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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

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The story of an unusual gift and several strikes of lightning. A co-production of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. Featuring Drew Callander, John Cameron Mitchell, Susannah Flood, David Barlow, Dan Solomon, Miche Braden, Nicholas Carter, Jessie Shelton, Harrison Beckwith, Jonah Mussolino, Andy Lauer, Walter Lowery, and Julian Koster. Written and directed by Julian Koster and produced by Christy Gressman; with musical composition and arrangement by Thomas Hughes and music by the Music Tapes; 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.
0:10.0	This is the sound of a janitor's life at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
0:22.0	Here it is again.
0:26.0	Don't worry, your device is not broken.
0:30.0	There isn't any.
0:31.0	Sound, not a speaker. You know in movies when somebody says it's quiet, it's
0:37.4	too quiet. At night in these heavens there is not so much as a harp.
0:44.4	Perhaps this is why the janitor spends so much time eavesdropping.
0:49.8	On Coco's music, when he plays it in the ticket booth and sometimes on his conversations.
0:57.0	Here's one the janitor overheard just yesterday.
1:01.0	Coco was chatting with a ticket booth clerk who was getting off duty as the tower closed for the night.
1:06.0	It gets so uncomfortable.
1:08.0	That does sound really hard.
1:10.0	Well, thank you so much, Mr. Lowry.
1:12.0	It really means a lot to me.
1:13.2	My pleasure.
1:14.1	The janitor had never heard Coco talk to the ticket booth clerk before, but there was something
1:19.6	about the ticket booth clerk's voice that the janitor felt was nice to listen to.
1:24.4	Unfortunately, Coco had told the ticket booth clerk about their recent run-in and how he's
1:29.5	always afraid of upsetting the janitor by saying or doing the wrong thing. And this was not very nice to listen to.
1:37.0	The first thing I said to him for real.
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