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

They don't want crusading journalists looking to bust up Colts?

I was just trying to go to the night baths, but we were already in Big Sur and you can't reserve by telephone,

which is why I was calling them on the payphone, and we didn't have phone service to reserve it on the Internet.

So it was actually just a very sort of sad near-miss.

Since everything's relevant...

Everything is relevant.

On this show, anyway?

Yeah. I mean, you know, everything...

I have a sneaking suspicion that everything is relevant all the time in general, which is terrifying.

But it is. It is true. And sometimes it takes a little strand of RNA shooting out of people's nostrils to really illustrate the point.

It really is a tremendous speed.

I spent most of today buying, you know, hand sanitizer and frozen vegetables.

And it's this, you know, it's sort of an interesting pre-apocalyptic feeling that I hope does not actually come to pass.

You're doing it, so you're prepping.

I am prepping. I'm prepping a little bit.

I've been thinking a lot about the preppers, but, you know, I mean, of course,

the situation has already come to pass for so many people.

So, you know, I can make jokes about buying frozen vegetables, but really, it sucks.

Like, it's bad.

And it's already here, so.

Yeah, exactly.

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