[Due an exporting error, the first couple hundred of you to download this episode got both files. Sorry about that. Go ahead and re-download or just skip to the 45 minute mark to jump right to the new content] "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."...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 27 min
"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. ** Complete finale cast and crew can be found on Part 2. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our We...
Oct 18, 2024•47 min
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. ** Finale cast & crew will be credited on A Night At the Fair ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** ** Welcome to the System Our Website Joi...
Oct 11, 2024•39 min
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. ** Finale cast & crew will be credited on A Night At the Fair ** Click here for the episode’s script. Transcribed by SockX ** Welcome to the Syst...
Oct 11, 2024•54 min
In which logs are written, and a cat is sat. And everything is totally fine. ** Featuring Maddie Cooper, Michael Freemantle, Sam Stark, and Mr. Business. Written & edited by Maddie Cooper. ** 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/ -- Lice...
Sep 20, 2024•5 min
Lennon Merlo finally tracks down the Banjo Ghost. Music Blues for the Black, performed by the Banjo Ghost. ** The Cast Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker Jax Abrahams is voiced by Sophie Borjón The Banjo Ghost is voiced by James Big ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Lyssa J. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon The Chasing a...
Sep 13, 2024•14 min•Season 4Ep. 25
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. ** 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 ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was...
Sep 06, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Content warnings: Gun violence and death ** 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. ** The Cast Viola Barnsley is voiced by Rebecca Krause Agatha Howard is voiced by Jill Bee Or...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 23
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! ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon 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. © This work is copyrighted by Law of Names Media, 2023...
Aug 29, 2024•6 min
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. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord F...
Aug 28, 2024•2 min
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 ** 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 ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by E. Marie Davis. ** Click he...
Aug 23, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 22
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. ** 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 ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited ...
Aug 16, 2024•13 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Content Warnings ** 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 prov...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 20
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. ** 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 ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Helen. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our We...
Aug 02, 2024•18 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Interview with an IWM representative about music and organized labor. Music Solidarity Forever, performed by Odelia Ray. ** The Cast Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker Odelia Ray is voiced by Elijah Harper ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Nancy Sandland. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon The Chasing a Ghost theme was wri...
Jul 26, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Content Warnings Discussions of suicide, alcoholism, allusions to submarine disasters ** 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 stash....
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Interview with folks from Delaney Shipyard about yardie songs. Music: Sixteen Tons, performed by Delaney Shipyard Shift 2 ** 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 ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson. It was transcribed by Nancy Sandland. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the Sys...
Jul 12, 2024•17 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Interview with Iris Antić, a pop culture historian and professor of music at Greater Ganymede University. Music- The Belter Blues, the Banjo Ghost ** The Cast Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker Iris Antić is voiced by Amy Young ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Nel Russell. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon The Chasing a ...
Jul 05, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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 ** The Cast Lennon Merlo is voiced by Lauren Tucker ** This episode was written by James Big, and edited by Aaron Olson It was transcribed by Nel Russell. ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follo...
Jun 28, 2024•8 min•Season 4Ep. 14
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. ** 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 startl...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Content Warnings Mentions of Parental Abuse, eating-related misophonia triggers ** 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, Etiann...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Content Warnings Dismemberment, Discussion of death of a child, Executions, Military Conflict ** 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. ** The Cast Eka Etiannesk...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Content Warnings Mentions of Sexual Abuse and Cult, Death of a Parent, Trafficking, Drug Addiction, Parental Abandonment, eating-related misophonia ** I joined the Navy for a lot of the same reasons you did. Which all turned out to be a load of bullshit. 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 Calsdottir s...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 10
** Life’s funny like that, isn’t it? One minute you're stuck in a crowd, nervous you’re going to scream at someone for looking at you funny. Next, you’re sharing a beer and a conversation like you’ve been best buddies for decades. Anton's journey, and his story, come to an end. ** The Cast Dani is voiced by Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall Wayne is voiced by Skyler Rich is voiced by Jeremy Tucker Anton is voiced by Jordan W. Anderson Villaverde Markey is voiced by Saph the Something Travis Sojourn/Ez...
May 24, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Content Warnings: Death, gun violence Sensory Contact Warnings: Prolonged alarm sounds. Version without alarm can be found here. ** Alright, From what I read up on this place, this passkey should get us through all the checkpoints pretty easy. And it’ll let us escort our jailbird friend out. If we lay low and keep our hands off the trigger? We might just make it. There’s someone being held inside the Diatoma Multijurisdictional Detention Complex. Someone important. Someone who could make or brea...
May 17, 2024•56 min•Season 4Ep. 8
The Defender of Diatoma We know their name, but do we know their story? Who exactly is Brother Judah, and how did they come so close to successfully escaping the Midvalley Dome? An exclusive interview with Noss Rekker, and Hamm Hammer. ** The Cast Kasha Mika as Hamm Hammer SJ Ryker as Noss Rekker Hera Alexander as Rapid Egress Kale Brown as Brother Judah ** Written by Hera Alexander and Ash Seguinte, edited by Erik Seguinte ** Click here for the episode’s script. ** Welcome to the System Our Web...
May 15, 2024•12 min
Content Warnings This episode includes aggression toward and mistreatment of service workers. ** Our personalities are the culmination of every experience we’ve gone through. How we were raised. Who we associate with. What we’ve learned. Number of times we fail. The way we love. We get in our own way at every step. When the System hands you ice, make ice cream. Anton gets a lot of conversation, and a little advice alongside some of Mars' best desserts (as seen on Delta-Vee Dining.) ** The Cast A...
May 03, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Sabotage investigation unearths massive criminal conspiracy in Variable Gravity Derby betting. Noted commentators identified as ringleaders. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon 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. © This work is copyrighted by Law of Names Media, 2023 It may be freely adapted and remix...
Apr 26, 2024•4 min
Content warnings: Gun violence, child endangerment Sensory content warnings: Repeated, prolonged siren, eating noises. A version of the episode without these sound effects can be found here. ** Just about three years, I been in this place. Long years, but fruitful. I'm a Caller, see, name's Brother Judah...I was Called here. Lotta folk cryin' out fer help. Fer salvation, of any kind they could get. Three years ago, Brother Judah entered Diatoma Penitentiary of their own volition, Called to help ...
Apr 19, 2024•59 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Deflect all you want, but you know there’s nothing good about living in the past. Things change. People change. Sometimes it’s good, but not always. A stint working as a skinner at Delaney Shipyards pushes Anton into considering what responsibility to others really means, and just how important names (and nicknames) can be. ** The Cast Anton Proctor is voiced by Jordan W. Anderson George “Pony” Cheval is voiced by Jesse Hall Verner “Step-Off” Gil is voiced by Ryan Astheimer Delia “Balloon” Feela...
Apr 05, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 5
