122.5 Radio Harappa transcript

[Packherd2]

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INTRO

Announcer: The Voice of the Indus is back! Wel-ac in the afternoon, on 122.5 Radio Harappa.

Wel-ac: Thank you, Sy, and thank you, Listeners, for tuning in this wondrous day here in the Indus. We are indeed back, returned from our long, uh, involuntary hiatus. With me, as always, is my trusted sidekick, my right-hand man, U-ay. How are, my friend?

U-ay: I’m well, I’m great actually. It’s so good to be back on the air.

Wel-ac: It is! This is where we belong—

U-ay: Indeed-y.

Wel-ac: —with the People. Did you say “Indeed-y?”

U-ay: Yes I did!

Wel-ac: [Pause] And that’s why we love you, pal. You’re a goof!

U-ay: I aim to please.

Wel-ac: How about we get to a caller first. I’ve got a lot to say—I’m sure you do, too, U-ay—but we’re here to listen, of course, so on this momentous day, let’s let a Citizen have the first word. Whaddya say?

U-ay: I can’t wait!

Wel-ac: Then let’s get to it. Caller, you’re from Dholavira—beautiful Dholavira, I should say—the missus and I spent much of our time away— We didn’t want to be away from you, of course, but we made the most of it.

U-ay: Enjoying saltwater taffy and moonlight walks along the cliffs?

Wel-ac: Indeed-y!

[laughter]

U-ay: And some other downtime, too, I’m sure.

Wel-ac: U-ay, you know a husband never divulges his wife’s secrets, but the tepid breezes of Dholavira, well, they worked their usual magic. We’ll just leave it at that. But enough with the uncompensated advertising. Caller, you’re on the air.

Caller: Can you hear me?

Wel-ac: Loud and clear, caller!

Caller: Thank you for taking my call. Am I really the first today?

Wel-ac: Yes you are.

Caller: Oh, what an honor!

Wel-ac: You honor us, sir. What’s on your mind?

Caller: Oh, well, so much since you were last on, of course. But perhaps you could share some of your thoughts about the London offensive. Y’know, it hasn’t progressed as quickly as they said it should.

Wel-ac: No it has not. But, of course, war is not easy to plan or predict. The American imperialists, I don’t think too highly of them, of course, but they’re no pushovers. London is their most important base of operations on the Asiatic continent. It’s been many centuries since a native government was in control of London, so the people there have—they’ve lost something of their spirit. We have to fight that as much as we have to fight the American war machine.

Caller: After Porto, it seemed everything would go so quickly.

Wel-ac: Yes! Porto was a great achievement and we should be proud of the Indus soldiers there.

Caller: And Genghis—

Wel-ac: Well, now, let’s not go too far. Certainly the khan’s arrival was fortuitous but we would’ve taken Porto with or without him.

Caller: But maybe he could improve operations on the London front.

Wel-ac: Maybe, caller, maybe not. I don’t think we should be questioning the generals. I think we ought to be questioning those in our society who would disengage from the conflict with the Americans—

Caller: Yes.

Wel-ac: —who seem to, I don’t want to imply anything untoward, but who seem to welcome the subjugation of Asiatics.

Caller: Yes.

Wel-ac: They’re the ones who have some questions to answer, y’know what I’m sayin’?

Caller: Yes. That is why I’d like to see a faster victory at London, to give the naysayers something to chew on.

Wel-ac: You mean like absolute liberty for the Asiatic nations? Something like that to chew on?

Caller: Yes, exactly.

Wel-ac: Well, look, caller, I agree with you completely. But let’s look at the situation. Victory at London means not just finally pushing the Americans into the sea, it means re-creating an English nation. U-ay, you’ve got some English heritage in you, don’t you?

U-ay: On my mother’s side, yes.

Wel-ac: They are a tricky people, are they not?

U-ay: That’s what my father used to say, anyway.

[Laughter.]

Wel-ac: Anyway, the English have not had their own nation for generations now, and London hasn’t been an English capital since, what?

U-ay: Since the 14th Century.

Wel-ac: See, I knew you would know that, U-ay, you’re a walking encyclopedia. Point is, caller, let’s not get too hung up on timing, okay? What matter are results.

Caller: Right.

Wel-ac: Look, not 200 years ago we people of the Indus, we were still carrying about in bullock carts, right? We all know how well that went in the Ottoman expedition. We were a simple people, we traded, we manufactured the finest pottery on the Earth, we were content. But the Americans had imperialism in their hearts, they saw themselves as masters of men, but they can never be masters of us.

Caller: Yes!

Wel-ac: They can never submit the Indus Valley civilization to their perverse will. In modern times, the international community has adopted our native gods as arbiters of global affairs, the U.N. has endorsed the Indus principle of sovereigntism for the whole world. Our path is clear, far from what the, uh, the naysayers claim, as you so astutely named them, caller. Our tanks and our guns and our steam shovels, they serve a higher purpose, isn’t that right, caller?

Caller: Exactly so.

Wel-ac: Exactly so! The gods did not ordain empires for mankind, they gave us nations—Harappa, Mohenjo-daro—

Caller: Dholavira.

U-ay: Beautiful Dholavira!

Wel-ac: Precisely! And Rus’ and Portugal and Romania and all of them, together, but not adjoined, that’s how the old high-priests said it, yes?

Caller: I believe so.

Wel-ac: I know so, caller! I know it in my gut, I feel it vibrating in my jaw. That old way, the divine sovereignty of the peoples, mixing and flowing over the continent like merchants on caravan. That is what we are building at London.

Caller: You’re right.

Wel-ac: Yes, I am, but not everyone agrees yet, caller. Some of your neighbors are not as astute as you.

Caller: [Laughter]

Wel-ac: No, I’m being serious. We need more Citizens willing to ask questions, like you, seek victory, like you, demand it!

Caller: Yes.

Wel-ac: I hope that’s what we’ll be doing here on this show, again, listeners. We’re going to keep at this, four hours each afternoon, until a Went-antu sits in the Secretary General’s office at the U.N. That has to happen, y’know, for there to be peace.

Caller: I agree. I’ll tell my neighbors to tune in tomorrow.

Wel-ac: Thank you, caller! Thank you for starting us back on our journey. And so fitting that we start off with a caller from Dholavira—I can’t say enough about that place, great town, great people. U-ay, what do you say we take a quick break, for our gracious sponsors—

U-ay: Okay.

Wel-ac: —and then we’ll get into this, catch up. I wanna know what you did with your hiaitus.

U-ay: It wasn’t Dholavira, that’s for sure.

[Laughter]

Wel-ac: We’ll be right back.

OUTRO

 

[cpm4001]

This is the most unique way of telling a story I've seen for ages! Write more, maybe?

 

[Silverman6083]

Wow. This was fantastic, I'm not sure if anyone's seen Billy Elliot, but it kinda reminded me of that. It was really good

 

[Heerlo]

Wow. This was fantastic

Very creative storytelling.

 

[Packherd2]

Thanks for the kind encouragement! I do hope to keep doing mini stories like this, although I have a nasty habit of only writing about the games I win.