The Time of the Roadrunner
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the other part — the “Bad Place,” as they say in the Bible. A time for weeping and a time for gnashing of teeth.
While the humans hide in their air-conditioned mechanical prisons, the roadrunners are having the times of their lives. They love the heat of summer, because there's a feast of lizards and snakes in the daytime, and the usual desperate bunnies and rats at night. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, hosted & written by Ken Layne. Find out more at DesertOracle.com, the Voice of the Desert.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, |
| 0:10.2 | now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:16.3 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:21.5 | Relief for all of it. |
| 0:28.2 | Well, I made it to the end of May this year. |
| 0:35.8 | Nearly five whole months into the alleged new year |
| 0:40.7 | Before a small shrill voice in my head started moaning and wailing about how I've got to get out of this godforsaken desert |
| 0:51.7 | The desert in wintertime and springtime |
| 0:56.1 | and in the magic months of |
| 0:59.9 | late autumn |
| 1:00.6 | is the finest place in the world. |
| 1:05.0 | But now we are |
| 1:07.6 | coming to the other part. |
| 1:10.9 | The bad places, they say in the Bible. |
| 1:17.0 | A time for weeping and a time for gnashing of teeth, |
| 1:22.8 | like they say in that song by the birds. |
| 1:29.3 | And you know what they say in that song by the birds. And you know what they say in Phoenix. |
| 1:34.3 | It's a dry heat. |
| 1:38.1 | The kind of dry heat that turns people into mummies, |
| 1:43.3 | no elaborate Egyptian preparation necessary. Just put them in a cave. |
| 1:51.1 | Like they used to do in the Atacama Desert. Where the oldest mummies found are 7,000 years old. |
| 2:04.4 | Older than anybody we found with the skin still on them |
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