@peteisgod66]

Oh god the Smiling God is back. We're fucked. What Eldritch horrors will they rain upon us? Please also make Kevin come back

[@nemnyoom]

gemini/cancer cusp. i love the ocean and rarely wear shoes, so both horoscopes are accurate

[@CuriosityCore101]

I had to look up the lyrics to understand the weather report, but man that's a good weather report.

[@CuriosityCore101]

How... did this episode make the worship of the Smiling God more horrifying than the Strexcorp storyline and It Devours combined?!

[@aumathewarriormouse2549]

I feel compelled to mention that anybody frozen in hopes of future "resurrection" is really just so much frozen hamburger. Joke's on them...

[@silentwolf5368]

I'm like 90% sure the corporation fixed the time to get more clients too

[@awakarikatase]

The look at the stock market killed me lmao

[@Solarstormflare]

why are the horoscopes all so accurate!!

[@IceQueen975]

23:24 KEVIN!?!?!?!? *sobs* KEVIN COME BACK I LOVE YOU!!!

[@klltsun_2576]

... that's not Kevin. Different voice actor, Kevin doesn't call Cecil "Buddy," Kevin is happily living in a different dimension, and Kevin doesn't own a company because he's a radio host not a businessman. But I AM hoping he gets involved somehow

[@klltsun_2576]

Kai Knight Just wanted to point it out since IceQueen called him Kevin

[@klltsun_2576]

Hmm...IceQueen, can you uh, confirm whether I just misunderstood your comment? I apologize if I did.

[@IceQueen975]

@@klltsun_2576 Kai Knight is right. The voice is similar but more importantly the creep-friendly attitude made me think of Kevin. I miss him so much. :(

[@klltsun_2576]

IceQueen975 Aww I miss him too. But reading fanfictions help XD And sorry again for misunderstanding lol

[@saaa8107]

As a pisces the horoscope is terrifying

[@jayf1181]

IS THAT KEVIN

[@klltsun_2576]

please nope No, he sounds different. And Kevin is happy with Charles and Donovan and being productive in his own town

[@Arcainreaper]

After the last episode... I just got an add for lotion on KZbin for the first time...

[@umbrawolf6085]

My stomach dropped when I heard believe in a smiling god

[@galladegamerletsplays]

6:52 well that confirmed it

[@Companion92]

I did not expected an Cybermen attack

[@QueerChaosFrog]

Anyone else have some sound issues?

[@prernag]

Shit. The smiling god. Run!

[@alexandrafall3238]

Those sound suspiciously like Cybermen...

[@fishheist8346]

I think it's time to go to the ocean

[@SoraKoudo]

I’m Gemini I have decided to throw myself into the ocean,

[@lupineallen5039]

OH SHIIIT

[@theeyeswatchme]

so i may or may not have written down the entirety of the horoscopes into the notes app on my phone.......thatd be stupid if i did....

[@JoshIsStruggling]

When did Cecil leave?

[@subtlefire7256]

So Night Vale is producing Cybermen now, huh?

[@iliketoeatbatteries8122]

Hey I have a question. What happened with the moon? It was once described as beautiful, and now it’s being called insufferable, and pesky. Did it do something wrong?

[@jenniferruth3964]

It was broken for a while. seems like a bit of victim blaming to me.

[@juliagoodwin3461]

...oooooohhhhhh shhhhiiiitttt...

[@jadebanana]

The stock market scared the living hell outta me omg

[@chroamathebrute]

oh SHIT OH FUCK NOT THE SMILING GOD AGAIN

[@XerxesTexasToast]

STREXCORP... 2!

[@dracorex426]

Uh oh.

[@jadamarie7135]

I'm finally caught up, and this just HAD to be the latest episode. This is not OK. Go away crazy pseudo-Kevin. We don't want to believe in your smiling deity.