5.2 - Everything In Its Place

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The day begins unexpectedly for Doctor Emily Caligari, as she desperately attempts to avoid that high crime against Productivity- Tardiness. Will she arrive at her meeting on time? Will our friends, the newly underemployed riggers, find suitable occupations? Will Sandy and Clay settle down into co-habitating bliss? Will Elizabeth Rourke pass her Identity Variance exam? Find out, as the story of Our Fair City…continues. === Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018. If you're interested in listening to the complete 8 seasons of Our Fair City ad free right now, you can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman Farmer-Type Policy— Jeffrey Gardner The Conductor— Jim McDoniel Security Guard— David Rheinstrom Doctor Herbert West— Ryan Schile The Dealer— Jeffrey Gardner Charlie Wynn— Jared Latore Chorus of Policies— Tara Schile, Ryan Schile, David Rheinstrom, Jared Latore Jack— Mark Soloff Greyson— David Rheinstrom Barkeeper— Abby Doud Clear Skies Tim— Tyler Samples Sandy— Abby Doud Clay— Tyler Samples Loamy— Lise “Kat” Evans Elizabeth Rourke— Tara Schile Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin The Meatwall— Ryan Schile The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner The Narrator— Ansel Burch Written by David Rheinstrom. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Episode art by Steph Charaska. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Production Management by Betsey Palmer. Created by Clayton Faits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life.
0:40.2	These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history.
0:45.6	So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.
0:54.8	Our town is a well-oiled machine.
0:58.6	Every element of civic life is designed to promote prosperity, efficiency, and happiness in
1:04.9	all policies, in concordance with the immortal will of our directors.
1:10.0	For example, our people mover system is clean,
1:13.4	swift, and above all, always on time.
1:21.7	Finally!
1:27.3	But this morning, Dr. Caligari appears to be...
1:31.3	...lake you for riding HeartLife's people mover.
1:36.3	You have pressed the... contact your conductor button.
1:40.3	Did you push it by? Mistake? If not, press again. Yes, I want to contact my conductor. This is the conductor. You imbeciles skipped my stop. What? This is the Uptown J-Deck train, isn't it? Yeah. You skipped my stop! The train went by, not a care in the world! I'm hollering and screaming! Three J-trains went by before I gave up and ran to the next stop at Gary Circle to catch this one.
2:04.7	This train made all scheduled stops.
2:06.8	Five years. For five years, the Uptown J stopped right by me, near the tunnel with the mole nursery and the Algebra plant, ringing any bells?
2:19.2	Uh, ah, ma'am, that was never a stop.
2:23.5	Of course it was.
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