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"Welcome to the Grand Circumsolar Exhibition, valued vendor /contributor /service worker.
Here is your complimentary orbital map and emergency commdress list. We hope you enjoy your stay at the Fair, and thank you for your participation in the expansion of the fellowship of all...
Published 10/18/24
"Welcome to the Grand Circumsolar Exhibition, valued vendor /contributor /service worker.
Here is your complimentary orbital map and emergency commdress list. We hope you enjoy your stay at the Fair, and thank you for your participation in the expansion of the fellowship of all humankind."
It may be night cycle on the orbital, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop.
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Complete finale cast and crew can be found on Part 2.
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Welcome to the...
Published 10/18/24
For ease of listening, we've split our finale episodes in half.
Hello and welcome, one and all, to the Pavilion of Progress Mainstage! I'm Lennon Merlo, your Master of Ceremonies for the Grand Circumsolar Exposition!
The Grand Circumsolar Exposition is a system-wide fair, and celebration of the ingenuity, and siblinghood, of all human kind.
Part 2.
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Finale cast & crew will be credited on A Night At the Fair
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Welcome to the...
Published 10/11/24
For ease of listening, we've split our finale episodes in half.
Hello and welcome, one and all, to the Pavilion of Progress Mainstage! I'm Lennon Merlo, your Master of Ceremonies for the Grand Circumsolar Exposition!
The Grand Circumsolar Exposition is a system-wide fair, and celebration of the ingenuity, and siblinghood, of all human kind.
Part 1.
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Finale cast & crew will be credited on A Night At the Fair
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Click here for the episode’s script.
Transcribed by...
Published 10/11/24
In which logs are written, and a cat is sat.
And everything is totally fine.
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Featuring Maddie Cooper, Michael Freemantle, Sam Stark, and Mr. Business.
Written & edited by Maddie Cooper.
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SFX Credits:
Piano Playing Classical Music by IESP -- https://freesound.org/s/340062/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
SND_CatPurring_Loop_02.wav by megrez7274 -- https://freesound.org/s/508687/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Footsteps on Wooden Floor.aif by ftpalad -- https://freesound.org/s/119914/...
Published 09/20/24
Lennon Merlo finally tracks down the Banjo Ghost.
Music
Blues for the Black, performed by the Banjo Ghost.
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Jax Abrahams is voiced by Sophie Borjón
The Banjo Ghost is voiced by James Big
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Lyssa J.
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Published 09/13/24
Well... it's been a fantastic ride, but we're just about at the end. With the end of the series almost here, we'd like to give you one more chance to get answers to your burning questions.
Have something you want to know about the show or its characters? Have a question for a character? Submit them via this form, between now and Halloween (October 31).
We'll be putting together a little panel of cast and crew to answer your questions, for release on the show feed after the finale.
Thanks...
Published 09/11/24
Interview with the Peregrination Bad Idea Cousins about Family songs, during a layover at Arcturus.
Music
Ensign Fores-kin, performed by Grey Linkskin, Link Ekaskin, & Aidan Morgansson.
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Ettiane Calsdottir is voiced by Christina McClain
Grey Linkskin is voiced by Vic Collins
Link Ekaskin is voiced by Kasha Mika
Aidan Morgansson is voiced by Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron...
Published 09/06/24
Content warnings:
Gun violence and death
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This all started... when I met her.
The Red Riviera Bloodbath is back for its 50th year! Outlaws from across the System are on their way to Mars to compete in a quick draw tournament for a chance at money and an erased bounty… or death! And as it draws closer, a newcomer to town meets the woman of her dreams. Will love bloom at high noon?Read the script here.
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The Cast
Viola Barnsley is voiced by Rebecca Krause
Agatha Howard is voiced by Jill...
Published 08/30/24
Welcome once again to the Draft Starz podcast! I’m Monica DeMille, and here with me today is Marshal Captain Tatum Hadar, head organizer of this year’s Red Riviera Bloodbath!
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Our theme music was composed & arranged by Michael Freitag written by Scott Paladin, and vocals by Jeremiah.
Breathing Space is a Law of Names production.
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Published 08/29/24
The following civil danger warning is transmitted at the request of the Martian Marshals and the Tharsan Rise Emergency Management Department--
Preparations are in progress for the Bloodbath. Citizens of New Monaco are urged to find transport out of the Red Riviera, or off Mars to the nearest system body for their safety. If you cannot find transport out of the area or off planet, shelter is open for free at the Dust Devil Inn.
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Published 08/28/24
Interview with (name pending), a communication technician on a 'restored' (liberated) YuKon comms relay; one of the folks who's helped the Ghost's signal spread.
Music
Wayfaring Stranger, performed by The Banjo Ghost
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Jax Abrahams is voiced by Sophie Borjón
Riley Riley is voiced by Hera Alexander
Nameless is voiced by Roonie Hunt
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by E. Marie...
Published 08/23/24
Interview with Kit and Em, the happy couple, after a moment from the wedding reception goes viral and introduces the system to some Makhnovchik wedding traditions.
Music
Bella Ciao (Makhnovchik version), performed by Kit Brackett & Em Crane.
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Jax Abrahams is voiced by Sophie Borjón
Kit Brackett is voiced by Mel Nichols
Em Crane is voiced by Lindsey Zanna
Nine Haidee is voiced by James Big
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This episode was written by James Big, and...
Published 08/16/24
Content Warnings
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Mom... it isn't like that. I love you. And working with you! ...You've been so helpful and supportive and... and it's wonderful. But, I just... I need to try. It's time for me to do it myself.
They say that our families know us best. Maybe that’s a good thing for some people, but Clarity Mariesdottir, of the Peregrination ship Words in the Heart Cannot Be Taken her family didn’t know her quite so well, because then maybe they’d let her live her own life. In an attempt to...
Published 08/09/24
Interview with members of a YuDio squat/artist collective, who are preserving and remaking songs from the distant past.
Music
The Sweetness, performed by Chima Baardson.
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker\
Chima Baardson is voiced by Dylan Griggs
Polymnia is voiced by Hera Alexander
Joe is voiced by Lou Sutcliffe
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Helen.
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Welcome to the...
Published 08/02/24
Interview with an IWM representative about music and organized labor.
Music
Solidarity Forever, performed by Odelia Ray.
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Odelia Ray is voiced by Elijah Harper
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Nancy Sandland.
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Click here for the episode’s script.
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The Chasing a Ghost...
Published 07/26/24
Content Warnings
Discussions of suicide, alcoholism, allusions to submarine disasters
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Let me stop you there. I think I know how this goes...After many hours of borderline- creepy observation, you compile a dossier on all of her troubles, career, domestic and existential, and how she should go about fixing them. You then present her with the information and, perhaps as an afterthought, introduce yourself.
A Caller suffering a crisis of faith stumbles upon a vanished billionaire's secret...
Published 07/19/24
Interview with folks from Delaney Shipyard about yardie songs.
Music: Sixteen Tons, performed by Delaney Shipyard Shift 2
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Arval “Bread” Baker is voiced by Kasha Mika
Anastasia Isabella "MagLock" “Maggie” Young is voiced by Daisy McNamara
Heck Novak-Nygaard is voiced by Amy Young
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson.
It was transcribed by Nancy Sandland.
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Published 07/12/24
Interview with Iris Antić, a pop culture historian and professor of music at Greater Ganymede University.
Music- The Belter Blues, the Banjo Ghost
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
Iris Antić is voiced by Amy Young
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson
It was transcribed by Nel Russell.
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Click here for the episode’s script.
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Published 07/05/24
Host Lennon Merlo introduces themself, and the subject of the series.
Chasing a Ghost is made possibly by a grant from Ganymede Public Broadcasting, and the support of listeners like you.
Music: Blues for the Black, the Banjo Ghost
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The Cast
Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker
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This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson
It was transcribed by Nel Russell.
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Click here for the episode’s script.
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Welcome to the System
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Published 06/28/24
Content Warnings: This episode contains dialog that might be triggering to people who have experienced emotional manipulation, and the depiction of harsh reactions to the trauma responses of others.
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Well, it is very nice to meet you, Oriole Corta. Now, are we gonna spend the rest of this miserable slog of a job just standing here in oppressive silence or are you going to indulge me with a little conversation?
When a fast-talking drifter picks up a stranger with a secretive nature and a...
Published 06/21/24
Content Warnings
Mentions of Parental Abuse, eating-related misophonia triggers
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You've got monsters in your past; so do we all. I've looked into the eyes of people who were not people on the inside. Saw what that kind of creature does when it had power over others. And I tell you this: every second spent raging against the damage they do is a second wasted.
Long ago, in the further straining fleet, Amity Archer forges a something new out of the wreckage.
Now, in a Family Fleet renewed,...
Published 06/14/24
Content Warnings
Dismemberment, Discussion of death of a child, Executions, Military Conflict
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Getting your Solar Scout Gold Pin does not make you a soldier.
Long ago, in the aftermath of the NMC disaster, Amity Archer fights to hold the rescue fleet together.
Now, amidst the storm of the Settle fallout, Etianne Calsdottir fights to make her family whole.
Sometime ahead, during the Seige of Tethys, Etta Hobb fights a battle that is hers by choice.Read the script here.
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The...
Published 06/07/24
Content Warnings
Mentions of Sexual Abuse and Cult, Death of a Parent, Trafficking, Drug Addiction, Parental Abandonment, eating-related misophonia
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I joined the Navy for a lot of the same reasons you did. Which all turned out to be a load of b******t. But I stayed because I'm very good at this. And because sometimes we get to do some real good out here.
Long ago, Amity Archer hears a call for help coming from the black and finds much more than she expected.
More recently, Etianne...
Published 05/31/24