Every other Thursday, one long conversation with someone whose workday starts when yours ends: bakers, nurses, bridge tenders and the people who plow the roads before you wake up.
Newest episode, shift starts at
3:40 am
Episode 48. Inés has proofed the same sourdough every night for eleven years. We talk ovens, quiet streets and what a city smells like at four in the morning.
Play episode 48Each guest picks the time their shift starts. Listen in order and you get a whole night, from dusk to the first commuters.
Deciding who waits and who doesn’t, twelve hours at a time, and why Saturday nights are quieter than you’d think.
Raising a drawbridge for one sailboat at midnight, and the radio chatter nobody else hears.
Keeping forty trucks moving across three time zones from a desk with six screens and one window.
The route has to be clear before the school buses. On the long hours alone in the cab and the regulars who wave.
Proofing, shaping and the one night the oven died. Eleven years of the same sourdough, and still no two loaves alike.
Bidding on the morning catch by flashlight, and how a restaurant’s menu is decided before sunrise.
Halfmoon Signal started in a hospital break room at 3am, when one of us realized the people we talked to most were the ones nobody else ever met. We record in a converted closet, edit on weekends, and put out a new episode every other Thursday at midnight.
Our listeners are shift workers, early risers and insomniacs, and they listen to the end. We read every ad ourselves and only take sponsors we’d use.
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Thirty seconds before the conversation starts, read by one of the hosts.
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Sixty seconds at the break, in our own words, with your link in the show notes.
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The midpoint read on all thirteen episodes of a season, plus a mention in the newsletter.
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