Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert straight into darkness.

Although, to be perfectly honest, it's still daylight as I am making this episode for you.

So if you hear all the joyful songbirds somewhere in the background,

well, that's not a red-blue, black, silver sound effect.

That's the real thing.

Yeah. that's the real thing. One thing I've noticed in getting older is that the people who ritually and regularly consume news media,

especially the relics of monolithic media, nightly cable news,

daily New York Times, etc.

Well, they all seem to have brain worms, worms in the brain, eating up the gray matter,

leaving a little behind.

These ritual consumers of media have conversations that are mostly about what's bad that

they heard on the news and always have some either-or response to whatever issue from the two choices given.

And by the luck of their own generational draw, they have a comfortable retirement so they don't

experience most of daily life for people of working age.

Their entertainment is the collapse of the world they once knew.

And they pick their sides based on what their favorite newsreader reads off the teleprompter on a video screen, of course

it can all change in an instant, but the audience rarely notices.

Most disturbingly, some of these news consumers are fans or stands of particular news personalities.

Like somebody who was on PBS and died 10 years ago, that sort of thing.

But also, what's her name on this or that cable channel?

What a newsreader.

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