Orbital Earthcast

He's a vampire and this is an interview. You draw your own conclusions. We talk about the origins of the name Dracula, similarities with Vlad the Impaler and address common held beliefs about vampires.

Continuing our spooktacular month of shows, this week we discover how to be a famous movie slasher for the modern era with Chad! You know... Chad. The Millenial Psycho Killer from Chad's Chatroom comes by the studio to take names and selfies as we go inside the mind of a conceptual madman on Orbital.

We kick off our spooktacular month of shows with Edgar Allan Poe, a man synonymous with dark storytelling. He talks ravens and tell-tales hearts and people dying of terrible diseases. Fun, right?

Robin Hood has a story that goes back centuries. No one has apparently told him, but he's more than happy to talk about his life and livelihood with gusto on this episode of Orbital.

Mark Twain may have travelled the world, but Gap Storm has travelled the Universe, not that we're comparing. But Twain braved the Mississippi River, which Gap refuses to do, as he discusses at the front. Also, Mark Twain is very good at quoting Mark Twain.

In honor of the recent Video Games Day, we found the most readily available character from a video game series: Claptrap. This plucky robot has been hiding out on Pandora to play foil to vault hunters, but now Gap gets to sit down with him in the studio for as limited a time as possible.

Breaker of windmills, the unmounted one, the lost dragoon. Don Quixote may have many names we just made up, but we've given him a brand new one: guest. Gap talks to the man, the myth, the impossible dreamer on this episode of Orbital.

Orson Welles explains how important he is when he talks about being a young impresario of stage and screen. Then he and Gap go sledding.

We learn how to steal things and set things on fire so we can steal things when Garrett sneaks into th show.

We learn why Scotland loves freedom when we talk to noted fighter of said freedom, William Wallace. Spoiler: He sounds nothing like Mel Gibson.

Paul Revere rides in and discusses lanterns, riding and likely some other things that Gap was too preoccupied with history to care about.

Many of our listeners have started wondering where Gap came from and the mysterious past he holds... or they would if we had listeners. So, let's explain how Gap became a thing on this special GEIA.

Writer of the Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling gets beamed in so Gap can ask him about the crippling epidemic of singing animals.

Joseph Campbell finally comes on the show so Gap can learn about all the stages of the hero's journey and if he should really care.

To celebrate the recent advancements in human civilization, we look back at your Standard Earth Year 2014 with a panel discussion. True, the panel is composed of guests I do not particularly like, but this is all very new to me. Of course, I can travel through time, so reflection on a single year seems trivial, but it's a pursuit.   New episodes of Orbital will beam to your computer in March.