(Of the Air): Fifthly!

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

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This special reissue of The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air) Season One is a co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents. An on-air hypnosis demonstration goes horribly wrong. Plus: the janitor sings! Starring John Cameron Mitchell as Mr. Cameron, Julian Koster as the Janitor, and Drew Callander as the Narrator, and Susannah Flood as Leticia Saltier, with Cecil Baldwin, Ben Chase, and JJ Gonson as Third Grade Teacher Whistling the Sabre Dance. Written and created by Julian Koster. Co-directed by and developed with Ellie Heyman. Produced by Christy Gressman. Musical composition and arrangement by Thomas Hughes and songs by The Music Tapes, editing by Grant Stewart, sound design by Eric Sluyter, and recording engineering by Vincent Cacchione. For more information and full credits:www.wnycstudios.org/shows/orbitinghumancircuswww.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. The This public service announcement was paid for by the joint governments of the world.
0:28.8	If children are present, turn your radio off at the sound of the tone.
0:34.0	Mommy, daddy, does the great hesitating platypus really exist?
0:40.0	Confirming your children's belief in the existence of the great recitating platypus of the north will keep them healthy.
0:46.0	New international studies show that children who believe in the great recitating platypus of the north have a greater recovery rate from all childhood
0:55.2	illnesses than children who don't.
0:58.2	Furthermore, the belief that if brave, the platypus will visit while you sleep recite his many palms
1:05.3	and cause you to wake up healthy has shown clinically to reduce occurrences of
1:10.2	illness later in life.
1:11.8	Parents the day of discovery will come. They, like we, will
1:18.2	learn the great reciting platypus of the north does not exist. But do not hasten the moment. Allow them to believe. Give your
1:28.7	children the chance to grow healthy and strong.
1:35.0	Broadcasting from the top of the Eiffel Tower,
1:41.0	the orbiting human circus of the Air.
1:44.0	The Earth. behind the red velvet curtains on the wooden stage,
2:00.0	beyond two performing donkeys being fed carrots by their trainer to the left of several
2:05.6	elderly women readying themselves on stilts directly across from ten chefs preparing
2:10.8	omelets on buns and burners clutching his mop and looking innocent out in the open
2:15.2	where anybody could tackle and remove him is Julian.
2:18.7	Gerritor at the Eiffel Tower.
2:20.5	Shouldn't you be hiding?
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