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🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The desert is the kind of place you think maybe you might *discover* something. A treasure, maybe. The Lost Ark. Some old glass bottles, some old human bones. Maybe a secret history of the ancient world, hidden for 1,500 years in a sealed jar buried in a pile of guano.
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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. |
0:15.8 | Night has fallen on the desert. This American desert in December, the end of another calendar year here on planet Earth. |
0:33.1 | Blizzards in the Sierra. |
0:36.6 | Snow over the great basin |
0:39.4 | cold and windy |
0:41.1 | up in the Mojave High Desert |
0:43.7 | So it's a good thing |
0:49.7 | I finally got down to the post office |
0:52.5 | and |
0:53.2 | opened up box 1735 because along with a lot of other |
1:03.0 | stuff I'll have to set aside for another year. |
1:18.5 | I was happy to see that the Desert Advent calendar had arrived. |
1:23.9 | Just in time for the first of the month, |
1:33.4 | I got the little compartment titled December 1st, which I opened yesterday, |
1:39.3 | but we can go through the motions tonight. Sometimes going through the motions serves a purpose, |
1:44.9 | mysterious as it may be. Let's see what we've got here. |
1:57.1 | Oh, well, look at that, a black widow spider. |
2:01.3 | Nothing quite says goth Christmas, |
2:02.6 | like a beautiful red hourglass |
2:05.7 | symbol carefully painted on every |
2:08.5 | black widow by |
2:09.6 | somebody locked inside a factory |
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