4.15 - Lessons in Humility
Our Fair City
Audacious Machine Creative
4.7 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In the loading bay for the Dead Disposal Drivers, our MolePeople friends Clay and Sandy are recruited to assist Simon in the loading of the unusually high number of retired policies. However, when Vice President Davenport appears to move his power production plan forward, how will he react to these off-the-clock shenanigans? Will the M.O.L.E.s be punished for participating in human work, and what will happen to the oft-delinquent Simon? Find out, as the story of Our Fair City…continues.
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- Clay— Tyler Samples
- Sandy— Abby Doud
- Simon— Mark Soloff
- Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred
- The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner
Written by Clayton Faits. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Episode art by Jess Cwik. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Created by Clayton Faits.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life. |
| 0:10.0 | These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history. |
| 0:15.0 | So listen and remember, Heart Life, all the life you'll ever need. |
| 0:25.8 | Environmental protection doors now closing. |
| 0:38.3 | Power to environmental protection doors now being rerouted. All underground space in our fair city has a predetermined function and fate. |
| 0:44.3 | The city's grand plan calls for work and habitation tunnels to continually expand, |
| 0:49.3 | and they demand a network of subsidiary support tunnels, |
| 0:53.3 | tunnels for utility and maintenance access. |
| 0:57.0 | Tunnels for people movers and elevators. |
| 0:59.0 | Tunnels so the mole people can move through the city without disturbing human policies. |
| 1:04.0 | It is for this reason that |
| 1:06.0 | retired policies must be transported and stored indefinitely outside on the surface. |
| 1:12.6 | Between the cold and the wolves, the job of taking them there has proven to be unpopular. |
| 1:18.6 | One policy, however, has succeeded in doing the work on his own for many cycles now. |
| 1:23.6 | The recent increase in demand for dead disposal, while within acceptable parameters, |
| 1:29.3 | has forced Simon to recruit some temporary help. |
| 1:33.3 | Clay, you want to stack them crosswise, like this, see? |
| 1:38.3 | I don't want to stack them eddywise, Sandy. I've spent entirely too much time around dead people. |
| 1:46.6 | You get used to it after a while. |
| 1:50.1 | You do? |
| 1:50.7 | One hour. |
| 1:51.7 | Can't we take a break? |
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