From the high desert, and that's great American Southwest.

I bid you all.

Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones, every single one of them, covered like a blanket by this program, close to coast to am.

I'm Art Bell here for the weekend edition.

You may have noticed I took last weekend off.

A little story behind that.

It had rained and rained and rained and rained and rained here.

And Ramona and I wanted to get away.

So we set it all up to...

You know, I called the network and said, hey, you know, we've had nothing but rain,

and we really want to get away on the RV.

So what do you say? We've looked at but rain and we really want to get away in the RV. So what do you say?

We've looked at the forecast and were as far as I can see, there's no rain in the forecast.

So I'd like to have the weekend off.

Sure enough.

Gave me the weekend off.

We got into the RV.

It took off, got up to a place called Mesquite, Nevada, woke up the next morning to flash flood warnings for alerts and warnings and so forth for a perump.

And in fact, the whole, in fact, actually how I found out was the RV has satellite television, so I rolled CNN the morning. I got up after arriving

in Mesquite, and it said, flood warnings for the American Southwest. I looked at our

forecast, and there it was. So we came home and took care of what broadcast information we had to very quickly.

And then, and still, the American Southwest, as you've seen in the news, with the flooding in California,

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