Mojave Spaceport
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Is this episode about Mojave Spaceport? Well, it's a place on the journey, to put in in "hobbit speak." Tonight we get on the road, wander some small desert towns, make some real-estate schemes, and plan for a better future. Which starts now.
New tracks by RedBlueBlackSilver and some archival audio from our favorite radio priestess of the Western Airwaves, a century ago.
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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. |
| 0:15.9 | Night has fallen on the desert. Settled into a 1930s house for the week, |
| 0:26.5 | wandering the shady streets just in time for all the restaurants to be open again. |
| 0:35.5 | Walking around town is a rare treat for people stuck in the Mojave for too long. |
| 0:44.2 | Stuck anywhere in the West built after the age of the automobile. |
| 0:51.7 | Where town means four lanes of state highway with a sloppy collection of chain fast food drive-thrus and chain gas stations, |
| 1:03.5 | with a Walmart on the one end and a dollar general on the other, |
| 1:10.5 | and scattered, closed down forever local businesses in |
| 1:15.6 | between set off the frontage road and dilapidated strip malls. |
| 1:22.1 | Always a long hike through the diesel exhaust to the next pile of martial arts storefronts and |
| 1:31.3 | beauty salons and pawn shops. Even the pawn shops can't make it alone these days. There's a |
| 1:41.2 | pawn shop chain in the low desert with a slogan stolen from some bigger chain that sells something else and maybe they haven't noticed. |
| 1:52.9 | Or maybe it's all intentional. |
| 1:56.8 | And if you look into the financials, it turns out they're all owned by the same banking services hedge fund. |
| 2:04.5 | That quietly runs all the payday loan shops and strip club ATMs with the $5 fees. |
| 2:14.4 | The Business of America is business. |
| 2:23.1 | And the business of America is business And the business of business is money laundering Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I broke away from the chain link gates. |
| 3:00.1 | The gates of plague of mercy. |
| 3:10.3 | 3.95 more |
| 3:11.5 | numb than alive |
| 3:13.5 | numb |
| 3:15.3 | to all the |
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