Turtleneck-loving host Dale Seever is starting a commune and he's using this podcast to find new members. Tune in weekly to hear Dale's insightful interviews with a range of comedians, authors, musicians, actors, and other potential communal life partners. Now in its 13th season, Deep Night with Dale has been called "infectious", " a total joy", and according to AV Club, "completely unlike any other show taping today."
Deep Night Season 15: Glitter and Graves
Dale continues his pursuit of an authentic self, pondering whether anyone can ever really arrive at a place where they know who they are and what they’re doing. He welcomes some old wisdom on grief and gravesites from Washington Irving, who also engaged in a bit of slipping between other selves when it came to...
1/4/2024 • 44 minutes, 11 seconds
Deep Night Season 15: Things in Other Things
Dale holds a bunch of things too close to his face in his ongoing attempt to gain greater awareness and understanding of the people who raised him. He asks for a little help from the artificial intelligence machines in conjuring two figures from his father’s past, a very nice couple that happened to reside in...
11/30/2023 • 40 minutes, 59 seconds
Deep Night Season 15: Magnetic Voices
Dale duplicates himself over and over again until there’s very little left but ones and zeroes. A meditation on distortion, memories, and early attempts to capture energy in specks of iron dust . Featuring the discovery of a hidden audio recording and some thoughts as to why everyone hates hearing tapes of themselves played back....
11/16/2023 • 38 minutes
Deep Night Season 15: Branch Meditations
Dale offers a series of meditations about branches in multiple forms. Whether it’s an avenue of research into the history of a Grape Nuts cereal spokesperson from the 1970s or the tiny beneficial rivers that flow within our own bodies – he’s been thinking about it a lot. He shares a story about warping into...
10/26/2023 • 38 minutes, 29 seconds
Deep Night Season 15: Spirit Bidding
Dale believes that for the past year, his dead father has been speaking to him through the online auction site ebay. He discusses the moment he came to realize this was happening and finds scholarly research into the correlation between new technologies and spiritualism to back him up. Before he gets anywhere though, he provides...
10/12/2023 • 40 minutes, 25 seconds
Deep Night Season 15: Dale Wakes Up in Unusual Places
Dale returns after a long absence for a new season of the podcast. Lately, he’s been waking up in unusual places – a conference about aliens in Mexico, in orbit around the Earth, or under a small body of water – compelled to follow a distant, primal call for connection. Once settled back in the...
9/28/2023 • 42 minutes
Deep Night Season 14: Slippery Ghosts
Dale receives new data, but can’t make any sense of it in this solo episode. Bringing an end to the latest season, Dale considers all the wisdom of his guests and tries to apply it to his current situation. Like a certain space probe sending mixed signals from beyond the galaxy, Dale isn’t sure if...
6/16/2022 • 23 minutes, 41 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Holland Andrews
Dale aligns his vibrations to a cosmic frequency this week when he’s joined by vocalist, composer, and performer Holland Andrews. Supremely moved by their work, Dale asks Holland about their creative process and how being so open to input from the universe requires grounding and a regular practice of self-care. Dale and Holland also discuss...
6/2/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute
Deep Night Season 14: Helen Hong
Dale begins furiously scribbling in his manifestation journal after this wide-ranging conversation with comedian, actress, and aspiring Starfleet cadet, Helen Hong. Dale asks Helen about her determined path to becoming a beloved panelist on the NPR quiz show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and how many other things she’s been able to conjure simply by...
5/26/2022 • 58 minutes, 38 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Janet Varney
Dale decides he has one too many collector’s items on his online auction wishlist, so he puts in a call to actor, comedian, and voice over talent Janet Varney, for a little advice in dealing with stuff. Janet and Dale are both only children moving through the recent loss of a parent and they discuss...
5/19/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 20 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Rebecca Soffer
Dale senses he should be happy now that it’s sunny and springtime out, but he can’t quite shake the creeping sadness that comes with grief. Good thing he’s sitting down this week with someone who knows all about dark days and the difficulty of losing one’s parents. Rebecca Soffer, writer, speaker, and co-founder of the...
5/12/2022 • 57 minutes, 35 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Gianmarco Soresi
Dale considers a gritty reboot in order to navigate the new, edgier post-pandemic New York City. His first step is a conversation with stand-up comedian and actor Gianmarco Soresi, who has been working all the way through various lockdowns and has seen the changes up close, even producing an acclaimed stand-up special, Shelf Life. Gianmarco...
5/5/2022 • 1 hour, 38 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: M.K. Komins
Dale becomes very vulnerable whenever he takes allergy medicine and he must have grabbed a handful right before this week’s conversation featuring Dale and his guest, Philadelphia-based painter and illustrator M.K. Komins. Dale asks M.K. about their process creating the artwork used for the current season of Deep Night, and how they felt capturing Dale’s...
4/28/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 15 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Tarik Davis
Dale activates some underutilized portions of his mind during this conversation with actor, improviser, musical talent and all around joy bringer, Tarik Davis. Dale talks with Tarik about honing his craft in a city that favors efficiency and how to shake off the bad energy of a not so great performance by making room for...
4/21/2022 • 56 minutes, 9 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Lucas Nathan
Dale places a wake up call to Los Angeles based musical impresario Lucas Nathan. Widely known for their work under the name Jerry Paper, Lucas’s brand new album Free Time is out everywhere April 15th. The record represents a turning point for Lucas, as through the process of making the album, they were able to...
4/14/2022 • 43 minutes, 13 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Maud Newton
Dale contemplates the present moment by looking into the past with guest Maud Newton, author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation. Maud writes with clarity and purpose about her complicated family tree and the uncomfortable truths that reside in its deep Southern roots. Maud speaks candidly with Dale about the people and stories...
4/7/2022 • 51 minutes, 6 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Lily Sullivan
Dale chases a cosmic tickle as he tries to make sense of our current post-vibe shift reality with comedian and newlywed, Lily Sullivan. Lily joins Dale from her home in Los Angeles for a conversation about couples counseling, last minute wedding mishaps, making sure stress relievers don’t do too good of a job, and forecasting...
3/31/2022 • 52 minutes, 40 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Tawny Platis
Dale speaks openly for the first time about his personal experience with loss this week when he welcomes fellow podcaster Tawny Platis, founder of the Death is Hilarious Foundation. When Tawny’s husband died suddenly, she found herself a young widow with not a lot of avenues for support. Hoping to connect with others who were...
3/24/2022 • 53 minutes, 11 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: James Kochalka
Dale conjures fond memories of summers spent in the Northeast Kingdom, when he welcomes celebrated Vermont-based comics artist, James Kochalka. Dale and James have a spirited conversation about unusual sea-beasts, fatherhood in space, and ghostly companions, all of which have found their way into James’ prolific output. The first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, James is...
3/17/2022 • 58 minutes, 27 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Maia Friedman
Dale recalls some of the many stones he has known in a conversation with singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Maia Friedman. Dale welcomes Maia into the Deep Night for a conversation about the process of making and recording her new album, Under The New Light. The two discover they have a great deal in common, including...
3/10/2022 • 1 hour, 4 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Vic Michaelis
Dale unpacks some issues of home and place with his guest, Los-Angeles based actor and writer, Vic Michaelis. A bit preoccupied with stuff as he sorts through his father’s house, Dale asks Vic about her relationship to home, and how moving so much as a child may have informed her as a performer. The two...
3/3/2022 • 51 minutes, 49 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Jeff Hiller
Dale genuinely surprises his guest Jeff Hiller by revealing just how completely ill equipped he is when it comes to making delicious smoothies. Jeff is an actor and comedian, currently holding their own opposite the formidable Bridget Everett on the HBO series, Somebody Somewhere. Dale talks with Jeff about their overlapping friend groups, how faith...
2/24/2022 • 48 minutes, 10 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Moiya McTier
Dale makes the jump to lightspeed and fastens his Kuiper Belt for a conversation on myth, stars, and the origins of universe with his guest folklorist and astrophysicist, Dr. Moiya McTier. Dale is unafraid to ask the accomplished Moiya some pretty basic questions like what do stars look like up close and could he survive...
2/17/2022 • 58 minutes
Deep Night Season 14: Miles Francis
Dale browses through the laser disc collection in his mind as he revisits the past while keeping a joyful eye on the future with singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Miles Francis. Dale welcomes Miles to the Deep Night for a conversation about keeping perspective, the cultural importance of basements, and the confusing legacy of Boy Bands....
2/10/2022 • 53 minutes, 29 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Mary Martin
Dale trips between waking and dream state in this conversation with comedian and podcast host, Mary Martin. Dale asks Mary a lot of questions about how she came to host Calmedy, an ASMR comedy podcast for the sleep deprived. Tackling insomnia, ADHD, and a fear of the end, Mary has found a vehicle that helps...
2/3/2022 • 48 minutes, 57 seconds
Deep Night Season 14: Maeve Higgins
Photo in original post by Mindy Tucker.
1/27/2022 • 52 minutes, 10 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Anna Rubanova and Adam Bozarth
Dale takes a break from packing up Galinda’s summer trunk in order to bring you this special bonus episode of the show featuring fellow podcasters, Anna Rubanova and Adam Bozarth. Dale grills the duo about their collaboration on the long-running sketch comedy podcast Left Handed Radio, as well as some of the highs and lows...
6/24/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 41 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Inside A Black Hole
Dale closes the thirteenth season of the show in epic fashion, convinced he’s caught in the gravitational pull of a black hole. As time shifts around him, the entire season of the podcast flashes before his eyes, and he gains insights he never thought possible. Dale finds connective tissue from one conversation to the next...
6/10/2021 • 21 minutes, 13 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Chris Gethard
Dale fires up the cosmic riding mower to pay a visit to comedian and new lawn owner, Chris Gethard. Dale talks with Chris about his fantastic new special, Chris Gethard: Half My Life (available everywhere). It occurs to Dale that the two often meet at particular moments in Chris’s life, and the conversation offers a...
6/3/2021 • 41 minutes, 20 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Jeriana San Juan
Dale pulls on his most luxurious turtleneck for a conversation with costume designer and stylist Jeriana San Juan. Dale talks with Jeriana about the daunting experience of creating all the costumes for the recent Netflix miniseries, Halston. After expressing his deep appreciation for featuring so many fabulous turtlenecks in the show, Dale asks Jeriana about...
5/31/2021 • 46 minutes, 6 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Angel Bat Dawid
Dale stirs the spirit within when he welcomes acclaimed Chicago-based composer, clarinetist, keyboardist, and singer Angel Bat Dawid to the Deep Night. Dale and Angel bond over their shared star signs as they talk about finding one’s authentic creative self, the hidden power of a clarinet, and all the ways that music can offer a...
5/20/2021 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Rebecca Robles
Dale makes sure his morning ponytail is well-hidden when he visits with New York-based actor, comedian, and makeup artist Rebecca Robles. Dale talks with Rebecca about her experience playing Cindy on the hit television series Search Party and how she came to be involved in the greater Search Party universe. Rebecca also dishes with Dale...
5/13/2021 • 53 minutes, 45 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Zara Mizrahi
Dale considers the healing potential of one’s imagination in this conversation with comedian and writer Zara Mizrahi (Family Guy, M.O.D.O.K). Two restless artistic travelers (who have both spent meaningful afternoons in San Bernadino), Zara and Dale discover that their relatively unstructured upbringings have given them ready access to worlds of their own design. It is...
5/6/2021 • 56 minutes, 10 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Wendy Steiner
Dale waits for that second shot and experiences a new wave of what-happens-now social anxiety as he welcomes comedian Wendy Steiner to the Deep Night. Wendy talks with Dale about her path from shy audience member at comedy clubs in San Francisco to confident performer on stages around New York. The two also discuss the...
4/29/2021 • 53 minutes, 3 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Claywoman
Dale tunes into a vibrational frequency from the outer realms for a conversation with the 500 million year old celestial being known as Claywoman. From a quarantine outpost near the planet-formerly-known-as-Pluto, Claywoman shares wisdom collected over the centuries and offers a unique perspective on humanity, a species they’ve long been a champion of, ever since...
4/15/2021 • 41 minutes, 14 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Dale Makes a Move
Dale’s packing up everything he owns as things take a difficult turn on the commune. Apparently he should have read the small print and the large print before settling in and now he and Galinda need to seek a new living arrangement. Luckily a place has opened up above a vegan ice cream parlor and...
4/1/2021 • 33 minutes, 54 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Alison Roman
Dale slathers a radish with butter and turns his knobs to simmer as he welcomes food writer, chef, and buttermilk evangelist, Alison Roman to the Deep Night. After a year of cooking at home, Dale checks in with Alison about pandemic faves and quarantine never-agains. Alison shares some self-care recipes for keeping the body in...
3/25/2021 • 42 minutes, 51 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Elizabeth and the Catapult
Dale receives the vibrations of the universe as he welcomes Elizabeth Ziman (Elizabeth and the Catapult) back to the Deep Night. Elizabeth was a joyful part of the early Deep Night live streaming shows presented in the spring of 2020, just as the pandemic was surging through New York. Dale recalls what it was like...
3/18/2021 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Diallo Riddle
Dale starts to feel something close to optimism again, so he calls up the prolific writer, actor, producer, and DJ, Diallo Riddle to try and confirm his suspicions that things are in fact, getting better. Diallo talks with Dale about the cultural influences and comedic inspiration behind his hit TV variety show Sherman’s Showcase. The...
3/11/2021 • 50 minutes, 7 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Space Meditation
Dale centers his being and contemplates the expansiveness of the cosmos in this solo meditation episode. Do some extensive breath work with Dale as he reflects on this past year spent in isolation. A year where he failed to do much of anything other than impulse buy expensive products from Instagram and watch hundreds of...
3/4/2021 • 38 minutes, 47 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Cassandra Jenkins
Dale considers befriending more security guards and calling up a few dulcimer players after this conversation with New York-based musician and songwriter, Cassandra Jenkins. Over the course of the episode, Cassandra and Dale find quite a few points of connection among them, including a love for folk festivals held on rocky islands, heavenly sculptures made...
2/18/2021 • 59 minutes, 34 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Sara Schaefer
Dale channels some youth pastor vibes and lends some serious consideration to goat farming in this conversation with writer and comedian Sara Schaefer. Sara talks about the process of writing her recent memoir Grand, which beautifully captures her attempts to find peace and purpose following a devastating loss. Dale asks about Sara’s life in Los...
2/11/2021 • 59 minutes, 40 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Jaya Saxena
Dale charges his quartz and bathes his amethyst in the light of a winter supermoon for this conversation with writer Jaya Saxena. Jaya joins Dale to talk about her recent collection of essays, Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary Talismans for Everyday Life. Organized according to various gemstones and their properties, the book explores the historical...
2/5/2021 • 44 minutes, 54 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Liz Maupin
Dale takes a left down portal road for a visit with Los Angeles-based comedy producer Liz Maupin. Taking a break from channeling her energy into an Arizona vortex, Liz talks to Dale about the staggering number of obstacles she’s overcome and the great joy she’s found in producing live events (Funnilingus), podcasts (PA Nation), and...
1/28/2021 • 51 minutes, 21 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Verity Clayton
Dale delves into myth making and the stories we tell one other to get through the darkness with anthropologist, hypnotherapist, and podcast host, Verity Clayton. Dale talks with Verity about her experience producing the Scary Stories Podcast and what it’s like to host the show as a character, something Dale knows very little about. During...
1/21/2021 • 53 minutes, 45 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Dale Digs a Well
Dale’s digging a well and ripping up his old turtlenecks to use as wishing rags for the upcoming Imbolc Festival, a Celtic ritual that marks the end of winter and offers the promise of renewal. Turning the page on our dark days is very much on Dale’s mind as he grapples with being unable to...
1/14/2021 • 28 minutes, 42 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Pearl Charles
Dale shakes loose some leftover Solstice glitter from the folds of his holiday turtleneck and rings in the New Year with a conversation with singer/songwriter Pearl Charles. From a secluded hideout in the desert, Pearl joins Dale for a discussion about her new album Magic Mirror, which is out everywhere on January 15th. The two...
1/7/2021 • 47 minutes, 54 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Allison Rose
Dale reflects back on the challenges, losses, and elusive silver linings of the past year with comedian Allison Rose. Originally from the wheat fields of Kansas, Allison made the bold decision to move to New York City in the fall of 2020. A stand-up and writer, Allison shares her observations about life and comedy in...
12/17/2020 • 56 minutes, 45 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Camirin Farmer
Dale wafts through a haze of holiday “incense” to find his astrologically attuned new friend, Los Angeles-based comedian, Camirin Farmer. The two take a laughter-filled walk on the mystic side as they swap ideas for the winter solstice and explore the meaning behind Dale’s recurring dreams about shopping malls. Camirin shares the origins of her...
12/10/2020 • 44 minutes, 48 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Superfund Urban Fowl Trot
Dale freaks out over his plans to host a Thanksgiving for the entire commune, and ends up trying to focus on things other than strange food allergies, oddly shaped potatoes, and a fruitless quest to locate the last quart of buttermilk in Brooklyn. The truth is, this pandemic has been hard on Dale and the...
11/26/2020 • 31 minutes, 14 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Avery Trufelman
Dale worries about the viability of his commune and asks writer and podcaster, Avery Trufelman for some much needed perspective. The host of The Cut podcast, along with the limited-run audio series Nice Try! and Articles of Interest, Avery knows a lot about human impulses and the struggle for utopian societies. Dale appreciates Avery’s approach...
11/19/2020 • 44 minutes, 39 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Tawny Newsome & Bethany Thomas
Dale sounds his celebration horn for the first time in four years and welcomes multi-talented performers and friends Tawny Newsome and Bethany Thomas. Tawny and Bethany talk about the joyful, cathartic process of recording Material Flats, their sensational new album and they discuss their history of touring and making music together. Seasoned commune dwellers, both...
11/12/2020 • 50 minutes, 5 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Katie Boyle
Dale takes a break from incorporating social distancing stickers into his annual Samhain party, by talking to New York-based, Irish comedian Katie Boyle. With Halloween approaching, and perhaps because he watched too much Haunting of Bly Manor last week, Dale somewhat enthusiastically entertains the idea of welcoming a damp lady spirit into his bedchamber. Katie...
10/29/2020 • 45 minutes, 48 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Christina Catherine Martinez
Dale locates his inner clown for this conversation with Los Angeles-based writer, performer, and comedian, Christina Catherine Martinez. Dale and Christina have both found success in the unusual, murky waters where performance art and comedy meet. In a heartfelt, and honest discussion, the two explore how Christina came to find comedy and what that shift...
10/22/2020 • 51 minutes, 36 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives
Dale shines a curious light into the climate-controlled stacks of the ultra-rare book section for a discussion with librarian and author, Megan Rosenbloom. Dale talks with Megan about her new book, Dark Archives, which details her decade-long journey to discover the origins and authenticity of books bound in human skin. Creepy? Undoubtedly. But also a...
10/15/2020 • 58 minutes, 27 seconds
Deep Night Season 13: Britt Lower
Dale understands the desire to run off and join a circus, especially given some recent developments on the Deep Night commune. He talks about those impulses and the joys of creative collaboration with actor, director, and writer, Britt Lower. Britt has a new film out now called Circus Person, which is a lyrical and beautiful...
