The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air): Season One, Episode 1

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Speaker 1 Hi, Jeffrey Kraner here. We are so excited to bring you this first episode of Night Vale Presents' newest podcast, The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air.

Speaker 1 We'll be featuring the first three episodes of Orbiting Human Circus here on the Welcome to Night Vale feed, just as we did with Within the Wires and Alice Isn't Dead.

Speaker 1 If you like what you hear and want to subscribe to the entire eight-episode first season of Orbiting Human Circus, you can do that right now through iTunes or wherever it is you get your podcasts.

Speaker 4 And oh, hey, we appreciate you.

Speaker 6 We zoom in on a small enclosed space,

Speaker 10 a dark, womb-like space with walls of metal

Speaker 6 where

Speaker 13 a small figure lies curled, appropriately, in a fatal position, waiting to emerge as if he were the main character of a show about to be born.

Speaker 16 A god.

Speaker 17 Metaphorically, that is.

Speaker 11 He's fully grown.

Speaker 17 Who is he?

Speaker 15 Oh my word.

Speaker 6 Well, you'll find out soon enough.

Speaker 12 Where is he?

Speaker 12 Well, it's pitch black. You can't see.

Speaker 12 I can tell tell you this much.

Speaker 1 He's in a dark hiding place in one of the most famous buildings in the world, in Paris,

Speaker 13 and it's a tower.

Speaker 6 And he's hiding.

Speaker 18 While nearby, a large audience files into a grand ballroom to see the performance of a live radio variety show which is about to be broadcast.

Speaker 20 Broadcasting from the top of the Eiffel Tower, you are listening to the orbiting human circus of the air.

Speaker 15 But

Speaker 11 what is he doing?

Speaker 2 Oh, yes, he's pretending to be on that radio show.

Speaker 11 He does this.

Speaker 2 He does all the voices.

Speaker 19 Right now, he's pretending to be the host, John McCammon.

Speaker 12 Don't worry, this isn't what the show actually sounds like.

Speaker 6 Juck, Pew. Now he's pretending to be backstage.

Speaker 21 He's pretending to do the voice of chief stagehand Letitia Saltier.

Speaker 19 She runs the show.

Speaker 6 That sounds nothing like her.

Speaker 15 Oh, good lord.

Speaker 22 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 6 Now he's doing host John Cameron again, back on the air.

Speaker 20 That was the orbiting human circus orchestral performing its version of

Speaker 20 What are you doing? I'm dusting the microphone.

Speaker 12 There he is, is, doing himself. Oh,

Speaker 4 get away from the microphone.

Speaker 23 I'm sorry. I just thought I should clean up the show a little bit.

Speaker 11 Yes, even in his fantasies, he ruins everything.

Speaker 7 Why?

Speaker 11 Well, it does make them more realistic.

Speaker 6 Because that's what he actually does.

Speaker 19 He ruins everything.

Speaker 6 He's actually preparing to sneak into that ballroom. Sneak on stage, and bumble onto the air, where a person like him certainly does not belong.

Speaker 17 Not in a medium known for intelligent discourse on important subjects like science, news, and technology.

Speaker 11 Good lord.

Speaker 13 For example, there must be something else on.

Speaker 9 Hi, this is Drew Callender from the Orbiting Human Circus, and on behalf of the whole Orbiting Human Circus gang, we'd like to welcome you to our first episode and thank our sponsors, Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans and Atom Tickets.

Speaker 9 We are very happy to have Rocket Mortgage as our sponsor because for many of us here at the Orbiting Human Circus, applying for a traditional bank loan would be nearly impossible.

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Speaker 9 Which is good for me, since I've got paperwork that goes back to the 80s.

Speaker 11 The 1880s.

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Speaker 9 And now, please sit back and enjoy episode one.

Speaker 25 Now, see how much fun you can have with ventriloquism? So let's go on with our lesson.

Speaker 25 When talking for the dummy, speak in the front part of your mouth with the tip of your tongue in back of the upper front teeth.

Speaker 25 I find some students have a tendency to form their words back in the mouth. This gives a garbled effect, like this:

Speaker 25 and so forth. Now, it should be up in front, of course, like this.

Speaker 11 I had begun to wonder.

Speaker 11 Absolutely, but

Speaker 26 what is this noise?

Speaker 27 Listening to the radio.

Speaker 20 Trying to listen to the radio.

Speaker 26 Dad, go downstairs. Turn enough.

Speaker 26 I'm gonna miss this whole thing.

Speaker 2 In the grand ballroom at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 28 The red velvet curtains part, and suddenly, the giant on-air sign above the stage lights up.

Speaker 28 Broadcasting from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the orbiting human circus of the air.

Speaker 28 The orchestra starts it off with its version of Chopin's Here I Snore, May I for Hours More, featuring guest vocalist Romika, the extraordinary singing Saw.

Speaker 28 And so the saw's song rings out, filling the ballroom at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and out into the night, reaching radios.

Speaker 17 Radios.

Speaker 17 Radios the world over.

Speaker 18 But

Speaker 28 there is one lonely soul who is not listening on the radio, nor is he watching from a seat in the broadcast ballroom.

Speaker 28 At the back of the stage, behind the singing saw, behind the shimmering backdrop, to the left of the props closet, tunneled into the brick wall beside the fuse box, a heating duct.

Speaker 19 And, curled deep inside this heating duct, claustrophobic and alone, hides Julian, janitor here at the Eiffel Tower, who secretly dreams of being on the radio.

Speaker 29 Oh my god, I'm so excited.

Speaker 20 If I could just get a little bit higher,

Speaker 18 I could see.

Speaker 19 Twice ejected from the broadcast ballroom ballroom already this week for disrupting the broadcast.

Speaker 13 Oh, look out there.

Speaker 30 It's so beautiful.

Speaker 21 He now prepares to sneak onto the stage once again. Gotta go in there.

Speaker 12 I gotta go in there. But that's just what he oughtn't do.
You see, once inside, he can't seem to keep off the air.

Speaker 5 Look, look, right next to the vent, there's a catwalk.

Speaker 2 I'm just gonna go up on the catwalk and I'll hide behind the curtain.

Speaker 23 I won't say a thing to anybody, I swear to God.

Speaker 19 But that catwalk, it's rickety and old.

Speaker 2 It won't hold you.

Speaker 20 They're dimming the lights.

Speaker 5 I'm gonna go. Quiet.

Speaker 4 I'm gonna open the vent. But.

Speaker 4 That was the orbiting human circus orchestra.

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 4 it happened. My God!

Speaker 4 Medic! Is there a medic?

Speaker 31 Forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, at home. It seems someone has fallen onto the stage from a great height.
And is there a medic? I'm all right. I'm all right.

Speaker 31 It's Julian the janitor here at the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 29 Oh, thank you.

Speaker 31 I'm sorry. Are you all right? Well, I'm okay.

Speaker 31 Uh did you say something about the orchestral? Well I was just about to pull the blanket off its cage.

Speaker 31 Spotlight please!

Speaker 31 It's a bird. Thank you very much, Julian.
Moving right along.

Speaker 31 The orchestral is a rare African bird that can play all 46 instruments in the orchestra at once but aren't there 47 instruments in an orchestra orchestrals choose not to play the viola wow thank you Julian listen to that tiny piano thank you Julian will you feel it thank you thank you so much and now a word from our sponsor we at Samuel Saws are proud to say on stage as the commercial rolls chaos the broadcast having suffered yet another janitorial interruption and with the whole world listening and it is

Speaker 13 Why?

Speaker 12 The whole world is listening to hear the extraordinary act. Miracles!

Speaker 22 Impossibilities!

Speaker 12 They aren't listening to hear the janitor be tackled and bodily removed by host John Cameron!

Speaker 12 Which, luckily, they cannot hear due to the wisely timed sponsor announcement, which is about to end and return us to the live broadcast.

Speaker 31 The leading instrument in all of today's popular music. Saws are flying off the shelves of hardware stores into the hearts of millions.

Speaker 14 You are listening to the orbiting human circus of the air.

Speaker 24 Please explain, Professor.

Speaker 22 We've developed a machine that will allow us to hear the cricket song exactly as heard by the crickets themselves. I have a specimen here.
I am now turning on the machine.

Speaker 32 Well, here you have it, ladies and gentlemen. The cricket song, heard for the very first time by human ears exactly as heard by the cricket itself.

Speaker 18 But as the little cricket sings its heart out on the air, there is one person who listens not on the radio nor from a seat in the broadcast ballroom. In fact, he is not listening.

Speaker 19 Curled in a ball in the janitor's closet in which he lives lies Julian, janitor of the Eiffel Tower, crying.

Speaker 20 I'm not crying.

Speaker 17 Mr.

Speaker 18 Cameron seemed very upset this time.

Speaker 20 I know.

Speaker 21 I think he was trying to strangle you.

Speaker 23 I know.

Speaker 23 He only wanted to strangle me because he really loves the show.

Speaker 3 I love the show.

Speaker 12 Then why do you interrupt it the way that you do?

Speaker 23 All those old radio shows like Jack Benny, they all had these crazy characters who'd come crashing in and everybody would laugh and applaud.

Speaker 12 Yes, but those things were planned. Those people were actors.

Speaker 19 They were... I know.

Speaker 16 Funny.

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 30 I could be funny, but then I just see that microphone.

Speaker 12 Well, even professionals get staged, fright. There's a million people listening.

Speaker 23 But it's not that. It's the opposite of that.

Speaker 20 I...

Speaker 4 I love...

Speaker 12 It's alright.

Speaker 12 Take your time.

Speaker 16 What?

Speaker 23 when I was a kid I always had to hide in the basement and one time I was hiding behind these boxes and I found this tape machine.

Speaker 12 It was my father's.

Speaker 23 My father was a show person.

Speaker 23 I never met him, he died.

Speaker 23 But when I found that tape machine I was just so

Speaker 23 I started playing with it. You pretend that you're making a radio show and

Speaker 23 I pretended I was on the stage and

Speaker 23 there was an audience and there were people listening all over the world.

Speaker 12 What exactly was your childhood like?

Speaker 23 Cleaning.

Speaker 23 Well, I mean, I was the one who did all the cleaning in the house and I was

Speaker 23 and so I was always supposed to be cleaning. Even when I made the radio shows, I was supposed to be cleaning and my...

Speaker 13 Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 12 You were supposed to be cleaning, and instead you'd pretend you were putting on a radio show.

Speaker 30 Yeah, I'd get in trouble.

Speaker 23 My stepfather was, um, one thing he used to do is he'd like lift me up by the hair.

Speaker 12 So he'd barge in and interrupt your show.

Speaker 13 Oh, he'd ruin it.

Speaker 23 The audience would go away,

Speaker 23 everything I was imagining would go away, and then it would just be my stepfather.

Speaker 12 So what happened?

Speaker 23 Well, this one time I was pretending to do my radio show, and I was pretending I had this act on the show, and there were these bells. They were the flying bells of Toulouse.

Speaker 23 And they were these bells that just floated in from the back of the theater and they floated all around the audience's heads, you know, on the studio audience, and they floated up by the microphone and out by the stage where I was, or I was imagining I was.

Speaker 23 And it was so beautiful. I didn't hear my stepfather come in, and my stepfather came in, and he hit me in the ear, and my ear started ringing.

Speaker 23 But the ringing well started bleeding, but the ringing made the bells stay.

Speaker 23 Like normally when he came in, everything went away, but this time time the ringing made the bells stay, and when the bells stayed, the audience stayed, and the whole thing stayed. And suddenly,

Speaker 23 I wasn't alone.

Speaker 23 And I

Speaker 23 always had the audience after that. No matter what I did, I'd just imagine there was an audience.
I mean, I know it's not real.

Speaker 11 No, no, it's not.

Speaker 23 But that microphone on that stage with Mr.

Speaker 12 Cameron, that audience is real. But that's just it.

Speaker 19 It is real.

Speaker 12 Sneaking onto that stage uninvited is no way to make people like you. Not the audience, not the sponsors, and certainly not Mr.

Speaker 19 Cameron.

Speaker 12 It's his whole life. And I'm afraid you've shortened it.

Speaker 23 I'm gonna make it up to him. I'm gonna make it up to him.
I'm gonna clean his dressing room. I'm gonna make it so nice that he'll have to forgive me.

Speaker 18 You can't sneak back in there.

Speaker 19 If they fire you, where will you go? How will you eat?

Speaker 23 I think I know a way we can get in over here.

Speaker 28 But who is this personality who cannot resist the bright lights of the stage, the beautiful shining microphones, the hypnotic pull of laughter and applause?

Speaker 28 Who is this personality who has gone so far as to imagine a narrator, to keep him company announcing the events of his life, as if he were the star of screen, stage, or story?

Speaker 30 God, you make me sound like such a freak. Everyone should have a narrator.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 17 But don't go in there.

Speaker 33 Jacques-Pierre, where are you? Over here.

Speaker 7 Yeah, we're right here.

Speaker 30 Look, it's Letitia Sartier. She's cool.

Speaker 23 She's the chief stage hand. She runs the show.

Speaker 22 Look, she's not looking.

Speaker 5 Quick, before she comes.

Speaker 33 So remember, place the German shepherds on the left side of the stage and the German shepherd on the right or the sheep that gets spooked.

Speaker 34 I know, we got it.

Speaker 33 Okay, and bend your legs when you leave the dog.

Speaker 34 I know.

Speaker 33 Okay, I know, I know, but I tell you, don't do it. I won't have you injured.

Speaker 17 Suddenly, host John Cameron comes rushing in.

Speaker 27 Which side of the dog's on?

Speaker 7 Left, left. Right, right.

Speaker 35 Did you get rid of the janitor? He ruined the entire opening.

Speaker 33 Yeah, yeah, we got rid of the janitor.

Speaker 34 You're on. Ale, alley.

Speaker 33 I am afraid of this janitor. Such a small guy, but such a large, destructive force.
Why should it be so hard to keep him out? He's like he can pass through the wall.

Speaker 33 Like, we need to call the exterminator.

Speaker 15 Uh, we're still.

Speaker 34 Oh, sequence!

Speaker 22 Back to work!

Speaker 28 And so, having snuck into the host's dressing room, really a very terrible idea, the janitor begins cleaning furiously.

Speaker 2 I'm not furious.

Speaker 18 It's a manner of speech.

Speaker 6 But as he cleans, he hears, coming distantly from the stage, the final musical number of the evening, which means only one thing.

Speaker 12 His favorite part of the show is about to begin.

Speaker 11 He listens...

Speaker 12 and cleans quietly because each night ends with a story.

Speaker 19 A feature presentation.

Speaker 8 A bizarre artifact.

Speaker 21 Real people telling real stories on tape.

Speaker 18 Well, you'll hear for yourself because here comes chief stagehand Letitia Saultier rolling the large tape machine past.

Speaker 8 And on to the stage.

Speaker 36 The orbiting human circus of the air.

Speaker 37 What you're about to hear, ladies and gentlemen, is absolutely real. There are some things in life for which words cannot prepare you.

Speaker 37 We therefore ask you to prepare yourselves for our feature presentation, Goldsby and Rue.

Speaker 29 When I was nine years old, my father died and we had to move.

Speaker 29 and my mother had to go to work.

Speaker 29 I was often alone, very often left alone in the house and it was a complete change of locale, change of friends, change of teachers and everything.

Speaker 29 This was all during the war.

Speaker 29 And I even remember being in school in the playground and I remember where the

Speaker 29 German Luftwaffe plane came over and he

Speaker 29 dive-bombed and machine gunned, but we all laid down in the ground and the plane came very low and all the the bullets were going, but he obviously was deliberately missing because nobody was hurt.

Speaker 29 It's funny because I'm sort of recalling

Speaker 29 now it makes me, you know, I haven't thought about it for years and years and years, but I remember that time now. I remember so, you know, so

Speaker 29 it's all very vivid. What happened from the first step?

Speaker 29 I noticed that my mother was being snubbed by the neighbours, and I learned it was because because she was working for Goldsby and Roo, two barristers.

Speaker 29 I had no idea at the time what a barrister did. I had been told by other children that they had never lost a case.

Speaker 29 I realized

Speaker 29 they were very famous.

Speaker 29 They were famous for representing rich and powerful people and on many occasions freeing them even though they were guilty,

Speaker 29 got new identities for them and relocated them.

Speaker 29 Sometimes witnesses were relocated, but defendants being relocated was unheard of.

Speaker 29 The press called them Ghoulsby and ruled

Speaker 29 ghoul like a monster.

Speaker 29 It was really Goldsby.

Speaker 29 People were talking

Speaker 29 People were talking about my mother.

Speaker 29 I asked her why she was working for these people whom everybody thought were really

Speaker 29 she wouldn't say a bad word about Goldsby and Rue.

Speaker 29 I was upset that she wouldn't tell me why.

Speaker 29 And

Speaker 29 we always had blackouts, you know. It was dark everywhere, there were no electric lights on, all lights were out, had been blown out, and

Speaker 29 all you heard was the bombs going off all around.

Speaker 29 I began to feel lonely and sad.

Speaker 29 At this time there was a famous trial going on about the Kensington child murders.

Speaker 29 It was announced that Goldsby and Rue was going to defend the child murderer. Goldsby and Rue were working my mother so hard, I saw less and less of her.
It became

Speaker 29 apparent that they were going to win the case on a series of technicalities.

Speaker 29 The public was outraged because a child murderer was going to be set free.

Speaker 29 Everybody knew that he would be hidden and he would be given a new identity.

Speaker 29 After the verdict was announced, I overheard that Goldsby and Roo were going to have a celebratory dinner.

Speaker 29 And so I made a decision.

Speaker 29 That evening, I followed my mother to Goldsby and Roo's chambers.

Speaker 29 She went for her keys.

Speaker 29 She couldn't get in because I had already taken her keys. So she knocked.

Speaker 29 After my mother went in, I went up and tried the key and tried to get in after her.

Speaker 29 And after the door closed behind me, I suddenly realised I was in the house with the murderer.

Speaker 4 God.

Speaker 29 I was scared of being discovered by either my mother or the murderer.

Speaker 29 I can tell you it really

Speaker 29 was quite scary.

Speaker 29 So I hid in the pantry.

Speaker 29 I stayed in there quite a while wondering what to do.

Speaker 29 At the end of the pantry, there was a light coming under the door. So I went up to the door and peeped through the keyhole

Speaker 29 and

Speaker 29 I could see how

Speaker 29 and where they were going to hide the child murderer. In fact, they were already doing it.

Speaker 29 It's, you know, there's simply awful things that people see. They don't want to, but, you know, it just happens and you

Speaker 29 see it.

Speaker 29 They were eating him.

Speaker 29 And I realized

Speaker 29 this must be what happened to all their clients.

Speaker 29 It wasn't much fun.

Speaker 29 My mother was some other place in the building.

Speaker 29 I got away as fast as I could.

Speaker 29 My mother never knew that I had been there.

Speaker 29 We became much closer.

Speaker 29 There was no longer a gulf between us. It had dissolved, disappeared.

Speaker 29 I never told.

Speaker 29 I never repeated the story.

Speaker 14 Broadcasting from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the orbiting human circus of the air.

Speaker 19 Hiding behind the curtain, the janitor peers out at the show he loves.

Speaker 14 Well, that's all for this week, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 32 This is John Cameron broadcasting from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 35 The orbiting human circus wishes you a good night.

Speaker 38 This is Robbie Cucciara of the Orbiting Human Circus, and we'd like to thank Atom Tickets App for supporting the Orbiting Human Circus of the Air podcast.

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Speaker 9 Hello again, this is Drew Callender, and on behalf of the Orbiting Human Circus, we'd like to thank you for listening and thank our sponsor, Rocket Mortgage.

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Speaker 9 Yeah, like Amy thinks that, you know, Joe Pesci was miscast in Goodfellas and I don't.

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