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Deep Night Season 12: Alise Morales

Dale reflects back on his fifteen year old self and recalls many hours spent learning about life at the local mall in this conversation with comedian and writer Alise Morales. After some quick improv games at the top of the show to keep things loose and to honor Alise’s improvisational background, the two get off…

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Deep Night Season 12: Dale Cancels Christmas

Dale participates in cancel culture by crossing out lots of problematic holiday traditions in this solo episode. Elf on the Shelf? Mistletoe? Things are not looking good for you in 2020. Dale reflects on his all-time favorite decades, visits the Little Drumming Boy, reads from a daily journal he tried to keep, and offers some…

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Deep Night Season 12: Julia Claire

Dale stirs up a hearty conversational chowder in this Thanksgiving episode featuring fellow podcaster and comedian, Julia Claire. In addition to sharing a love of turtlenecks, both Julia and Dale enjoy the simpler turkey day sides and believe in not messing with perfectly engineered foods. Of course, with these two politicos, a little current event…

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Deep Night Season 12: Odetta Hartman

Dale tunes his vessel to just the right frequency in this conversation with New York-based musician and songwriter, Odetta Hartman. Odetta tells Dale about growing up on the Lower East Side, exploring the music of caverns, the influence of Alan Lomax, and why murder ballads are such an enduring presence in the American songbook. In…

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Deep Night Season 12: Phoebe Bottoms

Dale tosses a ziplock bag full of fur and googly eyes into the air and lets destiny takes its course in this conversation with comedian and frequent-flyer, Phoebe Bottoms. Dale asks Phoebe about her current experience being bi-coastal, producing and performing in shows in New York while living in LA. The two also talk about…

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Deep Night Season 12: Marcel Dzama

Dale dons his caped turtleneck and pulls his fangs out the jar for a very seasonally-appropriate, vampire-inspired conversation with acclaimed visual artist, Marcel Dzama. The two discuss Marcel’s lifelong fascination with the character of Count Dracula, tracing its beginnings to his youth in Winnipeg spent assembling puzzles of Bela Lugosi and watching classic films on…

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Deep Night Season 12: The Cosmic Family Tree

Dale could have just typed his last name into one of those ancestry websites, but instead an ornery bird in Texas chased him into a time tunnel where he was forced to experience life through the bodies of his distant relatives. From a long-standing resident of New York in the 1880s, to a love-shy museum…

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