Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice on the desert.

The desert at its most brutal.

The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sunblasted wilderness, so many heroes had to get across alive, or die drying.

Moses, arts of Arabia, C-3PO, and R2D2,

Beavis and Budhead, Alan Portermain, Priscilla,

Queen of the Desert.

And now we are the heroes just for surviving, just for surviving the day. It's so hot the day.

It's so hot the propane guy was out here

to check for a leak and

said he'd have to turn off the gas

until the new valve came in.

I think he bid for it on eBay

as we were talking about it.

And I said, yeah, shut it off who cares the water

heater's outside anyway it'll stay plenty hot the cold is hot enough is that time of year

when it doesn't matter if the little C

and the little H is on the right spigot

and I'm sure not using the oven until October

the clothes dry in about a minute and a half

sometimes they don't even need to make it onto the clothes line.

You're about to hang these dish towels or whatever, and well, they're already dry. Maybe just leave the gas off. Who cares? Come back in October.

The machinery is old around here I'm gonna replace it all with electric clean burning solar all the way and not count on the power grid

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