Thanksgiving In the High Desert

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Philosophy

4.8 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Snowy mountaintops across the Western Mojave, all the transverse ranges have at least a dusting, with the big peaks covered in white. San Gorgonio looks so pretty right now, you can almost forget it’s a haunted mountain that eats people alive and is usually known by its grim local nickname “Old Grayback.” It must be Thanksgiving in the High Desert! An all-new episode with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, this is Desert Oracle Radio Episode #253.

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0:00.0	Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. Night has fallen on the desert, and maybe night has fallen where you are too.
0:23.4	Or maybe it's not dark yet.
0:28.5	But it's getting there.
0:33.1	The daylight savings business is just savage.
0:38.4	One of those things the devil's own committee came up with.
0:43.9	Something that was a lie from the start.
0:50.0	The campaign for daylight savings time, which occurred in the previous century,
1:03.0	was all based on lies, on marketing department lies, using fake farmers' lore.
1:13.5	They claim that farmers preferred picking crops
1:17.8	with the dew still on them,
1:22.0	which was just some slogan, somebody made up.
1:26.2	It's not true.
1:29.6	Besides, as important as agriculture is to feeding the nation, only about one percent of us
1:38.9	work in farming. And that includes fishing and forestry,
1:46.2	I guess because they all start with F
1:48.2	and the labor statistics,
1:55.0	which we don't have anymore, I guess.
1:59.8	We're going to have to go with our gut, what we know is happening already.
2:10.7	So for you farmers and ranchers and forestry people and fishermen.
2:20.6	Just get up whenever you want,
2:24.2	whenever you think it's the right time for your work.
2:28.4	And then we won't have to have it getting dark at 3 p.m. for everybody else, you know?
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