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The Penumbra Podcast

4.10: Juno Steel and the Stone Unturned (Part 1)

The Penumbra Podcast

Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert

Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts, Comedy, Science Fiction

4.93.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Juno Steel would really like to take the past, lock it up in a little box, and throw away the key, thank you very much. It's hard to blame him: with his childhood friend hunting him down and his recent love gone without a trace, the past is really feeling like the place where all of today's problems were born. But Juno is a detective, and even if he's decided he's done with Sasha Wire and putting Peter Nureyev on pause, curiosity will always bring him back. Now, between the journal in his pocket and Sasha's strange secret base all around him, Juno will find that the past never stays locked up for long. Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLddnnYamZuglgZc8pM2gqToPOwEBccM?usp=sharing Transcripts will come out along with the public release of the episode. On staff at the Penumbra: Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach Alice Chuang -- Head of Design Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team Harley Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer Ellison Estephan -- Promotional artist Noah Simes -- Production manager Grahame Turner -- Script editing team Kevin Vibert -- Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer Ryan Vibert -- Composer and performer of original music Recorded by Mertz at The Bridge Sound & Stage -------- Attribution: Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode "Kind of Girl" by Jeris, featuring spinningmerkaba: “Drone Ambience, A” by Moulaythami https://freesound.org/people/Moulaythami/sounds/546360/ “Sci Fi Shield Noise” by azraelecho https://freesound.org/people/azraelecho/sounds/450185/ --------- Trigger warnings: - Violence and threats of violence - Drug use - Depiction of illness - Enclosed, claustrophobic spaces - Violent pursuit by governments/police - Racism/xenophobia - Deception - Brief references to self harm and suicide.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ah, good evening, traveler, and welcome to the Penumra.

0:11.3

Tonight's tale is...

0:15.6

Juno Steel and the Stone Unturned.

0:25.6

Juno.

0:26.6

I do not know where I am as you read this.

0:31.4

I hope I am beside you, and this journal is merely another of my many over-dramatic

0:35.5

flourishes, just your dearest thief making a performance of the simple act of sharing

0:39.9

oneself with another person.

0:42.8

If so, I hope you will forgive the indulgence.

0:45.8

Speaking to a crowd, or in costume, always feels safe to me, invisible, anonymous, is when

0:51.8

I speak with someone who might truly know me that the fear sets in.

0:56.2

And I suspect, deeply enough, discreet my bones, that I am not beside you, that instead

1:02.0

this journal is a replacement for my words in person.

1:06.3

I am sorry for that.

1:08.8

Though it is true that I am a coward, I can only promise that I did not leave to run away

1:12.6

from you, and that in time this journal may help you to understand why I did.

1:18.4

Because I have a story to tell you, dear detective, one that a part of me wished you read in

1:22.8

my mind during our imprisonment with me asthma, one that I should certainly have told you

1:27.5

before I ever suggested we leave Mars together.

1:32.9

Well then, on with the show.

1:37.6

You may recall that after I parted ways with Mac, I made a rather grandiose claim to the

1:43.7

constables of New Cancassa.

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