Transmitting from the Mojavee Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert and somewhere somebody's getting in trouble.

Behind the Denny's and 29 palms or and your sister's PT cruiser

up on Antenna Hill

or early in the still dark morning

on the dirt road

back around the big stucco church

you around the big stucco church.

Why'd she tie that green ribbon around the Joshua tree straight across the road?

Where the old asphalt washed away three storms ago.

Oh, Last week on the program, our friend Jean-Paul Garnier from Space Cowboy Books joined us to talk about space radio and the joy of pushing what's possible.

And you can find that in our radio show archives, our podcast archives, is episode 188.

And I heard from a couple of people on the chat line asking about whether it's even a

real place, Space Cowboy Books.

And yes, it's a real place.

You can go there.

But it really is in this back alley and a cluster of strange old buildings on the main drag and Joshua tree.

There's like something out of Harry Potter or something weird little trolls poking their heads out from behind the books, you know, magic in the air.

But also lots and lots of sand, that real fine sand that likes to blow across 29 Palms Highway all the time.

But it sneaks in under the door at the edges of the windows.

And the Magic Book Store is between a...

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