from the high desert and the great american southwest up you all good evening good morning

good afternoon wherever you may be in the world's time zones each and every one of them

covered like a blanket by this program coast to coast a m i'm art bell it's my honor and

privilege to be escorting you through what's going to be a great weekend, I guarantee.

Well, I guess that depends on your point of view.

Some of the news that I've got coming directly up for you with Whitley Streber is incredibly disturbing, just really disturbing.

But on the other hand, that's what this program does.

We disturb people all the time.

So that's coming right up a couple of

items to get out of the way there's a picture on my webcam arts webcam you can go to

coastcoast a m.com it's upper left hand corner arts webcam of the desert we have had a uh an

incredible just an incredible bloom this year in the desert

because of all the water that we've been receiving, a very unusual weather patterns this whole

winter. And we've had a lot of water. And what you see is the result sent by a listener whose

name I didn't grab. Thank you very much. It is a picture, though, of the high desert in Bloom,

and I'm sure you've heard about it.

People take trips to Death Valley to see this kind of thing.

It's like an artist, you know, just took all his paints

and threw it on a few mountains, and there you go.

That's the result.

So that's on the webcam.

Now, last night on the Jay Leno show, somebody I know very well, Chip Margelli of Yasu,

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