Famous For Nothingness
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's tourist season in the Mojave again, never mind the lingering heat and $6-a-gallon gasoline. What's the attraction to this dried-up old desert? Did the fad peak in 2020? Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio #169: FAMOUS FOR NOTHINGNESS. Soundscapes and Old Desert Regular haunted-gospel organ by RedBlueBlackSilver.
PLUS: Details of our October tour, New York on October 6 [Get Tickets] and the West Coast starting October 21.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:14.0 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:19.0 | Our wild paradise, |
| 0:24.3 | the kingdom of heaven. |
| 0:34.7 | Out here with the mojave tails and the western gopher snakes and the tarantulas on the prowl. |
| 0:53.4 | Some creatures think less than us and some think more. |
| 1:00.1 | Thinking is the part that generally gets us into trouble. |
| 1:06.8 | Just look at a raven hanging around the taco shop drive-thru. |
| 1:15.7 | You're just sitting there wishing there was another place to get something to eat after dark, |
| 1:22.6 | maybe quietly checking several things on your phone, like something important to happen that requires |
| 1:31.7 | your acknowledgement of it in the 15 minutes since you got in the car. |
| 1:39.8 | The Raven's doing another kind of thinking. |
| 1:46.1 | But we are people. |
| 1:48.4 | Sometimes we go astray. |
| 1:50.5 | That's all right. |
| 1:51.8 | That's our opposing nature. |
| 1:54.8 | And we know how to get back on the right road. |
| 2:00.4 | Not the straight and narrow. |
| 2:04.9 | The straight and narrow is the highway used by Russian tanks and Amazon Prime double |
| 2:12.4 | trailer diesels. |
| 2:15.9 | Look for the crooked road, the crooked beat, the way of the wanderer. |
| 2:25.0 | That's where, hopefully, we can think about the important stuff. |
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