Naughty Till New Years: Secondly, the Past

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 November 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We travel back in time to the janitor’s first nights at the tower in this, Naughty Till New Years’ second installment. New episodes every other Wednesday. A co-production of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Drew Callander, Susannah Flood, David Barlow, Dan Solomon, Nicholas Carter, Walter Lowery, and Julian Koster, with Magali and Alaska as the Chouinard family. Written and directed by Julian Koster, and produced by Christy Gressman. For full credits and more information, go to orbitinghumancircus.com. Music from the show is released by Merge Records: https://smarturl.it/OrbitingS2songs. Become a Friend of the Orbiting Human Circus on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orbitinghumancircus, check out shirts, pins, and more at https://topatoco.com/collections/orbiting-human-circus, and follow us on Instagram @orbitinghumancircus or Twitter @orbitinghuman.

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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. You're not going to be here. Let us go back in time. When the janitor first came to the Eiffel Tower, he did not speak, so much so that his boss, Mr.
0:36.8	Shanard, believed him born unable, and immediately went about the task of learning sign language. At that time the janitor spent most of his time in the
0:46.2	janitor's closet. He comes out only when the rest of the world is asleep, like a mouse
0:51.2	emerging from its whole, tentatively and ready to run back at any moment.
0:57.0	Hello?
0:59.0	Ah, there he is. Oh, he looks like a baby.
1:04.0	Oh, no, just kidding. He actually looks just about the same.
1:07.0	Anyway, at this time, the janitor's life had two primary problems.
1:12.0	One, the intrusions of Mr.
1:14.8	Shunard, whose actions and motivations confounded the janitor, but whose
1:19.4	comings could easily be predicted by clock.
1:22.0	Oh, man. Mr. Shannard's okay.
1:24.0	And two, the intrusions of the Night Watchman
1:28.0	who was scary and whose comings could not be foretold by clock.
1:32.0	But the Night Watchman, he's not all right. But the Night Watchman, he's not all right.
1:35.0	Then the Night Watchman was something quite different.
1:38.0	You see, at this time, the Eiffel Tower's Night Watchman was a terrifying man. One might imagine a horrible
1:45.8	man, brutal and violent. Oh, my God, he's coming. No! The janitor dives into his closet, hiding in the door.
1:58.0	The footsteps arrive.
2:01.6	He's on the other side of the door. The janitor cannot breathe.
2:05.0	Suddenly the whole closet lights up. The night watchman shines his lantern under the door,
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