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The Orbiting Human Circus

WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents

Drama, Orbiting, Performing Arts, Comedy Fiction, Paris, Eiffel, Fiction, Arts, Julian, Human, Tower, Circus, Koster

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What was REALLY in the shoeboxes? A co-production of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Featuring Drew Callander, Harrison Beckwith, and Julian Koster. Written and directed by Julian Koster and produced by Christy Gressman; with musical composition and arrangement by Thomas Hughes, music by the Music Tapes, and piano performance by Andy Lauer; lead editor Grant Stewart, editor Jaanelle Yee, and assistant editors Emily Marinoff and Jeff Tobias, with Julian; sound design by Jonathan Siri-Mohs, foley by John Ringhofer, and lathe cutting by Steve Espinola; engineering by Vincent Cacchione; and additional production and mixing by Will Stanton. Music from the show is released by Merge Records: https://smarturl.it/OrbitingS2songs. Become a Friend of the Orbiting Human Circus on Patreon: patreon.com/orbitinghumancircus, check out shirts, pins, and more at topatoco.com/collections/orbiting-human-circus, and follow us on Instagram @orbitinghumancircus or Twitter @orbitinghuman. For full credits and more information, go to orbitinghumancircus.com.

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0:00.0	A co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Night Fail presents.
0:05.0	You are listening to the orbiting human circus of the air. Oh, hello?
0:21.0	Hello? Dust. We find the janitor high on the side of the Eiffel Tower, stringing up white paper decorations without scaffold harness or ropes to hold him and the janitor is in a state of amazement.
0:30.0	He has seen a single firefly up on the tower quite near him.
0:36.0	A. He's never seen one alive this late in the year before.
0:40.0	And never this high up, it's landed on a girder, and he stares at it as it's softly glowing on and off.
0:50.0	How'd you get on top of the Eiffel Tower, huh?
0:52.0	The janitor stops decorating. How'd you get on top of the Eiffel Tower, huh?
0:53.0	The janitor stops decorating and balancing dangerously.
0:57.0	He learns over and cups both hands over the firefly.
1:01.0	He lifts it up in front of his face and watches the spaces between his
1:06.7	fingers glow. Look here. He wonders how the firefly manages to live up here all alone, but looking at the space
1:18.0	between his fingers light up gives him the strangest feeling.
1:24.0	You know those moments when you remember that you love something?
1:27.0	Yes, something that you'd forgotten all about.
1:32.0	This could be a new memory. It could be. The janitor has given up recalling
1:39.2	new things. I have all the memories I need. He doesn't want to. I've remembered as far as my great
1:45.9	grandfathers and I want to stay there. He doesn't like endings and so he chooses not to remember.
1:53.0	Or perhaps he's afraid to see how it all turned out.
1:58.0	The janitor has recovered his memories chronologically.
2:02.0	It's like his life is flashing in front of his eyes
2:04.7	incredibly slowly and he's making it even slower. So slow in fact he stopped the whole show. I just want to look at the
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