From a P.O. Box
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in the night, keeping our distance, looking for sustenance. It is here we receive your offerings of words and other treasure.
Look, all we mean is, tonight is all letters from you, letters from our listening community, letters and their replies.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:14.4 | Night has fallen on the desert in this holy land. |
| 0:25.1 | Tonight we are going to hear some desert stories from you. |
| 0:33.2 | From our radio fellowship, |
| 0:37.3 | from the good people who listen to this program |
| 0:41.2 | and take the time to put a stamp on a postcard or an envelope |
| 0:46.8 | and address it to our post office box |
| 0:51.5 | here in the Mojave |
| 0:54.1 | Desert. |
| 0:56.0 | This box 1735 |
| 0:58.2 | 1735-1735 |
| 1:00.0 | 9225 |
| 1:02.1 | if you're curious. |
| 1:07.3 | One of these days |
| 1:11.3 | I'd like to have a post office box in all my favorite little desert towns |
| 1:23.1 | one in each of the American deserts. |
| 1:29.3 | Then that could be my racket, my route, my route, |
| 1:33.9 | check the mail and Joshua Tree, and then off to Bisbee. |
| 1:39.8 | Spend a week there, host a show at the watering hole or that little trailer court, |
| 1:47.3 | then run over to Silver City, do a show at Mix 33, |
| 1:53.3 | spend an afternoon at the historical society going through weird old documents. |
| 2:01.6 | Take a hike in the Piney Mountains and then hit the road again. |
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